Humans of HR

Welcome to Humans of HR.  We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto, Michelle Farrar-Eagles and Matt Smith, on this episode we welcome special guest human, Alastair Schirmer from LiveHire who opens the vault on what he did in Vegas; tells us the difference between AI and Machine Learning; and is exposed...

Welcome to Humans of HR.  We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto, Michelle Farrar-Eagles and Matt Smith, on this episode we talk about high performance.  In a week when the major football codes reach their crechendo, we discuss what high performance looks like; how you can foster and encourage indivi...

Welcome to Humans of HR.  We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto, Michelle Farrar-Eagles and Jared Cameron, on this episode we focus on the existential topic of why the hell do we need HR in organisations? In it we explore the value that HR brings; we talk about what came first, the Unions or HR; we...

Welcome to Humans of HR.  We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto, Michelle Farrar-Eagles and Matt Smith, on this episode we tackle the sensitive topic of mental health and suicide prevention; we honour the memory of Danny Frawley, absent friends and the families they have left behind; discuss our per...

Welcome to Humans of HR.  We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto, Michelle Farrar-Eagles, Matt Smith and Jared Cameron. This episode was recorded live from the HR Tech Fest in Auckland NZ in July 2019.  We ask what does it mean to be a human of HR, debate a range of topics around HR and HR Tech and e...

Welcome to Humans of HR. This is the launch episode of the newly minted Humans of HR Podcast.  We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto, Michelle Farrar-Eagles and Jared Cameron, on this episode we introduce the podcast; talk about the heritage of this podcast in Jared and Dave's "Talking Peo...

Recorded in front of a LIVE audience in the Innovation Theatre at the HR Tech Fest event in Sydney, Australia.  Join David Guazzarotto, Jared Cameron and special guest, Matt Smith (CEO Pure Learning) for a lively discussion on how to navigate the HR and L&D landscape in the age of experience.  We focus on putting people at the centre to design great experiences through personlization.  How do...

Susan Lowe from CCA shares about the process of implementing digital HR. CCA, now masters of automation, will move forward with higher value digitization. Susan shares their priority of preserving the human aspect of HR- tackling this by enabling an individual who knows both tech and HR to own digital solutions and drive the roadmap for CCA. 

From HR Tech Fest, Linda Shearer shares that in terms of diversity and inclusion, "if you aren't an inclusive organization, you've failed before you've even started". Linda details the current aspects of diversity and inclusion and why changing both behavior and mindset around these topics is critical to creating flourishing work environment. 

Bill Boorman shares with Talking People & Tech about HR teams can be the custodians of diversity and inclusion. Bill notes that recruitment is a space that, depending on the firm and job type, has specific challenges and goals in creating its culture. He addresses how to do away with old generalizations and how to build a new framework aimed at creating an inclusive environment. 

Recorded live at HR Tech Fest New Zealand 2018, Jason Averbook (CEO of Leapgen, author, and thought leader) discusses how we are embarking on a new era of HR and this is out time in the sun. The digital age compels us to rethink our approach to HR focusing now on delivering great experiences for our people in order to remain relevant and continue to attract, retain and develop the talent we need f...

Find out how to have the competitive edge in recruiting from Kevin Grossman of Talent Board. Kevin shares what Talent Board’s wealth of data says about how candidates and recruiters feel about the process. Discussion of how both negative and positive feedback is magnified by media platforms in the age of new technology suggests that fine-tuning recruitment is more important than ever before. Kevin...

Jonathan Kestenbaum out of Talent Tech Labs, a New York-based firm, discusses how the marketplace around talent acquisition tech and AI solutions is being shaped today and moving forward. Jonathan highlights that a combination of intelligent workflow and automated technology is imperative in the recruitment process, and that ultimately a balance of ‘tech and touch’ must be found. 

From The Department of Defence and in conjunction, The ManpowerGroup, Sue McCready and Kate Donovan share the unique challenges they face recruiting individuals for more than two hundred defence roles including officers, airmen, soldiers, and technicians. The Department of Defence is utilizing AI to ease the inherently difficult task of measuring characteristics and aptitudes of potential recruits...

Rob McIntosh of Paradox, originator of the product Olivia, talks about the complexity of integrating AI into HR processes. While Olivia is capable of handling detailed tasks like pre-screening, interview scheduling, and others; paradoxically, the lack of change in recruitment over the last twenty years creates complication for fully transferring recruitment tasks to AI. Rob gives advice on how to...

Part of the 2018 ATC Live Series in Sydney, Tim Grogan from LinkedIn shares insights about Talent Solutions. He speaks to the future of AI technology and its capability to create synergy with other HR processes via the launch of new LinkedIn tools. Tim relays LinkedIn’s priority to add value to its members as the ever-changing data landscape continues to evolve. 

Livehire’s own Antonluigi Gozzi shares how a company focused on the optimization of recruitment prioritizes the human aspect over everything else. Antonluigi explains that the implementation of technology can create an environment where recruits and recruiters are better aligned. For Livehire, it starts with the culture their company itself—which has a commitment to hire people who are passionate...

Andy Riabokin from Hiretual, Innovation Lab winner, shares about the young company’s role as innovators of AI applications. Hiretual has created a ranking and search tool for recruitment that combs through more than 700 million candidate online profiles. Andy shares that the team of data scientists, including an ex-Googler, uses technologies similar to big search-engines to streamline complex data...

Raquel Lemon from Vicinity discusses how her tech background has given her the ability to assist in the rollout of technology designed to tailor the customer experience, looking to cross-industry trends in data analytics to develop best practices. Raquel considers both the development of teams within Vicinity and the development of new spaces and strategies in their centres as important aspects of...

SEEK's Antony Ugoni joins us live from the ATC Event in Sydney talking about AI and talent acquisition, what SEEK is investing in to leverage the data to bring insights and valuable analytics to their customers and candidates.

Recorded live at ATC 2018 in Sydney, Aubrey Blanche from Atlassian chats with Dave and Jared about diversity and belonging. We really enjoyed this chat and if you listen right to the end you may even get to hear Aubrey belt out a rendition of Ave Maria.

Dave G is joined by guest co-host and Side-Hustle coach,Ruby Lee, to interview modern day wizard-rogue, author and leadership adviser Dr Jason Fox live at the Australasian Talent Conference 2018 in Sydney. 

Jared and Dave launch the 2018 series of Talking People and Technology. A new year, a new brand... we talk about the recent transition from Future Knowledge to Alight Solutions... and we cover the recent Cornerstone Convergence 2018 conference from San Diego.

We chat with HR Tech thought leader and analyst Josh Bersin, Principal and Founder Bersin by Deloitte, live at HR Tech Fest in Sydney. Josh shares his views on the changing world of work; re-humanizing the workforce; corporations as citizens; and, some of the disruption he sees in HR Technology in 2018.

Recorded live at the HR Tech Fest Conference 2017 in Sydney, we are joined by Monica Watt from ELMO who looks back on 2017 as the year of riding the wave of an IPO, 50% growth in headcount and 2 acquisitions. Monica also explores implementing their own product, learning to walk the talk, and running a rapid design model.