The Breakthrough Hiring Show: Recruiting and Talent Acquisition Conversations
by James Mackey
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EP 222: Inside Qonto's AI-Native Recruiting Stack
Jun 23, 2026
58m 04s
EP 221: Why Generalists Win in a Fast-Changing Talent Market
Jun 9, 2026
1h 11m 21s
EP 220: Elephants, Lions & the Psychology of Talent Leadership
Jun 2, 2026
53m 15s
EP 219: Building Talent Programs at Hulu, Activision, and Take-Two
May 28, 2026
45m 53s
EP 218: Don't Hire
May 26, 2026
47m 04s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/23/26 | EP 222: Inside Qonto's AI-Native Recruiting Stack | Aurelien Drieu is Qonto's Head of Talent Acquisition. Over the past six years, he's helped scale the company from 200 to 1,700+ employees. In this conversation, he shares how his team uses AI to move faster without trading off on quality - from automating dashboards and building in-house agents that take on repetitive but high-leverage prep work (persona finalisation, interview grids, job descriptions, case studies) to note-taking, AI interviewing tests, and testing candidates' AI fluency dur... | 58m 04s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | EP 221: Why Generalists Win in a Fast-Changing Talent Market✨ | talent acquisitionAI in recruiting+3 | Chelsea Kovak | TaskRabbit | — | generaliststalent market+5 | — | 1h 11m 21s | |
| 6/2/26 | EP 220: Elephants, Lions & the Psychology of Talent Leadership✨ | talent leadershiprecruiting teams+3 | Michael Kieran | — | CanadaEast Africa+2 | talent acquisitionhigh-performing teams+3 | — | 53m 15s | |
| 5/28/26 | EP 219: Building Talent Programs at Hulu, Activision, and Take-Two✨ | talent acquisitionleadership+3 | Jessica Wheeler | HuluActivision+1 | — | talent programsHulu+5 | — | 45m 53s | |
| 5/26/26 | EP 218: Don't Hire✨ | hiringstartups+3 | Adam Spector | Chore | — | hiringstartups+3 | — | 47m 04s | |
| 5/21/26 | EP 217: How Every Chapter Builds the Next✨ | talent leadershipexecutive search+3 | Mary Price | Penfield Talent | — | talent acquisitionrecruiting+3 | — | 52m 40s | |
| 5/19/26 | EP 216: Grit, Resilience, and the AI-Driven Future of Talent Acquisition✨ | talent acquisitionAI in hiring+4 | Katie Potter | Healthieforensic psychology+1 | upstate New York | talent operationsAI-driven hiring+4 | — | 35m 20s | |
| 5/14/26 | EP 215: Building Human-Centered Talent Acquisition in the AI Era✨ | talent acquisitionAI in hiring+3 | Kelsey Hersh | Hometap | — | talent acquisitionAI+3 | — | 38m 03s | |
| 5/12/26 | EP 214: Building TA Systems and Hiring Recruiters✨ | Talent AcquisitionRecruiting+4 | Liam Naughton | Merge | — | Talent AcquisitionRecruiting+4 | — | 59m 02s | |
| 5/7/26 | EP 213: A Non-Traditional Path to a Ruthless Hiring Bar✨ | recruitingtalent acquisition+3 | Lauren Valencia | Socket | Seattle | hiringrecruitment+5 | — | 56m 01s | |
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| 5/5/26 | EP 212: Managing Expectations in a Job You Can’t Control✨ | job expectationstalent acquisition+3 | Mallory Planck | Drata | — | job expectationstalent acquisition+3 | SecureVision | 59m 04s | |
| 4/30/26 | EP 211: Where Intuition Meets Pattern Recognition in Hiring✨ | hiringpattern recognition+3 | Nyala Khan | Slang AI | Northern California | hiringpattern recognition+3 | — | 48m 57s | |
| 4/28/26 | EP 210: Curiosity, Excellence, and What It Takes to Build Strong Teams✨ | talent acquisitionleadership+5 | Felicia Menon | Juniper SquareAlchemised | — | talent acquisitionleadership+5 | — | 57m 23s | |
| 4/23/26 | EP 209: Balancing AI, Automation and Human Connection✨ | AI in recruitingautomation+3 | Polina Arkhipova | Monta | — | talent acquisitionAI+6 | SecureVision | 50m 25s | |
| 4/21/26 | EP 208: Turning AI Into a Strategic Engine for Talent✨ | AI in talent acquisitionstrategic hiring+3 | Daryl Escoto | AmazonMicrosoft+2 | — | AItalent acquisition+5 | — | 53m 09s | |
| 4/16/26 | EP 207: From Legal Training to Talent Strategy✨ | talent acquisitionrecruiting+3 | Valerie Vadala | HumanDo What You Are+1 | ItalianPianostrada+1 | talent strategyrecruiting+3 | — | 1h 12m 50s | |
| 4/14/26 | EP 206: Where Parisian Roots Meet Intuitive Hiring✨ | hiringtalent acquisition+3 | Victoire Marty | Lemlist | Paris | hiring for potentialtalent acquisition+3 | — | 1h 09m 01s | |
| 4/9/26 | EP 205: Neat CVs Don’t Equal Potential, Look Beyond the Resume✨ | talent acquisitionteam scaling+3 | Tristan Mackrory | Almedia | — | talent acquisitionCVs+5 | — | 52m 09s | |
| 4/7/26 | EP 204: Scaling Yourself, Then Scaling the Business✨ | talent acquisitionleadership+3 | Rona Shoaienia | Nue.io | TorontoMunich | talent machineanxiety+3 | — | 51m 24s | |
| 4/2/26 | EP 203: How Competitive Sailing and Global Perspective Shape Creative Hiring✨ | creative hiringrecruiting+5 | Colin Murphy | MethodThe Road to Character | BrazilSouth Africa+1 | hiringrecruiting+5 | — | 1h 11m 42s | |
| 3/31/26 | EP 202: The Difference Between Filling Roles and Building Teams✨ | recruitingteam building+3 | Kenzie Hoelscher | AssemblyAI | — | recruitmentteam dynamics+3 | — | 1h 30m 29s | |
| 3/26/26 | EP 201: How Culture Quietly Shapes Every Career Decision✨ | career decisionscultural influence+3 | Alison Eastaway | Push Security | AustraliaFrance+1 | career movescultural impact+3 | — | 1h 01m 03s | |
| 3/24/26 | EP 200: What Most TA Leaders Get Wrong About Influence✨ | Talent AcquisitionLeadership+3 | Gabrielle Mellon | Axon | — | Talent AcquisitionLeadership+3 | — | 1h 05m 04s | |
| 3/19/26 | EP 199: Leading with Speed, Structure, and Self‑Awareness | Rebecca Palmer lived in multiple places growing up, an experience that taught her to adapt fast and focus on finishing what she starts. Those instincts now shape her work as co-founder and head of financial guidance at Fruitful, where she helps people turn good intentions into automatic progress. Connect with host James Mackey on LinkedIn! Thank you to our sponsor, SecureVision, for making this show possible! Follow us: https://www.linkedin.com/company/82436841/ Sec... | 1h 07m 58s | ||||||
| 3/17/26 | EP 198: Why Context Matters More Than Hiring Templates | Esra Huseyinzadegan grew up in Istanbul, a city that quickly teaches you to adapt, question assumptions, and see the world from multiple perspectives. Those instincts carried her from academic success in Turkey to leading Global Talent Acquisition at Namecheap, where she builds recruiting strategies for a truly global organization. In this conversation, she shares why context beats templates, how great leaders listen deeply, and what it means to practice “minimal leadership” in fast-growing c... | 52m 09s | ||||||
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