In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with James Ellis, Principal at Chicago-based Employer Brand Labs. He’s an author, keynote speaker, practitioner, and podcaster with a wealth of experience across multiple industries for almost a decade. James wrote Talent Chooses You: Hire Better with Employer Branding. The book has been called “the Bible of employer branding”....

In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Andrew Flowers, a labor economist at Appcast, a global leader in recruitment advertising technology. In 2020, Andrew ran for State Representative of the 8th Norfolk District in Massachusetts. He narrowly lost the Democratic primary, winning 48.2% of the vote. Prior to running for office, he was an economist...

In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with John Boyd, Founder of Cirrus Group Consulting, a search firm specializing in providing top Cloud computing talent to companies who need those skills. According to Jim’s LinkedIn headline: “We provide the industry’s most ridiculously capable Cloud techies.” Listen in as Jim explains why it pays to home in...

Marcus speaks with Richard Cho, a Senior Recruiting Executive who has led Recruiting at companies such at Facebook, Dropbox , Chan Zuckerberg initiative and Robinhood and most recently Gem where he is an advisor. Up for discussion are the cornerstones of building an effective Talent Strategy and infrastructure to compete for talent in today’s markets.

Anil Dharni is the CEO and Founder of Sense, San Francisco, Calif. – the market leader in AI-driven talent engagement and communication solutions for enterprise recruiting. He recently commissioned a study, “An Inside Look: What Today’s Candidates Really Want” which polled over 1,000 U.S. based candidates who have applied for a job within the past...

Ann-Marie is the Founder and President of The West Source, an executive search firm that supports staffing agencies across the country, primarily in the IT & Professional Services space. She launched The West Source in March of 2020 after having spent 10 years as a founder and managing partner at Satori Source in a similar...

Marcus speaks with Steven Perchikov about outreach tactics and how automation – when executed correctly- can help you achieve some degree of scale, without necessarily sacrificing quality. Show notes to follow.

This week a solo podcast by Marcus on the subject of Business Development. With a slightly softer economy – it’s critical to stay focused on consistent BD – and Marcus offers some tips and tricks on what might work best in these tricky times.

Marcus speaks with James Parker about building and implementing a successful in-house talent strategy and some of the recruiting challenges he’s encountered in his 8+ years of experience as a Head of Talent. In the podcast, James shares his mindset around TA, which falls into 3 separate buckets: 1. Storytelling – the perception you are...

In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Maury Hanigan, CEO at SparcStart, an innovative recruiting platform which uses video, social media, and mobile capabilities to differentiate jobs and overall make recruiting much more productive. Maury is a recognized industry expert and has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Economist, ABC World News, amongst...

There might not be a better profession to prepare you for a career in Recruiting – than Teaching! This week, Marcus speaks with Aurora Kitko who spent 8 years as a teacher of English, Spanish and Mathematics, both in the USA and abroad. Listen to here describe the similarities, differences, wins and challenges as she...

In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Chris Ciulla, President of U.S. and Cross Border Operations at Comrise, a 450-person global recruiting company with expertise in many verticals, including information technology, finance, media, and legal, just to name a few. Chris has over 20 years in the business, with stints at big players like Ajilon,...