Call HR

Michelle Volberg, Founder and CEO of Twill

If you want to know what is actually happening behind closed doors in Big Tech hiring, you do not ask a random resume guru on LinkedIn. You ask someone who has survived nine years inside Google, transitioned from Comms to People Operations, and literally trains Googlers on how to use internal AI tools.

In this episode of Call HR, Michelle sits down with Camila Luis, Creative Strategy and AI Content Creation Lead at Google.

Camila pulls back the curtain on how AI is actually reshaping work, why the panic around job hunting is missing the point, and the uncomfortable truths early-career professionals need to hear if they want to build a career that survives the next decade.

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She's worked at Google, Dropbox, and was Chief People Officer at TripActions. Now she's a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures helping founders build companies that people actually want to work at. Leslie Crowe has seen hiring from every angle, and she's not holding back. We're talking about the perks that actually keep people from quitting (spoiler: it's not the snack wall), the one thing candidates do in interviews that secretly backfires, her #1 job search advice, and whether AI is about to replace your entire HR department.

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He co-founded People Analytics at Google. Spent 11 years there pre-IPO. Ran people teams at Twitter (before it was X) and two Bay Area tech companies. Now he's the first-ever Chief People Officer at Bessemer Venture Partners. Todd Carlisle has seen it all—and he's not holding back on what's overhyped, where AI doesn't belong, and what most people leaders get wrong.

Jenna Craig is President of National Media at iHeartMedia, leading national product sales and partnerships. But what got her here started way before the title.

In this episode, she shares the move that made hiring managers chase her, why the women in her life never feared asking for money (and how that shaped everything), and what most people get wrong when they're trying to stand out.

In this episode, we cover:

• The backchannel move that makes hiring managers remember you

• What she looks for in a candidate that most people never think to do

• The promotion advice no one gives recent grads

  
  

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Amy Goldfinger spent 12 years placing CHROs at top companies, 6 years leading talent at Walmart, and now runs people strategy at Slice. She's seen what makes teams thrive, and what makes top talent walk out the door.

In this episode:

• The real reason your best people leave (hint: it's not the money)

• Why most HR leader hires fail—and the red flags nobody talks about

• Retention strategies that work whether you have 50 employees or 2 million

• How to build a culture people don't want to escape

• No-bs career advice for anyone in talent and people ops

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In this episode, Michelle Volberg, Founder and CEO of Twill, sits down with Kenzie Hoelscher, Lead Recruiter at AssemblyAI, whose unconventional path into talent is anything but typical. She works for an AI company and uses AI in everything she does.

Listen to hear:

• What it’s really like to be a solo recruiter scaling a company, and the lessons she learned helping double headcount
• Her candid take on AI in hiring—from spotting bot-generated applications to where AI actually adds value (and where it doesn’t)
• The truth about startup life: who thrives, who struggles, and the tradeoffs most people don’t talk about
• Why recruiters need to evolve from “inbox managers” to strategic talent partners—and how to break into recruiting at top AI companies

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This week Kyle Hagge – Chief of Staff at Morning Brew Inc. joins Call HR to talk career. 

He breaks down:

• How to influence without authority
• Why 5-year career plans don’t work
• Should employees build personal brands—or not
• His philosophy on building a career: collecting dots and when to connect them

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Ronni Paradiso Johnson is the Head of Talent Operations & Strategy at Asana — and she's already working with AI teammates. 

We talked about:

→ The hiring mistakes founders keep making (and how to stop)

→ Why the future of TA is leverage, not headcount

→ How to actually work with AI teammates (and who gets in trouble if they make a mistake?)

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Michelle Volberg, Founder and CEO of Twill, sits down with Phil Reese, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Klaviyo — the guy who built Chewy's tech employer brand from nothing and survived hiring for Meta's most scrutinized teams. He's not holding back.

Listen to hear:

• How to spot real TA leadership talent
• Known everywhere vs. known by the right people — why it matters
• What goes sideways in recruiting when a company goes public
• Surviving high-volume recruiting — and teaching others to do it
• The employer brand mistakes no one admits to making

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Michelle Volberg, Founder and CEO of Twill, brings on Lea Stern, a senior HR leader and partner to the Head of AI at Stripe — now valued at over $100B. This week, she asks everything you wish you could: the culture, AI transformation, and what HR leaders never say out loud.

Listen to hear:

• Why iconic consumer brands built the HR leader Stripe needed
• How to stand out when everyone looks the same on paper
• The red flag HR spots immediately — but rarely says out loud
• The management mistake that's more common than anyone admits
• How to stay relevant as AI reshapes every role around you

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