David Bizer is the CEO & Founder of Talent Fountain, talent management and recruitment firm focused on hyper-growth early stage startups, and a culture expert & consultant. As the first EU recruiter at Google, David’s reflects on lessons learned navigating cultural differences, and shares why a global approach to hiring is crucial, even for the youngest startups. David provides advice on helping indecisive leaders find the talent they need, making your “swag bags” meaningful, and creating an inclusive culture.

Larry Nash, Americas Director of Talent Attraction & Acquisition at EY, sits down with RAP this week to share all the details of EY’s TA strategy for 2021 and beyond. On top of conducting research for clients and helping them restructure recruiting in their organizations, EY is in the midst of reimagining its own talent management system & workplace strategy. If you’re curious about how to implement SAP success factors of talent products, create transformational change through DEI initiatives, and find new ways to engage and develop talent, tune in to this action-packed episode! Larry provides incredibly detailed insights and examples of how he and his team are creating an agile, scalable mobile talent operating model.

Sharon Garcia, VP of TA at Echo Global Logistics, credits her curiosity as the X factor that helped her make an impact in her role. Sharon was tasked with establishing a sustainable structure for Talent Acquisition with a focus on DEI. Sharon reveals what she believes leaders need to do to create meaningful, sustainable change within an organization as it relates to DEI: recognizing where people are on their journey, and giving them the space to show up as they are. By integrating human capital insights into Echo’s TA strategy, Sharon transformed the role recruiting played in support of Echo’s customer centric and collaborative culture.

In late February 2020, Todd Kizminski (Head of Global TA @ Atria Senior Living) received a call that Atria was about to face major staffing problems due to a virus impacting Florida. Todd’s team had to act fast. In this special episode, we'll uncover how, overnight, Atria Senior Living became a COVID testing site and supplier of PPE, while also providing the same level of care for its residents and employees AND fighting a deadly virus. With a renewed focus on employer branding and attracting the “right” candidates, Todd’s team successfully transformed Atria’s hiring process to find talent looking for opportunities that Atria could provide: a safe place of work and access to a vaccine.

This week we sit down w/ Mike Seidle, COO & Co-Founder of Work Here, providing human-to-human communication in the hiring process. After pivoting his company from geofence recruitment marketing, Mike developed a chatbot and then pivoted again (!) to providing human interactions for applicants. Tune in to explore how chatbots & humans differ as tools, in their accuracy of information, conversion rates, and ability to provide positive candidate experiences.

Wondering how to create an employer brand people believe in? Alex Her, Head of Global Talent Attraction & Employer Brand Manager at Acoustic, has successfully built and operated recruitment marketing and employer branding teams on his own. As workplaces become a slightly lesser focus for candidates, Alex reveals how rethinking your EVP can amplify an organization’s ability to attract talent. He reveals the one element that will differentiate your company from the rest, and outlines a step-by-step approach to nailing employer branding, whether you’re stepping into an existing recruitment marketing operation, or building one from scratch.

When hiring slowed down at Siemens, due to the pandemic, Head of US Talent Acquisition, Diane Circo, didn’t wait around for req volume to return to normal. Diane used this time to transform the US talent acquisition model from reactive to proactive, especially when it came to developing a process for employing “automation where it counts”. She employed the use of empowerment leadership and innovation crowdsourcing to successfully create meaningful, sustainable change within her team and the organization at large.

How do you get tech right? Host Max Notis sits down with Phil Strazzulla, CEO and Founder of SelectSoftware Reviews, to dive into best practices when it comes to buying HR tech - including how to pitch stubborn decision-makers on new tech, how to bring your team into the process, and the possibilities when you really get that buying decision right.

Max and Jeff Mike (Head of Research and Insights at Deloitte’s Human Capital Research & Sensing) cover the difference between culture and experiences and how to use technology to gain insight into what’s happening in the organization, to deliberately shape experiences, and to inform culture. This episode will reveal why, at Deloitte - which has taken a leading role and an aspirational approach to the future of work - intentionality, transparency and trust with data are at the forefront of providing an exceptional employee experience in the digital age.

Julia Levy, Head of Global Talent Acquisition at CommScope, discusses how her team has navigated the challenges - and opportunities - following a major acquisition: merging two organizations and reimagining their employer value proposition - all while trying to give back to the community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.