Modern talent acquisition is more than just making the right hires. Onboarding, mobility, and retention are just a few of the many new responsibilities that TA’s have to consider (and often, they aren’t even in the TA’s title). Today’s guest, Lavonne Monroe, explains how she became the Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition and Onboarding at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and what her role entails. We learn about HPE’s trustworthy DEI policy, how the TA role has evolved over the years, how our guest views employee churn, and the full scope of HPE’s talent team. We also discuss HPE’s recruitment strategy, what Lavonne and her team are currently working on, how she manages her team, and why TA’s are required to have a holistic comprehensive of their organizations.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Lavonne Monroe describes her role as VP of Global TA and Onboarding at HPE.

• Why she trusts HPE to walk the talk as it relates to equality and economic justice.

• Modern additions to the role of talent acquisition.

• How Lavonne views regrettable and non-regrettable churn.

• The scope of HPE’s talent team, and how they use skip-level meetings.

• What Lavonne and her team are currently working on.

• HPE’s recruitment strategy and current workforce.

• More specifics on our guest’s role at her organization.

• How she acquired the speech of a business leader, and how this fueled her success at HPE.

• A closer examination of how she manages her team.

• Why understanding sales (and the whole business in general) matters for a TA team.

Quotes:

“We are winning awards around the work that we’re doing but we’re not doing the work to win the awards, we’re doing the work because it is the right thing to do.” — Lavonne Monroe [0:05:00]

“For me, the acquiring part, that’s almost the easy part. It’s the retention; it’s the mobility; it’s the onboarding – it’s so much bigger than just the acquisition.” — Lavonne Monroe [0:08:29]

“Lead generation all the way to retirement, that’s the focus of our team.” — Lavonne Monroe [0:12:40]

“My team, we’re never satisfied. We’re always looking to, ‘How can we get better? How can we continue to improve?’ – we’ll continue to push the envelope.” — Lavonne Monroe [0:18:47]

“I’m really big on finding out what people are really good at, and then putting them in the [right] position to be great.” — Lavonne Monroe [0:20:42]

“We can’t survive without TA.” — Lavonne Monroe [0:26:30]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Lavonne Monroe on LinkedIn

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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