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Recorded live from the official HR Tech podcast studio, this limited series drops you straight into the conversations everyone at the conference actually wanted to hear. HR Tech—over 25 years strong and the annual migration point for every HR and TA pro on the planet—handed the WRKdefined Podcast Network the keys to a studio, and we spent three days pulling in our hosts to interview operators, executives, consultants, product leaders, and investors in rapid-fire episodes. No BS. Just sharp perspective, fresh takes, and the best brainpower from the world’s largest gathering of HR and talent leaders. If you want to know what people were thinking between the sessions, this is where you’ll find it. To learn more about HR Tech, visit www.hrtechnologyconference.com
AI Interviews, Tenzo AI, and the New Recruiting Department with Jeremy Roberts
HR Tech 2025
26 minutes
1 week ago
AI Interviews, Tenzo AI, and the New Recruiting Department with Jeremy Roberts
This series was recorded live at HR Tech 2025 inside the HR Executive studios on the expo floor in partnership with the WRKdefined Podcast Network. Make sure you’re subscribed to the full series and visit HRExecutive.com for the news, analysis, and insights shaping the future of work.
Large enterprises are dragging legacy systems, legal risk, and AI anxiety into every talent conversation, while the next wave of tools is already capable of automating massive chunks of recruiting. In this HR Tech Live conversation, WorkTech host George LaRocque sits down with Jeremy Roberts from Tenzo AI to unpack what happens when AI interviewing is done right, why most teams are still evaluating yesterday’s tech, and how this changes the shape of recruiting departments going forward.
In this episode we speak with Jeremy Roberts, Founding Customer Success Lead at Tenzo AI, about evaluating AI interview platforms, rebuilding workflows around skills and signals instead of résumés, how to get past the “cool demo” to real compliance and transparency, and why he chose Tenzo after vetting the entire AI interview landscape.
Key Takeaways
Most large companies are stalled by legal risk and legacy systems while AI is already capable of automating much of early-stage recruiting
AI interviewing shifts evaluation from incomplete résumés to structured skills evidence and every spoken word in context
The real disruption isn’t the tech, it’s the requirement to tear down and rebuild talent workflows from scratch
Vendors that win will be the ones who can explain every decision to legal, compliance, and AI governance councils
High-volume use cases are just the starting point; AI interviewing is already good enough for knowledge workers and senior roles
Tenzo’s focus on debiasing, transparency, and explainability was the differentiator in Jeremy’s market-wide evaluation
Founding customer success roles sit at the center of product, sales, and customers, shaping the roadmap in real time
Chapters
00:00 AI, legacy systems, and what could be automated
01:02 Live at HR Tech and intro to Jeremy
02:05 Jeremy’s path from recruiter to AI startup
05:14 Vetting the AI interview market
07:26 How AI interviewing changes workflows
10:45 Why Tenzo stood out
13:37 Compliance, explainability, and safer evaluation
16:12 Where Tenzo sits in the TA stack
18:21 Data, CRM potential, and personalization
21:02 Jeremy’s role as founding customer success lead
23:24 Culture, humility, and building the right way
24:23 Wrap up and HR Tech Pitchfest shout
Guest Info
Jeremy Roberts, Founding Customer Success Lead, Tenzo AI
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyroberts/
Host
George LaRocque, Founder and Principal Analyst, WorkTech and host of The Work Tech Podcast
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgelarocque/
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HR Tech 2025
Recorded live from the official HR Tech podcast studio, this limited series drops you straight into the conversations everyone at the conference actually wanted to hear. HR Tech—over 25 years strong and the annual migration point for every HR and TA pro on the planet—handed the WRKdefined Podcast Network the keys to a studio, and we spent three days pulling in our hosts to interview operators, executives, consultants, product leaders, and investors in rapid-fire episodes. No BS. Just sharp perspective, fresh takes, and the best brainpower from the world’s largest gathering of HR and talent leaders. If you want to know what people were thinking between the sessions, this is where you’ll find it. To learn more about HR Tech, visit www.hrtechnologyconference.com
