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Qualifi's Recruiter of the Month; Kathleen Armbruster

Welcome to a new monthly series on the podcast. I am teaming up with the team at Qualifi, a hiring platform that helps recruiters screen, score, schedule, and interview talent before they go cold.

Each month they pick a recruiter of the month and for June that recruiter is… Kathleen Armbruster  Currently serving as the Director of Talent Acquisition at consulting firm called Studio Science, Kathleen has significantly contributed to the evolution of recruiting practices within the company. Her innovative recruitment strategies have notably included the integration of all functional groups to foster a culture of accountability and efficiency, which has significantly sped up the hiring process. 

Read More on Qualifi.hr about Kathleen.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

  • What's been your career path into recruiting?

  • Set the stage: what types of roles do you currently recruit for, how big is the company, how many hires per year?

  • What recruitment strategies have you been implementing to speed up hiring but also to make sure its fair and equitable?

  • Lets talk tech: what kind of HR tech stack do you have in place?

  • What’s one thing you see other companies doing wrong when it comes to recruiting and what advice would you give them?

  • Are you hiring on your team at all?

Do you know great talent acquisition pro? Nominate them here.



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State of People Analytics

Madeline Laurano founder of Aptitude Research recently partnered with HireRoad (a people analytics platform) for the latest insights on the state of people analytics and what it means for your business…she joins me now on the show to discuss…

TOPICS

  1. What prompted this study between Aptitude Research and HireRoad?

  2. What was the knowledge gap in the industry that you wanted to uncover?

  3. Talk me through your survey process — format, audiences surveyed, titles, and number of respondents.

  4. What, in your opinion, were the biggest takeaways from this study?

  5. What surprised you the most in terms of respondent feedback?

  6. The study revealed that only 1 in 3 companies are using people data in their recruitment process. What’s their reasoning?

  7. What are the consequences of not using people data in recruitment?

  8. Of those companies that are leveraging people analytics in their hiring process, how exactly are they using it?

  9. What’s the ROI for companies using people analytics in recruitment, versus those who aren’t?

  10. How is HireRoad making it easier for hiring teams to leverage people analytics?

  11. The survey revealed that many companies think people analytics are only for enterprise-level companies with big teams and big budgets. How is HireRoad making this data feasible for smaller companies?

  12. What’s your advice to companies not yet leaning into people analytics as part of their recruitment process?

  13. https://hireroad.com/



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Converting Candidates with Dalia's Sam Fitzroy

Sam Fitzroy is the CEO and co-founder of Dalia, a candidate conversion platform that activates hidden talent pools and proactively builds interest through personalized touchpoints, automatically. He joins me on today’s podcast to discuss their latest platform release.

TOPICS

  1. Just remind the audience what you guys do first

  2. What’s new at Dalia?

  3. Why should recruiting teams care about conversions?

  4. Are you seeing an increase in applications across your clients generally?

  5. How easy is it for recruiting teams to measure conversion rates that matter?

  6. What’s the impact of improving conversion rates?

  7. Can you share how a customer or job seeker has benefited from Dalia?

  8. Biggest challenge for youguys right now?

  9. Today’s Job search experience



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Vendor Interviews form Unleash America 2024

Travel sponsored by Pillar.hr

I roamed the show floor at Unleash America to chat with some vendors with something to say.

ORDER of APPEARANCE

  • Blue Saturn

  • Hiring Branch

  • Sense

  • BrightMine

  • Flockity

  • Nexxt

  • Nestor



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Unleash Interviews: Donald Knight from Greenhouse

A live interview Donald Knight, Chief People officer at Greenhouse from Unleash America in Las Vegas, next….we covered a wide range of topics from Gen Z to their hiring plans. (16 min)

RecTech Media travel to Unleash is sponsored by Pillar…

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Al Smith, CTO of ICIMS Details Latest Release

The CTO of iCIMS stops by to talk about their latest release.



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Catching Up with Ziprecruiter

Matt Plummer is the Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Enterprise Solutions for Ziprecruiter one of the worlds largest job marketplaces. Founded in 2010, the Santa Monica-based company has over 1000 employees in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Israel. 

TOPICS

1. What's new at the company?

2. Numbers: what are the latest traffic numbers for Ziprecruiter.com? How many seekers do you have in your resume database?

3. It's been a tough 12-18 months for the job board world with ad spend down, how are you viewing 2024?

4. Hows Phil….talk about that user experience….pre-screening new visitors…

5. I heard you raised prices recently (or are about to) why the increase?

6. Will Zip ever look at acquiring other job boards?

7. Podcast advertising….must be working for you guys can you talk about that strategy a bit

8. How is Zip leveraging AI in the job search?



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Andre Boulais, CRO of Cnect Talks Hiring Software

Andre Boulais is a veteran of the HR Tech space with past stints at vendors like Jobvite, Entelo and Silk Road, today he is the new chief revenue officer at Cnect a new hiring software platform. He joins me on today’s podcast to talk about hiring software.

Connect with Andre on LinkedIn

TOPICS

  • How did you end up a Cnect?

  • Describe what you guys do?

  • Kind of a tough market for software vendors in HR tech what challenges are you faced with right now?

  • Target customer?

  • Coolest part of the platform?

  • Free offer for candidates.



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Handshake's Garrett Lord on Early Career Recruitment

Handshake is the leading network for early career talent. Their mission is to democratize access to opportunity by enabling students and alumni to establish meaningful relationships--no connections, experience, or luck required. The company is about to celebrate its ten year anniversary.

CEO/founder Garret Lord Joins the Podcast

TOPICS

- Give us a quick history of Handshake what drove you to build it?

-App first experience?

- The company is hitting a decade this spring and you've made some recent product updates, can you tell us about those? 

- What's an example of a success story with a student or employer using the platform? 

-What products and services do you sell to employers?

-What can job seekers do on the platform?

- How do you see the recruiting landscape changing over the coming years with new technologies fueled by AI? 



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Talkin' Talent Acquisition with Bas van de Haterd

Bas van de Haterd is a professional speaker, consultant and trainer with a particular focus on using technology to improve recruitment. Based in Soest, The Netherlands, he has more than 20 years' experience and his consulting clients include Dutch Rail, Dutch Post and Twente University.

His new book, co-authored with Kevin Wheeler is out. Entitled Talent Acquisition Excellence - Using Digital Capabilities and Analytics to Improve Recruitment.

https://www.koganpage.com/hr-learning-development/talent-acquisition-technologies-9781398614161

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