A Note from the Editor
The results are in from last week’s survey. Among almost 100 recruitment agency professionals, AI’s impact is far from decisive. While 63% report at least some improvement, a substantial 31% say it hasn’t really improved their process – suggesting 
that although AI adoption is widespread, meaningful transformation isn’t yet universal across agencies.
This might be because many agencies are adopting AI in small, surface-level ways without fully integrating it into their core processes, meaning it improves tasks but hasn’t yet transformed overall outcomes.
In the newsletter this week, we shared insights on:
- Why Recruitment Feels Harder Than It Used To from JSBC Labs
- Closing the Candidate: Fact versus Fiction from Steve Finkel
- How to Win Retained Recruitment Work Without Pitching Harder from Recruitment Coach
- Why Most Hiring Processes Break After the Job Ad (And How to Fix It) from Occy
- Recruitment Marketing Analytics vs Intelligence: What’s the Difference? from Access Recruitment
- Applicant Tracking System (ATS) Statistics for 2026: Data and Insights for Staffing from Tracker
- UK Recruitment Market Outlook 2026: Hiring Trends & Agency Growth from Quba
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