Our Host and CEO, Stuart Elliott , is joined today by Lucinda Reader , Founder of Ravello HR . Ravello HR is an HR consultancy specialising in helping businesses create highly effective and efficient talent teams. Throughout the episode, Stuart and Lucinda focus on talent and succession planning; discussing why she started Ravello HR and giving advice to mums to be as they navigate their career journey. Stuart and Lucinda chat through how to get talent and succession planning right, how small businesses can adapt their talent strategy to continue growth, and how skills mapping and skills pathways can help in talent success. The discussion then moves on to hiring, where they cover the difference between internal and external recruitment partners, hiring people known to the business and how this could incorporate unconscious bias. Finally, they spoke about AI in the interview process, examples of good hiring processes and advice for startups going through a recruitment process. Get to know our guest: Lucinda Reader is the founder of Ravello HR, she is also the non-executive HR Director for Shoorah, a wellbeing app currently disrupting the market. Lucinda has worked in HR and Recruitment globally, both in house and agency, for almost 20 years across sectors, for some of the most well known brands. She is extremely passionate about creating an excellent and equitable experience for all candidates is a firm believer of equal opportunities for all; this being said, she is part of the charity No Going Back, which helps to rehabilitate offenders. Lucinda is proudly a mum to two young children; Santino and Lucia as well as her proclaimed first baby, Norman the sausage dog! Key Timestamps: 02:06 – Introduction to Lucinda Reader 06:44 – The birth of Ravello HR 09:32 – A special mention to Norman the sausage dog 10:09 – Career advice for mums to be 13:42 – Getting talent and succession planning right 16:50 – Small businesses people strategies 20:03 – Skills mapping and skills pathways 24:50 – What Lucinda believes falls under the word ‘talent’ in the workplace 29:05 – Internal vs external recruitment partners 33:00 – Hiring people known to the business 37:34 – Examples of good hiring processes 39:49 – Advice for startups going through a recruitment process You can listen to and download HR Insights from Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts, Spotify and other popular podcast apps. Please subscribe so the latest episodes are directly available! You can also join our HR Community by following us on LinkedIn . Thank you for listening and please do review and rate us wherever you listen!
