HR Interviews Playlist

In this episode, Katee and Jackye speak to Laura Close. And she brought the heat! As a twenty-year veteran of the DEI space, Laura Close started at a time before the term DEI was coined and has spent a career both locking in new structural opportunities and access for historically excluded communities as well as coaching executive leaders within the enterprise on designing and deploying KPIs for D...

You have questions.... What is RM automation? What does candidate nurture really mean? What is a true talent pipeline? Are you and your company committing crimes against talent pipelines? All great questions for any organization, and the boys, partnered with RecruitmentMarketing.com's Julie Calli, bring on CandidateID's Adam Gordon to the podcast to cover a broad range of recruitment marketing que...

Molly Johnson-Jones shared a post on LinkedIn that stated '“By removing the need to have a ‘reason’ to request flexibility and giving everyone the freedom to choose how to work, we can make true progress on gender equality.” but how do we get that out of our hiring leaders? While Molly, CEO & Co-founder of Flexa, enjoyed London's winter sun, and I only had the heat of the topic to keep me warm, we...

If you're a new recruiter or an experienced recruiter there's really one great book to read and use as a daily reference and that is the Full Stack Recruiter book by Jan Tegze. Jan drops his extensive recruitment knowledge on The Recruitment Flex What exactly is a Full Stack Recruiter? It's easy to find people, it's just hard to convince them to join your company Is your company looking for A play...

Screening tech talent is smokin' hot right now. You know the names: HackerRank, Byteboard, Woven, Triplebyte and others. But do you know Tech Screen? If the answer is NO, then you owe it to yourself to checkout this episode of Firing Squad. Chad & Cheese put CEO and founder Mark Knowlton on the hot seat to answer some tough questions. Does he make it out alive? Gotta listen.

mpathic AI's technology analyzes text and voice communication to strengthen a company’s culture and improve performance.

Over the last few months, as I've been researching the practical effects of the Great Resignation, we've heard the stories of talent acquisition professionals from the US, Europe and Australia on what is truly a global issue. One country I really want to know more about though, is India, one of the biggest global markets for tech talent. My guest this week is Aditya Singh, Director Head of Talent...

How can we get Recruiters to think more like sales & marketing without making them feel like the poor 3rd cousin? Especially when we start naming off all the great sales & marketing technology they get to do their jobs!  Thad brings 20 years of experience to Talroo as we talk a bit about what makes them unique, starting with leaving Silicon Valley and moving the office down the street from Indeed...

Remember seeing and hearing your first Deep Fake? Synthesized voices that sound like your favorite movie star. Not a great impressionist, on the contrary, algorithmically cloned voices where even the subtlest of nuances of a voice can be captured and recreated. Cringy, yet incredibly cool that tech could accomplish such a feat. Yes, technology is advancing quickly and unfortunately many of the adv...

We talk about how recruiters can operate successfully in today’s market, the impact technology’s had on recruiting’s evolution and movement toward DEIB.

Hybrid work and its impact on how work gets done, on people and on managing a workforce under strange circumstances.

After seeing Mark Gilroy’s fabulous YouTube video about change, (not the one where he’s singing that song ;) ), I wanted to know more and how recruiters can influence change.  A self-confessed professional psychology geek, Mark & I had a fascinating conversation that will help recruiters & hiring leaders partner better! We talked about: let’s stop pathologising change and reframe change in the rig...

The world has changed and so has the employment branding game. That's why Chad & Cheese have relaunched the Cult Brand series with the help of RecruitmentMarketing.com's Julie Calli. And what better guest to bring on the show than marketing magic man Chris Kneeland of Cult Collective? The group discusses issues around holistic brand, HR's newly minted seat at the table, branding in a post-pandemic...

We are counting ourselves as part of some exclusive club to have James Ellis, author of Talent Chooses You, joining us for the show.  Prepare to be entertained A HUGE surprise on who James says is slaying the EB game If you are ever asked for the ROI on employer brand, James gives you the best way to answer The single thing in your control for improving your employer brand?  AND find out why you s...

To say we were giddy about interviewing someone connected to the movie "Wolf of Wall Street" would be the understatement of the year. Yet, here we are. And why is Richard Bronson, a former partner at the "Wolf of Wall Street" firm talking to Chad & Cheese? Turns out he runs a site dedicated to finding employment for former felons called 70MillionJobs.com. It's important work that turns out to be o...

DE&I continues, thankfully, to be an extremely high profile issue for employers. However, the needle is still not moving quickly enough, and some of the data is shocking. For example, it would still take 200 hundred years to close the race and gender pay gaps at the current rate of progress. So what can employers do to accelerate the pace of change, and how much can individual recruiters influence...

We discuss about PayActiv’s products, how it sees the market and where it hopes to go.

In this episode, Jackye and Katee speak to Nancy Murphy. Nancy’s spent her career saying what others are afraid to – and learning to say it in ways that others will listen. She’s the founder and president of CSR Communications and creator of Intrapreneurs Influence Lab. Her passion is teaching leaders how to make organizational change stick. From challenging stereotypes of girls in her Catholic sc...

We talk with Eric Sydell, EVP of innovation at Modern Hire, a science-based platform with tools that touch multiple steps in the hiring process.

Coming from some good Canadian heritage, we loved talking to an industry legend and the Founder of WorkTech, George Larocque. He brings an optimistic outlook for the next year of work tech investment.  2021 was a banner year in Work Tech investment with over 18 billion invested “Unless something breaks, there could be more money than last year” George walks us back to the fact that most technology...

Work from home is a thing. Maybe you've heard. This means vendors hoping to support employers with a remote workforce have a lot of tailwinds going in the right direction. However, like most things, there are going to be big winners and some big losers, and everything in between. That brings us to BeRemote, a startup hoping to take advantage of this red hot trend. Do they have what it takes to sur...

Whatever form it eventually takes, remote working is here to stay. In the previous episode of the show, we explored the challenges and opportunities of building a global remote team; in this episode, I wanted to get the hands-on perspective of someone who has built a highly successful remote-first company. Everett Harper is the CEO of Truss, a software engineering business that has been fully remo...

We talk about the pymetrics platform and the science behind it with founder and CEO Frida Polli.

One of the early discussion points in the pandemic was the access to global talent pools that the move to remote working could open up. Two years on, it is pretty clear that remote working is now a permanent fixture in the working life of many people. So how far are employers tapping into global talent pools, and what are the challenges and opportunities. My guest this week is Nicole Sahin, CEO an...

In this episode, Katee and Jackye speak with Vivian Acquah, an inclusive Workplace Wellness Advocate. Vivian advises managers on how to keep their team members engaged, energized, and safe in a sustainable manner. Vivian Acquah is making topics related to workplace wellness & DEI accessible to everyone. She provides people with the right tools, at the right time, to embrace inclusive changes. Vivi...