HR Interviews Playlist

For over a decade now, I've been flagging up the development of virtual reality as something talent acquisition should have on their radar. It's taken a while, but with tech giants like Meta and Apple making multi-billion dollar investments in technology and infrastructure is now finally the time for our industry to fully embrace the Metaverse.

So how does would this work, and what talent acquisition and HR activities are already in play in virtual reality. My guests this week are Misha Krymov and Jennifer Regan, the CEO and Head of Experiences at Morpheus XR. Morpheus XR is already designing recruiting, onboarding and leadership development experiences in the Metaverse and have a massive amount of knowledge to share with us.

In the interview, we discuss:

• What is the Metaverse, and who is building it?

• Creating space for meaning and meaningful moments

• How environment shapes human behaviour

• How VR gives agency to users that Zoom / Teams calls don't

• Unbiased recruitment using VR

• Onboarding

• What should talent acquisition teams be doing to learn about the Metaverse

• Inclusion and alternatives to headsets

• Untangling science fiction from science fact

• Extending reality

• What's the potential for VR, and how will it be used in the future

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Today, we talk with Sherrie Fernandes, vIce president of product management and user experience at Globalization Partners. Their platform makes it easier for businesses to hire and manage international talent.

Strike while the iron is hot! 

Lisa Zone, managing director at Dix & Eaton joins us to talk about how recruiting, hiring, engagement, and talent management is at the center of every board room conversation. But who is equipped and positioned to formulate the story and business case in building a strong employer brand? 

Another great show complete with Cult Employer Brand master Julie Calli. 

Seriously, you wanted the ear of your CEO and board. Now what are you going to do with the opportunity? 

The dreaded application form process.

Do you remember a time in which you applied for a job? Do you remember how much time it took to fill out a paper application or electronic one? I do, it mentally time consuming it is also a waste.

Problems with application forms

These are just a few problems there are more.

Why are we still living in the past? Did you know that newspapers still advertised for jobs; people still read those.

Candidates don’t get the recruiting process at all. Why is it taking so long for this company to email me for the next step? It’s been 2 hours with no word. I’ll tell you why I am reading your life’s story that’s why? By the way it's the companies fault on this one. Hey companies the law enforcement are too busy to address the issue of the application form! You will not get arrested or go to jail.

Problems recruiters run into

Ideas in place of the application form

Remove the paper application process from companies and mom & pop shops save the trees, the forest critters will be quite happy and so will recruiters.

P.S. Fix the problems and people could do small things and these things can get done.

There seems to be a new $1B unicorn born every day in the employment industry, but only one has the distinction of being a Chad & Cheese 'Death Match' winner. Enter SeekOut and its CEO and cofounder Anoop Gupta, who recently closed a Series C to the tune of $115M and a $1.2B valuation, who joins the boys for a friendly chat. About what? How about international growth plans, diversity offerings, competing with Eightfold and Phenom (and just about everyone else), and much, much more.

Chats with Smart People Featuring Jeanne Achille.

Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. Shirley Chisholm (New York State Representative, educator, and author)

Have you ever met someone and was like wow! You’re amazing! Can we be friends! Well, this is the energy that Jeanne brings. Jeanne is the Guru of the Women HR Tech conference. She is an original OG in the battle to raise the voices of women in HR technology.

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This year, scale and speed are an essential focus for many talent acquisition teams. But how do you scale recruiting and speed up hiring in an environment where recruiting recruiters is as tough as it is right now?

My guest this week is David Spencer-Percival, CEO of Life Science People and formerly the founder of high growth recruitment businesses Huntress and Spencer Ogden. David has decades of experience scaling up and recruiting recruiters in various markets. He has developed a tried and tested methodology that many talent acquisition teams can learn from

In the interview, we discuss:

• Recruiting, training and nurturing fantastic recruiters

• The academy model

• Selection

• Building the right culture of success and incentive

• The relentless pace of change

• Recruiting processes for a candidate driven market

• What are the most successful employers getting right?

• The role of technology

• Advice to TA leaders on building effective working partnerships with agencies

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André is the Founder and CEO of Onboard Health, a specialized executive search and advisory firm focused on creating a more inclusive future of health. A pioneering strategist with deep ties across the healthcare innovation, startup and digital strategy landscapes — André is dedicated to building the future of health through an equity lens. His work and insights have been featured in outlets such as Business Insider, Fortune, Forbes, NPR, CIO, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report.

He was recently named a Fortune Magazine 2020 40 Under 40 in Healthcare.

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We explore the importance of connection, communication and how businesses succeed in the age of Covid, with Laura Lee Gentry, Enboarder's chief people officer.

In this episode, Katee and Jackye speak to Laura Close. And she brought the heat! As a twenty-year veteran of the DEI space, Laura Close started at a time before the term DEI was coined and has spent a career both locking in new structural opportunities and access for historically excluded communities as well as coaching executive leaders within the enterprise on designing and deploying KPIs for DEI at scale. Now, as co-founder of Included.AI Laura and her team have created the first technology of its kind to use AI to identify specific areas where businesses can take further action to remove any potential roadblock from accomplishing the goal of becoming as people-first as possible. She is on a mission to prove that DEI isn’t a tax, PR issue, or feel-good checkbox, but an opportunity to build more competitive businesses.

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