How AI recruiters actually find candidates
An AI sourcing agent does not browse profiles — it runs retrieval. Here is what that pipeline rewards, and what it silently drops.
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How people get found by machines.
Reference articles on AI sourcing, machine-readable profiles and consent-first talent data. Written to be checked, quoted and argued with — every claim about HuMetric here is something the product already does.
Why AI agents can't read your LinkedIn profile
Closed networks sit behind logins, restrict crawlers and publish no structured data. Here is what an agent needs instead, and how to give it that.
Generative engine optimization for professionals
GEO is optimizing to be quoted rather than clicked. What it takes for a model to name you when someone asks it a question, with no results page in between.
Consent-first talent data, and why sourcing needs an audit trail
Scraped candidate databases are cheap to build and impossible to defend. What consented, revocable, logged talent data looks like in practice.