I know how to use a saw, that doesn’t make me a carpenter.

Tools don’t know talent.

In the course of 5 minutes I heard ads from Indeed, Zip Recruiter, and a large national staffing agency, all touting how their proprietary AI will deliver great candidates.

That's great, but to me, those are just tools.  They can be great, LinkedIn is a powerful tool, but when a search or ad posting returns over 100 results that are all supposedly appropriate what do you do then?

Recruiting is making matches, not matching words.  You can tell the dating app what your type is but your friends who really know you always seem to introduce you to people you actually want to spend time with.

I appreciate that my search engine delivered me a list of potential candidates, but it is an intuition built on years of conversations that help me identify the nuances of someone's experience that make me want to reach out to them.  Only then, through a thorough and informed conversation can I determine if they are someone who could be right for a job.

As I've always said there are a lot of people who can do a job, but there are only one or two who should.  Give 1 million monkeys 1 million typewriters and they'll eventually type the entire works of William Shakespeare.  I'll take the Bard himself any time.