The Staffing Show — Leveraging AI in Recruitment | Chris Sund

Podcast · The Staffing Show · March 2026

Leveraging AI in Recruitment

Chris joins Holly Stewart on StaffingHub’s The Staffing Show to talk about where AI actually belongs in recruiting, and where it does not.

Show
The Staffing Show
Published
March 13, 2026
With
Holly Stewart
Topic
AI & Talent Acquisition
About the Episode

The tools change. The relationship doesn’t.

A conversation about adoption rather than hype: what recruiters are actually using, what is worth automating, and what happens to candidate relationships when a firm gets it wrong.

Chris runs Nebula, an AI-powered talent sourcing platform, alongside Uniti Med and GQR Healthcare. That puts him on both sides of this conversation at once: building the technology and living with the consequences of deploying it across recruiting teams who did not ask for another system to learn.The discussion covers where AI genuinely lifts recruiter productivity, where firms waste money on tools nobody adopts, and the part most conversations skip, which is that speed without a relationship produces a faster version of a bad candidate experience.
◆ Why This Conversation

Most AI discussions in staffing come from vendors selling software or consultants describing a future. Chris is an operator who bought, built and rolled out these tools inside his own firms, and can say plainly which ones earned their keep.

What Gets Covered

Three threads worth the listen.

01Where AI actually moves the needle on recruiter productivity, and the tasks where it quietly creates more work than it removes.
02Why adoption fails more often than the technology does, and what changes when leaders roll out tools without asking the team first.
03What has to stay human in recruiting, and why automating the relationship is the fastest way to lose the candidate.
Where to Listen

Every platform.

About the Show

The Staffing Show by StaffingHub.

StaffingHub covers the staffing and recruiting industry through reporting, research and its podcast, The Staffing Show, which brings on operators and executives rather than only vendors. Chris has appeared on the show twice and was interviewed by StaffingHub at the SIA Healthcare Staffing Summit.

For Podcast Hosts & Event Planners

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Chris speaks on leadership, culture, retention and the practical side of AI in recruiting, from an operator’s seat rather than a vendor’s.

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