The Talent Cast

• EP 123 – Employer Brand Activation 101 May 20, 2019
  A great brand position, brand promise or even strategy that sits in a deck without being used is 100% worthless. So while thinking strategically is a great start, you need to activate the brand in order to see your employer brand’s value. While we’ve talked about specific channels and media before, we’ve never thought through […]
• EP 122 – Skill vs Will with Torin Ellis May 13, 2019
  While I’m a big believer and proponent of opening the doors to let everyone find frustration and satisfaction at work, as a middle-ages white guy, I always feel out of my depth. Luckily, I know a guy who lives and breathes diversity. We have yet another rambling conversation on what its going to take to […]
• EP 121 – Why Hiring Is So Hard May 6, 2019
  Haven’t we been doing this recruiting thing for a LONG time already? Does it feel like we’re not really getting any better at it, that we’re all throwing up our hands and giving up that things can be better. And if we look at recruiters and sourcers and HRBPs and hiring managers as independent actors […]
• EP 120 – The Big Red Phone April 29, 2019
  Today, we try a little experiment and talk to my friend and recruitment marketing genius Tracey Parsons. Topics covered along the way: why doesn’t the business work well with recruiting, creating surprise and delight in candidates and just how low the bar is t0 making most candidates thrilled to apply. If you enjoyed this “experiment,” […]
• EP 119 – Strategy First April 22, 2019
  How do you define “strategy?” Go ahead. I’ll wait. It’s a lot harder than you might expect. Now take the definition and see how it fits as your employer brand strategy. A little awkward? Here’s the deal: it’s very rare that any of us are taught “strategy” as a concept, and yet our jobs depend […]
• EP 118 – Control (and lack thereof) April 15, 2019
  It’s so much easier to work on and with the things we control. But… that’s pretty limiting, isn’t it? Especially in our jobs where we control almost nothing at all. If you want to succeed as an employer brand or recruitment marketing pro, the smart move is to ignore the things we control and focus […]
• EP 117 – Your Employer Brand Is a Habit April 8, 2019
  If your employer brand is the perception someone has about what it must be like to work there. where does that perception come from? More to the point, what can we do to influence and shape that perception? The answer isn’t a campaign or a project, tool or seminar. The answer is in building great […]
• EP 116 – Hooked On A Feeling April 1, 2019
  Freshly back from Talent Brand Summit an 100+ employer brand pros, I was struck by how much we talk of tactics, strategies, optimizations, tools and metrics, but very very very little about emotions. But people won’t do anything until they feel something. So let’s start talking about eliciting and sparking emotions in candidates. Show Notes […]
• EP 115 – The Trouble with Tools March 25, 2019
  How much time do you think you spend on the tools you and your team use to source and recruit? Add in vendor demos and evaluation trials and internal conversations (not to mention budget conversations) and it adds up. But how often have those tools worked out? How often have they delivered the promised results? […]
• EP 114 – Different Is the Difference March 18, 2019
  Your custom-designed and unique-to-you recruiting process that you developed is 99.995% the same as everyone else’s. When you do everything the same, you attract people who know how to pretend to be the same. Not only does that make it near impossible to understand what makes a candidate different, it also tells the world that […]