"Kiku is solving one of the most painful and under-invested challenges in hiring. Eric and Rasmus bring deep operational experience, product insight, and urgency to this problem. We believe Kiku will define the category for AI in frontline recruitment."
According to the World Economic Forum, more than 90% of employers use automated systems to filter or rank job applications, and 88% of companies already employ some form of AI for initial candidate screening.
OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, humorously referred to the recruitment gatherings in San Francisco and New York City as a 'party' while seeking finance professionals to develop artificial general intelligence.
Altman mentioned that while Meta recruited some "great people," they failed to secure OpenAI's "top people" and had to go "quite far down their list" for hires.
Young people in line for good degrees from good Russell Group universities, who have for years obediently jumped through every hoop provided, are working in bars, going travelling, or despondently applying to companies.