(UB011) Winning the war on talent: How one company beat out Google for top talent, turned recruiting into a passion and designed a foolproof interview process

Winning the war on talent: How one company beat out Google for top talent, turned recruiting into a passion and designed a foolproof interview process that allowed them to achieve 1,000% growth in 3 years. Today you’ll hear:

  • About a little company called Webmail.us that turned out to be an international success

  • How the leaders helped ensure they became a great place to work, used employee and customer engagement to their advantage and established an engagement focused organization

  • How I stalked the CEO so I could be part of the amazingness

  • Why the CEO saw HR as a partnership, not as a department that belonged in a box in the back corner

  • How Webmail.us set itself up to compete with Google for talent

  • Examples of the type of out of the box thinking around recruiting that led to amazing talent hires

  • Why it’s important to set the bar high when it comes to interviewing...and how to get started raising the bar in your company

  • How we used our existing culture to bring the best talent into the company

  • How we beat the trendy companies to the top talent in the software development space

  • Creating an interview process that allows you to create a best place to work

  • Why your interview process is the number one thing you need to re-design if you want to build a best place to work

  • The three things you need to know before you start the hiring process for a position

  • Why hiring someone for the next step in their career makes all the difference for your culture

  • Why you should study webmail.us if you care about building engagement

Photo by Andrew Rice