Talent acquisition roundtable.

• Author: Malan, Mekenna
• Position: Weave

This month, Utah Business partnered with Weave to host a roundtable event featuring Utah's talent acquisition and human resources leaders. Co-moderated by Carl Sokia, founder and CEO of Experience Management Solutions; and Brooke Shreeve, head of people at Weave, the group discussed building a brand, approaches to recruiting in today's market, and the software that helps them throughout the process. Here are a few highlights from the event.

How have the many recent layoffs changed your recruiting process and approach?

Matthew Miller | Senior Talent Acquisition Partner | Merrick Bank

Whenever we hear of layoffs, we try to connect with the head of HR or talent acquisition at those companies and help those individuals that are now facing unemployment find a job they're excited about. We're fortunate enough to be growing the way that we are, so whenever we hear of layoffs, we immediately reach out and let those people know the roles we've got open so they can help those employees transition with as little downtime as possible.

Kim Wittman | SVP, People & Culture | Vivint

It's been two years since we've done any type of layoffs, but I think it helps the leadership team make sure that we're communicating better on what our strategy is and that we're being selective in our hiring process. I think it's important that our employees feel safe. In the past, as an employer in the layoff, we hosfed a career fair and got employers to come in and meet with our people.

Kimberly Mepham I Senior Director, Talent Acquisition (Americas) | bioMerieux

The market has been all over the place, and it's been really hard to forecast. You hear all this anecdotal evidence of layoffs and about all of these fears. Then the jobs report comes out, and there's more job growth, not as many layoffs as expected, and payroll is growing. We're choosing to remain very active and aggressive in hiring because we have a lot of needs at this point. We tell a different story because we're in healthcare--it's a stable market. Through the pandemic, not only were we stable, but business got better, unfortunately, and that always happens whenever there's kind of a healthcare crisis. If anything, we change how we market to our candidates, and we tell a different story about our culture, which is that of stability.

Suzanne Houghton | Talent Acquisition Manager | USANA Health Sciences

We are really strategic about the way we look at our open positions. We look at them and say, "Is there as...