Category: CareerXroads

Gerry Crispin gets to know a little bit more about Cheri Hanson from the Sierra Nevada Corporation, including why she left a large corporation to a mid-sized company, and the differences in talent acquisition as they scale. Go to podcast/show page

CXR holds its second weekly check-in with talent leaders and industry vendors to talk about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Challenges that arose this week included how many big companies are handling background checks with courts closed, changing requirements for drug screening to address the surge of hiring without […]

Gerry Crispin and doctor Frida Polli, CEO and co-founder of Pymetrics, discuss the future of resume auditing, what it means to have a talent gap, and how automation can help put the right candidates in the right positions. Go to podcast/show page

Our own Gerry Crispin catches up with Dr. Polli of Pymetrics and discussed the future of fair hiring. Go to podcast/show page

CXR conducts a weekly round-up with talent leaders in regard to the impact of the Coronavirus COVID-19 on business and teams around the globe. This update is March 19, 2020 Go to podcast/show page

CareerXroads pulled together ~30 Talent and Recruiting leaders to talk openly about how they are handling the COVID-19 challenge.  Companies like Enterprise, Hilton, BASF, Genentech, and others chime in on the struggles candidates are facing, potential hiring freezes, helping employees to be productive working from home, and virtual meetings or […]

Shannon Pritchett sits down with Neil Casey, the global head of sourcing and strategic hiring at ThoughtWorks, to discuss challenges for 2020 and the future of talent acquisition. Neil outlines his plan to tackle some of the largest challenges brought up in the top TA challenges survey and gives his […]

Gerry Crispin took a few minutes to chat with Rod Broshinsky, VP Talent Acquisition of new CXR Member BrandSafway.  BrandSafway is a leading provider of specialized services to the global industrial, commercial and infrastructure markets with 45,000 employees in approx 30 countries. It is interesting to note that 90% of […]

Listen in as Madeline Laurano of Aptitude Research talks with Gerry Crispin about the results of our recent survey on talent acquisition challenges. We asked TA leaders to tell us what challenges are going to dominate their workload in the coming year. And while all the proposed challenges had at least […]

Brett Coin was looking for a challenging position in the next generation of tech companies. After being approached by some of the larger names like Slack and Zoom, he joined Okta as the head of talent acquisition. Now, nine months later, he reflects on what drew him to this unique […]

Christina Coyle is someone who has enjoyed the challenges of high-volume recruiting – perhaps the first person in Gerry Crispin’s memory to say that and mean it. When she came to McDonald’s she was given a blank slate to create a recruiting framework that didn’t rely so heavily on recruiters […]

In this episode of Up neXt, Gerry connects with Kelly Cartwright, Head of Talent Acquisition Technology Strategy, Amazon Web Services (AWS).  She shares the complexity of working at Amazon, why she’s been there for almost 6 years, and how her “pretty cool gig” keeps her excited about her career path. […]

In this 20 minute wrap-up of a two-part segment, Lars and CXR’s China Gorman turn over the mic to leaders from DaVita, American Airlines, Waste Management, and Enterprise Holdings to talk about how they’re making a difference in the world of candidate and employee engagement.  Taking back the mic, we […]

Gerry catches up with Shelia Gray who describes how her interest and experience with TA transformation in several firms led to her decision to join Quadient, a French-based company with facilities in 22 countries. Shelia works from Raleigh, NC and describes in fascinating detail her 5 goals for the next […]

In this two-part segment, China Gorman and Lars Schmidt chat with leaders from Enterprise Holdings, American Airlines, Waste Management, (and each other!) about their insights and experiences related to why BOTH candidate and employee engagement is so important. Go to podcast/show page