Amplify Weekly Recap — May 20, 2022

Redefining HR With Nichelle Grant

Corporate diversity, equity and inclusion is often thought about as an internal concern. But DEI doesn’t stay within the walls of a company — it goes all the way through your supply chain.?

Siemens USA’s Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Nichelle Grant knows a thing or two about using DEI initiatives as a catalyst for growth and innovation.

In the latest episode of Redefining HR, Nichelle and I sit down to talk about her career path of more than 20 years with Siemens, including her current role. We also discuss how she thinks about prioritizing DEI in remote and hybrid environments and why it’s essential to spread your DEI efforts throughout the supply chain.

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Amplify Digest - May 18, 2022

A curated weekly high signal-to-noise collection of the top news, stories and resources in all things people — right in your inbox.

This week’s digest explores supporting Black employees, tech bubble bursting, Uber’s cost-cutting, Netflix’s vision tweak, pragmatic planning in HR operations, and more.

The Amplify Digest is sponsored by Greenhouse. As modern HR leaders and professionals, you know that your company’s ability to hire great talent is as important as ever. Whether you need to scale your team quickly, or improve your hiring process, Greenhouse gives you the right technology, know-how, and support to take on what’s next.

• Uber CEO tells staff hiring is now a ‘privilege’ and warns he’s getting ‘hard-core’ on costs (Fortune)
• Fear and Loathing Return to Tech Start-Ups (The New York Times)
• Andrew Bartlow: To Build A Better Workplace, Choose Function Over Fad (International Business Times)
• To Improve Your Team, First Work on Yourself (Harvard Business Review)
• Zachary Nunn on Black Employee’s Mental Health in the Wake of Racially Motivated Mass Shooting (LinkedIn)

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Welcome to a New Series: Build in Public

Welcome to a new series in the Amplify Digest newsletter - Build in Public.

I have a few things happening in parallel right now, so a couple of updates and a share this week. I’m designing and adding content while also designing some of the onboarding resources and collateral to help new users get acclimated to the Academy.

Below is v1 of the first tutorial video on creating your account when you first join the Academy. It includes some of the initial calibration steps for the machine learning component that will personalize course recommendations to each user. You can check it out below. ????

Amplify Community Wisdom

The Amplify Accelerator community was specifically designed to help modern operators expand their networks, thinking, and connections. Each week, I’ll spotlight a helpful thread from the community to help newsletter subscribers learn from the discussion.

[Question] HALP! I’ve been struggling to hire a People Ops Manager in Europe (I’ve ended up with an awesome Canadian candidate, but I want to keep going for #2 on this role, and at this point, it’s got to be Europe). Does anyone have good strategies for targeting HR communities in Europe? I want to avoid the LinkedIn barrage if I can, but of course, I will go that route if needed.

• A1: I’m in a couple of UK-centric People groups, if you want me to share?
• A2: I’m also part of one European People community (heavy focus on UK companies but goes a little wider too). I’d be happy to share if you send me the link.
• A3: If it’s France, I know of one in French. I also heard if one in AMS that I could email about if helpful.
• A4: Yes! I will take any referrals I can get, thank you so so much! The language of the business is English, but the person can be based anywhere in Europe.
• A5: I just sent to my contact in the AMS group and one in the French one. I see the salary is listed in USD, which might be confusing?
• A6: Yeah, we pay in USD because, as a company, we technically hire remote. This job is a little unique for the business (and technically, we’d hire anyone in those timezones, even outside of Europe). I am kind of targeting Europe without deviating too much from base company practices.
• A7: It makes sense, you might just want to add some explanation next to the salary if it’s easy to do as I find the anti-US-centric sentiment runs pretty strong here in Europe.
• A8: I’ve posted it now - it sounds like a really great role!
• A9: That makes a lot of sense - thank you!

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