The Breakthrough Hiring Show: Recruiting and Talent Acquisition Conversations

EP 100: Best of: Shauna Geraghty, SVP & Global Head of People & Talent at Talkdesk. Masterclass: quality of hire, predictive algorithms, the magic number to measure success.


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As the first U.S. employee at Talkdesk, Shauna initially helped scale Talkdesk’s Marketing team, infrastructure, and activities from the ground up. In 2016 she was tapped to build Talkdesk’s Talent Acquisition function and since then has helped to scale Talkdesk to over 1,500 employees in 20 countries globally and to achieve a $10B+ valuation. 

Shauna shares how her background in Marketing, doctorate in Clinical Psychology, and her Strategic Advisory role with Stanford’s School of Medicine, has influenced her development on People and Talent theory and execution.

You don’t want to miss this one!

 0:46 Shauna Geraghty's background

 7:04 Quality over quantity in hiring

 8:27 Optimizing quality of hire

13:30 How to coach hiring managers

16:59 Ideal candidate profile comparison to ideal customer profile

22:45 Predictive validity of the algorithm

26:03 Performance measurement and alignment in hiring

31:25 Improve hiring and performance reviews

33:02 V2M2: vision, value, methods, and metrics

39:22 The magic number metric: candidate quality score multiply it by candidate difficulty score


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