Talent Acquisition In The Trenches

In this digital first world, the old ways of recruiting are becoming obsolete. Or are they? The talent demands on every business has put TA squarely in the hot seat. Welcome to Talent Acquisition In The Trenches, a real dialogue podcast with talent acquisition pro’s closest to the front line. We want to talk to our peers who are actually doing the heavy lifting day in and day out.

Talent Acquisition In The Trenches is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 0 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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  Episode #56

  Episode 56: Jenny Cotie Kangas (JCK) - Unleashing the Power of Data with GBS Worldwide

  Aug 18, 202651 min

  A rare COVID-19 complication in 2020 left Jenny Cotie Kangas (JCK) with total memory loss, and healthcare talent acquisition is better for it. In this episode of TA in the Trenches, RogueHire co-founder and COO Matt Rimer sits down with JCK, VP of Innovation at GBS Worldwide and a TA Tech 100 honoree, along with RogueHire's Digital and Recruiting Innovator, Ryan Affolter, to unpack how losing her "design bias" gave her a sharper, more data-driven way to diagnose what's actually broken in healthcare hiring. The conversation digs into why so many TA leaders chase vanity metrics like application volume instead of the signals that actually predict outcomes, such as quality of slate, candidate drop-off, and the true cost of inaction, and how JCK's mantra to "collect the dots to connect the dots" helps teams separate real signal from noise. You'll hear why AI should be treated as a thought partner rather than an answer machine, how feeding it multiple leadership "personas" can sharpen a boardroom pitch, and why her upcoming book, Step Zero, argues that mapping your process has to come before you turn on any algorithm, because AI doesn't fix broken workflows, it scales them. For healthcare HR and talent acquisition leaders trying to trade gut-feel decisions for a data-grounded operation, this episode offers a practical framework for spotting design bias, choosing metrics that actually matter, and giving AI the context it needs before asking it to help solve your hardest hiring problems.

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  Episode #55

  Episode 55: Doug Berg - Unleashing the Power of Data with Match2

  Aug 5, 202653 min

  A broken candidate experience is costing healthcare employers talent long before they see it in their vacancy reports, and Doug Berg thinks the fix starts with how we use data. In this episode of TA in the Trenches, RogueHire COO and Co-Founder Matt sits down with talent tech pioneer and Match2 founder, Doug Berg, along with RogueHire’s Digital and Recruiting Innovator, Ryan Affolter, to unpack what it really takes to move from reactive, triage-style hiring to a proactive, always-on talent intelligence model. The conversation digs into why today’s apply-and-goodbye workflows, especially in systems like Workday, create a fragmented, consumer-grade-in-reverse journey for candidates, and how “candidate EHR” style profiles, continuous engagement, and predictive “Fitbit-like” market signals can turn a static career site into a scalable sourcing engine. You’ll hear how Doug’s decades of building recruitment tech categories inform a new approach to talent communities, why “apply” should never be the only button on your career site, and what a truly data-connected culture looks like when TA, marketing, and leadership are working from the same source of truth. For healthcare HR and talent acquisition leaders trying to heal the candidate experience while filling critical roles faster, this episode offers a practical playbook for using data, automation, and smarter engagement to waste fewer applicants, reduce friction, and keep high-intent candidates in your orbit instead of losing them to the black hole of legacy systems.

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  Episode #54

  Episode 54: Mike Stafiej - Unleashing the Power of Data with ERIN

  Jun 10, 202651 min

  A stale employee referral program is more than a missed opportunity. It quietly raises time to fill, keeps you overpaying agencies, and leaves your best potential hires sitting just one warm introduction away. In this episode of TA in the Trenches, Matt sits down with Mike Stafiej, CEO of ERIN, and RogueHire's Digital and Recruiting Innovator, Ryan Affolter to dig into how modern referral automation turns your existing workforce into a scalable sourcing engine. The conversation explores why referrals should be a core hiring strategy (not a “nice-to-have” bonus), how high‑velocity data signals can pinpoint which jobs are primed for referral outreach, and what it takes to build a culture where employees advocate for your roles from day one. For healthcare HR and talent acquisition leaders under pressure to reduce agency spend, improve speed, and fill hard‑to‑hire roles, this episode shows how better referral data, smarter automation, and a more intentional internal mobility strategy can change the math on your recruiting funnel.

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  Episode #53

  Episode 53: Jon Bischke - Fixing Stale Recruiting Data

  Jun 1, 202650 min

  A stale recruiting database is more than an inconvenience. It can quietly weaken outbound recruiting, distort AI-driven hiring workflows, and limit a health system’s ability to fill roles that affect patient care. In this episode of TA in the Trenches , Matt sits down with Jon Bischke from ZoomInfo to discuss how better data changes the way talent acquisition teams find, prioritize, and engage candidates. The conversation explores why clean, current candidate intelligence matters, how TA leaders can reduce wasted outreach, and what healthcare recruiting teams need to know before relying on automation or AI at scale. For HR and talent acquisition leaders under pressure to improve hiring speed, candidate quality, and recruiter productivity, this episode shows why better hiring starts with better data.

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  Episode #52

  Unleashing the Power of Data with Accurate

  Dec 9, 202545 min

  In this episode of TA in the Trenches, host Matt and co-host Ryan sit down with Devin Martinez, SVP of Account Management at Accurate, to cut through the hype and show how data, AI, and advanced automation are reshaping background checks for many industries, including healthcare. Devin shares front-line tactics for shrinking turnaround time without sacrificing accuracy or patient safety, and explains how sentiment analysis, package design, and continuous monitoring turn pre-boarding from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage. Links: RogueHire Matt on LinkedIn Devin on LinkedIn

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