HR Interviews Playlist

After The Chad, introduced me to the fabulous people at Evergreen Podcasts, who now host this very podcast, and we got chatting about hiring disasters, I just had to interview their Chief Creative Officer, David Allen Moss.

Stop what you're doing, grab pen & paper, and hear Katrina & David laugh a lot and talk about:

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With everything that is going on in the market, it is more important than ever to understand the factors that make people feel positive enough to want to advocate for their employer or feel negative enough to want to leave their job.

My guest this week is Marcus Buckingham, Head of Research, People and Performance at The ADP Research Institute. Marcus is well known in the industry for doing pioneering research work. He has just realised a report with a new model that measures the impact and performance of HR through the lens of employee experience. The results are fascinating and illustrate just how much influence the performance of HR can have on a company's talent brand.

In the interview, we discuss:

• The current state of the market and the reassessment of work

• The HR XPerience Score

• Measuring the effectiveness of HR through employee experience

• Can HR drive positive employee behaviours?

• What are the levers to create a great experience?

• How HR experience drives talent brand

• How HR can drive attrition

• Characteristics of a high scoring HR function

• Results that run counter to current megatrends

• The importance to humans of being seen at work

• What does the future look like

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Amanda Young has just authorized an amazing children's book and she is here to share what drove her to write the book, "Jumo the Unicorn". Amanda is so transparent about her journey about how to drive inclusion and Jackye and Katee loved hearing about it all-including the animals!

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Recruiting grads or recent grads? This is a must listen episode as Steven Rothberg Founder and Chief Visionary at CollegeRecruiter.com joins Serge and Shelley.

Believe it or not, a lot of ad agencies that don't target recruitment do recruiting marketing work. One such agency is Point to Point out of beautiful Cleveland, and we invited CEO Megan Kacvinsky on the show to talk about a recent campaign they did for Ferguson to help attract more young folks to a trade profession. The social media of choice to get in front of this audience?

Gotta listen to find out!

We talk about candidates, employees and their behavior during the Great Resignation.

In this episode, Jackye and Katee chat with Joseph Ifiegbu about futbol, dream jobs and the tool he co-founded that can help HR teams by analyzing their data, eqtble.

Prior to eqtble, he garnered extensive experience in the field of analytics. Most recently, as the head of HR Technology at Snap, he implemented best practices for systems architecture and built the foundation and strategy for HR analytics. While leading WeWork’s People Analytics team, he built out the team to support over 15,000 employees and help improve employee engagement and satisfaction.

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We create this podcast as a labor of love. But if you would like to support this channel you can buy us a cup of coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/InclusiveAF

Recruiting automation via conversational AI is proving to be an effective way to help solve some of the unique challenges in today's talent markets. But how are employers actually using it, what benefits are they getting, and how do they manage the balance between humans and machines.

My guest this week is Victor Gaines, Senior Vice President, Talent Acquisition at Aveanna Healthcare. Aveanna has been using automation technology to vastly increase efficiencies in its recruiting process. Victor has some exceptional advice and insights to share on choosing and implementing technology, as well as some fascinating thoughts around the future of recruiting.

In the interview, we discuss:

• Talent acquisition challenges in the home care market

• Working at scale when speed is a critical issue

• The role of technology in creating internal and external efficiencies

• Building an engaging candidate experience with automation

• Being people first

• Balancing technology and humans

• Advice to TA leaders on evaluating and buying technology

• What to look for in vendor partners

• Screening people in rather than ruling them out

• The future of recruiting

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Digital transformation is currently one of the fundamental drivers of talent strategy for many organizations. Ensuring your company has the right balance of skills is a complex task involving talent acquisition, L&D, retention, internal mobility and an effective HR and Recruiting tech stack.

So how are employers managing the complexity of all of this while prioritizing the employee experience?

My guest this week is Harm Otten, Executive Vice President Human Resources at DHL Global Forwarding & Freight. Harm has spent the last few years focusing on the talent aspect of digital transformation within his organization, putting recruiting technology at the heart of the strategy.

In the interview, we discuss:

• Digitizing the HR organization

• Improving the employee experience

• Creating a job architecture and an internal career marketplace

• Building an HR tech stack around a core systems

• The advantages of using end to end recruiting technology

• The impact of the pandemic on working practice

• How digital transformation is changing skill requirements in a competitive market

• The vital importance of EVP and being an attractive employer

• Being applicant centric

• Combing cultures after an acquisition

• The future of recruiting

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The boys welcome Namely CEO Larry Dunivan to the show to talk industry history, leadership, issues of diversity and inclusion, as well as a growth strategy and whether or not an IPO is in the offing.  

It's rare to find a CEO who has worked from the bottom to the very top of the HR software industry ladder. It's even rarer for a CEO to have industry experience combined with the ability to understand software, systems, sales, marketing, and infrastructure since before the days of mainstream internet adoption. 

Larry Dunivan is that rare CEO.  

Corporate leaders, wannabe leaders, DEI proclaimers, and every HR and recruiting industry vendor should have this interview on a continuous loop. You're welcome!