What’s the secret sauce behind the enviable employer brand of Southwest Airlines? We’ll get the answers in this week’s interview. Shari Conaway is the People Director at the company. A servant leader and HR professional in the airline industry for over 20 years, her job is focused on supporting the team members of Southwest. Have…
What is an EVP (employer value proposition) tagline? Essentially it’s a few words that encompass and embody your company’s employer brand. Why does it matter? Because it’s the very core of your framework to communicate internally/externally and helps you differentiate yourself from your competitors. What company has the best EVP tagline? If you ever needed…
This week, we’re chatting with an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technologies company with worldwide interests. Charlotte Jones leads Talent Attraction and Employee Engagement Strategies at Lockheed Martin, a leading technology innovation company. Headquartered in Bethesda, Lockheed Martin brings proven performance to our customers’ toughest in more than 70 nations. She has been…
We’re with a Chicago-based tech company that has been through the peaks and troughs of business and now competing for the best talent with the likes of Google, Amazon, Facebook. James Ellis is the Global Head of Employment Brand at Groupon. He is responsible for the global employer brand and its activation across all digital…
Jennifer Newbill is the Director Global Employment Brand at Dell, and has a relentless focus on consistent candidate experience and engagement, including: employment brand design and asset creation, vendor management, global recruiting tools and optimization, social strategy and measurement of candidate engagement, employee advocacy programs, global referral programs and overall candidate experience. In this episode…
For over a decade, Brad Owens helped Fortune 500 companies (including Coca-Cola, Home Depot, Nationwide and many others) attract and hire talent at all levels of their organizations. In this episode, we’ll learn how Brad Owens uses his experience to make an impact on smaller and medium-sized companies as the “Robin Hood of Hiring.” He…
If you were to pick out one industry where the need for diversity and inclusiveness is most prevalent, most of you would say the tech industry. Over the past few years, we have seen plenty of diversity issues arising in some of the biggest tech brands in the world. We won’t name anyone, don’t worry….
After the acquisition of US Airways, American Airlines has been making significant changes with the vision of restoring American as the greatest airline in the world. How are they doing that? With their people. Carrie Corbin’s role is to build talent acquisition programs and strategies. Her team’s focus is to support the enterprise talent attraction…
What’s the best source of talent attraction at your company? Chances are it’s your own employees. This week, we’re speaking to a pharma giant has a strong human focus in its employer brand activation. John Graham Jr. is the Global Talent Acquisition Social & Digital Strategy Lead at Merck. In this episode, he shares his…