AI Hit HR Like a Tsunami - What HR Leaders Do Next | Marisa Lynskey, CHRO at Ceto

"AI hit like a tsunami. It came in slowly at first, and now it's just all over the place." Marisa Lynskey, CHRO at Ceto, joins The Talent Fix. She went to market for a Principal in management consulting in Atlanta, a city full of management consultants, and got just 10 applicants from LinkedIn. The job description wasn't the problem. The role itself has changed. In this episode, Marisa explains why HR has moved from the end of the table taking notes to the function running the transformation, especially in a business scaling through M&A. Her framing: the CEO's right hand is finance and operations, and the left hand is human capital. Ceto's clients, banks and credit unions, don't want the same ideas delivered again. They want to be taught a new way of working. So Ceto needs A players in the core discipline who are also genuinely gung-ho about applying AI, and that combination is hard to find right now. In this episode: Why AI-ready talent is so hard to hire right now What she found when she asked her HRIS/ATS provider what AI it could offer Why legacy platforms wrapping AI around old architecture are losing ground to AI-native systems Why she's excited about AI rather than frightened of it, and why the human touch doesn't go away Her dream HR system: one source of truth and an AI agent that follows a person from ATS through their whole employee life, including flagging the benefits that suit their circumstances The 3am notebook of ideas her CEO has learned to be slightly nervous of Her ask for our industry: use AI at the front end to move faster, because speed wins the hire Subscribe for more conversations with talent and HR leaders. #TheTalentFix #TalentAcquisition #HR #AI #Fintech