HR Talks – Episode 5
The global pandemic has accelerated one of the greatest workplace transformations that we’ve seen in decades. It has changed where we work, how we work, how we learn, and how we communicate and connect with one another.
With that in mind, organizations like McKinsey, Deloitte, and Forbes are forecasting how this new remote normal will affect Human Resource professionals and organizations in 2022. From non-competes to workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, to natural language processing solutions, there are plenty of trends and changes being predicted for the year. This means that Human Resources and Talent teams will have to rethink their strategies for 2022 to cope with this major workplace transformation.
On December 15th at 1:00pm EST, our Chief Customer Officer, Kristin Condon, hosted a panel of HR experts including Andrea Peattie, Vice President of People Operations at Versapay, Sean Sweet, Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant at Telus, and Peter Rajabian, Managing Partner & Founder at Vaco Toronto, to discuss how organizations can rethink their strategies and choose where their focus should lie for 2022.
Meet the Panelists:
Andrea Peattie, VP of People Operations | Versapay
Andrea Peattie (she/her) is the Vice President, People Operations of Versapay. At Versapay, Andrea leads Recruitment, HR, and Learning and Development, and is the champion of Versapay’s welcoming and inclusive company culture. Her role is to ensure the success of every VEEP in their journey of working for Versapay and her life’s purpose is to make a difference in people’s lives. With a 15-year history working in tech startups, primarily in Client Services and Operations, she’s been instrumental in building organizations in their early stages through to high growth. Andrea focuses on the power of building strong, high-performing teams and activating talent through strong and empowered leadership. Andrea loves life living in Toronto with her husband and two young daughters.
Peter Rajabian, Managing Partner & Founder | Vaco Toronto
Peter Rajabian is a technology services entrepreneur, currently serving as the Managing Partner of Vaco’s Canadian operations. Vaco is a global professional services company operating in the US, Canada, UK, and India specializing in technology recruitment as well as software development and cyber security consulting.
Prior to becoming a member of Vaco’s leadership team, Peter was the Founder and CEO of Prodigy Bank, a technology recruitment and consulting company that quickly established itself as a pace-setting professional service firm across Canada. Prodigy Bank was ranked as the No. 1 emerging Canadian technology staffing firm and No. 19 overall fastest-growing enterprise in Canada by MacLean’s magazine. The company was acquired by Vaco LLC/Olympus Partners in 2020.
Peter has also held numerous commercial and operational leadership roles within some of Canada’s largest tech recruiting companies and is considered a leading expert in the field of human capital consulting with a specialization in the technology sector.
Sean Sweet, Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant | Telus
After 2 years of full-desk agency work at a boutique firm in Tokyo in the early 2000s, Sean shifted to corporate recruitment in North America – first with tier one technology consulting firms (Accenture, BearingPoint), then TELUS, where he’s been the last 11.5 years. He has primed talent acquisition for Business and Enterprise Solutions sales nationally, and currently leads the strategy and tactical hiring for newly acquired companies in Smart Security & Automation and the 5G Program Management Office.
A West Coast coffee-nerd, transplanted from Winnipeg, Sean has a passion for green and Indigenous issues, plays competitive soccer and fly-fishes as often as he can.
Kristin Condon, Chief Customer Officer | Sales Talent Agency
Kristin Condon earned her HR Management post-graduate degree in 1999 and has now spent 21 years building a career in human resource strategy with a particular focus on recruitment and talent acquisition for sales professionals. Kristin is a Partner and Chief Customer Officer for Sales Talent Agency, Canada’s largest sales-specific recruitment company. Over the past 12 years with STA, Kristin has helped companies like Rogers, Clearbanc, Citron and Yellow Pages build their sales infrastructures at both the direct sales and executive levels, and has influenced more than 3,000 sales hires. Kristin’s expertise is helping business leaders and talent acquisition professionals find, attract, choose and equip elite salespeople to develop highly effective revenue growth teams.
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