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The heart of the Life Sciences and Diagnostics industries is a small, tight-knit community of people committed to doing great work. #ADLM is a “homecoming” of sorts. It’s a chance to meet up with long-time colleagues face-to-face and reconnect with peers and past coworkers you haven’t seen in a while. I had a great time in Chicago at the beginning of the month, both seeing my team (Blythe Rudolph & Alexandra Orr) and bumping into old friends and colleagues I was overdue on catching up with. One observation from the event this year is that there is renewed energy and urgency around hiring. A lot of companies have gone through layoffs and restructuring recently. Now, many are looking to rebuild their teams. I was pleasantly surprised by how many leaders are approaching hiring strategically and intentionally while maintaining that necessary sense of urgency. This is important because, more than ever, candidates are being selective about where they will/will not work, with an increasing focus on things like company culture, leadership, and work-life balance. As always, the industry continues to evolve; and those who can maintain strong relationships, identify emerging trends, and appeal to the priorities of top talent will be best positioned for success now and in the future. See everyone back in Chicago in 2026. #marketing #sales #diagnostics #lifesciences

Enough with the endless searching, it's time to start hiring top talent that propels your business forward! With ProDevs by your side, the search ends here. Say hello to: 📌A streamlined hiring process, 📌Access to a diverse pool of skilled professionals, 📌And a partnership dedicated to driving your company's success. Let's turn your hiring goals into reality! #StopSearching #StartHiring #ProDevs

Hi friends! With the announcement of my new career services business, Kylie Michele Careers I wanted to talk about my vision, the inspiration behind the company and what it can do for you! For years I have negotiated with and built teams for some of the world’s top product and design leaders across companies like Airbnb, Reddit, Inc., Atlassian and Ironclad. For a while, being able to bring in women, Black, brown and disabled folks gave me my purpose. It showed me that I could have an amazing career while also bringing some good to the world. But at the end of the day, recruiters are on the company’s team - not yours. Now, the best recruiters are absolutely on your team, but we are pressured by recruiting leadership to churn and work at a pace that’s untenable. When I got laid off from Reddit after doing some of the best work of my life rebuilding their entire UX recruiting organization, it killed me. I had incredibly strong performance, I had made a huge difference to the company and I was working with really talented people. But that’s the nature of capitalism and recruiting. The thought of going back into recruiting during this nightmare market, where recruiters are either out of work or worked to the bone, sounded awful. I’m tired. I’ve done 5 years straight of hyper growth and the pace was killing me. So I decided to get out of the tech rat race. I decided to take a bet on myself, and use my knowledge and expertise and almost decade of experience recruiting to bring that knowledge to you. With companies making record profits and using the excuse of “it’s just business” when they are laying you off, taking away your source of income, livelihood - well then, in my opinion, it’s just business to enable workers as much as we possibly can. My programs and 1:1 strategic sessions are focused on that - giving the power back to you. Enabling you to take as much money from corporations to make sure you thrive. They are certainly doing that for themselves, why not you? Let’s rewrite the narrative. If tech is backed up by full HR teams, lawyers, finance teams, etc., why wouldn’t you deserve to be fully enabled too? I promise you, having a recruiter that knows the ins and outs of finance teams, hiring mangers, interview processes, will absolutely ensure you get a higher income, better titles and a full optimized career. You deserve it <3 Tell me in the comments what you want to know from a former recruiter that knows all the ins and outs of the business and check out my programs below; https://lnkd.in/gNYHVUEa

Nothing beats the electrifying thrill of finding the perfect fit for the role! ⚡🌟 The moment when passion, skills, and opportunity align is pure magic. ✨ Who else gets that rush of excitement? 🙌 #PerfectFit #TalentAcquisition #Hiring #Lookup

As many of you know by now, just a few weeks ago—only 4 months after I joined—Moxion Power closed its doors. This wasn’t my first layoff in a startup struggling with financial issues as it tries to scale and grow its customer base, but this one cut especially deep. A topic often overlooked in these situations is the social violence inflicted on employees. 😔 Beyond the economic implications, what hit the hardest is the abrupt end to the collaboration, the vision, and the passion we had collectively built. You spend countless hours building trust, aligning diverse teams, and driving towards a shared goal and great mission, ready to change the world. But when a company abruptly closes or decide to lay-off a big chunk of its workforce, especially without warnings, the bonds and shared passion that fueled the work are suddenly and painfully severed. 💔 The vision we crafted together is no longer, and the product we poured our hearts into is lost—gone, without the time to properly reflect, without the time to grieve, without proper goodbyes! We can, of course, stay in touch with our now friends-coworkers, but it will never be the same. We did try to make things better, but there wasn't enough time! This experience has reinforced for me the importance of resilience and adaptability in our industry. It’s a reminder that while products may come and go, the skills we develop in #CrossFunctionalCollaboration, the ability to unite teams around a common purpose, and the drive to see a vision through to fruition are what truly endure. Without us— Talents —there are no products! As I look to the future, I carry forward the lessons learned from all of those professional adventures—the importance of building strong, trust-based relationships and the power of a unified team to create something remarkable. I have made true friends, met mentors, and learned so much so fast. While the end of Moxion was a significant chapter in my career, it’s also a stepping stone towards new opportunities to apply these skills in engineering, product and marketing and continue to drive innovation on how to bring successful products to market. 🚀 With that said, I am open to work and actively seeking my next opportunity in product leadership to contribute and grow in a dynamic environment. #ProductMarketing #ProductManagement #Leadership #GoToMarket #Resilience #CareerGrowth #ClimateTech #Product #StartupLife #Teamwork

When I started Techtrust, many people were curious to know, "Why did I start a staffing company; there are thousands of well-established staffing firms, then why this?" In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg said "It's not about winning and losing, it's about doing something valuable... Almost every product is going to get transformed and reimagined to be social." How true can this statement be! This is not a winning or losing game; it's about adding value! Value to our client, our candidates, and our employees. Yes, we might be ANOTHER staffing agency but what differentiates us is our TALENT and our well-articulated structure of bringing the best talent to you. Tell me what has been your biggest challenge while you were hiring someone? Were you able to get through it? If yes, how?

✨ Building on years of management experience, Daniel Bodonyi provides a three-step approach to not only hiring the best people, but also keeping them engaged and motivated so that they stick around longer. 🌱 #Hiring #Retention #IntrinsicMotivation

💼 Building a dream team isn’t easy, but it’s essential for success! 💪 The hiring process is where it all begins. Swipe left to uncover the 5 key qualities you should prioritize when selecting your next superstar! #Hiring #HiringTips #HiringInsights

The hiring strategy that helped me build my team in the early days. We scaled quickly from a team of 1 engineer (just me) to a team of 4 engineers. And this is what helped us scale. This might be one of the best decisions I ever made. My close circle already knows about this strategy as I am very open in sharing what worked for us and what didn't. Publically sharing this with everyone today, hoping someone can benefit from it. Full video on YouTube → https://lnkd.in/dJRXdfUJ ------------------------------------ Is this helpful? Repost 🔁 so others can benefit from it as well! #teambuilding #hiring #foundingteam #earlyhires #hiringstrategy