In this episode of Hiring in All Cylinders, host Chris Abbas welcomes Jim Turbek, Head of Global Recruiting at Box, for a discussion on the journey to recruiting leadership. Jim shares his rich experience and insights on transitioning into people leadership. The conversation delves into the motivations behind wanting to lead, the importance of responsibility-centric versus reward-centric leadership, and the significance of introspection for aspiring leaders. You will gain invaluable advice on building trust of your team, the pivotal role of reliability and credibility, and the strategic importance of operational rigor. This episode is a treasure trove for anyone considering a move into leadership or aiming to enhance their leadership skills, offering practical tips and motivational guidance for navigating the complex journey of becoming an effective leader.

From setbacks to success: Remaining motivated and confident after redundancy and rejections

In this webinar we will cover practical strategies to deal with redundancy and the search for a new job so you can get your career back on track, faster.

After this session, you will come away with an understanding of:

- Ways to rebuild your confidence after redundancy

- Strategies to get your career back on track, faster

- Using your recruiter superpowers: creative ways to turbo charge your job search

More about the speaker: Jon is a certified Career & Leadership coach with 15+ years' experience recruiting in the tech and banking space, most recently at JP Morgan. He is passionate about helping you be at your best on your career journey.

Leading TA for the first time: How to drive the car while building it!

What you will get from this session:

- Learn from those who have 'been there, done that'

- Inspiration for how to deal with common challenges when leading a TA function for the first time

- A deeper understanding of how other TA leaders have dealt with being thrown in the deep end and advice along the way

Speakers:

Kevin Kwoka, Director Talent Acquisition, GRIN

Kevin Kwoka is a Sacramento, CA native with 10 years of experience in recruiting and organizational development. He has a passion for building high performing teams centered around a strong alignment to core values and a shared vision. Kevin, like most recruiters, fell into recruiting because of his “always say ‘yes’” attitude and quickly found joy in combining sales with connecting with people. After three years of in-house and agency recruiting experience,

Kevin joined GRIN in 2019 as employee 20, taking over recruiting from the Founders and building the talent acquisition function from scratch. Following a $110m Series B fundraise in late 2021, GRIN jumped into hyper-growth mode and in 2022 Kevin lead a Talent Acquisition team of 9 to hire 225 external hires, reaching 470 employees in November 2022.

Kevin is a passionate Green Bay Packers fan and spends as much time as he can outdoors with his 2-year-old daughter and wife of 4 years.

Paddy Lambros, Talent Director, Atomico.

Paddy has spent the last eight years working with founders and start-ups solving all manner of people and talent challenges. These include finding exceptional people, international expansion, crafting company culture and building executive teams. He began his startup career with Improbable, helping to scale their engineering teams, first in London but then in San Francisco and Washington DC.

After that, he joined Sensat to lead the People and Talent functions, growing the team from 20 to 90 employees whilst the business more than tripled its revenues and customer base. Alongside this, he has supported a dozen or more Seed and Series A businesses across performance management, salary benchmarking, manager training and coaching leaders. Paddy is currently a Talent Director at Atomico where he works to build exceptional, diverse teams helping to solve meaningful world problems.

Collette Zaro, VP of People, Moxion Power

Collette has 15+ years of experience in HR and talent acquisition. She is the VP of People for Moxion Power, a rapidly growing climate tech manufacturer of all-electric mobile power units to replace diesel generators. Collette came from her recruiting consultancy, Bliss Talent, which specialises in supporting early-stage tech startups to develop a foundational HR and talent strategy to scale their teams. Before founding Bliss Talent, she was a Senior Director at Russell Tobin, where she spent eight years as a recruiting partner to many enterprise tech companies in the Bay Area and the US. Collette led high-volume staffing programs scaling her partners' full-time and contingent workforces and grew her delivery team from 2-40 people globally. She understands the multifaceted challenges of building a people team from the ground up while attracting, hiring, and retaining talent across the US, New Zealand, and India.

Have you ever questioned your own value, wondered when you'll get 'found out' or felt like an imposter? You are not alone.

On this webinar we are joined by Lauren Harrop, International Talent Acquisition Partner at D2L and Founder of The Recruitment Imposter Network.

Recruitment is Lauren's passion, but on the occasions that she cannot find that unicorn, she has felt an imposter mindset creep in. In this raw and vulnerable session, Lauren will give you insights into where her imposter came from, how she manages this (some days are better than others) and reassurance that you are not alone.

Lauren will also share her insights into speaking at RecFest and how that accelerated her imposter, yet tamed it at the same time.

What you will get from this session:

* Strategies and Ideas on how to manage your imposter syndrome

* An understanding on how a growth mindset can support you to be the best version of yourself, both at home and in work

* Lauren will share an invite to a network of TA specialists who feel (or have felt) imposter syndrome to help you know that you are not alone

More about the speaker:

After 14 years in recruitment it was time Lauren made her voice heard. She is a recruiter at heart but struggles immensely with imposter syndrome and the constant feeling of ‘not good enough’ or being found out that she is a 'fraud'. Lauren is currently a fully remote employee working for a Canadian Education Technology company and has felt the onset of imposter syndrome a struggle more than ever, but equally have found talking about it helps me to cope with it.

Lauren has spoken at RecFest 2023 about Imposter Syndrome and is the Founder of The Recruitment Imposter Network.

In this week’s jam-packed episode of Hiring on all Cylinders, Danielle Colanto, Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Yotpo, eCommerce marketing platform, sits down with Chris to delve deeper into the importance of soft skills for your recruitment career. The conversation covers the movement of employees from talent acquisition and recruitment into the tech industry, touching on Danielle’s personal experience of pivoting from fashion and retail into the world of tech. Danielle shares her advice, including the importance of identifying transferable skills and being curious to learn about the changing landscape of tech, as well as the power of leveraging your network. Considering a similar career move into tech? Then this episode is for you.

In times of great organizational transformation, storytelling can be a leader’s most powerful communication tool. In this episode, Jocelyn Lai, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Duolingo, joins Chris to talk about the power of storytelling in talent acquisition to spark action and inspire people to join a mission. Join us and listen to our podcast today.