HR Interviews Playlist

We talk with Harver CEO Scott Landers, who recently made a notable move with the acquisition of pymetrics..

The battle to be the Swiss Army Knife for all things hiring is real. While many vendors may serve as your pocket scissors, can opener or toothpick, few can promise every feature while also delivering the goods. Sense (www.sensehq.com) claims to be that Swiss Army Knife, providing all things from the top of the funnel to the bottom. Do they deliver on that promise? You'll just have to listen, now w...

Some of my favourite discussions on this show have been with employers driving diversity, equity, and inclusion, not just because it is the right thing to do but because they are using their DE&I strategies to solve specific business challenges. My guest this week is Graham Briggs, Head of Apprenticeships & Employability Programmes at Greene King, the UK's largest pub retailer and brewer. The hosp...

The importance of culture, the real need for cultural solutions, and how analytics contributes to it all.

In this episode, Katee and Jackye check in with T. Tara Turk-Haynes, the VP of DEI and Talent Management at Leaf Group where she oversees Leaf Group’s diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as hiring efforts. They discuss engagement surveys and other people processes- give it a listen. T. Tara Turk- Haynes joined Leaf Group in 2016 as Director, People, where she led the company’s employee engage...

He’s seen the world of work from all its angles, and now he's going to help us put its changes in perspective.

Work and jobs are changing, and the way companies select and hire people needs to keep up with this pace of change. We've always talked a lot about soft skills in talent acquisition, but what are they in the context of modern work, why are they important, and how can they be assessed? My guest this week is Dr Alan Redman, Head of Science and Technology at Clevry. Alan is an expert in the definitio...

Katrina Collier, author of "The Robot-Proof Recruiter" is one of our favorite guests to have on. Aside from being a proud Gen X’er and sharing a birthday with Chad (same year and everything), she is a well-loved global keynote speaker, and host of The Hiring Partner Perspective (Unedited) podcast. We chatted with her when the 1st Edition of the book came out, pre-pandemic, but the 2nd edition is j...

The 2nd Edition of The Robot Proof Recruiter will be available in North America on August 30. With relentless passion, Katrina has over 2 decades in the recruitment industry, spoken on 5 continents and now has version 2 of the must read book for everyone in TA. Always generous with her recommendations, add to your must read list, Full Stack Recruiter by Jan Tegze and take your career to the next l...

The U.S. Marines have made a career out of recruiting based on letting 18-year-olds know how tough and challenging becoming a Marine actually is. It's a concept that can also work for businesses of all sizes. That's why we invited Charlotte Marshall, director, global employer brand & recruitment marketing expert & best selling author of “Give and Get Employer Branding Repel the Many and Compel the...

Reaching out to past applicants about new roles has always been a challenge in talent acquisition. Poor technology, tight timescales and inflexible processes have often limited the effectiveness of talent rediscovery. However, AI is now starting to drive some change, and talent rediscovery is becoming an ever more effective strategy. My guest this week is Mike Watson, Head of Customer Advocacy at...

How companies can nurture their culture, and why transparency is an employer’s friend.

To say that the talent acquisition market in the tech sector is complex and fast-changing at the moment would perhaps be a bit of an understatement. So how are big tech companies developing employer branding strategies that help them solve their shifting challenges, and what lessons can employers in other sectors learn from them? My guest this week is Ashlee Gerow, Senior Manager, Employer Brandin...

In this episode, we talk to Jackye's boss and co-founder of Textio, Kieran Snyder! The Textio platform helps with inclusive and equitable communications. After earning her PhD in linguistics at Penn, Kieran spent a decade creating the world’s most impactful language products at Microsoft and Amazon. In addition to developing linguistic capabilities like spelling and grammar-checking for more than...

Fom helping determine where a company’s at to initiating new programs, data grows in importance to DEI efforts.

Steve Pemberton is Best Selling Author, Philanthropist, Acclaimed Speaker, and Senior Level Executive. He wasn't given a chance in the world; he proved them wrong. Steve's chance is now focused on change. In this interview we talk about the pace of change, the fluidity of change, scaling belief and purpose, the end state of remote work, the future of equity, who was responsible for getting compani...

If there was only one interview question you could ask, what would it be?   As an industry legend and innovator, Lou has the best stories about recruitment. When he talks about Performance Based Hiring, it seems so logical; just ask intelligent questions. For someone with a track record of quitting the same job 4 times and getting kicked out of industry events, Lou’s take on what’s wrong in the in...

ADP's chief of product inclusion on how software can be inclusive and how the industry works to achieve make it happen. .

The pandemic changed many aspects of talent acquisition and perhaps none more so than onboarding. With many people spending less time in their employer's physical offices, how have TA and HR teams evolved their onboarding processes to forge a sense of belonging, develop relationships and ultimately increase productivity and retention? My guest this week is Sharawn Tipton, Chief People Officer at L...

In this episode, Jackye and Katee chat with Michelle Ngome about inclusive marketing. Michelle is the founder of Line 25 Consulting, an agency that helps organizations with inclusive marketing strategies. She is the recipient of the Houston Business Journal Diversity in Business awards for her efforts in creating the African American Marketing Association (AAMA). Her contributions have been featur...

One company's approach to a dispersed culture.

Your life really isn't complete until you've gotten a complete breakdown of the past, present, and future of recruiting chatbots. That's why we asked PandoLogic CTO Sumit Gupta on the podcast to get a breakdown. Turns out, that chatbot may not be the correct label, considering job seekers have interviews with virtual Brad Pitt and Darth Vader to look forward to. Yeah, really. You gotta listen to t...

There is no labor shortage. At least that's the position taken by Sean Behr, CEO at Fountain, a solution for industries with high turnover. Nope. There's a SPEED shortage, instead. What the hell does that mean? The boys dig into his theses and tackle a wide variety of high frequency hiring issues plaguing so many companies these days in the process. A must-listen for employers having issues hiring...

We talk about the dynamics of contingent work, the mindset of contingent workers and how their experience shapes up.

What Turn does, how it tries to rise above industry buzz, and the role AI plays in its product plans.