Episodios

  • Ep. 26: Lisa Haggar - Candidate Experience & Educating Upwards

    Ep. 26: Lisa Haggar - Candidate Experience & Educating Upwards
    Jun 8 2022
    Educating upwards will help you deliver a better candidate experience You may know Lisa Haggar as the self-described 'lass with sass' on LinkedIn or perhaps from her 3 decades contributing to the HR profession. Either way, she is a brilliant person to talk to about tough subjects, like this one! Strap yourselves in for this one, as we laugh and chat about: experiencing recruitment as a HR candidate and the problem with grilling applicants and interviewer power-games, inspired by this post. experiencing the worst candidate experience, to know how to make it better! not paying people their worth and what you could do instead. don't lowball, develop people! great questions to ask at interview, no matter your age or the seniority of the person interviewing you. be bold enough to educate upwards. the difference of being spoken at or with. giving referrals to the companies that deliver a great candidate experience. Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle in! ✍🏻
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    38 m
  • Ep. 25: Sue Ingram - Handling Dramatic Hiring Managers

    Ep. 25: Sue Ingram - Handling Dramatic Hiring Managers
    May 24 2022
    Tips for partnering with your hiring managers! It was a thrill to speak to & giggle with my good friend, Sue Ingram. An executive coach and a trainer who shows managers how to get extraordinary work out of perfectly ordinary people, and how to have feedback conversations. (While she was recovering from an awful cold!) In our conversation we covered plenty, including: the importance of feedback conversations or, more aptly, 'generous' conversations her brilliant book, Fire Well the problem with promoting people & not training them! dealing with 'drama' hiring managers who cry wolf or explode & why managers behave this way you must know your worth. MUST. how to handle managers who want unicorns the importance of partnering & learning developing a support network planning a difficult conversation eBook Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle in! ✍🏻
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    36 m
  • Ep. 24: Jess Von Bank: See Me, Protect Me, Respect Me!

    Ep. 24: Jess Von Bank: See Me, Protect Me, Respect Me!
    Mar 2 2022
    Employer: See Me, Protect Me, Respect Me! Reading Jess Von Bank's post, “Stop filling reqs and start providing safety. Address the toll of fear and create a culture of hope and health. Do nothing but obsess over the care and nurturing of your own people, and you will stop the bleeding. Just a bet.”, left me wanting to know more! Jess is Lepagen's storyteller and Community Leader for the Now Of Work, and all around awesome human. In our conversation we covered plenty, including: employees wanting, 'see me, protect me, respect me, keep me safe' why your business will thrive if you help people thrive why we shouldn't be going externally to 'acquire' talent before we have looked internally Jess's love of WORQDRIVE and internal mobility how recruiters are ready to cherry-pick employees from the companies who will set mandatory returns to the office! :o trusting people to work like adults stopping being slaves to the screen and slaves to work with solid boundaries and the Now Of Work community. Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle in! ✍🏻
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    35 m
  • Ep. 23: Molly Johnson-Jones - Choosing How To Work

    Ep. 23: Molly Johnson-Jones - Choosing How To Work
    Feb 16 2022
    Molly Johnson-Jones shared a post on LinkedIn that stated '“By removing the need to have a ‘reason’ to request flexibility and giving everyone the freedom to choose how to work, we can make true progress on gender equality.” but how do we get that out of our hiring leaders? While Molly, CEO & Co-founder of Flexa, enjoyed London's winter sun, and I only had the heat of the topic to keep me warm, we covered loads including: the motivation behind creating Flexa, a platform where employers can be verified as offering true flexibility to their people surprising survey results that show both men and women want flexibility the two paths to getting your leaders to see that offering flexible & hybrid working is inevitable the challenges that some leaders face when trusting employees and measuring output instead of presenteeism Molly's own lessons-learned running a truly flexible business What is and most definitely isn't a 4 day week! Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle in! ✍🏻 Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind.
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    35 m
  • Ep. 22: Mark Gilroy - Averting Loss Aversion In Hiring

    Ep. 22: Mark Gilroy - Averting Loss Aversion In Hiring
    Feb 2 2022
    After seeing Mark Gilroy’s fabulous YouTube video about change, (not the one where he’s singing that song ;) ), I wanted to know more and how recruiters can influence change.  A self-confessed professional psychology geek, Mark & I had a fascinating conversation that will help recruiters & hiring leaders partner better! We talked about: let’s stop pathologising change and reframe change in the right language the pandemic showing us that change isn’t hard!  change accompanies by loss is the real issue rational thinking vs. primal more emotional responses winning hiring manager conversations by talking about loss aversion sunk cost fallacy and the Ikea effect, and how this impact recruitment remorse choosing your language around change with care measuring optimism, energy, and level of fault-finding at the start Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle in! ✍🏻 Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind.
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    34 m
  • Ep. 21: Lee Andrese - Rejected Candidates Matter Most

    Ep. 21: Lee Andrese - Rejected Candidates Matter Most
    Jan 17 2022
    The moment I saw Lee Andrese, write, "Dear Hiring Managers & Leaders - YOU are the candidates. Ghosting candidates after they've spent SIX HOURS with you? Shame on you." I knew I had to know more. Lee was sharing a job seeker's post and she was encouraging job seeker's to choose wisely! With years of experience in the recruiting profession, Lee is now a Learning & Development Leader, creating best in class recruiters at Onward Search. Tune into our fabulous conversation and you'll hear: How rejected candidates hear ‘no’ matters! And it’s costing you.  Why recruiters need to be selective over the brands they represent Ensuring you work for a company that you can support wholeheartedly How changing an outbound message, can change the entire experience. What it costs you when you let your company or client ghost a C-suite candidate Making feedback of benefit to the person delivering it!  How to tackle those dreadful no feedback policies.  Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle in! ✍🏻 Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind.
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    37 m
  • Ep. 20: Suzanne Lucas - The Great January Exodus

    Ep. 20: Suzanne Lucas - The Great January Exodus
    Jan 5 2022
    When Suzanne Lucas‘s post, If You Think The Great Resignation Is Bad, Just Wait Until January, popped up in my feed, I knew I had to invite her onto the podcast. You may know Suzanne as The Evil HR Lady but she’s not at all! And we had a fabulous conversation that included: the myriad of things Suzanne does, thanks to remote working how the world of work has changed from ‘being a work giver’ to being ‘be grateful you have employees’ persuading your hiring managers that closing the door on remote, flexible and hybrid work will be the company’s downfall salary shopping and bonuses, and what you can do if you simply cannot pay your people more boundaries, vulnerability and honesty!! Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle in! ✍🏻 Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind.
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    37 m
  • Ep. 19: Girish Jain & Josh Goldstien - Hiring The People You Really Want

    Ep. 19: Girish Jain & Josh Goldstien - Hiring The People You Really Want
    Nov 4 2021
    When the fabulous Ed Han suggests you interview two of his favourite hiring managers, you know it'll be a brilliant conversation! And it would seem I am not Ed's only fan. Do your hiring managers speak about you in such glowing terms? 🤩 In this episode you'll hear Cenlar's Girish Jain, VP of Enterprise QA & Architecture, and Josh Goldstien, VP of Operations Strategy talk about: hiring when the company initially wasn't ready for remote working & when you want to use a whiteboard! overcoming the hierarchy of communicating and the benefits of not flying people in for interviews. the reasons Girish will help source people, gives the heads-up on future hiring, and the benefit of giving prompt feedback the reasons Josh gets involved in the offer - super important in this market! reeling in the people you want to work with - it's a partnership, a 2 way street. ...and recruiters are not a service! Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind.
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    28 m