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InsideTalent

InsideTalent

By InsideTalent

A podcast for leaders and aspiring talent leaders.

InsideTalent brings you tangible and practical insights, experiences, and stories from leaders with experience across recruitment, talent transformation, diversity and inclusion, and early talent.

Hear the real stories - the wins and the losses - from global leaders who’ve managed teams, transformed cultures and supercharged their own career. From industries including law, professional services, software to startups, we bring you the insights that you won't see on the front page of Linkedin.

InsideTalent is brought to you by InsideSherpa.
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InsideTalent - Ashton Ragsdale, New York Times

InsideTalentMar 24, 2020

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How Dell Technologies is Leading the Charge of Equitable Hiring Initiatives Across North America with Jennifer Newbill

How Dell Technologies is Leading the Charge of Equitable Hiring Initiatives Across North America with Jennifer Newbill

Welcome to the Forage Early Inside Talent podcast! This is a podcast for ambitious and progressive talent professionals who want to learn from the innovators and renegades in the talent business.

Join Yaz, your host on this journey of discovery as she meets with leaders from some of the biggest and best organizations around the globe who are on the bleeding edge of early talent, campus recruiting, university partnerships, and diversity and inclusion programs. No subject is out of bounds. Yaz will be exploring the ins and outs of talent attraction, learning and development, people in talent management, as well as fostering social responsibility and diverse workplaces, and what the future of talent looks like.

In this first episode, Yaz is joined by Jennifer Jones Newbill, the Director of University Recruitment at Dell Technologies. She leads Dell’s university recruitment team for North America, focusing on the strategy and execution of various university programs and hiring initiatives across North America. She is incredibly passionate about driving equality forward in the workplace and on Dell’s mission to increase diversity in their global workforce.

Jennifer shares about her interesting and inspiring career thus far, what makes her so excited about university recruiting and the early talent space, her hopes for the future of early talent acquisition, the commitment Dell is making to make more diverse hires and her insight on what could be changed in the early talent acquisition or recruiting space to improve it now (and going forward). Don’t miss out on Jennifer’s lessons, takeaways, insights, and career highlights.

Key Takeaways:

[:05] About Forage Early Inside Talent podcast.

[:57] Yaz welcomes her first guest, Jennifer Newbill, to the podcast!

[1:03] About Jennifer’s current role and responsibilities at Dell Technologies.

[2:39] How Jennifer first got started in the world of recruiting, HR, and talent acquisition.

[5:52] Jennifer shares about her transition into university recruiting and the early talent space, what initially interested her in making this transition, and what gets her excited about the space.

[9:33] Jennifer shares some early career highlights and successes she is proud of.

[16:30] What Jennifer is hoping to achieve with early talent and university recruiting in her current role, and the commitments they are making to improve diverse hiring at Dell.

[22:07] Why companies need to make a large, long-term commitment to equitable hiring.

[23:58] Yaz emphasizes the importance of companies working together with universities and other institutions to improve diversity in early talent hiring.

[24:33] Jennifer addresses the impact that technology has on hiring currently and how we will continue to see it impact hiring in the next 3-5 years.

[32:25] If Jennifer could change one thing about early talent acquisition or recruiting, what would she change and why?

[35:58] Yaz thanks Jennifer for joining the podcast!


Mentioned in this Episode:

Jennifer Jones Newbill’s LinkedIn

Dell Technologies

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Jul 16, 202135:52
InsideTalent - Jennifer Prevoznik, SAP

InsideTalent - Jennifer Prevoznik, SAP

Welcome to the InsideTalent Podcast. We curate insights, opinions, and experiences from global leaders in talent, recruitment and people management.

We speak with Jennifer Prevoznik, the global head of intern & early talent recruiting at SAP. 

Jenn leads global talent acquisition strategy, employer branding, university engagement, headcount/demand planning, hiring, and internship conversion and programming.

We speak with Jenn about what it takes to build a leading early talent program within a global organization; how technology will impact talent, hiring and recruitment, how to future proof talent pipelines; and her experience building her own career in recruitment.

Jul 15, 202145:04
InsideTalent - Ashton Ragsdale, New York Times

InsideTalent - Ashton Ragsdale, New York Times

Welcome to the InsideTalent Podcast. We curate insights, opinions, and experiences from global leaders in talent, recruitment and people management.

Ashton leads campus programs and diversity outreach at the New York Times. 

Ashton shares his passion for diversity in early talent and entry-level recruiting. His experience, starting his career building diversity and campus programs for retailer Target, and now setting the strategy for the New York times diversity in its campus recruiting programs. Ashton shares his story in campus recruiting - particularly his passion and enthusiasm for creating positive experiences for students at the start of their career.

Mar 24, 202032:53
Inside Talent, Hayden Kornblut - Kraft Heinz

Inside Talent, Hayden Kornblut - Kraft Heinz

Welcome to the InsideTalent Podcast. We curate insights, opinions, and experiences from global leaders in talent, recruitment and people management.

Hayden leads early talent and campus recruiting for Kraft Heinz. 

Hayden began his career at Bridgestone, whereat a very young age he built out the internship and early talent program. Listen to Hayden's focus on how technology and data can shape an early talent program.

Mar 24, 202045:35
InsideTalent - Kristen Dauler, Brex

InsideTalent - Kristen Dauler, Brex

Welcome to the InsideTalent Podcast. We curate insights, opinions, and experiences from global leaders in talent, recruitment and people management.

Kristen is the Head of University for Brex. Previously, at time of recording, Kristen was the Head of Campus Talent at ride-sharing company Lyft. 

Kristen shares what it was like building and scaling an early talent function from the ground up. Hear Kristen speak about how she has built strategies to foster diversity, especially among technical students, into Lyft's early talent function, and her passion for engaging students within large technology companies.

Mar 24, 202040:48
Inside Talent - Colleen Grant, Hubspot

Inside Talent - Colleen Grant, Hubspot

Welcome to the InsideTalent Podcast. We curate insights, opinions, and experiences from global leaders in talent, recruitment and people management.

Colleen leads global campus recruiting at global tech company Hubspot. 

Colleen shares with us her experience moving from recruiter to a leader managing a global team, defining the strategy to engage with early talent, especially campus talent. Colleen's passion for enabling equality of opportunity for early talent has lead her to build a world-renowned global early talent program at Hubspot.

Mar 23, 202046:52
InsideTalent - Christy Del Regno, Pall Life Sciences

InsideTalent - Christy Del Regno, Pall Life Sciences

Welcome to the InsideTalent Podcast. We curate insights, opinions, and experiences from global leaders in talent, recruitment and people management.

Christy is the Head of Global Talent Acquisition for Pall Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Danaher. 

Christy's career in early and campus talent started at Johnson & Johnson, where she built out a leading early talent acquisition strategy. Christy's  shares her experience leading early talent functions within healthcare and life sciences, her unwavering focus for the student experience, and her innovative approach to reinventing campus recruiting.


Mar 02, 202037:10
InsideTalent - Antonia Choi, White & Case

InsideTalent - Antonia Choi, White & Case

Welcome to the InsideTalent Podcast. We curate insights, opinions, and experiences from global leaders in talent, recruitment and people management.

Antonia is the Global Director of Recruitment and Employer Brand at leading law firm White & Case. 

Antonia shares insights into her career in recruitment and talent acquisition, challenges facing top-tier law firms to build engaged, diverse pipelines of talent; and where she sees the future of legal early talent acquisition. Antonia's shares her global experience - having previously worked in the UK and now in New York - beginning her career in finance, working through the collapse of Lehman Brothers during the GFC, and now redefining what early talent and employer branding means in the legal industry. 

Oct 23, 201942:30
InsideTalent - Natalie Runyon, Thomson Reuters

InsideTalent - Natalie Runyon, Thomson Reuters

Welcome to the InsideTalent Podcast. We curate insights, opinions, and experiences from global leaders in talent, recruitment and people management.

Natalie started her career in risk management at Goldman Sachs, she now leads diversity & inclusion content strategy and marketing for Thomson Reuters. An expert in diversity, equity and inclusion, Natalie speaks to how her own personal experiences have shaped a career in D&I and talent, and how organizations can optimize for diversity & inclusion. 

Oct 19, 201945:05
InsideTalent - Sally King, Patterson Belknap

InsideTalent - Sally King, Patterson Belknap

Welcome to the InsideTalent Podcast. We curate insights, opinions, and experiences from global leaders in talent, recruitment and people management.

We speak with Sally King. Sally is the Chief Operating Officer at New York law firm Patterson Belknap. Previously Sally was the COO at top-tier law firm Akin Gump, with an extensive career leading operations for large global law firms and technology companies.

 
We speak with Sally about her career story, her advice to those starting out in the legal industry, and hear her trailblazing advice as a woman in 'big law'.

Oct 19, 201938:43
InsideTalent - Julie Grzeda, General Electric

InsideTalent - Julie Grzeda, General Electric

Welcome to the InsideTalent Podcast. We curate insights, opinions, and experiences from global leaders in talent, recruitment and people management.

Julie leads global early talent and intern programs at General Electric. Julie began her career at GE out of college. 


Julie shares how large, global companies can create authentic and engaging experiences for candidates, the impact of technology on hiring, how GE fosters 'desk readiness' in candidates and early talent, and the challenges of building diverse and inclusive pipelines of talent.

Oct 18, 201937:02
InsideTalent - Tom Brunskill, InsideSherpa

InsideTalent - Tom Brunskill, InsideSherpa

Welcome to the InsideTalent Podcast. We curate insights, opinions, and experiences from global leaders in talent, recruitment and people management.

We speak with Tom Brunskill, Tom is the CEO and co-founder of InsideSherpa. Previously, he was an M&A lawyer at a leading global law firm. 

We speak with Tom about the impact of technology on hiring early talent, the challenges facing students seeking their first job or internship, and how companies and organizations are addressing the changing state of recruitment.

Oct 18, 201941:07