Send us a text As a recruiter, relying solely on cold outreach to find and attract talent can be a challenging and time-consuming process. Fortunately, social media has revolutionized the recruitment landscape, providing recruiters a powerful platform to connect with potential candidates, build their brand, and establish relationships with active and passive job seekers. By leveraging the right social media platforms and strategies, recruiters can go beyond traditional cold outreach methods and ...
May 12, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 150
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Chris Allaire, Co-Founder and COO of Averity. Chris is also an entrepreneur, pilot, avid golfer, pretty awesome cook, crab cake connoisseur, guitar player, and a proud husband and father. Listen in as Chris shares the best time to recruit people, what it takes to start a successful recruiting agency, and the importance of relationships. Chris addresses the usefulness of AI tools in the industry, the power of personalization, the post-pa...
May 05, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 149
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Scott Whiteford, Director of Leadership Analytics at Talent Plus. Scott also serves as a Sociology of Leadership Instructor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an Algebra e-Leadership MBA Lecturer, and as an advisor for Upheaval. Listen in as Scott shares the best and worse approaches to retention, the true value of experience, and how organizations can evaluate their employees’ strengths. Scott addresses interview biases, the worst ...
Apr 28, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 148
Send us a text Marcus and Julie ask ChatGPT to recommend the top 10 film that Recruiters should watch - and then they discuss them! Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/
Apr 21, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 147
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Adam Conrad, Founder of Great Recruiters. Adam has over 24 years of experience in the staffing industry. Adam is passionate about helping people reach their full potential, both professionally and personally. Listen in as Adam shares his experience at the Staffing Industry Analysts Conference, using automation in recruiting, and the importance of building relationships. Adam addresses ChatGPT and AI personalization, elevating candidate ...
Apr 14, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 146
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Khang Nguyen, VP of Sales and Operations at CTP Consulting. He brings over 20 years of experience in the technology staffing and consulting space, including over 14 in a leadership capacity. His experience spans from small, start-up environments, to large enterprise, publicly traded organizations. Khang and his family back the No Kid Hungry campaign and the Nephrotic Syndrome Foundation (NSF), two non-profits battling hunger and poverty...
Apr 07, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 145
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Ryan Musselman, who began his career as a recruiter for a regional credit union. For the past 16 years, he has been building content businesses across the digital realm as a senior executive. As the Founder of Parade Studio, he creates full-service content programs for executives, recruiters, and sellers who don’t have the time to post on LinkedIn, but who do want to build a very strong personal brand with tons of original content. List...
Mar 31, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 144
Send us a text This week Marcus laments the biggest missed opportunity in Recruiting and how to adopt a 2-step strategy to resolve and emerge victorious with a robust referral, recommendation, and information network. Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/
Mar 24, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 143
Send us a text Marcus chats with Brian FInk about the impact of psychological safety in the workplace. Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/
Mar 17, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 142
Send us a text Marcus opines on why he thinks tenure is so overrated as a measure of reliability, steadfastness, and loyalty. Bottom line - Hiring managers are missing out big time on some of the best candidates available if they only consider candidates with a history of long tenure at previous employers! Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/
Mar 10, 2023•6 min•Season 1Ep. 141
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Hannah Jane. She has over 17 years in talent acquisition leadership and people operations. She’s a Talent Business Partner for Team Union, which specializes not only in recruiting for startups, but also in creating processes, best practices, and policy to help companies succeed in the entire recruiting and hiring process. Listen in as Hannah discusses the intake call and strategy, the interview process and how to coach your clients to p...
Mar 02, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 140
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Jared Watts, Director of Talent at Vantaca, a community-managed performance software company based in North Carolina. Previously, Jared worked on the agency side in executive search and spent five years playing professional soccer in the MLS. He played for both the Colorado Rapids and the Houston Dynamo, and was the 33rd overall pick in the 2014 MLS SuperDraft. He captained the Under 17 World Cup team in Nigeria and he won the 2018 Lama...
Feb 24, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 139
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Robin Choy, CEO of HireSweet, a talent acquisition platform built to empower outbound data-driven recruiting teams. He is the host of the A-Players podcast. Robin wrote an excellent guide for recruiters called The Definitive Guide to Sourcing in Recruiting ( https://content.hiresweet.com/the-sourcing-guide/ ), which breaks down the process into four key steps: preparation, sourcing, contact, and closing. Listen in as Robin does a deep d...
Feb 15, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 138
Send us a text In this episode - Marcus presents a few very good reasons why Recruiters find In House recruiting so rewarding before he gives a few excellent reasons why you might consider a move back to Agency Recruitment! Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/
Feb 10, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 137
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes once again speaks with Vanessa Raath, a freelance sourcer, a global talent sourcing trainer, an international keynote speaker, and a wildlife photographer. She recently founded the online educational platform, Vanessa Raath Academy. Listen in as Vanessa shares what sourcers can do to be steps ahead of the competition once the economy regains its momentum. She talks about automation tools that have risen in popularity in today’s market, and how to u...
Feb 01, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 136
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Maddie Loomis, the Founder of Advanced Scope Talent. The company matches clinicians to great practices. Maddie describes herself as a “talent guru” and “a laughable CrossFit athlete”! Listen in as Maddie discusses what it takes to start your own agency, drawing from her own experience establishing Advanced Scope Talent in 2021. She breaks down the whole process, from establishing an LLC to finding leads by incorporating LinkedIn into yo...
Jan 27, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 135
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with returning Mark White, The LinkedIn Professional. He specializes in helping you unlock the value in LinkedIn—something he has been doing since 2009. Mark delivers customized training to students across the globe, from workshops to virtual classes to 1-to-1 coaching sessions. Listen in as Mark discusses how LinkedIn fared in 2022 and why he believes that LinkedIn’s recruiter platform should coexist with an agency ATS. He also discusses th...
Jan 19, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 134
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Billy Davis, known on LinkedIn as The Staffing Automation Guy! He’s an AI and automation product manager at Herefish by Bullhorn, where he helps recruiters increase revenue and efficiency by embracing automation. Listen in as Billy defines staffing automation and how it differs from—but can be complemented by—AI. He breaks down what he calls the “three pillars of automation”: data health, self-service, and the ability to use information...
Jan 12, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 133
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with James Ellis, Principal at Chicago-based Employer Brand Labs. He’s an author, keynote speaker, practitioner, and podcaster with a wealth of experience across multiple industries for almost a decade. James wrote Talent Chooses You: Hire Better with Employer Branding . The book has been called “the Bible of employer branding”. He also manages the number one employer brand newsletter in the world, Employer Brand Headlines , which helps comp...
Jan 05, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 132
Send us a text A quick message from Marcus in lieu of an interview or solo podcast. Happy New Year! Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/
Dec 29, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 131
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Andrew Flowers, a labor economist at Appcast, a global leader in recruitment advertising technology. In 2020, Andrew ran for State Representative of the 8th Norfolk District in Massachusetts. He narrowly lost the Democratic primary, winning 48.2% of the vote. Prior to running for office, he was an economist with Indeed.com, a data journalist at FiveThirtyEight.com, and an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Listen in as Andr...
Dec 22, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 130
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with John Boyd, Founder of Cirrus Group Consulting, a search firm specializing in providing top Cloud computing talent to companies who need those skills. According to Jim’s LinkedIn headline: “We provide the industry’s most ridiculously capable Cloud techies.” Listen in as Jim explains why it pays to home in on a specific niche in the recruiting industry, build a system around that specialization, and go all-in on that niche. He illustrates...
Dec 15, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 129
Send us a text Marcus speaks with Richard Cho, a Senior Recruiting Executive who has led Recruiting at companies such at Facebook, Dropbox , Chan Zuckerberg initiative and Robinhood and most recently Gem where he is an advisor. Up for discussion are the cornerstones of building an effective Talent Strategy and infrastructure to compete for talent in today's markets. Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/...
Dec 09, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 128
Send us a text Anil Dharni is the CEO and Founder of Sense, San Francisco, Calif. - the market leader in AI-driven talent engagement and communication solutions for enterprise recruiting. He recently commissioned a study, “ An Inside Look: What Today’s Candidates Really Want ” which polled over 1,000 U.S. based candidates who have applied for a job within the past six months, which provides some very interesting data for Recruiters. When asked what the top two non-negotiables are when considerin...
Dec 02, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 127
Send us a text Thanks to everyone who has participated and listened to the podcast this year! Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/
Nov 24, 2022•1 min•Season 1Ep. 126
Send us a text Ann-Marie is the Founder and President of The West Source, an executive search firm that supports staffing agencies across the country, primarily in the IT & Professional Services space. She launched The West Source in March of 2020 after having spent 10 years as a founder and managing partner at Satori Source in a similar capacity. Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/...
Nov 18, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 125
Send us a text Marcus speaks with Steven Perchikov about outreach tactics and how automation - when executed correctly- can help you achieve some degree of scale, without necessarily sacrificing quality. Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/
Nov 11, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 124
Send us a text This week a solo podcast by Marcus on the subject of Business Development. With a slightly softer economy - it's critical to stay focused on consistent BD - and Marcus offers some tips and tricks on what might work best in these tricky times. Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/
Nov 04, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 123
Send us a text Marcus speaks with James Parker about building and implementing a successful in-house talent strategy and some of the recruiting challenges he's encountered in his 8+ years of experience as a Head of Talent. In the podcast, James shares his mindset around TA, which falls into 3 separate buckets: 1. Storytelling - the perception you are creating around the company - all things "employer branding" related 2. Systems - the infrastructure around the entire recruiting funnel, to ensure...
Oct 27, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 121
Send us a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Maury Hanigan, CEO at SparcStart, an innovative recruiting platform which uses video, social media, and mobile capabilities to differentiate jobs and overall make recruiting much more productive. Maury is a recognized industry expert and has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Economist, ABC World News, amongst many other prestigious media outlets. She was also named on HR Tech’s list of the 100 Most Influential Talent Acq...
Oct 20, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 120
