This week on TaPod, we tackle a really important issue – Women’s Health in the Workplace. We are joined by the amazing Jess Gibson-Jones and Kaz Thorley who first shared their personal stories at the Sydney Talent Meet Up a week earlier. From Periods to Peri-Menopause to Menopause to Miscarriages to Endometriosis to Hysterectomy to Cancer and more, we highlight how Women’s Health Issues are not regarded, or even accepted in many workplaces. It’s raw. It’s educational. And it’s essential that thi...
Nov 17, 2024•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 395
The Solution Series - by Tapod is committed to bringing you the best 'New HRTech', State-of-the-Art Solutions and Products to make your life as a TA Professional easier. Today we speak with Elliott Gibb - Co-Founder at Mercu and be prepared to be blown away! Mercu's AI-powered platform automates all repetitive recruiter tasks: Candidate screening, communication, and interview scheduling. Either stand-alone or by integrating with an existing ATS. If you like simplicity and ease of communication, ...
Nov 14, 2024•31 min•Season 6Ep. 394
This week on The Scoop – your weekly TA & Recruitment News the team from TaPod tackles all the BIG issues. From tripping over a puppy fence to NZ jobless rate to employers valuing digital skills over AI skills to emerging roles to Gen Z’ers copping a bake and much, much more. Thanks to Indeed for supporting the industry news.
Nov 12, 2024•20 min•Season 6Ep. 393
This week on TaPod, Lauren has a week off and Craig flies solo with the joint winners of the 2024 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ITA – MYOB and Bendigo & Adelaide Bank. DE&I is such a massive undertaking and both organisations demonstrate their commitment to change with Belinda Leon talking through Bendigo’s strategy to create greater opportunities for people with disabilities, cancer sufferers and First Nations Candidates and Kristina Nutt leads us through the amazing ‘Develop Her’ ini...
Nov 10, 2024•31 min•Season 6Ep. 392
We love to speak with our partners at TaPod and in this special episode we catch up with Rich Lewis-Jones VP AsiaPac @SmartRecruiters to introduce us to Winston the heart, soul, and brains behind “the new” SmartRecruiters as your AI ‘sidekick’. Not only will Winston help save time by taking over your repetitive admin tasks, but also learns from you, to support you as a recruiter. Auto interview scheduling, suggestions on PDs, process and candidates all based on your past interactions. And don’t ...
Nov 06, 2024•32 min•Season 6Ep. 391
This week on The Scoop – your weekly TA & Recruitment News the team from TaPod tackles all the BIG issues. From Kiwis and remote work to emails flouting the right to disengage laws to AI with a side of bias to Gen Z’ers being Gen Z’ers and much, much more. Thanks to Indeed for your support and commitment to bringing you unfiltered news!
Nov 05, 2024•14 min•Season 6Ep. 390
This week on TaPod we sit down with Francesca Watkins, Talent Matchmaker… Inclusivity Champion and TA Manager @AIA NZ – Winner of the ITA for Corporate Talent Team of the Year – sponsored by @Paradox. AIA NZ is the first winner from New Zealand and their submission was amazing! We look at success measures including baselines, targets and outcomes. It’s a great way to measure success. From Talent referrals to 97% Acceptance Rates to Internal Mobility to Gender Pay Gap – AIA NZ is a Talent Functio...
Nov 03, 2024•32 min•Season 6Ep. 389
This week on TaPod we are lucky to spend with some time the ATC Innovation Lab Judges award winner – Stan Wasowicz from Scotty AI and Richard Barnett from award sponsor Hays. Stan is adamant we are entering the age of automation and Scotty has the capacity to complete the recruitment process from start to finish. And that’s not all he has in store for us. His presentation at ATC was controversial and today he gets to drill down on the detail… fascinating. Thanks to SmartRecruiters for your conti...
Oct 30, 2024•43 min•Season 6Ep. 388
This week on the Scoop the team from TaPod brings us all of the weekly TA & Recruitment News including Gen Z’ers do it again… LinkedIn & GDPR… How long should a notice period be? Is Tech finally bouncing back? White collar and AI and much, much more. Thanks to Indeed for your continued support in bringing you the news.
Oct 29, 2024•22 min•Season 6Ep. 387
This week on TaPod we sit down with the great Kevin Wheeler from The Future of Work. Big Kev made some BIG statements at the recent ATC Fearless Forecast and today we are going to drill down on metrics that matter. From Cost per Hire to Time to Hire. Are they really what we should be measuring? Or should we be focusing more on elements within our control… We’ll let Kev answer that! Thanks to SmartRecruiters for your continued support.
Oct 27, 2024•39 min•Season 6Ep. 386
This week on the Scoop the team from TaPod brings us all of the weekly TA & Recruitment News including most current employment data, AI is being differently by males and females in their job search, but shows great savings for workers overall, Mr Beast enters the recruitment market, Lauren is ‘pinging’, remote work still growing and much, much more. Thanks to Indeed for your continued support in bringing you the news.
Oct 22, 2024•18 min•Season 6Ep. 385
This week on TaPod Lauren and Craig catch up with Steph Langford – Lead TA Consultant @MarshMcLennan and winner of the 2024 Enterprise Talent Professional of the Year at the #ITAs. Steph is a real livewire and has learnt how to build effective relationships with Hiring Managers and HR Leaders. Her enthusiasm is infectious and her results are amazing! From Indigenous Employment Initiatives to Gender Pay Parity and even a TA Boot Camp... Steph can get you in shape! Thanks to the amazing SmartRecru...
Oct 20, 2024•31 min•Season 6Ep. 384
This week on the Scoop the team from Tapod brings you all of the weekly TA & Recruitment news. This week we are live from the ATC2024! News this week includes TikTok job losses, migration disaster, gaps in TA skills and strategy, who the hell is Gen Z?... a four-day week in fintech, we hear from our friends at Indeed, Lauren has a rant and much, much more… Thanks to Indeed for your ongoing support.
Oct 15, 2024•14 min•Season 6Ep. 383
This week on TaPod we report directly from SmartRecruiters Hiring Success APAC in sunny Melbourne. And we have a couple of BIG Guests… Rebecca Carr – Global CEO of SmartRecruiters and the Tay Tay of TA - Hung Lee from Recruiting Brainfood. We talk the evolution of the ATS, the proliferation of AI and a helluva lot more. This is one of those episodes that demands you skip your weekly dose of The Joe Rogan Experience, or Mummamia and find some time for your friends at TaPod. We promise you’ll walk...
Oct 13, 2024•36 min•Season 6Ep. 382
This week on the Scoop the team from TaPod brings you all of the TA & Recruitment News from the last week including the end of WFH – what’s the real reason behind it? Doctors driving Ubers… And do you want to drive a bus in Tassie? What about undeniable proof that recruiters don’t ghost candidates… post offices do! Thanks to our friends at Indeed for your continued support.
Oct 08, 2024•16 min•Season 6Ep. 381
This week on TaPod we catch up with Neeti Karranth – Global TA Manager at Pepperstone and winner of the Corporate TA Leader of the Year at the ITAs. How do you recruit across 10 regions from Melbourne, including Cyprus, UK, Dubai, Kenya, Chile, South Africa, Bahamas and the Philippines with a team of 2? Listen to Neeti to find out! Thanks to SmartRecruiters for your continued support!
Oct 06, 2024•35 min•Season 6Ep. 380
This week on the Scoop the team from TaPod brings you all of the TA & Recruitment News from the last week including Gen Z’ers getting fired… Give up the fags and get more holidays… Aussies love remote… watch what your AI spits out and loads more. Thanks to our friends at Indeed for your continued support.
Oct 01, 2024•20 min•Season 6Ep. 379
This week on TaPod we speak with Kirsten Covey – Group Manager TA at Aveo Group. What happens when you roll out a new video strategy and you improve your LinkedIn awareness by 71%... or increase your Indeed & Glassdoor Brand Impressions by 68%... or your Talent Pipeline by 385%? You win an ITA that’s what! Join us as we unpack Aveo’s video strategy – it’s a real success story. Thanks to SmartRecruiters for your continued support!
Sep 29, 2024•39 min•Season 6Ep. 378
This week on the Scoop the team from TaPod brings you all of the TA & Recruitment News from the last week including buzzword bingo, resumes on pizza boxes, unemployment and job ad data, investment raises in NZ and loads more. Thanks to our friends at Indeed for your continued support.
Sep 24, 2024•16 min•Season 6Ep. 377
This week on TaPod It’s week 2 of Craig flying solo on the poddie and he’s really hitting his straps! We caught up with Nick Stebbings from Jumbo Interactive – recent winner of the Excellence In Candidate Experience award at the ITAs (sponsored by Workpro). So what is the big deal about CX and how do you achieve excellence? Listen here and you may just find out! Thanks to SmartRecruiters for your support
Sep 22, 2024•31 min•Season 6Ep. 376
This week on the Scoop we welcome Lauren home after her whirlwind tour of Nashville and we present to you all of the TA & recruitment News from the last week including disturbing office trends in Australia… Big news at Amazon… What grates peoples’ nerves in the workplace… NZ migration talk and loads more. Thanks to our friends at Indeed for your continued support.
Sep 17, 2024•19 min•Season 6Ep. 375
Today on Tapod we hit you right in the face with a SPECIAL episode! That’s right we are so very close to ATC2024 in fabulous Melbourne and we sit down with Jo Vohland to discuss what’s on this year’s agenda as the biggest conference in Australia turns 18! Maisie Farmer from Downer also joins us to give us a little insight into her presentation… No details here – you’ll just have to listen. We are super excited to share with you a very special TaPod offer on tickets – a $300 dollar saving by usin...
Sep 16, 2024•28 min•Season 6Ep. 374
This week on TaPod while the cat’s away the mouse will play and with Lauren in Nashville Craig gets control of the studio, with Brett Potts and the Amazing Kelly Murphy from Story House Early Learning to discuss Innovation. If you were at the ITAs you would remember the unbridled joy and surprise of Kelly and the Team when they were announced as winners of the Excellence in Innovation Award (sponsored by Referoo), but it was so well deserved! Their StoryUp App (developed in conjunction with GetM...
Sep 15, 2024•33 min•Season 6Ep. 373
This week on The Scoop the team from Tapod brings you all of the current Recruitment & TA News. Lauren is off in the US getting her Nashville Recfest on and stepping into the Big Chair is Quila Cervelli – Great Friend of TaPod and EB Superstar! We tackle all the big issues like, cross-generational speak in the workplace, social media is off-limits, billboards are back, the best jobs for AI, spending social time with work colleagues, gender in the application process and much much more! Thank...
Sep 10, 2024•20 min•Season 6Ep. 372
This week on Tapod we catch up with Jamie Holder – the new Enterprise Talent Leader of the Year! It’s the day after the ITAs – we are all a bit worse for wear, but we manage to hold it together and relive the highlights of the night. From the legendary winners – to the amazing entertainment – to the dancing – to the 6am finish… oh boy – what a night! Thanks to everyone who partnered, helped and attended. It was epic! A big cheers to SmartRecruiters for your support.
Sep 08, 2024•40 min•Season 6Ep. 371
This week on The Scoop the team from Tapod brings you all of the current Recruitment & TA News including, Apple and their MASSIVE hiring drive, AI is everywhere, should you be leaving the office for a coffee? What jobs will help you buy a home? Inflation and much, much more. Thank you to Indeed for your continued support!
Sep 03, 2024•16 min•Season 6Ep. 370
Today on Tapod we sit down with Katie Le Page – Chief Talent Officer @Infinite Aged Care Things are really kicking off in the Sunshine State in 2024. The Brisbane Recruitment Meet Up is growing faster than a rat up a drainpipe. And we have a record number of #ITAs2024 Finalists from Queensland. Katie shares with us some of the secrets behind her 4 nominations and how Infinite Aged Care is changing the face of the Aged Care Industry in Australia. Thanks to SmartRecruiters for your support this mo...
Sep 01, 2024•37 min•Season 6Ep. 369
Today on a very special episode of Tapod we sit down with David Macciocca Founder & CEO at VideoMyJob and Poncho Rivera-Pavon Senior Consultant (Employer Branding) at Deloitte to discuss VMJ’s story feed solution and how that has supported Deloitte’s Graduate Recruitment Employer Brand. How do you communicate culture? It’s hard right? The answer just might be video. Take a listen as Deloitte achieved 102 branded videos in 4 days using story feed – in Poncho’s own words… ‘It’s pretty cool’....
Aug 28, 2024•20 min•Season 6Ep. 368
This week on The Scoop the team from Tapod brings you all the weekly Recruitment and TA News with the fabulous Kaylee Landbridge stepping in while Craig competes at the World Lifesaving Championships. They cover all the BIG stories including the ‘Right to Disconnect’, job openings soar, the diverse workforce, myth-busting the Gender pay Gap. And much much more. Thanks to Indeed for your continued support. We appreciate you!
Aug 27, 2024•20 min•Season 6Ep. 367
Today on Tapod we catch up with one of our absolute favourites, Chris Long – Founder of Elev8 and Strategic Workforce Planning Advisor to the United Nations. Chris gives us a review of the recent Recfest in the UK and a preview for Nashville. But that’s not all! Chris covers AI, new tech and what is keeping the UN up at night. It’s a fantastic discussion, with a very, very clever gentleman. Thanks to Xref for your support this month.
Aug 25, 2024•35 min•Season 6Ep. 366
