Stealing ideas from other professions for ours is always fun. What can TA leaders learn from coaches who are out there leading both young and old athletes?
Listen in on what our panelists have to say on how to start creating your team.
Our Panelists…
Name & LinkedIn Profile | Group | Title | Company |
Erik Winkler | TA Leaders | Senior Director of Recruiting | Everside Health |
Koli Donohue | Recruiting Chicago | Senior Technical Recruiter | Stillwater Architecture, LLC |
Kristina Droz | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition | Bluestone Properties |
Mahen Kathirithamby | TA Leaders | Director, Head of Executive, Campus & Early Career Talent Acquisition | Xerox |
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Some of the attendees…
Name & LinkedIn Profile | Group | Title | Company |
Rose Nolen | Talent Acquisition Sourcer | ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions | |
Dan Baker | Recruiting Atlanta | Recruiting Manager | Healthstat |
Lauren Gagnon | Recruiting Boston | Technical Recruiter/Talent Acquisition Partner | Veracode |
Shawn Watzka | Recruiting Chicago | Physician Recruiter | Inpatient Psych Solutions |
Lisa Wrezel | Recruiting Chicago | Talent Acquistion Manager-Sourcing | Centric Consulting |
Sarah Schaefer | Recruiting Chicago | Staffing Manager | Fresenius Kabi USA |
Eric Bormann | Recruiting Chicago | Senior Technical Recruiter | Zones |
Tina Ramirez | Recruiting Chicago | Senior Recruiter | R.J. O'Brien & Associates |
Brady Beavers | Recruiting Dallas | Recruiting Manager | Nexius |
Krystan Silva | Recruiting DCBmore | Senior Technical Recruiter | Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
Sheridan King | Recruiting DCBmore | Talent Acquisition Team Manager | RSM US LLP |
Delaina Silva | Recruiting Denver | Senior Manager of Talent Aquisition | SDL plc |
Tiffany Reyna | Recruiting Houston | Talent Acquisition | Percepta |
Nancy Genitempo | Recruiting Houston | Associate, Talent Acquisition Operations | Looking for Work |
Jennifer Allen | Recruiting Houston | Talent Acquisition, Central Operations Region | WestRock Company |
Lance Hunsicker | Recruiting LA | Lead Executive Recruiter | Parsons Corporation |
Jeffery Broussard | Recruiting LA | Senior Technical Recruiter | Redhorse Corporation |
Bianca Medici | Recruiting LA | Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition | Havas Edge |
Jessica Pasco | Recruiting LA | Sourcer - G&A | Internet Brands |
Deb Smith | Recruiting Minneapolis | Principal Technical Recruiter | Best Buy |
Becky Gramenz | Recruiting Minneapolis | Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist | Looking for Work |
Cheryl Ridgway | Recruiting Nashville | Vice President, Global Diversity Talent Sourcing - Executive Search | Charter |
Roseanne Donohue | Recruiting NYC | Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, North America | Radware |
Jennifer McWilliams | Recruiting Phoenix | Senior Principal Talent Acquisition Business Partner | Northrop Grumman |
Chaz Bantle | Recruiting Seattle | Recruiting Manager | Bulletproof 360 |
Svitlana Sikora | Recruiting SFBA | SWE Leadership Sourcing Recruiter | Meta |
Taylor Friesz | TA Leaders | Corporate Director of Talent Acquisition | Spire Hospitality |
Stephanie Olvera | TA Leaders | Director, Talent Acquisition | Intelliloan |
Susan Ross | TA Leaders | Head of Talent Acquisition for Global Field Operations | Elastic |
Tom Graumann | TA Leaders | Talent Acquisition & Leadership Dev at ARC Automotive | PureCycle Technologies |
JoNelle Sood | TA Leaders | Talent Management Leader | Postman |
Jessica Marotta | TA Leaders | Talent Acquisition Manager | Forrester |
Vira Trevino-Garcia | TA Leaders | Recruiting Consultant | Hexcel Corporation |
Amy Clem | TA Leaders | Principal Executive Recruiter | Paramount |
Melissa Rutledge | TA Leaders | Talent Acquisition Director | Point B |
Bix Cruz | TA Leaders | US Head of Recruiting, Airbus Urban Mobility (Vahana, UTM, Voom and Systems) | Merlin Labs |
Rachel Cupples | TA Leaders | Senior Recruiter | Textio |
Ryan Alexander | TA Leaders | Global Head of Talent Acquisition | TE Connectivity |
JoDee Klinker | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition | Carson Group |
Jessica Burgess | TA Leaders | Director, Talent Acquisition-North America | WE Communications |
Khursheed Irani | TA Leaders | Head of Talent Acquisition | Cprime, Inc |
Jeanne Amey | TA Leaders | Talent Acquisition Manager | PennyMac Loan Services, LLC |
Kevin Francis | TA Leaders | Director Talent Acquisition | Lark Health |
Amanda Radice | TA Leaders | Senior Technical Recruiter, Design - Consumer + New Verticals | DoorDash |
We asked our attendees, “What is one way that coaching can help a recruiting team be more effective?”
Here are their answers:
- All teams have room to grow. Keeping a team motivated keeps up productivity.
- anticipate what the will happen and prepare
- builds team effort and ethic
- By developing consistency of process.
- coaching around tactics and methodologies can always help improve a teams performance and motivate them to want to be better
- coaching can assist when a team has very difficult time sensitive goals to keep everyone motivated
- Coaching specifically to the person, knowing your audience
- Coaching your TA team to be better business partners. Develop strong business acumen, establish an operating cadence.
- Communicate goals
- Communication
- Continuing to foster a "growth mindset" within the team
- Developing new recruiters
- early talent really appreciates coaching 1 on 1 sessions
- Empathy - you've been in their shoes and understand what success looks like. Even spinning negative experiences.
- Empowerment
- Encouragement
- encouragement/seeing potential in them
- focus on the goal
- guidance and communication so we are all on the same page
- Having a system/process
- Help motivate a team to succeed in accomplishing its targets..
- Helps them find their blind spots and put a plan in place for next steps.
- Highlight individual's strengths and put them in the right role accordingly
- Identify weaknesses and strengths of the team
- Improve results
- Instill a teamwork environment, help each other out with the tough to fill reqs. Celebrate the wins!
- It can help them see their current challenges With renewed perspective
- It gives the team members comfort in asking any and all questions.
- It’s helps the team feel united in their efforts through sharing of ideas and also helps them understand new tactics are real
- motivation, teamwork
- Motivational tactics, communication skills and driving competition within a team.
- Never give up!
- Provide on the spot coaching
- Providing 1:1 help to recruiters
- Providing honest and transparent feedback to candidates
- sitting with recruiters live and giving them feedback
- Teach fundamentals
- Team player attitude!
- think outside the box
- Work smarter, not harder