HR Interviews Playlist

What does someone do for an encore after winning the Global Executive of the Year award?  Politely decline several offers Soul search  Meet impressive CEO and Founder Define your 2 greatest strengths Accept an offer that shares your values and leverages your natural talents We welcome back Jason Putnam the new CRO of Plum.io to get his take on hiring in 2022.  Has Plum officially solved campus/new grad recruitment? Imagine hiring new grads whose soft skills match the job you are looking to fill. This is exactly what every recruiting and hiring manager has ever dreamt of. Matching education and experience is easy.  Matching soft skills? Impossible Stay tuned as we will dig deeper on a future episode to see if this works….

At first glance, I didn't think this report would be very eye-opening.I. WAS. WRONG.The report stirs discussion around hard questions many HR and TA leaders have been asking themselves like. What happens when HR leaders are severely disconnected from front-line recruiters? What happens when it's harder to find recruiters than developers? What happens when recruiters turn down working for your company due to a shitty tech stack? Well, that day has arrived, and Aptitude Research's new report entitled: Talent Acquisition Technology and the Modern Recruiter only starts the discussions necessary in fixing a broken TA team, company, and industry.Chad and Aptitude founder, Madeline Laurano cover three of the seven key findings in the report.

At first glance, I didn't think this report would be very eye-opening.I. WAS. WRONG.The report stirs discussion around hard questions many HR and TA leaders have been asking themselves like. What happens when HR leaders are severely disconnected from front-line recruiters? What happens when it's harder to find recruiters than developers? What happens when recruiters turn down working for your company due to a shitty tech stack? Well, that day has arrived, and Aptitude Research's new report entitled: Talent Acquisition Technology and the Modern Recruiter only starts the discussions necessary in fixing a broken TA team, company, and industry.Chad and Aptitude founder, Madeline Laurano cover three of the seven key findings in the report.

The moment I saw Lee Andrese, write, "Dear Hiring Managers & Leaders - YOU are the candidates. Ghosting candidates after they've spent SIX HOURS with you? Shame on you." I knew I had to know more. Lee was sharing a job seeker's post and she was encouraging job seeker's to choose wisely! With years of experience in the recruiting profession, Lee is now a Learning & Development Leader, creating best in class recruiters at Onward Search. Tune into our fabulous conversation and you'll hear: How rejected candidates hear ‘no’ matters! And it’s costing you.  Why recruiters need to be selective over the brands they represent Ensuring you work for a company that you can support wholeheartedly How changing an outbound message, can change the entire experience. What it costs you when you let your company or client ghost a C-suite candidate Making feedback of benefit to the person delivering it!  How to tackle those dreadful no feedback policies.  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.

Recruiting veterans to adapt their skills and take on jobs across a variety of industries.

It's only January, and it's already clear that the Great resignation will continue to be a huge talking point in 2022 as companies fight for the talent and skills they need. However, some employers are already reframing this challenge as a fantastic opportunity to attract talented people they might not have previously persuaded to move roles.This isn't easy, and obviously, employer brand and employee experience are huge factors. However, there is a lot that talent acquisition teams can be doing to stand out from the crowd by focusing on the areas within their control that make a real difference.My guest this week is Maggie Spong, VP of Talent Acquisition at Astra Zeneca. Astra Zeneca has certainly been thrust into the spotlight by the pandemic, but they have also spent the last few years developing several initiatives to differentiate themselves in their talent markets. In our conversation, Maggie shares a number of these, including their talent scout programme, building a personalised and inclusive candidate experience, and focusing on training and development for their talent acquisition team.In the interview, we discuss:How Talent Acquisition is evolving at Astra ZenecaUsing Talent Scouts to build external talent pipelines for hard to fill roles and where there are gaps in internal succession planningBuilding a personalised and inclusive candidate experience.Giving feedback to all interviewed candidatesThe challenges of the pandemicEncouraging candidate self-selection by showcasing the authentic employee experienceTurning The Great Resignation into The Great OpportunityThe role of technologyEmployer brand advocacyInvesting in development and the Talent Acquisition AcademyAstra Zeneca's focus for 2022Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcast.

We talk with CodeSignal CEO Tigran Sloyan about raising venture money, then putting it to work.

The Job Board Geeks Steven Rothberg and Jeff Dickey-Chasins join Serge and Shelley to give us their lowdown on what will be happening in Recruitment Tech and Job Board world in 2022. We recep what happened in 2021 in the Job Board Space Facebook jobs shutting down everywhere except Canada and US Google for jobs impact since changes in October Advice for TA Practitioners for budget allocation between the big boards and niche sites Check out the guys on their podcast The Job Board Geeks available on all major podcast players.

What's better than three middle-aged white guys yelling at kids to get off the lawn? How about three middle-aged white guys talking about colonoscopies, Betty White, the state of COVID in America, and video games from the '80s?That - and much more - are what Chad, Cheese, and Tim "Sackadomus" Sackett did in the green room before their prediction show.And we recorded all of it. You're welcome!

We discuss the challenges of serving deskless workers, as well as the impact of Covid on front-line technology solutions.