Your organization already has an employment brand whether you’re actively managing it or not. In this HCI Podcast, Estela Vazquez Perez, Director of Employment Brand at RBC, demystifies the employment brand and explains how RBC’s Employment Brand Centre of Excellence works to engage current employees and attract top talent from around the world.

Jason Rodd of Angie's List discusses how Angie's List improved its talent acquisition strategy by placing a higher priority on reference checking. By implementing a systematic process for soliciting references and reviewing each one carefully, Angie's List was able to improve quality of hire at all levels of the organization.

With the influx of millennial workers there has been an increasing emphasis on allowing this younger set of workers with the opportunities to do meaningful work. But can organizations go to far? Are managers missing the mark if they are bending over backwards to appease this admittedly important demographic? Listen to workplace expert Alexandra Levit as she shares her insights on how to articulate the somewhat old-school notion that work is work and not everyone gets what they want when they want it.

Tom Kaminsky of KellyOCG talks about the impact of immediacy within the candidate experience and how the trends are pointing toward a shift in the balance of power between employer and job candidate. It’s a candidates market and firms need to take a long, hard look at their candidate experience in order to ensure their hires are the best fit for the long haul.

Wes Wu, Vice President of Research Insights and Analytics at Appirio, and Neil Jensen, Vice President of HCM Strategy Services at Appirio join HCI to share some predictions for the future of human capital management. The conservation begins with a brief discussion of the history of HR technology and moves into how the internet of things, machine learning and crowdsourcing will come to be leveraged. Wes and Neil finish the conversation examining the current and future role of consumer grade expectations for HR technology and what that will mean in the coming years for practitioners and consumers alike.

Balancing business objectives with individual dynamics of the employees require managers to wear many hats and those that utilize coaching skills to drive employee engagement and performance can be more successful in striking that balance. However if those skills are not honed properly there are risks of falling short of the desired outcomes. Of equal importance is the need to build and maintain personal relationships in order for the coach approach to flourish.

Appirio Neil Jensen, Vice President of HCM Strategy Services at Appirio, and Wes Wu, Vice President of Research Insights, stop by HCI to explore the evolution of HR technology, examining where we have been and where we are trending to next. Wes and Neil discuss how the deployment of cloud technology is closing the door on the “go live party” and how that will change practitioner interactions with HR software. Sharing their experience with a multitude of clients, Wes and Neil give some insights into key predictors of successful rollouts and offer some practical advice on the change management of adopting the next generation of HR technology.

What’s changing in your organization? Join Halley Bock, President & CEO, Fierce, Inc. for a conversation about the modern workplace. Learn what’s trending and tips on how to evolve your organization to become one that embraces development to stay ahead of the curve.

Founder and Principal of HumanNature@Work, David Lee, joins HCI for a conversation on the role storytelling can play in the employer brand. Lee begins with an explanation of how firms can get started developing or taking ownership of their employer brand and shares some examples of ways to leverage storytelling. Lee prescribes to not “focus on the frosting” and clarifies why this and other pitfalls should be avoided. Lee concludes the dialogue with some systematic changes that would benefit everyone looking to address the employer brand.

When someone applies for a job at your organization, what kind of experience do they have? The answer to this question can have a major impact on your employment brand and your ability to attract top talent. In this HCI Podcast, Dan Jessup, Director of Recruiting at Groupon, explains why the candidate experience matters and discusses how this leading e-commerce company works to continuously improve every interaction candidates have with it. This podcast is part of an HCI Solution Suite. Corporate members can learn more about this topic here: http://www.hci.org/lib/creating-robust-candidate-experience-bottom-line-impact