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Episode 030: Recruiting Like it Counts w/ Daniella Bodansky

Daniella Bodansky is a startup recruiting operator who has helped scale companies from early stage through hyper-growth across industries. She began her career in clinical research before moving in house, where she has spent the last several years building and rebuilding recruiting infrastructure inside founder led environments. Her work spans high volume hiring, international expansion, operations leadership, structured interview design, and developing quality of hire frameworks that hold up under pressure. Daniella came on the show to talk about what it really means to raise the bar while hiring 50, 100, or 200 people at a time, why speed without rigor compounds mediocrity, and how to audit and rebuild recruiting foundations inside scaling companies. Daniella shared her approach to documentation, ATS hygiene, scorecards, and retrospective analysis, along with her philosophy on “strong yes” versus “soft yes” feedback, hiring tradeoffs across time, quality, and cost, and whether personality assessments have a place in modern hiring. The conversation centered on building a recruiting machine that balances data and judgment while keeping the human element intact. Thanks for coming on the show, Daniella! You can connect with her here:   / daniellabodansky   Timestamps 00:00 Setting the tone and why recruiting is still a craft 03:00 From clinical research to in house startup recruiting 07:00 What to assess first when joining a scaling company 09:00 Speed versus rigor and why the bar has to go up 13:00 Hiring operators who can handle ambiguity and build from first principles 15:00 Quality of hire and the 30 and 90 day rehire test 19:00 Building an operations recruiting hub with documentation and dashboards 22:00 What makes a strong hiring manager partnership 26:00 Time, quality, and cost as hiring tradeoffs 29:00 Strong yes versus soft yes and eliminating vague feedback 31:00 Personality assessments, bias, and human judgment in hiring 37:00 Scaling recruiting infrastructure from early stage to global growth Shout out to our sponsor, Rooster. Rooster is a native interview scheduling platform built inside Workday Recruiting that eliminates back-and-forth and gives recruiters and candidates a clean self-scheduling experience.If you want fewer scheduling errors, faster coordination, and a smoother candidate experience, visit rooster.us to book a demo. recruiting operations recops talent acquisition strategy fractional talent acquisition fractional recruiting recruiting leadership hiring process improvement recruiting systems ATS strategy applicant tracking systems HR tech 2026 AI in recruiting AI interviews skills based hiring behavioral interviewing high volume hiring employer branding strategy eliminating agency spend internal vs agency recruiting talent advisor recruiting podcast HR podcast Brandon Jeffs Building the Talent Machine talent operations