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Episode #1
Sarah Wright, Director of Talent Acquisition at Valvoline Inc.
Key Points:
Valvoline hires at frontline scale, and improving candidate quality has been a key focus for its talent acquisition team.
By using chat-to-apply, pre-screening, and conversational AI, Valvoline is helping candidates move more quickly through the hiring process while freeing recruiters to spend more time on direct candidate engagement.
The result is a faster, lower-friction hiring process that helps Valvoline schedule thousands of interviews each month.
Episode #2
Blair Bennett, SVP, Global Talent Acquisition at Pepsico
Key Points:
PepsiCo hires at significant scale, with more than 300,000 employees and around 60,000 hires each year.
PepsiCo is working to make hiring processes more consistent and is using AI to help recruiters spend more time connecting with candidates.
Rather than layering technology onto outdated recruiting models, PepsiCo has redesigned its talent acquisition operating model to move faster, stay agile, and deliver better outcomes at scale.
Episode #3
Jon Caldwell, SVP, Chief People Officer at Valvoline Inc.
Key Points:
Valvoline operates 2,100+ service locations across the U.S. and Canada and has stated plans to grow to 3,500 locations.
Valvoline hires around 12,000 people a year, making a systematic approach to identifying, developing, and retaining talent important to its growth.
Valvoline’s promote-from-within apprenticeship model is a core part of its people strategy, with 95% of store managers, area managers, and market managers starting as hourly technicians.
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Episode #4
Stephanie Kramer, Chief HR Officer, L’Oréal N.A. & Laurie Leibach, SVP & Head of Talent L'Oréal USA
Key Points:
L’Oréal N.A. had 15,829 employees in 2024, with L’Oréal USA operating across 15 states, reflecting the scale of its corporate, retail, field, and operations workforce.
L’Oréal attracted 1.3 million global job applications in 2024, while ranking in Universum’s Top 10 most attractive companies for the fifth consecutive year.
L’Oréal trained 42,000 employees in Gen AI in 2024, supporting its wider focus on skills, learning, and responsible AI adoption.
Episode #5
Adam Godson, GM, Talent Acquisition Products & Joshua Secrest, Head of Marketing, Paradox at Workday
Key Points:
Workday supports more than 11,500 customers globally, including more than 7,000 core Financial Management and HCM customers.
Workday’s talent acquisition suite includes high-volume hiring tools, SMS messaging, interview management, evergreen requisitions, workflow automation, bulk screening, and a Recruiting Agent powered by HiredScore.
Paradox Conversational ATS is available through Workday to help organizations hire frontline workers faster through a more conversational, lower-friction experience.
