Episode 4 - Why Hiring Still Breaks at Scale (and Why RPO Never Fully Solved It)

After 25+ years in recruitment, one truth keeps resurfacing: Hiring doesn’t fail because of lack of candidates. It fails because of how sourcing and scale actually work.

In this episode of Swipe Right for Talent, Gautam Sinha and Divya Chethan go deep into the realities most hiring conversations avoid:

Why talent sourcing is an individual skill, not a scalable one
How job boards solved access — but created noise
Why traditional RPO improved efficiency but never eliminated sourcing risk
The hidden cost of single-vendor dependency
Why most great recruiters stay small — and invisible
And how geography, access, and economics quietly shape hiring outcomes

They also unpack the original thinking behind building a global recruiting marketplace — one designed to aggregate exceptional sourcing talent from anywhere in the world, without forcing them into big cities or bloated org structures.

This conversation isn’t about tools or trends.
It’s about first principles:

How hiring actually works
Why it breaks at scale
And what a more resilient, predictable model needs to look like in the age of AI

If you’re a recruiter, TA leader, or operator who’s lived through job boards, RPOs, vendor chaos, and now AI hype — this episode will feel uncomfortably familiar (in a good way).

📌 Topics covered:

Evolution of recruitment from the 90s to today
Job boards, LinkedIn, and the noise problem
RPO: what it solved — and what it didn’t
Sourcing risk and why it never truly went away
Why hiring doesn’t scale like software
The future of recruiting platforms and precision hiring

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👉 In our next Episode 5, we will dive deeper into C PRO (Precision Recruitment Outsourcing) and how process efficiency meets predictability.