You know when you have a call with someone and walk away with a sore neck after an hour of nodding in agreement? That's what happened to our Head of Marketing, Claire Murray, and Head of Growth, Nicki Paterson, when they met with Ted Blosser, CEO of Workramp. The Silicon Valley CEO ("Chief Enablement Officer" as he describes it) started Workramp with his co-founder Arsh Mand in 2015. Since then, the company has gone from strength to strength by "empowering every professional to reach their full ...
Nov 08, 2021•40 min•Ep. 8
The post-covid workplace with HR Professional Brian Almas On episode 7 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we sat down with HR and Talent veteran, Brian Almas, to discuss the changes happening as a result of Covid-19. Brian’s worked in the HR space for 20+ years heading up the Human Resources departments in companies like AOL, Flextronics, and now Rightway Healthcare. He’s seen plenty of fluctuations in the way we work in his career, but few as drastic as the ones we’re currently experiencing. I...
Oct 25, 2021•29 min•Ep. 7
In episode 6 of The Talent Intelligence podcast, Solutions Driven's Global Head of Business Growth Nicki Paterson sat down with Manny Medina, CEO of Outreach, soccer fanatic, and a man who feels his business in his bones. From organising his elementary school football squad for success, to heading up cutting edge projects at Amazon, Manny has always known how to get the best from his teams. Now, as funder and CEO at unicorn, Outreach, Manny is one of the leading figures in the SaaS business. In ...
Oct 19, 2021•55 min•Ep. 6
In this bonus episode we catch up with Solutions Driven's CEO, Gavin Speirs, to discuss the current shortage in recruiters and internal talent teams, what's going on with candidate behaviour, and what businesses can do to reduce the effects of this shortage.
Aug 17, 2021•22 min
In episode 5 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we sit down with Ida Matthieson, Head of Talent Acquisition at HBK. Ida has had an interesting first year in her HBK career, joining the business just as the pandemic hit and quickly moving up the ranks while never meeting most of her co-workers (sound familiar anyone?) While she’s been working on a holistic approach to HBK’s talent strategy, Ida has also brought her passion for DE&I to the fore, an interesting challenge in the male dominated ...
Aug 06, 2021•29 min•Ep. 5
In episode 4 of the Talent Intelligence podcast, we’re joined by Nicky O’Brien, FCIPD and HR Dirctor at McCurrach Ltd. Nicky has worked in the HR and Talent space for over 20 years, and has been a continual champion of diversity. While data on diversity is important to McCurrach and Nicky, they’re also focused on conversations around diversity, holding round tables, events, and mentoring programmes where participants are encouraged to be open and honest. They even have a “Diversity Taskforce” ru...
May 25, 2021•35 min•Ep. 4
In Episode 3 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast we are joined by the amazing Shirley Harrison from the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), based at The University of Sheffield. For over 30 years now Shirley has been working in the male dominated industry of manufacturing and mechanical engineering. And in recent months has been given the added responsibility of being appointed the Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion where she leads strategy development and implementation to ...
Apr 29, 2021•59 min•Ep. 3
In this latest bonus episode, we catch up with Solutions Driven's new Chief Diversity Officer Salma El-Wardany to talk about our recent Diversity Promise & Pledge announcement and how we plan to bring that to life to benefit our employees, clients and peers.
Mar 16, 2021•27 min
A quick glance at the Comparably Awards for 2020 tells its own story. Winner of ‘Best CEO’. Winner of ‘Best CEO for Women’. And winner of ‘Best CEO for Diversity’. And that’s just the awards David Cancel won personally. How about Drift also being the winners of ‘Best Company for Diversity’, ‘Best Company Culture’ and ‘Best Work/Life Balance’ and several more? It’s for these reasons I’m excited to share this episode with you. In Episode #2 of ‘The Talent Intelligence Podcast’, I sit down to learn...
Mar 01, 2021•59 min•Ep. 2
Janet Onyia is a true inspiration. Growing up as a young black female in an area of Newcastle where there weren’t any other black families, Janet has faced many challenges and struggles along the way to landing her dream job in tech. Imagine being told by your new colleague that you only landed your prestigious graduate placement job because you were a Black Female. Now working in tech as a Project & Programme Manager at Accenture in Scotland, she is still one of only 3 Black employees and t...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1
In this bonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, our CEO Gavin Speirs and Head of Marketing Robert Gillespie explore the key insights and intelligence that have the ability to hugely impact your recruitment strategy and end results. Gavin also shares for the first time via screenshare ==> https://www.solutionsdriven.com/how-data-intelligence-delivers-the-critical-insights-you-need-to-optimise-your-future-hiring-strategy <== the typical insights and intelligence we gather at Soluti...
Dec 03, 2020•19 min
In this bonus episode, our CEO Gavin Speirs and Head of Marketing Robert Gillespie dive deep into the world of 'Executive Search' recruitment to look at how this process traditionally works and why it's now time for a change. ✔ We take a journey back in time to look at the 'old way' in which executive recruitment was - and still is - carried out...(unfortunately many recruiters are still using this outdated approach) ✔ Why there's been a significant increase in recent months in executive level r...
Oct 05, 2020•22 min
In this bonus episode from The Talent Intelligence Podcast we have not one, not two, but 3 huge announcements from Solutions Driven that will completely change the face of the recruitment industry. Our CEO Gavin Speirs and Head of Marketing Robert Gillespie sit down to have a conversation about our new category - Recruitment Process Intelligence™ and what it means for the recruitment sector. We look at the shifts that have taken place in the recruitment industry over the last few years and the p...
Aug 24, 2020•15 min
IBonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast. My name is Robert Gillespie and in today’s episode I’m talking candidate engagement with Danny Biello, our Delivery Operations Leader here at Solutions Driven. A key skill for any recruiter or hiring manager to master is how they engage a candidate throughout the hiring process…and Danny is a master at this! There’s so many factors that go into a company’s final decision on whether they’ve found the dream candidate or not. But not every company ...
Jul 21, 2020•12 min
Welcome to this bonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast. In today’s episode I’m sharing a special conversation I had with Keith Palmer from our Talent Delivery Team and Gerry Park, one of our Global Key Account Leads to talk all things Talent Mapping and Talent Pipelining. So, if you need some tips and advice on how to find the best talent for your company no matter where they are in the world, or maybe you want start building a talent pool in advance of future recruitment plans, or you...
Jul 14, 2020•18 min
Welcome to this bonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast. And in today’s episode we take you inside our private virtual network of amazing leaders from the world of Talent Acquisition and HR who are working at some of the biggest companies on the planet. We share some of the key highlights and takeaways from these meetings so far - including some of the common challenges and roadblocks they’re all facing right now. This episode takes you behind the scenes and let's you listen in on the r...
Jul 07, 2020•13 min
In today’s bonus episode we take a close look at a recent Forbes article where 20 recruiters shared the 9 most common mistakes job seekers are making amid the Coronavirus pandemic and how it’s likely to change the recruitment process forever. From temporary furloughs to hiring freezes, or job offers being withdrawn to the unfortunate layoffs - there’s been massive upheaval across all industries and roles. For many recruiters though, the screening and hiring of candidates has continued. But are c...
Jun 24, 2020•24 min
Welcome to this bonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, my name is Robert Gillespie and in today’s episode I share a great conversation with our Global Head of Business Growth Nicki Paterson who talked me through his own experience of working with clients during COVID-19, and how he's had to adapt his normal sales approach from thinking about selling and growth to one of building even stronger relationships and adding as much value as possible.
Jun 10, 2020•17 min
Welcome to this bonus episode of The Talent Intelligene Pocast and in today’s episode we take a look and share the latest insights from some of our client and candidate calls over the last couple of months….including: ✔ The number one question we're being asked right now that we'd NEVER have been asked a few months ago... ✔Are more and more companies going to move to 'virtual offices' and close down their physical locations? AND ✔ We introduce our Virtual Network for Global Talent Leaders, Recru...
Jun 03, 2020•8 min
Bonus episode #2 and in today’s episode I catch up with our CEO Gavin Speirs to get his latest commentary on the recruitment industry as we slowly start to see an easing in lock-down. We chat about: 👉 The changing needs of talent acquisition teams... 👉 The value of On-Demand recruitment services... 👉 The power of Data Intelligence when it comes to making the right decisions in times of cost pressures … and a little bit more.
May 26, 2020•8 min
Welcome to the first bonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast. My name is Robert Gillespie and in today’s episode I catch up with Solutions Drivens CEO Gavin Speirs to find out what leading CEO’s, Talent Acquisition Leaders and Hiring Managers are doing to adapt their recruitment plans and processes during this challenging climate of COVID-19. We also look at and how they’re positioning their companies for success when this all ends.
Apr 03, 2020•10 min
