Nora Burns
former Fortune 200 HR leader
Known as The Undercover Candidate. Underwent 250 undercover job interviews and worked incognito in frontline roles at five Fortune 500 companies. Career spanning over 20 years in Human Resources.
Episodes (2)
EP 161 · 9 January 2025
Nora Burns, AKA The Undercover Candidate, Unfiltered Full Interview - Special Episode
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Their segments in this episode (19)
- developing leadership courage or lack thereof
- how ai could make hiring bias worse
- how nora audits organizations and what she finds
- intro welcome to the unfiltered series
- nora s 2024 book releases
- nora s story how the undercover candidate began
- the illegal questions nora was asked and why they re dangerous
- the most eye opening discoveries from 250 interviews
- the most misunderstood aspect of workplace culture
- the third round ghosting story it happens to directors too
- the undercover employee frontline work exposed
- what s next in the unfiltered series
- what the undercover project actually is
- what we should have asked but didn t
- where the disconnect comes from and why managers aren t trained
- where to find nora
- whiskey girl the covid cliche with four legs
- why onboarding is just bad
- why recruitment shapes the entire employment relationship
EP 74 · 18 January 2024
How the Undercover Candidate exposed the shocking truth of recruitment
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Their segments in this episode (10)
- a shocking example of bias in a real interview
- confirmation bias and sunk cost thinking in hiring
- illegal interview questions are you planning to have kids
- intro nora s story stopped leanne mid conversation
- practical fix redacted resumes
- the undercover candidate project begins
- the undercover employee working incognito at fortune 500s
- what big companies get wrong and small ones can fix
- where to find nora next week s guest
- why recruitment is the foundation of workplace culture