HR Interviews Playlist

2021 has seen mindblowing levels of investment in HR and Talent Acquisition technology. Work Tech, as it is now becoming known, is strategically critical to talent acquisition, and it is essential that leaders keep themselves up to date with the market.

To help us all with this, I'm delighted to welcome George LaRocque back to the podcast. George is one of the leading analysts who track talent acquisition technology, and it was great to get a market update from him.

In the interview, we discuss:

Why HR Tech is morphing into Work Tech

The trends that the pandemic has accelerated

Automation

Merges, acquisitions and the implications for employers

Advice to employers on shaping Work Tech strategies

George's new community based Accelerator, Impact WorkTech

Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

A complete transcription of the episode will be posted shortly.

Hung Lee Chief Curator at the Recruiting Brainfood rejoins The Recruitment Flex to try to give some clarity with what's going on in this crazy recruitment world right now. We always get incredible insights from Hung and this episode is no different starting with why you should not drink coffee first thing in the morning.

Hung drops so many points we couldn't keep up.

Welcome back to VOICES w/ Amy Butchko SAIC's Director of Talent Acquisition Solutions. This is the final episode of this 5 part binge-able series. We pick up the conversation around a debate in HR about augmentation vs. robots enjoy. 

TOPICS:

- Augmentation over Robots

- Building Recruitment Teams

- Wage inequity solutions

- Moving Fast and Breaking Shit!

welcome back to VOICES w/ Amy Butchko SAIC's Director of Talent Acquisition Solutions. This is episode 4 or a 5 part binge-able series. You're gonna love this episode!  

TOPICS:

- The Great Resignation

- Talent Pipelines are not instant

- Where are the robots?!?

- AI is a puppy

Welcome back to VOICES w/ Amy Butchko SAIC's Director of Talent Acquisition Solutions. This is episode 3 or a 5 part binge-able series. We pick up the conversation around building a Talent Solutions team from the ground up - enjoy! 

TOPICS:

- Building Teams 

- Is AI sourcing the futrure?

- Overbuilt job descriptions

- Does social media drive hires? 

Welcome back to VOICES w/ Amy Butchko SAIC's Director of Talent Acquisition Solutions. This is episode 2 or a 5 part binge-able series. We pick up the conversation with me challenging Amy on hiring company "special self-inflicted needs" when it comes to technology and yes I just used air quotes - enjoy! 

TOPICS:

- Imploding your hiring process

- Engineering a new apply process

- Marketing infused nurturing and hiring

- CROs are people too... and they have budget :)

Hey it's Chad, it's been a minute since we've had a deep dive VOICES series and after speaking with Amy Butchko, SAIC's Director of Talent Solutions I knew a single 20-minute podcast wouldn't be enough and instead of dropping these one podcast at a time we're doing it Netflix style so you can easily discover and binge the entire series - enjoy! 

TOPICS:

- Internet Recruitment 2000

- From Rolodex to automation

- The rise of Jobs2Web? 

- Why don't employers fix their shitty UX?

It is an absolute delight to be back after a slightly longer summer podcasting break than I was anticipating. I've nearly finished my book and, most importantly, have put a lot of time into planning the future of RecruitingFuture. The first thing to announce is that there will now be a full transcript of each episode in the show notes to make recruitingfuture.com more accessible and more searchable. The transcripts start from episode 369 onwards. I'll have more exciting news to share in the coming weeks, so keep listening and make sure you subscribe to the show whether you get your podcasts.

So on with Episode 370, earlier in the year, my long-time collaborator Mervyn Dinnen and I partnered with the team at SHL on a piece of research into the future of candidate experience. We identified six fundamental shifts in thinking which will help employers deliver an exceptional candidate experience and have published all the findings in a new whitepaper.

To talk through the six shifts, I'm delighted to welcome one of my co-authors on the whitepaper Sam Whiteman, Head of Solutions at SHL. Enjoy the conversation, and please download the whitepaper once you've had a listen.

In the interview, we discuss:

   •   The current state of candidate experience

   •   The employer brand opportunity

   •   Translating lessons from consumer experience into candidate experience

   •   Automation and asynchronous empowerment

   •   Realistic job previews

   •   Real-time candidate experience optimisation

   •   Offering personalised feedback at scale

   •   Authenticity

   •   Demonstrating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

   •   The role of technology

   •   Realistic and practical advice for talent acquisition leaders

Download the whitepaper

Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

When Indeed goes from $33-per to $300-per-applicant it's time to burn it down, build up something new, and then look to the future to rinse and repeat.

Seriously, can imagine discovering your cost-per-applicant on Indeed has gone from $33-per to $300-per-applicant. Well, that's just what happened to Jenny Cotie Kangas, director of digital experience and TA at Regis Corp. The boys dig into Jenny's story, her interactions with Indeed, and what she's done since to right the ship going forward. It's a cautionary tale every employer should know, so listen up!

After burning it to the ground you'll want to build your talent systems back with the best matching software in the industry. Sovren, AI so powerful it's scary. Scary good :)

Social media is hotter than ever!

Okay put your phone down it's not time to check Tiktok for pet videos and NBA highlights! You'll want to hear all the latest background check trends with social media with the president of Social Intelligence Social Screening Bianca Lager.

Should screening social media be a standard hiring procedure? Is social screening even more important during the age of remote work? What about detecting bias and intolerance?

You'll hear answers to those questions and much more in this Nexxt-powered podcast!