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High Volume Hiring

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Are you involved in the hiring of dozens or even hundreds of employees a year? If so, you"ll know that the typical sourcing tools, tactics, and strategies just don"t scale. This podcast features news, tips, case studies, and interviews with the world"s leading experts about the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to high-volume hiring.

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17:14

Hiring for AI fluency by measuring prompting skills?...

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2026/04/02

Chelsea Schein, PhD of Veris Insights and The Wharton School of Business is our guest on today's High Volume Hiring Podcast to discuss not another new AI product but, instead, the people who will use those products and how to best to hire them.Until very recently, the conventional wisdom amongst employers was that they did not want candidates using AI because the employers wanted to be sure the candidates could think critically. If they assessed AI skills at all, they tended to measure how well

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18:40

Breaking News: What ICIMS March Workforce Report...

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2026/03/19

Trent Cotton of ICIMS joins us for the third time to discuss their just published Workforce Report. Trent breaks down the key findings, and also points out the mysteries of what we're seeing in the labor market.More employers are posting more jobs, which is great. Manufacturing is surprisingly strong, healthcare remains strong, but retail is weaker than we expected. Yet applications and hiring is also down. Are employers posting, interviewing, but deciding not to hire? Is that due to

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16:55

Turnover is high in some industries. What can you do...

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2026/03/19

A key reason some employers hire at scale is because of high turnover. Some turnover is to be expected, and often beneficial, but some should be avoided, and is detrimental. Today on the High Volume Hiring Podcast our cohosts, Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, talk with career expert Keith Spencer of Resume Now, which is part of BOLD and a sister company to CareerBuilder, Monster, FlexJobs, and other brands. Keith acknowledges that recruiters, HR, and others

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16:07

How to prioritize your recruitment marketing budget

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2026/03/05

It is often said that recruitment marketing lags consumer marketing by five to 10 years. One reason for that is that consumer marketing budgets far exceed ours. That makes it far harder for us to pilot or A/B test and that holds back innovation.On today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site interview Dillon Hill, co-founder of marketing agency Cosmoforge. We talk about about he helped to save his 19 year old

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18:02

How to select an ATS

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2026/02/19

Dan Arkind, who likes to refer to himself as a recovering recruiter, but who is also the CEO of JobScore, is today's guest on the High Volume Hiring Podcast to talk applicant tracking systems.Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk with Dan about how some small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) engage in high-volume hiring, such as chains of restaurants, and how the needs of an employer like that differ massively from the needs of Fortune 1000 or

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17:29

Workforce Report: Increased hiring yet job searching...

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2026/02/05

We first interviewed Trent Cotton of iCIMS in October 2025 to discuss data it was reporting in its superb (and free!) monthly Workforce Report. Well, he's back to discuss the January report, and those surprised him as well as our cohosts, Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site.The signals were mixed, with some far stronger than many expected, and others weaker. Candidates might move from job hugging to job chaining given how risky most feel it is to change jobs

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20:10

Do AI-powered hiring systems deliver better hires?

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2026/01/22

ATS, assessment, job board, and other AI-powered hiring systems have undoubtedly saved employers a lot of money and led to a lot of great, new hires. But do we really know if they're right when they tell us that candidate A is better than candidate B, and that leads us to spend more time with A than B and even more likely to hire A than B?Today's guests on the High Volume Hiring Podcast is Martyn Redstone of Eunomia HR. He founded perhaps the first AI-hiring consultancy years before ChatGPT

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17:49

Why NewDay is focused on hiring college grads for...

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2026/01/08

On today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, we interview NewDay USA's chief revenue officer, Franco Greco, to learn why and how the mortgage company plans to hire 1,000 interns over the next few years to serve its military veteran customer base.Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site learn a little about the boom-and-bust cycles that the mortgage industry goes through, why NewDay believes they're entering a period of rapid growth, and why its paid

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16:02

Does conversational AI improve the candidate experience?

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2025/12/25

Prem Kumar, the founder and CEO of Humanly (humanly.io), joins the High Volume Hiring Podcast today to talk about conversational AI, which many refer to as chatbots.These systems have gone from unknown to nice-to-have to must-have within the past decade. And it is no wonder why. Without them, it simply takes too much staff time and too many days for employers to get from application to start dates. On average, that's 44 days. Humanly's goal is five. But can that be done, well, humanely? Our

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16:13

It's way too early to make 2026 predictions and yet...

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2025/12/11

With the calendar turning from 2025 to 2026, we thought we talk about what we expect will change. Sure, some of that inevitably leads to advances in technology, but some was also about how we choose to communicate with candidates.On today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site discuss the likelihood of a growing divide between the have's and have not's, a potential rebellion, and how embracing radical transparency might

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19:04

Automate messages in your ATS to improve efficiency...

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2025/11/27

Automation can and too often is used to de-humanize candidates, but it can also improve how we treat them. Case in point is Article, a global, b-to-c furniture company that uses automated messages from its ATS to improve its hiring efficiency AND the candidate experience.Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site interview Article's head of global TA, Bradley Clark, for today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast. Listen in to learn how the messaging

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11:47

What's working (and not) in high-volume hiring

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2025/11/20

Bryan Adams and Jim Taylor from Happydance Careers Websites and Hung Lee from Recruiting Brainfood spoke with cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg from College Recruiter job search site for this special episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast.We recorded this in the Happydance stand at RecFest USA 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. Happydance, which creates award winning employer career sites, has great visibility into what works in different markets and industries, and Hung has great

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17:59

What the Optimal Stopping Theory teaches us about how...

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2025/11/13

On today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, we dig into a simple yet brilliant mathematical formula designed to save recruiters a massive amount of time. Using a bit of high school math will help you determine in advance how many applications to receive per role, how many of those you should interview, and when you should extend a job offer.Our guest today is Alexander Shabanov, a technical recruiter with two decades of experience. He's worked in several countries for organizations that

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20:53

Breaking News: 2025 State of Frontline Hiring Report

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2025/11/05

Today on the High Volume Hiring Podcast we discuss a report just released by one of the world's leading talent acquisition platforms, iCIMS, about the rapidly changing state of frontline hiring.iCIMS has incredible visibility into the hiring by thousands of employers for millions of roles and hundreds of millions of applicants. We discuss fascinating trends related to application drop-offs, interview ghosting, time-to-hire, and the massive differences that exist between occupational fields. Join

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20:25

How agentic AI promises to revolutionize high-volume...

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2025/10/30

Prakhar Agrawal of Senseloaf AI joins the High Volume Hiring Podcast for episode that was light on tricks but heavy on treats. Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk with Prakhar about what makes AI agentic, where in the recruiting process it best sits, and the need for humans to be in the loop. We also learn, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Jeanette is far more likely to be regarded as the successful hire, while Steven is deemed to be more like an

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12:02

Hiring at Scale vs. One-Off Roles at RecFest USA

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2025/10/17

Dwane Lay joins cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site for a special episode recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at RecFest USA 2025.Dwane is the Chief Innovation Officer at GBS Worldwide and author of Lean HR. He discussed the key differences between hiring at scale and recruiting for one-off, specialized roles, offering practical insights for employers managing both. Dwane explained why most organizations don’t need more applicants - they need the right

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18:21

Balancing the needs of scale with outcomes when...

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2025/10/02

Today's guest on the High Volume Hiring Podcast is Dustin Leszcynski of Burlington Stores Inc, formerly known as Burlington Coat Factory. With more than 1,200 locations, it is the third largest off-price a/k/a discount retailer. Dustin as the Director of Talent Acquisition - Early Careers, oversees the hiring of some 300 interns and other early career employees a year for their corporate office. The thousands of hourly employees in their stores are hired through a separate team. Cohosts Jeanette

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18:57

How high volume is evolving in the age of AI

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2025/09/18

Today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast is quite the milestone: our 100th episode. Wow. Some 90 percent of podcasts end after only one or two episodes and 90 percent by the 20th. Only one percent get past the 21st episode. So, yeah, 100 is quite the accomplishment.Join us for a super fun, upbeat, informative episode. Together with cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, our guest, Javeed Khan ️ (جافيد خان) Khan, talks about his background in high

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16:40

How can we ensure that AI for hiring is used for good?

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2025/09/04

On today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, Justin Olin of Upwage talks with us about the importance of caring at scale...and cohost Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site spends a little too much time talking about Wayne Gretzky.Our other cohost, Jeanette Leeds, learns from Justin that Upwage's assessments are used by some of the world's largest organizations to help them better identify competencies, which are more predictive of workplace performance than job titles that

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20:42

LinkedIn's first CHRO says employers are getting this...

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2025/08/21

On today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, Steve Cadigan of Cadigan Talent Ventures joins us to talk about artificial intelligence.Instead of either being all for it or all against it, Steve made it clear that he favors its use if done properly for the employer and candidate. Unfortunately, it often isn't. Sometimes, the errors will prove hard to fix. Other times, they'll be easy. Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site also talked with Steve

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