Steve Browe is Executive Director of HR for Cincinnati based Larosa’s a popular chain of Italian restaurants… Steve is also the author of “HR on Purpose!!” – a SHRM bestseller that gives a different view of how to practice HR and enjoy it. TOPICS How did you get so HR famous? 16,000 linkedin followers, 39,000 twitter followers. At Larosa’s how many locations and employees do you handle? Is recruiting centralized or decentralized? What’s your ATS? Any other HR tech tools you use? How do you view candidates for the restaurant industry? How can people view candidates as talent vs. people just filling holes? What methods do you use to identify and source candidates? How does HR Tech help/hinder how you find people?…best source of hire? You have multiple locations at LaRosa’s, Inc. How to you ensure consistently in recruiting/interviewing/hiring/on-boarding across all of your locations? Changes in retail operations…will you guys be automated tasks that will help you reduce your workforce at all? You recently wrote a book that looks at HR from a more human-centric viewpoint. How is that being received? What conferences are you going to this year? What things do you see coming in regards to HR Tech/AI, etc. in the recruiting space? What conferences are you going to this year? Show Notes will be available at: https://www.rectechmedia.com/