The Talent Tango

What’s the best way to onboard your employees? Pre-recorded training save you time and money. Employees can always refer back to them if they need to. But on the flip side, they might set the wrong tone about how you manage your team.  Sometimes, though, the cost of taking half a day to train employees live and in-person just doesn’t make sense. Is there a happy medium here?  Tune in to the latest episode of the Daily 10 to and tell us what you think. 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/theamirborm

In this episode of The Talent Tango, I had the pleasure of speaking to Natalie Ledbetter about diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Natalie has over 16 years of experience in People Operations with a strong focus in Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, and Employee Experience. Natalie’s passion for developing company culture through talent acquisition has seen teams scale by up to 750%.   In this episode, you’ll hear how Natalie’s upbringing in Southeast Asia gave her the adaptability she needed to navigate the fast-paced NYC startup ecosystem. The same upbringing taught Natalie important lessons about diversity of gender, religion, ethnicity, and orientation: all paving the way for a successful career dedicated to making people feel welcomed and included in the workplace. If you want to get in touch with Natalie, please reach out to him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-ledbetter/

In this episode of The Talent Tango, we’re speaking to Brandon Sligh.  Brandon is the Director of Recruiting at HOVER Inc. They’re a San Francisco-based tech company that leverages smartphone cameras to create accurate and measured 3D models of any home.  Brandon boasts over a decade of experience in talent acquisition. He got his start on the agency side before transitioning in-house to work for companies like Scribd, MongoDB, and Sift. With experience in both individual contributor and leadership roles, Brandon has seen success supporting the rapid growth of engineering, sales, marketing, and G&A organizations. Brandon’s story gives you an insight into what the transition from agency recruiting to in-house is really like: including how third-party recruiting taught Brandon the ‘foundations’ of the industry, and the lessons he took with him when he went internal. In this episode, you’ll also hear how Brandon is running recruiting at a booming startup, the challenges of recruiting other recruiters, and hi

Ep 4 with Leigha May - moving from side hustle to your own business “A candidate can forgive you for not getting the job, but they’ll never forget how you made them feel. So if we can keep that authentic connection throughout the recruiting process, that’s how people are going to leave a great impression of you, whether they got the job or not.” In this episode of the Talent Tango, we’re speaking to Leigha May. Leigha is a Los Angeles-based Certified Coach for life, spirit and career guidance. After spending an entire decade in the recruiting and HR space, Leigha launched her own practice in life and career coaching. Transitioning from her work at big-names like The Honest Company, Omaze, and SpaceX, Leigha is now focusing full-time on her coaching practice. She’s dedicated to supporting men and women to create the lives they crave! Want to learn how YOU can turn your side hustle into your 9 to 5? Throughout this podcast, you’ll hear how Leigha moved from in-house talent acquisition and HR to running her own,

Ep 3 with Brendan Orf (Manager of Talent Acquisition, Bullhorn) - global hiring with a distributed team Brendan Orf is the Manager of Talent Acquisition at Bullhorn, which is a leading cloud computing company that helps staffing and recruiting organizations transform their businesses. I loved my chat with Brendan. He has a fantastic enthusiasm for the industry, and you can tell he has a strong desire to succeed. He started his career off in the agency space before shifting into corporate roles. For the last two years, Brendan has been responsible for managing Bullhorn’s global talent acquisition team. He has nine distributed direct reports. His team is hiring across multiple time zones. We could have kept talking for hours, but we did cover some interesting topics in this conversation. Here are some of the highlights of this episode: The passion for impacting people’s lives Taking medical leave and coming back to meet a new report on his team Hiring across the United States, UK, and Australia - and how to li

Ep 2 - Brandon Randazzo - making Glassdoor work for you by getting your CEO behind it   In this episode of the Talent Tango, we’re speaking to Brandon Randazzo. Currently the Head of Recruiting at Invoice2go, Brandon oversees talent acquisition for both the company’s North America and Asia Pacific offices. In this podcast, you’ll hear how Brandon leverages over two decades of experience in the recruiting world to attract and keep the best technical talent in Silicon Valley. During this episode, you’ll learn how Brandon went from unexpectedly landing himself in the recruiting space, to how he helped one startup make 200 new hires in a quarter. You’ll hear more about his transition to internal recruiting from an agency, what it takes to recruit for overseas roles, and why the candidate experience is still everything in the talent acquisition game.   Join us to hear about the tips, tricks, and tactics Brandon’s learned along the way: Quality vs. Quantity: the biggest difference between agency and internal recru

Ep 1: Introduction to the Talent Tango Calling all hiring managers, recruiters, and staffing superstars! Join us in the first episode of The Talent Tango, where host Amir Bormand dives into everything talent acquisition. Amir is the Co-Founder of Elevano, a California-based recruiting company. He helps hundreds of people find more fulfilling jobs every year. In this episode, Amir shares how he is unique to the recruiting industry. As a former engineer himself, he could still jot out a few lines of code! He’s seen tech recruiting from both sides: during his engineering career, he constantly saw agency recruiters take shortcuts, and use deceptive practices all for their own benefit. In this episode, Amir dives into the importance of leveraging new technologies and techniques to reach clients and candidates efficiently. For Amir, it’s all about the intersection between digital marketing, technology and recruiting. Here’s what you can expect to hear: The evolution of advertising: from generic to ultra-personaliz