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What is the FUTURE of headhunting firms in the AI AGE ?
Following article has a few pointers
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AI promoted the CTO – and fired HR
It might sound heretical to HR purists, but let’s face it: in the age of agentic AI, where digital agents assist, reason and act, perhaps the time has come to merge the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role into the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) mandate.
India Inc should actively consider this merger. When the workforce morphs into a blend of humans and intelligent agents, the talent strategy and technology strategy are inseparable. Then, who better to lead both than the tech executive who already speaks binary?
Agentic AI isn’t your humdrum chatbot anymore: it’s autonomous decision-making algorithm that lives in workflows, interacts with humans and other agents, and makes things happen.
As Brian Solis notes in “The Agentic Playbook,” IT becomes the HR of AI agents – recruiting, on-boarding, training, managing performance, and off-boarding.
In other words, talent operations now extend to digital entities. If you’re still drawing lines between people management and tech-stack, your organisation chart is obsolete.
CTOs are evolving into orchestrators of hybrid workforces, ones comprising humans, bots, agents, and platforms. A recent article observes that future CTOs align people, processes, and technology around a clear goal and oversee executive AI stacks.
Meanwhile, CHROs are being tasked with “agentifying” the workforce: breaking jobs into tasks, decisions and judgements, then deciding what goes to AI and what belongs to humans.
When the technology leader is already driving this transformation, it stands to reason they should hold full accountability.
When HR + Tech isn’t enough, you need tech that is HR. the following five factors will draw up a strong case :
Unified Strategy for hybrid workforces :
As agents handle onboarding, payouts, talent mobility, and even learning pathing, the line between “ talent operations “ and “ technology operations “ vanishes. The CTO who already holds data, infrastructure, platforms etc. might as well aggregate .
Talent isn’t just people anymore :
In the Agentic workforce, one needs to manage AI Agents like employees
Speed , not sentiment :
Today’s HR demands real time analytics, predictive churn, internal marketplaces etc. These are built on data and tech, where CTOs have the stack and the architecture. CHROs have plenty of paper, less of code stacks.
Boundaries, metrics and performance :
If you are calibrating AI Agents’ KPIs ( throughput, machine-learning deflection rates, time-to-resolve ) alongside human metrics, you need someone fluent in both metrics of talent and tech. That”s the CTO’s domain
Resisting Redundancy :
HR will be swallowed by tech if it does not evolve. A function that “ oversees hiring “ alone in 2026, is positioned for obsolescence
But wait, isn’t the CHRO important for Culture, Empathy and Change Management ?
Of course. This isn’t a hostile takeover but a smart merger or re-definition. The sentiment-first, people-centric role of the CHRO remains vital, but it must be embedded within the tech-driven agentic organization.
A CTO who understands human-machine symbiosis makes better decisions about culture, roles, ethics, bias and guardrails. Indeed CHROs are told today , they need tech acumen; those who don’t evolve, risk irrelevance
Indian enterprises will need some guidelines to make this transformation without crushing the culture.
The CTO who has grasped that both humans and machines are part of today’s workforce, will take over.
Let us be honest ; the CHRO-CTO merger isn’t a coup; it’s evolution in action.
M . Muneer ( The writer is a Fortune 500 advisor, start-up investor, and co-founder of the non-profit Medici Institute for Innovation ) muneer@mediciinstitute.org
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