

HR Interviews Playlist
Evergreen Podcasts
The best collection of podcast interviews in the Human Resources, Recruiting, Technology, DEI, and Workforce space in one podcast. Welcome to Evergreen's HR Interviews, curated episodes from the most well-known and up-in-coming podcasts in the HR, Recruiting, and Tech industry with interviews from practitioners, vendors, economists, and those in the workforce know. Ten different shows with curated interviews just for you and it's wrapped into one podcast.
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Feb 21, 2022 • 32min
Unicorn Status w/ Anoop Gupta
There seems to be a new $1B unicorn born every day in the employment industry, but only one has the distinction of being a Chad & Cheese 'Death Match' winner. Enter SeekOut and its CEO and cofounder Anoop Gupta, who recently closed a Series C to the tune of $115M and a $1.2B valuation, who joins the boys for a friendly chat. About what? How about international growth plans, diversity offerings, competing with Eightfold and Phenom (and just about everyone else), and much, much more.

Feb 17, 2022 • 43min
Chats with Smart People Featuring Jeanne Achille
Chats with Smart People Featuring Jeanne Achille.Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. Shirley Chisholm (New York State Representative, educator, and author)Have you ever met someone and was like wow! You’re amazing! Can we be friends! Well, this is the energy that Jeanne brings. Jeanne is the Guru of the Women HR Tech conference. She is an original OG in the battle to raise the voices of women in HR technology.
28 years ago, in 1994, Jeanne created The Devon Group which is a PR (Public Relations) agency.
She has supported thousands of new products, services, and companies throughout her career.
She is the FIRST woman chair of the HR Technology Conference. (Virtual & In person)
Superhero powers: PR, marketing, public relations, social networking, social media, speaker bureau, analyst relations, writing, case studies, and content marketing.
Today’s episode includes the following
Jeanne shares her experiences of being a CEO. Pros & Cons
Proud moments
SEXISM
Women in HR Tech Asia, Is there a different vibe?
Internal Equity for women driving start-ups and why they don’t move up the ladder.
Value of Diversity
Belonging to an organization
What women feel and think when working or going anywhere in public. Does the underlying alertness, make for better visionaries?
The Pandemic and showing up for you.
The impact of women in HR Tech supporting each other.
Expand your HR Tech network and insights by joining the HR Tech Conference. March 1-4,2022. https://www.hrtechnologyconference.com/ Reservations are FREE, so you have no excuseFind Jeanne on:Linkedin.com/JeanneachilleWebsite: devonpr.comTwitter: jeanneachille and devongroup

Feb 17, 2022 • 25min
Ep 412: Scaling Recruiting
This year, scale and speed are an essential focus for many talent acquisition teams. But how do you scale recruiting and speed up hiring in an environment where recruiting recruiters is as tough as it is right now?My guest this week is David Spencer-Percival, CEO of Life Science People and formerly the founder of high growth recruitment businesses Huntress and Spencer Ogden. David has decades of experience scaling up and recruiting recruiters in various markets. He has developed a tried and tested methodology that many talent acquisition teams can learn fromIn the interview, we discuss:Recruiting, training and nurturing fantastic recruitersThe academy modelSelectionBuilding the right culture of success and incentiveThe relentless pace of changeRecruiting processes for a candidate driven marketWhat are the most successful employers getting right?The role of technologyAdvice to TA leaders on building effective working partnerships with agenciesListen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

Feb 17, 2022 • 45min
The CATK Interview: Andre Blackman
André is the Founder and CEO of Onboard Health, a specialized executive search and advisory firm focused on creating a more inclusive future of health. A pioneering strategist with deep ties across the healthcare innovation, startup and digital strategy landscapes — André is dedicated to building the future of health through an equity lens. His work and insights have been featured in outlets such as Business Insider, Fortune, Forbes, NPR, CIO, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report.He was recently named a Fortune Magazine 2020 40 Under 40 in Healthcare.Learn more: Onboard HealthFollow André and Onboard Health:LinkedIn InstagramTwitter

Feb 16, 2022 • 11min
Enboarder's Laura Lee Gentry on Understanding the Employee Journey
We explore the importance of connection, communication and how businesses succeed in the age of Covid, with Laura Lee Gentry, Enboarder's chief people officer.

Feb 16, 2022 • 51min
Getting Inclusive AF with Laura Close
In this episode, Katee and Jackye speak to Laura Close. And she brought the heat! As a twenty-year veteran of the DEI space, Laura Close started at a time before the term DEI was coined and has spent a career both locking in new structural opportunities and access for historically excluded communities as well as coaching executive leaders within the enterprise on designing and deploying KPIs for DEI at scale. Now, as co-founder of Included.AI Laura and her team have created the first technology of its kind to use AI to identify specific areas where businesses can take further action to remove any potential roadblock from accomplishing the goal of becoming as people-first as possible. She is on a mission to prove that DEI isn’t a tax, PR issue, or feel-good checkbox, but an opportunity to build more competitive businesses.If you like what you hear, we would like to encourage you to subscribe to our channel!We would also appreciate it if you would rate this channel by going here: RateThisPodcast.com/inclusiveafWe create this podcast as a labor of love. But if you would like to support this channel you can buy us a cup of coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/InclusiveAF

Feb 16, 2022 • 37min
Crimes Against Talent Pipelines
You have questions....What is RM automation?What does candidate nurture really mean?What is a true talent pipeline?Are you and your company committing crimes against talent pipelines?All great questions for any organization, and the boys, partnered with RecruitmentMarketing.com's Julie Calli, bring on CandidateID's Adam Gordon to the podcast to cover a broad range of recruitment marketing questions and challenges. It's a must-listen for any employer looking to take their game to the next level.

Feb 16, 2022 • 36min
Ep. 23: Molly Johnson-Jones - Choosing How To Work
Molly Johnson-Jones shared a post on LinkedIn that stated '“By removing the need to have a ‘reason’ to request flexibility and giving everyone the freedom to choose how to work, we can make true progress on gender equality.” but how do we get that out of our hiring leaders?While Molly, CEO & Co-founder of Flexa, enjoyed London's winter sun, and I only had the heat of the topic to keep me warm, we covered loads including:
the motivation behind creating Flexa, a platform where employers can be verified as offering true flexibility to their people
surprising survey results that show both men and women want flexibility
the two paths to getting your leaders to see that offering flexible & hybrid working is inevitable
the challenges that some leaders face when trusting employees and measuring output instead of presenteeism
Molly's own lessons-learned running a truly flexible business
What is and most definitely isn't a 4 day week!
Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle in! ✍🏻Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind.

Feb 15, 2022 • 24min
Full Stack Recruiter with Jan Tegze
If you're a new recruiter or an experienced recruiter there's really one great book to read and use as a daily reference and that is the Full Stack Recruiter book by Jan Tegze.Jan drops his extensive recruitment knowledge on The Recruitment Flex
What exactly is a Full Stack Recruiter?
It's easy to find people, it's just hard to convince them to join your company
Is your company looking for A players but offering them C players salaries and benefits
Recruiting is everyone's job in the organization not only the recruitment team
Limitations of Chatbots
Every recruiter should buy the Full Stack Recruiter right now!

Feb 14, 2022 • 26min
Firing Squad: TechScreen's Mark Knowlton
Screening tech talent is smokin' hot right now. You know the names: HackerRank, Byteboard, Woven, Triplebyte and others. But do you know Tech Screen? If the answer is NO, then you owe it to yourself to checkout this episode of Firing Squad. Chad & Cheese put CEO and founder Mark Knowlton on the hot seat to answer some tough questions. Does he make it out alive? Gotta listen.


