steven mair - talent42 2015

How to Create a Talent Cul ture, at Scale

P R E S E N T E D B Y S t e v e n M a i r J u n e 1 0 , 2 0 1 5⎪

2 Yahoo Confidential & Proprietary

Agenda

A bit about me

Yahoo over the past 2 years

Strategies and tactics

Questions and your thoughts

Career Path: quick look at what mine actually looked like

1st job

Equity Magazine Robert

Half

Telus

EA

Business Objects

Lucasfilm

Disney

Yahoo


Going back and getting my MBA

Spending time and getting to recruit in EMEA and APAC

Being interviewed for a recruiting role by playing a video game

Prepping George for an interview

Son being surprised when he overheard another parent saying that work isn’t fun

Some highlights so far


Organic growth› Mixed hiring standards› Locations

Product set / Focus

Hierarchy

Competition

Some challenges we faced


Total hires

Engineers

MaVeNS

Mobile 1st

Yahoo over the last 2 years

Transformation and Scale for Talent Acquisition


Activating leadership:

› New execs need to be active vs. passive

› Partnering and teaching

› Role of the TA leader shifts



Distributing leadership

› Hiring committees

› War rooms

› Sprints

› Boomerangs



Can’t find the talent – build it

› Talent development

› Accelerated programs

› MOOCs

Diversity

Thank you and Quest ions / Thoughts