Talk Talent To Me · 2026-05-29 · 32 min
Show Notes Rob reunites with Erin Wilson, Talent Lead at Rox and a returning champion from the very first episode of Talk Talent to Me. Erin breaks down the two things Rocks screens for in every conversation, conviction and crank, explains why he still writes his own outreach by hand despite being one of the most AI-enabled recruiters working today, and walks through the exact tools and workflows he has built inside Claude and Slack to run a world-class talent function as a team of one. If you want a ground-level view of where recruiting is headed and what separates the operators who thrive from the ones who get left behind, this episode delivers. Key takeaways Screen for conviction and crank, not just credentials: Rox evaluates every candidate on two dimensions: do they genuinely want to be on this mission, and can they move fast and execute collaboratively? Pattern recognition and cross-functional fluency matter more than any single technical skill. AI can identify talent.
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