About What the FTE? - Tackling the tough questions about the future of work.
What the FTE? is a podcast by Certn, tackling the tough questions about the future of work, risk management, and employee experience. Whether you're an HR leader, a TA newbie, or simply curious about the changing nature of work, this podcast will provide you with practical insights to help you secure your seat at the table.
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This week on What the FTE? we challenge the myths around hiring and talent functions with Joseph Withers, co‑founder of HighlightTA.
We dig into the biggest misbeliefs startups carry into hiring, why “project” work is often a symptom of underload, how to recognise when to scale your talent capacity up or down, and what partnership really looks like in modern TA.
If you want a more flexible, resilient, and business‑aligned approach to hiring, this episode is for you.
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9 Feb 2026
Flexible Pay Future
This week on What the FTE? we rethink one of the most overlooked levers in talent strategy, how we pay people. Traditional pay cycles were built for bookkeepers, not workers.
Sean Paulseth, Head of Revenue, Canada at ZayZoon, is here to show why pay timing matters as much as pay level. We dig into how on‑demand pay reduces financial stress, boosts retention and becomes a strategic advantage in frontline and hourly workforces.
Sean shares how pay innovation works in practice, the guardrails that protect workers and why leaders need to ask payroll teams a new question about compensation design.
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26 Jan 2026
Rethinking Titles and Talent
This week on What the FTE? Melissa Marcelissen talks with Alison Kaiser, Head of Talent at Golden Ventures (https://www.golden.ventures/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) and one of today’s most incisive thinkers on early stage hiring.
If you want to make better decisions about who to hire and how to lead in fast‑moving environments this episode is for you.
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