

Talk Talent To Me
Rob Stevenson: Recruiting, Employer Branding, and Career Growth Expert.
Starring recruiting leadership from everywhere under the talent acquisition sun, Talk Talent To Me is a fast-paced rough-and-tumble tour through the strategies, metrics, techniques, and trends shaping the recruitment industry. Brought to you by your pals at LHH.
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Mar 18, 2020 • 12min
New to WFH? Tips For Thriving Through Quarantine
Rob draws on his two years of WFH experience to help you make the transition into a remote worker. App: Forest Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear

Mar 13, 2020 • 50min
Growth By Design Talent Co-Founder Jill Macri
Jill Macri, Co-Founder of Growth by Design Talent and former Director of Global TA at AirBnB, joins to discuss the common gaps she finds in talent organizations, and how to remedy them. Rob wonders how much one is directing their own career if they spend it responding to sourcing emails.

Mar 5, 2020 • 45min
Rubicon Project Manager of TA Nihal Solomon
Nihal explains how Rubicon project has built an inbound engine via referrals and employer branding content, as well as how they identified which areas of their hiring process were ripe for being automated by HR tech vendors.

Feb 25, 2020 • 39min
Leaf Group Director of People Tara Turk-Haynes
Tara explains how to crack open tough interviewees, glean multi-faceted insight from their answers, and how to use it to arm their bosses once they've been hired. Rob falls prey to her wily interviewing techniques, to devastating therapeutic effect.

Feb 20, 2020 • 14min
CEO Mehul Patel on the 2020 State of Software Engineers
Hired CEO Mehul Patel joins to discuss the findings of Hired's 2020 State of Software Engineers report, which compiles data from 400,000 job offers made to 98,000 job seekers across 13 cities on the Hired platform. Access the full report here: https://hired.com/state-of-software-engineers

Feb 13, 2020 • 33min
Mothership's Director of Talent & Recruiter
Mothership's Director of Talent, Lauren Goodman, and Recruiter, Juno Cheng, join to discuss interview training, assessing for culture fit, and how to translate the 5 love languages into your employees' preferences for interpersonal communication.

Feb 6, 2020 • 40min
Grindr's Manager of Talent & Ops Lesa Evans
Lesa explains how to build trust and productive relationships with engineering hiring managers, as well as the advantages recruiters at small companies have over larger ones.

Jan 30, 2020 • 22min
Just Auto Insurance Head of Talent Bao Le
Bao explains his non-standard career path in recruiting as well as his current recruitment marketing approach at Just Auto Insurance.

Jan 28, 2020 • 37min
Arrowroot Capital Head of Talent Abby Wilson
Abby joins to discuss recruitment career planning, shifting from an individual contributor role into management, and ingratiating yourself with hiring managers.

Jan 17, 2020 • 30min
Ejento Principal Alex Klein
Alex explains how to help a candidate identify and work towards their career priorities, as well as how to make sure you don't lose out on compensation when you get to the offer stage.


