HRchat Podcast

In this HRchat episode, we look at ensuring data privacy of employees and some dos and don'ts of managing automated verifications of employment and income. Bill Banham is joined by Bill Roy, President at Vault Verify, a company on a mission to help HR departments save time and money by providing fast and accurate data. Vault Verify is a cloud-based technology platform that helps automate the process of completing verifications of income and employment.  Questions Include:Responding manually to verification requests costs lots of money and HR hours. And frankly, in this labor market, it can be an absolute mountain to climb! Talk about your company; explain Vault Verify's 'how' and share the 'why' as it pertains to helping Talent pros, HR teams, and hiring managers. Your tech provides automated options for verification of income and employment, I-9, and unemployment claims management. Where are the big time and cost savings? Can you share stats and maybe a use case?Data Privacy: Talk to me about how Vault Verify approaches and ensures data privacy requirements are met (on the corp and employee sides) and what else is happening out there in the marketplace? (Maybe this could include findings/reports showing e.g. other companies knowingly or otherwise sharing candidate data multiple times and what that could mean for the data privacy of candidates and employees).  Follow up: What are the corporate liabilities associated with mismanagement of employee data?Customer satisfaction: You claim to have a 99% customer retention rate. Tell us about your approach.More About Vault VerifyVault Verify leverages APIs to produce a quick, easy implementation experience. Vault Verify is free to clients and Vault shares a portion of the revenue derived from commercial requesters with the client each month, making HR a profit center. The results for clients are dramatic: increased productivity, more accurate verifications and decreased liability. And HR generates monthly revenue for other HR priorities. Learn more at vaultverify.com.We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.   Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

Are you a candidate looking for expert help so you can ace that interview? Maybe you're a recruiter or hiring manager trying to understand how to differentiate your brand from other employers vying for top talent? Then this is the episode for you!In this HRchat, Bill talks with Tom Gimbel, founder, and CEO of LaSalle Network, a staffing, recruiting, and culture firm headquartered in Chicago, and a 12-time Inc. 5000 honoree.Tom is an expert on jobs, career management, and company culture. He speaks to these topics on CNBC Squawk Box and with The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Inc. Magazine, among a list of other publications. LaSalle Network has also been recognized by more than 100 revenue and culture-based awards. Listen as Tom offers practical tips for candidates and employers during the current 'great resignation'. Questions For Tom  Gimbel Include: You shared a LinkedIn post about a recent interview you did on CNBC. In it, you say: "This is the best jobs market in 25 years. Companies are hiring because they are growing! If you want a job, there is one for you". If you've got the skills and training, exactly how easy is it at the moment for candidates to walk into their next role?How tough is it to find and attract top talent?What's changed as a result of the pandemic in terms of expectations of an employer and its culture?What are some questions candidates should - and definitely should not - ask in an interview and why?What about those hosting the interview? What do they need to ask?How can hiring managers convey their company's culture?In another recent post on LinkedIn, you say "The result of higher wages happening so quickly, with an increase of money in the system, is inflation. Thus, people aren’t seeing more money, even if they are paid more." Feel free to mention the net effect on the economy but, specifically can you explain if this current bubble of high wages to capture top talent will burst anytime soon?How can we learn more?More About Tom GimbelTom is the founder and CEO of LaSalle Network, a US staffing, recruiting and culture firm. LaSalle Network has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies for 12 years, Fortune’s “Best Companies to Work for in Chicago” and “Best Medium Workplaces,” Forbes’ “Best Professional ReSupport the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

We live in a world dominated by ratings. We generally prefer to purchase 5-star products, read 5-star books, eat at 5-star restaurants, and watch 5-star movies. Why then would you settle for anything less than a 5-star career? Today’s guest says you absolutely should not, and offers ways to be your best self at work and in your personal life.In this HRchat episode, we hear from Penelope Przekop, a corporate quality management expert, entrepreneur, and writer. Throughout her 30+ year career, Penelope has worked with numerous Fortune 100 pharma companies, including Pfizer, Merck, Lilly, and Glaxo Smith Kline, and held leadership positions at Novartis, Covance, Wyeth, and Johnson & Johnson.Penelope is the founder and CEO of PDC Pharma Strategy and serves as the Chief Compliance Officer for Engrail Therapeutics.She is also the author of Six Sigma for Business Excellence (McGraw-Hill), four novels: Please Love Me, Aberrations, Centerpieces, and Dust and she has a new book coming out in November called 5-Star Career: Define and Build Yours Using the Science of Quality Management: amazon.com/5-Star-Career-Science-Quality-Management/Questions Include:Let’s begin by understanding a bit about you. While struggling to overcome a troubling childhood, become the best version of yourself, and build a career, you began incorporating quality management concepts into your personal thought process at home and at work. As a result, you say you found what proved for you to be “the missing link” between all of your hard work and feeling rewarded. Tell me more.Why do people settle for mediocracy? Is it laziness (too much ‘Netflix and chill’ time)? Is it a lack of opportunity? Is it the system keeping us down? Is it something else?Why do you believe one’s career is, essentially, what we make of it? Talk to me about the concept of a person’s career being a product created by their own process. Share too, how to improve that process by learning to manage all the parts as an integrated, unified whole.In your new book, you suggest it’s possible Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

The labor market is buoyant and demand for talent is at a high. In this HRchat we focus on how to onboard salaried and hourly workers at scale and consider some of the main recruiting trends of 2021.Bill's guest is Thomas Mathew Kottukapally, Sr. Director and Partner at EMP Trust HR, a software technology company that provides HR solutions and services in 40+ countries. Questions Include:Tell us about EMP Trust SolutionsTalk to me about the complexities associated with managing employees across multiple worksites, job locations, and countries. How is it further complicated by the needs of salaried v hourly workers? Increased engagement, lower costs, improved retention, and a shorter hiring process are a few of the benefits of a shift to internal mobility. We'll talk about hiring from outside the org shortly. But first, are companies prioritizing internal hiring? If so why? - New skills are the top growth competency for recruiters. These skills are focused on diversity and inclusion, making decisions, and learning how to use an HR strategy. They need to be able to bring clear and continuous talent data to the marketplace, implement a new employer brand, and streamline the virtual hiring process. Tell me more about how recruiting has dramatically changed over the past couple of years. Organizations across the globe have reshaped their talent acquisition procedures with increased use of Automated HR tools and AI. Many employers believe that the entire recruitment process will be automated by the end of the 2020s. What's your take?In the wake of the pandemic, we have seen a dramatic increase in the hiring of recent graduates and first-timers. Wages have gone up too. "According to a recent report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the average starting salary for the college Class of 2020 was $55,260 — 2.5% higher than that of the Class of 2019 ($53,889 ) and 8.5% higher than the Class of ’18 ($50,944). Among graduates who majored in sciencSupport the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this special crossover podcast episode co-hosted by Bill Banham and Jamie Allison, host of the Big Idea Big Moves podcast, we speak with the leader of an organization that helps women professional athletes leverage the skills they’ve developed through high-level sports to transition into careers with top companies.Our guest today is Digit Murphy, President, and Head Coach at RUTH, President of the Premier Hockey Federation (formerly NWHL) Toronto Six franchise, LegendaryBrown University Coach, and member of the Cornell Hall of Fame, and a bunch more!Questions Include:Tell us about the NWHL rebrand launch and how “women’s” was intentionally removed to focus on it being a social statement by taking out gender from the title; defining them by their talent and not their gender.  You have a deep background in sports coaching and management - Why the departure into the talent space and entrepreneurship? Was that challenging for you?You have noticed a difference in the networks and opportunities available to high-level female athletes vs. their male counterparts.  Tell us about that  You are very networked in the College and University system – why do those gaps in the network exist? What do you see as the major differences and gaps and how are you trying to address them through RUTH?What is the potential value to an employer brand of having ex/current professional athletes as part of their team and acting as advocates on social media and elsewhere?You have been a strong advocate for women and women in leadership roles for a long time.  How have your own experiences shaped your approach and passion to bring RUTH to fruition?   How has it landed so far with the athletes and leaders you have spoken to?Knowing how many successful Fortune 500 leaders come from that background, What is unique about how Ruth bridges the gap between collegiate and professional athletics over to the workplace?We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast, and Iceni Media IncSupport the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this HRchat we talk about what it took to hold things together in larger organizations during the height of the Covid Crisis. We'll also consider ways top leaders are bouncing back with new ideas and improved approaches to DEI. Bill's guest this time is Ebonee Davis, Executive Director, Talent, Culture & Diversity at Bridgestone Americas. She leads a team of HR professionals across the United States and Latin America that support enterprise initiatives to help attract, retain, and develop talent. In addition to talent management, Ebonee also leads DE&I at Bridgestone and is responsible for creating the strategy and implementing best practices throughout the organization. Ebonee was also listed as one of Engagedly’s list of the Top 100 HR influencers for 2021.Questions For Ebonee Include:In your bio, you say that what defines you is not the summation of your credentials but the summation of your character. Talk to me about showing vulnerability as a leader and the role it plays in team engagement and DE&I effortsCan you share your experiences, as a senior HR and Talent pro at Bridgestone, of the pandemic, it’s effects on employees, operations of the company, and how you've had to adapt? As part of this discussion, you were keen to focus on the E in DE&I. How do companies focus on this while not diminishing inclusion efforts? What are you doing over at     Bridgestone to ensure an equitable culture? We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In this HRchat we focus on the challenges faced SMBs and how HR tech can help to fill some gaps to keep employees happy and on track.Bill's guest today is Jean-Simon Bolduc, Technical Director, Associate at Folks, a company on a mission to provide SMBs with HR software solutions adapted to their financial reality.  Questions Include: Introduce yourself and tell us about Folks, a company that has been developing HR software solutions for Canadian SMBs for more than 10 yearsThe needs of employees and how HR tries to meet them are very different in SMBs compared to larger organizations. Can you share some of the unique challenges faced by HR in SMBs when it comes to managing their people and ensuring a positive employee experience? What do you believe are the top 5 most important questions an HR department needs to ask itself before starting implementation of a new HRIS?Your team helps with absence and vacation management, performance evaluation, training, career management, and much more. Which one of these HR duties is the single biggest time suck and why? How can tech cut down the time investment?Why are surveys and continuous feedback so important to keeping employees happy and engaged?There’s an interesting case study on the Folks website which talks about ways your software saved an SMB around 175,000 in a year. Can you tell me a bit about how that was achieved? As part of that, perhaps you could highlight some practices other SMBs could borrow so they can also make cost-saving without cutting down on HR essentials?More About Folks From human resources management to applicant tracking and employee engagement, Folks is the one-stop-shop for HR professionals in Canada. Beyond being software rooted in your culture, Folksis a dynamic partner that cares about your business’s success. We become a partof the family, helping you reach your goals and having fun along the way. Learn more at https://folksrh.com/We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni MeSupport the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

Do you know who's accessing your information online? Digital identity can be defined in many ways. In today’s HRchat episode, we’ll talk specifically about a digital ID for an individual; a person’s information in an online world where their identity can be created, verified, appended, and shared in part or in whole.Most of us in the US and Canada are, rightfully, cautious about how organizations can access our online info and digital personal brand as part of the recruitment process. In this HRchat episode, Bill speaks with Chuck Walker and Taylor Liggett about the evolution of digital identity and its role in background screening. Sterling is on a mission to ensure verified information is owned by and easily accessible to, the individual. They believe digital identity verification should only have to occur once and Personal Identity Information should only be shared, when necessary.Questions Include:What is one’s digital identity and why should employees care?In general terms, what controls do employees have over who can access their information?How did we get to the current state of digital identity? Canada is progressing with its federal digital identity scheme named Pan-Canadian Trust Framework, piloted by the Digital ID Authentication Council of Canada, a non-profit organization (DIACC). A national proof of concept project for a unified login authentication service called Sign In Canada started in the fall of 2018. Sterling Backcheck recently joined the DIACC. Can you talk a little bit about DIACC? Why did Sterling decide to join this initiative?What is a digital identity wallet and how might one use it?Why should companies verify identity and what benefits does it deliver?About Our GuestsChuck Walker is Senior Advisor – Public Safety Information Management at Sterling Backcheck (Canada). Chuck joined Sterling in 2014 after completing a 32-year career as a Regular Member with the RCMP. In his current role as a Senior Advisor for Public Safety Information Management, Chuck works closely with the team on aspects of the company’s products and services concerned with criminal record and police informationSupport the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

Today's guest is Kelly Kauffman, Chief Human Capital Officer for the 2021 World Champion Milwaukee Bucks, a sports and entertainment organization within the National Basketball Association. Listen as Kelly shares her experiences of running an arena and being part of a championship-winning culture during the pandemic. Questions Include: What did the on-court success mean for the overall culture at the Bucks? Since the victory over the Phoenix Suns, it must be a buzzing place to work? You brought the Bucks out of administrative chaos by building its HR team from scratch. What were some of the biggest challenges associated with creating an HR program from the ground up?The CHROs from the 30 NBA franchises get together from time to time. What have been some of the biggest recent results from exchanging ideas and making recommendations within that peer group?Final tips for HR leaders looking to change up a corporate culture? More About KellyWith over 20 years of human resources experience, Kelly joined the Bucks staff as a human resources executive with the task of creating the organization’s first human resources department from the ground up. The human resources function at the Bucks was implemented to set the foundation in building a world-class sports organization by supporting the team’s long-term strategy and goals, including the construction of Fiserv Forum, practice facility and ancillary development that will increase the breadth of the Bucks’ reach in the community.We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.   Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events

In today's HRchat we talk about how to source and secure top talent in a very, very competitive market. Bill's guest is Shally Steckerl, President at The Sourcing Institute and Practice Director, Talent Strategy and Sourcing Innovation at Aspirant Talent Strategy & Acquisition Practice. He's a globally recognized recruiting leader who has helped build sourcing organizations for companies such as Microsoft, Google, Coca-Cola, Cisco, and Motorola. He is a writer, a public speaker, and an adjunct professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. He lives in Atlanta. Shally is known as the "Godfather of Sourcing" Shally has dedicated much of his adult life to teaching his sourcing methods to those who want to be better. Shally understands what it takes to get leads on the phone and contracts on deck.Questions Include:It's tough to hire good people right now. Why is that?What tech is helping recruiters and employers source and engage top talent?What's different about what top candidates want from their next job and how have expectations changes as a result of Covid?How can hiring managers mess it up at the interview stage? What pitfalls should they avoid to get the candidate over the line? We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.   Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events