The Engineering Hiring Crisis: What Every HR Leader Gets Wrong with Alex Rashkovan #177
In this episode, Nick Day is joined on The HR L&D Podcast by Alex Rashkovan, Chairman of Filuet and CEO & Co-Founder of Atalef, with over two decades of experience building and scaling technology-enabled businesses across the globe.
Title: The Engineering Hiring Crisis: What Every HR Leader Gets Wrong (with Alex Rashkovan)
Host: 🎙️ Nick Day, CEO of specialist HR Recruitment Agency, JGA Recruitment Group
Guest: 👤 Alex Rashkovan Chairman of Filuet | CEO & Co-Founder of Atalef
Episode Overview:
🔊 In this insightful episode of The HR L&D Podcast, host Nick Day is joined by Alex Rashkovan. Alex, a global operator with over two decades of experience building and scaling operational and technology-enabled businesses, has been instrumental in transforming how organisations hire technical talent by shifting from CV-first guesswork to skills-first, evidence-based hiring through his platform Atalef.
Key Topics Discussed in this Episode:
- Why every company is now a tech company and what that means for HR hiring strategies.
- Why CVs are the “new fax machine” and how AI-polished applications are making traditional screening obsolete.
- How a painful COVID-era hiring failure led to a complete overhaul of the engineering recruitment process.
- Practical steps for turning vague requests like “we need a senior developer” into clear 90-day role profiles with measurable success criteria.
- Why synthetic coding tests are losing integrity and what evidence-early alternatives look like in practice.
- How Atalef’s deep match algorithm connects companies with passive talent based on real capabilities rather than credentials.
- The importance of hiring for company DNA through work style match, not personality match.
- Why the first hire every founder should make is a professional in-house HR leader.
Useful Links From This Episode:
- 👤 Alex Rashkovan LinkedIn Profile
- 👤 Host Nick Day LinkedIn Profile
- 📢 JGA HR Recruitment
- 🎧 Check out our sister podcast, The Payroll Podcast
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