

Talk Talent To Me
Rob Stevenson: Recruiting, Employer Branding, and Career Growth Expert.
Starring recruiting leadership from everywhere under the talent acquisition sun, Talk Talent To Me is a fast-paced rough-and-tumble tour through the strategies, metrics, techniques, and trends shaping the recruitment industry. Brought to you by your pals at LHH.
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Apr 16, 2020 • 40min
Rakuten's Head of Talent for Europe & Americas
Rick Iversen, Rakuten's Head of Talent for Europe & Americas, joins to discuss why he only hires Recruiting Coordinators, the best thing recruitment can borrow from sales, and what to look for in your next HR tech software.

Apr 9, 2020 • 37min
Creative Market CEO Chris Winn
Chris Winn explains the challenges his company undertook when they went 100% remote two years ago, and shares the strategies they used to navigate the transition.

Apr 2, 2020 • 35min
Sourced Craft Cocktails VP of People Madison Butler
Madison explains her approach to transparency, the reaches of unconscious bias, and how she's helping a distributed workforce along the path to full time employeeship.

Mar 26, 2020 • 31min
Enjoy Technology Recruiters Renee & Taylor
Two Recruiters from Enjoy Technologies join to discuss how to hire a contract workforce, assess for agility, and kvetch about the crazy things candidates do in process.

Mar 20, 2020 • 36min
DotConnect Founder Dom Farnan
Dom Farnan discusses what tends to go wrong at mature talent organizations, as well as how to avoid vanity metrics that don't improve the business. WEBINAR: Going Remote: Best Practices for HR & Recruitment Webinar. Wednesday, March 25th 10AM PST / 1PM EST Register here EBOOK: Your Complete Guide to Designing a Successful Remote Interview. Access here

Mar 18, 2020 • 12min
New to WFH? Tips For Thriving Through Quarantine
Rob draws on his two years of WFH experience to help you make the transition into a remote worker. App: Forest Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear

Mar 13, 2020 • 50min
Growth By Design Talent Co-Founder Jill Macri
Jill Macri, Co-Founder of Growth by Design Talent and former Director of Global TA at AirBnB, joins to discuss the common gaps she finds in talent organizations, and how to remedy them. Rob wonders how much one is directing their own career if they spend it responding to sourcing emails.

Mar 5, 2020 • 45min
Rubicon Project Manager of TA Nihal Solomon
Nihal explains how Rubicon project has built an inbound engine via referrals and employer branding content, as well as how they identified which areas of their hiring process were ripe for being automated by HR tech vendors.

Feb 25, 2020 • 39min
Leaf Group Director of People Tara Turk-Haynes
Tara explains how to crack open tough interviewees, glean multi-faceted insight from their answers, and how to use it to arm their bosses once they've been hired. Rob falls prey to her wily interviewing techniques, to devastating therapeutic effect.

Feb 20, 2020 • 14min
CEO Mehul Patel on the 2020 State of Software Engineers
Hired CEO Mehul Patel joins to discuss the findings of Hired's 2020 State of Software Engineers report, which compiles data from 400,000 job offers made to 98,000 job seekers across 13 cities on the Hired platform. Access the full report here: https://hired.com/state-of-software-engineers