HR Collection Playlist

Shelley was a cat person, I know surprising right?? but now she has decided it's time for a dog so we're looking for recommendations on breeds that she should look at. As always we cover loads of Talent Acquisition and labor market topics. Millenials and Gen Z look at the 9-5 model and decide "nope not for me". Is freelance the new way to work? Why are very few companies hiring junior developers?...

Stop me if you've heard this one before: HR tech company gets buckets of money. Well, the song remains the same this week, as companies like BetterUp, Deel, and Wonolo keep ringing the register. Also, Cornerstone OnDemand goes private (that always works out well, right?), and a little buy-or-sell with Continuum, Interviewing.io, and Reejig. And if you thought robotic dogs that could open doors wer...

After The Chad, introduced me to the fabulous people at Evergreen Podcasts, who now host this very podcast, and we got chatting about hiring disasters, I just had to interview their Chief Creative Officer, David Allen Moss. Stop what you're doing, grab pen & paper, and hear Katrina & David laugh a lot and talk about: Commodore 64s, digital signage, and the beginnings of Evergreen! How Evergreen di...

With everything that is going on in the market, it is more important than ever to understand the factors that make people feel positive enough to want to advocate for their employer or feel negative enough to want to leave their job. My guest this week is Marcus Buckingham, Head of Research, People and Performance at The ADP Research Institute. Marcus is well known in the industry for doing pionee...

Amanda Young has just authorized an amazing children's book and she is here to share what drove her to write the book, "Jumo the Unicorn". Amanda is so transparent about her journey about how to drive inclusion and Jackye and Katee loved hearing about it all-including the animals! If you like what you hear, we would like to encourage you to subscribe to our channel! We would also appreciate it if...

Did you know bathing in beer is taking Europe by storm? Yeah, that's the kind of show you can expect as you push Play. Volonte CEO and founder Daniel Masata join the Euro crew to discuss beer bathing as well as two continental unicorns that just got funded. Then they dig into more funding as record amounts of cabbage flood the industry. If it's Facebook news you want, we have that too, as the soci...

We talk about candidates, employees and their behavior during the Great Resignation.

If you're numb over unicorns, well, get over it. This week, the boys highlight two more newly minted members of the Billion Dollar Valuation Club. Yup, welcome Hibob and Karat to the unicorn party. Also on this episode: Canvas and Luma, er, Pillar are in the news (or suffer growing pains, depending on your point of view). Snagajob says "Everything Must Go!", LinkedIn unplugs from China (kinda), an...

This is a time that recruiters have leverage when it comes to picking the right role with the right company at the right price. We offer our insights on what recruiters should be looking for when looking at new jobs as we're joined by recruitment and HR tech savant Allie Knull. Allie ask the question what is the difference is between Job Boards vs. Aggregators How do you avoid getting into indeed...

In this episode, Jackye and Katee chat with Joseph Ifiegbu about futbol, dream jobs and the tool he co-founded that can help HR teams by analyzing their data, eqtble. Prior to eqtble, he garnered extensive experience in the field of analytics. Most recently, as the head of HR Technology at Snap, he implemented best practices for systems architecture and built the foundation and strategy for HR ana...

Recruiting automation via conversational AI is proving to be an effective way to help solve some of the unique challenges in today's talent markets. But how are employers actually using it, what benefits are they getting, and how do they manage the balance between humans and machines. My guest this week is Victor Gaines, Senior Vice President, Talent Acquisition at Aveanna Healthcare. Aveanna has...

Our reaction to Dave Chapelle's most recent Netflix Special and the hypocrisy of cancel culture. NC LT Gov doubles down calling LGBTQ individuals "filth" and we share a Raider's Superfan's reaction to Jon Gruden. What is your take on this week's stories? Tell us on Twitter, FB and LinkedIn. Thank you to our sponsors and to the team at Evergreen! Interested in sponsoring Crazy and the King? Contact...

Digital transformation is currently one of the fundamental drivers of talent strategy for many organizations. Ensuring your company has the right balance of skills is a complex task involving talent acquisition, L&D, retention, internal mobility and an effective HR and Recruiting tech stack. So how are employers managing the complexity of all of this while prioritizing the employee experience? My...

Strivr CEO Derek Belch discusses how VR learning works and where it’s going.

The weather is getting cooler in America, but we can lucky still stay warm with the hot embers of the ongoing CareerBuilder dumpster fire. This time, our favorite old-timey job board is rebranding with a new logo and ad campaign. Mmmm, toasty. We also dive into the new investment at The Mom Project and play some buy-or-sell with a couple of internationally focused companies and one "Salesforce for...

As our working lives become ever more focused on digital screens and devices, how can employers ensure that they support their employees' mental wellness? Also, with the growth of digital tracking and surveillance in work technology, how can HR step up to defend cultures and long term productivity by ensuring people are treated as humans and not machines.  My guest this week is Dr Anastasia Dedyuk...

Serge drops that he will be retiring from recruitment to run for city council next election in 2025. Will the things he's said on this podcast hurt him in his political careers?! Both Serge and Shelley have to be censored this week, that won't help. We cover a lot of segments this week that focus on men and their place in the future workforce. Men are opting out of University, what's causing this...

Keeping employees is as difficult as attracting employees at the moment, and, as ever, it is particularly tough in the tech sector. The relationship between employees and employers is changing, and shared values are a vital part of this. My guest this week is Michel Visser, VP People Success & Enablement at software company Unit4. Unit4 are taking a holistic values driven approach to recruitment a...

LA County has returned stolen land in Manhattan Beach to the Bruce Family. This week, California Gov Newsom signs legislation to return $75MM worth of Manhattan Beach beachfront property to the descendants of Charles and Willa Bruce. In the UK, the Sport Council Equality Group released their "Review into Transgender Inclusion in Domestic Sport in the UK' and our discussion how to create access, eq...

Germany's new chancellor is named Olaf, which is also the name of the snowman from Frozen. Where are we going with this? No clue, but this episode of all-things-Euro is packed with goodness, including France's Freelance.com going all-in on growing operations by gobbling up everything in sight, apparently. What else? Rich companies in the EU are leveraging government policy to get cheap and free la...

This week we bring one of our favourite person in recruitment Allie Knull. Allie shares some exciting personal news and brings the fire! We deep dive on the one question to ask if you want to know if your candidate is full of s*** Are Career Fairs still a thing? Who actually gets value from them...not the candidate and not the company...maybe the company hosting them? Where do you start to build a...

Talent Acquisition is uniquely challenging at the moment. Impossible talent markets, virtual recruiting, and evolving EVPs are just a small selection of TA leaders' current challenges. At the same time, we are seeing an unprecedented amount of investment and innovation in recruiting technology being driven by AI. So how does everything join up, and how can talent acquisition teams use AI in a stra...

Love unicorns? This episode of your favorite podcast has two, baby! That's right, Gem and Andela have joined the ranks of the $1 billion club. And by the looks of a few others on this week's show, more could be coming with Syndio raising $50 million this week and Cocoon getting a plump Series A. We also ask whether or not chatbots are all the same, or are some just posers in life's big taco stand?...

Gerard Charlot is passionate about helping the BIPOC community by addressing systemic challenges in the health care system by educating people of color about their health issues and connecting them with clinical trials. The Idhini Platform is a digital health marketplace, for and by the BIPOC community, that provides community members with the best and most relevant clinical trial options and heal...

Kim joins Shelley & Serge as our special co-host. After we get all the nicitiest out of the way, it gets pretty dicey. You can hear Serge blushing as we had to use our very first censor bleep! Listen in as Shelley and Kim call it like it is! Sending your job order to multiple agencies is like hiring multiple accountants to do your tax and only paying the one you liked the most. Guarantees on job p...