Future Work

Alex Duell - linkedin.com/in/alexduell - is the Head of People & Talent at Cutover - https://cutover.com - the leader in work orchestration and observability. In this episode, Alex and I discuss the state of the recruitment industry during this pandemic and what comes next.

Show notes;

1. How Cutover's teams have adapted to remote working. 

2. How Alex and his team have approached the challenges of remotely on-boarding new starters. 

3. The importance of encouraging teams to take more breaks, switch off slack, and look after themselves. 

4. How recruiting teams can avoid 'pipeline zero' during these quieter times. 

5. Alex's advice to recruitment agencies on their value-propositions. 

6. The rise of the "full-stack" recruiting team - think Navy Seals...

7. The relationship between Marketing & Growth and Talent Acquisition.

8. Thoughts on the Recruitment Tech space and what products he is enjoying using. 

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What happens to culture as a business scales from the founding team, to 50 people? 100? 200? How does a team of nearly 220 people make the transition to a remote working model, without missing a beat operationally? What is culture anyway? Is it something that evolves organically, taking a life of its own, or can it be manufactured and designed? 

In this episode of Future Work, we are speaking with Gerlinde Boback, VP of People at Scandit. Gerlinde has a background in Psychology and has HR leadership experience from within some of the world's largest organizations including American Express, and TUI Travel. Gerlinde is now leading the People division of one of the hottest and fastest-growing startups on the planet in Scandit, which makes her someone who is perfectly positioned to tackle these questions with us. Scandit is a startup that is building Computer Vision for the modern enterprise, changing the way businesses and consumers interact with everyday objects, one mobile scan at a time. You can learn more about Scandit here - https://www.scandit.com