School of Hiring

About School of Hiring

Do you find hiring frustrating?? Are you disappointed with recruiting?? My name is Konstanty Sliwowski and I am a veteran of nearly 20 years in the business of recruitment, strategic talent acquisition and employment consultancy. I now focus my time on advising organisations and managers on how to be more, strategic, efficient, and effective at engaging and hiring top talent.In this podcast series, I speak with business leaders about how they attract and hire top performers. The high's and low's. And of course some funny stories and recruitment mishaps.If you are tired of recruitment processes that suck up your time and seem to never end and are looking for a more predictable way to attract, engage and hire top talent but also reduce the number of candidates you need to interview, come listen to our guest hiring managers including CEO's, CTO's, and CPO's open up about hiring experiences and how they approach talent acquisition.

Publisher

School of Hiring

Category

business · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Dec 2020

Latest episode

27 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

22 of 66 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   27 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Real Reason Great Hires Still Fail (with Ashley Herd)

   Send us Fan Mail Most hiring failures do not start in the interview. They start much earlier, when the role is poorly defined, success is unclear, candidates are not given the right context, and managers inherit a process that was never built to set anyone up to succeed. In this episode, I sit down with Ashley Herd, former employment lawyer, HR executive at McKinsey and Yum Brands, and author of The Manager Method, to break down where hiring really goes wrong and what leaders need to fix befo...

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   13 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Invisible Colleague: What Really Happens When AI Listens to Your Meetings

   Host Alex R. Thornton interviews Artem Koren, co-founder of Sembly AI, exploring the power and risks of AI listening to workplace meetings and interviews.

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   27 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Death of the CV & the Future of Hiring

   Konstanty Sliwowski interviews James Terry, Head of US Revenue at Indeed Flex, exploring the ineffectiveness of traditional CVs and interviews in modern hiring.

Inside a recent episode

The Real Reason Great Hires Still Fail (with Ashley Herd)

Published 27 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so a lot of those root frustrations on both sides, both the candidate selected, which is what managers often go to, but also the information that the candidates were given or maybe not given in that hiring process. I see that happen all the time and that tends to bleed into the first days of employment and doesn't tend to go away. Now, in my work, I actually see that at the root cause of hiring issues is the definition of the job. Most jobs are very poorly defined, they're defined by skills, tasks, maybe years of experience or a job title that is quite generic, but that doesn't actually define success. […]

Who has been a guest on School of Hiring

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Artem Koren
• James Terry
• Gwen Gayhart
• Peter Sorgenfrei
• Stephen Hartley-Brewer

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

45,342

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

3.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

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Quality

72

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

32

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