In this episode of Founder Diaries, hosted by Nitin Sharma, we sit down with Shawn Bell, founder of Taluate, to unpack one of the biggest challenges in modern recruitment: trust. What started as an internal hiring tool built to help Shawn make better recruitment decisions has evolved into Taluate — a competency-based candidate assessment platform designed to help recruiters reduce hiring risk, increase certainty, and truly understand the people they represent. Shawn shares his unconventional journey into recruitment, the frustrations that inspired him to build Taluate, and why traditional hiring methods, CV screening, and personality tests often fail to tell