Don't Get Played

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 what actually keeps them. In this episode of Don't Get Played, Carlo Solórzano sits down with Tracy, Executive Director of Safety and Recruiting, to talk about how R.E. Garrison built...

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 this uncertain. Margaret says that the disruption AI is bringing to the future of work is real, but it is not the whole story. Jobs will change. New ones will be created. And the leade...

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 Melissa Wheeler, Manager of Leadership Recruitment at Community Health Network and President of NAHCR, to talk about why executive healthcare recruitment is so different from frontline hi...

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 sits down with Nick Hartman, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at the Drug Screening Compliance Institute, to cut through the noise and explain what the reclassification actually means...

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 down where legal risk actually lives in AI-driven hiring. They cover: • Why “AI told us to” won’t hold up legally • The new risks at play in vendor contracts • What effective AI gov...

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 retention and reputation problem, that gap is where carriers are losing. In this episode of Don't Get Played, Carlo Solórzano sits down with Tommy Valenzuela, Director of Recruiting at H...

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 look polished, that gap matters more than ever. In this episode of Don’t Get Played, Sarah O'Melia sits down with Jaime Frankos, a social media screening expert, to make the case that...

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 begin them. Matt Jaye sits down with Heather Pierce, Director of Rotations at the Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine, to unpack why the campus-to-clinic pipeline is breaking down....

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 Officer at Cisive, and Etan Bernstein, Head of Ecosystem at the Velocity Network Foundation, to explore how verifiable credentials are reshaping hiring trust. Zach and Etan explain why mo...

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 Mitch Ashby, VP of Talent Management at Andrews Logistics, and Jared Alexander of Cisive Driver iQ to unpack why background checks create false certainty in safety-critical hiring....

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? A...