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Andrew Banks on recruiting

The AI arms race, and the circuit breaker.

Andrew Banks describes the arms race running through recruitment right now. Candidates write applications with AI, clients screen them with AI, and neither side trusts what comes back. His circuit breaker is a culture match, run at the top end of the funnel before anyone reads a CV.

Andrew Banks to camera on the AI arms race in recruitment

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Andrew Banks ran Morgan & Banks and Talent2 for thirty years and is an investor in Compono.

What Andrew is describing

  • Candidates are using AI to glossy their resumes. Clients are using AI to screen them. Nobody's winning
  • A culture match is the circuit breaker
  • You send your client a link, their best people complete a profile, and every candidate goes through it
  • AI is very good when it knows what a good answer looks like. There's no right answer here

How a culture match works

1

Send the client a link

One link, sent by the recruiter on the desk. Nothing to install. The client passes it to their best people.

2

Their best people complete a profile

The top performers in that business answer it online in under ten minutes. Back comes a profile the client agrees reads like them.

3

Every candidate is compared to it

The comparison runs at the top end of the funnel, before a CV is screened, so the shortlist reaches the client with the fit already on it.

Talk to us about running a culture match on your next role.

Tell us the roles you are working on and who your clients are. We will show you how a culture match runs inside Compono Hire, and what it costs to carry inside your fee.

  • Fill in the form and pick a time that suits you.
  • A short video call with someone who knows agency recruitment.
  • We show you a culture match on a shortlist, and answer whatever you bring.
  • No deck. If we are not the right fit, we will say so.
Andrew Banks, investor in Compono

Andrew BanksInvestor in Compono. Founded Morgan & Banks, co-founded Talent2.

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Common questions

No. AI writes a strong answer when it knows what a good answer looks like. A culture match has no right answer to copy. The only benchmark is how your client's best people work, and that is not published anywhere a bot can read.

At the top end of the funnel, before you screen a resume. The client's best people complete a ten-minute profile once, and every applicant is compared to it as they come in, so the shortlist arrives with the fit already on it.

What Andrew says

Andrew Banks

Andrew BanksFounder of Morgan & Banks, co-founder of Talent2, investor in Compono

Everyone's talking about AI. In recruitment, it's an arms race. Candidates use AI to glossy their resumes and fire out hundreds of applications overnight. Clients and employers respond using AI screeners because they can't cope with the volume, and they don't trust what they're seeing.

Here's the circuit breaker, a culture match. You send your client a link. Their best people complete a profile, and every candidate goes through it at the top end of the funnel before you screen a single resume.

And here's why the bots can't game it. AI is very good when it knows what a good answer looks like. There's no right answer here. There's only your client's best people and how they work. Nothing can be copied. So the arms race is over. The answer? Compono.

Ready to run a culture match on your next role?

Tell us the brief. We will show you how it works inside Compono Hire.