People Make The Difference - The Lorien Podcast: Recent Episodes
Lorien
Lorien are a specialist recruitment solutions provider. Lorien have been around for more than 40 years and are based in the UK, US and Europe.
The creation of 'People Make the Difference' Lorien podcast is to bring together and have some interesting conversations with industry leaders in HR, Talent Acquisition and Tech communities. Hosts include Darren Topping, Director of Solutions, Kayleigh Luff, Marketing Manager and Sammie Arnold Senior Marketing & Events Exec at Lorien. If you have any questions or want us to discuss a particular topic please get in touch at podcast@lorienglobal.com
Hosts Darren and Malika are joined by Garth Ledingham, Head of Learning and Skills at Nationwide. They speak about immersive learning and how that affects real world learning. As well as Garth's wealth of experience across multiple sectors.
Hosts Darren and Malika are joined by industry expert David Brammer where they focus on discussing referral and alumni talent. Talking about short term spike hiring and boosting referral schemes as well as boomerang hiring!
Host Darren is joined by David Gettins, the managing director of Lorien. They both use their wealth of knowledge and industry experience share their opinions and thoughts of what 2024 will bring in the world of tech recruit and talent acquisition.
In this episode host Darren is joined by previous podcast guest turned brand new co-host, Malika!
They speak to Erika McDade, a senior resourcing manager at Santander. Learning about Erika's life and career - from growing up in Colombia to finding her true career path in STEM related expertise for financial services.
Welcome to the first Lorien podcast of 2024!
Host Darren is joined by Danny Hodgson - the co-founder of Foresight a business that provides a flexible approach to workforce planning challenges.
In the last episode of 2023 host Darren is joined by Dave Burrows, Founder of Strictly Workforce Planning. They talk all about how to get started with strategic workforce planning, how to gain business buy-in and how to truly realise the full benefits of the programme.
In this episode host Darren is joined by Steve Corbett, Client Solutions Director of STEM SoW/Professional Services. An individual who's truly passionate about informing organisations about how they can get work done.
In this episode host Darren is joined by Dave Scott - an expert in-house recruiter and an old colleague of Darren's. They discuss all aspects of his role from handling hiring managers to filling the jobs and everything in between.
Host Darren is joined the Coventry Building Society Business Analysis team to discuss women in tech and the role of business analysis, included the key skills needed to get into that world.
Host Darren is joined by Drew Goddard, WaHP Team Leader & Assistant Psychologist at Genius Within - an organisation dedicated towards neurodiversity. A must-listen for anyone and any business who want to learn how to empower and do more to support neurodiversity.
Host Darren is joined by Kieron Morgan, a specialist recruiter in the Cyber Security space here at Lorien. They speak about what it's like hiring for cyber security, what does good look like in terms of defining one candidate from another and how do you even get into the Cyber Security space to begin with?
In this episode host Darren Topping is joined by Spencer Hurley - a Resourcing Leader. All about his career, how it got into Talent Acquisition and around diversity functions that he has lead of recent.
Host Darren is joined by Chris Bleakley where they talk about all responsibilities and aspects involved in the role of a Head of Resourcing. What is it, what does a day in the life look like and how do you even get into a Head of Resourcing role to begin with!
In this episode Darren is joined by Adam Gordon - the co-founder of CandidateID where they discuss what it takes to build a hiring related business, the future of talent acquisition and recruitment technology, a big must-listen episode!
Our host Darren is joined by Dr Alison Callwood – Recent winner of InnovateUK Women in Innovation award and founder of Sammi-Select, a specialist candidate assessment tool to drive diverse outcomes.
They speak about diversity assessment and what you can do to help improve your own business' diversity as well as Dr Callwood's experience from starting off as a midwife all the way through to her prestigious InnovateUK award.
Our host Darren speaks with Lauren and Michael from Giant - all about understanding 'Umbrella Companies'. What do they do, what are the different options, what should job seekers and employers look for when they're choosing an umbrella company?
To celebrate International Women’s Day, our latest podcast is hosted by Malika Amin, Client Services Manager here at Lorien. She is joined by women from all across Impellam where they speak about their careers, inspiration and guidance.
In the latest episode of our podcast ‘People make the difference’ our host Darren Topping is joined by Hayley Bakker, co-founder of Diversely. An automated, platform-based D&I recruitment solution that helps businesses measure and improve the diversity of their candidate pipeline.
Find out more about what it takes to found a leading recruitment technology platform and well as how tech can help your business with diversity and inclusion!
In this podcast episode host Darren Topping is joined by Neil Denton, Director of Talent and Workforce Management at The Recruitment Events Co.
They explore how you can manage and handle hypergrowth within your organisation.
Taken from our 2022 panel discussion, our host Darren is joined by
- Spencer Hurley – Resourcing Leader at Nationwide Building Society
- Adam Gordon – Co-Founder at CandidateID
- Hayley Bakker – Co-Founder at Diversely
- Jason Kennedy – Director of Digital Commerce & Innovation at Impellam
- Toby Heales - Sales Manager at Adway
Listen to the discussion to learn about recruitment technology strategy and how leading tech partners are working with talent acquisition teams to improve efficiency, introduce innovation, and drive adoption. Whether you’re a scale-up or an established business with a fully-fledged recruitment technology strategy, this webinar covers everything you need to know to build, grow, implement, and succeed when using technology for talent acquisition.
Are you noticing a data skills gap within your organisation or workforce? Or simple not sure what to look for in a training provider?
In our first podcast of 2023our resident host, Darren Topping, is joined by Tom Phillips, the Go-To-Market Director from Cambridge Spark where they discuss and advise whether data up-skilling can help bridge the data and technology skills gaps many businesses are facing in the UK at the moment. Could this be a genuine solution for that problem?
Find out the top qualities to look for in a learning provider plus how best to embed and implement these programmes within your own organisation.
Darren is joined by John Hull, Head of Resourcing at Balfour Beatty where they discuss the best methods for you to be able to scale up hiring operations within your business - without breaking the bank! Touching on how even in today's rather gloomy economic climate, talent acquisition teams can enhance value and even when you may not necessarily be scaling up in the numbers you've been used to in the past.
In this episode of 'People Make the Difference' Darren is joined by Joanna Fagbadegun, Sales Director to discuss the benefits of recruitment outsourcing and aim to clear up any myths or qualms people may have about this.
We once again revisit IR35, given that our conversation just a couple of weeks ago was all about legislation repeal! Our hosts Darren Topping and John Macmillan are joined by Nicole Slowey, Operations Director of QDOS to discuss the cancellation of the IR35 repeal and the implications of this on the talent acquisition and management. Giving you an insight on how this may affect your business.
Darren and his new co-host Chris Hart are joined by Martyn Redstone. They discuss conversational AI and tech in talent acquisition.
Our host Darren is discussing IR35, compliance and giving technical advice for organisations with special guests.
Now Kayleigh is on maternity leave looking after baby Freddie, we have news hosts each week. Please welcome John Macmillan!
In this episode we're joined by James Alcock, Fractional CTO from Freeman Clarke. We discuss James' experience as a fractional CTO, what that is and top tips for his strategy working with varying clients.
Menopause is often seen as a taboo topic, but why? We discuss with Becky Webber, how we can overcome menopause challenges in the workplace and what businesses and employees can be doing to support their colleagues.
We're now in a recruitment market where candidates have multiple job offers on the table - how can businesses ensure they stand out and help filter out the noise for candidates, whilst remaining authentic. We discuss in more detail with newly appointed Employer Brand Manager at Nationwide Building Society, Phil Catcheside.
In this podcast we are joined by a very special guest, Julia Robertson - Group Chief Executive Officer of the Impellam Group. In this podcast we discuss with Julia why it's so important to be the world's most trusted staffing company, implementing a virtuoso way of working, our support for Jobs for Ukraine and her advice to becoming a successful leader.
In this episode we are joined by Impellam’s King of the North, Chris Blackburn. In this episode Chris discusses his new appointment as Head of Corporate Social Responsibility for the STEM Portfolio at Impellam, what his bold plans are for our CSR strategy and why it’s so important to remain authentic when implementing a good CSR strategy.
In this episode, Darren and Kayleigh discuss delve into what is happening in the recruitment market currently, from a client and candidate perspective and also what look out for in the future.
In this episode we have an honest chat about E,D&I with sector leaders; Anne Bookout, Global Head of Culture & Fulfilment - Impellam Group & Hayley Klaff, Director of Projects - Lorien.
What will 2022 bring? In this podcast we discuss some TA leaders predictions for 2022, with special guest Ken Brotherston, Chief Executive at Talint Partners. If you want to watch the predictions in full, watch them here - https://www.lorienglobal.com/en/insights/2022-predictions
Lorien held our event ‘How to win the candidate: speed, security and standing out’, hosted by myself and moderated by Recruiting Brainfood’s Hung Lee, with guest speakers Neil Denton, Director of Recruitment for the UK from Capgemini, Kally Kang-Kersey, HR Influencer, Richard Matthews, Head of Talent and Resourcing at The Co-operative Bank, and Christine Ng, Talent Acquisition Partner at The Financial Times. Together, we looked at talent attraction in a competitive post-pandemic landscape – where talent attrition is high and candidate attraction means standing out from the crowd.
Lorien hosted the virtual event ‘Turning the dial on net-zero: practical tips for HR and TA to help your workforce go green’. We were joined by industry experts from some of the UK’s most forward-thinking businesses in sustainability, including James Rowlands, Lead Policy and Public Affairs Manager at Nationwide Building Society, Bev Taylor, Director of Energy and Environment at Bruntwood Works, Christos Tsaprounis, Head of People and Culture at Auto Trader, and Sarah Benson, Environment Manager at KPMG.
Welcome to People make the difference, the Lorien podcast. A insight into what we will be discussing on the podcast going forward