SocialTalent's The Shortlist Podcast
1) Holiday Special: The Wildest Jobs Recruiters Had Before TA
It’s a Holiday Special! Johnny is joined by long-suffering business partner Vince for a joyful roundup of the strangest jobs people had before recruiting, from goose wrangler to state-sanctioned beer-...Show More
2) Designing AI for Humans: Equity, Empathy & Tech with Tara & Jason
Are we building hiring tech that helps or harms people? In this episode, Tara Turk-Haynes (Equity Activations) and Jason Pistulka ( StratTech Consulting) join Johnny to explore human-first and equitab...Show More
3) Data That Actually Helps: Marriott’s TA Metrics Playbook (with Tyler Weeks)
How do you run people tech and analytics at Marriott, a 420k-employee giant operating in ~140 countries with 40 brands?Tyler Weeks, Managing VP of People Technology, Research & Analytics, shares what ...Show More
4) How TA Ops Scales Hiring at Sage (with Molly Sly)
What does a three-person TA Ops team do for a global hiring engine? A lot.In this episode, Molly Sly, Head of Global TA Enablement at Sage, breaks down how her “small but mighty” team supports ~35 rec...Show More
5) SAP’s Ilka Sagner-David on Interview Intelligence & Candidate Experience
What does AI-assisted interviewing look like inside a global enterprise? In this episode, Ilka Sagner-David, Head of Talent Discovery Solutions & Innovations at SAP, shares how her team is exploring i...Show More
6) BONUS EPISODE: LinkedIn’s Hari Srinivasan on AI, Hiring Assistant & the Future of Recruiting
What happens when AI removes the drudgery from recruiting? Live from Talent Connect, LinkedIn’s Hari Srinivasan breaks down Hiring Assistant, from natural-language job search to evidence-based sourcin...Show More
7) Marcus Thorpe (Thoughtworks) on Rolling Out Interview Intelligence
How do you deploy interview intelligence at global scale without hurting candidate experience or adding bias? In this episode, Thoughtworks Global Head of TA Marcus Thorpe shares how his team rolled o...Show More
8) Tugba Åkesson on Values-First Hiring and Culture at IKEA
This week, Johnny sits down with Tugba Åkesson, VP and Global Head of Talent Acquisition at IKEA (Ingka Group), to explore how the world’s most iconic home brand builds its people culture through valu...Show More
9) Chris Bleakley & Emma Neary on Tackling UK Healthcare Hiring Challenges
In this episode, Johnny sits down with Chris Bleakley of Spire Healthcare and Emma Neary of Priory to explore the complex realities of recruiting in the UK healthcare sector. From staffing shortages a...Show More
10) Luciano Pollastri on Building a Human-First Approach to AI at Work
In this episode, Johnny talks with Luciano Pollastri, Global Talent Director at Amadeus, about how AI can amplify, not replace, human potential. Luciano shares his personal journey from skeptic to inn...Show More