#50 - AI, Automation & Recruiting: Julian D'Angelo on Balancing Tech with Human Connection

Digital Recruiter Podcast

Episode Summary

In this episode, Clark Wilcox speaks with Julian D’Angelo, co-founder and CEO of Talin.ai, a cutting-edge automation tool designed for recruiters. Julian shares his unique journey from growth marketing in SaaS to building a recruitment tech company without any prior recruitment experience. He explains how his background in scaling processes and leveraging automation for efficiency gave him a distinct advantage when entering the recruitment space. This led him to develop Talin.ai, a platform that helps recruiters automate manual workflows like data enrichment, email sequencing, and ATS updates, all while keeping the human element at the core of the recruiting process.

The conversation delves into how Talin.ai works by integrating multi-channel campaigns across email, SMS, and in-mail, with AI-powered personalization to improve response rates. Julian highlights the importance of automating tasks that don’t require human touch, like sourcing candidates, so recruiters can focus on relationship-building. They also discuss the evolving role of AI in recruitment and how automation tools like Talin.ai can help recruiters handle more roles, improve efficiency, and maintain personalization, despite the increasing prevalence of AI in the industry.

Julian and Clark also explore the broader impact of AI on the future of recruiting, emphasizing that while automation will continue to improve, the human aspect—understanding candidates' needs and building trust—remains irreplaceable. Julian’s story is one of innovation, resilience, and the ability to blend tech-driven solutions with the recruiter’s traditional role of connecting people, ultimately transforming how recruitment agencies operate.

Julian’s Bio

After 7 years working with early and mid stage SaaS startups as a growth marketer, He began his own SaaS venture: Talin.

While building out growth teams for startups, He dove head first into learning the recruitment process.

What he found were broken, fragmented workflows that resulted in wasted resources and frustrated recruiters.

The root cause of these problems faced by recruitment teams were solvable. The tech existed - it just hadn't been packaged and designed to work for recruiters.

Talent professionals faced bad workflow problems that forced manual tasks sales and marketing teams had streamlined a long time ago.
So he built Talin - an automation platform designed to streamline the sourcing, data enrichment, and outreach process so that talent teams can spend less time on spreadsheets, and more time on people.

You can find Julian on LinkedIn or check out https://www.talin.ai/
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