
WATCH: https://youtu.be/ZJCK-R5w4yg Recorded live at Transform 2026, this episode features Alessandra Pegnim — known as Ale — Head of Talent Acquisition and Employer Brand at Udemy, the public online learning platform with nearly 1,400 employees globally. Oli spent 16 years on the agency side before making the move in-house, giving her a perspective on recruiting that flips the typical career narrative and brings a closer-and-urgency mindset to every search she runs. The conversation covers the full recruiting stack at Udemy: how they manage a 50% inbound hire rate (unusually high for a company of their size), why they eliminated referral bonuses and watched referral quality improve, how they build skills-based hiring rubrics in partnership with hiring managers, and what it looks like to realign a search when the role evolves mid-process. Oli also talks through their outbound sourcing tools, the balance between inbound and outbound, and how internal mobility factors into their ta...
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