Talk Talent To Me

In support of Hired's 2018 Global Brand Health Report, we assembled a panel of top leaders who are setting the standard for employer branding. TA Pros from AirBnB, Facebook, Dropbox, & Zillow discuss who's responsible for employer brand, how to measure it, and the important of internal mobility.

Brex's Director of Recruiting Richard Garcia joins to discuss how he's building his team, the value of budgeting your time, and how to not be a bottleneck to the rest of your team.

Crunchbase's Director of Recruiting shares how to manage being the first recruiting hire, as well as what to expect from CEO interviews, what ideal interview feedback looks like, and how to conquer imposter syndrome.

Alex explains how shuffling up the interview cycle has resulted in a far better close rate, as well as her team's approach of shifting away from a sourcing quota in the interest of having fewer, but more meaningful, candidate interactions.

Mode's Director of People & Talent Bailey Douglass explains the company's commitment to equal pay, how to reel in overzealous hiring managers, and why Sales Recruiting is harder than Tech Recruiting.

Raj discusses how his recruiting team functions as a business within a business, as well as how he calculates confidence indices on employees they've hired to improve the interview process and recalibrate internal ideas about what makes a great candidate.

Viet Nguyen, One Medical's Head of Technical Recruitment, explains the successes he's seen giving candidates the choice to conduct a "reverse interview", as well as how to assess for whether a candidate's over-reliance on a soft skill makes them a risky hire.

Michelle Egan and Kim Donegan, Recruitment & Sourcing Specialists at Edwards Lifesciences, explain how they've taken on the employee referral program, live events, and have prioritized hiring by grouping hires into "Job Families"

Technical and Talent Leadership from top London employer brands discuss how to measure employer brand, whether culture or mission is more important, who is responsible, and how retention and career development tie in.

Matt Hughes makes his glorious return to TTTM! He walks us through his new HR/recruiting hybrid role, sourcing playbook, getting Gigster hooked on recruiting data, and his impressive progress cutting down speed to hire.

Jeff and Rob discuss the importance of building and constantly updating a capacity model, the most important metrics, and how recruiters play a crucial role in generating close-ready candidates.

Recruiting Manager for Virgin Hyperloop One, Greg Toroosian, explains how his team hires specifically to fulfill immediate projects and business needs, rather than hiring "opportunistically" when a particularly talented person comes along. He further unpacks the candidate experience and business impact of this approach.

Dakotta explains the distribution of his recruitment team across 10 (!!!) different offices, how they use standardized dashboards to track individual performance, and the in-depth analysis he's conducting within Google Analytics to optimize conversion.

Jacqui and Rob discuss how Greenhouse will put it's recent funding towards hiring, how to conduct impactful (and well-attended) interview training, eliminating technical skill bias in culture interviews, and the three different buckets her KPIs fit into.

Uber's Head of Engineering Recruitment, Craig Campbell, explains his team's process of ensuring inclusivity by assessing for it in the interview stage.

Becky discusses how to manage internal candidate mobility in terms of bias and candidate experience, why "slate interviewing" is better than "iterative interviewing", and what her new Recruiting Ops team is responsible for. Rob has a lukewarm take on coconuts.

CreativeMarket CTO Chris Winn explains how their company has grown to be comprised of 2/3rds remote workers, as well as how to hire them and train hiring managers to best lead them.

Payscale's VP of Content Strategy Lydia Frank shares data about who's asking for raises, whether they get them, and how recruiters can institute processes that ensure fairness in every aspect of people management.

Hired's own SVP of People Ops Kelli Dragovich joins to discuss how to achieve alignment amongst hiring managers when it's time to prioritize hires.

Head of TA for SAP Cloud Computing, Tony Cornett, discusses his company's diversity hiring efforts in terms of providing education, opportunity, and focusing on neurodiversity sourcing.

This episode of Talk Talent To Me is the entirety of a panel discussion on wage inequality, featuring Payscale's VP of Content Strategy Lydia Frank, Zillow's VP of Culture & Community Rebekah Bastian, and former Head of Hustle at Ladies Get Paid, Sage Quiamno.

Director of People & Talent at TrustToken Kerry Fischer walks us through getting referrals from unlikely places, turning down candidates with aplomb, and the new multi-faceted talent role she's hiring for.

Eli Hamel discusses how Patreon is tackling their diversity hiring goals, how to measure your team's interview quality, and how he's conducting sentiment analysis on interview feedback to identify possible unconscious bias.

Womply's Director of Talent Acquisition Kathy Razvan explains how she revamped an entire sales hiring process, as well as the ideal relationship between recruitment, HR, and key stakeholders.

Segment's Senior Business Recruiting Lead discusses how her team prioritizes candidates who are most likely to accept an offer based on a deep dive into candidate motivations.