Dalia Burack is an inspirational, servant leader focused on guiding others to seek out their full potential. Motivated by optimism, results, and making impactful decisions, a subject matter expert and thought leader on all things talent. A natural project manager, a mover of initiatives and a creative thinker who’s not afraid to disrupt the status-quo.  With a proven track record of over 25 years in Talent Management, a robust business acumen, and an earned reputation for integrity, consistent performance and commitment to excellence.A motivational champion of change and possibilities, recognized for expertise in talent attraction and acquisition, sourcing strategies, assessment & selection, and on-boarding. An active senior leader and HR technology disruptor, laser focused on employer reputation/value proposition, business process improvement, and winning the applicant experience. 

Episode transcription:

D: My name is Dalia Burack and I head Talent Acquisition at Bluegreen Vacation, a vacation ownership company. And I've been with the company for about 13 years.

J: Dalia, thanks so much for finding time to join us on the podcast today, especially during the holidays really appreciate you finding time.

Can you tell us a little bit more about your background? Where do you come from? Career-wise, career path. What's the kind of world did you start? And then I'd like to spend some time talking to me a little bit about your work.

D: Sure. Thank you. So I started out my career quite early in a recruitment office for a third party service provider contact center solution.

Then this was back in the late nineties where we were faxing, you know, background checks to Wells Fargo at the time and seeing 300 people a day and it was insanity, but I started out without really knowing anything about positions or human resources, but that monitor was related to a 10 goal.

I mean, I got kind of thrown into the craziness really. And from there, I had an opportunity to really stay with that company for a long time, develop. I had great mentors. People helped me learn about all things, talent acquisition, but I feel like I grew up at a time in my career where talent acquisition was heavily evolving.

And so even though we were already in the information age, it was very early. Everything that has transpired over the last 10 to 15 years has been just a complete change from where things started. But once I was already in my role, I decided to go to get my undergrad and focus on human resource management.

J: Well, that's, that's exciting. And, you know, you mentioned something around faxing, the background checks and the resume, something that the CEO of our company, Cesar, he talks a lot about those days where I think he had to like fax resumes to the hiring managers or something. I mean, many people I work with don't know what a fax machine is. So it definitely beats me, but I feel like it definitely builds character in my evolution as an IT professional, for sure. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. If you were able to succeed then, you know, knowledge you would have these days, I think walking apart is a cake. So tell us a little bit more about your current role, what falls under your purview and maybe a little bit about the organization?

D: Sure. So, as I said, I worked for blue-green vacations and I had uptown acquisition. So my scope of responsibilities is overseeing, and developing and executing on strategy on all things, talent acquisition for the entire organization. So our company is a travel and hospitality company. More specifically, we have over 60 resorts and 230 plus thousand owners that own property with us.

And we put people on vacation is really what we do. And we really, our entire product offering is very experiential based. So what my role entails is really all of our talent acquisition needs throughout the organization. And that encompasses everything that we do on the national sales and marketing sid