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HRx Radio – Executive Conversations

Guest: Jamie Troiano, founder and CEO, PredictiveHR

Episode: 329

Air Date: June 28, 2019

Transcript

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00:00:13 :16 – 00:00:28 :14

Good morning and welcome HRExaminer’s Executive Conversations, I’m your host John Sumser and today we’re going to be talking with Jamie Troiano who is the CEO and founder of a company called PredictiveHR. Jamie, how are you this morning?

00:00:31 :14 – 00:00:32 :09

I am doing great, thank you for having me John.

00:00:32 :26 – 00:00:40 :15

Yeah. Yes why don’t you take a moment and introduce yourself and tell me about your background, how did you get here? And, well we’ll move from there.

00:00:42 :05 – 00:01:12 :25

Sure. So my name is Jamie Troiano. We’re based here in the Boston area and I have a background in finance and then I moved into HR. I’ve been in HR Operations for close over 15 years. And one of the things that I always was focusing on is. Recording and analytics and getting disparate HR systems to talk to each other and

00:01:13 :10 – 00:01:44 :00

So every place that I went to throughout my career I always ran into that as being teams. Same problems I would have large teams offshore putting together reports, stagnant reports, because they’re a snapshot in time, trying to normalize the data and then bringing giving me back reports that executives were making business decisions on, critical business decisions, on data that fail 3 4 weeks old. And because it was a snapshot in time.

00:01:44 :00 – 00:02:04 :27

It was some of it was wrong. So for me I went to a number of different companies. I tried to get someone to build me what I wanted. And no one would do exactly how I wanted it. So I ended up bringing in a very close friend of mine Charles Occhino who is our CTO. And we’ve we built the product together.

00:02:04 :28 – 00:02:15 :10

Tell me how you fell into HR. Nobody wakes up in the sort of sandbox when they’re five years old and says Mommy mommy I want to be an HR guy.

00:02:17 :10 – 00:03:12 :14

Yeah it’s actually a very very funny story. But like I said I started I have a finance degree I was working for Thompson Financial on their financial software so I I actually learned technology became a certified SQL server DBA and then I way I actually went back to school was getting my master’s and I took some time off that wanted to go full time and just get it done and my wife became pregnant and she’s like you got to go back to work and a friend that I played softball with started up a recruitment agency and he allowed me to work part time and while I was finishing up school and she had a good approach where because I was the hiring manager he wanted I could talk I could speak differently to both customers and candidate because I was in there living it doing technical recruiting.

00:03:12 :15 – 00:03:17 :18

So that’s actually I wrote in was in the recruiting side huh.

00:03:17 :21 – 00:03:42 :23

That’s a it’s an interesting place from which to approach a. It’s a different world where because it’s the market facing part of the company rathole and markets it behaves really it was funded deliberately as a resource so it’s always interesting to hear what it was like to go from being in recruiting to to being in the risk the.

00:03:43 :12 – 00:04:20 :10

Yes. So what was funny. So I started out in the agency and it was a good way to get my feet wet and understand that you know they taught me how to recruit. But what what happened was even there. They’re like oh you’re technical here take our eight yes and fix that because nobody likes theory yet nobody their. The