Reformation SVP Talent, Diversity, Equity & Belonging Chela Gage
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Ch\\xe9la Gage is the Senior Vice President of Reformation, a climate-positive and sustainability-focused fashion company. Ch\\xe9la explains how her personal history shapes her role in recruitment and how she connects it to her passion for diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and belonging. I ask questions about her different career paths, how to scale up and scale down, and why she views managing talent acquisition as an agnostic career experience. Ch\\xe9la explains her idea of how to create a company with attributes and values that a diverse workforce can be a part of and why this relates to differentiated EVPs.
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Key Points From This Episode:
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- What is Reformation?
- How Reformation is sustainability-focused.
- Ch\\xe9la\\u2019s role in the company.
- Why DEI and sustainability are long-term games.
- How Ch\\xe9la ended up in talent acquisition.
- Ch\\xe9la\\u2019s experience of owning her own firm.
- Why TA is industry agnostic.
- The different career paths Ch\\xe9la has followed.
- Ch\\xe9la\'s experience of scaling down from a large enterprise to Reformation.
- How to recognize when it is time for larger-scale processes (three major indicators).
- How Ch\\xe9la got the sign-off for RPO changes.
- The impacts of COVID-19.
- How to use EVP in a meaningful way.
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Tweetables:
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\\u201cEmployment changes lives.\\u201d \\u2014 @tweetatche [0:06:58]
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\\u201cTalent acquisition is truly the bridge that takes an organization from where they are to where they really want to be.\\u201d \\u2014 @tweetatche [0:10:00]
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\\u201cIn talent acquisition, you have to have a backbone.\\u201d \\u2014 @tweetatche [0:22:31]
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\\u201cI think it takes a talent expert to listen to the organization and find out what\\u2019s necessary and then adjust and adapt.\\u201d \\u2014 @tweetatche [0:25:02]
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\\u201cAn employee value proposition consists of proper change management. It tells an employee why they should work here, and why they should continue to work here.\\u201d \\u2014 @tweetatche [0:36:04]
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