HR Data Labs

Send us a text

Summary:

Gary Bragar is the HR Outsourcing Research Director at NelsonHall, a leading BPO research and analysis firm, where he has global responsibility for HRO. In this key role, Gary helps both buyers and vendors assess the opportunities capabilities of HR outsourcing, including: recruitment, learning, payroll, benefits, mid-market HRO, and multi-process HRO. Gary is a member of the No. America Board of Advisors for the HRO Today Services and Technology Association, as well as a member of the HR.com Talent Acquisition Advisory Board. 

In this episode, Gary talks HR technologies of the past and present. He also discusses how to navigate the busy HR technology landscape of today. 

Chapters:

[0:00 - 4:12] Introduction

[4:13 - 12:05] What HR Technology Trends Have You Seen in the Past?

[12:06 - 17:17] Navigating Today’s Myriad HR Tech Options

[17:18 - 18:37] Final Thoughts & Closing

Quotes:

“Another trend I'm seeing now that's a big focus—on one hand, it’s nothing new, it’s just increased importance—is employee engagement. Once you get those hires on board, you want to keep them happy. You want to communicate with them.”

“Even when I was at AT&T and we use different tools, there were so many you used. You’d try one thing and that would work and you'd use it for a couple years—and maybe it was a performance management software and everybody was gung ho. And then all of a sudden it just died. That's why I think leadership commitment—it has to be top down driven.”

Contact:

LinkedIn

Produced by Affogato Media

To schedule a meeting with us: https://salary.com/hrdlconsulting

For more HR Data Labs®, enjoy the HR Data Labs Brown Bag Lunch Hours every Friday at 2:00PM-2:30PM EST. Check it out here: https://hrdatalabs.com/brown-bag-lunch/

Produced by Affogato Media

Send us a text

As the Chief Research Officer, Managing Partner of Sapient Insights Group, Stacey Harris oversees industry research work including the Annual HR Systems Survey and White Paper. She has been a leading member of the HR practices and technology research community since 2007 and has produced groundbreaking research on high-impact HR organizations, enterprise HR technology, and key practices across the talent management spectrum.  

Stacey has had executive-level roles with Sierra-Cedar, Bersin & Associates, and Brandon Hall Group, and she has worked as an industry advisor and HR leader for Fortune 100 organizations around the world. She is frequently included in Human Resource Executive® and the HR Technology Conference’s Top 100 HR Tech Influencers list and sits on the International Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM) Board of Directors, overseeing strategy and education in her role as Vice-Chair. Stacey is also the author of Introduction to HR Technologies: Understand How To Use Technology to Improve Performance and Processes. 

In this episode, Stacey talks about her thoughts on HR Technology of the past, present, and future.

Chapters:

[0:00 - 4:00] Introduction

• Welcome, Stacey!

• Today’s Topic: HR Technology of the Past, Present, and Future

[4:07 - 9:42] Looking at Past Trends in HR Technology

• The dawn of self-service technology

• What HR looked like pre-Internet

[9:53 - 19:30] What’s Significant about HR Technology Today?

• What companies who thrived through COVID had in common

• What companies with higher talent retentions are doing differently

[19:38 - 30:16] What HR Technology does the Future Hold?

• Automating processes that get left behind

• Why workforce planning could be the key to a thriving business

[30:16 - 39:47] Final Thoughts & Closing

• Was HR Tech a success?

• Thanks for listening!

Quotes: 
“Organizations who've got the best user experience and vendor satisfaction score—we track that every year—and those organizations who seemed to come out of the COVID environment in a better place had a couple of things in common. One of the things we saw without a doubt was that if you had invested in workforce planning, or if you had invested in talent management, or if you had ensured that you had an idea of where your organization was sitting, at least from a talent perspective, you just did better in this last two or three years.”

 “The technology of the future—the piece that I think we're all sort of trying to figure out—is taking the really sticky business challenges that we have right now, which are always more of a process than they are a technology, and starting to figure out how to automate those because we have automated, for the most part, everything that is easy to automate in our world.”

Contact:

LinkedIn

Production by Affogato Media

To schedule a meeting with us: https://salary.com/hrdlconsulting

For more HR Data Labs®, enjoy the HR Data Labs Brown Bag Lunch Hours every Friday at 2:00PM-2:30PM EST. Check it out here: https://hrdatalabs.com/brown-bag-lunch/

Produced by Affogato Media

Send us a text

Summary:

Pam Jeffords is a Senior Partner at Sapient Insights Group who leads the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Practice. She has over 25 years of experience in the industry and is a member of the Global Leadership Council for Colorado State University College of Business, an advisory board member for University of Denver Colorado Women’s College, and a Limited Partner in The JumpFund whose mission is to invest in women-led startups. Pam has also served as Chair of Women United for the Mile-High United Way where she received the prestigious Frances Wisebart Jacobs award for philanthropy. 

We’re also joined by Susan Richards and Danielle White!

Susan Richards is the Founder and CEO of Sapient Insights Group. For more than 25 years, Susan has been consulting in areas of change management, organizational effectiveness, M&A, HR strategy, technology, and operations. Her focus is on helping clients improve business performance by aligning their human capital programs and practices with business strategy. 

Danielle White is Collaborative Solutions’ EVP of Global Business Strategy. She brings over 20 years of HR transformation experience from commercial and public sector industries. She uses her subject matter expertise to lead corporate thought leadership, go-to-market strategy, and engagement strategy. 

In this episode, Pam, Susan, and Danielle talk about how diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging has changed over the years and how it might change in the years to come. 

Chapters:

[0:00 - 3:12] Introduction

[3:13 - 13:27] How People Approached DE&I in the Past

[13:28 - 32:16] What does DE&I Look Like Today?

[32:17 - 41:52] The Future of DE&I

[41:53 - 43:45] Final Thoughts & Closing

• Thank you for listening!

Quotes:

"I did an exercise with a group of people who were very angry with their leadership and asking, ‘Where's the diversity?’ I asked, ‘How many of you in this room were hired by way of employee referrals?’ Almost all of them raised their hand. I said, ‘That's why we don't have diversity.’ Because we’re reling heavily on employee referrals and we're referring people that look like us. So, if we want to do this differently, go outside of your network. Seek out people, refer them in, and that's the only way we're going to have diversity.” 

“When you talk about equity and opportunity, it's giving everybody equal access. And what we find is that feedback is probably the number one thing where we see the biggest gaps in who's getting it—[and the same can be said about] career guidance.”

Contact:

Pam Jeffords LinkedIn
Susan Richards LinkedIn
Danielle White Linke

To schedule a meeting with us: https://salary.com/hrdlconsulting

For more HR Data Labs®, enjoy the HR Data Labs Brown Bag Lunch Hours every Friday at 2:00PM-2:30PM EST. Check it out here: https://hrdatalabs.com/brown-bag-lunch/

Produced by Affogato Media

Send us a text

Summary:

Jack Coapman is a senior executive at GR8 People, Inc. with strong leadership skills and experience formulating, developing, and implementing revenue generating strategies and policies. He assures continued growth and success through strategically charting business development and new business ventures. Jack has experience aligning client objectives and requirements with a technology platform that drives measurable results.

In this episode, Jack talks about the past, present, and future of the hiring process, beyond ATS. 

Chapters:

[0:00 - 5:06] Introduction

[5:07 - 14:53] Products that Recruiting Teams Used to Rely On

[14:54 - 26:36] How People Work Differently than They Used To

[26:37 - 35:17] How Recruiters Will Deal with Present Pains in the Recruiting Process

[35:18 - 37:45] Final Thoughts & Closing

Quotes:

“You can't take old problems and simply lay new technology on top of them and assume that, in the blink of an eye or a wave of a wand, [they’ll be fixed].”

“[The] big theme today is candidate experience because if you're not doing a good job in their eyes, they're going to move on.”

Contact:

LinkedIn

Production by Affogato Media

To schedule a meeting with us: https://salary.com/hrdlconsulting

For more HR Data Labs®, enjoy the HR Data Labs Brown Bag Lunch Hours every Friday at 2:00PM-2:30PM EST. Check it out here: https://hrdatalabs.com/brown-bag-lunch/

Produced by Affogato Media

Send us a text

Summary:

Included in Socialmicole.com’s Most Inclusive HR Influencer List, Bennett Sung has contributed to the success of industry-leading recruiting technology brands, including VirtualEdge, Jobscience, MightyRecruiter, Koru, AllyO, and now Humanly.io.

In this episode, Bennett talks about AI’s current role in the recruiting process and the role it might play in the near future. 

Chapters:

[0:00 - 5:23] Introduction

[5:24 - 18:28] What’s Happening, Working, and Not Working in Recruiting Presently?

[18:29 - 25:49] Conversational AI in the World of Recruiting

[25:50 - 32:30] How Is AI Being Used in the Interview Stage?

[32:31 - 36:21] Final Thoughts & Closing

Quotes:

“Hiring has never changed. The process itself never changes, right? They talk about disruption … but the actual transformation of the recruiting process really has remained consistent since the 1950s, when the CV was born or the resume was born.”

“[An interview] is a change management tool. This is not your traditional data collection compliance application anymore. So that is the initial purpose of AI, and it's going to continue to build itself out so that it becomes much more effective in decision support.”

Contact:

LinkedIn

Production by Affogato Media

To schedule a meeting with us: https://salary.com/hrdlconsulting

For more HR Data Labs®, enjoy the HR Data Labs Brown Bag Lunch Hours every Friday at 2:00PM-2:30PM EST. Check it out here: https://hrdatalabs.com/brown-bag-lunch/

Produced by Affogato Media

Send us a text

HR Data Labs took the studio mobile and went live at HR Tech 2021 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV, talking to thought leaders in People Analytics and HR Technology.  Join us as we go on this enlightening journey gathering cutting-edge insights from our guests!

Summary:

Tim Sackett is one of the few HR professionals who has been on both sides of the desk. With over 15 years of experience in talent acquisition, Tim has worked as a corporate staffing director for companies like Applebee’s International, ShopKo Stores, Inc. and Sparrow Health System. He has also had two stints with HRU. The first time, for eight year immediately following college; the second, returning à la Prodigal Son to run HRU—and his story is closer to the Biblical reference than you might think! Tim is an active HR blogger, a conference presenter, and an advocate for a Diet Mountain Dew soda fountain in the office. He truly believes that the most important role of HR in any organization is to increase talent. 

In this episode, Tim talks about how recruiting metrics and recruiting performance have changed over the years and where they might go in the years to come. 

Chapters:

[0:00 - 6:03] Introduction

[6:04 - 16:49] Recruiting Metrics that Yield Usable Data

[16:50 - 28:35] What Impacts Recruiting Performance?

[28:36 - 29:44] Final Thoughts & Closing

• Thank you for listening!

Contact:
LinkedIn

Quotes:

“All of our funnels, individually and as a team, are all transparent. And if there's a recruiter that had a bad week, or if there's a recruiter that decided to sluff off or whatever, well it shows. And it's not meant to be like a stressor, it's meant to [communicate], “Hey, understand if someone's being successful, take a look at why.” There's no magic, you know, or secret sauce.” 

“The “great resignation,” I think, is a misnomer. It's really just a great reshuffle, and people aren't leaving to leave. We’ll see stories in media like, “Oh, Mary left and she's going to take a break for a year, blah, blah, blah. You know, cause work's changed.” And I'm like, okay, but the reality is people are resigning from your company because you're not paying them enough. And somebody else is going to pay them more.”

Production by Affogato Media

To schedule a meeting with us: https://salary.com/hrdlconsulting

For more HR Data Labs®, enjoy the HR Data Labs Brown Bag Lunch Hours every Friday at 2:00PM-2:30PM EST. Check it out here: https://hrdatalabs.com/brown-bag-lunch/

Produced by Affogato Media

Send us a text

Summary:

As Season 2 of the HR Data Labs Podcast comes to a close, David and Dwight take a look back at its episodes and its guests, and they talk about about what to expect for the fast-approaching Season 3! 

Chapters:

[0:00 - 4:30] Introduction

[4:31 - 19:15] How Each Guest Brought Something New to the Podcast

[19:16 - 25:33] Looking ahead to Season 3

[25:34 - 27:29] Final Thoughts & Closing

Quotes:

“We talked about a lot of different things with a lot of different people—it wasn't the same thing over and over again.” 

“[In Season 3], we're going to explore certain areas of HR and HR analytics that we haven't really talked a lot about in the past.”

Contacts:

David's LinkedIn
Dwight's LinkedIn

To schedule a meeting with us: https://salary.com/hrdlconsulting

For more HR Data Labs®, enjoy the HR Data Labs Brown Bag Lunch Hours every Friday at 2:00PM-2:30PM EST. Check it out here: https://hrdatalabs.com/brown-bag-lunch/

Produced by Affogato Media

Send us a text

HR Data Labs took the studio mobile and went live at HR Tech 2021 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV, talking to thought leaders in People Analytics and HR Technology.  Join us as we go on this enlightening journey gathering cutting-edge insights from our guests!

Summary:

As Visier’s General Manager of Strategic Solutions & Partnerships, Zack Johnson helps the world’s leading HCM vendors and service providers build winning people analytics applications businesses that unlock value for their customers through their people data. From schools, to governments, to Fortune 500 companies, Zack’s work over the past 14 years to build the people analytics market has brought people insights to thousands of organizations. Zack has also given lectures on business and people analytics for a variety of institutions, including Northwestern University, NYU, Yale, West Point.

In this episode, Zack talks about past, present, and future of people analytics. 

Chapters:

[0:00 - 2:10] Introduction

[2:11 - 9:26] Reflecting on Past People Analytics Trends

[9:27 - 16:16]  Insight on the Current State of People Analytics

[16:17 - 24:36] The Future of People Analytics

[24:37 - 25:40] Final Thoughts & Closing

• Episode closing

Quotes:

“Whether you're recruiting someone to work with you, raising capital, or getting someone to pay for the thing, you got to get people to believe and see it.” 

“Just with Facebook and Google alone, you have like $3 trillion of value on understanding the consumer, but think about how much money is spent on the employees, right? And every problem is solved by people working together.”

Links:
LinkedIn

Produced by Affogato Media

To schedule a meeting with us: https://salary.com/hrdlconsulting

For more HR Data Labs®, enjoy the HR Data Labs Brown Bag Lunch Hours every Friday at 2:00PM-2:30PM EST. Check it out here: https://hrdatalabs.com/brown-bag-lunch/

Produced by Affogato Media

Send us a text

HR Data Labs took the studio mobile and went live at HR Tech 2021 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV, talking to thought leaders in People Analytics and HR Technology.  Join us as we go on this enlightening journey gathering cutting-edge insights from our guests!

Summary:

Chris Havrilla leads the HR technology and solution provider strategy and research practice for Deloitte—helping to demystify the ever-changing HR Tech landscape for their corporate and solution provider members. She has worked diligently through her career with business and HR leaders—both as an internal HR & HR technology/strategy practitioner or as a consultant/adviser—on radically improving talent strategy, technology, and leadership—as well as the vendors who serve them. With a unique blend of technical, HR practitioner, business and vendor experience, she laughingly describes herself as a bit of a talent, HR Tech and Future of Work "whisperer”.  In 2019, Chris was selected by Human Resource Executive® and the HR Technology Conference to be included in the inaugural Top 100 HR Tech Influencers list, which recognizes individuals from the HR, technology, and business communities who are impacting the future direction of HR technology.

In this episode, Chris talks about the past, present, and future of HR technology. 

Chapters:

[0:00 - 3:02] Introduction

[3:03 - 12:43] Reflecting on Past and Present Trends in HR Technology

[12:44 - 16:43] The Future of HR Technologies

[16:44 - 17:55] Final Thoughts & Closing

Quotes:

“We have this opportunity to actually have the tech work for us and really stop working for the tech or [stop] making the tech the work.” 

“We did a really interesting study on the technology in [the digital workplace are], and one of the things that we were finding is … how do we leverage all of this data for true knowledge management, not just content management.”

Contact:

LinkedIn

Produced by Affogato Media.

To schedule a meeting with us: https://salary.com/hrdlconsulting

For more HR Data Labs®, enjoy the HR Data Labs Brown Bag Lunch Hours every Friday at 2:00PM-2:30PM EST. Check it out here: https://hrdatalabs.com/brown-bag-lunch/

Produced by Affogato Media

Send us a text

HR Data Labs took the studio mobile and went live at HR Tech 2021 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV, talking to thought leaders in People Analytics and HR Technology.  Join us as we go on this enlightening journey gathering cutting-edge insights from our guests!

Summary:

Jason Averbook is an analyst, a thought leader, and a consultant in the field of human resources. He helps executives rethink the design and delivery of employee services to better meet the expectations of their workforce and the needs of their business. He has more than 25 years of experience in the HR and technology industries and has authored two books: HR from Now to Next (June 2014) and The Ultimate Guide to a Digital Workforce Experience (June 2018).

In this episode, Jason talks about his time at and thoughts on HR Analytics & Technology as reflected through HR Tech 2021. 

Chapters:

[0:00 - 0:49] Introduction

[0:50 - 10:33] Interesting Notes from the Conference

[10:34 - 13:09] Can Strategic Partnerships Solve Our problems?

• Mindset over technology

[13:10 - 15:36] The Future of HR Tech in 2022 and Beyond

• Let’s talk less about HR and more about people

[15:37 - 17:00] Final Thoughts & Closing

Quotes:

“If managers and leaders don't like doing performance management, you can have the best tools in the world and it's not going to matter.” 

“The great resignation is what's happening; the awakening is that we have to think differently about people. We have to figure out: how do we stop just counting people, and [how do we start] making people count.”

Links:

LinkedIn
Leapgen Website
Book Link

Production by Affogato Media

To schedule a meeting with us: https://salary.com/hrdlconsulting

For more HR Data Labs®, enjoy the HR Data Labs Brown Bag Lunch Hours every Friday at 2:00PM-2:30PM EST. Check it out here: https://hrdatalabs.com/brown-bag-lunch/

Produced by Affogato Media