

HR Happy Hour Network
HR Happy Hour Network
At Work in America, the longest running and top downloaded HR podcast, focuses on human resources, management, leadership, and workforce technology. The show is hosted by Steve Boese, the Co-Chair of the HR Technology Conference and Trish Steed, CEO of H3 HR Advisors.
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May 2, 2023 • 35min
Matching Talent With Opportunity: Indeed's New Pay for Application Strategy
Matching Talent With Opportunity: Indeed's New Pay for Application Strategy
Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane
Guest: Raj Mukherjee, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Employer at Indeed
This episode of At Work in America is sponsored by Paychex, one of the leading providers of HR, payroll, retirement, and insurance solutions for businesses of all sizes. As the workplace continues to evolve, businesses are being forced to adapt and innovate to meet the challenge. Our fifth annual workforce trend study will help you understand this year’s top business challenges — and set your strategic priorities. Get the report, 2023 Priorities for Business Leaders: Trends, Insights, and Ideas for an Evolving Workplace to learn the challenges facing businesses like yours and how you don’t have to go it alone. Visit paychex.com/awia to check it out, today.
This week we met with Raj Mukherhee from Indeed to talk about about the current labor market, hiring, and connecting with
quality talent.
- Current state of the labor market
- Employers are facing pain points and barriers to hiring
- How HR technology can help the inefficient hiring process
- Indeed is evolving to a matching and hiring platform
Thank you for joining the show today! Remember to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

Apr 28, 2023 • 28min
Work Tech: The Past, Present, and Future of Staffing and Staffing-Tech
Work Tech: The Past, Present, and Future of Staffing and Staffing-Tech
Host: George LaRocque, WorkTech Founder
Guest: Art Papas, CEO and Founder, Bullhorn
Bullhorn is the clear market leader for staffing tech. CEO and Founder Art Papas has been at the helm for 24 years. He’s led the company from its startup roots in South Boston to a global staffing industry powerhouse with offices and team members on several continents. In the early 2000s, when Bullhorn had just a handful of customers, Art was known to say “All roads lead to Bullhorn.” Seems like he’s paved the way for that to sound more like an observation of current staffing tech adoption than the goal it was back in the day.
Art stopped by WorkTech to check in with Founder George LaRocque on the state of staffing and staffing tech, and to chime in on some of the trends George has been noticing in the market. The result, a conversation that quickly ties the past, present, and future of staffing and staffing tech. LaRocque sees tech-forward staffing firms tying into employer’s Work Tech stacks while providing a high level of service. Papas sees a relationship-driven industry that requires humans in the loop.
In this conversation, you’ll learn about Bullhorn’s culture, leadership, and strategic view of the market and the trends that are shaping it.
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Apr 25, 2023 • 36min
Growing from Within: Strategies for Building and Nurturing your Employees
Growing from Within: Strategies for Building and Nurturing your Employees
Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane
Guest: Shelley Roither, Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources, Enterprise Holdings
This episode of At Work in America is sponsored by Paychex, one of the leading providers of HR, payroll, retirement, and insurance solutions for businesses of all sizes. As the workplace continues to evolve, businesses are being forced to adapt and innovate to meet the challenge. Our fifth annual workforce trend study will help you understand this year’s top business challenges — and set your strategic priorities. Get the report, 2023 Priorities for Business Leaders: Trends, Insights, and Ideas for an Evolving Workplace to learn the challenges facing businesses like yours and how you don’t have to go it alone. Visit paychex.com/awia to check it out, today.
This week we met with Shelley Roither from Enterprise Holdings to talk about important HR topics such as talent management, engagement, retention, culture, and more!
- How to provide an engaging, inclusive workplace that's purpose driven
- The importance of internal mobility and why it’s a differentiator
- Sustaining internal mobility in a declining labor market
- Attracting and retaining talent by upskilling current talent in the workplace
Check out Enterprise and the careers they have available
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Apr 21, 2023 • 29min
The Rise of Career Experience as an HR Priority
HR Means Business 8: The Rise of Career Experience as an HR Priority
Host: Mervyn Dinnen
Guest: Nick Holmes, Head of Career Experience at Fishawack Health
In this episode Mervyn talks to Nick Holmes, Head of Career Experience at Fishawack Health, on the emergence of career experience as a specialism, what it covers, and how it helps improve engagement, wellbeing and retention.
They discuss:
- What is Career Experience and how has the thinking around it evolved?
- What internal challenges does career experience address
- The concept of 'Talent Hotbeds'
- What should the career experience journey look like for a new recruit in the early stages of their career
- Initiatives to to help support and improve employee wellbeing
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Apr 19, 2023 • 35min
Empowering Your Workforce: Oracle Grow and the Future of Employee Development
Empowering Your Workforce: Oracle Grow and the Future of Employee Development
Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane
Guest: Chris Havrilla, VP of Product Strategy, Oracle
This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Chris Havrilla to talk about innovations in Oracle's talent management technology.
- Oracle Grow: empowering leaders and enhancing the employee experience
- The evoluation of skills across an organization
- How technology is changing the employee experience and how organizations operate
This was a really interesting show, thanks to Chris for joining us!
Learn more about Oracle HCM
Learn more about Oracle ME
Oracle's Decision Dilemma Study
Tune in to Oracle's webinar to learn more about Oracle Grow
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Apr 14, 2023 • 42min
Gen Z Unplugged: Exploring Dream Destinations, Music Trends, Sports, and More!
Gen Z Unplugged: Exploring Dream Destinations, Music Trends, Sports, and More!
Hosts: Jack McFarlane & Nick Schlemmer
This week on The Play by Play podcast, Jack McFarlane and Nick Schlemmer chat about many of the trends in the Gen Z world.
- Top ten cities Gen Z is moving to
- Next big trends in music
- Update on college basketball predictions
- Game time!
Thank you for joining the show today! Remember to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

Apr 11, 2023 • 40min
Exploring the Future of Human Capital: Insights on Talent Management in 2023
Exploring the Future of Human Capital: Insights on Talent Management in 2023
Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane
Guest: Michael Ehret, Head of Global Talent Management, Johnson & Johnson
This episode of At Work in America is sponsored by Paychex, one of the leading providers of HR, payroll, retirement, and insurance solutions for businesses of all sizes. As the workplace continues to evolve, businesses are being forced to adapt and innovate to meet the challenge. Our fifth annual workforce trend study will help you understand this year’s top business challenges — and set your strategic priorities. Get the report, 2023 Priorities for Business Leaders: Trends, Insights, and Ideas for an Evolving Workplace to learn the challenges facing businesses like yours and how you don’t have to go it alone. Visit paychex.com/awia to check it out, today.
This week we met with Michael Ehret from Johnson & Johnson to talk about talent management innovations, trends, and themes we will be seeing in 2023.
- Preparing your organization for the unpredictable future
- The importance of having baseline data for HR leaders
- Trends in the recruiting environment
- Benefits of working with people with diverse backgrounds
Learn more about Johnson & Johnson here
Thank you for joining the show today! Remember to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

Apr 7, 2023 • 25min
HR and Hashtag Outrage - Which Trends Will Really Have Impact
HR Means Business 7: HR and Hashtag Outrage - Which Trends Will Really Have Impact
Host: Mervyn Dinnen
Guest: Allie Nawrat, HR Journalist with UNLEASH
In this episode Mervyn talks to Allie Nawrat, an award winning senior journalist who produces content that helps HR leaders to make the right decisions.
They discuss:
- With so many stories, opinions and research on digital channels how do you identify which ones are insightful and relevant to you
- Are 'Quiet Quitting' and 'Bare Minimum Mondays' real trends - what are HR managers actually seeing in their businesses
- ChatGPT and conversational AI - are they friends or foe for HR
- What's the reality for HR around the debate on Remote, Flexible and Hybrid working
- What are likely to be the big HR trends during the rest of 2023
Thanks for listening! Remember to subscribe to all of the HR Happy Hour Media Network shows on your favorite podcast app!

Apr 4, 2023 • 54min
Classic Rewind: Increasing Opportunities for People on the Autism Spectrum
Classic Rewind: Increasing Opportunities for People on the Autism Spectrum
Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane
Guest: Tim Vogus, Deputy Director, Business Innovations for the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at Vanderbilt University
This episode of At Work in America is sponsored by Paychex, one of the leading providers of HR, payroll, retirement, and insurance solutions for businesses of all sizes. As the workplace continues to evolve, businesses are being forced to adapt and innovate to meet the challenge. Our fifth annual workforce trend study will help you understand this year’s top business challenges — and set your strategic priorities. Get the report, 2023 Priorities for Business Leaders: Trends, Insights, and Ideas for an Evolving Workplace to learn the challenges facing businesses like yours and how you don’t have to go it alone. Visit paychex.com/awia to check it out, today.
On this classic rewind episode from 2020, we discussed how employers and HR leaders can better understand the needs of employees and candidates who are on the autism spectrum, how HR and talent management processes can be made more open to and inclusive for people on the spectrum, and how HR leaders can begin to think more openly and expansively about this deep pool of talented people.
Learn more about the Frist Center at https://my.vanderbilt.edu/autismandinnovation/
This was a really interesting show, thanks to Tim for joining us! Remember to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Mar 28, 2023 • 42min
HR Insights: Navigating Employee Relations, Investigations, and Technology
HR Insights: Navigating Employee Relations, Investigations, and Technology
Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane
Guest: Deb Muller, CEO & Founder of HR Acuity
This episode of At Work in America is sponsored by Paychex, one of the leading providers of HR, payroll, retirement, and insurance solutions for businesses of all sizes. As the workplace continues to evolve, businesses are being forced to adapt and innovate to meet the challenge. Our fifth annual workforce trend study will help you understand this year’s top business challenges — and set your strategic priorities. Get the report, 2023 Priorities for Business Leaders: Trends, Insights, and Ideas for an Evolving Workplace to learn the challenges facing businesses like yours and how you don’t have to go it alone. Visit paychex.com/awia to check it out, today.
This week we met with Deb Muller from HR Acuity to talk about the importance of employee relations throughout the entire organization.
- The elevation of employee relations and what HR does on a daily basis
- Importance of doing employee investigations the "right" way
- How HR Acuity helps organizations save on litigation
- The impact of technology on HR leaders
Thank you for joining the show today! Remember to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!