Hiring On All Cylinders
Tune in with Talentful's founder and CEO Chris Abbass each month as he speaks with innovative talent acquisition and tech leaders.
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Lessons from the World's Most Impactful TA Leaders: Voices of the Talent100 (opens the original)
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In this special compilation episode of Hiring on All Cylinders, we bring together the best moments from interviews with winners of the HIGHER Talent100 — the annual list recognizing the most impactful TA leaders across 200+ organisations. From building recruiting functions from zero, to aligning TA with $13.8 million in revenue, to navigating the AI hype without losing the human element — these are the stories, frameworks, and hard-won lessons that define the best in the business. Featuring: Jen
Scale, Quality, and Speed: Inside eBay's Talent Transformation with Danielle Clark (VP, Global Talent at eBay) (opens the original)
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Danielle Clark leads a team of 130 people across five countries as VP of Global Talent at eBay — covering everything from talent acquisition to learning, performance, ops, and analytics under one roof. In this episode, she sits down with Matt Staney to unpack how eBay built an innovation hub in India from scratch, scaling from zero to 1,000 hires in under a year while maintaining just 6% attrition. Danielle shares the playbook behind their high-velocity hiring drives, why leadership hires should
What It Really Takes to Hire in AI and Deep Tech with Evie Rose-Deighan (VP AI at Talentful) (opens the original)
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The AI talent market has fundamentally shifted. It's no longer a sourcing problem — it's a differentiation problem. The talent is findable. The challenge is cutting through the noise and capturing hearts and minds. In this episode of Hiring on All Cylinders, Matt Staney sits down with Evie Rose-Deighan, VP of AI & Deep Tech at Talentful, to unpack what's changed in the six years she's spent scaling teams at some of the most ambitious AI and deep tech companies in the world. From frontier labs ra
Building Credibility, Structure and Influence in Talent Acquisition with Amanda Johnson (Sr Director, Global Talent Acquisition at DeepL) (opens the original)
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Amanda Johnson, Senior Director of Global TA at DeepL, joins Kathryne Friend to unpack how she built a data-driven hiring engine across Salesforce, Uber and DeepL. From turning recruiter buy-in into genuine data fluency, to rethinking candidate profiles as AI reshapes how we work — Amanda shares the frameworks behind a 25% YoY productivity increase, improved NPS, and a hiring function that measures what actually matters: right people, right roles, staying power.
From Buyer to Builder: Why TA Leaders Are Coding Their Own Tools with Hope Weatherford (VP of Talent Acquisition at Camunda) (opens the original)
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Hope Weatherford, VP of Talent Acquisition at Camunda, is doing what most TA leaders are still evaluating: building. In this episode, she sits down with Matt Staney to unpack how she vibe-coded her own interview question generator and JD tool with zero engineering background, why "change leadership is the job now," and how Camunda's process orchestration mindset is reshaping how her team hires. We get into over-engineering vs. first principles, the deepfake and fake-candidate problem, and the ne
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