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#STRIVE19 Speaker Spotlight: Mark Valadez

Tell us about your background and what led you to your current role. I was born and raised in Chicago on the South Side (Go Sox!) and have always been driven by connecting with people and understanding not just their motivation, but their motive for action. My career path has been unconventional to say the […]

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#STRIVE19 Speaker Spotlight: William Tincup

Tell us about your background and what led you to your current role. I’ve been in the industry for 20 years, studying HR and technology from four different vantage points (ad agency, consultant, researcher and media). While tech has always played a role in HR and TA, we’re seeing an explosion of newer technologies—we’re living […]

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The Future of Talent: It’s Never too Early to Prepare

Tell us about your background and your current role at Boeing. I started my career as a recruiting analyst, which was a new role at the time. Applicant tracking systems were becoming popular and I had the opportunity to explore the system and—over the next several years—became a subject-matter expert. That knowledge led me through […]

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6 Experts Provide Strategies for Priming a Diverse Talent Pipeline

Strategy #1: Rewriting the Playbook A diversity-and-inclusion-focused approach can change everything about the recruiting and onboarding process. It can cause people to expand beyond their comfort zones of where they recruit, how they recruit, the questions they ask and who’s involved in the interview process. But there’s work to do before you recruit: You have […]

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4 Talent Acquisition Predictions for 2019 and Beyond

Say goodbye to the 9-5 Remote workers and flexible schedules are nothing new, but business magnate Richard Branson of Virgin sees the typical 40-hour workweek finally diminishing: “Could people eventually take three and even four day weekends? Certainly. Will job-sharing increase? I think so. People will need to be paid the same or even more […]

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Norfolk Southern’s Candidate-First Recruiting Strategy Saved Them $500,000

Freight trains. What’s the first thing that just came to mind? Railroad ties, heavy machinery, rusty metal, loud noises, perhaps? Try this: technological innovation. That’s right. Norfolk Southern has put technology at the forefront of its business model. They have a fleet of self-driving locomotives. The old-fashioned caboose has been replaced with high-tech end-of-train telemetry devices. Track […]

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