The Talent Tango

Reputation is everything in the hiring process. In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re talking about the knock-on effect that happens when a candidate only puts half their energy into a coding challenge. Don’t burn your bridges before they’re even built! The Daily 10 comes to you everyday giving you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life. Listen and subscribe: https://amirb.me/thetalenttango Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirbormand?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theamirbormand/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theamirbormand/ Web: https://www.amirbormand.com   - Arash -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arashbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArashBormand Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arashbormand/

If you post or send something online, there’s every chance that people will see it, share it or screenshot it. Once it’s out there, it’s there forever. In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re sharing the details of a seriously unprofessional email that Arash was sent recently. What would you do if this happened to you? We want to hear! The Daily 10 comes to you everyday giving you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life. Listen and subscribe: https://amirb.me/thetalenttango Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirbormand?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theamirbormand/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theamirbormand/ Web: https://www.amirbormand.com   - Arash -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arashbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArashBormand Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arashbormand/

Our job is to deliver high quality candidates to our clients. Beyond that, everything is out of our control.  If a client decides to hire our candidate? Great, but it's not our choice.  If a candidate decides to leave that job a few months in? That's unfortunate, but again... not our choice! In this episode of the Daily 10, we're asking why recruiters are on the hook when hiring decisions go wrong. How fair are guarantee periods for recruiters? The Daily 10 comes to you everyday, giving you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life.  Listen and subscribe: https://amirb.me/thetalenttango   Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirbormand?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theamirbormand/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theamirbormand/ Web: https://www.amirbormand.com   - Arash -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arashbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArashBormand Insta

In this episode of The Talent Tango, I had the pleasure of speaking to Gem Garcia.  Gem is the Founder of Spectrum Talent Management Consulting. Spectrum is dedicated to providing "holistic consulting to early stage startups". This includes developing a unique brand identity and company culture to attract exactly the right talent for that business.  Gem's consulting process begins by asking the all-important question, "Who are you?", something she picked up in her twenty years of agency and in-house recruiting. You'll hear more about how Gem leverages this focus on branding and culture to develop ultra personalized talent acquisition strategies for her clients.  For Gem, building out teams aren't just about filling roles quickly. In this episode, you'll learn how Gem's talent acquisition strategies focus on creating "teams that become families." Listen in to hear more about how Gem uses this approach to give high-growth startups an edge against their Bay Area competitors. This includes focusing on selling a c

When do recruiters become ‘trusted advisors’ to their clients and candidates?  In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re talking about how every recruiter can go beyond the roles and responsibilities of their typical day-to-day and become consultants for the people they work for. It helps to establish trust and build long term relationships with candidates and clients alike. The Daily 10 comes to you everyday giving you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life. Listen and subscribe: https://amirb.me/thetalenttango Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirbormand?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theamirbormand/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theamirbormand/ Web: https://www.amirbormand.com   - Arash -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arashbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArashBormand Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arashbormand/  

What hurdles have you overcome? In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re talking about what risk-taking looks like in a career-setting. What training and support do you need to be successful? How do you get over the need for everything to be perfect? We’re ‘paid to be pros’ at our job. That added pressure might make it difficult to rip off the bandaid and try something new. But everyone has to start from somewhere, and sometimes taking that leap of faith might be the best decision you could ever make. We want to hear about the achievements you’ve made after taking risks! The Daily 10 comes to you everyday giving you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life. Listen and subscribe: https://amirb.me/thetalenttango Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirbormand?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theamirbormand/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theamirbormand/ Web: https://www.amirb

It’s a lot faster to text someone back than it is to respond to their emails or voicemails… especially if that someone is a recruiter!  In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re talking about the benefits of leveraging text messages to reach candidates quickly. People are glued to their phones. So when a text comes in, there’s a pretty good chance that it’ll flash across your candidate’s screen while they’re looking at it. The Daily 10 comes to you everyday giving you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life. Listen and subscribe: https://amirb.me/thetalenttango   Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirbormand?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theamirbormand/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theamirbormand/ Web: https://www.amirbormand.com   - Arash -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arashbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArashBormand Instagram: https://www.instagram

So you find the perfect candidate, their background is impressive, their skills are great… but they get rejected because they don’t show enough passion for the company.  In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re talking about why business founders need to understand that employees aren’t going to bring the same level of enthusiasm to their business are they do. They haven’t put the same amount of blood, sweat and tears into this business as the founders have, and that’s to be expected! Passion for an industry is great, but passion for a company only really develops on the job, not during the interview process!  The Daily 10 comes to you every day giving you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life. Listen and subscribe: https://amirb.me/thetalenttango Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirbormand?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theamirbormand/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.c

Do you know how well your job portal is doing? Who is looking at the traffic analytics to determine that?  In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re asking how effective career portals are for companies who could be producing other, more useful content for job seekers instead. Candidates are trying to understand what they are going to be doing and who they will be working with. Companies are spending massive budgets on a career portal that gives candidates an incomplete picture. The Daily 10 comes to you every day giving you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life. Listen and subscribe: https://amirb.me/thetalenttango Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirbormand?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theamirbormand/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theamirbormand/ Web: https://www.amirbormand.com - Arash -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arashbormand/ Twitter: https://twi

Everyone loves going on PTO. Heck who doesn’t! But what about the work and people that aren’t taking time off that have to pick up the slack. In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re talking about what happens when someone is out of the office and the rest of the team has to show up. You have to have processes in place to make sure there is a clean handoff and continuity when the person returns. Amir and Arash Bormand are the Co-Founders of Elevano, a California-based recruitment agency that does things differently. From managing client and candidate relationships to improving your productivity and time management, the Daily 10 gives you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life.  Subscribe to the podcast: https://amirb.me/thetalenttango Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirbormand?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theamirbormand/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theamirborm

Feedback. Feedback. Feedback. Sure you need to set up the interview. But what happens after that is absolutely key...for the current and future candidates you work with. In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re talking about gauging candidate interest and making sure you are following up. A core part of our job is to constantly find out more information and gain depth in terms of what our candidates and hiring managers want. With more information, we can help guide the process and provide push back to the hiring team if necessary. Amir and Arash Bormand are the Co-Founders of Elevano, a California-based recruitment agency that does things differently. From managing client and candidate relationships to improving your productivity and time management, the Daily 10 gives you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life.  Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirbormand?lang=en Facebook: https://w

As recruiters, we won’t actually do any of the jobs we recruit for - aside from recruiter roles :) But it is part of our job in ramping up to understand as much as we can about the roles we work on. In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re talking about how as recruiters we can go about ramping up their knowledge to become even more dangerous in their recruiting game. This can be from shadowing subject matter experts to hitting Google really hard. Amir and Arash Bormand are the Co-Founders of Elevano, a California-based recruitment agency that does things differently. From managing client and candidate relationships to improving your productivity and time management, the Daily 10 gives you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life.  Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirbormand?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theamirbormand/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theamirbormand/

Who doesn’t love to snack! Every office that puts snacks out has to go through a process of figuring out what to put out. Simple right. Nope In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re talking about how something like snacks requires thought and due diligence to figure out what to offer. You certainly want to be aware of people with dietary restrictions and you want to put out a balance of snacks that people will enjoy. Someone has to figure that out. And depending on the size of your organization this gets more complex. Amir and Arash Bormand are the Co-Founders of Elevano, a California-based recruitment agency that does things differently. From managing client and candidate relationships to improving your productivity and time management, the Daily 10 gives you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life.  Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirbormand?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.c

Candidate experience is a hot topic.  In every facet of your life, you are always looking at experience. So it would imply that the interview process will be evaluated the same. You will remember the positive or negative experience and emotions above all else. In this episode of the Daily 10, we will be talking about how a candidate had such an offputting experience with one interviewer that she no longer was considering the opportunity. And the hard part about this is that the interviewer is in HR. Amir and Arash Bormand are the Co-Founders of Elevano, a California-based recruitment agency that does things differently. From managing client and candidate relationships to improving your productivity and time management, the Daily 10 gives you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life.  Listen and subscribe to the podcast: https://amirb.me/thetalenttango Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/

In this episode of The Talent Tango, we’re speaking to Amanda Gerhardt-King.  Amanda is the Director of Talent Acquisition at CB Insights, an intelligence platform that analyzes millions of data points on venture capital, startups, patents, partnerships and news mentions to forecast technology trends. Since joining their Talent Acquisition team, Amanda has seen CB Insights scale from 60 to 250 employees. Anticipating to add about 70 new people to the company before the end of 2019, she leverages unique communication and organization strategies to get the job done. Amanda is a seasoned talent acquisition specialist with a background in both agency and in-house experience. In her current position, she manages a team of eight dedicated to hiring candidates who are ‘Happy, Helpful, Humble and Hungry’. These “Four H’s” aren’t just the hiring criteria: they’re also at the core of CB Insights itself.  In this episode, Amanda shares how she incorporates company culture into the hiring process, including her process f

What happens when your candidate starts ghosting you? We’re recruiters. We’re not strangers to candidates ignoring our emails, texts or phone calls.  But when that candidate has already accepted our client’s job offer and starts dodging us, that’s when we have an issue.  In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re telling the story of one candidate we had who never returned from their overseas vacation after accepting a role with our client. What stops candidates from sending a quick text or email to close the loop? What about the ‘ripple effect’ that happens when clients are left their time, money and resources wasted? Spoiler alert - the next day we recorded the candidate rescinded their acceptance ;) Amir and Arash Bormand are the Co-Founders of Elevano, a California-based recruitment agency that does things differently. From managing client and candidate relationships to improving your productivity and time management, the Daily 10 gives you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life.  Connect with Amir and

Upgrading your software applications is like getting a shiny new toy… only there’s more of an adjustment period.  It’s like moving houses: you pack up all your files and folders and bring them over to a new system. But then you’re left wondering how you’re going to organize it all.  In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re talking about the challenging ‘in-between’ period where you’re tying up loose ends on your old software while starting projects on your new one, and all the other short-term chaos you deal with while adjusting.  Made a vendor change recently? We want to hear how it’s going for your team! Amir and Arash Bormand are the Co-Founders of Elevano, a California-based recruitment agency that does things differently. From managing client and candidate relationships to improving your productivity and time management, the Daily 10 gives you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life.  Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amir

In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re talking about how we’ve ditched the dreaded ‘Monday morning meeting’ into a more streamlined process that borrows from project management methodologies.  How much do people really accomplish in one hour, sit-down meetings? Whether it’s daily standups, one-on-one or group meetings, share what’s working for your team with us!  Amir and Arash Bormand are the Co-Founders of Elevano, a California-based recruitment agency that does things differently. From managing client and candidate relationships to improving your productivity and time management, the Daily 10 gives you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life.  Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirbormand?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theamirbormand/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theamirbormand/ Web: https://www.amirbormand.com - Arash -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ar

In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re talking about what happens when clients go dark after an interview round. It’s not just a communication issue between candidate and client. It puts the client’s reputation on the line, too. So, what needs to change?  In this episode, we tackle this all-important question by discussing how ‘closing the loop’ with candidates lets clients stay in control of the narrative.  Remember, candidates are modern-day consumers. If they’re not happy with their experience, they’ll take to social media and let people know about it. And no company likes a scathing Glassdoor review! Amir and Arash Bormand are the Co-Founders of Elevano, a California-based recruitment agency that does things differently. From managing client and candidate relationships to improving your productivity and time management, the Daily 10 gives you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life.  Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amir

What does productivity look to keep organized? How about those who keep their files in an 'organized mess'?   In this episode of the Daily 10, we’re sharing two different perspectives on productivity and time management.  We might organize our workdays differently, but if there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that it doesn’t matter how you manage your time. As long as you’re keeping yourself accountable.  Whether it’s starting a written to-do list, emailing notes to yourself or just remembering to keep a mental checklist: productivity is something we can all improve on.  Amir and Arash Bormand are the Co-Founders of Elevano, a California-based recruitment agency that does things differently. From managing client and candidate relationships to improving your productivity and time management, the Daily 10 gives you an insight into the day-to-day of agency life.  Connect with Amir and Arash, and join the #Daily10 conversation: - Amir -  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand/ Twitter: https://tw