Will Blaze Consulting

Technical Recruiting (In N.Y.C. & Beyond)

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I’m a huge fan of Gem’s product, which provides sourcing, data, analytics and pipeline views and lives on top of Greenhouse. Pumped to speak at their conference today! 

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Thank you @benjaminjackson, @ftwnyc, and @googlecloud for having me at the inaugural wetware.club breakfast this morning! I learned so much #hr #tech #nyc

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The panelists before last week’s event at The Muse, hailing from Etsy, Weight Watchers, and Taboola. 

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Teamed up with The Muse to be a part of a panel on your Job Search Checklist, sharing insights on how to tackle each phase of the job search and start off on the right foot. “Embarking on the search for a new job can inspire a lot of complex feelings. One minute you’re excited about the possibility of finding your next role at the company of your dreams. The next, you’re completely overwhelmed by the whole process and wondering how you’ll ever get everything done.”

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Tonight with our partners at the Recurse Center, not a Bootcamp but a coding sabbatical where their members “never graduate.”

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On SingleSprout’s “0-100 : Building for Scale” panel, talking about how we pitch candidates at Peloton who might not be familiar with the product. 

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Was happy to be a part of Hired, Inc. / Uncubed’s Panel with leaders from Splice, Kustomer and Stash! One of the more interactive panels with the audience I’ve been included on. 

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Also this week - I was a part of Greenhouse.io and Hired.com’s Webinar on how to Grow Responsibly! Rapidly Scaling Hiring Learnings. Check it out on Vimeo! 

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This week I joined Saplinghr.com and Fetcher.ai for their Cocktails & Conversations Series on How is AI Disrupting Recruiting & HR. Thank you for letting me speak my piece! .. and at Otto’s Shrunken Head, never thought I’d be at an HR event there... 

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Last week I got to be a part of Workable’s panel: “Hiring Top Talent in a New York Minute.” Thank you for having me! It was great to share my stories as well as learn from the other folks from Digital Ocean, Jet.com, and AngelList. 

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Thank you @uncubed for letting me present some of my recruiting learnings at #hruncubed! Great conference, and beautiful weather here in #Brooklyn (at The Williamsburg Hotel)

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‪#ghOPEN off to a strong start with a panel on Building Inclusive Organizarions with HR leaders from @FortuneMagazine, @Visa, and the #ChanZuckerbergInitative ‬

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Happy to be here at #DisruptHR here in New York!

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I’m at #HRTechWorld here in Amsterdam seeing some of the most groundbreaking products at the forefront of the HR / recruiting and talent acquisition industry. AI startups in this space have been numerous as well as collecting a big chunk of funding the past few years but I’m glad to see that Blockchain is starting to make its way into the foray. Blockchain has the potential to fundamentally disrupt how we organize both work and society in the future. Photographed here is Euan Semple who gave a few examples on how Blockchain May be brought to our space, particularly through Ethereum, and it’s concept of a Digital Autonomous Organization. Euan argued that as our lives become more influenced by technologies designed and controlled by a very small group of increasingly powerful people (particularly “Californians” which I found funny) we should consider how Blockchain can decentralize this power.

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I'm at Built In NYC's Talent Influencers: Diversity - Beyond the Buzzword tech panel.

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At Hired.com’s event at Nike SoHo with other talent acquisition leaders in NYC. Some of the top recruiting metrics from the panel: "Offer to Accept Ratio, and then sourced to closed" - Managed by Q... "Source of hire." - Seat Geek... "Certain KPI's that drive bad behavior - like talking to as many candidates per week." - Appnexus

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Nellie Peshkov - VP of Talent Aquisition at NETFLIX discussing their Culture of Recruiting and turning every hiring manager into a recruiting champion by using mutual trust & communication. Her Seven Superpowers of Recruiting: 1. You believe! 2. You aim high, you aim low, you aim narrow and wide. Understand the trends, the micro / macro trends, see opportunities your business does not. 3. You bring value every time, all the time. 4. You raise the bar. 5. You give feedback and advice. You don't wait for an invitation 6. You ask a lot of questions. Lots and lots of questions. 7. You dig together to unearth new Talent. Set the stage that it's their job to source and you'll be their hip to hip to source with them. Great talk Nellie! #TalentConnect