Don’t Get Played is a bi-weekly podcast from Cisive about trust at work in the age of AI, remote hiring, and evolving workplace risk. Hosted by Sarah O’Melia, Matt Jaye, and Carlo Solórzano, the show goes beyond background checks to explore the bigger questions facing talent acquisition and people leaders today: Who can you trust? How do you protect your organization without undermining culture? And what does leadership judgment look like in a world where credibility can be manufactured? If you’re responsible for hiring, leading, or safeguarding a workforce, these conversations matter.
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Signup to Generate a PitchDon’t Get Played is a bi-weekly podcast from Cisive about trust at work in the age of AI, remote hiring, and evolving workplace risk. Hosted by Sarah O’Melia, Matt Jaye, and Carlo Solórzano, the show goes beyond background checks to explore the bigger questions facing talent acquisition and people leaders today: Who can you trust?
Don't Get Played is hosted by Cisive. The show has published 19 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "How Skills-Based Hiring Proves a Candidate Can Do the Job" (20 October 2026, 25 minutes), "Why Truck Driver Retention Belongs on Dispatch's Scorecard" (6 October 2026, 31 minutes), and "Why Clinical Programs Need a Succession Planning Framework" (22 September 2026, 35 minutes).
Don't Get Played publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 29 minutes across 19 episodes.
Booking probability for Don't Get Played is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Don't Get Played requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Don't Get Played's contact route on record: verified email.
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Cisive hosts Don't Get Played, a business podcast with 19 episodes published.
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Dr. Michael A. Campbell wrote resumes at a typewriter in the nineties. Now anyone can produce one in seconds, and hiring managers tell him they would rather leave a seat empty than fill it with the wrong person. In this...
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A driver on the road in California learns he has lost his son, and his dispatcher stays on the phone with him for eight hours while he drives home to North Carolina. It's the kind of story drivers tell when asked why...
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A clinical director gets let go the day before an accreditation site visit, and takes the program's compliance documentation with them, scattering it across a highway in Texas. When the site visitors show up, there's...
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A student can be fully enrolled, fully paid up, and still get turned away at the clinical site door, not because of anything they did, but because their records were scattered across four different systems that never...
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Francisco Lopez Roualdes has watched fleets win the first call and still lose the driver, because the systems behind that first call never talk to each other. In this episode of Don't Get Played, Carlo Solórzano sits...
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Carriers obsess over speed in driver hiring. Christy Choice and Amanda Worthen have watched carriers lose drivers anyway, because the tools recruiters depend on don't talk to each other. In this episode of Don't Get...
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Most organizations have invested heavily in hiring technology and don't have much to show for it. Linda Brenner says the software was never the problem. In this episode of Don't Get Played, Sarah O'Melia sits down with...
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Some carriers spend their time chasing recruits to drive their fleet. R.E. Garrison Trucking has a waiting list. Tracy Rushing says the recruiting conversation is the easy part. What drivers find when they show up is...
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Some carriers spend their time chasing recruits to drive their fleet. R.E. Garrison Trucking has a waiting list. Tracy Rushing says the recruiting conversation is the easy part. What drivers find when they show up is...
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In this episode of Don't Get Played, Sarah O'Melia sits down with Margaret Keane, CEO of Cisive, to talk about what employees actually need from leadership right now and why silence is the worst response to a moment...
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In this episode of Don't Get Played, Sarah O'Melia sits down with Margaret Keane, CEO of Cisive, to talk about what employees actually need from leadership right now and why silence is the worst response to a moment...
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Executive healthcare recruitment looks straightforward on paper. In practice, it's one of the highest-stakes processes a healthcare organization runs. In this episode of Don't Get Played, Matt Jaye sits down with...
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The federal government moved marijuana to Schedule III. Many employers read that headline and assumed nothing changed. They're partially right. The rest is liability. In this episode of Don't Get Played, Sarah O'Melia...
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AI is changing how hiring decisions get made — but not who’s accountable for them. In this episode of Don’t Get Played, Sarah O’Melia sits down with Kevin Coy, Privacy Law Partner at Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, to break...
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Background checks are a starting point. What they cannot tell you is whether a candidate trusts the company calling them enough to show up on day one. In an industry where the so-called driver shortage is really a...
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Criminal background checks are scientific and binary. Social media screening is different. It surfaces values, patterns, and character in ways no formal document ever could. In a world where AI has made every resume...
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In this episode of Don’t Get Played, we explore one of the most overlooked choke points in healthcare workforce development: clinical placements and the clearance process that determines whether students can actually...
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What if the documents used to verify candidates were never designed to be trustworthy in the first place? In this episode of Don’t Get Played, Sarah O’Melia sits down with Zach Daigle, Chief Strategy and Customer...
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Why do transportation companies with clean records and perfect compliance still end up with accidents, lawsuits, and headline-making failures? In this episode of Cisive’s Don’t Get Played, Carlo Solorzano sits down with...
Don't Get Played
Don’t Get Played is a bi-weekly podcast from Cisive about trust at work in the age of AI, remote hiring, and evolving workplace risk. Hosted by Sarah O’Melia, Matt Jaye, and Carlo Solórzano, the show goes beyond...
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