HR Interviews Playlist

Some of my favourite discussions on this show have been with employers driving diversity, equity, and inclusion, not just because it is the right thing to do but because they are using their DE&I strategies to solve specific business challenges.

My guest this week is Graham Briggs, Head of Apprenticeships & Employability Programmes at Greene King, the UK's largest pub retailer and brewer. The hospitality sector has had an extremely challenging few years. Greene King has been running some incredible programmes to reach diverse talent pools and deliver positive outcomes for their business and the communities they work with. 

In the interview, we discuss:

• The recruiting challenges in hospitality

• Challenging perceptions about career development

• Employability and social mobility

• Communities and values

• Untapping potential

• The importance of C-Suite support

• Partnering with external organisations to reach out to new pools of talent

• Delivering positive outcomes for young people

• Building confidence and focusing on wellbeing

• Working with prison leavers

• Support, development and retention

• Business outcomes and results

• Working with other employers to lobby government

• Advice to TA leaders looking to build similar programmes

• Plans for the future

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The importance of culture, the real need for cultural solutions, and how analytics contributes to it all.

In this episode, Katee and Jackye check in with T. Tara Turk-Haynes, the VP of DEI and Talent Management at Leaf Group where she oversees Leaf Group’s diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as hiring efforts. They discuss engagement surveys and other people processes- give it a listen.

T. Tara Turk- Haynes joined Leaf Group in 2016 as Director, People, where she led the company’s employee engagement, talent acquisition and learning and development programs. T. Tara has worked in Editorial at Variety Magazine, serving as a Project Lead for the Rizzoli book, "Variety: An Illustrated History of the World from The Most Important Magazine in Hollywood" by Tim Gray.

She has also worked at Metacloud (a Cisco company), Ticketmaster, NBC Universal, Sundance Channel, and Penguin Putnam. She is a first generation graduate from Eugene Lang College at The New School where she studied Social, Cultural and Urban Studies and Sarah Lawrence College where she studied theatre. Her work has appeared in Tamara Winfrey Harris’s “Dear Black Girl” - a letter to young Black girls from Black Women along with Tarana Burke and others. She has also been featured in Lars Schmidt’s “Redefining HR” book as well his podcast. She has been featured on several podcasts, panels, and workshops on equitable workplaces and hiring. She is also a playwright and most recently completed a Geffen Writer’s room fellowship.

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He’s seen the world of work from all its angles, and now he's going to help us put its changes in perspective.

Work and jobs are changing, and the way companies select and hire people needs to keep up with this pace of change. We've always talked a lot about soft skills in talent acquisition, but what are they in the context of modern work, why are they important, and how can they be assessed?

My guest this week is Dr Alan Redman, Head of Science and Technology at Clevry. Alan is an expert in the definition, assessment and impact of soft skills and has some very valuable insights to share.

In the interview, we discuss:

• Perspectives on the market and changing world of work

• Understanding what employees want from work

• What are soft skills in the context of modern work, and why are they important?

• Adapting to change

• How soft skills hiring can solve recruiting challenges

• Skills portability and job design

• Being a soft skills focused organisation

• How to assess and measure soft skills

• The future impact of AI on skills and decision making

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Katrina Collier, author of "The Robot-Proof Recruiter" is one of our favorite guests to have on. Aside from being a proud Gen X’er and sharing a birthday with Chad (same year and everything), she is a well-loved global keynote speaker, and host of The Hiring Partner Perspective (Unedited) podcast. We chatted with her when the 1st Edition of the book came out, pre-pandemic, but the 2nd edition is just as appetizing. In it, Katrina teaches companies how to recruit without an existing online presence, and she covers the unexpected impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on recruiting in detail. Oh yeah, and there are plenty of new case studies to discuss. Enjoy.

The 2nd Edition of The Robot Proof Recruiter will be available in North America on August 30.

With relentless passion, Katrina has over 2 decades in the recruitment industry, spoken on 5 continents and now has version 2 of the must read book for everyone in TA.

Always generous with her recommendations, add to your must read list, Full Stack Recruiter by Jan Tegze and take your career to the next level. 

Highlights 

• Lessons learned about interviewing since the pandemic

• Biggest fail of companies in the last 2 years are those who use monitoring software

• Essential characteristics for recruiter to be successful

• Quiet Quitting - Should you just be grateful you have a job?

• Let’s not scare ourselves INTO a recession, its a lot of hype.

The U.S. Marines have made a career out of recruiting based on letting 18-year-olds know how tough and challenging becoming a Marine actually is. It's a concept that can also work for businesses of all sizes. That's why we invited Charlotte Marshall, director, global employer brand & recruitment marketing expert & best selling author of “Give and Get Employer Branding Repel the Many and Compel the Few with Impact, Purpose and Belonging” on the podcast. In it, Charlotte reveals why the most effective employer brands don’t attract candidates; they repel them. This episode is part of our Cult Brand series, sponsored by RecruitmentMarketing.com and the boys are joined by Julie Calli.

Reaching out to past applicants about new roles has always been a challenge in talent acquisition. Poor technology, tight timescales and inflexible processes have often limited the effectiveness of talent rediscovery. However, AI is now starting to drive some change, and talent rediscovery is becoming an ever more effective strategy.

My guest this week is Mike Watson, Head of Customer Advocacy at Eightfold. Before he joined Eightfold, Mike was a long-time Head of Talent Acquisition, and, in our conversation, he shares his unique insights into the benefits and practical results of AI-driven talent rediscovery.

In the interview, we discuss:

• The current state of the market and the effect on talent acquisition teams

• The threat of losing recruiter intellectual property 

• Warm passive talent versus cold passive talent

• What the ATS can't deliver

• Driving ROI but reducing time to hire

• Talent intelligence

• Communication strategies and best practices

• Which employers are doing talent rediscovery well

• Where is the technology taking us next?

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How companies can nurture their culture, and why transparency is an employer’s friend.