Talent Acquisition Matters

In this episode, Thomas had the pleasure of speaking with the VP, Head of Global Talent Acquisition and employer branding at Evotec, Sven Steinebach. Sven has over 20 years of experience in creating, executing and strategising complex Talent Acquisition In-house and RPO services in multi-national matrixed organisations. Sven’s career experience spans many Blue chip companies in the life sciences space. With a unique experience of complex TA, in-house, RPO and employer branding, Sven and Tom discuss the changes the industry has seen over the years. Talent Acquisition has gone from a small component of HR duties to being a fundamental and essential business unit of its own and hiring for a sustainable and prosperous future.

Tessa is the Founder and CEO of Talent Reimagined, a strategic partner in Talent Acquisition transformation, helping companies acquire new recruiting and talent acquisition skills. Tessa has a psychology degree with a deep interest in people and progression, which fed into Talent Reimagined’s founding. She helps customers reimagine talent from process to strategy and transformation, bringing new perspectives to reality. Within this episode, Tessa and Tom discuss the current challenges scaleups are facing in today’s environment, what organisations can do to get their TA strategy right, internal evaluation of companies and what companies need to do to remould/restart what they are doing.

Isabelle is currently the Hiring Lead at ForgeRock, having founded multiple companies and previously worked with Sage and ACP. Isabelle has an extensive background within the cloud and growth stage to public technology companies across executive hiring and talent acquisition strategies. She is part of the UK Resourcing Leaders Top 100 and has been nominated three times by Recruiter.co.uk as one of the 11 most influential in-house talent acquisition experts. Isabelle has successfully implemented innovative talent acquisition solutions and has 360-degree experience in all recruitment and branding disciplines. In this episode, we discuss all things in-house executive search, storytelling when talking to talent, how best to communicate with stakeholders and more.  Listen to this episode for an insightful conversation.

In 2017, Brian co-founded CultureHQ, a platform to help companies tell their story authentically through their own employees. Prior to founding CultureHQ, Brian has seven years experience within business development at companies including Forrester Research, where he met his co-founder, Jimmy Hall. CultureHQ is on a journey to create meaningful connections between employees and provide companies with new analytical insights that will transform the workplace for the better. In this episode, Brian and Tom touch on the most impactful ways to attract diverse talent to your business, how companies can make their talent attraction content work for them, how your business can develop an inbound strategy to bring talent into your company and much more. We hope you enjoy this episode of Talent Acquisition Matters.

As the first success out of the Fraser Dove academy, Harry has progressed over the last four years to lead the Outsourcing Practice (CDMO/CRO) at Fraser Dove and heads up our newly-opened London office. Harry works with leading life science organisations to find and hire the very best Manufacturing & Tech Ops and Commercial & Strategy specialists in the CDMO space who can help my clients design, manufacture and distribute life-changing drugs, treatments and devices. He combines this approach with providing innovative insight, intelligence and on-demand consultancy to inform his clients' hiring strategy. In this episode of Talent Acquisition Matters Tom and Harry discuss how COVID 19 affected the CDMO market, the processes and procedures that are most important to the recruitment process, why if pleasing your customers is important to you that you need to put your people first and much more. Enjoy another insightful episode of Talent Acquisition Matters.