Talent and Growth - The Talent Acquisition Podcast

Dayo is the founder of Wisdom, a new, VC-funded, social audio app on a mission to democratise access to mentorship and create an open and diverse community centred on conversational knowledge-sharing. In March 2022, Wisdom was named Apple's App Store App of the Day. Dayo started as an IT Management Consultant at Accenture and Deloitte. Subsequently, driven by the lack of diversity in London’s tech...

A business MUST invest in its employer branding to attract and retain talent. That’s the view of Dani Saadu, one of my favourite people to talk to about people! And business! And culture! And Arsenal. Dani gives us some great advice on exactly how to utilise your branding in the right way. We covered: The definition of branding The difference between branding and EVP The importance of employer bra...

Katrina Collier  is on a mission to end the collaboration chaos that ruins recruitment and candidate experience; exacerbated by hybrid working. She is one of 2 people globally delivering design-thinking  workshops specifically for recruitment, that swiftly help companies fix the real issues preventing successful talent acquisition. She is also a  Mentor , Author of  The Robot-P...

The UK is amidst a pioneering and monumental trial of a four-day work week. Goosechase was ahead of the curve and implemented this over a year ago. We were joined by their CEO, Andrew Cross, to talk us through it. GooseChase is an online platform that helps organisers create and run digital scavenger hunt experiences through players' mobile devices. GooseChase digital scavenger hunts are commonly...

Joey has spent over 15 years in the HR Industry. He started as a Human Resources Assistant and ended up in the boardroom as a Chief Executive Officer of an HR consulting firm. Jumpstart: HR. specialise in HR consulting for small businesses and startups. As the CEO of Jumpstart: HR, Joey has earned many recognitions, one of which is being named "Top 30 HR Professional Under 30" by SHRM's HR Magazin...

Putting together a comp plan is SO important when it comes to attraction, retention and also when it comes to running your business efficiently! But where do you start? Luckily we have Jessie Zwaan in to tell us all about it. Jessie is the COO of Whereby and believes that how your team works together is your most significant competitive advantage. Jessie tries to leverage that advantage as Chief O...

Rassam is the creator of the live talk show Recruiters InDa House and TA Director at Doctolib. He emphasises creating and building brands to be the most effective at talent acquisition and is incredibly good at it. Employer brand, team brand, JOB brand...we go through it all and Rassam’s invaluable advice for anybody wanting to get better at their job when it comes to attraction or retention. We c...

The candidate experience has never been important as right now, which is why we invited Paul Abercrombie to talk us through his blueprint for success all round. We covered: The fundamentals of a good candidate experience How job specs and everything else play into the experience How the application process should work What a great interview process looks like How do we continue the positive experi...

Adam has done it all in recruitment, even building an incredible recruitment marketing tool called Candidate. ID, which was recently acquired by iCIMS. Adam regularly co-hosts Recruiting Brainfood Live, occasionally blogs for RecruitingDaily and is on the advisory board for TATech. We covered: What do we mean by talent pipeline, and what do actual good practices look like? What's the difference be...

Milimo Banji is 25 years old and the founder of leading social-first creative agency TapIn. TapIn was founded TapIn after Milimo pivoted from his Aerospace engineering degree because he wanted to build a business that made a positive impact on the lives of young people across the world. TapIn's mission - is to prepare 100 million young people for the world of work. TapIn won RAF Engineering as one...

Jan is the author of Full-Stack Recruiter, and in this episode, he gives some fantastic insights into what and who the modern recruiter needs to do and be.  We covered - What a Full Stack Recruiter is How TAs can improve their candidate outreach in this incredibly competitive market How to better engage passive candidates? Some LinkedIn hacks The blueprint for the perfect candidate process an...

Reckitt are huge manufacturing business with over 37000 employees! And today, we are talking to their Global Human Resources Director, Laia Estorach Cavaller, about the steps they have taken to become a more diverse & inclusive business. We covered: How much further do we need to go with driving diversity in business How Reckitt has worked on driving the diversity levels of their teams The ste...

So much emphasis is placed on building a business culture and making sure people align with the values, but in this podcast, we challenge some common beliefs around whether this is time well spent. We covered - The origins of business culture and three different types Whether culture is conducive to a high-performing and happy workforce The impact of business culture on innovation Whether shared v...

Lauren is an ex-Amazon marketing leader turned mindset coach, energy practitioner, podcast host, and strategic force to be reckoned with who’s on a mission to forge the emotionally influential female leaders of the future. Lauren's fantastic work has led her to become a LinkedIn Top Voice. Businesses need to do more to support female talent in their companies, which we discussed in this episo...

How do we build a high performing yet safe engineering culture? One that encourages psychological safety, room to innovate and room to fail? Sam Mountford, CTO of tech-focused events marketplace Feast It, runs through exactly how in this episode of Talent & Growth. We covered: What do we mean by a safe engineering culture? How do we enable this in a start-up, which typically has a reputation f...

Cyril George is the Global Talent Acquisition Director for General Motors, an American multinational automotive manufacturing company. It is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, the largest automobile manufacturer based in the United States. It has around 70K staff and plans to make 13K hires in 2022. In this episode, you will find out: How an institution like General Motors with over 100 years of...

Neil spent years working as Director of Talent at Capgemini, overseeing a considerable hiring volume of niche technical talent. In a talent short market, Capgemini still managed to hire in the 1000s! What it's like working as Director of Talent for a company with the scale and prestige of Capgemini An insight into the incredible volume of hires Capgemini makes How and when to push back to stakehol...

Wouldn't everybody like to reduce agency usage? Rekha and Armakuni have done a fantastic job with this, going from 100% depending on agencies to just 10%! Find out how as we covered: How Rekha has gone to market with direct sourcing techniques How a positive candidate experience should look like Advice to other businesses as to how they can also reduce agencies How and when businesses SHOULD engag...

Craig Fisher Is the founder of employer brand and recruitment tech strategy firm, TalentNet Media. He has led Global Marketing, Employer Brand, and Recruiting Innovation at Allegis Global Solutions - North America’s largest RPO and staffing company. He has led talent acquisition teams at the Fortune 500 level owning recruitment process, marketing, and technology. His digital branding methods...

Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalize benefits and rewards. ‍How? By marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee MasterCard and financial infrastructure. The Ben platform enables employee choice for any existing benefits program while adding thousands of additional options while saving time and money. Sebastian is their CEO & Co-Founder and will ta...

Getting that balance right between looking after your people and keeping your culture high performing can be tough to navigate, but Emma was good enough to share precisely how System1Group does it in this episode. System1 Research was founded in 2000 and pioneered behavioural science to predict better marketing that guarantees profitable growth. It’s been named ‘Most Innovative Company’ by GreenBo...

Asif Sadiq MBE, Senior Vice President, Head of Equity and Inclusion, International Asif is the Senior Vice President at WarnerMedia for Equity and Inclusion, International; he was previously the Global Head of Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Impact at Adidas and had a long and prosperous career in the diversity and inclusion space with senior executive roles at The Telegraph Media Group, EY...

Shereen is the author of the forthcoming book The Anti-Racist Organization: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace (Wiley, 2022), founder + Managing Director of HR rewired, and Chair of the African Diaspora Economic Inclusion Foundation. An advocate for anti-racism in business, Shereen champions racial equity in the workplace. Shereen is not about diversity - Shereen is about anti-racism! In...

Chad is one half of HRs most dangerous podcast, Chad & Cheese. An Army Infantry Drill Sergeant, cut his teeth in online recruiting in ’98 with Online Career Center before it was launched in ’99 as Monster.com. He helped build DirectEmployers from the ground up, steered RecruitMilitary toward revenue as CXO, and built Randstad’s very first military veteran hiring program. Today you can find him...

With over 26,000 different types of worktech out there in the market, how do you know which software is right for your business? William and I have you covered. Well, William does. He is the absolute man when it comes to worktech and this was a fascinating conversation. We covered: What are the tasks that recruiters are still doing which should be automated? What are the starting points for decidi...