This podcast provides scientific education on topics of environmental concern, such as PFAS, as well as emerging technologies in environmental science such as eDNA. It is presented by Bureau Veritas, a leader in environmental laboratory testing.
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Rated in the top 10 of Select Software Review’s 100 Top HR and Recruiting Podcasts, Big Fish in the Talent Pool is hosted by Erin McDermott Peterson, a former Global Head of Talent Acquisition and RPO General Manager. She interviews Global Leaders in Talent Acquisition about the joys and challenges of TA Leadership. From candidate experience, to AI recruitment technologies, advanced employment branding, RPO decisions and partnerships, to global orgs that follow the sun, no topic is off limit ...
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This episode of Big Fish in the Talent Pool is inspired by some beginning-of-the-year introspection. In 2022, I am focusing on making a little more “space” for myself, my family, and my clients. By allocating time for my relationships, I have decided to pause the podcast, at least for a while. I thought a nice capstone before my break would be a re…
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Episode 42: Future Big Fish with Julia Adler & Courtney Connor
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In this episode, you'll listen in on Erin's conversation with two emerging TA Leaders, Courtney Connor of Sequoia Consulting Group and Julia "Wonder Woman" Adler of Wayne Technologies. These "Future Big Fish" share their unique perspective from their 4-5 years of experience in consulting, staffing, and sourcing. They discuss their views of TA Leade…
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Episode 41: Recruiting Sprinter: Trent Cotton of Bureau Veritas Group
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Trent Cotton is the Vice President of Talent Acquisition (TA) and Retention of Bureau Veritas Group, having pivoted his career from a focus on lending to talent after recognizing the close connection between the two. He draws keen insights on recruitment from his early career in banking, having learned from some tough customers like the “Chicken Le…
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Episode 40: Driven to Innovate: Jacob Kramer of US Xpress
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Jacob Kramer is the VP of Talent Acquisition at US Xpress, Inc., a job he got by pitching his ideas to the CEO and Head of HR for automating recruitment in their industry. He had transformed stylist hiring for Regis Corp and saw synergies that could apply. So he took a risk, made the pitch, and the rest is history. A self-proclaimed introvert with …
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Episode 39: TA Strength Finder: Lianne Daues of Core-Mark International
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Lianne Daues is the Senior Director of Talent Acquisition at Core-Mark International, having cut her teeth at The Container Store, JC Penney and originally Rehab Care. The progressive steps in TA and eventually leadership were on the advice of a mentor who encouraged Lianne early on to consider Recruiting as a potential career path, which she did, …
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Episode 38: The “Contentment Commitment” with Tim Streeter
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Tim Streeter is the classic example of Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind, living out the power of using both left brain and right brain simultaneously in his Global Talent Acquisition leadership roles at Whirlpool and Accenture, and in the rest of his life. Where does he find the time and energy to flex into both realms in everything he does? That’s T…
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Episode 37: Born to Lead: Cathy Henesey of AdventHealth
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Cathy Henesey is the Executive Director of Talent Acquisition for AdventHealth where she leads a team of 240 recruiters with a plan to hire 33,000 people in 2021. She is also the current President of the Association of Talent Acquisition Professionals (ATAPglobal.org). Having started her career in Executive Search right after finishing her MBA at T…
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Episode 36: “The Best Job There Is” with MaryAnne Pelland of Citizens
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Contagious passion, gratitude and optimism for the future of Talent Acquisition characterize my discussion with MaryAnne Pelland, Citizens Head of TA Strategy and Services, in Episode 36. Having studied Biology and intending to be a doctor, she morphed her passion for helping others into an early career in staffing scientific talent, then insurance…
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Episode 35: Buckle Up! It’s Tim Sackett on Big Fish in the Talent Pool
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Tim Sackett in TA circles needs no introduction, and defies categorization if an intro is attempted, but let me give it a shot. He is the prolific, if edgy author, blogger, HRU Tech staffing CEO, dad, husband, co-founder (MI Recruiter’s Conference, Fistful of Talent, ATAP, HR Famous Podcast) and all-around good guy. We had a lot of fun with this co…
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Episode 34: All in with Marina Lvovich of Honeywell
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Big Fish Episode 34 is my conversation with Marina Lvovich, Honeywell’s VP of Global Talent Acquisition and Diversity. A truly global citizen, Marina has lived and worked in 4 different countries including her native Belarus, Ukraine, Canada, and now the US, having moved recently from New Jersey to North Carolina recently with the relocation of Hon…
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Monitoring COVID-19 through Wastewater Based Epidemiology: Part 2
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In this episode, you will learn about the challenges and opportunities that arise when setting up a new scientific method, specifically SARS-CoV-2, in wastewater. We will also cover best practices related to sample collection, storage requirements and hold times, as well as how to handle samples safely and effectively to ensure the most representat…
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Episode 33: Data Storytelling with Tina McKinney
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Tina McKinney, PHR, Head of Talent Acquisition at OS National, LLC, is a firm believer in focusing on the customer and creating a great experience for Candidates and Hiring Managers. With her Industrial Engineering background, Corporate, RPO and Big 4 Consulting TA experience, Tina approaches TA with a data centric, tactical mindset. Thanks to our …
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Episode 32: Hiring By Design with Jodi Brandstetter
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Best known as the “Recruiter Matchmaker”, Jodi Brandstetter, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is the CEO and Founder of Lean Effective Talent Strategies. With her rich background in recruiting, staffing, and consulting, she now focuses on providing talent acquisition strategies to small and medium sized businesses. In her book, Hire by Design, her utilization of De…
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Episode 31: In the TA Driver’s Seat with Stephanie Zywien of General Motors
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Revving up recruiting is Stephanie Zywien’s specialty. She Leads TA in the Americas for General Motors’ Corporate, leveraging her legal, HR, and TA Governance and Standards experience to oversee the hiring of 5,000 people annually. Armed with her JD, Stephanie started her career as a litigator, but after a few years yearned for a more positive pers…
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Episode 30: Top 5 Things to Get Right in High-Volume Hiring with Debi Easterday of H2B
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Every day, Recruiters from around the world pull up a virtual seat to share their lunch, their experiences and listen to TA experts on #RecruitmentWorkingLunch. This virtual network is thousands strong, truly global, and leverages Crowdcast for their regular UK 13:00 lunchtime (7:00 am Central US time) chats.In this Big Fish episode, Erin Peterson …
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Monitoring COVID-19 through Wastewater Based Epidemiology: Part 1
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In this episode, you will discover the techniques and benefits of monitoring and surveilling the spread of viruses in a pandemic. One of these techniques, wastewater-based epidemiology, is quickly becoming a valuable tool to help control this spread. You'll learn how this technique fits into a city's public health program, and how it can be used to…
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Episode 29: Chris Gould of PeopleScout and Jennifer Huelsmann of EXL: Hiring Reimagined for Covid
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In this episode, you’ll listen in on Erin’s conversation with two High Volume Recruiting leaders, Jennifer Huelsmann of EXL, and Chris Gould of PeopleScout. They discuss how contrary to popular opinion, the Global Pandemic has not quelled hiring for all companies, and for many, demand for talent is at an all time high. Organizations with large hour…
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Episode 28: RPO Panel re: Agile Hiring in the Roller Coaster of 2020 Demand
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In this Big Fish episode, we are showcasing a learning session from #RPOACON2020 Virtual Conference in which Erin moderates a panel discussion with three Big Fish of the RPO world: Cory Kruse of Orion Novotus, John Hess of Advanced RPO, and Jason Krumwiede of Broadleaf Results. With Agile methodology from the world of software development as the ba…
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Episode 27: Around the (Talent Acquisition) World with Sheila Crosby Powell of GHD
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Truly global Talent Acquisition leadership starts with understanding the business and the brand, according to Sheila Crosby Powell, the Global Talent Acquisition Leader for Engineering Environmental and Architectural Construction Services Firm GHD. This employee-owned, global consulting firm has 10,000 people covering most of the globe in Australia…
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Episode 26: Exec Recruiting on a Global Scale - Diana Barr of Boeing
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"We try to operate exactly like a retained executive search firm - even though we are in-house." So says Diana Barr, the Head of Global Executive Staffing at Boeing, the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners, global defense, space and security systems. Diana joined them in 2019 to build an "internal sear…
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Episode 25: What You Always Wanted to Know About RPO...
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In this Big Fish bonus episode, we are showcasing the RPOA Webinar - a candid conversation between Erin and two former podcast guests, Nicole Cox and Robert Navarrete. The Webinar is titled “What You Always Wanted to Know About RPO, But Didn’t Know Who to Ask”. As the Head of Talent Acquisition at OnTrak, Inc., Nicole brings her RPO and Staffing Ag…
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Episode 24: The Business Value of Talent: Melissa Mounce of GTCR, LLC
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“Talent acquisition is so core to the business... it’s not just nice motherhood and apple pie initiatives... it’s a critical business function”. So says Melissa Mounce, the Managing Director - Leadership Talent and Diversity at GTCR, the Chicago based private equity firm which holds leadership as a key to their growth strategy. In fact, their appro…
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Drinking Water Disinfection and its By-Products
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In this episode you will learn about water treatment, why the disinfection of drinking water is necessary and the potential by-products of disinfection.By Leena Thomas
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Episode 23: The Future of Talent Media: Todd Raphael of eightfold.ai
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Todd Raphael is the Marketing Content Manager at eightfold.ai, the industry’s first Talent Intelligence Platform. Having joined them in 2019, he has reinvented himself using his media and conference management capabilities from his years at ERE Media, Workforce.com, and Nelson Communications to create content and brand buzz for one of the emerging …
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Episode 22: Differentiated Leadership: Rob Navarrete of Willis Towers Watson
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Robert Navarrete is the Director and Head of Recruitment at Willis Towers Watson NA. Having joined them in January 2020, he brings to his new role deep talent acquisition experience from global leadership roles with SAS, Capital One, and Aon, where Erin and Rob were colleagues in their Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) business. As a Canadian w…
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Episode 21: Going Inside with Nicole Cox of Ontrak, Inc.
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Nicole Cox is the Head of Talent Acquisition at Ontrak, Inc. She is an experienced TA operations leader drawing her experience from the agency, RPO, and contract recruitment space, primarily in healthcare and biotech. Nicole helped establish and grow Decision Toolbox before their acquisition by Engage2Excel in 2016 and was their Chief Talent Office…
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Episode 20: Kelley Shoemaker of Ryan Companies
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Kelley Shoemaker is the Director of Recruiting at Minneapolis based Ryan Companies US, Inc., where she brings the emotional intelligence she has learned throughout her career to this people-centric business every day. In a business that thrives on diversity and productivity, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic and racial unrest of 2020, EI come…
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Episode 19: Katrina Collier, The Searchologist
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Katrina Collier, a.k.a. The Searchologist, is the highly sought after Recruitment facilitator, keynote speaker, author of The Robot-Proof Recruiter and The Robot-Recruiter Mastermind & Certification, co-host of The #SocialRecruiting Show, and founder of DisruptHR in the UK. Drawing on her early-career experience as a recruiter, sourcer, and manager…
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Episode 18: Nate Ollestad of Literati.com
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Nate Ollestad is no stranger to fast-growing companies, and it’s a good thing. As a tech recruiting veteran, he has cut his teeth in the agency world, then at Google, Rackspace, and Duo Security, and now applies that growth experience to building the team from the ground up at Literati.com, the “Stitch Fix™ of children’s books”. As the Austin, TX-b…
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Episode 17: Robin Erickson of The Conference Board
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Robin Erickson is a Principal Researcher for The Conference Board and is a rare returning BFitTP guest. She has a Ph.D. in Organizational Communication and spent the majority of her career in professional services (#Deloitte, #EY, #McKinsey ) until she became a research analyst. She now conducts ground-breaking research on HR, Talent Acquisition, E…
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Episode 16: Nancy Johnson of Adtalem Global Education
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Nancy Johnson, VP of Talent Acquisition and Development for workforce solutions provider Adtalem Global Education brings a wealth of cross-industry HR experience from organizations like Caremark, RR Donnelly, and SaraLee. In this interview, Nancy shares how in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, her teams are exercising agility, creativity, and con…
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Episode 15: Rob Dromgoole of Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
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Of all the Talent Acquisition Leader jobs I’ve seen, the most unique has to be Rob Dromgoole’s role at The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. And check your stereotypes about Native Americans at the door, because it’s not what you think. Their guiding principles are Faith, Family, and Culture, and The 10 Commandments are posted outside of every Choctaw Na…
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Lead in Drinking Water: A Leading Health Concern
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In this episode, you will learn about the sources of lead in drinking water, the regulatory criteria used to monitor it and some tips on how you can limit your exposure now.By Dr. Terry Obal
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Among the tectonic shifts in healthcare, one of the most impactful is the innovation in cardiac monitoring devices, providing data and insights for heart patients never before captured or analyzed. The founders of iRhythm Technologies, Inc. disrupted this industry in the early 2010s and very quickly faced the escalating competition for biotech tale…
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Episode 13: Marietta Cozzi formerly of Prudential
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How does a 145-year-old employment brand stay relevant in the digital age? According to Marietta Cozzi, former Global Talent Acquisition Leader for Prudential, the keys are a clear mission, and rock-solid consistency in how customers, employees, and candidates are treated. Trust comes from knowing what to expect and having those expectations met or…
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Allison Kruse of Kforce describes her accidental path to Recruitment Marketing and Social Media guru from an unlikely starting point. She's become a trailblazer and mentor for others in corporate recruiting, staffing, and RPO environments, as well as a passionate volunteer. Her story is fun and inspirational - enjoy!…
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Investigating Sources of Contamination with Environmental Forensics
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In this episode, we describe what environmental forensics is, who uses it, and how it leads to determining sources of contamination or health issues. We will also talk a little about the tools used to conduct these investigations and when they are used. For more information, visit the links below. https://www.bvlabs.com/insights/technical-bulletins…
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Eliminating Invasive Ecological Surveys with eDNA
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In this episode, we describe what ecological surveys are, how they have been conducted traditionally in a way that can be harmful to organisms and how an emerging technology known as environmental DNA is poised to change the landscape. For more information, visit the links below. https://www.bvlabs.com/insights/articles/understanding-environmental-…
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In this episode, we talk about metals that are toxic to plants, animals and ultimately human beings, how we may ingest them, and the effects they can have on us. For more information, visit the links below. https://www.bvlabs.com/insights/articles/non-lethal-fish-tissue-sampling-for-metals https://www.bvlabs.com/insights/articles/sample-collection-…
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Episode 11: Sue Ceglinski of US Pharmacoepeia
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Sue Ceglinski is the Global Head of TA for US Pharmacopeia, the organization that develops and disseminates public quality standards for medicines, vitamins, and foods, setting standards to keep millions of people safe and healthy globally. We talk about the quirky start to her career as a Physician Recruiter, and how she has evolved to lead large …
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Episode 10: Vera Stamenkovich of Arrow Electronics
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Vera Stamenkovich is the Global Head of TA and HR Shared Services at Arrow Electronics, the Fortune 120 company based in Denver, Colorado, providing technology products, services, solutions and consultation. Vera tells stories of her own career transformation and takes us through the TA journey at Arrow from RPO to an in-house, business integrated …
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Carly Sanchez is the EVP of Talent Acquisition, Strategy & Delivery for Wells Fargo. Having cut her teeth in Admissions, and then Diversity and Inclusion, she ported those skills to corporate recruitment and strengthened her ability to manage recruitment through stressful times at AIG during the financial crisis. All this and more makes Carly uniqu…
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Sylvette Sawyers is the Head of Talent for Opendoor, the digital real estate disrupter based in San Francisco. Her deep talent acquisition experience from retail conglomerate Gap, Inc. comes in handy as she now leads the full talent suite for a new tech start-up. Listen in as Sylvette discusses the challenges and rewards of leaving her comfort zone…
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Episode 7: Robin Erickson of Bersin by Deloitte
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Robin Erickson of Bersin by Deloitte is the VP, Talent Acquisition, Engagement, and Retention. She has spent the majority of her career as a Talent Research Analyst – dissecting like a scientist would what the rest of us in Talent Acquisition do every day. She shares her interesting and surprising background and as well as her industry research and…
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Larry Nash is EY’s US Head of Recruiting, whose award-winning team is constantly innovating. In fact, they recently launched GigNow, creating a path for those who want to work with EY’s clients on a contract basis, and widening their own talent pool. Larry gives insights into his own career path, including an ex-pat year in Tokyo, his perspective o…
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Episode 5: Bryan Chaney of Indeed by Erin McDermott PetersonBy Erin McDermott Peterson
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Ben Gotkin is the Executive Director of ATAP, the Association of Talent Acquisition Professionals – look them up at atapglobal.org. Ben earned his stripes in several TA leadership and consulting roles, and recently founded ATAP, the professional association emerging as the go-to org for those who are serious about global Talent Acquisition as a car…
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Episode 3: Gretchen Carlson: A Hero for our #MeToo times
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Gretchen Carlson, the accomplished journalist, former Fox & Friends Host, Author, Ted Talker, and unintentional founder of the #MeToo movement. Gretchen spoke at the Spring ERE Recruiting Conference and I was fortunate to have snagged a few minutes with her after her Keynote.By Erin McDermott Peterson
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Episode 2, Part 2: David Reed of Vail Resorts
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David Reed is the VP of Global Talent at Vail Resorts, the premier mountain resort company with a simple mission: “Experience of a Lifetime”. In part 2 of our conversation, we dive deep into what it takes to fulfill the mission of a global organization like Vail Resorts, including David’s overall strategy, and his view on metrics, career movement, …
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Episode 2, Part 1: David Reed of Vail Resorts
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David Reed is the VP of Global Talent at Vail Resorts, the premier mountain resort company with a simple mission: “Experience of a Lifetime”. Think that provides a great platform for a premier employment brand as well? You’re right – but that doesn’t make it easy! In Part 1 of our conversation, David and I talk about his amazing career journey, inc…
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