EP 24 - Cassidy Stewart, Job Adder: Building Skill Sets

Episode 35 - Jeremy Schreifels, Your Brand, Your Dime, & Making It Count

Building your brand doesn’t have to mean investing a ton of money. There are a lot of things that you can do right now or sometime in the near future with little to no investment other than your time. 

Key Moments:

• Why you need to think about your personal brand in everything that you do

• Why a good way to judge were your brand is is to simply type your name into Google and see what all comes up

• Some of the reasons Jeremy feels people are naturally afraid to be on camera

• Why “Just Starting” is so important and why you should do that immediately

• How doing one video podcast a month can be repurposed to provide you with a full month’s worth of content

• How you can use AI to help you generate content from your podcast episodes

• Why consistency is so crucial if you plan to launch your own podcast

Favorite Quote: 

“You can get anywhere from probably 35-40 pieces of content out of one podcast video episode… So it’s like a month’s worth of content.“

• Jeremy Schreifels

Connect with Jeremy:

Jeremy Schreifels is a multi-talented individual who has made a significant impact in the realms of audio production, writing, voice activation, and executive coaching. Jeremy shines as an Executive Producer, Author, Keynote Speaker, Podcast Host, Executive Coach, and world-class Touring Drummer. 

With a relentless commitment to integrity, a burning passion for his craft, and an unwavering dedication to creativity, Jeremy has emerged as a force to be reckoned with in his diverse fields of expertise. Most recently Jeremy has founded Box 7 Media, through which he is helping entrepreneurs get their voices heard.

JeremySchreifels.com

Box7Media.com

Rhythm of The Road Podcast

Connect with Suky:

I’m Suky an adrenaline junkie who celebrates every single win. I believe we must celebrate and collect all our wins along the way as it fuels forward momentum to ensure we exceed our goals. When we fuel forward momentum, complacency simply can not settle in.

With over 25 years of experience working in the staffing industry, 16 of those working with global recruitment companies, I bring the knowledge and experience of working in 18 countries and successfully navigating through numerous “recession” cycles.

Companies often get so focused on the bottom line that they forget that we are in the “people business”. For me, the magic happens when my clients recognize the best way to create a truly sustainable high-performance sales culture is to align both.

LinkedIn

Canadian Staffing Industry Summit

www.eliteglobalrecruiters.com 

www.professionalselection.com     

Episode 34- Chris Horak & Louisa Benedicto, Clearing The Path & Removing Barriers to Making More Placements

 At the end of the day, the goal is always getting the best people for the job into the right seats. Today’s podcast offers tips and insight from some of the foremost experts currently in the industry in Canada into how you can successfully make more placements. 

Key Moments:

• Learn what drove Louisa to get into staffing and where her burning passion lies

• What was the #1 Driver causing Chris to look more closely into women’s issues

• Why it seems to help get people onboard if you speak on why these issues are important

• Why there’s a push towards skill-based hiring vs. hiring people with certain qualifications

• Why you should always go back and adjust the job description and requirements everytime you go to rehire for a position

• How trying to hire a clone of the last successful person who was in the position almost never works

•  Why pay transparency seems to be effective and why it’s spreading fast

• Why money is not always the #1 motivator on whether or not to take a position but it’s usually in the top 3

Favorite Quote: 

“I should do a study on the amount of recruitment industry hours that have been wasted because a candidate wouldn’t take a job because of what it was paying, and only found out at the last stage.“

• Louisa Benedicto

Connect with Chris:

Chris Horak’s greatest ideas come from his love of cooking, chess, philosophy, economics, video games, hip-hop, novels of all kinds, and an endless stream of podcasts.

The passion Chris possesses for his ideas raises the spirits and sights of those he works with and inspires them to do more than they thought possible.

With Women@Indeed, Chris has helped raise awareness and donations for several charitable organizations focused on helping women. His teams have helped ~75k people get a job in Canada last year through their work with direct employees and staffing agencies. 

CHorak@Indeed.com

LinkedIn

Connect with Louisa:

Louisa Benedicto is the Senior Vice President and head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability for Hays which is the expert at recruiting qualified, professional and skilled people worldwide. 

They operate across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary assignments. With 10,000 staff operating from 250 offices in 33 countries across 20 specialisms, last year Hays placed around 70,000 candidates into permanent jobs, and around 240,000 people into temporary assignments. 

Louisa.Benedicto@Hays.com

LinkedIn

Connect with Suky:

I’m Suky an adrenaline junkie who celebrates every single win. I believe we must celebrate and collect all our wins along the way as it fuels forward momentum to ensure we exceed our goals. When we fuel forward momentum, complacency simply can not settle in.

With over 25 years of experience working in the staffing industry, 16 of those working with global recruitment companies, I bring the knowledge and experience of working in 18 countries and successfully navigating through numerous “recession” cycles.

Companies often get so focused on the bottom line that they forget that we are in the “people business”. For me, the magic happens when my clients recognize the best way to create a truly sustainable high-performance sales culture is to align both.

LinkedIn

Canadian Staffing Industry Summit

www.eliteglobalrecruiters.com 

www.professionalselection.com     

Episode 33 - Michael Coffill, Leveraging EOR’s to Facilitate Growth

If you could allow someone else to take on the risk in parts of your business that you aren't as familiar with, you’d do it, wouldn’t you? For some reason, Canadians are seemingly slow to adopt the use of EOR’s in the staffing industry. But should they be?

Key Moments:

• What exactly does an EOR do and how do they help business owners

• How the laws regarding EOR’s differ from the United States and Canada

• How and EOR can help so you don’t have to fulfill the payroll while you are waiting to get paid

• Why some Canadians seem hesitant to adopt the EOR model even though it is recognized in the US and Europe

• How the new software that Michael and his team are working on help those in the staffing industry and when it is expected to launch

• Why Michael has gotten away from checks and is only using direct deposit for payroll 

Favorite Quote: 

“We take all the risk in hiring and give you all the profit.“

• Michael Coffill

Connect with Michael:
With over 30 years of experience in staffing and recruitment, Michael Coffill founded Wages Corp in 2019 to provide various services to help you manage your Canadian workforce. Wages Corp is a business passionate about enabling independent recruiters, as well as small businesses, to reduce costs and risks, using their experience-based, back-office support system.

As the Founder and General Manager, Michael leads a team of professionals who specialize in payroll and receivables administration, employer of record, human resources, employer branding, and workers compensation administration. They take one of the largest costs (payroll) and leverage it to accomplish tasks only larger companies can afford to do. 

WagesCorp.com

LinkedIn

Connect with Suky:

I’m Suky an adrenaline junkie who celebrates every single win. I believe we must celebrate and collect all our wins along the way as it fuels forward momentum to ensure we exceed our goals. When we fuel forward momentum, complacency simply can not settle in.

With over 25 years of experience working in the staffing industry, 16 of those working with global recruitment companies, I bring the knowledge and experience of working in 18 countries and successfully navigating through numerous “recession” cycles.

Companies often get so focused on the bottom line that they forget that we are in the “people business”. For me, the magic happens when my clients recognize the best way to create a truly sustainable high-performance sales culture is to align both.

LinkedIn

Canadian Staffing Industry Summit

www.eliteglobalrecruiters.com 

www.professionalselection.com     

Episode 32 - Bryan Doyon, Investing Big In Your Company

Sometimes you need to go big and invest in yourself in the way that feels right to you and your business. Big moves when done methodically can lead to big gains, so you need to hang it out there and put your money where you mouth and invest. 

Byran Doyon, founder of Professional Sourcing Solutions, has done just that by having a fellow Canadian company help him launch SourceMe, a new platform connecting those in the staffing world.

Key Moments:

• What the SourceMe Platform is and how it came to be out of necessity

• How SourceMe helps connect clients and candidates to fill both of their needs

• Why Bryan decided to use local companies to code the platform even though it raised the cost on the entire project

• Why if you are collecting clients data you should be concerned about who is managing it and where they are located

• The reasons Bryan is pleased they went with a local coding company and why he would do it the same way again

• Why dealing with Canadians helps Bryan feel at ease especially on big deals 

Favorite Quote:
“In the end if I look at it, did my company really overspend? Probably not, because I had a lot more time to do what my company was doing, which is recruitment.“

• Bryan Doyon

Connect with Bryan:

Bryan Doyon is the founder of Professional Sourcing Solutions, a permanent and temporary staffing agency. Professional Sourcing Solutions has also developed a secondary part of the company, a candidate management software solution platform that connects clients to candidates.

Bryan started the company in 2018, initially focusing on recruiting in the healthcare sector for nurses, physicians, and frontline staff. In essence, Professional Sourcing Solutions focuses on creating efficiencies and improving the quality of candidates for their clients. 

Bryan@ProfessionalSourcingSolutions.ca

ProfessionalSourcingSolutions.ca

Essential Designs

Connect with Suky:

I’m Suky an adrenaline junkie who celebrates every single win. I believe we must celebrate and collect all our wins along the way as it fuels forward momentum to ensure we exceed our goals. When we fuel forward momentum, complacency simply can not settle in.

With over 25 years of experience working in the staffing industry, 16 of those working with global recruitment companies, I bring the knowledge and experience of working in 18 countries and successfully navigating through numerous “recession” cycles.

Companies often get so focused on the bottom line that they forget that we are in the “people business”. For me, the magic happens when my clients recognize the best way to create a truly sustainable high-performance sales culture is to align both.

LinkedIn

Canadian Staffing Industry Summit

www.eliteglobalrecruiters.com 

www.professionalselection.com     

Episode 31-  The All New Talent Titans!

Connect with Suky:

I’m Suky an adrenaline junkie who celebrates every single win. I believe we must celebrate and collect all our wins along the way as it fuels forward momentum to ensure we exceed our goals. When we fuel forward momentum, complacency simply can not settle in.

With over 25 years of experience working in the staffing industry, 16 of those working with global recruitment companies, I bring the knowledge and experience of working in 18 countries and successfully navigating through numerous “recession” cycles.

Companies often get so focused on the bottom line that they forget that we are in the “people business”. For me, the magic happens when my clients recognize the best way to create a truly sustainable high-performance sales culture is to align both.

LinkedIn

Canadian Staffing Industry Summit

www.eliteglobalrecruiters.com 

www.professionalselection.com     

Today, we are kicking off our first annual Canadian Staffing Summit and it is SOLD OUT!  

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader. Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

suky@eliteglobalrecruiters.com

Elite Global Recruiters

Be sure to check out this and other previous episodes of Talent Titans in Apple Podcasts.

The Toronto Recruiting Summit is days away and none of it would be possible without the participation of Global Recruitment Industry Leaders like Cassidy Stewart of Job Adder. 

Job Adder is sponsoring the first-ever Toronto Recruiting Summit on April 20th, which is focused on small-medium-sized businesses. 

The summit includes legal power hours, CEO panels, and client panels, and explores the benefits of flexible contracts for businesses in the current economic climate. 

Canadian staffing companies need to diversify their portfolios and adopt technology to optimize their processes and stay ahead of the latest technologies and laws.

At the summit, you will learn about the importance of data migration and cybersecurity, the benefits of using AI in recruitment, and the need for collaboration among industry leaders. Additionally, you'll gain insight into how to evaluate new providers and choose systems that are future-proof.

What You'll Learn: 

• The importance of diversifying portfolios and adopting technology to optimize processes
• The need for Canadian staffing companies to find new ways to succeed and stay ahead of the latest technologies and laws
• The benefits of flexible contracts for businesses in the current economic climate
• The significance of data migration and cybersecurity in the recruitment industry
• The importance of collaboration among industry leaders and the need to stay open to disruption
• The value of evaluating new providers and choosing systems that are future-proof

How to Connect with Cassidy: 

LinkedIn

JobAdder

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader. Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

suky@eliteglobalrecruiters.com

Elite Global Recruiters

Be sure to check out this and other previous episodes of Talent Titans in Apple Podcasts.

We are preparing for the Canadian Staffing Industry Summit coming up on April 20th in Toronto and right now, it's 70% sold out!  We have so many titans in the Staffing Industry coming in as featured panelists and speakers including: 

• Janelle Bieler, President, Adecco Canada 
• Mark Coetzee, International Business Transformation, Global Executive, Drake International
• Craig Brown, CEO, Agilus Work Solutions 
• Allison Haynes, HR Services Core Operations Leader at Capgemini Canada, Inc
• Rami Thabet, Senior VP, Digital Products BC
• Els Schaefer, VP Talent Acquistion, FGF Brands 
• Tracey Both, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, The Mirillion Group
• And many more

Important Highlights: 

• Exclusively for staffing industry professionals
  

• International guest speakers

• Headed up by Suky Sodhi, award-winning staffing industry coach and trainer with over 60K LinkedIn followers and connections and a database of over 40K staffing industry professionals

• The summit is aimed to elevate the Canadian staffing industry on a global scale

• It will provide boutique agencies with access to expertise and technology which will allow them to scale their business with ease

• Attendees will have the opportunity to collaborate with industry peers and service providers on best practices

If you'd like to attend, it's not too late to get a seat:

 https://canadianstaffingindustrysummit.com/

We look forward to seeing you there! 

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader. Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

suky@eliteglobalrecruiters.com

Elite Global Recruiters

Be sure to check out this and other previous episodes of Talent Titans in Apple Podcasts.

What's the difference in leaders? 

The person.  

Back when Suky was starting her journey into leadership, the whole model was based on modeling or echoing the previous leaders in the industry.  Their styles would be adopted and you would be expected to lead this way. 

The only challenge is, there's a huge gap between what you want and what you get in life. The same goes for leadership. 

There are over 26,000 data points when it comes to leadership and what qualifies a person as a good leader. 

In this episode, we're going to outline some good measures to consider when bringing on leaders. 

Giving them the resources necessary to do their jobs effectively. 

Chasing vision over perfection is more important, but there are a few main factors to consider: 

1. As a leader, can you still be an effective leader true to who you are?
2. Do you have the latitude to follow your DNA to lead according to who you are
3. Is your family or your personal mental health at risk in this position of leadership? 
4. Are your forced to work on your weaknesses, or operate on your strengths? 

There are so many factors discussed in this episode. 

Pull up a chair. 

Bring a pen and pad, or your ReMarkable and get ready to take notes! 

You're in for a quick study on 2 more myths of leadership. 

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader. Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

suky@eliteglobalrecruiters.com

Elite Global Recruiters

Be sure to check out this and other previous episodes of Talent Titans in Apple Podcasts.

A global crisis always comes in one form or another. 

It can be the bird flu, pandemic, financial collapse, natural disaster, and anything else you can imagine. 

If you pay close attention, it comes in cycles. 

It's almost as if they're pre-planned or orchestrated. 

Back in 1999, the biggest "fear" that was focused on and discussed across various media channels was Y2K. It was fear centered around coding or potential computer errors related to the formatting of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000. 

They made a mess of the media with the "shock and awe" tactics, and this caused people around the globe to go into a frenzy. 

This is no different for the Global Recruitment Industry post-Covid.  And while I don't like to talk about things from the past, there is a historical repeat of the same kind of fear being spread that creates myths.......myths that sometimes anchor into a belief system. 

We're going to reveal the number 1 myth around the Global Recruitment Industry today! 

How To Get Involved:

High-performance staffing industry mastermind leader. Suky Sodhi has always felt strongly about allowing the sales team within organizations to have a voice at the boardroom table. She has been working with global recruitment companies for almost 3 decades, helping them align their focus on both the bottom line and their people.

President and Founder of Professional Selection, a leading rec2rec agency, and Founder of Elite Global Recruiters, a community of staffing industry professionals from around the globe, she is helping recruitment businesses scale like never before.

Connect with Suky:

suky@eliteglobalrecruiters.com

Elite Global Recruiters

Be sure to check out this and other previous episodes of Talent Titans in Apple Podcasts.