Join friends Britt & Kay in an unprofessional chat about the future of work. Britt, an HR expert, and Kay, a AI ethics PhD, rant, joke, complain, and inform listeners about the workplace, AI, and how to grow your career in today’s labor market without losing your humanity.
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This week Karen puts on her "unfortunately scared of technology" hat and asks Britt to walk her through the entire hiring process, start to finish — from what an ATS actually does to how candidates end up getting scheduled, screened, and (sometimes badly) rejected. Britt shares real talent-acquisition war stories, including candidates who won't stop texting her after a rejection, and the two dig into how to reduce bias in hiring decisions with scorecards and rubrics. The back half tackles something a lot of HR teams are quietly doing right now: feeding candidate resumes into ChatGPT — and what
We're back with wine (or in Karen's case, wine with a floating gnat friend, RIP) and a real question: how do you actually use AI without betraying your own values? Karen breaks down where generative AI came from, what "vibe coding" means, and the framework she uses to figure out which of her values are actually in conflict when a new AI use case comes up. Britt brings two real workplace stories to the table — one where leadership wanted to bulk-upload candidate resumes into ChatGPT with zero consent, and one where a company built an internal AI tool the right way. We also get into why "human i
Welcome to the Labor in the Loop podcast’s first episode! Britt & Kay are long-time friends with lots of expertise and even more opinions. Stay tuned to this feed to learn about the present and future of work from an HR expert and a tech ethics researcher. In this episode, you’ll get to know us better as we review our careers up until this point and try out the tone for the show! We would love your feedback as we build the show! Please reach out with comments or questions at info@laborintheloop.com.
We’re just testing stuff. In this clip cut from an episode, Karen & Britt demonstrate how non-judgmental & inclusive they can be.
