Aaron Friedman started Pana Partners with Denisse Guenoun in 2022. They specialise in using proactive recruiting — and believe more people should adopt the strategy.
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Simon Bernardino and Nick Ingall founded the Lab17’s talent partners in 2019. The pair first met at the age of 14 and have worked in many startups around the world. They started Lab17 shortly after the pair finished up at SafetyCulture and saw the challenges startups had.
Simon McSorley is the founder of Crew Talent Advisory, he runs a micro RPO where tech recruiters work on-site with high-growth companies to help them achieve their hiring goals.
“Recruitment consultant has been a bit of a dirty word in the past; but 94% of all ratings on TalentVine are either a 8, 9 or 10. The reason I say that is the vast, vast amount of recruiters are doing a fantastic job, they’re really good operators and they care about the work they do.”
Graeme Gemmel is the national manager at Recite.me, who make websites accessible to everyone. A key focus area is recruitment due to the lack of accessibility in career websites and job ads.
“We need to design our processes for inclusivity. As talent functions we should be looking at doing some human-design thinking around the recruitment process.”
Edan Haddock talks mental health, creativity, employer branding and more…
Douglas Robertson began his career in the recruitment industry and, after developing his own technical skills, moved in Data Analytics. Now, he’s the founder of DR Analytics Recruitment, a recruitment agency specialising in data professionals.
And we’re back with Part 2! Our interview with Nadine continues, this time exploring talent mobility, MDS and employer branding – some of the key ingredients of the future of talent acquisition.
We sat down with Nadine O’Regan to explore how to build a holistic approach to talent with an ‘always-on’ talent mindset.
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