OnBase: Smashing Sales and Marketing Misalignments Ep 50 | Adding Hire Power to your Tech Marketing team: In conversation with Rick Girard
Rick Girard, the Host of the Hire Power Radio show who is also the CEO of Stride Search Inc, (an agency focused on disrupting the Recruiting & Talent Acquisition space) shares interesting hiring tips to help you transform how you hire and shape your Marketing and Sales teams.
About Rick
Rick is a Talent Acquisition Leader and serves as the CEO of Stride Search. He is also the host of the Hire Power Radio show.
About Stride Search
Stride Search is on a mission to help startups gain a competitive advantage by formalizing a process to maximize candidate hiring and engagement.
Key takeaways from the episode
- “When it comes to candidate engagement: it’s all about treating people the way they’d like to be treated.”
- “There’s not enough care and thought that’s put into building an interview process and understanding what it is that your company needs.”
- “People don’t really know how to interview for a cultural fit, but they know how to interview to identify skills.”
- “I’m a big believer of hire for culture first and skills second, because skills can be learnt. But you need the people with the right attitude.”
- “This is especially important for a small set-up or culture.”
- “As a culture, you want to be able to offer upskilling and augmenting options to your candidates and team. You need to be career-minded of the people you do have.”
- “When you bring in someone better, they help elevate the success of the entire company.”
- “You should always be talking to your people to understand what they want and where they want to be fit.”
- “It is important to try and provide something more than just monetary benefits.”
- “There’s still talent shortage and you need to go out and be pro active to find the right people.”
About the podcast
Sunny Side Up is a series of 15-minute podcasts. Leaders and innovators share what they’ve learned in the B2B tech sector on topics related to marketing, product management, sales, and leadership.