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Do you find hiring frustrating?? Are you disappointed with recruiting?? My name is Konstanty Sliwowski and I am a veteran of nearly 20 years in the business of recruitment, strategic talent acquisition and employment consultancy. I now focus my time on advising organisations and managers on how to be more, strategic, efficient, and effective at engaging and hiring top talent.In this podcast series, I speak with business leaders about how they attract and hire top performers. The high's and low's. And of course some funny stories and recruitment mishaps.If you are tired of recruitment processes that suck up your time and seem to never end and are looking for a more predictable way to attract, engage and hire top talent but also reduce the number of candidates you need to interview, come listen to our guest hiring managers including CEO's, CTO's, and CPO's open up about hiring experiences and how they approach talent acquisition.

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Trust, Truth, and the New Rules of Hiring

October 30, 2025 • School of Hiring

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Hiring isn’t about filling roles. It’s about solving problems. In this episode, Gwen Gayhart—psychotherapist turned Fortune 500 recruiting leader—joins Konstanty to rethink interviews as collaborative working sessions, not performances. Together, they dismantle outdated hiring norms and reveal how to turn interviews into real conversations rooted in trust, clarity, and co-creation.

What You’ll Learn

Why every open role signals a broken system or a change that’s overdue
How top-tier candidates don’t want to “perform”—they want to solve
What most companies get wrong when framing roles (and how to fix it)
The psychological drivers behind hiring decisions—and how to harness them
The truth about “overqualified” candidates and how to unlock their potential

Highlights

The candidate isn’t the only one being evaluated
Résumés don’t close gaps—conversations do
Employers must own the problem before anyone else can solve it

Gwen’s Message to Hiring Managers

Don’t ask who the candidate is. Ask what the problem is, and who can solve it—with you.

Perfect For

→ Hiring managers tired of transactional interviews

→ HR leaders building better training

→ Leaders who want to attract thinkers, not performers

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