Episode #20
Live from Austin: Every Myth We Have Busted, One Year On
Cover letters are dead. Open to work banners can work against you. AI is not coming for recruiters. After twelve months of myth busting, we sat down to check which verdicts still hold. This one is different. After nineteen episodes recorded from opposite sides of the Atlantic, Marcus Pask and Megan Conlon finally got in the same room, in a studio in Austin, Texas. What follows is an honest look back at every myth the show has taken on, what the market has done to those answers since, and where the two of us still disagree. You'll discover: Why giving your salary expectations early rarely costs you the job, and what recruiters are actually measured on Whether every hire really needs to be a bar raiser, and the pay gap problem it creates twelve months later The truth about job boards outside of tech, and why Indeed looks completely different in the US and Europe Why recruiters are not scared to give feedback, and the real reason it sometimes never arrives Marcus applying for a job with an AI interviewer to see what it was like, and the one thing it could not do What back channel referencing is, why it is riddled with bias, and how a proper reference check should be run The new myth: should headcount planning be owned by finance, and what goes wrong when recruiting is the last to know Why unlimited holiday often means people take less time off, and how European and US switch off culture differ If you are job hunting, this is a year of insider answers in one sitting. If you work in talent acquisition, there is a lot here on getting a seat at the planning table and being treated as a strategic partner rather than an order taker. If you are a hiring leader, you will hear where headcount planning quietly falls apart and what it costs you two quarters later. One room, two perspectives, twelve months of myths. Press play.
