WeCruitr Podcast

Wayne Hu is a Venture Capitalist with SignalFire. Wayne offers his insights into the world of VCs. We discuss what areas are hot and growing.

Lisa Lewin is the CEO of General Assembly, an Adecco portfolio company, and a global leader in tech education and career transformation. General Assembly pioneered the education bootcamp model in 2011 and has since helped hundreds of thousands of professionals transform their careers.

While it was started with physical campuses, the edtech organization is now focusing on offering virtual learning. The company is also growing worldwide, adding new learning products, supportive services for students, and best-in-class instructors. GA also brought on board a deep bench of seasoned learning experts to help expand the remote education program.

Lewin joined this business as a former customer – and self-proclaimed fangirl – taking classes in coding and marketing in GA’s early days as she was building her own business. She is highly optimistic, saying as we look to our next decade of continued growth and evolution, “I’m excited to lead this team as we enter more communities, transform more lives, and support enterprises, governments, and individuals to adapt to an ever-changing world of work. Onward!”

A couple of months ago I spoke with Jesper. His country, Denmark, was named the most happiest nation in the world.

Now in the podcast he talked about Russia's cyber war against Europe, and planes that flew over his country that may have had nuclear bombs aboard.

There are not enough people in this field. Cyber security has around 3 million jobs available worldwide. You may want to consider pivoting to this fast-growing, well paying sector.

You don't need a computer science degree to enter the field.

Scott Bonneau Vice President of Global Talent Attraction and HR Analytics at Indeed.com

Scott Bonneau spent 20-years as software engineer before becoming the Vice President of Global Attraction and Human Resource analytics at Indeed.com

🎸 He's also a grunge rock afficianado, and is a rock musician. 🎸

🎙️Check out our conversation with Scott Bonneau to learn about everything that is happening in the job market!🎙️

Lyron Bentovim, President and CEO of the Glimpse Group, a publicly traded startup focused on building and creating for the Metaverse, extended an invitation to Forbes to check out how this new virtual world works.

He tells us that combining aspects of artificial intelligence, augmented reality and virtual reality, along with social media, online gaming, and other services, the Metaverse is a rapidly emerging space that adds a new dimension to the internet.

The Metaverse offers new, exciting opportunities to people. It could be an enhanced work-from-home experience that makes you feel part of the team and not isolated alone in your apartment.

You can interact with co-workers, go on interviews, find a new job, communicate with clients and build businesses. It feels that there’s an unlimited possibility of what can happen in a new virtual reality.

For two years we've been subjected to fear, anxiety, isolation, powerlessness which all contributed to a crisis of “collective trauma,” and being on “edge.’

To find out how bad things are, and what business leaders and people can do to cope with the unrelenting challenges brought on by the pandemic, I spoke with with Paula Allen, Global Leader and SVP, Research and Total Wellbeing at LifeWorks—a world leader in providing digital and in-person solutions that support the total wellbeing of individuals and employees.

It took a deadly virus outbreak to wake up employers to look after the mental health and emotional wellbeing of their people. Covid-19, followed by the Delta variant, and now the sudden surge of Omicron, have left people feeling lost and defeated. It's hard to remain positive and optimistic when public schools, colleges, businesses, restaurants, and live events shut down. Travel plans are scrapped as airlines cancel flights. Fear of catching and spreading the disease makes many people despondent and withdraw from society.

Allen says that according to LifeWorks’ statistics, there has been a doubling of the proportion of the population that is at high risk for mental health issues – from 14 per cent to 34 per cent. With Omicron, she says, “I think we’re going to continue to feel the edge that we’ve been feeling,” and “Those people who do have mental health support needs, their needs are fairly complex – more so than before.”

As president of Banfield Pet Hospital, Brian Garish leads the vision and strategic direction of the industry’s leading provider of preventive care. He also serves on the board of the Banfield Foundation.

Brian believes that pets, people and society are all connected and is passionate about ensuring the practice is making a positive impact on the world at large. His top priority is creating a high-performing, inclusive culture at Banfield’s 1,000+ hospitals for its 19,000+ associates across the U.S., Puerto Rico and Mexico.

Smart entrepreneurs are creating products and services for businesses to offer unique experiences that express appreciation and gratitude to their workforce.

Ravi Swaminathan, CEO of TaskHuman, is a progressive, forward-thinking startup founder. He built a unique platform that helps companies combat the current “Great Resignation” culture and win the war for talent.

His app offers comprehensive and holistic employee wellness and coaching solutions that improve the quality of lives of workers.

We’re in the beginning stages of an innovative revolution. The metaverse is the Web3 next wave, changing the way we’ll socialize, work, play video games and interact.

Andrew Kiguel, CEO of Tokens.com and an early real estate investor in virtual reality, recently made headlines with his company’s purchase of real estate in the fashion district of Decentraland, paying around $2.5 million for the space. Kiguel, a former investment banker, sees the future in the metaverse.

4-Day Workweek, Remote-First, Environmentally Friendly Dockwa (a division of the Wanderlust Group) Rides The Waves Of The Growing Boating Trend

Boston-based the Wanderlust Group—the parent brand to Dockwa, Marinas.com and the forthcoming Campouts—offers technology marketplaces and platforms that help empower adventurers to enjoy the great outdoors.

The top boating reservation app offers boaters secure slips and moorings at over 800 marinas nationwide. Dockwa is one of the first tech startups that had an existing four-day workweek to receive a considerable amount of funding from venture capitalists and investors.

Instead of the expected Friday off, Dockwa CEO Mike Melillo chose to include Monday in its three-day weekend. This day off doesn’t have any catches nor does it adversely impact employee compensation, time off or the hours they need to work.