DEI, Ghost Jobs & Bad Hiring: What Companies Get Wrong About Hiring | Katee Van Horn

What actually makes a great workplace—and why are companies making hiring so complicated?

In this episode of The Hiring Confessional, recruiting expert Michael Hayes sits down with Katee Van Horn of VH Included Consulting & Coaching to discuss workplace culture, DEI, recruiting, candidate experience, and the hiring practices that can cost companies great employees.

Katee shares insights from nearly 27 years in HR, including why inclusion is about more than buzzwords, how companies can create fairer hiring processes, and why performance should matter more than relationships or office politics.

Michael and Katee also discuss ghost jobs, slow hiring, excessive interviews, complicated job postings, AI in recruiting, and why human connection still matters when you're trying to hire great people.

In this episode:

• The problem with ghost job postings
• What actually creates a great workplace
• Why DEI has become so polarizing
• Building fair hiring and promotion processes
• Why recruiting is also about selling the job
• How slow hiring loses great candidates
• Why candidate experience matters
• How to become a better interviewer
• AI vs. human connection in recruiting
• Why companies need to simplify hiring

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🎙 Guest: Katee Van Horn - VH Included Consulting & Coaching

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