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“Don’t Tell Me About Yourself” is where old-school hiring meets a modern reality check. Hosted by Expert Interviewers Co-Founders Lorna Erickson and Victoria Gates, this show blends their combined 40 years of real-world experience with the unfiltered commentary that made 340K+ people laugh, cringe, and rethink how interviews actually work. Each week, they tackle the biggest news in hiring, from chaotic interview moments to ghost jobs and questions that should have been retired decades ago. Whether you hire, apply, or just love a good interview trainwreck, this show is for anyone who’s ever sat on either side of the interview table. Real stories. Real data. Real talk about how to make interviews actually work for everyone. Because great hiring isn’t luck—it's a skill.
Episode Description: Live from UNLEASH Paris, we're joined by Nathan Perrott from Radancy to talk about the growing challenges of AI-driven applications, candidate fraud, and trust in the hiring process. We discuss why AI-optimized resumes are making it harder for recruiters to identify qualified ca...
Episode Description: Live from UNLEASH Paris, we're joined by Sondra Maher of CoderPad to talk about why companies are still looking to each other for answers on AI instead of experimenting themselves. We discuss the shift from treating AI as cheating in technical interviews to actually assessing ho...
Episode Description: An iced coffee gets you judged. A CEO makes you wait an hour. A hiring manager plants trash on the floor to test your character. And somehow, these are real job interview stories. In this episode of Don't Tell Me About Yourself, Expert Interviewers co-founders Victoria Gates and...
Episode Description: Everyone says candidates deserve feedback. But what happens when the hiring manager can't actually explain why someone was rejected? In this episode of Don't Tell Me About Yourself, Expert Interviewers co-founders Victoria Gates and Lorna Erickson debate whether every job candid...
Episode Description: Five rounds. Nine interviewers. Six weeks. And the final hiring decision still comes down to a “good feeling.” Sound familiar? How many interview rounds does it actually take to make a good hire? In this episode of Don't Tell Me About Yourself, Expert Interviewers co-founders Vi...
Episode Description: We train managers on leadership, performance, and compliance, but when it comes to interviewing, many are handed a resume and expected to figure it out. In this episode, we’re joined by future of work expert Danielle Farage to talk about why interviewing is still treated like an...
Episode Description:Interview panels are supposed to bring more perspectives, reduce bias, and lead to better hiring decisions. But adding more interviewers does not automatically create more structure. In this episode, we break down why panel interviews often turn into repeated questions, conflicti...
Internal interviews can be harder to evaluate fairly than external interviews because managers already know the candidate, their reputation, their past mistakes, and their current performance. In this episode, we explain how to interview internal candidates fairly, how to avoid predetermined promoti...
Some interview questions refuse to die. We break down why hiring managers still ask questions like “Tell me about yourself,” “What’s your greatest weakness?” and “Where do you see yourself in five years?” even when they often provide very little useful evidence about whether someone can do the job. ...
Season 2 is back, and we’re starting with one of the relationships that can make or break the entire hiring process: recruiters and hiring managers. We break down why the two sides so often end up frustrated with each other, where the partnership starts to fall apart, and how that disconnect impacts...