Vanessa Raath https://www.vanessaraath.com The Talent Hunter Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:09:10 +0000 en-ZA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://www.vanessaraath.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-vanessa-raath-icon-32x32.jpg Vanessa Raath https://www.vanessaraath.com 32 32 AI in Talent Sourcing: Why the Mindset Still Beats the Machine https://www.vanessaraath.com/ai-in-talent-sourcing-2026/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:05:07 +0000 https://www.vanessaraath.com/?p=7170 Published 23 July 2026 A quick word on why this Blog has landed early. My newsletter and blog normally arrive every second Tuesday, so consider this one a surprise. Next week I am walking the Plett Camino to mark a rather significant birthday, and I am going fully offline while I do it. No laptop,…

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]]> AI Tools for Recruiters: What to Ask Before You Sign https://www.vanessaraath.com/ai-tools-for-recruiters-vendor-checklist/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:10:52 +0000 https://www.vanessaraath.com/?p=7163 Published 20 July 2026 If you work in talent acquisition, I presume that your email inbox is currently being carpet-bombed by people selling AI tools for recruiters, and I suspect your LinkedIn inbox is worse. Every one of them has the most amazing platform you’ve ever seen, and it will apparently make you a millionaire…

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]]> AI for Recruitment Business Development: What Actually Works in 2026 https://www.vanessaraath.com/ai-for-recruitment-business-development/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:23:56 +0000 https://www.vanessaraath.com/?p=7066 I’d just got back from two weeks in the UK and Ireland when I jumped online to present two back-to-back sessions for the JobAdder BDX Summit, and AI for recruitment business development was the question that popped up the most frequently. I was presenting as part of the Recruiting Gym cohort, twelve trainers from all…

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]]> Using AI in Recruitment: 2 Rooms, 1 Week, & the Tool I Built With No Code https://www.vanessaraath.com/using-ai-in-recruitment/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:26:51 +0000 https://www.vanessaraath.com/?p=7058 Using AI in recruitment was the question underneath every conversation I had this month, asked a hundred different ways, but always landing on the same fear: is this thing coming for my job? I was recently privileged to stand on stages in two rooms full of recruiters, seven days apart. The TEAM Annual Conference in…

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]]> Personal Branding for Recruiters: The Honest Guide Nobody Gives You https://www.vanessaraath.com/personal-branding-for-recruiters/ Tue, 26 May 2026 07:19:04 +0000 https://www.vanessaraath.com/?p=7034 Personal branding for recruiters is not about being the loudest voice in the room. I know that, because for years, being the loudest voice in the room actively worked against me. Lean in as I have a personal story to share with you. 😉 Before I started The Talent Hunter, I spent a decade as…

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]]> Market Mapping with AI: The Essential Recruiter Guide https://www.vanessaraath.com/market-mapping-with-ai/ Mon, 18 May 2026 12:13:05 +0000 https://www.vanessaraath.com/?p=7003 Market mapping with AI is one of the most underutilised advantages in recruitment right now, and I say that having just completed a three-session training programme for an internal TA team at a major Private Equity firm in Switzerland. 🌍 The gap between what most recruiters are doing (posting jobs and hoping) and what the…

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]]> AI for Job Searching: Honest Guide for 2026 https://www.vanessaraath.com/ai-for-job-searching/ Sun, 03 May 2026 13:11:49 +0000 https://www.vanessaraath.com/?p=7000 I’ve stood on stages across five continents talking about AI in recruitment. San Diego. London. Cape Town. Johannesburg. But the session that’s been on my mind most since I got home wasn’t a big conference keynote. It was a room full of sharp, motivated graduates at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, trying to figure…

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]]> AI for Solo Recruiters: Your Real Questions, Answered Honestly https://www.vanessaraath.com/ai-for-solo-recruiters/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:12:15 +0000 https://www.vanessaraath.com/?p=6903 AI for solo recruiters is less complicated than the noise suggests, but nobody seems to be saying that out loud. I run a lot of roundtables, workshops, and Q&A sessions, and after a recent one with solo recruiters and small agency owners in the UK, I walked out thinking: these are exactly the questions everyone…

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]]> 7 Recruitment Business Lessons From 7 Years of Building The Talent Hunter https://www.vanessaraath.com/recruitment-business-lessons-7-years/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:28:08 +0000 https://www.vanessaraath.com/?p=6894 Seven years ago last week, I launched The Talent Hunter. These are the recruitment business (and a few life) lessons I wish someone had told me before I started. And if I’m being honest, the whole thing started as a result of a bit of a knee-jerk reaction. 😮 I’d just found out that my…

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]]> AI in Recruitment: What It Can Do (and What Only You Can) https://www.vanessaraath.com/ai-in-recruitment-what-it-can-do/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:13:03 +0000 https://www.vanessaraath.com/?p=6832 I stood on stage at Recruiters Unite in Cape Town a few weeks ago and asked the room a question I ask everywhere I go. “How many of you are worried that AI is going to take your job?” Hands went up. Of course they did. 🙋 Here’s my answer, the same one I’ve been…

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