What makes someone “good”? If you ask Dan McCarthy, Talent Partner at Paradigm (the world’s largest crypto VC), it’s not what’s on their resume. After two decades in tech, he’s got sharp takes on evaluating talent, building elite networks, and why AI will disrupt recruiting less than most people think.
In this episode, Nolan and Dan cover the mindset shift recruiters need to thrive in the AI era—and why being interesting, emotionally intelligent, and hyper-reliable will separate the 10x from the rest.
Key takeaways:
- A recruiter has two real jobs: don’t drop the ball, and have polish & charisma
- Long-term relationships are your biggest moat in an AI-saturated world
- How your content diet (classics over the infinite scroll) can give you an unfair edge
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
Key moments:
[00:00] Intro
[03:43] Most Candidates Are Not Good
[04:55] Relationships and Judgment Don't Scale
[07:00] Building Executive Relationships Before Roles Open
[08:33] AI Creates Winner Take All Markets
[11:01] Tell Me Your Life Story Interview Question
[14:25] The Mid Wit Meme in Hiring Processes
[16:17] Google's Hiring Process Institutional Failure
[19:45] Recruiters Have Two Jobs Don't Mess Up
[21:16] Building Charisma and Communication Skills
[22:51] Content Diet for Sharp Thinking
[24:59] Twitter as the Center of Learning
[26:29] How AI Will Change Recruiting
[30:05] Human Connection Becomes More Valuable
[32:38] Defending Against the AI Tsunami
[33:53] Preparing Kids for an Unknown Future
Rhys Hughes has led talent at Adobe, Rubrik, and now GV—so when he talks about hiring, you listen. In this episode, Rhys joins Nolan to challenge conventional recruiting wisdom and lay out what actually works at the highest levels of hiring. From betting on internal talent to exposing the flaws in "time to hire," Rhys unpacks how world-class companies build teams—and why your next great hire probably isn’t on LinkedIn.
Key takeaways:
Key topics covered:
[00:00] Intro
[05:17] Rhys’ Journey to GV
[11:07] Day to Day Talent Partner Role
[15:16] Performance Evaluation at GV
[18:06] Key Executive Characteristics for Today
[22:30] Back Channel Reference Strategies
[26:00] Building Authentic Professional Brand
[27:50] Promote Within vs External Hiring
[31:52] Why Hiring Should Be Last Resort
[35:30] Time to Fill is Overrated Metric
[38:56] Current Wild Compensation Market
[41:44] Sports Analogies in Executive Recruiting
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
In this crossover episode from HR Heretics, Metaview CEO Siadhal Magos joins Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich to demo Metaview's new autonomous AI Sourcing agent. They break down why AI-native sourcing tools are redefining what's possible in recruiting, how "promptless sourcing" creates magic from your hiring conversations, and why everyone from founders to recruiters are seeing massive productivity boosts.
Key topics covered:
[00:00] Intro
[02:28] Why Metaview Built AI Sourcing
[04:47] Vibe Sourcing vs Traditional Methods
[08:39] Live Demo of AI Agent
[11:51] Behavioral Changes for AI Workflows
[15:01] Agent Creates Ideal Candidate Profiles
[17:00] Boolean Search is Dead
[19:17] World Class Sourcing for Everyone
[22:19] Natural Language Prompting Power
[24:32] Real-Time Feedback and Calibration
[26:16] Data Sources and LinkedIn Constraints
[28:53] Future ATS Integration Plans
[30:04] What's Next for Metaview
[31:51] Free Trial Access Available
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
Matt Stephenson, Head of Tech Talent at Bain Capital Ventures, joins Nolan to get real about what VC talent partners actually do—and what it really takes to hire the best in 2025.
This one covers the whole ground game: VC strategy, comp wars, secondary equity, sourcing experiments, and why the best recruiters today are business partners first.
In this episode:
Key topics covered:
[00:00] Intro
[03:44] From Google Sourcer to Bain Capital Ventures
[04:24] Talent Partner 2.0 Era Demands
[06:46] Working with Seed Series A Companies
[09:35] Network First Hiring Strategy
[11:15] Compensation Wars at Early Stage
[13:56] Secondary Markets Changing Startup Equity
[19:22] Recruiter Shortage Crisis Explained
[22:24] Quality of Life vs Career Growth
[24:02] Creative Recruiting Experiments Required
[25:37] AI Tools Transforming Sourcing Workflows
[29:14] Founder Recruiter Partnership Problems
[31:30] Ground Game Recruiting Strategy
[33:48] Relationship Building Over Candidate Experience
[36:32] Long Game Network Compound Effects
[37:57] Product Feedback as Recruiting Hook
[39:59] Building Your Dream Team List
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
In this episode, Amber Weinberg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Aperture, explains why most go-to-market leaders flop in interviews (hint: they don’t know how to tell their story), and why she ditches scorecards in favor of outcomes and cultural wiring. Her take? The best exec hires come from obsessively deep context—not checkbox criteria.
You’ll learn:
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
Key topics covered:
[00:00] Intro
[02:53] GTM leaders tell terrible candidate stories
[05:46] Nolan's pitch gets reconstructed live
[08:48] Snowflake versus Databricks storytelling secrets
[13:14] Culture and chemistry trump resume brands
[16:52] Deep immersion tactics for executive search
[19:15] What keeps founders up at night
[21:26] Why scorecards kill great hiring decisions
[23:39] Reference until you stop learning strategy
[25:20] Building proprietary candidate access networks
[29:27] Handling negative references with spiky executives
[31:25] 6 month executive onboarding reality check
[34:48] Board relationship setup prevents surprises
In this episode, Nolan sits down with Evan Connor, VP of Talent at Ambience, to unpack why the next generation of top recruiters won’t just be great at sourcing and pitching, they’ll be full-stack operators embedded in the business.
You’ll learn:
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
Recruiting top talent isn’t just hard, it’s a game of scarcity. In this episode, Chandler Martin shares how to operationalize talent density with predictive hiring, disciplined outbound, and ruthless clarity.
He covers:
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
Personio’s VP of Talent, Fritz Singer, breaks down what it actually takes to scale teams globally—and the hard-won lessons he learned along the way.
You’ll hear how Fritz:
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
In this episode, Vercel's Head of Global Recruiting Ops,Viet Nguyen, and Nolan unpack a deceptively simple experiment that turned into a hiring cheat code: reverse-engineering the judgment of an A+ interviewer to level up everyone else.
What started as a Friday night curiosity turned into a new framework for talent density, interviewer training, and turning instinct into insight.
In this episode you’ll learn:
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
As a senior partner at Swing Search, Annie Wenzel has placed some of the most impactful GTM execs in tech—often before they were obvious bets. In this episode, she breaks down the playbook that consistently lands top 10% talent, even in a market full of fear, fatigue, and overpromising.
This conversation is a masterclass in strategic recruiting:
This one’s for anyone who’s ever had to win trust, coach a founder, or close someone who doesn’t need the job.
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
In this episode, Nolan shares unfiltered hot takes from Day One Ventures’ CEO Converge event—what CEOs really think about team chemistry, Glassdoor, and who makes the best salespeople.
Then he shifts gears to show recruiters how to go beyond “AI slop” with two practical hacks from his own workflow: a custom GPT for LinkedIn posts and Metaview templates that save 40+ minutes per candidate write-up.
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
AI interviewers are here—from CodeSignal’s new agentic interviewers to a 70,000-applicant experiment where an LLM voice recruiter beat humans in hiring customer service reps. Nolan and Siadhal break down where AI belongs in the process today, why high-volume/inbound is the proving ground, and how human connection still creates alpha.
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
Are references the most important part of hiring...or totally overrated?
In this episode of 10x Recruiting, Nolan and Siadhal debate:
Check it out and let us know how you run references.
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
From the shortage of top-tier recruiters to the rise of ruthless talent density targets, Nolan and Siadhal break down what they’re seeing in the market right now.
They cover three hot-button topics shaping recruiting in 2025:
Plus, the AI experiment you should start running tomorrow to blow your exec team away.
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
What does it really take to meet Elon's bar for talent?
In this episode, we go deep with Charles Guillemet, whose recruiting career spans Neuralink, Gusto, Meta, and now LocalGlobe. Charles shares what it takes to hire elite operators, why gut instinct is underrated, and how Europe has become a magnet for top-tier tech talent.
You’ll hear about:
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
Jeff Moore spent 13 years at Google leading some of the company’s most elite recruiting teams. Then he left it all for Toast. Why?
Jeff unpacks what Big Tech gets wrong about TA, why “just take the call” is still golden advice, how to scale a recruiting team from 20 to 80—fast, and so much more.
We cover:
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
In this episode of our How I AI series, Shiv Brodie (GTM recruiter at Metaview) walks us through the AI workflows she’s using day-to-day to source, engage, and assess top talent. She’s built a powerful system that gives her leverage at every step, and it’s surprisingly simple to replicate.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Watch the episode to steal Shiv's playbook for building an unfair competitive advantage with AI.
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
This week, Nolan chats with Andy Pittman, VP of Talent at ShipBob—the e-commerce ops platform that’s built one of the most disciplined talent orgs out there.
Andy unpacks how ShipBob sets a high bar for hiring and holds themselves accountable to it. He breaks down their dead-simple but powerful “Would you rehire them?” system for tracking quality of hire, why every backfill requires a business case, and how ShipBob uses internal mobility as a signal of recruiting success.
You’ll also hear:
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
Today we’re talking about what it really takes to excel in your career.
Deepali Vyas—25-year executive recruiter and the internet’s most-followed voice in career advice—gives a no-fluff masterclass on how to advance professionally.
From negotiating comp to navigating office politics to the art of visibility, Deepali gets into how careers really get built.
You'll hear:
Whether you're a recruiter, a rising exec, or just career-ambitious, this episode will sharpen your strategy and challenge your beliefs.
Follow Deepali Vyas aka The Elite Recruiter on Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn for more!
And to learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x
This week, Nolan and Siadhal kick off a new “How I AI in recruiting” series where we’re going deep into real-life workflows with the recruiting pros actually getting leverage from AI on a daily basis.
First up: Samy Aumar, People Systems Excellence Manager at Qonto.
Samy gives us an inside look at some of the custom AI agents he and the Qonto team have built to get great work done, fast. He demos how they use Metaview and Dust (an AI agent builder) to go from intake calls to live job postings in less than a day. And he shows us their Market Intelligence agent that automates hours of market and competitive research into minutes.
If you’re a practitioner looking for inspo on how to level-up your work with AI, this one’s for you!
Be sure to check this one out on YouTube so you can follow along with the demos.
To learn more about Metaview, the AI platform for 10x recruiting teams, head to www.metaview.ai/10x