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Recruiting often begins with the question: Can this person do the job? In IT especially, the focus is on skills, tools, experience, and seniority. But a good match requires more. Expectations, the working model, and company culture must also align. Our evaluation of several hundred talent profiles on seekme.io shows: talent brings not only skills, but also clear ideas about how they want to work.

We often make recruiting decisions based on a document that was never meant to evaluate collaboration. Resumes show experience – but not how people work, what drives them, or in which environment they truly perform. This article demonstrates why this is a problem and how modern recruiting must look different.

AI is changing recruiting – but not just in the areas many expect. It is no longer only about automating processes or screening resumes faster. The real transformation occurs where we start to understand how people work, what motivates them, and in what environments they can be successful in the long term. This is why AI makes recruiting not only more efficient, but above all, more qualitative and strategic.

We have been optimizing recruiting for years based on resumes, skill lists, and experience – and then we wonder why teams still do not function sustainably. The reality is: skills get people into jobs. Values determine whether they stay, grow, and truly strengthen teams. In this article, we show why cultural fit is measurable, relevant, and critical to business – and why we are convinced that recruiting needs to be rethought.