Deel hires at a pace most teams can’t imagine—3,000+ hires and 1.5M+ applications a year, and a recruiting team that stays lean by design.
In this episode, Nolan sits down with Alan Price, Global Head of TA at Deel, to unpack what it actually takes to hire at that scale—without burning out your team or breaking candidate experience.
They go deep on:
- Why AI screening is improving candidate experience, not hurting it
- How Deel processes 1.5M applications with ~70 recruiters
- When high-touch recruiting matters—and when it doesn’t
- A practical framework for measuring quality of hire over time
Key moments:
[00:00] Intro
[06:13] Dealing with rapid growth exhaustion
[07:04] Leadership means always being on
[11:11] 3000 hires and billion dollar ARR
[13:33] Scaling 300 hires per month
[14:45] Breaking down hiring channel strategy
[18:09] AI revolutionizes resume screening
[20:31] Candidates fear AI job displacement
[26:16] Database search unlocks hidden talent
[29:40] Silver medal process evolution
[33:49] Measuring quality of hire effectively
[37:59] Rise methodology for recruiting excellence
[39:19] Surfing the wave of AI change
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
