Opportunities In Space, Never Giving Up And Scaling From 2,000 To 14,000 with Aly Harji - Talent Leader

The energetic Aly Harji joined me on the podcast to LITERALLY INVITE YOU ON A CANADIAN ROCKETSHIP (almost literally) and while I had him on the line, we talked about how he broke into recruitment in tech and the lessons he learned from helping Shopify scale from 2,000 people to over 14,000 while he was the Talent Sourcing Manager for Commercial and Executive Search at Shopify.

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Here's the timestamps for the episode:
(2:15) – How they met.

(7:26) – What is SpaceRyde?

(13:00) – What talent is SpaceRyde looking for?

(15:00) – Is Spaceryde’s similar to SpaceX?

(17:15) – Aren’t you getting bored of Earth?

(19:30) – What is Spaceryde looking for in terms of talent?

(22:50) – How to get in touch with Aly! Email: Aly@spaceryde.com

(24:00) – Aly's origin story

(28:00) – Hospitality is a gateway to recruiting?!?!

(30:00) – Getting the opportunity

(32:30) – Transferrable skills

(35:25) – Value of experience from retail/hospitality; experiential learning

(36:55) – Aly’s journey to working for Shopify

(49:50) – Helping growing teams at different stages; startups, scale ups, enterprises…

(53:50) – Does hiring someone who interviews great for the position always translate to someone who performs incredibly well?

(58:05) – Importance of seeing how someone approaches their ‘craft’

(1:04:00) – Lessons from scaling up

(1:06:15) – Scaling vs. Flailing?

(1:07:50) – Aly's final thoughts... :heart:
 
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