"It's easy, ironically, to forget the human in hiring." Christina Seime has spent 20 years moving from writing code to sitting in the room where hiring decisions get made. Across that whole path, the same gap kept showing up.

In this episode of The Human Connection Podcast, Christina explains why hiring teams keep screening for what's easy to find on a resume and miss what actually predicts whether someone will thrive. Her example is a consultancy with two core values, professional authority and warmth. Nobody could find warmth on a resume until the team agreed on what it looked like: workshops, conference talks, volunteer work. She also takes on a question most leadership teams haven't answered yet. If AI is now doing the intern work, how do you hire your future senior partners?

Christina started as a software engineer and moved into ...