Together, Mees van Velzen & Friso Visser explore the inspiring world of Artificial Intelligence within Recruitment & Employer Branding. We explore how AI is transforming the art of talent recruitment, giving us new perspectives and renewing the way we attract talent. From theory to practical examples. We will go through an exciting journey full of possibilities, looking for the golden egg of AI in Recruitment.

Season 3

#19 Deep Research & Quantum Chips: Where is AI going?

In this episode:

  • AI assistant for recruitment: a new AI product from MrWork
  • The acquisition of Recrubo by Carv
  • Deep Research: ChatGPT vs. Perplexity Deep Research - Which AI tool do you use when?
  • What does ChatGPT 4.5 bring?
  • Sora and Manus: golden eggs or overhyped AI?
  • Majorana 1 - Is Microsoft's new quantum superchip the future of AI?

#18 Will 2025 be the year of applied AI in recruitment?

In this episode:

  • Search within ChatGPT - What can it do so far?
  • ChatGPT with o3 and Deep Research - A new step in AI-driven knowledge gathering
  • What has come out in the last two months? - The most important releases in a row
  • Project Stargate - The US is investing 500 billion in AI, what does it mean?
  • ChatGPT Operator - The first AI Agents in 2025 and their impact on recruitment

Season 2

#17 What did 2024 bring, and what will 2025 bring?

In this episode:

  • ChatGPT is 2 years old, a little look back
  • Search GPT has been out for a month now, what can you do with it?
  • Runway Act One, create and act out your own campaign videos
  • 2025 will be the year of AI Agents
  • Coca Cola launches an AI Christmas advert
  • An Employer Brand in 4.5 hours - How do you do it? A 4-part blog series on Enrol.nl

#16 The next level of AI has been reached

In this episode:

  • Thanks to AI full deployment in nuclear power
  • Events: HR & AI, Employer Branding Studio & Recruitment Tech
  • Copilot Studio: Automate repetitive tasks
  • Claude's Computer Use: AI agents are coming
  • NotebookLM - Googles podcast

#15 The next level of AI has been reached

In this episode:

  • ChatGPT o1 vs ChatGPT 4: when do you use what?
  • The next level of AI has been reached: Level 2- Reasoners
  • The AI image comparison: which tool is best?
  • More APIs for AI tooling and what this means for Recruitment software

#14 AI Recruitment assistants & a new form of employer branding

In this episode:

  • Nvidia: A Personal AI Assistant for everyone
  • Meta AI: Artificial Intelligence in Whatsapp
  • Employer Branding with AI: A new video in 1.5 hours
  • What is still real, and what is not? Lifelike images with Flux
  • Black Mirror series becomes reality with Friend

#13 Interactive recruitment avatars & Super AI

In this episode:

  • Instagram & AI: Soon a chatbot for your candidates?
  • Heygen: Interactive Recruitment Avatars
  • AI Commercials: New Employer Brandings video within 24 hours
  • OpenAI blacklists China: No access for 1.5 billion people
  • OpenAI's AGI: How "Super AI" is going to replace organisations in 5 steps

#12 Video-first & more AI from Dutch soil

In this episode:

  • Making money sleeping with Tesla AI?
  • Human 1 - AI 0: Photographer beats AI
  • Claude 3.5 Sonnet: Better than ChatGPT?
  • Apple Intelligence: Not in the Netherlands by EU AI Act
  • Luma & Runway 3: Realistic video generation for
  • Employer Branding
  • Jaicob: Recruitment AI from Dutch soil

#11 We (&AI) are back again!

There's a lot to discuss right away after a month full of updates and news. This episode we talk about:

  • The three big keynotes: Google, OpenAI & Microsoft on AI
  • ChatGPT 4o: now free for all to use
  • Copilot+PC and Microsoft Recall: repetition and automation of your (work) behaviour
  • Braintrust AIR: The game-changing tool for Recruitment?

Season 1

#10 The final episode. Or not...?

Mees & Friso look back at the first season. What did we discuss, and where do we expect AI to go in the coming years? In this episode:

  • Llama 3 and Gemini 1.5 Pro: New versions on the way.
  • Viggle AI: Customising people in videos.
  • The AI Revolution: How will AI change our profession.
  • Terminators: What are the scary things about AI?
  • 3x Game Changing AI: Which tools stood out?
  • Learnings: what we found out this season.

#9 Hands-on AI: From offer to ambassador

In this episode:

  • ChatGPT innovation: How to use ChatGPT without an account
  • Bixby AI: Is Samsung moving to AI for their Siri, Bixby after all?
  • AI devices: Is AI handheld coming through Jony Ive and OpenAI?
  • Offer: How to make the right offer to your candidate
  • Pre- & onboarding: Keeping new employees warm between signing moment and start
  • First day at work: Preparing for the first day of work
  • Referral: How to set up a referral strategy

#8 Hands-on AI: Sourcing and Application Process

In this episode:

  • Stargate: The world's biggest and most expensive supercomputer
  • Voicecloning: A tool from OpenAI that is too dangerous to be public for now
  • New Game Changing AI: Suno.ai for your own numbers
  • Sourcing: How do you reduce the workload for sourcing?
  • Pre-screening: The possibilities and trade-offs of deploying AI
  • Application process: From telephone intake to coordinating with hiring manager

#7 Hands-on AI: From EVP to Vacancy

In this episode:

  • Sora to Hollywood: The first short films have been made
  • Voice-to-Voice Ai: More and more AI models you can talk to
  • EVP: What values do you express as a company?
  • Content Creation: How do you create content around your EVP?
  • Writing vacancies: Quickly find a suitable vacancy
  • Distribution: From first contact moment to job application

#6 The Terminator & Dutch Recruitment AI

In this episode:

  • Lifelike robots: what do you get when you combine robotics with ChatGPT?
  • Apple opts for Google: Gemini comes to iPhone
  • Blackwell: NVIDIA's new $40,000 AI chip
  • ChatSimple: Let candidates talk to your website
  • RecruitAgent: The Dutch tool for writing and posting vacancies
  • Shot or Bot: For the last time, what is real and what is AI?
  • Q&A: Will AI replace the Recruiter?

#5 Developers beware, AI is coming

In this episode:

  • EU AI Act: New laws for AI regulation
  • Audio toolings: More and more sound and music made by AI
  • CEO of NVIDIA: Programming languages are a thing of the past
  • Devin: The first AI Software Engineer
  • Blaze: quick and easy your Recruitment Marketing social planning
  • Shot or Bot: Can you still tell the difference between real and AI?
  • Q&A: Changes to the show

#4 The soap opera called AI

In this episode:

  • OpenAI vs Elon Musk: The lawsuit of the titans
  • Claude 3 is coming: will this new Large Language Model beat ChatGPT?
  • Framer: Building websites in a jiffy
  • Boolean Builder: Quickly and easily a Boolean Search String for your position
  • Shot or Bot: Can you still tell the difference between real and AI?
  • Q&A: Our listeners' questions

#3 Which titan will win the AI race?

In this episode:

  • Microsoft's new investment: is Mistral the ChatGPT competitor?
  • An ethical blunder at Google: The withdrawal of a key Gemini feature
  • ChatGPT 3.5 vs 4.0: An old bike or a new car?
  • Referral Radar: Become a Referral expert fast with this new GPT
  • Q&A: Our listeners' questions

#2 Ra Ra Sora

In this episode:

  • The first Game-Changing AI: Sora from OpenAI lets you create videos that are lifelike.
  • Always a video: What will this mean for Recruitment Marketing?
  • Already AI videos in your Recruitment Marketing: What can be made with AI now?
  • Q&A: Our viewers' questions on unbiased hiring with AI and interview tooling

#1 The search for the golden egg

Welcome to the very first episode of Recruitment AI Weekly! In this episode, Mees van Velzen & Friso Visser dive into the fascinating world of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment & Employer Branding. Join us to discover how AI is transforming the way we search and attract talent, and follow us in the search for the golden egg of AI in Recruitment.

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