Becca Meinhart: Changing Lanes - The Journey From Agency to Corporate

In this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Becca Meinhart who, until recently, was an account manager at one of the big box recruitment companies. She then decided to change course from her agency career to seek out an internal recruiting role with a company and a brand that she could really get behind.

Becca succeeded. Today, she’s thrilled to work as a recruiter at everyone’s favorite food delivery company, DoorDash.

She reflects on her journey in making the transition from agency to corporate, saying she had decided that the largely metrics-driven environment of the big box recruitment world ultimately wasn’t for her.

Becca explains how she was hired thanks to the power of LinkedIn, and why she believes that it is better to apply for a handful of roles and take the time to craft personalized messages when reaching out, rather than blasting something more generic to as many companies as possible.

Finally, Becca speaks on the differences between the agency world and internal corporate recruitment, the challenges she’s eager to face in her new role, and what the future holds for her.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

●      [01:39] From agency account manager to internal recruiter

●      [05:25] What Becca thinks of the metrics-driven environment of a big box recruitment company

●      [10:56] The biggest hurdles that Becca knew she had to overcome in order to make the leap into internal recruitment

●      [14:24] How to reach out to recruiters on LinkedIn

●      [20:44] Becca’s candidate experience from the various companies she applied for

●      [23:25] What Becca would do differently

●      [25:12] Key differences between agency work and internal corporate recruitment

●      [29:50] How candidate sourcing has changed in today’s market

●      [32:59] What the future holds for Becca

Key quotes:

●      “With agency life, they give you the great experience that you need. If you can put your nose to the grindstone for however long, you really come out of there learning quite a bit about yourself, how far you can push yourself, how hard you can work, and how resilient you can be, especially at the beginning—you do get beat up quite a bit.”

●      “The old advice says to apply to as many jobs as you can; but, now a lot of us are realizing that it isn’t true because you can’t possibly be excited about that many companies and fields. If you take the time to share why you’re excited about their company, that is the message that recruiters will respond to. Recruiters want to know that you think their job is exciting. Genuine excitement always comes through.”

●      “Luck and hard work, together—that’s where the good stuff happens.”

●      “It comes back to passion. If you guys can align on that, between candidate and recruiter, that’s where the magic happens.”