Unlocking Potential: Skills First Movement with Wendi Safstrom, SHRM Foundation
HRchat Podcast23 Jun 2025

Unlocking Potential: Skills First Movement with Wendi Safstrom, SHRM Foundation

The U.S. faces a talent crisis with millions of skilled candidates overlooked due to outdated hiring practices. The SHRM Foundation's Center for a Skills-First Future aims to bridge this gap by transforming how employers approach talent acquisition. In this HRchat conversation with Bill Banham, SHRM Foundation President Wendi Safstrom reveals why skills-first hiring has moved to the forefront of strategic thinking for forward-looking organizations. "Talent is America's greatest asset," she e...

Episoder(925)

WorkingTech #9: Talent Aquisition Tech and Hiring Right

WorkingTech #9: Talent Aquisition Tech and Hiring Right

Every job has a natural social network surrounding it that includes the hiring team, candidates, and connectors. Ongig’s platform helps to remove the friction between candidates and employers, increas...

25 Apr 201729min

WorkingTech #8: Employee Engagement, HR Tech and innovateworkTO

WorkingTech #8: Employee Engagement, HR Tech and innovateworkTO

In this episode of The HR Gazette's sister show, WorkingTech, Bill Banham talks with WorkTango and innovateworkTO Co-Founder Rob Catalano. Bill and Rob discuss how tech is changing the ways employees ...

20 Apr 201715min

WorkingTech #7: Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings and Bringing Levity to the Workplace

WorkingTech #7: Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings and Bringing Levity to the Workplace

Sometimes we need a little levity about the world of work and the technologies that supposedly make it all better. Enjoy this funny conversation Kevin W. Grossman had with writer, comedian, and creato...

17 Apr 201721min

WorkingTech #6: Turning Data into Action and Empowering Your People

WorkingTech #6: Turning Data into Action and Empowering Your People

In this episode of the WorkingTech podcast, Kevin Grossman talks with Ultimate Software’s Serior Director of Product Strategy, Pat Pickren.Support the show Feature Your Brand on the HRchat Podcast T...

13 Apr 201725min

The Future of Work: Solutions and Strategies w/ Kathleen Jinkerson, The Talent Company

The Future of Work: Solutions and Strategies w/ Kathleen Jinkerson, The Talent Company

Kathleen Jinkerson is in the HRchat hot seat as we consider talent, and tech challenges facing companies today. Kathleen is the Director, HR & Total Rewards Solutions at The Talent Company. She spe...

4 Apr 20179min

WorkingTech #5: Driving the Success that Digital Brings to HR and Talent w/ Dirk Petersen

WorkingTech #5: Driving the Success that Digital Brings to HR and Talent w/ Dirk Petersen

In this episode of WorkingTech host Bill Banham interviews Dirk Petersen, US Managing Director at TI People, evangelist for Digital HR and speaker at DisruptHR Chicago and DisruptHR San Franscisco. Li...

3 Apr 201718min

WorkingTech #4: Mentorship, Shaping Careers and Engaging Candidates w/ Mark Babbitt

WorkingTech #4: Mentorship, Shaping Careers and Engaging Candidates w/ Mark Babbitt

In this episode of our new partner podcast, WorkingTech, Kevin W. Grossman interviews YouTern’s CEO and Founder, Mark Babbitt. Mark is also co-author of the best-seller A World Gone Social: How Compan...

29 Mar 201724min

Culture, Leadership and Innovation w/ Pam Ross

Culture, Leadership and Innovation w/ Pam Ross

In this episode of HRchat, Bill Banham asks Pam Ross about her career story and how she came to be a well-known speaker, culture catalyst, community builder and innovator within social HR. We do...

28 Mar 201724min

Populært innen Business og økonomi

lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
stopp-verden
dine-penger-pengeradet
e24-podden
rss-borsmorgen-okonominyhetene
rss-penger-polser-og-politikk
finansredaksjonen
livet-pa-veien-med-jan-erik-larssen
pengepodden-2
utbytte
rss-sunn-okonomi
tid-er-penger-en-podcast-med-peter-warren
pengesnakk
liberal-halvtime
stormkast-med-valebrokk-stordalen
morgenkaffen-med-finansavisen
lederpodden
okonomiamatorene
rss-politisk-preik
rss-markedspuls-2