The Hiring Enablement Podcast

In episode 16 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Nicki Paterson talks to Megan Bowen, COO at Refine Labs.  
Refine Labs have been blowing up the demand generation space for a while now so when Megan said she’d come on our podcast, we jumped at the chance.  
Passionate about creating a successful culture at companies, Megan’s had an impressive career, working for the likes of Grubhub, Managed by Q, and Platterz.  
In this episode, Nicki quizzes Megan on her people success = customer success = company success methodology, building a talent destination, and how to know when it’s time to move on.  

In this bonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we sit down with Solutions Driven CEO Gavin Speirs and Chief Growth Officer Nicki Paterson to discuss all things embedded recruitment.  

On the eve of Solutions Driven launching their new offering, SD Embedded, we look at why embedded is needed in the current market and the significance of this launch’s timing.  

Nicki and Gavin dig into the challenges companies are facing and the issues embedded recruitment can solve:  

• High attrition rates  
• Companies scaling  
• Lack of internal resources  
• And much more... 

Most people would probably be quite happy if they could turn water into beer. But in the case of Brewgooder, they want to do the exact opposite. Or at least, they used to…

On episode 15, we talk to Alan Mahon, Co-Founder of craft beer Brewgooder, a beer company founded on providing clean drinking water to developing companies through their beer sales. In the last year, Brewgooder have changed direction somewhat, pivoting to a people-focussed company, rather than just aiming to provide clean water. 

They’ve also launched “Work In Progress” their programme to fight racial injustice, both within their organisation and within the beer industry. Holding themselves to account, they create a yearly report to look back on their progress and see where they could do better. 

We spoke to Alan about: 

• What drove him to start a craft beer company 
• How he plans to triple the company’s team size in the next year 
• What being “actively anti-racist” means 
• How having a real purpose helps Brewgooder attract top talent 
• And much much more…

Our latest guest on The Talent Intelligence podcast was the brilliant Laura Holcombe, Global Talent Acquisition Specialist at Reachdesk – a corporate gifting company taking customer and prospect engagement by storm. Working as an in-house recruiter, Laura knows all too well how tough recruitment is just now. 

Which is why she hires like a BDR. 

From brushing up on their hobbies and interests, to engaging them with a gift (Reachdesking them!), Laura discusses how candidate engagement is vital in this market. 

Everyone talks about cold outreach in terms of sales. But you hardly hear anyone discussing how important it is for recruiters on the hunt for candidates. 
Unless you talk to Lavender's Will Allred. If you haven't heard of Lavender, it's a tool that helps improve your emails, encouraging the right people to engage with you, whether you're in sales, marketing, or you're a recruiter reaching out to top prospects. 
Working in all those spaces, we were delighted to have Lavender's Co-Founder, Will, on to discuss cold outreach, engaging candidates, and much more. 

How many times have you heard people talking about their failure stories on LinkedIn? Or discussing how important hiring top talent is?

Well, if you're Gong's Wendy Harris, perhaps too many times. Because for Wendy, she'd much rather hear about people who have succeeded than failed. And she'd prefer to hire someone with less talent and a greater work ethic, than the other way round.  

That's just one of the areas we covered when Wendy appeared on The Talent Intelligence podcast. As users (and superfans) of Gong, we were delighted when Wendy agreed to come on and talk to us about talent, her working life, future planning, and much more.

Think of 3D printing companies and Stratasys are usually high up on your list. So when their EMEA President Andreas Langfeld said he'd come on The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we were fairly excited. 
After all, Stratasys are one of the founders of 3D printing, starting out in 1989 (!) and their product has been used to create designer couture that exhibited at The Met  a car made with fully 3D-printed exterior panels. 
Listen as Andreas talks culture, connectivity and what to do when Obama predicts your industry is about to explode (in a good way...) 

Usually on The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we keep it pretty loose, chatting about culture, attitude, methods, and how to hire.

But when Kristina Finseth said she’d be a guest, we knew that wouldn’t work. Kristina’s an absolute fountain of knowledge on the subject of outreach in recruitment, and if we’d started chatting, we’d never have stopped.

So in this episode, we got Kristina to talk through her top outreach tips. Listen as she discusses:
👀 infiltrating recruitment with sales tactics
🤝 how to engage candidates,
🌍 where to find them,

📹 and she dissects and rewrites a whole email!

This time (over) a year ago, we launched a brand new category - Recruitment Process Intelligence. 

RPI was created to provide businesses with intelligence throughout the recruitment process and guarantee delivery of the right hire, first time, every time. 

A year later and a year wiser, we grabbed CEO Gavin Speirs and sat down to revisit that podcast. We wanted to find out if our original goals had stood up to the test of both time and world-altering events that altered the job market completely. 

In this bonus podcast we look at: 

• How the definition of RPI has changed over the last year (if it has?) 
• What TA and HR’s main pain points are now, and if RPI still deals with them
• The importance of external talent acquisition 
• Future plans for Recruitment Process Intelligence 

Should leaders be the best performers in their team? Not if you ask Anthony Parker, General Manager EMEA at Mindtickle. According to him, if he's better than his team, it diminishes his abilities as both a leader and a coach.

In episode 9 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Anthony sits down with our Head of Sales Anthony Parker to discuss:

• Growing and scaling
• Assessing talent
• The difference between working at large orgs and start-ups
• Proving yourself in leadership
• And much more...