Recruiting Future Round-Up is the monthly show on The Recruiting Future Podcast channel. It’s a short round-up that highlights episodes you may have missed and gives you my take on some of the key learnings from my guests.
As I wasn’t able to do a round up in January, this episode features interviews from both January and February.
Here are the shows featured:
Ep 237: Analysing The Recruiting Technology Market
Ep 238: The Rise Of Talent Intelligence
Ep 240: Global Talent Trends In 2020
Ep 241: Grit & Resilience In Talent Acquisition
Ep 243: Attracting and Assessing Future Talent
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Transcript:
Matt Alder [00:00:00]:
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Matt Alder [00:01:26]:
Hi everyone, this is Matt Alder. Welcome to the February episode of Recruiting Future Roundup, the monthly show on the Recruiting Future Podcast channel, offering a short roundup highlighting episodes you may have missed and giving you my take on some of the key learnings from my guests. Before I dive into the show, I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who filled in the audience survey that I was running in January. It’s really important to me that I’m giving you all as much value as possible and the survey was an important way of understanding your challenges and objectives for 2020. The results ended up as a pretty even split in terms of the topics that are important to you. Diversity and inclusion, employer branding, recruiting automation, recruitment marketing, recruiting strategy and recruiting technology all scored very highly. There was also a number of other popular suggestions including assessment and workforce planning. On the back of this I will be planning the show’s content to make sure I’m doing everything I can to help you with your Talax acquisition challenges and objectives.
So, on with the roundup. I’ve had a bit of a strange start to the year and a stay in hospital. I’m fully recovered now, I’m pleased to say meant I couldn’t do a roundup for January, so I’m going to include a review of January’s interviews in this roundup alongside February’s kicking off the year with episode 237. I had a great conversation with David Wilson, CEO of Industry Analysts, the Fossway Group. Fossway have recently published their nine Grid report into the talent acquisition software market and we had an in depth discussion about the HCM suite versus Specialist solution debate and how that’s shaping the market. Even if you listen to the interview at the time, it’s well worth revisiting in the light of the recent Ultimate Kronos merger and Cornerstone’s even more recent acquisition of Saba.
In episode 238 I spoke to Marlika Poles, Talent Intelligence Analyst at Philips. If talent intelligence isn’t part of your 2020 strategy, then it absolutely needs to be. Marlika laid out a robust case for it in our conversation, covering strategic advantages and benefits, roi, current adoption rates and the skills needed to build a talent intelligence function.
In episode 239, Jody Cohen, director of Talent Acquisition at Tombris, emphasized the vital importance of the human touch in recruiting and also shared her experiences of moving from agency to in house. Lots of advice here for anyone considering a similar move.
LinkedIn published their annual Global Talent Trends report in January and episode 240 saw a return to the show for their Director of Talent Acquisition, Amy Schultz. Amy talked us through the key elements of the report. The key themes are employee experience, people analytics, internal recruiting and the multi generational workforce. Skill shortages continue to be a problem for recruiters all over the world.
In episode 241 I spoke to Blake Tees, Director of Talent Acquisition at Prestige Care, about his strategies for recruiting in a hyper competitive market. Lots of excellent takeaways from this one, as well as a great chat about the importance of grit and resilience in talent acquisition. One of the requests that came out of the audience survey was for me to interview more chros and senior executives. Well, your wish is my command.
And in episode 242 I spoke to Balaji Ganapathy, an executive leader at Tata Consultancy Services, a company with 450,000 employees globally. TCS are doing some incredible work to deal with digital disruption. This includes radically reskilling their workforce and reinventing their talent acquisition strategy to make it more inclusive. There are so many insights and takeaways in this interview that it’s an absolute must. Listen. If you haven’t listened to it already, then stop whatever you’re doing and listen right now.
Finally, to complete the set of February Interviews in episode 243, I welcomed Cameron Sauceby to the show. Cameron is CEO of Skillz Boot Camp Praxis and we had a fascinating conversation about attracting and engaging with future talent. The rules are really changing here as the market for future talent becomes more diverse and it’s clear that many employers still need to update their thinking if they want to attract the best entry level talent.
You can find the links to all these interviews in the show notes for this episode, so make sure you catch up with any that you’ve missed. If you haven’t already subscribed to the show, you can do that wherever you listen to your podcasts. For the inside track on guests and all the latest developments, go to www.rfpodcast.com and sign up for the mailing list. You can also follow the show on Instagram where I’m starting to post more and content just search for recruiting future look out for a huge amount of excellent content in March and I finally got a new and improved version of the website launching in the next couple of weeks. I’ll also be attending the joint Unleashed TA Tech conference in London on the 24th to the 26th of March, so if you’re going, please come and say hello.
Thanks very much for listening. I’ll be back next week and I hope you’ll join me.
