Geeks Geezers And Googlization Podcast

Imagine a workplace where projects replace jobs, skills replace job titles, workers pitch their skills, and employers bid on them to create the best possible match. Despite significant investments in workforce planning, results have fallen short of expectations. Many organizations are living in #TalentPoverty. Skill gaps grow. Gig workers are replacing full-time and part-time workers. How will the "total talent" mindset disrupt and change the way organizations hire and people work? What is the role of the recruiter in 2025? How will a business model like Upwork disrupt traditional staffing and recruiting?  Listen to Allegis Global Solutions’ Head of Recruiting Innovation Craig Fisher shares his vision for the future of work, staffing, and recruitment.

The hiring process is broken. The reliability of the resume and interview is no better than flipping a coin. Can video screening fix it? For starters, a 1-minute video interview is worth 1.8 million words. Compare that to a resume containing 400 to 800 words, and an interview taking 45 minutes or more.  When combined with AI, NLP (natural language processing), and machine learning, video screening is becoming more accurate than humans and a whole lot faster too, both essential hiring ingredients in today’s Age of Googlization. Because hiring employees is one of the most rewarding or costly activities a business does, it’s no surprise that video interviewing is one of the hottest trends among recruiters, and job seekers too. Listen to Benjy Gillman, from video screening tool MyInterview, discuss how AI-assisted video interviewing is rocking the world of recruitment and what their research shows.

Toxic workplace cultures cost US businesses $223 Billion in the past 5 years and drove 20% of employees out of their jobs.  Investment in growing engagement through pizza on Friday and purchasing more motivational posters is DOA. Long gone are the days when company culture was what the C-Suite said it was. Today the link between organizational culture and profitability is not just an HR thing anymore but a business imperative. Summery founder and CEO Erin Michelson has a cure for what she calls “common culturitis?” Erin joins us on this episode and shares how behavioral science and AI have emerged as the C-Suite’s best friend as it begins to laser-focus on managing culture and meeting investor expectations. The heart and soul of Summery lie within its proprietary The Kind Quiz. Complete the 5-minute quiz and receive a free 3-page overview of your kindness profile.  Click here to get started!

Candidates hate it. Most recruiters aren’t satisfied either. But more than 98% of Fortune 500 companies use an ATS (applicant tracking software) to recruit workers. As we approach 2020, what HR tech is working and what’s not in the world of talent acquisition? HR needs to morph, evolve, and adapt to new demands and challenges. What are the 9 Faces of HR and will they help drive change? If anyone should know, it’s Kris Dunn, who has been involved with filling 4500 professional grade positions a year! Kris Dunn is CHRO and a partner at Kinetix, what he calls the best RPO company in the world. He’s also the author of new book 9 Faces of HR.

Are you a working Mom on a career break (or an employer seeking more skilled workers?) Then don’t miss this episode of Geeks Geezers and Googlization. Listen to serial entrepreneur and philanthropist Reena Gupta share her vision and platform that gives working Moms the means to gain financial independence and businesses a vibrant source of fresh talent. Her timing is perfect. Companies need qualified workers and aspire to build a diverse workforce. Moms, educated and talented workers, want to work. Unfortunately demand and supply lines don’t currently align so well...until now. Mom Relaunch brings Moms and Employers together.

Millennials are possibly the most maligned generation in modern history. Why? The oldest Millennials are 40-something, the youngest in their 20s. They are the largest, most educated and diverse generation ever. Millennials are the 2nd largest electorate and largest active generation in the workforce, expected to make up 3 out of every 4 workers by 2025. And yet older generations blame them for everything gone wrong, even for things far out of their control.  Join us on this episode when Generational Guru Sherri Ellott Yeary meets Millennial trapped in a Baby Boomer host Ira Wolfe and Gen X co-host Keith Campagna as they discuss how to crack the Millennial code.

After spending $250 Billion on HR technology for recruitment, interviewing, and assessments, the candidate experience should be spectacular. But it’s not. In fact, it sucks. More than ½ job candidates drop out during the application process. Nearly 60% of applicants never hear from the employer. Did HR technology cause the dissatisfaction? Can HR tech heal itself? Will AI-assisted technology cure what ails struggling talent acquisition efforts? HR and Recruiting "Nerd" Matt Charney visits Geeks Geezers and Googlization and shares why he feels nothing has changed in HR tech for over a decade … and explains why that might be about to change.

CX. Just what HR needs, another acronym!  But don’t swipe left just yet. Bad candidate experience is almost single-handedly killing your talent acquisition efforts. Plain and simple - job seekers aren’t happy. Half of them encounter a negative experience with your company or your website even before they apply. Seven out of 10 leave and never apply again. Worse, they tell 7 friends…and those friends tell 7 more. Another 50 percent quit your application before hitting submit. Bad CX (candidate experience) pushes top talent away, drives up costs, creates negative publicity, and lowers customer revenue. It’s a destructive, expensive, counter-productive strategy. In this episode, we’re joined  by Delta CX author Debbie Levitt. She exposes the 4 Horsemen of Bad CX - frustration, confusion, disappointment, and distraction, how they send the wrong message to job candidates, and offers tips to deliver great CX.

If you could pick just one job skill to learn, develop, and grow, it should be curiosity. Curiosity is so important that you might say that curiosity lies behind the FATE of humanity. We simply can’t perform our jobs or stay relevant in the race between man and machine without - you guessed it, curiosity. It drives nearly every skill on the must-have job skill lists for tomorrow. And yet parents, business leaders, and our current education system teach the curiosity out of us despite the call for more innovation, growth mindset, and STEM. It’s time to unleash curiosity. Crack the code. Uncover what's holding you back.  Tune into this episode when The Googlization Guy, Ira S Wolfe, meets “Cracking the Curiosity Code” author Dr. Diane Hamilton. Unleash Your Curiosity with the Curiosity Code Index! Click here to learn more.

Rhonda Leeman Taylor is taking the same competitive fight and lessons of leadership, teamwork,and perseverance she learned on the ice to beat an even tougher opponent - gender discrimination in our communities and business. As young female hockey player she learned that female athletes, like female workers, just don’t get treated equally or fairly. They don’t get the same pay or the same respect, on or off the field. In this episode Rhonda shares her #MeToo moment when she was propositioned by a male president. She laughed at her assailant, and that awkward moment resulted in a “golden handshake,” effectively ending her career path. At that moment Rhonda skated from the ice to HR, pursuing her life-long passion to end gender discrimination. Rhonda’s new book Offside was just released last week (Oct 5).

Congratulations Geeks Geezers and Googlization. To celebrate Season 2, my co-host Keith Campagna is live on the floor of #HRTechConf 2019. Keith’s observation: Technology is ubiquitous. Automation is not only inevitable but integral to HR’s survival. The crescendo of AI-driven technologies is only adding fuel to unprecedented transformation and disruption. HR technology is pushing everyone into uncharted territory, a world of unknown unknowns. The future will be transformative, different, scary, and even weird.  Listen now as Ira and Keith discuss what's going on in the world of HR technology and recap a year of conversations that included interviews with thought leaders about technology, artificial intelligence, education, mindfulness, marketing, the future of work, and lots of disruption. (You can listen all our shows here or on your favorite podcast.) We're also excited to welcome XOR as our newest sponsor. Check them out here.

Josh Levine has a disturbing message for HR and executives in the C-Suite: ignore company culture at your own risk. New SHRM stats prove his point. 1 out of 4 Americans dread going to work. Nearly 1/2 of all workers are thinking about leaving. A bad company culture is not only bad for employees. It’s bad for business. Company culture is the difference between a vibrant business and one that flounders. (Yes, we talk about the rise and fall of WeWork and Uber too!)  Listen while Josh discusses his new book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture That Employees Love. Where do you start? Click play. Buy Great Mondays View SHRM's 2019 Culture Report

“Leadership needs to evolve,” says our guest John Dame. “Leaders need to lead with purpose.” Employees need leaders who they can trust, deliver compassion, provide stability, offer hope. Creating such a company culture that attracts, engages, inspires, and retains workers takes more than a few motivational posters and a wordsmithed vision statement hung in the lobby and break rooms. Listen to John describe how he helps both emerging and experienced leaders lead with purpose.

Pandit Dasa, a former monk, has an extraordinary vision for Workforce 2030, quite different than the dystopian view of robots and machines kicking us out of jobs over the next decade. Pandit imagines a workforce where leaders and managers inspire, support and encourage; where ego battles don’t stifle progress; where colleagues celebrate each other‘s success ; and employees develop positive social connections at work. But he also warns that without all of us being more mindful, our workplaces will become more toxic.

“Conflict can be like fertilizer. It stinks while you’re in it, but in the long run, it fosters growth,” says our guest Kira Nurieli, founder of Harmony Strategies Group. During this episode Kira reveals 3 crucial skills every manager and employee must learn to resolve and leverage conflict management. She describes why she recommends “Circles” strategy and how she has applied it to boost productivity, increase engagement, and help people feel like they matter.

How would you explain artificial intelligence to your 4 year old or 95 y/o mother? That might seem like a silly question to ask our guest Ben Eubanks when our audience includes so many HR professionals and business executives. Sadly, it’s not. Because according to the author of "Artificial Intelligence for HR," 90% of HR leaders don’t have a firm grasp on what AI is and how it works. That’s a huge problem because more than half a billion dollars flowed into AI-enabled HR technology last year alone. Listen as we talk about: What is AI for HR? How will AI disrupt jobs and work? What skills will we need?

HR has a human bandwidth problem. The demand for talent is skyrocketing at the same time companies struggle with unprecedented competition for labor. Unfortunately inefficiencies and task-intensive workloads overwhelm recruiters and HR, diverting them away from engaging top talent quickly and frequently - even when they come knocking. There simply aren’t enough hours in the day or resources available to do what's needed to deliver a spectacular candidate experience.  The solution is simple: Use HR tech to humanize recruitment. During this episode ConveyIQ CEO Danielle Weinblatt walks us through the critical human touch points of recruitment, identifies which ones can be automated and improved, freeing up humans to personalize and humanize the candidate experience.

When Dave Sanderson sat down on that plane 10 years ago, he had no clue that he was about to experience a "plane crash moment" that would alter his life forever. Prior to that day, Dave had no flight or rescue training. But his lifelong investment in personal development and a belief that you must lead yourself to lead others paid off. Dave was literally the last passenger off the plane that day and the first to realize it was time to pay it forward. You don't want to miss a minute of this episode when Dave shares his thoughts and life lessons learned during this life-changing experience and how that plane crash led him to a life of helping others learn to lead, succeed, and pay it forward.  

Talent acquisition is at the tipping point. The way talent acquisition gets done should scare the SHIFT out of management. Recruiting is broken and for many companies, that means it’s either game over or game on. The labor market looks nothing like it did 20 years ago. Heck, it’s almost unrecognizable to what it was like just 5 years ago. And yet HR and TA still functions like it has for decades long gone. That’s why we turned to our guest Tim Sackett, author of The Talent Fix and one of HR’s favorite bloggers, for some answers and solutions. First of all, It’s time for talent acquisition professionals to stop lying to themselves. The labor market has moved beyond post-and-pray job listings, and yet nearly 100% of companies still use this same-old-strategy to advertise job openings. And while HR technology is accelerating, it’s often Finance and IT that drives the selection and owns the solution, not HR. That’s nuts ...and bad for business.  What do and your company need to do to fix your talent acquisition?

What good is a futurist if he can’t predict? According to our guest Frank Diana, “prediction isn’t my job.” That seems to be a pretty odd thing for a futurist to say. But Frank’s response unleashed a flood of ideas when he said “It’s my job to help people rehearse for the future." Frank belongs to a growing community of thought leaders from all walks of life and backgrounds who are trying to help people make sense of a world of unknown unknowns. "Connecting the dots has never been so complicated." What does it take to rehearse for success when the future holds a world of unknown unknowns?  Listen now.