TTP - The Top 10% Podcast with Craig Whiting
TTP - The Top 10% Podcast
TTP - The Top 10% Podcast is a deep dive into the world of hiring, recruitment, and career growth, exploring the strategies, challenges, and trends that shape how companies attract, hire, and retain top talent.
Hosted by Craig Whiting, this series brings together tech leaders, recruiters, and industry experts to share their insights on what it really takes to build high-performing teams in today’s evolving job market.
What to Expect in Each Episode:
🔹 The Hiring Landscape – How companies find, assess, and secure top talent.
🔹 Recruitment & Industry Insights – The evolving role of recruiters, agencies, and internal hiring teams.
🔹 Leadership & Culture – How company culture and leadership styles impact hiring and retention.
🔹 Career Growth & Development – How candidates can stand out and advance in their careers.
🔹 Future of Work – The impact of remote work, AI, and new hiring trends on the job market.
Whether you're a business leader, recruiter, or job seeker, The Top 10% Podcast will challenge your thinking and provide practical, real-world insights to help you navigate the ever-changing world of work.
TTP - The Top 10% Podcast with Craig Whiting
The Top 10% Podcast with Craig Whiting - Ep. 5: Jordan Shlosberg on Atlas, AI & Recruitment's Future
In this episode, Craig sits down with Jordan Shlosberg, Founder of Atlas, to explore the evolving intersection between recruitment and artificial intelligence. From his early days in expert networks to building a cutting-edge AI-powered recruitment platform, Jordan shares his journey, lessons learned, and bold predictions for the next three years of the industry.
Jordan explains how Atlas is redefining what a recruitment CRM can be — eliminating admin, boosting recruiter performance, and offering unique tools powered by real-time data and AI. The conversation also covers the broader changes happening across recruitment, candidate behavior, and why agency recruiters may be more important than ever in an AI-driven world.
Whether you're a recruiter, hiring manager, or tech founder, this episode offers fresh insights into how technology is reshaping recruitment — and why the human touch still matters.
🎙 Key Topics:
🔹 The rise of AI-powered recruitment platforms
🔹 Why traditional CRMs are falling behind
🔹 How Atlas removes admin and empowers recruiters
🔹 The changing expectations of hiring managers and candidates
🔹 Why great recruiters will thrive in the age of AI
Show Notes & Timestamps
[00:00] – Opening & Nutrition Talk
- Fasting, yogurt, kimchi, and cottage cheese? Craig and Jordan kick off on a health tangent.
[02:00] – Jordan’s Background & Building Atlas
- From expert networks to AI-driven recruitment
- Why he chose to enter the recruitment space with a tech-first mindset
[06:00] – What Makes Atlas Different
- Atlas vs. traditional CRMs
- Using AI to streamline recruiter workflows
- “Do less admin, do better recruitment”
[12:00] – AI’s Impact on Recruitment
- Why the next 3 years will change recruitment forever
- How candidate outreach and client engagement are evolving
- The “magic message” feature that changes outreach forever
[20:00] – Human vs. AI in Recruitment
- Why the best recruiters still win — and how AI supports them
- The danger of over-relying on automation
- The importance of human relationships in hiring
[30:00] – Rethinking What Makes a Great Candidate
- From skills to outcomes: what clients really want now
- The rise of the “full-stack employee”
- How Atlas can help recruiters assess and present top talent
[40:00] – Training, Templates & Building Better Recruiters
- Benchmarking interviews and upskilling teams using AI
- Gamifying the training process
- Using feedback loops to create elite recruitment teams
[46:00] – Final Thoughts & Vision for the Future
- Why legacy CRMs won’t keep up
- The opportunity for Atlas to lead the next generation
- How AI will elevate — not replace — great recruiters