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S4 E67 | eXpert Tease: Building the foundation of talent technology with Madeline Laurano CareerXroads
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Madeline Laurano, Aptitude Research 0:00Welcome to the CXR channel, our premier podcast for talent acquisition and talent management. Listen in as the CXR community discusses a wide range of topics focused on attracting, engaging and retaining the best talent. We're glad you're here.
Chris Hoyt 0:16Hello, and welcome to another edition of CareerXroads hosted expert tees. I'm Chris Hoty president of CXR. And you're joining us for the next few minutes to hear from an industry leader or practitioner who will share with you one lesson one how to one milestone that they've actually found worthy of your time. So we do these in quick conversations that are typically no more than about 10 minutes and touch on any number of topics such as diversity, inclusion, ethics, and hiring, recruiting, automation, and tech, and a number of other areas that actually were identified by nearly 150 talent leaders from multinational corporations. Each week, you can listen in live and participate with questions and live chat or you can find any of these episodes on our website at CXR.works, our CareerXroads podcast or in our new YouTube channel youtube.com/careerxroads. Now if you're with us live, you have the ability to ask a question at any time through the session. And if we have the chance, we'll try to answer it. If we do run out of time, or if there are additional questions that come in or you think of later, you can find us over at the open and public exchange that's hosted by CXR. And that's at www.CXR.works/talenttalks. So with all of that being said, let's get started with today's guest Madeline Laurano. Madeline is a very well respected industry analyst and founder of Aptitude Research. Welcome to the show, Madeline.
Madeline Laurano, Aptitude Research 1:36Thank you, Chris. I'm thrilled to be here.
Chris Hoyt 1:39So, Madeline, on our topic today is around building the foundation of talent technology within an organization. So throwing you right on the spot, given your experience and expertise, what's something that you want our listeners to understand about their existing or future tech stacks?
Madeline Laurano, Aptitude Research 1:54Yes, it's so important. We just did this big research study, in partnership with V. Murray. But it's all around this foundation, it's around thinking about, what do we need to consider in our TA tech stack, before we even make this investment. So many companies are excited for new technology. There's so much especially in this this year that we've had, we found 44% of companies are investing in new technology, which is exciting. But oftentimes you don't have the foundation in place. And the foundation is really integration. So thinking about how are you going to have a strategy around integration work with IT? Think about, you know, an open API strategy and how you're gonna work with your providers? How are you going to think about data management? So really having quality of quality data with data or starting with? How are you going to maintain that data, clean up that data, everything that goes into that? And then the final piece is automation? You know, I think it's a big topic. I know, it's a big topic that we talked a lot about, but how do we think about really a strategic approach for automation? And you know, something, I think that's near and dear to Gerry's heart, which is automation for the candidate? Why are we just thinking about moving someone along efficiently? How does this benefit the candidate?
Chris Hoyt 3:00And so how does somebody go about sort of putting something like this together? Is, is there a template? Is there a roadmap? Is it you just throw everything at the wall and see what sticks? I mean, what do you advise there?
Madeline Laurano, Aptitude Research 3:10Yeah, so I would say it really starts with three things,
Madeline Laurano, Aptitude Research 0:00Welcome to the CXR channel, our premier podcast for talent acquisition and talent management. Listen in as the CXR community discusses a wide range of topics focused on attracting, engaging and retaining the best talent. We're glad you're here.
Chris Hoyt 0:16Hello, and welcome to another edition of CareerXroads hosted expert tees. I'm Chris Hoty president of CXR. And you're joining us for the next few minutes to hear from an industry leader or practitioner who will share with you one lesson one how to one milestone that they've actually found worthy of your time. So we do these in quick conversations that are typically no more than about 10 minutes and touch on any number of topics such as diversity, inclusion, ethics, and hiring, recruiting, automation, and tech, and a number of other areas that actually were identified by nearly 150 talent leaders from multinational corporations. Each week, you can listen in live and participate with questions and live chat or you can find any of these episodes on our website at CXR.works, our CareerXroads podcast or in our new YouTube channel youtube.com/careerxroads. Now if you're with us live, you have the ability to ask a question at any time through the session. And if we have the chance, we'll try to answer it. If we do run out of time, or if there are additional questions that come in or you think of later, you can find us over at the open and public exchange that's hosted by CXR. And that's at www.CXR.works/talenttalks. So with all of that being said, let's get started with today's guest Madeline Laurano. Madeline is a very well respected industry analyst and founder of Aptitude Research. Welcome to the show, Madeline.
Madeline Laurano, Aptitude Research 1:36Thank you, Chris. I'm thrilled to be here.
Chris Hoyt 1:39So, Madeline, on our topic today is around building the foundation of talent technology within an organization. So throwing you right on the spot, given your experience and expertise, what's something that you want our listeners to understand about their existing or future tech stacks?
Madeline Laurano, Aptitude Research 1:54Yes, it's so important. We just did this big research study, in partnership with V. Murray. But it's all around this foundation, it's around thinking about, what do we need to consider in our TA tech stack, before we even make this investment. So many companies are excited for new technology. There's so much especially in this this year that we've had, we found 44% of companies are investing in new technology, which is exciting. But oftentimes you don't have the foundation in place. And the foundation is really integration. So thinking about how are you going to have a strategy around integration work with IT? Think about, you know, an open API strategy and how you're gonna work with your providers? How are you going to think about data management? So really having quality of quality data with data or starting with? How are you going to maintain that data, clean up that data, everything that goes into that? And then the final piece is automation? You know, I think it's a big topic. I know, it's a big topic that we talked a lot about, but how do we think about really a strategic approach for automation? And you know, something, I think that's near and dear to Gerry's heart, which is automation for the candidate? Why are we just thinking about moving someone along efficiently? How does this benefit the candidate?
Chris Hoyt 3:00And so how does somebody go about sort of putting something like this together? Is, is there a template? Is there a roadmap? Is it you just throw everything at the wall and see what sticks? I mean, what do you advise there?
Madeline Laurano, Aptitude Research 3:10Yeah, so I would say it really starts with three things,
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