Season 1

Recruiters Aren’t The Problem, Your Hiring Managers Are
TalentlessOctober 14, 2026x
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Recruiters Aren’t The Problem, Your Hiring Managers Are

Sean Kennedy (“Sean The TA Guy”), Founder & Chief Content Officer, Kennedys Content; fractional Head of TA Guest links: - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanthetaguy/ - Newsletter: The Recruiter Reality Check: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-recruiter-reality-check-742045612547031859...

Bias by Design - Desiree Goldey and Ashley King
TalentlessOctober 07, 2026x
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Bias by Design - Desiree Goldey and Ashley King

Recorded: Live at RecFest USA, Nashville Sponsor: RecOps Collective Live from RecFest Nashville: your brain runs on bias, so what happens when recruiters stop pretending it doesn't? Ashley breaks down anchor bias, decision fatigue, and why "bias-free" AI isn't, and the hosts debate where influence e...

Hire the Outcome, Not the Resume - Desiree Goldey and Ashley King
TalentlessOctober 02, 2026x
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Hire the Outcome, Not the Resume - Desiree Goldey and Ashley King

Recorded: Live at RecFest USA, Nashville Sponsor: RoundOne AI (roundone.ai) Disclosure: Desiree is Head of Growth and Partnerships at RoundOne AI. Live from RecFest Nashville, Desiree and Ashley ask what "qualified" means when AI can optimize every resume. Ashley breaks down her four-quadrant recrui...

Active or Passive: The Recruiter Line That Decides Who Survives AI
TalentlessSeptember 22, 2026x
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Active or Passive: The Recruiter Line That Decides Who Survives AI

Amit Parmar, Co-Founder & CEO, Cliquify LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/parmar79 | Company: cliquify.me Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cliquify/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cliquify Cliquify CEO Amit Parmar says the best recruiter he ever managed refused to look at the applicants. In a convers...

Just Send The Email: What Hiring Transparency Actually Takes
TalentlessSeptember 16, 2026x
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Just Send The Email: What Hiring Transparency Actually Takes

Just Send The Email: What Hiring Transparency Actually Takes Alex Feder, Founder of Ghosted.work LinkedIn · Ghosted (ghosted.work/trace, free, public beta) Alex Feder spent the last year job searching and getting ghosted, so he built software to fix it. Desiree and Ashley talk candidate experience f...

Kill Your Indeed Habit: What Job Ads Actually Cost You
TalentlessSeptember 02, 2026x
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Kill Your Indeed Habit: What Job Ads Actually Cost You

Guest: Jason Pistulka, Founder & Principal Consultant, StratTech Talent Consulting and AdvisoryGuest Links: LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/jasonpistulka) | Website (strattechconsulting.com) | Newsletter: The Talent Strategy Brief Jason Pistulka ran recruiting operations for a team hiring 125,000 people a...

Stop Hiring Out of Panic
TalentlessAugust 26, 2026x
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Stop Hiring Out of Panic

Alycia M. Huston, Founder & CEO, The Culture Cru LinkedIn | Website: theculturecru.com | Instagram | Threads: @alyciahuston | YouTube Alycia M. Huston built and sold a biopharma company, then built The Culture Cru to help founders stop hiring out of panic...

Merit Won't Get You Hired. Visibility Will.
TalentlessAugust 19, 2026x
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Merit Won't Get You Hired. Visibility Will.

Abdurrahman "Muni" Muni, Founder @ Dreampath, Ex-Head of Global Talent Acquisition @ ApplyBoard LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ammuni Website: dreampath (site TBD, confirm URL with Muni) Booking link: calendly.com/muni-dreampath/careerchat Desiree and Ashley sit down with Muni, founder of Dreampath and f...

Back to Basics Vol. 1
TalentlessAugust 12, 2026x
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Back to Basics Vol. 1

No guest this week just Desiree and Ashley going back to basics on the stuff even experienced recruiters get wrong: the real difference between a prospect, applicant, candidate, and new hire; how to spot a lazy (or AI-written) job description before it wrecks your search; and how to build a comp bus...

Why Has Recruiting Not Changed Since 1996?" with Matt Schalsey, CEO, PerfectHire
TalentlessAugust 05, 2026x
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Why Has Recruiting Not Changed Since 1996?" with Matt Schalsey, CEO, PerfectHire

Matt Schalsey, CEO of PerfectHire, joins us to make the case that recruiters are salespeople whether they admit it or not and Ashley immediately pushes back with "recruiting is sales plus ethics." We get into vanity metrics, ATS systems quietly blocking candidates from reapplying, why nobody can pro...