HR Latte, episode #122 [36 minutes]

Rayanne welcomes Dwaine Maltais, Co-founder & CEO at Talentegy

A little more about Dwaine Maltais:



– HR/Recruiting Tech Entrepreneur

– Creator of SmartPost

– Launched Hodes iQ and other digital offerings for Bernard Hodes Group

– Driven to share his understanding of tech and to use it for the betterment of talent acquisition & talent management

Rayanne & Dwaine discuss these points:

• The power and innovation of HR Tech


• What is Talentegy?


• HR departments are running too many systems / types of tech


• Bottomline impacts of Poor experiences of Employees or Job Seekers


• Can you automate the identification of underlying HR / Recruiting issues?


• Dwaine’s Female Co-Founders: Shawna Berthold & Stephanie Ralston


• The endless talk about improving Candidate Experience


• Finally recognizing the mobile job seeker


• Former drivers: automation & efficiency, managing people like a supply chain


• Current driver that has been a missing piece – having the proper measures in place to support the need for change


• The Shift of Job Search Control to job seekers, applicants, & candidates


• Talentegy helps companies by giving them visibility of what their systems are doing, achieving, missing


• How to gain a clear understanding of the necessary changes to HR and their processes


• How to build a business case for purchasing a new system like Talentegy


• What are the risks of not addressing “poor experiences” and their impact on business


• Understanding the content that candidates are interested in and engaged with


• Catching issues that cause application drop-off & thus, know how to improve


• Real-time Feedback – does it have to be incentivized?


• The impact of employer brand on consumer brand

Talentegy is a sophisticated technology, based on three simple principles: measure, alert, and plan.

You can reach Dwaine at dwaine.maltais@talentegy.com or connect on LinkedIn –

You can also catch Talentegy team at HR Tech in Las Vegas, Sept 11-14 – catch them in the “Pitch Fest”

Today’s HR Latte is made possible by:

Talentegy: an AI-enhanced Talent Analytics Platform that optimizes Recruiting and Talent Management. We help companies continuously monitor Candidate and Employee experience.