Into the Talent Industry with Jose Guardado & Brian Bocchino, Co-Founders at Build Talent

The Gradience

In an industry where there are a thousand and one search firms, choosing the right executive search partner for your startup might be a challenge. Considering many of these search firms don’t even have the expertise or qualifications to hire top talents, recruiting might pose an even bigger challenge as a wrong partnership might result in the loss of time, energy, resources, and even potential finalists. Consequently, having the know-how for the right firm tops the list of to-dos when searching for executives.

Furthermore, in this “measure twice cut once” recruitment business, founders need to find alignment or “mutual truth” with partners concerning their goals and realities.

In this episode of The Gradience Podcast, Nigel is joined by Jose Guardado & Brian Bocchino, Co-Founders at Build Talent.

They cover:

👉 Experiences that shaped Jose and Brian’s ethos when forming Build Talent

👉 Choosing the perfect co-founder; Jose’s and Brian’s superpower in the world of talent acquisition

👉 The spectrum of ability in founders’ ability to hire

👉 What founders should consider when choosing a search firm

👉 Founders’ number one priority and strategy for a strong partnership with a search firm

👉 Common mistakes founders make

👉 Closing strategies for top talents

👉 Founders’ expectations from search firms/partners when closing candidates

👉 The evolution of the talent partner

👉 Advice to young founders about hiring executive/talent within their organization

👉 Landscape change in the talent ecosystem since COVID and remote work

👉 Valuations in the remote talent world

👉 Jose’s and Brian’s hope for the show and firm

Are you a first-time founder looking to hire your first executives or run your first search? Are you struggling with acquiring talent and want to know more about hiring candidates best for you? If you want answers to these and want to know more about Build Talent, the talent industry, or recruiting executives, tune into this episode of The Gradience Podcast, a Podcast by Build Talent.

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Connect with Jose here:

👉 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joseguardado

And connect with Brian here:

👉 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/bbocchino

About the Show

“The Gradience” is a podcast by Build Talent & hosted by Nigel Robinson, wherein each episode, we’ll be speaking with a founder or expert as we discuss the art & science of hiring leaders, why it matters, and how you can keep up.

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Previous guests include: Riley Ennis of Freenome, Matt Birnbaum of Pear VC, Derek Lo of Medallion, Chandan Lodha of CoinTracker, Jennifer Smith of Scribe
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