From A People Perspective

The HR Podcast and startup veteran, Alison Kaizer graced the podcast with her knowledge on all things recruitment, leadership and figuring yourself out to figure everything else out. While she's no stranger to these conversations, she did save a few good stories and lots of wisdom for this episode.

From A People Perspective and The People People Group is made possible by our sponsors, if you're not a member, check out Canada's most engaged HR/Recruitment/Operations community.

• Wavy is a culture management platform for flexible teams
• The Leadership Agency is one of North America and the UK's best boutique startup recruitment agencies
• SpringLaw is Canada's first (and best) virtual employment law firm

Shownotes:

(1:15) – Intro

(3:45) – Icebreakers!

(8:50) – The Journey Into Recruiting

(16:00) – Going International

(21:40) – Knowing Your Role

(23:30) – From Player To Coach

(26:35) – Getting Into VC

(31:25) – What's Next?
 
 From A People Perspective is humbly hosted by Martin Hauck and perfectly produced by Krish Dineshkumar.

The energetic Aly Harji joined me on the podcast to LITERALLY INVITE YOU ON A CANADIAN ROCKETSHIP (almost literally) and while I had him on the line, we talked about how he broke into recruitment in tech and the lessons he learned from helping Shopify scale from 2,000 people to over 14,000 while he was the Talent Sourcing Manager for Commercial and Executive Search at Shopify.

From A People Perspective and The People People Group is made possible by our sponsors, if you're not a member, check out Canada's most engaged HR/Recruitment/Operations community.

• Wavy is a culture management platform for flexible teams
• The Leadership Agency is one of North America and the UK's best boutique startup recruitment agencies
• SpringLaw is Canada's first (and best) virtual employment law firm

Here's the timestamps for the episode:
(2:15) – How they met.

(7:26) – What is SpaceRyde?

(13:00) – What talent is SpaceRyde looking for?

(15:00) – Is Spaceryde’s similar to SpaceX?

(17:15) – Aren’t you getting bored of Earth?

(19:30) – What is Spaceryde looking for in terms of talent?

(22:50) – How to get in touch with Aly! Email: [email protected]

(24:00) – Aly's origin story

(28:00) – Hospitality is a gateway to recruiting?!?!

(30:00) – Getting the opportunity

(32:30) – Transferrable skills

(35:25) – Value of experience from retail/hospitality; experiential learning

(36:55) – Aly’s journey to working for Shopify

(49:50) – Helping growing teams at different stages; startups, scale ups, enterprises…

(53:50) – Does hiring someone who interviews great for the position always translate to someone who performs incredibly well?

(58:05) – Importance of seeing how someone approaches their ‘craft’

(1:04:00) – Lessons from scaling up

(1:06:15) – Scaling vs. Flailing?

(1:07:50) – Aly's final thoughts... :heart:
 
 From A People Perspective is humbly hosted by Martin Hauck and perfectly produced by Krish Dineshkumar.

Marsha Shandur and I talk about how to apply the science, magic and art of using storytelling to creating a captivating employer brand and levelling up the employee experience. Given that storytelling is the oldest form of communication, our brains are hardwired to respond better to those who communicate effectively.

Marsha has coached some of the most amazing speakers and helped countless organizations level up their communication skills, here's some of the wonderfully nice things they've said about working with her.

Marsha was kind enough to create a summary and resource page for some of the things we covered in the podcast and you can check that secret link here.

From A People Perspective and The People People Group is made possible by our sponsors, if you're not a member, check us out online, on LinkedIn, on Instagram or Twitter to learn more about North America's most engaged people operations community.

• Wavy is a culture management platform for flexible teams
• The Leadership Agency is one of North America and the UK's best boutique startup recruitment agencies
• SpringLaw is Canada's first (and best) virtual employment law firm

 Hosted by Martin Hauck and produced by Krish Dineshkumar

Mike Bettley shares his journey in recruitment, starting from a sales-focused recruitment agency to working at Google and then transitioning to smaller companies. He emphasizes the importance of recruitment in solving business problems and the need for transparency in the decision-making process. He also discusses the challenges and potential drawbacks of remote work and the importance of understanding the unique needs and culture of each organization when hiring. In this conversation, Martin Hauck discusses the importance of maintaining integrity in the hiring process and the need to constantly work on normalizing a high conversion rate. He emphasizes the value of incorporating a sense of ownership in the talent acquisition process and acknowledges the reality that employees may not stay with a company for a long time. Martin also highlights the significance of metrics in recruiting and the need to analyze and infer from them to improve effectiveness. He encourages talent leaders to have a business owner mindset and to understand the perspective of their CEO and other leaders in order to make a greater impact.

Andrew Tan and I dive into the multi-faceted challenges of being new to a country and finding work despite having an excellent educational background and a robust list of work experience.

Jamie Hoobanoff, Founder of The Leadership Agency answers a few questions raised that members of The People People Group had on assessing skills when it comes to leaders.