Declan McNiff

Are we more settled and we're more down the road than we were 12 months ago?

Yes.

And there's big investments going into AI now.

I expect that to accelerate and to be more next year.

Is half the workforce going to be out of work?

No chance.

And I say that for the people that want to upskill.

You have to upskill.

You have to embrace it because it is coming and it's coming at a pace.

yeah it's basically we work all tech roles along the east coast and it's mainly Boston and it was off the back of clients in with an award-winning service thank god in Ireland and clients turned around and said look we wish we had your service in the US we could do with it the US is a lot about volume whereas quality when it comes to recruitment is quality quality if you're providing quality resumes as they're called in the US it saves time save time save money and you get the right people on board quicker

Yeah, and look, it's been authentic, Jess.

The one thing that AI can't replace is the human touch, the human element, and we've heard that all week here in America.

There's a lot of companies, we talked to startups, and even they were saying, and there was some AI, there was a guy that presented yesterday,

and they do mapping of all the infrastructure, the city's infrastructure.

Then they use AI to produce the element of when it needs repaired so that the city can put its budgets to great effect.

But it's people-based.

You said the people have to get the relationships, the people have to sign the contracts, the people have to be out.

But the other side of the people end, which you talked about there on the CVs and all this false presentation by AI, it's being authentic.

People that are authentic and people that have good communication skills will be the big winners.

Well, it's like everybody else.