You Should Know

You Should Know

Essential Leadership Insights

"You Should Know," a podcast delving into pivotal leadership challenges in the workplace. With broad topics, it engages anyone invested in the evolving world of work. Join us as we unravel workplace dynamics. Subscribe to the WRKdefined Substack here.

Where You Work Matters: What Workforce Data Reveals About Career Mobility with Matt Sigleman, Burning Glass and Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the Emes Project
You Should KnowAugust 04, 202600:43:58

Where You Work Matters: What Workforce Data Reveals About Career Mobility with Matt Sigleman, Burning Glass and Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the Emes Project

Where You Work Matters: What Workforce Data Reveals About Career Mobility Where you work shapes how far your career goes. Real workforce data exposes which employer practices create mobility, retention, and real opportunity — and which ones don't. William Tincup explores how workforce analytics reve...

AI Interviews + Skills Validation: Better Together for High-Volume Hiring
You Should KnowJuly 28, 202600:33:50

AI Interviews + Skills Validation: Better Together for High-Volume Hiring

AI interviewers can engage every applicant at speed, but they cannot prove job readiness on their own. High-volume hiring works better when automated interviews are paired with job-specific skills assessments. In this episode, Stéphane Rivard, CEO and Co-Founder of HiringBranch, and Prem Kumar, Foun...

How isolved and Remote Are Opening Global Hiring to SMBs
You Should KnowJuly 21, 202600:23:14

How isolved and Remote Are Opening Global Hiring to SMBs

Global Hiring Just Got Real for SMBs: How isolved and Remote Are Making It Work Global hiring used to mean local entities, legal headaches, and a stack of disconnected systems. Not anymore. isolved and Remote are partnering to bring enterprise-grade international hiring to small and midsized busines...

Mastering Global Communication: How to Communicate with Clarity, Confidence, and Impact
You Should KnowJuly 06, 202600:40:21

Mastering Global Communication: How to Communicate with Clarity, Confidence, and Impact

Strong communication isn't about using bigger words or speaking perfect English. It's about making ideas clear, building trust, and creating connections across cultures. In a world where teams span countries and time zones, the ability to communicate with confidence and clarity has become one of the...

Assessments Are Dead. Skills Intelligence Is Taking Their Place
You Should KnowJune 10, 202600:42:50

Assessments Are Dead. Skills Intelligence Is Taking Their Place

Most employees hear the word “assessment” and immediately think of being judged. Kian Katanforoosh thinks that mindset is outdated. The future isn’t about screening people out. It’s about measuring skills, accelerating learning, and helping people prove what they can actually do. The biggest workfor...

You’re More Than Your Job Title. So Why Are You Building Your Career Around One?
You Should KnowJune 05, 202600:38:02

You’re More Than Your Job Title. So Why Are You Building Your Career Around One?

Most people spend years trying to find the perfect career fit. Sarabeth Bickerton thinks that’s the wrong goal. The real problem isn’t fit. It’s belonging. People don’t want to be squeezed into someone else’s box. They want to be seen, known, and valued for who they actually are. The workforce is ob...

AI Isn’t Coming for HR. Bad HR Is Already Dead.
You Should KnowMay 26, 202600:35:10

AI Isn’t Coming for HR. Bad HR Is Already Dead.

Only 6% of businesses in Ireland have deployed AI at scale. That’s the wake-up call. This conversation cuts through the AI cosplay and gets real about skills-based hiring, HR transformation, employee trust, governance, automation, and what happens when agents start doing half the work faster than yo...

Why “Culture Fit” Filters Out Great Talent | Carlton Gates Tells Us Why
You Should KnowMay 21, 202600:26:13

Why “Culture Fit” Filters Out Great Talent | Carlton Gates Tells Us Why

Most companies say they hire for skill. Carlton Gates says that’s nonsense. From AI screening tools to culture-fit traps, this episode breaks down why recruiting is still more gut instinct than science.Only 10 candidates get reviewed out of 1,000 applicants. AI is filtering your future before a huma...

Most Companies Don’t Have an Innovation Problem | They have a fear problem nobody wants to admit
You Should KnowMay 19, 202600:27:36

Most Companies Don’t Have an Innovation Problem | They have a fear problem nobody wants to admit

Most companies say they want innovation. Then they build rooms where people are punished for thinking differently. Creativity isn’t rare. Suppressing it is. Josh Linkner connects innovation, leadership, psychology, and business through one brutal truth: most people stop sharing bold ideas because th...

HR Isn’t Burned Out. It’s Being Rewritten in Real Time.
You Should KnowMay 11, 202600:37:19

HR Isn’t Burned Out. It’s Being Rewritten in Real Time.

The AI shift isn’t coming. It already hit payroll, hiring, benefits, and every broken HR process companies ignored for years. Most teams still think they have time. They don’t. 85% of companies say they’re adapting. Most are just playing with ChatGPT while the talent market, employee expectations, a...