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The Jim Stroud Podcast — 341 episodes

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1

The Robot Isn’t Coming for Your Job. The Spreadsheet Is.

2

All those AI Layoffs Were for Nothing

3

Social Media Background Checks: What Job Seekers Should Know

4

What Your Face is Worth at Work

5

The Insider Advantage Nobody Tells You About

6

The Demographic Squeeze

7

Think Like a Sales Leader—or Lose the War for Talent

8

The Future of Hiring Isn’t Offshore—It’s Nearshore

9

TSA Chaos and the Talent Employers Are Missing

10

The Benefit No One Sees—Until Your Best Employee Quits #elderlycare

11

Interviewing a Ghost: When AI, Deepfakes, and Fake identities Enter the Hiring Process

12

Why Applying to 1,000 Jobs Won't Work (And What Will)

13

The Report that Crashed the Market: The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis

14

The Shadow Labor Market: Paying to Be Seen

15

If AI takes all the jobs away, who is going to buy their stuff?

16

The Agent Breakroom: When Your Digital Employees Start Talking Without You

17

AI Literacy Isn’t a Skill Gap — It’s a Loyalty Test

18

AI is everywhere in hiring—but is it actually making talent acquisition better?

19

What If Your Top Performer Doesn't Breathe?

20

Is the Pharmacy Benefit System a Scam? Follow the Money

21

Is Career Coaching Actually Booming—or Are We Just Calling It That?

22

Low hire. Low fire.

23

93% on Technology. 7% on People. That’s the Real AI Problem.

24

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...

25

When AI Stops Assisting and Starts Hiring

26

Why Job Hunting Feels Like a Full-Time Job

27

The Global Job Market Is Tapping the Brakes

28

AI Is Automating the Wrong Work

29

AI Shame Is a Leadership Failure

30

OMG! I hope this isn’t true

31

What If Colleges Warned You Before You Took the Loan?

32

ICHRA Explained: How Individual Health Coverage Is Changing Employee Benefits

33

The Weaponization of Student Loans

34

The New Draft

35

The $120K Mirage

36

Beyond Resume Screening: Building Human-Centered Hiring in an AI World

37

11.7%

38

The Vanishing Visa

39

The Geography of Misery

40

When HR Needs HR

41

Fixing the Broken Hiring Engine: Culture, Context, and the Future of AI-Driven Recruiting

42

AI For Everyone... Except You

43

When the Caregivers Disappear

44

Taxing the Machines

45

Six Signals Before the Fall

46

The Laptop Farm Hustle

47

6 Figures Ain't Enough

48

The Jobs That Aren't There

49

Side Door to the Future

50

$20 an Hour

51

A Badge of Honor

52

The Hiring Machine That Hires Itself

53

The Vanishing Floor

54

The Trillion-Dollar Ghost Economy

55

The Visa That Became a Chain

56

The Silence Before the Slide: America’s Jobs Data Goes Dark

57

Training Your Replacement

58

The Wi-Fi That Watches You

59

H-1B at a Crossroads

60

The AI Inequality Gap

61

AI at Work: How Artificial Intelligence is Rewriting the Rules of Hiring, Compliance, and the Employee Experience

62

The Deepfake Candidate

63

The 996 Hangover

64

Paying More for Maybe

65

Thirty Cents a Soul

66

The Death of Small Talk

67

The Degree Delusion: A Lesson from South Africa’s Jobs Crisis

68

Human Quotas: The Next Battle in the AI Workplace

69

The Union Strikes Back—Against the Algorithm

70

Welcome to the Building That Watches Back

71

When the Machines Fire the Analysts

72

What If Working From Home Was a Legal Right?

73

Bernie Wants to Tax The Robots

74

If It Works Today, It’s Already Obsolete: Building a Future-Ready Mindset

75

31,000 Fake Jobs Later: Jay Jones’ Playbook for Stopping Recruiter Impersonation

76

Transparency Over Technology: The Human Side of AI in the Workplace

77

Out of Office, Out of Control: The Shutdown Email Scandal

78

California Just Put AI Hiring on Trial

79

Same Answers, Different Scores: The Hidden Bias in AI Hiring

80

Rubber-Stamping the Algorithm: The Hidden Risk in AI Hiring

81

When “Fair” Policies Still Discriminate

82

Emotional Intelligence in the Age of AI: How Empathy Gives Leaders a Competitive Edge

83

The $100,000.00 Question

84

From Stock Options to Bodyguards: The Price of Leadership

85

The Commute Isn’t Worth It: Why 70% Refuse Pay Cuts for Remote Work

86

Fake Recruiters, Real Losses

87

The Friendship Factor: Why Retention Starts in the Breakroom

88

When Machines Learn to Hate

89

The Reckoning Has Arrived

90

Post the Salary or Don’t Post the Job!

91

Gold Watch, Minimum Wage

92

The AI Affair: Half Your Staff Is Cheating on You in Plain Sight

93

Hiring and Working with Digital Nomads

94

The AI Gap Nobody Wants to Talk About

95

The Kickback Pipeline

96

Laid Off by Lunch: Why Every Worker Needs a Digital Go Bag

97

The Job That Wasn't There

98

The Boss is Busy

99

The LeBron James of Code

100

The Interviewer That Never Blinks

101

The Bonus Blackmail

102

Lonely at Home, Crowded in Silence

103

Entering a Flow State at Work- An Interview with Steven Puri

104

The Dumbest Idea in Tech

105

Rotten Fruit in the Orchard

106

The Great Ai Mirage

107

The Zero Workforce Mirage

108

How does Ai make you feel?

109

Ai is Making Us Dumber - Here's the proof!

110

The Ai Productivity Illusion - Does Ai harm more than help us?

111

The Digital Nomad Mirage

112

The Masters Dilemma - Is another degree worth it?

113

So, now you want to interview me in-person? No.

114

Clanker is the new “N” word for the AI Age

115

The Hustle Lie is Collapsing

116

AI Can’t Fix Your Toilet at 2 AM

117

The Day AI Deleted Everything

118

Now Hiring: Humans Optional

119

The CEO Just Quit. Again

120

The Payroll Ghost in the Machine

121

The Vibe Check That Kills Careers

122

Congrats, Job-Hopper—You Played Yourself

123

HR’s Next Crisis Isn’t Quiet Quitting—It’s Quiet Dying

124

The Talent Playbook They Don’t Teach You in HR School – with Bob Lucas

125

The Rise of the Corporate Bigamist

126

The New 9-to-5 is 24/7—and It’s Killing Us

127

Sorry sir, you’re too white to work here

128

The Invisible Elephant

129

Hey Job Seeker, you’re Not Being Rejected—There Never Was a Job

130

The $20 Device That's Destroying Trust at Work

131

What if your brain had a side hustle?

132

The Future of Work Needs Heart and Hardware

133

How To Grow an HR Community

134

Hey recruiters, your recruiting days are over, thanks to AI.

135

Don’t let employee lawsuits kill your company!

136

The Rise in Side Hustling for IVF Benefits

137

Why go to college today if AI will be doing the job tomorrow?

138

Job descriptions are dead. Long live job descriptions!

139

Why do women bully women at work?

140

Pay Equity: Does everyone deserve the same salary?

141

Employee monitoring is on the rise! Is that good or bad?

142

Indeed is Banning Customers Because of Their Politics

143

How To Lose Half of Your Workers in a Day

144

Who is responsible for the mental health of workers?

145

The Menopause Episode

146

Should diversity training be banned?

147

Eliminating Bias From Interviews With Interviewless Hiring

148

No Robot Bosses

149

Empowering Careers: The Work-Based Learning Revolution

150

What is Social Leadership?

151

Recruitment Revolution: Embracing AI in the Age of Talent || Interviewing Siadhal Magos, Metaview CEO

152

Fines, Faults, and Future: Exploring the High Price of AI Non-Compliance

153

What's it like having a no meetings policy at work?

154

Open or Closed: The Battle for the Soul of AI

155

Ethics in AI with Barb Hyman of Sapia

156

AI in the Workplace: Transforming Industries and Entrepreneurship with Rachel Lyubovitzky

157

What will recruiting be like next year?

158

Recruiters love AI tools! The Candidates? Not so much.

159

Will TikTok be the death of us?

160

The 5 Stages of Unemployment

161

The Business Cost of Censorship: How it Hurts Your Bottom Line

162

What is a Fractional Worker?

163

AI in Hiring: Regulation is Imminent

164

My Dream Job is Fake

165

Overemployment: The Pros, Cons, Ethics, Legality, and Trends in Taking on Multiple Jobs

166

Are you recruiting in the meh-taverse?

167

Don't Let Your Recruiting Talent Go to Waste During a Recession

168

ChatGPT will never replace recruiters. This is why.

169

Recruiting GI Joe

170

Smoking Cigarettes Will Get You Fired

171

About this H1-B Visa thing…

172

An Interview with Rob McGovern, Founder Of CareerBuilder & CEO Of Market 10

173

PODCAST - Barack Obama and The Recruiting Industry

174

How do you staff call centers and keep them staffed?

175

Jim Durbin on The Future of Contract Recruiting

176

Degree Debacle

177

Lies, Discouraged Workers and "H1-B Only" Jobs

178

Happy 50th Episode! (More or less)

179

How Reliable are Unemployment Statistics?

180

I cry bull! There is no talent shortage.

181

Learn English! Or else…

182

Who owns your LinkedIn contacts?

183

Controversial episode! - The Best Recruiting Tip - Ever!

184

The Pros And Cons Of The EFCA (With The AFL-CIO)

185

Never Work for Free

186

Should Executive Pay Be Regulated?

187

The Underbelly of Recruiting

188

Recruiters (Sometimes) Do Stupid Things

189

Recruiting in India with Ken Verges

190

Workplace Violence and Misclassification (Double ouch!)

191

Recruiting the sexes, spamming the EEOC and job-stealing immigrants

192

The Joy of ATS

193

Layoff Rumors

194

James Bond and Recruiting in the UK

195

Let's Talk About the D Word

196

Is there really a war for talent?

197

SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION, GREEN CARDS AND BIG MONEY

198

Socialism, the Recession and Recruiting in Canada

199

LinkedIn Endorsements Can Get You Sued?

200

Whistleblowing for Fun and Profit

201

Who is liable when its death by shopping?

202

Three Cheers for Breast Milk

203

TRL – Insider Secrets to Recruitment Blogging

204

TRL - Are you too old to work here?

205

TRL - Sex and David Letterman

206

TRL - Recruiters and The Election

207

TRL - Zubka Shows You The Money

208

TRL - The Pros and Cons of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)

209

TRL - Stagflation Sucks

210

TRL - Only Green Eyes Need Apply

211

TRL - Sexual Harassment From Female Managers

212

TRL - How India Should React to the US Recession

213

TRL: John Sumser Discusses Ethics in Recruiting

214

TRL - When I grow up, I want to be a recruiter!

215

Resumes are People Too

216

TRL: Singing the Misclassification Blues

217

Get me out of here! Reasons why millennials are fleeing big cities

218

H1B Visas and The American Worker

219

Google, Spam and Employer liability - Oh my!

220

The High Cost of Protests and Riots

221

TRL: Do recruiters care about jobseekers?

222

Should you be fired over your political opinions?

223

Racial Politics in the Workplace

224

I think I saw a murder. Now, I’m not so sure. #GeorgeFloyd

225

TRL: Does your employer own you?

226

Google is Evil?

227

Monster, Recessions and Alcohol-Free Interviews

228

Immunity Passports are EVIL! This is why...

229

TRL: How To Ruin Your Reputation With Email Templates

230

Cyberstalking Is On The Rise

231

Fun with H1-B Visas

232

Should college education be free?

233

TRL: What's wrong with smoking pot?

234

The Future of The Office is Social Distancing

235

Democrats, Recruiters and Pending Legislation

236

The Future of Work is Classism

237

TRL - MINISTERS, STRIPPERS, HELL’S ANGELS AND GUNS

238

Biometrics, the End of the World and the Mark of the Beast

239

TRL - Should you go to school during a recession?

240

How To Recruit Healthcare Workers During a Pandemic

241

2006 Interview with Konstantin Guericke, Co-founder of LinkedIn

242

Should you be spying on your remote workers?

243

TRL - Predictions about 2016 made in 2006 by Gerry Crispin

244

How Pandemics Affect the World of Work

245

TRL - Russ Moon – Time Management Strategies for Recruiters

246

The Future of Work is Holograms

247

I invented outsourcing! And other strange tales…

248

How will the corona virus affect the future of work?

249

TRL: Bailouts, Layoffs and Socialism

250

Computational Thinking? Its a thing...

251

TRL: What happens when you wear a Burqa to work?

252

Who owns your face?

253

TRL: Government Fibs, No Need For H-1Bs and Recession Proof Jobs

254

Do we need a law to mandate work-life balance?

255

TRL: Layoffs, Salaries and Sex in Second Life

256

Does increasing automation decrease salaries?

257

TRL: I Spy for the EEOC

258

Just Say No To a Robot Tax

259

TRL: Sex at the office! Is it a wonderful thing?

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260

The Future of Food Service

261

TRL: Should Executive Pay Be Regulated?

262

How many ways can you sue a recruiter?

263

The Retro Lounge - How To Make Money with Online Job Scams

264

Listener Update - Jan 15, 2020

265

Is Corporate Wellness a Good Thing? I'm not so sure...

266

What is the internet doing to us?

267

The Future of Airport Security is in Your Mouth

268

Christmas Toys for Sale (Privacy Not Included)

269

My conversation with Julia Gometz of Brandful Code

270

An Early 2019 Christmas Present for My Listeners

271

ROBOTOPIA: Collaborative Intelligence in the Age of AI

272

Should we be DNA testing our kids?

273

Happy Thanksgiving Message to My Listeners

274

NSFW: Can Artificial Intelligence Stop Porn in the Workplace?

275

Biometric Resumes are Coming Soon to an Interview Near You

276

IAR: How To Use Tech To Employ the Homeless

277

Alexa, Witness for the Defense

278

Would you take a pill to erase your worst memory?

279

So, robots are programming humans now?

280

Are Social Networking Sites Good for our Children?

281

Cyborgs Rising

282

The Robot Will See you Now

283

Killer Robots are Real and They're Coming to Get You!

284

IAR: How To Turn Job Descriptions into Marketing Pieces

285

IAR: My Interview with Jeff Amster

286

TRL: Tattoos in the Workplace

287

Listener Update - 9.19.19

288

IAR: My Interview with Sachin Gupta, CEO of HackerEarth

289

Up next... Synthetic Brains

290

Robots are Now Hiring Humans

291

The Future of Marketing is Product Placement

292

Would you take the death test?

293

Is the future of work at home or at the office?

294

The Future of Work is Racism

295

I Don't Trust The Media. This is Why...

296

Hashtag Delete Facebook

297

Immortality for Sale But, Who Wants to Live Forever?

298

How To Hire Ex-Offenders [Cheri Garcia Interview]

299

Why are we so lonely? I blame social media.

300

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Business

301

Listener Update - 7.6.2019

302

What happens to your data when you die?

303

Listener Update - 6.15.19

304

Freedom of Thought

305

What is The Jim Stroud Podcast all about?

306

Amazon wants to know more, more and more about you!

307

Listener Update - 5.27.19

308

Google Tracks Everything You Buy

309

Big Brother in the Office

310

Mo' Data, Mo' Problems

311

Listener Update - May 3, 2019

312

So, machines are firing people now?

313

Transhumanism and Discrimination in the Future of Work

314

Big Data Knows You’re Going to Quit Your Job Before You Do

315

Is it right to profit on prison labor?

316

Listener Update - April 1, 2019

317

Would you work for a machine?

318

The Pros and Cons of Predictive Policing

319

Whatever happened to employee privacy?

320

The Future of Student Loan Debt

321

Who will win the Minimum Wage Fight for 15?

322

When will robots replace recruiters?

323

Big Brother Goes Shopping

324

Facebook Is Not Your Friend

325

Barcoding the Homeless

326

Discussing Trump in the Workplace

327

Would you ride in a car without a driver?

328

How To Stop Tech Addiction

329

Privacy is dead and dying more each day

330

Santa Claus & the Free Gift of Universal Basic Income

331

What happens when designer babies enter the workforce?

332

A Future Talk with Dr. Tracey Wilen

333

Microchipping Employees is a No-good, Horrible and Terrible Idea

334

How Emerging Technology is Disrupting the Training and Development Industry

335

Listener Update - Happy Thanksgiving 2018

336

Is Immortality the Best Employee Benefit?

337

Proud Parents are Enabling the Identity Theft of their Kids

338

This is what happens when you crowdsource morality!

339

Human Cloning: The Answer to Talent Scarcity

340

Brain to Brain Communication… Its a thing.

341

How 2 Recruit Like a Developer