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SHRM24: Compliance Talk with VirgilHR's Jocelyn King

Jocelyn King, SHRM-SCP is the CEO and Founder of VirgilHR, a SaaS solution that empowers HR professionals to make smart, compliant employment and labor law decisions in real-time. We discussed a lot around compliance particularly as it pertains to recruiting.

HR has been the passion and focus of Jocelyn’s entire career as she’s supported high-growth technology start-ups and public companies throughout her tenure. She defines herself as a true HR generalist and has touched on all aspects of HR in her more senior roles. Jocelyn has strong expertise in creating and executing HR strategy, managing employee relations for multi-state and global organizations, developing a diverse and high-performing work culture, owning organization development and change management, and crafting the total reward, talent development, and talent acquisition strategies.

In addition to HR, what has also remained consistent in her career has been technology. Jocelyn has worked for technology companies most of her career and, as an HR executive, has had the privilege of supporting executives and departments in all functions across the organizations. In her role as CEO for VirgilHR, she’s displayed proven success in building a venture-backed technology company from the ground up. She has held previous roles as the Vice President of People, North America for Ocado Group, as well as Vice President of People for Cybrary, a Series-C start up. She’s spent a majority of her career working with a range of tech companies from Pre-Seed to Post-IPO.



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SHRM24 Interviews: G-P's Head of HR Laura Maffucci Talks AI & More

Laura Maffucci is G-P’s Head of HR, and she leads the company’s global workforce, talent, and employee experience. She operates from a people-first mindset and strongly believes that diversity of thought is paramount for a healthy workspace. We chatted about AI in HR and their new AI powered onboarding tool.

Laura previously held leadership positions in the Global Total Rewards team at G-P, from Sr. Director to VP. Before this, she led Total Rewards & HRIS at Progress, a tech company focused on products to develop, deploy and manage high-impact applications. Prior to Progress, she held roles of increasing responsibility with Ocean Spray Cranberries, where she was awarded HR Award for Innovation and Creativity (2016). Her tenure at Ocean Spray Cranberries was preceded by roles with an emphasis on compensation and HR practices.

In her 20+ year career in HR, Laura has spoken on global and national platforms about compensation, employee well-being and mental health. She’s a staunch advocate for the employee experience and creating a culture of inclusivity. Laura is passionate about the future of work, normalizing the value of work everywhere, and enabling employees across the globe to be their best selves and add value wherever they go and whatever they do.

Recorded live from the G-P booth in Chicago at SHRM24.

RecTech Media Travel Sponsored by Jobcase



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Hackajob Adds On Demand Tech Staffing

Hackajob, the reverse tech hiring platform recently launched a new on demand hiring solution for tech workers…joining me now to talk about it is their Head of Growth, Luke Coleman.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

1. What motivated hackajob to launch the on-demand contract-based hiring solution?

2. Can you walk us through how the on-demand works?

3. In a recent announcement, you mentioned that 60% of your global tech talent pool is interested in temporary opportunities. How did you gather this data, and what does it say about the changing preferences of tech professionals?

4. What are the key benefits for employers using hackajob on-demand compared to traditional hiring methods or other freelance platforms?

5. How does hackajob ensure the quality and reliability of the freelancers and contract talent in your marketplace?

6. Can you share some examples or success stories of companies that have already started using hackajob on-demand?

7. How do you see the future of tech hiring evolving?



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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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