Recruitment DNA Chat

David Bizer is the CEO & Founder of Talent Fountain, talent management and recruitment firm focused on hyper-growth early stage startups, and a culture expert & consultant. As the first EU recruiter at Google, David’s reflects on lessons learned navigating cultural differences, and shares why a global approach to hiring is crucial, even for the youngest startups. David provides advice on helping indecisive leaders find the talent they need, making your “swag bags” meaningful, and creating an inclusive culture.

Larry Nash, Americas Director of Talent Attraction & Acquisition at EY, sits down with RAP this week to share all the details of EY’s TA strategy for 2021 and beyond. On top of conducting research for clients and helping them restructure recruiting in their organizations, EY is in the midst of reimagining its own talent management system & workplace strategy. If you’re curious about how to implement SAP success factors of talent products, create transformational change through DEI initiatives, and find new ways to engage and develop talent, tune in to this action-packed episode! Larry provides incredibly detailed insights and examples of how he and his team are creating an agile, scalable mobile talent operating model.

Sharon Garcia, VP of TA at Echo Global Logistics, credits her curiosity as the X factor that helped her make an impact in her role. Sharon was tasked with establishing a sustainable structure for Talent Acquisition with a focus on DEI. Sharon reveals what she believes leaders need to do to create meaningful, sustainable change within an organization as it relates to DEI: recognizing where people are on their journey, and giving them the space to show up as they are. By integrating human capital insights into Echo’s TA strategy, Sharon transformed the role recruiting played in support of Echo’s customer centric and collaborative culture.

In late February 2020, Todd Kizminski (Head of Global TA @ Atria Senior Living) received a call that Atria was about to face major staffing problems due to a virus impacting Florida. Todd’s team had to act fast. In this special episode, we'll uncover how, overnight, Atria Senior Living became a COVID testing site and supplier of PPE, while also providing the same level of care for its residents and employees AND fighting a deadly virus. With a renewed focus on employer branding and attracting the “right” candidates, Todd’s team successfully transformed Atria’s hiring process to find talent looking for opportunities that Atria could provide: a safe place of work and access to a vaccine.

This week we sit down w/ Mike Seidle, COO & Co-Founder of Work Here, providing human-to-human communication in the hiring process. After pivoting his company from geofence recruitment marketing, Mike developed a chatbot and then pivoted again (!) to providing human interactions for applicants. Tune in to explore how chatbots & humans differ as tools, in their accuracy of information, conversion rates, and ability to provide positive candidate experiences.

Wondering how to create an employer brand people believe in? Alex Her, Head of Global Talent Attraction & Employer Brand Manager at Acoustic, has successfully built and operated recruitment marketing and employer branding teams on his own. As workplaces become a slightly lesser focus for candidates, Alex reveals how rethinking your EVP can amplify an organization’s ability to attract talent. He reveals the one element that will differentiate your company from the rest, and outlines a step-by-step approach to nailing employer branding, whether you’re stepping into an existing recruitment marketing operation, or building one from scratch.

When hiring slowed down at Siemens, due to the pandemic, Head of US Talent Acquisition, Diane Circo, didn’t wait around for req volume to return to normal. Diane used this time to transform the US talent acquisition model from reactive to proactive, especially when it came to developing a process for employing “automation where it counts”. She employed the use of empowerment leadership and innovation crowdsourcing to successfully create meaningful, sustainable change within her team and the organization at large.

How do you get tech right? Host Max Notis sits down with Phil Strazzulla, CEO and Founder of SelectSoftware Reviews, to dive into best practices when it comes to buying HR tech - including how to pitch stubborn decision-makers on new tech, how to bring your team into the process, and the possibilities when you really get that buying decision right.

Max and Jeff Mike (Head of Research and Insights at Deloitte’s Human Capital Research & Sensing) cover the difference between culture and experiences and how to use technology to gain insight into what’s happening in the organization, to deliberately shape experiences, and to inform culture. This episode will reveal why, at Deloitte - which has taken a leading role and an aspirational approach to the future of work - intentionality, transparency and trust with data are at the forefront of providing an exceptional employee experience in the digital age.

Julia Levy, Head of Global Talent Acquisition at CommScope, discusses how her team has navigated the challenges - and opportunities - following a major acquisition: merging two organizations and reimagining their employer value proposition - all while trying to give back to the community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Before joining Asurion as the Senior Director of Diversity and Talent Strategy, Brittany Sever held a variety of roles in finance, marketing and strategy. Join us as Brittany discusses the cross-functional learnings of her career and there applications to candidate experience, talent sourcing, and diversity.

The transition to remote work has challenged companies' existing hiring procedures in unprecedented ways - but with unprecedented challenge comes the opportunity for growth and innovation. Jeff Wiehardt has navigated this digital transition on the front lines as the Director of Talent Acquisition at Stifel. Join us as Jeff discusses his key learnings from the transition to remote work and his predictions for how they will affect the hiring practices of tomorrow.

Tune in for a special holiday episode as NYC recruiter Jessica Greenfeld from Connections of New York returns to the Recruitment Automation Podcast to reflect on how the recruiting industry has adapted since she was last on the show in March. Jessica shares advice for recruiting passive candidates, predictions on the future of TA, and living in quarantine with her fiance (who happens to be Max Notis, the host of the RAP)

Rishona Harris has pushed the boundaries of diversity and inclusion for essential workers in energy services. As Director of TA & Development at Centuri Group, Rishona oversees everything from onboarding to career pathing to development, empowering her to create an aligned candidate and employee experience. Tune in as Rishona shares how has used symbiotic community partnerships and technology to increase diversity at Centuri Group.

Work from home has not only changed the setting of work, but has caused a paradigm shift for how corporate culture is communicated, valued, and created. Chandler Goldberg began her time with Vox Media as their first recruiter and is now navigating the changing work environment as a Business Partner. Join us as Chandler discusses how Vox Media has adapted their processes, developed their culture, and provided value to employees in a remote setting.

As feedback and transparency have become paramount to connecting to candidates, Charles Nelson and Tonisha Kilgore from the TA team at Kelly tell us how their focus on empathy is reflected through the candidate journey, where they’ve implemented automation into practice, and what parts of their newly adjusted processes are going to stick through to the post-Covid world and beyond.

Faced with Covid-19, PepsiCo did more than simply adapt: they have worked to push their hiring and their organization forward. They permanently moved all onboarding virtual, they kept their commitments to all their 2020 interns, and they increased diversity across the org - including in the executive ranks.Tune into this episode to hear from one of the most prominent leaders in TA and to learn how SVP of Global TA Blair Bennett and her team at PepsiCo. are using top of funnel data to understand talent trends, early career success, and diversity throughout the org.

Back in March 2020, Jaime Grecco’s office got a call from the New York City Mayor’s office - the city needed 3,000 healthcare workers to start immediately, as COVID-19 was hitting NYC. Jamie’s department worked tirelessly to onboard and train this previously inexperienced staff to lead the front-line charge in NYC’s fight against COVID-19. As a result of this unexpected opportunity and gained experience, these workers have been enabled to continue full careers in the healthcare space, and to uplift their communities for years to come. Tune into this very special episode episode to hear how the team at New York City Health and Hospitals took on a seemingly impossible ask, and created an entire workforce to contribute to the health of NYC.

This year, Chloé Rada (Director of TA, Technology and Branding at Sodexo) was awarded Rally’s Recruitment Marketer of the Year and was named one of TAtech’s 100 most influential thought leaders. How did she get there? Chloé shares some of her favorite tools and use cases for them (and her #1 tip for staying innovative). Plus, she lays out how her team responded to the pandemic: how they relied on automation to nurture future employees, engage current employees, and even to maintain warm communication with furloughed employees. All in all, they took their recruitment enablement and employee advocacy activities to the next level.

This week on RAP, Max’s guest is Heather Colquhoun, who is the Global Director of TA at Hatch. Heather tells us about Hatch’s unique candidate engagement process that helps her team more deeply understand early career candidates’ interests and in turn helps those candidates feel more appreciated and comfortable. Heather also give insights to Hatch’s D&I successes- specifically how asking questions that reflect inclusivity early in the process allows them naturally attract more diverse talent.

This week on RAP, Max sits down with Alex Murphy and Amy Warren - co-founders and leaders at JobSync, software that streamlines the apply process across platforms. Alex and Amy discuss how clunky tech stacks are creating problems for both candidates and recruiters, and how they’ve seen automation take the manual work out of repetitive recruiting processes.

This week on RAP, Max sits down with Yomi Ntewo, to talk about how Sodexo has focused on building a standout candidate experience in the healthcare space, and how her team in North America has relied on colleagues from other countries for news and best practices in order to brace for the challenges posed by COVID. Sodexo is also a Diversity, Inc. Hall of Fame Member, and Yomi explains how Sodexo’s inward focus on diversity has propelled their ability to recruit diverse talent across the board.Yomi was also a notable speaker at the recent conference, RAC: Talent Experience in Uncertain Times. Be sure to check out the Recruitment Automation Community on LinkedIn, and we hope that you enjoy this week’s episode!

Keller Williams Realty was founded on the back of a unique, holistic approach to the candidate and employee engagement process, a process which is still in place today. This week on RAP, our host Max Notis sits down with Leslie Vander Gheynst, VP of People at Keller Williams Realty, to hear more about their nurturing process, and the impact that it has across the business. Leslie was also a notable panel speaker at our recent virtual conference, RAC: Talent Experience in Uncertain Times, on October 1st. To hear more from the conference, and to continue the conversation around candidate experience and TA, join our Recruitment Automation Community on LinkedIn. We hope you enjoy this week's episode!

Victor has lead TA teams at major organizations such as Fiserv and Comcast, and now heads up TA at Aveanna Healthcare. In this episode, Victor and Max talk about what Aveanna Healthcare’s TA team did to quickly react to the pandemic, how this challenging time has forced companies to innovate in both their communications and candidate experiences, and why common challenges affect TA teams differently. Victor will also be speaking at the upcoming free virtual conference, RAC: Talent Experience in Uncertain Times, on October 1st. Tickets are free, and you can sign up online. We hope to see you there, and hope you enjoy the show!

This week on RAP, we sit down with Anila Brown, who is the Head of Organizational Development and Learning at Harris Computer. Anila shares with Max how their post employment data led them to refocus on Candidate Experience, and how to ensure that candidates receive the same message and values both pre-employment and post-employment. Additionally, Anila walks us through the vetting process of their outward facing materials, and the impact that this has already had on the organization.Additionally, the Recruitment Automation Podcast will proudly be taking part in the upcoming virtual conference, RAC: Candidate Experience in Uncertain Times, on October 1st. This RAC is an opportunity for the recruiting community to come together and figure out how humans and technology can work together to help candidates navigate the current environment and figure out what’s next. Tickets are free, and you can sign up online. So, we hope to see you all there, and hope you enjoy this week’s episode!

My guest this week is Pamela Rodas, who is the Director of Talent Acquisition at Telus International. Pamela runs a Global TA process, and relies on a “human-machine-human-machine” method to nurture candidates throughout hiring and onboarding, to ensure that they feel supported and appreciated the whole way though. I hope you enjoy this episode about human + machine collaboration to provide a better candidate experience!Additionally, the Recruitment Automation Podcast will proudly be taking part in the upcoming virtual conference, RAC: Candidate Experience in Uncertain Times, on October 1st. RAC: Talent First is an opportunity for the recruiting community to come together and figure out how humans and technology can work together to help candidates navigate the current environment and figure out what’s next. Tickets are free, and you can sign up online. So, we hope to see you all there, and hope you enjoy this week’s episode!

This week on RAP, our guest is Trent Cotton, who is the Director of Talent Acquisition at BBVA USA. Trent and Max Notis discuss how BBVA USA has adapted its candidate interactions to nurture and welcome candidates though today's unprecedented candidate journey. Trent also discusses how he uses data to pinpoint and address inclusivity challenges in the hiring process, and shares how BBVA USA has gone above and beyond in it's own D&I culture, both on global and local levels.Trent will also be speaking at the upcoming free virtual conference, RAC: Talent First on October 1st. We hope to see you there, and hope you enjoy the show!

We put in a lot of time and effort into our jobs - what do we want our legacy to be? At video game leader Electronic Arts (EA), they want to transform how people think about people. They’re re-evaluating their entire candidate experience to make sure that It’s inclusive at all every interaction of the process.Max sits down with Linda to discuss the nitty gritty of changing the core of the hiring process: how resumes skew how we perceive candidates and how job descriptions skew how candidates perceive opportunities. By changing the way that we evaluate candidates, TA can change the culture of the company.Additionally, the Recruitment Automation Podcast will proudly be taking part in the upcoming virtual conference, RAC: Talent First, on October 1st. Tickets are free, and you can sign up online. So, we hope to see you all there, and hope you enjoy this week’s episode!

Our guest this week, Kenneth L. Johnson, is a well known Diversity Recruiter who holds many titles. We started this conversation speaking about software in recruitment, and came down to a conversation about personal values, morals, and how we need to interact with each other. Additionally, the Recruitment Automation Podcast will proudly be taking part in the upcoming virtual conference, RAC: Talent First, on October 1st. We hope to see you there, and hope that you enjoy this week's episode!

Our guest this week, Ian Rosenberg, has had a long tenure at PepsiCo., currently serving as a Performance Analyst of Global HR Operations. In this week’s episode, Ian talks about how PepsiCo.’s culture of inclusivity and advancement has nurtured his career there, and what PepsiCo. has continued to do to make candidates feel appreciated during turbulent times. Ian and our host, Max Notis, also went to college together at Brandeis University, and discuss how their experience with Brandeis’s diverse student population helped to shape the values that they both looked for when ultimately deciding where to spend their careers. Enjoy!

Our guest this week, Cathy Neal, is the Talent Sourcing Lead, HR Innovations at Bayer. In this episode, Cathy and Max discuss how A.I. and automation can help assist with diversity challenges, as long as they’re set up with diversity in mind. We hope you enjoy!Cathy was also a noted speaker at our recent virtual conference, RAC: Diversity & Inclusion. To hear more from Cathy, and to keep the conversation about D&I going, visit the Recruitment Automation Community page on LinkedIn. Enjoy!

Our guest this week, Orly Lynn, is is the Head of Global Inclusion and Diversity at Commvault, the former Head of Diversity & Inclusion at HSBC, and is the CEO of Diversity Unfiltered: A Consulting Company. In this episode, Orly and Max discuss how when building a D&I strategy, you must remember that what works for one organization won’t work for all organizations, and you must remember to equip your middle management! We hope you enjoy!

This week on RAP, host Max Notis sits down with Madhavi Bhasin, Head of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Okta. We talk about how change can take time and be uncomfortable, and that that we must remember to celebrate the victories, no matter how big or small. Madhavi will also be speaking at RAC: Diversity & Inclusion on July 23rd, and you can sign up here https://bit.ly/3fP9oSL to join.

In this week’s episode, Max Notis sits down with Susan Hailey, Head of Global Talent Acquisition and Diversity & Inclusion at OpenText. Susan tells us how she’s been able to make D&I a focus at the top of her organization, and how she’s moving D&I from a business case to a moral case across the board.

Our guest this week, Ivan H. Lee, has led diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts both at Apple and at T-Mobile. He believes that retention is a much better measure of the inclusiveness of an organization than hiring numbers, and that referrals are the ultimate double-edged-sword.

Welcome back to RAP! Our guest this week, Marilia Honoria Ragazzo, is the Head of Diversity and Inclusion at CI&T. Marilia’s team won LinkedIn’s Top Talent Team Award in 2018, and is certified by the Great Place to Work Institute. In this episode, she outlines what it takes to build an award-winning and inclusive hiring process.

Hey Everyone, welcome to the Recruitment Automation Podcast! RAP is a weekly podcast, brought to you by Wade & Wendy, your on-demand AI recruitment platform. The Recruitment Automation Podcast focuses on the world’s most innovative, efficient, and forward-thinking Recruiting Processes. My guest this week, is none other than Drew Austin, the Founder and CEO of Wade & Wendy. Drew and I sat down to purpose driving the recent launch of the RAP and more broadly the story and message we want to put out into the world. Additionally, we’re thrilled to announce the next Recruitment Automation Conference, on July 23rd! This RAC will focus on Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, and we very much hope to see you there!https://hopin.to/events/rac-diversity-inclusion?ref=8ac9e1b40b65

Hey Everyone, I'm Max Notis, and welcome to the premiere episode of the Recruitment Automation Podcast! R.A.P. is a weekly podcast, brought to you by Wade & Wendy, your on-demand AI recruitment platform. The Recruitment Automation Podcast focuses on the world's most innovative, efficient, and forward-thinking recruiting processes. For our maiden episode, my guest is Glen Cathey, who is the Head of Digital Strategy and Innovation at Randstad. Glen and I talk deeply about how introverts and extroverts operate differently in the workplace - and how technology can help bridge those divides.

On this special episode, Vicente joins Recruitment DNA live at the first ever Recruitment Automation Conference. We talked about what’s on everyones minds right now, which is Diversity and Inclusion. We also discuss how technology can help hiring organizations eliminate unconscious bias from their process, while we both look forward to a more progressive and inclusive global recruiting process in the future.

Our guest this week, Jacqui Maguire, Director of TA at Greenhouse, the hiring software company. Jacqui is one of the most influential thinkers in TA, sitting on a unique perch as a TA leader at a TA tech company. Jacqui and host Max Notis dove into a conversation that covers both the strategic and the tactical: how actively hiring companies are leaning on technology to stay aligned and enable structured hiring, and how companies that aren’t hiring are redirecting their hiring teams’ efforts and adjusting KPIs.--And don’t forget to sign up for the upcoming virtual Recruitment Automation Conference, where our humble podcast host (Max) will be recording (in addition to some amazing programming): https://bit.ly/3e0Fj1d

My guest this week just hired and virtually onboarded a class of 1,000 students to begin their careers with the Royal Bank of Canada. Brien Convery specializes as a Student Experience Maker, and while he feels for this graduating class, he also expects to us to learn a lot from them as we all embrace the “Now Normal.” So, if you’re wondering what the class of 2020’s job hunt looks like and how to work with them, stay tuned to find out.So, thanks again, Brien, and I hope everyone enjoy’s this week’s episode!

Stacey Olive, VP of Talent Acquisition at the New York Times, joins Max to talk about how the crisis has impacted recruiting at the Times: everything from evangelizing NYT’s weighty mission to diversity hiring in a pandemic to managing candidate relationships in the wake of a crisis.

As the Global Head of Talent for the newly public LiveRamp, Erika Thorson Garay is Max's guest on Recruitment DNA, and is adapting her team’s remote hiring practices to create a better and more fulfilling remote candidate experience. Preparing for the new norm, we talk about what it’s like to manage recruiting teams across two continents which boast two differing TA cultures.

This week I’m speaking with a front lines recruiter for one of the largest Payroll and technology service companies in the world, ADP. My guest, Victoria Arocho gives words of wisdom to both recruiters and job seekers, to help them navigate this murky market. Her biggest advice is to stay agile, and to get comfortable being uncomfortable, because the talent world is still turning and a lot of our new found resources and mechanisms of recruiting are here to stay. I hope you enjoy!

My Guest this week, is another icon in the Sourcing and Events world. Steve Levy is currently the Technical Sourcing Lead at M&T Bank, and is most definitely experienced in both bullish and bearish economies. “KINDNESS IS CONTAGIOUS”, he says, “there will be bumps and bruises along the way, but we will get through this.”I hope you enjoy this weeks episode- take care!

It’s early April 2020, and the working world continues to exist remotely and the recruiting world continues to sail in completely uncharted territories. We’re seeing some companies lay off and furlough their entire staffs, while we’re seeing other companies the can’t hire fast enough. As a result of all of this work and life flux, we’re seeing a lot more attention turning to A.I. My guest this week, Kevin Grossman, is the President of The Talent Board, one of the leading organizations helping talent professionals navigate these new waters. Kevin and The Talent Board are teaming up with Wade & Wendy on April 16th to host a free and informative panel discussion about AI recruitment technology that can create a digital-first recruiting process (SHRM and HRCI credits for attending!).He’ll be talking with other industry icons, such as Jason Roberts from Accenture, Mark Berkowsky from Equitable, and Drew Austin of Wade & Wendy. I hope you join us on April 16th, at 2pm, and of course, hope you enjoy this week’s episode! Take care!https://www.thetalentboard.org/events/how-ai-automation-enable-recruiting-teams-in-flux-to-adapt/

This week, Max discusses how organizations are responding to the massive changes in the hiring world - including some reasons for hope in the face of both record unemployment and of parts of the economy hiring faster than ever before. He’s joined by Dave Mekelburg, Wade & Wendy Chief of Staff, and they look into those pockets of optimism: reskilling and investment in existing organizations, and the potential for a massive talent transfer.The conversation touches on the lighter side, too, steering into a conversation on maintaining a distributed culture, hitting on important topics like:-Remote movie night-Gluten-free Detroit-style pizza-Garfield pictorials

This week, we talk about how the recruiting business is grappling with the fallout from the coronavirus: adjusting individual and team quotas to work with this turbulent market, dealing with massive layoffs, and a rapidly changing talent pool.Max speaks with top NYC recruiter Jessica Greenfeld from Connections of New York, to see how she’s been dealing with these challenges… plus the challenge of living under social quarantine with her boyfriend (who happens to be Max, the very host of the Recruitment DNA podcast).

The working world is chaotic today, but what will it look like when typical life resumes? This week, we sit down with Chris Ramsey (VP, TA Randstad USA) to discuss not only how her team is faring right now, but also to understand how she sees recruiting changing in the near future.

While tools can help you to communicate and automate, they don't help you adapt to the human elements of working remotely. In this special episode, we sit down with Mike "Batman" Cohen to gather his tips for both living and recruiting in the remote working world.

Wade & Wendy CEO Drew Austin makes a special appearance to talk with Max about the impact of the coronavirus on running a business and how to hire when your team suddenly finds itself remote