Hiring's Broken: What a Century of Research Really Says

Is hiring just throwing stuff at the wall and hoping it sticks? Turns out corporate America has collectively ignored almost a century of research on what actually predicts job performance—and the most popular hiring criteria? Basically useless. Plus, AI has turned the hiring apocalypse into an unhinged chaos realm with deepfakes, prompt injection attacks, and international operatives gaming the system. 0:00 - Hook: Is hiring random? 1:30 - The years of experience myth 3:15 - History of hiring: medieval to industrial revolution 5:00 - How modern job interviews actually emerged 9:00 - What scientific research actually says predicts job performance 12:00 - How AI broke hiring (deepfakes, security, scale) 14:30 - What actually works: evidence-based hiring approaches 16:30 - Conclusion: can we fix this? This podcast episode was fully generated by AI — research, script, voices, and production. Built with Claude, Piper TTS, and automated pipeline tooling.