HRchat Podcast

In this HRchat episode, we hear a whole bunch of recruitment and talent management-related tips from Serge Boudreau, Director of Talent Acquisition at Robots and PencilsSerge has spent over 15 years in the recruitment space including working as Director for Western Canada at Workopolis and Indeed. He co-hosts the popular recruitment-focused podcast, The Recruitment Flex alongside Hire Value Inc's Shelley Billinghurst.Serge and Shelley are also co-hosts of the InnovateWork Rockies events and was a speaker at the inaugural event in August 2020 where he presented a session that looked at the impact of Covid, skills-based hiring and the realities of remote working when it comes to productivity and engagement. Learn more about InnovateWork events. We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared in this episode are entirely independent of our show sponsors. There is no relationship between the guest and companies advertising within the podcasts published by The HR Gazette or our partners.   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 HRchat #228, we consider how to better engage with employees and ways to help them feel proud of the employer brand they work under.Our guest this time is Sona Khosla, Vice President of Marketing at Benevity, the platform firms are using to attract, retain & engage employees in powerful ways. Sona leads a passionate team responsible for bringing Benevity’s thought leadership as well as client stories, best practices, and unmatched data from over 600 enterprise companies to the world. Sona is driven by creating inclusive cultures where purpose is pervasive, diversity thrives, and where everyone can belong. Her team tells the story of Benevity’s award-winning products and services, enables market- and client-facing teams to be trusted advisors, and puts on what is now considered one of CSR’s “coolest conferences”, Goodness Matters. Listen and get Sona's answers to such questions as: Organizations are working hard to pay attention to culture. Is it HR’s responsibility to ‘own’ the definition and cultivation of culture?Should that culture support the employee’s quest for passion and purpose in their ‘whole life,’ not just their work-life? Beyond pay, what other benefits are important to employees? What approaches HR use to provide employees with a sense of purpose and belonging?What are some of the challenges associated with ensuring a strong sense of company culture in a time when so many employees are disparate and working remotely? What impact do corporate purpose programs have on the workplace, and the employee? 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 will discuss the importance of organizational culture and ways to measure it. The guest this time is Mary Marzec, Senior Strategy Health Scientist at Virgin Pulse.Listen to this episode to get Mary’s take on how tech can help corporate wellbeing efforts and why measuring the effectiveness of your company culture is key to achieving investment-driven results like high job performance, resilience, and reduced healthcare costs.Listen to this episode and discover:How can organizations start building a supportive culture of wellbeing? How can organizations maintain a strong company culture and employee engagement during these difficult times? How can organizations establish a sense of culture with a dispersed workforce?In general terms, VOI measures the impact that the wellness program has on employees through increased productivity, higher employee morale, and a reduction in absenteeism. Why does VOI matter?In what ways have organizations’ ROI and VOI been impacted since COVID-19 forced many employees to begin working from home?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

As we embrace the holiday season, hourly hiring is beginning to increase to meet the seasonal demands. But with 65% of hourly employees only giving their temporary employers one week’s notice or less – how do you find qualified candidates that want to stay for the full holiday season or beyond?In this HRchat episode, we consider this seasonal dilemma.  Our guest to help us do just that, and spread a bit of seasonal cheer, is Jim Buchanan, CEO of Cadient Talent, the North Carolina based end-to-end hiring solution for distributed workforces. Decreasing employee turnover can improve a team’s morale by nearly 40%. "One way this can be accomplished, explains Jim, "is by creating a user-friendly and intuitive recruiting system to find qualified candidates, seasonally or not. For instance, using analytics and assessments to help find employee applications that match qualities and characteristics from the company’s best performing employees."This episode is sponsored by Cadient Talent. 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

Corporations need a better way to re-skill and upskill their workforce, universities need new ways to reach and teach students, and individuals need to increase their skills in order to grow their earning potential and stay relevant in a rapidly changing world of work.The are many barriers standing in the way of someone earning a degree, whether it be socio-economic, distance, lack of time, lack of resources, or the extra pressures created by the 2020 pandemic. For these reasons, many of today’s leaders are discussing options to help address some of these obstacles.In this HRchat interview, we consider ways companies can help their employees by offering them channels to education and more skills. This in turn can lead to more engaged and knowledgeable employees plus the obvious benefits to an organization's bottom line. Our guest this time is Vivek Sharma, CEO of InStride, a company dedicated to helping large organizations such as Adidas and Aramark deliver education and upskilling avenues for staff to "provide career-boosting, life-changing opportunities to their employees while strengthening their competitive advantage."Instride does this by building an education program based around 3 main elements: 1) strategic workplace design 2) a network of high-quality academic partners and 3) their clever tech platform for corporate partners and learners to streamline communication, workflow, reporting, and billing - freeing up time for teams to focus on career progression and workforce planning.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

The 2020 crisis has changed the ways we work to such an extent that we simply can't go back to the old ways of finding jobs and recruiting talent. In this HRchat episode, we hear from Jerome Ternynck, author of Hiring Success: How Visionary CEOs compete for the best talent. He is also  Founder & CEO of SmartRecruiters, the hiring success company that offers a talent acquisition suite serving over 1,000 large enterprises. Jerome has been in recruiting his whole adult life. He is a self-described “recruiter at heart and technologist by adoption” who feels that now is an interesting moment in time that the recruitment community can do a lot with. Listen to this episode and discover Jerome's take on: * How have processes changed as a result of the pandemic and remote hiring?* What can talent leaders be doing now to be change agents & revolutionize their function?* How can TA leaders adopt and implement a strategy of diverse hiring practices?* What adjustments must be made to the talent function and the talent tech stack in order for remote hiring to 'work'? * Is large-scale remote hiring here to stay?* Tips for HR leaders looking to fill gaps and supplement departments with contingent workers: what are the benefits and negatives of developing a blended/hybrid pool of people resources? The episode is supported by  hiringsuccess.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

Over 650 million adults worldwide are obese, a condition not only associated with various chronic and expensive diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers, but also COVID-19 complications and mortality. (World Health Organization)In this HRchat, we'll consider nutrition in relation to health equity and weight management for chronic conditions.Our guests this time all partner, in different ways, with our show sponsor Virgin Pulse - the well-being solution helping workers create habits that matter so they can be their best at work and at home.  They are Dr. David L. Katz, CEO at Diet ID and Founder of True Health Initiative, Dr. Dexter Shurney, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Clinical Affairs at Zipongo Inc. and Misa Nuccio, MPH. former Co-Founder & Chief Health Officer at Blue Mesa Health and current Product Marketing Manager at Virgin Pulse. Listen to this episode to learn:  * How some chronic diseases can be prevented through healthy lifestyle behaviors  * Ways digital therapeutics can be used to successfully manage obesity   * Nutrition platforms that will help increase health equity access to nutritious food for all employees  * The social determinants that impact food choices and habitsWe 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

The spread of COVID-19 has caused many people around the world to change their everyday lives. We’ve been asked to help “flatten the curve” to avoid a spike in cases that would overwhelm our health services. For some of us, this means that we have to self-isolate, and for others, it means working from home for the foreseeable future. Some of us continue going to workplaces because of the essential nature of our work, while still others may face the prospect of job loss.These are all difficult situations, and everyone has their own response to stress. This is a good time to remember, however, that you have resilience skills and you can cope.Our guest in this episode of the HRchat show is Bobby Umar, CEO of DYPB - Discover Your Personal Brand. Bobby suggests that "we are now in the 'Eye of the Storm' and doing our best to navigate the uncertainty, overwhelm and changing workplace and business cultures".Bobby Umar is one of the most prolific heart-based leaders in North America. Inc. Magazine named him one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers, is a 5 x TEDx speaker and a top global B2B influencer: with over 500,000 followers. He has been named the 2nd best business coach to follow on Twitter and the 4th best leadership influencer according to Kred. Bobby hosted a LinkedIn Local event called Resilience in the Eye of the Storm on Nov 19th. This podcast episode is supported by Virgin Pulse. Learn more about how the employee well-being solution helps employees create habits that matter so they can be their best at work and at home.We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared in this episode are entirely independent of our show sponsors. There is no relationship between the guest and companies advertising within the podcasts published by The HR Gazette or our partners.   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

COVID-19 has hit the reset button of a fast-moving global business ecosystem. Enterprises around the world took a short pause, reacted to the pandemic, and are now adopting viable operational methods that could help make them more future-proofed. In this special HRchat interview, part of a series looking ahead to the Rise Above conference on November 12 - 13 we preview the virtual event and consider how organizations are futureproofing their operations, technology, and people for a changed world. Our guest this time is YY Narayanan, Chief Executive of NeeyamoWorks. NeeyamoWorks is a portfolio of products built to drive efficiency in HR along with superior employee experience. Each product is designed for the cloud and set against global benchmarks yet with local specifications. Register for the free Rise Above 2020 event: https://riseabove2020.neeyamo.com/---This episode is powered by Neeyamo. 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

The pandemic has created seismic shifts in the ways businesses operate. Workplaces of the future are going to be very different from what had been imagined. Embracing technology to support the agile, distributed workforce is now a top priority. In this special HRchat interview, part of a series looking ahead to the Rise Above virtual conference on November 12 - 13 we consider how organizations are reinventing the HR operating model with workplace digitization to address this priority.Our guest is Guhan Ramanan, Head of Customer Success at Neeyamo. A GPHR certified professional, Guhan’s expertise in envisaging and developing solutions to transform an organization’s HR infrastructure has been duly acknowledged by Neeyamo’s customers and technology partners alike. Register for Rise Above 2020: https://riseabove2020.neeyamo.com/---This episode is powered by Neeyamo. 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