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7-Eleven: 24-7 AI Hiring

02 June 2026 30:36 Evergreen Podcasts

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HR’s Most Dangerous Podcast Just Dropped a Big Gulp of Truth. 🥤

Think automated hiring is just a cold, heartless robot out to steal your corporate badge? Think again.

Chad and Cheese sit down with Rachel Allen, Senior Director of TA at 7-Eleven. She manages over 110,000 hires a year and automated 95% of their store recruitment.

The result? They slashed time-to-hire from 10+ days to under three (and sometimes three hours, because speed kills).

  • Meet "Rita": The AI assistant so good, store managers literally asked to meet her in person. (Awkward...)

  • "Help is Coming": How to drop a massive tech overhaul on your staff without causing a mutiny.

  • The Marketing Hijack: How the TA team hitched a ride on product shipments to score free recruitment marketing.

  • Accidental Quality: How solving for pure speed accidentally fixed their crap candidate quality and retention problems.

"Where we mess up sometimes is we lead with the technology—the shiny new thing—versus what are we solving for?"

— Rachel Allen, 7-Eleven

Whether you’re drowning in high-volume resumes or sweating bullets that a chatbot is coming for your sourcing desk, Rachel drops a masterclass on putting humans where they actually matter.

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