We discuss the dynamics of their market, the competitive landscape and their vision of the future,

In 2017 Ira released a book called Recruiting in the age of Googlisation and was pretty bang on what was going to happen to the world of work and recruiting. We took a deep dive: The incoming mismatch of skillsets and lack of population to be able to fill roles in most industries Economist predict the US will be 32 million short in the workforce by 2030 Companies that force people back into the office will be in trouble Can more Immigration solve some of our challenges in recruitment How can we the upcoming workforce back into skill trades We lost a million women in the workforce, will they come back?

Reducing "mobility friction" at a time went simplifying internal movement is a key to retention.

We talk with Dan Bartfield about about early-stage recruiting, DEI and technology’s role in it all, What's Covid done, and how are recruiters lining up for the future?

The charming podcaster from Edinborough has just published his 2nd book, Digital Talent and we got an exclusive scoop. Or at least it felt like an exclusive! Digital Talent is available on this side of the pond March 29, 2022 From his first book in 2017 to now; the speed at which we work and the use of AI will be challenging to get it right. The companies who will struggle with this are large and small.  Looking at the future of recruiting, Matt shares why personalisation is the clear winner.  From whitepapers to consulting to 417 podcast episodes, Matt is at the forefront of what’s happening around the world. BONUS MATERIAL Top 4 favorite recruiting tech solutions

Tired of hearing about "ghosting" yet? Too bad! It's a serious issue, and employers who engage in the practice are really screwing things up in a wide variety of ways for the company. That's why we brought Jeff Shapiro, Sr. Director of Talent Acquisition at Radnet, to talk about his take on this growing epidemic. Listen up, Casper, there are no friendly ghosts.

We talk about consolidating three businesses into one, the impact on product development and customers, and what it all means.

Improving diversity seems like a very human exercise. But our guest today brings data and technology to the task.

We weren't able to record an interview last week so we're replaying one of our favourites! Shelley fly's solo this weeks and welcomes a recruitment industry powerhouse! Katrina Kibben, CEO of Three Ears Media We found the cure for Recruiters who have writer's block! Let’s get back to our roots on why we love this industry. Katrina is the pace setter on how to extract the information you need to write compelling honest job advertisements.  - Writing to attract Tech talent made easy - Hold up the mirror and see yourself as the ideal candidate  - The final answer on why the staffing industry will never pick up their game on writing good quality job ads.  - Do take the time to visit Katrina's site and download a practical guide on intake meetings. You can also find some really useful information and a great workbook on writing job ads. https://www.threeearsmedia.com/rewrite.html

Software promising to screen and test the world's best tech talent tend to fall into two camps: Those who can actually do it and those who are totally full of shit. Enter Intervue.io a startup that provides live tech testing to go with its video interviewing solution. Cofounder Rahul Arora enters the Firing Squad firmly convinced that his company falls in the category of vendors who can actually do the job and aren't full of doo-doo. Does he come out smelling like a rose or not? Gotta listen.

We talk about data and talent acquisition with Crosschq CEO Michael Fitzsimmons,

vArmour CEO Tim Eades looks at the 2021 ransomware attack on Kronos, and the lessons we can draw from it.

Employer: See Me, Protect Me, Respect Me! Reading Jess Von Bank's post, “Stop filling reqs and start providing safety. Address the toll of fear and create a culture of hope and health. Do nothing but obsess over the care and nurturing of your own people, and you will stop the bleeding. Just a bet.”, left me wanting to know more! Jess is Lepagen's storyteller and Community Leader for the Now Of Work, and all around awesome human. In our conversation we covered plenty, including: employees wanting, 'see me, protect me, respect me, keep me safe' why your business will thrive if you help people thrive why we shouldn't be going externally to 'acquire' talent before we have looked internally Jess's love of WORQDRIVE and internal mobility how recruiters are ready to cherry-pick employees from the companies who will set mandatory returns to the office! :o trusting people to work like adults stopping being slaves to the screen and slaves to work with solid boundaries and the Now Of Work community. Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle in! ✍🏻

Destigmatizing career breaks is something that I feel very strongly about and something that talent acquisition needs to take very seriously. With so much lip service paid to diversity and inclusion and the current difficulties of finding talent, it makes zero sense to still view career breaks negatively. This week LinkedIn have announced Career Breaks on the LinkedIn Profile to better reflect the realities of career journeys and, in turn, begin to normalize career breaks in the recruiting process.  My guest this week is Jennifer Shappley, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Linkedin. As well as talking us through the new career breaks feature, Jennifer discusses the key findings on LinkedIn's latest Global Talent Trends report and shares her thoughts on the future of talent acquisition. In the interview, we discuss: Global Talent Trends Wellbeing and flexibility Trust LinkedIn's new Career Break profile section How can talent acquisition support people who have taken a career break How is talent acquisition changing, and where is it going? Making interviews equitable in a hybrid world What are the biggest challenges talent acquisition teams are facing Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

This week we welcome the CEO of GoodSeekers Eric Ayers Even in a WFH setup, most everyone can think of a great story about something at work. The truth is, there are tons of really good moments you wish you could share, internally and externally. Every TA professional will tell you how valuable employee driven content is for an authentic employer brand. But how do you even start when marketing and legal are freaked out about an employee spilling the beans on a trade secret or exposing our dirty laundry? Imagine a platform designed to tap into the greatest resource we have, our fellow employee stories.  

Inflation is on everyone's mind right now. How will it impact wages? Are bloated margins to blame? How about immigration? How will it impact the cost of doing business? What's going to happen with energy prices? Interestingly, history can tell us a lot about what the future holds. That's why the boys have brought back Columbia professor Suresh Naidu to make sense of the current state of inflation.

On this edition we talk with Cadient CEO Jim Buchanan about how high-volume hiring has changed over the last two years, and the challenges employers face now,

In this episode, we talk to a friend of the podcast, George LaRocque about all things technology. George is the Founder of WorkTech. The source of truth for industry data on emerging HR tech innovation. He is also a Founding Partner Impact WorkTech Accelerator - Market Analyst, HR & Tech Advisor, HR leader, and HR tech industry executive. And wow- he comes with some great knowledge! If you like what you hear, we would like to encourage you to subscribe to our channel! We would also appreciate it if you would rate this channel by going here: RateThisPodcast.com/inclusiveaf We create this podcast as a labor of love. But if you would like to support this channel you can buy us a cup of coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/InclusiveAF

For over a decade now, I've been flagging up the development of virtual reality as something talent acquisition should have on their radar. It's taken a while, but with tech giants like Meta and Apple making multi-billion dollar investments in technology and infrastructure is now finally the time for our industry to fully embrace the Metaverse. So how does would this work, and what talent acquisition and HR activities are already in play in virtual reality. My guests this week are Misha Krymov and Jennifer Regan, the CEO and Head of Experiences at Morpheus XR. Morpheus XR is already designing recruiting, onboarding and leadership development experiences in the Metaverse and have a massive amount of knowledge to share with us. In the interview, we discuss: What is the Metaverse, and who is building it? Creating space for meaning and meaningful moments How environment shapes human behaviour How VR gives agency to users that Zoom / Teams calls don't Unbiased recruitment using VR Onboarding What should talent acquisition teams be doing to learn about the Metaverse Inclusion and alternatives to headsets Untangling science fiction from science fact Extending reality What's the potential for VR, and how will it be used in the future Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts

Today, we talk with Sherrie Fernandes, vIce president of product management and user experience at Globalization Partners. Their platform makes it easier for businesses to hire and manage international talent.

Strike while the iron is hot!  Lisa Zone, managing director at Dix & Eaton joins us to talk about how recruiting, hiring, engagement, and talent management is at the center of every board room conversation. But who is equipped and positioned to formulate the story and business case in building a strong employer brand?  Another great show complete with Cult Employer Brand master Julie Calli.  Seriously, you wanted the ear of your CEO and board. Now what are you going to do with the opportunity? 

The dreaded application form process. Do you remember a time in which you applied for a job? Do you remember how much time it took to fill out a paper application or electronic one? I do, it mentally time consuming it is also a waste. Problems with application forms Time, depending on the job position it can take up to 2hrs to complete application form when your resume has all the information on it. Highest level of education posted first then scroll to the bottom of the page to find another question. Did you graduate from High School/GED? Upload resume then type up all the information in a 10 font box or type on a line that does not lineup. GPA & Transcripts -Why? What college did you attend? Did you get a degree? Federal Gov. applications can take up to 2 to 4 hrs. to fill out. (I mean don't they already have information on people) These are just a few problems there are more. Why are we still living in the past? Did you know that newspapers still advertised for jobs; people still read those. Candidates don’t get the recruiting process at all. Why is it taking so long for this company to email me for the next step? It’s been 2 hours with no word. I’ll tell you why I am reading your life’s story that’s why? By the way it's the companies fault on this one. Hey companies the law enforcement are too busy to address the issue of the application form! You will not get arrested or go to jail. Problems recruiters run into Application forms too tiny to read. Reading through unrelated information such as college, degree, and reviewing transcripts that don't align with the job position. Aligning resume with application form Horrible non negotiable hiring managers (this should be #1) (Compliance) TIME Application forms are from the past No personality quiz questions ( this is not a dating site) Ideas in place of the application form Resume Candidates video with four questions RELATED to the position, and of course a bonus question about hobbies, etc. Remove the paper application process from companies and mom & pop shops save the trees, the forest critters will be quite happy and so will recruiters. P.S. Fix the problems and people could do small things and these things can get done.

There seems to be a new $1B unicorn born every day in the employment industry, but only one has the distinction of being a Chad & Cheese 'Death Match' winner. Enter SeekOut and its CEO and cofounder Anoop Gupta, who recently closed a Series C to the tune of $115M and a $1.2B valuation, who joins the boys for a friendly chat. About what? How about international growth plans, diversity offerings, competing with Eightfold and Phenom (and just about everyone else), and much, much more.

Chats with Smart People Featuring Jeanne Achille. Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. Shirley Chisholm (New York State Representative, educator, and author) Have you ever met someone and was like wow! You’re amazing! Can we be friends! Well, this is the energy that Jeanne brings. Jeanne is the Guru of the Women HR Tech conference. She is an original OG in the battle to raise the voices of women in HR technology. 28 years ago, in 1994, Jeanne created The Devon Group which is a PR (Public Relations) agency.  She has supported thousands of new products, services, and companies throughout her career.  She is the FIRST woman chair of the HR Technology Conference. (Virtual & In person) Superhero powers: PR, marketing, public relations, social networking, social media, speaker bureau, analyst relations, writing, case studies, and content marketing. Today’s episode includes the following Jeanne shares her experiences of being a CEO. Pros & Cons Proud moments  SEXISM Women in HR Tech Asia, Is there a different vibe? Internal Equity for women driving start-ups and why they don’t move up the ladder. Value of Diversity Belonging to an organization What women feel and think when working or going anywhere in public. Does the underlying alertness, make for better visionaries? The Pandemic and showing up for you.  The impact of women in HR Tech supporting each other. Expand your HR Tech network and insights by joining the HR Tech Conference. March 1-4,2022. https://www.hrtechnologyconference.com/    Reservations are FREE, so you have no excuse Find Jeanne on: Linkedin.com/Jeanneachille Website: devonpr.com Twitter: jeanneachille and devongroup

This year, scale and speed are an essential focus for many talent acquisition teams. But how do you scale recruiting and speed up hiring in an environment where recruiting recruiters is as tough as it is right now? My guest this week is David Spencer-Percival, CEO of Life Science People and formerly the founder of high growth recruitment businesses Huntress and Spencer Ogden. David has decades of experience scaling up and recruiting recruiters in various markets. He has developed a tried and tested methodology that many talent acquisition teams can learn from In the interview, we discuss: Recruiting, training and nurturing fantastic recruiters The academy model Selection Building the right culture of success and incentive The relentless pace of change Recruiting processes for a candidate driven market What are the most successful employers getting right? The role of technology Advice to TA leaders on building effective working partnerships with agencies Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

André is the Founder and CEO of Onboard Health, a specialized executive search and advisory firm focused on creating a more inclusive future of health. A pioneering strategist with deep ties across the healthcare innovation, startup and digital strategy landscapes — André is dedicated to building the future of health through an equity lens. His work and insights have been featured in outlets such as Business Insider, Fortune, Forbes, NPR, CIO, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report. He was recently named a Fortune Magazine 2020 40 Under 40 in Healthcare. Learn more: Onboard Health Follow André and Onboard Health: LinkedIn Instagram Twitter

We explore the importance of connection, communication and how businesses succeed in the age of Covid, with Laura Lee Gentry, Enboarder's chief people officer.

In this episode, Katee and Jackye speak to Laura Close. And she brought the heat! As a twenty-year veteran of the DEI space, Laura Close started at a time before the term DEI was coined and has spent a career both locking in new structural opportunities and access for historically excluded communities as well as coaching executive leaders within the enterprise on designing and deploying KPIs for DEI at scale. Now, as co-founder of Included.AI Laura and her team have created the first technology of its kind to use AI to identify specific areas where businesses can take further action to remove any potential roadblock from accomplishing the goal of becoming as people-first as possible. She is on a mission to prove that DEI isn’t a tax, PR issue, or feel-good checkbox, but an opportunity to build more competitive businesses. If you like what you hear, we would like to encourage you to subscribe to our channel! We would also appreciate it if you would rate this channel by going here: RateThisPodcast.com/inclusiveaf We create this podcast as a labor of love. But if you would like to support this channel you can buy us a cup of coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/InclusiveAF

You have questions.... What is RM automation? What does candidate nurture really mean? What is a true talent pipeline? Are you and your company committing crimes against talent pipelines? All great questions for any organization, and the boys, partnered with RecruitmentMarketing.com's Julie Calli, bring on CandidateID's Adam Gordon to the podcast to cover a broad range of recruitment marketing questions and challenges. It's a must-listen for any employer looking to take their game to the next level.

Molly Johnson-Jones shared a post on LinkedIn that stated '“By removing the need to have a ‘reason’ to request flexibility and giving everyone the freedom to choose how to work, we can make true progress on gender equality.” but how do we get that out of our hiring leaders? While Molly, CEO & Co-founder of Flexa, enjoyed London's winter sun, and I only had the heat of the topic to keep me warm, we covered loads including: the motivation behind creating Flexa, a platform where employers can be verified as offering true flexibility to their people surprising survey results that show both men and women want flexibility the two paths to getting your leaders to see that offering flexible & hybrid working is inevitable the challenges that some leaders face when trusting employees and measuring output instead of presenteeism Molly's own lessons-learned running a truly flexible business What is and most definitely isn't a 4 day week! Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle in! ✍🏻 Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind.

If you're a new recruiter or an experienced recruiter there's really one great book to read and use as a daily reference and that is the Full Stack Recruiter book by Jan Tegze. Jan drops his extensive recruitment knowledge on The Recruitment Flex What exactly is a Full Stack Recruiter? It's easy to find people, it's just hard to convince them to join your company Is your company looking for A players but offering them C players salaries and benefits Recruiting is everyone's job in the organization not only the recruitment team Limitations of Chatbots Every recruiter should buy the Full Stack Recruiter right now!

Screening tech talent is smokin' hot right now. You know the names: HackerRank, Byteboard, Woven, Triplebyte and others. But do you know Tech Screen? If the answer is NO, then you owe it to yourself to checkout this episode of Firing Squad. Chad & Cheese put CEO and founder Mark Knowlton on the hot seat to answer some tough questions. Does he make it out alive? Gotta listen.

mpathic AI's technology analyzes text and voice communication to strengthen a company’s culture and improve performance.

Over the last few months, as I've been researching the practical effects of the Great Resignation, we've heard the stories of talent acquisition professionals from the US, Europe and Australia on what is truly a global issue. One country I really want to know more about though, is India, one of the biggest global markets for tech talent. My guest this week is Aditya Singh, Director Head of Talent Acquisition at Informatica. Aditya has overall responsibility for designing and deploying Informatica's Talent Acquisition Strategy across India and gives us a great insight into what Informatica is doing to stand out in one of the most competitive talent markets on the planet. In the interview, we discuss: The Indian tech talent market Why EVP is critical for differentiation Gen Z's expectations from work Constant engagement throughout the client lifecycle The importance of campus recruiting The rapidly changing landscape of skills and why this makes internal mobility critical The impact of remote The role of technology Data and analytics What TA innovations can we expect to see in the future Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

How can we get Recruiters to think more like sales & marketing without making them feel like the poor 3rd cousin? Especially when we start naming off all the great sales & marketing technology they get to do their jobs!  Thad brings 20 years of experience to Talroo as we talk a bit about what makes them unique, starting with leaving Silicon Valley and moving the office down the street from Indeed in Austin Texas. We converted sales metrics into recruitment terms and it fits really nicely Cost per applicant and the quality of applicants are the measure of success from recruitment marketing - but how do you get there? How do we move from screening out candidates to screening them in

Remember seeing and hearing your first Deep Fake? Synthesized voices that sound like your favorite movie star. Not a great impressionist, on the contrary, algorithmically cloned voices where even the subtlest of nuances of a voice can be captured and recreated. Cringy, yet incredibly cool that tech could accomplish such a feat. Yes, technology is advancing quickly and unfortunately many of the advances are seen as negative. Luckily, Ryan Steelberg, president, and founder of Veritone guides us through a more advanced cloned voice discussion. On this episode we cover: The difference between a deep fake and a "cloned" voices Practical applications for using cloned voices Where are chatbots headed? Will this tech help candidate and employee engagement? How do Pandologic and Wade and Wendy fit into the ecosystem? Well kids, welcome to the Matrix.

We talk about how recruiters can operate successfully in today’s market, the impact technology’s had on recruiting’s evolution and movement toward DEIB.

Hybrid work and its impact on how work gets done, on people and on managing a workforce under strange circumstances.

After seeing Mark Gilroy’s fabulous YouTube video about change, (not the one where he’s singing that song ;) ), I wanted to know more and how recruiters can influence change.  A self-confessed professional psychology geek, Mark & I had a fascinating conversation that will help recruiters & hiring leaders partner better! We talked about: let’s stop pathologising change and reframe change in the right language the pandemic showing us that change isn’t hard!  change accompanies by loss is the real issue rational thinking vs. primal more emotional responses winning hiring manager conversations by talking about loss aversion sunk cost fallacy and the Ikea effect, and how this impact recruitment remorse choosing your language around change with care measuring optimism, energy, and level of fault-finding at the start Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle in! ✍🏻 Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind.

The world has changed and so has the employment branding game. That's why Chad & Cheese have relaunched the Cult Brand series with the help of RecruitmentMarketing.com's Julie Calli. And what better guest to bring on the show than marketing magic man Chris Kneeland of Cult Collective? The group discusses issues around holistic brand, HR's newly minted seat at the table, branding in a post-pandemic and WFH world, and much, much more.

We are counting ourselves as part of some exclusive club to have James Ellis, author of Talent Chooses You, joining us for the show.  Prepare to be entertained A HUGE surprise on who James says is slaying the EB game If you are ever asked for the ROI on employer brand, James gives you the best way to answer The single thing in your control for improving your employer brand?  AND find out why you should never shop for backpacks at the mall!

To say we were giddy about interviewing someone connected to the movie "Wolf of Wall Street" would be the understatement of the year. Yet, here we are. And why is Richard Bronson, a former partner at the "Wolf of Wall Street" firm talking to Chad & Cheese? Turns out he runs a site dedicated to finding employment for former felons called 70MillionJobs.com. It's important work that turns out to be one helluva podcast. Most interestingly, the impact on The Great Resignation as it pertains to job seekers with a criminal record isn't going as anyone expected. This one's a must-listen. Enjoy!

DE&I continues, thankfully, to be an extremely high profile issue for employers. However, the needle is still not moving quickly enough, and some of the data is shocking. For example, it would still take 200 hundred years to close the race and gender pay gaps at the current rate of progress. So what can employers do to accelerate the pace of change, and how much can individual recruiters influence diversity in hiring. This week, my guests are Trina Olson and Alfonso Wenker, co-founders of Team Dynamics. Trina and Alfonso work with some well-known organisations to improve their diversity and hiring practices. They have recently authored a book called Hiring Revolution that offers some extremely practical advice on how recruiters can inject DE&I into their organisation's hiring. In the interview, we discuss: Aligning cultural behaviour to values Why inequities in hiring and promotion are not a foregone conclusion Resume racism  Recruiters taking individual responsibility to make change Notice, Name and Navigate RPDR What to do more of, what to do less of and what to stop. Onboarding How will things develop over the next two years? Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

We discuss about PayActiv’s products, how it sees the market and where it hopes to go.

In this episode, Jackye and Katee speak to Nancy Murphy. Nancy’s spent her career saying what others are afraid to – and learning to say it in ways that others will listen. She’s the founder and president of CSR Communications and creator of Intrapreneurs Influence Lab. Her passion is teaching leaders how to make organizational change stick. From challenging stereotypes of girls in her Catholic school more than 40 years ago, to her first job after college convincing nonprofits to engage youth volunteers or her role as board chair of a global nonprofit transforming the way we do international development...And she’s willing to share all the mistakes she made – and all the solutions she discovered – so that you don’t have to learn them the hard way. If you like what you hear, we would like to encourage you to subscribe to our channel! We would also appreciate it if you would rate this channel by going here: RateThisPodcast.com/inclusiveaf We create this podcast as a labor of love. But if you would like to support this channel you can buy us a cup of coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/InclusiveAF

We talk with Eric Sydell, EVP of innovation at Modern Hire, a science-based platform with tools that touch multiple steps in the hiring process.

Coming from some good Canadian heritage, we loved talking to an industry legend and the Founder of WorkTech, George Larocque. He brings an optimistic outlook for the next year of work tech investment.  2021 was a banner year in Work Tech investment with over 18 billion invested “Unless something breaks, there could be more money than last year” George walks us back to the fact that most technology take 5 years to mature and although some seem to spring up suddenly it’s rarely the case.  it's not really a prediction if you study the industry, George gives us where work tech investment will follow in the near term. 

Work from home is a thing. Maybe you've heard. This means vendors hoping to support employers with a remote workforce have a lot of tailwinds going in the right direction. However, like most things, there are going to be big winners and some big losers, and everything in between. That brings us to BeRemote, a startup hoping to take advantage of this red hot trend. Do they have what it takes to survive Firing Squad? Gotta listen to find out.