The Hiring Enablement Podcast

In episode 16 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Nicki Paterson talks to Megan Bowen, COO at Refine Labs.   Refine Labs have been blowing up the demand generation space for a while now so when Megan said she’d come on our podcast, we jumped at the chance.   Passionate about creating a successful culture at companies, Megan’s had an impressive career, working for the likes of Grubhub, Managed by Q...

In this bonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we sit down with Solutions Driven CEO Gavin Speirs and Chief Growth Officer Nicki Paterson to discuss all things embedded recruitment.   On the eve of Solutions Driven launching their new offering, SD Embedded, we look at why embedded is needed in the current market and the significance of this launch’s timing.   Nicki and Gavin dig into th...

Most people would probably be quite happy if they could turn water into beer. But in the case of Brewgooder, they want to do the exact opposite. Or at least, they used to… On episode 15, we talk to Alan Mahon, Co-Founder of craft beer Brewgooder, a beer company founded on providing clean drinking water to developing companies through their beer sales. In the last year, Brewgooder have changed dire...

Our latest guest on The Talent Intelligence podcast was the brilliant Laura Holcombe, Global Talent Acquisition Specialist at Reachdesk – a corporate gifting company taking customer and prospect engagement by storm. Working as an in-house recruiter, Laura knows all too well how tough recruitment is just now.  Which is why she hires like a BDR.  From brushing up on their hobbies and interests, to e...

Everyone talks about cold outreach in terms of sales. But you hardly hear anyone discussing how important it is for recruiters on the hunt for candidates.  Unless you talk to Lavender's Will Allred. If you haven't heard of Lavender, it's a tool that helps improve your emails, encouraging the right people to engage with you, whether you're in sales, marketing, or you're a recruiter reaching out to...

How many times have you heard people talking about their failure stories on LinkedIn? Or discussing how important hiring top talent is? Well, if you're Gong's Wendy Harris, perhaps too many times. Because for Wendy, she'd much rather hear about people who have succeeded than failed. And she'd prefer to hire someone with less talent and a greater work ethic, than the other way round.   That's just...

Think of 3D printing companies and Stratasys are usually high up on your list. So when their EMEA President Andreas Langfeld said he'd come on The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we were fairly excited.  After all, Stratasys are one of the founders of 3D printing, starting out in 1989 (!) and their product has been used to create designer couture that exhibited at The Met  a car made with fully 3D-pr...

Usually on The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we keep it pretty loose, chatting about culture, attitude, methods, and how to hire. But when Kristina Finseth said she’d be a guest, we knew that wouldn’t work. Kristina’s an absolute fountain of knowledge on the subject of outreach in recruitment, and if we’d started chatting, we’d never have stopped. So in this episode, we got Kristina to talk through...

This time (over) a year ago, we launched a brand new category - Recruitment Process Intelligence.  RPI was created to provide businesses with intelligence throughout the recruitment process and guarantee delivery of the right hire, first time, every time.  A year later and a year wiser, we grabbed CEO Gavin Speirs and sat down to revisit that podcast. We wanted to find out if our original goals ha...

Should leaders be the best performers in their team? Not if you ask Anthony Parker, General Manager EMEA at Mindtickle. According to him, if he's better than his team, it diminishes his abilities as both a leader and a coach. In episode 9 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Anthony sits down with our Head of Sales Anthony Parker to discuss: Growing and scaling Assessing talent The difference betwe...

You know when you have a call with someone and walk away with a sore neck after an hour of nodding in agreement?  That's what happened to our Head of Marketing, Claire Murray, and Head of Growth, Nicki Paterson, when they met with Ted Blosser, CEO of Workramp.  The Silicon Valley CEO ("Chief Enablement Officer" as he describes it) started Workramp with his co-founder Arsh Mand in 2015. Since then,...

The post-covid workplace with HR Professional Brian Almas  On episode 7 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we sat down with HR and Talent veteran, Brian Almas, to discuss the changes happening as a result of Covid-19.  Brian’s worked in the HR space for 20+ years heading up the Human Resources departments in companies like AOL, Flextronics, and now Rightway Healthcare. He’s seen plenty of fluctua...

In episode 6 of The Talent Intelligence podcast, Solutions Driven's Global Head of Business Growth Nicki Paterson sat down with Manny Medina, CEO of Outreach, soccer fanatic, and a man who feels his business in his bones. From organising his elementary school football squad for success, to heading up cutting edge projects at Amazon, Manny has always known how to get the best from his teams.  Now,...

In this bonus episode we catch up with Solutions Driven's CEO, Gavin Speirs, to discuss the current shortage in recruiters and internal talent teams, what's going on with candidate behaviour, and what businesses can do to reduce the effects of this shortage. 

In episode 5 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we sit down with Ida Matthieson, Head of Talent Acquisition at HBK.  Ida has had an interesting first year in her HBK career, joining the business just as the pandemic hit and quickly moving up the ranks while never meeting most of her co-workers (sound familiar anyone?)  While she’s been working on a holistic approach to HBK’s talent strategy, Ida...

In episode 4 of the Talent Intelligence podcast, we’re joined by Nicky O’Brien, FCIPD and HR Dirctor at McCurrach Ltd. Nicky has worked in the HR and Talent space for over 20 years, and has been a continual champion of diversity.  While data on diversity is important to McCurrach and Nicky, they’re also focused on conversations around diversity, holding round tables, events, and mentoring programm...

In Episode 3 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast we are joined by the amazing Shirley Harrison from the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), based at The University of Sheffield. For over 30 years now Shirley has been working in the male dominated industry of manufacturing and mechanical engineering. And in recent months has been given the added responsibility of being appointed the Direc...

In this latest bonus episode, we catch up with Solutions Driven's new Chief Diversity Officer Salma El-Wardany to talk about our recent Diversity Promise & Pledge announcement and how we plan to bring that to life to benefit our employees, clients and peers.

A quick glance at the Comparably Awards for 2020 tells its own story. Winner of ‘Best CEO’. Winner of ‘Best CEO for Women’. And winner of ‘Best CEO for Diversity’. And that’s just the awards David Cancel won personally. How about Drift also being the winners of ‘Best Company for Diversity’, ‘Best Company Culture’ and ‘Best Work/Life Balance’ and several more? It’s for these reasons I’m excited to...

Janet Onyia is a true inspiration. Growing up as a young black female in an area of Newcastle where there weren’t any other black families, Janet has faced many challenges and struggles along the way to landing her dream job in tech. Imagine being told by your new colleague that you only landed your prestigious graduate placement job because you were a Black Female. Now working in tech as a Projec...

In this bonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, our CEO Gavin Speirs and Head of Marketing Robert Gillespie explore the key insights and intelligence that have the ability to hugely impact your recruitment strategy and end results. Gavin also shares for the first time via screenshare ==> https://www.solutionsdriven.com/how-data-intelligence-delivers-the-critical-insights-you-need-to-o...

In this bonus episode, our CEO Gavin Speirs and Head of Marketing Robert Gillespie dive deep into the world of 'Executive Search' recruitment to look at how this process traditionally works and why it's now time for a change. ✔ We take a journey back in time to look at the 'old way' in which executive recruitment was - and still is - carried out...(unfortunately many recruiters are still using thi...

In this bonus episode from The Talent Intelligence Podcast we have not one, not two, but 3 huge announcements from Solutions Driven that will completely change the face of the recruitment industry. Our CEO Gavin Speirs and Head of Marketing Robert Gillespie sit down to have a conversation about our new category - Recruitment Process Intelligence™ and what it means for the recruitment sector. We lo...

IBonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast. My name is Robert Gillespie and in today’s episode I’m talking candidate engagement with Danny Biello, our Delivery Operations Leader here at Solutions Driven.  A key skill for any recruiter or hiring manager to master is how they engage a candidate throughout the hiring process…and Danny is a master at this!  There’s so many factors that go into...

Welcome to this bonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast. In today’s episode I’m sharing a special conversation I had with Keith Palmer from our Talent Delivery Team and Gerry Park, one of our Global Key Account Leads to talk all things Talent Mapping and Talent Pipelining.  So, if you need some tips and advice on how to find the best talent for your company no matter where they are in the...