Overview

It’s #ThursdayPodcast once again! In episode 8 of Employer Branding: The Inside Podcast we had the pleasure of speaking with Christopher Plantener, CEO & Founder at Kontist. We talked more in-depth about leadership involvement in building a strong company culture, but also about the importance of internal communication, diversity, trends, and a lot more. Tune in on Spotify to learn more!

What you’ll learn by listening

• Flexibility & equality when working with freelancers & employees

• Maintaining company culture cohesion: keeping freelancers & employees united

• Internal communication: the key to maintaining a strong company culture

• Employer branding & data: measuring employee happiness levels

• Employer branding trends: rethinking the traditional office, aligning purpose & values

About the company

We believe freelancers will shape the future of work, challenging corporate structures, embracing individuality and building successful businesses. Today freelancers don’t get the help they need, in particular when it comes to the complexity of their finances. Kontist provides the banking services freelancers deserve, making finances easy.

Overview

Now that the holidays are over, we’re back in business! In episode 7 of Employer Branding: The Inside Podcast we had the pleasure of speaking with Adeline Bodemer, Head of People, at Gorgias. We talked about leadership buy-in and learning from the best to become the best; but also about the impact of data in talent acquisition, growth sourcing methodologies, and a lot more.

What you’ll learn by listening

• Leadership buy-in: learning from the best to become the best

• Making a career shift: overcoming challenges & taking risks

• The impact of data in talent acquisition & employer branding

• Use data to understand the size of your talent pool when hiring & retaining top talent

• Bridging the salary gap using data: how to make the best job offer

• Talent acquisition & employer branding trends for 2022

• The importance of implementing data-driven growth sourcing methodologies

About the company

Gorgias builds a multi-channel help desk integrated with e-commerce merchants'​ back-office. It allows merchants to manage all their support from one place. It connects all business apps and all communication channels to provide support agents a unified view of their customers. It sets auto-responses to common customer requests. Gorgias helps merchants leverage support as a way to increase sales.

Overview

The holiday season is just around the corner, so we thought it would be nice to end the year with a special podcast episode. In Ep.6 of Employer Branding: The Inside Podcast we’ve had the pleasure of speaking with Steven Brand, Global Employer Brand Manager at Mambu. We talked about EVP & TVP, creating a culture of openness through honesty and transparency, delivering consistently impressive people experiences, and a lot more. Tune in on Spotify & enjoy!

What you’ll learn by listening

• Learning the difference between employee value proposition & targeted value proposition

• The importance of delivering a consistently impressive people experience

• Honesty & transparency in employer branding: creating a culture of openness

• The role of data in employer branding

• Building internal relationships & networks in employer branding

• A personal approach of a trend in employer branding for 2022

Overview

We’re back with Ep.05 of Employer Branding: The Inside Podcast! Tune in to listen to Paul Glover, C-suite performance coach at paulglovercoaching.com, talk about the power of coaching for business leaders. Throughout the podcast, we covered several other interesting topics on purpose and its role in strengthening company culture, the future of work, the importance of truth-telling, and a lot more.

What you’ll learn by listening

• Leadership facts: the importance of truth-telling from a C-suite performance coach’s perspective

• Coaching for leaders & why it matters

• Guidelines to help tackle employee disengagement

• What it really takes to be a team leader

• The power of purpose & its role in strengthening company culture

• The future of work lies in the self-directed teams

• Unlocking the power of storytelling from a leader’s perspective

Overview

We’re back with Ep.04 of Employer Branding: The Inside Podcast! Tune in to listen to Yvonne Scheja, Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding Manager at Oetker Digital GmbH, talk about the power of data in employer branding, and how research and data insights are vital when recruiting top talent. Throughout the podcast, we covered several other interesting topics on the role of creativity in talent acquisition, and a lot more.

What you’ll learn by listening

• The power of data in employer branding: how research and data go hand in hand

• Employer branding meets the art world: merging data with creativity

• Guidelines to keep the company culture united amid the pandemic

• #ExpertTiP: Employer branding is NOT a one-woman/man-show

• Recruiting top talent in tech goes beyond brand reputation

• Employer branding is a holistic approach to the employee lifecycle

Overview

Episode 3 of Employer Branding: The Inside Podcast is up and steaming! Tune in to listen to Sean McAuliffe, Founder & CEO at Huey.io, talk about keeping teams agile when working remotely. Throughout the podcast, we covered several other interesting topics on maintaining balance between people and processes, managing a team through mergers and acquisitions, and a lot more.

What you’ll learn by listening:

• People come first in a remote environment: managing distributed teams

• Maintaining balance between processes and people

• Essential tips for managers working with a remote team

• Managing a team through mergers and acquisitions

• The importance of having a strong employer brand when working remotely

• Keeping teams agile as you grow in a remote environment

Overview

We’re back with Episode 2 of Employer Branding: The Inside Podcast! This time around we’ve had the pleasure of speaking with Adriana Hurduc about building a company culture. Adriana is a

Strategic Talent Acquisition Manager at Cavalry Ventures, and she shared with us some interesting insights on the importance of people and people teams when you’re just starting out building a company from the ground up. Tune in for more!

What you’ll learn by listening

• What makes a good culture in the early stages of a company

• The importance of building an internal company culture first

• The level of interest companies have in building a culture with a solid employer brand

• The evolution of the company culture as a concept

• Tips & tricks on how to fix broken recruitment

• Useful insights on remote work

• Recruitment is teamwork, not a one man job

Overview

Season 3 of EmployerBranding: The Inside Podcast is out now! To keep things interesting, we’ve started exploring a slightly different format centered around one topic. Today’s discussion was about belonging. What does it mean to have “a sense of belonging” in the context of employer branding?

We debated the concept with Iulia Costea, Employer Branding Manager at Marley Spoon, and we found out that there’s a deep connection between employee engagement, company culture, and belonging. Tune it to learn more!

What you’ll learn by listening

• “A sense of belonging”, what it is in the context of employer branding

• What defines a successful culture

• Differences between work-life balance, work-life overlap, and work-life integration

• The importance of giving, receiving, and implementing feedback

• Understanding the connection between engagement and a sense of belonging

Let’s unpuzzle company culture! Employer Branding: The Inside Podcast is hosted in Berlin, Germany by Georgiana Gitschuk, CEO at @Beaglecat and employerbranding.tech.

In every weekly episode, employer brand specialists and HR leaders will join us to talk about their favorite strategies, tips, and tricks for building a strong employer brand. Thus far, we’ve had invitees from top companies across Berlin, Germany & Bucharest, Romania such as - eMAG, UiPath, Marley Spoon, Penta Berlin, New Work SE, commercetools, Taxfix, Personio, Ironhack, Mula-Berlin, CrossLend, and Bitkom.

Overview

We’re back with episode 10 of our Employer Branding: The Inside Podcast. This time around, we decided to switch things up a bit and approach the topic of employer branding from a different perspective. Meet our guest, Mark Herschberg, HR expert and author of the book The Career Toolkit. Throughout the podcast, we talked about skills that teams need to become more effective, but also about implementing a peer learning programme to develop and maintain employee skills and engagement within companies of all shapes and sizes.

What you’ll learn by listening

• Skills that make teams more effective

• Overcoming communication challenges within your organization

• What is peer learning & how it can help you be a better leader

• Developing skills & keeping employees engaged via peer learning

• Putting theory into practice - creating the same language within your organization to increase skills & maintain engagement

• The key to successful recruiting at the organizational level: Merging HR with sales and marketing