Talent and Growth - The Talent Acquisition Podcast

Neil is the CEO at the REC, the leading membership organization for recruitment/staffing firms and individual recruiters. As a £35bn part of the UK's professional services sector, brilliant recruiters change our economy and do the same for candidates' lives - making great work happen every day. At REC, they speak up for a fantastic sector, hold to professional standards, and help firms and individual recruiters grow and understand the market's changing demands. Neil is also Non-Exec at Acas and Primary Academy Trust Director. In this episode, you will find out the following: Neil's unique perspective on the confidence in the market vs. the talent shortage right now How the market is strategically planning for the use of contractors How companies are standing out in "The War For Talent." What companies can do to combat the labor shortage; buy, borrow or grow! The Great Resignation; what's the to come and how companies can retain talent Neil's thoughts on internal mobility and how it should work What is the future looking like in terms of the market. Where does it go, where does it end? Contact Neil here - Neil Carberry | LinkedIn

Thomas is Director of People & Talent at Juro – a 55-people contract automation platform on a mission to de-throne MS Word – where he is building a human-centric, scalable People & Talent function from the ground up. Juro is backed by Union Square Ventures, Point Nine Capital, Seedcamp and the founders of TransferWise, Gumtree and Indeed. Juro powers more than 100,000 contracts in more than 65 countries, with a customer base that includes Trustpilot, Deliveroo, Secret Escapes and Cazoo. Juro is an all-in-one contract automation platform that helps visionary legal counsel and the teams they enable to agree and manage contracts in one unified workspace. Juro was founded in 2016 by Richard Mabey, an ex-Freshfields lawyer, and Pavel Kovalevich, a software engineer and entrepreneur. This is a great conversation with Thomas who talks us through how he sets up his team as a Strategic Business Function. Tom's team will play a key part in making sure that new hires are absolutely pivotal to the business and will sometimes turn down hiring managers requests!   A great chat around the evolution of Talent Teams. Check it out!

Nicola has developed her skills and approach through my 15 years in business optimisation, generalist HR roles in corporate (O2, PPR Group and large utilities) and fast growth environments, including start-up tech (Huddle, Nutmeg, Onfido). She has have qualified as a fellow of the CIPD, ILM Level 7 coach and psychometrics practitioner. Clausematch is an award-winning regulatory technology (RegTech) company that enables heavily regulated organizations and other regulated companies to run their businesses safely and meet compliance obligations. Clausematch’s AI-powered platform provides end-to-end policy management and regulatory compliance solutions to help organizations navigate the compliance lifecycle. This is such an incredible chat around how to build a business. Nicola has worked with some amazing companies at some amazing times and has led them through incredible transitions. I really felt like I was sitting under the learning tree with this conversation! If you are looking at how you can scale a business, what foundations you need in place, what questions you should be asking your stakeholders and how your Talent Team should be set up then this is the conversation for you. Contact Nicola here - Nicola Forbes-Taylor | LinkedIn

With a sense of humour and passion for all things people & culture, Dipti is known to be a versatile, multifaceted, result-driven HR Professional with commercial acumen. TLC Marketing are a global promotion and loyalty agency. They are creative, pioneering and love to think BIG. They’re constantly investing in their proprietary lifestyle reward networks, their understanding of consumer behaviour (Pii™) & their digital reward delivery platform (RFA™). This is one of those great conversations where you find out exactly what a company is doing to keep its people happy, all things that most businesses can adopt and put their own spin on. Keeping your people happy means keeping your people! Contact Dipti here - Dipti Shah | LinkedIn

David has over 20 years of experience working in Talent Acquisition, starting agency before moving in house. In January, he began a new role as Group Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Ocado. Ocado is a UK-based online grocery solutions and logistics business that licenses its technology to grocery retailers worldwide. There is a big difference between management and leadership, and David talks us through his take on this topic and what he believes makes outstanding recruitment leadership. An excellent conversation and a must for those in or aspiring to get into leadership positions. Contact David here

Graeme is a highly experienced global recruitment professional and people manager with over ten years of experience in all areas of Talent Acquisition gained through different models, including In House, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), and professional agency recruitment. Cigna is a global health service company, which offers health, pharmacy, dental, supplemental insurance, and Medicare plans to individuals, families, and businesses. Graeme is a huge advocate of supporting the wellbeing of your people and shares some of the things Cigna is doing in this regard, as well as all the reasons why it’s so im important!  A great place to start if you are looking to improve the well-being of your people and utilize these initiatives when it comes to attracting new talent.  Contact Graeme here.

Charlotte has worked in recruitment for seven years, starting in an agency and then moving in house. Charlotte has a passion for all things talent, people, EVP, and inclusion. Feast IT is the UK’s leading event booking platform where you can book the perfect supplier for your wedding, private party, festival, or work event. They work with the UK's top street food chefs, caterers, mobile bars, florists, photographers, videographers, marquee and tipi suppliers, and event staff agencies. Have we lost that human element of interviewing in a world where we are rightly trying to eliminate our unconscious bias? Charlotte thinks we may have and is here to talk about how we can keep it fair & inclusive as well as keep it personable and human. Contact Charlotte here.

Tabby has 15 years of experience working in HR & Talent Acquisition. She is a commercially astute, strategically focussed HR professional. Tabby has experience working across international geographies with the accountability of all aspects of the talent acquisition agenda. Improving performance through transformation, diversity, and collaboration is at the top of her professional agenda. Benify is a market-leading global benefit and total rewards platform. Their platform helps employers create exceptional benefits and rewards experience while reducing benefits administration, automating processes, radically improving the communication of their employee value proposition, and ensuring better data governance and management of benefits and rewards costs. This episode is all around what the benefits package looks like right now, why it is so important, why it has changed, and how your employees should be engaged with it and by it. A must for anybody looking to use their benefits to maximize retention and attraction. Contact Tabby here

Andrew has 15 years of recruitment experience and has worked at some huge players like Uber, AOL, and Skype. He is now the EMEA Recruitment Manager at Zoom. Zoom Video Communications, Inc. is an American communications technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. It provides videotelephony and online chat services through a cloud-based peer-to-peer software platform and is used for teleconferencing, telecommuting, distance education, and social relations In this chat, Andrew tells what it has been like working at Zoom over the past few years since the pandemic hit, but the main focus is around how Zoom brings its talent in via virtual events. Running events to showcase your business authentically is a great way to win over talent. Andrew explains how. Contact Andrew here

Nick has over twenty years of experience working in recruitment functions and has experienced agency, exec search, internal, RPO, and everything in between. Nick is now the Global Head of Talent Acquisition are Marex. Marex is a UK-based tech-enabled liquidity hub, connecting clients to global energy, metals, agricultural and financial markets. Across its businesses, Marex provides high value-added services in Market Making, Commercial Hedging, Price Discovery, and Data & Advisory. Nick has got such a wealth of experience and, having worked in so many different functions, truly knows how to get the most out of the agency partners she works with. Nick provides a blueprint for engaging in the most efficient way possible with agencies and ensuring a happy eco-system for all involved. So, if you want to know how to get the most out of your agency partners or even set up a PSL effectively, then hit listen.