In this product demo, host GJ Jansen van Vuuren sits down with Shawn Bell, founder of Taluate, to explore how recruitment businesses can modernise one of the most overlooked stages of hiring: reference checking. Shawn shares the story behind Taluate — from building a simple Excel-based reference scoring system during his time as a hiring manager, to creating a scalable platform now used by recruiters and agencies to reduce late-stage candidate fallout and improve hiring certainty. Throughout the demo, Shawn walks through how recruiters can: * Get fully set up in under five minutes * Create competency-based assessments * Send