Day 2 started with opening remarks by John V, which as with Day 1 really go things rolling.

First up was “Using Data to Fuel Growth” by Neal Narayani and Jim Baaden for Uber. This was about Uber and how they grew to over 6k employees in over 425 cities in 70 countries in 6 years, this growth destroyed what Google did in its first 6 years. The biggest take away from this was to have a 3 and 5 year plan and remain flexible and always look to rebuild or update your plan.

After the break came concurrent session that included Mini Sourcing training, Mini recruiting Leadership, and Mini Talent Advisor training.

The Mini Sourcing session features Carmen Hudson and Shannon Anderson. They go over common terminology, mainly tech recruiting orientated. They recommend a book called “The Non-technical Guide to Web Technologies”. A little on Boolean operators the more common ones. Some tools like Textio that can help you build better messaging.

The Mini Talent Advisor session was all about being an advisor to your HMs. Developing goals, communication, How to get the HMs engaged, and Understanding the Talent Market.

The Mini Recruiting Leadership session covered how to Build a business case, ROI, Req loads etc. FYI The optimal req load is 20.

The last session of the morning was by Dave Story and K Burnaby on “Make everyone a Recruiter” The key point here are:

The ELITE Startup Hiring Engine includes-

• Founders are passionately engaged in Hiring.
• Early Leaders and Key hires are hands on in recruiting.
• Everyone is engaged in hiring.

The question is how to maintain this when you get big. The key here is to have senior leadership remember “The most important thing we do as leaders is hire.” Once again how:

Then came lost of data to support why this works. I remember when I worked at Microsoft, I came up with a process called HMCS (Hiring Manager closer to staffing) which did just this, it allowed me to hire well over 100 people that year. It all centered on getting the HM and their team to help source. It works.

Next up, day 2 “The Afternoon”