The Growth Recruiting Podcast

Toni Cabrall, Director of Recruiting at Concord, discusses with Josh about undertaking massive recruiting efforts. Coming from an agency background, Toni was hired as recruiter number 1 at her first in-house position and in six years scaled it from under 100 employees to over 800. She’s well-versed in scaling a company and its recruiting team at the same time. Through her mentalities behind transparency, the interview process, and coping mechanisms for huge recruiting efforts allow her to efficiently grow companies. Toni explains the “Who” interview process, how to turn a candidate’s soft “no” into a “yes!”, and how to effectively personalize candidate outreach.

Bharath Jayaraman, Director of HR at JUUL Labs (former VP of People at Paxos), chats with Josh about the 3 pillars of startup recruiting on The Growth Recruiting Podcast. Bharath and Josh focus their conversation on setting and implementing a high hiring bar across the company, building a strong in-house sourcing engine, and developing your employer brand to tell your story consistently. In addition, Bharath explains the difference in skills between sourcers and recruiters, how to develop and nurture your employer brand, and creating effective communication throughout companies of all sizes.

Rebecca Price and Lee Gutman, VP of People and Head of Recruitment at Enigma, discuss how they reassessed their recruitment on The Growth Recruiting Podcast. With a data-driven approach, they used 3 lenses to evaluate and improve their recruiting outreach, interviewing process, and candidate nurturing. They discuss with Josh about how to create and assign candidate personas, create and educate new interviewers, and what types of interviews they use in their process. Rebecca and Lee give their opinions on how to coach current employees to evangelize the company, qualify and entice candidates, and the division of labor between their roles.

J.D. Conway, Head of Talent Acquisition at BambooHR, discusses his approach to recruitment on the Growth Recruiting Podcast. J.D. runs his Talent Acquisition team with a marketing mindset, and it works. He and Josh talk about what recruiting like sales and marketing means, and how that’s reflected in his team’s structure. J.D. gives advice on where to begin with employer branding, building the business case for HR, and the best marketing resources for HR professionals.

Brad Goldoor, Co-Founder and Chief People Officer at Phenom People, discusses how today's most progressive companies are using video to attract, nurture, and convert qualified job candidates. He and Josh speak on why video should be implemented throughout the employee lifecycle. If you're looking to integrate video into your hiring process, Brad provides the tips you need. Learn where to start, what tools to use, how to format the videos, and discover real world examples.

Greg Russell, Head of Talent at Snapdocs, dives deep into a discussion with Josh about startup recruiting. He speaks to what gives him a competitive edge hiring engineers in San Francisco, how to plan for rapid growth, and offers a secret flip of the script during his hiring process. Greg gives unique insights into how he builds a recruiting process as an organization’s first talent hire.

Kris Osborne, Head of Talent Acquisition at Thanx, joins The Growth Recruiting Podcast to tout the importance of the candidate experience. He explains why he decided to go from the military to talent acquisition, the challenges of recruiting at a startup and building your recruiting brand. Kris gives advice and best practices to create a candidate experience so good, your candidates recruit for you.

Mike Leggett, Sr. Technical Recruiter at Outreach.io, joins this episode of The Growth Recruiting Podcast to highlight what it's like to recruit for technical positions at a venture-backed startup in Seattle . Learn his rockstar methods for recruiting high level engineers, similarities between hiring for technical positions and non-tech positions, and how to compete with the local tech giants.

Jen Paxton, Director of Talent at LevelUp, drops in on The Growth Recruiting Podcast and dishes on how her team built the #1 place to work according to the Boston Business Journal. You'll learn Jen's candidate experience strategy, goals, and the pillars to her hiring process. She also offers advice on how to get out of your comfort zone with HR technology. Get ready to level up your recruiting!

Eric Siu, CEO of Single Grain, one half of The Marketing School Podcast, and voice behind the Growth Everywhere podcast, joins The Growth Recruiting Podcast to share how he recruits for his fast growing digital marketing agency. In this episode, you'll learn how to use proven marketing techniques to drive amazing recruiting results. Eric discusses his role in the hiring process as CEO and gives tips on improving your candidate conversions.