In this episode, I sit down with Amy Hitchner-Allison, U.S. Army Recruiter Ring recipient and Founder of AHA Solutions Group, to unpack what most companies get wrong about recruiting—and how to fix it.Amy brings battlefield-tested systems to civilian recruiting, turning talent acquisition from a cost center into a strategic advantage. We dive into her evolution from career coaching to B2B consulting, the role of AI in recruiting (done right), and why most TA teams are set up to fail.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱️ TIMESTAMPS00:00 - Introduction: Why recruiting quietly makes or breaks every business00:58 - The U.S. Army Recruiter Ring: What military recruiting teaches about systems02:11 - Amy's "fixer mentality" and identifying broken processes04:30 - The relaunch: From AHA Career Coaching to AHA Solutions Group08:23 - Why she stopped charging for career coaching (and what AI changed)11:45 - The three-pillar model: Training, audits, and recruiter placement14:30 - Industry focus: Why hospitality, manufacturing, and professional services?17:20 - AI in recruiting: Where humans must stay in control21:45 - The biggest gap in most TA teams (it's not what you think)24:15 - Launching AI training for recruiters in January 202628:30 - RAPID FIRE: One question CEOs should ask their TA leaders29:45 - RAPID FIRE: The skill gap holding most recruiters back30:23 - 18-month vision: Subscription services and proactive problem-solving━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYS✅ Recruiting is relationship-building at scale—not just posting jobs✅ Most companies treat recruiting as an HR function, not a business growth lever✅ The gap between recruitment and HR creates dropped balls that hurt retention✅ AI should assist recruiters, not replace the human decision-making process✅ The best recruiters constantly level up their skill gaps through targeted training✅ Proactive problem identification beats reactive firefighting every time━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━💡 QUOTABLE MOMENTS"We're all broken. We have to fix each other in order to get mission-critical items done." - Amy on military mindset"If we don't work cohesively, somebody tends to drop the ball and assumes the other person has it." - On the recruitment/HR gap"A human is making this decision and that's still extremely important right now." - On AI ethics in recruiting━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎯 ABOUT AMY HITCHNER-ALLISONAmy is a U.S. Army veteran and recipient of the prestigious U.S. Army Recruiter Ring. With 14+ years of experience across military, hospitality, manufacturing, and professional services recruiting, she founded AHA Solutions Group to transform ordinary recruitment teams into talent-attracting powerhouses.AHA Solutions Group offers:• Recruiter Training Programs (AI-ready, hands-on)• Strategic TA Audits (gap analysis + 30/60/90-day roadmaps)• AHA-Certified Recruiter Placement━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH AMYWebsite: www.ahasolutionsgroup.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-hitchner-allison/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📲 CONNECT WITH JAMAL & PROPELLIGENTWebsite: https://propeligent.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamalhirani/PropelRX: https://propelrx.ai/For AI implementation strategy sessions: [Add calendar link]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#TalentAcquisition #Recruiting #AIInHR #BusinessGrowth #Leadership #HRTech #MilitaryVeterans #StartupGrowth #ScalingBusiness #RecruitmentStrategy