José Kadlec, GoodCall

He is the co-founder of GoodCall, Recruitment Academy and Datacruit ATS, which have been ranked in the Financial Times FT1000 and Deloitte Top50. With a background in software engineering, he started his career as an unconventional headhunter and talent sourcing architect. He became the first ever officially certified LinkedIn recruiter in Central and Eastern Europe. He is the author of People as Merchandise and more recently HR Robo Sapiens. He is regularly ranked among the most influential CEOs on LinkedIn. “I have been programming neural networks since my studies at the Faculty of Nuclear and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University. At that time, these methods were rather isolated in an academic environment. I am glad to have lived to see the moment when we can all fully experience how these techniques are massively changing our professional and personal lives,” he says.