Episode 94 - Why AI Interviews Are Changing the Hiring Game with Grady Gardner of Braintrust

"If someone's uncomfortable with AI, do you really want them on your team?" In this episode of Talent Titans, Suky dives into the rapid evolution of AI in recruitment with Grady Gardner, GM of Braintrust. From improving hiring accuracy to reducing recruiter burnout, this episode goes into detail about how AI-powered interviews are transforming the talent landscape and why resistance may cost companies their best hires.

AI is no longer just a buzzword in recruitment, it's becoming a critical part of efficient, fair, and scalable hiring. Grady shares the journey of Braintrust, how AI-powered conversational assessments are revolutionizing the candidate experience, and why hiring teams must adapt quickly to keep up. Suky and Grady also tackle bias, language accessibility, soft skills, and what talent leaders can expect over the next 12 months. This is a must-listen for anyone in talent acquisition, staffing, or HR tech.

Key Moments:

• How AI-powered interviews and assessments are changing the game

• Humanizing AI in candidate experience

• Reducing bias in hiring processes with AI

• The future of talent acquisition and AI

Favorite Quote:

"We're not trying to remove people from the process, we're trying to make sure they actually see the right people."

• Grady

Connect with Grady:

Grady is is the GM of Braintrust, the largest user owned talent network revolutionizing hiring with Braintrust AIR, the world's first and only end-to-end AI recruiting platform.

Trained with human insights and proprietary data, Braintrust AIR reduces time to hire from months to days, instantly matching you with pre-vetted qualified candidates, and conducting the first round interview for you. Trusted by hundreds of Fortune 1000 enterprises including Nestlé, Porsche, Atlassian, Goldman Sachs, and Nike, Braintrust AIR is making talent acquisition professionals 100x more effective and saving companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in recruiting costs.

Grady has led the client-facing teams at Braintrust since inception, growing the network from a stealth mode startup to generating over $335M in revenue. Grady built the network's go-to-market strategy and secured partnerships with leading Fortune 1000 companies like Google, Bank of America, Cisco, Goldman Sachs, Spotify, Walmart and many more.

Prior to building Braintrust, Grady spent much of his career leading enterprise sales teams within the traditional IT service companies like Concentrix, ServiceSource, and Convergys.

Grady is a proud graduate of Colorado State University and resides in Denver with his wife, son Sunny, and chickens.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gradygardner/

Email: [email protected]

Connect with Suky:

I'm Suky an adrenaline junkie who celebrates every single win. I believe we must celebrate and collect all our wins along the way as it fuels forward momentum to ensure we exceed our goals. When we fuel forward momentum, complacency simply can not settle in.

With over 25 years of experience working in the staffing industry, 16 of those working with global recruitment companies, I bring the knowledge and experience of working in 18 countries and successfully navigating through numerous "recession" cycles.

Companies often get so focused on the bottom line that they forget that we are in the "people business". For me, the magic happens when my clients recognize the best way to create a truly sustainable high-performance sales culture is to align both.

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