America Back to Work

America Back to Work

America Back to Work is a podcast series hosted by leading pre-employment background screening services company, S2Verify. Every week, the company’s Chief Strategy Officer and former U.S. secret service agent, Arnette Heintze, will discuss timely and relevant topics impacting the labor market and workforce with industry experts. The series will cover issues related to recruiting, hiring, customer service, employee satisfaction, and more. Expert interviews include guests like William Tincup, the co-founder and Editor-at-Large at Recruiting Daily; Beacon Talent founders Juney Ham and David Berk; Award winning author and former intelligence officer for the CIA, Carmen Amato, and many more. Go to Twitter Spaces (https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1MYGNgaNmgPJw) to attend episodes live.

Episodes

The State of Employee Relations

April 29, 2025 • 27 mins
At the height of the pandemic, employee relations were top of mind for most companies as they tried to help their teams navigate drastic change in the workplace. But are they still prioritized today? Unfortunately, the case for most companies is no—but there are ways HR pros can ensure employee relations are a focus once again, and we invited Brad Eddy on this week’s episode of America Back to Work to discuss them. Brad is an HR ...
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How to Align HR and Business Strategy

April 22, 2025 • 26 mins
In the workplace, HR often has to fight for a place at the leadership table and prove their role’s importance in business strategy. Danielle Bodalski is a seasoned HR expert who has come close to cracking the code of HR getting and maintaining that seat, plus the importance of having it.  In this episode of America Back to Work, Danielle and Arnette discuss aligning HR and business strategy. Danielle shares what she’s learned from...
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How to Adopt a Special Operations Mindset in HR

April 15, 2025 • 30 mins
America Back to Work is no stranger to bringing strategies and learnings from working in the public sector into HR—in fact, our host Arnette Heintze was a Secret Service Agent for 20 years before joining the private sector. To follow suit, this week’s guest is a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, Mike Sarraille.  Mike’s 20-year career as a Recon Marine, Scout-Sniper, and now retired U.S. Navy SEAL has taught him a lot about which mili...
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How Do Top Candidates Vet Employers?

April 1, 2025 • 23 mins
After the Great Resignation, a lot of us in HR got used to a world where we were desperate for new hires… And that resulted in a lot of wrong people in the wrong roles.  Now, we need to overcorrect and make sure the right people are ending up in the right roles—but it’s trickier than ever before because candidates care about much more than just salary these days (succession, growth, a clear path for their career, etc.) The power d...
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How HR Fuels Growth

March 25, 2025 • 31 mins
You can’t grow your business without growing and scaling your people and developing programs that support them, as Belinda Waggoner says.  Belinda is a seasoned HR executive and the mind behind People People, an organization that helps businesses with the “people” side of things—because a lot of teams struggle with it. She is passionate about creating workplace cultures that drive success and sees the correlation between strong HR ...
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Unconventional Recruiting Strategies and Hiring BIPOC

March 18, 2025 • 28 mins
Have you heard of blind recruitment? Gamified assessments? Skills challenges? VR? These are some of the unconventional tactics that today’s recruiters are implementing into their strategies to ensure more diverse hires. The name of the game is seeing the candidate beyond what’s on their resume—and most importantly, beyond their demographic.  On this week’s America Back to Work, Ross Cadastre—a recruitment expert and Founder of ITS ...
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How to Diagnose and Develop Leadership Agility

March 11, 2025 • 29 mins
These days, it can feel like no one week at work is the same as the last The world is changing quickly—be it breaking news stories everyday, newfound information about what works best for our employees, developments in DEI, or innovations in technology. No matter what it is that’s changing around us, the best leaders need to be flexible in order to be successful.  Agility in business leadership can mean a lot of things—like quick-t...
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The Truth About Bad Behavior in Recruiting

March 4, 2025 • 26 mins
Recruiting—Leaders in HR provide a laundry list of ideal candidate experience, offering a non-competitive salary, and want the position filled in two weeks. Due to all of the requirements, biases, and leadership’s champagne taste with a beer budget, the hiring process takes months for a mid-level manager (or below!). After all that, leadership doesn’t think it’s a good fit and the recruiter ghosts the candidate.  As you probably a...
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What You Need to Know About Fixing Workplace Culture

February 25, 2025 • 28 mins
Culture—it’s a loaded topic, especially these days. With companies balancing in-person employees, remote employees, and everyone in between, it can be hard to build a consistent workplace culture and even harder to fix one that has issues.  Sheri Bender is the Owner of Pulse HR Solutions, a team of HR experts who specialize in offering practical leadership training, development programs, and Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DE&II) ser...
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The Ps and Qs of PEOs

February 18, 2025 • 27 mins
HR is a triangle—the top is strategic HR, the middle is the HR functions where managers and leaders work together, and the bottom third is the transactional activities, like processing payroll and managing benefits. The bottom is where PEOs, or Professional Employer Organizations, do their best work.  Is working with a PEO to outsource some of that transactional HR work the right choice for your business? Well, there are pros and c...
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Talent and Employer Brand - Everything You Need to Know

February 11, 2025 • 23 mins
What is the difference between a corporate brand, talent brand, and an employer brand? If you aren’t clear on that, you may not be getting your employer branding right.  If your employer branding isn’t right, you may be experiencing unnecessarily long interview processes, low rates of retention, and overall an unsuccessful team.  Marcus Body is one of the strategy leads behind a number of valuable employer brands, and he’s joining ...
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The Future of the Recruiting Experience

February 4, 2025 • 31 mins
Companies, employees, and the way the two find each other have changed dramatically due to trends, technology, economics, and more. Two things that haven’t kept up, however, are resumes and job boards.  Adam Gellert, a serial entrepreneur on a mission to reshape recruitment and change the candidate experience (and the founder of HiredHippo), joins this episode of America Back to Work to offer his advice as to how we help the recrui...
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Recruiting and Retaining Newly Graduated Professionals

January 28, 2025 • 31 mins
For a company to grow, it needs to expand its talent pool. Often, however, companies overlook the largest group of bright-eyed, bushy-tailed candidates who are waving their resumes in the air, ready to work: new graduates. Is it because they lack “real world experience?” Is it because the campus ecosystem is difficult to navigate? Or is it something else? Brien K. Convery—talent executive, published thought leader, and speaker—join...
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How to Assess and Address Leadership Development

January 21, 2025 • 29 mins
For an organization to grow and change, leaders have to grow and change—and that’s not always easy. But when an organization is experiencing high turnover, low morale, micromanagement, and other forms of workplace toxicity, leadership development is the only way.  Tina E. Grimes, CEO of TINA Enterprises (Turning Intent iNto Action), has dedicated her career to working with executives on building a culture of strong leadership and c...
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How to Manage Your Career in HR

January 14, 2025 • 27 mins
It takes a lot of courage to work in HR—and even more to leave. After all, so much of your job is helping other people manage their careers, it’s hard to find time in the day to manage your own.  Ricklyn Woods knows this better than anyone. As the owner of her own HR consulting business and the creator of the podcast “So You Want to Work in HR?” she speaks with HR pros every day to get the truth behind the profession.  The podcast ...
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How to Create a Culture of Transparent Leadership

January 7, 2025 • 26 mins
People don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses. One of the traits that makes a “bad boss” is a lack of transparency—so much so that companies with transparent communications are seeing reduced turnover, more engaged employees, and more energized teams.  But how do you take a company that’s stuck in the old days of corporate hierarchy to 2023—where employees are actually kept in the loop of what’s happening at a company? Sharon ...
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Current Trends in Employment Law and Compliance

December 17, 2024 • 24 mins
You may think you’re doing everything you can to be HR compliant—but the truth is there’s so much to consider that it’s almost impossible to fully eliminate risk.  That’s where Pavithri Kilgore comes in. Owner and HR Consultant at KPSK Consulting, Pavithri focuses on comprehensive HR Consulting in employment & labor law, risk mitigation, compliance, and developing HR policies. She has over 20 years of experience, and she’s joining ...
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What’s Next in the WFH Versus Hybrid and In-office Work Debate

December 10, 2024 • 29 mins
Now that stay at home measures are a thing of the past, employers are considering switching WFH and hybrid offices back to in-person. However, for most companies, the days of fully in-person work were nearly 3.5 years ago, and a lot has changed since then.  As a remote company, can you switch back to in person? Is it even worth it? Mitch Lippman, an expert in helping individuals and organizations achieve their professional goals, i...
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How to Get More Respect for HR as a Strategic Business Partner

December 3, 2024 • 33 mins
It’s no secret that we at S2Verify are passionate about uplifting and making the lives of HR leaders easier. However, a lot of corporate America still misunderstands what HR leaders do and how crucial they are to the bottom line of a company.  On this episode of America Back to Work, we discuss this topic and how HR pros can finally get the respect they deserve with Tiffany Montgomery—Director of Human Resources at Saul Ewing. Reso...
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How to Build a World-Class HR Dream Team

November 19, 2024 • 23 mins
On America Back to Work, we’ve delved into hiring trends and discussed the strategies that HR leaders employ to shape their companies and company cultures. In this episode, we apply those same ideas to building great HR teams. Our special guest, Chief Human Resources Officer Vanessa Partin sits down with Arnette to share what she learned expanding her HR team at The Redgrave Companies this year.  Resources: Vanessa Partin The Redg...
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