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Rob draws on his two years of WFH experience to help you make the transition into a remote worker.  App: Forest Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear

Jill Macri, Co-Founder of Growth by Design Talent and former Director of Global TA at AirBnB, joins to discuss the common gaps she finds in talent organizations, and how to remedy them. Rob wonders how much one is directing their own career if they spend it responding to sourcing emails.

Nihal explains how Rubicon project has built an inbound engine via referrals and employer branding content, as well as how they identified which areas of their hiring process were ripe for being automated by HR tech vendors.

Tara explains how to crack open tough interviewees, glean multi-faceted insight from their answers, and how to use it to arm their bosses once they've been hired. Rob falls prey to her wily interviewing techniques, to devastating therapeutic effect.

Hired CEO Mehul Patel joins to discuss the findings of Hired's 2020 State of Software Engineers report, which compiles data from 400,000 job offers made to 98,000 job seekers across 13 cities on the Hired platform. Access the full report here: https://hired.com/state-of-software-engineers

Mothership's Director of Talent, Lauren Goodman, and Recruiter, Juno Cheng, join to discuss interview training, assessing for culture fit, and how to translate the 5 love languages into your employees' preferences for interpersonal communication.

Lesa explains how to build trust and productive relationships with engineering hiring managers, as well as the advantages recruiters at small companies have over larger ones.

Bao explains his non-standard career path in recruiting as well as his current recruitment marketing approach at Just Auto Insurance.

Abby joins to discuss recruitment career planning, shifting from an individual contributor role into management, and ingratiating yourself with hiring managers.

Alex explains how to help a candidate identify and work towards their career priorities, as well as how to make sure you don't lose out on compensation when you get to the offer stage.

Kelli Johnson discusses recruiter load balancing, the responsibilties recruiting ops at VSCO, and how VSCO handles compensation negotiation.

Miki Johnson co-founded employer branding creative studio JobPortraits, which helps companies devise and execute content strategies to engage with prospective employees. She explains how candidates are skeptical of current employer branding language, and how people value work based on three basic principles: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose.

Doreen discusses optimal outreach strategies, how to make remote workers feel like they're a part of the team, and how to approach the compensation conversation.

Ginny Cheng joins to discuss side hustles, career planning for recruiters, and how to identify what's important to you about your next role.

Kelly Kinnard's triumphant return to the pod features a discussion about why recruiters should specialize, as well as the best times to use retained search.

Enjoy Technologies Head of Recruiting Brandon Wadley joins to discuss his program of turning customer experts into recruiters, as well as the job preview portion of Enjoy's interview process.

Peloton's Tech Recruiting Manager Will Blaze and Glossier's Head of Recruiting Christian Fabros join Rob for a live show in NYC to discuss culture interviews, must-haves vs nice-to-haves, and how to get the most out of talent consultants.

Adam Ward explains how to distill core compentencies from company values and assess for them in a dedicated cultural interview, as well as the common problems he's helping Heads of Talent address.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab Head of TA Lisa Sherman and Snap's Employer Brand Manager Rylan Miller feature in a live episode from the Santa Monica Playhouse.

Andon discusses how to make metrics jump off the slide deck, and how he's worked to create a learning environment amongst his team.

Clara discusses personal career pathing, the scalable processes she's put in to place at Root, and how she's rebranded recruiters as Candidate Experience Managers.

Jonathan explains how to set up an external agency for success, as well as how to balance the need to conduct high level talent planning projects while still hitting headcount goals.

Adrianna discusses how to sniff out unconscious bias in interview feedback, how to make sure you and your team are developing, and what she looks for in new recruiting hires.

Greg Russell discusses what he's looking for in a sourcer, as well as whether or not ATS products are adequately serving what recruiters need in terms of reporting.