We're Only Human

"We collect three to 4 billion talent signals in the platform. That number is so large that if you were to spread it out over each second, it's 30 years of data. It's a crazy large number, but machin…

"And as I have these conversations with hiring managers and my peer executives, I often ask them things like, 'Who is the best person that works with you that comes from a non-traditional background-…

"No one likes leaving the comfort zone, but change forces you to leave your comfort zone, your known area. That is also an aspect of why it's important to start early because you also need to transpo…

As we provide, billions and billions of data points of pay, job descriptions, skills, information about the organization, information about people... We have all this data and talent intelligence is …

"That's step one is you have to build that partnership. And hopefully now that the iron is hot,  strike it. If you have been supporting your business and organization through this pandemic,  how do y…

"The job of a talent acquisition leader is actually like five or six functions put together. You're a marketing leader doing outbound and branding. You're a sales leader, leading a team of individual…

Thousands of people have been our dataset this year that we've been talking to and analyzing and understanding what's happening. There's so much research and evidence here to help you. Transparently,…

"I think openness to failure is as important as openness to success, because if you're not open to failure, you're not open to trying new things. Full stop. You're going to keep rolling out the same …

"An HR manager can do whatever they need to do.  We do have a vision, and the vision is that all administrative tasks should be done in less than 15 seconds."

Leila Laidani, Aconso

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"You need to have a competitive pay and benefits offering. When you go to do that, the employer ends up paying for a lot of things that go unused just because there's too much to communicate. What's …

"I had a client that in February of last year had 72 employees, all in Boulder, Colorado. By September of last year, they eliminated their office and went remote. They went from having all their empl…

"Companies can now optimize things like rewards and training and development. HR and the way companies communicate with employees is going to be based on personalization." 

Juan Betancourt, CEO, Human…

"It all has to link back to practical insights and practical takeaways about how best we can come through the current crisis together."

Bill Banham, Editor, HR Gazette

We're Only Human -- Episode 118

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"Listening without solving... Is really important, because the tendency for a lot of people is when somebody comes to you with an issue, the immediate response is to try and find a solution to the pr…

"There's a lot of blame going around. Rumors, gossip, people are on their guard.  So this kind of hidden anger and passive aggressiveness that I have seen, [what's] always an eye-opener with clients …

"So the nerdy neuroscience about the brain is that your brain can't distinguish between a real-time event or if you visualized it.  But when you when you walk yourself mentally, emotionally, visually…

"What I see is that we're no longer working from home. We're living at work. And so how do we help employees work differently?"

Maribeth Bearfield, Chief Human Resources Officer, Bright Horizons

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"If this week a leader acknowledges [employee feedback], next week, the person is eight times more likely to participate again than if the leader said nothing the week before." 

Ruby Kolesky, Co-CEO a…

My preference in work was not towards optimizing machinery, but helping optimize work processes for people.

Tim Gardner, Former Organizational Development Consultant at Kimberly-Clark (retired)

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"The platform was up and running literally weeks after the pandemic hit. And through this platform they saved 2,000 jobs, so it's also about saving jobs by redeploying people effectively when the tim…