Jeff Lovejoy from the Zalando Future Talent Program on the importance of letting a community grow naturally, organically and not have an external driving force.

After graduating from the University of West Florida, Jeff did some insurance work before working 13 years at Enterprise Rent-A-Car where he started out as branch manager and made his way through 14 promotions as talent acquisition manager for the department head of Scotland and Northern Ireland.

He then moved onto FDM Group where he was the European and North American Recruitment Manager. After 3 years, he decided to join the startup scene at N26 and SumUp respectively where he was Future Talent Programme Manager for both. After Corona hit, things weren’t the same and decided to take his talents to Zalando where he is now talent acquisition lead and manager of early careers.

In this episode Jeff talks about the Future Zalent Community, a community full of interns working, students, apprentices and graduates starting at Zalando, which he manages. The impact a manager should have on this community, creating awareness of the community, and how the community builds around the brand are all explained in this episode.