Talent and Growth - The Talent Acquisition Podcast

Suf is a Head of Talent with 7+ years of experience across tech and business functions. His passions lie within the startup world, having worked in Series A to IPO companies. Recently, Suf was featured in the Talent100 Most Influential Talent & HR Professionals In The UK 2022. Comma is a safe and secure app that pays bills, taxes, and salaries for accountants and small businesses. It is the UK’s first bulk payment system for the small guys. Suf has worked in nearly every recruitment function and role during his seven years and has PLENTY of stakeholder management experience. He gives plenty of tangible takeaways to help you win stakeholders over with credibility & data, and then make sure you manage them in the best way. Not to mention educating the stakeholders on how to handle themselves! So, if you are looking to improve your recruitment process eco-system and get those stakeholder relationships right, then get listening. Contact Suf here 

Karina is an experienced Talent Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the public sector, global corporate, and privately owned businesses. She is a strong human resources professional with a Master of Arts (MA) (Dist) in Learning and Teaching. Innocent Drinks is a company that produces smoothies and juice sold in supermarkets, coffee shops, and various other outlets. The company sells more than two million smoothies per week. Innocent is over 90% owned by The Coca-Cola Company. In this discussion, we talk exits! We focus so much on a positive onboarding experience, but why do we fall short on exits? Those who leave our businesses are the voices of us out in the market, not to mention they can give us valuable information on how we can improve. Karina explains how Innocent is working on getting things right now with Exits and looking to take their initiatives in the future. Contact Karina here

Matt has over 17 years of recruitment experience within consultancy, on-site, RPO, and internal operational models. He has managed international Talent Acquisition projects and teams in private & public sectors across organizations globally, including EMEA, APAC, and The Americas. Ingeus helps governments and employers design and deliver services to solve the complex challenges caused by social and technological change. Matt joined Ingeus to transition them away from an RPO and build out an internal talent function, which is now 20 people strong. Matt talks us through everything we need to consider when setting up a talent team’s scratch. We are talking people, infrastructure, and service. So, if you want to find out how to build and scale your talent team, check this episode out. Contact Matt here.

Natasha is a People & Organisation Development professional who can develop cohesive, strategically aligned, and high-performing cultures that embed values, inclusion, & diversity into the everyday. She is an Organisational Design Specialist able to create and implement people development initiatives that remove the barriers that hinder inclusivity and, ultimately, performance. Natasha’s experience lies with scaling (or transitioning) European-based start-ups and growth-stage companies across various industries from Fintech to Customer Experience. We are discussing a HUGE topic – how to make culture a strategic intent. Natasha is quite simply a fountain of knowledge in this area, and I listened intently to her insights and appreciated the clear examples she gave. It is an absolute must-listen for anybody looking to improve their business culture or if you need any persuading as to why it is SO important! Contact Natasha here 

Annie has worked in recruitment for nearly nine years, hiring some of Europe's most successful and fastest-growing tech start-ups & scale-ups. She is passionate about increasing diversity in tech and advancing gender equality. Annie works best in high-growth companies, works autonomously across multiple vacancies for different teams, and prides herself on delivering a fantastic experience for candidates and hiring managers. Aaron Smith has over seven years of experience working within tech recruitment, starting agency-side and then moving in-house. He has mainly worked on technical roles in his career but enjoys working on non-tech to help the wider team. Together, they work at Cleo who is on a mission to improve the world’s financial health. This episode is all about how to stand out amongst the giants to get the best people into your business and how important it is to invest strategically into your talent team. An excellent episode for Talent Acquisition & Talent leaders alike. Contact Annie here Contact Aaron here

Tony has over 20 years experience working in recruitment and is strategically focused around how to make a company successful through high-performing teams, HR initiatives that amaze, winning sales teams and use of technology to enhance achievement. He is certified in People Analytics and gives back as a Mentor to People Ops/HR/Recruitment professionals. Oodle are the growing motor finance company in the UK, and are on a mission to inspire car buying confidence at every step. Very often when volume recruitment is sprung on the Talent Acquisition team, planning may take a backseat to doing when in fact that’s the most important step in the whole process. Tony talks us through specific examples as to how he has delivered strategic volume recruitment plans, executed them and won the hearts and minds of stakeholders along the way. A must listen! Contact Tony here

Christine has been working in recruitment for over eight years and has a deep understanding of tech talent pools. Christine loves understanding the complexities of diverse working environments, which led her to study Psychology & Organisational Behaviour. Quantum Motion is developing a revolutionary technology platform; not just a qubit, but a scalable array of qubits fabricated on silicon with a CMOS compatible process. Christine talks us through a blueprint to building a more diverse talent pool and a more inclusive interview process. A fantastic listen. Lots of takeaways and tangibles to help you in your business. Contact Christine here. You can find out more about The Animo Group here.

On the Talent & Growth podcast, we'll be speaking to talent leaders about the challenges they face and their solutions for attraction and retention. So if you're interested in hearing about how companies are building a more diverse talent pool, how you can attract top people from the big players, ways to create a more inclusive interview process or learn about the latest and greatest automation software to make your life easier then this is the podcast for you. The Talent & Growth podcast is presented by The Animo Group - Tech & data talent solutions specialists. Find out more here.