The Power of Connection and Honesty: Why AI Can't (Alone) Help Your Candidate Experience

​Every candidate who gets ghosted after an interview becomes a storyteller. And not the kind of storyteller you want representing your employer brand.

​As companies race to automate recruiting with AI, many are quietly damaging their candidate experience through the simplest failure: no closure, no feedback, no humanity.

​Join us for a conversation about what gets lost when recruiting becomes purely transactional, and what it takes to build a process that turns even rejected candidates into advocates.

​We'll dig into:

• ​Why candidate experience isn't a "nice to have," it's a self-fulfilling referral engine (or the lack of one)

• ​The difference between a relationship-based process and a transactional one, and how candidates feel that difference immediately

• ​Where AI genuinely helps (flooding the top of the funnel) and where it can't carry the weight (the final conversation, the nuanced feedback, saying no with respect)

• ​How to treat recruiting like a product: designed with care, strategy, and clarity, especially at the executive level

​Whether you're building out a TA function, leading executive search, or just tired of watching good candidates walk away with a bad story to tell, this session is for you.

​Speaker Bio:

​Josh Narva's unique background spans the full lifecycle of technology companies. He was an early employee at two Sequoia Capital incubated startups, served as Head of Talent at Sonos during its scale up from 350 to nearly 1,800 employees through its eventual IPO, and worked as a Talent Advisor in the Office of the CEO at Google. These experiences give him the perspective to advise founders, executives, and boards at every stage of growth. Josh is currently a Partner, Talent Advisory at Riviera Partners.