How to hire great people fairly and objectively?
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?
15 Touko 202326min
Scaling M-files Engineering Team
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? Make sure the subscribe to the podcast & to learn more; check out the following links: TalentBee.io website for more ideas on SaaS Talent Acquisition My personal LinkedIn Profile to connect TalentBee’s LinkedIn Profile TalentBee’s Instagram (mostly stuff about working in a Talent Acquisition agency!)
8 Touko 202348min
What recruitment can steal from sales & marketing?
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 Make sure the subscribe to the podcast & to learn more; check out the following links: TalentBee.io website for more ideas on SaaS Talent Acquisition My personal LinkedIn Profile to connect TalentBee’s LinkedIn Profile TalentBee’s Instagram (mostly stuff about working in a Talent Acquisition agency!)
1 Touko 202337min
When and how to hire first People-role?
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? Make sure the subscribe to the podcast & to learn more; check out the following links: TalentBee.io website for more ideas on SaaS Talent Acquisition My personal LinkedIn Profile to connect TalentBee’s LinkedIn Profile TalentBee’s Instagram (mostly stuff about working in a Talent Acquisition agency!)
24 Huhti 202322min
Fiksuruoka's employer branding journey
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? Make sure the subscribe to the podcast & to learn more; check out the following links: TalentBee.io website for more ideas on SaaS Talent Acquisition My personal LinkedIn Profile to connect TalentBee’s LinkedIn Profile TalentBee’s Instagram (mostly stuff about working in a Talent Acquisition agency!)
16 Huhti 202332min
You should’t use a recruitment agency.
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? Make sure the subscribe to the podcast & to learn more; check out the following links: TalentBee.io website for more ideas on SaaS Talent Acquisition My personal LinkedIn Profile to connect TalentBee’s LinkedIn Profile TalentBee’s Instagram (mostly stuff about working in a Talent Acquisition agency!)
27 Maalis 202316min
Road to 200m$ acquisition from a talent acquisition point of view
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? Make sure the subscribe to the podcast & to learn more, check out the following links: TalentBee.io website for more ideas on SaaS Talent Acquisition My personal LinkedIn Profile to connect TalentBee’s LinkedIn Profile TalentBee’s Instagram (mostly stuff about working in a Talent Acquisition agency!)
20 Maalis 202335min
