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The Breakthrough Hiring Show: Modern Recruiting, AI, and Talent Strategy

Hosted by James Mackey · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 220 episodes

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Welcome to The Breakthrough Hiring Show: Recruiting, AI, and Talent Strategy, a podcast for leaders building better hiring systems and stronger teams. Hosted by James Mackey, the show features conversations with founders, CEOs, talent leaders, and recruiting experts on how great companies hire, scale, and adapt as technology changes the talent landscape. Episodes cover talent acquisition strategy, recruiting operations, AI, automation, candidate experience, hiring analytics, and executive decision-making. You will learn how to build scalable hiring systems, use AI and recruiting technology effectively, improve the hiring process, and make talent acquisition a competitive advantage. Built for founders, executives, talent acquisition leaders, recruiters, and hiring teams. Thank you to our sponsors, SecureVision and June , for making this show possible.

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James Mackey hosts The Breakthrough Hiring Show: Modern Recruiting, AI, and Talent Strategy, a business show with 220 episodes published.

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EP 220: Elephants, Lions & the Psychology of Talent Leadership

Jun 2, 202653m0

Growing up between Canada and East Africa, Michael Kieran’s childhood was shaped by international communities, close encounters with elephants and lions, and experiences that challenged the way he saw the world. He bring

EP 219: Building Talent Programs at Hulu, Activision, and Take-Two

May 28, 202645m0

Jessica Wheeler went from growing up in Vancouver, Washington to building talent programs at some of the biggest names in entertainment and gaming, including Hulu, Activision, and Take-Two Interactive. Now VP, Global Hea

EP 218: Don't Hire

May 26, 202647m0

Adam Spector’s path has never been conventional, from leaving DC for boarding school to pivoting from law school into tech and startups. Now Founder & CEO of Chore, he shares how building companies, learning from early s

EP 217: How Every Chapter Builds the Next

May 21, 202652m0

Mary Price grew up as a first-generation American, learning early lessons in grit, integrity, and trust from her family and her uncle’s shoe repair shop. Today, as the founder of Penfield Talent, she brings that same peo

EP 216: Grit, Resilience, and the AI-Driven Future of Talent Acquisition

May 19, 202635m0

Katie Potter, VP of Talent Operations at Healthie, grew up in upstate New York with a deeply competitive spirit — skiing by age three and racing against high schoolers before she was even a teenager. In this episode, she

EP 215: Building Human-Centered Talent Acquisition in the AI Era

May 14, 202638m0

Kelsey Hersh grew up between two completely different worlds: one grounded in structure, the other filled with artists, Burning Man gatherings, and weekly fire dancing circles. Now Head of Talent Acquisition at Hometap,

EP 214: Building TA Systems and Hiring Recruiters

May 12, 202659m0

Liam Naughton grew up in a hyper-competitive environment, from nonstop sports to a 35-day wilderness trip that pushed his limits early on. Now Head of Recruiting at Merge, he’s applying that same mindset to building scal

EP 213: A Non-Traditional Path to a Ruthless Hiring Bar

May 7, 202656m0

Lauren Valencia grew up in a small town outside Seattle, where adventure, sports, and early problem-solving shaped a non-traditional path into recruiting. Now Head of Talent at Socket, she’s scaling teams quickly while r

EP 212: Managing Expectations in a Job You Can’t Control

May 5, 202659m0

Mallory Planck started her career in the middle of the 2009 recession, figuring things out in real time without a clear path. That grind took her from door-to-door sales into talent acquisition, where she now serves as H

EP 211: Where Intuition Meets Pattern Recognition in Hiring

Apr 30, 202648m0

Nyala Khan grew up on an orchard farm in Northern California before navigating diverse environments across the U.S., shaping both her independence and her ability to read people. Now leading People and Talent at Slang AI

EP 210: Curiosity, Excellence, and What It Takes to Build Strong Teams

Apr 28, 202657m0

From a multicultural upbringing to leading talent acquisition at Juniper Square, Felicia Menon has built her career around curiosity, storytelling, and a strong focus on people. She shares how asking better questions, in

EP 209: Balancing AI, Automation and Human Connection

Apr 23, 202650m0

With a background in philosophy and logic, Polina Arkhipova approaches talent acquisition through clarity, structure, and continuous learning. At Monta, she’s exploring AI and automation to make recruiting more efficient

EP 208: Turning AI Into a Strategic Engine for Talent

Apr 21, 202653m0

Daryl Escoto started with a mindset shaped by constant motion and perspective, and carried that into a career spanning Amazon, Microsoft, Uber, and now leading Talent Acquisition at Bill. In this conversation, he explain

EP 207: From Legal Training to Talent Strategy

Apr 16, 20261h 12m0

Raised in a close Italian immigrant family, she grew up fascinated by people and what drives them. After a brief detour into law, she found her true calling in recruiting where she discovered that behavior often matters

EP 206: Where Parisian Roots Meet Intuitive Hiring

Apr 14, 20261h 9m0

Victoire Marty grew up in Paris, surrounded by art, history, and a culture that values intuition, which later shaped her approach to hiring for potential rather than pedigree. After studying art history, she went on to b

EP 205: Neat CVs Don’t Equal Potential, Look Beyond the Resume

Apr 9, 202652m0

Growing up as the oldest of five, Tristan Mackrory was a teacher long before the classroom, a dynamic that still shapes how he leads today. That path took him from teaching into talent acquisition, and now into his role

EP 204: Scaling Yourself, Then Scaling the Business

Apr 7, 202651m0

Rona Shoaienia, grew up in Toronto after moving from Munich, and being surrounded by diverse cultures shaped how she sees people and potential. She studied psychology, traveled widely, and later experienced anxiety, an e

EP 203: How Competitive Sailing and Global Perspective Shape Creative Hiring

Apr 2, 20261h 11m0

Growing up in a small NYC apartment taught him resilience early, but traveling through Brazil and South Africa reshaped how he sees people and the world. From competing in sailing across countries to living nomadically,

EP 202: The Difference Between Filling Roles and Building Teams

Mar 31, 20261h 30m0

A bad environment can make someone shut down fast. The right one can change everything. Kenzie Hoelscher, Leading Recruiting at AssemblyAI, saw that shift early and it still shapes how she thinks about people and perform

EP 201: How Culture Quietly Shapes Every Career Decision

Mar 26, 20261h 1m0

What if the way people think about jobs, risk, and “security” has less to do with personality and more to do with the country that raised them? In this episode, Alison Eastaway, VP of People and Culture at Push Security,

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