Ireland is having a moment in artificial intelligence that most American HR leaders have not clocked yet. A research note from the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs, the Irish government’s skills advisory body, published in late August, found AI-related jobs being created in Ireland at two to three times the pace of neighboring countries.
Close to 12% of Irish job postings now reference AI skills. In the U.S., that figure is 4%. In the U.K., it is 6%. Microsoft’s AI Diffusion Report puts Ireland second in Europe for overall AI adoption, behind only Norway, and large-enterprise AI usage here has climbed from 31.2% to 57.3% since 2021. A market of 5 million people is running ahead of the big ones.
We built TalentHunter inside that environment, and inside a regulatory one that got there before America did. Recruitment was classified as high-risk under the EU AI Act before we had our first paying client, and a candidate’s right to a plain explanation of a hiring decision was close to law before most vendors had thought about it. We joined the European AI Pact, the voluntary framework the European AI Office set up ahead of the Act’s deadlines, because it put us in the room where the standards were being worked out.
That environment shaped the product. Every résumé score a candidate receives can be sent to a human reviewer on request. Our terms of service state plainly that no candidate is ever automatically rejected by an algorithm. Our policies open in ordinary language...
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