Now is a good time to be working for one of the big brand Recruiting and Services companies and Randstad is one of the biggest, with revenues of 23BN Euros worldwide.

This week’s guest on Recruiting Trailblazers is Joel Leege.

As EVP & Chief Strategy Officer, Joel leads Randstad Technologies’, Engineering and our Centralized Delivery business unit’s sales approach for account portfolio alignment, sales methodology, productivity/growth strategies and execution. Joel is the US lead for M&A and also is involved in joint strategic business initiatives, business concept design and innovation with other Randstad operating companies.

Joel explains his role in the $1.3Bn Tech and Eng. division – from Go-to-market strategy to operational M&A and partnership development across the firm.

Some of the questions on the table include:

What is the current state of the staffing market – since the Covid crisis began?
What has the impact been on direct hire markets and fees?
Where are you seeing growth? (biotech, healthcare and healthcare services)
Have there been many layoffs in the Direct hire business?
What’s been the impact on “culture” due to the big remote work experiment?
What’s happening in the world of Recruiting automation and AI?
How do you build sales/recruiting teams in an industry with such high turnover?
What does it take to be successful in the Recruiting business?
Is there an opportunity for in-house recruiters back in the Agency contract or services business?

Some of the highlights include:

Getting back into the office: “I just want to see someone else in person!”

The movie “BIG’ and how his role aligns with a particular scene in the movie.

The Randstad innovation fund – series A and B funding created for companies who disrupt the Talent space. Joel explains the fund and shares some data points.

Great quote: “Better to invest in companies that disrupt – than be disrupted”

Joel runs through the vision of a fully automated Recruiting workflow -using AI tools.

On the subject of Marcus says “You can’t automate relationship development”

Joel talks about being surrounded by people who really know the business inside out- and how he feels the need to be on his A game all the time.

Email: joel.leege@randstadusa.com 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelleege/ 

Twitter: @joelleege