At the end of this conversation, you'll know why I was excited to speak to Operations Director, Kay Epps, after Michael Goldberg kindly made the introduction. 

Kay talks about 'loving the bricks', working in a white male-dominated industry, and the resilience it took to secure the career she loves - a great lesson for today's new grads! Plus why it's important to have a coach & support network.

We went into depth about the impact of the social justice events of 2020 & why this time it is creating the difficult conversations & investment that is needed in DEI. And belonging!

She recommended Motivation by Daniel Pink and praised Atlassian for 'getting' motivation and the impact of Aubrey Blanche. She shared what it was like to receive an apology from her Executive, and why he was initially inactive; totally inspiring! We also chatted about shared responsibility and that we must get comfortable with uncomfortable conversations.

And as for Kay's tips for hiring leaders & recruiters, grab a pen! ✍🏻

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Without hesitation, Alla Pavlova said, "Joshua Hoffman!" when I asked for a fabulous hiring leader to interview and in 30 minutes you'll understand why! As a recruiter, she has seen how the engineers respect him and his effective hiring decisions.

I couldn't wait to ask Joshua about his love of startups, old hardware and, especially, what he means by integrity-based recruiting. We chatted about his want that candidates leave feeling great about the process and willing to recommend others, and the issue hiring leaders have delivering feedback, even though they should!

You'll also hear what he experienced working in an engineering team that was 40% female!! And some ways you can help improve your engineering teams gender balance.

Enough about what you'll hear, grab a cuppa & settle in...

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Suzanne Wolko is a fabulous Financial Services Executive with experience in Finance, HR and Operations, and a slayer of "this is how we've always done it" mentality which I adore, of course.

She doesn't fit in a box. A recruiter's nightmare to understand instantly and overlooked because let's be honest, we don't really know what to do with, erm, hybrids. 😖 In fact, a recruiter called her weird!

Worse, she has a gap. Gasp. 🙄

You'd think in a global pandemic this would be less of an issue but it appears gap bias is rife so I couldn't wait to chat with Suzanne about her experiences when she recruited people with gaps and why leaders are missing a trick allowing their bias to remain unchecked.

We also talked about age bias, trusting your recruiters, "order taking" and more. 🧡

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By the end of this interview with CIO & CTO, Peter Nichol, two of his books were in my shopping basket (but don't tell him I was multi-tasking!).

If you're busy hiring for IQ or EQ, you'll want to hear why you should be hiring for LQ! Lost? Don't worry, in 31 minutes you'll have heard why!

Plus Peter shares his tips for interviewing, how he's grown as a hiring manager, and of course why you'll benefit from partnering better with recruiters. 

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What a joy to interview Jennifer Zaborowski, PhD Associate Director, IT Business Operations about leadership, recruiting and mentoring.

Cartoon and playground references, the importance of building women up, the book Hardball for Women, the different perspective women, especially women leaders, bring to male-dominated industries, and, of course, sprinkled with many laughs.

Jennifer shared why she relies on recruiters to keep her up to date and hiring leaders will be inspired by her perspective on wide-angled versus laser-focused team members. 

Grab a cuppa & settle in.

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There was never going to be anyone else but Glenn Elliott as the first guest on The Hiring Partner Perspective (Unedited) and why will become very clear to you during the course of this episode.

Glenn & I met when I ran the very first DisruptHR London event and he invited me to his offices to discuss how Reward Gateway could support the event. Glenn was totally in support of my decision to use sponsors to raise funds for Hope for Justice charity and RG has supported ever since not only as a sponsor but through the RG Foundation & Catrin Lewis's personal contribution.

When you walk the floors of Reward Gateway you become awestruck by not only the kindness of their (now former) leader but how lovely all the staff are. It's something you want to bottle and take into every company!

Besides the opportunity to ask Glenn - a CEO!! - why he read The Robot-Proof Recruiter twice, we also talked about how he got so good at hiring great people both at RG and now at Tenzing. Context & vulnerability... and a whole load more! 

Grab a pen & paper.

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