9 Recruitment Podcasts to Listen to in 2024

Plus, you can tune in while you're commuting to work or taking a walk - it’s a win-win.

I've been curating a list of the ones that have stood out to me. Some of these podcasts are from known names in the industry, others from up-and-comers with interesting perspectives.

Here's a rundown of what I've been listening to lately.

1) Futurize This. A work odyssey

Futurize This is Carv’s weekly recruitment podcast and as the title implies, it focuses on the future of recruitment.

Hosted by co-founders Barend Raaff and Matthijs Metzemaekers, Futurize This dives into the evolving landscape of talent acquisition, looking at the impact of technology and AI on the hiring process and the parties involved - recruiters, hiring managers or agency owners, and candidates.

The podcast’s format is short weekly episodes during which the hosts explore the different stages of the recruitment process and the way these are being reshaped by technology. Given that the audience is mixed, they cover everything from practical tips to bigger picture trends.

Some of the top episodes on Futurize This cover the role of the recruiter in the AI age, the impact of AI on recruiter productivity, and the impact of artificial intelligence on candidate sourcing.

These episodes are meant to guide recruitment business owners and talent acquisition professionals in their journey of adopting AI in the recruitment process.

Listen to Futurize This on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

2) Recruiting Brainfood by Hung Lee

Next on my list is The Recruiting Brainfood podcast, hosted by Hung Lee. He’s one of the best known recruitment influencers or top voices, and the podcast is one of my favorite recruitment podcasts.

A recruitment professional with over 15 years’ experience, Hung Lee has worked as an agency recruiter, recruitment manager, internal head of talent, among other recruitment roles, so he knows the ins and outs of the industry.

He is also the founder of the award-winning online recruitment platform WorkShape, and the editor and community builder at Recruiting Brainfood, a weekly recruitment newsletter.

Through his weekly Recruiting Brainfood podcast, Lee tackles a variety of topics, from how to ethically implement AI into talent acquisition to public speaking tips for newbies to skill-based hiring.

Listen to Recruiting Brainfood by Hung Lee via Podbean, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

3) Recruiting Future with Matt Alder

Another top recruiting and HR podcast with over 500 episodes is Recruiting Future with Matt Alder, an industry expert who calls himself a “TA futurist”, international author and speaker.

This weekly podcast explores everything about human resources from attracting talent and screening resumes to onboarding and HR technology. The podcast format is interviews with industry thought leaders.

Through this podcast, Alder aims to be insightful, inspiring, and inclusive, and to guide HR professionals, recruiters, and business owners through emerging HR trends, technologies, and strategies.

Since its launch, Recruiting Future has seen over 2 million downloads across 500+ episodes.

The author of two books, Alder says he’s “spent the last two decades researching and demystifying [recruitment] shifts, consistently looking around the corner to help you gain a competitive edge in this disruptive era.”

Some of Recruiting Future’s recent popular episodes include Taking a Strategic Approach to AI, The TA Team of the Future, Hard Skills and Soft Skills, as well as Science, AI and Assessments, among others.

Listen to Recruitment Future via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

4) The Chad and Cheese Podcast

Hosted by Chad Sowash and Joel Cheesman, The Chad & Cheese Podcast has been named by listeners as the best Podcast in the HR space. It boasts over 1,300 episodes, and over the years, it has hosted leading names from industry leaders such as Indeed and Deel, among others.

The podcast covers topics ranging from recruitment marketing and candidate experience to workforce economics and employer branding.

Podcast host Chad Sowash has worked in the HR, talent acquisition, and HR tech space for 20+ years, offering consulting services to companies like AT&T, Lockheed Martin, and The Ford Motor Company.

Similarly, Joel Cheesman has been a recruitment industry tech geek since the late 1990s. He worked at companies like eSpan, one of the world’s first job boards, CareerBoard, Recruiting.com, among others.

Listen to The Chad and Cheese Podcast via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

5) RecruitingDaily by William Tincup

The RecruitingDaily Podcast is a popular recruitment marketing and talent management podcast that used to publish new episodes every week.

Covering a host of topics related to recruitment and human resources, this podcast has explored new HR technology and trends, recruitment AI and automation topics, common myths, hiring biases, and so on.

The podcast format is weekly interviews where the host William Tincup talks to recruitment professionals, people managers, and CEOs.

Since its launch, RecruitingDaily has published over 500 episodes, and although the last episode was in December 2023, it’s still worth listening to their 30-minutes-or-less episodes.

Listen to RecruitingDaily via Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

6) The Hiring Success Podcast

Another podcast that has been discontinued in 2021, but is still worth listening to, it’s The Hiring Success podcast, by SmartRecruiters.

During its two-year tenure, the podcast has featured recruitment leaders from companies like X (Twitter), Visa, Red Bull, Deloitte, and others, so it’s a must-listen if you’re curious to hear how market leaders are dealing with the different challenges of talent attraction and management.

The Hiring Success Podcast covered topics from talent acquisition and building team expertise to managing change when implementing new recruitment technology and navigating economic uncertainty.

Listen to The Hiring Success Podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

7) The Recruitment Mentors Podcast

Hosted by Hishem Azzouz, The Recruitment Mentors Podcast is considered one of the best recruitment podcasts for recruitment professionals. Unlike the other titles in the list, this one focuses on recruiters themselves, offering insights and stories to help TA professionals become the best at what they do.

With an unwavering passion for recruitment, Azzouz is also the founder of This Is Hector, an all-in-one training platform for recruitment founders. Through his podcast, Azzouz aims to uncover what the most successful recruitment professionals and businesses around the world do differently.

Since launching the podcast over two years ago, Azzouz has interviewed over 200 recruiters. He continuously explores these successful recruiters’ mindsets, daily habits as well as how they work, lead their teams, and stay the top of their game in the ever challenging recruitment sector.

The Recruitment Mentors Podcast runs from Monday through Thursday every week and features a recruiter or recruitment entrepreneur in every episode. Every now and then, Azzouz creates extra, shorter episodes, covering behind-the-scenes content for his listeners.

Some of the most listened to episodes on this podcast include the Recruitment Entrepreneurship Masterclass with James Blackwell and how to stop hating cold calls in recruitment.

Listen to The Recruitment Mentor Podcast via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

8) McKinsey Talks Talent

A personal favorite, hosted by McKinsey partners and talent experts Bryan Hancock and Brooke Weddle, the McKinsey Talks Talent Podcast explores the fast-changing work landscape.

Although the episodes are less frequent, this once-a-month podcast takes a deep dive into the future-of-work and how to transforming talents into a competitive advantage, so it’s very interesting for anyone curious to learn about the bigger picture issues affecting the world of recruitment.

Host Brooke Weddle is a leader in McKinsey’s People & Organizational Performance Practice, helping global organizations achieve sustained performance through transformation. She also leads the Change Leaders Forum, McKinsey’s executive capability-building series on transformational change.

Meanwhile, co-host Bryan Hancock is the global leader of McKinsey’s talent work. He has worked across many talent-intensive businesses, leading employers in sectors such as logistics, transportation, retail, banking, asset management, and others.

Some of the top topics on the podcast include filling the skilled-trade shortage, the future of middle management, why so many bad bosses still rise to the top, the value of empathy at work, and human-centered AI.

Listen to McKinsey Talent Talks via Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

9) The Breakthrough Hiring Show

Hosted by James Mackey, The Breakthrough Hiring Show tackles hiring best practices, future of work, recruitment strategies, and more. The podcast’s mission is to “help leaders make hiring a competitive advantage.”

Over the past two years, Mackey has hosted a series of leading recruitment professionals including LinkedIn’s first chief people officer (CPO), Microsoft’s global head of HR, among others.

Besides hosting the monthly Breakthrough Hiring Show, Mackey is the founder and CEO of SecureVision, a recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and embedded recruiting agency. The company focuses on ‘five core competencies,’ namely: Machine learning, engineering, product, revenue/GTM, and G&A.

Some of the most interesting episodes on the podcast include ATS evolution and talent strategies, navigating talent acquisition from Series C to Series E, tech hiring trends, among others.

Listen to The Breakthrough Hiring Show via Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

All right, let’s wrap it up. I hope this list will bring some new inspiration and fresh perspectives to your recruitment strategy. Remember, staying informed is key to staying ahead in this industry.

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