Episode 5 | LinkedIn Wants to Pay You $70/Hour — To Replace You

In this episode, Kat and Nick (husky voice and all) dig into one of the more eyebrow-raising stories in recruitment tech right now - LinkedIn quietly posting roles to hire top tech recruiters as paid consultants at $70/hour, tasked with training their AI models.

The irony isn't lost on either of them. LinkedIn has been charging recruiters significant fees for years to use its platform, and is now turning to those same recruiters to fix what their AI still can't do: understand how recruiters actually think, work, and influence.

Nick's take? It's an admission. Nobody he's spoken to thinks LinkedIn's AI recruiting tools are genuinely good. The agents pull back irrelevant candidates, don't ask the right questions, and fundamentally misunderstand what recruitment value actually is. Because here's the thing... recruiters don't just find candidates. They influence them. The nuance, the emotional intelligence, the reading between the lines... that's where the fee is earned, and that's exactly what AI can't replicate. Yet.

Kat goes a step further, reading the LinkedIn move as something bigger: a play to eventually build an AI marketplace that cuts recruiters out entirely: employers on one side, candidates on the other, agents doing the matching in the middle. Nick's not convinced it'll work at the senior end. But for high-volume, transactional hiring? They both agree the shift is already happening.

The episode also covers some practical ground with Nick flagging Claude's native connectors as one of the most underrated quick wins available right now (the little + button in Claude that lets you hook up Gmail, Slack and more in a few clicks). And there's a timely warning about tools like Claude Cowork and Perplexity Personal. They are genuinely powerful, but dangerous if you ask them to do too much in one go. Context windows fill up fast, mistakes compound, and suddenly you've got garbage data you're manually fixing.

The analogy of the episode: treat AI like a trainee. Give it 20 things, not 120. Feed it small, specific, relevant information. And remember, just like a new starter who doesn't want to let you down, it'll confidently make things up before it admits it doesn't know.

Context is king. (Yes, it's officially the show's unofficial second tagline now. 👑)

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Nick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ai-agents-for-recruitment/

Kat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katkingshott/