Hosted by James Ellis · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 24 episodes
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Recruiting, talent acquisition and employer brand professionals: If you wait for change, you'll get left behind. The only solution is to change now. And I'm going to show you how to create change immediately using real-world TA/EB problems. employerbrandheadlines.substack.com
James Ellis hosts The Next Step: AI for TA and EB, a business show with 24 episodes published.
Quick thought after a late night at my daughter’s first club show (yes, I feel old): You’re using AI wrong. Most people think: “How can AI remove the boring parts of my job?” Better question: “How can AI help me do thing
Hey, Just landed back from RecFest. Two days of stages, presentations, panels, hundreds of conversations. Here’s what I kept hearing: “How do we get buy-in for that?” Translation: “I don’t think I’m allowed to do this.”
Hey, Quick one today because I’m slammed with client work and RecFest prep. But I couldn’t let the week go by without giving you one incredibly useful AI tool: A b******t detector for your employer brand content. Paste y
When was the last time you tested your career site messaging with actual target candidates? If you’re like most employer brand professionals, the answer is probably “never” or “not recently enough.” Why? Because getting
Quick question: When was the last time you read a LinkedIn post from a recruiter and thought, “Wow, this person really gets our industry”? Yeah, me neither. Here’s the problem most of us face: We’re trying to attract spe
What if I told you that switching a single $20/month subscription could completely transform how you find and engage top talent? That's exactly what happened when I started playing with Perplexity AI - and the results ar
Most teams treat AI like a shiny tool and brainstorming like a meeting. Both are wrong. In this week’s The Next Step, we dig into AI as a leadership skill—how you think, ask, and decide—not a software purchase. And we pa
If your careers content and your outreach feel… fine—but not moving needles—this week’s The Next Step hands you a tiny workflow that does big things. It’s one process you can run two different ways: first to pressure-tes
Here's a question for you: How much do your hiring managers really love those hour-long intake meetings you schedule? If you're being honest, they probably don't. At all. But what if I told you there's a way to cut your
I built a fully working Chrome extension in under 10 minutes.No coding. No tools. Just ChatGPT and a good prompt. In the latest episode of The Next Step, I walk through the exact process—from idea to execution—of buildin
This one started with a truck driver survey, and turned into an AI-powered insight engine. You know those little pulse surveys you send out? They might be more powerful than you think. In this week’s episode of The Next
Most recruiters are still sleeping on one of the most useful AI tools out there: Notebook LM.It’s not just another chatbot—it’s a way to build smarter, reusable context for every hiring manager, job family, and role. Thi
This week’s episode of The Next Step is hands-on. Like really hands-on. I grabbed a real biotech company (Sarepta—no connection to them), found a role they’re actively hiring for, and used AI tools—ChatGPT and Apify—to r
Hey there, I was on a coaching call with a client last week, and they brought up something that's been eating at me ever since. They said: "I feel like I'm stuck in an impossible situation. I need to engage subject matte
Quick question: When you're choosing between final candidates, what do you rely on most? If you said "gut feel" or "instinct" - you're not alone. Most recruiters and hiring managers do the same thing. But here's what beh
In this week’s episode of The Next Step, I invited Michael Brown from Door 3 Talent to walk me through his LinkedIn sourcing workflow. The twist? I wasn’t the best use case… and that’s exactly why it’s worth watching. ▶️
Ever wish you could pull a candidate’s phone number, email, and back-story before your coffee gets cold—without a ZoomInfo bill? In the latest episode of “The Next Step,” I sit down with sourcing wizard Brian Fink to liv
We need to talk about AI paralysis—the moment you realize AI matters, but you're frozen by risk, complexity, or just too many shiny tools. In this episode of The Next Step, I take that feeling head-on. I walk through a r
To my recruiters friends: How many times have you marched a tidy shortlist over to a hiring manager only to hear, “Hmm… not quite right”? That’s the Order-Taker Trap, and it’s killing your credibility and your calendar.
Let’s get right to it. In this episode, we tackle two big ideas: Talent scarcity in critical roles - 59% of employers seek "go-getters” but only 21% of students identify as go-getters. Talent scarcity? Or something we ca
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