Twelve recruiters, in a room, with the roles they are actually stuck on. You go home with a tested string library, an AI screening set, and one automation running in your own stack — not a slide deck and a login to yet another tool.
You have tried the tools. There is a folder of prompts somewhere. And on Monday morning you still open the same search, still write the same message, still wait for the same silence. The problem was never the tools — it is that nobody ever sat next to you and rebuilt your pipeline with you, on your roles.
So bring three open roles you are stuck on. We fix those, in the room, and you keep everything we build.
Boolean and x-ray strings for your own open roles, tested against live results in the room — plus the pattern, so you can write the next fifty yourself.
A prompt set that grades candidates against your actual intake, with the guardrails that keep it defensible when someone asks how the decision was made.
Role in, qualified longlist and drafted outreach out. Built live, in your own stack, switched on before you leave. Not "here is a template".
Plus the recording of the online edition (22 & 24 September) when it lands, and thirty days of email access to me for the inevitable it broke, why.
Bring a laptop and three roles you are genuinely stuck on. That is the whole prep.
Find, qualify, reach, repeat. Where AI earns its keep in each one, and the two places it will confidently lie to you. Fifteen minutes of theory, and that is all the theory there is.
Boolean and x-ray that still outperforms semantic search, and the AI layer that makes it fast instead of replacing it. We write strings for your roles and run them.
You build: your string libraryTurning an intake into a scoring rubric a model can apply consistently. Where bias creeps in, what the EU AI Act actually asks of you, and how to keep a record that survives a hiring manager's second-guessing.
You build: your screening setIncluded. And the moment you can walk out with a full refund if this is not what you came for.
Personalisation from evidence, not from merge tokens. We build a message engine that reads a profile and writes something a human would actually reply to — then pressure-test it against the messages you sent last month.
You build: your message engineWe wire layers 1 to 3 into one automation in your own stack and switch it on. Everyone leaves with it running. This is the hour people email me about six months later.
You build: one live automationWhat to do first, what to leave alone, and how the thirty days of follow-up work.
Drinks for whoever is not in a hurry.
If by 12:30 you do not believe this day will pay for itself, say so and I refund you on the spot — no form, no argument, no awkwardness. I would rather carry that risk than have you sit through an afternoon you did not want. It is also the reason you can book this without a meeting with me first.
Payment upfront by iDEAL or card; a proper VAT invoice arrives by email within minutes. Cancel up to seven days before for a full refund — after that, send a colleague in your place.
I have been sourcing for over twenty years and teaching other people to do it for nearly as long. I chaired the exam committee for the Dutch registered recruitment education, wrote the course material for it, and ran a team of fifteen specialist sourcers across the Netherlands and Lithuania. Somewhere in there I co-founded one of the first mobile recruitment apps in the world, with Deloitte as its first customer.
I am also a licensed private investigator and a registered open source intelligence expert, which is a long way of saying I know how to find people who do not want to be found — and where the line is. Last year I certified on the EU AI Act, which is why the second block of this day is about evidence and defensibility rather than vibes.
I still fill roles every week. That is the only reason anything in this day survives contact with a Monday morning.
Two weeks from now you either have a pipeline that runs partly without you, or you have the same Monday you had last week. It costs €395 and one day to find out which.
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