LinkedIn's the #1 tool in any recruiter toolkit - for a reason. Yet most of us are only scratching the surface and wondering how to dive deeper. In this episode, Madeline explains how to leverage LinkedIn to its maximum. How to start, when to post, what to post. 30 minutes of very actionable advice for you to start today building your brand on LinkedIn! Follow Madeline on LinkedIn on https://www.linkedin.com/in/madelinemann and on her website www.madelinemann.com ! This is a public episode. If y...
Jan 05, 2021•30 min
Deel raised a total of $50M from tier-1 VCs in less than 18 months after inception to build a payroll company for distributed workers. This is their story, his view on hiring top performers, and his vision for the future of distributed work! Follow Alex here on LinkedIn! And let's connect and continue the conversation here on LinkedIn too! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themodernrecruiter.substack.com...
Dec 22, 2020•27 min
Mike Moriarty is the Global Head of Recruitment at Dropbox, helping to lead a team of 100+ Dropboxers developing and innovating cutting-edge staffing practices and outcomes. Previously, Mike built the tech staffing function at Dropbox from the ground up (2017-2020), and prior to that, rose the ranks at Google redefining the way sourcers and recruiters use data to own and tell their story to business leaders. In this episode, Mike tells us how to build a professional hiring architecture, inspired...
Dec 15, 2020•34 min
Remotive.io has been around for 6 years and is one of the strongest remote workers community. They talked about remote working way before the pandemic. Rodolphe tells us about how remote working used to be a niche phenomenon, how most content on organizing remote teams was not created for beginners and how remote can be one future for work - but not the only one. Follow Rodolphe here on LinkedIn! And let's connect and continue the conversation here on LinkedIn too! This is a public episode. If y...
Nov 03, 2020•28 min
James Ellis is the biggest Employer Branding Nerd on earth (I'm not saying this, Google is!). With great energy and humor, James walks us through the groundwork of employer branding: drafting your company story and hammering it. 86% of people listening to this episode had an epiphany and completely revamped and turbocharged their employer branding. Good for recruiters and C-levels alike! If you're struggling writing your latest job descs, listen to James: he has the answer! Follow James here on ...
Oct 27, 2020•34 min
Nate is one of Lever's cofounders - a leading ATS (serving 2,500 customers) that you probably all know. He started as CEO, turned CTO, and then CEO again. In this episode, Nate shares all Lever's backstory (starting from the underlying technology DerbyJS), his vision for recruiting, the broader evolution of technology - AND how Lever hires their own team. A great episode that we release on the day we (HireSweet) also celebrate joining Lever's official partners' ecosystem! Follow Nate here on Lin...
Oct 15, 2020•32 min
Kulveer Taggar is CEO at Zeus, a tech-enabled rental company for business travelers. In this episode, Kulveer candidly shares how Covid-19 redefined the company, their struggles when they had to lay off part of the team, and how they adjusted to the new environment for the better. His key messages? Listen to your inner voice, learn to make principal choices & your values have to cost you something. Follow Kulveer here on LinkedIn! And let's connect and continue the conversation here on Linke...
Oct 13, 2020•25 min
Michael is the CEO at Y Combinator - the world's most famous accelerator who launched over 2,000 startups. In this episode, Michael shares YC's 5-step recipe to select the best founders and the main advice he gives to pre-Product Market Fit and post-Product Market Fit startups. Listen to it if you're a founder, point-blank! Follow Michael here on LinkedIn! And let's connect and continue the conversation here on LinkedIn too! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other ...
Oct 06, 2020•30 min
Gorgias grew from 20 people to 90 people in the last 12 months, one of the fastest ramp up we've seen, right in the middle of the Covid-19 crisis. Romain is one of the most impressive entrepreneur I've met - and a long-time friend. In this episode, he shares his personal experience on going from $1M to $10M ARR. He shares his view on building a team of executives (promote the most promising existing employees), on keeping a strong team culture while growing the team 5X (write it down), on the ad...
Sep 29, 2020•26 min
Alison joined Sqreen super early (Employee #13) to help the founders build a great team and culture. She believes recruitment needs to be fixed and shares her tips on moving from transactional to relational recruitment. Listen to her now! Follow Alison here on LinkedIn! And let's connect and continue the conversation here on LinkedIn too! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themodernrecruiter.substack.com...
Sep 22, 2020•31 min
Tido built engineering teams at early-stage Facebook, Dropbox, now Segment - his mandate has always to build world-class engineering teams. Learn how to work with agencies, how Segment built their strong engineering brand and how to improve intake meetings! Follow Tido here on LinkedIn! And let's connect and continue the conversation here on LinkedIn too! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themodernrecruiter.s...
Sep 15, 2020•32 min
Bryant, Sergie, and Vlad co-founded Webflow in 2013 with a very strong focus on building the best team. The three of them hired the first 100 people in the team, a dedication that's rarely seen in founders. Created in 2013, a Seed round in $3M in 2014, and then a massive Series A of $72M in 2019 - they're even growing faster during Covid. Is the dedication to hiring A Players the reason why Webflow is unstoppable today? Listen to the episode to hear Bryant's thesis on hiring, his tips on recruit...
Sep 03, 2020•29 min
Charles has seen recruiting as every possible stage of a startup. Hear his learnings from scaling Gusto from 30 to 600 employees in 3 years, learn how to set up a scalable, standardized and unbiased hiring process and take your referrals to the next level! Follow Charles here on LinkedIn! And let's connect and continue the conversation here on LinkedIn too! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themodernrecruiter...
Sep 01, 2020•28 min
Chez worked in recruiting for 7 years, starting on the agency side, and made the move to in-house recruiting. In this episode specifically tailored for recruiters, Chez shares her current tech stack, some key numbers, and her top inspirations as a recruiter. She also shares her vision on building diverse teams and how to minimize hiring biases. Follow Chez here on LinkedIn! And let's connect and continue the conversation here on LinkedIn too! This is a public episode. If you would like to discus...
Aug 25, 2020•28 min
Ross currently leads a Talent Acquisition team at Uber and believes Talent Acquisition roles evolved (and will keep evolving) into a much more strategic role. In this episode, he shares his vision for the future of recruiting and his best recommendations to grow as a recruiter. Follow Ross here on LinkedIn! And let's connect and continue the conversation here on LinkedIn too! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
Aug 21, 2020•32 min
In less than six years, Jason grew Ironclad to a company of 160 employees and raised a total of $84M. Jason faced two stages at Ironclad: #1 - Find Product Market Fit (where founders should do most of hiring) #2 - Scale as fast as possible (and hire a recruiting team) In this episode, Jason tells us about this journey and about why he thinks you should hire a great exec team as soon as possible. Follow Jason here on LinkedIn! And let's connect and continue the conversation here on LinkedIn too! ...
Aug 18, 2020•29 min
Jason Lemkin was co-founder & CEO at EchoSign, sold it for $400M to Adobe, went on to create Saastr - the largest community in the world for Saas entrepreneurs. On this episode Jason speaks directly to his fellow Saas CEO and shares the mistakes he made (and saw other people make) on the road to assembling a world-class sales team, starting with the VP Sales. How to find & assess a great VP Sales, how to improve conversion rates thanks to micro-PR, how to build a hiring routine - a must-...
Aug 13, 2020•33 min
Amanda has been in recruiting for 10 years and has seen in all. In this first episode, she tells us about her experience building teams of A-Players at Yelp, Lever and now Retool. She shares her opinion on what common traits are most share among A-Players. She shares her secret sauce on how to build a great candidate experience and increase the engineers offer acceptance rate in a super-competitive San Francisco. 30 minutes packed with highly actionable insight, advice & energy. A must-liste...
Jul 15, 2020•29 min
