School of Hiring

Do you find hiring frustrating?? Are you disappointed with recruiting?? My name is Konstanty Sliwowski and I am a veteran of nearly 20 years in the business of recruitment, strategic talent acquisition and employment consultancy. I now focus my time on advising organisations and managers on how to be more, strategic, efficient, and effective at engaging and hiring top talent.In this podcast series, I speak with business leaders about how they attract and hire top performers. The high's and low's. And of course some funny stories and recruitment mishaps.If you are tired of recruitment processes that suck up your time and seem to never end and are looking for a more predictable way to attract, engage and hire top talent but also reduce the number of candidates you need to interview, come listen to our guest hiring managers including CEO's, CTO's, and CPO's open up about hiring experiences and how they approach talent acquisition.

School of Hiring is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 66 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  The Real Reason Great Hires Still Fail (with Ashley Herd)

  Mar 27, 202644 minS0

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Most hiring failures do not start in the interview.</p><p>They start much earlier, when the role is poorly defined, success is unclear, candidates are not given the right context, and managers inherit a process that was never built to set anyone up to succeed.</p><p>In this episode, I sit down with Ashley Herd, former employment lawyer, HR executive at McKinsey and Yum Brands, and author of The Manager Method, to break down where hiring really goes wrong and what leaders need to fix before they open their next search.<...

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  The Invisible Colleague: What Really Happens When AI Listens to Your Meetings

  Mar 13, 202637 minS0

  <p>Send a text</p><p>Should AI be in the room? Not "can it take notes" — but what actually happens when an AI system is listening to your leadership meetings, hiring interviews, and performance check-ins? When is that powerful? When is it a risk? And what guardrails do you need before you invite it in?</p><p>My guest is Artem Koren, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Sembly AI, a meeting intelligence platform he founded in 2019. Artem has spent years thinking about how AI can enrich the way humans work — rather than replace the human judgment at the cent...

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  The Death of the CV & the Future of Hiring

  Feb 27, 202642 minS0

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Is the resume dead? Should the job interview be?<br/><br/>In this episode, Konstanty Sliwowski sits down with James Terry, Head of US Revenue at Indeed Flex, to dismantle two of recruiting's most sacred tools — the CV and the interview — and ask a simple question: do they actually work?<br/><br/>The data says not nearly as well as we think. Hiring managers spend an average of 6 seconds reading a resume, roughly 70% of candidates lie on them to some extent, and the typical 30-minute interview predicts job performance about as well as a co...

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  Hiring in 2026: Guardrails, Trust, and the New TA Role (Hung Lee)

  Jan 15, 202656 minS0

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Hung Lee is the founder and editor of Recruiting Brainfood, and one of the sharpest observers of how hiring actually works.</p><p>Two years ago, Hung joined me to talk about the future of recruitment and what AI might do to talent acquisition. This time, we are past predictions. AI is in the workflow, shaping sourcing, screening, and candidate experience. The focus now is what is working, what is quietly breaking, and what leaders should do next.</p><p>We start with a thought that used to sound far fetched: a company’s...

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  AI Won’t Fix Hiring...But You Can

  Nov 27, 202543 minS0

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Everyone’s rushing to “AI-ify” their hiring process.</p><p>But if you’re just automating broken decisions, you’re not solving the problem. You’re scaling it.</p><p>In this episode of School of Hiring, I’m joined by <b>Andreea Lungulescu</b>— formerly global TA leader at Zalando, Wayfair, thermondo and the mind behind <b>Talent Crunch</b>, one of the few places where people in talent say what they actually think.</p><p>We dig into:</p><p>🤖 Why “Post-AI Good” hiring looks nothing like today’s playbook</p><p>🎯 What needs to stay hu...

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