You Own the Experience Podcast

For this week's YOE Podcast,  Staffing Snacks, LJ & Rob recap their session at the World Staffing Summit. Erin Pittman joined the dynamic duo to discuss the Generational Opportunities for Staffing Sales. With millennials now making up 75% of the workforce learning how millennials buy is table stakes. The trio also discusses Gen Z ideas around how they buy. For both generations, the below...

In our first Staffing Snacks episode of 2023, LJ and Rob sit down with the incomparable Adam Conrad, CXO at Great Recruiters.  Adam was excited to share the 'why' behind Great Recruiters Top Rated Award.  We also talk a lot about the power of getting feedback on your recruiters, salespeople, and operations folks and the impact it has on your business.  You can check out the full lis...

In this week's podcast episode, Rob & LJ sit down with Coach, Author, and Podcast host, Casey Jacox. The trio highlights the three characteristics of modern, effective leadership: 💡Vulnerability 💡Curiosity  💡Humility Which Casey covers in his book, "Win the Relationship, Not the Deal." The conversation weaves between great storytelling and many Ted Lasso references. Remember to registe...

In this week's episode of the podcast, Lauren and Rob sit down to recap our 2023 Staffing Leader Predictions We asked 12 leaders what our industry can expect in 2023 and LJ and Rob asked ChatGPT to summarize four pages of bullet points and turn it into a top 10 list. Our contributors focused on things like AI, DEI, staffing tech, & ongoing economic uncertainty. One leader mentioned our industr...

In this week's episode of the podcast, LJ & Rob sit down with Tracey Parsons, CEO & Co-Founder of WORQDRIVE. WORQDRIVE is all about Talent mobility &  redeployment.  WORQDRIVE is a much-needed tool in the World of Work today so we are excited to highlight for our audience. Especially with all the layoffs in the last six months and the Great Resignation, so for this one, we we...

Welcome to 2023 and the new and improved You Own the Experience Podcast or YOE Podcast, as Lauren and Rob often to it.   Let's kick off the year with our predictions and must DOs for Recruitment Marketing.   This year we sat down with 2 YOE veterans, Jeff Staats of Haley Marketing, & Jeff Pelliccio of Allied Insight. Our new panelist is a Staffing Industry Veteran, Lesly&nb...

In this week's episode, we look back at our 2022 Marketing Prediction episode.    Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones are joined by the triumvirate of Jeff Staats (CMO at Haley Marketing), Jeff Pelliccio (Founder of Allied Insight), and Kelli Schutrop (formerly Director of Sales & Marketing at PARQA now VP of Sales & Marketing at MadeCraft), all of whom bring deep and broad knowledge...

In this week's episode, Rob and Lauren recap their 2022 Q4 Conference season. The dynamic duo also announce some new things for the podcast for 2023. Lauren traveled for 9 weeks compared to Rob's poultry 3-week conference schedule.  The duo participated on a panel on Staffing Tech at ASA's Staffing World. They also led a Build your Tech Stack workshop at TechServe Alliance. This episode was r...

In this week's episode of the podcast, Rob & Lauren sit down with Brandon Metcalf & Greg Symons of ASYMBL. Brandon & Greg are long-time industry veterans who have both worked in Staffing & Staffing Tech. Last month, they launched a new Salesforce app to help improve one of the biggest gaps: the flexibility of Recruitment workflows. The crew talks about the recruitment journey for e...

In this week's episode of the podcast, Lauren and Rob sit down with show favorite Adam  Sprecher. The trio sits down to talk about the idea of leadership.  Gone are the days of really focusing on hiring a CEO that has strong financial acumen and here are the days when CEO job postings or searches feature keywords like Empathy. The group also chat about: thinking differently about benefit...

This week we are excited to continue our Lady Leaders Book Club Crossover episode with our friends, Leslie Vickrey's the Edge Podcast. The focus this week is  Mentorship & Priorities and the trio is joined by Beth Delano, Anna Frazzetti CRO of Kore1, & Ericka Hyson, President of ClearEdge. The group covers: the importance of mentorship especially ones that can help you see your streng...

This week's episode is the first-panel discussion with the Lady Leaders Book Club and continues our cross-over event with Leslie Vickrey's The Edge Podcast.   We could not have 3 better leaders discuss how to make the most of your career growth and career. Our guests include Adecco's Joyce Russell; RemX, and EmployBridge company, & Kelly Boykin, of Real Staffing. The group also focus...

This week's episode is the start of a 6 episode series where Lauren and Rob are joined by the Edge Podcasts host, Leslie Vickrey, to sit down with the 15 authors of Together We Rise to discuss their stories and the impact the book has had on the industry so far.  In this episode we discuss why we came together to celebrate the book.  We are all really excited to share not only the storie...

In this week's episode of the podcast, Lauren and Rob sit down with Andre Mileti of Bullhorn.   Andre is the product evangelist for talent experience at Bullhorn and is on a mission to help Bullhorn's customers and really the industry improves the Talent Experience. Earlier this year Bullhorn's GRID Recruitment Industry Trends Report found that finding talent is the biggest priority, not...

In this week's episode of the podcast, Lauren & Rob sit down with Henna Pryor, Founder of the Pryority Group . Henna and the crew sit down to discuss her journey from staffing industry executive to founding her own consulting business, doing her first Tedx Talk, and her journey to reclaim the word awkward. The trio also discusses: Getting over your initial fear of being solopreneur Placing sma...

On this replay episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones are joined by Rich Smith, Vice President and Co-Founder of Atlas MedStaff, a healthcare staffing firm that specializes in the placement of travel nurses.  Having set his company up as a predominantly remote operation a decade ago, and working in the healthcare space, Smith brings a unique perspective...

In this week's episode, Lauren & Rob sit down with KarmaCheck 's co-founder, Eric Ly.  Eric & KarmaCheck are on a mission to reduce waste and speed up the onboarding process using the blockchain. Eric & the crew set out to define some key concepts around the blockchain, web3, & NFTs and how this all pertains to the Staffing Industry. Specifically how it will improve the backgr...

In this week's episode of the podcast, Lauren and Rob sit down with Bullhorn's SVP of Talent Experience & AI, Jason Heilman.  The conversation covered all things automation, AI & staffing tech best practices. The group focuses first on demystifying AI for the staffing industry starting with what we actually mean when we talk about AI..(hint) we are predominantly referring to Mach...

In this week's episode of the podcast, Rob willing covers another Tik Tok viral trend, Quiet Firing.  Quiet Firing unlike Quiet Quitting is appropriately named and it is also had a few other names, ie: Managing Out. To be honest, by whatever name this thing goes by it is not a great business practice if you want to build a productive culture. According to a Linkedin News Poll, 80% of 20,000 r...

Introducing Staffing Stories with Andy Moss.  Andy is a staffing & technology leader that has a fascinating origin story.  He wanted to learn how others got into the industry and learn more about their up and downs in running a Staffing/Recruiting business.  In this episode, Andy talks with Matt Fuhrman, Founder of Core Group Resources.  Matt is a guy with big visions. &nbs...

In this week's episode of the podcast, Lauren & Rob sit down with Kelley Morse, SVP of HR at Bullhorn . The trio sat down to talk about what being a leader in a modern business requires in a world that has significantly evolved in the past three years. The conversation highlights the need to actively listen to the voice of your employees, build intentional teams and people programs, and u...

On this episode of You Own the Experience, we throw it back to the first time Rob & Lauren pod together.   In April 2020, Lauren had just started Leap Consulting and Rob had just launched the You Own the Experience Podcast. The dynamic duo discusses the mindful implementation of technology and some strategies to get it started and sustain your digital transformation journey. Lauren d...

In this week's episode of the podcast, Lauren and Rob talk about Quiet Quitting, a trending topic in the media and especially on Tik Tok. The hosts contend that this trend is a symptom or continuation of the Great Resignation and it is about worker fatigue. Quiet Quitting is defined as an employee who solely does the responsibilities listed in their job and nothing in addition, which contends dire...

In this week's episode of the podcast, we have a throwback episode with Kate Rutherford, formerly of LoyalSource and now the VP of Talent Technology at the Advanced Group.  Prior to her current position, Rutherford cut her teeth at one of the largest staffing firms in the nation (a practice that a large chunk of the staffing industry will be familiar with), and has occupied most chairs in the...

In this week's episode, Lauren and Rob sit down with Tim Pröhm, VP at KellyX.  Tim is responsible for the innovation division of Kelly, a global talent company. Tim & the dynamic duo's conversation reaches through all parts of the tech stack and into the future of the industry. The trio cover: Thinking and designing experiences more like a B2C business your recruiters being 1 of your cust...