#TalentBuzz

Chris Savage, Founder & CEO of Wistia, joined me to share his learnings from scaling Wistia and his learnings around Talent Acquisition. Here are the things we discuss in the episode:

🐝 Work with people you want to have a meal with

🐝 Leading by example is one of the most underrated ways to scale an organization while minimizing process

🐝 You can't buy a world-class team; you have to build it

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Building your tech team off-shore might save a lot of money & resources, and it also brings some challenges.

In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Faisal Amin, CTO of Upsy Shopping. We discuss how & why they have built their off-shore tech team.

Here are the things we will cover in this episode:

🚀Why Upsy decided to go with the off-shore team?

🚀How is the pricing compared to the Nordic markets?

🚀 Finding a great team?

🚀 Are team members on your payroll?

🚀 How to make sure transparency is there & you know what's going on?

🚀How to make sure there is an excellent culture fit?

🚀Is there challenges with languages if everyone doesn't speak English?

🚀 What does a hybrid team mean; time difference issues, cultural differences, communication ways?

🚀 How is managing a hybrid team different from entirely onsite?

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In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Linnea Bywall, Head of People of Alva Labs, about How to hire great people fairly and objectively?

Here are the things we will cover in this episode:

🚀 Typical challenges on hiring: why are companies not hiring this way already?

🚀 Why is it essential to have a fair & objective way of hiring?

🚀 Should the hiring be done against your expectation & needs or other candidates?

🚀 How to get started with the topic: E.g., standardized interviews, tests, etc.

🚀 Getting everyone at the company involved: hiring manager training & what to consider there?

🚀 Typical pitfalls when going through this change?

What it’s like to run 200 person engineering team in a fast-growing SaaS company?

In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Mika Turunen, SVP of Product & Engineering from M-files, about the following topics: 

🚀Being a change leader: Why did M-files hire Mika?

🚀What kind of product is Mika’s team building & how is the team structured? 

🚀Bringing in new team members: going from broader to specific roles.

🚀What are M-files' favorite strategies for finding new team members?

🚀Combination of selling M-files to candidates & validating the candidates?

🚀Mika’s cooperation with your recruitment team: what are they responsible for, and what is Mika responsible for?

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Recruitment = sales & marketing. 

If that’s true, it means that recruitment could steal a thing or two from sales & marketing.

In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Henri Nordström from Jobilla. We discuss what recruitment can steal from sales & marketing. 

Here are the things we will cover in this episode:

🚀Ideal-customer-profile = Ideal-candidate-profile

🚀Multi-channel outreach using various methods

🚀Selling your company for a candidate + How to make sure you don’t oversell

🚀When a candidate says no in the first outreach - Should you accept it, or can you turn it around?

🚀Conversion: application vs. lead generation

🚀Calling candidates vs. sending e-mails

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When and how to hire first People-role?

In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Hanna Kontinen from Brella. We discuss hiring your first people person:

🚀You joined Brella in 2020. Was there some people person before you?

🚀Why do companies need a people person, and what do those people typically do?

🚀Before bringing in the first person, who should own that stuff? Should you do everything internally / use partners?

🚀How do you know you should bring in a people person? Is there a rule of thumb?

🚀HR / People / Recruitment / EB? Who should you bring in first?

🚀How would you approach the recruitment of first people person?

🚀How CEO should they measure the success of their first people person?

🚀When it’s time to scale the people team?

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You can make hiring more efficient when investing in Employer Branding.

In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Tiina Hahtovirta from Fiksuruoka. We discuss Fiksuruoka’s Employer Branding journey. 

Here are the things we will cover in this episode:

🚀Why Fiksuruoka decided to start to invest in Employer Branding?

🚀How did Fiksuruoka start to work on Employer Branding internally? 

🚀When did they realize they needed an outside partner for Employer Branding?

🚀Partnering up with TalentBee: Was it hard to get internal buy-in from the management team?

🚀Building Employer Brand Strategy: What companies should keep in mind?

🚀Getting Fiksuruoka’s people to join Employer Branding content: Was it easy to get people excited?

🚀For people considering partnering up with TalentBee in Employer Branding: What would you say it’s like working with TalentBee?

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In this week's #TalentBuzz, I talk with Matthijs Welle, CEO at Mews.

I saw his LinkedIn post a few months back, and it said:

“This month 51 recruitment agencies (yes I counted) reached out to me to try to work with Mews. 🤯 Looking back, I wish I had brought recruitment in-house earlier and stop our reliance on external agencies.”

I decided to invite Matthijs to chat more about this topic at #TalentBuzz

Here are the things we discuss:

🐝  Why Matthijs wishes that he had brought recruitment in-house earlier and stopped their reliance on external agencies

🐝 When they hired their first recruitment person & why?

🐝 Raising big funding round ( 185m$ C-round - Should you use an agency to hire faster?

🐝 Opening up new markets - Should you use a local partner?

🐝 When do you think you could outsource the recruitment? Or should you?

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Road to 200m$ acquisition from a talent acquisition point of view with Patrick Campbell, Founder & CEO of ProfitWell

Here are the things we will cover in this episode:

🚀 Does Dad have his pool already?

🚀 Memory-lane: First hire of ProfitWell

🚀 Let’s talk about churn. Employee churn. Best tips on avoiding it.

🚀Having a great personal & company brand: When this started to help in hiring?

🚀The thing you succeeded well in the ProfitWell journey around Talent Acquisition

🚀The thing you fucked up well in the ProfitWell journey around Talent Acquisition

🚀Sharing the merger with Paddle: Sharing the news & would you do something differently? Did someone leave because of this? Could you have avoided it?

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Talent Acquisition at GetAccept / Learnings from Samir Smajic, Founder & CEO

GetAccept is a digital sales room SaaS that empowers revenue team to increase winrates by engaging & understanding buyers from opportunity to signed deal.

They’ve been growing rapidly, and since their launch in 2015, they have grown to 190 people and raised +28m$ in funding.

I had a chance to sit down with their Founder & CEO, Samir Smajic, to go through their journey from a talent acquisition perspective. Here are the things we cover in this episode:

🐝 The importance of the founding team

🐝 Hiring the first employees - Utilizing networks

🐝 Funding rounds: B-round 20m$ in 2020 & A-round 7m$ in 2019 - How hiring changes when raising capital?

🐝 Biggest fuck-ups around talent acquisition

🐝 Building a leadership team

🐝 How GetAccept utilizes internal promotions?

🐝 How do you first international hires?

🐝 When founder should step out from hiring? Is Samir still participating in hiring decisions?

This was one of my favorite episodes, with many valuable lessons.

Make sure the subscribe to the podcast & to learn more; check out the following links:

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