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Head of Talent at Axle, Alicia Kortmeyer breaks down the changes she made to the redundant processes when she first arrived at Axle, the importance of operationalizing the hiring process, and the reasons why a company must allow room for mistakes. We end the conversation by trying to figure out if it is indeed possible to avoid involuntary churn.\\xa0
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\\u201cLogistics isn\'t going anywhere. We\'re all Amazon Prime people. We all order things online, especially when the world shut down.\\u201d \\u2014 Alicia Kortmeyer [0:05:22]
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\\u201cI literally love who I work for and what I do. I love my team. I love the people. I\'m so lucky to do what I do every single day. It\'s chaotic. It\'s crazy. It\'s never the same.\\u201d \\u2014 Alicia Kortmeyer [0:08:06]
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\\u201cI knew it wouldn\'t be easy. But who wants easy, right? That\'s so boring. I thrive in chaos. Even though I pound a bottle of wine often, I wouldn\'t have it any other way. Water is so boring.\\u201d \\u2014Alicia Kortmeyer [0:11:07]
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\\u201cI love coming into that chaos, where it\'s like, \\u2018You are the smartest person in the room, go take this, and don\'t mess this up for us\\u2019. I love having that pressure under me. I love coming in and making things better and fixing things, and building people around me.\\u201d \\u2014 Alicia Kortmeyer [0:12:33]
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\\u201cI think it\'s so important to keep getting that feedback from candidates or in the industry, and seeing how we can evolve and how we can change and how we can improve because once you stand still, you\'re already behind the game.\\u201d \\u2014 Alicia Kortmeyer [0:21:51]
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