Defensible Hiring: How to Stay in Control as AI Enters the Process
AI is entering recruitment in more places than most teams realize. It can sit inside screening, ranking, scoring, matching, candidate communication, workflow decisions and the day-to-day judgement recruiters and hiring managers make. For TA leaders, the question is no longer whether AI has a place in hiring. It’s about knowing where AI belongs in the process, what good human oversight looks like, and how to bring the right people into the conversation early.
On 16 July, Hayley Skivington sits down with Martyn Redstone and Bob Pulver for a practical fireside chat on responsible AI in recruitment: where the real risk sits, what good human oversight looks like, and how cautious teams keep moving without losing control.
Meet Our Speakers
Martyn Redstone
Head of Responsible AI & Industry Engagement, Warden AI
Martyn Redstone advises HR and recruitment teams on responsible AI, governance and AI assurance. With 20 years in recruitment and HR technology, he brings a practical view of how AI is changing hiring, where risk can appear, and what organisations need to put in place to use it safely.
Bob Pulver
Founder & Principal, Elevate Your AIQ
Bob Pulver helps organisations build AI readiness across teams, leaders and the wider workforce. A 22-year IBM veteran, including 7 years at IBM Research during the rise of Watson, Bob brings deep experience in human-centred AI adoption, workforce change and the practical habits teams need to use AI responsibly.
Hayley Skivington
Head of Product, Oleeo
Hayley is Head of Product at Oleeo, where she leads the product strategy of talent acquisition technology designed for complex, high-volume hiring environments. She works with customer and product teams to translate real recruitment challenges into practical, responsible AI solutions that support better, more consistent hiring decisions.
What You’ll Take Away
- Where AI risk may already be sitting in your recruitment process
The points where screening, ranking, workflow rules or recruiter behavior can quietly become harder to defend. - How much human oversight is enough?
What meaningful human involvement really looks like with specific best practice examples. - Who needs to be in the room before AI enters recruitment
Why responsible AI stalls at the approval stage, and who actually needs to own it. - Where cautious TA teams should start
Lower-risk use cases, internal checks and practical first steps to help recruitment teams move with confidence.
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