Recruiting Trailblazers

Send 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 do...

Send 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 be...

Send 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...

Send 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 t...

Send 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/

Send 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...

Send 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...

Send 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://w...

Send 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 ver...

Send a text Thanks to everyone who has participated and listened to the podcast this year! Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/

Send 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/m...

Send 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/

Send 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/

Send 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 &quo...

Send 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 prest...

Send a text There might not be a better profession to prepare you for a career in Recruiting - than Teaching! This week, Marcus speaks with Aurora Kitko who spent 8 years as a teacher of English, Spanish and Mathematics, both in the USA and abroad. Listen to here describe the similarities, differences, wins and challenges as she discusses with Marcus, her very first year in Recruiting. Show notes...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Chris Ciulla, President of U.S. and Cross Border Operations at Comrise, a 450-person global recruiting company with expertise in many verticals, including information technology, finance, media, and legal, just to name a few. Chris has over 20 years in the business, with stints at big players like Ajilon, Robert Half, and Modis. Listen in as...

Send a text One thing is for sure - you are going to completely revaluate your relationship with Boolean after hearing this episode! Gabi is made for podcasts - she's energetic, funny and drops so many value-bombs you are going to wonder why you're not paying to listen to this one! Listen carefully - this one could be a real game-changer for you in a recruiting world where differentiatio...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Justin Dixon. With 15 years of experience in the recruitment industry, Justin is the Founder and CEO of Hire Tomorrow, which he established at the onset of the pandemic in January 2020. Listen in as Justin shares how he and his team were able to find success as a new agency while steering the ups and downs of the Covid-19 pandemic over the p...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Jonathan Langley, Executive Vice President & Chief Talent and Technology Officer at NextGen Global Resources, which is a part of KELLY’s SETT (Science, Engineering, Technology, and Telecom) Business Unit. He’s got over 20 years in tech staffing, and he’s an experienced Recruiting Leader who’s built world-class sales and recruiting teams...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Robyn Thornton, Director of Talent Acquisition at SeekOut. Robyn has over 20 years of TA experience. She was previously the Director of Talent Acquisition at Big Fish Games, and has managed recruiting teams at Nordstrom. Listen in as Robyn discusses her unique experiences transitioning between in-house and agency roles through her career. Sh...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Matt Heard, an executive search leader for purpose-driven organizations. He is the VP of Operations for FireSeeds, a search firm in Birmingham, Alabama. Matt has been with the company for nine years and has worked on over 900 retained searches. Listen in as Matt talks about the importance of understanding your clients’ culture at a deep leve...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Adam Gordon, a 20-year veteran of the recruiting industry about how recruitment marketing automation helps recruiters succeed. He is the Co-Founder of Candidate. ID®, a recruitment marketing automation company. It was launched in January 2017 and was acquired by iCIMS in March 2022.. Adam is also the Founder of Social Media Search, which was...

Send a text This week on RT - Marcus expands on his methodology and reasoning behind making the switch from a Transactional to a Relationship-Driven Recruiting Mindset. Detailing both the strategy and the tactics required - there is a ton of actionable advice in this episode if you want to spend a lot less time on thankless cold candidate outreach. The biggest problem facing Recruiters today The n...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Tricia Bailey, Director Executive Recruiting at Chime, a high-growth fintech startup in San Francisco. Tricia has been in the recruiting industry for 20 years. She has held a variety of in-house and search firm roles at established firms which include Heidrick & Struggles, Kaiser Permanente, and Caldwell Partners, before going on to lead...