Keeping recruitment human with AI as your co-pilot

Keeping recruitment human with AI as your co-pilot HR Tech Summit 2026 | 12 min

AI isn't coming for recruiters — it's coming for the parts of the job that were slowing them down. Guy Stewart, EMEA Sales Talent Acquisition at Teamtailor, draws on 17 years in recruitment and analysis of over 10,000 real AI interactions to make a clear-eyed case: the recruiter's role isn't shrinking, it's shifting. And the organisations that get it right are the ones who redesign their workflows around AI — not just bolt it on.

You'll take away:

• What recruiters are actually using AI for day-to-day (hint: it's not making hiring decisions)
• Why AI increases, not decreases, the importance of human judgment in recruitment
• How to think about the real differentiator: not who has AI, but who knows how to use it well

"The goal isn't more automation. It's better conversations." — Guy Stewart