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Explore the Talent Acquisition hubA podcast about work. With dogs. Kind of.
Sit. Stay. Hire.
What dogs can teach us about hiring, leadership, trust, behavior, and the systems we build around people.
Sit. Stay. Hire. is created and hosted by Jackye Clayton. The show brings together people from Talent Acquisition, HR, HR technology, leadership, research, dog training, rescue, behavior, and other unexpected places to examine a simple question:
What if the behavior we keep trying to fix is actually a response to the environment we created?
This isn't really a dog podcast.
Dogs make behavior visible.
They respond to environments, expectations, reinforcement, trust, inconsistency, fear, safety, communication, and the systems humans create around them.
People do too.
Sit. Stay. Hire. uses that lens to explore some of the biggest questions facing Talent Acquisition and workplace leaders:
- Why do hiring systems keep producing outcomes nobody says they want?
- What happens when incentives reward the wrong behavior?
- How much of "culture fit" is really pattern matching?
- What creates trust?
- Why does feedback fail?
- What happens when onboarding teaches something different from what the company promises?
- What does psychological safety actually look like in behavior?
- When should leaders stop trying to fix the person and start examining the environment?
The conversations go somewhere.
Guests may come from very different worlds, but the conversations connect around human behavior and the systems surrounding it.
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Trust, communication, expectations, accountability, feedback, motivation, and the management systems around them.
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Psychological safety, belonging, incentives, employee experience, culture, performance, and behavior change.
Dogs + Behavior
Training, reinforcement, enrichment, rescue, working dogs, fear, trust, environment, communication, and human expectations.
Who belongs at the table?
Not just people with “podcast guest” in their bio.
I want people who have seen something, built something, learned something the hard way, studied something deeply, or have a story that changes how we think about behavior.
Potential guests include recruiters and Talent Acquisition leaders, CHROs and People leaders, HR-tech founders and operators, hiring managers, organizational psychologists, researchers, DEIB practitioners, employment experts, executives, dog trainers, behaviorists, rescuers, handlers, shelter professionals, veterinarians, and people with a dog story that turns out to be a people story.
Hosted by Jackye Clayton
Jackye Clayton has spent her career inside Talent Acquisition, HR technology, employee experience, and workplace inclusion: working as a recruiter, operator, executive, advisor, writer, speaker, and industry commentator.
Her work focuses on what happens when technology, hiring systems, organizational behavior, and actual humans collide.
Sit. Stay. Hire. takes that work somewhere slightly unexpected.
The show is only the beginning.
Sit. Stay. Hire. is becoming a larger body of work about behavior, systems, trust, hiring, and leadership.
The underlying premise is simple:
Before we label behavior, we should ask what the environment is teaching.
These conversations will inform future writing, research, speaking, workshops, and a planned book exploring what the way we understand dogs can teach us about the way we hire, manage, motivate, and lead people.
Apply to be a guest
Tell me what you know, what you have seen, and where your work touches behavior, trust, hiring, or leadership.
It takes about 15 to 20 minutes. Have your bio, a headshot and a dog photo ready.
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Your details go straight to Jackye and are only used to consider you as a guest.
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New conversations, clips, ideas, and probably more dog metaphors than any responsible HR professional asked for.
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Frequently asked questions about Sit. Stay. Hire.
- What is Sit. Stay. Hire.?
- Sit. Stay. Hire. is a podcast created and hosted by Jackye Clayton exploring what dog behavior can teach us about hiring, leadership, trust, workplace behavior, and organizational systems.
- Who hosts Sit. Stay. Hire.?
- Sit. Stay. Hire. is hosted by Talent Acquisition and HR technology leader, speaker, and writer Jackye Clayton.
- What topics does Sit. Stay. Hire. cover?
- The show covers Talent Acquisition, recruiting, HR technology, AI in hiring, leadership, candidate experience, workplace culture, psychological safety, behavior, trust, dog training, and related topics.
- Who are the guests on Sit. Stay. Hire.?
- Guests may include Talent Acquisition and HR leaders, HR-tech founders, executives, researchers, hiring managers, dog trainers, behaviorists, rescuers, handlers, and others whose experience provides insight into human or animal behavior.
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