Talent Acquisition Leaders Podcast - Recruiting, Staffing, Human Resources

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull speaks with Mike Miller, Director of Talent Acquisition at Chipotle Mexican Grill. They talk about Mike’s storied career and the future of talent recruiting. Mike stumbled into HR while studying English at UCLA, recruiting for an SAT tutoring company to earn money while at school. From there, Mike’s gregarious personality an...

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, Ryan Dull gives his outlook on the current state of the TA industry in an interview with Phil Strazzulla , Founder of Select Software Reviews . Ryan has been in the talent acquisition and recruiting industry for nearly 27 years, and began in a corporate capacity. Eight years ago he started Sagemark to help TA leaders modernize their system...

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Jon Finch, SVP of Talent at Milwaukee Tool, a tool manufacturing company that has invested heavily in technology and innovation across its power tool and hand tool businesses. Jon boasts a lengthy career at the company, starting more than 20 years ago as a sales rep calling on hardware stores and lumberyards in four...

This episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast offers a bit of a twist; Ryan Dull is the guest. This is a repost of the Recruiting Future podcast with Matt Alder , and Matt and Ryan discuss Ryan’s career path, the challenges TA professionals face today, and what the future holds. Ryan spent the first 18 years of his career in corporate recruiting, both in the trenches and in management pos...

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Maura Quinn, assistant vice president, university, DEI & emerging talent acquisition at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Maura’s story is an interesting one. She started at Liberty directly out of college, and she was the first college graduate hired straight out of school in the human resources department. There wasn’...

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Rob Daugherty, Vice President of Talent Acquisition, Lowe's Companies, Inc. Rob talks about his career journey in the TA space which, like many people, started with a conversation with a headhunter when he didn’t know what a headhunter was. He started at a boutique agency in Chicago and eventually moved into a corpo...

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull is joined by Steffanie Chaviano, Director of Talent Acquisition and Strategy at Autism Learning Partners, a full-service treatment provider for children with Autism and their families. Steffanie tells Ryan about her career journey, which included a few years of recruiting in corporate dentistry before ending up at ALP three...

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Brent Schreckengost, Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Calix. Calix provides cloud and software to communications service providers to enhance their subscribers’ experience. Brent sums up his journey into the TA space, which started 15 years ago at a recruiting agency. He worked in several agency and in-house...

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Trent Cotton, VP Talent Acquisition & Retention at Bureau Veritas Group, a global company that performs various types of testing, inspection, and certification. Trent talks about the unique aspect of his particular job. He has to identify and recruit specialized talent to fill many of their open roles, because n...

Sara Fatima, Head of Global Talent Acquisition at Verifone joins host Ryan Dull on this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast to talk about her career journey; how Covid has affected the TA landscape; and how storytelling through social media can be a powerful tool for organizations to personalize the experience candidates have with them during the hiring process. Sara got her degree t...

Blair Dugan, Sr. Director, Human Resources, at BeiGene joins the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast on this episode, and she shares with host Ryan Dull her background as a TA leader in the biotech, life sciences, and pharmaceutical industries, and her role now at a rapidly growing global organization. Blair got her start at a staffing agency, which she recommends for anyone starting a career in re...

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Dennis Kaps, Director of Talent Acquisition at Ferrara Candy Company to talk about his long TA career, his experience in several different industries, and where he sees talent acquisition heading in the future. Dennis got his start in recruitment back in college at the Ohio State University, where he was recruiting...

Shelley Radford, VP of Talent Acquisition at The Wonderful Company joins the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast on this episode, and she shares with host Ryan Dull stories about her career path, how it led to her role at Wonderful, and her thoughts on being entrepreneurial versus being centralized in a large organization. Shelly started at a staffing agency where she learned the ins and outs of th...

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast Lisa Hammond , Senior Vice President of Global HR at Allscripts and Steve Mahoney , Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Allscripts, join host Ryan Dull to talk about their careers in HR and TA, how Covid affected the talent market, and the explosive growth the talent acquisition profession is seeing today. Lisa brings experience with H...

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, Geri Kalinsky, Global Head of Talent Acquisition and Internal Mobility at Warner Music Group, joins host Ryan Dull to talk about her career path, including stops in the fashion and media industries, her role at her current position in the music industry, and why she chose to work in a variety of industries to make her better at talent acqu...

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, Tom Atkinson , Senior Director, Talent Acquisition at Hospital for Special Surgery , joins host Ryan Dull to talk about his experience as a TA leader at HSS, the challenges he faces on a daily basis, and how he and his team have worked through those challenges. HSS has a staff of over 5,000 and is still growing. They perform more than 30,0...

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull is joined by Lance Sapera , VP, Talent Acquisition at Talend to talk about his background in the Navy, his career path since joining the civilian ranks, and his experiences in building and improving a global TA company. After an 18-year career working mostly in operations and deployment in squadrons and carrier battle groups...

On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, Kat Brignano , Vice President Talent Acquisition at Vituity , joins host Ryan Dull to talk about her career path, changes she has seen in recruiting and in business in general since the Covid pandemic turned the world upside down, and the major changes she sees on the horizon in the world of recruiting. Kat started her career working in no...

Tony Cornett , Senior Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition at The Trade Desk , got into recruiting by accident when he went to interview for a job and found out there was a recruiting job open that paid more. He quickly fell in love with the things that most recruiters fall in love with—the research of the hunt, the tenacity needed to press forward, and the tying together business objectives...

In this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Jose Carbia , Vice President Global Talent Acquisition at Change Healthcare to talk about his long career in recruiting. Today, Jose is using his experience to transform the culture at Change Healthcare to one of true diversity through awareness, attraction, and accountability. Jose believes that an organization sho...

In this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull chats with Vaishali Saxena , Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Coforge , about her career path shift from HR to talent acquisition, and how she finds TA to be much more interesting. Vaishali lays out the process she developed when she began her current role at Coforge, including how she brought the historically outsour...

In this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull connects with Eran Arbel, Assistant Director of Leadership & Talent Acquisition Management at Florida International University, to talk about his long career in recruiting and organizational development. After getting his start with large public sector organizations, Eran finds himself back at his alma mater, FIU, and he...

In this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull sits down with Aryeh Lehrer, VP of Talent Management & Acquisition at Comcast. He discusses his career and how he and his company are adapting to the massive changes that are occurring in the talent acquisition space. Aryeh believes that in today’s environment you have to look at more than just external recruiting. He fo...

On this episode of Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, your host Ryan Dull of SageMark HR interviews Robin Linn , Senior Director, Creative Talent Acquisition of Activision | Blizzard | King. Robin dives into his career in the recruitment industry, especially his current role recruiting in the animation and gaming industry. Having grown up in the shadow of Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, animation has...

Denise Bonder, VP of Talent Acquisition at Spring Education Group , joins host Ryan Dull of SageMark HR on this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast. She talks about her career and the new and ever-changing challenges she sees in recruiting and hiring talent in today’s world. Denise has had an interesting career path including stops at the Wonderful Company (Fiji Water), where she bui...