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

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. 

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The world of Talent Acquisition is in a constant state of change. The smartest companies are constantly evaluating their tools, technologies and marketing strategies to find ways to attract top talent. We go beyond the generalist topics you find on legacy HR-related news sources. Each week we unpack different topics around recruitment - from the impact of COVID on your employer branding efforts, to the hidden costs of cheap job seeker traffic and the candidate experience. Each week we'll dive deep into articles, people and themes that impact The Changing State of Talent Acquisition.