Talk Talent To Me
360 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsStarring recruiting leadership from everywhere under the talent acquisition sun, Talk Talent To Me is a fast-paced rough-and-tumble tour through the strategies, metrics, techniques, and trends shaping the recruitment industry. Brought to you by your pals at Hired.
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Episodes
NextRoll Global Head of TA Jody Atkins
May 28, 2020 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBNextRoll's Jody Atkins shares the contents of the toolkit her team put together to help recruiters affected by COVID 19. Rob wonders how one might assess whether an individual has the potential to grow into a big role.
Google's Director of HR Strategy Jennifer Turner
May 26, 2020 23:36 - 37 minutes - 36 MBJennifer explains how to work your way down from high level business goals into concrete talent practices.
Google Director for HR Strategy Consulting for Other Bets Jennifer Turner
May 26, 2020 23:36 - 37 minutes - 36 MBGoogle Director for HR Strategy Consulting for Other Bets, Jennifer explains how to work your way down from high level business goals into concrete talent practices.
Manage Engine & Zoho Corp President Raj Sabhlok
May 20, 2020 22:05 - 34 minutes - 27.8 MBRaj explains how Zoho came to realize college degrees weren't an indicator of future performance, and how they designed Zoho University in order to train future employees in lieu of requiring a 4-year degree.
Mike Cohen On Email Engagement, HR Tool Assessment
May 18, 2020 19:36 - 54 minutes - 46.6 MBWayne Technologies founder Mike "Batman" Cohen shares his strategies for email engagement, HR tool assessment, and reflects on how he knew it was time to start his own business.
Back to Work Planning With Copper VP HR Lorraine Dorrow
May 13, 2020 20:12 - 46 minutes - 40.8 MBLorraine explains how to formulate a back to work philosophy, as well as how to develop and self-educate as a talent professional. Rob gets some personalized career advice, learning why he should stop asking his favorite interview question. Black Sheep Restaurants: COVID-19 Playbook LifeLabs Learning Return to Workplace Discussion Guide WeWork: Maintaining a Healthy Workplace
Amazon & Facebook Talent Leader Turned Career Coach Holly Lee
May 11, 2020 23:21 - 36 minutes - 29.1 MBCareer Coach Holly Lee shares the exercises and questions she goes through with clients to help them determine what they want out of their next job. Rob grapples with whether he should focus on his values or his desired outcomes.
Netflix VP of HR Bethany Brodsky
May 07, 2020 19:55 - 48 minutes - 39.9 MBNetflix's VP of HR for Product, Bethany Brodsky, discusses how she's turning the HR franchise around by way of a thoughtful, reflective approach that aligns the best interests of the employees and company. Rob asks what advice she'd give to someone who wants to be a recruiter/HR pro when they grow up.
Talent Ops Processes & Career Pathing
May 05, 2020 20:08 - 29 minutes - 23.4 MBDatabricks' Sr. Manager of Global Talent Ops, Ashley Santos, discusses what processes she's focusing on in a slower hiring environment, as well as when talent ops can be the right career route for an aspiring recruiting pro.
Articulating Culture During Remote Hiring
April 29, 2020 01:08 - 46 minutes - 36.8 MBVP of People Operations Jolie Loeble explains how Daily Harvest is getting their culture across to remote candidates, as well as how to be considerate when reaching out to recently laid off talent. Rob celebrates episode 100, albeit a week too late.
The Knot's Sr. Director of Global TA Lauren Holzer
April 24, 2020 00:53 - 35 minutes - 30.5 MBLauren explains how to avoid having your talent team wind up as order-takers, as well as what to focus on during hiring freezes.
How Much is Recruiting *Really* Like Dating?
April 22, 2020 00:37 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBElite Connections Matchmaking Agency's VP & Partner, Tammi Pickle, joins to discuss how she goes about finding out what her clients are actually looking for. Rob draws parallels to recruiting. Turns out, recruiting is ALOT like dating.
Rakuten's Head of Talent for Europe & Americas
April 16, 2020 19:19 - 39 minutes - 39.3 MBRick Iversen, Rakuten's Head of Talent for Europe & Americas, joins to discuss why he only hires Recruiting Coordinators, the best thing recruitment can borrow from sales, and what to look for in your next HR tech software.
Creative Market CEO Chris Winn
April 09, 2020 20:25 - 36 minutes - 32.2 MBChris Winn explains the challenges his company undertook when they went 100% remote two years ago, and shares the strategies they used to navigate the transition.
Sourced Craft Cocktails VP of People Madison Butler
April 02, 2020 20:04 - 34 minutes - 27.4 MBMadison explains her approach to transparency, the reaches of unconscious bias, and how she's helping a distributed workforce along the path to full time employeeship.
Enjoy Technology Recruiters Renee & Taylor
March 26, 2020 17:56 - 30 minutes - 33.1 MBTwo Recruiters from Enjoy Technologies join to discuss how to hire a contract workforce, assess for agility, and kvetch about the crazy things candidates do in process.
DotConnect Founder Dom Farnan
March 20, 2020 18:22 - 35 minutes - 31.5 MBDom Farnan discusses what tends to go wrong at mature talent organizations, as well as how to avoid vanity metrics that don't improve the business. WEBINAR: Going Remote: Best Practices for HR & Recruitment Webinar. Wednesday, March 25th 10AM PST / 1PM EST Register here EBOOK: Your Complete Guide to Designing a Successful Remote Interview. Access here
New to WFH? Tips For Thriving Through Quarantine
March 18, 2020 00:57 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBRob draws on his two years of WFH experience to help you make the transition into a remote worker. App: Forest Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear
Growth By Design Talent Co-Founder Jill Macri
March 13, 2020 08:55 - 49 minutes - 48.5 MBJill Macri, Co-Founder of Growth by Design Talent and former Director of Global TA at AirBnB, joins to discuss the common gaps she finds in talent organizations, and how to remedy them. Rob wonders how much one is directing their own career if they spend it responding to sourcing emails.
Rubicon Project Manager of TA Nihal Solomon
March 05, 2020 00:46 - 45 minutes - 40.9 MBNihal explains how Rubicon project has built an inbound engine via referrals and employer branding content, as well as how they identified which areas of their hiring process were ripe for being automated by HR tech vendors.
Leaf Group Director of People Tara Turk-Haynes
February 25, 2020 21:26 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBTara explains how to crack open tough interviewees, glean multi-faceted insight from their answers, and how to use it to arm their bosses once they've been hired. Rob falls prey to her wily interviewing techniques, to devastating therapeutic effect.
CEO Mehul Patel on the 2020 State of Software Engineers
February 20, 2020 20:47 - 13 minutes - 13.9 MBHired CEO Mehul Patel joins to discuss the findings of Hired's 2020 State of Software Engineers report, which compiles data from 400,000 job offers made to 98,000 job seekers across 13 cities on the Hired platform. Access the full report here: https://hired.com/state-of-software-engineers
Mothership's Director of Talent & Recruiter
February 13, 2020 10:55 - 33 minutes - 37 MBMothership's Director of Talent, Lauren Goodman, and Recruiter, Juno Cheng, join to discuss interview training, assessing for culture fit, and how to translate the 5 love languages into your employees' preferences for interpersonal communication.
Grindr's Manager of Talent & Ops Lesa Evans
February 06, 2020 20:28 - 39 minutes - 33.2 MBLesa explains how to build trust and productive relationships with engineering hiring managers, as well as the advantages recruiters at small companies have over larger ones.
Just Auto Insurance Head of Talent Bao Le
January 30, 2020 10:55 - 22 minutes - 21 MBBao explains his non-standard career path in recruiting as well as his current recruitment marketing approach at Just Auto Insurance.
Arrowroot Capital Head of Talent Abby Wilson
January 28, 2020 10:55 - 36 minutes - 31.8 MBAbby joins to discuss recruitment career planning, shifting from an individual contributor role into management, and ingratiating yourself with hiring managers.
Ejento Principal Alex Klein
January 17, 2020 00:26 - 30 minutes - 38.8 MBAlex explains how to help a candidate identify and work towards their career priorities, as well as how to make sure you don't lose out on compensation when you get to the offer stage.
VSCO Senior Manager of Recruiting Kelli Johnson
January 09, 2020 21:08 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBKelli Johnson discusses recruiter load balancing, the responsibilties recruiting ops at VSCO, and how VSCO handles compensation negotiation.
Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose with JobPortraits Co-Founder Miki Johnson
December 20, 2019 01:01 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBMiki Johnson co-founded employer branding creative studio JobPortraits, which helps companies devise and execute content strategies to engage with prospective employees. She explains how candidates are skeptical of current employer branding language, and how people value work based on three basic principles: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose.
TopFunnel Head of People Doreen Ghafari
December 12, 2019 22:24 - 29 minutes - 25.9 MBDoreen discusses optimal outreach strategies, how to make remote workers feel like they're a part of the team, and how to approach the compensation conversation.
Zillow Group's Director of National Recruiting/Career Coach Ginny Cheng
December 06, 2019 00:11 - 26 minutes - 23.6 MBGinny Cheng joins to discuss side hustles, career planning for recruiters, and how to identify what's important to you about your next role.
Battery Ventures' VP of Talent Kelly Kinnard
November 21, 2019 00:18 - 31 minutes - 30.3 MBKelly Kinnard's triumphant return to the pod features a discussion about why recruiters should specialize, as well as the best times to use retained search.
Enjoy's Head of Recruiting Brandon Wadley
November 14, 2019 10:55 - 37 minutes - 36 MBEnjoy Technologies Head of Recruiting Brandon Wadley joins to discuss his program of turning customer experts into recruiters, as well as the job preview portion of Enjoy's interview process.
LIVE in NYC with Peloton, Glossier
November 07, 2019 19:30 - 47 minutes - 47.2 MBPeloton's Tech Recruiting Manager Will Blaze and Glossier's Head of Recruiting Christian Fabros join Rob for a live show in NYC to discuss culture interviews, must-haves vs nice-to-haves, and how to get the most out of talent consultants.
Growth by Design Talent Co-Founder Adam Ward
October 30, 2019 23:30 - 46 minutes - 41.9 MBAdam Ward explains how to distill core compentencies from company values and assess for them in a dedicated cultural interview, as well as the common problems he's helping Heads of Talent address.
LIVE in Los Angeles with NASA, Snap
October 22, 2019 17:03 - 35 minutes - 31.7 MBNASA's Jet Propulsion Lab Head of TA Lisa Sherman and Snap's Employer Brand Manager Rylan Miller feature in a live episode from the Santa Monica Playhouse.
Grammarly Head of Recruiting Andon Cowie
October 15, 2019 09:55 - 30 minutes - 31.8 MBAndon discusses how to make metrics jump off the slide deck, and how he's worked to create a learning environment amongst his team.
Root VP of People Clara Kridler
October 04, 2019 18:40 - 42 minutes - 39.5 MBClara discusses personal career pathing, the scalable processes she's put in to place at Root, and how she's rebranded recruiters as Candidate Experience Managers.
Eventbrite Director of Recruiting Jonathan Shames
September 27, 2019 20:20 - 31 minutes - 29.8 MBJonathan explains how to set up an external agency for success, as well as how to balance the need to conduct high level talent planning projects while still hitting headcount goals.
Scale Head of Recruiting Adrianna De Battista
September 19, 2019 09:55 - 35 minutes - 34.3 MBAdrianna discusses how to sniff out unconscious bias in interview feedback, how to make sure you and your team are developing, and what she looks for in new recruiting hires.
Snapdocs Head of Talent Greg Russell
September 12, 2019 09:55 - 23 minutes - 22.5 MBGreg Russell discusses what he's looking for in a sourcer, as well as whether or not ATS products are adequately serving what recruiters need in terms of reporting.
LIVE at PianoFight with Kelly Kinnard, Michael Case
August 22, 2019 09:55 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBBattery Venture's Kelly Kinnard and Ejento Partners' Michael Case join Rob for a live production of the pod, featuring crowd favorite (??) segments, At Least One Actionable Takeaway and Can We Not?
M13 Talent Partner & Head of Talent Matt Hoffman
August 08, 2019 22:06 - 32 minutes - 32.3 MBMatt joins to explain the crucial talent processes to get right early on, how departments tend to face the same kinds of challenges despite serving very different functions, and how you can ensure the hiring rigor remains constant even when those early hires who illustrate those attributes aren’t the only ones in the interview process.
Assessing Talent Processes with Michael Goldberg
August 01, 2019 09:55 - 32 minutes - 26.3 MBFormer Director of Talent from the American Heart Association and Freeman Michael Goldberg explains how he knew it was time to form his own talent consultancy, the opportunities it’s brought, and his process of going into an org and taking stock of the talent processes, intake meetings, CRM, and longer term talent planning.
Wayne Technologies Founder Mike "Batman" Cohen
July 29, 2019 09:55 - 41 minutes - 46.7 MBMike "Batman" Cohen joins to discuss the PR problem recruiters have, the common problems he's training teams to address, and rattles off an impressive amount of the tools in his recruiting technology stack.
Checkr VP of TA Arthur Yamamoto
July 18, 2019 23:40 - 39 minutes - 38 MBArthur joins to discuss how to screen for a recruiter's ability to manage hiring managers, as well as how to teach people to give interview feedback that avoids unconscious bias.
Trifacta VP of HR Bianca McCann
July 10, 2019 09:55 - 49 minutes - 45 MBBianca McCann joins to discuss how she assesses career moves, including how to measure your own motivations and define for yourself what success means to you.
Solvvy Head of Talent Cortlin Handly
June 27, 2019 09:55 - 32 minutes - 31 MBSolvvy Head of Talent, Cortlin Handly, explains how career progression isn't a pyramid so much as an hour glass, as well as the pros and cons of the talent consultant lifestyle.
NBC, Tumblr, and Squarespace Talent Leaders Discuss Employer Branding
June 20, 2019 17:24 - 32 minutes - 43.6 MBNBC Universal's Director of Talent Acquisition Suzan Vulaj, Squarespace's Recruiting Marketing Manager Colleen Finnegan, and Tumblr's Chief of Staff Nicole Nadal discuss how to develop employer value prop, measure employer branding efforts, and how to take the pulse of your company's morale and values.
sweetgreen Director of TA Greg Toroosian
June 13, 2019 23:38 - 34 minutes - 33.5 MBGreg Toroosian returns with a fancy new Director title and some great advice for how to make the jump from IC into leadership. Also, how to push back on those pesky hiring managers and build headcount from a need basis rather than a title basis. Rob is pleased with his new hot sauce.