What is Wrong with Hiring

Assessing Candidates with Mary Lukanuski

In this episode, Laura talks to Mary Lukanuski about how to tell whether a candidate is right for the job. They discuss the pros and cons (mostly cons) of design exercises of various sorts and the things that actually do help you hire better. 
Drink Pairing: Mezcal Negroni

Finding the right person for your team with Cindy Alvarez

In this episode, Laura talks to Cindy Alvarez, Director of UX for Powerpoint, about how to figure out what sort of hire you really need and write a job description targeted to the right folks. 
Drink pairing: Sparkling Rose

Innovative Recruiting - A unique approach to hiring with Bryan Cantrill

In this episode, Laura talks to Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Oxide, about a wildly different approach to recruiting and hiring. 
Drink Pairing: Diet Dr. Pepper

Pay Equity - Making comp fair with Lisa Dusseault

In this episode, Laura talks with Lisa Dusseault, CTO and Co-founder of Compaas about how to make sure you're making the right offer and paying people fairly for their work. 
Drink Pairing: California Chardonnay (properly chilled!) 
 
 

Tech Recruiting - Why is recruiting so hard with James Mayes

In this episode, Laura talks with James Mayes, Founder at Mind the Product and currently an Evangelist at Pendo about why recruiting in tech is so hard and why recruiting technology can make it even harder. 
Pendo is hiring! 
Drink Pairing: Pinot Noir

Training Designers - Creating an apprenticeship program with Emmy Southworth

In this episode, Laura talks to Emmy Southworth, Principal Product Manager at Lendio about how she created an apprenticeship program to create new designers. 
Interested in working with Emmy? Lendio is hiring! 
Drink Pairing: Draft Diet Dr. Pepper
 

Hiring Designers - Rebranding yourself as a designer with Pearl

In this episode, Laura interviews Lawrence Humphry and Fallon Blossom, the co-founders of Pearl. They talk about finding tech folks from non-traditional backgrounds and creating a better hiring pipeline. 
Pearl is a brand new platform for peer based leadership consulting where you can get wisdom and guidance from people you trust. 
Drink Pairings: Berry Sparkling Water or an Old Fashioned, depending on time of day
(note from Laura: it's a big world. it's always happy hour somewhere)
 

Hiring Engineers - How to compete with the big companies

In this episode, Laura interviews Sarah Milstein, VP of Engineering at Daily. They talk about how to position smaller companies to compete with the big corporations and be appealing even in a hot market. 
Drink Pairing: Lambrusco

Working with Recruiters -Creating a good partnership with Tracy Kroop

In this episode, Laura talks with Tracy Kroop, the Director of User Experience at Boomi, about how hiring managers can forge a great relationship with recruiters and how the process is largely broken. 
Interested in working with Tracy? Boomi is hiring!  
Drink Pairing: Old Fashioned

Onboarding New Hires - Paying off Promises with Jess Dale

In this episode, Laura interviews Jess Dale, a Senior Product Design Manager at an ecommerce company, about how to onboard new hires in a way that makes them feel like they weren't lied to during the recruiting process! 
Drink Pairing: Anything from the Athletic Brewing Company