Recruiting Trailblazers

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Sam Brenner, Founder and CEO of CRB Workforce, a recruitment agency headquartered in L.A. Listen in as Sam looks back on his decision to start his own business three years prior, and gives his encouragement and advice to those looking to start their own agencies. One of the main factors that drove him was his own mission, which is simply to...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Bert Miller, Chairman of Protis Global and ace Talent Curators, and President and CEO of MRINetwork, a network-centric recruitment organization that offers consulting, training, contract staffing, and community building to over 325 search firms worldwide. Bert is an active speaker, mentor, advisor, and investor. He hosts the MRINetwork Podca...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Jesse Tinsley, a serial entrepreneur who got his start in tech at the age of 15. In 2012, he dropped out of college to found Job Mobz to provide on-demand recruiting for technology companies. He is a regular contributor to Forbes and SourceCon, and he hosts The People Podcast, where he interviews HR, recruiting leaders, and tech founders on...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Rich Rosen, an executive recruiter in the software sales industry with over 20 years experience. He is the Founder and Owner of Cornerstone Search, and for the past two years has been named by Forbes as a Top 20 Executive Recruiter in America. Listen in as Rich discusses his typical day-in-the-life as a practitioner in the software sales nic...

Send a text Nicole Thomsen Hirsch: Creativity, Business Acumen, and Resilience in Recruiting In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Nicole Thomsen Hirsch, an internal recruiting leader with a specialization in sales, who began her career at Aerotek in 2008. Via Segment—which was recently acquired by Twilio—she now works at Lattice as a Recruiting Manager. Listen in as Nicole discusses the ev...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Chris Wunder, CRO of Leap, a hospitality recruitment company, where he spends most of his time driving revenue operations, managing sales and recruiting teams, and driving innovation. Chris is also the founder of Million Dollar Recruiter , an online training program for recruiting professionals, entrepreneurs, salespeople, and future million...

Send a text Happy New Year! This week we are re-visiting 2021's most popular podcast - Marcus's interview with Brianna Rooney - founder of Techees and Talentperch. Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/

Send a text Happy Holidays - new episodes of Recruiting Trailblazers begin on January 6th, 2022. Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/

Send a text Enjoy clips from Marcus’s conversations with Adam Conrad, Hung Lee, Jamie Beaumont, Joel Lalgee, Mitch Sullivan, Will Staney, Laurie Ruettimann, Vanessa Raath, Jonathan Kidder, Mike Myatt, John Randolph, Mike “Batman” Cohen, and Henna Pryor. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: ●      [02:08] Adam Conrad on the impression you leave with every candidate ●      [03:04] Hung Lee on the futu...

Send a text This week, Marcus shares a few ideas to help Recruiters drive a better response to candidate outreach. Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/

Send a text This week, Marcus shares a few of his favorite Stoic Philosophies as they apply to Recruiters. Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/

Send a text A very short "thank you" this week from Marcus to all the listeners of the podcast! Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Stephanie Benesh, Practice Leader for Talent Effectiveness at Recruiter.com. Drawing on 20 years of leadership experience, Stephanie partners with organizations to create custom leadership programs and coaching solutions. She also leads the talent insight center where she partners with recruiters and clients to hire and develop top talent. S...

Send a text This week's episode includes clips from Marcus’s conversations with Julie Coucoules, Casey Jacox, Adriaan Kolff, Jeff Wald, Joel Lalgee, Natasha Katoni, Andrew Trout, Bruce Morton, Roopesh Panchasra, and Marcus Sawyerr. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: ●      [02:53] Julie Coucoules on partnering with recruiting agencies ●      [04:09] Casey Jacox on the importance of grit and r...

Send a text In this week's episode  - Marcus puts on his Stoic hat once more and shares some top tips and quotes to help you finish Q4 off strong! On planning, focus, objections, adversity, confidence, strategy, accountability -  there's something in it for everyone. Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Becca Menhart who, until recently, was an account manager at one of the big box recruitment companies. She then decided to change course from her agency career to seek out an internal recruiting role with a company and a brand that she could really get behind. Becca succeeded. Today, she’s thrilled to work as a recruiter at everyone’s favori...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Mark White, a LinkedIn professional who helps companies unlock the value of LinkedIn. Mark basically trains people to use LinkedIn to better achieve their business goals, including business development, targeted marketing, and recruitment strategies.  He talks about the evolution of LinkedIn, how to leverage LinkedIn’s transactional and soci...

Send a text This week, Marcus invokes the Stoics once more and takes a look at the concept of deep work avoidance and recruiter procrastination. Marcus posits that most recruiters are drawn to the activities that yield the most immediate reward and seemingly the most urgent - but sometimes to the detriment of the work that is most important, but less rewarding in the short term. Marcus suggests a...

Send a text This week Marcus delivers another solo episode of The Stoic Recruiter - and ties together a number of Stoic principles in an effort to create the ultimate problem-solving mental arsenal. From figuring out whether it's a problem that needs your attention - to embracing the reality of it, re-evaluating its importance, and then taking positive action - this podcast gives you a strate...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Mirtes Lobaito, Founder and CEO of AGM Tech Solutions, an IT staffing and consulting company based in New York. AGM is a certified minority- and women-owned business. Founded in 2018, AGM grew to be a $25 million company within only three years. The Brazilian-born Mirtes shares how she was able to achieve the American Dream and accomplish so...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Heike Hiss, Senior Director of Global Executive Recruiting and G&A Recruiting at Box.  Heike previously served  at Juniper Networks, Heidrick & Struggles, and Apple. Having transitioned from executive search, Heike shares the challenges she faced in acclimating to her in-house role. She describes the search firm mindset as more “entr...

Send a text In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Sarah Taylor, a Senior Technical Recruiter at a mid-stage healthcare startup. She previously held positions as an internal recruiter at Amazon, PG&E, and Mercedes Benz. Listen in as Sarah shares her experience with her current WFH setup and why she prefers a hybrid WFH model in the future where team members also have the option to choose...

Send a text Marcus apologizes to those listeners who were expecting an interview today  - but he had 2 postponements this week. He is pondering whether to continue with the interviews and considers turning this into a solo podcast. This week - he talks about the Stoic concept "Don't suffer imagined troubles" and delivers an amazing quote from Seneca who tackles this subject head-on....

Send a text This week, Marcus talks about Stoicism as it pertains to Recruitment and how the key concept of understanding what is in your control and what is not - defines your ability to access Resilience - a characteristic that Marcus claims will immeasurably improve your performance in this profession. Great quote at the end from Marcus Aurelius: “If you are distressed by anything external, the...

Send a text This week, Marcus reviews the traditional KPI/Metrics model that many Agencies have used for decades - and promotes the idea of a more empowering, quality-driven model. 8.5 minutes of great content - and next week we'll be back on the interview train with a TA professional from inside the business. Connect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/