Talent and Growth - The Talent Acquisition Podcast

Jan is the author of Full-Stack Recruiter, and in this episode, he gives some fantastic insights into what and who the modern recruiter needs to do and be.  We covered - What a Full Stack Recruiter is How TAs can improve their candidate outreach in this incredibly competitive market How to better engage passive candidates? Some LinkedIn hacks The blueprint for the perfect candidate process and experience How to successfully pipeline and map talent Advice for the modern recruiter who wants to be world-class at what they do Contact Jan here - Jan Tegze | LinkedIn

Reckitt are huge manufacturing business with over 37000 employees! And today, we are talking to their Global Human Resources Director, Laia Estorach Cavaller, about the steps they have taken to become a more diverse & inclusive business. We covered: How much further do we need to go with driving diversity in business How Reckitt has worked on driving the diversity levels of their teams The steps Reckitt have taken to build a more inclusive business Why and how to change the language from unconscious bias to conscious inclusion How to use data to manage and drive our diversity levels How we can ensure our has a culture of transformation What we must do to make sure our employer branding is on point and appealing to a more diverse set of talent In terms of employer branding, what must businesses do to make sure they appeal to a more diverse set of talent Contact Laia here - Laia Estorach Cavaller

So much emphasis is placed on building a business culture and making sure people align with the values, but in this podcast, we challenge some common beliefs around whether this is time well spent. We covered - The origins of business culture and three different types Whether culture is conducive to a high-performing and happy workforce The impact of business culture on innovation Whether shared values with inclusion What motivates and inspires the workforce How to retain your people Contact Richard here - Dr Richard Claydon | LinkedIn Contact Geoff here - Geoff Marlow | LinkedIn

Lauren is an ex-Amazon marketing leader turned mindset coach, energy practitioner, podcast host, and strategic force to be reckoned with who’s on a mission to forge the emotionally influential female leaders of the future. Lauren's fantastic work has led her to become a LinkedIn Top Voice. Businesses need to do more to support female talent in their companies, which we discussed in this episode. We covered: The common problems female talent face in the workplace and how business culture holds them back? How a business identifies whether they are correctly supporting their female talent or not and then what to do about it The differences between supporting males and females in the workplace Advice to females who do not feel supported in their business Advice to businesses and leaders who want to support female talent in their business authentically Contact Lauren here - Lauren Paton | LinkedIn

How do we build a high performing yet safe engineering culture? One that encourages psychological safety, room to innovate and room to fail? Sam Mountford, CTO of tech-focused events marketplace Feast It, runs through exactly how in this episode of Talent & Growth. We covered: What do we mean by a safe engineering culture? How do we enable this in a start-up, which typically has a reputation for long hours and intense pressure? How do we make sure that our culture is safe yet still driving the high performance we need? What does a good leader need to do to create this culture? What traits must they show? Where do companies go wrong when building an engineering culture? Which companies out there have it nailed in this regard? Sams three top tips for creating a safe engineering culture? Contact Sam here - Sam Mountford 

Cyril George is the Global Talent Acquisition Director for General Motors, an American multinational automotive manufacturing company. It is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, the largest automobile manufacturer based in the United States. It has around 70K staff and plans to make 13K hires in 2022. In this episode, you will find out: How an institution like General Motors with over 100 years of history has managed to evolve its branding to attract a new wave of talent How General Motors excites talent about working for them What Gen Z are looking for in their employers How has General Motors done in terms of retention? What are their initiatives in place to help retain? What advice would they give to businesses trying to appeal to Gen Z?

Neil spent years working as Director of Talent at Capgemini, overseeing a considerable hiring volume of niche technical talent. In a talent short market, Capgemini still managed to hire in the 1000s! What it's like working as Director of Talent for a company with the scale and prestige of Capgemini An insight into the incredible volume of hires Capgemini makes How and when to push back to stakeholders How to set up your internal team and utilize RPOs How to work on the brand and visibility in the marketplace to get people drawn in What changes had to be made to the interview processes to ensure the pace of hiring whilst still maintaining quality and inclusiveness Neil's top advice if you are hiring tech talent for your business Contact Neil here - Neil Denton | LinkedIn

Wouldn't everybody like to reduce agency usage? Rekha and Armakuni have done a fantastic job with this, going from 100% depending on agencies to just 10%! Find out how as we covered: How Rekha has gone to market with direct sourcing techniques How a positive candidate experience should look like Advice to other businesses as to how they can also reduce agencies How and when businesses SHOULD engage with agencies The positive impact of direct sourcing on the diversity levels of their talent pool Contact Rekha here - Rekha Aucklah

Craig Fisher Is the founder of employer brand and recruitment tech strategy firm, TalentNet Media. He has led Global Marketing, Employer Brand, and Recruiting Innovation at Allegis Global Solutions - North America’s largest RPO and staffing company. He has led talent acquisition teams at the Fortune 500 level owning recruitment process, marketing, and technology. His digital branding methods have been adopted as best practices by companies like Linkedin, Toyota, YUM! Brands, Microsoft, and many more. He's the author of Inbound Recruiting, and a popular keynote speaker at tech, social media, HR / recruiting, and sales conferences worldwide. Craig created the first Twitter chat for recruiters and partnered in the first Linkedin certified training company in North America. He consults with sales and recruiting teams, advises HR technology firms, and runs the largest recruiting conference series in the Southwest, TalentNet Live. He’s been detailed in the Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Economist, and Entrepreneur as a subject matter expert in multiple areas of talent acquisition; and is listed among HR and Recruiting's top influencers and most engaging conference speakers. in this episode we talk Where do companies sometimes go wrong with employer branding? What is the process for understanding what your Employer brand is and should be? How should it be reinforced internally throughout the business? How should EVP look to the outside world? How can you distribute your employer brand through advocacy and advertising? How often should we be revaluating our employer branding? Contact Craig here - Craig Fisher | LinkedIn

Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalize benefits and rewards. ‍How? By marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee MasterCard and financial infrastructure. The Ben platform enables employee choice for any existing benefits program while adding thousands of additional options while saving time and money. Sebastian is their CEO & Co-Founder and will talk us through one of the essential tools for a business regarding attraction & retention - benefits! We covered: The renewed importance of the benefits package What are some of the other interesting new players in the benefits market - what innovations are these players bringing to the space? How do companies go about reviewing and tailoring their offering to a more remote and international workforce? If you build a benefits program from scratch, where do you start? Benefits for small vs. large companies - what are the expectations and the benchmark? Predicted future shifts in the market - what innovations can we expect? Contact Seb here - Sebastian Fallert