High Volume Hiring

Regular listeners and viewers of the High Volume Hiring Podcast will know that cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site regularly cover how AI is impacting recruiting. Today's episode does, but in quite a different way. Our guest, Ryan Reisner, is the founder of SeekerPitch and The Reisner Group, and describes himself as a recruiter by day and dad by night. Whether his clients are using Sophia or other TA tech from SeekerPitch or recruitment services from Reisner Group, they're consistently seeing some of the same issues, and we're here to discuss those today. We touch on fake applications, including 40 different candidates applying to the same job but with the same home address (see https://seekerpitch.com/insights/forty-resumes-one-address ), but focus on how soft skills are now far more important, both for the candidate and the hiring manager.

Today's guest on the High Volume Hiring Podcast is Antony Baker, CEO and founder of 15 Group, a UK-based technology and recruiting company. Antony is a former professional athlete and big believer in structure, despite learning only a couple of years ago that he has ADHD. Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk with Antony about some of his successes, failures, and how those both informed the process his team follows when helping employers who are hiring at scale. Part of that is the requirement that all stakeholders, even the client's leadership, need to pass a four-part test. How does the name 15 relate to the test? Antony shares that fun fact with our audience.

Are the technology tools that we're using to manage our high-volume hiring efforts causing the very problems that we're trying to solve? Today on the High Volume Hiring Podcast we're joined by Matt Charney, executive editor Mediabistro, principal analyst for Kyle & Co., and writer of some of the most thoughtful and yet also entertaining articles about the talent acquisition technology industry. Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk with Matt about when the use of these tools make sense, when they don't, and why the vendor pricing models have changed so radically from flat- to variable-based.

Today's guest on the High Volume Hiring Podcast is John Baldino, President at Humareso, a leading HR strategy and outsourced administrator for businesses of all types.  He's also the cohost of the But First, Coffee, a live, weekly, podcast. John and cohost Jackye Clayton bring candid, insightful conversations about the world of work, leadership, and all things people. Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk with John about how much more difficult it has become for organizations of any size to plan almost anything, including their future staffing needs...and some solutions that may surprise you.

It's fair to say that there's a lot wrong with recruitment in 2026, for candidates, employers, and others. But it's not all bad. In fact, some of what is working has only started to work well this year. Today's guest is David Noe, human resources and brand advocacy manager for Payroll Partners, Inc and host of the SpeakEasy HR podcast. David brings to the discussion a wealth of knowledge from the world of recruiting by small- and medium-sized businesses, some of which are rapidly scaling up by hiring dozens or even hundreds over a few months. And he also brings the perspective from the other side of the table: the candidates who are impacted by the recruiting practices of employers of all sizes. Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site share some of their experiences, as well as lot of envy for the fine collection of bourbon bottles within easy reach of David should a little celebrating be warranted.