Why AI maps the talent market but cannot read the candidate

A practitioner's note on the boundary between AI-assisted mapping and consultant-led assessment in senior executive search. By Alessio Montaruli, Founder & CEO, KiTalent --- The conversation about AI in hiring is usually framed around three questions: will it make sourcing faster, will it reduce or reproduce bias, and will it replace recruiters? These are reasonable questions. After thirteen years in executive search, I think they are not the deepest ones. The deeper question is conceptual: what kind of thing is a senior candidate, and what kind of understanding is required to assess one? That question matters because it determines where AI belongs in a serious search process, and where it does not. AI is genuinely useful in executive search. It can make the market more visible, the early mapping more complete, and the evidence base cleaner. But the fact that AI is useful does not mean t

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