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Founder

Human-in-the-Loop Community

The first ever HR community dedicated to the AI and HR Tech transformation - join here: https://form.typeform.com/to/SGL0JUgO

girlsclub

Whatsapp group where women in business can support and hype  each other up! #FIGJAM

If you are not onboard with overthrowing the patriarchy then this isn't for you ( aka. levelling the playing field for women in business)

Taxfix

Bringing business acumen to the people team. Setting up sustainable infrastructure and reporting mechanisms 📈  OKR's, Headcount Planning, Portfolio & Projects, Strategy, Systems, Data, Total Rewards

600+ employees

Director People Projects & Insights

The Mentoring Club gUG

Volunteer coach on helping professionals with leadership, career and self growth.

Career Coach & Mentor

Hype

Hype is a web3 marketing agency. 

OKR's, Investor relations, internal processes, reporting, projects

Chief of Staff to the CEO

TIER Mobility

Delivering the CFO strategy and driving strategic projects including 2 large scale M&A's.

3000+ employees

Topics include: Investor relations + board meetings Q3/4'21 Q1/2'22, Org structure, leadership off-sites and strategy planning, OKR's, Project management, process improvement and compliance, set up of new PMO function, global portfolio management

Director & Chief of Staff to the CFO

Learnt that being an empathetic, hands on and solution orientated leader is essential in a hyper scale environment🛴

Scaled from 600 to +1500 in over 19 countries

Big projects; implementation of OKR's and KPI's company wide, hiring strategy, headcount planning for 2021/22, due diligence for M&A, implementation of HR system and recruitment system, set up of people analytics, implementation of compensation framework, operational hiring and much more!

Director People Projects & Infrastructure

Lloyds Banking Group

Big projects:  Set up mature portfolio budget monitoring, controlling and reporting processes, Agile transformation changing how we delivered projects, portfolio investment funding round for 2021, set up of PMO standards and reporting and governance structures.

PMO Lead

Yilu

Learnt that scaling a company is all about people and systems.

Big projects; Implementing OKR's, implemented HR system, implemented engagement tool, set up internal communications

PM - People & Engagement

Learnt how to take a company from incubation to 100 employees 💣

Big projects: set up and ran internal operating functions with COO; finance, people, comms, workplace, internal IT, rewards and benefits, events, OKRs

PM - People Operations

TSA Management

Learnt that making Clients happy is just down to communication 🎤

Followed my heart and moved to Germany 🇩🇪

Senior Consultant Project Manager

Fractional People Leader | Founder of Stakkd - Join our #HRtech benchmarking beta

HR Tech is no longer just a tool…it's the backbone of operational and cultural success for companies today.  

With 14+ years of experience across corporates, start-ups, scale-ups, and unicorns, I’ve seen firsthand the challenges People teams face: wasting time on admin, picking the wrong tech, and creating poor culture.

That’s why I founded @Stakkd. 

To help businesses find the right HR tech to:  
✅ Scale effectively  
✅ Reduce admin and stress  
✅ Free People teams to focus on what matters - the people 

Head to the database now to discover all the best HR tech https://stakkd.tech/

*Don't forget to check out our free resources* for tips and guidance on navigating HR tech.  

*Vendors:* Want to be part of the Stakkd HR tech database? Reach out!

Why are we surprised when someone from HR becomes a CEO?

I feel like CPO's becoming CEO’s is a good thing.

→ Leena Nair went from leading people at Unilever to running Chanel
→ Mary Barra started in HR before leading General Motors
→ Anne Mulcahy began in HR and saved Xerox 

Apparently these are “unusual” stories.
But they shouldn’t be.

HR leaders spend their careers reading and understanding people.

They make decisions without perfect data.

And they manage risks you can’t put on a spreadsheet like TRUST.

THAT is what leadership is.

The best CEOs I’ve met don’t just understand strategy.

They also understand people.

I was in HR too.

And it 100% shaped how I’ve built my company.

It taught me that PEOPLE are everything.

If we took HR as seriously as finance or operations….

… we’d probably have better companies, and better leaders 🙃

Happy Friday 🫶🏻

Jessie Schofer

Helping you navigate HR tech | Founder @ Stakkd | HR Tech Queen | Speaker | Boy Mum

5 HR communities you need to know about 👇
(You never need to do HR alone ever again)

1/ Talent Crunch Berlin (TC) / Andreea

fastest growing private talent community based in Berlin with AMAZING events

2/ Open Org / Adam

exclusive, collaborative space where People & Culture leaders connect

3/ AI for HR Community / Vanessa

exclusive community to learn, build, and grow with fellow HR pros using AI

4/ PromptMates https://tally.so/r/wLlpg2 / Joe

private community giving recruiting leaders access to AI experts, peer support, resources

5/ Humans in the Loop HR Community / Jessie (me)

private community giving People leaders access to resources and learnings for their HR tech & AI transformation

DON'T be like old me who didn’t join any communities because I was “too busy”.

🔥 Save, share and tag other HR communities and I will create a central place for you to find them on stakkd.tech!

Happy Monday everyone

7 AI NATIVE HR TECH TOOLS 👇
(you probably don't know)


1. Borderless AI - AI native EOR
2. DreamTeam - AI native HRIS
3. Kula - AI native ATS
4. Taito.ai - AI native performance management
5. Winslow - AI native people operations
6. Included - AI native people analytics
7. Metaview - AI native recruitment notetaker & sourcing

now I am not saying you NEED to choose an AI Native HR tech stack

but it is very possible

there’s also plenty of other great tech out there, not just these ones!!

go check out 330+ tools on Stakkd and discover the what's on the market before jumping in!

ps. does anyone know a company with a fully AI native HR and recruiting tech stack?!?

I’d love to talk to them 👀 

pps. these are all partners of Stakkd

I’ve seen 100s of HR platforms.
These are the 30 core HR tools you should check out 👇🏻

(PS: If you’re an SME and looking for your next HR platform, I did the job for you, start here)

BambooHR
Breathe
Calamari
Cercli (YC S23)
ChartHop
CharlieHR
Darwinbox
Deel
DreamTeam
Employment Hero
Evity HR
Factorial
GoCo.io, Inc.
Happy HR
Hailey HR
HealthBoxHR
HiBob
HoorayHR
Humaans
Leapsome
Namely
Personio
Plumm
Remote
Rippling
Sense Workplace
Simployer AlexisHR
Tellent
Worknice
Zelt

I’ve experienced core tech that doesn’t work.
And it hurt.

Some platforms genuinely make life easier for you, others look great until you actually start using them.
Make sure before diving into core tech that they do what they say they’ll do and support your business goals.

Hint: this will be different for everyone.

If you’re curious about other HR tech (ATS, engagement, AI for HR, Talent Management etc.), you can discover them all here → stakkd.tech

pps. some of these are verified partners of Stakkd! Toggle verified on to find them 🤓

48h in San Francisco
32h on planes 
9 oat lattes (minimum) 
1 sickness
absolutely ZERO hours of proper sleep thanks to jet lag 😂
and I’m finally back in Berlin!! 🇩🇪

did I win the grant? sadly no...

(thank you for all the supportive messages on Monday though... I am so lucky to have you all!!)

BUT what I won was WAY better.
and no it’s not a “network”

👉 it’s long life friends

- friends who support each other
- who are happy to talk for hours about GTM, sales conversion and automation
- and build each other up

THAT IS THE MAGIC

EVERYONE deserved to be there

And the 3 winners deserved to win!!! 👏 

Patricia Florencia founder of Pilou
Johanna Salazar founder of FoodStream Network
Douglas Wilson founder of SyncPop

PLUS I am so thankful to have meet all these other beautiful souls

Ryan B. founder of Squadies™
Tremaine Grant founder of Pulse: Fitness Collective
Sebastián Arjona & Leonardo Raúl Vilchis Padrón founders of Bullground
Tomás Uribe founder of Mavity
Jelanna Salas Olivera (she, ella) and Dr. Tracey Hathaway founders of auntedna.ai
Estrella Q. founder of Last Farewells
Melina Cruz Villafaña Cruz founder of Chain https://lnkd.in/gguCFsjP
Toby Oyetoke Engineering at KrosAI (DraperU S24)

We all have something to share and learn from each other

And I can’t wait to see us all smash it 🚀 

Happy friday everyone!

ps. thanks again to Lily Yuen Xu, Sara Lila Cordero Porta, the investors and the whole Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Techstars team for making this all happen 

AND to the amazing Allison McGuire, Mary McKenzie and Tijuana Ricks from the McGuire Method for teaching us everything you know

ALSO LOOK AT HOW MANY WOMEN ARE IN TAGGED IN THIS POST :) 

Okaybyenow 😄

50,000 people working in ONE department were laid off in 2025 

Can you guess which one?

It’s the same department responsible for building teams, managing culture, and holding a company together when things fall apart.

And yet, it’s still one of the first to go.

When layoffs hit, HR is often cut before product, sales, or engineering.

Is HR underperforming? 

Nope..

It’s because HR isn’t considered revenue generating.

That’s the reality.

The boardroom logic is simple: 
- if hiring slows, why keep the people who hire? 
- if budgets tighten, why keep the people who manage them? 
- if morale drops, well, that’s intangible.

Most don’t see “culture” important to their P&L.

So HR becomes expendable, even though every redundancy, every restructure, and every difficult conversation still runs through them.

We call HR a “strategic function,” but most businesses don’t treat it like one.

They measure it in cost, not consequence.

The result is pretty obvious: when things go to 💩, companies scramble to rebuild trust, rehire, and repair what could’ve been protected.

The irony?

The same leaders who signed off the cuts end up paying more to fix the fallout later.

Make it make sense 🤪

Ever tried building a business while being mum to a 2 year old boy?
Wouldn’t recommend it…😅
(Actually, I would. He’s the love of my life!)

But wow, it’s A LOT…
People ask me how I manage both.
The truth is, I don’t “manage” anything 😆
TIME BLOCKING is the only reason my days are not a mess.
Otherwise everything would fall apart very quickly!
It’s the only way I can survive

This is what a day usually looks like for me:
6:30 - trying to wake up before he does
7:30 - breakfast, play time and negotiating to get him dressed (iykyk)
8:30 - childcare drop-off
9:30 - Stakkd now takes priority (and cold coffee)
4 hours for everything: content, product dev, clients, podcast…work work work
13:30 - grabbing food because I forgot to eat
14:00 - 2h sales call block
16:00 - childcare pick-up
17:00 - toddler chaos + trying to prep dinner
18:30 - husband is home for dinner (THANK GOD)
19:30 - Sleep time for Hugo
20:30 - US calls, Brazilian dev team calls , catch up
10:30 - Try to sleep 😄

Without the structure of time blocking, my whole day would be a complete mess.
I need to be laser focused for all of it.
The founder part.
The mum part.
The human part.

some days I get it right.. some days I don’t.
But the structure helps 😅

Happy Thursday to all the working parents out there, you’re doing amazing 🫶🏻

ps. anyone else do the same?

Top 5 trending HR tech products right now 👇 



Plumm
Juicebox
Kula
DreamTeam
VoiceHubs
Hailey HR

Want to know know what else is hot right now?

Go to the TRENDING insights on stakkd.tech👇

You can see:
- top features
- top integrations
- new products
- top trending products

(by time period)

All you have to do is:
1️⃣ go to 👉 https://lnkd.in/gnHuU9mP
2️⃣ login
3️⃣ BOOM

Now you can see what's trending on Stakkd 😃

Everyone loves to talk 💩 about HR…



…until they need us 🙃

And we’ve all been there.

Scared, confused, going through some tough moments and not knowing who to talk to..

And there’s always that ONE person in HR who really helps you.

The empathetic and human ones.

- the ones who listened during the pandemic
- the ones who handled the wild situations
- the ones who helped you figure out your next step or to hold it all together when it was all a mess

People forget how much emotional weight HR carries.

So let’s give them some credit for once!

→ who’s that HR person you can turn too?
tag them below!👇

they deserve it 🫶🏻

Giant ball pit?? Cool people??
Yes please!

Another great event by Talent Crunch Berlin (TC) and Corporate Culture Community!!

There's too much to say. 

So instead of typing a long post you won't read, you can live it through my photos instead 😄 

Lovely to see Hung Florina Rap Lucia Ariadna Nadine Sonita Hilary Harveen Tiffany  and meet the Greenhouse Software team + more

Thanks for all the hard work to make this happen Andreea and Deniz 🫶 

ps. scroll to the end to see the photos Hung Lee got of me in the ball pit lol 😅

LONDON HR COMMUNITY
(this is for you)

Rooftop +
HR crowd you actually want to hang out with
= must join event

I am jumping on a plane next week Tuesday for this rooftop HR community event

Do you know which one I am talking about?

it's the People with a (rooftop) View hosted by DreamTeam

There's no agenda
Just connecting and sharing
Meeting people

That's exactly the kind of event's I like.

The ones you can REALLY meet people.

So I couldn't miss it!

I also couldn't miss finally meeting Luke O'Mahoney, Adam Horne and Matt McFarlane IN PERSON!

Annnnddd seeing the wonderful Daisy Ilaria who will also be there 🫶🏻

PLUS all of you!

I think there only a few spots left 🔥

So if you want to join make sure to register: https://lnkd.in/g5YP82_f
I hope to see you there!

📅  November 11th, 6pm
🌇 NYX Rooftop

____________________


ps. I still can't believe I am going to meet Matt, not in Australia, but London haha - YAY!

pps. DreamTeam is a partner of Stakkd!

The 2 most IMPORTANT SKILLS you need in HR 👇


Focus and Delivery

Why?

because if we don’t know WHAT to work on

or

how to DELIVER it

then it doesn’t matter what we do, it won’t drive business outcomes

Focus:
• what do we invest in and prioritise and why
• how do we balance between them
• how do we communicate the expectations and focus

Delivery
• how do we deliver all of the things in focus
• how do we do it well
• use systems thinking and people skills

Too many HR teams just have laundry lists of unprioritised projects

and teams of people who aren’t sure how to deliver change properly

You can see why it’s critical.

These are skills I learnt when I was 19.
And have kept learning since.

They have really been the reason why I have been successful.

When people ask me what my expertise is...

I used to say “portfolio and project management”.
But no one gets that.

So now I say focus and delivery.

Because it’s true for EVERY team and EVERY business.

And it’s something AI can’t do well.

So if you want to start somewhere with upskilling.
Start there 🤓

What other skills do you think are critical?

Two Skills for HR

Are we really surprised?

The participation rate of mothers with young children has dropped to 67% this year.

What the actual fudge!!?!

That number shows the issues women face daily.

We talk about flexibility, hybrid work, and inclusion.

But none of it matters if the structure underneath hasn’t changed.

Most workplaces still run on an old design built around uninterrupted time, predictable schedules, and someone else taking care of everything at home 🙄

So when costs rise, childcare breaks down, or the pressure builds…

It’s mothers who step out first.

Not because they want to, but because the system tells them to.

When I became a mum, I realised how hard it would be to keep working inside a framework that was never designed for me.

It’s SO broken. 

That’s why I built something different.

Until work is redesigned to allow women with children to participate properly in work (without killing themselves), we’ll keep watching the same data repeat itself.

Images like this are getting old.

But we have to keep talking about it to change things.

Some more action would be good too 😁

ps. I am building stakkd.tech - the go to place for HR tech discovery, go check it out!

shout out to all the HR managers who....


- remember everyone’s birthday
- hold the team together through messy change
- answer “quick questions” that take 45 minutes
- still find a way to make people feel valued

you probably don’t get credit, but you’re always making an impact 

the unfair advantage won't be tech
it will be people

tag someone in HR who's doing amazing work! 👇

helping you discover HR tech and AI | queen of HR tech | contrarian | speaker | Founder of Stakkd

We built bias into hiring. 
Let's not do it again.


In this week's newsletter I dive into this uncomfortable topic 🙃 

The thing is, if we DON'T talk about it.
... we won't change things.

But talking about it also won't fix things magically. 

So I've got some suggestions about how you can take some control back when it comes to AI tooling.

Hint: vote with your $$$

As always let me know what you think 👇


𝘛𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺'𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘓𝘈𝘙𝘈 🫶🏻 https://lnkd.in/gCCSgRuQ

Today's newsletter is sponsored by our friends at CLARA. The future of recruiting isn't about replacing human judgment, it's about giving you better d

Open article: We built bias into hiring. Let’s not do it again. by Jessie Schofer • 4 min read

We built bias into hiring. Let’s not do it again.

Ever wondered how you could use AI agents in recruiting?

Well this weeks demo of hackajob will show us how you can!

CEO Mark Chaffey is joining co-host Adam Horne and I to show us how the tool works and how you can leverage AI and agents in your recruiting workflows.

Don't miss it!

📆 Thursday 27 November, 3:30 CET

Hit attend below 👇

Alana Marks, CPHR, Rūta Krasauskaitė and 73 other attendees

Live Demo: hackajob AI matching & sourcing

You've probably heard of Juicebox.....
But have you seen it?!

We'll now you can 😎

This week we get to see a live demo of the tool with CEO David Paffenholz 🧃who will show us just how easy it is.

I'm super happy to do this demo with my co-host Christian who will ask all the hard questions!

👇 Click attend below to join us

📅 Thursday 18:00 CET | 9:00 PST
🔥 Live on LinkedIn 

This demo is in partnership with Juicebox!

Do you care about ethical hiring?
Because you should.

And that is why this week we have a demo of CLARA AI screening tool.

CEO Natasha Nuytten is on a mission to make sure hiring is ethical.

And I am excited to jump in and see more about how she is tackling this with Joe Atkinson as our cohost!

This will be a good one.
Don't miss it 🤓 

Join us this Friday 3:30 CET
Click attend below 👇 

ps. you can find out more about CLARA on Stakkd https://stakkd.tech/clara

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