Hiring Success Podcast

James Sinclair, founder and chief executive of EnterpriseAlumni, joins us for a discussion about corporate alumni programs. They enable large organizations such as the Lufthansa Group, Nestle, HSBC, P&G, and LinkedIn to actively engage and harness the power of their corporate alumni for a variety of purposes including talent acquisition, business development, mentoring, and more.

The argument for having corporate alumni programs in place is certainly convincing. According to James, alumni and alumni referrals are the number one and two sources of new hires for the majority of companies—career boards are number six. Additionally, alumni and alumni referrals stay on board, on average, two years longer than other hires.

You can find more research and insights on alumni programs here.

Tony Le is the Senior Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Getaround—an online, peer-to-peer car-sharing service that’s based in San Francisco and available across the United States and Europe. He has over fifteen years of experience with full life-cycle recruitment, employee relations, organizational development, diversity, and—last but not least—employee training programs, which will be the focus of our seventh episode.

Topics of discussion include the cost benefits of sourcing talent internally, employee retention, how to market training programs internally and measure their performance, and why tactful, careful communication is an essential soft skill for TA leaders.

The recruiting and HR resources that Tony mentions can be found here:

https://www.ere.net/

https://www.shrm.org/

https://recruitingdaily.com/

https://slofile.com/slack/hashtagpeople

Our sixth episode of the Hiring Success Podcast features an interview with Jason Ewell from Insight Partners—a global venture capital and private equity firm based in NYC that invests in growth-stage technology, software, and Internet businesses. Among other things, Jason oversees Insight Onsite’s Talent Center of Excellence, working closely with portfolio companies on organizational design, talent, and the hiring of C-level employees. He’s well versed in the art of getting the C-Suite actively involved in the hiring process, a task that sometimes is anything but easy.

Topics of discussion include the importance of having engaged executives in the talent acquisition process, recruitment marketing, using predictive analytics and data in the hiring process, interview scorecards, and more. 

Show Notes: 

More information on Interview Scorecards can be found here. 

More information on Hiring Scorecards can be found here.

More information on Starbucks’ recruiting strategy can be found here.

Our guest for the fifth episode of Hiring Success is Matt Alder—author, consultant, and host of The Recruiting Future Podcast. For nearly twenty years, Matt has helped companies across the world navigate the process of digital transformation and hire the talent necessary to do so. 

Topics of discussion include the problems with legacy hiring practices, the often overlooked merit of candidates with unconventional backgrounds, recruiting automation, AI as a mechanism for removing bias in job interviews, and more.

Episode 17 of the Hiring Success Podcast features Mertcan Uzun, a talent acquisition and diversity & inclusion specialist at Blinkist. Based in Berlin, Blinkist is an app that summarizes a variety nonfiction books into 15-minute audio and text summaries. In 2019 they were nominated by LinkedIn as one of the hottest German Startups to work for, which comes as no surprise given the company’s commitment to fostering an open, inclusive work culture, and to contributing towards a greater social good. In this episode, Mertcan and I talk about the role of Blinkist’s talent team in bringing this commitment to life, in particular their diversity recruiting initiatives.

Episode 16 of the Hiring Success Podcast features an interview with Kristina Johnson, Chief People Officer at Okta, Inc. Over the last year, the company has been transitioning to a dynamic work model—which, some might say, is the wiser, older sibling of remote or distributed work. We discuss the myriad benefits of dynamic work, who stands to benefit from it the most, and what companies should keep in mind before making the transition.

Episode 15 of the Hiring Success Podcast features a discussion with Jason Paradowski, head of HR services & talent acquisition at Bosch, North America.

We discuss change management, what makes it difficult and rewarding, as well as what Jason did at Bosch to streamline the company's talent function, increase their hiring velocity, and drive TA transformation with zero increase in budget—an initiative that gave the company a competitive hiring advantage against other major tech corporations.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to get internal buy-in for new for a new TA tech stack? You probably know that your team is only as good as the tools it uses, but how do you succinctly communicate that to your colleagues and the c-suite?

Episode 14 features an excerpt from a recent webinar in which SmartRecruiters’ CEO Jerome Ternynck and Elaine Orler—founder & CEO of Talent Function—clearly outline the most important points to include when making a bulletproof business case for a modern and sophisticated applicant tracking system.

For episode 13 of the Hiring Success Podcast, SmartRecruiters' head of communications, Roy Baladi, is joined by Gerry Crispin— Principal & Co-Founder of CareerXroads.

The discussion is focused on, among other things, a new initiative called Recruiters Recruiting Recruiters, whose mission is "to support our colleagues and peers in Talent Acquisition on both sides of the crossroad where opportunity and talent meet. Recruiters are an awfully big part of a recovery effort and we want you to be part of it. Whether you’re an employer, a vendor, or a jobseeker, you are a crucial part of this effort."

The author Maya Angelou once said, “If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you can’t know where you’re going.”

This is true for individuals and companies alike. Whether it’s the entire business, or individual functions like sales, marketing, or talent acquisition—the road to improvement is paved with lessons learned. 

Sometimes, learning those lessons is the hardest part—unless, of course, you surround yourself with the right people to help you understand where you’ve come from and to guide you in the right direction going forward. 

Our guest for Episode 12 is Rebecca Carr, Senior Vice President of Growth & Hiring Success at SmartRecruiters. Rebecca and her team of Hiring Success consultants empower companies to optimize their hiring outcomes through careful assessment and strategic consulting.

She joins us to talk about the first step in that process—The Hiring Success Business Assessment—and why it’s actually a rewarding experience to embrace the struggle.