The Challenger Podcast: HR Passport

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The Challenger Podcast: HR Passport

We are the original outplacement company with over 60 years helping companies with their transitioning employees. Join us for HR trends and issues, job search tips, economic and workplace news!

10/10/2019

How Can Employers Attract & Retain Talent

Colleen Madden Blumenfeld sat down with Rick Cobb to discuss how the relationship between employee and employer has changed over the decades, what today's workers really want, and how companies can make workers stay in love with their jobs. BONUS: Stay tuned for more information about our Annual Job Search Hotline!

20 min
08/22/2019

How to Research Companies and Use the Info to Land the Position

Colleen Madden Blumenfeld and Ashley Parker sit down to discuss their love for business research, how job seekers can use free tools to learn about a company prior to applying for a position or interviewing, and how best to use the information they find. (Hint: It's all about the human connection!)

18 min
08/08/2019

Automation, AI, and the Future of the Workplace

After watching the 1964 Twilight Zone Episode, The Brain Center at Whipple's, Colleen Madden Blumenfeld sat down with EVP Rick Cobb to discuss the rise of automation, inherent bias in AI, what it all means for both workers and companies, and why taking care of humans is ultimately best for business.

12 min
08/02/2019

Fed Rate Cut, Challenger Job Cut Report, State of the Job Market with VP Andrew Challenger

Ashley Parker sits down with Andrew Challenger, Vice President of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. to discuss the Challenger Job Cuts Report released Thursday, as well as the recent rate cut from the Fed and why it's a great time to be a job seeker.

9 min
07/18/2019

Job Search Tips to Get In Front of Decision Makers

How do you find a job when you need to bypass general biases of the market? Get in front of decision makers! This episode, EVP Rick Cobb gives great advice on how to get in front of real people who can make a difference in your job search, the best approaches once you get your foot in the door, and what not to say to remove yourself from the running.

14 min
07/11/2019

Bias & Discrimination at Work

EVP Rick Cobb talks to Colleen Madden Blumenfeld about bias and age discrimination in the workplace and hiring process.

13 min
07/04/2019

We're back!

Happy fourth, America! Colleen Madden Blumenfeld, Challenger's Director of PR, is back for a whole new season after taking a 2 year (!!) hiatus. Meet Ashley Parker, Operations Specialist, who will be conducting some interviews on this season, as well as hear some upcoming topics for future episodes.

4 min
03/08/2017

How We Spent International Women's Day with SVP Cindi Cervone Carlson

Colleen sits down with SVP Cindi Cervone Carlson to celebrate International Women's Day! They discuss the Women's Strike, how to ask for a promotion, equal pay, and gender stereotypes. Also, Cindi promotes her Equal Pay Event on April 4!

20 min
02/27/2017

A Discussion With Brian Ash: Engagement, Retention, Challenger, & Career Star Group

EVP International Rick Cobb sits down with Director of Talent Management Brian Ash of Fragomen Worldwide to discuss how best to keep talent, what organizations can offer in terms of development and mentors, and programs to keep good workers. Brian also talks about why he likes Challenger and our global partnership Career Star Group.

28 min
01/19/2017

Bullying in the Workplace: How To Recognize and Stop It

Happy New Year, listeners, we're back with a hot topic! With days to go before President-Elect Trump's inauguration, Colleen Madden Blumenfeld sits down with Challenger Director of Learning Judith Devries to talk bullies and what do to about them. They discuss the difference between harassment and bullying, characteristics and types of bullies, why same-sex and particularly women-on-women bullying in male-saturated industries is so difficult to root out in the workplace. Plus, what is the cost to productivity, as well as bottom-line costs of bullying, and what can leaders across the board do to solve this very real problem?

31 min
12/23/2016

Happy Holidays from Our Global Partnership Career Star Group!

Challenger, along with our partners around the world wish you and yours a safe and happy holiday and a prosperous New Year!

1 min

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10/05/2019

Cat the Wonder Woman

Anyone who’s actively in the market for a job knows everything you mentioned in this podcast, and more. This is an awful waste of time.

We are the original outplacement company with over 60 years helping companies with their transitioning employees. Join us for HR trends and issues, job search tips, economic and workplace news!

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Challenger Gray
Years Active

2016 - 2019
Episodes

11
Rating

Clean
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The Challenger Podcast: HR Passport