Are you ready to streamline your hiring process and make better hiring decisions?

In this TA Tech Teardown session we’ve welcomed BrightHire, an interview intelligence software that enhances hiring with structured video interviews, real-time coaching, detailed analytics, collaborative feedback tools, and enhanced candidate insights.

Watch to learn more about the power of BrightHire and see the product in action. You will hear from Jeff Barker, Head of Recruiting at Abnormal Security, sharing use cases and his experience with the product.

Book demo call with BrightHire today.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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!