Talent Makers Studio

In this episode, Jon Stross, President and Co-founder of Greenhouse Software invites Lauren Holzer, Sr. Director, Global Talent Acquisition at The Knot Worldwide to share her company’s Hiring Maturity journey. As a parent company celebrating life's biggest moments, The Knot Worldwide includes a number of high-profile brands, including: The Knot, WeddingWire and The Nest. Lauren shares how this global suite of brands powers an organization-wide willingness to embrace talent acquisition as a winning business strategy.   In this limited series, Greenhouse President and Co-founder Jon Stross sits down with talent leaders from companies like The Knot Worldwide, Team.ai, Fair and ThoughtWorks to discuss their Hiring Maturity journeys.    Listen now to discover how each featured company moved up the Greenhouse Hiring Maturity curve (and how your company can, too), what talent leaders consider when building a winning hiring strategy and why a whole-company talent mindset is key to business success.

Talent Makers are leaders who make hiring their top priority. They know what it takes to compete for top talent, focus on accelerating diversity within their organization and build winning teams. In this episode of the Hiring for what’s next podcast series, The Talent Makers, you'll hear directly from leaders on winning hiring strategies that drive real business results in their organizations.Get the story behind the business as special guest host George LaRocque, Principal Analyst and Founder of WorkTech, sits down with Greenhouse co-founders Daniel Chait and Jon Stross. Discover how Greenhouse was built from the ground up and how that process led to the development of the company’s Hiring Maturity™ model that has been embraced by thousands of companies. 

The war for Talent can always benefit from a different perspective, and Steven Broudy of Bevy has a unique blend of military experience and sales smarts. In this episode, we’re honored to talk to Steven, one of the top up and coming sales leaders in the industry and a former special ops sniper. He shares his own experiences in the power of authentic connection, how to navigate the tricky business of building trust and how to nurture future sales leaders. In each episode of Hiring for What's next – The Talent Makers Studio, we’re speaking with leaders from every part of the business to discover how they prioritize great hiring - and the impact it has on their organizations. We’re living in a new age in which the product isn’t nearly as important as the people who make it. Talent has the single-biggest impact on a company’s bottom line and long-term success, which makes the ability to uncover and hire the right talent, at the right time, for the right roles the most valuable business function. Great hiring is n

People aren’t static, which means how we approach equity, diversity and inclusion isn’t static. It’s a muscle that needs to be continuously built. Over the last 20 years, Dr. Salima Bhimani has served as a consultant, researcher, educator and systems designer and now, as chief equity and inclusion systems strategist for Alphabet, she shares why we need to be open to trying and potentially failing, and why anything we do around ED&I needs us to be open to learning from each other. In each episode of Hiring for What's next – The Talent Makers Studio, we’re speaking with leaders from every part of the business to discover how they prioritize great hiring - and the impact it has on their organizations. We’re living in a new age in which the product isn’t nearly as important as the people who make it. Talent has the single-biggest impact on a company’s bottom line and long-term success, which makes the ability to uncover and hire the right talent, at the right time, for the right roles the most valuable busine

Rideshare company Lyft (which has recently gone public) hires over 200 people every month. How does their team manage that breakneck growth while continuing to plan in a strategic way, backed by clean, reliable data? And how do they balance scale while maintaining the excellent culture Lyft is known for? Mason Wong, Lyft’s recruiting systems administrator, gives the Talent Makers Studio an inside look into the sophisticated HR tech stack Lyft relies on built around Greenhouse Recruiting and how the company’s approach to hiring holds up their values.  In each episode of Hiring for What's next – The Talent Makers Studio, we’re speaking with leaders from every part of the business to discover how they prioritize great hiring - and the impact it has on their organizations. We’re living in a new age in which the product isn’t nearly as important as the people who make it. Talent has the single-biggest impact on a company’s bottom line and long-term success, which makes the ability to uncover and hire the right tal

From scaling a marketing practice to scaling the entire TalkDesk team around the world, VP of Global Talent Shauna Geraghty shares her Talent Maker journey at software company TalkDesk. Discover the parallels between structured hiring and clinical psychology that Shauna applied to propel TalkDesk along a hyper-growth trajectory that traverses the globe across six offices. In each episode of Hiring for What's next – The Talent Makers Studio, we’re speaking with leaders from every part of the business to discover how they prioritize great hiring - and the impact it has on their organizations. We’re living in a new age in which the product isn’t nearly as important as the people who make it. Talent has the single-biggest impact on a company’s bottom line and long-term success, which makes the ability to uncover and hire the right talent, at the right time, for the right roles the most valuable business function. Great hiring is not just the result of great recruiters working their magic. It’s a company-wide comm

Building a successful advertising empire takes more than quippy copy - it takes a lot of heart. Claude Silver has helped build and lead the team at VaynerMedia as the ad darling’s first-ever Chief Heart Officer. During this episode, hear how she has ridden the waves of change by building a culture of belonging and empowering teams to be purpose-driven, efficient and strong. In each episode of Hiring for What's next – The Talent Makers Studio, we’re speaking with leaders from every part of the business to discover how they prioritize great hiring - and the impact it has on their organizations. We’re living in a new age in which the product isn’t nearly as important as the people who make it. Talent has the single-biggest impact on a company’s bottom line and long-term success, which makes the ability to uncover and hire the right talent, at the right time, for the right roles the most valuable business function. Great hiring is not just the result of great recruiters working their magic. It’s a company-wide co

Growing teams is an art, and Teresa Dietrich’s career building tech teams is a testament to what great looks like. In this episode, Teresa shares how her experience across a wide array of companies spanning different industries and sizes solidified her belief that hiring, retaining and progressing the right people with the right skills is the best way to ensure smooth sailing in business. In each episode of Hiring for What's next – The Talent Makers Studio, we’re speaking with leaders from every part of the business to discover how they prioritize great hiring - and the impact it has on their organizations. We’re living in a new age in which the product isn’t nearly as important as the people who make it. Talent has the single-biggest impact on a company’s bottom line and long-term success, which makes the ability to uncover and hire the right talent, at the right time, for the right roles the most valuable business function. Great hiring is not just the result of great recruiters working their magic. It’s a

For Chief People Officer Susan Lee, humility is one of the things she loves the most about working at SeatGeek, a company that helps the world enjoy live events. During this episode, Susan shares what she values in a strong recruiting team, and how that brings company culture to life in every part of the business, all within an environment of humility. In each episode of Hiring for What's next – The Talent Makers Studio, we’re speaking with leaders from every part of the business to discover how they prioritize great hiring - and the impact it has on their organizations. We’re living in a new age in which the product isn’t nearly as important as the people who make it. Talent has the single-biggest impact on a company’s bottom line and long-term success, which makes the ability to uncover and hire the right talent, at the right time, for the right roles the most valuable business function. Great hiring is not just the result of great recruiters working their magic. It’s a company-wide commitment that's vital