The Jim Stroud Podcast

The Jim Stroud Podcast

The Jim Stroud Podcast is part therapy, part exposé, and all truth. Some weeks, I talk to insiders. Most weeks, I vent like HR is my therapist—with no filter, no fluff, and no patience for corporate nonsense. It’s the raw, unvarnished side of work: AI screwups. Hiring hypocrisy. Culture scams. And why the future of work feels like a Black Mirror episode in khakis. If you lead people, manage teams, or just survive office politics with gritted teeth—subscribe. Because what’s coming for your job, your company, and your sanity? You won’t hear it in the all-hands. But you’ll hear it here. ... This podcast is brought to you in part by "The Recruiting Life" newsletter. Subscribe now at https://jimstroud.beehiiv.com

Episodes

November 17, 2025 4 mins
A shrinking headcount becomes a corporate trophy, masking the quiet erosion of humanity, trust, and culture beneath the glow of “lean and AI-ready” bragging rights. | Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at https://jimstroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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OpenAI’s plan to automate hiring threatens to replace not just recruiters, but the human instinct to choose and be chosen—the last frontier of work going digital. / Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at https://jimstroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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November 13, 2025 5 mins
Nearly a million young people in England are disappearing from work and education pipelines, exposing a broken system that keeps failing those it claims to help. / Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at https://jimstroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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November 12, 2025 5 mins
Tech giants are proving they can add a trillion dollars in revenue while barely hiring, revealing an economy that grows richer by making people optional. / Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at https://jimstroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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November 11, 2025 5 mins
A federal lawsuit exposes how America’s H-1B visa program can turn opportunity into captivity when employers weaponize immigration status to control workers. / Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at https://jimstroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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When a government shutdown erases the nation’s job data, recruiters and job seekers are left flying blind in an economy where trust is the only metric left. / Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at https://jimstroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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November 7, 2025 5 mins
Uber’s paying drivers to train the very AI that could replace them—proof the gig economy’s latest side hustle is teaching workers how to disappear. In the race for efficiency, we’ve gone from driving for Uber to driving ourselves out of a job. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at https://jimstroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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November 6, 2025 4 mins
Microsoft Teams is about to blur the line between “connected” and “surveilled” — using Wi-Fi to tell your boss whether you’re truly in the office or just logged in from Starbucks. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at https://jimstroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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November 5, 2025 6 mins
The H-1B debate isn’t just about visas—it’s about value. Raise the bar too high, and we lose the next Google; leave it too low, and we price out our own grads. America has to decide whether it’s protecting jobs or building the future. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at https://jimstroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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November 4, 2025 5 mins
The AI boom is minting billionaires while making workers obsolete—a digital gold rush where coders cash in and everyone else gets coded out. If we keep celebrating innovation without protecting people, we won’t just have smarter machines—we’ll have a dumber society. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at https://jimstroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AI isn’t coming — it’s already here, and it’s flipping the script on how we hire, manage, and work across the globe. In this episode, I sit down with Laura Maffucci, VP of HR at Globalization Partners (G-P), to break down how AI is reshaping everything from recruiting to compliance—and what it really means for people on both sides of the hiring table. We talk about the good, the bad, and the “uh-oh” moments of bringing AI into the...
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October 31, 2025 4 mins
Google’s not bringing interviews back in person for nostalgia — it’s doing it to prove the humans are still human. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at JimStroud.com to keep up with what's happening now and next in the world of work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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October 30, 2025 5 mins
China’s 996 culture didn’t vanish — it just learned to smile for compliance photos while burning people out in silence. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at JimStroud.com to keep up with what's happening now and next in the world of work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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October 29, 2025 4 mins
Hiring isn’t broken — trust is, and now companies are paying premium rates just to be believed again. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at JimStroud.com to keep up with what's happening now and next in the world of work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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October 28, 2025 5 mins
Amazon didn’t kill jobs — it rebranded erasure as “innovation” and taught us that efficiency is just empathy with the batteries drained. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at JimStroud.com to keep up with what's happening now and next in the world of work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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October 27, 2025 5 mins
Small talk didn’t die — we just got too busy performing meaning to remember how to mean nothing together. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at JimStroud.com to keep up with what's happening now and next in the world of work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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South Africa’s jobs crisis proves the harsh truth: in the age of AI, skills beat degrees every time. | Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at JimStroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The next diversity metric isn’t gender or race—it’s proving there’s still a human on the payroll. | Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at JimStroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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America’s biggest unions just told Silicon Valley: the code doesn’t get the final say—workers do. | Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at JimStroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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JP Morgan’s new $3 billion HQ trades keycards for fingerprints and eye scans—a shiny monument to how workplace security just became workplace surveillance. | Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at JimStroud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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