The Headcount Experts

A Podcast on Headcount Excellence

Helping you build an exceptional headcount process, one episode at a time.

World-class workforce management & headcount planning strategies are out there. This podcast delivers them straight to your inbox.

The Headcount Experts consolidates 40 combined years of workforce planning experience from the biggest companies in the world. In each episode, you’ll gain valuable insight into how processes are built and how you can make that success your own.

About the hosts

Eric Guidice and Chris Mannion are ex-operators from Fortune 500 companies who turned their workforce planning & headcount management playbook into industry leading software solutions

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Featured Episode

  
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        Podcast Series
        The Headcount Experts
      
        Episode Number
        Episode #19
      
        Episode Title
        TA Data for Workforce Planning
      
        Speaker 1 (Host)
        Chris Mannion - Ex-Global Head, Talent Acquisition Process Innovation at Meander
      
        Speaker 2 (Host)
        Eric Guidice - Ex-Head of Recruiting at headcount365
      
        Special Guest
        Ian Jones - VP Talent Acquisition & People at HackerOne

Headcount and the RPO ft. Chris Abbass from Talentful

The headcount experts catch up with Talentful co-founder Chris Abbass who reveals how his RPO enables TA leaders through a time of AI-induced volatility. Tune in to discover how to dynamically allocate your resources, insulate your workforce from market shifts, and tightly govern your enterprise software and token expenditures.

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Optimizing Recruiting Capacity: RPO Strategies and the Future of Headcount Planning

Talentful co-founder Chris Abass joins the team to analyze how volatile market conditions impact enterprise capacity planning. The discussion outlines a structured "barbell strategy" that separates automated pre-call workflows from high-touch, relationship-driven candidate experiences. Listen to the full episode to learn how leading organizations manage fluctuating headcount plans and evaluate the true bottom-line ROI of AI token spend.

Operationalizing Headcount Planning with Real-Time TA Data ft. Ian Jones from HackerOne

In episode 20 of Headcount Experts, hosts Eric Guidice and Chris Mannion sit down with Ian Jones, the VP of TA and interim head of people at HackerOne. Drawing from his extensive background scaling talent at tech giants like Amazon and HubSpot, Ian shares a masterclass on how to effectively bridge the gap between talent acquisition data and the broader corporate workforce planning process.