High Volume Hiring

We first interviewed Trent Cotton of iCIMS in October 2025 to discuss data it was reporting in its superb (and free!) monthly Workforce Report. Well, he's back to discuss the January report, and those surprised him as well as our cohosts, Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site.

The signals were mixed, with some far stronger than many expected, and others weaker. Candidates might move from job hugging to job chaining given how risky most feel it is to change jobs right now. But, if hiring picks up, and there are signals that it is, employers might again be faced with massive quits and recruitment challenges.

Oh, and if you like Bryan Adams and his song The Summer of '69, then this is an episode that you'll appreciate even more.

ATS, assessment, job board, and other AI-powered hiring systems have undoubtedly saved employers a lot of money and led to a lot of great, new hires. But do we really know if they're right when they tell us that candidate A is better than candidate B, and that leads us to spend more time with A than B and even more likely to hire A than B?

Today's guests on the High Volume Hiring Podcast is Martyn Redstone of Eunomia HR. He founded perhaps the first AI-hiring consultancy years before ChatGPT existed, and today helps employers assess and manage the risk and governance issues related to these systems.

Martyn's thoughtful, step-by-step, plain spoken approach to these matters is a breath of fresh air, and are sure to help our audience better understand not just the rewards and risks, but how to maximize those rewards while minimizing the risks.

On today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, we interview NewDay USA's chief revenue officer, Franco Greco, to learn why and how the mortgage company plans to hire 1,000 interns over the next few years to serve its military veteran customer base.

Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site learn a little about the boom-and-bust cycles that the mortgage industry goes through, why NewDay believes they're entering a period of rapid growth, and why its paid internships should run for one-week instead of three-months.

Projecting a surge in hiring months or even a year from now? You'll learn how this strategy still allows you to vet great new talent while keeping your costs and risks to a minimum.

Prem Kumar, the founder and CEO of Humanly (humanly.io), joins the High Volume Hiring Podcast today to talk about conversational AI, which many refer to as chatbots.

These systems have gone from unknown to nice-to-have to must-have within the past decade. And it is no wonder why. Without them, it simply takes too much staff time and too many days for employers to get from application to start dates. On average, that's 44 days. Humanly's goal is five. But can that be done, well, humanely?

Our cohosts, Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site dig into that with Prem, and we think you'll find his answers to be illuminating.

With the calendar turning from 2025 to 2026, we thought we talk about what we expect will change. Sure, some of that inevitably leads to advances in technology, but some was also about how we choose to communicate with candidates.

On today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site discuss the likelihood of a growing divide between the have's and have not's, a potential rebellion, and how embracing radical transparency might save you from that rebellion.

Oh, and if you're feeling a little courageous, check out Recruiting Hell on Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/ that Steven references.

Automation can and too often is used to de-humanize candidates, but it can also improve how we treat them. Case in point is Article, a global, b-to-c furniture company that uses automated messages from its ATS to improve its hiring efficiency AND the candidate experience.

Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site interview Article's head of global TA, Bradley Clark, for today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast. Listen in to learn how the messaging varies depending on the location of the job, location of the candidate, type of role, stage in the hiring process, and more. Oh, and how that segmentation pays off massively for Article.

Bryan Adams and Jim Taylor from Happydance Careers Websites and Hung Lee from Recruiting Brainfood spoke with cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg from College Recruiter job search site for this special episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast.

We recorded this in the Happydance stand at RecFest USA 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. Happydance, which creates award winning employer career sites, has great visibility into what works in different markets and industries, and Hung has great visibility into what works for employers of all types globally.

Some of what we discussed is consistent with what most of our audience might expect, but not everything.

On today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, we dig into a simple yet brilliant mathematical formula designed to save recruiters a massive amount of time. Using a bit of high school math will help you determine in advance how many applications to receive per role, how many of those you should interview, and when you should extend a job offer.

Our guest today is Alexander Shabanov, a technical recruiter with two decades of experience. He's worked in several countries for organizations that differ significantly in terms of size, industry, products, and more. Our cohosts, Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, dig into the problem that often faces talent acquisition, the solutions that are commonly used, and how using this formula improves on those.

The Medium article we discussed is at https://medium.com/@alshabanov/tackling-high-volume-recruitment-challenges-in-tech-with-optimal-stopping-theory-3e5852830a93 .

Today on the High Volume Hiring Podcast we discuss a report just released by one of the world's leading talent acquisition platforms, iCIMS, about the rapidly changing state of frontline hiring.

iCIMS has incredible visibility into the hiring by thousands of employers for millions of roles and hundreds of millions of applicants. We discuss fascinating trends related to application drop-offs, interview ghosting, time-to-hire, and the massive differences that exist between occupational fields.

Join cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site as they interview Trent Cotton of iCIMS. And download the report today at https://www.icims.com/resources/2025-state-of-frontline-hiring-report/ .

Prakhar Agrawal of Senseloaf AI joins the High Volume Hiring Podcast for episode that was light on tricks but heavy on treats.

Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk with Prakhar about what makes AI agentic, where in the recruiting process it best sits, and the need for humans to be in the loop.

We also learn, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Jeanette is far more likely to be regarded as the successful hire, while Steven is deemed to be more like an intern.