The Hiring Partner Perspective (Unedited‪)‬ Evergreen Podcasts

Educating upwards will help you deliver a better candidate experience
You may know Lisa Haggar as the self-described 'lass with sass' on LinkedIn or perhaps from her 3 decades contributing to the HR profession. Either way, she is a brilliant person to talk to about tough subjects, like this one!
Strap yourselves in for this one, as we laugh and chat about:

experiencing recruitment as a HR candidate and the problem with grilling applicants and interviewer power-games, inspired by this post.

experiencing the worst candidate experience, to know how to make it better!

not paying people their worth and what you could do instead.

don't lowball, develop people!

great questions to ask at interview, no matter your age or the seniority of the person interviewing you.

be bold enough to educate upwards.

the difference of being spoken at or with.

giving referrals to the companies that deliver a great candidate experience.


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Tips for partnering with your hiring managers!
It was a thrill to speak to & giggle with my good friend, Sue Ingram. An executive coach and a trainer who shows managers how to get extraordinary work out of perfectly ordinary people, and how to have feedback conversations. (While she was recovering from an awful cold!)
In our conversation we covered plenty, including:

the importance of feedback conversations or, more aptly, 'generous' conversations

her brilliant book, Fire Well


the problem with promoting people & not training them!

dealing with 'drama' hiring managers who cry wolf or explode & why managers behave this way

you must know your worth. MUST.

how to handle managers who want unicorns

the importance of partnering & learning

developing a support network

planning a difficult conversation eBook



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Employer: See Me, Protect Me, Respect Me!
Reading Jess Von Bank's post, “Stop filling reqs and start providing safety. Address the toll of fear and create a culture of hope and health. Do nothing but obsess over the care and nurturing of your own people, and you will stop the bleeding. Just a bet.”, left me wanting to know more! Jess is Lepagen's storyteller and Community Leader for the Now Of Work, and all around awesome human.
In our conversation we covered plenty, including:

employees wanting, 'see me, protect me, respect me, keep me safe'

why your business will thrive if you help people thrive

why we shouldn't be going externally to 'acquire' talent before we have looked internally

Jess's love of WORQDRIVE and internal mobility

how recruiters are ready to cherry-pick employees from the companies who will set mandatory returns to the office! :o

trusting people to work like adults

stopping being slaves to the screen and slaves to work with solid boundaries

and the Now Of Work community.


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Molly Johnson-Jones shared a post on LinkedIn that stated '“By removing the need to have a ‘reason’ to request flexibility and giving everyone the freedom to choose how to work, we can make true progress on gender equality.” but how do we get that out of our hiring leaders?
While Molly, CEO & Co-founder of Flexa, enjoyed London's winter sun, and I only had the heat of the topic to keep me warm, we covered loads including:

the motivation behind creating Flexa, a platform where employers can be verified as offering true flexibility to their people

surprising survey results that show both men and women want flexibility

the two paths to getting your leaders to see that offering flexible & hybrid working is inevitable

the challenges that some leaders face when trusting employees and measuring output instead of presenteeism

Molly's own lessons-learned running a truly flexible business

What is and most definitely isn't a 4 day week!


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Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind.

After seeing Mark Gilroy’s fabulous YouTube video about change, (not the one where he’s singing that song ;) ), I wanted to know more and how recruiters can influence change. 
A self-confessed professional psychology geek, Mark & I had a fascinating conversation that will help recruiters & hiring leaders partner better!
We talked about:

let’s stop pathologising change and reframe change in the right language

the pandemic showing us that change isn’t hard! 

change accompanies by loss is the real issue

rational thinking vs. primal more emotional responses

winning hiring manager conversations by talking about loss aversion

sunk cost fallacy and the Ikea effect, and how this impact recruitment remorse

choosing your language around change with care

measuring optimism, energy, and level of fault-finding at the start


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Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind.

The moment I saw Lee Andrese, write, "Dear Hiring Managers & Leaders - YOU are the candidates. Ghosting candidates after they've spent SIX HOURS with you? Shame on you." I knew I had to know more. Lee was sharing a job seeker's post and she was encouraging job seeker's to choose wisely!
With years of experience in the recruiting profession, Lee is now a Learning & Development Leader, creating best in class recruiters at Onward Search. Tune into our fabulous conversation and you'll hear:

How rejected candidates hear ‘no’ matters! And it’s costing you. 

Why recruiters need to be selective over the brands they represent

Ensuring you work for a company that you can support wholeheartedly

How changing an outbound message, can change the entire experience.

What it costs you when you let your company or client ghost a C-suite candidate

Making feedback of benefit to the person delivering it! 

How to tackle those dreadful no feedback policies. 


Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle in! ✍🏻

Huge 💚 to episode sponsor WORQDRIVE Shift: Your Talent Strategy! Imagine Internal Mobility your employees will actually rally behind.