From A People Perspective
By The People People Group
From A People PerspectiveFeb 17, 2023
Applying Design Principles To Your Candidate & Employee Experiences with Elsawy Yehia - Product & Design Leader
Elsawy Yehia is a curious soul and seasoned product and design leader in tech. With career adventures spanning over twenty years, six countries, seven industries, thirteen brands, ninety articles, and a dozen public speaking engagements. He is most fulfilled when helping people grow to become better thinkers and makers. This podcast covers how Elsawy came into the world of product, design, leadership and how to apply design principles to your candidate and employee experiences.
From A People Perspective and The People People Group is made possible by our sponsors, if you're not a member, check out Canada's most engaged HR/Recruitment/Operations community.
- Wealthsimple For Work has group RRSPs for your employees that looks and feels like a modern day RRSP program
- The Leadership Agency is one of North America and the UK's best boutique startup recruitment agencies
- SpringLaw is Canada's first (and best) virtual employment law firm
- HiredHippo lets you find amazing startup talent on any budget
- Autumn helps you understand the state of your teams without the hassle of engagement surveys
- Wavy is a culture management platform for flexible teams
Shownotes:
(00:00) – Introduction
(3:20) – How many companies are doing a good job of designing the employee/candidate experience?
(5:30) – Icebreaker question
(9:10) – Reflection on past work, leading to where he is today
(13:25) – Refining your character, learning more about yourself
(14:50) – How Elsawy got to where he is today
(20:35) – “You have to have been a player to become a coach”
(24:40) - “Building people who love building great products”
(33:20)–Elsawy’s Manifesto
(37:25) – Origin of why Manifesto was created, how can People Ops folks apply this practise for themselves?
(45:10) – Coming to interviews with a framework on leadership
(47:00) – The importance of trust building with products
(57:40) – ‘Pre-totyping’
(1:07:05) – Elsawy’s upcomingbBook; Product People: A Journal of Laughter and Tears
(1:10:20) – Closing remarks
The Journey Of A Lifelong Builder with Regina Gerbeaux - Executive Coach
Regina Gerbeaux is the tactical, operations-driven coach for top-tier CEOs, operators, and investors. She is also a founder in interested in food tech, and an operator obsessed with putting structure to chaos. Previously, she was the COO at Mochary Method, Head of Operations at On Deck, and founder of a profitably-bootstrapped startup (sold in 2019).
Regina is passionate about helping people of the highest integrity build successful companies and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems. Her interests are in startups, sustainable company culture, stoicism, and using tech for positive social impact.
Regina open-sources all of her write-ups and templates online at regina.super.site. Her tactical templates and operational write-ups have been referenced and used by fast-scaling companies including dYdX, BioRender, StageGlass, and many more.
For more reading, please visit regina.super.site and follow Regina on LinkedIn and Twitter.
From A People Perspective and The People People Group is made possible by our sponsors, if you're not a member, check out Canada's most engaged HR/Recruitment/Operations community.
- Wealthsimple For Work has group RRSPs for your employees that looks and feels like a modern day RRSP program
- The Leadership Agency is one of North America and the UK's best boutique startup recruitment agencies
- SpringLaw is Canada's first (and best) virtual employment law firm
- HiredHippo lets you find amazing startup talent on any budget
- Autumn helps you understand the state of your teams without the hassle of engagement surveys
- Wavy is a culture management platform for flexible teams
Shownotes:
(0:32) - Intro
(3:25) - Icebreakers
(7:50) - Finding Strength In Difficult Times
(13:10) - From Music To Teaching
(14:53) - Building A Business
(16:50) - Discovering Tech
(17:37) - Understanding Scaling
(18:51) - Starting A Company To Get Into School
(22:23) - Learning To Code
(23:54) - Life At OnDeck
(30:54) - OnDeck Fellowship
(41:53) - Success Contributors
(45:50) - What's Next
(48:30) - Misunderstanding People Ops
(55:08) - Fixing Culture
(57:25) - From A CEO's Perspective
(1:00:00) - Tightening Up Ops
(1:07:00) - RIFs With Compassion
(1:11:00) - Finding Good Leaders
(1:13:43) - Closing Remarks
Power Of Mentorship, Growth Marketing, Opportunity Costs And AI In Recruitment with Julian D'Angelo - Founder of Talin
Julian D'Angelo, the founder of Talin joins me on the podcast and we dive into his scrappy beginnings as an entrepreneur, the impact of mentorship, how recruitment is missing the boat on growth marketing and then go down the AI rabbit hole and it's impacts into recruitment.
From A People Perspective and The People People Group is made possible by our sponsors, if you're not a member, check out Canada's most engaged HR/Recruitment/Operations community.
- Wealthsimple For Work has group RRSPs for your employees that looks and feels like a modern day RRSP program
- The Leadership Agency is one of North America and the UK's best boutique startup recruitment agencies
- SpringLaw is Canada's first (and best) virtual employment law firm
- HiredHippo lets you find amazing startup talent on any budget
- Autumn helps you understand the state of your teams without the hassle of engagement surveys
- Wavy is a culture management platform for flexible teams
(1:39) – Icebreakers
(5:38) – Teenage Side Hustles
(10:32) – Julian then and now
(16:37) – “ I do not believe in the concept of being self made…”
(18:27) – Mentorship received from Brent Stirling & the significance of mentorship
(24:28) – Founding Julian’s company, Talon
(31:17) – Growth marketing tools & the importance of personalization
(40:20) – Opportunity costs for Recruiters
(42:47) – AI, Chat GPT, benefits of AI use for Recruiters
(53:45) – Consequences of pessimistic outlook towards AI
(57:09) – Julian’s closing remarks
The Big Steps: Going International, Going Leadership And Going VC with Alison Kaizer - Global Recruitment Leader & Startup Advisor
The HR Podcast and startup veteran, Alison Kaizer graced the podcast with her knowledge on all things recruitment, leadership and figuring yourself out to figure everything else out. While she's no stranger to these conversations, she did save a few good stories and lots of wisdom for this episode.
From A People Perspective and The People People Group is made possible by our sponsors, if you're not a member, check out Canada's most engaged HR/Recruitment/Operations community.
- Wealthsimple For Work has group RRSPs for your employees that looks and feels like a modern day RRSP program
- The Leadership Agency is one of North America and the UK's best boutique startup recruitment agencies
- SpringLaw is Canada's first (and best) virtual employment law firm
- HiredHippo lets you find amazing startup talent on any budget
- Autumn helps you understand the state of your teams without the hassle of engagement surveys
- Wavy is a culture management platform for flexible teams
(1:15) – Intro
(3:45) – Icebreakers!
(8:50) – The Journey Into Recruiting
(16:00) – Going International
(21:40) – Knowing Your Role
(23:30) – From Player To Coach
(26:35) – Getting Into VC
(31:25) – What's Next?
From A People Perspective is humbly hosted by Martin Hauck and perfectly produced by Krish Dineshkumar.
Opportunities In Space, Never Giving Up And Scaling From 2,000 To 14,000 with Aly Harji - Talent Leader
The energetic Aly Harji joined me on the podcast to LITERALLY INVITE YOU ON A CANADIAN ROCKETSHIP (almost literally) and while I had him on the line, we talked about how he broke into recruitment in tech and the lessons he learned from helping Shopify scale from 2,000 people to over 14,000 while he was the Talent Sourcing Manager for Commercial and Executive Search at Shopify.
From A People Perspective and The People People Group is made possible by our sponsors, if you're not a member, check out Canada's most engaged HR/Recruitment/Operations community.
- Wealthsimple For Work has group RRSPs for your employees that looks and feels like a modern day RRSP program
- The Leadership Agency is one of North America and the UK's best boutique startup recruitment agencies
- SpringLaw is Canada's first (and best) virtual employment law firm
- HiredHippo lets you find amazing startup talent on any budget
- Autumn helps you understand the state of your teams without the hassle of engagement surveys
- Wavy is a culture management platform for flexible teams
Here's the timestamps for the episode:
(2:15) – How they met.
(7:26) – What is SpaceRyde?
(13:00) – What talent is SpaceRyde looking for?
(15:00) – Is Spaceryde’s similar to SpaceX?
(17:15) – Aren’t you getting bored of Earth?
(19:30) – What is Spaceryde looking for in terms of talent?
(22:50) – How to get in touch with Aly! Email: Aly@spaceryde.com
(24:00) – Aly's origin story
(28:00) – Hospitality is a gateway to recruting?!?!
(30:00) – Getting the opportunity
(32:30) – Transferrable skills
(35:25) – Value of experience from retail/hospitality; experiential learning
(36:55) – Aly’s journey to working for Shopify
(49:50) – Helping growing teams at different stages; startups, scale ups, enterprises…
(53:50) – Does hiring someone who interviews great for the position always translate to someone who performs incredibly well?
(58:05) – Importance of seeing how someone approaches their ‘craft’
(1:04:00) – Lessons from scaling up
(1:06:15) – Scaling vs. Flailing?
(1:07:50) – Aly's final thoughts... :heart:
From A People Perspective is humbly hosted by Martin Hauck and perfectly produced by Krish Dineshkumar.
Using Storytelling To Level Up Your Employer Brand with Marsha Shandur - Storytelling & Keynote Speaker Coach
Marsha Shandur and I talk about how to apply the science, magic and art of using storytelling to creating a captivating employer brand and levelling up the employee experience. Given that storytelling is the oldest form of communication, our brains are hardwired to respond better to those who communicate effectively.
Marsha has coached some of the most amazing speakers and helped countless organizations level up their communication skills, here's some of the wonderfully nice things they've said about working with her.
Marsha was kind enough to create a summary and resource page for some of the things we covered in the podcast and you can check that secret link here.
Finally, if you haven't heard of or joined The People People Group yet, check us out online, on LinkedIn, on Instagram or Twitter to learn more about North America's most engaged people operations community.
Hosted by Martin Hauck and produced by Krish Dineshkumar
Diving Deep Into Recruiting For Tech with Mike Bettley - Director of Talent Acquisition
Mike Bettley and I talk tech recruiting shop, covering the many facets of recruitment, what works, what doesn't and some helpful tips that you can take away and implement in your practice right away.
A Candid Candidate Conversation with Andrew Tan - Brand Strategy Consultant
Andrew Tan and I dive into the multi-faceted challenges of being new to a country and finding work despite having an excellent educational background and a robust list of work experience.
Assessing Leadership Skills with Jamie Hoobanoff - Founder of The Leadership Agency
Jamie Hoobanoff, Founder of The Leadership Agency answers a few questions raised that members of The People People Group had on assessing skills when it comes to leaders.