Preparing for 2022: Talent Acquisition Strategies
Watch this free recording featuring leaders from PowerToFly, 15five, Lever and Crosschq
Has the Great Resignation impacted your workforce? PowerToFly's Global Director of DEI Sienna Brown joined leaders from Lever and Crosschq for this special webinar hosted by 15five, a human-centered performance management platform, to present a free webinar on the practices and pitfalls of talent acquisition and retention through a diverse lens.
Sienna and her co-panelists discuss common talent acquisition mistakes made in 2021 and how to build stronger strategies for 2022. Learn what top talent seeks in a company and what will set up your organization for long-term success when it comes to recruitment and hiring.
Watch the free recording here
What You Will Learn
- Which stages of the talent acquisition process you need to re-evaluate
- Best practices for identifying and filling talent gaps in your organization
- How to hire more diversely and inclusively without bias
- What resources and technologies can boost your talent acquisition efforts
Meet Microsoft’s Women Leaders in Azure Data...Virtually!
If you are a skilled tech professional currently working as a Senior Software Engineer and/or a Senior Data Engineer and you would like to attend this virtual event, please email your name and LinkedIn URL to events@powertofly.com to be considerer for an invite.
We're excited to bring you an evening of virtual networking with the inspiring female leaders and male allies behind the Microsoft Azure Data organization. Join us for a panel discussion, interactive Q&A, and plenty of networking opportunities, all from the comfort of your home.
This interactive virtual networking and hiring event will be hosted on Microsoft Teams on Thursday, April 30th from 3:00 PM PT to 4:30 PM PT (6:00 PM ET to 7:30 PM ET).
Agenda (Subject to Change):
- 3:00PM PT/ 6:00 PM ET - Kick-Off from PowerToFly
- 3:05PM PT / 6:05 PM ET - Keynote address by Sonali Gururaja, Partner Group Engineering Manager
- 3:15pm PT / 6:15 PM ET - Guest Speakers
- Elnata Degefa, Principal Software Engineering Manager
- Yadi Reyes, Software Engineer II
- 3:25pm PT / 6:25 PM ET - Panel Discussion & Audience Q&A featuring
- Sonali Gururaja, Partner Group Engineering Manager
- Amy Yuan, Principal Group Engineering Manager
- Kati Iceva, Principal Group Software Engineering Manager
- Zella Henderson, Senior Software Engineer
- Ashwin Shrinivas, Partner Director Engineering
- 4:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM ET - Event concludes
This is an invite-only event to connect with the inspiring women who are leading the Microsoft Azure Data organization. The event will include an insightful panel discussion and plenty of opportunities to network with both your peers and members of the Microsoft team.
Never attended a virtual networking event? Check out our latest virtual event with Microsoft's women leaders in customer service and sales HERE for an idea of what to expect.
Microsoft is hiring. If you are interested in Microsoft and open to exploring your career options, this is a prime opportunity to connect with the Microsoft team to learn more and get your questions answered. The Microsoft team will be connecting directly with event registrants who are available and interested for interviews, especially for the key role of Senior Software Engineer.
What is Microsoft Azure? Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud computing services to help your organization meet its business challenges. Azure gives you the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your preferred tools and frameworks. Additionally, to learn more about Microsoft's values and commitment to Diversity, Environment and Innovation click here.
About PowerToFly: PowerToFly is a women-run startup that works with companies to identify skilled professionals they'd like to network with. Over the past two years, we've produced over one hundred events across the world with brands like American Express, Microsoft, Deloitte, and Slack, which have resulted in countless hires. Visit http://powertofly.com to learn more.
About PowerToFly's Events: All RSVP'd attendees are welcome, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, or age. If you require assistance to fully participate in this event, please email hi@powertofly.com, and we will contact you to discuss your specific needs.
Unfortunately, PowerToFly and Microsoft cannot admit outside recruiters to this particular event. Please email hi@powertofly.com if you have any questions about this policy.
Motivate’s Hiring Practices
Partner Content
Below is an article originally written by PowerToFly Partner Motivate, and published on June 20, 2017. Go to Motivate's page on PowerToFly to see their open positions and learn more.
Bike share is a powerful way to create access to opportunity– not only by connecting people more quickly to transit and to local business districts, but also by connecting them to great jobs. We are proud of our our track record on both fronts.
We hire people who hail from the communities we serve, pay above living wage and provide plenty of pathways to career growth. In NYC alone we've created over 450 well-paying jobs with benefits and opportunities for advancement. And in the Bay Area, where we will soon launch a ten-fold expanded bike share system, Ford GoBike, we're well on our way to creating over 200 living-wage, "green collar" jobs. We ensure we are filling them with historically underrepresented people by working closely with incredible community organizations like Goodwill, JobsNow! and Work2Future.
We took a similar approach to staff up the Citi Bike and BIKETOWN systems in Jersey City and Portland, respectively, partnering with organizations like Jersey City Employment and Training Program and Constructing Hope to recruit formerly incarcerated people. And we've relied on community development organizations like the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in Brooklyn and civil rights organizations like the Urban League of Portland to conduct exhaustive outreach in low income communities and communities of color. Finally, we are proud to be advancing gender parity in our industry by working closely with groups like Oregon Tradeswomen.
Partnerships like these are mutually beneficial: they broaden access to opportunity, and they help us hire staff who bring a diversity of experiences and perspectives to the table and find superstars like Citi Bike's Lisa Rodriguez. Lisa joined the team three years ago as a mechanic thanks to a summer youth employment program at Recycle a Bicycle. Today, she is a Lead Mechanic, overseeing about 200 bike repairs per day and helping the mechanics on her shift learn and improve as they go.
And Lisa isn't the only Motivate employee with a story that speaks for itself. Tarani Duncan started her tenure with Motivate as an intern. Her inquisitive and intrepid spirit kept her open, and when a full time job opened up managing station technicians for Citi Bike, she took it. From there, her love of data led her to look for data-driven ways to improve processes. Today as BIKETOWN's Operations Manager, Tarani ensures the Portland system is meeting safety and performance standards. She has created a close-knit team with whom she adores collaborating.
Finally, meet Claudia Herrera, who recently celebrated her fourth anniversary with Motivate. Originally from Mexico, Claudia has been instrumental to the success of two of Motivate's bike share systems and is embarking on a journey to help get a third off on the right foot. When she started as a Field Bike Checker for Chicago's Divvy system, she says she "had some tech aptitude" but had to learn quite a bit on the job. She remains grateful that "there were always people willing to teach me what I wanted to learn."
When an Operations Supervisor position opened up, Claudia was encouraged to apply. She wound up serving in that capacity for another year before relocating to Jersey City to become Citi Bike's Operations Manager. Today, Claudia holds the same title in her brand new home, San Francisco, where she is helping to orchestrate a historic bike share expansion. "I love launch," she laughs, admitting she works best under bustling conditions.
"I really appreciate everything Motivate has done for me personally," Claudia reflects, "and everything Motivate is doing as a company." In the coming months, she looks forward to settling into the Bay Area and growing the Ford GoBike family.
Why Hiring Remote is Key to Company Success
Embracing Next Gen Hiring
Study after study shows how millennials balk at the traditional 9-5 punch-in job that requires them to be in an office all day. Technology is on their side, enabling them to work remotely for a company who values output (no matter where it originates) over sitting in an office chair.
According to a study by FreshBooks, a cloud- based accounting company, the number of freelance and remote workers is set to triple by the year 2020.
Clearly it's time to embrace the remote hiring movement if you are looking to hire the future workforce.
Need more reasons?
Remote Hiring increases your candidate pool exponentially.
It allows you to tap into underrepresented people across all different industries. Our company's passion is helping companies hire women in fields where women are traditionally represented inadequately. By not allowing geography and timezone to dictate your hiring process, you're opening up your candidate search to include more people and drill down on the things that matter - like skills, work ethic and ambition. These are the key components to growing your business.
Hiring a remote team will lower turnover.
A study from the Center for American Progress found that turnover across all different salary levels cost a company 21 percent of that employee's annual salary, on average. It's even higher for highly skilled employees. Work-from-home jobs give people a sense of control over their work/life balance; a key benefit younger employees seek when applying for a job. According to the State of Remote Work report done by OwlLab, companies who encourage remote work experienced a 25 percent lower turnover than companies who did not support remote work. Check out Buffer, a fully remote company that boasts a 91% retention rate.
Working with a remote team increases productivity and decreases friction between co-workers.
According to a study done by the University of Illinois, they found teams that work from home and telecommute are better at staying on task and contributing to the team to create a positive work environment.
Simply put, remote work environments are becoming the norm and for good reason. It opens the talent pool you have to choose from. In fact, it's one of the top searched terms on PowerToFly. Hiring remotely increases profit by decreasing the expense of employee turnover and increases productivity of your team. So as a hiring manager, what is holding you back from hiring a remote team?
