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Recruit Smarter, Not Harder: Upping Your Outreach and Closing Game

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​Event Description: 

​Join Recruiting Leaders from Motive, Google and Angellist to learn more about their tested and proven Outreach and Closing strategies:

  • ​What is an unpopular opinion on candidate response rate?

  • ​Candidate responses are higher than before - is that true?

  • ​Does that mean we are converting candidates faster?

  • ​Automation and AI - what to automate and what not to?

  • ​What closing strategies work today?

​Session Breakdown:

​5 Minutes: Introductions

​30 Minutes: Speakers presentation

​5 Minutes: Q&A

​Featuring recruiting leaders:

​Kirk Okenquist, VP, Global Recruiting at Motive

​Kirk Okenquist is the VP, Global Recruiting at Motive. In this role, he is responsible for all designing and executing recruiting strategies to attract, evaluate and hire qualified candidates. Proactively identifying and addressing hiring needs for all 8 offices across the world. Evaluating and refining sourcing and selection procedures to meet the needs of ever changing business requirements.

​In 2022, Kirk’s 109 person global recruitment team hired over 3,000 new employees to Motive during the great resignation.With 20+ years of experience, Kirk has been involved in building previous companies such as Mulesoft and Dialpad. He has managed global sourcing teams, global go-to-market, sales recruitment teams while gaining his start on the agency side at RHI. In his personal time, he enjoys golfing and spending time with this wife and their 7 year old pit-mix, King.

​Michael Kascsak, ex Google Head of SWE Sourcing

​Michael Kascsak is a 20+ year veteran of the Talent Acquisition industry. He has led Recruitment organizations for such companies as Capital One, CBRE, PayPal and Google. During his tenure, Michael has implemented a wide scale of HR Technology and Resource Management strategies. Along with this, his dedication and top priority is the development and growth of his teammates and business partners.Michael’s leadership style is to create an environment that allows for everyone to bring their authentic self to work and to always be learning from each-other.

​George Rider, Technical Recruiting at Angellist

​George Rider is a hands-on recruiting leader with over 20+ years of experience with a passion for innovation and accelerating novel ideas in technology. He currently leads engineering, product, and design recruiting for AngelList. He has led efforts for a number of companies which include Marqeta, Facebook, Oculus, Square, and Apple. As an early employee at Square, George helped grow the company from 70 to 1200 before joining Facebook to lead Oculus recruiting. George enjoys the heavy lift of building companies, products, and high performing recruiting teams. He brings a no nonsense approach to building pipelines, connecting with niche talent, and building world class teams. 

​Hosted by

​Brianna Rooney

​Serial entrepreneur Brianna Rooney is the founder and CEO of TalentPerch, Thriversity, The Millionaire Recruiter, and Techees; Affirm acquired its team in 2021. Passionate about recruiting, she also co-hosts a podcast, Talent Takeover Unfiltered.

​Organized by:

​Covey

​At Covey, we're committed to helping find and hire the best-fit talent. In this market, that means helping talent teams operate lean and cost-effectively, allowing humans to do what they do best while letting intelligent machines do all the mundane work.

​Our latest product offering, Covey Scout, is the world's most advanced AI-sourcing assistant trained to find and evaluate talent like you would. By describing, in your own words, how you would evaluate a candidate profile, along with any trade-offs you'd make, Scout will generate a bot to execute your strategy. Scout will then search through millions of candidates, evaluate them (just like you would), and reach out to them with personalized drip campaigns, seamlessly integrating with your inbox and other existing talent systems.

​Thriversity

​Thriversity is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits(PDC) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®recertification activities.

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