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Nicki Paterson sits down with Refine Labs Megan Bowen to discuss the importance of hiring and nurturing great people to guarantee company success.

Most people would probably be quite happy if they could turn water into beer. But in the case of Brewgooder, they want to do the exact opposite. Or at least, they used to… On episode 15, we talk to Alan Mahon, Co-Founder of craft beer Brewgooder, a beer company founded on providing clean drinking water to developing companies through their beer sales. In the last year, Brewgooder have changed direction somewhat, pivoting to a people-focused company, rather than just aiming to provide clean water. They’ve also launched “Work In Progress” their programme to fight racial injustice, both within their organisation and within the beer industry. Holding themselves to account, they create a yearly report to look back on their progress and see where they could do better. We spoke to Alan about: What drove him to start a craft beer company How he plans to triple the company’s team size in the next year What being “actively anti-racist” means How having a real purpose helps Brewgooder attract top talent And much much more…

Our latest guest on The Talent Intelligence podcast was the brilliant Laura Holcombe, Global Talent Acquisition Specialist at Reachdesk – a corporate gifting company taking customer and prospect engagement by storm. Working as an in-house recruiter, Laura knows all too well how tough recruitment is just now.

Everyone talks about cold outreach in terms of sales. But you hardly hear anyone discussing how important it is for recruiters on the hunt for candidates. Unless you talk to Lavender's Will Allred. If you haven't heard of Lavender, it's a tool that helps improve your emails, encouraging the right people to engage with you, whether you're in sales, marketing, or you're a recruiter reaching out to top prospects. Working in all those spaces, we were delighted to have Lavender's Co-Founder, Will, on to discuss cold outreach, engaging candidates, and much more.

How many times have you heard people talking about their failure stories on LinkedIn? Or discussing how important hiring top talent is? Well, if you're Gong's Wendy Harris, perhaps too many times. Because for Wendy, she'd much rather hear about people who have succeeded than failed. And she'd prefer to hire someone with less talent and a greater work ethic, than the other way round. That's just one of the areas we covered when Wendy appeared on The Talent Intelligence podcast. As users (and superfans) of Gong, we were delighted when Wendy agreed to come on and talk to us about talent, her working life, future planning, and much more.

Think of 3D printing companies and Stratasys are usually high up on your list. So when their EMEA President Andreas Langfeld said he'd come on The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we were fairly excited. After all, Stratasys are one of the founders of 3D printing, starting out in 1989 (!) and their product has been used to create designer couture that exhibited at The Met a car made with fully 3D-printed exterior panels. Listen as Andreas talks culture, connectivity and what to do when Obama predicts your industry is about to explode (in a good way...)

Usually on The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we keep it pretty loose, chatting about culture, attitude, methods, and how to hire. But when Kristina Finseth said she’d be a guest, we knew that wouldn’t work. Kristina’s an absolute fountain of knowledge on the subject of outreach in recruitment, and if we’d started chatting, we’d never have stopped. So in this episode, we got Kristina to talk through her top outreach tips. Listen as she discusses: 👀 infiltrating recruitment with sales tactics 🤝 how to engage candidates, 🌍 where to find them, 📹 and she dissects and rewrites a whole email.

Should leaders be the best performers in their team? Not if you ask Anthony Parker, General Manager EMEA at Mindtickle. According to him, if he's better than his team, it diminishes his abilities as both a leader and a coach. In episode 9 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, Anthony sits down with our Head of Sales Anthony Parker to discuss: Growing and scaling Assessing talent The difference between working at large orgs and start-ups Proving yourself in leadership And much more...

You know when you leave a meeting and your head's buzzing with ideas, your notebook full of notes to pass on to your team? That's what happened when we sat down with Ted Blosser, CEO of Workramp for episode 8 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast. In this episode we discuss: * Creating a "culture of coaching" * What you do with $17m in funding * Challenging an established industry * The 400 books Ted's read (this month)

The post-covid workplace with HR Professional Brian Almas On episode 7 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we sat down with HR and Talent veteran, Brian Almas, to discuss the changes happening as a result of Covid-19. Brian’s worked in the HR space for 20+ years heading up the Human Resources departments in companies like AOL, Flextronics, and now Rightway Healthcare. He’s seen plenty of fluctuations in the way we work in his career, but few as drastic as the ones we’re currently experiencing. In this episode we discuss: The introduction of vaccine passports for work How to get women back into the workplace Whether flexible working is here to stay The difficulty of job hunting during Covid

In episode 6 of The Talent Intelligence podcast, Solutions Driven's Global Head of Business Growth Nicki Paterson sat down with Manny Medina, CEO of Outreach, soccer fanatic, and a man who feels his business in his bones.

In episode 5 of The Talent Intelligence Podcast, we sit down with Ida Matthieson, Talent Acquisition Lead at HBK. Ida has had an interesting first year in her HBK career, joining the business just as the pandemic hit and quickly moving up the ranks while never meeting most of her co-workers (sound familiar anyone?) While she’s been working on a holistic approach to HBK’s talent strategy, Ida has also brought her passion for DE&I to the fore, an interesting challenge in the male dominated industry they operate in. Ida has been an instrumental part of a team that has pushed for diversity not only internally but from the business’s suppliers and partners. In this episode we discuss the impact of the pandemic on remote teams, how a fast-moving market has made talent departments more agile, what the future of diversity looks like, and much more. And if that doesn’t peak your interest, tune in to hear about Ida’s mad dash from London to Denmark, leaving all of her belongings behind in the process - she’s not a fugitive, we swear.