Ep 7 From Boring to Brilliant: Injecting Creativity into Your Recruiting Strategy

Recruiting in 2024 was a mess. Fake job postings, AI screening AI, recruiters ghosting candidates, and hiring strategies stuck in the Stone Age. 2025 isn’t the time for lazy recruiting.

On this episode of Beyond the Bottom Line, I sit down with Kimberly Arin, CEO of Kim Arin Coaching and Adjunct Professor of Creative Thinking at Montclair State University, to tackle the disconnect between recruiters, candidates, and the hiring process. We dive into:

• Why recruiting needs a creative overhaul (and how to fix it)
• How AI helped AND hurt the recruiting and hiring process
• The biggest mistakes recruiters are making today
• How to build hiring strategies that attract AND retain the right people
• Why belonging matters more than ever in the workplace
• The future of hiring, leadership, and business growth

If your recruiting playbook is outdated, you’re losing top talent, engagement, and long-term success. It’s time to ditch the boring and reimagine hiring.

Tune in now—because the future of recruiting won’t wait.

Kim Arin is the CEO and founder of Kim Arin Coaching, a Coaching and consulting business focused on supporting teams and individuals to develop in the most creative ways. Former Chief Talent Officer of a Charter school network in New York City, and was the Executive Director of Staffing and Recruitment for Newark Public Schools. Kim is an adjunct professor at Montclair State University where she designed and teaches a class called Creative Thinking.  Kim is passionate about looking at new and innovative approaches to solving old problems, and completely rejects the phrase "That's the way it's always been done." Her favorite phrase is "What if?"

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