Talent and Growth - The Talent Acquisition Podcast

Uptake Strategies advocate and live an authentic culture of kindness in their business, which has yielded phenomenal results, both in terms of the company's high performance and attraction/retention. In this episode, Chelsea talks us through the following: How a culture of kindness has been implemented What does that mean day today? How they have built a high-performance business alongside a kind...

Matt has recently released a new book called Digital Talent, which focuses on the disrupted and technology-enabled world of work we now live in and how HR professionals' ability to attract, recruit and retain people with digital skills can be the difference between business success and failure. A big focus of this book is of course, recruitment automation, so Matt and I delve into this and the fol...

Micro Focus International plc is a British multinational software and information technology business based in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The firm provides software and consultancy. Gemma Cuff is the Head of EMEA Talent Acquisition for Micro Focus. Gemma is responsible for developing and leading the EMEA-wide Talent Acquisition team while ensuring that the company’s recruitment strategy is deliv...

Rohan works as Director of People & Talent at Carbon Clean, an established global leader in industrial carbon capture solutions helping essential, but hard-to-abate, industries decarbonise. Their innovative solutions significantly reduce the costs and environmental impacts of carbon capture compared to conventional technologies. Away from work, Rohan is a Trustee for Mind, the mental heal...

Dare To Do More is a unique opportunity to compete for a rotational graduate position at PepsiCo by pitching ya big idea to industry experts! The Dare To Do More challenge invites final year students, recent graduates, and early professionals to capture, harness, and take their most innovative ideas to market, competing for a job to jumpstart their career at PepsiCo. Imene talks us through th...

Danny Heath is the Founder of YourGamePlan, a digital e-learning platform designed to give every student the confidence and start to pursue a professional career without going to uni. It's a great business that will do a lot for our world and future workforce. Danny shares his insights on how and why businesses should be engaging with schools and students for tomorrow's talent. We cover: The...

TechReturners aims to remove the barriers that returners of all ages, genders, and life circumstances face after a career break and, as a result, help to tackle the skills shortage in tech. Research shows that women who return to work can often be forced to return to lower-skilled or lower-paid jobs because of a lack of flexibility around family, paying the penalty for having a career break....

Tim Sackett, SHRM-SCP, is the President of HRUTech.com, a leading IT and Engineering Staffing firm headquartered in Lansing, MI. Tim has over 20 years of combined Executive HR and Talent Acquisition experience, working for Fortune 500 companies, and he has his master’s degree in HR Management. Tim is a highly sought-after international speaker on leadership, HR &TA Tech, talent acquisition, an...

Sian is an inspiring, authentic, and "human-centered" HR professional & expert. Currently, Sian works at Kyowa Kirin, a Japanese pharma group that develops innovative specialty drugs to raise the health and well-being of people around the world. In this episode, you will find out: What strictly a human-centred business looks like The initiatives that Kyowa Kirin have put in place to look after...

Adrian is a Senior Human Resource, Talent Acquisition, and Resourcing Director with experience across the Pharmaceutical, Banking, Civil Service & Public Sector and Transportation Industries and directly managing large teams in large scale environments (up to 420,000 staff) and across multiple countries and cultures. After leaving the most senior recruitment role in the UK Civil Service, I now...

Jess is the Head of Talent at Fathom, an exciting business that focuses on creating the most detailed, accurate, and comprehensive flood risk data, covering the entire planet. The data are being used by numerous groups worldwide to transform risk assessment, planning decisions, emergency preparedness, and disaster response. Jess is so passionate about business culture, and having had plenty of sta...

Since HelloFresh was founded in 2011 in Europe’s vibrant tech hub, Berlin, they have become the world's leading meal kit provider, delivering to over 4.2 million households worldwide in 16 countries across three continents. More than 15,000 employees from over 75+ nationalities are the heart and soul of their fast-paced and dynamic environment where innovation and intelligent, fast action is encou...

Hessie has been involved in and led HR & People functions for over eight years, including working at Starling Bank, British Gas & Sedna. Within SEDNA’s digital workspace, individuals can seamlessly collaborate and execute with increasing speed while delivering a single source of truth for the whole organization through one integrated system. SEDNA is email reimagined, built with intelligen...

Hung is a bit of a legend in the recruiting and talent acquisition space. He has over 15 years of experience as an agency recruiter w is the founder of the award-winning online recruiting platform WorkShape.io. He is now the Editor and Community builder at Recruiting Brainfood - the best weekly newsletter in recruitment. Do not miss this episode if you want to know what's going on in the market, w...

James is a hands-on Talent Acquisition Leader with over 18-years of strategic and operational leadership experience in internal and external talent acquisition. While TA leadership has been a constant throughout, this capability has been augmented with a hands-on talent for executive search. This has enabled James to provide a robust understanding of strategic, operational, and tactical requiremen...

Jo Taylor is the Managing Director of Let's Talk Talent, a reputable Talent, and Organisational Development Consultancy. They help businesses unlock the potential of their people. Giving talent the best career development in your business could be the answer to solid retention. In this episode, we cover: An overview of the landscape in the war for talent How the definition of career development ha...

Greg is quite simply an absolute legend in recruitment. He is the founder of two $100 M Recruitment businesses, an investor in several more, and on 16 recruitment boards. He is the author of the best-selling book The Savage Truth and the Founder of The Savage Recruitment Academy. Today's episode could have been called How To Recruit because Greg gives so much advice and helpful knowledge. We...

Lou is the CEO and founder of The Adler Group – a consulting and training firm helping companies implement "Win-Win Hiring" programs using his Performance-based Hiring℠ system for finding and hiring exceptional talent. More than 40 thousand recruiters and hiring managers have attended his ground-breaking workshops over the past 20 years. Lou is one of THE most influential people in HR and recruiti...

Sophie is a Head of People with extensive experience in the UK, Europe, APAC, and the USA, managing teams responsible for hiring >400 technical heads per annum. From a recruitment background, Sophie has been involved with many broad Talent and HR initiatives, including leading employer branding, talent acquisition, onboarding, resource management, and workforce planning. Sophie is used to worki...

Angela joined Veeam in 2019. She has bought 20 years of Global Employer Brand experience from the agency and in-house roles. Since joining Veeam, she now looks after Global Employer Brand, Engagement, and DE&I globally. She is responsible for an incredible team of people across these specialisms in different geos worldwide and loves her job! She focuses on building and leading the people strat...

Tim Sharp is the Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Takeda. He has an absolute wealth of experience in agency, internal and on every other side of recruitment you can find. Plus, he is a top bloke. There may be a time when your business decides that an RPO is the right way to go, and in this episode, Tim describes the how's, the why's, and the what's from his expertise. We covered the following:...

Karthika is a senior People and Talent leader with 9+ years of experience. Working with some of the fastest-growing tech SME’s globally, Karthika started her career in recruitment and developed her skills over the years in the world of people operations to become a senior leader. She has a master's degree in Organisational psychology. She works with organizations that are implementing/ developing...

Steve Norton is a Head of Talent Acquisition with several decades’ experience in talent acquisition and talent management. Steve has recruited in 30 countries around the world, starting out in executive search before switching to a corporate career 15 years ago. He is an experienced career coach with strong personal values, who believes strongly that the world of talent acquisition needs to signif...

Phil is currently head of talent at Hackajob, an online recruitment platform focused on giving candidates and clients an effective way to start relevant conversations and reach their potential, as well as a host of the DevLab podcast and a keen advocate of any initiatives to solve the digital skills gap. In this episode we cover how to fix the tech talent shortage with internal mobility, this is a...

Janine joined Leyton in March 2021, bringing broad industry experience and deep technical expertise.  Janine leads Talent Acquisition and is responsible for the strategy and delivery of all things TA-related, from attraction and assessment to talent strategy and digital transformation.  In her spare time, Janine is an enthusiastic gym-goer, an avid reader, and loves a good night out, esp...