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Do you find hiring frustrating?? Are you disappointed with recruiting?? My name is Konstanty Sliwowski and I am a veteran of nearly 20 years in the business of recruitment, strategic talent acquisition and employment consultancy. I now focus my time on advising organisations and managers on how to be more, strategic, efficient, and effective at engaging and hiring top talent.In this podcast series, I speak with business leaders about how they attract and hire top performers. The high's and low's. And of course some funny stories and recruitment mishaps.If you are tired of recruitment processes that suck up your time and seem to never end and are looking for a more predictable way to attract, engage and hire top talent but also reduce the number of candidates you need to interview, come listen to our guest hiring managers including CEO's, CTO's, and CPO's open up about hiring experiences and how they approach talent acquisition.
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Send us a text How you hire has the single biggest impact on the foundations of your team and thus your business. There is little action of more significance that you as a leader can undertake. Your job as a leader is to build a team that can carry the business forward successfully. Full stop. Hiring is where it all starts. This is the foundation of any great team. Without great hiring you can not build great teams or healthy successful organisations. There however is no one way to make...
Send us a text Recruitment is not only about hiring people from outside the organisation. As leaders, we need to also consider our current team and in particular the impact of hiring on retention and promotion. More precisely, what will be the impact of hiring someone from outside our company be on the current team and is it in the best interest of the business and organisation. By not enabling growth from within your ranks you can alienate your current team members and critically give them r...
Send us a text If we would teach an MBA class on how to hire what would we have in the curriculum? What are the essentials that all business leaders should learn when it comes to effective hiring and interviewing? Well, it is all great to talk about the theory but one of the things that we all too often fear talking about is failure. It is easy to find a leader who is happy to discuss their success story or the theory behind it but finding one who is prepared to dig into their past and discu...
Send us a text Any hiring process is a series of opportunities to make a statement. How do you use your hiring process as a messaging tool? What do you communicate to the world through your hiring process? What statement are you making about you and your business? Hiring is about how you build a picture, support it with evidence and engage your audience. It is not about a job ad but about how you structure your hiring process to be an effective communication tool with candidates from...
Send us a text Design thinking is a process that helps organizations solve problems in a creative and user-centric way. It's often used in product design, but it can also be applied to other areas, so why not apply it to hiring? We all know that hiring is a critical part of growing a successful business. In fact we have covered many dimensions of this throughout past episodes ranging from interview preparation, importance of product vision, hiring for culture fit, aligning with candidates on...
Send us a text Perception is everything they say so how do we set perception in recruitment? In past episodes we have explored the importance of your hiring process and the impact it has on a candidates perception, in fact, the markets perception of you as an employer. We have also looked at how data can be used to improve the candidate experience and dived into the importance of mission, vision, and values in hiring as well as how team culture should be part of hiring. Today I want to...
Send us a text We all know that companies thrive on data and can use data to great benefit (as well as exploit it unfortunately) but how does data fit into hiring? In fact, what is Data-Driven recruiting? What does it mean for the candidates and for organizations? Should we fear it? Is it hiring by numbers and how does it impact the human aspect of employing people? In this episode I, Konstanty Sliwowski, have 2 special guests that have a lot of hands on experience in bringing data to life in...
Send us a text Companies talk about Mission, Vision and Values but does defining these do anything for creating a better business, improving your ability to attract and retain talent or have a more engaged workforce? And even if it does how do you address this topic and translate it into reality? We see companies state their mission and vision proudly on their homepage, in advertising and of course in job ads. We walk into offices and see posters proclaiming the company core values and have ...
Send us a text In this episode Konstanty Sliwowski and Freddy Friedman address a topic that is critical in candidate engagement and decision making and yet is often overlooked. Product Vision. Freddy Friedman has decades of experience in product leadership having served as CPO at companies such as Glispa, Smaato and more recently as a Managing Director of TravelAudience. He shares with us a wealth of knowledge gained across a career that has seen him experience, the good, the bad and the wei...
Send us a text Kristen Mashburn is the founder of KPMashburn, a consultancy firm focused on helping organisations and their leaders build high performing cultures. Aside from a big smile and a lot of laughs, Kristen also has a wealth of knowledge about culture, hiring and communication that is exceptionally valuable to any organisation looking for an edge in hiring and retention. Her work is centred around using culture to create better productivity, drive communication that within organisa...
Send us a text You have a team of 10-20 engineers and are ready to scale. Clearly, you need to plan headcount, recruitment and budgets, but how do you go about this? With so much uncertainty and constant change in a start-up and scale-up environment where do you begin? Don't fret, we have you covered on the School of Hiring podcast! In this episode, Konstanty Sliwowski, a veteran of 20 years in the world of recruitment and executive search speaks to Alex Allan, an interim CPO and a r...
Send us a text Traditional recruitment is over while companies experience The Great Resignation. In this special episode Konstanty Sliwowski, founder School of Hiring and Managing Director of Caissa Recruitment speaks to Oliver Aust, founder and CEO of Eo Ipso Communications and respected author on the topic of executive communications and branding, about the rising role of employer branding in attracting and retain top talent. Tune into this episode to find out 📺 How talent perceives potenti...
Send us a text Stephen Nock is leading Customer Experience at Ada Health, a global health company created by doctors to improve human health by transforming knowledge into better outcomes. Their product is the world's most popular symptom assessment app, with 10 million users and 20 million completed assessments. Every three seconds, someone turns to Ada for personal health guidance. In such an environment and with so many people dependant on the service, customer experience really matters. ...
Send us a text Füsun is a customer and technology obsessed executive leader. She is an engineer at heart with experience in global product development, digital services, scaling and optimising organisations which offer digital solutions. Among her past employers she can count Microsoft, XING, OLX and Axel Springer where she held positions of VP Engineering, Director of Engineering and CTO among others. Currently Füsun is Head of Global Transportation Engineering and Product at Wayfair. 'Thi...
Send us a text Artem Demchenkov is an experienced CTO, startup co-founder, team leader, and architect with vast professional experience in different IT areas including fintech, social networks, media, games and analytical systems. Artem is the co-founder and ex-CTO of Billie.io, a Berlin-based fintech startup providing innovative B2B payment services from short-term liquidity to online payments. Billie was founded in 2016 by the former founders of Zencap (later acquired by Funding Circ...
Send us a text Jan Hendrik Ansink is a serial founder and currently the CEO of volders GmbH (http://www.volders.de). He is also an angel investor at Tillhub, Oceans Apart, Lumiform, Superchat, and Taledo. As a serial entrepreneur and company builder, Jan has long appreciated that the secret to success is finding, engaging, hiring and crucially onboarding top talent. In fact, Jan believes that onboarding is the critical factor that defines the future success of his people as well as the...
Send us a text Yasmine is founder of Negotiatress, an initiative to help women negotiate authentically for themselves without feeling like they have to give up on their identity. She is a certified mediator and group facilitator with 10 years of experience in conflict resolution in the political, NGO and private sector. Konstanty Sliwowski is the founder of the School of Hiring and the CEO of Caissa, a technology focused executive search consultancy. He has 20 years experience in hirin...
Send us a text Davin Pidoto is Engineering Manager at Care.com. He is an Australian who has relocated to Berlin not once but twice and has a very personal take on both being hired remotely as well as building and onboarding remote teams. In our podcast we focus on the topic of remote hiring and onboarding and the importance of the hiring process in making this a success. The last year has been quite a ride and of course there is a lot of talk about remote working, the future of work, the ch...
Send us a text Stefan Berndt is the Head of HR at Treasury Intelligence Solutions (tis.biz), a global leader in managing corporate payments. TIS is a company with an incredible history, impressive management style and is well on its way to becoming the next European unicorn. In fact, it has been named by the Financial Times as one of "Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies" for 2019. All this success though rests on a carefully planned approach to people, recruitment and hiring. Th...
Send us a text Jack Godau is an empathetic, cooperative and passionate leader, with a career as a technical leader in strategy consulting at Schutze AG and more recently in eHealth as a VP of Software Engineering. Jack has a wealth of experience in helping organisations of all types and sizes to manage their Digital Evolution by providing technical and strategic leadership, guidance and coaching. He is highly proficient in team building and in fostering an inclusive culture to enable local an...
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