Best Graham and Marty from Change State Podcasts (2024)

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#58: The Coming Storm – Interest Rates & Workforce Readiness in a Persistently Tight Labor Market 39:17

13d ago39:17

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This week we welcome William Sims to the podcast. Before joining Lightcast as SVP of Professional Services, Williams held a number of leadership positions in talent acquisition and sales at Qualtrics, Jani-King Gulf Coast, and Career Builder, where he served as Director of Global Solutions Architects. Topics include: the current state of the labor …

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#57: Employer Branding With Purpose – On Fostering Communal Relationships Across the Talent Lifecycle 46:20

23d ago46:20

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This week we welcome Susan LeMotte to the podcast. Before starting exaqueo, Susan held a number of leadership positions in talent acquisition and employer branding, including as an HR consultant for Home Depot, Director of Talent Acquisition at Ritz Carlton, and Senior Director of Global Employer Branding and Marketing at Marriott. Topics include: …

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#56: Employer Branding From the Top Down – How To Move Beyond Tactics and Leverage Your Employer Brand as a Strategic Asset 29:28

2M ago29:28

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This week we welcome Heather Tenuto to the podcast. Before taking on her current role as CEO of The Muse Group (owners of The Muse and Fairygodboss), Heather spent her early career as a public school teacher before pivoting to a range of sales enablement and revenue growth roles, including VP of Channels at ShoreTel, VP of Sales (SMB Services) at O…

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#55: State of the Industry – How Modern Workforce Intelligence is Shaping the Future of Work 37:30

2M ago37:30

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This week we welcome Ben Zweig to the podcast. With a Ph.D. in Economics, Ben currently teaches a course on “the Future of Work” at NYU’s Stern School of Business, and serves as CEO of Revelio Labs, a workforce intelligence consultancy he founded in 2018. Topics include: economics, the basic definition of “work,” the value of viewing jobs as a bund…

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#54: Recruiter Enablement—Optimizing TA Operations Using Values-Driven Recruiting 32:35

3M ago32:35

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This week we welcome Rachel Gulley to the podcast. Rachel started as a recruiter at staffing agencies before taking on a variety of recruiting operations management roles at WilsonHCG, Asurion, and FanDuel, where she currently serves as Director of Talent Acquisition Operations. Topics include: organizational culture, core values, how core values c…

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#53: Talent Acquisition for Start-ups: The Wisdom of NOT Hiring 37:18

5M ago37:18

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This week we welcome Carina Clingman to the podcast. With a PhD in biochemistry, Carina’s early experiences looking for jobs in the biotech space led her to start Recruitomics, a TA consulting group that helps small and startup biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies find and retain top talent. Topics include: the advantages (and disadvantages) …

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#52: David and Goliath – How Non-Technical Companies Can Compete with Tech Titans for Talent 38:05

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This week we welcome Heather Dunn to the podcast. Passionate about HR from an early age (16!), Heather brings more than 15 years of experience has an HR leader in technology companies, having held senior roles at Microsoft and Dropbox before joining Gem, where she currently serves at Chief People Officer. Topics include: how HR can be a “lonely” ro…

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#51: The Promises We Make — Maintaining an Employer Brand Through Times of Change 32:07

11M ago32:07

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This week we welcome Gretchen Huestis to the podcast. Passionate about human potential and purpose-led change, Gretchen has more than 20 years of experience as a management consultant and holder of senior HR leadership roles. She honed her skills at Towers Perrin, Pitney Bowes, SABMiller, and HSBC before assuming her current position at Siegel+Gale…

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#50: Understanding the Labor Market—Inflation, Pay Equity, and Employees as “Free Agents” 37:46

1y ago37:46

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This week we welcome Jay Denton to the podcast. An expert in labor market analytics, Jay spent time at Bell Partners and Axiometrics before joining LaborIQ as Chief Analytics Officer. Topics include: the current status of the labor market, layoffs vs. new job creation, inflation, skills-based hiring and industry switching, pay equity, approaches to…

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#49: Conversations at Scale — Employer Branding in a Quick Apply World 34:17

1y ago34:17

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This week we welcome Adam Godson to the podcast. An HR technology veteran, Adam spent more than eight years at Cielo Talent before assuming his current role as President & Chief Product Officer at Paradox, a conversational AI platform for talent. Topics include: the growth of quick apply frameworks, the challenges of communicating an EVP in a quick…

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#48: Workforce Development – How Trust and Authenticity Foster Stronger Teams 37:07

1y ago37:07

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This week we welcome Becky Chung to the podcast. Passionate about HR, organizational design, and workforce development, Becky honed her skills in a range of industries, including health care, financial services, and software, before assuming her current role as Vice President of Talent Development at Cielo Talent. Topics include: skills-based recru…

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#47: 2023 Talent Trends – Skills-Based Hiring, Employer Branding, and the Rise of AI in Making Layoff Decisions 27:37

1y ago27:37

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Co-hosts Graham and Marty return for The Changing State of Talent Acquisition Season 3 debut. They share how the agency business has evolved in the past year and discuss key trends that will shape the talent acquisition landscape in 2023 and beyond. Topics include: Skills-based hiring, how automation can improve the hiring process, approaches to me…

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#46: AI for DEI — Using Data to Power Workforce Diversity 45:28

2+ y ago45:28

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This week we welcome Chandan Golla to the podcast. Chandan is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer for Included.ai, a DEI-first people analytics platform. Prior to co-founding Included.ai, Chandan spent more than 20 years delivering compelling experiences powered by data, having led product teams at eBay, OneTrust, and Integris Software. Topics inc…

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#45: Decentralized Talent Networks — How the Blockchain is Disrupting the Gig Economy 45:55

2+ y ago45:55

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This week we welcome Adam Jackson to the podcast. Adam is a serial entrepreneur (Dr. On Demand, DriverSide.com, MarketSquare.com), startup advisor, and technology investor (Cambrian Asset Management). Adam’s most recent venture, Braintrust, is the first and largest decentralized talent network completely controlled by its users. Topics include: the…

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#44: On Bridge Building—How Uber’s New EVP Supports the Company’s Wider Mission 46:15

2+ y ago46:15

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This week we welcome Delfina Stabile and Xavi Martinez Salcedo to the podcast. Delfina began her career in Buenos Aires, where she worked as a Recruiting Analyst for Michael Page, before joining Uber—first out of Mexico City, and currently out of San Francisco, where she serves as Talent Attraction Manager. Prior to joining Uber, where he currently…

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#43: The Fourth Industrial Revolution — Recruiting at Scale in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 45:01

2+ y ago45:01

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This week we welcome Amit Parmar to the podcast. With more than 16 years of experience in technology and human capital management, Amit spent time at IBM, Deloitte, and Unisys before founding Cliquify, an AI-powered content marketing platform that drives equity in recruitment. Topics include: the fourth industrial revolution, how AI makes the curre…

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#42: Candidate Centricity—Shrinking the Access Gap With Better Interviewing 39:27

2+ y ago39:27

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Episode Description This week we welcome Jeffrey Spector to the podcast. Jeffrey spent more than six years at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he served as Chief of Staff to Melinda Gates, before co-founding Karat, a service that helps CTO’s and CHRO’s make technical interviewing a customer-centric experience. Topics include: the surging …

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#41: Talent Mobility—The Myths Surrounding Reskilling Workforces 44:13

3y ago44:13

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This week we welcome Lindsay Witcher to the podcast. As a member of Randstad RiseSmart's global leadership team, Lindsay guides the development of solutions that empower talent leaders to successfully manage mobility within their organizations. We sat down to discuss her recent article, “DeBunking 4 Myths About Reskilling Your Workforce.” Topics in…

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#40: Going Virtual — Online Hiring Events in a Post-Pandemic World 43:33

3y ago43:33

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This week we welcome Ali Hackett to the podcast. After starting her career in the agency world, Ali spent more than 15 years as a talent acquisition and employer brand consultant before co-founding Meet & Engage, an award winning candidate experience technology. We sat down to discuss virtual hiring events in a post-pandemic recruiting landscape. T…

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#39: On Challenging Conventional Wisdom—Is Retention Overrated? 41:36

3y ago41:36

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This week we welcome Bryan Adams to the podcast. As Founder and CEO of Ph.Creative, a leading employer branding and talent attraction agency, Bryan has spent more than 17 years helping organizations build world-class employer brands. His creative, unconventional and even controversial methodologies have changed the way people think about employer b…

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#38: A Perfect Storm — The Forces Shaping the Post-Pandemic Labor Market 46:20

3y ago46:20

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This week we welcome Raghav Singh to the podcast. Raghav’s career in talent acquisition spans more than 30 years, including chapters at Taleo (where he served as Product Manager from 2000-2004), UnitedHealthGroup, KornFerry, and Salesforce, where he currently serves as Director of Product leading a team building HR and talent acquisition products. …

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#37: Recruiting Like a Champion—A Fresh Approach to Talent Strategy 41:31

3y ago41:31

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This week we welcome Scott MacGregor to the podcast. Prior to entering the world of talent acquisition, Scott spent 17 years as Chief Revenue Officer for Flo-Tech, where he saw the company grow from five employees to more than 300. Along the way, his experiences with recruiting systems and processes led him to believe that talent acquisition is fun…

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#36: Finding Your North Star—How Strong Brands Guide Business Decisions, From Product Design to Talent Acquisition 49:45

3y ago49:45

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This week we welcome Lindsay Pedersen to the podcast. Lindsay spent her early career as a brand manager at Clorox before starting her own brand strategy consulting firm, Ironclad Brand Strategy. Her recent book, “Forging an Ironclad Brand: A Leader’s Guide” provides an accessible overview of what branding is (and isn’t) and offers a multitude of re…

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#35: The Shape of Work—A New Language for Talent Matching 47:07

3y ago47:07

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This week we welcome Hung Lee to the podcast. With more than 20 years of recruiting experience, Hung is the creator and curator of the wildly popular “Recruiting Brainfood” newsletter and community, and Founder of Workshape.io, a next generation matching service for tech talent. Topics include: the origin and growth of Recruiting Brainfood, the his…

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#34: Birth of an Industry—The Evolution of Employer Branding 33:55

3y ago33:55

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This week we welcome Aaron Kraljev to the podcast. Aaron began his career at Wells Fargo, where he served as VP - Marketing Program Manager for the Student Banking Program, before transitioning in 2009 to lead the organization’s employer brand and candidate advocacy program. At the time, the concept of employer branding was still in its infancy, un…

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#33: Beyond Pedigree—How Assessments Are Democratizing Technical Recruiting 46:15

3y ago46:15

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This week we welcome Vivek Ravisankar, CEO of HackerRank, to the podcast. Vivek co-founded HackerRank in 2012 with the mission of using skills assessments to match developers with the right jobs. Since then, the company has helped more than 2,000 organizations go beyond résumés and ‘pedigree’ to find talent with proven programming skills. Topics in…

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#32: Lightning in a Bottle — How Miami Mayor Suarez is Building the Next Silicon Valley 28:51

3y ago28:51

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This week we welcome Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami, to the podcast. Mayor Suarez made news in recent months with his Twitter activity promoting Miami as the next Silicon Valley. We sat down to discuss the tweet that went viral, how Miami is capitalizing on this “lightning in a bottle” moment, and the city’s efforts to build a workforce development…

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#31: Hiring for Potential with AI—The Future of Talent Acquisition & Management 39:33

3+ y ago39:33

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This week we welcome Ashutosh Garg to the podcast. Ashutosh is CEO & Co-founder of Eightfold.ai, the first Talent Intelligence Platform to address the talent gap by harnessing the power of AI and search, and Founder of Bloomreach, a leading vendor for Digital Experience Platforms. Prior to founding these enterprises, Ashutosh managed Search and Per…

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#30: Keeping the “Human” in HR — How to Cultivate a Culture of Meaning & Purpose 48:52

3+ y ago48:52

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This week we welcome Alysha M. Campbell to the podcast. With more than a decade of experience as both a recruiter and HR business partner, Alysha is currently Founder and Principal of CultureShift HR, where she helps companies utilize and engage their best talent while creating diverse and purposeful work environments that help businesses grow and …

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#29: Punk Rock HR — How to Bet on Yourself and Take Control of Your Career in 2021 & Beyond 35:48

3+ y ago35:48

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This week we welcome Laurie Ruettimann to the podcast. As the face of the popular “Punk Rock HR” podcast, Laurie will need no introduction for many of our listeners. Laurie began her career working in HR operations and recruiting for such organizations as Monsanto, Alberto-Culver (now Unilever), and Pfizer, before leaving corporate America altogeth…

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#28: Farewell 2020—Reflections on Growing a Business During a Pandemic & Our Expectations of the Year Ahead 42:06

3+ y ago42:06

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In our final episode of 2020, we are guest-free and share our reflections on Change State’s second year in business, the lessons we learned along the way, and the topics and trends we’ll be watching as we look ahead to the new year. Topics include: Change State’s growth during a pandemic year, the value of founder-created content for organic busine…

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#27: Talking Shop — In Conversation With a Fellow Recruitment Marketing Agency Founder 42:57

3+ y ago42:57

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This week we welcome Kelly Robinson to the podcast. Kelly has founded numerous ventures in the talent acquisition space, including a staffing firm (MECS Communications), a job distribution platform (Broadbean), a marketing content sharing tool (Paiger), and most recently, RedDotMedia, a recruitment marketing agency. Topics include: the future of bu…

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#26: Relationship-Building in a Digital World — Tech Recruiting & the Future of Sourcing 39:53

3+ y ago39:53

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This week we welcome Elliott Garms to the podcast. Elliott’s career in talent acquisition dates back to childhood, when he helped run his father’s executive search business out of the family basement. Much has changed since these early days of manually inputting paper resumes into a then-new-fangled system called an ATS; Elliott went on to found or…

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#25: Born to Recruit—D&I, AI, and the Path To Helping a Billion People Find the Right Job 37:45

3+ y ago37:45

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This week we welcome Mahe Bayireddi to the podcast. As a member of Forbes Technology Council, Mahe has co-founded multiple startups, including BHSP Nexus Software Consulting, BijaHealth, SnipSnap, and most recently, Phenom, where he currently leads as Chief Executive Officer. Topics include: why effective leaders must be effective recruiters, Pheno…

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#24: Year in Review—Reflections on the Pandemic’s Impact on Employer Branding 49:02

3+ y ago49:02

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This week we’re guest-free and discuss the nominees for Recruiting Brief’s MVP award in the category of employer branding as well as Glassdoor’s new “Review Intelligence” offering. Topics include: the impact of COVID on employer brands, the ways in which our predictions in March proved (in)accurate, whether an organization’s pandemic response is a …

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#23: State of the Industry—Talent Acquisition Leadership in the COVID-19 Era 50:28

3+ y ago50:28

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This week we welcome Richard Carsley to the podcast. Rick has led talent acquisition teams at a number of well-known brands, including Farmers Insurance, Bankers Life and Casualty Company, TSYS, IKEA, and most recently, Freedom Mortgage, where he currently serves as Director of Talent Acquisition. Topics include: the superiority of Wawa pizza subs,…

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#22: On the Precipice—The Future of Data Science & AI in Recruiting 48:50

3+ y ago48:50

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This week we welcome Morgan Llewellyn to the podcast. As a trained data scientist, Morgan shares his wealth of experience from a career spanning multiple industries, with stints at Salesforce, Predictive Partner, and eventually Jobvite, where he currently serves as Chief Data Scientist. Topics include: the history and purview of “data science,” how…

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#21: Hiring at Scale—How AI Can Enhance Screening & Reduce Bias 38:51

3+ y ago38:51

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This week we welcome Prem Kumar to the podcast. Before co-founding Humanly, an Y Combinator-accelerated startup focused on improving the efficiency of candidate screening, scheduling, and engagement at scale, Prem spent ten tears at Microsoft, where he was responsible for delivery and operations of all software initiatives for the organization’s HR…

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#20: Workforce Planning, Internal Mobility, & Company Culture 42:53

3+ y ago42:53

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This week we welcome Lucy Williams to the podcast. Lucy's distinguished career in talent acquisition spans more than twenty years, with stints at such organizations as RP International, IBM, and most recently, Visa, where she led a team as Regional TA Director for Central Europe, Middle East and Africa. Topics include: the similarities and differen…

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#19: Digital Assessments Revisited—How Gamification & AI Can Effectively Reduce Bias 53:59

3+ y ago53:59

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This week we welcome Bas van de Haterd back to the podcast (our first repeat guest!). Bas proudly identifies as a “professional snoop” — a title that captures his more than 15 years of experience as an HR consultant, candidate assessment and experience expert, and frequent conference speaker. Topics include: the problems with using questionnaire-ba…

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#18: Digital Assessments, AI, & Bias in Candidate Screening 38:43

3+ y ago38:43

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This week we’re guest-free and begin with a recent ERE article about AI and screening bias, before unpacking an article from Bas van de Haterd about the future of digital assessments. Topics include: biases in screening and assessments, the ways in which AI can amplify (or minimize) the biases of the human recruiters who use them, the problem of tr…

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#17: You Are What You Reward — How Incentives Reveal Your Employer Brand 51:32

3+ y ago51:32

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This week we welcome James Ellis to the podcast. A self-proclaimed employer branding "nerd", James is a leading voice in the world of talent branding, having led EB initiatives at GroupOn and Universum before assuming his latest role at Roku. He's also the author of several books, including "Talent Chooses You" and "The Employer Brand Handbook Volu…

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#16: Doing Good By Doing Well—The Importance of Prioritizing Candidate Experience 44:39

3+ y ago44:39

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This week we welcome Ed Pedini to the podcast. Ed has worn numerous hats in the HR space, from practice director at an RPO helping start-ups scale their workforces, to Co-Founder of All2.io, an employee experience solution, to his current role as Director of Customer Success at Seekout, an AI-powered sourcing tool for recruiters. Topics include: ho…

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#15: Thinking Outside the CRM Box—Candidate Nurturing & Talent Pipelines of the Future 33:23

3+ y ago33:23

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This week we welcome Adam Gordon to the podcast. Adam's career in talent acquisition spans more than twenty years, from his early days sourcing accountants as a frontline recruiter, to a stint at PWC as a consultant in the organisation's HR practice, to his current role as Co-Founder and CEO of Candidate.ID. Topics include: the meaning of candidate…

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#14: Alternative Education Paths & New Approaches to Diversity Hiring 44:06

3+ y ago44:06

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This week we discuss Google’s announcement of its plans to disrupt the higher education market by offering skill-focused certifications for as little as $49/month. We also announce our new initiative, EqualOpportunityHires.com, for bringing equal opportunity jobs to underrepresented talent where they already “live” online. Topics include: the funda…

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#13: The Future of Assessments and the Candidate Experience 56:05

3+ y ago56:05

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This week we welcome Bas van de Haterd to the podcast. Bas proudly identifies as a “professional snoop” — a title that captures his more than 15 years of experience as an HR consultant, candidate assessment and experience expert, and frequent conference speaker. Topics include: the myriad dimensions of candidate experience, how optimized career sit…

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#12: Beyond Content—The Power and Purpose of Structured Approaches to Talent Branding 37:50

3+ y ago37:50

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This week we welcome Jody Ordioni to the podcast. Jody is Chief Brand Officer of Brandemix, founder of Achieve Engagement, and author of The Talent Brand, and award-winning book on structured approaches to brand building. Topics include: the value of viewing consumer and talent brands holistically, the limitations of content-first approaches to tal…

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#11: Talent Acquisition Analytics — How Good Data Tells Its Own Story 46:35

3+ y ago46:35

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This week we welcome Todd Davis to the podcast. Todd’s career spans more than 25 years in talent acquisition, from his current role as a Global Talent Executive at IBM, to leadership roles at Ancestry, Amazon, and WarnerMedia. Topics include: why HR lags behind other departments in analytic prowess, the limitations of focusing recruiting efforts on…

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#10: Our Early Thoughts on the Glassdoor/Indeed Partnership 39:49

3+ y ago39:49

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This week we share our thoughts on the recent announcement regarding the Glassdoor/Indeed partnership, and discuss the results of a recent poll we conducted regarding LinkedIn’s Workforce Diversity Report. Topics include: what we know about the new Glassdoor/Indeed partnership, the migration of Glassdoor sponsored jobs to Indeed, what is likely to …

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#9: Diversity, Inclusion & Employer Branding 32:45

4y ago32:45

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This week we start the show with a continuation of our ongoing discussion of candidate experience, and end with a deep-dive into our recent blog post, "Diversity and Inclusion Is Not an Employer Brand Strategy." Topics include: how job aggregators negatively impact the candidate experience, why Glassdoor has paused its job board partnership program…

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