Lee and Helge discuss:

• The unforgiving nature of early technology

• How to interest top management teams in data science

• AI’s progression since the period shortly before Globus’ inception

• The long-term impacts of AI in the recruitment sector

• Machine learning, and the dangers of bias in data

• Advancements in tech within creative and health sectors

Links & references

Lee Cooper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leecooperrecruiter/

Helge Bjorland: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helgebjorland/

https://www.instagram.com/helgebjorland_globus/

Globus.ai: https://www.linkedin.com/company/globus-ai/

https://www.instagram.com/globus.ai/

https://www.globus.ai/

Get in touch: lee@extrology.com

Episode highlights:

“Games and web pages, how you can make code turn into something - it's fascinating, right? Building your own computers, putting everything together and getting it to work has always been a fascination.” - 8:50 - Helge Bjorland

“What I think is important as a data scientist is understanding the business, as well as the technical aspects. It all starts with defining the problem, understanding the business side of it, and then figuring out what makes sense here logically, and how to translate that into features.” - 19:50 - Helge Bjorland

“The AI term is kind of overarching, but when you break it down, it’s machine learning - making models that learn from data, that then predict some future state.” - 23:15 - Helge Bjorland

“The cost of mishiring sits between 2.7x and 54x salary, and the intangible measurement of cost to the individual - what a miserable experience.” - 30:55 - Lee Cooper

“Recruiters will definitely have a place in the future because they’re dealing with the human aspect. But manual, mundane tasks, machines can do better than people. Combining the two will drive the industry forward.” - 46:30 - Helge Bjorland

“We'll see a lot of developments, and just being able to be at the forefront of this and seeing what's going on, being hands on with this technology and helping the staffing industry adopt it, I think that's really interesting and motivating.” - 56:20 - Helge Bjorland

“You want to leave something behind, so do something meaningful that you can be remembered for.” - 1:13:55 - Helge Bjorland

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