The Changing State of Talent Acquisition

This week we welcome Prem Kumar to the podcast. Before co-founding Humanly, an Y Combinator-accelerated startup focused on improving the efficiency of candidate screening, scheduling, and engagement at scale, Prem spent ten tears at Microsoft, where he was responsible for delivery and operations of all software initiatives for the organization’s HR portal. He also served as Director of Product at...

This week we welcome Lucy Williams to the podcast. Lucy's distinguished career in talent acquisition spans more than twenty years, with stints at such organizations as RP International, IBM, and most recently, Visa, where she led a team as Regional TA Director for Central Europe, Middle East and Africa. Topics include: the similarities and differences between talent acquisition functions in U...

This week we welcome Bas van de Haterd back to the podcast (our first repeat guest!). Bas proudly identifies as a “professional snoop” — a title that captures his more than 15 years of experience as an HR consultant, candidate assessment and experience expert, and frequent conference speaker.  Topics include: the problems with using questionnaire-based assessments in recruiting, why game-based ass...

This week we’re guest-free and begin with a recent ERE article about AI and screening bias, before unpacking an article from Bas van de Haterd about the future of digital assessments. Topics include: biases in screening and assessments, the ways in which AI can amplify (or minimize) the biases of the human recruiters who use them, the problem of training assessment tools on employee datasets that...

This week we welcome James Ellis to the podcast. A self-proclaimed employer branding "nerd", James is a leading voice in the world of talent branding, having led EB initiatives at GroupOn and Universum before assuming his latest role at Roku. He's also the author of several books, including "Talent Chooses You" and "The Employer Brand Handbook Volume 1: The Real World...

This week we welcome Ed Pedini to the podcast. Ed has worn numerous hats in the HR space, from practice director at an RPO helping start-ups scale their workforces, to Co-Founder of All2.io, an employee experience solution, to his current role as Director of Customer Success at Seekout, an AI-powered sourcing tool for recruiters.  Topics include: how establishing recruiting processes is different...

This week we welcome Adam Gordon to the podcast. Adam's career in talent acquisition spans more than twenty years, from his early days sourcing accountants as a frontline recruiter, to a stint at PWC as a consultant in the organisation's HR practice, to his current role as Co-Founder and CEO of Candidate. ID.  Topics include: the meaning of candidate nurturing, how to apply the marketing...

This week we discuss Google’s announcement of its plans to disrupt the higher education market by offering skill-focused certifications for as little as $49/month. We also announce our new initiative, EqualOpportunityHires.com, for bringing equal opportunity jobs to underrepresented talent where they already “live” online. Topics include: the fundamental issues facing American higher ed, the stigm...

This week we welcome Bas van de Haterd to the podcast. Bas proudly identifies as a “professional snoop” — a title that captures his more than 15 years of experience as an HR consultant, candidate assessment and experience expert, and frequent conference speaker.  Topics include: the myriad dimensions of candidate experience, how optimized career sites boost candidate conversion rates, the disconne...

This week we welcome Jody Ordioni to the podcast. Jody is Chief Brand Officer of Brandemix, founder of Achieve Engagement, and author of The Talent Brand, and award-winning book on structured approaches to brand building. Topics include: the value of viewing consumer and talent brands holistically, the limitations of content-first approaches to talent branding, the distinction between “employer” b...

This week we welcome Todd Davis to the podcast. Todd’s career spans more than 25 years in talent acquisition, from his current role as a Global Talent Executive at IBM, to leadership roles at Ancestry, Amazon, and WarnerMedia. Topics include: why HR lags behind other departments in analytic prowess, the limitations of focusing recruiting efforts on the top of the funnel (“we need more candidates”)...

This week we share our thoughts on the recent announcement regarding the Glassdoor/Indeed partnership, and discuss the results of a recent poll we conducted regarding LinkedIn’s Workforce Diversity Report. Topics include: what we know about the new Glassdoor/Indeed partnership, the migration of Glassdoor sponsored jobs to Indeed, what is likely to happen to existing Glassdoor sponsored jobs packag...

This week we start the show with a continuation of our ongoing discussion of candidate experience, and end with a deep-dive into our recent blog post, "Diversity and Inclusion Is Not an Employer Brand Strategy." Topics include: how job aggregators negatively impact the candidate experience, why Glassdoor has paused its job board partnership program, why quantity has historically trumped...

This week we welcome John Ambrosino to the podcast. John is Chief Employment Officer at Employing.us, and brings more than fifteen years of HR expertise to the table, ranging from payroll, to candidate experience, to reputation management. Topics include: why the “black hole” of candidate experience remains a persistent challenge, how candidate experience expectations and challenges vary by organi...

This week we discuss Gem’s recent “2020 Recruiting Trends Report.” Topics include: the continued dominance of LinkedIn as a sourcing tool, the lack of basic email click and open tracking among recruiting teams, why a majority of TA leaders don’t think they need to understand “marketing” to do their jobs effectively, the connection between employer brand and marketing, the challenge of finding qual...

This week we welcome Brad Markis to the podcast. Brad is an Instructor of People Analytics at the University of Toronto and a Director at McLean & Company. Topics include: why Fortune 500 organizations struggle to deploy sophisticated HR analytics programs, the importance of using business outcomes to guide your HR analytics strategy, why dashboards have exploded in popularity in recent years,...

This week we discuss our recent blog post, “Employer Branding for Entry Level Positions: How Your Most Satisfied Employees Should Guide Your Strategy” as well as a recent article by Bas van de Haterd entitled, “Future TA Skill: Ethic Advocates.” Topics include: the special considerations when developing an EVP for high volume recruiting, how Maslow’s hierarchy of needs should inform your employer...

This week we welcome our first guest to the show, Janine Nicole Dennis, Chief Innovations Officer of Talent Think Innovations. Janine’s career spans more than fifteen years in HR and Talent Acquisition and has taken her through the world of pharmaceuticals, healthcare, staffing and R&D. Her deep industry experience, combined with her upbringing as the child of a black NYPD sergeant, affords he...

This week we discuss our recently published HR Digital Transformation: 2020 Trends deck, with particular focus on how the pandemic is accelerating the pace of change for organizations of all sizes. Topics include: automation of recruitment team activities, gaining better insights on talent analytics, the importance of investing in employer brand, using social media to drive candidate engagement, a...

This week we discuss why the term ‘recruitment marketing agency’ has such a negative connotation in the talent acquisition world. We share our views of a flawed compensation model, and our own client frustrations that led us to start Change State.  Then we unpack Marty's own blog post, 'Candidate Experience and the Hidden Costs of Cheap Job Seeker Traffic,’ to highlight how the search fo...

This week we dive into our biggest learnings from our first year of bootstrapping Change State, our recruitment marketing agency. We highlight our focus on writing original content, the use (or overuse) of social media, explain a 'Jar of Awesome' and more.  Plus we unpack the article 'COVID-19 and the Great Re-Hiring' shared from VC-Firm Andreessen Horowitz's 'Softwar...