185 - Stop Drowning In Applicants with Matthew Stewart

Your hiring inbox shouldn’t feel like spam, but that’s where recruiting is heading as AI makes it effortless to generate resumes and apply at scale. We sit down with Matthew Stewart, a software engineer turned founder of Talent Sprout, to unpack what’s breaking in modern recruiting and why the biggest pain shows up right at the start: screening. When you can’t tell who’s real and you’re buried under PDFs, the first phone screen becomes a bottleneck that quietly taxes your entire hiring pipeli...