Recruiting Stories

This week our guest is Ben Graeff. Ben is the Chief Operating Officer at FreightPlus. He's a Harvard Grad and played football for the Crimson and also spent years at Amazon on multiple teams before making his way to FreightPlus. We talk about his recruiting story impacted his journey, how Freightplus is differentiating itself in the marketplace, and the state of transportation right now.

Books Ben Recommends:

Ben's Linkedin

FreightPlus Website

This week our guest on the Recruiting Stories podcast is Mark Manera, founder of Supply Chain Fitness. We discuss Mark's recruiting story, and how he landed in the transportation industry, while also combining that with his passion for fitness and health.

Mark talks about how to be a healthier truck driver, sales person, leader and beyond. We also talk about the mindset you need to improve your fitness, which will change your life and work.

Books Mark Recommends:

Shoe Dog - By Phil Knight

Chop Wood, Carry Water - Joshua Medcalf

Get in Touch with Mark here:

Supply Chain Fitness Website

Mark's Linkedin Page

In this weeks episode we discuss helpful tips for improving your recruiting strategy and the difference between a recruiting strategy and a hiring process.

What are some things to consider on your recruiting strategy?
🎯Identify hiring triggers: How much money you need to cashflow before you can hire, then map what roles to hire in sequence.
🎯Create a #jobdescription that clearly explains the role, expectations and salary band and isn't a generic copy and paste job from the internet.
🎯Create performance #metrics (if you don't have them already) that tell a person exactly how to succeed in the role. ie. # of calls, sales, tickets, resolutions, shipments, etc.
🎯Identify the #traits a person needs to accomplish the #jobdescription and #metrics listed above.
🎯Find out where the #people with those #traits live and work.
🎯Ask who in our current company has the best ability to #recruit those people?
🎯Determine your #valueproposition, your #mission and your #why as an organization.
🎯Deploy your #talenthunters once you have got all stakeholders in a room, given them a job, and reinforced what talent, character, skills, knowledge, and values you are looking for.

The 4 disciplines of execution by Chris McChesny and Sean Covey

This week our guest is Nathan Magnuson, founder of Leadership-In-A-Box Corporate training. He's a leadership consultant, a veteran of the US Military and an author of multiple books. 

We discuss Nathan's recruiting story, what leaders should consider when recruiting, leading and building their teams. 

To get in touch with Nathan, connect with him on linkedin HERE. 

Buy a copy of his book "Ignite your leadership expertise"

Learn more about Leadership-In-a-box training for your team

The books he recommends are: 

Stand Out - by Nathan Magnuson

This week our guest is Esslie Davis, founder of STAC Solutions, LLC, an independent freight broker. We talk about her recruiting story, how she found freight, and how she decided to become an independent agent after her initial start in the industry working for a major LTL trucking company. We discuss the highs and lows of entrepreneurship and the advice she has for others in the industry, sales or who may be considering becoming an agent. 

STAC Solutions Linkedin Page

Two Books she recommends:

This week we talk to Justin Lu, Founder and CEO of Ezpapel. We discuss his journey of helping his father take his trucking company from $1m to $20m+ in 3 years and starting a logistics tech company, Ezpapel. We talk how his dad immigrated to the United States and how that impacted his recruiting story in to the logistics industry. We also discuss the state of the industry right now as well. 

The books Justin recommends are:

On this month's episode, we have John Calloway of Logex. John details his story of not knowing much about the industry, to how connecting with a few recruiters, including me, opened his eyes to the transportation industry. We talk about starting Logex and what leadership means to him. 

Book recommended by John: 

This week we give you my own recruiting story! My wife Sami Chapman joins and co-hosts as we dig in to my recruiting story and hers as well! We talk about how recruiting impacted each of our journey's and how Cover 3 came to be. We also talk about how career isn't our identity, but a tool that helps us accomplish a greater purpose.   

The books I recommend that have been impactful to me are: