10x Recruiting

AI makes building dramatically easier. The best builders start with proximity: the problems they understand deeply, the workflows they touch daily, and the taste they’ve earned through reps. In this episode, Nolan sits down with Viet Nguyen, former Head of Rec Ops at Vercel who’s now running his own shop, to talk about selfish software, AI slop, and why the final 20% of any AI workflow is where th...

After bringing 45 top talent leaders together for the 10x Recruiting Retreat in Park City, Utah, Nolan and Siadhal unpack the clearest signal from the room: recruiting leaders are asking how to make AI work at scale. This episode gets into the messy middle of AI adoption: why tinkering is easy, transformation is hard, and why recruiting teams face a much higher trust bar than engineering teams whe...

Recruiters are often told to “be strategic.” Lucy Lynn, Head of Talent at Cleo, shows what that actually looks like. In this episode, Lucy unpacks how her team manages stakeholders with data, structure, and a healthy intolerance for wasted recruiter time.  From weekly hiring dashboards to scorecard SLAs, monthly CEO reviews, and business-priority hiring reviews, Lucy explains how Cleo turns recrui...

Most recruiters are waiting for AI to hand them perfect answers. Cassie Chao Leemans is doing something better: building the tools she wishes existed. In this episode, Cassie, Talent Partner at Craft Ventures, breaks down how she went from “not technical” to building her own AI-powered recruiting workflows with Claude Code, Supabase, Metaview, and a lot of late-night tinkering. She shows what it a...

In this episode, Scott Bianco, Head of Talent at Hebbia, breaks down why great recruiters are becoming more valuable, not less. As AI strips out admin, the bar rises for the work that actually matters: judgment, relationships, candidate calibration, and taste. Scott and Nolan get into:  Why AI will expose bad recruiters and amplify great ones   Why recruiter taste is hard to teach and impossible t...

Mike Moriarty left the VC life to build Arsenal Pulse, a recruiting firm focused on defense, aerospace, and manufacturing. After years of being embedded with high-performing founders at Human Capital, he uncovered the recruiting tactics that actually drive an advantage when capital isn't the bottleneck—talent is. In this episode, Nolan talks to Mike about what separates average recruiting from the...

In our first "What we’re cooking" segment, Nolan and Siadhal share what they’ve been building—and what it signals about where AI recruiting workflows are heading. Siadhal demos the latest from Metaview’s AI sourcing agent: sourcing candidates from past conversations, not just the public web, and finding highly specific profiles—like designers who were at Stripe during its early growth. Nolan walks...

Laura Barnes doesn’t believe in average careers. She joined Flock Safety as a recruiter. Five years later, she’s VP of Talent at one of the fastest-growing companies in America — solving 20% of crime nationwide. In this episode, we go deep on what it actually takes to scale yourself as fast as your company. From crying in the shower to reinventing herself every year, Laura shares a brutally honest...

The best employer brands don’t try to appeal to everyone. They attract the right people — and actively repel the wrong ones. In this episode, Kellie McCann (ex-Amazon, Walmart, Robinhood) breaks down why authenticity in employer brand isn’t about polishing perception, it’s about reducing friction. If your culture demands intensity, say it. If leadership changes direction often, own it. Clarity fil...

In this episode, Nolan and Siadhal give their take on three spicy conversations shaping recruiting today: The Eightfold lawsuit—and why AI-assisted application review actually increases fairness  Drama between former OpenAI execs and what it says about relationships at work  What people get wrong about exec backchanneling Key takeaways: Most resumes aren’t reviewed at all. AI makes “invisible” can...

Deel hires at a pace most teams can’t imagine—3,000+ hires and 1.5M+ applications a year, and a recruiting team that stays lean by design. In this episode, Nolan sits down with Alan Price, Global Head of TA at Deel , to unpack what it actually takes to hire at that scale—without burning out your team or breaking candidate experience. They go deep on: Why AI screening is improving candidate experie...

As the founder of Entelo, one of the earliest recruiting tech startups, and now the leader of ZoomInfo’s recruiting product, Jon Bischke’s seen every wave of industry change. In this episode, he joins Nolan to talk through what actually works in hiring today, what’s changing fast, and why the most elite companies are doubling down on data, not guesswork. You’ll hear about: Why pipeline cures all h...

In this episode, Nolan and Siadhal share their boldest predictions for recruiting and AI in 2026.  They debate the trends that might shape the year to come, including: AI-powered screening and sourcing going mainstream $100M offers for non-technical people The rise of the role of the “agent manager” Increasing invisibility of the ATS Social unrest from tech workers, & more  Tune in, disagree,...

What makes someone “good”? If you ask Dan McCarthy, Talent Partner at Paradigm (the world’s largest crypto VC), it’s not what’s on their resume. After two decades in tech, he’s got sharp takes on evaluating talent, building elite networks, and why AI will disrupt recruiting less than most people think. In this episode, Nolan and Dan cover the mindset shift recruiters need to thrive in the AI era—a...

Rhys Hughes has led talent at Adobe, Rubrik, and now GV—so when he talks about hiring, you listen. In this episode, Rhys joins Nolan to challenge conventional recruiting wisdom and lay out what actually works at the highest levels of hiring. From betting on internal talent to exposing the flaws in "time to hire," Rhys unpacks how world-class companies build teams—and why your next great hire proba...

In this crossover episode from HR Heretics, Metaview CEO Siadhal Magos joins Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich to demo Metaview's new autonomous AI Sourcing agent. They break down why AI-native sourcing tools are redefining what's possible in recruiting, how "promptless sourcing" creates magic from your hiring conversations, and why everyone from founders to recruiters are seeing massive productivi...

Matt Stephenson, Head of Tech Talent at Bain Capital Ventures, joins Nolan to get real about what VC talent partners actually do—and what it really takes to hire the best in 2025. This one covers the whole ground game: VC strategy, comp wars, secondary equity, sourcing experiments, and why the best recruiters today are business partners first. In this episode: What being a VC Talent Partner actual...

In this episode, Amber Weinberg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Aperture, explains why most go-to-market leaders flop in interviews (hint: they don’t know how to tell their story), and why she ditches scorecards in favor of outcomes and cultural wiring. Her take? The best exec hires come from obsessively deep context—not checkbox criteria. You’ll learn: Why scorecards can derail high-stakes hi...

In this episode, Nolan sits down with Evan Connor, VP of Talent at Ambience, to unpack why the next generation of top recruiters won’t just be great at sourcing and pitching, they’ll be full-stack operators embedded in the business. You’ll learn: Why great recruiters are business operators first How to grow recruiting talent instead of waiting to hire it What Ambience’s onboarding pitch certificat...

Recruiting top talent isn’t just hard, it’s a game of scarcity. In this episode, Chandler Martin shares how to operationalize talent density with predictive hiring, disciplined outbound, and ruthless clarity. He covers: Why indiscriminate outbound is killing your long-term pipeline The predictive hiring model Zocdoc uses to anchor hiring managers How to bring humanity (and speed) back to candidate...

Personio’s VP of Talent, Fritz Singer, breaks down what it actually takes to scale teams globally—and the hard-won lessons he learned along the way. You’ll hear how Fritz: Scaled Personio’s team across 30+ countries, and 12+ nationalities Built a bar-raiser program with actual teeth Made internal mobility a business priority  Learned why “context beats commands” the hard way To learn more about Me...

In this episode, Vercel's Head of Global Recruiting Ops,Viet Nguyen, and Nolan unpack a deceptively simple experiment that turned into a hiring cheat code: reverse-engineering the judgment of an A+ interviewer to level up everyone else. What started as a Friday night curiosity turned into a new framework for talent density, interviewer training, and turning instinct into insight.  In this episode...

As a senior partner at Swing Search, Annie Wenzel has placed some of the most impactful GTM execs in tech—often before they were obvious bets. In this episode, she breaks down the playbook that consistently lands top 10% talent, even in a market full of fear, fatigue, and overpromising. This conversation is a masterclass in strategic recruiting: Why every great search starts with alignment, not sp...

In this episode, Nolan shares unfiltered hot takes from Day One Ventures’ CEO Converge event—what CEOs really think about team chemistry, Glassdoor, and who makes the best salespeople. Then he shifts gears to show recruiters how to go beyond “AI slop” with two practical hacks from his own workflow: a custom GPT for LinkedIn posts and Metaview templates that save 40+ minutes per candidate write-up....

AI interviewers are here—from CodeSignal’s new agentic interviewers to a 70,000-applicant experiment where an LLM voice recruiter beat humans in hiring customer service reps. Nolan and Siadhal break down where AI belongs in the process today, why high-volume/inbound is the proving ground, and how human connection still creates alpha. To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting...