Balancing Quality & Speed as You Hire to Scale with Brian Breth

It is time to change our mindset on how to really attract and hire the strongest people. The answer is not having the  greatest recruiters or tools. It is not about having strong “employer branding” or compensation plans. The answer is really simple... It is about gathering the evidence in the interview to support the decision without assumptions & bias. 

Leadership drives hiring , not recruiting or HR. 

Mic drop moment: There are two critical components to your people function. Recruiting & Hiring. Recruiting is run by, well, recruiters and Hiring is run by hiring managers, executives & founders. 

To land the strongest people for your organization both functions must have structure, synergy and adequate training to be successful. 

Our guest today: Brian Breth, Riot games alumni & former VP of Talent Acquisition at Fair

Brian is a talent acquisition leader and US Marine Corps veteran with 20 years of experience forging, adapting, and applying best practices to complex business challenges in recruiting. He has a proven track record as an entrepreneurial leader whose ability to align teams, enact change, and build sustainable frameworks enables businesses to attract top talent and become more efficient, productive, and competitive.

Specialties: Global talent acquisition strategy and operations, leadership coaching and development, team-building and communication, process development and implementation, networking.

Brian was responsible for scaling Rubicon Project from 200 to almost 800 people in two years.

Today we discuss:

Why Quality is more important when you scale
How to scale without sacrificing quality

Challenge today?

Scaling quickly without sacrificing quality
Mindset
Lets get people as fast as we can
Competing for talent
Finding the best people
Not clear into what the values are then translating it to others

Managing the expectations of investors
Growth at whatever cost is dangerous

Why is this important to the company?

A startups evolution 
Culture is the most important element for founders
Desire for culture conflicts with the investors desires for rapid growth
To become a competitor you NEED the best people

Rick’s Nuggets

Understanding what you are up against today
Flip the funnel upside down
Work referrals at scale

How do we solve the problem? 

Acquisition 
Understand that hiring people needs to be understood by leadership
A commitment from leadership
Cannot just set it & forget it
Just as important as your new product pipeline
Alignment at the executive level as to where and how they want to compete for talent
Realistic on what you can pay
Value prop - speaking to what is important to the person from a more intrinsic value.  What’s important to me?
Build out the people function 

 Retention
Invest internally to retain them
Value - a future to live into
People leave because they no longer see a future for themselves
Develop leader to provide the future for each team member

Rick’s Nuggets

Understand each individual’s pain, desire & impact
Invest in the discovery call!
45 minutes saves hours in the long run
Crucial checkpoint

Key Takeaways -Value:

Founders look at what you are investing in your people function
What you invest in talent acquisition you should be investing into leadership training to get them really good at hiring

Guest Links:

Brian Breth: LinkedIn 

Website: Riot Games   Fair   TechRecruit Conference 

 

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