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+4000 applications & NPS of 69 from the candidates: How to create a candidate experience like this? I invited Grace Woods, Talent Acquisition Lead at Oneflow, to discuss these topics: 🐝 Why should companies care about their candidate experience? 🐝 How to collect feedback? 🐝 What creates the candidate experience in different stages? 🐝 How do you create a good experience for those you don’t...

In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Cooper Miller, Head of Tech Recruiting, EMEA at Uber, and we discuss the learnings from scaling their tech team: 🐝 How to build a successful engineering site? 🐝 How does culture differ in different sites & combine with the HQ culture? 🐝 How to make sure your strategy is aligned with the HQ? 🐝 You are doing a lot of relocations. How has this one c...

How to make talent acquisition a strategic business function? In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Heini Tuomola, Head of People & Culture at Visma, and we cover how talent acquisition can become a business-critical function: 🐝Does Talent Acquisition talk the same language with the organization? 🐝How to identify what an organization needs? No to “Yes yes” recruitment. 🐝What kind of s...

How to utilize SCARF model in recruitment? In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Arsaman Bahrami, Head of People at Precisely, and we break down the SCARF model and how you can take your recruitment to the next level with this. SCARF stands for: 🐝 Status: We all want to stand out from the crowd and feel important, and in a recruitment process, our perceived status can be affected either pos...

Learnings from scaling Blinkist to +200 employees  In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with the Founder & CEO of Blinkist about their talent acquisition journey. Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀 Don’t be fooled by someone who seems to be great just because the average of applicants is low 🚀Sometimes you don't know what great looks like until you've seen it 🚀 T...

Chris Savage, Founder & CEO of Wistia, joined me to share his learnings from scaling Wistia and his learnings around Talent Acquisition. Here are the things we discuss in the episode: 🐝 Work with people you want to have a meal with 🐝 Leading by example is one of the most underrated ways to scale an organization while minimizing process 🐝 You can't buy a world-class team; you have to bui...

Building your tech team off-shore might save a lot of money & resources, and it also brings some challenges. In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Faisal Amin, CTO of Upsy Shopping. We discuss how & why they have built their off-shore tech team. Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀Why Upsy decided to go with the off-shore team? 🚀How is the pricing compared to the No...

In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Linnea Bywall, Head of People of Alva Labs, about How to hire great people fairly and objectively? Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀 Typical challenges on hiring: why are companies not hiring this way already? 🚀 Why is it essential to have a fair & objective way of hiring? 🚀 Should the hiring be done against your expectation &am...

What it’s like to run 200 person engineering team in a fast-growing SaaS company? In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Mika Turunen, SVP of Product & Engineering from M-files, about the following topics:  🚀Being a change leader: Why did M-files hire Mika? 🚀What kind of product is Mika’s team building & how is the team structured?  🚀Bringing in new team members: going from broader...

Recruitment = sales & marketing.  If that’s true, it means that recruitment could steal a thing or two from sales & marketing. In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Henri Nordström from Jobilla. We discuss what recruitment can steal from sales & marketing.  Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀Ideal-customer-profile = Ideal-candidate-profile 🚀Multi-channel outrea...

When and how to hire first People-role? In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Hanna Kontinen from Brella. We discuss hiring your first people person: 🚀You joined Brella in 2020. Was there some people person before you? 🚀Why do companies need a people person, and what do those people typically do? 🚀Before bringing in the first person, who should own that stuff? Should you do everything int...

You can make hiring more efficient when investing in Employer Branding. In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Tiina Hahtovirta from Fiksuruoka. We discuss Fiksuruoka’s Employer Branding journey.  Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀Why Fiksuruoka decided to start to invest in Employer Branding? 🚀How did Fiksuruoka start to work on Employer Branding internally?  🚀When did t...

In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Matthijs Welle, CEO at Mews. I saw his LinkedIn post a few months back, and it said: “This month 51 recruitment agencies (yes I counted) reached out to me to try to work with Mews. 🤯 Looking back, I wish I had brought recruitment in-house earlier and stop our reliance on external agencies.” I decided to invite Matthijs to chat more about this topic at #Tale...

Road to 200m$ acquisition from a talent acquisition point of view with Patrick Campbell, Founder & CEO of ProfitWell Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀 Does Dad have his pool already? 🚀 Memory-lane: First hire of ProfitWell 🚀 Let’s talk about churn. Employee churn. Best tips on avoiding it. 🚀Having a great personal & company brand: When this started to help in hiring?...

Talent Acquisition at GetAccept / Learnings from Samir Smajic, Founder & CEO GetAccept is a digital sales room SaaS that empowers revenue team to increase winrates by engaging & understanding buyers from opportunity to signed deal. They’ve been growing rapidly, and since their launch in 2015, they have grown to 190 people and raised +28m$ in funding. I had a chance to sit down with their F...

The more you automate things in your recruitment process, the more you can focus on the most critical parts of the recruitment process. In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with David Näsström from Refapp. We discuss things you can automate in your recruitment process. Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀Ready-made templates / typeform for profile definitions 🚀Great templates for j...

In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Timo Olkkola, Founder at Flowhaven, and we discuss the five learnings from their journey: 🐝 No one invests on the first date - everything is about partnerships 🐝 Meet persons as persons, not as their titles 🐝Prove local PMF before investing big when expanding 🐝 Don't forecast magic or make beliefs; building a great company takes hard work & more time...

Finding the right CFO is crucial for a SaaS company’s growth. Here’s how to recruit one. In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Niko Laine from Calqulate. We discuss how to recruit CFO for a SaaS company. Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀Why having a great CFO is crucial? 🚀When should a SaaS company hire its first CFO? 🚀Who should own Financial stuff before the first CFO? 🚀...

Combining 2 SaaS companies means combining talent acquisition teams. In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with David McDonnell from Leadfeeder about what happened when they joined forces with Echobot. Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀Bringing in 2 teams together: What has been the biggest challenge? 🚀Business strategy → people strategy. Has it been hard when things are changing...

In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talked with Ohad Parush from Gong on how Gong scaled their R&D team to +250 people. If you want to create one of the best tools in the world, you need to come up with new stuff all the time. Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀How Gong’s R&D team is structured? 🚀What’s your team day-to-day work like? 🚀How do you identify what kind of talents...

Structured career paths help your employees level up. This eventually leads to better retention & profitability to your business. In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Barbra Gago from Pando. We discuss how to use career frameworks to create structured career paths. Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀Benefits of career planning for companies 🚀What are career frameworks? 🚀...

In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Karim Gharsallah from Recruitee. We discuss how to build a talent acquisition engine & cover the following topics: 🚀Settings things up and where to begin: basics first 🚀 Building the TA team 🚀 Principles in TA 🚀 TA Metrics 🚀 From operational recruitment to strategic Make sure the subscribe to the podcast & to learn more; check out the following...

When you become a CMO in a fast-growing SaaS company, it’s all about the team. In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Andrew Davies, CMO of Paddle. We discuss how his been scaling Paddle’s marketing team. Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀Joining a fast-growing SaaS company: How to evaluate the current team? 🚀How you started to approach bringing new people into the team? 🚀Com...

In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk about DEI with Hady Mendez from Slack. Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀Introduction to DEI 🚀Benefits of DEI 🚀Why should companies have a DEI strategy? 🚀What does the director of equality do on day-to-day work? 🚀How to make sure DEI is part of recruitment? 🚀How should companies measure their DEI? 🚀What are Hady’s tips for companies start...

How Personio scaled their team in the Nordics? In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Maria Duni, Country Manager for Nordics from Personio. We discuss how they scaled their team in the Nordics. Here are the things we will cover in this episode: 🚀What was Personio’s situation when Maria started 1,5 years ago? 🚀Raising 270m$ in 2021 & 200m$ in 2022 → How these have affected the Nordics hirin...