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The Modern Recruiter
by Robin Choy
Learn from the best recruiting leaders. themodernrecruiter.substack.com
Episodes
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The Modern Recruiter #78: Building a Recruiting Brand Through Content, Benjamin Mena, Managing Partner @ Select Source Solutions
Hey everyone, This week on The Modern Recruiter, I had a great conversation with Benjamin Mena, host of The Elite Recruiter Podcast and Managing Partner at Select Source Solutions. Benjamin then interviewed me on his own podcast - give it a listen here. It was fun to do a crossover episode - and…
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The Modern Recruiter #77: Selling your recruiting company to Elon Musk, Chris Bakke, Founder at Laskie
Hey everyone, This week on The Modern Recruiter, I had an amazing in-person conversation with Chris Bakke about his journey building and selling two successful recruiting companies - including one that was acquired by Elon Musk's Twitter/X! Chris shared some of his insights on: * Building a...
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The Modern Recruiter #76: Startup Hiring 101, Steve Bartel, CEO @ Gem
Hey everybody! This week on The Modern Recruiter, I had a fantastic chat with Steve Bartel, founder of Gem, about a topic close to my heart: recruiting strategies for early-stage startups. Steve and I go a long way: We both started companies in the Recruiting space around the same time, we both...
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The Modern Recruiter #75: From Professional Soccer to Recruiting, Jared Watts, Director of Talent @ Vantaca
Hello everyone, In this episode of The Modern Recruiter, I had a great conversation with Jared Watts, a former professional soccer player turned recruiter. I’m always a big fan of mixing different fields, so I was excited to learn how the skills and mindset from professional sport (in this case...
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The Modern Recruiter #74: Mastering LinkedIn for Recruiters, Clark Willcox, Founder @ The Digital Recruiter
Hello everyone, In this episode of The Modern Recruiter, I had a fantastic conversation with Clark Willcox, founder of The Digital Recruiter and host of the podcast with the same name. We dived into how to leverage LinkedIn effectively as a recruiter, offering insights valuable for both corporate...
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The Modern Recruiter #73: Building and Selling a $28 Million Recruiting Agency, Diane Prince, Founder @ Recruiting Agency 360
Good morning everybody! This week, we dropped an absolute masterclass on building a highly valuable recruiting/staffing agency to potentially sell for 8-figures. My guest was Diane Prince, who achieved that very goal by founding, growing, and exiting a company for $28 million! (several times...
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The Modern Recruiter #72: What's Really Happening in Hiring in 2024, Josh Brenner, CEO @Hired.com"
Hey everyone, With the job market changing so rapidly over the past few years, I try to keep up. That means lots of chats with folks from various sectors. One person I've been talking with is Josh, the CEO at Hired.com. Josh has access to tons of proprietary data because Hired has been at it for…
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The Modern Recruiter #71: Nail your Job Search in 2024: Tips & Strategies from a Recruiting Pro, Melissa Grabiner
Hey everyone! Just wrapped up an amazing chat with Melissa Grabiner about something we all care about: how to get a better job. We talked about strategies to implement during the job search of course, but also before. We hope this will help some of you as listeners, but also your friends, family....
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The Modern Recruiter #70: A Pricing & Value Masterclass for Recruiters, Jon Brooks, Founder @ The Value Advantage
Hey everybody! In a special episode that I've been teasing for a bit, Jon and I unpack the art and science of pricing for agencies and recruiters. Even if you're not from an agency, you'll want to hear this. We cover how to show your worth, focus on what really matters, and get recognized by your...
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The Modern Recruiter #69: The recruiting agency recipe to hit 70K€ revenue per month with 70% recurring revenue in 18 months, Samuli Salonen, CEO @ TalentBee
Hey everybody! Robin here, and I'm back with another episode of The Modern Recruiter, diving deep into my latest obsession: the inner workings of recruitment agencies. This week, I had an awesome chat with Samuli, the brains behind TalentBee, a Europe-based, fully distributed recruiting agency...
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The Modern Recruiter #68: Founding a recruiting collective from scratch, Bryan Lee, founder @ Narwhal Search.
Hey there Modern Recruiters! I’m back episode of The Modern Recruiter. Same as with Chris (from last week - listen to it now if you haven't already!), I connected with Bryan after my LinkedIn post to ask for guests recommendations. I was looking for agency recruiters/founders willing to go all-in...
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The Modern Recruiter #67: A deep dive into agency metrics, Chris Relth, Founder & CEO @ Artemis.
Happy 2024, everyone! Time's flown by since we launched this newsletter in January 2023, and now we're nearing 800 subscribers – huge thanks for that! It's been a ride, and I can't wait to see where we go this year! I'm also getting more direct email replies to these newsletters with your topic...
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The Modern Recruiter #66: How to use emotion to increase your reply rates, Sandra Feldmann, TA Campaign Manager
We recorded this episode live in person, right after Sandra Feldmann rocked the stage at the Sourcing Summit. The energy of doing it in person was - as usual - incredible, and Sandra was totally in her element – you’ll feel like you’re in the room in Amsterdam with us! Sandra is big about…
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The Modern Recruiter #65: How to build a best-in-class interview process by coaching interviewers, Aaron Edwards, Senior Recruiter @ Orbis.
Great news! Substack now has a “Transcription” feature - which means you can read the transcript of our conversation with Aaron. If you are as impatient as I am, you will love it! A lot of you noticed (and complained!) that I haven't released an episode for almost 2 months now. That's awesome…
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The Modern Recruiter #64: Predicting the future of recruiting, Matt Alder.
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The Modern Recruiter #63: A masterclass to improve your candidates closing rates, Jose Guardado, Partner @Riviera Partner.
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The Modern Recruiter #62: Productivity hacks for recruiters. Jonathan Kidder, Senior Recruiter @Amazon.
Hello everyone! I'm Robin Choy, CEO of HireSweet (a recruiting CRM that helps Talent Acquisition automate their outreach and nurture past candidates). Each week, I address various recruiting issues, such as recruiting outreach, interviewing, employer branding, and career management. My goal is to...
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The Modern Recruiter #61: How to become a fractional recruiter, Natalie Stones.
Hello everyone, and welcome to this podcast episode! I'm Robin Choy, CEO of HireSweet (a Recruiting CRM that helps Talent Acquisition automate their outreach and nurture past candidates). Each week, I address various recruiting issues, such as recruiting outreach, interviewing, employer branding,...
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The Modern Recruiter #60: Become a robot-proof recruiter, Katrina Collier.
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The Modern Recruiter #59: ChatGPT in recruiting: dos and don'ts, Jan Tegze.
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The Modern Recruiter #58: ChatGPT applied to sourcing, Vanessa Raath.
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The Modern Recruiter #57: How to find a job in Talent Acquisition in 2023, Paul Church, co-founder @Amino Group.
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The Modern Recruiter #56: Concrete use cases for ChatGPT in recruiting, Mike Wolford.
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The Modern Recruiter #55: Use your ATS to its full potential, Austin Nelson.
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The Modern Recruiter #54: Recession-proof your team and yourself as a recruiter, Lindsay Hildebrandt.
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The Modern Recruiter #53: Building your personal brand and your network as a recruiter, Camille Tate, Head of TA @Strava.
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The Modern Recruiter #52: How ChatGPT and generative AI will disrupt recruitment, Hung Lee.
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The Modern Recruiter #51: How to recruit your GTM team, Chuck Brotman.
Hello everyone, and welcome to this podcast episode! I'm Robin Choy, CEO of HireSweet. Each week, I address various recruiting issues such as recruiting outreach, interviewing, employer branding, and career management. My goal is to provide helpful insights to anyone interested in recruitment,...
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The Modern Recruiter #50: Introduction to Recruiting Operations, Luke Eaton.
Hi everyone, and welcome to this podcast episode! I'm Robin Choy, CEO of HireSweet. Each week, I humbly tackle recruiting issues about recruiting outreach, interviewing, employer branding, career management, and anything else that could be helpful to you as an aspirational recruiter (whether you...
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The Modern Recruiter #49: Apply Social Selling to recruitment, Joel Lalgee.
Hi everyone, and welcome to this podcast episode! I'm Robin Choy, CEO of HireSweet. Each week, I humbly tackle recruiting issues about recruiting outreach, interviewing, employer branding, career management, and anything else that could be helpful to you as an aspirational recruiter (whether you...
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The Modern Recruiter #48: Making the Business Case for Recruiting at the Executive Level. Greg Troxell Recruiting Leader @Wheel
Hi everyone, and welcome to this podcast episode! I'm Robin Choy, CEO of HireSweet. Each week, I humbly tackle recruiting issues about recruiting outreach, interviewing, employer branding, career management, and anything else that could be helpful to you as an aspirational recruiter (whether you...
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The Modern Recruiter #47: The zero-cost strategy to build a killer employer brand. Bonnie Dilber, Recruiting Leader @Zapier.
Hi everyone, and welcome to this podcast episode! I'm Robin Choy, CEO of HireSweet. Each week, I humbly tackle recruiting issues about recruiting outreach, interviewing, employer branding, career management, and anything else that could be helpful to you as an aspirational recruiter (whether you...
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The Modern Recruiter #46: Make recruiting teams more strategic by changing the KPIs. Taylor Roa, Director of Talent @Wistia.
Subscribe here: 👉 Apple. 👉 Spotify. 👉 Deezer. About this episode : Why are many recruiters trapped into hiring as many people, as fast as possible, again and again? Maybe because KPIs are wrong. Everybody uses the same (us included) and I actually never really challenged this. It makes a lot…
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The Modern Recruiter #45: You should build a recruiting culture early on. Matt Stephenson, Operating Partner @ Human Capital
Building a culture of recruiting early on in your company is critical. Miss that step and everything will get harder as the company grow: -harder to hire top performers. -harder to reach your targets. -harder to... simply grow. Matt is an Operation Partner at Human Capital, a VC firm based in SF,...
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The Modern Recruiter #44: Content creation in recruiting: the definitive framework. Matěj Matolín, employer Branding Strategist @HustáKomunikejšn.
I often see recruiters addressing recruiting content like this: -a video by there -occasionally an article -possibly a LinkedIn post. All a bit random (and me the first!). Why? Because we were never given a simple, clear and efficient framework to know which type of content to do, and how to...
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The Modern Recruiter #43: Search is dead. Or is it? Balazs Paroczay, CEO @The Source Code Agency.
Everybody talks about search in sourcing: Booleans, X-Rays etc. But finding candidates is not as valuable as 10 years ago. Because now almost everybody is on LinkedIn. The real valuable expertise? Getting people to reply: copywriting, personalization. That’s what I believe at least. The thing is…...
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The Modern Recruiter #42: Building the Financial Time’s tech employer brand. Christine Ng, Head of Talent and Media @Quantum Motion.
Christine had a very interesting challenged: engineer the Financial Times’s tech employer brand. Of course the FT is famous around the globe for its business publication - but when Christine started working on it, the employer brand on engineering & tech roles was close to 0. The way she improved...
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The Modern Recruiter #41: Personalization at scale in recruiting. Jonas Waloschek, Senior Technical Recruiter @MANTA, ex @McKinsey.
« Recruiters should personalize their messages to candidates to increase their reply rates.” Ok. But what if we can’t personalize because we have to send messages to hundreds of candidates? In that case, you’ll need a more advanced technique: making your messages stand out. Writing messages that...
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The Modern Recruiter #40: How to be a coach to your recruiting team. Chris Ahsing, Head of Support Recruiting @Plaid.
Yelling at your recruiting team “be better” will never make them better. Having a right-minded coach above them, will. I’ve been wanting to do an episode on this topic for a while: how to coach your recruiting team well, to make them outperform. So I decided to bring Chris Ahsing on the podcast....
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The Modern Recruiter #39: How to win candidates in a competitive market, with Troy Sultan, CEO @ Guide
The baseline experience for candidates is terrible - most companies don't really prioritize improving it. That's a blessing for companies who do, because a very small investment into candidate experience can turn into a strong competitive advantage! Troy has been in the war for talent for years...
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The Modern Recruiter #38: How to create a structured interview process, with Adam Redlich, VP Talent Acquisition @Octane
“In recruiting, trust your gut”. B******t. Any recruiter worth his salt knows that it’s the best way to fall into every possible bias. Doing structured interviews is actually the ONLY way to recruit accurately. Now the question is how to do it. Good news for you: I invited Adam Redlich, one of…
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The Modern Recruiter #37: How to build a thriving & strategic sourcing team, with Garrett Lewis, tech sourcing lead at Grammarly.
Too many companies believe sourcing is an entry-level job. This is the worst way to look at a very critical function. Sourcing is NOT an entry-level job for recruiters! And Garrett is as convinced as I am. Garrett joined Google when the company had 35,000 employees and left the company 7 years...
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The Modern Recruiter #36: DE&I strategies for companies below 200 people, with Claudia Colvin, People & Talent @ HappyScribe.
In that episode, we decided to address the specific challenge of DE&I in companies below 200 people. Step by step, the challenge increases. Here's Claudia advice for companies at every step (0-20 people, up to 100 people, 100-200). Claudia actually wrote an entire outline of this discussion, with...
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The Modern Recruiter #35: How to reach 10% of hires coming from nurtured candidates, with Lance Sapera, VP Talent Acquisition @ Talend.
I’m convinced that nurturing your past candidates to finally hire them is a powerful strategy. And Lance Sapera is as convinced as I am. He is so much in favor of past candidate nurturing, that his team made 48 nurtured hires the last year at @Talend. Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:...
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The Modern Recruiter #34: Improve conversion rates and candidates experience with a thorough preparation & debrief process, with Larry Anderson, Senior Recruiter @ connectRN.
In this episode, I welcome Larry Anderson, Senior Recruiter at connect RN. Larry reveals to me how to greatly improve your conversion rate and candidate satisfaction as a recruiter, by organizing preparation calls and debriefing calls with candidates. Here’s what we talked about: 1/ Why…
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The Modern Recruiter #33: How to run a great discovery process with the hiring manager AND the candidate, with James Donovan, Talent Acquisition @ Rokt.
Discovery is key in the recruiting process. A good discovery will save so much time later during the recruiting process, help you increase your closing rate and internal satisfaction. Discovery is two-fold: Job discovery (aka the intake meeting) and candidate discovery. In this episode, James...
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The Modern Recruiter #32: How to retain your employee thanks to strong, unique and no b******t company values, with Mike “Batman” Cohen, CEO @Wayne Tech.
In this episode, we talk with Mike Cohen, CEO at Wayne Tech, about employee retention. And you’ll see that Mike is brutally honest. Mike talks a lot about it’s own company culture, and why he thinks that strong, unique, and no-b******t values are the key to employee retention. Here are some of…
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The Modern Recruiter #31: How to create intrinsic motivation & purpose in Talent Acquisition teams, with Mawulom Nenonene, Senior Talent and HR Advisor @Point.
Talent acquisition is hard: you get overwhelmed with tons of notifications, open hundreds of Chrome tabs, send dozen of outreach messages. And sometimes get no reply at the end of the day. That candidate who was sure a sure hire suddenly declines the job offer. You lose purpose. A purpose and...
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The Modern Recruiter #30: How to build an employee referral program, with Nasser Oudjidane, CEO @ Intrro.
I get questions about employee referral programs all the time: -What’s a good target for our referral program? 15% of hires? 25%? 35%? 55%? -What should be the reward? If it’s money, how much? -How can I communicate with my team efficiently? So here's a podcast to finally answer those questions!...
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The Modern Recruiter #29: How to be the first recruiter in a startup, with Shannon Toomey, Senior Manager, Recruiting @Descript.
For episode 6 of my podcast “A-players”, I received Shannon Toomey, who explained to me how to be a good first recruiter in a startup. Shannon was a Senior Tech Recruiter at Dropbox, and was also most recently the first recruiter at Descript, where she had to hire 50 people in 1 year. Here’s what...
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