On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull is joined by Michael McMillan, Vice President of Global Talent Acquisitions and Corporate HR at Stryker. Michael was drawn into talent acquisitions after seeing the impact that one of his first hires had on a client that his company was supporting. That customer-centric focus has stayed with him throughout his career, and he maintains a recruitment philosophy that sees customer experience as the defining mission. In order ...
Apr 26, 2022•17 min
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull speaks with Ashleigh Anderson , Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition for Credit Karma, about the need for talent acquisition specialists to assert their role within businesses. Ashleigh gained valuable experience in talent acquisition long before coming to Credit Karma. She worked as a recruiter and talent manager for several organizations, including Microsoft, before entering her current role. This rich background ...
Apr 12, 2022•15 min
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Mike Ganiere , Senior Director of Talent Acquisition at Northwestern Mutual. Like many professionals in the TA industry, Mike started his career outside of recruiting. He worked in sales for companies like Pepsi and Nestle before getting into the talent acquisition space. After a stint at Robert Half, he made the jump to executive search in 2008, which eventually led to his role today at Northwestern Mutual. There...
Mar 15, 2022•21 min
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull speaks with Mike Miller, Director of Talent Acquisition at Chipotle Mexican Grill. They talk about Mike’s storied career and the future of talent recruiting. Mike stumbled into HR while studying English at UCLA, recruiting for an SAT tutoring company to earn money while at school. From there, Mike’s gregarious personality and passion for people saw him become a successful talent recruiter for Hot Topic, Red Bull, and event...
Mar 08, 2022•35 min
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, Ryan Dull gives his outlook on the current state of the TA industry in an interview with Phil Strazzulla , Founder of Select Software Reviews . Ryan has been in the talent acquisition and recruiting industry for nearly 27 years, and began in a corporate capacity. Eight years ago he started Sagemark to help TA leaders modernize their systems so they can scale up quickly and efficiently. Phil is an industry leader in the world of HR and re...
Mar 01, 2022•50 min
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Jon Finch, SVP of Talent at Milwaukee Tool, a tool manufacturing company that has invested heavily in technology and innovation across its power tool and hand tool businesses. Jon boasts a lengthy career at the company, starting more than 20 years ago as a sales rep calling on hardware stores and lumberyards in four states. After taking on several different sales roles, he worked his way into recruiting sales and ...
Feb 02, 2022•18 min
This episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast offers a bit of a twist; Ryan Dull is the guest. This is a repost of the Recruiting Future podcast with Matt Alder , and Matt and Ryan discuss Ryan’s career path, the challenges TA professionals face today, and what the future holds. Ryan spent the first 18 years of his career in corporate recruiting, both in the trenches and in management positions. Along the way, he became enamored with technology and how it could make the life of TA profe...
Jan 11, 2022•29 min
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Maura Quinn, assistant vice president, university, DEI & emerging talent acquisition at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Maura’s story is an interesting one. She started at Liberty directly out of college, and she was the first college graduate hired straight out of school in the human resources department. There wasn’t a recruiting role at the company at that time. She was introduced to a group of interns early on, ...
Jan 04, 2022•13 min
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Rob Daugherty, Vice President of Talent Acquisition, Lowe's Companies, Inc. Rob talks about his career journey in the TA space which, like many people, started with a conversation with a headhunter when he didn’t know what a headhunter was. He started at a boutique agency in Chicago and eventually moved into a corporate role at Kinko’s when they were moving from California to Texas. He spent time at several compan...
Dec 13, 2021•23 min
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull is joined by Steffanie Chaviano, Director of Talent Acquisition and Strategy at Autism Learning Partners, a full-service treatment provider for children with Autism and their families. Steffanie tells Ryan about her career journey, which included a few years of recruiting in corporate dentistry before ending up at ALP three and a half years ago. She has seen a lot of changes as a Talent Acquisition leader, and she believes...
Oct 19, 2021•17 min
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Brent Schreckengost, Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Calix. Calix provides cloud and software to communications service providers to enhance their subscribers’ experience. Brent sums up his journey into the TA space, which started 15 years ago at a recruiting agency. He worked in several agency and in-house environments, making valuable connections along the way. He was brought in at Calix in April of 202...
Oct 13, 2021•13 min
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Trent Cotton, VP Talent Acquisition & Retention at Bureau Veritas Group, a global company that performs various types of testing, inspection, and certification. Trent talks about the unique aspect of his particular job. He has to identify and recruit specialized talent to fill many of their open roles, because not everyone is qualified to perform testing, inspections, or certifications. In order to get the bes...
Oct 05, 2021•22 min
Sara Fatima, Head of Global Talent Acquisition at Verifone joins host Ryan Dull on this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast to talk about her career journey; how Covid has affected the TA landscape; and how storytelling through social media can be a powerful tool for organizations to personalize the experience candidates have with them during the hiring process. Sara got her degree thinking computer science was going to be her career path. She wanted to interact with people, which ...
Sep 28, 2021•14 min
Blair Dugan, Sr. Director, Human Resources, at BeiGene joins the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast on this episode, and she shares with host Ryan Dull her background as a TA leader in the biotech, life sciences, and pharmaceutical industries, and her role now at a rapidly growing global organization. Blair got her start at a staffing agency, which she recommends for anyone starting a career in recruiting and talent acquisition. That led to agency work, which led to in-house positions in science...
Sep 14, 2021•16 min
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Dennis Kaps, Director of Talent Acquisition at Ferrara Candy Company to talk about his long TA career, his experience in several different industries, and where he sees talent acquisition heading in the future. Dennis got his start in recruitment back in college at the Ohio State University, where he was recruiting for a leadership fraternity. A move to the national headquarters led to him working across the count...
Sep 07, 2021•20 min
Shelley Radford, VP of Talent Acquisition at The Wonderful Company joins the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast on this episode, and she shares with host Ryan Dull stories about her career path, how it led to her role at Wonderful, and her thoughts on being entrepreneurial versus being centralized in a large organization. Shelly started at a staffing agency where she learned the ins and outs of the administrative and process side of talent acquisition that would be important throughout her caree...
Aug 31, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 23
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast Lisa Hammond , Senior Vice President of Global HR at Allscripts and Steve Mahoney , Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Allscripts, join host Ryan Dull to talk about their careers in HR and TA, how Covid affected the talent market, and the explosive growth the talent acquisition profession is seeing today. Lisa brings experience with HR operations, generalists, business partners, and talent acquisition to the table. Her career dates ...
Aug 26, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 22
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, Geri Kalinsky, Global Head of Talent Acquisition and Internal Mobility at Warner Music Group, joins host Ryan Dull to talk about her career path, including stops in the fashion and media industries, her role at her current position in the music industry, and why she chose to work in a variety of industries to make her better at talent acquisition. Geri began her career in the fashion industry in an entry level HR position. After a year a...
Aug 10, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 21
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, Tom Atkinson , Senior Director, Talent Acquisition at Hospital for Special Surgery , joins host Ryan Dull to talk about his experience as a TA leader at HSS, the challenges he faces on a daily basis, and how he and his team have worked through those challenges. HSS has a staff of over 5,000 and is still growing. They perform more than 30,000 surgeries per year, have 50 operating rooms working live at any one time, have 20 active research...
Aug 06, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 20
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull is joined by Lance Sapera , VP, Talent Acquisition at Talend to talk about his background in the Navy, his career path since joining the civilian ranks, and his experiences in building and improving a global TA company. After an 18-year career working mostly in operations and deployment in squadrons and carrier battle groups, the Navy selected Lance to lead over 300 Sailors recruiting in Northern California. He recalls an ...
Jul 27, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 19
On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, Kat Brignano , Vice President Talent Acquisition at Vituity , joins host Ryan Dull to talk about her career path, changes she has seen in recruiting and in business in general since the Covid pandemic turned the world upside down, and the major changes she sees on the horizon in the world of recruiting. Kat started her career working in non-profit organizations so that she could do “good work.” She ended up in recruiting, and it wasn’t l...
Jul 20, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Tony Cornett , Senior Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition at The Trade Desk , got into recruiting by accident when he went to interview for a job and found out there was a recruiting job open that paid more. He quickly fell in love with the things that most recruiters fall in love with—the research of the hunt, the tenacity needed to press forward, and the tying together business objectives with outcomes. On this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, Tony joins host Ryan Dull ...
Jul 13, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull welcomes Jose Carbia , Vice President Global Talent Acquisition at Change Healthcare to talk about his long career in recruiting. Today, Jose is using his experience to transform the culture at Change Healthcare to one of true diversity through awareness, attraction, and accountability. Jose believes that an organization should use every possible means to rid itself of bias, both conscious and unconscious, in its hiring pr...
Jun 29, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull chats with Vaishali Saxena , Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Coforge , about her career path shift from HR to talent acquisition, and how she finds TA to be much more interesting. Vaishali lays out the process she developed when she began her current role at Coforge, including how she brought the historically outsourced recruitment process entirely in-house, and how that resulted in savings for the company. She giv...
Jun 22, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 15
In this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull connects with Eran Arbel, Assistant Director of Leadership & Talent Acquisition Management at Florida International University, to talk about his long career in recruiting and organizational development. After getting his start with large public sector organizations, Eran finds himself back at his alma mater, FIU, and he tells Ryan about some of the unique and interesting challenges he faces as a university recruiter, ...
Jun 15, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, host Ryan Dull sits down with Aryeh Lehrer, VP of Talent Management & Acquisition at Comcast. He discusses his career and how he and his company are adapting to the massive changes that are occurring in the talent acquisition space. Aryeh believes that in today’s environment you have to look at more than just external recruiting. He focuses on his company’s talent management strategy and development of their internal employees, succe...
Jun 08, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 13
On this episode of Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast, your host Ryan Dull of SageMark HR interviews Robin Linn , Senior Director, Creative Talent Acquisition of Activision | Blizzard | King. Robin dives into his career in the recruitment industry, especially his current role recruiting in the animation and gaming industry. Having grown up in the shadow of Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, animation has always been a part of Robin’s life, despite his early career as a banker. A lucky break as a sculpto...
Jun 02, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Denise Bonder, VP of Talent Acquisition at Spring Education Group , joins host Ryan Dull of SageMark HR on this episode of the Talent Acquisition Leaders podcast. She talks about her career and the new and ever-changing challenges she sees in recruiting and hiring talent in today’s world. Denise has had an interesting career path including stops at the Wonderful Company (Fiji Water), where she built a recruiting program from the ground up, Beach Body, and Aramark. She dives into her position at ...
May 25, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 11
In this episode of the TA Leaders podcast, we have a great discussion with Lisa Starin , Director of Talent Acquisition and Talent Management at Baylor Scott & White Health . Lisa is currently serving in a dual role. She leads the talent acquisition team of 22 members. She also serves as the interim talent management director in charge of a new performance management framework and platform for 50,000+ employees. Interestingly, Lisa started her career in a hybrid role as office support and an...
May 20, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In this episode of the TA Leaders podcast, Yana Kogan , VP of Talent Acquisition at Crum & Forster Insurance , sits down with us to share her TA career journey, expertise, and experience in advancing a talent acquisition strategy. Yana discusses centralizing the talent acquisition function during her time at Honeywell, and how her team made it work with new processes and procedures. She also covers the way they approached outsourcing some of their recruiting. By sharing her career path throu...
May 11, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 13
