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Candidate experience

A guide to the best B2B podcast coverage of Candidate experience - the shows and 18 episodes that go deepest, ranked by substance, not downloads.

Candidate experience has become central to recruitment strategy, with leaders like LinkedIn's first CHRO Steve Cadigan weighing AI's role in hiring decisions, while companies like Qonto demonstrate how AI-native recruiting stacks can reshape the process. Beyond technology adoption, these conversations reveal that most organizations optimize hiring the wrong way - overlooking manager resistance rooted in control dynamics, misaligned skills-first approaches at enterprise scale, and industry-specific talent problems like those plaguing dentistry operators who don't understand what candidates actually need.

Best shows on Candidate experience

Best episodes on Candidate experience

  1. "Every Search is Highly Customized" - Camille Fetter of Talentfoot

    Land and Lead · 2025-12-16

    82 / 100

    …And I saw that there were areas of the business that just felt broken to me for the candidate experience, the hiring experience.…

  2. LinkedIn's First CHRO Steve Cadigan on AI Mistakes & Opportunities

    Talk Talent To Me · 2026-07-02

    78 / 100

    …Are you going after quality here? Uh, you're harming the candidate experience, compromising it.…

  3. AI and the Hiring Game, Part 1

    The Future of Work · 2025-10-25

    77 / 100

    …You talk about not just filling seats, but this three legs to the stool - the candidate experience, the hiring manager's experience, and the strategy for the company.…

  4. CX Superheroes podcast - Series 15 Episode 2 - Candidate Experience - Julian Lukaszewicz

    Customer Experience Superheroes · 2025-07-15

    77 / 100

    …Now, in today's episode, we're going to be looking at candidate experience in the world of recruitment and understanding what matters most in that experience.…

  5. Why Most Companies Are Optimizing Hiring the Wrong Way w/ - Kristen Habacht: CEO of Elly

    The Business of Alignment · 2026-06-20

    66 / 100

    …peaker B: Yeah, I mean, I think the candidate experience, um, is one that I think in tough times, you know, it's like the housing market, right?…

  6. Creating Human-Centered Workplaces in the Age of AI with Oz Rashid at MSH

    Leaders of B2B Podcast · 2025-11-18

    66 / 100

    …There wasn't a lot of data around it, there wasn't a lot of thought given to candidate experience.…

  7. Building a Skills-First Workforce at Enterprise Scale with Astad Dhunjisha of AT&T

    Talent Acquisition Leaders Podcast · 2026-02-06

    65 / 100

    …We have changed and put in more assessments, things like that, all the basic things to improve the candidate experience and make our processes much better, better.…

  8. EP 222: Inside Qonto's AI-Native Recruiting Stack

    The Breakthrough Hiring Show · 2026-06-23

    63 / 100

    …I'm not very convinced at the moment, to be honest, because I'm very much into candidate experience and this kind of human touch we are known for.…

  9. The Talent Problem in Dentistry: What Operators Don’t Understand About Hiring

    Dental Operations Unpacked · 2026-05-12

    62 / 100

    …It's not a good candidate experience, uh, as you go through the hiring process.…

  10. How Healthcare Teams Hire Better Talent

    We're Only Human · 2026-04-13

    62 / 100

  11. Episode 263: How TA Can Thrive in the Age of AI with James Sale, Global Group Head of Talent Acquisition

    Talent and Growth · 2025-08-27

    62 / 100

    …You can create kind of NPS scores around both your stakeholder satisfaction, your candidate experience.…

  12. Strategic Hiring: Mastering Recruitment

    HR Problem Solver · 2023-10-02

    61 / 100

    …I would say another point is understanding the candidate experience.…

  13. #057 - I'm In - Creating World Class Onboarding within Hospitality

    "I'm In" · 2026-06-11

    60 / 100

    …In the candidate experience.…

  14. Player/Coach TA Leadership

    Tea Time with Talent Acquisition · 2026-06-15

    58 / 100

    …I'm also aware that there are other directions that it might take us in, you know, both from a job market perspective, but also from a kind of candidate experience perspective and, and what we're all going to come to expect from AI as part of the hiring process in a big way or smaller way.…

  15. Navigating the New Norm: AI & Recruitment in 2026

    Hueman Resources Podcast Channel · 2026-01-27

    54 / 100

    …So we at Human Candidate Experience has always been something that we've been incredibly passionate about and I think it's a differentiator that we've been able to bring to our clients for years now.…

  16. If managers resist hiring tech, is it about change… or control?

    Solving the People Puzzle · 2026-06-24

    46 / 100

  17. Harvesting HR Excellence: Talent & Culture Strategies from Francois Sieberhagen, Executive Head: Human Capital VKB Group.

    Solving the People Puzzle · 2025-05-26

  18. Effective Hiring: From Strategic Onboarding to EVP That Delivers. Special Guest Penny Adams

    Solving the People Puzzle · 2025-05-12