The AI-Native Recruiter

Most firms rolled out AI to 50 recruiters on a Monday. By Friday, they're using it to clean up emails. That's not adoption. That's an expensive mailing list. New episode of The Staffing Playbook — Part 2 with Jason Alexander of ChiefAI. He scaled staffing companies to $100M before he ever built an AI roadmap, so he knows the difference between buying a tool and actually using it. The frame: giving a recruiter an AI agent is like handing them an intern. Most recruiters were never taught to delegate.  So we asked the harder question — what happens when the intern outgrows the manager? What we got into: → Only 28% of employees know how to actually use their company's AI tools. → The shift from "doer" to "quarterback." → The veteran problem: your top biller thinks AI is a fad. How do you bring them along without losing them? → Why leaders who talk AI but don't use it get found out. Jason's advice for anyone who's never opened these tools — your first prompt is: "I'm a recruiter. How do I use you?" For me, the proof it's working wasn't a dashboard. It was a recruiter saying, "I filled all my roles, my interviews are done — I think I'll go visit some clients." That's the whole game.