My guest this week just hired and  virtually onboarded a class of 1,000 students to begin their careers with the Royal Bank of Canada. Brien Convery specializes as a  Student Experience Maker, and while he feels for this graduating class, he also expects to us to learn a lot from them as we all embrace the “Now Normal.” So, if you’re wondering what the class of 2020’s job hunt looks like and how to work with them, stay tuned to find out.

So, thanks again, Brien, and I hope everyone enjoy’s this week’s episode!

Stacey Olive, VP of Talent Acquisition at the New York Times, joins Max to talk about how the crisis has impacted recruiting at the Times: everything from evangelizing NYT’s weighty mission to diversity hiring in a pandemic to managing candidate relationships in the wake of a crisis.

As the Global Head of Talent for the newly public LiveRamp, Erika Thorson Garay is Max's guest on Recruitment DNA, and is adapting her team’s remote hiring practices to create a better and more fulfilling remote candidate experience. Preparing for the new norm, we talk about what it’s like to manage recruiting teams across two continents which boast two differing TA cultures.

This week I’m speaking with a front lines recruiter for one of the largest Payroll and technology service companies in the world, ADP. My guest, Victoria Arocho gives words of wisdom to both recruiters and job seekers, to help them navigate this murky market. Her biggest advice is to stay agile, and to get comfortable being uncomfortable, because the talent world is still turning and a lot of our new found resources and mechanisms of recruiting are here to stay. I hope you enjoy!

My Guest this week, is another icon in the Sourcing and Events world. Steve Levy is currently the Technical Sourcing Lead at M&T Bank, and is most definitely experienced in both bullish and bearish economies. 

“KINDNESS IS CONTAGIOUS”, he says, “there will be bumps and bruises along the way, but we will get through this.”

I hope you enjoy this weeks episode- take care!

It’s early April 2020, and the working world continues to exist remotely and the recruiting world continues to sail in completely uncharted territories. We’re seeing some companies lay off and furlough their entire staffs, while we’re seeing other companies the can’t hire fast enough. As a result of all of this work and life flux, we’re seeing a lot more attention turning to A.I. 

My guest this week, Kevin Grossman, is the President of The Talent Board, one of the leading organizations helping talent professionals navigate these new waters. 

Kevin and The Talent Board are teaming up with Wade & Wendy on April 16th to host a free and informative panel discussion about AI recruitment technology that can create a digital-first recruiting process (SHRM and HRCI credits for attending!).

He’ll be talking with other industry icons, such as Jason Roberts from Accenture, Mark Berkowsky from Equitable, and Drew Austin of Wade & Wendy. 

I hope you join us on April 16th, at 2pm, and of course, hope you enjoy this week’s episode! Take care!

https://www.thetalentboard.org/events/how-ai-automation-enable-recruiting-teams-in-flux-to-adapt/

This week, Max discusses how organizations are responding to the massive changes in the hiring world - including some reasons for hope in the face of both record unemployment and of parts of the economy hiring faster than ever before. He’s joined by Dave Mekelburg, Wade & Wendy Chief of Staff, and they look into those pockets of optimism: reskilling and investment in existing organizations, and the potential for a massive talent transfer.

The conversation touches on the lighter side, too, steering into a conversation on maintaining a distributed culture, hitting on important topics like:
-Remote movie night
-Gluten-free Detroit-style pizza
-Garfield pictorials

This week, we talk about how the recruiting business is grappling with the fallout from the coronavirus: adjusting individual and team quotas to work with this turbulent market, dealing with massive layoffs, and a rapidly changing talent pool.

Max speaks with top NYC recruiter Jessica Greenfeld from Connections of New York, to see how she’s been dealing with these challenges… plus the challenge of living under social quarantine with her boyfriend (who happens to be Max, the very host of the Recruitment DNA podcast).

The working world is chaotic today, but what will it look like when typical life resumes? This week, we sit down with Chris Ramsey (VP, TA Randstad USA) to discuss not only how her team is faring right now, but also to understand how she sees recruiting changing in the near future. 

While tools can help you to communicate and automate, they don't help you adapt to the human elements of working remotely. In this special episode, we sit down with Mike "Batman" Cohen to gather his tips for both living and recruiting in the remote working world.