Hiring Success Podcast: Recent Episodes
Maja Rissmann
A podcast for TA leaders, recruiters, and hiring enthusiasts alike. Join us as we engage industry leaders and innovators from companies like VISA, Twitter, and Deloitte who are transforming the field of talent acquisition—one great hire at a time.
Red Bull's mission is to give people wings and now these industry disruptors have turned their sights to the world of high-performance at work, publicly launching their in-house psychometric evaluation, Wingfinder.
To gain greater insight into the inspiration and functionality of this new tool we talked with Alexandra Kuric, part of the Global Talent Management team who’s been with Red Bull for almost a decade. We discuss the research and science behind Wingfinder as well as how you can use the evaluation in your hiring process.
If you want to learn more about Wingfinder then check out our article, How Red Bull Gives Their Candidates Wings, or take the evaluation yourself by clicking here!
Join chatbot expert, Chris Raw, as he discusses how this little piece of technology can power your entire TA strategy.
Episode 18 of the Hiring Success podcast features Chris Raw: chatbot expert and customer success manager at SmartRecruiters. Chris is a “recovering recruiter” who came to the vendor side of TA to work more closely with chatbots after seeing the profound impact this one piece of technology had on recruitment at the fashion e-commerce business where he was working at the time.
If you enjoyed the podcast be sure to check out Chris Raw’s in-depth article “Automation & Beyond: How Chatbots Power Hiring Success.”
Episode 16 of the Hiring Success Podcast features an episode with Kristina Johnson, Chief People Officer at Okta, Inc. Over the last year, the company has been transitioning to dynamic work—which, some might say, is the wiser, older sibling of remote or distributed work.
We discuss the myriad benefits of dynamic work, who stands to benefit from it most, and what companies should keep in mind before making the transition.
Episode 15 of the Hiring Success Podcast features a discussion with Jason Paradowski, head of HR services and talent acquisition at Bosch, North America.
We discuss change management, what makes it difficult and rewarding, as well as what Jason did at Bosch to streamline the company’s talent function, increase their hiring velocity, and drive TA transformation with zero increase in budget—an initiative that gave the company a competitive hiring advantage against other major tech corporations.
You can read Jason’s articles on operations management and strategy deployment here.
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Jerome Ternynck and Elaine Orler shed insight on how to make a compelling case for new TA tech.
Today’s episode is an excerpt from a recent webinar in which SmartRecruiters’ CEO Jerome Ternynck and Elaine Orler—founder & CEO of Talent Function—clearly outline the most important points to include when making a bulletproof business case for a modern and sophisticated applicant tracking system.
You can find more information on SmartRecruiters’ ATS Upgrade Program here.
For episode 13 of the Hiring Success Podcast, SmartRecruiters’ head of communications, Roy Baladi, is joined by Gerry Crispin— Principal & Co-Founder of CareerXroads.
The discussion is focused on, among other things, a new initiative called Recruiters Recruiting Recruiters, whose mission is “to support our colleagues and peers in Talent Acquisition on both sides of the crossroad where opportunity and talent meet. Recruiters are an awfully big part of a recovery effort and we want you to be part of it. Whether you’re an employer, a vendor, or a job seeker, you are a crucial part of this effort.”
Our guest for Episode 12 is Rebecca Carr, Senior Vice President of Growth & Hiring Success at SmartRecruiters. Rebecca and her team of Hiring Success consultants empower companies to optimize their hiring outcomes through careful assessment and strategic consulting.
She joins us to talk about the first step in that process—The Hiring Success Business Assessment—and why it’s actually a rewarding experience to embrace the struggle.
Learn how to navigate hiring during economic uncertainty with expert insight from Denise Moulton, VP of HR & Talent Research at Bersin, Deloitte Consulting.
Not only is Denise more than qualified to talk about the topic at length, she also frames the discussion in a manner that’s lighthearted and refreshing, which makes it more approachable considering its seriousness. This episode is one you’ll want to bookmark for future reference.
Episode 10 features a discussion with Gareth Flynn. He is the managing director of TQ solutions, an advisory and solutions firm for talent acquisition, recruitment, and careers related projects; the co-founder and director of The Career Conversation—a company specializing in digital microlearning and lifelong career development; and a technology advisor and mentor with Udder— a team of experienced recruitment, talent, and HR technology specialists.
Gareth traveled all the way from Melbourne, Australia to San Francisco for Hire 20. Our discussion begins with his general take on the conference and why it’s a unique experience for someone who works in talent acquisition outside of the US. Other topics discussed include the talent shortage as a global phenomenon, microlearning and career development, the increasing importance of creative skills in the modern workforce, and the ways in which technology can actually make us more human.
In this episode, we’re joined by SmartRecruiters’ founder & CEO, Jerome Ternynck. He explains why recruiters and talent acquisition leaders need marketing skill sets to be successful—in particular knowledge of market segmentation. To help hiring teams navigate that process, Ternynck outlines what’s known as the Talent Scarcity-Impact Framework, a model he designed to help companies better prioritize the positions for which they’re hiring.
Interested in learning more about how to apply market segmentation in talent acquisition? Download your free copy of The Definitive Guide to Hiring Success!
James Sinclair, founder and chief executive of EnterpriseAlumni, joins us for a discussion about corporate alumni programs. They enable large organizations such as the Lufthansa Group, Nestle, HSBC, P&G, and LinkedIn to actively engage and harness the power of their corporate alumni for a variety of purposes including talent acquisition, business development, mentoring, and more.
The argument for having corporate alumni programs in place is certainly convincing. According to James, alumni and alumni referrals are the number one and two sources of new hires for the majority of companies—career boards are number six. Additionally, alumni and alumni referrals stay on board, on average, two years longer than other hires.
You can find more research and insights on alumni programs here.
Tony Le is the Senior Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Getaround—an online, peer-to-peer car-sharing service that’s based in San Francisco and available across the United States and Europe. He has over fifteen years of experience with full life-cycle recruitment, employee relations, organizational development, diversity, and—last but not least—employee training programs, which will be the focus of our seventh episode.
Topics of discussion include the cost benefits of sourcing talent internally, employee retention, how to market training programs internally and measure their performance, and why tactful, careful communication is an essential soft skill for TA leaders.
The recruiting and HR resources that Tony mentions can be found here:
https://www.ere.net/
https://www.shrm.org/
https://recruitingdaily.com/
https://slofile.com/slack/hashtagpeople
Our sixth episode of the Hiring Success Podcast features an interview with Jason Ewell from Insight Partners—a global venture capital and private equity firm based in NYC that invests in growth-stage technology, software, and Internet businesses. Among other things, Jason oversees Insight Onsite’s Talent Center of Excellence, working closely with portfolio companies on organizational design, talent, and the hiring of C-level employees. He’s well versed in the art of getting the C-Suite actively involved in the hiring process, a task that sometimes is anything but easy.
Topics of discussion include the importance of having engaged executives in the talent acquisition process, recruitment marketing, using predictive analytics and data in the hiring process, interview scorecards, and more.
Show Notes:
- More information on Interview Scorecards can be found here.
- More information on Hiring Scorecards can be found here.
- More information on Starbucks’ recruiting strategy can be found here.
Our guest for the fifth episode of Hiring Success is Matt Alder—author, consultant, and host of The Recruiting Future Podcast. For nearly twenty years, Matt has helped companies across the world navigate the process of digital transformation and hire the talent necessary to do so.
Topics of discussion include the problems with legacy hiring practices, the often overlooked merit of candidates with unconventional backgrounds, recruiting automation, AI as a mechanism for removing bias in job interviews, and more.