Hiring Horror Stories: He Threw Up in the Interview. Still Got a Callback.
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Hiring Horror Stories: An Unpaid Cab Fare, a Shower Cameo, and Dad Negotiating Salary
There are plenty of ways to make an impression during a job interview. Having the police arrive to collect...
Sapient Insights AND the TEAM Live at #HRTechConf
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Hiring Horror Stories: A Chicken Suit, a Police Chase, and Bail on the Company Card
Nobody expects a hiring decision to end with coworkers watching their new manager flee police on television. Most employers...
Reddit Hiring Stories: When the Perfect Candidate Becomes an Expensive Mistake
Hiring Horror Stories from Reddit: The Vacancy Was Only the Beginning Nobody approves a new hire hoping to create...
The surprising reason why 30% of job seekers prefer to be interviewed between 11pm and 2am
Today’s High Volume Hiring Podcast marks a bit of a turning point, and cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg...
Wendy’s Boss Ties Up a Worker, AI Workers Gets and Award, Gavin Newsome kicks surveillance out of the Bathroom
An AI agent wins an award. A human employee finishes faster and gets more work. Apparently, we figured out...
How AI is changing retail, hospitality, distribution, and construction recruiting
Regular listeners and viewers of the High Volume Hiring Podcast will know that cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg...
Hiring speed breaks some people systems, yet also scales some leadership habits
Today’s guest on the High Volume Hiring Podcast is Antony Baker, CEO and founder of 15 Group, a UK-based...
unWRKed: Google’s AI Hiring Mess, Job Interviews for Tattoos, and Why HR and IT Still Can’t Talk
What’s up, everyone? Check this out. The world of HR and TA is moving quickly. This week, WRKdefined is...
Google’s AI Hiring is Broke, Job Interviews for a Tattoo, and The 19% AI Gap
Many hiring processes struggle to balance automation, candidate experience, and accurate job expectations. The problem is that screening tools...
Assessing Skills One at a Time Is Costing You Better Hires
A customer walks into a store and starts browsing. The employee who helps them doesn’t perform “rapport building,” pause,...
How capital, technology, and corporate strategy in human resources and work tech impact employers
Are the technology tools that we’re using to manage our high-volume hiring efforts causing the very problems that we’re...
What does it mean to truly workforce plan?
Today’s guest on the High Volume Hiring Podcast is John Baldino, President at Humareso, a leading HR strategy and outsourced administrator for businesses...
Are AI Agents Becoming Coworkers?
Hi Friends, The industry loves a list. Startups love funding. Employers love efficiency. Employees would prefer not to automate...
What is working in recruiting in 2026?
It’s fair to say that there’s a lot wrong with recruitment in 2026, for candidates, employers, and others. But...
LinkedIn is in Court, Korn Ferry Buys AMS, Reuters Cuts Engineers, and Work Gets Weird
Hi Friends, The World Cup is over. The halftime show was off the charts. And somehow, LinkedIn still found...
AI Interviewers and Skills Assessments: Why the Best High-Volume Hiring Stacks Use Both
Every high-volume hiring team is fighting the same two-front war. Too many applicants and not enough hours to talk...
Everyone Wants AI Skills. Almost Nobody Knows How to Measure Them.
There’s something interesting happening in hiring right now. Almost every conversation with talent leaders eventually gets to AI. How...
Reference checking at scale
Today’s guest on the High Volume Hiring Podcast says that he loves reference checks, which might sound odd until you understand...