{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hiring Happy Hour","title":"Turning the Future of Hiring Into Reality, Pt 1 - Rebecca Carr - Hiring Happy Hour - # 037 (Re-Air)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2159,"description":"This week on Hiring Happy Hour, we're re-airing this conversation for a very good reason: Rebecca Carr’s story just picked up an exciting new chapter. Alongside her role as CEO of SmartRecruiters, she's now also the President of HCM Products at SAP.\nRebecca Carr didn’t plan to end up at SmartRecruiters. What started as an accidental application through a demo recruiting account became the beginning of a decade-long journey helping shape one of the most influential companies in hiring technology.\nIn part one of this special two-part series, Rebecca, CEO of SmartRecruiters and now President of HCM Products at SAP, joins Hiring Happy Hour to reflect on the early career moments, bold bets, and customer partnerships that helped define both her leadership journey and the evolution of SmartRecruiters itself. From a 94-day global deployment for Bosch to rethinking recruiting around trust, candidate experience, and long-term partnership, this conversation traces the career arc that enabled Rebecca to become the leader she is today, helping shape enterprise hiring through one of its most transformative moments yet.\nAlong the way, Rebecca shares lessons on grit, belief, and what enterprise change actually requires — including why keeping the feedback loop between product and customer tight has always been central to her thinking, and why it matters even more as AI begins to reshape how companies hire. For HR and TA leaders navigating that same shift, this is a conversation about what it looks like to build the future of hiring, not just talk about it.\nTakeaways:\nGreat implementations don't just go live — they create methodology. When you build around global standardization, candidate-first design, and real change management, you're not just deploying software. You're creating a repeatable playbook that the whole organization can use long after the project team moves on.\nCandidate experience has to be a non-negotiable line item in every design decision, baked into how your...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/X2tclXsBGyefoGfWmFcm1AQRnKihcM5GbOGHsC62R4w/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zZTAy/Y2U5NjUxNjAzNmEx/NDZkNDQ0NTI3ZGIx/N2EwMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}