Every tool in the hiring stack was a good idea. The sourcing tool found people. The assessment tool ranked them. The scheduling tool booked them. The trouble is what sits between the tools: a human, at 11pm, copying a name from one to the next.
Software replaces software
For twenty years the answer to a slow process was a better tool for one stage of it. Each tool made its stage faster and the handoffs slower. The stack grew; ownership shrank. Today the average enterprise hiring process has eight stages, six vendors, four humans and nobody who owns the outcome.
A co-worker replaces the workflow
A co-worker does not sit in a stage. It runs the process: brief, source, screen, interview, verify, shortlist. The handoffs disappear because there is nobody to hand off to. The agency invoice disappears because the sourcing is done. The coordinator's evenings come back because the scheduling is done.
Software replaces software. Zeli replaces the whole workflow, and the people running it.
What is left for humans
The parts that were always human: deciding, persuading, welcoming. A hiring manager who spends her time on the final conversation instead of the first hundred resumes is not doing less. She is doing the job.
About Denver Naidoo
Denver is Zeligate’s founder and CEO. He writes about AI co-workers and building Zeligate’s hiring platform.
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