High Volume Hiring

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.

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April 30, 2026 17 mins
Trent Cotton, the Head of Talent Insights & Analyst Relations for ICIMS, returns to the High Volume Hiring Podcast to discuss a new report about how employers and candidates are using AI. Some believe that all employers are using it and using it well. Some believe that all candidates are using it and using it well. Is the reality, however, something quite different? Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter j...
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It's rare when you run across an employer who has a campus recruiting function but is not hiring at scale. Although campus recruiting programs are typically also high-volume recruiting programs, there are notable differences. Today's guest on the High Volume Hiring Podcast is the co-founder and chief evangelist of Abode, which helps employers engage early-career talent from the moment they sign their offer. Parker Pell, as a membe...
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Today's special episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast was part of Michael Glenn's Employer Branding EXP and featured guest Rachel Allen, 7-Eleven's head of TA, and cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site. 7-Eleven transformed its high-volume hiring following its acquisition of a major competitor with a very different approach to recruiting. They had different brands, tech stacks, and con...
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Today's employers receive far more applications than they did for similar roles a few years ago, and exponentially more than a few decades ago. But are the applicants worse fits than they used to be, or are we just having a harder time determining their fit? And, after they've applied but not been hired, are we wasting a valuable asset by ignoring them or failing to stay in touch with them in a way they want? Wouldn't it be better...
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Chelsea Schein, PhD of Veris Insights and The Wharton School of Business is our guest on today's High Volume Hiring Podcast to discuss not another new AI product but, instead, the people who will use those products and how to best to hire them. Until very recently, the conventional wisdom amongst employers was that they did not want candidates using AI because the employers wanted to be sure the candidates could think critically. ...
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Trent Cotton of ICIMS joins us for the third time to discuss their just published Workforce Report. Trent breaks down the key findings, and also points out the mysteries of what we're seeing in the labor market. More employers are posting more jobs, which is great. Manufacturing is surprisingly strong, healthcare remains strong, but retail is weaker than we expected. Yet applications and hiring is also down. Are employers posting,...
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A key reason some employers hire at scale is because of high turnover. Some turnover is to be expected, and often beneficial, but some should be avoided, and is detrimental. Today on the High Volume Hiring Podcast our cohosts, Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, talk with career expert Keith Spencer of Resume Now, which is part of BOLD and a sister company to CareerBuilder, Monster, FlexJobs, a...
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It is often said that recruitment marketing lags consumer marketing by five to 10 years. One reason for that is that consumer marketing budgets far exceed ours. That makes it far harder for us to pilot or A/B test and that holds back innovation. On today's episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast, cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site interview Dillon Hill, co-founder of marketing agency ...
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February 19, 2026 18 mins
Dan Arkind, who likes to refer to himself as a recovering recruiter, but who is also the CEO of JobScore, is today's guest on the High Volume Hiring Podcast to talk applicant tracking systems. Cohosts Jeanette Leeds and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk with Dan about how some small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) engage in high-volume hiring, such as chains of restaurants, and how the needs of an emplo...
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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 huggi...
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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 founde...
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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 ...
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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. Hum...
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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,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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