In the span of just a year, Joel Lalgee has become one of the top voices for recruiters to follow on LinkedIn. Having garnered a massive audience while establishing his own live-time series, Joel has interviewed some of the most renowned figures in the recruiting and staffing space. Join us as he guides us through the characterization of the modern day recruiter and best tips for establishing your own personal brand on LinkedIn.

Episode transcription:

[00:00:27] Angela Alberty: [00:00:27] Okay, so excited to have this podcast today. Joel, I have been waiting for several weeks now to interview. You were one of the first people that I reached out to when I made the announcement as podcast host at the Ivy Podcast. Go ahead and give the audience a brief introduction.

[00:00:43] Joel Lalgee: [00:00:43] Oh yeah, absolutely. Well, first of all, thank you for having me on the show. It's a pleasure to be here. A little bit about myself. I am a recruitment head Hunter agency recruiter. That's been in the business for about five years, and I've recently made a transition into the content marketing world, helping agency recruiters build a personal brand, particularly on LinkedIn. So I've spent the last 18 months building a pretty decent sized brand on LinkedIn. Got a lot of experience with that. And so now I'm helping other people to do the same thing. And so, yeah, again, just thank you for having me on the show.

[00:01:27] Angela Alberty: [00:01:27] Oh absolutely super excited for this, because I think that the audience can leverage a lot of the insight that you provide. And one of your, I guess, feel good stories is how you found it and landed yourself into this role. But we can get into that in just a little bit. We're going to start with some fire and eyes questions. And I feel the vibe today, you're black, I'm red public fire knife questions because it's the ring of fire ring of fire questions, but it's also to break the ice. So we want to just get to know you a little bit better and ask you super random questions along the way. So are you a coffee guy or a tea guy?

[00:02:03] Joel Lalgee: [00:02:03] Oh, well, so I was born in England, so I still have a little bit of tea in me. Yeah. So my whole family is tea, but I definitely like coffee in the morning, coffee in the afternoon. High energy coffee.

[00:02:18] Angela Alberty: [00:02:18] Yeah, me too. Me too. I've got that simple American coffee plantation lineage of coffee drinkers. So actually, my followup question, which you may have just answered is the most interesting fact about you that most people wouldn't associate to Joel.

[00:02:34] Joel Lalgee: [00:02:34] Yeah. I would say being born in the UK. So I was born in England. And I moved here in 2000. And so I've, that's why the British excellent. When you're in middle school and you have a different voice and everybody else doesn't go well. And so, in any attempt to be cool, I started saying what's up man and hey everybody, before it I'm sounding American.

[00:03:05] Angela Alberty: [00:03:05] Yeah, absolutely. Okay. So this one's pretty interesting. What's the worst job you've ever had.

[00:03:12] Joel Lalgee: [00:03:12] Yeah, that's a great question.

[00:03:13] Angela Alberty: [00:03:13] You could, that's right. So something maybe…

[00:03:19] Joel Lalgee: [00:03:19] In a call center, for about six months and I was working for one of the big, well, I was working at an agency that represented one of the big banks and I would literally call people and say, hi, it's Joel, I'm representing so-and-so bank. Do you have a couple of minutes to chat about your recent experience and I'd run them through a script. And, I did that and I actually was good at it, but it was. You can imagine. I mean, it's yeah. You're cold calling people for reasons that they don't even care about. So it was, it was tough.

[00:03:54] Angela Alberty: [00:03:54] I can see how that may be set the foundation for a recruiter Joel, because that's