Tracey & Allyn welcome Derek Murphy-Johnson from Kindercare Education to the Rebelcast. Derek unpacks the concept of one size fits one, a message on the importance of treating each candidate as a unique individual and addressing each recruiting challenge with a unique recruiting solution.

What can we learn from looking at the history of engagement with corporations and underrepresented communities? Why haven't we learned the lessons of our past and changed the systems and structures that keep inequity in place. Simple, that is the way the way the White Power Structure maintains their power. This week, a deeply personal story from Torin, and how a NYT article Black Capitalism’ Promised a Better City for Everyone. What Happened? helped Julie to understand it. Also, Salesforce tells TX to shove it, the impact of student debt on women, and the US Census puts out the Poverty Index. What is your take on this week's stories? Tell us on Twitter, FB and LinkedIn. Thank you to our sponsors and to the team at Evergreen! Interested in sponsoring Crazy and the King? Contact us today! Email us at [email protected] JobVite: Learn more at www.jobvite.com/catk Prepare yourself for Crazy and the King! Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrazyAndTheKing Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crazyandtheking/ More on Torin and Julie: Julie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliesowashdisabilitysolutions Torin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torinellis Cred: Production and Music: DJ Cellz CATK Intern: Elizabeth Duff Image by InstagramFOTOGRAFIN from Pixabay 

Are Gig Workers Full-Time Employees? Debate Playing Out in Europe. Whether or not gig workers will eventually be considered full-time employees is an ongoing debate in parts of the U.S. - think Prop 22 in California - but in Europe, many of these decisions are playing out for us, and the boys dig into this and other topics with special guest Matt Alder of The Recruiting Future Podcast. Also covered is how Google has been illegally underpaying thousands of temporary workers in dozens of countries, including many in Europe. Lastly, the show dives into the recent investment in startup Applied, known for its unbiased hiring service, and whether or not the trend of diversity hiring hits the same in Europe as it does in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Employee experience, hybrid working, DE&I, workforce fluidity, and workplace technology. These are just a few of the challenges employers face as they shape their talent strategies for these disruptive times. So how are the leading companies thinking and behaving, and what lessons are there for everyone else to learn. My guest this week is Tammy Browning, President of KellyOCG. Kelly OCG has recently published their 2021 Global Workforce Agility report, and in our interview, Tammy talks through the findings and identifies what vanguard companies are doing to deal with the current challenges. The current state of global talent markets The main challenges employers are now facing. The relation between leading edge technology and productivity Deploying DE&I strategies across the total workforce Workforce fluidity; bridging talent gaps with contingent labour Why employee experience is critical to overall success The Great Resignation How technology is being deployed and adopted What long terms trends should we be monitoring? Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

Football is in the air and Hail Mary's are flyin' all over the place this week. Dice pumped $3 million into The Muse ... can you say midlife crisis? Indeed's master plan. Yes, the seeds of CPAS can be found as far back at 2016 (yep, we did the research) ...but then they neurodiversity themselves - so dumb. What else? Amazon is encouraging its contractors to bypass weed background checks, Trucking gets a good dose of tech with YouCruit's Lanefinder, and Harvard says automation is to blame for our unemployment problem. It's another touchdown episode powered by our biggest cheerleaders, JobAdx, Sovren, and Jobvite.

On Sept 1, Texas put into place the country's most restrictive abortion law and in their most deplorable move yet turned citizens into bounty hunters. SCOTUS provides no injunctive relief allowing nearly 50 years of a women's right to choose to effectively be overturned. Some companies came to the rescue, some continued to donate to the politicians who passed the law. They all still played the game in Texas. What is your take on this week's stories? Tell us on Twitter, FB and LinkedIn. Thank you to our sponsors and to the team at Evergreen! Interested in sponsoring Crazy and the King? Contact us today! Email us at [email protected] JobVite: Learn more at www.jobvite.com/catk Prepare yourself for Crazy and the King! Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrazyAndTheKing Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crazyandtheking/ More on Torin and Julie: Julie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliesowashdisabilitysolutions Torin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torinellis Cred: Production by Chad Sowash CATK Intern: Elizabeth Duff Image by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay 

2021 has seen mindblowing levels of investment in HR and Talent Acquisition technology. Work Tech, as it is now becoming known, is strategically critical to talent acquisition, and it is essential that leaders keep themselves up to date with the market. To help us all with this, I'm delighted to welcome George LaRocque back to the podcast. George is one of the leading analysts who track talent acquisition technology, and it was great to get a market update from him. In the interview, we discuss: Why HR Tech is morphing into Work Tech The trends that the pandemic has accelerated Automation Merges, acquisitions and the implications for employers Advice to employers on shaping Work Tech strategies George's new community based Accelerator, Impact WorkTech Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts. A complete transcription of the episode will be posted shortly.

Nobody likes boring, but you will enjoy some highly profitable tech sprinkled in with a little messaging cool shit here and there, On this week's pod: Background check solution (zzzzz) Checkr now has a $4.6 billion valuation after raising $250 million. Workstream and TalkPush are making big waves in the messaging space - one of which hopes to turn Instagram into a recruitment juggernaut! Then Solo, a well pedigreed and funded Seattle-based startup that is empowering gig workers to make more. And who wins the DARWIN AWARD this week? ZipRecruiter or LinkedIn? Enjoy another enlightened episode, powered as always by Sovren, Jobvite, and JobAdx.

Big drum roll… We are officially part of the the Evergreen Podcast Network! As part of their newly created HR channel, we join forces with the biggest HR Influencers from around the world! On this very special episode, we are stoked to have the original bad boy of recruitment Chad Sowash, co-host of the Chad and Cheese Podcast. Joining us from his working vacation in Portugal, we test his knowledge of their local culture.  Hospitality workers get their voices heard; stop blaming CERB as the reason they are running back to work Talkpush joins hands with IG/FB to give employers access to Millenial talent Myth buster time: the problem with high volume recruiting and solutions

Parenting is NOT easy and today's episode explores some more parental (and caregiver) woes and some solutions in the works. China is limiting screen time for all children under the age of 18! How has the pandemic exposed the childcare industry, demonstrated the dramatic need for caregiver leave and supports, and where are fixes coming from. Let us know what you think of our new segment celebrating the accomplishments of women in all walks of life, HerVoice! What is your take on this week's stories? Tell us on Twitter, FB and LinkedIn. Thank you to our sponsors and to the team at Evergreen! Interested in sponsoring Crazy and the King? Contact us today! Email us at [email protected] JobVite: Learn more at www.jobvite.com/catk Prepare yourself for Crazy and the King! Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrazyAndTheKing Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crazyandtheking/ More on Torin and Julie: Julie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliesowashdisabilitysolutions Torin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torinellis Cred: Production and Music by: Marcel "DjCellz" Boykin CATK Intern: Elizabeth Duff Image by Here and now, unfortunately, ends my journey on Pixabay from Pixabay 

As we move through the summer, Allyn and Tracey tackle the challenge of hiring for jobs, when so many jobs are new, evolving or have never existed before. How do you market the work do work when everything is in such flux? Are we all just making SH**t up because we have no clue what any of us are even really hiring for.

What do you get when you mash up 4 podcasts into one? Lots of voices and even more opinions.   > Debbie Tuel from The Joy Podcast   > Julie Sowash and Torin Ellis from Crazy and The King podcast   > and Tim Sackett from the HR Famous podcast join the boys to talk about: - Why are recruiters so damn hard to find?  - Does recruiter experience matter? - Why is Europe a decade behind on the US in DEI? - and when will women come back to the workforce, specifically recruiting?  - Are companies doing enough in DEI?  - It's People, Process, Technology dummy!  - Working harder is not a sustainable business strategy This show coming to you pre-recorded from Transform Detroit LIVE brought to you by Symphony Talent. Enjoy! 

The recruiting industry behaves like a chess game sometimes. Pieces can move slowly or quickly, pieces get taken off the board and some get added over time. And like chess, the players who see many moves ahead tend to be the biggest winners. This week saw a lot of chess gamin’. The most impressive move was made by Paradox, but Job.com and Compono made moves too. Another player in iCIMS filed for an IPO to help it reload. Additionally this week, Apple was in the news, along with Uber and Lyft and OnlyFans made its way into the podcast for its second straight week. Enjoy another masterpiece powered by Sovren, JobAdx and Jobvite. 

Ok let's get Real. How many career sites are actually valuable to candidates? How many are just vanity projects for recruitment marketers, companies and over zealous digital marketing teams? Given today's candidate behavior what value does a career site even provide? Is it time to rethink the whole strategy? Allyn and Tracey taken the topic of career sites and debate whether creating one is even worth it.

ACQUISITIONS -- FUNDING -- and mechanical fortune tellers? WTAF is going on during this week's show? Well, the boys are all over the place, talkin' acquisitions: Sourcr Jobillico and Lessonly. As well as investments in: Anthill and Retrain.ai, the Zoltar of hiring tech (a competitor Pymetrics.) Then the LinkedIn-for-doctors, Doximity, is crushing it, along with a nurse who's now making bank on OnlyFans. Oh, and COVID ... sorry to end on such a down note. Another orgasm for your ears, powered by Jobvite, JobAdx, and Sovren.

Julie and Torin share some documentaries and books currently in rotation for CATK, including Black Godfather and Woke Inc.. What is on your summer watching and reading list? Then DDI CEO Report, PBS invests in diverse creators, and check on the veterans and women in your life this week. #Afghanistan Let us know what you think of our new segment celebrating the accomplishments of women in all walks of life, HerVoice! What is your take on this week's stories? Tell us on Twitter, FB and LinkedIn. Thank you to our sponsors and to the team at Evergreen! Interested in sponsoring Crazy and the King? Contact us today! Email us at [email protected] JobVite: Learn more at www.jobvite.com/catk Prepare yourself for Crazy and the King! Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrazyAndTheKing Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crazyandtheking/ More on Torin and Julie: Julie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliesowashdisabilitysolutions Torin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torinellis Cred: Production and Music by: Marcel "DjCellz" Boykin Image by Thanks for your Like • donations welcome from Pixabay 

Nike demonstrates inclusion SELLS, sometimes too well. Cuomo is out. The first female Gov of NY is in. Tesla settles to the tune of $1.2MM. Then, as implied by the title, Torin gets da business from #disabledtwitter. What is your take on this week's stories? Tell us on Twitter, FB and LinkedIn. Thank you to our sponsors and to the team at Evergreen! JobVite: Learn more at www.jobvite.com/catk Prepare yourself for Crazy and the King! Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrazyAndTheKing Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crazyandtheking/ More on Torin and Julie: Julie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliesowashdisabilitysolutions Torin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torinellis Cred: Production and Music by: Marcel "DjCellz" Boykin Image by ijmaki from Pixabay 

Zip a-de-do-da, zip-a-de ZipRecruiter! Since going public in May, the No. 2 job site in the US has been on a tear, and the boys outline everything, including a Facebook partnership and an assault on Glassdoor. We play Remote Rapid Fire and break down reopening headlines from Google, LinkedIn, Amazon and much more. And don’t call it a comeback! Job boards are back in fashion, kinda like Cheesman’s fanny pack. It's another blockbuster sponsored by Sovren, JobAdx, and Jobvite. 

The Olympics are over, but Chad & Cheese’s quest for the European gold medal for podcasting is just beginning. This week, Lieven gets all fired up about Adecco buying up a company in his own backyard in Belgium. Author Katrina Collier joins the crew to talk about Indeed’s recent move to CPAS over CPC and the overall issues of assclowns crawling the web for job content to rip off job seekers and legit businesses. Rounding out the show is a hailstorm of commentary on the recent move of Cornerstone OnDemand going private. Word of 2021 in the Old Country? Douchebaggery. 

Indeed Sucks ... and Swallows This week, you get not one but two Indeed dipsy-doo, switcheroos. First, they're moving away from the PPC model that helped make them a multi-billion dollar business. Second, they don't really like how employers are engaging with candidates on their event product, so they just shut 'em down from pre-show communications. Beyond Indeed, the boys are talkin' a new unicorn CultureAmp, LinkedIn limits, a lipstick-on-a-pig acquisition, Target telling Walmart to stick it, and, oh yeah, Buy-or-Sell where one of our fearless cohosts goes three Sell ratings in a row. Enjoy this Sovren, Jobvite & JobAdx powered episode.

Chad and Cheese, Symphony Talent's Chief Joy Officer, Debbie Tuel and SACKET Join the Pod for a Motor City Podcast Mash UP! What is your take on this week's stories? Tell us on Twitter, FB and LinkedIn. Thank you to our sponsors and to the team at Evergreen! JobVite: Learn more at www.jobvite.com/catk Prepare yourself for Crazy and the King! Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrazyAndTheKing Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crazyandtheking/ More on Torin and Julie: Julie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliesowashdisabilitysolutions Torin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torinellis Cred: Production and Music by: Marcel "DjCellz" Boykin Image: Torin schoolin' Julie

People with disabilities represent 15% of the global population but are often left out of diversity initiatives, programs, surveys, and even basic conversations about workplace inclusion. Recent research from Global Disability inclusion and Mercer on the engagement gap of employees with disabilities shows a difference in some areas of up to 13% lower than non-disabled colleagues. So with many employers seeking to do better with equity, inclusion and belonging, what can they be doing to address this problem. To help us get some more insights into the issues, my guests this week are the research report authors Meg O’Connell, CEO & Founder of Global Disability Inclusion and Pete Rutigliano, Senior Principal at Mercer. In the interview, we discuss:    •   The State of Disability Employee Engagement Study    •   Employer attitudes to disabilities    •   Attitudinal barriers and dispelling myths    •   Research methodology and scope    •   Reasons for the engagement gap    •   The employee experience for people with disabilities    •   Building the right level of trust to allow people to be themselves    •   Hidden disabilities    •   The benefits of inclusion    •   Lessons from the pandemic    •   Hopes and predictions for the coming years Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

Remember when you thought Microsoft had lost their collective mind when they dropped $26.2 billion for LinkedIn? HA! Well, it looks like Microsoft is going to have the last laugh because LinkedIn is crushing it. And who’s not crushing it? How about Monster and Job.com? Shocker, right? Of course, there’s more WFH and COVID insanity that the boys cover. How about some MadMen, 2021-style? Got that too. Oh, and Walmart does some good (suck it, Amazon!)

Torin and Julie are back together again for the first time in person since 2019. We joined so many amazing podcasters to celebrate Symphony Talent's Joy Roadshow! We catch up on dumb, even unitentionally, tweets from Warton IO, Adam Grant. Bad police officers spoil the bunch, Julie is always learning from Torin. Last a new segment we call HERVoice. Each week we will be celebrating an amazing diverse women who change the world. What is your take on this week's stories? Tell us on Twitter, FB and LinkedIn. Thank you to our sponsors and to the team at Evergreen! JobVite: Learn more at www.jobvite.com/catk Prepare yourself for Crazy and the King! Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrazyAndTheKing Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crazyandtheking/ More on Torin and Julie: Julie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliesowashdisabilitysolutions Torin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torinellis Cred: Production and Music by: Marcel "DjCellz" Boykin Image: Detroit Skyline

It's hard to believe that this was Steve Norman's first ever podcast interview! The conversation flowed effortlessly and it was so interesting hearing how VIOOH's Head of Engineering went about hiring 13 Java Developers effortlessly and in partnership with the inspirational Liz Dowling. Stop what you're doing, grab pen & paper, and hear Katrina & Steve talk about: lessons learned in his varied career & cultures being hired remotely in a pandemic & the benefit of VIOOH adopting a hybrid model early joining and managing a team remotely and the benefit of Connected Days how you can hire 13 Java Developers even when there is such a shortage! partnering with the People team for all the right reasons. Giving feedback to every candidate swiftly... because developers talk! Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind.

This week Allyn & Tracey spend some time unpacking the the Great Awakening that is occurring in the world of work. Is everyone getting it wrong or right? Is this about people not wanting to work because they are receiving government subsidies and they are afraid of COVID and child care concerns or is this really something bigger? What do we think is happening? What do you think is happening? Pull up a chair, pour a drink of your choice and let's discuss.

One of the topics I get asked to cover frequently is the growth of the corporate executive recruiting function. So with that in mind, I've partnered with ESIX, The Executive Search Information Exchange, to bring you a series of three interviews exploring the key trends and issues in corporate executive recruiting. In the previous two episodes, we looked at the evolution of corporate executive recruiting and what employers should be doing to improve the diversity of their executive teams. For the final interview in this short series, I'm talking to Eric Goldstein, Global Head of Executive Talent Attraction at SAP. We discuss how long term talent engagement is starting to play a more significant role in executive recruiting, the growth of data-driven decision making and what the future might look like.    ▪   Topics covered in the interview:    ▪   Hyper competitive talent markets    ▪   Proactive executive talent engagement    ▪   Engaging at scale and offboarding conversations quickly.    ▪   Involving hiring managers effectively    ▪   Unbiasing assessment    ▪   Measuring quality of hire    ▪   Onboarding, integration and accountability    ▪   Lessons learned around improving diversity.    ▪   What is the future of corporate executive recruiting Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

Bennett Sung is one of my favourite HR tech marketers, who also happens to be a hiring manager. I have been lucky to know Bennett for around 8 years so you will also find him on page 71 of my book, The Robot-Proof Recruiter.  Through many laughs, you'll hear us talk about: fax machines and many other things Gen Z may not understand 😉 the zero moment of truth & gathering 'social' evidence hiring marketers who are not vanilla  Giving Bennett just 3 minutes to pitch Humanly (it is very cool) Research the history of phrases before you use them 😮 Of course, his favourite interview question! Grab a cuppa, pen & paper, and settle in! 🎧 Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE  WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind. 💚

Tracey and Allyn go deep in discussing the implications of the game-changing research Tracey conducted with @PandoLogic on the what real candidates are talking about.https://www.pandologic.com/employers/recruitment-industry/spilling-the-tea-on-the-candidate-experience/ 

One of the topics I get asked to cover frequently is the growth of the corporate executive recruiting function. So with that in mind, I've partnered with ESIX, The Executive Search Information Exchange, to bring you a series of three interviews exploring the key trends and issues in corporate executive recruiting. In episode 363, we talked about the evolution of corporate executive recruiting; in this episode, I want to explore diversity at the executive level and how employers can do better. My guest is Elizabeth Wallace, Head of Portfolio Talent at HG, and she has some valuable insights and advice to share. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   How the pandemic is changing executive recruiting    ▪   Opening up diverse talent pools with flexible working    ▪   Diversity, Equity and Equality    ▪   Assessment for development, not selection    ▪   Social Mobility    ▪   Challenging recruiting norms    ▪   The value of talent to organisations and talent as a business function    ▪   Transparent, human leadership    ▪   Hopes for the next 12 to 18 months Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

The corporate focus on Talent Acquisition is significant at the moment as companies across the world deal with the challenges of getting the right talent into their organisations. But what strategies do talent acquisition leaders need to successfully scale their recruiting operations at a time of such significant transformation? My guest this week is someone who has been scaling recruiting teams in Silicon Valley for a long time. Richard Cho is Head of Recruiting at Robinhood, having previously been with Facebook, Dropbox, Machine Zone and The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Robinhood recently made headlines in the industry by acquiring recruiting firm Binc; I am delighted that Richard agreed to come on the show to talk about Robinhood's strategy and share some hugely valuable insights into the way ahead for talent acquisition. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   The recruiting challenges at Robinhood    ▪   Building the business case    ▪   Don't normalise the extraordinary, have the right foundation of resources in place.    ▪   The three levels of talent acquisition technology    ▪   Sophisticated data modelling to build capability models    ▪   Building specialist interviewing capacity and gathering interview intelligence data    ▪   Why diversity is a selection issue, not a pipeline issue    ▪   The Binc acquisition and combining two recruiting cultures    ▪   What will the future of talent acquisition look like Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts

Great to chat to Adam Gibson, global leader in Workforce Planning, People Analytics, & Orghanisational Design, and Author of Agile Workforce Planning, about the impact of the pandemic on workforce planning and more!  the difference between workforce planning & agile workforce planning the pain of, but love of, writing a book!  where should workforce planning sit?  supporting hiring managers who don't hire often his favourite interview question human skills vs. culture and wooing better Adam's Blue Arrow posts Grab a cuppa, pen & paper, and settle in! 🎧 Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE  WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind. 💚

When I saw Sukhvinder Pabial's blog about the freedom he found recruiting without an applicant's CV, I had to know more. Sukh runs his own company, Challenging Frontiers, but in our conversation you'll hear us talk about hiring for his new passion project.  We also talk about: the things you learn when running your own business what prompted the idea to open a co-working space in Epping Forest  giving yourself permission to play! hiring a Community Manager via Nextdoor app without advertising! playing with the flexibility of the role work history vs. answering 3 questions to apply supporting the needs of your people for the good of the business Grab a cuppa, pen & paper, and settle in! 🎧 Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE  WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind. 💚

Welcome to the second insights interview with Sara Burgess, Senior L&D Professional, Business Psychologist, Executive Coach and my friend, all about managing disappointment.  We talked and, to be honest, laughed a lot about: embracing your inner nerd & being human what does managing disappointment even mean? understanding how our 'ideal person' may not be realistic why disappointment is a feeling of sadness checking-in, better communication & realistic timings the ongoing partnership problem Grab a cuppa, pen & paper, and settle in! 🎧 Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE 

Chatting to Tracey Parson is always a joy and her new company, WORQDRIVE, supports this very podcast but she's also a hiring manager. So I couldn't wait to hear her take on how recruiters and hiring leaders can partner better.  We covered a lot... Launching a digital newspaper, recruitment banner ads in 1997, and career sites!  Will we ever improve those job posts! And let's stop adding more names into the funnel. Making it easy for people to stay in your company! The importance of talking through the intake - no forms!! Never be the hiring manager who says 'show me more CVs'! Elegant pushback is a must. Be prepared for a lot of laughs & insights! ✍🏻 Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE (as in Tracey!) WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind. 💚