Matthew Ellis is a TA Business Partner working at Open and has spent his career working with high-growth startups. Matt discusses with Mike about his processes and working with hiring managers to secure talent.

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Mary Strebinger is a Fractioonal People and Culture Consultant whose spent her career scaling startups. Mary takes Mike through her strategies for getting response rates up to 90%.

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Dij Thulasi is the Talent Engagement Manager at Slalom Build. He and Mike sat down to chat about engaging talent & how Slalom Build have built out their sourcing function.

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Vanessa Raath the legendary Talent Hunter, joins Mike to discuss sourcing techniques and outreach.

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"I want to make it clear...Hiring Managers don't have it all sorted out at the start too"

Ben Mackie is the CTO of Qwilr, and has spent a large chunk of his career being a Hiring Manager. He also runs a blog, called State of Work where he discusses technology and work culture.

Ben joined Mike to discuss what hiring and outbound recruitment look like from a Hiring Manager's perspective, and how TAs and Hiring Managers can collaborate better.

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"it's about giving them as much information as possible so they can easily make that decision"

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Cloe Stanbridge is the Head of Talent at The Lab 17, a recruitment agency that focuses on an embedded partnership approach. She’s worked with companies like SafetyCulture, Atlassian and Cloud Kitchens, with a major focus on the candidate experience throughout her career.

Cloe joined out co-founder Mike to discuss the techniques she uses to create an enviable candidate experience, including The Lab 17’s unique strategy of using Qwilr documents in their outbound strategy.

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“within the first 24 hours of this [fake] profile being created, it had received 6 messages”

Vincent Chi is the APJ Talent Sourcing Manager and Executive Search at Adobe. After 7 years working at Woolworths, where he developed his career from Customer Service to a Strategic Sourcing & Talent Acquisition position with Woolworths he joined Adobe.

Vincent chatted with our Co-Founder Mike about the statistics that drove him to make a fake LinkedIn profile to validate data, test his theories and discover an important engagement strategy.

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It’s similar to sourcing, the objective is to get someone on the phone…it’s an initial chat you’re trying to get

2023 has been tough for big tech with over 100k people laid off so far.
This week we caught up with Ben Tanswell to chat about his experience getting laid off, and how he bounced back as the new Talent Acquisition Manager at Montu – Deloitte Tech Fast 50 fastest-growing company of 2022.

Ben talks very openly about how the news impacted him and shares some invaluable advice for others facing a similar fate.

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“we’re expecting recruiters to know how to engage, we’re expecting them to be marketers, and that’s not fair”

Jessica Gibson-Jones is the Global Talent Sourcing Leader at Toll Group and the Chief Content Creator at the Talent Sourcing Collective. With 17 years in the industry, Jessica pioneered talent sourcing on LinkedIn and has worked with big names like GE Australia, Thales, CISCO, Commonwealth Bank and more.

Jessica joined Mike to talk about how to authentically engage candidates to achieve high response rates and create a good reputation for yourself and the industry.

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“it’s like you’re just constantly on this hamster wheel every single day, and then if you’re needing to do something creative….it’s really difficult”

Edan Haddock is a talent acquisition specialist who has always had an eye for creativity. As a florist in his early career, he has been able to bring aspects of his creativity into the talent scene. He’s the Founder of Rubberband & Createfulness and is currently working with Crew in a consulting capacity. Edan sat down with us to chat about the importance of creativity within talent acquisition, and how he creates interesting outreach that drives excellent response rates.

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