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For years, recruiting has relied on cold outreach and career site clicks to capture attention. But today’s candidates—especially the passive ones you most want—aren’t refreshing job boards or responding to yet another InMail. They’re scrolling, swiping, and following voices they trust.

This session will explore how creators and micro-influencers are reshaping the talent attraction landscape, moving recruiting from transactional outreach to authentic discovery. You’ll learn why candidates engage more deeply with trusted voices than branded messages, and how this shift is producing 3x more engagement and dramatically higher conversion rates.

We won’t talk theory—we’ll unpack what’s working now, why influence beats interruption, and how you can start rethinking your funnel to meet talent where they already are.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Understand the shift from search to discovery: Learn why traditional job boards and InMails are losing effectiveness—and how creators are filling the gap.
  • Decode candidate trust signals:  Explore why job seekers engage first with influencer-driven content.
  • Apply practical next steps: Walk away with actionable strategies to test creator-led recruiting in your own organization, no matter your budget or industry.