High Volume Hiring
Are you involved in the hiring of dozens or even hundreds of employees a year? If so, you'll know that the typical sourcing tools, tactics, and strategies just don't scale. This podcast features news, tips, case studies, and interviews with the world's leading experts about the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to high-volume hiring.
Episodes
November 27, 2025 • 19 mins
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 ...
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November 20, 2025 • 11 mins
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 wo...
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November 13, 2025 • 17 mins
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...
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November 5, 2025 • 20 mins
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 t...
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October 30, 2025 • 20 mins
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...
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October 17, 2025 • 12 mins
Dwane Lay joins cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site for a special episode recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at RecFest USA 2025.
Dwane is the Chief Innovation Officer at GBS Worldwide and author of Lean HR. He discussed the key differences between hiring at scale and recruiting for one-off, specialized roles, offering practical insights for employers managing both.
Dwane explained why mo...
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October 2, 2025 • 18 mins
Today's guest on the High Volume Hiring Podcast is Dustin Leszcynski of Burlington Stores Inc, formerly known as Burlington Coat Factory. With more than 1,200 locations, it is the third largest off-price a/k/a discount retailer. Dustin as the Director of Talent Acquisition - Early Careers, oversees the hiring of some 300 interns and other early career employees a year for their corporate office. The thousands of hourly employees in...
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September 18, 2025 • 18 mins
Today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast is quite the milestone: our 100th episode. Wow. Some 90 percent of podcasts end after only one or two episodes and 90 percent by the 20th. Only one percent get past the 21st episode. So, yeah, 100 is quite the accomplishment.
Join us for a super fun, upbeat, informative episode. Together with cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, our guest...
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September 4, 2025 • 16 mins
On today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, Justin Olin of Upwage talks with us about the importance of caring at scale...and cohost Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site spends a little too much time talking about Wayne Gretzky.
Our other cohost, Jeanette Leeds, learns from Justin that Upwage's assessments are used by some of the world's largest organizations to help them better identify competencies, whi...
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August 21, 2025 • 20 mins
On today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, Steve Cadigan of Cadigan Talent Ventures joins us to talk about artificial intelligence.
Instead of either being all for it or all against it, Steve made it clear that he favors its use if done properly for the employer and candidate. Unfortunately, it often isn't. Sometimes, the errors will prove hard to fix. Other times, they'll be easy.
Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rot...
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August 7, 2025 • 17 mins
It isn't every day that we get to talk with someone who helped to build an incredibly valuable product while at LinkedIn or who helped bring the talents of great teachers to millions while at Khan Academy or who is helping to massively improve how early career hiring is done. But, that day is today. Today's guest on the High Volume Hiring Podcast is Jeremy Schifeling of The Job Insiders. Together with cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Ste...
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July 24, 2025 • 18 mins
For the past couple of years, listeners to the High Volume Hiring Podcast have heard cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk many times about artificial intelligence. What is it? Is it really impacting talent acquisition? What's coming?
Today's guest, Mike Wolford of Lex Duo, joins us to talk about an aspect that we've barely covered: agentic AI. We can't think of a better person to ta...
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July 10, 2025 • 16 mins
On today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, Gino Ferrand, the CEO and founder of TECLA, joins us to talk about how midmarket and large organizations continue to hire engineering talent at scale that is remote and nearshore, or even offshore.
Software development and other engineering work almost all went fully remote in early 2000 but, since then, employer after employer have encouraged or even forced many of those work...
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June 26, 2025 • 18 mins
Today's guest on the High Volume Hiring Podcast is Sam Fitzroy, co-founder and CEO of Dalia. Some of our listeners may also know Sam from his work at was then a little start-up called Indeed and, later, TheMuse.
Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk with Sam about the markedly different conversion rates employers see from candidates who come from organic (free) sources such as Google,...
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June 12, 2025 • 17 mins
For decades, employers have used more and more technology that is more and more sophisticated to allow them to sift through more and more job applications. But there's been a fundamental change in the playing field: candidates are now using similar technology to allow them to apply to more and more jobs.
Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site welcome to the High Volume Hiring Podcast our gu...
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June 3, 2025 • 20 mins
Brig Gen Christopher Amrhein of the United States Air Force comes back onto the High Volume Hiring Podcast for an update to the information that he shared last fall.
The focus of the previous conversation with cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site was on how everyone within an organization needs to be recruiting, not just the recruiters. Today, we learn that those efforts and many others a...
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May 29, 2025 • 17 mins
Our guest on today's High Volume Hiring Podcast is Mark “Doobles” Deubel of Doobles, a technical recruiting expert who helps teams move from reactive recruitment to strategic talent acquisition. Oh, and he's the host of Doobles Talks, a podcast that brings engineering brains to recruiting pains.
Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk with Mark about why video matters in recruitment. Wo...
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May 15, 2025 • 17 mins
Our guest on today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast is Tom Chevalier, general manager of Appcast, Inc's Labs.
Cohosts Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site and Jeanette Leeds discuss with Tom how employers can best convert into applicants those candidates who visit the employer's ATS but don't immediately apply.
Across all industries, occupational fields, employers, and job boards, the typical click-to...
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May 1, 2025 • 17 mins
Today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast features a timely discussion between cohosts Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter and Jeanette Leeds.
Since the start of Donald Trump's second term as U.S. President on January 20th, there's been massive, economic upheaval both within the United States and internationally. Regardless of whether one feels that's all good, all bad, or somewhere in between, hundreds of thousands of f...
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April 17, 2025 • 18 mins
Dave Rosenberg of Locked on Leadership is our guest on today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast. Dave is a professional keynote speaker and leadership development consultant. He guides teams and leaders to foster a culture of accountability that accelerates results.
Cohosts Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site and Jeanette Leeds talk with Dave about organizations large and small have a lot more in common wi...
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