What is Wrong with Hiring

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

Hiring product people in a niche industry with Sara Howes

In this episode, Laura talks with Sara Howes, SVP of Product at Diesel Laptops about building a new product team from scratch in a very subject matter heavy industry. 
Sara is hiring!
Drink pairing: Black coffee

Recruiting Designers - What Hiring Managers ask for with Julia DeBari

In this episode, Laura interviews Julia DeBari, a UX designer and educator turned recruiter. Julia shares her perspective on what hiring managers are asking for from designers and how she goes about finding the right fit for candidates. 
Drink pairing: Aperol Spritz

High Level Roles - Finding your own path with Dani Nordin

In this episode, Laura talks with Dani Nordin, a Product Design Architect at Athena Health, about what happens when you decide you need to structure your own role. They want you to know that deciding you don't want to be a manager isn't a personal failing!
 
Drink pairing: Athletic Brewing Company Run Wild IPA (Non-alcoholic)

Working with Recruiters - Hiring a lot in a short time with Sarah Merlin

In this episode, Laura interviews Sarah Merlin, Associate Director of Product Design at Curology. Sarah shares tips about working with internal recruiters who might not be familiar with hiring in your domain and how to hire a lot of designers in a short period of time (it's possible!). 
Interested in working with Sarah? She is hiring!
 
Drink pairing: Kirkland tequila on the rocks with a splash of lime

Improving the Candidate Experience with Amy Santee

In this episode, Laura talks with Amy Santee about what candidates really want to know, what it's like hiring designers and other tech people right now, and what hiring managers can do to make it easier for everybody. 
Amy Santee is a Career Strategist and Coach for UX professionals who want to design their careers with intention and bring their good to the world. As a personal growth nerd, Amy loves partnering with individuals to build confidence and courage, develop a unique professional brand, navigate work environments, and find jobs they love. Prior to coaching, Amy built a career as a UX researcher, working on end-to-end product development and strategy with all flavors of organizations, including eBay, Lowe's, General Motors, and the City of Portland. 
 
Drink Pairing: H20 (It's rough out there. Stay hydrated!)

Hiring Designers - Generalists vs Specialists with Kim Bieler

In this episode, Laura interviews Kim Bieler, UX Director at Expel. They talk about hiring generalist designers vs specialists and how if you learn to design for cyber security, you will end up with job security. 
As of May 2022, Kim's team is hiring! Check out these two open roles: 
Senior UX Designer, growth
Senior UX Designer, analyst experience
Drink Pairing: Really Good Boxed Wine