CXR Podcasts

Join CXR's Chris Hoyt (he/him) as he catches up with John Graham of Shaker Recruitment Marketing to discuss Employer Branding, DEI, & "Manufactured Chaos."

Join CXR's Chris Hoyt (he/him) as he talks with KPMG's Eileen Raymond, Managing Director of Talent Acquisition, about career mobility.

Join CXR's Chris Hoyt (he/him) as he connects with Nicole Delue of Frontline Recruiting at Echostar about quality of hire and the impact of high-volume forecasting.

Join CXR's Chris Hoyt (he/him) and Gerry Crispin as they connect with Doug Berg and Elaine Orler of Match2. They'll chat about the story behind Match2 and how the solution is working to change the way candidates interact with jobs.

Join CXR's Chris Hoyt (he/him) and Spectrum's Laura Fields (she/her) as they discuss assessments and candidate experience. Laura will share her experience with campaigns for retargeting applicants who withdrew from the process at the step of taking an assessment.

CXR's Chris Hoyt (he/him), BASF's Claire Mason, and Cox Enterprise's Adam Glassman connect on their favorite takeaways from the Q4 Research on Strategic EB.

CXR's Chris Hoyt (he/him) and Bryan Adams of HappyDance will be sharing key findings from our latest Research Report: Establishing Employer Branding as a Strategic Business Driver. Key talking points include Employer Branding as a Strategic Differentiator, Evaluating and Refining Employer Branding, Aligning Employer Branding with Broader Corporate Strategies, and Employer Branding as a Leadership Priority.

Join CXR's Chris Hoyt (he/him), Gerry Crispin, and Rebecca Warren of Eightfold, where they'll discuss recent findings on the misalignment between HR leaders and business strategies, and explore implications for talent leaders.

Join CXR's Chris Hoyt (he/him) and Gerry Crispin as they connect with Johnny Campbell, CEO & Co-Founder of SocialTalent, for a lively discussion on new tools around training the candidate before their interview and the motivation behind them.

Join Josh Secrest, former McDonald's Global Head of TA (and current Paradox VP) and CXR's Chris Hoyt to hear how innovative TA leaders are doing (a lot) more with (a lot) less - moving top line and bottom-line results along the way.

In this episode, CXR's Chris Hoyt and Leah Daniels of JobSync will dive into how 2025 will see an explosion of AI products and features, urging organizations to tackle their biggest challenges head-on. We'll explore the implications of auto-apply tools for job seekers, and the careful balance employers must strike to stay compliant. Plus, we'll discuss why effective governance is more critical than ever and how talent teams can thrive while doing more with less.

Chris Hoyt and Maury Hanigan of SparcStart connect on new research on the impact of video on candidate quality, recruiter efficiency, and cost savings.

Chris Hoyt and Sam Davies connect on the convergence of employee referrals and advocacy programs.

Business velocity has never been so accelerated---and it will never be this slow again. In addition to change happening at a breathtaking pace—and about to accelerate even faster with AI—how should recruiting be thinking about harnessing the opportunity and expanding its impact on the business. With Peter Brooks of GDIT, we'll be talking AI and role changes, creating a representative workforce, building competencies that recruiters will need to have sustainable careers... and more!

Chris Hoyt and Hatch Reppard of CarMax connect on candidate use of AI...is it cheating or not?

Chris Hoyt & Chris Forman connect to discuss the hiring economy and what we see unfolding in 2025.

Chris Hoyt and Marcus Thorpe connect to discuss global talent acquisition delivery, focusing on trends and practical strategies in the field. They share insights from their experiences, offering listeners a clearer understanding of today's challenges and opportunities in global talent acquisition.

Join Chris Hoyt and Neil Kelly, CEO of Vector, for a discussion on global recruiting standards.

We're excited to go a little deeper into some of the key insights from our recent report on The Relationship between Employer Branding & Recruitment Marketing. Two of our research panelists are today's guests: Rachel Duran, Head of Global Employer Brand & Recruitment Marketing at Hewlett Packard and Nicole Fritz, Lead Director, Talent Acquisition Marketing & Employer Branding. Join us for key takeaways from the panel discussions and a new EB resource that the CXR Community is launching.

On this episode, Chris Hoyt and Katrina Collier, author of Reboot Hiring & The Robot-Proof Recruiter, global keynote and facilitator, will make the case for the value of TA. They'll discuss the pitfalls of automation, the challenges TA professionals face in pushing back against poor hiring practices, and how empowering TA teams can lead to stronger partnerships, better hiring outcomes, and a more humane experience for job seekers. It's time to rethink the role of TA and unlock its full potential.

Chris Hoyt and Jimmy McCourt, Shaker Recruitment Marketing, connect to discuss Branding & Marketing report insights.

Victoria Kortan, an experienced Machine Learning Engineer and leader in building an AI Center for Excellence shares her journey navigating the AI boom, the impact on her career, and how she's fostering growth by supporting upskilling opportunities, enabling collaboration, and promoting independent projects within her organization.

Chris Hoyt and Terry Baker (CEO, Daxtra Technologies) discuss the challenges of AI-powered solutions and data quality.

Chris Hoyt and Charles Handler (President and Founder of Rocket-Hire) explore the evolving role of AI in the hiring process and how both candidates and employers are adapting.

Chris Hoyt & Steven Rothberg (Founder of College Recruiter) will connect on major regulatory changes for the HR tech industry.

When we had HireBrain on our June Spotlight Day, we knew we wanted to learn more about their hiring-manager-focused approach and their methodology that defines roles using future facing performance objectives. We're also looking forward to talking about how their clients are incorporating this new tool in their TA digital transformation and AI enablement strategy.

Kurt Rippelmeyer from Land O'Lakes talks about their initiative to move toward introducing more flexible schedules for hourly manufacturing workers. And shares their learnings from the process as well as how they had to rethink some of their talent attraction.

Chris Hoyt & Alex Murphy (CEO, JobSync) recently co-facilitated a research panel on conflicts of interest. In this conversation they'll be sharing top recommendations from the panel on how to improve transparency in talent acquisition.

Welcoming longtime CXR friend and current CEO/Founder of Fora, Joe Essenfeld to the podcast this week. We'll be talking AI trends and how to best leverage AI.

This week we're joined by Kim Sneeder, Managing Director at CareerCircle. We'll learn how to connect underserved communities with career opportunities and how you can use those to build skilled, diverse talent pipelines. Reskilling, upskilling, and ways to bridge the skill gap will all be on the table.

It's always a pleasure to dig into current issues and plans with one of our CXR Community Talent Acquisition leaders. This week will be no exception! Join us as we talk to Steve White, VP of Talent Acquisition at BECU, and learn more about how he's enhancing Talent Acquisition at his organization in both perception and performance.

We're looking forward to a fun conversation this week with @James Ellis of Employer Brand Labs. Our topics: Finding & reporting on the value in your employer brand, the observation of "younger talent" in the EB space, STD's and MVEB's, and an argument that "top talent" for most jobs is just a waste of money.

We're excited to welcome Jason Putnam, CRO for Plum, back to the podcast. He's bringing an interesting question to discuss: People argue that culture is either about business objectives or moral objectives. Which do you think is more accurate? What might bridge the gap between the two? What would be the impact of bridging that gap and not having to choose a moral or a business imperative?

This year the CXR Foundation added a second scholarship to our program: The Russ Mountain Memorial Scholarship. The Russ Mountain Memorial Scholarship awards a rising junior or senior college student who has a passion for the field of Recruiting and Talent Acquisition and plans to pursue a job in the field following graduation.

The CXR Foundation works to positively impact the talent acquisition industry by improving industry standards, helping talent professionals find meaningful work, and affecting positive change throughout the talent industry. Join us as we meet this year's winner of the CXR INSPIRE Scholarship and learn more about her college and career plans.

Long time CXR Member and Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Ford Motor Company, Melissa Thompson joins us this week to share how she is working to re-calibrate her TA Team on what they do and what they deliver to best meet the needs of the business.

This week we're diving into our latest Quarterly Research Report: Touch vs Tech in Talent Acquisition. Listen in as our research facilitators share insights regarding the future of talent acquisition and finding a balance of technology vs human touch.

We're looking forward to talking with Mike Wolford, author of “The AI Recruiter” and articles like “6 Ways to Use GPT-4 for Recruiting." We'll be digging into the future of AI in Talent Acquisition - specifically how AI has changed the world so far, what is new in our space and what we can look forward to. Join us live on LinkedIn to ask your questions.

This week we are joined by two CXR Community members from Carmax: Hatch Reppard, Senior Manager TA, and Troy Shullick, Sourcing Recruiting Manager. We'll be talking about the dynamics between Sourcing Recruiters & Corporate Recruiters and how to build a successful partnership.

When we saw this article from Tracey Parsons, co-founder of Flockity, we knew we'd want to talk to her about it. Her take: there should be Lemon Laws in recruiting. "Many EVPs are not honest, differentiated (not all, just many) and there are no consequences for this activity. So why aren't there Lemon Laws for work?"

Telling the story of TA internally is a topic that comes up often in our Community and we're looking forward to digging into it with DaVita's Vice President of Talent Acquisition, Nataliya Wilson. Data, Performance transparency, incentives that align with larger business needs and more will be on the table!

This week we're joined by Cielo CEO, Marissa Geist to talk about a trend she's been watching closely: the convergence of RPO and SaaS. While the actual talent remains a core business responsibility, the capabilities of a traditional talent partnership are being disassembled to create a unified ecosystem to advise, enable and deliver integrated solutions. We'll be talking about the industry opportunities this creates and what a world of client talent partnerships might look like.

We're looking forward to chatting with CXR member, Todd Phillips the VP of Recruiting at Total Quality Logistics. He's leading two large scale initiatives to improve hiring outcomes and we're going to talk through those plans and the early results. We know many of you are focused on improving the quality of talent you bring into your organization and hope you're able to join us for this conversation - remember comments shared on LI during the livestream might be called out during the broadcast!

Join us this week with special guest Peter Block, author of many books including Abundant Community and Activating the Common Good. We'll be talking about community from the perspective of Relational Activism. Relational activism is about ways of being together that produce accountability and action.

This week we're joined by James Ellis, Author & Chief Brand Builder for Employer Brand Labs. He's been working on a new project he's calling "The Definition of Insanity" focused on the need to inject new thinking into common problems.

CXR Community Member, Laura Fields Sr Director Recruiting Operations at Spectrum, joins us this week to share practical applications of AI in Talent Acquisition. (And no, generating job postings is not one of her tips!) Listen in as Laura shares how Spectrum is using AI to improve decision-making in the hiring funnel. She will address practical considerations for TA professionals when implementing artificial intelligence in a company and how to select the right solution for your problem - including ideas for generative AI solutions we should be pushing our vendors to offer and recommendations for offerings we should skip.

This week we're joined by Libby Sartain, Independent Board Director, Former CHRO Yahoo! Inc. and Southwest Airlines Co. She'll be sharing practical things to consider for leaders who are thinking of "what's next" and looking to give back in the next phase of their career.

Join the Recruiting Community Podcast with Rocki Howard, Founder & Chief Diversiologist at Diversiology. We'll be talking about ways we can make the world of work more engaged and inclusive while discussing recent research and polling results about DE&I adoption.

Talent acquisition is rising in importance in many - but not all - organizations. We're looking forward to talking about how to improve the internal perception of TA with business leaders with Kerry Karle, VP of Talent Acquisition at Dish Network.

We've been looking forward to this conversation for a while: Social algorithms vs talent intelligence -- how do you best evaluate / find the full digital footprint of a professional? We'll be debating the options and experiences surrounding that question with two of the best: Brad Cook, retired Global TA Leader and Hari Kolam, Co-founder & CEO at Findem.

Three years ago CareerXroads founded the CXR Foundation. This non-profit organization is dedicated to improving the recruiting industry and TA leadership skills. At its heart is a program called CXR Cares. This week Chris Hoyt will be wearing his Foundation President hat as he interviews the CXR Cares committee chairs: Céleste Luzadder and Sheila Stygar about their vision for this program. Tune in to learn about opportunities to get involved and share your talents.