The Recruitment Flex Evergreen Podcasts

Welcome to a special edition of The Recruitment Flex recorded live from the Unleash America conference. In this episode, we dive deep into the future of HR technology and talent management in 2 separate interviews Mike Ehrle and Angela Hood.

Join us as we explore their innovative approaches to onboarding, retention, and leveraging AI in the HR space.

Interview 1: Mike Ehrle, Click Boarding
Mike Ehrle returns to discuss the latest developments at Click Boarding, focusing on enhancing employee engagement from pre-boarding through retention. Mike shares insights into integrating new retention products, the benefits of partnering with Alight, and the challenges of selling standalone HR solutions in a saturated market.
Key Points:

Click Boarding's Core Products: Transition from traditional onboarding to include cross-boarding, off-boarding, and retention solutions.

New Retention Initiatives: Insights from their ongoing market traction and the need for embedded solutions rather than standalone products.

Partnership with Alight: Discussion on the strategic alliance with Alight to streamline benefits enrollment and enhance the onboarding experience.

Future Plans: Upcoming developments, including integration with Microsoft Teams, aiming to simplify corporate software ecosystems.



Interview 2: Angela Hood, This Way Global
Angela Hood, CEO of This Way Global, discusses her company's role at the forefront of AI implementation in HR tech, their approach to removing bias in recruitment processes, and the launch of the Sully Sandbox platform. Angela also reflects on her recognition in the business world and shares her vision for the future of HR technology.
Key Points:

This Way Global's Mission: Leveraging AI to enhance fairness and efficiency in hiring across various sectors.

Sully Sandbox: A new initiative to help businesses utilize AI and data effectively without needing in-house expertise.

Partnership with IBM Watson: Ongoing collaboration and its impact on This Way Global’s operations and market reach.

Personal Insights: Angela's reflections on her career, the impact of age in the professional world, and her recognition as a top female founder.

This week from Las Vegas from Unleash America

Serge puts on a brave face and jumps off the Strat in Las Vegas! 

Unleash America hosts amazing speakers and the trade show floor was buzzing around the start up pavilion. We made some new friends and reconnected with our community of TA tech vendors.

In the News

Ontario has some lofty goals and heavy fines for employers who post jobs for the fun of it and for those who ghost candidates after an interview. 

April’s US job numbers remain vanilla - small changes over March but nothing alarming

Tip of the Week
Reality check on the overqualified applicant, improved job posting will save us all alot of heart ache.

Recruiting Insights

Recruiting teams are the driving force for flexible work to ensure they can recruit the best talent according to Linked In Talent Solutions report 

We are at pivotal moment for talent acquisition, with teams feeling disconnected from strategic workforce plans and pressured towards cost-reduction rather than upskilling recruitment teams. 

Friend of the podcast, Miriam Sanchez from Metova joins us! An episode of many firsts as this is our first guest from Mexico.

Miriam shares the similarities of recruiting tech talent in LATAM to the US and Canada. 

Fierce competition for remote work in the tech space. 

Using technology to recruit and where Ai fits into their tech stack.

Mariam shares how her skill team decodes the job specifications.

This week on TRF
Recording from the beautiful city of Toronto where we met some of the smartest TA professionals in the Country. Thank you Plum, AMS and Humanly.io for organizing a great dinner.

Text message mania, first hand experience with scammers texting job offers and is legitimate recruiters.

In the News

LinkedIn is requiring Recruiters to verify their profile - smart move!

US bans TikTok and give them 270 days or they are out

Tip of the Week

Best practices for in house referral success.

Recruiting Insights

Pros and cons of 2 major firms in the UK who publish their interview questions

94% of US business leaders surveyed “Simply wont hire GenZ” Why do they have such high demands in the workplace 

We cherry pick thru Hung Lee’s 10 essentials of candidate response rate. 

This week we had the honour to welcome Kshitij Jain CEO of Joveo to the podcast. KJ has a truly global view of the job board industry. He took Monster.com around the world, working with the top TA Leaders in several countries, he saw patterns emerge. The challenges TA faced were rooted in the infinite combinations for job titles and job descriptions.  

Tracing his steps after Monster leads us to the quick apply process as his last company was acquired by Indeed.com in 2014.

From the start in 2017, Joveo’s vision has never wavered, “Do 1 thing & do it right”.

More KJ wisdoms:

Recruiters are not marketers
80% of TA is doing it wrong
Job advertising hasn't changed since 1995   

All this from a CEO whose annual salary is $0.96 per year.  

This week on TRF:

Taylor Swift swept the world away with 1 BILLION Spotify streams in 1 week, Shelley was one of them!

And some other news you will need to listen to find out!

IN THE NEWS

The FTC proposal to ban non-competes is ruffling lots of feathers in the US. Just another day in the office here in Canada.

Foreign job seeker interest in Canada is down 40% since mid-2023

Google fires employee who bring their politics to work & protest at the office, 48 people so far.

More layoffs at Google, Nike and Tesla - all for very different reasons. 

TIP OF THE WEEK

Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Dumb question or legit.

RECRUITING INSIGHTS

War for AI talent has been declared. Shots fired from Meta, Google and Amazon have Elon Musk calling it ‘crazy’.

$81,822 is the lowest pay to change jobs. The gap between what men will accept and what women will accept just got even bigger.