In this episode of Data River Deep Dive, Nagim is joined by Yaobang Sheng, Director of Digital Recruitment and Innovation at Akkodis Germany, part of the Adecco Group. Yaobang spent 15 years in IT and engineering recruitment before moving into AI transformation, and he now builds AI consulting capacity for external clients. He comes at AI from the workforce side rather than the engineering side, and that changes almost every answer he gives. The conversation starts with a question most organisations skip. A job description used to take two hours and now takes five minutes. So what happens to the other ninety five minutes? From there we get into why companies buy the model before they fix the process and the data, why cost cutting has become the only AI story anyone tells, and why Yaobang refuses the "data is the new oil" line and calls data a la ...