Talent Savvy
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Talent Savvy is a podcast aimed at helping Talent Acquisition practitioners become better at their job. By sharing knowledge, case studies and opinions by seasoned TA professionals from Europe, the USA and basically all over the world. Learn about exciting developments in other places of the world and be the first to apply them in your region.
Talent Savvy
8M ago
In this episode Bas, Matthias and Oana discuss the month of August in the European TA landscape.
We start talking about the weather and how that is changing the preferred location to work. The European North has discovered... heath...
And we talk about adapting to a warmer world based on this article:
https://laetitiaatwork.substack.com/p/what-future-of-work-in-a-warmer-world
We talk about leadership and growing to leadership positions in Talent Acquisition based on Linkedin data:
https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/learning-and-development/want-to-be-a-talent-leader-heres-how-6000 ..read more
Talent Savvy
8M ago
In this case study narrator Bas van de Haterd tells you the case of hiring air traffic controllers and how they got to 160% increase in quality of hire, while lowering their requirements on education.
By using technology to test all applicants they were able to better select candidates and they learned that educational success had very limited correlation with the qualities you needed to have to become a great air traffic controller ..read more
Talent Savvy
9M ago
In this case study Bas van de Haterd tells you about an old award winning case from the Airport of Schiphol. It's about a recruitment marketing campaign actually from some years ago, but that still holds it's place.
The excellence of this campaign was that is started with persona's, and really did what you are supposed to do with persona's, personalise the campaign based on them. So different ads, with different photo's, different motivators to want the job and different landing pages that corresponded with the ads ..read more
Talent Savvy
9M ago
Talent Savvy presents case studies, short description of cases that we think are too good not to share.
In this case study one where narrator Bas van de Haterd was personally involved, hiring in (very) niche communities.
How do you know about them? (Spoiler: the people doing the job)
How do you get involved with them? (Spoiler: you don't, others do)
And how do you get your non recruitment staff to help you identify them ..read more
Talent Savvy
9M ago
In this episode Bas van de Haterd, Oana Iordachescu and Matthias Smeißer discuss the most important developments in the European Talent Acquisition market for July. These monthly wrap ups will look back at the most important developments around Europe that influence TA.
In this episode we talk about
- The new immigration laws in Germany, especially focussed on filling skills gaps
- The increasing interview cycles and times to hire.
- The bankruptcy of HR tech firm Brandchart
- The HR tech funding market in general
- New funding for several HR tech firms like Propel, Settly and StellerUp ..read more
Talent Savvy
11M ago
You co hosts this week are Bas van de Haterd, Marlies Farril and sofia Broberger.
This week we talk review sites, like Glassdoor. How do we deal with it as recruiter?
The article we reference is: https://www.careerfair.io/company-reviews
We of course will not promote fake reviews, but how and who do you as to do a review?
Hoe do you use it as a review tool? Can you point to certain departments that are not giving the candidate a great experience.
And we disagree on the future of reviews and review sites in the age of ChatGPT. Not just in writing reviews, but also in analysing worker sentiment ..read more
Talent Savvy
11M ago
In this episode Oana and the new co host Martin Dangerfield review the year so far. What's going on in the world of talent acquisition? Is it doom and gloom? When do we expect things to change and how will they change ..read more
Talent Savvy
11M ago
In this episode Matthias and Alexa talk setting up TA teams when scaling up your company. What type of roles do you prioritize at what point? How many people do you need for jow many reqs? How do you report to senior management ..read more
Talent Savvy
1y ago
In this weeks episode Bas van de Haterd, Kelly Robinson and Marlies Farril talk about several things.
Kelly starts with a few Linkedin tips he learned from a report by pager. Download the entire report here:
https://paiger.co/linkedin-algorithm/
The topic we talk about is fixing staffing shortages and we talk about the award winning case by Schiphol. Where they basically fixed the problem in a way most companies can if they want to. Be decent to candidates: Call them in a day, or two, and they also used a very smart, again candidate centric, advertising strategy.
We dissect the case and see ..read more
Talent Savvy
1y ago
In this episode Bas van de Haterd, Oana Iordachescu and Matthias Schmeisser talk about generative AI and ChatGPT in particular and the expectations we have on new products that suppliers will come up with in the next 6 to 12 months.
We'll be talking about what we expect from AI to change for TA. An episode that might actually be inspirational for many providers.
We talk how Generative AI can leapfrog the companies with technical debt to the front of the pack and how it can help companies that don't have all their data in order yet.
We talk about where generative AI can help us become better ..read more