For Episode 24 we have Bel Germon on the podcast. Bel is a Talent Associate at Zinc, one of Eli Onboarding’s partner technologies.

Zinc is background checking software that supercharges the capabilities of HR and hiring teams with the candidate experience front of mind, and DE&I is a hot topic for their customers.

Bel has some strong views on DE&I and how many businesses are going about it all wrong! So we wanted to get Bel on the podcast to hear more.

To find out more about our partner Zinc, you can visit their website, or get in touch with Bel on LinkedIn.

We hope you enjoy Episode 24!

In this episode, we're lucky enough to have Christian Hughes on the podcast, who’s the CEO at MyPeople Group.

MyPeople specialise in measuring the environmental, behavioural, and psychological factors that affect teams. They were formed in 2014 by a group of analysts, psychologists, and data scientists that supported some of Britain’s greatest sporting teams. And today Christian’s past work with the GB Cycling team has enabled him to help organisations understand their culture, better develop their people, and allow them to better assess the ‘fit’ of new hires.

During this episode we explore the idea of environment, and how it can affect people performance.

Christian and Sarah discuss:

To discuss this topic further with Christian, you can get in touch via LinkedIn, or find out more about MyPeople Group on their website.

Our topic for this episode is internal marketing and mobility – should we be doing more for our own people?

Charu Malhotra brings her thoughts and views on internal marketing to the podcast, along with her cup of masala chai! Charu has held global leadership roles across employer branding and recruitment marketing at organisations including Unilever, McKinsey, Primark and Ferrero, and she specialises in culture & comms, branding and employee and candidate experience. So she’s perfectly placed to discuss this key subject.

During this episode, Sarah and Charu discuss:

If listeners have questions for Charu about anything you've heard, you can find her on LinkedIn. Charu is also actively seeking her next role in talent marketing, comms and culture, so if you are looking for a senior leader to guide your organisation in these areas, please do get in touch.

During episode 21, we have Nicole Mundy on the pod. Nicole is a senior research analyst at Talent Tech Labs, an independent, unbiased research and advisory firm focused exclusively on Talent Technology. Nicole focuses on evaluating the market for emerging talent technologies. She helps talent acquisition and talent management professionals optimize and future-proof their tech stack, and provides bespoke research advisory services to a number of fortune 500 companies globally.

In this episode, Sarah Wardle talks to Nicole about the trends she is seeing in the talent tech space, and the common challenges organizations are coming up against when it comes to their HR tech strategy.

To hear more from Nicole Mundy you can find her on LinkedIn, or explore the Talent Tech Labs website for more info on how they help businesses evaluate the market place.

Eli Onboarding has recently partnered with AssessFirst, a soft skill assessment tech solution. So to celebrate, Lauren Tait joins us on the podcast! Having qualified with a 1st class degree in psychology, Lauren has been in the industry for a decade, currently working at AF as an HR Business Partner. AF identifies a candidate’s natural talents, motivators and decision-making skills and tells you how well they align with your organisational culture. This increases quality-of-hire, reduces time-to-hire, and increases diversity of teams by reducing bias in the process.

During episode 20, Lauren and Sarah discuss gender bias and equity in the assessment process, how you can neutralise bias, and how AI can be used to improve gender equity within organisations.

If you've enjoyed our conversation and want to hear more, you can contact Lauren on LinkedIn, and you can read the extremely informative whitepaper on gender equity that Lauren mentioned here.

I've often wondered how small tech start-ups manage to maintain their strong ethos and culture when they grow to large unicorn levels. It's easy enough to manage when there are only a few employees, but when you get to 700+, surely something changes? Well, I had my chance to find out when I spoke to Lorraine Metcalf, Chief People Officer at Quantexa, in March 2024.

Lorraine has extensive HR and Talent experience leading teams at businesses such as Zoopla and Notonthehighstreet. She has been awarded several prestigious HR awards throughout her career and has some fascinating ideas on employer brand and culture.

During this episode of the Cup of tea series, Sarah quizzes Lorraine on how she's fostered company values and culture in a business that's faced rapid growth and expansion over the last few years. They discuss employer brand and how this has been instrumental to their success, as well as how she and her team onboard new hires into Quantexa.

If you'd like to find out more about employer branding, or discuss any of the topics you've heard in the Cup of tea series, please do get in touch.

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During Episode 18 of the CA3 Cup of tea series, Sarah Wardle is joined by Emma Mirrington, founder of The Firm - a leading global memberships organisation for TA professionals.

At the end of last year, The Firm published their annual report, which provides insight and findings from their annual survey. During the podcast, Emma talks us through the results of the report, what talent acquisition leaders and teams are focusing on in 2024, and what their key priorities and trends will be.

I think this is our most enlightening Cup of Tea series podcast to date, and our first one for 2024! I was very excited to be chatting with an old friend Sally Higham. Sally and I go way back, almost 20 years, back to when it

When I heard Sally’s episode on Starting a conversation

Sally answers the following questions during our conversation:

1.       Why did you decide to become a menopause coach? 

2.       Menopause facts:

a. Will menopause affect everyone in the same way?

b. What symptoms do I need to look out for, and could I already be going through it?

c. What’s the difference between perimenopause and the full-blown menopause?

d. How long will the menopause last? Will I feel great when it’s over?

e. Do I need to warn my family and employer that this is coming?

f. What adjustments will my work have to make for me? If any?

g. As you have experience of working and living in a few different countries, are there differences globally in both how the menopause is perceived, and how healthcare systems treat people?

3.       What other advice would you give to

4.       What advice would you give to

Sally finished by saying that menopause is not just a women’s issue, it is a human rights issue. Whilst the majority of those directly affected are women, it can also directly affect transgender and non-binary people too. It can also indirectly affect anybody who knows or loves the person going through it – partners, families, friends and colleagues.

To find out more and get in touch with Sally, you can contact her on LinkedIn.

And here are the range of resources recommended by Sally, which you may find useful:

Books:

·       Davina McCall – Menopausing

·       The Power Decade – How to thrive after Menopause – Susan Saunders

·       Just Getting Started – Lessons in Life, Love and Menopause – Lisa Snowdon

·       Everything you need to know about the Menopause (but were too afraid to ask) – Kate Muir

·       The Perimenopause Solution – Dr Shahzadi Harper & Emma Bardwell

Links:

Henpicked

The Kathryn Colas Academy

Emma Bardwell

Newson Health

The Aging Project

With the many automation, AI and technological advances in the talent acquisition and recruitment industry, there are obvious benefits to all of us who are looking at better and more efficient ways of engaging with new talent. But the downside to this can mean the lack of the human element. Especially when talking about your employer brand.

So, for episode 16, I wanted to ask an expert about how we can ensure we are humanising our employer brand at every touchpoint - and be authentic with everything we do. So I spoke to Diogo Videira!

Diogo is an employer brand expert who focuses on talent acquisition and employer branding strategies. He’s the Head of Recruitment for ExxonMobil in the Czech Republic,

We hope you enjoy listening to the podcast!

In this episode we cover a completely different topic, which I think will be of particular interest to those of you who have perhaps moved from TA roles in larger organisations, to smaller, more agile companies and start-ups.

During this podcast, I have a conversation with Aaron Beider. Aaron has TA and recruitment experience working and building teams for some of the world’s biggest brands including ASOS, Meta, TikTok and Dyson. He’s now focused on building a TA function to be reckoned with at a new start-up in the electric aviation industry, Vertical Aerospace.

If you'd like to connect with Aaron to discuss any of these topics further, or are looking for a potential mentor in this area, you can contact him on LinkedIn.