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The Talent Sync

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Welcome to the Talent Sync, a collaborative podcast production from JobSync and the Survale CandE Benchmark Research Program. The Talent Sync covers anything and everything related to recruiting and hiring. Literally the kitchen sink on how all things and talent acquisition work together, should work together, and how sometimes they don’t. Now it’s time to sync up with your hosts, Leah Daniels and Kevin Grossman.

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55 episodes

  1. The AI Interview Backlash 31:00
  2. Candidate Experience Blech (Candidate Resentment) 33:53
  3. The Ghost Jobs Depression 39:09
  4. Another Side of Battling Candidate Fraud 27:14
  5. The Importance of Applicant Closure 35:08
  6. The Forever Out of Reach Data Holy Grail 33:51
  7. Human Connection and AI Backlash 28:26
  8. The Real Costs of AI Today 33:04
  9. Human and AI Fraud Abound 32:39
  10. AIO and SEO 30:26
  11. The Purple Squirrel Problem Again 30:58
  12. Reconstructing Unicorns 29:03
  13. Decimating Entry-Level and the Fair Credit Reporting Act 31:22
  14. AI Recruiting Realities for 2026 31:55
  15. 2025 in the AI Review Mirror 38:56
  16. Why Hiring Was - Is - Will Be - Rough 33:45
  17. Employer and Job Candidate Existential AI 31:15
  18. Applying and Screening with the Jetsons (Someday) 18:33
  19. Navigating Your Hot Mess Hiring (With or Without AI) 30:04
  20. Stop Anthropomorphizing AI 34:31
  21. The Bad Taste of AI Recruiting Angst 32:25
  22. How Clear Is it? 30:59
  23. Candidate and Employer Fraud 34:37
  24. AI-Enabled or AI Only Recruiting 33:27
  25. AI for Recruitment Basics 32:07
  26. Why Empathic Leadership Is Vital For The Humans 26:27
  27. Flooding the Zone: Federal Layoffs, RTO, and AI Agents 29:13
  28. Does AI Produce Viable Recruiting Outcomes? 29:29
  29. 2025 Recruiting Trends to Watch 30:45
  30. AI Notetakers - Friend or Foe or Recruiting? 30:51
  31. The Future of Job Boards in the Era of Gen AI 36:35
  32. How Centralized Recruiting Structures Have The Candidate Experience Edge 30:04
  33. How Compliance Impacts AI and Candidate Selection 33:21
  34. Why Is It So Hard For Companies To Optimize Their Recruiting Tech Stacks? 37:16
  35. The Application Process Gone Wild 28:43
  36. Does Recruiting Belong in HR? 36:10
  37. 2 Truths and a Lie - Hiring Myths Candidates Believe 33:01
  38. Where Candidate Experience Is Today 34:38
  39. What Happens When Job Candidates Embrace AI 25:40
  40. Keeping the Humans in the AI Loop 31:23
  41. Do You Zig Or Zag? 2024 TA Strategy 28:06
  42. Buyers' Remorse? Evaluating Recruiting Technologies Today 29:32
  43. The Intersection of Expectations and Experience 28:41
  44. Generative AI 2. Uh Oh 26:07
  45. The Impact of Changing Hybrid Work and RTW (return to work) 29:03
  46. Candidate Experience on Career Site and Job Boards 30:13
  47. DEI - Mindset Matters 29:16
  48. It's Not Really the Quality of Hire 30:20
  49. Where are the Momomizers? Who's Optimizing Our Talent Teams and Tech Stacks 29:52
  50. The Power of Preboarding New Hires 27:40