Talent and Growth - The Talent Acquisition Podcast

Helen is a highly experienced recruitment professional with in-house and agency expertise. She is passionate about talent acquisition, career advice and development, employer branding, creative candidate sourcing, and anything recruitment-related. Candidate feedback and experience are high on Helen’s agenda, and this is our topic for T&G. We covered: Why feedback is still an underemphasised element of hiring processes Where recruiters and TA’s go wrong typically when it comes to feedback How a candidate rejection can still lead to maintaining and growing your talent pool The role of automation and how it can be used to improve candidate experience The art of positive rejection How to use feedback from candidates to impact our overall service Contact Helen here - Helen Murdoch If you like what you hear then join us for Talent & Growth live on Wednesday, October 19th; just click for tickets! Talent & Growth Tickets, Wed 19 Oct 2022 at 18:00 | Eventbrite

Margaret has grown her skills in full-cycle recruiting, strategic sourcing and stakeholder management in matrix organisations in 16 years of working for global technology and e-commerce brands (including Cisco, Microsoft, VMware, Expedia), tech start-ups ( Yieldify, King, Typeform) and in consulting (Avanade). Her other passion is coaching – she has helped thousands of job seekers worldwide to get hired or promoted. She has worked with clients at all career levels - from new graduates to the executive level, in the private and public sectors. Her clients have landed roles at top Fortune 100 and 500 companies across several continents. She also has extensive experience in training managers for various organisations on interviewing skills., including creating and rolling out interview training for Engineering at Typeform. We covered The impact of not preparing hiring teams for interviews What does an effective interview training programme looks like How to get buy-in from the business and stakeholders that this is a necessary investment Margaret talked us through a successful interview training case study and the impact it had on the business Contact Margaret here - Margaret Buj If you like what you hear then join us for Talent & Growth live on Wednesday, October 19th; just click for tickets! Talent & Growth Tickets, Wed 19 Oct 2022 at 18:00 | Eventbrite

Internal Mobility could be the way you save your people! An effective scheme is a win-win for your business and the people within it. Sarah explains precisely how to make this work and why we should do it. We covered: What internal mobility is and why it is so relevant in this market What sort of process we should internally to ensure everybody knows what jobs we have available How can we ensure that internal candidates have the confidence to apply for our jobs What proactive initiatives should we have internally to promote internal mobility Should internal teams be headhunting from within the business How we ensure hiring managers don’t feel that talent is being stolen from them Contact Sarah here - Sarah Symes If you like what you hear then join us for Talent & Growth live on Wednesday, October 19th; just click for tickets! Talent & Growth Tickets, Wed 19 Oct 2022 at 18:00 | Eventbrite

What should the modern recruiter look like? What tools must they have, what skills must they develop, and how should they brand themselves? Terri Lewis, Head of TA at Ubisoft, talks us through all this and more. We covered: How TA and Recruitment have evolved How recruiters should be working on their brand What good prospecting should look like How a good recruiter should be using data to influence actions and decisions How to keep passionate about recruitment What makes a good recruiter Contact Terri here – Terri Lewis | LinkedIn If you like what you hear then join us for Talent & Growth live on Wednesday, October 19th; just click for tickets! Talent & Growth Tickets, Wed 19 Oct 2022 at 18:00 | Eventbrite

Remote Working opens up the workplace for everybody. Businesses do not realise who they may be excluded by ordering people back to the office. Hannah Litt is an incredible person and an Award Winning JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion) Resourcing Leader of Cultural Change. She was kind enough to share her journey, the benefits of remote-first culture and how to make it work. The benefits in terms of equity from promoting a remote first workplace The talent pools we open up if we create a remote first business In a remote-first culture, how do we make our communication on point and appropriate How to keep people connected and not feel lonely For businesses with a mix of people onsite and remote working, how do we ensure that we are keeping the playing field level internally Hannah’s message to business leaders who are sending people back to the office Contact Hannah here - Hannah Litt If you like what you hear then join us for Talent & Growth live on Wednesday, October 19th; just click for tickets! Talent & Growth Tickets, Wed 19 Oct 2022 at 18:00 | Eventbrite

Data is a powerful tool in the quest to deliver a continuously evolving and enjoyable candidate experience. Ruta from Tech scale up Kevin talks to us about exactly how to do this. We covered: What candidate experience should be How we can use data to evaluate how good our candidate experience offering is Some of the common issues which data shows about candidate experience The blueprint for a positive candidate experience and how data can help it continuously improve Contact Ruta here - Ruta Petrikauskiene If you like what you hear then join us for Talent & Growth live on Wednesday, October 19th; just click for tickets! Talent & Growth Tickets, Wed 19 Oct 2022 at 18:00 | Eventbrite

This is quite simply a phenomenal episode. Parul is captivating, inspiring and full of valuable perspective and advice.  Parul was good enough to share her own journey before linking into a topic she is incredibly passionate about - Neurodiversity. We covered: Parul's journey around being diagnosed with ADHD How to create adverts which appeal to the neurodivergent talent pool How to ensure an inclusive hiring process for neurodivergent talent How do we create an inclusive environment at work Advice to businesses who want to appeal to neurodivergent talent Advice for individuals who feel that their neurodivergence is hindering their career development or job application Contact Parul here - Parul° Singh Neurodiversity in Recruitment Resources (notion.site) If you like what you hear then join us for Talent & Growth live on Wednesday, October 19th; just click for tickets! Talent & Growth Tickets, Wed 19 Oct 2022 at 18:00 | Eventbrite

Events can be a phenomenal way to attract new talent. They offer a different angle for potential candidates to engage and experience your brand. Michael has some great examples of how to make these events work, market them and follow up. We covered: Where to start when it comes to putting an event together What themes/topics draw the right audience How TA Teams can use events to leverage engagement with potential new candidates How to ensure buy-in from other parts of the business How to get the marketing right On the day, how the perfect event runs How to follow up An example of one of Michaels’s successful events Contact Michael here - Michael Carter

It is incredibly easy to lose engagement from your team with a broken promise here or an inconsistency there. And it is incredibly hard to bring people back from that. Sometimes, this is the team you inherit. June Gil has experienced great management and poor management herself and has used those experiences to be the best manager she can be and really focus on her people. June was kind enough to talk us through exactly how she works to bring her team and people together. We covered: Where businesses commonly go wrong with their people and lose engagement How to reinvigorate your team members How to manage remote/hybrid teams and keep people feeling connected The impact on retention, productivity and happiness June’s advice for business leaders who are looking to bring their teams together in this increasingly remote world Contact June here - June Gil

Aligning your Engineering Team (or any team!) with your business goals is incredibly important for productivity, accountability, purpose and happiness. Pete talked us through how to do this. We covered: The importance of aligning our teams with our business goals How we do it The impact it has on morale, accountability and motivation How to use data correctly A real-life example of how Pete has truly aligned his teams with his business Pete’s final advice Contact Pete here -  Peter Dignan