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Episode 46

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16th Aug 2022

S2 | E46 | Attracting Great Talent to Build Great Teams with Paul French, Director of Data & Analytics at First Central

In Episode 46 of Season 2, of Driven By Data: The Podcast our CEO Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Paul French, Director of Data & Analytics at First Central, where they discuss how to attract great talent, to build great teams, which includes;

  • Why First Central defines its business as an “innovator in data”
  • Why he decided to set up Data Culture & Product Team
  • The 3 characteristics that made him join the business and how the business could articulate this clearly
  • Why he prioritised building the team in his first 6 months
  • Why you need a talent strategy just as you need a strategy for any business problem
  • How they amplified their story across the networks to drive inbound interest
  • How he worked with his internal TA team and figured out what role he needed to play
  • Why the team you recruit will be the reason you either succeed or fail
  • What Paul looked for as he built his team
  • Attracting new talent with apprenticeships and raising the profile of the industry
  • Retraining people from other business units through secondments and incubators
  • Importance of raising the profile of data internally through upskilling sessions and building communities
  • How to create that compelling narrative and what should go into it
  • Why people have turned down more money elsewhere to join Paul’s team
  • Some great tips on how to get the Diversity & Inclusion balance right
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About the Podcast

Driven by Data: The Podcast
Designed for Data Enthusiasts to hear from the Data & Analytics industry's thought leaders
Orbition Group is delighted to bring you this podcast series, which is designed for Data Enthusiasts, to hear from some of the most high-profile Data, Analytics and AI thought leaders from around the globe.

Each episode will detail the guests journey to the top while bringing unique insights, drawn from first-hand experience on the industry’s most trending topics.

This podcast was created as a way for our industry's most respected leadership figures from across the world to give back to the Data & Analytics community, by sharing; knowledge, experiences and ideas, to inspire, innovate and provide real-life use cases on the industries most pressing topics/challenges.

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Kyle Winterbottom

Founder of Orbition Group, a Search and Talent Solutions business that operates exclusively within the world of Data, Analytics & AI.

I am hugely passionate about enabling organisations to drive decisions and obtain value from the use of Data, Analytics & Artificial Intelligence.

As such, I believe it is imperative that as a community, we share; knowledge, ideas, real-life use cases and inspiration to collectively give back to our industry.

Given my fortunate position of speaking with hundreds, if not thousands of leadership figures within the global Data & Analytics community each year , I feel it is my duty to share the successes, failures, challenges and opportunities.

Therefore, I have positioned Orbition Group to be a facilitator of that knowledge sharing, through these podcasts, events we host and public speaking.