Startups | 2 min read
Startups | 2 min read
How to Spot Your Next Great Hire
You’ve heard of these traits before but it’s time you start taking them to heart. During my talk with Dakota Younger, an expert on recruiting great talent and CEO of Boon. Boon is a game changing platform for finding and hiring the best...
Preston Gilmore
Host of GarageToIPO
The supply chain problem in education with Dakota Younger
Podcast | 34 mins
Podcast | 34 mins
The supply chain problem in education with Dakota Younger
Dakota Younger and Bill MacKay rant about the supply-chain problem between the education system and the job market, how data science and better design can help solve some of the inefficiencies, and the future of job training.
Dakota Younger
Founder & CEO of Boon
Founder lessons from Acceleprise SF
Startups | 9 Min Read
Startups | 9 Min Read
Founder lessons from Acceleprise SF
This past fall my cofounders and I had the privilege of joining the 5th cohort of Acceleprise San Francisco, working alongside a variety of amazing companies and the minds that created them.
Dakota Younger
Founder & CEO of Boon
Keith Halperin and the agile recruiting manifesto
Podcast | 30 Min Listen
Podcast | 30 Min Listen
Keith Halperin and the agile recruiting manifesto
Keith Halperin is a seasoned recruiting pro and contributing writer to ERE media. We discuss “Agile” recruiting, recruiting “supermodels” and managing client expectations, as well as how the role of the recruiter is changing...
Keith Halperin
Sr. Recruiter at PhaseZero Ventures
Deskless occupations are primed for new recruiting solutions
Recruiting | 6 min read
Recruiting | 6 min read
Deskless occupations are primed for new recruiting solutions
Recruiting software solutions have almost universally focused on software developers and tech-industry workers. This trend is part of much larger story-arc in enterprise applications.
Dakota Younger
Founder & CEO of Boon
Recruiting Supermodels and a Tool to Help You Do It
Recruiting | 10 min read
Recruiting | 10 min read
Recruiting Supermodels and a Tool to Help You Do It
As a recruiter, one of the main problems I face with prospective and actual clients is unrealistic expectations of who they can really hire. For a variety of reasons (which have been gone over many times before), there seems to be...
Keith Halperin
Sr. Recruiter at PhaseZero Ventures
Tim Sackett discusses the changing relationship between education and the job market
Recruiting | 30 min listen
Recruiting | 30 min listen
Tim Sackett discusses the changing relationship between education and the job market
It has become abundantly clear that higher education is not effectively creating employees who are job-ready, according to business leaders anyway. Are we at a pivotal moment where the education model needs to fundamentally...
Tim Sackett
President at HRU Technical Resources
How to Reject People and Hire Them Later: A Handbook
Recruiting | 10 min read
Recruiting | 10 min read
How to Reject People and Hire Them Later: A Handbook
Anyone involved in hiring knows that at its heart there is a painful process, repeated over and over. Rejection hurts on the receiving end, and it’s not all that fun to dish out every day, believe me. To reject someone...
Chris Nicholson
Co-founder @Skymind.io
Dakota Younger explains the psychology behind referral programs
Podcast | 35 min listen
Podcast | 35 min listen
Dakota Younger explains the psychology behind referral programs
Dakota Younger, founder and CEO of Boon, explains the psychological barriers to building an effective referral program and how to overcome them.
Dakota Younger
Founder & CEO of Boon
The Job Market's Information Problem
Recruiting | 12 min read
Recruiting | 12 min read
The Job Market's Information Problem
Last year, I sponsored an event called Staffup Weekend, brought an insightful man named Brooke Allen to San Francisco to run it, and supported Deborah Branscum as she wrote a story about the event for Medium...
Chris Nicholson
Co-founder @Skymind.io
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