Riding the Waves: Navigating the Peaks and Valleys of the Hiring Market
The hiring market is constantly shifting—from rapid growth and aggressive hiring to slowdowns and tighter priorities. For talent leaders, the challenge isn’t just keeping up—it’s knowing how to adjust in real time.
Riding the Waves: Navigating the Peaks and Valleys of the Hiring Market is a candid, 45-minute panel discussion focused on how recruiting has evolved through these cycles—and what it takes to stay effective in any market.
Featuring talent leaders with experience across companies like Google, Salesforce, venture-backed startups, and global organizations, this conversation will go beyond surface-level trends. We’ll explore how strategies change in different market conditions, how expectations from the business shift, and what separates teams that stay proactive from those that get stuck reacting.
What to expect:
Real perspectives on how hiring peaks and valleys impact recruiting
Insights from leaders who have built and scaled teams in different environments
Practical ways to stay effective and maintain momentum in any market
A forward-looking take on where hiring is headed next
Whether you’re in a period of growth or navigating a slowdown, you’ll walk away with a clearer perspective—and ideas you can put into practice right away.
Speaker Bios:
Beth Scheer is currently the Head of Talent at Homebrew, a seed-stage venture capital firm founded by former Google leaders Hunter Walk and Satya Patel. Prior to Homebrew, she spent over five years at Salesforce, where she led executive search as well as sales leadership and professional services recruiting teams.
Earlier in her career, Beth joined Google in 2003, helping to build out the AdSense team before going on to hire across business operations, corporate communications, corporate development, and engineering—including new graduate PhDs. She holds a BS in Psychology from The Colorado College.
Genil Washington is the VP of Global Talent Acquisition at Druva, bringing over 20 years of experience across healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and technology. She has led talent functions in both private and public companies, ranging from high-growth environments to large, established organizations.
Genil has a strong track record of building and scaling Talent Acquisition functions, as well as driving transformational strategies. In addition to her corporate work, she has served as an Adjunct Professor of Human Resources at Golden Gate University. Outside of work, she is actively involved in volunteering with food banks.
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