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AI is everywhere in hiring—but is it actually making talent acquisition better? Or just faster?

By Jim Stroud
January 26, 2026
AI is everywhere in hiring—but is it actually making talent acquisition better? Or just faster?

In this episode of the Jim Stroud Podcast, host Jim Stroud sits down with Michelle Cass, global talent acquisition executive and author of Hired by Humanity, for a candid, deeply practical conversation about the real impact of AI on hiring, recruiters, and candidates. With more than 20 years of experience Continue Reading

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Every Resume Has a Nervous System: Why Hiring Breaks People Before It Hires Them

By Jim Stroud
January 22, 2026
Every Resume Has a Nervous System: Why Hiring Breaks People Before It Hires Them

Recruiting looks clean on a dashboard. A funnel. A workflow. A timestamp. But every resume you skim is attached to a nervous system. And when someone loses a job, the stress is not “a little disappointment.” On the classic life-events stress scale, being fired at work sits in the same Continue Reading

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What if your top performer doesn’t breathe?

By Jim Stroud
January 19, 2026
What if your top performer doesn’t breathe?

This episode brought to you by: Job Search 3.0 and The Recruiting Life newsletter. Links below. … You walk into your review prepared to discuss your metrics. But there’s a new name on the dashboard. It’s not a peer. It’s not a hire. It’s an AI recruiting agent—with a title, a scorecard, and Continue Reading

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Is the Pharmacy Benefit System a Scam? Follow the Money

By Jim Stroud
January 12, 2026
Is the Pharmacy Benefit System a Scam? Follow the Money

This episode of The Jim Stroud Podcast is brought to you by ProvenBase – an AI-powered talent acquisition and Deep Search sourcing platform that helps organizations find, engage, and hire hard-to-find candidates from thousands of real-time online sources. See it in action for yourself by visiting – ProvenBase. In this Continue Reading

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Hiring in a Market Full of Talent—So Why Does It Still Feel Impossible?

By Jim Stroud
January 12, 2026
Hiring in a Market Full of Talent—So Why Does It Still Feel Impossible?

We’re in a moment of deep contradiction. Thousands of highly capable people are out of work—many with years of experience in healthcare, life sciences, biotech, manufacturing, and adjacent fields. Yet recruiting teams keep saying what they’ve said for years: “We can’t find qualified candidates.” Both things shouldn’t be true at Continue Reading

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