In today's world, there's many excuses for people to give up. Pandemics, recession, inflation, and other personal issues causing continuous blockage in business operations. Companies are constantly struggling to find "elite" candidates for posions. Many people are scared to make moves due to fear from the unknown. There is never a wrong time and opportunities aren't always going to show themselves.

Based out of Toronto, Canada- Sadiar Ameri is a Managing director for Adecco, a staffing and recruiting agency based in Switzerland. Once the pandemic hit, Sadiar left his old company as a senior director at the "Robert Hall" legal practice group. Sadiar enjoys being able to help candidates find their niche with the company they deserve to be with. Sadiar is a man of many important roles. Aside from being a Managing Director, he serves as a Staffing Executive, transformation leader, and an expert in specialized search.

Suky Sodhi hosts Sadiar in today's segment as they both give their advice on frequent concerns that many people have about recruiting. Sadiar speaks about what standards you should have when looking into transferring into a different company, and what it takes to sharpen your skills. Sadiar clarifies the relationship between a candidate and a consultant.

What You'll Learn:

• Why you should keep a list of your candidates short/long term goals
• What you need to know before interviewing as a candidate
• What makes a candidate important
• How "recession" can impact your recruiting
• Why people are more attracted to the money aspect over their workplace environment
• How mentality of a consultant is important
• How retention is becoming a consistent problem
• When to recognize when communication should be improved
• What makes technology more of an advantage for contact and recruiting purposes
• Why you have to be a few steps forward, looking into who you are going to work for
• Sadiar explains what made him get into the global staffing industry
• The toughest challenge is finding talent

FAVORITE QUOTE:

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. "

• Sadiar Ameri

Connect with Sadiar:

Linkedin

Twitter

Adecco

Email

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader. Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:[email protected]

Elite Global Recruiters

In today's modern world, technology has made it easier than ever to communicate via text, email, phone call, DMs and everything short of carrier pigeon. But yet, we have a disconnect in the way we communicate. It has affected our businesses and personal lives.

Today's guest is Tracy Rocca, National VP of Talent World in Canada. She's a 28-year veteran of the Global Recruitment Industry.

Suky and Tracy dive right into today's episode talking about:

• Key Evolutions in Global Staffing
• Why Tracy believes we've changed more in the last 2 years compared to previous 30 years.
• Suky shares what recruitment was like when the "job boards" like Indeed first came out
• A candid discussion between Tracy and Suky as to why technology cannot truly and completely replace the human touch
• How text and email communication are causing humans to lose the art of communication
• A unique formula Suky used to determine if they were going to keep a recruiter on board after 90 days
• Tracy and Suky talk about the best way to hit sales goals is to pick up the phone and have a conversation
• The biggest challenges companies and candidates face as a result of the widening gap in communication

If you'd like to get a true perspective of where the industry is in real time, Suky features the very best guests and leaders in the Global Recruitment and Staffing Industries.

Connect With Tracy:

LinkedIn

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader, Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

[email protected]

Elite Global Recruiters

When it comes to the world of Global Recruitment, you'll find many people that have one thing in common……..they simply fell into this very unique world. Today's guest has served in the recruitment industry for over 22 years as a corporate recruiter, HR, agency recruiter, working in the United States, and abroad.

Katherine Eriksen is VP of Business Development and Global Recruiting for Energy Resourcing, LTD Canada. She cites her lengthy career as one of fortune and regards it with a great deal of gratitude. She recently transplanted from Calgary, Canada to Toronto.

Today's episode brings a breadth of experience, knowledge, wisdom, and insight that spans well beyond a 22-year career. Katherine dives heavily into the current nature of the industry being very remote, in this post-pandemic world. She cites missing the in-person collaborations on whiteboards, the social aspects as a team, and her desire to get back to some semblance of normalcy. Suky comes in hard with great questions in terms of what a company's responsibilities are when it comes to relocation, managing expectations of employees as it pertains to hybrid versus in-office mandates that often come up in negotiations. They discuss salary expectations and the realities of how companies are looking at the experience level of each candidate and matching them with an appropriate compensation structure.

What You'll Learn:

• How Covid has impacted the desirability to come to certain tourist locations
• Negotiating salaries, what it should and should not cover including benefits, and travel expenses
• Suky shares how she thinks companies should be paying for everything including moving expenses
• How many companies do not have a remote-working policy or relocation policy in place
• Why people are missing out on the huge opportunity of moving into the Recruitment industry
• The importance of active listening and why it's so critical to becoming a desirable candidate
• What a company should cover if they have remote workers and some of the discussions had around reimbursements of electricity, rent/mortgage, internet, and cell service
• Katherine talks about her concern about people's physical well-being while working from home
• Suky shares how she got rung by a client who was approached with the request of a salary, not in sync with the candidate's experience
• The high expectations people have around inflated salaries, mismatched entitlement, and the grand adjustments that have occurred as a result of Covid and current working environments
• Why it's important to look at the big picture and educate newbies to the industry by showing them the basics of what specific compensation standards are
• How to create a talent map to recruit new talent
• And much more!

Connect With Katherine:

LinkedIn

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader, Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

[email protected]

Elite Global Recruiters

It's a common theme in business that HR is always made the nemesis of the entrepreneur or high-level CEOs and executives charged with running small to medium-sized companies. But like everything in life and business, it's one's ability to take a different perspective that translates to streamlining processes, efficiencies, company morale, and ultimately profitability. You can choose to take an adversarial approach to HR or think of it in a more cooperative effort like today's guest.

Melissa Law is founder of Sunrise Coaching Canada. Her 25+ year career in HR Management and Developmental Coaching has transformed small to large companies in several different industries. She is trusted counsel for senior leaders who value talent as a critical resource for executing strategy and delivering on organizational goals.

Today, Suky and Melissa dive into the impact of the relationship HR can have on businesses of any size. They discuss learning, leadership, and company culture. Suky candidly shares that sometimes entrepreneurs are the "bottlenecks" while growing and scaling a company. Melissa shares how the integration of HR starts with the alignment of expectations. She highlights the perception that HR partners are analy retentive, uptight, very conservative, politically correct, and sometimes the crippling shades of black and white. Melissa compares herself to HR's crazy aunt who has come to change the ever-challenging relationship between HR and businesses and finding the truest path to permanent growth.

What You'll Learn:

• What HR is and what it is not.
• Why companies who have HR are not hitting their KPIs often blaming one department for the ineffectiveness of their organizational plan.
• The best time to bring in an HR partner for an industry, business, their leadership team, and employees
• Why changing the mindset of HR being an expense to an investment that will help the company and organization to grow
• The beliefs you have to identify in order to drop the self-judgment in order to move towards progress
• Why business strategies and talent strategies have to align and why it's important to manage the expectations up front.
• How to start the plan of integrating HR into your business as it continues on a trajectory of growth
• Why most CEOs and owners are not ready to check their egos at the door
• The multi-faceted factors to consider when hiring an HR partner in a post-pandemic world
• The disconnect between company leaders and Human Resources
• And much more!

Connect With Melissa:

LinkedIn

Sunrise Coaching, Canada

Email: [email protected]

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader, Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

[email protected]

Elite Global Recruiters

If you've been following the series of powerful CEOs who have come together to join Suky Sodhi on previous episodes of Talent Titans, you're going to love today's episode.

Suky has managed to corral a group of dynamic leaders in Global Recruitment for a specific discussion as they celebrate their accomplishments and contributions to the Women in the recruitment industry.

You'll hear from powerful female leaders and business influencers from companies like Drake International, Hayes US, Robertson Company, and more as they do a deep dive on everything related to the Global Recruitment Industry, including trends they've seen post-pandemic. They'll share insights into the mentality of the workforce who has realized the power of efficiency in working remote and the challenges staffing agencies have encountered in enticing their employees to come back to the office.

What You'll Learn:

• How each leader has been able to maintain a growth mindset during one of the most sluggish times in human history
• They talk about mental health challenges and PTSD associated with office environments in various industries
• How to come from a place of power and not fear
• Strategies for becoming powerful by simply executing a choice
• The meaning of true success
• One of the biggest reasons most people stay in the proverbial box they've designed their lives around
• Why it's important to be true to yourself at work and at home
• Onboarding experiences during the pandemic
• Why protecting culture in the workplace is a non-negotiable in today's business climate
• Why one company decided to host wellness workshops
• Micro-aggression, passive-aggressiveness and their effects in the workplace
• What happens when you focus on building a culture of training and learning to enhance the workforce
• And much more!

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader, Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

[email protected]

Elite Global Recruiters

Some of the hardest things we do in life are painful and they're also rewarding. As we "mature," our health, and how we feel can be more valuable than anything in the world. It affects how we move in our daily lives, the way we engage with our relationships, how effective we are in our work, and the impact of our business.

If you've been struggling with insecurity, poor body image, shyness, or struggling to find "your people" in this world, you're going to enjoy this episode.

Miranda Jiggins is the Founder of GOALs Fitness where she helps entrepreneurs dial in their health goals with a diet and exercise that help them increase their energy, optimize performance, improve their relationship with themselves and give them the confidence to live their best lives.

Today, Suky and Miranda jump right in and talk about small-town life, being raised by good parents, and Miranda's discovery of self-awareness. She references some challenges she had in 8th grade and how bouncing around from social group to social group left her feeling isolated and lonely. Miranda shares one process that changed the trajectory of her life.

What You'll Learn:

• One sport Miranda's brother introduced her to that she fell in love with
• How old Miranda was when she got her very first pair of gym shoes
• Who Matt Packer was to Miranda and why he's so important in her life
• The 3 common traits most people want from working out
• Strategies you can use to combat the negativity that comes from people close to you when you go on your fitness journey
• How Miranda decided to become a Body Builder
• Why Miranda worked every single day for 4.5 years before she took a day off
• The effects of things happening in one part of your life and how they're connected
• Suky shares a little about the situation at the time of her brother's passing
• The benefits that come from using fitness as a coping mechanism
• One question Suky asks about the perceptions of women becoming "too masculine" when pursuing fitness
• How Miranda manages her diet when she travels
• Why fitness is an investment in yourself for the future
• The boundaries that have to be set before you go on your fitness journey
• And much more!

Connect With Miranda:

Facebook

Goals Fitness

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader, Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

[email protected]

Elite Global Recruiters

At the end of July 2021, we hosted a live CEO panel of the top leaders in Global Recruitment. We had such a great turnout, we ran short on time for answering questions. At the time Suky made a commitment to invite each one of them back for a more intimate one on one discussing the future of 2022 in the Global Recruitment industry.

This is a replay of that hour and a half-long discussion with:

Bev White, The Harvey Nash Group

Janelle Bieler, Adecco-Canada

Craig Brown, Agilus Work Solutions

Mark Coetzee, Drake International

Travis Harouk, PLC

What You'll Learn:

The difference between what was taking place based around the Global Recruitment Industry back in July of 2021, the effects of the pandemic, the new processes around attracting, engaging, and negotiating with candidates, and clients.

Each CEO's approach as it pertained to keeping their current staff motivated and continuing to cultivate more impactful relationships with their clients, employees, existing, and prospective candidates.

In true fashion, Suky asks some pretty tough questions that are answered with brutal honesty based on long-standing experiences shared by each one of our Talent Titans on today's episode.

You'll leave with a better gauge and understanding of the contrasts that exist in today's world of global recruiting compared to the past and moving forward into the future.

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader, Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

[email protected]

Elite Global Recruiters

At the end of July 2021, we hosted a live CEO panel of the top leaders in Global Recruitment. We had such a great turnout, we ran short on time for answering questions. At the time Suky made a commitment to invite each one of them back for a more intimate one on one discussing the future of 2022 in the Global Recruitment industry.

This week's guest is a powerhouse of a President who has taken the reigns of Adecco Canada and dove headfirst right when the pandemic hit plunging into the essence of addressing the elephant in the room…….company culture and mental health.

On today's episode, Suky and Janelle dive into the reactive nature of everyone in the staffing industry when the pandemic hit. New lines had to be drawn to ensure that employees truly had the autonomy to take true time off. They talk about little adjustments that made huge impacts by empowering the team to focus on using technology to streamline processes and automate everything they could to make the new way of working easier. Janelle empowered her team to offer a crazy idea that just might work in a crazy world. Reinvention and purpose became the main focuses while battling "Zoom fatigue," and hitting KPIs in a new environment. Janelle talks candidly about how PTO is viewed and why it's important for people to truly have paid time off. Suky asks some pretty powerful, multi-layered questions anyone and everyone working in Executive Search has probably asked at one point or another as they make their way on the journey forward in this new age. This is a powerful recap and interview of one of Canada's leading Executive Search Presidents. Bring your notepad and pen!

What You'll Learn:

• The importance of defining boundaries with employees when they're on PTO or affectionately known as "Pretend Time Off"
• Why Executive Search is a non-stop process due to the nature of finding people an opportunity to work
• Strategies that were created during the pandemic that has changed the landscape of Corporate Recruitment with changing hours, rotational shifts, compensation structures
• How Janelle approached her new position in a new country with a new company as President
• The importance of using KPIs to your benefit and what to specifically analyze
• Empowering a team to offer a crazy idea that could work
• What happens when you encourage reinvention, purpose, and getting people excited about the impact they make with the work they do
• How many of Janelle's colleagues she met face to face when she took the position in Canada
• Why 89% of employees hit burnout around the 18-month mark during the pandemic
• Working hybrid, versus remote and the proposed model coming towards the end of the pandemic
• How mental health became a huge focus during the pandemic and how Janelle created some hard and fast practices that included a formal approach and rules for engagement
• Avoiding employees, colleagues, and executives from burning out
• Using Tech to streamline processes and automate systems to make work-life easier
• The power of shorter hours and more flexibility
• Proposed compensation models
• Creating management groups based around remote workers, hybrid workers, and in-office
• And much more!

Connect with Janelle:

LinkedIn

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader, Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

[email protected]

Elite Global Recruiters

At the end of July 2021, we hosted a live CEO panel of the top leaders in Global Recruitment. We had such a great turnout, we ran short on time for answering questions. At the time I made a commitment to invite each one of them back for a more intimate one on one discussing the future of 2022 in the Global Recruitment industry. This week's guest is Mark Coetzee, Drake International, with 25+ years at the executive/board level constantly achieving excellent returns for shareholders with a proven track record of formulating, advising & assisting in the execution of chosen strategy, resulting in high impact performance improvement, business transformation & company turnarounds in multicultural environments.

Suky and Mark jump right into this recap episode as they discuss the ever-changing cultures inside of large companies and the challenges that face them in a post-pandemic landscape in the world of Executive search. Mark shares specific details about his journey from childhood and the circumstances that shaped what would become motivating factors to make a concerted effort to change the outcome of his life. Raised in a small mining town, there weren't many options for Mark who came from meager beginnings. He moved every single year in high school until he finally graduated which took him straight into the military. Upon his return home, he was faced with getting a job or being homeless. A specific turn of events would build the foundation for Mark's professional career that has taken him to work with people on 5 different continents and he shares the countless experiences and lessons from his 25+ year career in Executive Management. Put the popcorn on and tune in for an entertaining and insightful episode.

What You'll Learn:

• Who truly put food on the table in Mark's home growing up
• Why he didn't go to University after high school
• The very first leadership lesson Mark learned at Emmanuels Staffing Services
• How to identify toxic leadership and how Mark responded when he encountered it
• Who the amazing Bill Pollock is and why he is special to the Global Executive Search
• Marks' nickname
• How to harness the power of your rebel leadership in an industry where's it's not encouraged
• Why it's important to analyze how the industry is doing when it comes to transitioning Jr. leaders into Senior Executive leaders
• The two categories and the definitions of each when looking at attrition
• How to learn to play the game and a few key points to help you to do so without being devious
• The power of listening and watching to see who is listening
• The number one quality Mark looks for when he's analyzing and assessing the make up of a company
• How Mark views people who work WITH him and not FOR him
• And much more!

Connect with Mark:

LinkedIn

Favorite Quote:

"No matter how big the business is that you've ran, or how high up you go in an organization, never forget the small people because you were one of those small people yourself. It's the fundamental of how you transform a business."

-Mark Coetzee

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader, Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

[email protected]

Elite Global Recruiters

Through the pandemic, many companies failed and imploded due to the dire restrictions of Covid while many companies survived due to the diligence and hard work of their leaders like today's guest Craig Brown, CEO of Agilus Work Solutions.

Agilus serves companies by sourcing talent for Engineering, Information Technology, and Professional and Light Industrial roles.

Craig Brown

He is a Father, Husband, CEO, Tennis player, weekend warrior and Sudoku enthusiast. Believer in Better Outcomes. Interested in the Future of Work, Leadership, Technology, Talent and Careers. Proud leader of #teamAgilus as we lead a connected, forward-thinking work community. A dynamic leader with over 25 years experience in building successful teams and delivering outstanding results.

Craig is an articulate communicator combining strategic and creative talent to link strategic vision with deliverable action plans. Bilingual (English/French) and has enjoyed living across Canada over the years and having worked and completed projects in Canada, the United States and Europe. Currently based in the Greater Toronto Area.

What You'll Learn:

Today, Suky and Craig have a candid discussion about the climate of the workforce and many of the challenges employers and recruiters are facing as they attempt to bridge the gap of difficulties with regards to employment and recruitment staffing.

Craig provides insights, solutions, and metrics to help you release the strangle-hold the pandemic has had on your company and that of your clients.

How to Connect with Craig:

LinkedIn

Agilus

Email: [email protected]

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader, Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

[email protected]

Elite Global Recruiters