From generative AI, to DEI, the talent acquisition space has arguably never experienced a time of greater change. How will emerging technologies shape the recruiter and candidate experiences in the years to come? How is employer branding evolving from a âtacticâ to a strategic asset that delivers value across the entire talent lifecycle? And what are the implications of all of this for making smart, data-driven decisions with limited advertising budgets? Each week we tackle these big questio ...
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#60: On the Frontline â How AI is Shaping the Future of High Volume Recruiting This week we welcome Sean Behr to the podcast. Sean is a successful entrepreneur spanning multiple industries, including e-commerce, advertising and automotive. Before joining Fountain as an investor and CEO, Sean held a number of founding and senior leadership roles at âŠ
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Change State Methods & Practices #1: Where to Start When Building an Employee Value Proposition
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Change State is thrilled to introduce a new recurring âminiâ feature on the Changing State of Talent Acquisition podcast. In âChange State Method and Practicesâ, weâll periodically share practical tips, frameworks, tools, and strategies we rely on to help our clients build world-class talent brands and recruitment marketing strategies. What is MethâŠ
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#58: The Coming Storm â Interest Rates & Workforce Readiness in a Persistently Tight Labor Market
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This week we welcome William Sims to the podcast. Before joining Lightcast as SVP of Professional Services, Williams held a number of leadership positions in talent acquisition and sales at Qualtrics, Jani-King Gulf Coast, and Career Builder, where he served as Director of Global Solutions Architects. Topics include: the current state of the labor âŠ
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#57: Employer Branding With Purpose â On Fostering Communal Relationships Across the Talent Lifecycle
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This week we welcome Susan LeMotte to the podcast. Before starting exaqueo, Susan held a number of leadership positions in talent acquisition and employer branding, including as an HR consultant for Home Depot, Director of Talent Acquisition at Ritz Carlton, and Senior Director of Global Employer Branding and Marketing at Marriott. Topics include: âŠ
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#56: Employer Branding From the Top Down â How To Move Beyond Tactics and Leverage Your Employer Brand as a Strategic Asset
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This week we welcome Heather Tenuto to the podcast. Before taking on her current role as CEO of The Muse Group (owners of The Muse and Fairygodboss), Heather spent her early career as a public school teacher before pivoting to a range of sales enablement and revenue growth roles, including VP of Channels at ShoreTel, VP of Sales (SMB Services) at OâŠ
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#55: State of the Industry â How Modern Workforce Intelligence is Shaping the Future of Work
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This week we welcome Ben Zweig to the podcast. With a Ph.D. in Economics, Ben currently teaches a course on âthe Future of Workâ at NYUâs Stern School of Business, and serves as CEO of Revelio Labs, a workforce intelligence consultancy he founded in 2018. Topics include: economics, the basic definition of âwork,â the value of viewing jobs as a bundâŠ
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This week we welcome Rachel Gulley to the podcast. Rachel started as a recruiter at staffing agencies before taking on a variety of recruiting operations management roles at WilsonHCG, Asurion, and FanDuel, where she currently serves as Director of Talent Acquisition Operations. Topics include: organizational culture, core values, how core values câŠ
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This week we welcome Carina Clingman to the podcast. With a PhD in biochemistry, Carinaâs early experiences looking for jobs in the biotech space led her to start Recruitomics, a TA consulting group that helps small and startup biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies find and retain top talent. Topics include: the advantages (and disadvantages) âŠ
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#52: David and Goliath â How Non-Technical Companies Can Compete with Tech Titans for Talent
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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. Topics include: how HR can be a âlonelyâ roâŠ
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This week we welcome Gretchen Huestis to the podcast. Passionate about human potential and purpose-led change, Gretchen has more than 20 years of experience as a management consultant and holder of senior HR leadership roles. She honed her skills at Towers Perrin, Pitney Bowes, SABMiller, and HSBC before assuming her current position at Siegel+GaleâŠ
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#50: Understanding the Labor MarketâInflation, Pay Equity, and Employees as âFree Agentsâ
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This week we welcome Jay Denton to the podcast. An expert in labor market analytics, Jay spent time at Bell Partners and Axiometrics before joining LaborIQ as Chief Analytics Officer. Topics include: the current status of the labor market, layoffs vs. new job creation, inflation, skills-based hiring and industry switching, pay equity, approaches toâŠ
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This week we welcome Adam Godson to the podcast. An HR technology veteran, Adam spent more than eight years at Cielo Talent before assuming his current role as President & Chief Product Officer at Paradox, a conversational AI platform for talent. Topics include: the growth of quick apply frameworks, the challenges of communicating an EVP in a quickâŠ
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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. Topics include: skills-based recruâŠ
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#47: 2023 Talent Trends â Skills-Based Hiring, Employer Branding, and the Rise of AI in Making Layoff Decisions
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Co-hosts Graham and Marty return for The Changing State of Talent Acquisition Season 3 debut. They share how the agency business has evolved in the past year and discuss key trends that will shape the talent acquisition landscape in 2023 and beyond. Topics include: Skills-based hiring, how automation can improve the hiring process, approaches to meâŠ
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This week we welcome Chandan Golla to the podcast. Chandan is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer for Included.ai, a DEI-first people analytics platform. Prior to co-founding Included.ai, Chandan spent more than 20 years delivering compelling experiences powered by data, having led product teams at eBay, OneTrust, and Integris Software. Topics incâŠ
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This week we welcome Adam Jackson to the podcast. Adam is a serial entrepreneur (Dr. On Demand, DriverSide.com, MarketSquare.com), startup advisor, and technology investor (Cambrian Asset Management). Adamâs most recent venture, Braintrust, is the first and largest decentralized talent network completely controlled by its users. Topics include: theâŠ
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This week we welcome Delfina Stabile and Xavi Martinez Salcedo to the podcast. Delfina began her career in Buenos Aires, where she worked as a Recruiting Analyst for Michael Page, before joining Uberâfirst out of Mexico City, and currently out of San Francisco, where she serves as Talent Attraction Manager. Prior to joining Uber, where he currentlyâŠ
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#43: The Fourth Industrial Revolution â Recruiting at Scale in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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This week we welcome Amit Parmar to the podcast. With more than 16 years of experience in technology and human capital management, Amit spent time at IBM, Deloitte, and Unisys before founding Cliquify, an AI-powered content marketing platform that drives equity in recruitment. Topics include: the fourth industrial revolution, how AI makes the curreâŠ
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Episode Description This week we welcome Jeffrey Spector to the podcast. Jeffrey spent more than six years at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he served as Chief of Staff to Melinda Gates, before co-founding Karat, a service that helps CTOâs and CHROâs make technical interviewing a customer-centric experience. Topics include: the surging âŠ
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This week we welcome Lindsay Witcher to the podcast. As a member of Randstad RiseSmart's global leadership team, Lindsay guides the development of solutions that empower talent leaders to successfully manage mobility within their organizations. We sat down to discuss her recent article, âDeBunking 4 Myths About Reskilling Your Workforce.â Topics inâŠ
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This week we welcome Ali Hackett to the podcast. After starting her career in the agency world, Ali spent more than 15 years as a talent acquisition and employer brand consultant before co-founding Meet & Engage, an award winning candidate experience technology. We sat down to discuss virtual hiring events in a post-pandemic recruiting landscape. TâŠ
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This week we welcome Bryan Adams to the podcast. As Founder and CEO of Ph.Creative, a leading employer branding and talent attraction agency, Bryan has spent more than 17 years helping organizations build world-class employer brands. His creative, unconventional and even controversial methodologies have changed the way people think about employer bâŠ
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This week we welcome Raghav Singh to the podcast. Raghavâs career in talent acquisition spans more than 30 years, including chapters at Taleo (where he served as Product Manager from 2000-2004), UnitedHealthGroup, KornFerry, and Salesforce, where he currently serves as Director of Product leading a team building HR and talent acquisition products. âŠ
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This week we welcome Scott MacGregor to the podcast. Prior to entering the world of talent acquisition, Scott spent 17 years as Chief Revenue Officer for Flo-Tech, where he saw the company grow from five employees to more than 300. Along the way, his experiences with recruiting systems and processes led him to believe that talent acquisition is funâŠ
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#36: Finding Your North StarâHow Strong Brands Guide Business Decisions, From Product Design to Talent Acquisition
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This week we welcome Lindsay Pedersen to the podcast. Lindsay spent her early career as a brand manager at Clorox before starting her own brand strategy consulting firm, Ironclad Brand Strategy. Her recent book, âForging an Ironclad Brand: A Leaderâs Guideâ provides an accessible overview of what branding is (and isnât) and offers a multitude of reâŠ
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This week we welcome Hung Lee to the podcast. With more than 20 years of recruiting experience, Hung is the creator and curator of the wildly popular âRecruiting Brainfoodâ newsletter and community, and Founder of Workshape.io, a next generation matching service for tech talent. Topics include: the origin and growth of Recruiting Brainfood, the hisâŠ
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This week we welcome Aaron Kraljev to the podcast. Aaron began his career at Wells Fargo, where he served as VP - Marketing Program Manager for the Student Banking Program, before transitioning in 2009 to lead the organizationâs employer brand and candidate advocacy program. At the time, the concept of employer branding was still in its infancy, unâŠ
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This week we welcome Vivek Ravisankar, CEO of HackerRank, to the podcast. Vivek co-founded HackerRank in 2012 with the mission of using skills assessments to match developers with the right jobs. Since then, the company has helped more than 2,000 organizations go beyond rĂ©sumĂ©s and âpedigreeâ to find talent with proven programming skills. Topics inâŠ
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This week we welcome Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami, to the podcast. Mayor Suarez made news in recent months with his Twitter activity promoting Miami as the next Silicon Valley. We sat down to discuss the tweet that went viral, how Miami is capitalizing on this âlightning in a bottleâ moment, and the cityâs efforts to build a workforce developmentâŠ
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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. Prior to founding these enterprises, Ashutosh managed Search and PerâŠ
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This week we welcome Alysha M. 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 âŠ
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#29: Punk Rock HR â How to Bet on Yourself and Take Control of Your Career in 2021 & Beyond
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This week we welcome Laurie Ruettimann to the podcast. As the face of the popular âPunk Rock HRâ podcast, Laurie will need no introduction for many of our listeners. Laurie began her career working in HR operations and recruiting for such organizations as Monsanto, Alberto-Culver (now Unilever), and Pfizer, before leaving corporate America altogethâŠ
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#28: Farewell 2020âReflections on Growing a Business During a Pandemic & Our Expectations of the Year Ahead
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In our final episode of 2020, we are guest-free and share our reflections on Change Stateâs second year in business, the lessons we learned along the way, and the topics and trends weâll be watching as we look ahead to the new year. Topics include: Change Stateâs growth during a pandemic year, the value of founder-created content for organic busineâŠ
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This week we welcome Kelly Robinson to the podcast. Kelly has founded numerous ventures in the talent acquisition space, including a staffing firm (MECS Communications), a job distribution platform (Broadbean), a marketing content sharing tool (Paiger), and most recently, RedDotMedia, a recruitment marketing agency. Topics include: the future of buâŠ
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This week we welcome Elliott Garms to the podcast. Elliottâs career in talent acquisition dates back to childhood, when he helped run his fatherâs executive search business out of the family basement. Much has changed since these early days of manually inputting paper resumes into a then-new-fangled system called an ATS; Elliott went on to found orâŠ
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This week we welcome Mahe Bayireddi to the podcast. As a member of Forbes Technology Council, Mahe has co-founded multiple startups, including BHSP Nexus Software Consulting, BijaHealth, SnipSnap, and most recently, Phenom, where he currently leads as Chief Executive Officer. Topics include: why effective leaders must be effective recruiters, PhenoâŠ
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This week weâre guest-free and discuss the nominees for Recruiting Briefâs MVP award in the category of employer branding as well as Glassdoorâs new âReview Intelligenceâ offering. Topics include: the impact of COVID on employer brands, the ways in which our predictions in March proved (in)accurate, whether an organizationâs pandemic response is a âŠ
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This week we welcome Richard Carsley to the podcast. Rick has led talent acquisition teams at a number of well-known brands, including Farmers Insurance, Bankers Life and Casualty Company, TSYS, IKEA, and most recently, Freedom Mortgage, where he currently serves as Director of Talent Acquisition. Topics include: the superiority of Wawa pizza subs,âŠ
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This week we welcome Morgan Llewellyn to the podcast. As a trained data scientist, Morgan shares his wealth of experience from a career spanning multiple industries, with stints at Salesforce, Predictive Partner, and eventually Jobvite, where he currently serves as Chief Data Scientist. Topics include: the history and purview of âdata science,â howâŠ
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This week we welcome Prem Kumar to the podcast. Before co-founding Humanly, an Y Combinator-accelerated startup focused on improving the efficiency of candidate screening, scheduling, and engagement at scale, Prem spent ten tears at Microsoft, where he was responsible for delivery and operations of all software initiatives for the organizationâs HRâŠ
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This week we welcome Lucy Williams to the podcast. Lucy's distinguished career in talent acquisition spans more than twenty years, with stints at such organizations as RP International, IBM, and most recently, Visa, where she led a team as Regional TA Director for Central Europe, Middle East and Africa. Topics include: the similarities and differenâŠ
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This week we welcome Bas van de Haterd back to the podcast (our first repeat guest!). Bas proudly identifies as a âprofessional snoopâ â a title that captures his more than 15 years of experience as an HR consultant, candidate assessment and experience expert, and frequent conference speaker. Topics include: the problems with using questionnaire-baâŠ
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This week weâre guest-free and begin with a recent ERE article about AI and screening bias, before unpacking an article from Bas van de Haterd about the future of digital assessments. Topics include: biases in screening and assessments, the ways in which AI can amplify (or minimize) the biases of the human recruiters who use them, the problem of trâŠ
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This week we welcome James Ellis to the podcast. A self-proclaimed employer branding "nerd", James is a leading voice in the world of talent branding, having led EB initiatives at GroupOn and Universum before assuming his latest role at Roku. He's also the author of several books, including "Talent Chooses You" and "The Employer Brand Handbook VoluâŠ
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This week we welcome Ed Pedini to the podcast. Ed has worn numerous hats in the HR space, from practice director at an RPO helping start-ups scale their workforces, to Co-Founder of All2.io, an employee experience solution, to his current role as Director of Customer Success at Seekout, an AI-powered sourcing tool for recruiters. Topics include: hoâŠ
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This week we welcome Adam Gordon to the podcast. Adam's career in talent acquisition spans more than twenty years, from his early days sourcing accountants as a frontline recruiter, to a stint at PWC as a consultant in the organisation's HR practice, to his current role as Co-Founder and CEO of Candidate.ID. Topics include: the meaning of candidateâŠ
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This week we discuss Googleâs announcement of its plans to disrupt the higher education market by offering skill-focused certifications for as little as $49/month. We also announce our new initiative, EqualOpportunityHires.com, for bringing equal opportunity jobs to underrepresented talent where they already âliveâ online. Topics include: the fundaâŠ
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This week we welcome Bas van de Haterd to the podcast. Bas proudly identifies as a âprofessional snoopâ â a title that captures his more than 15 years of experience as an HR consultant, candidate assessment and experience expert, and frequent conference speaker. Topics include: the myriad dimensions of candidate experience, how optimized career sitâŠ
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This week we welcome Jody Ordioni to the podcast. Jody is Chief Brand Officer of Brandemix, founder of Achieve Engagement, and author of The Talent Brand, and award-winning book on structured approaches to brand building. Topics include: the value of viewing consumer and talent brands holistically, the limitations of content-first approaches to talâŠ
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This week we welcome Todd Davis to the podcast. Toddâs career spans more than 25 years in talent acquisition, from his current role as a Global Talent Executive at IBM, to leadership roles at Ancestry, Amazon, and WarnerMedia. Topics include: why HR lags behind other departments in analytic prowess, the limitations of focusing recruiting efforts onâŠ
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