WEBINAR
Mingjie Xu Zhang has hired everything from entry-level to executive search. On August 19th, he draws the actual line - where AI already replaces the work, and where it never should. Every hiring conversation right now still asks the wrong question: does AI belong in hiring? That debate's over - it's already sourcing, screening, and shortlisting inside most hiring teams, whether anyone formally signed off on it or not. The real question is where it stops. Mingjie Xu Zhang has hired across every level - high-volume entry-level, specialist, and executive search - three very different games with three very different answers to where that line actually sits.
Not "AI will change hiring" - the specific claim: sourcing and first-pass screening are already at a point where most companies are paying humans to do what a tool does just as well, slower. Mingjie names exactly which stages that's true for, and where teams are still doing it manually out of habit, not necessity.
Specialist and executive search break the "AI is eating hiring" narrative completely - judgment, trust-building, and reading what a candidate isn't saying don't automate. Mingjie draws the actual line, stage by stage, based on having run both ends of the hiring spectrum herself.
The uncomfortable one: HR sits between business interests and employee trust, and no tool fixes that - if anything, AI adoption is exposing the tension faster than before. Mingjie makes the case for what actually rebuilds credibility when the "problem" sitting above you is bad management, not process, and there's no dashboard for that.
Bring the AI tool you're not sure whether to trust, or the management situation you can't say out loud at work. Both are fair game.
Head of Human Resources at The Trading Pit
Mingjie has hired at every altitude: high-volume entry-level roles, specialist search, and the executive hires where one bad call costs a year. He's also spent enough time sitting between leadership and the floor to know that most "AI in hiring" debates skip the harder problem: credibility, and what happens to it when the tool was never actually what stood in your way.
Country Manager Iberia at Workfully
Gianluca has moderated Workfully's Hot Takes and Lunch & Learn series since it started, which means he's heard a lot of confident claims about hiring get tested live in front of a skeptical audience. His job today: press on whichever one Mingjie is surest about.
It's free, it's live and there's a recording in case you can't make it.
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