HR Famous: Which Recruiters Are Most Likely to be Laid Off!

On episode 106 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Madeline Laurano and Tim Sackett, with special friend Kyle Lagunas, come together to discuss Global TA day, the first people to be laid off in a recession, and why recruiters won’t be laid off as quickly as we think.

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Show Highlights:

1:00: Welcome to the pod, Kyle Lagunas! JLee is a busy gal and is out this week.

3:30: Tim asks if they go to the grocery store or if they get their food delivered. Kyle likes his time at the market, and Madeline tries to do delivery.

5:00: Tim has a whole setup for his Global TA Day: prizes, ice cream social, lunch & learns, and more!

7:00: Tim put up a LinkedIn post leaning into “hustle porn” and ripped on quiet quitters and how he can’t wait to pass them. Kyle says he’s going to rip him to shreds.

9:30: Business Insider, a pod favorite, put out an article about the first to be laid off in an economic downturn. The categories offered are recent hires, high earners, Millennials,

12:30: Madeline talks about why she thinks recent hires may not be fired as quickly as they suggest due to the re-skilling turnover.

15:30: Tim talks about how Ford had a pretty major layoff, but it was for a very specific reason, the emphasis on EVs.

19:00: Madeline brings up how we’re still writing and talking about Millennials as if they’re kids. Many Millennials are 40 or pushing it.

21:15: Tim and his oldest son told a guy they were golfing with that, “I didn’t get good until my Dad stopped coaching me.” Tim said it was a dagger to the heart.

23:00: This list shares that recruiters are the most likely to be laid off. The crew is quite surprised that this is still the case in a world where companies are having a lot of trouble hiring recruiters.

26:00: Kyle is really worried about the ramifications that something like this list could have. He says that morale is really low in the TA space, and this could force people to leave the profession.

29:00: Madeline is surprised that there is nothing on this list about the number of hours worked per day. She thinks there is a signifier in the likelihood of being laid off with the number of hours worked per day.

33:00: Tim thinks one of the hardest things is to plan a workforce, and HR can struggle at interpreting data and inputs to plan accordingly.