Katrina Collier is a recruiting keynote speaker and author of Reboot Hiring and The Robot-Proof Recruiter, focused on restoring human connection to the hiring process.

As AI changes recruiting, the value of the recruiter is changing with it. The differentiator is no longer simply finding candidates, but understanding the business, challenging assumptions, and helping hiring managers make better decisions.

Katrina Collier joins Denise Chaffin to explore how talent acquisition can move from order-taking to true business partnership. They discuss recruitment alignment, hiring-manager relationships, employer reputation, AI-generated resumes and bias, candidate engagement, and why technology can amplify broken hiring processes instead of fixing them.

Listeners will be talking about what makes recruitersvaluable now: stronger business acumen, better questions, human judgment, and the confidence to challenge whether a role should even be filled before recruiting begins.

Timestamps:

(00:00) Why Recruiter Value Is Changing(01:17) Meet Katrina Collier(02:29) Reboot Hiring and the Robot-Proof Recruiter(04:33) Why Talent Acquisition Still Struggles for Influence(08:00) Should You Even Be Hiring?(10:29) Becoming a Business Partner(14:03) Rethinking Common Hiring Assumptions(15:29) Why Human Outreach Still Matters(21:13) Top Talent Doesn't Need Your Job(23:01) Reputation Over Employer Brand(24:00) AI Resumes and Recruiting Bias(29:27) Articulating the Real Hiring Need(38:04) Speaking the Language of Business(39:00) Three Takeaways for Recruiters