A heart-first approach to student outreach When we launched our U.S. student outreach & campus recruiting strategy in Summer 2016, I remember combing through the multitudes of data, school reports and rankings, market analysis on what the best approach would be for a tech company. This school had this specific course or that institution yielded […]
The balancing acts of benefits
The topic company culture and hiring as a company scales is heavily discussed. Many things have been said about developing a great company culture, but I’ve been thinking about how it can differ from a European perspective. 1) Find your EVPs Talent is scarce and European companies can’t, or don’t believe in, competing financially with […]
Most of the world’s population spend one third of their adult life at work. A third! That’s a lot of time dedicated to bringing home the bacon. Thankfully, many people have deeper incentives to go to work than merely providing for themselves/their families. But regardless of whether career progression, personal growth or other factors help […]
Trend or just a flash in the pan? Lately I had a lot of reasons to reflect on why HR is such a fashion victim. Sometimes in silence, often in anxiety and sometimes a little more loudly. More and more organisations recognize that employees are actually the most important resource and that talent is scarce. […]
HR: Social a.k.a. Employee Engagement I often get introduced to either new Spotifiers or those outside of Spotify as head of fun! It’s a very nice introduction and I do have (and encourage others to have) a lot of fun at work, but the job title/description is not exactly accurate! Me and my team have […]
It’s that time of year – everyone is reviewing. I’ve got to jump on the bandwagon because – wow, what a year we’ve had! I can’t let 2016 pass without a look back at the biggest event in Team HR: Social’s history. 2016 was an amazing milestone in our journey. It was our 10th anniversary […]
I recently opened the Tribe Conference talking about Spotify’s people strategy and culture. During this period of hyper growth at Spotify, what could be more important than the actions that help us to build culture? For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another, with a shared interest, a shared […]
Choosing the values As I mentioned in my last post, by the end of The Passion Tour workshops we’d come a fair way along a very inclusive process to redefining our company values. Together, all Spotifiers had been part of finding the words that describe how we roll, how we behave towards each other, and […]
Values at Spotify circa 2013 Back in 2013, at Spotify, we had value mantras. Some of them I could relate to, but certainly not all of them. A couple felt completely alien – like forcing on a pair of jeans that weren’t the right cut, when the shopping assistant hadn’t even asked my size. […]