You Own the Experience Podcast

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones rap about last week's ASA Staffing World conference and all the great keynotes, breakout sessions, and networking from Denver.     Later in the episode, the dynamic duo are joined by Dominic Vogel, Cybersecurity expert, influencer, podcaster, and founder of Cyber.sc, an advisory service for startu...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones rap about the recent acquisition of WorkN by Avionte and how digital transformation can be enabled by empowering the right team members.  Later the dynamic duo are joined by Kate Rutherford, Senior Digital Transformation Manager at Loyal Source, an Orlando-based workforce solutions company specializing in h...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones are joined by Tom Nehila, CFO of The Global Trust Project, a non-profit startup that aims to protect the world’s personal information from those who might seek to do harm with it or make profit from it. Prior to his current position, Nehila was a staffing finance veteran who had worked with some of the biggest c...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones chat again about Digital Transformation and having a biased towards action and being obsessed with your customers is vital for any business.   Later they are joined by Adam Sprecher, VP of Strategy and Development at Salo.  Salo is a Minneapolis- and Chicago-based talent firm with a focus on the f...

In this week's mini-episode, Lauren and Rob are joined by staffing industry veterans Tom Nehila & John JB Russell to host a Staffing & Recruiting Tech Stack Office Hour. The group answers key questions on how to plan for, build and get the most out of your tech stack.   The Group chats about:  1. Automation 2. Sign up Culture & the Gig Economy 3. Strategies to be a partner to...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones chat about the recent Sirenum acquisition and why we should modernize the way we take staffing & recruiting businesses to market. Later they are joined by Jan Jedlinksi, Founder and CEO of Candidate.ly, a staffing tech company that allows a firm to transform their website into a candidate-filled digital stor...

In this week's episode of the You Own the Experience Podcast,  our co-host Rob Mann sat down with Billy Davis, Director of implementation and customer success of Herefish by Bullhorn, for a Recruitment Automation Office Hour.   The duo and former coworkers answer participants questions on automation, how automation affects marketing sales and operational strategy and why data qualit...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones chat about data quality in your ATS/CRM and how valuable it is for your business. Later they are joined by Chris Wirt, Sales Director at DaXtra Technologies, an organization that has spent the last 20 years using tech to streamline recruiting teams. Here Mann, Jones, and Wirt discuss the current disconnect in th...

In this weeks bonus episode, co-host Rob Mann sits down with fractional CMO, Ryan Kovach to discuss some key things for your marketing roadmap in 2021 and ongoing.  The duo discuss:  1. Having Bigger Websites and why that doesn't mean writing more blogs 2. The future of search is Voice Search 3. Reviews & Testimonials are king 4. How massively important: SEO, Local SEO, & Google...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones RAP about how AI and automation can improve your speed to market and overall candidate experience. Later they are joined by Andrew Kimmell, a serial staffing entrepreneur responsible for the likes of Text Us and Staffing Engine. In a career that began by being smitten with the iPhone, and endlessly excited by th...

In this weeks episode, Rob and Lauren breakdown the 3 major takeaways of Bullhorn's EngageX conference.  The dynamic duo discusses: - the unique opportunity our industry has as we compete more and more with platforms like Upwork and Fiverr -Being Digital Ready aka Digital Transformation and how this will speed up growth - the ongoing and accelerated Merger and Acquisition activity in our indu...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones sit down to rap about Diversity Equity and Inclusion in the staffing industry,  Later they are joined by Ginette Harvey, Founder of Harper & Gray, a diversity- and inclusion-focused talent solutions firm. Despite checking every DE & I box - female, bi-racial, and a migrant from a low socioeconomic b...

This week's bonus episode is a replay of a webinar Lauren did for the World Staffing Summit last week.  The presentation titled 5 Critical Considerations for Successful Digital Transformation will highlight key ideas to help your company succeed as you embark and continue on your digital transformation journey.  You're also going to get a great introduction to Lauren and a quick breakdow...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones sit down to breakdown the challenges facing the #staffingindustry in the 2021 State of Staffing report by Staffing Hub, and are later joined by Ashley Bowlin, Director of Marketing at TrackerRMS, an integrated ATS and CRM platform that aims to help staffing and recruiting firms build better. Here Mann, Jones, an...

This week's episode is a replay of our webinar on the Future of Sales & Marketing. We gathered 3 Staffing & Recruiting technology leaders to discuss what they are hearing and seeing in the industry, in both the US and UK/Ireland. Join our host Rob Mann as he sits down with Adam Conrad, CXO of Great Recruiters; Darren Westall, Co-Founder and CEO of Paiger, & Jack Copeland, Co-Founder an...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones sit down to discuss preparing for the future of your internal workforce and are later joined by Angela Alberty, VP of Growth at myBasePay, a contingent workforce platform that focuses on taking care of the back office admin that so many staffing firms dread. Here Mann, Jones, and Alberty discuss the future of wo...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann and Lauren B. Jones sit down to discuss current events in the Staffing Industry and later in the episode are joined by Kelli Schutrop, Director of Sales and Marketing at Parqa, a digital marketing agency that specializes in helping staffing and recruiting firms grow their brands. Here Mann, Jones, and Schutrop discuss a number of c...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann is joined by Jessica Rowen, National Marketing Manager at TalentWorld, a Toronto-based staffing firm that takes a tech- and marketing-first approach to recruiting. Here Mann and Rowen take a deep dive into the increasing need for recruiters to wear a marketing hat. No longer simply a cog in the staffing machine, platforms like Link...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann is joined by Billy Davis, Director of Implementation for Herefish by Bullhorn, a marketing automation tool designed to help staffing firms enhance their candidate and customer journeys while easing the burden on recruiters. Here Mann and Davis take a look at the current state of automation technology within staffing: its adoption,...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann is joined by Tom Kosnik, President of Visus Group , a staffing consultancy that specializes in helping staffing firms grow and evolve. Here Mann and Kosnik take a look at the current state of the staffing industry from a birds-eye view, to identify the areas that recruiters and their firms should be focusing their energies on. They...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann is joined by Adam Dale, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer at SourceBreaker, a long-time leader in staffing AI technology. Here Mann and Dale chat about the current state and likely future state of artificial intelligence in staffing. They discuss the potential that AI has, the limitations that it faces, what it will and won’t be...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann is joined by Raymond Pennie, Commercial Director of Kyloe Partners, a team of Bullhorn specialists based out of the Orkney Islands in the far north of Scotland. Here Mann and Pennie chat about how recruiter onboarding has changed in recent times. Where getting advice while on a call was historically a simple matter of pressing the...

On this episode of the You Own The Experience podcast, Robert Mann is joined by Darren Westall, CEO, and founder of UK-based Paiger, an award-winning staffing marketing tool. Mann and Westall discuss the need for both staffing CEOs and recruiters to up their marketing game. They talk about how COVID has served to separate the wheat from the chaff, and how the staffing firms that have managed to re...

On this episode of the You Own the Experience podcast, Robert Mann is joined by Andre Mileti, the VP of Enterprise Solutions right here at Able. Here Mann and Mileti discuss a new type of threat the staffing industry is beginning to face: that of overreaching RPOs. Previously a rather siloed industry, market forces and the availability of technology have seen RPOs taking brave new steps, many of w...

On this episode of the You Own the Experience podcast, Robert Mann is joined by Lauren Jones, Founder of Leap Consulting Solutions, and Jack Copeland, CEO & Co-Founder of Staffing Future. As a pair of tech-focused minds whose talents have been directed at the staffing industry, there’s no better pair to tackle an all too ubiquitous yet all too confusing nine-letter phrase: tech stack. Here Mann, J...