Talent on the Rise Podcast

Get ready for an enlightening podcast episode with CHRO Keith Vavra of ST Engineering North America, who shares his journey from operations to HR, highlighting the importance of talent development and understanding the business side of HR. He dives into enhancing the user experience during HR transformations and the value of learning from failures. Keith also emphasizes the need to consider scalability and long-term impacts when making HR decisions. Tune in to discover strategies for boosting productivity, acing talent acquisition, and mastering HR leadership. Plus, he offers tips for work-life balance and shares a book recommendation for transforming workplace dynamics.

In this episode, we have a special guest, Ricky Russell, the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. With over 20 years of experience in HR and talent acquisition, Ricky shares his insights into talent management, recruitment, workforce planning, and creating a culture of inclusion and engagement. Join us as we delve into Ricky's background, his career progression, and the importance of business acumen in HR.

In this episode, hear from Brent Schreckengost of Avalara about building a great candidate experience. A single candidate’s experience impacts not only their own decision as to whether to join the company now or in the future, but also the interest of their friends, acquaintances, loved ones, and even the larger job-seeker community. Providing a positive candidate experience is not only about filling a position, but about finding a pool of potential candidates aligned with your company's strategic growth plan.

In this episode, we have a special guest, Ricky Russell, the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. With over 20 years of experience in HR and talent acquisition, Ricky shares his insights into talent management, recruitment, workforce planning, and creating a culture of inclusion and engagement. Join us as we delve into Ricky's background, his career progression, and the importance of business acumen in HR.

As HR departments across many industries face a talent shortage, it’s more important than ever to clarify your company’s brand, improve its culture and business agility and engage in strategic recruitment marketing. Dawn Mitchell of Appian explains how she prioritizes clear communication and business agility when recruiting for talent in a competitive market.

How do you fill open positions with the right talent when you’re in a steeply competitive market? Nick Haubach, Chief Human Resources Officer at University of Illinois Health in Chicago, works to address this question every day. The competition for healthcare talent is intense across the country, and since the Chicago area is home to so many hospitals all competing for the same candidate pool, Nick and the talent recruitment team at UIC is in for even more of a challenge. Hear what his team is doing in this podcast episode.

It’s 2021, and the need for inclusive and diverse workplaces in all sectors can no longer be ignored. It’s not enough for a company to want to diversify the workplace to pat themselves on the back. Instead, companies should be explicitly seeking out talent from underrepresented groups (with their needs being considered as a main priority), with the whole team on board — starting from the top. ZoomInfo, with Alyssa Lahar's guidance, goes above and beyond to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is a top priority in its workplace.

Whether your company is in growth mode, restructuring or contending with normal turnover, the fight for top talent never ends. That’s why HR leaders know the high value of holistic-thinking recruiters. In this episode, author George Randle joined Brazen’s Talent on the Rise podcast to share advice from hist book "The Talent War" to talk about what we can learn about recruiting from military special operations and what he calls “potential-based hiring.”

How can we create a culture of inclusion and engagement as we build the future of work? What is the role of the HR leader in helping drive this change across the organization? How will the unexpected demands of the pandemic change how we work and how we attract and retain top talent going forward? We talk about this and more with Shelly Holt, Chief People Officer at PayScale.