Itamar Yeshua - Co-founder at Vente AI

Recruiters are sh*t. 

Some people (mostly recruiters) will get ruffled with this sort of comment.

Some people (mostly non-recruiters) will celebrate and wholeheartedly agree.

The thing is.

Poor recruiters will always be poor quality.

Great recruiters will always be great quality.

I’ve worked with both.

We still need intuition, empathy, gut instinct, personality and character to truly assess a candidate.

Disruptors of the industry have focused on replacing recruiters or the recruitment process.

In high volume, high churn environments this really makes sense.

But we’re still dealing with people and we still need intuition, empathy, gut instinct, personality and character to truly assess a candidate.

Itamar Yeshua has focused on sales and operational processes of the recruiter at Vente AI. Using data and optimised processes to help recruiters better reach the right type of companies and roles and focusing on what matters most… The people. 

By doing the heavy lifting, it allows recruiters to focus more on closing new jobs.

Less time saying ‘yeah I can do that’ and more ‘I have done this, this is a fit and here is the data’.

We spoke about: 

- Building a solution as a result of experiencing a problem. Itamar and his co-founders identified the problem as colleagues a long time ago - and over time, validated the extent of it.

- Lining up your co-founders in advance. If you even think you’d love to start something in the future, having talent in mind can be a game changer when you get there. Often, people rush into co-founder decisions when they’re stretched and make emotional decisions. At Vente, Itamar worked closely with his co-founders previously, arguably a great way to find your 'who' before building your 'what'.

- Building revenue motions and early targeted reach to create a solid commercial and revenue foundation, ripe for growth and investment opportunities. With the barrier to entry for SaaS becoming lower through no and low-code, as well as the trend to 'vibe-code', a focus in the space has shifted from technological capabilities to solution and problem validation. The easiest way to do that? Proving who your customer is and if they'd be willing to pay for it.

Much of my experience with the recruitment industry has still been 'surely this isn't the way it's actually done' - so it's refreshing to see solutions like Vente AI find ways to innovate rather than disrupt (as sometimes it can be too early to disrupt) elements of the industry. 

Validated by the fact that today alone, I've received 3 random InMails with the best data scientists I didn't asked for..

Thank you as ever to Vestd for supporting our series!