The Hiring Enablement Podcast

In episode 38 of The Hiring Enablement Podcast, Gavin Speirs sits down with Infinate Talent's Nate Wylie to talk about the power of alignment and collaboration during a hiring process.

In epsiode 37 of The Hiring Enablement Podcast, Gavin Speirs sits down with Whistleblower Software's Magnus Hansen to discuss hiring landscape in the startup and scale-up world.

In the bustling start-up world, diversity, culture, and leadership play vital roles in building the foundation of a business. So in the latest episode of The Hiring Enablement Podcast, we're excited to have Kat Steinmetz, Partner at Initialized Capital to help us dive deep into culture and leadership in the start-up world. With a diverse background in Human Resources, Talent Development, and now i...

In this episode of The Hiring Enablement Podcast join us as we talk to Conor Sweeney, Global Head of People Strategy / Interim Head of Global Corporate Real Estate at Weightwatchers, to dig into all things people and business strategy – and alignment.   With a background working in corporate real estate, talent development, and HR, Conor has seen it all in the business world. So, just weeks after...

It’s the first episode of the newly named Hiring Enablement podcast, and in this bonus episode, we have an exciting announcement to make!     We’re joined by Solutions Driven CEO Gavin Speirs to speak about Solutions Driven’s new concept: Hiring Enablement.     In this podcast, Gavin talks to host Claire Murray about the advent of sales enablement and the parallels between that and the recruitment...

Hands up if you work remotely or spend at least some of the week working from home?     As increasing numbers of us look for more flexible working arrangements, it’s clear how we hire, train, and develop people is changing – and will keep shifting.     So, who better to discuss this changing world than someone whose skills span talent and development, training, headhunting, and much more?     In e...

Picture the scene... You’re at final stage interviews for a Talent Manager role. During the interview, the CEO, your potential new boss, says “I don’t really believe in Talent Management”...  What do you do? Run away? Take the job? Try and bring him round to your way of thinking?   In the latest episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Current Lighting’s Courtney Abraham tells us how she dealt...

In episode 31 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Alan McFadden sits down with Brian Aquart, Host of the "Why I Left" podcast and VP of Workforce & Community Education at Northwell Health to discuss:  Employee engagement  Why people leave their roles  The importance of flexible working  And much more 

We’re 30!! Over the last couple of years, we’ve somehow managed to get 30 incredible guests to take part in The Talent Intelligence Podcast. Everyone from tech CEOs to Diversity Officers have graced our ears and every single guest has imparted insights to help us and our listeners navigate the world of HR, Talent, and employee development.   So, for the 30th episode, we’re delighted to welcome Ele...

Coaching. It’s a topic that has come up a lot across both our podcasts and in many talent conversations lately.   As many businesses scale back their hiring plans, they’re doubling down on ensuring they retain their best talent, and fail fast when it comes to hiring.   And one company that excels at coaching their team is Cognism – a data and intelligence provider that helps sales and marketing te...

What do you get when you cross a UX/UI designer with a human resources expert and DE&I activist?   A pretty solid candidate user journey...  This episode’s guest on The Talent Intelligence Podcast is the ever-talented Stella Bailleux, change practitioner, IT recruiter, and UX Designer.   Stella is currently working at Upday, a rapidly growing technology and media company that strives to contri...

  “What effect does my behaviour have on the people around me?”   This was one of the main talking points of the latest Talent Intelligence Podcast where host Alan McFadden sat down with Sara Milesson, VP of HR at Trelleborg.   Clearly someone who has done a lot of self-reflection on her leadership style, Sara admits that she can come across as intimidating – but she’s put the time and effort into...

rom selling cutlery door to door at 17 to enterprise B2B, Ethan Parker has sold it all.   Now VP of Sales at Outbound Squad, there’s little he doesn’t know about prospecting and closing.   Or coaching.   Because Ethan doesn’t keep his insights to himself. He’s an outbound sales coach and trainer for B2B reps and sales teams, trains his own internal team, and appears on podcasts like ours’ to discu...

How do you go from a rollerdisco to being a top sports coach?  Is attitude more important than talent?  How do you get comfortable with being uncomfortable?  In the latest episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Alan McFadden sits down with Andrew Sillitoe, performance psychologist, speaker, and founder of multiple businesses to discuss the psychology behind being a top performer.  Andrew is a...

Are Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z really all that different when it comes to workplace culture?   Don’t we all just want to be a good boss and have a good boss?   How do you help your team outgrow you?   In the latest episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, host Allen McFadden sits down with Petra Skoglund, Chief People and Culture Officer at Starstable to discuss all these questions.   Petra...

Being “always on” is exhausting if you’re a small recruitment team. Always screening CVs, always staying late to interview overseas candidates, always with a mile long to do list.   But it doesn’t have to be like that.   We all know that 2023 is going to be a big year for business. And a tough year — with huge global changes making trading conditions difficult for some.   So how do you ensure your...

Recruitment is behind in the tech race.  If you look at the average organisation’s sales or marketing teams, they’ll (usually) have a sophisticated tech stack that’s used continually to get better results and streamline their processes.   However, their recruiting tech stack isn't always so advanced. Many businesses are still recruiting by email, using to-do lists to manage their pipeline, and doi...

What do you get when you cross a love for business, a passion for people, and a curious nature? A career that looks like Kate Terrell’s. From working at established companies like Accenture and Whirlpool to taking on the challenge of a later-stage, start up at Menlo Security, Kate has worked across every part of management, HR, Talent, Organizational Effectiveness, and Change Management. In her cu...

From banking, to HR, to talent, to retention, to author – there's very little Trent Cotton can’t do.   The Senior Global Director of Talent Acquisition and Retention and author of multiple business books got into the talent sphere after realising he could recruit better than his recruiters.   And after attending a seminar on AGILE methodology, he realised that his human-first recruitment philosoph...

If you’ve ever been in the market for an ATS, you’ll have heard of Greenhouse . A powerhouse in the hiring software space, they’re used by huge names like Hubspot, Wayfair, and Squarespace to solve many of their talent challenges.   And Greenhouse are also a great place to work. They’ve been named as Inc Magazine’s Best Workplace for 5 years in a row, Glassdoor’s #1 Best Place to Work, and in Mogu...

How often do you go to a party, walk up to a stranger and say “hey, I’m Fred/Mary. I’m a really fast runner, I’m the best at baking, and I am brilliant at recruiting”.   That would be weird right? So why do we do it in our outreach?   Whether you’re a recruiter engaging candidates, a salesperson prospecting, or a party guest trying to make friends, most people don’t care about your “pitch”.   Or a...

A few weeks ago, we held a round table with HR & TA leaders about the changes taking place in recruitment across the world. The forum is private so because we can't broadcast it, we decided to get one of our incredible panelists, Beatriz Luca De Tena to join us on our podcast to talk about her experiences. From studying psychology, working with Johnson & Johnson, being employed in...

In this bonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we invited on the man who kicked it all off; Walter Speirs, COO and Founder of Solutions Driven. The topic? Candidate care. Because, when Walter founded Solutions Driven 24 years ago, he did so thinking of the candidate. While we don’t collect CVs or work on behalf of prospective employees, we believe treating them well is why we’re still g...