The Hiring Partner Perspective (Unedited)

Bennett Sung is one of my favourite HR tech marketers, who also happens to be a hiring manager. I have been lucky to know Bennett for around 8 years so you will also find him on page 71 of my book, The Robot-Proof Recruiter. 

Through many laughs, you'll hear us talk about:

Grab a cuppa, pen & paper, and settle in! 🎧

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Great to chat to Adam Gibson, global leader in Workforce Planning, People Analytics, & Orghanisational Design, and Author of Agile Workforce Planning, about the impact of the pandemic on workforce planning and more! 

Grab a cuppa, pen & paper, and settle in! 🎧

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When I saw Sukhvinder Pabial's blog about the freedom he found recruiting without an applicant's CV, I had to know more. Sukh runs his own company, Challenging Frontiers, but in our conversation you'll hear us talk about hiring for his new passion project. 

We also talk about:

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Welcome to the second insights interview with Sara Burgess, Senior L&D Professional, Business Psychologist, Executive Coach and my friend, all about managing disappointment. 

We talked and, to be honest, laughed a lot about:

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Chatting to Tracey Parson is always a joy and her new company, WORQDRIVE, supports this very podcast but she's also a hiring manager. So I couldn't wait to hear her take on how recruiters and hiring leaders can partner better. 

We covered a lot...

Be prepared for a lot of laughs & insights! ✍🏻

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After seeing an empathetic post from Zuzanna Santos, assisting the people coming in to interview with her, I asked Lisa Scales to connect us. You'll soon get why Lisa was super excited that I chat to Zuzanna. 

We chatted about her secret sauce when hiring for her team and:

If your recruitment could do with some secret-sauce, grab a cuppa & tune-in. 🎧

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What do you do when hiring leaders are proving elusive to interview and you don't want to leave your listeners hanging? Start a series of insights to help you develop those partnerships, of course!

Welcome to the first interview in the series with my fabulous coach, Roderick Lambert, who has the unique perspective of having been a recruiter, HRBP, HRD, and now leadership & business coach.

We had a fantastic conversation centred on developing your power listening. He dropped tips galore & pulled me up on something I didn't know I was saying, which had potential to destroy an intake strategy session! 😳

Grab a cuppa, pen & paper, and settle in! 🎧

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It took only a few moments to understand why Heidi Wassini said that I must speak interview Ch'ien Chan. He's the Head of Design at Vivino, the world's largest online wine marketplace, and you'll soon hear their high level of mutual respect. 

Besides Ch'ien's natural extroversion and incredible background, working for household name companies on two continents, Ch'ien is the only hiring manager I know who has trawled through 387 CVs. Unsurprisingly, he realised this isn't the way to recruit effectively!

It certainly gave him empathy for what recruiters go through and the willingness to let Heidi challenge the status quo, his personal mantra. You'll hear Ch'ien talk about relinquishing control as a self-appointed "anal-retentive Virgo", which is a control freak to you and me, and what working with Nicklas Pyrdol, of Innoflow, achieved.

Innoflow is an anonymised case-based recruitment process to discover talent and potential in a way you haven't previously. They state it makes the process fair, unbiased and efficient. So did it help Ch'ien Chan? 

If your recruitment could do with a shake-up, grab your headset & have a listen. 🎧

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Snooping around Anna Boyarkina's profile had me super curious to hear about her career to date; from studying economics & business to starting an events business and TEDxPerm to her current role as Head of Product Use Cases. In minutes, you'll be glad you listened in.

We chatted about Anna joining Miro when it was just 11 people and the opportunity that creates, building the company based on what people believe in and are doing, and their mission to empower teams to create the next big thing.

Referred by Alla Pavlova, I could soon see why! Anna believes great talent brings a lot to a company but how she does this, well it surprised me. Listen in to hear how she sources herself so she can find profiles and set the bar of what she's looking for, which is easier than asking recruiters to read her mind. 🔮

We also chatted about the importance of cadence and doing your homework, adding your recruiters to your favourites, and the honour it is to hire the people for your company! 🤩

Grab your headset, a cuppa, & settle in. 🎧

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As soon as I was introduced to Iris Kroonstuiver, I knew it was going to be an amazing conversation and it sure is, grab pen and paper.

Of course, Iris is an exceptional hiring leader (referred by Alla Pavlova, thank you!) so you'll hear some great tips for partnering better with recruiters and lesson learned as she grew into the role of hiring leader and her new role at GameHouse. 

But I also had to delve into what it's like working in the male-dominated gaming industry, even though 46% of gamers are womxn, which didn't quite lead where I expected it to.... so rather than me try and explain, grab your 🎧 and hear it first hand.

Consider it a 32-minute investment into your talent acquisition! 🧡

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