Ryan Hart is the Director of Product for the background check and drug screening company, Verified First . Verified First is improving the HR Tech industry by making technology integrations better within the recruiting and onboarding process and improving the candidate experience. Ryan met the founder of Verified First (Devon Dickinson) while pursuing his MBA in Entrepreneurship and knew he had to work with him. That was almost four years ago and the company is exploding in growth since then. Ag...
May 31, 2018•54 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast Erik Kostelnik is the Co-Founder and CEO of TextRecruit, a candidate and employee engagement platform that leverages text, chat and artificial intelligence to help companies hire better people, faster. Prior to TextRecruit, Erik served as the Head of Sales at Wrike from 2014 to 2016 helping it reach #116 in 2015 Deloitte Fastest 500 and ran sales as VP at Identified through its acquisition by Workday in 2014. He acts as an advisor to startups including Eatify.com, Outreach.io and HIRABL, was nam...
Feb 20, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Schwartz started his executive search firm back in 2003. After looking for his next gig working in a search firm he quickly realized that he could go out on his own. Fifteen years later and growing his firm “one logo at a time” his company is known for bringing “Transformative Talent” into companies. His recruiting firm recruits some big players in the executive space who make anywhere from $500K to $2M in total compensation. He gets the work that must go in when recruiting and helping comp...
Jan 11, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast Lane Sutton started a blog when he was 11 years old and a decade later he is doing more in the employment branding and recruiting space than your entire recruiting and employment branding team on steroids. Lane gets it. He has worked with some of the biggest brands - Hubspot, TripAdvisor, Sprinklr and Walt Disney. Now that he is old enough to drink a beer (I think) we talked on my podcast: Agenda: Ben/Lane find common ground with coffee, Sumato Coffee of course Lane defines Generation Z vs. Mill...
Dec 19, 2017•59 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast Jörgen Sundberg gets employment branding. He runs Link Humans , London’s employment branding agency. In this episode you will learn more about employment branding than any conference can teach you because we touch on metrics, real life examples and then cover areas in Jörgen’s book, Employee Advocacy: The Ultimate Handbook. Jörgen also comes alive on his views about generations in the workplace, books to read, coffee to drink and advice to his younger self. Agenda: Ben/Jörgen find common ground ...
Dec 02, 2017•52 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Ben Martinez shares an update on Sumato Coffee Co ., his plans with his consulting work at Secret Tech Sauce Talent, how guitar changed his views on entrepreneurism and upcoming plans with podcast guests specializing in employment branding. This episode is part check-in/part advice. Enjoy the show. Links: Website - www.sumatocoffee.com Instagram - Sumato Coffee Co. on Insta Facebook - Sumato Coffee Co. on Facebook Twitter - Sumato Coffee Co. on Twitter...
Oct 31, 2017•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Zach Daggett packed his bags from Arkansas and went to Jalapa, Guatemala to start a specialty coffee shop, La Fabrica . Four years later they have a flourishing business doing small batch coffee roasting, barista training and offering wholesale coffee. Prior to starting La Fabrica, Zach received his formal barista training through Anacafe (National Association of Coffee Producers in Guatemala), coffee contributor for perfectdailygrind.com and still does import/export work with various different ...
Jun 12, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ben Martinez shares what he is been up to and why you should care if you care about coffee. Ben has been focusing all his time and energy into reimagining coffee in the workplace. In 1952, the phrase "coffee break" came about from a massive ad campaign targeted for workers to take a moment & get their "caffeine jolt" BUT nobody focused on the quality of the coffee in the workplace. In the coming weeks, Ben and his team of coffee slingers are launching Sumato Coffee Co. - Their purpose is to reim...
May 26, 2017•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast I had the opportunity to meet live at Publik Coffee Roasters with comedian, Steve Soelberg . Steve is a comedian centered on making his audience laugh. He prepares his material without the worry of being politically correct and believes that comedy is the last form of “free speech”. Being alone on stage with the goal of making hundreds of people laugh and connect with you requires personal power and Steve gets this power with a deep-rooted believe in himself. If you do not believe in yourself, t...
Mar 03, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast With all the attention of start-ups going in the big cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles or New York City - Colleen Jenkins has found her niche in St. Louis with PluggedIn. She has created a customized technology platform as a service as a software. During her days leading Talent Acquisition for the VC firm, Cultivation Capital, she realized that early stage start ups do not have the time or help finding top talent. Thus, she took her entrepreneur skills to work and started PluggedIn. Entrepren...
Feb 22, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast We are a few weeks into the New Year and I submit to say you have already failed at your resolution. 41% of Americans make resolutions. Only 9% succeed in making the resolutions and 42% never succeed at their resolutions. These statistics do not mean we should avoid thinking about how to be better. Resolutions fade away over the year because of our attitudes. Every day we have a choice of what our attitude will be, not just the start of a new year. No matter how little sleep you get the night be...
Jan 29, 2017•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast The mic drop is a gesture of intentionally dropping the microphone at the end of a speech or performance to show triumph. While this episode will not be on the level of an Eddie Murphy mic drop from the 1980s, you will get a lesson on what a mic drop is and reflections from past Secret Tech Sauce guests and insight into why I run a podcast. In this episode you will learn: History of the mic drop - From Eddie Murphy 1983 standup comedy show in the 80s to President Obama’s mic drop on the Late Nig...
Dec 28, 2016•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Listen up! Tatiana Kolovou , will give you a lesson on a topic that you can apply in any aspect of your life - high impact listening. Tatiana is a Senior Lecturer at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University , she coaches and works with executives and entrepreneurs with her consulting business and also teaches through Lynda.com . Tatiana will share with you how you can be better at what you do just by being a better listener. Listening is harder than speaking so listen up to this episo...
Dec 04, 2016•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nick Symmonds , two-time Olympian and now CEO of Run Gum . Nick’s intensity comes through in a strong way on this episode. Nick’s story to qualify for the 2008 and 2012 Olympics to run the 800 m, the lessons he learned from each of those experiences to transform his focus into being an entrepreneur. Nick will share with you how he turned a professional pain (high sugar performance drinks) into functional chewing gum to maximize his performance. Nick may not have an off switch and I look forward ...
Nov 20, 2016•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Marvin Stickel , Director of Recruiting at Pandora - a music streaming company focused on enriching lives by delivering music enjoyment and discovery. If you haven’t heard of Pandora then you probably would not listen to my podcast, with all due respect. Marvin will take you on a journey from his early days of recruiting at Google to making a switch to Pandora to mentoring, inclusion and Fatherhood. In this episode you will learn: An approach on recruiting diverse talent from his Google days The...
Nov 06, 2016•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Daniel Gogolin , Co-Founder of Joda Creative - a content marketing agency based in Vancouver, Canada focused on telling stories. Daniel will take you on a journey from his early days of being a student in Vancouver Film School to finding a company - Joda Creative. In this episode you will learn: Advice on going beyond content to focus on engaging and audience Use of other distribution channels to promote your brand or message Hacks on getting sales leads when you are a smaller shop Advice for ma...
Oct 24, 2016•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kolby Kolibas , Founder of The Healthy Primate - Kolby Kay has been around. Kolby shares the different versions of his career from his early days of working with the 2002 Olympics to being an overweight sales executive at big companies like Dell and Insight. Kolby was making money but not happy because his health was bad. Through his journeys Kolby realized the importance of health and how health can impact your ability to be productive. In this episode, I cover the following with Kolby: The cro...
Oct 15, 2016•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Founder of The Millennial Entrepreneur and Giske business - Arne Giske - has created a community of entrepreneurs who share their ideas and stories about their entrepreneurial journey. No matter if they fail or succeed Arne wants to talk about it and share people’s stories with everyone to help people succeed. He is not about big egos or overly money hungry entrepreneurs. Arne practices what he preaches with his Facebook group - The Millennial Entrepreneur Community and his podcast - The Millenn...
Oct 02, 2016•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Founder & CEO of Never Eat Alone - Marie Schneegans- a company who was founded because Marie learned from her experiences at a big company that eating alone or with the same people stifles communication. Never Eat Alone’s mission is to create connections outside of the same circles that exist within companies. Many people go to work and rarely venture outside their department to meet other people and collaborate. Marie founded a company that opens the doors to new people and ideas. In this episo...
Sep 20, 2016•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Co-founder & CEO of LeadIQ - Mei Siauw - a company who was founded by serendipity that helps sales people build prospect lists, enrich leads with social profiles and prevents salespeople from sending spam emails by enriching their leads with social profiles and company information. In this episode, we learn how Mei started in Indonesia then to Singapore and came to the United States for college and launched her career in a big company (Oracle) then later started her own company, LeadIQ. We also ...
May 26, 2016•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Entrepreneur & creator of AlwaysHired - a company who inspires people to get the best job of their lives. In this episode learn how Gabe and his team at AlwaysHired helps people jumpstart into a sales career or helps people build solid sales skills to improve their commission checks. We also cover Gabe’s experiences doing one of the toughest sales deals, selling steak knives. Learn more about sales and how to become better in your career as a sales pro....
Apr 22, 2016•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ben takes control of the mic to share what the plans are for the foreseeable future with Secret Tech Sauce. He shares why the delay in recording, plans with future guests and reviews three books - Seneca, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and Sapiens. The purpose of sharing the books is neither to promote them OR come across like an ignorant philosopher with a microphone. His purpose is to share what has been influencing his thoughts lately. You can decide if you want to continue listening to Secre...
Apr 08, 2016•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bortolussi is a social recruiting hustler. She shares how she recruits through nontraditional platforms, like Instagram and Snapchat, and the value that recruiters can gain from learning how to recruit there. She also knows a thing or two more about coding than your average recruiter. Learn how she hustles between Vancouver and LA and finds top tech talent.
Jan 29, 2016•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Entrepreneur & creator of the 100 Days of Rejection blog. In this episode learn how to experience rejection in a different way and apply them to your work in recruiting, marketing or selling. Learn Jia’s story from China to the U.S. and the rejections he overcame to hack into success.
Jan 22, 2016•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Stephanie and Ben share the tips and tricks from this past year’s podcast guests and reflect on last years THREE anti-resolutions words. These tips and tricks are something anyone can incorporate into their own life as Ben, Gabe and Stephanie do. We wish everyone a Happy Holidays and wonderful 2016. Chat soon...
Dec 23, 2015•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Interview with Cole Fox, Founder of ProtoHack: The Code-Free Hackathon
Dec 01, 2015•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Gabriel Weinberg, Founder of search engine site DuckDuckGo and author of the book, "Traction" - How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Growth.
Nov 16, 2015•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Reflections on 10 Podcast Episodes - In this episode we reflect on our experiences to record and publish 10 episodes. We share great advice for someone wanting to know the behind the scenes of our podcast or what it takes to start and publish a podcast. In our edgy style we also push each other to get the most out of the conversation by covering our Snapchat usage to our confusions of our race.
Oct 07, 2015•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Employee advocacy & branding will transform your employees into experts, contributors and influencers. Check out what Influitive, LinkedIn Elevate, Dynamic Signal & EveryoneSocial are doing in that space.
Jul 27, 2015•Transcript available on Metacast Cara Parrish talks personal branding, social media & entrepreneurship.
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