Talent and Growth - The Talent Acquisition Podcast

BVNK is an innovative banking and payments business built on crypto for the digital economy. They have been on an incredible growth journey this year, scaling from 30 to 120 and maintaining their culture as a focal point of their hiring process. They ensure they bring in the right people who add to their culture. Isabel has been an integral part of that journey and is here to share exactly how the...

John runs a successful business called Inventive Games, based in Edinburgh. He aims to make his company the best in the world to work for. Why? Because if he looks after his people, then his business will succeed. We covered: What is it like to work in Incentive Why it’s so important to listen to your people and make the business a great place to work The steps incentive have taken to become an in...

What is a People Manifesto? How do you create one? Is it right for your business? All of this is answered and more in this chat with Eleanor Gooding, the incredible passionate about people, People Director at Boost Drinks! We covered: What is a People Manifesto, and how do you create one Who should be involved in the process The impact a People Manifesto can have on your culture What is mean to th...

On this episode of Talent & Growth we’re getting ready for our first ever live event, which is less than a week away! The event is being held in support of Mind Charity, who promote mental health in the UK. The speakers have volunteered their time to talk to us and give us expert advice and insights to help us level up our skills as people-focussed professionals. Sign up to join the live event...

This episode of Talent & Growth is in preparation of our live event, happening at the Warner Brothers Discovery Offices in London on the 19th of October 2022. This community of talent acquisition and people professionals will be coming together to network and share their expertise with one another. To join our live event and hear from all of our incredible speakers, you can sign up here: https...

Helen is a highly experienced recruitment professional with in-house and agency expertise. She is passionate about talent acquisition, career advice and development, employer branding, creative candidate sourcing, and anything recruitment-related. Candidate feedback and experience are high on Helen’s agenda, and this is our topic for T&G. We covered: Why feedback is still an underemphasised el...

Margaret has grown her skills in full-cycle recruiting, strategic sourcing and stakeholder management in matrix organisations in 16 years of working for global technology and e-commerce brands (including Cisco, Microsoft, VMware, Expedia), tech start-ups ( Yieldify, King, Typeform) and in consulting (Avanade). Her other passion is coaching – she has helped thousands of job seekers worldwide to get...

Internal Mobility could be the way you save your people! An effective scheme is a win-win for your business and the people within it. Sarah explains precisely how to make this work and why we should do it. We covered: What internal mobility is and why it is so relevant in this market What sort of process we should internally to ensure everybody knows what jobs we have available How can we ensure t...

What should the modern recruiter look like? What tools must they have, what skills must they develop, and how should they brand themselves? Terri Lewis, Head of TA at Ubisoft, talks us through all this and more. We covered: How TA and Recruitment have evolved How recruiters should be working on their brand What good prospecting should look like How a good recruiter should be using data to influenc...

Remote Working opens up the workplace for everybody. Businesses do not realise who they may be excluded by ordering people back to the office. Hannah Litt is an incredible person and an Award Winning JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion) Resourcing Leader of Cultural Change. She was kind enough to share her journey, the benefits of remote-first culture and how to make it work. The bene...

Data is a powerful tool in the quest to deliver a continuously evolving and enjoyable candidate experience. Ruta from Tech scale up Kevin talks to us about exactly how to do this. We covered: What candidate experience should be How we can use data to evaluate how good our candidate experience offering is Some of the common issues which data shows about candidate experience The blueprint for a posi...

This is quite simply a phenomenal episode. Parul is captivating, inspiring and full of valuable perspective and advice.  Parul was good enough to share her own journey before linking into a topic she is incredibly passionate about - Neurodiversity. We covered: Parul's journey around being diagnosed with ADHD How to create adverts which appeal to the neurodivergent talent pool How to ensure an...

Events can be a phenomenal way to attract new talent. They offer a different angle for potential candidates to engage and experience your brand. Michael has some great examples of how to make these events work, market them and follow up. We covered: Where to start when it comes to putting an event together What themes/topics draw the right audience How TA Teams can use events to leverage engagemen...

It is incredibly easy to lose engagement from your team with a broken promise here or an inconsistency there. And it is incredibly hard to bring people back from that. Sometimes, this is the team you inherit. June Gil has experienced great management and poor management herself and has used those experiences to be the best manager she can be and really focus on her people. June was kind enough to...

Aligning your Engineering Team (or any team!) with your business goals is incredibly important for productivity, accountability, purpose and happiness. Pete talked us through how to do this. We covered: The importance of aligning our teams with our business goals How we do it The impact it has on morale, accountability and motivation How to use data correctly A real-life example of how Pete has tr...

Hiring is an art in itself and it is incredibly important that businesses get their processes in place as soon as possible to that they can attract the best people into their businesses and work as efficiently as possible. Jonathan has a wealth of experience in recruitment and talent acquisition and helps businesses get where they need to be in terms of hiring. We covered: When a business should i...

Andy has done a fantastic job with his teams, transforming skillsets, capabilities and cultures. In this chat, he shares exactly how. We covered: How to identify the change needed in engineering teams, both in terms of skillsets and culture How to empower your developers How to get your team committed to projects and committed to upskilling How to create a healthy working culture? Advice for other...

Supporting the wellness of the people in your business, who, by the way, is your most important commodity, is crucial for any business. Kel cares about people, and she has an incredible amount of experience in looking after them and creating environments which enable them to be the best versions of themselves. We covered: How to create a wellness program How to create different elements which appe...

Hiring the right people can make or break your business. Charles found out the hard way what happens if you don’t get the right people in and has since used that experience to help him get the right people through the door. Charles is the Founder & CEO of Legislate, a legal tech company he started in April 2020 in Oxford to make contracts machine readable using patented knowledge graph technol...

Rich Chapple is the CEO of The Growth Foundation. As former Head of Marketing at play.com , Founder & CEO at THG Ingenuity and CMO at Gymshark, he helped grow all three into unicorn companies. With 20 years of experience in DTC eCommerce, he is an expert at unlocking huge, profitable and sustainable growth for start-ups, scale-ups and established businesses. We covered: At what point should a...

Emma is one of the most inspirational guests we have had on Talent & Growth. She is the Founder of Radical Recruit, a not-for-profit recruitment consultancy that exists to excite, agitate and shake things up in the recruitment industry. They represent the UK’s most diverse ‘hidden’ talent, help employers do recruitment better and create real and lasting social change. Emma helps us to diversif...

Garry is a People / HR leader with 15 years + of experience leading teams across multiple disciplines, including Talent Acquisition, Employee Engagement, Internal Communications and HR Central Operations; however now entirely focused on Inclusion, Diversity and Equity. In this episode, we talk around the how’s and why’s of building an inclusive culture, and Garry shares some of the challenges he h...

Alia leads the Sales recruitment team in EMEA for ServiceNow, the defining Enterprise Software of the 21st century. Her team’s mission is to fuel ServiceNow's growth by building diverse & high-performing teams. Her leadership philosophy fosters a sense of belonging for all so they can do their best work. In this episode, we all things diversity and hiring. We covered: We covered: The responsib...

Charlie is the Founder of Ok Positive, a business-to-business Mental Health application designed to reduce the effects of Mental Health issues in the workplace (anxiety, stress, depression) and support end-users with their day-to-day Mental Health, creating a happier, loyal and more productive workforce. Mental Health costs £35 billion a year to the UK economy. While there is awareness, there is n...

Tash is the Founder of Slip, an award-winning start-up looking to humanise how we do digital receipts and customer information. Their innovative technology provides a robust solution for consumers and retailers to transform transactions and receipt waste into meaningful interactions. As well as an excellent product, Tash is passionate about building a diverse business. In this episode, we will foc...