High Volume Hiring

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 s...

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...

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 o...

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 si...

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 ...

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 ...

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 RecF...

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 shou...

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 hundr...

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, ...