#TalentBuzz

It’s hard to find senior salespeople. That’s why many companies have started to recruit junior salespeople & grow them to become professionals. In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Miika Kestilä from Meltwater. We discussed why they decided to focus on hiring junior salespeople. Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀Why has Meltwater decided to focus on hiring junior salespeo...

How to build a culture & recruit people to that culture? In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Aref Abedi from Jobylon about culture & how to recruit culture-fit people. Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀 Happiness Culture at Jobylon → What is that? 🚀 Why building a culture is important & why Jobylon ended up focusing on that? 🚀 What are the actions Aref takes as...

How to scale your SaaS business to +100 employees? In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Mikko Honkanen from Vainu. We discuss learnings from scaling Vainu to +100 employees. Here are the things we will cover in detail: 🚀What has been the most challenging part of finding great talent? 🚀Taking in juniors & onboarding them well 🚀How has Vainu decided who to hire & when? 🚀Development &a...

Hiring your first employee in a SaaS Start-up? Here’s what to keep in mind. In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Tommi Huovinen from Introist. We discuss hiring your first employees in a SaaS Start-up. Here are the things we will cover in detail: 🚀Introist founding team & how they decided to launch the company 🚀When they realized they needed first employees? 🚀Getting their first funding...

Struggling with scaling your team to 20 people? In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Aku Pöllänen from Aatos.app. We discussed how they scaled their team to the first 20 employees. Here are the things we will cover in detail: 🚀 They founded Aatos in 2018 but moved to full-time in 2020. What was the point when they decided to go all in? 🚀 How many founders were they? 🚀When they realized that...

Combining three companies. How does this affect recruitment & employer branding? In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Johanna Rauhala from Haiilo. Haiilo was established when COYO (Germany), Smarp (Finland), and Jubiwee (France) joined forces. How does all this affect recruitment & employer branding? We covered these topics in our episode: 🚀Suddently your brand name isn’t that well-kno...

How HubSpot recruits the best sales talents & what can you steal from their process? In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Conor McGraynor from HubSpot. We discuss how HubSpot recruits the best sales talents. Here are the things we will cover in detail: 🚀HubSpot’s recruitment process for finding salespeople 🚀How big part of your sales hires are coming inbound & how big part from your o...

Scaling to 50m€ ARR means scaling your marketing team rapidly. In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Edward Ford from Supermetrics. We discussed how they scaled their marketing team. Here are the things we will cover in detail: 🚀 How to choose who to recruit first & when? 🚀 Ad-hoc vs. strategic recruitment 🚀 Cooperation with their in-house Talent team 🚀Supermetric’s typical recruitment p...

You can’t afford to create a bad candidate experience. In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Antti Poikolainen from Yousician. We discuss how Yousician creates an excellent candidate experience. Here are the things we will cover in detail: 🚀Why creating a good candidate experience is essential? 🚀What was the candidate experience like when Antti joined Yousician? 🚀Different stages of candidate...

How to build a world-class tech team? In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Otto Hilska from Swarmia. We discuss how Swarmia has built a world-class tech team. Here are the things we will cover in detail: 🚀Otto’s secret sauce to hiring 🚀Breaking the rules of recruiting 🚀Swarmia’s first hires. Where did they start? 🚀Utilizing networks in hiring 🚀How to decide what kind of tech people you sho...

Scaling your company from 100 to 1300 employees means scaling your Talent Acquisition team. In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with James Conway from BambooHR. We discuss how they scaled their Talent Acquisition team to 25 people. Here are the things we will cover in detail: 🚀 Becoming Head of Talent Acquisition: How that happened? 🚀 Who did James report to & how to keep them happy? 🚀 Scali...