You'll hear from Brittany Ramsey, Head of People & Culture at Her Campus Media. With a decade-long journey from clinical therapist to recruitment leader at L'Oreal, Brittany offers a unique perspective on HR and recruitment.

Now leading a team focused on Gen Z marketing & media solutions, Brittany also coaches professionals and is a dedicated mother. Recognized as Teal's Top 2023 Career Coach, Brittany has shared her insights at prestigious events like TA Week 2023.

You’ll learn:

💙 How to write attention-grabbing job ads and where to advertise to attract top Gen Z Talent.

💙 What Gen Z are looking for in a compensation and benefits package.

💙Where you can utilize technology automation to harness and exceed process expectations.

💙Key engagement strategies to generate candidate buy-in and loyalty, from application through to post-offer and start date.

💙How to harness their post-hire priorities to improve retention and create advocates for your business.

What is a team? In this episode, leadership advisor and award-winning author AJ Thomas joins Chris to explain why traditional definitions don’t cut it anymore. If we reframe teams as any group of people collaborating together, she argues, we can transcend scoreboard anxiety and mobilize the shared connections and curiosities that help us win. For AJ, the key is to focus on the journey, not the jump shots. By celebrating the small successes behind every victory, we enable genuine engagement and can harness a more holistic approach to hiring, leadership, and decision-making. The conversation also covers the impact of technology and AI on team dynamics, what talent leaders can learn from Gen Z, and why the résumé could soon be a thing of the past. Watch now to hear more inspiring insights and expert predictions on the future of work.

In this Hiring in All Cylinders episode, host Chris Abbass sits down with Siadhal Magos, CEO and co-founder of Metaview. They delve into the innovative application of AI in the interview process and talent acquisition. With backgrounds as hiring managers, Siadhal and his team approach recruitment from a unique perspective, emphasizing the critical role of interviews in decision-making and data collection. Metaview's AI-driven note-taking streamlines time-consuming interview documentation, allowing recruiters to focus on engaging and building relationships with candidates. The discussion explores how Metaview enhances efficiency and provides valuable insights, empowering recruiters to optimize their hiring strategies. Listen in to learn how to transform your recruitment practices using the power of AI.

Thinking of changing your existing RecTech stack? We all know how tough it can be as a TA professional to know what to select, which is where TA Tech Teardown comes in.

Metaview is the AI assistant that helps teams eradicate admin and toil from their hiring process. Metaview’s AI writes your recruiting notes for you so you can save time and focus on high-quality interactions with candidates and hiring teams. Loads of HIGHER members are already using Metaview’s AI to save hours of admin per week, increase the efficiency of their recruiting process, and make hiring decisions grounded in objective facts.

In our new podcast episode, host Chris Abbass sits down with Steve Bartel, co-founder of Gem, to explore the dynamic intersection of technology, sales and recruiting. Steve delves into the transformative power of AI in recruitment, drawing parallels with cutting-edge tools like Gong and Loom. Together, they navigate the evolving landscape of talent acquisition technology, stressing the significance of innovation, scalability, and vendor reliability. Steve sheds light on Gem's dedication to supporting startups through a complimentary program and offers invaluable advice for TA leaders navigating the tech landscape. Touching on concerns about vendor lock-ins and the future of TA, they envision AI's potential in revolutionizing application review, sourcing, and candidate rediscovery. Tune in for an insightful discussion on how technology is reshaping the future of talent acquisition.

Today we’re launching our partnership with our friends at Metaview.

We’ve been cheering Siadhal and the team on for many years now, and watched their incredible AI notetaking platform have positive effects on recruiting teams across the world, including many of our very own HIGHER members

Metaview is the AI assistant that helps teams eradicate admin and toil from their hiring process. It completely removes the need for recruiters to take notes during their most important conversations because their AI is designed to take world-class recruiting notes for you.

Metaview records, transcribes, and automatically summarizes recruiting calls—whether it's intakes, screens, interviews, or debriefs. So you can save time, focus on what really matters, and make decisions based on what actually happened.

HIGHER members can access an extended one-month free trial of Metaview and book in a personalised onboarding session with Metaview’s product experts to ensure you can get the best out of the platform.

Want to access an exclusive month long trial and bespoke onboarding?

Sign up for free here: https://www.metaview.ai/higher

In this episode of "Hiring in All Cylinders," Andrew Trout, Head of Talent at FalconX, discusses the challenge of creating a flawless hiring process. He stresses the importance of aligning organizational goals and addressing biases while balancing speed, quality, diversity, AND candidate experience. Andrew explores the potential of AI tools to revolutionize recruitment tasks, envisioning a future where automation streamlines processes, allowing focus on judgement assessment and relationship-building. His techno-optimism shines through as he advocates for a balance between human capabilities and technological advancements. Andrew's insights offer a roadmap for organizations navigating talent acquisition in competitive markets, emphasizing the need to invest in both human skills and innovative technologies. Tune in for practical advice and forward-thinking perspectives on enhancing hiring processes.

In the latest episode of Hiring On All Cylinders, Talentful's CEO and co-founder, Chris Abbass, dives deep with Carla McIntosh, VP of Global Talent Acquisition and Contingent Workforce at Reddit, on the nuances of candidate assessment. Beyond the conventional parameters of IQ and EQ, they explore the significance of Adaptability Quotient “AQ”. Carla, drawing from her unique experiences, including her time in the Air Force, discusses the importance of adaptability in navigating challenges and ensuring success. As talent strategies evolve, so should our approach to recognizing and valuing adaptability

From setbacks to success: Remaining motivated and confident after redundancy and rejections

In this webinar we will cover practical strategies to deal with redundancy and the search for a new job so you can get your career back on track, faster.

After this session, you will come away with an understanding of:

- Ways to rebuild your confidence after redundancy

- Strategies to get your career back on track, faster

- Using your recruiter superpowers: creative ways to turbo charge your job search

More about the speaker: Jon is a certified Career & Leadership coach with 15+ years' experience recruiting in the tech and banking space, most recently at JP Morgan. He is passionate about helping you be at your best on your career journey.

How do you build an efficient talent acquisition team to double company revenue and headcount?

In this episode, Tony Le, Senior Director of Recruiting Operations and Enablement at Contentful, tells Chris how he has focused on operational excellence when setting Contentful’s talent acquisition team up for success. He stresses the importance of partnering effectively with hiring managers and shares tips on how to recruit strategically through turbulent times.

Getting started with internships: How to get the basics right and set your internship programme up for success

In this webinar we will cover the foundational elements to consider first, timeline of activities (e.g. what part of the year to do careers fairs, when to start recruitment etc.), trends around pay and length, and post-internship optimisation.

After this session, you will come away with an understanding of:

- The foundations behind setting up an internship programme

- Where to start when building out your annual roadmap of key activities to target interns

- How to nurture and turn your internship hire into a full-time employee

In this episode, Fastly’s Head of Global Talent Acquisition, Shirin Parineh, joins Chris to discuss the role of Talent Acquisition in sustainable growth. Their conversation covers what good leadership looks like, upskilling team members and how to be an effective partner to the wider business. Shirin also touches on Fastly’s growth through uncertain times and how a conservative approach to scale can pay off in the long term.

This episode is a great listen for aspiring talent leaders who want to build an established career in the Talent Acquisition space.

From zero to tech: How non-technical brands can build an employer brand that attracts top tech talent

In this webinar we will be discussing how non-tech brands can build their employer brand to attract top tech talent. In today's competitive job market, attracting top technical talent is more challenging than ever before. Companies must use a strategic approach to recruitment to attract, identify and hire the best candidates.

Christine will share her experience working with the Financial Times and the successful strategies they employed to attract top technical talent to the organisation. Specifically how by adopting a product management approach, they were able to identify the key challenges blocking their technical hiring and create a targeted recruitment strategy that appealed to the technical audience.

After this session, you will come away with an understanding of:

- Strategies to adopt a project management approach when tackling building your employer brand

- How to use microsites to target top technical talent and success metrics to consider

- Ways to identify and tackle blockers as a non-tech brand building your EB for tech talent

More about the speaker: Christine Ng is a seasoned professional in the world of talent acquisition and management, and employer branding. With over 10 years of experience in product and engineering talent functions at top companies like the Financial Times, The App Business (Kin+Carta), and Yieldify, she has gained deep insights into teams of varying structures. Currently, as Head of Talent at Quantum Motion, a quantum computing start-up, Christine is focused on sourcing talent, building and optimising hiring processes, and coaching high-performing teams whilst fostering a diverse and inclusive culture.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Christine spent most of her working life in London, where she obtained a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Organizational Psychology. Her research focuses on cross-cultural research and leadership behaviour reflecting her passion for understanding and navigating diverse working environments.

In times of great organizational transformation, storytelling can be a leader’s most powerful communication tool. In this episode, Jocelyn Lai, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Duolingo, joins Chris to talk about the power of storytelling in talent acquisition to spark action and inspire people to join a mission. Join us and listen to our podcast today.

- How community hiring helped Attio build a world-class, global team, bringing in 120+ people into their recruitment process through this approach

- It’s almost impossible to find in Google, and ChatGPT doesn’t know what it is. So where do you start when it comes to community hiring and what is it?

- How to use community hiring to nurture talent pools and hone in on your sourcing efforts

What you will get from this session:

- An understanding of where to start with community hiring

- How ‘fandoms’ and engaged communities can support in hiring for all roles

- Improve recruiter productivity by focusing in the relevant areas & engaging a network of talent

Speaker:

As a talent lead, Don applies a data driven approach [using Attio]. He has experience in being a founder, growing tech start-ups, speaking at universities and working with global brands. His network includes founders, top talent, universities and investors. His main interests are community hiring, the people ‘product’, market mapping, automation and providing the very best candidate / employee / alumni experience

When is it right to hire for potential? And when should you rely on experience and expertise? Holly May, Chief People Officer at Datavant, sits down with Chris to discuss how onboarding high-growth potential talent has helped increase the size of the company (by 10x) in four years. She covers the importance of defining culture at an early stage and argues that a lean team of top performers can easily outstrip a much larger team of mid-level performers when it comes to impact and value.

Noting that there’s no singular approach to scale that suits all businesses, Holly shares tips on identifying what will work for your organization.

Leading TA for the first time: How to drive the car while building it!

What you will get from this session:

- Learn from those who have 'been there, done that'

- Inspiration for how to deal with common challenges when leading a TA function for the first time

- A deeper understanding of how other TA leaders have dealt with being thrown in the deep end and advice along the way

Speakers:

Kevin Kwoka, Director Talent Acquisition, GRIN

Kevin Kwoka is a Sacramento, CA native with 10 years of experience in recruiting and organizational development. He has a passion for building high performing teams centered around a strong alignment to core values and a shared vision. Kevin, like most recruiters, fell into recruiting because of his “always say ‘yes’” attitude and quickly found joy in combining sales with connecting with people. After three years of in-house and agency recruiting experience,

Kevin joined GRIN in 2019 as employee 20, taking over recruiting from the Founders and building the talent acquisition function from scratch. Following a $110m Series B fundraise in late 2021, GRIN jumped into hyper-growth mode and in 2022 Kevin lead a Talent Acquisition team of 9 to hire 225 external hires, reaching 470 employees in November 2022.

Kevin is a passionate Green Bay Packers fan and spends as much time as he can outdoors with his 2-year-old daughter and wife of 4 years.

Paddy Lambros, Talent Director, Atomico.

Paddy has spent the last eight years working with founders and start-ups solving all manner of people and talent challenges. These include finding exceptional people, international expansion, crafting company culture and building executive teams. He began his startup career with Improbable, helping to scale their engineering teams, first in London but then in San Francisco and Washington DC.

After that, he joined Sensat to lead the People and Talent functions, growing the team from 20 to 90 employees whilst the business more than tripled its revenues and customer base. Alongside this, he has supported a dozen or more Seed and Series A businesses across performance management, salary benchmarking, manager training and coaching leaders. Paddy is currently a Talent Director at Atomico where he works to build exceptional, diverse teams helping to solve meaningful world problems.

Collette Zaro, VP of People, Moxion Power

Collette has 15+ years of experience in HR and talent acquisition. She is the VP of People for Moxion Power, a rapidly growing climate tech manufacturer of all-electric mobile power units to replace diesel generators. Collette came from her recruiting consultancy, Bliss Talent, which specialises in supporting early-stage tech startups to develop a foundational HR and talent strategy to scale their teams. Before founding Bliss Talent, she was a Senior Director at Russell Tobin, where she spent eight years as a recruiting partner to many enterprise tech companies in the Bay Area and the US. Collette led high-volume staffing programs scaling her partners' full-time and contingent workforces and grew her delivery team from 2-40 people globally. She understands the multifaceted challenges of building a people team from the ground up while attracting, hiring, and retaining talent across the US, New Zealand, and India.

Welcome to our first episode of the Hiring On All Cylinders podcast. Meet our first guest, Becky McCullough, VP of Global Recruiting at HubSpot, the #1 CRM platform for scaling businesses. Starting her career in Finance, Becky speaks about her move into the People and Talent space during a tenuous time in the market after the Great Recession in 2008. Becky discusses how to be a strong people leader and drive organizational change in small and bold ways during uncertain times. Tune into this episode to hear Becky's experience and tips on building strong talent teams, getting buy-in from senior leaders during times of change, and measuring success when scaling rapidly.

A harmonised approach to global compensation and employment

Combining the power of talent Acquisition and people operations to turn your aspirations for a global team into reality.

What you will get from this session:

- How to build a philosophy that aligns with your company goals and enables you to compete globally for talent

- How to unlock the power of efficiency between TA and POps teams

- How to navigate hiring into new regions for the first time, or expanding your global team

More about the speakers:

Stacey Slater is no stranger to global hiring! With a Talent Acquisition career of almost 10 years, and the last seven of those dedicated to scaling global Go-to-Market teams at Nexmo (acquired by Vonage), Onfido and Messagebird, Stacey has first-hand experience leading recruitment teams faced with the challenges and rewards that come with unlocking access to global talent.

With a career carved in fast-growth tech companies, Stacey has combined her passion for connecting humans and desire to share expertise with the joy she gets from enabling others. Now, as Senior Global TA Operations Manager at Oyster, Stacey is focused on designing, building and implementing the tools, programs and processes to enable operational and cross-functional efficiencies, as Oyster continues their mission to create a more equal world, one remote hire at a time.

Milly Parker started her career working in Talent Acquisition, partnering with seed stage to post series C companies across London and the US on global hiring, with a focus on Engineering and other technical roles. As a People Operations Lead at Oyster HR Milly is passionate about using Product thinking to build people processes and experiences that meet the needs of internal customers, and making use of automation to allow products to scale with the company. She has led on projects including building an automated onboarding process, which allowed Oyster to scale from 280 to 700 employees across 70 countries in 18 months, while maintaining 90% employee engagement after 90 days.

Milly is especially passionate about fair and equitable compensation, and enabled this on a global scale by developing modelling that has allowed Oyster to benchmark salaries in more than 180 countries, for all roles across the company, in line with a mission driven compensation philosophy.

Milly obtained a degree in Human, Social and Political Sciences, focused on Biological Anthropology and Human Behaviour from the University of Cambridge, with her research focused on learning about the evolution of humans in island environments using data modelling. This has resulted in a passion for understanding group dynamics and human behaviour through data and analytics, a passion that she uses to gather insights on workplace trends and dynamics.

Wondering what it’s like to hire at the cutting edge of Web3? This episode features Matt Schwinden, Head of Talent at The Graph, an indexing protocol for organizing blockchain data. He joins Chris to discuss why recruiting talent for Web3 doesn’t always follow established processes, how The Graph have adapted their hiring approach to address this, and what the key skill sets are to look out for. Tune in to discover Matt’s thoughts on the role TA plays in uncovering the right talent for the next generation of web technology.

Top take-outs for attendees:

- Gain a better understanding of psychometric assessments and its limits

- How to make the most of psychometrics in selection and coaching

- Challenges with psychometric assessments when it comes to neurodiversity

- A deeper insight into the psychometric market and trends.

- Practical tips to get the most out of using psychometrics in selection and development.

More about the speaker:

Nikita Mikhailov is a specialist in personality and a member of the British Psychological Society. He has worked for multiple psychometric publishers, contributed to the development of assessments and delivered psychometric qualifications.

Currently, Nikita is working with individuals, teams, and couples to increase awareness and appreciation of individual differences. Nikita's aspiration is to share the goodness of psychology with a wider audience, including through stand-up comedy.

For Sasha Katz Murphy, company values aren’t just words – they’re actions. In this episode, she joins Chris to explain how she transformed ActiveCampaign’s values into a company-wide framework for hiring, development, and performance evaluation. As Global Head of Talent Acquisition, Sasha embarked on a year-long, cross-functional collaboration to define and crystallize the core behaviors that drive success among ActiveCampaign’s staff. The result was The AC Way: a unique talent management framework that’s helping the marketing automation firm improve interview effectiveness, mitigate bias, and manage candidate expectations. Tune in to hear how Sasha project-managed this monumental task, as she shares valuable insights for talent leaders who want to make their company values work harder.

Hear how businesses such as Yelp, Cinch, Stacker and DELLI approach candidate experience. Our panel will discuss the key components of what makes for a great candidate experience from the job advert to off-boarding whilst making this process inclusive and reducing bias.

We will address the current market situation and how recruitment teams can support candidates who are job hunting during redundancy.

What you will get from this session:

* An understanding of how you can use design thinking to impact your candidate experience process

* How you can still make the process feel personalised and thoughtful during high volume recruitment and early talent initiatives

* Actionable insights that you can take away to improve your rejection process for candidates and the important role this plays in talent nurturing.

More about the speakers:

Ali Hills, Talent Lead, Talentful

A self-proclaimed and aspiring modern HR thinker passionate about candidate experience, agile and product led thinking. Ali brings close to a decade of recruiting experience working across startups, scaleups and enterprise environments from both an inhouse and embedded capacity. Ali thrives on leading with compassion and empathy and often sets out to leave hiring experiences better than she found them through iterative and continuous learning behaviours.

Josh Wingate, Talent Acquisition Partner, xDesign

Working in tech recruitment for a number of years, Josh has worked for a variety of high-growth businesses in sectors such as e-commerce, video games and digital consultancy. Passionate about collaborative hiring, candidate experience and diversity and inclusion.

Magdalena Chruściel-Jedynak, Senior Technical Recruiter, Yelp

Magda is currently a Senior Tech Recruiter at Yelp UK. She is passionate about diversity and inclusion, and committed to providing a positive candidate experience. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring London as an expat.

As the co-founder of WorkTripp, Sally Page has the opportunity to work with plenty of founders and senior leaders on how they can create memorable offsite experiences to engage employees. In this episode, Sally argues that an offsite should be regarded as a strategic initiative to boost employee engagement and help achieve company goals. In conversation with Chris, she covers how to plan the perfect offsite, how frequently to run them, how the in-person experience is crucial in an increasingly remote world, and how you can measure the impact of offsite events. Tune in to hear Sally and Chris discuss how the offsite should be seen less as a ‘nice-to-have’ reward, and more as a crucial tactic for aligning your people to your goals.

In this webinar, we look at how to build strong relationships across an organisation to ensure that talent acquisition is viewed as a trusted advisor and a business partner.

Liz will share how effective stakeholder management has helped her effectively scale two organisations in her career during post-merger and acquisition times.

We will also look at how to use EQ (emotional intelligence) and business acumen to embed your talent strategy throughout the organisation.

What you will get from this session:

* An understanding of what stakeholder management means to the world of Talent Acquisition

* Tips and tricks to create strong and engaging relationships with key stakeholders of your organisation

* A framework for how to develop Talent Strategies through effective stakeholder engagement

More about the speaker:

Liz Johnson, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at Uberall

As a Senior Talent Partner at Uberall, Liz uses various stakeholder management styles to partner with senior leaders throughout the organisation. Liz has experience working with both private and government organisations. Her main interests are hiring top tier GTM talent and providing top partnership for leaders globally.

This episode poses the question everyone in TA is talking about: how will AI impact Recruitment? Host Chris is joined by Matthew Parker, Director of International Talent at Procore, to discuss what we should expect from the integration of AI into our daily workload. They cover AI’s crucial role in interview data collection, how it can improve candidate experience, which tools to look out for and, crucially, how it will change the way we set up our TA teams. Chris asks the all-important question of what the AI-powered future of TA looks like, and what we have to be optimistic about. This episode is not to be missed for those looking to lead TA teams of the future.

In this webinar, we will look at the nuances of hiring for tech talent for startups and for early stage teams.

Hear how it is not as simple as copying what the tech giants do and just implementing strategies on a smaller scale.

We will look at how the talent market is right now and how to hire in a more risk averse market.

What you will get from this session:

* An understanding of how some of the fastest-growing European startups approached tech hiring during the height of their growth

* The inside scope from experts in tech hiring on how to implement successful TA strategies that differ from larger enterprise companies

* How to use gamification in the hiring process for tech startups

More about the speakers:

George Morriss, Head of Talent Acquisition at Lindus Health

George is Head of Talent at Lindus Health, the next-gen CRO accelerating clinical trials for biotech and healthtech pioneers. He has 10 years’ experience recruiting for high-growth technology companies. George previously founded Prologue, a venture-backed recruiting platform and was a Managing Partner at Talentful, advising startups on talent acquisition strategy.

Yvonne Achan-Oryema, Integrated Talent Management Lead at Lloyds Banking Group

Yvonne is an Integrated Talent Management Lead at Lloyds Banking Group. She has 10+ years’ experience that spans both startup, scale-up and enterprise settings. At Lloyds Banking Group, her role supports alignment of strategic organisational objectives with effective talent acquisition, development, and retention strategies.

Prior to Lloyds she was Director of Recruiting at Hopin, a top unicorn startup, where she initially joined to lead their tech recruitment efforts. She champions initiatives to drive diversity and belonging and is passionate about innovation and technology.

Scott Baxter, Senior Talent Manager at Checkout.com

Scott is a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager at Checkout.com where he currently leads an experienced team of recruiters helping their global Product, Design, Data & IT teams scale. He plays a key role in anticipating the organisation's future roadmap and working with Execs, VP's & Directors across the organisation to advise on recruiting tactics.

Prior to Checkout.com Scott was a Talent Acquisition Lead at Improbable for the Games Technology Unit, Corporate, and Commercial Divisions.

For many tech recruiters, India represents both a wellspring of capability and an uncharted territory. In this episode, Chris chats to Jeremy Bushaw, VP of Global Talent Acquisition at Informatica, to learn how he steered the data management firm through the fast-moving Indian recruitment market. Jeremy opens up about the challenges of hiring in an unfamiliar cultural environment and shares first-hand advice to help TA leaders stake their claim in a fiercely competitive space. The conversation also covers the importance of technology in global talent acquisition, as Jeremy explains how he harnessed AI and automation tools to increase reach, bolster DE&I initiatives, and cut time to fill by around 30%. It’s a jam-packed episode that will inspire anyone looking to tap into new territories and new talent.

In this webinar, we will look at how we can recession proof our careers as Talent people: What will this downturn change in our industry? TA roles are being cut but businesses are still hiring for HR right now in this market - will we move to seeing more hybrid HR/TA roles and less pure TA roles at senior level?

Having jumped from TA Director at Shazam, to VP People at Onfido, Ruth is the perfect person to unpack this topic with us. In this session we will explore her experiences of moving from TA to HR, and she will also share some of the frameworks and tools she used in order to get there.

We will discuss how TA professionals can ‘recession proof’ their careers, whether that means leaning into HR or considering other options.

What you will get from this session:

* Frameworks to help you figure out what you really want out of your career, and is it a move to HR?

* Tips to build confidence in the workplace and increase your value when transitioning from TA to HR

* The tools to help you to start to craft the career and life you truly desire, while looking at ways to ‘recession proof’ your career

More about the speaker:

Ruth is a People and Talent expert for over two decades and Chief People Officer, and has built and rebuilt teams and cultures for companies like Shazam, Onfido and bp Launchpad.

She now works as an Advisor, Executive Coach and fractional CPO. She has also just launched Bloom, a career and leadership accelerator for women in People and Talent, with the goal of supporting more women to step confidently into the C-Suite.

What can you learn from a breadth of experience across different roles and in different leadership positions? In this episode, Kelly Cartwright, VP of Global Talent Acquisition at Splunk, tells us how her wide-ranging experience has taught her the importance of data in TA leadership decision-making. She discusses how data can be used to drive real business impact through strategic headcount planning and argues that we should reframe who the real ‘customer’ is when thinking about team growth.

Using insights and practical methods from her book, ‘Built for People’, Jessica will talk through her three part blog series on Performance and Compensation.

In order to retain great team members, you need to master the art and science of performance-based compensation.

It’s a hard problem: bridge the gap between qualitative feedback and a dollar figure. Not only bridge it, but do it logically and repeatedly.

What you will get from this session:

This session will give you the initial tools you need to effectively connect Performance and Compensation and improve:

* Procedural and distributive fairness of your compensation philosophy,

* Company and individual performance, and

* Retention of the employees most aligned with your culture and ways of working.

More about the speaker:

Jessica Zwaan, COO & Startup Advisor and Author of 'Built for People'

Jessica is a hands-on Chief Operating Officer. She finds her joy in diverse, kind, and world-changing companies of incredible people. She has a first-class honours Law Degree, and a background in Operations, Legal, People and Talent, and leadership in scaling technology, ecommerce, and SaaS businesses.

She is a regular panellist and speaker: Presenting at local and international events on how to strategize your business operations, positively influence culture, and generally how to think about your company as a commercial product.

Sometimes blogger, sometimes cyclist, sometimes legal-geek, sometimes vegan home-cook. Oh, Ik kan een beetje Nederlands spreken! (She/Her)

As a Talent Acquisition Director at a fast-growing software startup SevenRooms, Katie Moriarty has turned C-suite recruitment into an art form. In this episode, she joins Chris to explain how talent leaders can streamline executive-level hiring and deliver on everyone’s expectations – no matter the size of their organization. Drawing on her extensive TA leadership experience, Katie explores common challenges associated with high-level recruiting and shares practical advice on managing relationships, building trust with CEOs, and delivering engaging candidate experiences. What should TA leaders look for in an external search firm? When is the right time to implement an in-house executive search function? And how should startups approach that all-important first executive hire? Listen now to find out.

In this webinar, we will look at how TA and People leaders can navigate managing distributed teams and how to make both hybrid and remote-first employees feel part of the culture and team.

We will discuss how to create a team culture without regular in-person face time and ways to build strong relationships with your direct reports.

We will talk about how to easily avoid mistakes managers make that hurt their long-term ability to retain remote and distributed employees, as well as common challenges and strategies to overcome these.

What you will get from this session:

* A deeper understanding of how you, as a manager, can best support and manage distributed and hybrid teams

* Insights into ways to build team culture and trust in a hybrid or remote working environment when scaling globally

* A greater knowledge of how to build the foundations so that your team feels safe and included, irrespective of working style and location

More about the speakers:

Hira Kazmi, Global People Partner at Omnipresent

Hira is an experienced Human Resources Partner with many years of working in startups, management consultancies, as well as global not-for-profit organisations. Skilled in Coaching and Mentoring leaders, culture building and engagement, HR Data Analytics, and developing high performing global teams. With a passion for all things people-related and a strong advocacy for workplace equality and equity, Hira believe's in leading with empathy and assisting organisations in building competent and diverse workforces on a global scale. As a dynamic and energetic 'people' professional, Hira brings extensive experience in various sectors as a trusted advisor and in a consulting capacity, providing guidance on a range of strategic people related issues, ensuring HR is aligned with the overarching business strategy. Hira has a Masters in Human Resource Management and Training and is also a qualified CIPD practitioner.

Joshua Andrews, Director of People & Culture at Remote Year

10 years working in the People & Culture space with a background in recruiting, building out high performing teams and creating company culture across a global organisation. The past 2+ years with Remote Year has been building out recruiting, onboarding, training and performance management practices from scratch for a remote team represented by 30+ different nationalities.

In this episode, Chris chats to Ben Abear, an experienced recruitment strategist, to explore how data-driven decision-making and strong leadership can transform a hiring function into an indispensable strategic value-add. Drawing from his experiences at Google and Meta, Ben shares tips to help talent leaders become more adaptable, boost their data fluency, and build end-to-end hiring processes that support long-term business goals. Next, the conversation turns to the value of talent mapping, as Ben recommends strategies to track career journeys, improve internal mobility, and predict and prepare for attrition. Finally, Chris and Ben look to the not-too-distant future and ask: has our age of big data and smart AI rendered the résumé obsolete?

In this webinar we will look at the essential foundations your business and TA team needs in place when getting ready to scale your hiring. We will talk about how you can use themes to inspire when building your TA function, as you grow headcount at a rapid rate across the business.

Our panellists will talk through their experiences of taking businesses through funding rounds, and the factors to consider when moving from seed to series A (and beyond!), and taking a company from private to public.

We will discuss salary battles for top talent and how to set up a compensation philosophy from the beginning and get buy-in from C-Suite when it comes to compensation/salary levelling.

What you will get from this session:

* A deeper understanding of common growing pains as companies scale and what happens behind the scenes in TA during funding rounds

* Strategies to tackle the nuances when it comes to supporting your recruitment teams with growing rec loads and how to manage hiring manager expectations during hypergrowth

* Knowledge of how to set up your TA teams for growth and the ebb and flow during periods of scale

More about the speakers:

Ben Paton, Talent Director at Talentful

Ben is a startup talent leader with over 10 years experience of hiring for early stage businesses. He has served as a Talent Director at Talentful, having joined when the business was four people, and helped them scale to 200+ in four locations. Whilst at Talentful, Ben has specialised in the tech startup space, and has helped to scale Depop, Gram Games, Tractable, Zopa and Spotahome.

Louise Burgess, Director of Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding at SoSafe

Louise has ten years of experience working in high growth companies in a variety of sectors including SaaS, AdTech, and Cloud Consulting across North America, EMEA and APAC. She has worked with 4 different founder-led businesses and been part of two exits. As well as talent acquisition, she has designed and rolled out onboarding programs, benefit plans, compensation benchmarking and implemented repeatable, scalable processes including implementing tooling such as Greenhouse and Gem.

Jocelyn S. Lai, Global Head of Talent Acquisition & Talent Brand at Duolingo

Jocelyn is the Global Head of Talent Acquisition and Talent Brand at Duolingo. She grew up through the advertising and marketing industry (JCPenney, T3, GSD&M, R/GA, Droga5) and has spent the past four years in consumer tech, where she helped Duolingo scale from a private company of 100 employees to a public company of 750+ employees.

Jocelyn is a regular public speaker and has been recognized by the American Advertising Federation, American Association of Advertising Agencies, Association of National Advertisers, The Wall Street Journal, and SXSW for her achievements.

Recently, Jocelyn was recently named in the T100 list of Global Talent Leaders by Talentful in 2023, was ranked #2 by Talentful's 2022 Top 50 Talent Leaders in Tech, and awarded Pittsburgh's 2021 Culture Builder of the year, which recognises an empathetic leader who is making their workplace more inclusive, resilient and engaging.

Jocelyn holds a B.S. and M.A. in Advertising from The University of Texas at Austin. Follow her tweets at @jocelynslai

As SVP of People at SmartRecruiters, Lehua Stonebraker doesn’t just advocate for her organization’s products – she uses them every day. In this episode, she joins Chris to discuss how her team’s intimate knowledge of end-user experience has helped bolster product quality, generate sales leads, and improve internal mobility. Their conversation also covers the value of rotational programs, the state of remote work, and the role of effective talent leadership in navigating mergers and acquisitions. Reflecting on her experience at HR software firm Ceridian, Lehua shares actionable advice to help talent leaders add value and reduce friction during an M&A process.

In this webinar we will discuss why every recruiter needs to be a diversity recruiter.

We will speak about the benefits to the business when we ensure early hires aren’t rushed and the impact to the business when you don’t build a diverse workforce from the beginning.

We will delve into how to influence stakeholders and C-Suite during periods of growth when speed is requested during hiring and how to ensure a fair process.

What you will get from this session:

* An understanding of how to set up a diversity hiring strategy that is fit for scale

* An overview of how building diverse TA teams first can support ensuring that diverse candidates feel comfortable from the get-go during the process

* Insights into the benefits of focusing on building an inclusive environment for diverse employees to reduce attrition

More about the speakers:

Sakena Gardner, VP, Talent and DEI at Numerator

Sakena is a highly accomplished Talent leader with a deep commitment to building high-impact teams and implementing strategies that enable companies to attract and retain top diverse talent. She is dynamic, forward-thinking and passionate about driving results through data informed strategies and process optimisation. At Numerator, Sakena leads Diversity Equity and Inclusion globally.

Dr. Maisha Gray-Diggs, Vice President, Global Talent, Inclusion, and Experience at Eventbrite

Dr. Maisha Gray-Diggs (Dr. MGD) holds the unique distinction of being one of a few engineering leaders who pivoted to ascend the ranks of talent acquisition leadership. Currently, Dr. MGD is the Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition at Eventbrite, Inc. Her engineering, research, development and human resource experiences combine to deliver real value to organisations on a global scale. Her work is informed by a wealth of experience inside of several Fortune 500 companies across the CPG and tech sectors. She has earned the reputation as a quick study, reflective thought leader, and results driven change agent.

Can startups use size to their advantage when recruiting for growth? In this episode, Chris Marty, Operating Partner at venture capital firm Unusual Ventures, explains how holistic hiring and shrewd planning can help early-stage companies compete in a crowded talent market. Chris starts with a whistle-stop tour of his résumé, from initial roles at Google and Dropbox to success stories with startups like Wealthfront and Fleetsmith. Drawing on these experiences, he shares a wealth of suggestions to help founders and recruiters hire the right people at the right pace. How can startups sell themselves without an established brand? What attributes should you look for in early-stage candidates? And when should growing companies start building an internal talent function? Get all the answers and more in this insightful episode of Hiring On All Cylinders.

So you’ve worked agency side and in-house, but how much do you know about the world of talent acquisition when working for a VC? Our webinar guest, Chris Marty has done just that and is here to spill the tea and give you the insider view!

Before joining Unusual Ventures, a seed-stage VC firm, Chris led Talent Acquisition at Fleetsmith (acquired by Apple), Wealthfront (currently valued at 1.4B), and was fortunate to have enjoyed early career experiences at Dropbox, Google and Wildfire.

In this webinar we will speak about the move from internal to VC, what it can mean for your career and what working for a VC specialising in startups looks like.

What you will get from this session:

* An understanding of talent acquisition within a venture capital set up

* Thought provoking insights if you’ve been considering the move to a VC

* How you can build your TA skill set within a VC and what it can mean for your career

More about the speaker:

Chris is an Operating Partner at Unusual Ventures - seed-stage VC firm with 1.2B under management and offices in Menlo Park, San Francisco and Boston - where he works alongside early-stage founders to build foundational, high-performing teams. Before joining Unusual Ventures (2020), he led Talent Acquisition at Fleetsmith (acquired by Apple), Wealthfront (currently valued at 1.4B), and was fortunate to have enjoyed early career experiences at Dropbox, Google and Wildfire. He's a self-professed zealot for the startup journey, and believes in its potential to yield transformative experiences both personally and professionally. He lives in San Francisco, where he spends most of his free time with his favourite people in the world - his nieces and nephews Becca, Maddie and Elias. He holds a BA in English Literature from The College of William and Mary.

In this episode, Chris is joined by Elena Stefanopol, Director of Recruiting at Labelbox, to discuss how TA leaders can thrive in a fully remote work environment. Elena takes us through her fast-paced career progression amid the COVID-19 pandemic and explains how she was able to adapt and embrace the opportunities of digital transformation. She stresses the importance of establishing clear goals, listening to feedback from team members, and keeping an open mind as we learn to collaborate and communicate in a remote-first world. Finally, Chris and Elena look ahead to the future of recruitment and reflect on the ever-evolving role of talent acquisition as a valued strategic business function. This episode is a must-listen for TA managers who need help navigating the complexities of post-pandemic hiring.

In this webinar, we will discuss how to pivot your TA strategy when your organisation has slowed down hiring from a high-growth phase. Our panellists will discuss ways to showcase the TA function’s multi-purpose and value to the business during these times, outside of direct/high volume hiring.

We will discuss the shift your team may feel and how you, as a leader, can re-engage and refocus them during slower, more deliberate hiring and project work.

We will also chat through various strategies you can implement to upskill your TA function and process improvements to take advantage of during a slower hiring phase.

What you will get from this session:

* An understanding of various strategies you can use to pivot your TA team when hiring slows down

* Ways to refocus your TA team when moving from high-growth hiring and how to use this time to your advantage to lay strong foundations for the months to come

* Insight into how to prepare your team again when hiring picks up and how they can adapt to the market changes with ease

More about the speakers:

David Moore, VP Talent Acquisition at Box

David is the head of global talent acquisition at Box, the Cloud Content Management company

with a mission to power how the world works together. He is a career talent leader with more than 25 years of experience, and industry expertise spanning Enterprise Software and SaaS to Consumer Electronics and Retail. A Brit, he started his career in the UK and then spent the next

decade in the Asia Pacific region where he joined a pre-iPhone Apple in 2006 in Singapore. After moving to California in 2010, he supported markets across the Americas with Apple and then while supporting Google’s digital advertising sales and marketing teams, before joining Box in 2018. Since then, he has enjoyed life on the rollercoaster, building out his team, leading them through a pandemic and focusing on everything from international expansion (e.g. Warsaw, Poland) and workforce strategies to employment branding and diverse hiring practices.

Jennifer Mullen, Director, Talent Acquisition-Global GTM & US Sales at Intuit

Jennifer has spent the last 15 years working in recruitment, and is currently the Director, Talent Acquisition for Global Go To Market at Intuit. She has spent the majority of her career in the tech industry spending time at Yahoo, Expedia, and now Intuit. Intuit is 40 years old, and is famous in Silicon Valley for being able to constantly reinvent itself, and our products

include Quickbooks, Turbotax, Mailchimp, and Credit Karma. Jennifer’s current role requires her to lead a global team based in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada, and to accelerate our growth into new markets

Andrea Tomaras, Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition at VMware

Andrea is based in London, UK and has been in talent acquisition for 25 years, initially in agencies and executive search, and running her own business. 13 years ago she moved into in-house recruitment, setting up or leading TA functions at various tech firms including Workday, Verizon Media, Huddle and Oracle. She is currently leading the Global GTM and Ops Talent Acquisition team at VMware. She is also on the Customer Advisory Board of Beamery. Andrea is hugely passionate about the evolution of TA into a more efficient and business-centric function and loves new tech that amplifies not replaces humans.

Organizations know the value of hiring for diversity, but in our age of layoffs and post-pandemic flux, few are delivering. In this episode, Chris catches up with Arthur Woods, Partner at Plenty, an executive search firm for venture-backed startups, to explore how talent leaders can spearhead change in an ever-changing world. They look at the challenge of unconscious bias in remote interviews, propose strategies to combat persistent pay inequities, and discuss how to sell diversity hiring as a strategic and ongoing process. Next, Arthur shares some quick wins to help companies overhaul their inclusive recruitment processes and measure success. As a bestselling author and DE&I expert, Arthur knows this subject like few others on Earth. If diversity is on the agenda in your organization, consider this a must-listen.

Competing priorities, values and personalities can all present challenges to achieving a collaborative and high performance TA team. This webinar explores the themes and issues that help TA leaders build high performing teams.

With valuable insight from Jerome Leclercq, Samantha Perlman and Matthias Schmeißer, our expert panel will discuss their experience of creating and fostering a culture of high performance, the common challenges that many TA teams face when it comes to performance and how to motivate and inspire your team to reach collective goals.

We will talk about how your recruitment process, tech stack and setting clear expectations can support you in shifting your team from being reactive to embodying a proactive, high performance ethos.

What you will get from this session:

* Where to start when it comes to establishing a performance culture in teams - the essential foundations to build upon and common challenges to look out for

* Insight into the components needed to foster a culture of high performance that allows your team to thrive and feel motivated towards common goals

* An understanding of how your processes and tech stack can impact individual and team performance

About the speakers:

Jerome Leclercq - Global Head of Recruitment and Employer Branding at Wise

Jerome Leclercq joined Wise in September 2022 as its Global Head of Recruitment and Employer Branding where his focus has been on embedding scalable hiring practices that deliver on the business’ growth ambitions in a thoughtful and sustainable way.

Before Wise, he was VP of Talent at GoCardless, a global leader in account-to-account payments. Prior to joining the FinTech world Jerome spent over 8 years at LinkedIn scaling its EMEA enterprise operations as a Recruitment leader, as well as a 3 year stint in Product Marketing helping to bring to market products such as LinkedIn Talent Insights and LinkedIn Talent Hub.

Jerome is passionate about the recruitment space and the impact the profession can have on people’s life trajectories. He is a proud father of two and occasionally finds time to follow his beloved football club Arsenal FC.

Samantha Perlman - Head of Talent at OneSignal

Sam is the Head of Talent at OneSignal, and is a people-focused and results and impact-driven leader. She’s passionate about candidate experience, talent development, DE&I, and overall process efficiency. Throughout her career, she’s focused on building and leading high-performing talent teams and helping tech companies like Fastly, Airbnb, and Venmo build for scale, putting sustainable processes in place to hire and retain top talent. She’s also particularly familiar with the startup and incubator/accelerator scene, having gone through Stanford’s accelerator, StartX, and YC’s fellowship with her own startup.

As a former New Yorker turned San Franciscan, she also rock climbs, snowboards, takes her dog to Fort Funston, values good coffee, and has strong opinions on bagels.

Matthias Schmeißer - Global Director, Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding at emnify

Matthias is currently the Global Director, Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding at emnify. As an Inclusive Talent Acquisition Leader and Change Management Enthusiast with over 13 years of experience in Talent Acquisition in different businesses from corporate companies like Zalando, and Scout24 to smaller scale-ups like Beamery and Visual Meta. His focus area are maturing hiring culture, managing the transition to skill-based hiring, building a strong employer brand, data-driven TA and moving from reactive recruitment to proactive and strategic Talent Advisory.

As a co-host and anchor of the TalentSavvy Podcast, he is talking monthly bases with global TA leaders about the trends, challenges, and best practices to share insights with like-minded people.

Matthias is also the Co-Founder of TA Crunch Berlin community that builds connections and fosters inclusion among TA professionals in Berlin.

In this week’s jam-packed episode of Hiring on all Cylinders, Danielle Colanto, Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Yotpo, eCommerce marketing platform, sits down with Chris to delve deeper into the importance of soft skills for your recruitment career. The conversation covers the movement of employees from talent acquisition and recruitment into the tech industry, touching on Danielle’s personal experience of pivoting from fashion and retail into the world of tech. Danielle shares her advice, including the importance of identifying transferable skills and being curious to learn about the changing landscape of tech, as well as the power of leveraging your network. Considering a similar career move into tech? Then this episode is for you.

Introduction:

In this webinar we will discuss Recruitment Enablement as your team’s superpower; what it involves, how to implement strategies to raise the bar… and if Recruitment Enablement should be a separate team sitting alongside your 360 recruiters.

We will look at various strategies you can implement to support your recruitment teams in raising the bar such as talent marketing, utilising social media campaigns, interview training, recruiting operations, coordination support, diversity, and optimising internal mobility.

We will talk through where to start when it comes to building a Recruitment Enablement team or taking inspiration from larger organisations if you don’t have the budget/scope to build out a stand-alone team right now.

What you will get from this session:

- An understanding of the power of Recruitment Enablement and how it can enhance the work of your recruiters

- Knowledge of where to start when it comes to building in new processes to your team

- How a stand-alone Recruitment Enablement function can look and where you can draw inspiration from

More about the speaker:

Tony Le is a seasoned Talent Acquisition executive with over 15 years of experience in leading recruitment teams. He started her career as a recruiter for a leading tech staffing agency and quickly worked his way up to managing the recruitment process globally for some of the most recognizable tech brands. Throughout his career, Tony has developed a passion for identifying and recruiting top talent for organizations across various industries. He has experience in developing recruitment

strategies, scaling high-performing teams, operational and data excellence, developing partnerships with stakeholders around workforce planning, and leveraging technology to streamline the recruitment process.

In his current role as a Talent Acquisition leader, Tony is responsible for overseeing the global hiring at Mission Cloud with a focus on scaling their best practices and expanding the bonds they have between Talent Acquisition, Talent Experience, and Talent Development and creating a world-class hiring manager and candidate experience. And he is dedicated to ensuring that his organization has a diverse and inclusive workforce. Tony is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and is actively involved in various professional organizations.

I’m sure we’ve all seen the explosion in personal brand building on Linkedin, some good, some bad. This podcast will help you stand out in a sea of noise. Sean Anderson is one of the pioneers of brand building on Linkedin, having honed his skills as a top billing recruiter then seven years building Hoxo Media.

No time for personal brand? Nonsense. With discipline and focus you can achieve demonstrable results in a few weeks with just 1.5 hours a week.

Listen in to find out how.

Have you ever questioned your own value, wondered when you'll get 'found out' or felt like an imposter? You are not alone.

On this webinar we are joined by Lauren Harrop, International Talent Acquisition Partner at D2L and Founder of The Recruitment Imposter Network.

Recruitment is Lauren's passion, but on the occasions that she cannot find that unicorn, she has felt an imposter mindset creep in. In this raw and vulnerable session, Lauren will give you insights into where her imposter came from, how she manages this (some days are better than others) and reassurance that you are not alone.

Lauren will also share her insights into speaking at RecFest and how that accelerated her imposter, yet tamed it at the same time.

What you will get from this session:

* Strategies and Ideas on how to manage your imposter syndrome

* An understanding on how a growth mindset can support you to be the best version of yourself, both at home and in work

* Lauren will share an invite to a network of TA specialists who feel (or have felt) imposter syndrome to help you know that you are not alone

More about the speaker:

After 14 years in recruitment it was time Lauren made her voice heard. She is a recruiter at heart but struggles immensely with imposter syndrome and the constant feeling of ‘not good enough’ or being found out that she is a 'fraud'. Lauren is currently a fully remote employee working for a Canadian Education Technology company and has felt the onset of imposter syndrome a struggle more than ever, but equally have found talking about it helps me to cope with it.

Lauren has spoken at RecFest 2023 about Imposter Syndrome and is the Founder of The Recruitment Imposter Network.

In this episode, Chris catches up with Hung Lee, Curator at Recruiting Brainfood and the go-to voice in Talent in the UK. They reflect on the implications of a turbulent year for global businesses and politics and what ‘hostile deglobalisation’ means for recruitment, covering whether or not they feel mass layoffs in the tech sector were inevitable.

Looking ahead to 2023, Chris and Hung discuss predictions around AI and Chat GPT, the role of community building in talent acquisition and why ‘recruitment influencers’ could be a growing trend. Tune in to hear their reflections, predictions and advice to current TA leaders.

Introduction:

What are the markers of a great leader in TA and how can you motivate and inspire your team? In this webinar we will discuss the fundamental differences between being a manager and a leader, and how you can lead with authenticity to drive your team to new heights of success.

Our expert panel of Sean, Abi and Cody, will talk through how leaders can best communicate their vision, provide constructive feedback, and create an environment where open dialogue thrives.

Being a leader is not just about driving numbers - we’ll break down how to establish meaningful metrics to track your team's progress and explore techniques for motivating them, boosting their morale, and fostering a sense of purpose.

What you will get from this session:

* A deeper understanding of leadership vs. management

* Tangible strategies to support you in building motivation and trust with your team

* Insight into how effective communication lies at the heart of leadership

More about the speakers:

Sean Celli - VP of Talent Acquisition at Amperity

Sean is a talent leader who has working globally with some of the world’s largest brands over the past 25 years. With a passion for connecting talent and opportunity, Sean has a unique gift for building people centric processes, which include leading edge tech, to foster experiences that drive outcomes that bring business value. As a lifelong learner, Sean believes that every day is a school day and a chance to learn, grow and develop.

Growing up in retail. Sean began walking through shoe departments to find talent to sell jewellery, because “if they can put a shoe on a foot, they can put a ring on a finger.” Over time, this moonlighting activity became a clear focus for his career. Sean is a builder at heart, and has opened/operated in many countries around the world Sean now is enjoying start up life, getting close to the work again.

Cody Schrotel, VP of Talent Acquisition at Collibra

Cody Schrotel is the VP Talent Acquisition at Collibra, responsible for global talent acquisition, employer brand, and people analytics. In this role, he’s helped Collibra scale from 150 to 1100+ employees, establish their employer value proposition, and build and refine a predictable, repeatable, and measured talent acquisition engine.

Prior to his role at Collibra, Cody served as an executive recruiter at Daversa Partners where he partnered with venture-backed companies to build out their management teams. His focus was go-to-market and engineering placements within b2b and b2c tech; notable clients include AppDynamics, Change Healthcare, Grubhub and FourSquare.

Cody graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology.

Abigail Aikins, Talent Director at Talentful

Abigail brings a wealth of TA experience to the table, having been an invaluable part of the Talentful team for the past two years. From day one, she has been instrumental in helping companies transform their recruiting function, ensuring they attract and retain top talent in this competitive landscape.

Abi possesses a wealth of diverse experience, specialising in rejuvenating teams struggling to meet delivery targets and grappling with demotivation.With remarkable finesse, she swiftly transforms them, propelling them not just to meet, but often to surpass their targets with resounding success!

Abi joined the Talentful team with a background in hospitality that translates directly to the way she interacts with internal and external customers alike. Prior to joining Talentful, Abigail managed a mid-sized agency that assisted startup to enterprise customers scale at speed.

When Abi isn’t working to provide outstanding customer service to all parties involved, she can be found in the mountains, playing first person shooting games or in the sky where her passions lie. Abigail prides herself on creating impactful, lasting professional relationships while problem solving with highly efficient results.

If you haven’t already heard of Joel Lalgee, consider this your introduction to The Realest Recruiter. With over 200,000 followers on LinkedIn, Joel knows a thing or two about building a personal brand within the recruitment space. In this episode, Joel and Chris explore the ample opportunity that exists within recruitment content creation, how you can get started, and why content alone isn’t the most effective way to build your audience. They discuss the value of in-person events and cover strategies for combining online and offline efforts to engage and nurture your target candidates in the right places.

Introduction:

Join us for an enlightening webinar, "Optimising Employee Experience: Onboarding, Parental Leave, and Offboarding Strategies,” where we’ll dive in deep with Rich Moore from Enboarder to discover how to revolutionise your organisation's approach to these meaningful moments of change.

With 18 years of experience across Headhunting, Talent Acquisition and Customer Success, in this webinar, Rich will delve into the critical role of a great employee experience during these pivotal phases of an employee's journey. Learn more about the significance of human-centric onboarding that sets the tone for a fulfilling career, seamless transitions during parental leave to ensure a smooth reintegration, and compassionate offboarding that leaves a lasting positive impression.

Join us to gain actionable insights, real-life success stories, and an understanding of how you can transform your employee journey, creating a thriving workplace environment where employees feel valued, supported, and excited to contribute their best.

What you’ll get from this session:

* A deeper understanding of the power of first impressions, unveiling the impact of a remarkable onboarding experience in shaping long-term employee engagement and productivity

* Knowledge of navigating parenthood at work - you will leave this webinar with understanding the value of a supportive approach during parental leave, and how it affects employee loyalty and motivation

* Actionable insights of how to build lasting bonds through offboarding, as we explore strategies to ensure a positive farewell experience, turning departures into potential future opportunities and brand ambassadors

More about the speaker:

Rich Moore, Team Lead - Strategic Customer Success at Enboarder

Passionate about people, Rich has worked in the HR space for 18 years across Headhunting, Talent Acquisition and Customer Success. In his current role with Enboarder, Rich is the Global Team Lead for Strategic Customer Success where he works with global organisations and ensures they are seeing value with the Enboarder product.

Could skills-based hiring be the key to unlocking future success for your TA team, and across the wider business? In this episode, Matthias Schmeisser of EMnify joins Chris to discuss the positive effect of moving to a skills-based hiring system on their business. He explains why a focus on skills over behaviours is important, why you should prioritise a select number of skills you are looking for, and why the resume isn’t always an effective way of assessing a candidate. Listen to the full episode to find out why EMnify have implemented a ‘licence to hire’, and how Matthias is working with other stakeholders to drive and measure the success of skills-based hiring.

Introduction:

For TA and HR leaders, hypergrowth environments present a unique set of opportunities and hurdles. It requires a deep understanding of the ever-evolving landscape, as well as the ability to adapt and thrive during the turbulence.

On this panel discussion, we will explore the highs, lows, and lessons learned along the way when working in a scaling environment with real life stories from our speakers’ experiences at WeWork, Deliveroo, Ravio, Mews, Hudl and more! Our panellists will share their own experiences and expertise, shedding light on the intricacies of building and managing teams, the impact of processes and how automation can be utilised during times of growth.

We will discuss the nuances of recruitment strategies during hypergrowth but also delve into the critical aspect of adapting your compensation strategy and philosophy to attract and retain top talent effectively.

What you will get from this session:

* Learn the essential foundations to build upon and identify common challenges to watch out for, ensuring your TA and HR teams are primed for success in a hypergrowth environment

* Discover how to inspire and empower your team members to excel in the fast-paced and demanding world of startups and scaleups

* An understanding of the impact of compensation and how to attract top talent as you scale

More about the speakers:

James Mantle - VP Talent at Mews

Currently James is the VP of Talent at Mews, a disruptor in hospitality tech. Previous to this he spent four years at Hudl, a US based sport analytics company, where he led their global recruiting team. He started his internal recruiting career at a VC group and spent four years, working centrally and across their portfolio of businesses. That experience culminated in a rewarding time as an early employee at Clearscore, leading their People team.

He is attracted to working in driven, high growth environments, where recruiting teams are critical to the success of a business. He is passionate about building teams that follow agile working practices and supporting the development of his team.

Vaso Parisinou - CPO at Ravio

Vaso was the first People hire at Deliveroo back in 2015 and has been on a journey supporting companies going through hypergrowth ever since. Most recently, as VP of People at TrueLayer, Vaso scaled the team from 40 to 400 people in just 2.5 years, leading the People charge yet again.

She is now the Chief People Officer at Ravio, an early stage startup specialising in real-time compensation benchmarking, whose mission aligns closely with her own belief in empowering People leaders with robust, up-to-date data and insights.

Tim Cashman - EMEA Head of Talent Acquisition - CaptivateIQ

Tim is a seasoned recruiter with a focus on both technical and non-technical talent. After years of working in the high pressure environments of live TV production in New York and Los Angeles. His professional TA journey led him to the fast-paced world of hyper-growth companies, starting with Buzzfeed in Los Angeles. He then dove into the global scale of ABinBev's venture fund, playing a pivotal role in navigating its expansion across the Americas, UK and APAC.

Tim's expertise was further honed in the early stages of WeWork in New York, where he contributed significantly to the company's growth. Subsequently, he relocated to London, where he continued to drive expansion efforts across Europe, the Middle East. Currently, Tim is at the forefront of growth initiatives for CaptivateIQ across EMEA.

How can fast-growing companies attract top talent at scale? In this episode, Chris Abbass chats to Danny Karageorgis, who has extensive experience as a recruiter and is currently the Head of Talent at OneStudyTeam. Danny shares his valuable insights and tips on fast-paced hiring, including optimizing the interview process, gaining support from senior stakeholders, and taking strategic risks. If you’re a recruiter with big ambitions or you’re currently building a world-class talent acquisition team to support your growth targets, then this episode is for you.

Introduction:

In this webinar we will talk through the tools and strategies you need to navigate our rapidly changing world of work, and if global hiring is the key to scaling and sustainability. Whether your focus is on optimising your remote workforce, broadening your talent pool across borders, or aligning your talent acquisition practices with broader business objectives, this panel discussion is for you.

Our expert panel of Neeta Maliakal and Matthew Parker, will discuss how to tap into a global talent pool and leverage this to drive innovation and growth. We will look at how remote work is evolving and whether companies that embrace a remote-first approach will gain a competitive edge in contrast to those mandating a 'return to the office.'

We will also discuss the challenges that can come with remote and global hiring and what considerations you may need to make to ensure a smooth recruitment and hiring process.

What you will get from this session:

* Insights into supporting sustainable growth within your organisation

* A deeper understanding of both the benefits and challenges of global hiring

* Practical steps to tap into a global talent pool, elevating your recruitment capabilities

More about the speakers:

Matthew Parker, Director of Talent Acquisition, Ex-Procore and Zapp

Matthew began his career in Executive Search, guiding Technology companies worldwide through their growth. Afterward, he joined RateSetter (now Plenti) in Australia. Since returning to the UK, he has partnered with fast-growing international technology companies like Zapp, Culture Amp, and most recently Procore, where he led all International Hiring.

As a Talent Acquisition Leader with a passion for weaving diversity and inclusion into the assessment and selection process, he believes that when everyone is given a fair chance to thrive in the right company, it fosters a workplace that embraces diverse perspectives and experiences. This, in turn, optimises the ability to generate innovative ideas and promotes a culture of creativity.

Neeta Maliakal, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Velocity Global

Neeta is Velocity Global’s Global Head of Talent Acquisition responsible for the end-to-end execution of talent acquisition strategy and leading a high-powered team dedicated to engaging, attracting and hiring at Velocity Global in over 54 countries bringing a diverse community of people who are brilliant at their craft, passionate about borderless teams and deeply aligned to company values.

Prior to joining Velocity Global she led globally distributed talent acquisition teams including analytics, research and operations for over 10 years in disruptive business environments including Amazon and Lemonade. She is widely known for her teams’ accomplishments to scale and deliver growth at clock speed while enabling agility and sustainability.

The boom times are over. To succeed in a post-pandemic world, talent leaders must move beyond delivery and embrace a more strategic role. In this episode, Chris talks to Paddy Lambros, Talent Director at venture capital firm Atomico, to explore how in-house recruiters can earn their seat in the C-suite. Change is inevitable, argues Paddy, and it’s a sink-or-swim situation. But the best leaders can rise above turbulent waters by demonstrating adaptability, foresight, and a deep understanding of their organization’s goals. Paddy also talks through a strategic hiring process and shows how data-led insights and tactical planning can help manage stakeholder expectations. Finally, the conversation turns towards the future, as Chris and Paddy predict how AI could shape the talent space. Spoiler: its impact will be game-changing – but not in the way we might expect.

We all hold inherently embedded biases that influence our decisions and actions, especially when it comes to interviewing, recruiting, and hiring. Often, these biases are so deeply ingrained that we don’t even realise they’re there! They manifest themselves in the systems and processes we build, the processes we follow, the questions we ask, and the way we act... inadvertently creating barriers to "diverse talent".

In this webinar, Dani Herrera, Intentional DE&I Consultant, will dive deep into manual, tech, and systematic ways to minimise bias and create inclusive, equitable, and accessible hiring processes. We’ll uncover some of the hidden biases in our hiring processes and learn practical strategies to minimise them.

What you will get from this session:

* A deeper understanding of some of the hidden biases in hiring processes and learn practical strategies to minimise them

* Knowledge of how you can minimise bias and create inclusive, equitable, and accessible hiring processes

* Strategies to identify non-inclusive practices in your current hiring processes and redesign those systems with equity, accessibility, and inclusion at the forefront.

More about the speaker:

Dani Herrera is an award-winning, bilingual Latina immigrant radically committed to helping others become more intentionally inclusive. She is committed to building cultures that attract and retain diverse talent, strategies that foster inclusion and belonging, processes that minimise biases, and systems that elevate historically excluded voices and talent, especially the immigrant and Latine communities.

Among many other things, she is a Consultant, a Trainer, and a Speaker. She is also the Awareness and Advocacy Founding Partner at Allies in Recruiting, one of the Founding Members at The Talent Equity Alliance, a Career Coach and Mentor, and a Content Creator. And she was also selected to join the NASA Astrophysics IDEA Practitioners Database.

As Senior Director of Talent at venture capital firm SignalFire, Mario Espindola has the science of headcount planning down to art. In this insight-packed episode, he joins Chris to discuss how talent leaders can help drive a more cost-effective, strategic, and data-driven headcount planning process. They begin by stressing the importance of risk management in the current economic climate, with Mario offering advice for assessing resources and project readiness. As the conversation continues, Chris and Mario weigh up the benefits of top-down and bottom-up approaches, explore cost analysis techniques, and ask: when is it the right time to adopt sophisticated headcount management tools? They end on an optimistic note, as Mario shares his vision of an AI-enabled, time-rich future for talent acquisition.

Introduction:

In this webinar we will explore the critical elements of progression frameworks, fostering career development, and promoting transparency within your organisation. In today's TA landscape, employees increasingly seek a clear understanding of where they stand in their careers and where they're headed. As leaders, it's our responsibility to provide guidance, support, and direction to our team members. This is where progression plans come into play.

We will be joined by Luke Victor, from Cleo, who have a transparent progression framework policy. Luke leads the Tech Talent Team, overseeing the growth and development of a team of Senior Talent Partners, ensuring that their development is intrinsically tied to delivery and performance in the role. He does this by using Cleo’s progression framework, coupled with personal development plans that focus on behaviours instead of skills, and frequent one-on-one meetings to discuss progress and growth.

Progression plans are more than just a buzzword; they are an essential component of modern talent management strategies. They empower both employees and employers by offering a structured roadmap for career advancement, fostering professional growth, and aligning personal aspirations with company goals. Transparency in this process is paramount to creating an environment of trust and motivation.

What you will get from the session:

* A deeper understanding of the importance of progression plans, focused both on skills and behaviours

* Knowledge of the steps you can take to create an effective plan, and how to roll out similar frameworks across your teams and companies

* Best practices for running one-on-one meetings with your direct reports, including frequency, topics of discussion, and performance deep dives

More about the speaker:

Luke currently heads up Tech Talent at Cleo, a scale-up that builds an AI assistant dedicated to personal finance, helping over 7 million people manage their money better. He has worked with multiple hyper-growth companies, such as Cazoo and Freetrade, helping them to grow their teams and processes accordingly. In his current role, Luke leads a team of Talent Partners to strategically partner with the business to plan and execute growth strategies.

In this episode, Talentful CEO and co-founder Chris Abbass dives into one of the most pressing challenges in talent acquisition - capacity planning. Joined by Alex Marshall, CEO at Taltrics, they discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 "boom and bust cycle", the surging demand for recruiters, and the turmoil faced by many TA teams in recent months. As an expert in advanced capacity planning, Alex shares insightful analysis of the various problems troubling the industry. Tune in to this episode to hear Alex's optimistic view on how organizations can use strategic planning to adapt and succeed in any business climate.

The past year has brought about many challenges for TA teams, from navigating mass layoffs to figuring out how to do more with less.

A knock-on effect from all of this has been the impact on retention and keeping teams engaged as the market slowly begins to shift.

Our expert panel of senior TA leaders will talk about how keeping your team engaged is not a luxury; it is an essential survival strategy to avoid the impact of disengagement – decreased productivity, high turnover rates and a lack of innovation.

We will discuss how to foster resilience to withstand market fluctuations, practical steps to motivate and engage team members, and whether employee engagement surveys can help you stay ahead.

What You Will Get From This Session:

* Discover actionable strategies to retain top talent amidst market changes, ensuring your organisation stays competitive and resilient

* Learn how to foster a workplace culture that not only retains employees but also promotes innovation, resilience, and sustained high performance

* Understand the key metrics to monitor employee engagement and retention, empowering you to make informed decisions and measure the success of your strategies

More about the speakers:

James Sale, Global Recruitment Director ex-Endeavor / Weber Shandwick / Warner Brothers Discovery

James is a seasoned global talent acquisition director with a strategic mindset, collaborating effectively with senior executives in both matrixed organisations and start-ups. Experienced in crafting and executing tailored talent acquisition strategies, considering cultural nuances and brand identity at a local scale. Proven track record in team leadership during high-growth phases, with expertise in global program development and training covering diversity, equity, and inclusion, employer branding, early careers, and various recruitment processes. A passionate advocate for DEI, with a recent focus on exploring and implementing the benefits of AI in talent acquisition.

Kathrin Holzfurtner, Global Director Talent Acquisition at iDeals

As iDeal's Global Director of Talent Acquisition, Kathrin is in charge of talent and employer branding during a time of significant growth across the company. Kathrin has spent the last 15 years in technology, leading and scaling high-performing teams at Google and Microsoft in Europe and Asia. She is a talent leader with deep commitment to delivering strategies that enable companies to engage and retain game changing talent.

David Brammer, Head of TA & Leadership Consultant, Dyson

David has led European and Global recruiting teams for over 15 years. He previously led the TA functions of Boots Opticians, TK Maxx, Stonegate Group, Kingfisher, Ocado and is now a TA leadership consultant, working with Dyson.

In this episode, Chris sits down with David Moore, VP of Talent Acquisition at Box, to explore how lessons from the past can help shape a more flexible future for talent acquisition. From the impact of emerging technologies like AI to the challenges faced by talent teams in the tech sector post-COVID, David draws on his experiences at Google, Apple, and Microsoft to unpick these unknowns and sheds light on what could be next for TA. Are downswings inevitable? Can we safeguard against them? And how can internal talent teams harness external support without compromising on quality? This episode is an inspiring listen for any TA professional who wants an expert view of the road ahead.

How do you make an immediate impact as a talent acquisition leader? In this week’s episode of Hiring on all Cylinders, Chris Abbass catches up with Samantha Perlman, Head of Talent, at OneSignal, a leading customer engagement platform for brands. The conversation covers her recruitment career journey, her responsibilities as Head of Talent and what excited her most about her latest role at OneSignal.

Wondering how to address resistance to change when taking on a new senior leadership role? Listen to learn more from Samantha and her best practices as Head of Talent.

In this episode, Kan Ta, Talent Acquisition Leader at Robinhood, shares his thoughts on what makes a high performing talent acquisition team. He delves into his extensive experience, having been a Partner at his own recruitment company Binc Search (later acquired by Robinhood), to deliver thought-provoking advice on how to set your TA team up for success. Think high-volume hiring or filling the top of the funnel with candidates is always the answer? Think again.

Join HIGHER founder, Phil Blaydes and Amy Weidner, founder of Amy's Career Hub, to discuss their adult ADHD diagnoses and reflect on their business and TA careers through a new lens.

This will be a unfiltered conversation suitable for fellow ADHD'ers and everyone else with a people or leadership role who works with ADHD'ers i.e. everyone.

Transform’s annual conference has become a must-attend event for people-first leaders and WorkTech innovators everywhere. In this episode, Chris talks to event organizer and company co-founder Samara Jaffe to learn the secrets of its success and discover what’s in store for Transform 2024. Samara shares how she grew Transform from an HR-focused, two-day conference into a three-day extravaganza that’s expected to attract more than 3,000 executives from a broad range of people-driven disciplines. By embracing diverse voices and answering the needs of her community, Samara explains, she created an event that celebrates people, music, and innovation in equal measure. Tune in to hear her inspiring story and get a sneak peek at this year’s exciting lineup of speakers and experiences. Transform 2024 takes place at Wynn Las Vegas and runs from March 11 to 13.

Discounted tickets are available for HIGHER community members

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Join our panel of leading CEOs and TA leaders to discuss what comes next after a crazy 2023.

Will 2024 will be about calm growth or more chaos?

Tune in to find out what esteemed talent leaders think.

With a little bit of input from HIGHER founder, Phil Blaydes.

Most of us are probably familiar with the Agile framework when it comes to product and tech teams, but what happens when you apply it to your recruitment function? In this episode, Chris catches up with James Mantle, VP Talent at Mews to pose that very question. James has implemented the Agile approach to his TA setup at Mews and talks through the benefits, how it has enabled them to move away from reactive recruiting and how they have gone about implementing the approach within the team. Listen to find out how Agile helps Mews’ TA team prioritise key work and what changes need to be made within your own team to embrace it as a new way of working.

In this webinar about campus recruitment, we will delve into the world of connecting businesses with the bright minds emerging from universities and the steps you can take to build a robust strategy.

Campus recruitment is not just about filling positions; it's a strategic move to establish lasting relationships with the next generation of leaders. As businesses, understanding the nuances of campus recruiting is pivotal in securing top talent right from the start of their careers.

Join us as we explore the significance of campus recruitment, the evolving landscape of student expectations, and how companies can make a lasting impact on the early career choices of grads.

What You Will Get from This Session:

Insights into Shaping Future Leaders - Uncover strategies to identify and nurture potential leaders among graduating students. Learn how to spot and cultivate leadership skills that will benefit your organization in the long run.

Effective Branding on Campus - Understand the importance of brand visibility during campus recruitment. Gain practical tips on creating a compelling employer brand that resonates with students, helping your organization stand out in a competitive market.

Navigating the Campus Recruitment Landscape - Understand best practices in on-campus recruiting. Learn how to adapt your recruitment strategies to align with the expectations and preferences of today's tech-savvy and socially conscious student population.

Addressing Student Concerns and Expectations - Gain insights into the current challenges and concerns faced by graduating students. Discover how your organization can proactively address these concerns, creating a positive and supportive recruitment experience that sets you apart from competitors.

Tapping into Diversity and Inclusion - Explore the role of campus recruitment in fostering diversity and inclusion within your organization. Learn how to build a talent pipeline that reflects a variety of perspectives and experiences, contributing to a more innovative and resilient workforce.

Without transformation, you can risk becoming irrelevant in today's fast-changing landscape, but what are the cornerstones of business transformation? In this week’s episode, Chris sits down with Garry Fielding, Private Equity Executive at Francisco Partners Consulting, a leading global investment firm that specialises in tech. They discuss the foundations of large-scale business transformation and chart Garry’s career from working as an assistant analyst at Deloitte to his transition into private equity. Curious about his advice to the world’s fastest-growing companies? Garry shares his expert insight on the most common challenges companies are facing right now, from retention to the importance of creating pipelines of talent. Tune in to learn more!