

And in the latest episode of Talent on Tap, Brendan Browne, LinkedIn’s global head of talent acquisition, caught up with Rachel at AfroTech 2019 to find out more about what her team’s experiments have revealed: This approach has helped X’s talent acquisition team find the kind of candidates who can change the world (literally). I'm asking questions, I allow people to ask me questions - and it's allowing us to come up with some really, really cool experiments.”

And so I've started to think that way when it comes to talent acquisition. “Now I realize that questions actually get you to radical and innovative solutions. “I had never been in an environment where asking questions was a regular part of business,” Rachel reflects.

She’d spent more than a decade in the talent space, but the corporate environments she’d previously worked in were nothing like this so-called “moonshot factory,” a place where scientists, researchers, and visionaries come together to solve the world’s biggest problems. When Rachel Williams joined X, the Moonshot Factory (formerly Google X) earlier this year as the head of equity, inclusion, and diversity talent acquisition, she quickly realized that this wasn’t going to be like anything she’d done before.
