In this episode of The Hiring Enablement Podcast join us as we talk to Conor Sweeney, Global Head of People Strategy / Interim Head of Global Corporate Real Estate at Weightwatchers, to dig into all things people and business strategy – and alignment. With a background working in corporate real estate, talent development, and HR, Conor has seen it all in the business world. So, just weeks after we launched Hiring Enablement to help companies align their hiring strategies and improve their talent...
Jul 17, 2023•48 min•Ep. 35
It’s the first episode of the newly named Hiring Enablement podcast, and in this bonus episode, we have an exciting announcement to make! We’re joined by Solutions Driven CEO Gavin Speirs to speak about Solutions Driven’s new concept: Hiring Enablement. In this podcast, Gavin talks to host Claire Murray about the advent of sales enablement and the parallels between that and the recruitment industry’s need for hiring enablement. Like sales 20 years ago, hiring managers are doing more with less ti...
Jun 26, 2023•17 min•Ep. 34
Hands up if you work remotely or spend at least some of the week working from home? As increasing numbers of us look for more flexible working arrangements, it’s clear how we hire, train, and develop people is changing – and will keep shifting. So, who better to discuss this changing world than someone whose skills span talent and development, training, headhunting, and much more? In episode 32 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we welcome Marina Blanco, a globetrotting talent guru with opinion...
May 30, 2023•28 min•Ep. 33
Picture the scene... You’re at final stage interviews for a Talent Manager role. During the interview, the CEO, your potential new boss, says “I don’t really believe in Talent Management”... What do you do? Run away? Take the job? Try and bring him round to your way of thinking? In the latest episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Current Lighting’s Courtney Abraham tells us how she dealt with the situation when it happened to her in real life. (Spoiler alert: she took the job and won over ...
May 15, 2023•38 min•Ep. 32
In episode 31 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Alan McFadden sits down with Brian Aquart, Host of the "Why I Left" podcast and VP of Workforce & Community Education at Northwell Health to discuss: Employee engagement Why people leave their roles The importance of flexible working And much more
May 02, 2023•28 min•Ep. 31
We’re 30!! Over the last couple of years, we’ve somehow managed to get 30 incredible guests to take part in The Talent Intelligence Podcast. Everyone from tech CEOs to Diversity Officers have graced our ears and every single guest has imparted insights to help us and our listeners navigate the world of HR, Talent, and employee development. So, for the 30th episode, we’re delighted to welcome Elena Agaragimova, someone who comes with a wealth of knowledge and insights on all our key topics. With ...
Mar 30, 2023•28 min•Ep. 30
Coaching. It’s a topic that has come up a lot across both our podcasts and in many talent conversations lately. As many businesses scale back their hiring plans, they’re doubling down on ensuring they retain their best talent, and fail fast when it comes to hiring. And one company that excels at coaching their team is Cognism – a data and intelligence provider that helps sales and marketing teams drive predictable pipeline. So when Cognism’s VP of UK & Ireland Johanthon Ilett agreed to be a ...
Mar 27, 2023•37 min•Ep. 29
What do you get when you cross a UX/UI designer with a human resources expert and DE&I activist? A pretty solid candidate user journey... This episode’s guest on The Talent Intelligence Podcast is the ever-talented Stella Bailleux, change practitioner, IT recruiter, and UX Designer. Stella is currently working at Upday, a rapidly growing technology and media company that strives to contribute to a better-informed and more trustworthy world. She is also setting up her own free HR consultancy ...
Mar 21, 2023•45 min•Ep. 28
“What effect does my behaviour have on the people around me?” This was one of the main talking points of the latest Talent Intelligence Podcast where host Alan McFadden sat down with Sara Milesson, VP of HR at Trelleborg. Clearly someone who has done a lot of self-reflection on her leadership style, Sara admits that she can come across as intimidating – but she’s put the time and effort into changing that and making herself a better leader and manager. According to Sara, the pandemic did a lot t...
Mar 10, 2023•34 min•Ep. 27
rom selling cutlery door to door at 17 to enterprise B2B, Ethan Parker has sold it all. Now VP of Sales at Outbound Squad, there’s little he doesn’t know about prospecting and closing. Or coaching. Because Ethan doesn’t keep his insights to himself. He’s an outbound sales coach and trainer for B2B reps and sales teams, trains his own internal team, and appears on podcasts like ours’ to discuss his sales coaching philosophy. Listen as Ethan joins host Alan McFadden on episode 26 of The Talent Int...
Feb 28, 2023•30 min•Ep. 26
How do you go from a rollerdisco to being a top sports coach? Is attitude more important than talent? How do you get comfortable with being uncomfortable? In the latest episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Alan McFadden sits down with Andrew Sillitoe, performance psychologist, speaker, and founder of multiple businesses to discuss the psychology behind being a top performer. Andrew is a great believer in finding the thing you're good at, and getting really good at it. Rather than focus on...
Feb 17, 2023•59 sec•Ep. 25
Are Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z really all that different when it comes to workplace culture? Don’t we all just want to be a good boss and have a good boss? How do you help your team outgrow you? In the latest episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, host Allen McFadden sits down with Petra Skoglund, Chief People and Culture Officer at Starstable to discuss all these questions. Petra has worked in the people functions of startups and multinationals, and her curious nature has recently seen ...
Feb 02, 2023•25 min•Ep. 24
Being “always on” is exhausting if you’re a small recruitment team. Always screening CVs, always staying late to interview overseas candidates, always with a mile long to do list. But it doesn’t have to be like that. We all know that 2023 is going to be a big year for business. And a tough year — with huge global changes making trading conditions difficult for some. So how do you ensure your hiring and people strategy doesn’t suffer? With always on recruiting... But what does that mean? In this ...
Jan 27, 2023•30 min•Ep. 23
Recruitment is behind in the tech race. If you look at the average organisation’s sales or marketing teams, they’ll (usually) have a sophisticated tech stack that’s used continually to get better results and streamline their processes. However, their recruiting tech stack isn't always so advanced. Many businesses are still recruiting by email, using to-do lists to manage their pipeline, and doing manual outreach. But HR & TA departments are catching up. Many businesses are putting tech at th...
Jan 23, 2023•32 min•Ep. 22
What do you get when you cross a love for business, a passion for people, and a curious nature? A career that looks like Kate Terrell’s. From working at established companies like Accenture and Whirlpool to taking on the challenge of a later-stage, start up at Menlo Security, Kate has worked across every part of management, HR, Talent, Organizational Effectiveness, and Change Management. In her current (new) role at Menlo Security, Kate is growing a talent team in the ever-expanding cyber securi...
Jan 10, 2023•33 min•Ep. 21
From banking, to HR, to talent, to retention, to author – there's very little Trent Cotton can’t do. The Senior Global Director of Talent Acquisition and Retention and author of multiple business books got into the talent sphere after realising he could recruit better than his recruiters. And after attending a seminar on AGILE methodology, he realised that his human-first recruitment philosophy could be made even better. Through putting sprints (a short, time-boxed period when a team works to co...
Nov 17, 2022•51 min•Ep. 20
If you’ve ever been in the market for an ATS, you’ll have heard of Greenhouse . A powerhouse in the hiring software space, they’re used by huge names like Hubspot, Wayfair, and Squarespace to solve many of their talent challenges. And Greenhouse are also a great place to work. They’ve been named as Inc Magazine’s Best Workplace for 5 years in a row, Glassdoor’s #1 Best Place to Work, and in Mogul’s Top 100 Workplaces for Diverse Representation (2022). It’s fair to say they know the recruiting in...
Oct 19, 2022•31 min•Ep. 19
How often do you go to a party, walk up to a stranger and say “hey, I’m Fred/Mary. I’m a really fast runner, I’m the best at baking, and I am brilliant at recruiting”. That would be weird right? So why do we do it in our outreach? Whether you’re a recruiter engaging candidates, a salesperson prospecting, or a party guest trying to make friends, most people don’t care about your “pitch”. Or at least, that’s what ChallengerTM’s Jen Allen proposes in the latest episode of the Talent Intelligence Po...
Sep 14, 2022•47 min•Ep. 18
A few weeks ago, we held a round table with HR & TA leaders about the changes taking place in recruitment across the world. The forum is private so because we can't broadcast it, we decided to get one of our incredible panelists, Beatriz Luca De Tena to join us on our podcast to talk about her experiences. From studying psychology, working with Johnson & Johnson, being employed in almost every part of Spain and now leading up the TA department at Almirall, Beatriz has had a varie...
Aug 05, 2022•40 min•Ep. 17
In this bonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we invited on the man who kicked it all off; Walter Speirs, COO and Founder of Solutions Driven. The topic? Candidate care. Because, when Walter founded Solutions Driven 24 years ago, he did so thinking of the candidate. While we don’t collect CVs or work on behalf of prospective employees, we believe treating them well is why we’re still going two decades on. Throughout his time at Solutions Driven, Walter has been instrumental in ensuri...
Jul 01, 2022•21 min
In episode 16 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Nicki Paterson talks to Megan Bowen, COO at Refine Labs. Refine Labs have been blowing up the demand generation space for a while now so when Megan said she’d come on our podcast, we jumped at the chance. Passionate about creating a successful culture at companies, Megan’s had an impressive career, working for the likes of Grubhub, Managed by Q, and Platterz. In this episode, Nicki quizzes Megan on her people success = customer success = company ...
Jun 03, 2022•39 min•Ep. 16
In this bonus episode of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we sit down with Solutions Driven CEO Gavin Speirs and Chief Growth Officer Nicki Paterson to discuss all things embedded recruitment. On the eve of Solutions Driven launching their new offering, SD Embedded, we look at why embedded is needed in the current market and the significance of this launch’s timing. Nicki and Gavin dig into the challenges companies are facing and the issues embedded recruitment can solve: High attrition rates Co...
May 31, 2022•26 min
Most people would probably be quite happy if they could turn water into beer. But in the case of Brewgooder, they want to do the exact opposite. Or at least, they used to… On episode 15, we talk to Alan Mahon, Co-Founder of craft beer Brewgooder, a beer company founded on providing clean drinking water to developing companies through their beer sales. In the last year, Brewgooder have changed direction somewhat, pivoting to a people-focussed company, rather than just aiming to provide clean wate...
Mar 30, 2022•38 min•Ep. 15
Our latest guest on The Talent Intelligence podcast was the brilliant Laura Holcombe, Global Talent Acquisition Specialist at Reachdesk – a corporate gifting company taking customer and prospect engagement by storm. Working as an in-house recruiter, Laura knows all too well how tough recruitment is just now. Which is why she hires like a BDR. From brushing up on their hobbies and interests, to engaging them with a gift (Reachdesking them!), Laura discusses how candidate engagement is vital in th...
Feb 15, 2022•40 min•Ep. 14
Everyone talks about cold outreach in terms of sales. But you hardly hear anyone discussing how important it is for recruiters on the hunt for candidates. Unless you talk to Lavender's Will Allred. If you haven't heard of Lavender, it's a tool that helps improve your emails, encouraging the right people to engage with you, whether you're in sales, marketing, or you're a recruiter reaching out to top prospects. Working in all those spaces, we were delighted to have Lavender's Co-Founder, Will, on...
Jan 13, 2022•42 min•Ep. 13
How many times have you heard people talking about their failure stories on LinkedIn? Or discussing how important hiring top talent is? Well, if you're Gong's Wendy Harris, perhaps too many times. Because for Wendy, she'd much rather hear about people who have succeeded than failed. And she'd prefer to hire someone with less talent and a greater work ethic, than the other way round. That's just one of the areas we covered when Wendy appeared on The Talent Intelligence podcast. As users (and supe...
Jan 10, 2022•35 min•Ep. 12
Think of 3D printing companies and Stratasys are usually high up on your list. So when their EMEA President Andreas Langfeld said he'd come on The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we were fairly excited. After all, Stratasys are one of the founders of 3D printing, starting out in 1989 (!) and their product has been used to create designer couture that exhibited at The Met a car made with fully 3D-printed exterior panels. Listen as Andreas talks culture, connectivity and what to do when Obama predict...
Dec 14, 2021•31 min•Ep. 11
Usually on The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we keep it pretty loose, chatting about culture, attitude, methods, and how to hire. But when Kristina Finseth said she’d be a guest, we knew that wouldn’t work. Kristina’s an absolute fountain of knowledge on the subject of outreach in recruitment, and if we’d started chatting, we’d never have stopped. So in this episode, we got Kristina to talk through her top outreach tips. Listen as she discusses: 👀 infiltrating recruitment with sales tactics 🤝 h...
Nov 30, 2021•39 min•Ep. 10
This time (over) a year ago, we launched a brand new category - Recruitment Process Intelligence. RPI was created to provide businesses with intelligence throughout the recruitment process and guarantee delivery of the right hire, first time, every time. A year later and a year wiser, we grabbed CEO Gavin Speirs and sat down to revisit that podcast. We wanted to find out if our original goals had stood up to the test of both time and world-altering events that altered the job market completely. ...
Nov 22, 2021•20 min
Should leaders be the best performers in their team? Not if you ask Anthony Parker, General Manager EMEA at Mindtickle. According to him, if he's better than his team, it diminishes his abilities as both a leader and a coach. In episode 9 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Anthony sits down with our Head of Sales Anthony Parker to discuss: Growing and scaling Assessing talent The difference between working at large orgs and start-ups Proving yourself in leadership And much more......
Nov 16, 2021•40 min•Ep. 9
