This episode features an interview with Elin Thomasian VP, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at UKG, and your host Sultan Saidov, Co-Founder and President at Beamery. Previously, she held Global Head of Talent Acquisition positions at Workday, Prudential Financial, Moody’s Corporation, Purdue Pharma, and Goldman Sachs.
Elin discusses the importance of a skills-based recruiting strategy, turning your data into intelligent insight, and why career development should be a key element of your employee value proposition.
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About UGK:
UKG is a leading provider of HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions for all people. At UKG, our purpose is people. As strong believers in the power of culture and belonging as the secret to success, we champion great workplaces and build lifelong partnerships with our customers to show what’s possible when businesses invest in their people. Born from a historic merger that created one of the world’s leading HCM cloud companies, our Life-work Technology approach to HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions for all people helps more than 70,000 organizations around the globe and across every industry anticipate and adapt to their employees’ needs beyond just work.
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“So it's really important when you tie the employee value proposition to: you're not just coming here to do a great job in the role that we're hiring you for, but we're hiring you to be the workforce of the future. And our promise to you is that we will develop your skills to get there.” - Elin Thomasian
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Episode TimeStamps:
*(01:31) - The scope of Elin’s role at UKG
*(02:59) - Integrating processes, systems, and technology
*(05:12) - Strategic Workforce Planning with Analytics & Technology
*(07:03) - Understanding your funnel metrics
*(09:24) - Turning your data into intelligent insight
*(13:20) - Career development should be a key element of you employee value proposition
*(15:01) - Focusing on HR technology for employees and customers
*(19:46) - Exploring talent intelligence platforms
*(22:55) - Building a new job architecture
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Sponsor:
The Talent Blueprint is brought to you by Beamery. Beamery's Talent Lifecycle Management Platform makes it possible for companies to deliver more human talent experiences and unlock the skills and potential of their global workforce using industry leading AI. Learn more at beamery.com.
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Links:
Connect with Elin on LinkedIn
Connect with Sultan on LinkedIn
