In this episode, Laura talks to Cindy Alvarez, Director of UX for Powerpoint, about how to figure out what sort of hire you really need and write a job description targeted to the right folks. 

Drink pairing: Sparkling Rose

In this episode, Laura talks to Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Oxide, about a wildly different approach to recruiting and hiring. 

Drink Pairing: Diet Dr. Pepper

In this episode, Laura talks with Lisa Dusseault, CTO and Co-founder of Compaas about how to make sure you're making the right offer and paying people fairly for their work. 

Drink Pairing: California Chardonnay (properly chilled!) 

In this episode, Laura talks with James Mayes, Founder at Mind the Product and currently an Evangelist at Pendo about why recruiting in tech is so hard and why recruiting technology can make it even harder. 

Pendo is hiring! 

Drink Pairing: Pinot Noir

In this episode, Laura talks to Emmy Southworth, Principal Product Manager at Lendio about how she created an apprenticeship program to create new designers. 

Interested in working with Emmy? Lendio is hiring! 

Drink Pairing: Draft Diet Dr. Pepper

In this episode, Laura interviews Lawrence Humphry and Fallon Blossom, the co-founders of Pearl. They talk about finding tech folks from non-traditional backgrounds and creating a better hiring pipeline. 

Pearl is a brand new platform for peer based leadership consulting where you can get wisdom and guidance from people you trust. 

Drink Pairings: Berry Sparkling Water or an Old Fashioned, depending on time of day

(note from Laura: it's a big world. it's always happy hour somewhere)

In this episode, Laura interviews Sarah Milstein, VP of Engineering at Daily. They talk about how to position smaller companies to compete with the big corporations and be appealing even in a hot market. 

Drink Pairing: Lambrusco

In this episode, Laura talks with Tracy Kroop, the Director of User Experience at Boomi, about how hiring managers can forge a great relationship with recruiters and how the process is largely broken. 

Interested in working with Tracy? Boomi is hiring!  

Drink Pairing: Old Fashioned

In this episode, Laura interviews Jess Dale, a Senior Product Design Manager at an ecommerce company, about how to onboard new hires in a way that makes them feel like they weren't lied to during the recruiting process! 

Drink Pairing: Anything from the Athletic Brewing Company

In this episode, Laura talks with Sara Howes, SVP of Product at Diesel Laptops about building a new product team from scratch in a very subject matter heavy industry. 

Sara is hiring!

Drink pairing: Black coffee