This week we welcome Heather Dunn to the podcast. Passionate about HR from an early age (16!), Heather brings more than 15 years of experience has an HR leader in technology companies, having held senior roles at Microsoft and Dropbox before joining Gem, where she currently serves at Chief People Officer.
Episode 48: Workforce Development – How Trust and Authenticity Foster Stronger Teams
This week we welcome Becky Chung to the podcast. Passionate about HR, organizational design, and workforce development, Becky honed her skills in a range of industries, including health care, financial services, and software, before assuming her current role as Vice President of Talent Development at Cielo Talent.
Episode 30: Keeping the “Human” in HR — How to Cultivate a Culture of Meaning & Purpose
This week we welcome Alysha Campbell to the podcast. With more than a decade of experience as both a recruiter and HR business partner, Alysha is currently Founder and Principal of CultureShift HR, where she helps companies utilize and engage their best talent while creating diverse and purposeful work environments that help businesses grow and thrive.
Episode 31: Hiring for Potential with AI—The Future of Talent Acquisition & Management
This week we welcome Ashutosh Garg to the podcast. Ashutosh is CEO & co-founder of Eightfold.ai, the first Talent Intelligence Platform to address the talent gap by harnessing the power of AI and search, and founder of Bloomreach, a leading vendor for Digital Experience Platforms.
Episode 8: Candidate Experience & The Future of Reputation Management
This week we discuss Gem’s recent “2020 Recruiting Trends Report.”
Topics include: the continued dominance of LinkedIn as a sourcing tool, the lack of basic email click and open tracking among recruiting teams, why a majority of TA leaders don’t think they need to understand “marketing” to do their jobs effectively, the connection between employer brand and marketing, the challenge of finding quality candidates when speed (e.g., time to hire) and cost are often the dominant metrics against which recruiters are measured, the prevalence and future growth of CRM’s, the top initiatives for TA leaders for the remainder of 2020, and the growing importance of data-driven recruitment marketing practices.
Episode 4: Diversity, Inclusion and Equity in the George Floyd Era
This week we welcome our first guest to the show, Janine Nicole Dennis, Chief Innovations Officer of Talent Think Innovations. Janine’s career spans more than fifteen years in HR and Talent Acquisition and has taken her through the world of pharmaceuticals, healthcare, staffing and R&D. Her deep industry experience, combined with her upbringing as the child of a black NYPD sergeant, affords her a unique and invaluable perspective about the TA challenges facing police departments at this heightened moment of awareness.