Change the World Tuesday: Rethinking Recruiting for the Age of AI and Flexibility

Pay used to decide who took the job. Now the first question most candidates ask is whether they can work from home, and companies still writing postings around salary alone are losing candidates before anyone even applies.

Myla Ramos, co-founder and CEO of SearchPros, built the company from a local Sacramento staffing firm into a nearly $175 million global managed service provider. She cut her company's time to hire by 45% using AI while keeping retention above 70%.

In this episode, she covers:

Why flexible job postings pull in 10 times more applicants than office-only roles, and why candidates will take 30% less pay to get it

How SearchPros cut time to hire by 45% by pointing AI at candidates it already had, instead of chasing new ones

What determines whether a new hire survives the first 90 days, and why Ramos calls it a two way responsibility

Timestamps

[00:01:10] Myla's early years making 200 calls a day, and the shift required to stop doing the job yourself so the company can scale

[00:03:45] The origin of "Change the World Tuesday," SearchPros' internal term for rebuilding a broken process by the start of the next week

[00:05:04] The widest gap between what employers say they want and what candidates actually bring to the table right now

[00:08:41] What leaders get wrong about hiring and keeping Gen Z, beyond the usual complaints

[00:09:21] Why SearchPros dropped its call and placement quotas in favor of measuring results