Over the past couple of years, recruiting and hiring has drastically changed. As business leaders, if we want to potentially have great people work for us in the future, we need to adjust how we interview and identify the best fit for our organizations.

In this episode, I talk with Amy Oviedo, the founder and CEO of Recruiting Experiences, about all this. We discuss the power of taking a sabbatical to recharge or redirect, the importance of mutual agreement between employers and employees, hiring the scrappy person, and much more. I got a lot out of this interview, especially when we discussed the importance of letting people try, even if they aren’t completely ready. I hope you find this interview valuable as well. 

“You have to, as a leader, be willing to let people… fall on their face now and again. And then, picking them up when you need to, dusting them off, talking about the lessons, and moving on to the next one. That is not easy to do when something’s your baby… [But] it’s never going to go perfectly anyway and whether it’s me overextending myself and messing something up or me letting somebody who’s maybe not quite ready jump in, we’re still going to get the work done. And we’re going to be fine, we’re going to learn from it and we’re going to move on to the next thing.” -- Amy Oviedo

What You’ll Learn

• Finding your next thing
• The power of taking a sabbatical
• Mutual agreement between employer and employee
• Learning in the early savage days
• Intentionally honoring self-care and family
• Unlearning the old ways
• Recruiting the scrappy
• Being a multiplying presence
• Ask for help

Connect with Amy Oviedo

Amy Oviedo is the founder and CEO of Recruiting Experiences, which specializes in surge recruitment and recruiter training. The organization was founded to help companies simplify their hiring processes and to train the next generation of recruiting professionals. Recruiting experiences should be efficient, grounded in avoiding bias, data-driven, and kind. 

After ‘falling into recruiting’ like so many other recruiting professionals, Amy developed a passion for identifying top talent and building high-performance teams in technology-focused companies. She has over 20 years of Talent Acquisition and Training & Development experience. She led global Talent Acquisition and Internal Mobility for PSAV, a $1 Billion private organization with over 1000 locations worldwide. Most recently, she served as Vice President of People Operations for Kinney Group, an Indianapolis-based Federal contractor for IT services. Amy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Communication from Ball State University.

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Daniel is a partner and the VP of Business Development for FullStack PEO and host of the podcast Savage to Sage. He is passionate about seeing people, leaders, cultures, and organizations develop. He says, “When I have the honor of being a part of that maturation process, it's even more satisfying. My life and work are given to empowering teachable, humble, and hungry leaders and teams to create and sustain joyful, strategic, and productive environments.”

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