#27: Talking Shop — In Conversation With a Fellow Recruitment Marketing Agency Founder

The Changing State of Talent Acquisition

This week we welcome Kelly Robinson to the podcast. Kelly has founded numerous ventures in the talent acquisition space, including a staffing firm (MECS Communications), a job distribution platform (Broadbean), a marketing content sharing tool (Paiger), and most recently, RedDotMedia, a recruitment marketing agency.

Topics include: the future of business travel, Graham’s beard, why many organizations lack insight into their top sources of applications and hires, the problem of overworked and underpaid recruiters, the use of video conferencing background images as a basis for evaluating job candidates, reactive vs. proactive recruiting, the mistake of equating talent acquisition with human resources, approaches to incentivizing quality hires, the lack of quality data in talent acquisition, and employee engagement survey fatigue.