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The Jim Stroud Podcast — 352 episodes
Nobody owns the decision that costs you rent
Time Travelers in Your Pipeline
We Have AI. Do We Still Need HR?
Fairness Is Not the Same as Equal
Recruiters Will Decide Which Companies Survive the Silver Talent Wave
The Great AI Layoff Lie
The Retirement Map is a Lie
College is Not the Only Path to Success
Are we becoming less human?
A Tale of Two Resumes
Are There Really Jobs, or Just Openings Nobody Plans to Fill?
The Robot Isn’t Coming for Your Job. The Spreadsheet Is.
All those AI Layoffs Were for Nothing
Social Media Background Checks: What Job Seekers Should Know
What Your Face is Worth at Work
The Insider Advantage Nobody Tells You About
The Demographic Squeeze
Think Like a Sales Leader—or Lose the War for Talent
The Future of Hiring Isn’t Offshore—It’s Nearshore
TSA Chaos and the Talent Employers Are Missing
The Benefit No One Sees—Until Your Best Employee Quits #elderlycare
Interviewing a Ghost: When AI, Deepfakes, and Fake identities Enter the Hiring Process
Why Applying to 1,000 Jobs Won't Work (And What Will)
The Report that Crashed the Market: The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis
The Shadow Labor Market: Paying to Be Seen
If AI takes all the jobs away, who is going to buy their stuff?
The Agent Breakroom: When Your Digital Employees Start Talking Without You
AI Literacy Isn’t a Skill Gap — It’s a Loyalty Test
AI is everywhere in hiring—but is it actually making talent acquisition better?
What If Your Top Performer Doesn't Breathe?
Is the Pharmacy Benefit System a Scam? Follow the Money
Is Career Coaching Actually Booming—or Are We Just Calling It That?
Low hire. Low fire.
93% on Technology. 7% on People. That’s the Real AI Problem.
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...
When AI Stops Assisting and Starts Hiring
Why Job Hunting Feels Like a Full-Time Job
The Global Job Market Is Tapping the Brakes
AI Is Automating the Wrong Work
AI Shame Is a Leadership Failure
OMG! I hope this isn’t true
What If Colleges Warned You Before You Took the Loan?
ICHRA Explained: How Individual Health Coverage Is Changing Employee Benefits
The Weaponization of Student Loans
The New Draft
The $120K Mirage
Beyond Resume Screening: Building Human-Centered Hiring in an AI World
11.7%
The Vanishing Visa
The Geography of Misery
When HR Needs HR
Fixing the Broken Hiring Engine: Culture, Context, and the Future of AI-Driven Recruiting
AI For Everyone... Except You
When the Caregivers Disappear
Taxing the Machines
Six Signals Before the Fall
The Laptop Farm Hustle
6 Figures Ain't Enough
The Jobs That Aren't There
Side Door to the Future
$20 an Hour
A Badge of Honor
The Hiring Machine That Hires Itself
The Vanishing Floor
The Trillion-Dollar Ghost Economy
The Visa That Became a Chain
The Silence Before the Slide: America’s Jobs Data Goes Dark
Training Your Replacement
The Wi-Fi That Watches You
H-1B at a Crossroads
The AI Inequality Gap
AI at Work: How Artificial Intelligence is Rewriting the Rules of Hiring, Compliance, and the Employee Experience
The Deepfake Candidate
The 996 Hangover
Paying More for Maybe
Thirty Cents a Soul
The Death of Small Talk
The Degree Delusion: A Lesson from South Africa’s Jobs Crisis
Human Quotas: The Next Battle in the AI Workplace
The Union Strikes Back—Against the Algorithm
Welcome to the Building That Watches Back
When the Machines Fire the Analysts
What If Working From Home Was a Legal Right?
Bernie Wants to Tax The Robots
If It Works Today, It’s Already Obsolete: Building a Future-Ready Mindset
31,000 Fake Jobs Later: Jay Jones’ Playbook for Stopping Recruiter Impersonation
Transparency Over Technology: The Human Side of AI in the Workplace
Out of Office, Out of Control: The Shutdown Email Scandal
California Just Put AI Hiring on Trial
Same Answers, Different Scores: The Hidden Bias in AI Hiring
Rubber-Stamping the Algorithm: The Hidden Risk in AI Hiring
When “Fair” Policies Still Discriminate
Emotional Intelligence in the Age of AI: How Empathy Gives Leaders a Competitive Edge
The $100,000.00 Question
From Stock Options to Bodyguards: The Price of Leadership
The Commute Isn’t Worth It: Why 70% Refuse Pay Cuts for Remote Work
Fake Recruiters, Real Losses
The Friendship Factor: Why Retention Starts in the Breakroom
When Machines Learn to Hate
The Reckoning Has Arrived
Post the Salary or Don’t Post the Job!
Gold Watch, Minimum Wage
The AI Affair: Half Your Staff Is Cheating on You in Plain Sight
Hiring and Working with Digital Nomads
The AI Gap Nobody Wants to Talk About
The Kickback Pipeline
Laid Off by Lunch: Why Every Worker Needs a Digital Go Bag
The Job That Wasn't There
The Boss is Busy
The LeBron James of Code
The Interviewer That Never Blinks
The Bonus Blackmail
Lonely at Home, Crowded in Silence
Entering a Flow State at Work- An Interview with Steven Puri
The Dumbest Idea in Tech
Rotten Fruit in the Orchard
The Great Ai Mirage
The Zero Workforce Mirage
How does Ai make you feel?
Ai is Making Us Dumber - Here's the proof!
The Ai Productivity Illusion - Does Ai harm more than help us?
The Digital Nomad Mirage
The Masters Dilemma - Is another degree worth it?
So, now you want to interview me in-person? No.
Clanker is the new “N” word for the AI Age
The Hustle Lie is Collapsing
AI Can’t Fix Your Toilet at 2 AM
The Day AI Deleted Everything
Now Hiring: Humans Optional
The CEO Just Quit. Again
The Payroll Ghost in the Machine
The Vibe Check That Kills Careers
Congrats, Job-Hopper—You Played Yourself
HR’s Next Crisis Isn’t Quiet Quitting—It’s Quiet Dying
The Talent Playbook They Don’t Teach You in HR School – with Bob Lucas
The Rise of the Corporate Bigamist
The New 9-to-5 is 24/7—and It’s Killing Us
Sorry sir, you’re too white to work here
The Invisible Elephant
Hey Job Seeker, you’re Not Being Rejected—There Never Was a Job
The $20 Device That's Destroying Trust at Work
What if your brain had a side hustle?
The Future of Work Needs Heart and Hardware
How To Grow an HR Community
Hey recruiters, your recruiting days are over, thanks to AI.
Don’t let employee lawsuits kill your company!
The Rise in Side Hustling for IVF Benefits
Why go to college today if AI will be doing the job tomorrow?
Job descriptions are dead. Long live job descriptions!
Why do women bully women at work?
Pay Equity: Does everyone deserve the same salary?
Employee monitoring is on the rise! Is that good or bad?
Indeed is Banning Customers Because of Their Politics
How To Lose Half of Your Workers in a Day
Who is responsible for the mental health of workers?
The Menopause Episode
Should diversity training be banned?
Eliminating Bias From Interviews With Interviewless Hiring
No Robot Bosses
Empowering Careers: The Work-Based Learning Revolution
What is Social Leadership?
Recruitment Revolution: Embracing AI in the Age of Talent || Interviewing Siadhal Magos, Metaview CEO
Fines, Faults, and Future: Exploring the High Price of AI Non-Compliance
What's it like having a no meetings policy at work?
Open or Closed: The Battle for the Soul of AI
Ethics in AI with Barb Hyman of Sapia
AI in the Workplace: Transforming Industries and Entrepreneurship with Rachel Lyubovitzky
What will recruiting be like next year?
Recruiters love AI tools! The Candidates? Not so much.
Will TikTok be the death of us?
The 5 Stages of Unemployment
The Business Cost of Censorship: How it Hurts Your Bottom Line
What is a Fractional Worker?
AI in Hiring: Regulation is Imminent
My Dream Job is Fake
Overemployment: The Pros, Cons, Ethics, Legality, and Trends in Taking on Multiple Jobs
Are you recruiting in the meh-taverse?
Don't Let Your Recruiting Talent Go to Waste During a Recession
ChatGPT will never replace recruiters. This is why.
Recruiting GI Joe
Smoking Cigarettes Will Get You Fired
About this H1-B Visa thing…
An Interview with Rob McGovern, Founder Of CareerBuilder & CEO Of Market 10
PODCAST - Barack Obama and The Recruiting Industry
How do you staff call centers and keep them staffed?
Jim Durbin on The Future of Contract Recruiting
Degree Debacle
Lies, Discouraged Workers and "H1-B Only" Jobs
Happy 50th Episode! (More or less)
How Reliable are Unemployment Statistics?
I cry bull! There is no talent shortage.
Learn English! Or else…
Who owns your LinkedIn contacts?
Controversial episode! - The Best Recruiting Tip - Ever!
The Pros And Cons Of The EFCA (With The AFL-CIO)
Never Work for Free
Should Executive Pay Be Regulated?
The Underbelly of Recruiting
Recruiters (Sometimes) Do Stupid Things
Recruiting in India with Ken Verges
Workplace Violence and Misclassification (Double ouch!)
Recruiting the sexes, spamming the EEOC and job-stealing immigrants
The Joy of ATS
Layoff Rumors
James Bond and Recruiting in the UK
Let's Talk About the D Word
Is there really a war for talent?
SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION, GREEN CARDS AND BIG MONEY
Socialism, the Recession and Recruiting in Canada
LinkedIn Endorsements Can Get You Sued?
Whistleblowing for Fun and Profit
Who is liable when its death by shopping?
Three Cheers for Breast Milk
TRL – Insider Secrets to Recruitment Blogging
TRL - Are you too old to work here?
TRL - Sex and David Letterman
TRL - Recruiters and The Election
TRL - Zubka Shows You The Money
TRL - The Pros and Cons of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)
TRL - Stagflation Sucks
TRL - Only Green Eyes Need Apply
TRL - Sexual Harassment From Female Managers
TRL - How India Should React to the US Recession
TRL: John Sumser Discusses Ethics in Recruiting
TRL - When I grow up, I want to be a recruiter!
Resumes are People Too
TRL: Singing the Misclassification Blues
Get me out of here! Reasons why millennials are fleeing big cities
H1B Visas and The American Worker
Google, Spam and Employer liability - Oh my!
The High Cost of Protests and Riots
TRL: Do recruiters care about jobseekers?
Should you be fired over your political opinions?
Racial Politics in the Workplace
I think I saw a murder. Now, I’m not so sure. #GeorgeFloyd
TRL: Does your employer own you?
Google is Evil?
Monster, Recessions and Alcohol-Free Interviews
Immunity Passports are EVIL! This is why...
TRL: How To Ruin Your Reputation With Email Templates
Cyberstalking Is On The Rise
Fun with H1-B Visas
Should college education be free?
TRL: What's wrong with smoking pot?
The Future of The Office is Social Distancing
Democrats, Recruiters and Pending Legislation
The Future of Work is Classism
TRL - MINISTERS, STRIPPERS, HELL’S ANGELS AND GUNS
Biometrics, the End of the World and the Mark of the Beast
TRL - Should you go to school during a recession?
How To Recruit Healthcare Workers During a Pandemic
2006 Interview with Konstantin Guericke, Co-founder of LinkedIn
Should you be spying on your remote workers?
TRL - Predictions about 2016 made in 2006 by Gerry Crispin
How Pandemics Affect the World of Work
TRL - Russ Moon – Time Management Strategies for Recruiters
The Future of Work is Holograms
I invented outsourcing! And other strange tales…
How will the corona virus affect the future of work?
TRL: Bailouts, Layoffs and Socialism
Computational Thinking? Its a thing...
TRL: What happens when you wear a Burqa to work?
Who owns your face?
TRL: Government Fibs, No Need For H-1Bs and Recession Proof Jobs
Do we need a law to mandate work-life balance?
TRL: Layoffs, Salaries and Sex in Second Life
Does increasing automation decrease salaries?
TRL: I Spy for the EEOC
Just Say No To a Robot Tax
TRL: Sex at the office! Is it a wonderful thing?
EThe Future of Food Service
TRL: Should Executive Pay Be Regulated?
How many ways can you sue a recruiter?
The Retro Lounge - How To Make Money with Online Job Scams
Listener Update - Jan 15, 2020
Is Corporate Wellness a Good Thing? I'm not so sure...
What is the internet doing to us?
The Future of Airport Security is in Your Mouth
Christmas Toys for Sale (Privacy Not Included)
My conversation with Julia Gometz of Brandful Code
An Early 2019 Christmas Present for My Listeners
ROBOTOPIA: Collaborative Intelligence in the Age of AI
Should we be DNA testing our kids?
Happy Thanksgiving Message to My Listeners
NSFW: Can Artificial Intelligence Stop Porn in the Workplace?
Biometric Resumes are Coming Soon to an Interview Near You
IAR: How To Use Tech To Employ the Homeless
Alexa, Witness for the Defense
Would you take a pill to erase your worst memory?
So, robots are programming humans now?
Are Social Networking Sites Good for our Children?
Cyborgs Rising
The Robot Will See you Now
Killer Robots are Real and They're Coming to Get You!
IAR: How To Turn Job Descriptions into Marketing Pieces
IAR: My Interview with Jeff Amster
TRL: Tattoos in the Workplace
Listener Update - 9.19.19
IAR: My Interview with Sachin Gupta, CEO of HackerEarth
Up next... Synthetic Brains
Robots are Now Hiring Humans
The Future of Marketing is Product Placement
Would you take the death test?
Is the future of work at home or at the office?
The Future of Work is Racism
I Don't Trust The Media. This is Why...
Hashtag Delete Facebook
Immortality for Sale But, Who Wants to Live Forever?
How To Hire Ex-Offenders [Cheri Garcia Interview]
Why are we so lonely? I blame social media.
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Business
Listener Update - 7.6.2019
What happens to your data when you die?
Listener Update - 6.15.19
Freedom of Thought
What is The Jim Stroud Podcast all about?
Amazon wants to know more, more and more about you!
Listener Update - 5.27.19
Google Tracks Everything You Buy
Big Brother in the Office
Mo' Data, Mo' Problems
Listener Update - May 3, 2019
So, machines are firing people now?
Transhumanism and Discrimination in the Future of Work
Big Data Knows You’re Going to Quit Your Job Before You Do
Is it right to profit on prison labor?
Listener Update - April 1, 2019
Would you work for a machine?
The Pros and Cons of Predictive Policing
Whatever happened to employee privacy?
The Future of Student Loan Debt
Who will win the Minimum Wage Fight for 15?
When will robots replace recruiters?
Big Brother Goes Shopping
Facebook Is Not Your Friend
Barcoding the Homeless
Discussing Trump in the Workplace
Would you ride in a car without a driver?
How To Stop Tech Addiction
Privacy is dead and dying more each day
Santa Claus & the Free Gift of Universal Basic Income
What happens when designer babies enter the workforce?
A Future Talk with Dr. Tracey Wilen
Microchipping Employees is a No-good, Horrible and Terrible Idea
How Emerging Technology is Disrupting the Training and Development Industry
Listener Update - Happy Thanksgiving 2018
Is Immortality the Best Employee Benefit?
Proud Parents are Enabling the Identity Theft of their Kids
This is what happens when you crowdsource morality!
Human Cloning: The Answer to Talent Scarcity
Brain to Brain Communication… Its a thing.
How 2 Recruit Like a Developer