Why They Stay: How to Recruit and Interview with Your Fundamentals

Hiring got harder, and AI made it noisier. In a 2026 Robert Half survey, 65% of hiring managers said AI-enhanced resumes make skills harder to verify. A polished resume tells you someone's good at applying. It won't tell you how they'll work with your team.

Why do people stay? Often because you got the hire right in the first place.

Your Fundamentals are the specific behaviors that define how your organization works. Values are nouns. Behaviors are verbs, so you can see them, ask about them, and score them.

In this session, we're giving away the how-to. Al Curnow and Kara Vartanian, Senior Account Executive at Reliance One, will walk through how to recruit and interview with your Fundamentals, from what candidates see before they say yes to the questions you ask in the room. Kara will share what she sees from the staffing side.

Don't have your Fundamentals written down yet? You'll still leave with a place to start.

What you'll take away