CA3 Cup of tea series

Seenit and Eli have partnered up this Autumn as two organisations focused on creating exceptional candidate and new hire experiences. Creating content that connects and inspires people in order to elevate the onboarding experience is so important. So for this month's podcast, Sarah Wardle from Eli interviewed Emily Forbes , the Founder of Seenit , to understand how organisations can create con...

Over the last few months we have been running a series of employee experience-themed podcasts, each aiming to give insight into several different aspects of employee experience. Today, I’m delighted to be joined by Christabel Mensah Stapleton, an expert in employee experience who is currently on secondment at Dalkia. With an impressive career spanning over 20 years at EDF in various roles, Christa...

This month we have Ruth Miller on the podcast, our very first returner to the pod! For those who don’t know Ruth, for the last 15 years she’s been a Talent Acquisition and HR Consultant, helping a wide range of private, public and non-profit sector clients to navigate employment challenges. A few years ago I spoke to Ruth about offboarding, and how employers can stay true to their employer brand i...

This month we had David Dand on the podcast, the Founder and MD of Coreus. Coreus provides talent acquisition solutions for professional services SMEs who want to attract top talent. David is passionate about strategic hiring and his 5-step framework, which focuses on the five key things all candidates want to know when looking for a new role. In his recruitment process David focuses on these elem...

For Episode 24 we have Bel Germon on the podcast. Bel is a Talent Associate at Zinc , one of Eli Onboarding’s partner technologies. Zinc is background checking software that supercharges the capabilities of HR and hiring teams with the candidate experience front of mind, and DE&I is a hot topic for their customers. Bel has some strong views on DE&I and how many businesses are going about i...

In this episode, we're lucky enough to have Christian Hughes on the podcast, who’s the CEO at MyPeople Group. MyPeople specialise in measuring the environmental, behavioural, and psychological factors that affect teams. They were formed in 2014 by a group of analysts, psychologists, and data scientists that supported some of Britain’s greatest sporting teams. And today Christian’s past work wi...

Our topic for this episode is internal marketing and mobility – should we be doing more for our own people? Charu Malhotra brings her thoughts and views on internal marketing to the podcast, along with her cup of masala chai! Charu has held global leadership roles across employer branding and recruitment marketing at organisations including Unilever, McKinsey, Primark and Ferrero, and she speciali...

During episode 21, we have Nicole Mundy on the pod. Nicole is a senior research analyst at Talent Tech Labs, an independent, unbiased research and advisory firm focused exclusively on Talent Technology. Nicole focuses on evaluating the market for emerging talent technologies. She helps talent acquisition and talent management professionals optimize and future-proof their tech stack, and provides b...

Eli Onboarding has recently partnered with AssessFirst, a soft skill assessment tech solution. So to celebrate, Lauren Tait joins us on the podcast! Having qualified with a 1st class degree in psychology, Lauren has been in the industry for a decade, currently working at AF as an HR Business Partner. AF identifies a candidate’s natural talents, motivators and decision-making skills and tells you h...

I've often wondered how small tech start-ups manage to maintain their strong ethos and culture when they grow to large unicorn levels. It's easy enough to manage when there are only a few employees, but when you get to 700+, surely something changes? Well, I had my chance to find out when I spoke to Lorraine Metcalf, Chief People Officer at Quantexa , in March 2024. Lorraine has extensive...

During Episode 18 of the CA3 Cup of tea series, Sarah Wardle is joined by Emma Mirrington , founder of The Firm - a leading global memberships organisation for TA professionals. At the end of last year, The Firm published their annual report , which provides insight and findings from their annual survey. During the podcast, Emma talks us through the results of the report, what talent acquisition l...

I think this is our most enlightening Cup of Tea series podcast to date, and our first one for 2024! I was very excited to be chatting with an old friend Sally Higham. Sally and I go way back, almost 20 years, back to when it was all about rec ad and I went by the name of Cheeks! We have enjoyed the highs and lows of several different workplaces together. Since we did, Sally has lived and worked i...

With the many automation, AI and technological advances in the talent acquisition and recruitment industry, there are obvious benefits to all of us who are looking at better and more efficient ways of engaging with new talent. But the downside to this can mean the lack of the human element. Especially when talking about your employer brand. So, for episode 16, I wanted to ask an expert about how w...

In this episode we cover a completely different topic, which I think will be of particular interest to those of you who have perhaps moved from TA roles in larger organisations, to smaller, more agile companies and start-ups. During this podcast, I have a conversation with Aaron Beider. Aaron has TA and recruitment experience working and building teams for some of the world’s biggest brands includ...

Nurturing talent pools should be so much more than a few email newsletters and a spreadsheet. I wanted to explore new and interesting ways of engaging and nurturing talent that can help businesses to stand out. To help talent to build a meaningful relationship with future employers. In this episode of the Cup of Tea Series, Robin Choy shares his expertise in nurturing talent pools, and gives pract...

Right now, we are going through perhaps some of the biggest changes and challenges the HR world has ever seen. The Great Resignation, Quiet quitting, Hybrid working and Skills shortages to name just a few. I don’t even need to mention the effects of Brexit, Covid and high interest rates! We need a way of dealing with all of these issues as individuals and as leaders. One thing that hasn’t changed...

Empathy. What does this mean to you? Is it something that comes naturally? Can it be learned? During this episode, I chat with Jodi Brandstetter about the role that empathy plays in the entire candidate lifecycle, and its importance in creating the best possible employee experience. Jodi has 20 years’ experience in HR and recruiting, and her bestselling book, Hire by Design , is used by HR profess...

During this episode we focus on HR tech, and were lucky enough to invite Matt Alder , producer and host of the hugely successful Recruiting Future podcast (and also a recent winner of a Silver Davey Award for Podcast Excellence in the US), on to the show. We chat all things HR tech - including current trends, how to select the best HR tech for your business, and what the future looks like.  I...

With workplaces facing more change than ever before, an increasing number of organisations are looking to recruit resilient individuals who can overcome challenges and deal well with setbacks, and who thrive in high pressure situations. But with the war for talent on overdrive, and many companies wanting the same thing, how can we accurately assess for 'resilience' in individuals? This month James...

Hello! Welcome to our summer edition of the CA3 Cup of tea series. Today Sarah Wardle from CA3 has Jessica Miller-Merrell, the founder of Workology, on the podcast. Jessica and Sarah chat about the importance of supporting managers - in particular those who are transitioning into new leadership roles, and discuss some useful hints and tips to set them up for success. Jessica has just launched a ne...

This month we were lucky enough to have a virtual cup of coffee* with Henna Pryor from Pryority Group. Henna is a successful Executive Coach in the US with a decade and a half’s experience in recruitment, who speaks passionately about sales messaging. She’s recently developed a training course that helps recruiting professionals improve how they do outreach to candidates. In this episode I wanted...

Seasonal work is hard to manage at the best of times, but during 2020 it's been nearly impossible! In our final episode of the year, Santa gives us the lowdown on how he and his team have coped during the pandemic. And reveals he's still planning on carrying out all of his deliveries this Christmas...as long as you've been good! Have a Merry Christmas all! See you in 2021! PS. Why not listen to ou...

Our guest on this podcast is Emma Freivogel , who is on a mission to place as many homeless people as possible into careers and jobs that they really want. Emma is the Founder of Radical Recruit , a social recruitment consultancy which bridges the gap between an untapped pool of talent, and the business world.  If this podcast has inspired you to get involved in this movement and become a par...

In this episode we wanted to explore the recruitment industry as a whole. Has it really changed at all in the last 20 years? Or are the same old issues there bubbling below the surface? What have we actually learnt over the last 20 years? It’s a broad topic, but in order to plan a recruitment strategy coming out of the pandemic, we need to understand and learn from the past. This month we are luck...

Your employer purpose and values can be spot on, but unless you are communicating using the right channels and in the right way, this message can be lost. This month we are lucky to have Simon Crowe with us, who is a Brand Consultant at Crunch Simply Digital. We chat about everything from hyperlocal and programmatic to TikTok, and everything in between. In this episode, watch out for a great case...