Episodes

Benjamin Mena welcomed Amanda Berning onto the Elite Recruiter podcast to discuss how to bill seven figures as a recruiter. Amanda revealed that she never set out to become a recruiter, but ended up in the industry after a friend of a friend told her about an admin role that didn't require working on weekends and holidays. After taking a disc profile test, it was suggested that she had potential to be a recruiter and the president of the company asked if she was interested in the job - to which ...

Brett Eaton is a high-performance coach who helps entrepreneurs and business owners become the best versions of themselves. On this episode of the Elite Recruiter Podcast, Brett shares his journey to becoming a life coach and how he helps high performers reach their goals. He began his career in the fitness industry and eventually branched out to coaching people in the other 23 hours of their life. Brett works with clients to ensure they are able to grow and create a life that is fulfilling and ...

Benjamin Mena, host of the Elite Recruiter Podcast, is joined by James Dyson, the Head of Global DEI for Talent Acquisition at Boomi. James talks about how he got into recruiting, as he was previously a fitness trainer living in DC. He transitioned into marketing and then found his way into agency recruiting. He then he had a few others moves before landing at Boomi where he is now the head of their DEI for Talent Acquisition. Boomi's mission is to connect the world through their multiple API co...

Stephen Perchikov is an expert in scalable personalization, and he discusses how technology can be used to amplify the work of recruiters. He explains that in today's world, automated messages are a turn-off, and that personalization is key to maintaining intimacy with potential candidates. In order to be successful in social selling and growing one's LinkedIn audience, it is important to focus on outbound outreach and content. Positioning is key, and it is important to choose a niche and focus ...

If you are like many people or me, it's easy to shy away from discomfort. But to win as a recruiter, you need to do the exact opposite. Chasing down and hunting discomfort could get you to the next level as a recruiter, search firm owner, or leader. In this episode of The Elite Recruiter Podcast our guest Sterling Hawkins walks us through the different types of discomfort that he wrote about in the book Hunting Discomfort that could be holding you back from hitting that next level and what you c...

There are always things that we all can learn from Big Billers, but there is an extraordinary amount that we can learn from someone that has their first 7 figure billing year. Lisa Decker is our guest this week on The Elite Recruiter Podcast to talk about the lessons she learned along the way to hit that seven-figure year. After being a Top Biller year after year she breaks down what it took to make that jump to the next level. This is the perfect podcast to learn how to break through your next ...

Social Selling is one of the most impactful things that most recruiters are not doing. Our awesome guest Lauren Surman is a master of social selling and is here to teach us how to level up our skills. It's something that we all need to learn and learn how to do better. Recruiting is sales… both on the candidate side and client side and the sales process has changed over the last few years. Social Selling is the best way to move past the cold emails and phone calls and play the smart game. Check...

Overcoming a tragedy is extremely tough, overcoming and succeeding takes everything that you have in you. In this episode of the Elite Recruiter Podcast, our guest Dana Neiger who is the co-founder of HIVE Talent Acquisition. In this episode, Dana talks about her first book "Before I Knew It, They Were Gone: A Jewish First-Generation American Woman’s Journey through the Darkness". We talk about the struggles that she had to overcome to reach the success that she is having now and the path to wr...

Hiring a new recruiter can be difficult and hard. But in this exciting episode of The Elite Recruiter Podcast, our guest Daphne Gomez the founder of Teacher Career Coach talks about how your next new recruiter could be a former teacher. We talk about how many teachers looking at transitioning out of the classroom could become one of your best recruiters. Highlights: What traits should you be looking for in a teacher that could become your next best recruiter How to find that teacher that is look...

In part 2 of this episode of the Elite Recruiter Podcast, I speak with David Perry from Perry Martel International about how he has successfully placed 1603 Executives since he and his wife started their search firm. Highlights: How David and his wife started their executive search firm. The things that they have done to successfully place 1603 executives How the world of recruiting is changing What you need to learn as a recruiter to be successful Understanding how powerful you are as a recruit...

In part 1 of this episode of the Elite Recruiter Podcast, I speak with David Perry from Perry Martel International about how he has successfully placed 1603 Executives since he and his wife started their search firm. Highlights: How David and his wife started their executive search firm. The things that they have done to successfully place 1603 executives How the world of recruiting is changing What you need to learn as a recruiter to be successful Understanding how powerful you are as a recruit...

In this episode of the Elite Recruiter Podcast, I speak with Sarah Briggs the Director of People Operations at Stability Healthcare. Sarah talks about how she grew from a front-line recruiter into a leader of an organization of 70 recruiters and what it takes to learn how to lead. Highlights: How Sarah grew from a recruiter into a leadership role of over 70 recruiters Scaling at speed while building and lifting up stronger recruiters What to do in a downturn of the economy and how to be successf...

In this episode of the Elite Recruiter Podcast, I speak Ben Eubanks the Chief Researcher from Lighthouse Research and Advisory. Ben started his career in recruiting and moved into leading one of the most successful research organizations within the recruiting and human resources industry. Highlights: We talk about how is able to use his background as recruiter to really understand the data out there What is going on within the recruiting market and different types of AI What is going on in the c...

In this episode of the Elite Recruiter Podcast, I speak with Adam Meekhof TA Leader at IQ Talent Partners on how to successfully lay the foundation and scale up a recruiting team that is effective in just about every industry. Highlights that we talk about: How you lay the foundation for a new recruiter so they are successful How they get 90% of their new business without a dedicated sales team The hottest recruiting tools at the moment Adam Meekhof: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammeekhof/ With...

In this episode of the Elite Recruiter Podcast, I speak with Trent Cotton the founder of Sprint Recruiting on how to control the chaos of Talent Acquisition and how the Sprint Recruiting Methodology can change everything within your recruiting team. Highlights that we talk about: The 4 dysfunctions of recruiting and how to tackle them Implementing Spring Recruiting into your organization Finding and keeping great recruiters Better data leads to better hiring Trent Cotten: https://www.linkedin.co...

In part 2 of this episode of the Elite Recruiter Podcast, I speak with DSP (David Stephen Patterson) on what you need to do to prepare for a recession as a recruiter or search firm owner. Highlights that we talk about: The things that you need to do now to set your firm up for success if/when there is a downturn in the economy How to prepare for a recession as a recruiter Skills that you need to get better at to succeed during a downturn How you can attract some of the best talent in the industr...

In part 1 of this episode of the Elite Recruiter Podcast, I speak with DSP (David Stephen Patterson) on what you need to do to prepare for a recession as a recruiter or search firm owner. Highlights that we talk about: The things that you need to do now to set your firm up for success if/when there is a downturn in the economy How to prepare for a recession as a recruiter Skills that you need to get better at to succeed during a downturn How you can attract some of the best talent in the industr...

In this episode of The Elite Recruiter Podcast, we have our guest Jack Kelly, Owner of The Compliance Search group to talk about how he set himself up to make thousands of placements over the years, launch his own firm, and pick up 32 million readers from his published articles. Some Highlights: How he was able to lay the foundation for a massive shift in the market and take advantage of it How he has made thousands of placements over the years How he went from an agency recruiter to founding hi...

In this episode of The Elite Recruiter Podcast, we have our guest Jer Langhans from Paired Sourcing to talk about sourcing as a service and where to find the talent right now? How to uplevel your recruiting and sourcing skill sets and the impact he makes as an advisor to multiple companies and helps them grow or successfully exit. Some Highlights: The first time Jer Langhans has talked about his latest startup to help recruiters win How Jer has helped multiple companies grow as an advisor as wel...

In this episode of The Elite Recruiter Podcast, we have our guest Ethan Richter from Market Gen to talk about recruiting in the Web3/Blockchain space and what it takes to succeed as a recruiter there. Some Highlights: How he got 300 resumes from one TikTok video The future of recruiting and how everything we do will be impacted How do you find Web3 talent How to understand your space even if you are new The basics of Sales Recruiting from the Sales Recruiter himself Ethan Richter LinkedIn - http...

I am excited to share the latest episode of The Elite Recruiter Podcast, we have our guest RJ Huebert with HBT Digital Consulting to talk about all the secrets of LinkedIn Advertising Some Highlights: The top secrets of LinkedIn Adverting How to snoop on your competitors ads How to properly target your target market Why now is the best time to level up your recruiting career Links: HBT Digital Consulting - https://hbtdigital.com/ RJ Huebert LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjhuebert/ If yo...

In this episode of The Elite Recruiter Podcast, we have our guest Ben Argeband who is the founder Heartbeat.AI and Swordfish and talks about how his team has centralized 11 million US Health Care Professionals with access to 8.8 million cell phone numbers, 9.3 million personal email addresses and 6 million direct dials Special Gift from Heartbeat.AI and Swordfish.AI = “If any listeners would like extra credits on a product demo just have them mention this podcast to our sales team, we'll chuck 5...

In this episode of The Elite Recruiter Podcast, we have our guest Jonathan Kidder who has authored 10 books in recruiting and runs a highly successful blog, The Wizard Sourcer. Some Highlights: What are some of the best tools right now to find high quality candidates How he got started in recruiting The 10 recruiting books he has written and Why now is the best time to level up your recruiting career Links: Blog: https://wizardsourcer.com/ Books: https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Kidder/e/B08T8JNM...

In this episode of The Elite Recruiter Podcast, we have our guest Tarik Hussein to talk about utilizing predictive intelligence and Artificial Intelligence to find candidates before they go from passive to active and finding hiring managers and clients before they have the need to hire more staff and weeks before they post open positions on the job boards. Some Highlights: How to use technology to find candidates before they start the job search Discover when companies will be hiring months or w...