117: AI in Recruitment: What the Future of Hiring Looks Like with James Terry

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Hiring is getting faster, noisier, and harder to evaluate. In this episode Chris talks with James Terry, Head of US Revenue at Indeed Flex, about how AI is reshaping recruiting from application screening to workforce planning. James explains why rising application volume is pushing employers toward AI interviews, how human review still fits into the process, and where AI can help recruiters evaluate candidate skills at a scale traditional hiring workflows cannot handle. 

They also explore how AI can move HR beyond administrative work by connecting workforce, operations, and performance data, plus how James uses tools including Gemini and NotebookLM to accelerate proposals and decision support. The conversation ultimately shifts from replacing jobs to redesigning roles, building stronger AI fluency, and giving teams access to the data that makes AI genuinely useful. Listen for a practical look at what AI adoption becomes when leaders move beyond experimentation and apply it to real operating problems.

Chapters

00.00 Introduction
01:57 AI Hiring and the Race to Build AI Fluency
06:42 Putting AI to Work Across Revenue and Operations
10:17 Why Application Overload Is Breaking Traditional Screening
11:51 AI Interviews at Scale With Human Review
15:55 Can AI Identify Better Candidates?
21:30 Turning HR Into a Strategic Business Function
24:57 Using Workforce Data to Reduce Turnover
30:34 From AI Experiments to Real Workflows
34:48 How AI Will Change Jobs and Roles
41:41 Connecting Data, Building a Second Brain, and Shaping Vendor Roadmaps

Resources:

🔎 Find Out More About James Terry

James Terry on LinkedIn: 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-terry-33023717

Indeed Flex:
https://indeedflex.com/ (Indeed Flex US)

Indeed Flex contingent labor webinar featuring James Terry: https://indeedflex.com/employers/resources/industry-reports/webinar-contingent-labor-in-manufacturing-competitive-advantage/

🛠 AI Tools and Resources Mentioned:

Indeed Smart Screening:
https://www.indeed.com/employers/smart-screening 

Google Gemini: 
https://gemini.google.com

Gemini Gems:
https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15235603 

Google NotebookLM: 
https://notebooklm.google.com

Snowflake: 
https://www.snowflake.com/en

Tableau: 
https://www.tableau.com/

ChatGPT: 
https://openai.com/chatgpt/overview/

Chief AI Officer: 
https://chiefaiofficer.com

Using AI at Work: 
https://usingaiatwork.com

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