Ken Lane

"Cliffs what? Do you make health bars? Study guides?" What we have here is a 164 year old company that is not a brand name, operates using fly in, fly out in remote locations."

Welcome to Talent Decisions, a monthly podcast featuring leading practitioners within talent acquisition. The focus of this program is the final four, the final four candidates you are considering to fill a critical position within your organization. If you are a hiring manager struggling to ensure you make the right call or a talent acquisition department leader who wants to be more strategic, this program is for you.

Joining us to today on TalentDecisions is Ken Lane, director of talent acquisition at Cliffs Natural Resources. No, we're not talking about health bars or Cliff Notes. We're talking about mining; iron ore, coal and other natural resources. If you bought their stock a few years ago, you would be very, very happy. The only company that's had a greater appreciation to their stock price is Apple.

Cheri Hanson

"High Intensity Sweetener Scientists Aren't on The Web."

Like many global corporations, Cargill has gone through challenging times recently. It's laid off over 2,000 people and closed plants. How has that affected the company's approach to recruiting, especially on college campuses?

Joining Peter Clayton for a new TalentDecisions podcast is Cheri Hanson, Talent Recruiting Operations Manager at Cargill, a privately held company that employs 142,000 people in 66 countries. Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial, and industrial products and services.

Cheri has 17 years' experience in recruiting, staffing, HR systems and management, and specializes in recruiting systems and processes, workforce planning, workforce analytics, and automated onboarding.

Tony Bartenetti

Joining us today on TalentDecisions is Tony Bartenetti, Senior Vice President and business leader of the Nelson Family of Companies. Nelson is a leading employment services and human capital management company with offices located throughout Northern California, and is lead by a team of senior executives all of whom have long records of success building and managing high growth companies and share a common passion to create industry-leading solutions for global 2000 companies.

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The focus of this program is the final four - the final four candidates you are considering to fill a critical position within your organization. If you are a hiring manager struggling to ensure you make the right call or a Talent Acquisition department leader who wants to be more strategic, this program is for you.