• Memorable moments from past events 
• Comebacks from covid, and the return of in-person events 
• The importance of a collaborative event atmosphere 
• The DE&I initiatives promoted at RecFest 

For first access to podcasts where you can gain insights from HR and TA experts sharing their strategies and experiences in STEM, sign up to our exclusive Hiring Enablement Community.

With AI streamlining every part of the recruitment process, they discuss the opportunities, challenges and benefits of integrating it into your business, as well as:

• How AI is disrupting the hiring landscape
• How is AI reshaping hiring teams
• The role AI will play in the future of hiring

For first access to podcasts where you can gain insights from HR and TA experts sharing their strategies and experiences in STEM, sign up to our exclusive Hiring Enablement Community.

So in the latest episode of The Hiring Enablement Podcast, we're excited to have Kat Steinmetz, Partner at Initialized Capital to help us dive deep into culture and leadership in the start-up world.

With a diverse background in Human Resources, Talent Development, and now in the Venture Capital field, Kat brings valuable insights into the role that HR and leaders play in shaping a company from the ground up.

Tune in as Kat sits down with Solutions Driven's Chief Growth Officer, Nicki Paterson, to talk about:  

• The importance of embedding diversity in businesses as early as possible
• Why structure is freeing when done right
• The power of a compelling narrative backed with data 
• Creating a sense of accountability through kindness and compassion
• How awareness in leaders help shape a company's culture
• The similarity of hiring an executive and investing in a founder
• Plus Kat's advice to start-up leadership groups
• And much much more!

With a background working in corporate real estate, talent development, and HR, Conor has seen it all in the business world. So, just weeks after we launched Hiring Enablement to help companies align their hiring strategies and improve their talent development, who better to have as a guest?  

According to Conor, business goals and transformations don’t exist in a vacuum. Transformation of any facet of businss, from digital to HR, must align to the wider business goals.  

Listen as Conor sits down with Solutions Head of Business Growth, Nicki Paterson, to discuss:  

• The importance of building a people roadmap to execute hiring and development goals  
• How a people strategy is a business strategy and vice versa 
• Why, sometimes, the key to getting stakeholders on the same page is just sitting down and having a candid conversation  
• What “quality of hire” *actually* means  
• And much much more  

More on our site: https://solutionsdriven.com/people-strategy-business-strategy/
More about Weightwatchers: https://www.weightwatchers.com/

We’re joined by Solutions Driven CEO Gavin Speirs to speak about Solutions Driven’s new concept: Hiring Enablement.  

In this podcast, Gavin talks to host Claire Murray about the advent of sales enablement and the parallels between that and the recruitment industry’s need for hiring enablement. Like sales 20 years ago, hiring managers are doing more with less time every day and are struggling to keep on top of the rapidly changing hiring market.  

Gavin explains how hiring teams no longer just need transactional relationships with their recruitment partners: they need a true partnership that guarantees the right hire, first time, every time, backed by indepth processes, resources, and intelligence.  

We also look at Recruitment Process Intelligence – the processes that Solutions Driven use to make hires and how this works in synergy with Hiring Enablement to get the results companies need in this tough business world.  

And most of all how this isn’t a hiring revolution – it's a hiring evolution that responds to current business needs and will continue to grow and evolve as hiring continues to change.  

As increasing numbers of us look for more flexible working arrangements, it’s clear how we hire, train, and develop people is changing – and will keep shifting.  

So, who better to discuss this changing world than someone whose skills span talent and development, training, headhunting, and much more?  

In episode 32 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we welcome Marina Blanco, a globetrotting talent guru with opinions on the workforce of the future.  

Listen as host Claire Murray discusses the topic with Marina, and looks at:  

• How you cope when someone turns up to an interview having partaken in some “liquid courage”  
• Why companies need to be offering something different and special to attract new candidates  
• The importance of being a self-starter  
• How HR is evolving to invest more in candidates  
• What Marina would tell her younger self getting into the talent space  

And much more  

What do you do? Run away? Take the job? Try and bring him round to your way of thinking?  

In the latest episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Current Lighting’s Courtney Abraham tells us how she dealt with the situation when it happened to her in real life. (Spoiler alert: she took the job and won over the CEO).  

Listen as Courtney sits down with host Dave Sweeney to discuss awkward interviews and:  

• Why it’s vital to invest in your own people who know your business and culture  
• Why it’s easier to step up in an organisation than step in  
• How to succession plan for an ageing workforce  
• The importance of transparency throughout transitions  
• And much much more.  

Hear about Courtney’s inspiring career including time spent at Adecco, roles in change management and L&D, and what advice she’d give her younger self if she were starting out in HR.  

• Employee engagement 
• Why people leave their roles 
• The importance of flexible working 

And much more 

So, for the 30th episode, we’re delighted to welcome Elena Agaragimova, someone who comes with a wealth of knowledge and insights on all our key topics. With a background in education, Elena is naturally curious about employee development, something that comes across in this conversation.  

Now  Head of Talent Acquisition and Development - Appian Practice, Elena has also been named as one of Nova’s 40 under 40 and works as a self employed development coach too.  

Listen as Elena joins host Alan McFadden to talk about her own career in leadership and:  

• How to handle employees who want to move up the chain quickly (when they’re perhaps not quite ready...)  
• How graduates are beginning to think differently about the workplace  
• Taking accountability for your own career  
• The importance of management development  
• And much more  

As many businesses scale back their hiring plans, they’re doubling down on ensuring they retain their best talent, and fail fast when it comes to hiring.  

And one company that excels at coaching their team is Cognism – a data and intelligence provider that helps sales and marketing teams drive predictable pipeline. 

So when Cognism’s VP of UK & Ireland Johanthon Ilett agreed to be a guest on The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we knew coaching would be a big topic.  

Listen as Jonathon sits down with host Nicki Paterson to discuss:  

• How title inflation can be used as a positive tool with today’s workforce  
• The importance of a playbook for your team’s success – especially as a business scales  
• How to nurture talent to become the top 1% of sales people  
• Why hard work beats talent every day 
• And much more...  

More on Cognism: https://www.cognism.com/
Jonathon's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathonilett/

A pretty solid candidate user journey... 

This episode’s guest on The Talent Intelligence Podcast is the ever-talented Stella Bailleux, change practitioner, IT recruiter, and UX Designer.  

Stella is currently working at Upday, a rapidly growing technology and media company that strives to contribute to a better-informed and more trustworthy world. She is also setting up her own free HR consultancy for businesses, dedicated to helping companies like make a positive impact and create a safer space for everyone. 

Although Stella was hired as a technical recruiter at Upday, they are currently navigating a hiring freeze and her role has pivoted to improve employee retention – something that many businesses are going through.  

In this episode, Stella sits down with host Claire Murray to discuss:  

• Why KPIs are useless if you’re not comparing job titles and genders, like for like  
• Why company structure’s for women need to be rectangular, rather than triangular  
• How to negate the effects of nepotism in a business  
• The best ways to automate the recruitment process for diverse employees  
• How to react when an underperforming employee wants promoted  
• Stella’s top tips for promoting diversity in a hiring process  
• And much more...  

Stella's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stellabdesign/

Audacity: https://www.audacitycommunity.de

“What effect does my behaviour have on the people around me?”  

This was one of the main talking points of the latest Talent Intelligence Podcast where host Alan McFadden sat down with Sara Milesson, VP of HR at Trelleborg.  

Clearly someone who has done a lot of self-reflection on her leadership style, Sara admits that she can come across as intimidating – but she’s put the time and effort into changing that and making herself a better leader and manager.  

According to Sara, the pandemic did a lot to change her management style and made her take a step back and consider what was best for the team overall, not just the leadership team.  

She also believes that knowing who you are is a vital trait for being a good leader.  

Sara and Alan dig deeper into these points in this episode, and look at:  

• How to  better enable managers to become better managers  
• How to improve communication with your team  
• Why tech can be both a help and a hindrance  
• And what Sara would go back and tell herself at the beginning of her career  

Now VP of Sales at Outbound Squad, there’s little he doesn’t know about prospecting and closing.  

Or coaching.  

Because Ethan doesn’t keep his insights to himself. He’s an outbound sales coach and trainer for B2B reps and sales teams, trains his own internal team, and appears on podcasts like ours’ to discuss his sales coaching philosophy.  

Listen as Ethan joins host Alan McFadden on episode 26 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast to discuss:  

• Hiring people with the right attitude and skills  
• Why hiring the right people won’t work without a proper process  
• How to build consistency  
• The importance of KPIs (and why some are pointless)  
• And much more  

From what tech a sales team needs to why companies buy too early, Ethan has insights into every part of the hiring and sales process. He even gives us some insights into what he would tell his younger self if only he could time travel.

Ethan Parker
Outbound Squad 

In the latest episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Alan McFadden sits down with Andrew Sillitoe, performance psychologist, speaker, and founder of multiple businesses to discuss the psychology behind being a top performer. 

Andrew is a great believer in finding the thing you're good at, and getting really good at it. Rather than focus on weaknesses, Andrew teaches that honing in on your main skills is the best way to success. 

Find out how Andrew's dad's passing changed his mindset and how he uses his own techniques to coach sports people, sales teams, and recruiters to be the best at what they're good at.  

Don’t we all just want to be a good boss and have a good boss?  

How do you help your team outgrow you?  

In the latest episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, host Allen McFadden sits down with Petra Skoglund, Chief People and Culture Officer at Starstable to discuss all these questions.  

Petra has worked in the people functions of startups and multinationals, and her curious nature has recently seen her enter the gaming world. Passionate about developing people and helping her team grow, she currently sits on the board of WEquel, Life Science, Management and IT consultants; and is a leadership developer and coach for CHPS - Centrum för Högpresterande System.  

Looking at her CV, it’s amazing she managed to make the time to appear on The Talent Intelligence Podcast!  

Listen as Allan and Petra discuss generational differences, how competency has changed with the tech revolution, how to get your top performers to buy into your vision, and Petra’s top tips on how to build your company culture.  

But it doesn’t have to be like that.  

We all know that 2023 is going to be a big year for business. And a tough year — with huge global changes making trading conditions difficult for some.  

So how do you ensure your hiring and people strategy doesn’t suffer?  

With always on recruiting...  

But what does that mean?  

In this bonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, our new Head of Talent Solutions, Al Frater, discusses just that. And...  

• What Talent Solutions really means  
• How AI will affect the future of recruiting  
• The ways in which the gig economy is already changing recruitment  
• And why zoology is the perfect degree to kick start a career in recruitment 🤔

Not to mention a peek into Al’s crystal ball for recruiting in 2023 and beyond.

Listen to Salma El-Wardany's DE&I Downturn webinar: https://vimeo.com/781430574

If you look at the average organisation’s sales or marketing teams, they’ll (usually) have a sophisticated tech stack that’s used continually to get better results and streamline their processes.  

However, their recruiting tech stack isn't always so advanced. Many businesses are still recruiting by email, using to-do lists to manage their pipeline, and doing manual outreach.  

But HR & TA departments are catching up. Many businesses are putting tech at the forefront of their recruiting – and getting great results because of it.  

So, who better to join us for the latest episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast than a tech evangelist Talent Acquisition Manager?  

Nick Nowicki from Sungrow, a leader in innovation in the solar industry, joins us today to talk about the importance of getting the right tech and:  

We also look at why we need to be hiring for the future, not the present as job market changes accelerate, and how businesses can move from success in their people to success in their systems – especially as they scale.

Additionally:

• How to use ensure tech is working for you, not the other way around
• The importance of team alignment and how the right software can create great alignment
• Why everyone in your team should be a recruiter – or at least understand how the company’s recruitment works
• The challenges of hiring across multiple locations, and how to streamline the process
• And much much more…

A career that looks like Kate Terrell’s.

From working at established companies like Accenture and Whirlpool to taking on the challenge of a later-stage, start up at Menlo Security, Kate has worked across every part of management, HR, Talent, Organizational Effectiveness, and Change Management.

In her current (new) role at Menlo Security, Kate is growing a talent team in the ever-expanding cyber security space and navigating the challenges and triumphs that come with it.

Last year, Kate appeared as a panelist on our HR and TA Leadership forum, discussing changes in recruitment. So, who better to help us round off 2022 and look forward to 2023 on The Talent Intelligence Podcast?

In episode 21 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Kate joined our Head of Marketing Claire Murray to discuss the importance of relentless prioritisation as we head into a new year. Something Kate herself subscribes to in both her personal and professional life.

We also look at why we need to be hiring for the future, not the present as job market changes accelerate, and how businesses can move from success in their people to success in their systems – especially as they scale.

Additionally:

• Why company values are more important than putting a sign on a wall
• How to ensure your culture can work across geographies and disciplines
• Why businesses sometimes need to take a step back to step forward
• The importance of relentless prioritisation and recalibration
• Why it’s vital recruitment partners don’t just operate as vendors
• And much much more…

The Senior Global Director of Talent Acquisition and Retention and author of multiple business books got into the talent sphere after realising he could recruit better than his recruiters.  

And after attending a seminar on AGILE methodology, he realised that his human-first recruitment philosophy could be made even better. Through putting sprints (a short, time-boxed period when a team works to complete a set amount of work.) into his process, Trent improved metrics across his whole talent team and instilled a framework for success.  

On episode 20 of the Talent Intelligence Podcast, we sat down with Trent to discuss:  

• How sprint recruiting has transformed how he works (and how he works out 💪🏼)  
• The value of saying no in hiring  
• What he hates about HR and how he’s worked to change it  
• Setting his team up for success  
• And much much more  

With a variety of stories and anecdotes, Trent’s tale of sprint success is a fascinating one.  

Listen as he discusses his current career and his upcoming book. 

Listen to the full episode here  

And Greenhouse are also a great place to work. They’ve been named as Inc Magazine’s Best Workplace for 5 years in a row, Glassdoor’s #1 Best Place to Work, and in Mogul’s Top 100 Workplaces for Diverse Representation (2022).  

It’s fair to say they know the recruiting industry well...  

So it was really exciting to welcome Seán Delea, Team Manager, Talent Acquisition, EMEA, on to The Talent Intelligence podcast.  

A huge diversity champion, Seán sat down with Solutions Driven’s Head of Growth, Nicki Paterson, and Chief Diversity Officer, Salma El Wardany to discuss all things talent acquisition.  

Listen as they dig into:  

• The importance of company buy in on diversity  
• How a data-led approach can help with achieving that  
• Tailoring diversity strategies to the area and country  
• Leveraging the whole team so everyone is a recruiter  
• And much (much) more!  

Want to hear more about Greenhouse? Listen to their Talent Makers Mindset podcast here. 

That would be weird right? So why do we do it in our outreach?  

Whether you’re a recruiter engaging candidates, a salesperson prospecting, or a party guest trying to make friends, most people don’t care about your “pitch”.  

Or at least, that’s what ChallengerTM’s Jen Allen proposes in the latest episode of the Talent Intelligence Podcast.  

Challenger is a global leader in training, technology, and consulting to win today’s complex sale. They unconventional thinking to unlock growth and enable customer experience – so Jen knows what she’s talking about.  

In this episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Jen challenges widely-held conceptions about outreach and discusses:  

- Why she’s been with the same company for 18 years  

- How to tap into candidate motivations  

- Thinking outside the box when it comes to “selling” in recruitment  

- Why there’s no such thing as a “sales expert”  

- And much much more...  

Find out more about Challenger: https://www.challengerinc.com/

The forum is private so because we can't broadcast it, we decided to get one of our incredible panelists, Beatriz Luca De Tena to join us on our podcast to talk about her experiences.

From studying psychology, working with Johnson & Johnson, being employed in almost every part of Spain and now leading up the TA department at Almirall, Beatriz has had a varied and indepth recruitment career. She's passionate about developing people and ensuring the people at Almirall are the best in the business.

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In episode 17 of The Talent Intelligence podcast, we discuss:

- Using employer branding to compete against big pharma

- How candidate behaviour has changed recently and whether Covid-19 is part of that change 

- Candidate ghosting 👻 

- Why Almirall have so many long-standing employees 

- The importance of team development

- And much much more...

The topic? Candidate care.

Because, when Walter founded Solutions Driven 24 years ago, he did so thinking of the candidate. While we don’t collect CVs or work on behalf of prospective employees, we believe treating them well is why we’re still going two decades on.

Throughout his time at Solutions Driven, Walter has been instrumental in ensuring candidates’ welfare is continually thought of, developing the 6F methodology to guarantee the right fit, for the right role, first time, every time. He’s spearheaded the idea that recruiters shouldn’t fill roles with “almost right” people, but should use data and intelligence to get prospects who will stick around and do a great job.

We sat down with Walter and looked at:

• Why candidate care is so important to businesses
• What happens if you don’t practice candidate care
• Why we don’t just fill roles with the first people that come along
• How to translate a great recruitment process into your online Candidate Value Proposition
• And why indiscriminately sending CVs to companies is like “throwing jelly at the wall”

On the eve of Solutions Driven launching their new offering, SD Embedded, we look at why embedded is needed in the current market and the significance of this launch’s timing.  

Nicki and Gavin dig into the challenges companies are facing and the issues embedded recruitment can solve:  

• High attrition rates  
• Companies scaling  
• Lack of internal resources  
• And much more... 

On episode 15, we talk to Alan Mahon, Co-Founder of craft beer Brewgooder, a beer company founded on providing clean drinking water to developing companies through their beer sales. In the last year, Brewgooder have changed direction somewhat, pivoting to a people-focussed company, rather than just aiming to provide clean water. 

They’ve also launched “Work In Progress” their programme to fight racial injustice, both within their organisation and within the beer industry. Holding themselves to account, they create a yearly report to look back on their progress and see where they could do better. 

We spoke to Alan about: 

• What drove him to start a craft beer company 
• How he plans to triple the company’s team size in the next year 
• What being “actively anti-racist” means 
• How having a real purpose helps Brewgooder attract top talent 
• And much much more…

Which is why she hires like a BDR. 

From brushing up on their hobbies and interests, to engaging them with a gift (Reachdesking them!), Laura discusses how candidate engagement is vital in this market. 

Well, if you're Gong's Wendy Harris, perhaps too many times. Because for Wendy, she'd much rather hear about people who have succeeded than failed. And she'd prefer to hire someone with less talent and a greater work ethic, than the other way round.  

That's just one of the areas we covered when Wendy appeared on The Talent Intelligence podcast. As users (and superfans) of Gong, we were delighted when Wendy agreed to come on and talk to us about talent, her working life, future planning, and much more.

But when Kristina Finseth said she’d be a guest, we knew that wouldn’t work. Kristina’s an absolute fountain of knowledge on the subject of outreach in recruitment, and if we’d started chatting, we’d never have stopped.

So in this episode, we got Kristina to talk through her top outreach tips. Listen as she discusses:
👀 infiltrating recruitment with sales tactics
🤝 how to engage candidates,
🌍 where to find them,

📹 and she dissects and rewrites a whole email!

RPI was created to provide businesses with intelligence throughout the recruitment process and guarantee delivery of the right hire, first time, every time. 

A year later and a year wiser, we grabbed CEO Gavin Speirs and sat down to revisit that podcast. We wanted to find out if our original goals had stood up to the test of both time and world-altering events that altered the job market completely. 

In this bonus podcast we look at: 

• How the definition of RPI has changed over the last year (if it has?) 
• What TA and HR’s main pain points are now, and if RPI still deals with them
• The importance of external talent acquisition 
• Future plans for Recruitment Process Intelligence 

In episode 9 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Anthony sits down with our Head of Sales Anthony Parker to discuss:

• Growing and scaling
• Assessing talent
• The difference between working at large orgs and start-ups
• Proving yourself in leadership
• And much more...

On episode 7 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we sat down with HR and Talent veteran, Brian Almas, to discuss the changes happening as a result of Covid-19. 

Brian’s worked in the HR space for 20+ years heading up the Human Resources departments in companies like AOL, Flextronics, and now Rightway Healthcare. He’s seen plenty of fluctuations in the way we work in his career, but few as drastic as the ones we’re currently experiencing. 

In this episode we discuss: 

• The introduction of vaccine passports for work 
• How to get women back into the workplace 
• Whether flexible working is here to stay 
• The difficulty of job hunting during Covid 

From organising his elementary school football squad for success, to heading up cutting edge projects at Amazon, Manny has always known how to get the best from his teams. 

Now, as funder and CEO at unicorn, Outreach, Manny is one of the leading figures in the SaaS business. 

In this episode we discuss:

• The challenges of being a CEO when "no one looks like you"
• Finding great talent and winning the talent war
• The importance of a net-positive energy dynamic
• How his footballing background has set him up to build the Outreach team

And much (much) more. Both Nicki and Manny can talk...

Ida has had an interesting first year in her HBK career, joining the business just as the pandemic hit and quickly moving up the ranks while never meeting most of her co-workers (sound familiar anyone?) 

While she’s been working on a holistic approach to HBK’s talent strategy, Ida has also brought her passion for DE&I to the fore, an interesting challenge in the male dominated industry they operate in. Ida has been an instrumental part of a team that has pushed for diversity not only internally but from the business’s suppliers and partners. 

In this episode we discuss the impact of the pandemic on remote teams, how a fast-moving market has made talent departments more agile, what the future of diversity looks like, and much more. 

And if that doesn’t peak your interest, tune in to hear about Ida’s mad dash from London to Denmark, leaving all of her belongings behind in the process - she’s not a fugitive, we swear. 

For those of you who want to check out Rebel Ideas by Matthew Syed that Ida mentions, it’s available here. 

While data on diversity is important to McCurrach and Nicky, they’re also focused on conversations around diversity, holding round tables, events, and mentoring programmes where participants are encouraged to be open and honest. They even have a “Diversity Taskforce” run by volunteer members of the team. 

Here’s a snapshot of what we spoke about: How the pandemic has affected diversity at McCurrach, bringing men into the diversity conversation, how a majority female board affects the company’s performance, and the one strange thing Nicky does when she enters a supermarket...

Learn more about McCurrach here: https://www.mccurrach.co.uk/

In Episode #2 of ‘The Talent Intelligence Podcast’, I sit down to learn more about David Cancel’s Latino upbringing, his challenges growing up as a kid in the Bronx not speaking any English, through to how he got started in tech and how this journey helped to shape what Drift looks like today growing to over 400 staff in only a few years.

We also chatted about Diversity & Inclusion to discover how Drift are creating a truly inclusive culture and how they’re continually measuring that. We also chatted about how to create and maintain a high performing company culture when your staff are all remote, how to recruit remotely, how to attract and retain staff, and what’s going on with the lack of VC funding for minority races. 

And with Drift recently announcing they’ve become a ‘Digitally First’ company, we learn more about what that really means and why ‘Conversational Spaces’ are the future for Drift’s existing global offices.

Learn more about Drift’s Revenue Acceleration Platform at www.drift.com

Learn more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Drift  https://www.drift.com/about/diversity-equity-inclusion/

Keep in touch with David Cancel and his ‘The One Thing’ newsletter at www.drift.com/dc

Now working in tech as a Project & Programme Manager at Accenture in Scotland, she is still one of only 3 Black employees and the only Black Female, but she is on a mission to change that.

With 50% of women working in tech leaving by the age of 35, there’s clearly a huge problem to be solved. And Janet wants to be the driving force behind this change for women in tech and Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace.

In Episode #1 of ‘The Talent Intelligence Podcast’, I sit down with Janet to hear first-hand how she is raising awareness of the struggles and challenges faced by not just black females in tech, but women in tech full stop.
 
Inside this episode Janet spoke passionately about:

• How she really felt when one of her colleagues told her she only landed a prestigious graduate placement job because she was Black and why she never wants her daughter to ever feel the same as she did…
• Why there’s a huge disconnect between HR & female employees when it comes to the reasons why 50% of women are leaving the tech industry by the age of 35…
• The impact of recruiting women in tech in this new world of remote recruitment…
• Why employers need to be doing much more to attract a more diverse workforce, including a blind application recruitment process to remove unconscious bias…
• How to ensure black females in tech with traditionally poorer internal networks are not overlooked for internal promotions…

And so much more including Janet’s views on Kamala Harris being sworn in as the first woman, first Black person, and first person of South Asian descent to become the Vice President of the United States of America.

We are also joined in this episode by Claire Murray, Solutions Driven’s Marketing Operations lead.

You can connect with Janet Onyia on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdonyia/
Learn more about Girls Who Code at https://girlswhocode.com/en-uk

Gavin also shares for the first time via screenshare ==> https://www.solutionsdriven.com/how-data-intelligence-delivers-the-critical-insights-you-need-to-optimise-your-future-hiring-strategy <== the typical insights and intelligence we gather at Solutions Driven which helps us to guarantee delivery of the right hire, first time and every time for our clients.

Enjoy the episode. 

✔ We take a journey back in time to look at the 'old way' in which executive recruitment was - and still is - carried out...(unfortunately many recruiters are still using this outdated approach)
✔ Why there's been a significant increase in recent months in executive level recruitment...
✔ How the process for hiring executive level talent has changed due to the rise in remote working and limited travel...
✔ We discuss why the traditional pricing model for executive search recruitment is broken and why recruitment firms need to stop increasing their fees...
✔ And much more including behavioral profiling, 'black books', and some tips for hiring exec level talent remotely

Enjoy the episode.

Our CEO Gavin Speirs and Head of Marketing Robert Gillespie sit down to have a conversation about our new category - Recruitment Process Intelligence™ and what it means for the recruitment sector.

We look at the shifts that have taken place in the recruitment industry over the last few years and the problem with the current recruitment models that have made Recruitment Process Intelligence™ an exciting new option for global hiring teams who want to guarantee recruitment results, not receive false promises.

We also spend a little time talking about our new website and re-brand.

Enjoy the episode.

A key skill for any recruiter or hiring manager to master is how they engage a candidate throughout the hiring process…and Danny is a master at this! 

There’s so many factors that go into a company’s final decision on whether they’ve found the dream candidate or not. But not every company has a documented process in place to identify if the candidate sees your company as the perfect match as well. And that lack of process can cost you a lot of wasted time, money and effort during the hiring process if you get it wrong! 

So in this episode Danny shares our approach to finding that perfect candidate/client match so you can steal or model some of the best bits. It’s an approach we call the 6F’s. And we credit this approach for why we’ve been able to achieve a “97% Right Hire, First Time” success rate over the last 3 years. So what are the 6F’s? Listen on to find out. 

So, if you need some tips and advice on how to find the best talent for your company no matter where they are in the world, or maybe you want start building a talent pool in advance of future recruitment plans, or you need to get some intelligence into how your competitors are attracting top talent in your target area, then this interview offers a ton of useful insights for you…so let’s get to it.

We share some of the key highlights and takeaways from these meetings so far - including some of the common challenges and roadblocks they’re all facing right now. This episode takes you behind the scenes and let's you listen in on the real conversations from the world of recruitment right now.

From temporary furloughs to hiring freezes, or job offers being withdrawn to the unfortunate layoffs - there’s been massive upheaval across all industries and roles. For many recruiters though, the screening and hiring of candidates has continued. But are candidates adapting to all of this change? Are they still relying on the ‘old way’ of applying for jobs? Do they need to be more assertive and creative to stand out in what’s become an employer’s market? All of this and much more is discussed in this latest episode, including some thoughts on how candidates can avoid these mistakes and crush their next interview. 

✔ The number one question we're being asked right now that we'd NEVER have been asked a few months ago... 
✔Are more and more companies going to move to 'virtual offices' and close down their physical locations? AND 
✔ We introduce our Virtual Network for Global Talent Leaders, Recruitment Teams and Hiring Managers to help them to connect and avoid that feeling of being 'siloed' during times of change...

We chat about: 
👉 The changing needs of talent acquisition teams... 
👉 The value of On-Demand recruitment services... 
👉 The power of Data Intelligence when it comes to making the right decisions in times of cost pressures …

and a little bit more.