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  Building an Ideal Candidate Profile from Zero to Scale with Maggie Fish, Grafana Labs 07.09.2026 28мин

  Scaling fast and scaling with intention are not the same thing. Maggie Fish, Director of Recruiting at Grafana Labs, joins Shannon to explain how her team built an ideal candidate profile for every role, starting with sales and expanding it across the business. She walks through the deep dive into attrition data and interview feedback that separated what actually predicted a great Grafanista from what just looked good on paper, and why removing bias from the hiring bar mattered more once her ...
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  The 4 Skills Behind a 10% Retention Lift with Veronica Salcido, GrowthAssistant 25.08.2026 36мин

  Quality of hire does not end at the offer. Veronica Salcido, who leads the recruiting, HR, and coaching and L&D org at GrowthAssistant, joins Shannon to unpack how her team turned 50% churn into a 10% retention lift in 6 months. She explains why speed and volume stopped being useful signals once quality became the real cost, and how tracing 80% of failed hires back to durable skills, not hard skills, changed how her team hires, coaches, and measures success. Veronica walks through the fou...
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  The North Star Metric Every Hiring Team Needs with Liz Woodfield, SentiLink 11.08.2026 25мин

  A hiring goal only works when the team believes it is possible. Liz Woodfield, Head of Talent Acquisition at SentiLink, joins Shannon to share how she built a single north star metric for her recruiting team and used it to drive a 60% increase in hires without adding headcount. She breaks down the framework she leans on for every role, volume, velocity, and calibration, and how weekly dashboards brought a skeptical team and leadership along. Once the team started hitting their weekly numbers,...
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  Removing the Resume Gate for Better Hires with Jen Ayala, Clay 28.07.2026 29мин

  What if your hiring process was designed to screen people in instead of screen them out? Jen Ayala, Head of Recruiting at Clay, joins Shannon to discuss why traditional hiring often filters out great talent too early. She shares how Clay replaced resume reviews with project-based evaluations for high volume hiring, giving career transitioners and new graduates a better opportunity to demonstrate their strengths while helping the team hire faster. Jen also explains how AI supports recruiters w...
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  The Leadership Reset Behind a High-Performing Talent Team with Mike Bettley, StackAdapt 14.07.2026 31мин

  Recruiting teams earn influence when they understand what the business is trying to build. Mike Bettley, VP of Talent Acquisition at StackAdapt, joins Shannon to share how he rebuilt a TA function that was stretched, fragmented, and operating without a clear hiring plan. Before changing systems or metrics, Mike focused on the team’s confidence. He created space for honest feedback, reset expectations, and helped recruiters move from asking for permission to making informed recommendations. Mi...
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  The Executive Interview Format That Reduces Mis-hire Risk with Cristina Navarro, Tubi 30.06.2026 20мин

  Hiring senior leaders on gut feel is a risk most companies cannot afford. Cristina Navarro, Senior Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Tubi, joins Shannon to discuss why traditional interview formats fail at the executive level and how her team built a structured leadership assessment to close that gap. She explains how the process was co-created with senior leadership, why prompt design matters, and how thorough prep on both sides of the table leads to better decisions. Cristina also wa...
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  Scaling Hiring Expertise Company Wide Through AI Agents with Kyle Gatlin, Arrive 16.06.2026 34мин

  Hiring managers need better support, not more documents. Kyle Gatlin, Head of Talent at Arrive, joins Shannon to discuss how his team built an AI hiring agent to guide managers through the recruiting process across 70 countries. Drawing from his background in education and talent operations, Kyle explains why accessibility, structured interviewing, and candidate experience became the foundation of the project. Kyle shares how his team turned a 15-page hiring philosophy into a scalable interna...
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  Early-Stage Hiring Foundations That Prevent Mishires with Cassie Chao Leemans, Craft Ventures 02.06.2026 34мин

  Early hiring gets expensive fast when founders skip alignment. Cassie Chao Leemans, VP of Talent at Craft Ventures, joins Shannon to share how early-stage teams can make stronger hiring decisions before scale adds complexity. She explains why pedigree can distract founders from what the business actually needs, how unclear expectations create mis-hires, and why every new role should connect back to company goals. Cassie also shares how to define competencies, build trust in the interview proc...
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  Converting People Ops Insights into Talent Strategy with Asha Beirne, Rula 19.05.2026 21мин

  Talent and people teams have more shared work than most companies realize. Asha Beirne, Senior Manager of People Operations and Systems at Rula, joins Shannon to discuss how recruiting and people ops can work together across the employee lifecycle. Drawing from her move from recruiting operations into people operations, Asha shares what talent teams often miss when they do not have visibility into turnover data, engagement scores, onboarding feedback, and workforce trends. Asha explains how R...
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  Differentiating Candidate Experience Through Unreasonable Hospitality with Greg Marsh, Sierra 05.05.2026 22мин

  Candidate experience is one of the few levers you can fully control in hiring. Greg Marsh, Head of Recruiting at Sierra, joins Shannon to share how his team scaled from 25 to 600 employees while building a candidate experience that consistently stands out. He explains how Sierra approaches candidate obsession, why small moments like personalization matter more than big gestures, and how recruiting becomes a true partner to the business during rapid growth. Greg walks through how his team oper...
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  3 Steps to Make Skills-Based Hiring Predictable with Alessandra Pegnim, Udemy 21.04.2026 23мин

  Skills-based hiring only works when teams can consistently define, assess, and develop the right skills. Alessandra Pegnim, Head of Global Talent Acquisition at Udemy, joins Shannon to share how her team built a more practical approach to skills-based hiring. She explains how Udemy validates skills with managers, identifies patterns of top performers, and uses structured interviews to make hiring decisions more predictive. Alessandra also discusses how this work extends beyond hiring. She wal...
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  The Recruiter's Guide to Selling Pre-IPO Equity with Hannah Spellmeyer, Slingshot Aerospace 07.04.2026 24мин

  Equity can be the difference between losing your best candidates and closing them. Hannah Spellmeyer, Chief People Officer at Slingshot Aerospace, joins Shannon to break down how recruiters can confidently sell equity and compete with larger companies. She shares what most teams get wrong, the key numbers every recruiter should know, and how to position equity based on what candidates actually care about. Hannah walks through how to make equity tangible, from explaining intrinsic value to usi...
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  Rebuilding Engineering Hiring for the Rise of AI with Jonathan Durnford-Smith, Synthesia 24.03.2026 25мин

  Hiring is changing quickly as AI tools reshape how teams build products and how companies evaluate talent. Jonathan Durnford-Smith, Head of Talent at Synthesia, joins Shannon to discuss why recruiting teams must become more agile and strategic. He shares lessons from scaling talent functions at high-growth companies and explains how AI tooling is shifting what great engineers look like today. Instead of focusing only on coding execution, his team now prioritizes product sense, customer empath...
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  Building Interviewer Scorecards to Raise Your Talent Bar with Vanessa Paladini, Nubank 10.03.2026 24мин

  Great hiring outcomes start with great interviewers. Vanessa Paladini, Global Talent Acquisition Director at Nubank, joins Shannon to share how the world’s largest digital bank outside of Asia raised its hiring bar without slowing down growth. She walks through Nubank’s four workstreams, including structured assessments, technical bar raisers, and a data-backed interviewer scorecard. Vanessa broke down how her team measured interviewer assertiveness, linked decisions to 90-day ramp and 12-mon...
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  The 4-Pillar System Behind a 93% Offer Acceptance Rate with Jordan Trott 24.02.2026 27мин

  Offer acceptance rate is the clearest signal of whether your recruiting engine is actually working. Jordan Trott, Talent Lead at Taptap Send, joins Shannon to break down how his team maintains a 93% offer acceptance rate across global hiring. He explains why this metric reflects everything from role clarity to candidate experience, and where most teams lose candidates long before the offer stage. Jordan shares the four practices that changed outcomes for his team, including tighter candidate ...
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  Measuring Recruiter Feedback to Drive Process Improvement with Will Ducey, Ashby 10.02.2026 24мин

  Recruiting teams often track hiring metrics but forget to ask the team how it feels to do the work. Will Ducey, Head of Recruiting Operations at Ashby, joins Shannon Ogborn to talk about how internal recruiter surveys create a feedback loop that leads to better tools and processes. Throughout the conversation, Will explains the balance between quantitative and qualitative feedback, sharing real-world examples from Ashby on how they’ve implemented surveys to gauge recruiter satisfaction. He a...
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  Turning Internal Mobility Into a Durable Capability with Angie Peterson, Coursera 27.01.2026 32мин

  Clarity is the foundation of any effective internal mobility program. Angie Peterson, Talent Operations & Programs Manager at Coursera, joins Shannon to break down how her team turned employee feedback into a durable system for internal career growth. After survey data showed employees didn’t understand how to move internally, Angie partnered with L&D to diagnose the real blockers, conduct listening circles, and reframe internal mobility as a company-wide operating model. She walks th...
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  Making Interviews an Accurate Job Preview with Tianna Johnson, People Culture Talent 13.01.2026 23мин

  Many teams want a better candidate experience, yet few build one that reflects the real work and the real product behind it. Tianna Johnson, founder of People Culture Talent and former talent leader at Notion, Lyft, and GitHub, joins Shannon to share how product-infused hiring creates clarity, excitement, and trust for every candidate. She explains how she introduced product touchpoints at each company, from Notion-built takeaways to real-world Lyft problem-solving to GitHub challenges that s...
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  Seven Hiring Lessons from 2025 17.12.2025 14мин

  2025 was a year of real change, not just in tools or trends, but in how recruiting teams showed up. In this special recap episode, host Shannon Ogborn looks back on the conversations that defined Offer Accepted this year. The common thread among the highest-impact teams across all episodes was not the pursuit of the next big thing, but a clarity on fundamental priorities. They achieved success by embracing structure, maintaining transparency with candidates, collaborating closely with the bus...
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  Scaling Values Interviews with Maggie Landers, Harvey 02.12.2025 31мин

  How do you keep hiring quality high while the company scales globally at speed? In this episode, Shannon sits down with Maggie Landers, VP Talent at Harvey, to walk through the values interview program that keeps a fast-growing AI company aligned. Maggie shares how Harvey turned three simple values, simplicity, decisiveness, and “Job’s Not Finished”, into a global, standardized interview that any people manager can run without adding friction to the process. Discover how her team ...