Sep 29, 2026
Rob welcomes back Colin Yasukochi, Executive Director of CBRE's Tech Insight Center, to walk through CBRE's annual Scoring Tech Talent report. Covering 50 markets and millions of data points, the report is the definitive map of where tech talent lives, moves, and works. This year's findings are striking: remote job...
Sep 23, 2026
Tracy St. Dic, Global Head of Talent at Zapier, built a quality of hire algorithm from scratch. What it yielded helped them measure their ability to get better at hiring over time, but it also taught them the five durable traits that actually predict top performance, why credentials are a weak proxy for ability, and...
Aug 28, 2026
Show Notes:
Rob goes in-person for this one, recording live at Takkion HQ in
Denver with CHRO Marie Wardenski. Takkion is a major player in
clean energy with around 2,000 employees, 85% of whom are traveling
wind technicians who never have the option to work from home, which
makes the people function both critical and...
Aug 25, 2026
Selena is the Executive Director and Global Head of Talent Management at Cytokinetics, and brings a global perspective shaped by her upbringing in Beijing, a career that has wound through consulting, M&A integration at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, and culture transformation at Gilead. The conversation covers how to lead people...
33,000 Applications and Counting: Navigating the AI Hiring Surge with Katie Rakusin of Merit America
Jul 29, 2026
Katie Rakusin, Director of Talent Acquisition at Merit America. has seen the AI hiring surge hit in real time: 33,000 applications in five months, 10,000 in May alone, and yes, the bots have officially arrived. The conversation covers how her team is restructuring its entire hiring process around the assumption...