Season 1

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 em...

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 stro...

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, ...

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, ...

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 som...

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...

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 ...