Recruiting Trailblazers

Send a text This week, Marcus Edwardes chats with Joel Lalgee  from Hoxo Media, a prolific poster with almost 50,000 followers, and teaches recruiters to use LinkedIn content, to attract clients.    Why do recruiters need to sit up and pay attention and start posting meaningful content?    [4:54]   Joel saw a huge need within the training and development of new recruiters within the industry that...

Send a text Nick Livingston is  a math major who moved to NYC originally to get into the music business - but ended up as a Rockstar Agency recruiter and the ultimately the Director of TA for MTV. He moved back to the bay to get his MBA from Berkeley whilst running TA for TubeMogul and now focuses his efforts on his own company Honeit which is helping companies simplify the hiring process through...

Send a text As the Founder and Chairman at N2Growth, a top executive search firm with more than 50 locations globally, Mike serves as a leadership advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs and Boards. He’s advised some of the world's best known CEOs, entrepreneurs, and public figures  and been a guest lecturer at many of the world's top Universities and their Business Schools.  On top of all that, he’...

Send a text Jonathan Kidder - the "Wizard Sourcer" is back! He's published two books since we last spoke - "Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters" and "A Guide to Diversity Talent Sourcing” In this episode of Recruiting Trailblazers - Marcus quizzes Jonathan on Top Talent Sourcing Tools for Recruiters - the tools he recommends for different aspects of the job. Epis...

Send a text Laurie Ruettimann is a  human resources leader turned writer, entrepreneur, and speaker. She’s been recognized by CNN as one of the top five career advisers in the United States, and she’s featured on NPR, The New Yorker, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Vox. Laurie’s mission is to fix work by teaching leaders how to create cultures that support, empower, and engage workers mean...

Send a text Vanessa Raath is a Global Talent Sourcing Trainer | International Keynote Speaker | Career Brand Specialist & Coach Vanessa holds a teaching degree and spent 8 years as a teacher in the United Kingdom. She now combines her passion for teaching and recruitment in order to offer much needed Sourcing Training to the South African Recruitment Industry.  Marcus and Vanessa discuss how t...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with recruiter and coach Chris O’Connell. He achieved worldwide top-biller status as SThree and managed teams generating £15 million in revenue. Then, he started his own recruitment business, grew it to £25 million in annual revenue and, in his own words, “lost it all.” Today, Chris does what he truly loves. He helps leaders build purpose-led bus...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Hung Lee, who built the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter from scratch into a thriving community of over 25,000 adoring fans, with a potent and fascinating curation of content aimed to satisfy, inform, and entertain recruiting and growth professionals all over the globe. Aside from Recruiting Brainfood, Hung is the co-founder of tech recruitme...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Julia Pollak, Labor Economist at ZipRecruiter, a leading online employment marketplace that uses powerful matching technology to connect millions of businesses of all sizes and job seekers every month. Julia is a Harvard graduate, and Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University, and an enlisted helicopter mechanic in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Sh...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Guillaume Moubeche, the Founder and CEO of Lemlist, a tool that many recruiters are starting to embrace which automates sequences and personalizes cold email outreach to both candidates and clients. Lemlist has quickly amassed a $3m ARR in under 3 years - and Recruiters are embracing the tool in an effort to automate and personalize outreach...

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Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Mitch Sullivan, trainer and recruiter known on LinkedIn for his biting wit and take-no-prisoners approach to the recruitment industry, social media, and his passion for copywriting. Mitch created the online training course, Copywriting for Recruiters , and is the author of On Recruitment , a book chock-full of wisdom and best read within eas...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Jamie Beaumont, a recruiting technology entrepreneur. He ran his own recruiting agency in graduate recruiting before he founded Offerd, a SaaS tool that automates the many top-of-the-funnel administration tasks. He also, more recently, founded another SaaS platform for recruiters called Fuel, which he calls “the Klarna for Recruitment”, help...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Sam Wallace, Founding Member of Chief, a private network designed specifically for senior women leaders. She is also the Managing Director at Sheffield Haworth, an international executive search and talent advisory firm. Sam is part of a globally-integrated team dedicated to executive search work across technology and professional services....

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Mike “Batman” Cohen, founder at Wayne Technologies, and well-known in the sourcing and recruiting community as an advocate and practitioner of technology automation and innovation in the industry. He has spoken at many conferences such as SourceCon, Talent42, Sourcing Summit, HRNow, RecruitCon, and many more. Mike admits that he has been kic...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Meagan Murray, Head of People at Anduril Industries. Meagan previously held leadership positions at well-known brands such as Riot Games, Facebook, Cruise Automation, and Karat. Meagan reveals how she got Covid in March - and how terrifying it was back then when we knew even less about the virus. Meagan is also a Cancer survivor which she sh...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Lucy Leonelli, Director of Executive Recruiting at Twilio, Inc and former Managing Partner at Wilton & Bain. At one point in her corporate career, Lucy developed a hunger for adventure that inspired her to look beyond her job to see what else life had to offer. Upon returning to Wilton & Bain, her professional motivations were never...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Bree Silveira, who shares her experience as a recruiter up until COVID-19 led to her getting laid off from Glassdoor. Bree describes her understandable feelings of disbelief and grief upon being laid off. She quickly regained her bearings, however, and decided to focus on the silver linings that the crisis presented. For one, Bree was actual...

Send a text Lauren Jones of Leap Consulting Solutions In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Lauren Jones, founder and CEO at Leap Consulting Solutions. Lauren was in the unique and especially challenging position of being forced to deal with the COVID-19 crisis right after she founded Leap Consulting Solutions. Not to be deterred, Lauren decided to focus on what she could continue to do eff...

Send a text Henna Pryor of Pryority Group In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Henna Pryor. For 14 years, Henna was one of the top finance and accounting recruiters in the Tri-State area, and consistently in the 10% of performers at Kforce, including the number one spot in 2017. In 2019, she founded the Pryority Group, where she focuses on executive coaching and transformative training for...

Send a text Jonathan Kidder: The Wizard Sourcer In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Jonathan Kidder, otherwise known as the “Wizard Sourcer”. He is currently working as a tech recruiter for Amazon, and his blog, Wizard Sourcer , has become one of the leading knowledge resources for recruiters online. Listen in as Jonathan unloads a treasure trove of advice on the current sourcing and recr...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Maurice Fuller, founder and Conference Producer at StaffingTec, which began in May 2018 to meet the need for an up-to-date and reliable information hub and community dedicated to the world of staffing industry technology. Maurice is also the President of NewVector Group, a management consultancy and training company specializing in serving t...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus interviews another Marcus, Marcus Sawyerr, Global Head of Digital Partnerships at the Adecco Group.  Marcus Sawyerr details Adecco are adapting to the new economic landscape, and evolving digitally as the recruiting space continues to mature. He also examines the importance of developing essential diversity and inclusion practices.  What you’ll learn in the epis...

Send a text This week on RT - Marcus shares a blueprint for implementing an impactful corporate culture that is both binding and progressive - and the key driver for Recruitment and Retention of the talent you need. Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/

Send a text In this episode, Marcus interviews Roopesh Panchasra, Global Head of Executive Recruiting and Employer Branding, Vice President at SAP.  Roopesh details how he and his team approach the multi-faceted challenge of finding great talent at SAP, from designing better candidate experience to building out a high-tech talent intelligence operation. He also examines the key differences between...