HR Interviews Playlist

Our favourite Scots! Adam Gordon joins The Recruitment Flex. Adam's knowledge and passion on recruitment marketing shines through in this episode.

Plus we find out what a utility kilt is!

Strivr CEO Derek Belch discusses how VR learning works and where it’s going.

As our working lives become ever more focused on digital screens and devices, how can employers ensure that they support their employees' mental wellness? Also, with the growth of digital tracking and surveillance in work technology, how can HR step up to defend cultures and long term productivity by ensuring people are treated as humans and not machines. 

My guest this week is Dr Anastasia Dedyukhina, founder of Consciously Digital. Anastasia writes, speaks and coaches extensively around the impact of devices on wellbeing and the challenges around the use of technology at work. 

In the interview, we discuss:

• Screens, devices and mental health

• Establishing boundaries and regaining balance

• How employers can help

• Productivity and deep work

• Digital presenteeism 

• Tracking and surveillance

• Why HR needs to step up

• What would an ideal world look like

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Keeping employees is as difficult as attracting employees at the moment, and, as ever, it is particularly tough in the tech sector. The relationship between employees and employers is changing, and shared values are a vital part of this.

My guest this week is Michel Visser, VP People Success & Enablement at software company Unit4. Unit4 are taking a holistic values driven approach to recruitment and retention. It is also a strategy based on innovation and experimentation, and Michel has some extremely valuable perspectives to share.

In the interview, we discuss:

• Recruiting challenges in tech

• Talent on the move

• Making work more than transactional

• Taking a holistic view of employee success

• Being innovative with compensation and benefits

• Meaning versus tokenism

• Using core values as a compass

• Demonstrating values through candidate experience

• What is the future of work?

Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

We talk with the ADP Research Institute's head of people and performance research.

The CATK Interview with Frantz M. Berthaud Administrative Director, Disease Center Operations of the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology and the Center for Cancer Therapeutic Innovation at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Frantz gives incredible insight into health equity, DEIB in healthcare, "surviving" & critical impact of clinicians who look like their patients.

About Frantz:

Frantz M. Berthaud is the Administrative Director, Disease Center Operations of the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology and the Center for Cancer Therapeutic Innovation at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute -- the largest National Cancer Institute designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the nation. He’s accountable for the personnel, finance, and clinical operations for the hospital's lung cancer and phase 1 centers. 

At DFCI, he serves as co-chair for the employee resource group shaping and informing the Institute’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) strategy and on the hospital’s ethics committee. His decade-plus experience in healthcare ranges from research, management, operations, to strategy. Frantz teaches healthcare strategy at the graduate school level at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) where he also serves on an advisory board. 

Frantz is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) serving as co-chair on the DE&I and as a member of the programs committees. In all of his roles, he applies a social justice lens informed by his commitment to health care equity. Frantz holds a Masters in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Philosophy from Boston College. He lives in Boston, MA with his wife and daughter. 

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Production and Music by: Marcel "DjCellz" Boykin

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Social Shorts: Elizabeth Duff

Gerard Charlot is passionate about helping the BIPOC community by addressing systemic challenges in the health care system by educating people of color about their health issues and connecting them with clinical trials. The Idhini Platform is a digital health marketplace, for and by the BIPOC community, that provides community members with the best and most relevant clinical trial options and health information. 

Gerard Charlot has over 20 years of experience in technology, finance, healthcare, as well as community outreach and development. He has also been involved in a number of civic initiatives.

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Talent Acquisition is uniquely challenging at the moment. Impossible talent markets, virtual recruiting, and evolving EVPs are just a small selection of TA leaders' current challenges. At the same time, we are seeing an unprecedented amount of investment and innovation in recruiting technology being driven by AI. So how does everything join up, and how can talent acquisition teams use AI in a strategic way to address the problems they face

My guest this week is Rebecca Warren, part of the Customer Success team at Eightfold AI. Rebecca is a former TA leader, which gives her some unique insights and advice to share on using AI strategically. 

In the interview, we discuss:

Talent Acquisition challenges

The best way of connecting with candidates in the current environment

Looking beyond the resume

Using AI to fin skill adjacency, talent and potential

DE&I, what is happening in practice?

Which new ways of working are long term trends

How AI can make Talent Acquisition more strategic

The evolution of the EVP

Practical examples of AI in action

Advice to talent acquisition leader on AI

What does the future hold?

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Shelley fly's solo this weeks and welcomes a recruitment industry powerhouse! Katrina Kibben, CEO of Three Ears Media We found the cure for Recruiters who have writer's block! Let’s get back to our roots on why we love this industry. Katrina is the pace setter on how to extract the information you need to write compelling honest job advertisements. 

- Writing to attract Tech talent made easy - Hold up the mirror and see yourself as the ideal candidate 

- The final answer on why the staffing industry will never pick up their game on writing good quality job ads. 

- Do take the time to visit Katrina's site and download a practical guide on intake meetings. You can also find some really useful information and a great workbook on writing job ads. https://www.threeearsmedia.com/rewrite.html

With a solid track record as a CMO who introduces new concepts to consumers; she made the leap over to HR & Recruitment where Lori has been instrumental in building the Recruitment Marketing profession. Taking Rally members from 100 to 30,000 strong.

For recruiters who are sick and tired of chasing the next requisition with nothing but crayons & string maybe it's time for an upgrade. 

Rally is your next stop to get your marketing skills up to speed and trade up for a better job in recruitment marketing.

Time to pull down all those cheesy stock photos on your career page and get serious about talent attraction for your company.