Season 9 | Ep9 Emily Van Eyssen on why she's firing staff and replacing them with AI

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Emily Van Eyssen on why she's firing staff and replacing them with AI "I automated someone's entire job out of my business." "They're gone. That role doesn't exist anymore." Emily Van Eyssen isn't talking about the future. She's talking about last month. She had no recruitment experience when she started. Zero training. Never worked for an agency. Stumbled into it during the pandemic through a government contract she still doesn't understand why she won. Most people would have crashed and burned. Emily placed 200 young people into employment, made a lot of money, and accidentally built a completely virtual recruitment business. When the pandemic ended and the scheme shut down, she had a choice. Go back to managing Airbnbs (which she hated), or figure out how to make recruitment work. Three years later: 30-35 placements per month Team of just 8 people 300+ people placed globally Jobs being automated out of existence in real-time But here's what makes Emily's story urgent. She's not planning for an AI future. She's living it right now. South African talent + AI super users = roles disappearing overnight. She fired someone last week for refusing to use AI.

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