HR Interviews Playlist

In this episode, Katee and Jackye chat with Amy Spurling. Amy is the Founder and CEO of Compt, HR software that enables companies to offer truly personalized employee perks that adapt to remote and hybrid employee needs, while being fully tax compliant and inclusive for global teams. Amy's experience as CFO and COO managing HR and Finance at early and growth stage companies prior to Compt drives her belief that companies and employees can achieve so much more together when employees are fully supported. Named Boston’s “CFO of the Year” by the Boston Business Journal in 2016, she is a seasoned executive with nearly 20 years experience in leadership roles at venture-backed companies ranging from early start-up phase through high growth and ultimately exit. Over her career, she has closed over ten rounds of financing totaling more than $200M, and managed two acquisitions to close.

Amy received her Master of Business Administration from the Simmons School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester.

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Corey’s leadership at employ Inc. (Owner of Jobvite, JazzHR, Lever etc..) makes us all envious; their executive and hiring manager’s commitment to the recruitment process sets the pace for all TA Leaders to follow. 

For the love great research and reports, we go direct to the source with Jobvite | employ’s Q4 report and dig into the findings. 

Jobvite | Employ Inc. report highlights:

• 46% of HR decision makers say their company’s hiring is being impacted by the economic uncertainty

• Eating their own dogfood, which ATS does employ use

• Quality of hire defined at Employ inc.

• Understanding how we ended up with 50% job offers being accepted by candidates

Share, share, share! Everyone's sharing everything on social media. Employers and recruiters who are sharing, however, aren't really doing it right most of the time. That's why Cliquify was founded. Think of them as "Canva for Recruiting." Amit Parmar, CEO at Cliquify joins the boys to pitch his company, and its concept, on Firing Squad. Are employers ready to embrace The Share? Does he make it out alive? Gotta listen to find out.

The debate around the office versus remote versus hybrid looks set to run and run as employers continue to experiment with different strategies. Despite the enormous advantages of remote working, there are many challenges and gaps with some current approaches that need addressing as we move forward.

So what are the key issues, how do employers address them, and what role should HR technology play?

My guest this week is Saad Siddiqui, General Partner at Telstra Ventures, a VC firm with several HR technology investments. Saad has written extensively about the future of work and the advantages of a fluid workforce strategy.

In the interview, we discuss:

• The current state of the hiring market and the longer term outlook

• Identifying gaps and challenges in new ways of working

• The fluid workforce

• Generational divides

• Building connections and mentoring

• Culture and the role of leadership

• Employee motivations and retention

• Finding the best talent on a global basis

• Key trends in HR Tech

• Consolidation and platform business extension

• How should employers think about technology?

• What does the future look like

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In this episode, Jackye and Katee speak with Dr. Nika White. She is a national authority and fearless advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. As an award-winning management and leadership consultant, keynote speaker, published author, and executive practitioner for DEI efforts across business, government, non-profit, and education, Dr. White helps organizations break barriers and integrate DEI into their business frameworks. Her work has led to her designation by Forbes as a Top 10 D&I Trailblazer.

She is the founder of Nika White Consulting (NWC) where her firm works with organizations to identify and implement opportunities to embed DEI throughout its operations and culture. NWC is a diversity, equity, and inclusion boutique consulting firm with recognized authority on strategic diversity, intentional inclusion, and organizational effectiveness.

Dr. White believes that “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is not just a checkmark for good business, it’s a way to transform the world.”

Over her 20+ years of leadership, Dr. White has worked with over 200 corporate, educational, government, and non-profit brands, managed over $200 million in business assets for her clients, and written two books on diversity, equity, and inclusion including, “The Intentional Inclusionist,®” and “Next Level Inclusionist: Transforming Your Work and Yourself for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Success.” Dr. White’s third book, “Inclusion Uncomplicated: A Transformative Guide to Simplify DEI,” in partnership with Forbes Books is scheduled to release in January 2023.

The heart of Dr. White’s work addresses the ability to create transformative environments with intentionality around inclusion. She helps create professional spaces where people can collaborate through a lens of compassion, empathy, and understanding.If you like what you hear, we would like to encourage you to subscribe to our channel!

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The world famous author of Full Stack Recruiter Jan Tegze has a new book out!  

Job Search Guide: Be your own Career Coach 

A great gift idea for the job seekers on your Christmas list. Written from the Recruiter’s perspective on how hiring actually works, Jan covers the 4 things we want every job seeker to know. 

• Jan busts the myths around how ATS and AI work (or don't work) in the hiring process. 

• Networking and how to build your personal brand

• And if that was not enough, Jan has a newsletter, written from the heart, as a job search guide. 

Check out some of the great resources and article here:

https://jantegze.com/blog/the-best-job-search-guide-for-job-seekers/

What ServiceNow does for HR, how businesses navigated the turn toward remote work and what they’ve learned from the experience.

Job Boards still play a central role in talent attraction, but outside of the job board industry, there isn't much discussion or debate about their current state and future potential. So are they still fit for purpose, how are they evolving, and what can job board statistics tell us about the current talent market?

My guest this week is Dave Jenkins, founder of Wave. Wave publishes Wave TrackR, a regular independent report that uses job board data to track recruiting trends, which means Dave has a wealth of insights to share.

In the interview, we discuss:

• The current state of the job board market

• Pricing models and programmatic adoption

• Geographic market differences

• The importance of the active audience

• Are there still more jobs than candidates?

• How to get the best out of job boards

• Mindset change

• What's the future of job boards?

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In this episode, Katee and Jackye speak with Sabina Mehmood. Sabina is the Pay Equity Leader for Gapsquare, helping companies make data-enabled decisions around pay, people, and DEI efforts. She leads the company’s efforts to deliver actionable strategies to close wage gaps, advance fair pay and respond in real time to changes in workforce data.

Previously, she was a manager at the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, where she oversaw the development and implementation of the Bloomberg Gender Reporting Framework, an internationally recognized system for measuring progress across key themes of DEI in corporations. She has also supported corporate strategy, government relations, media, and communications initiatives across Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies. She earned both a BBA and MA from Baruch College.

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The challenges of creating effective experiences with technology, and new approaches to experience design