Why Recruitment Needs a Unified Tech Stack: The Case for Integrated Hiring Intelligence

By Bhavishya Sharma, Managing Director of Athena Executive Search and Consulting

Over the past few decades, the recruitment industry has witnessed a complete metamorphosis. The days of job advertisements in newspapers and candidate communications via post are well behind. Now, automated workflows, AI-driven sourcing, and intelligent engagement platforms seem to have taken over.

Recent years have seen technology further disrupting recruitment processes. While modern recruitment platforms have attempted to integrate automation and AI for simplifying hiring, one challenge has remained: the fragmentation of tools. Recruiters, to this day, continue to juggle a dozen or more separate systems for sourcing, screening, engagement, assessments, and applicant tracking, each operating in isolation. The core issue is not digitisation itself, but rather the inefficiency created by disconnected systems, which undermines hiring effectiveness.

Consequently, an emerging realisation within the industry is that recruitment success does not need more tools; it simply requires ...