Hirewell

For all intents and purposes, this has been my career. I started as a technical recruiter when we were a tiny shop and was afforded a wealth of opportunities: I launched our Digital Experience & Marketing practice, I launched our internal marketing and content function, and I currently lead our business development and strategy.

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Partner & Chief Growth Officer

Gregory Laka & Company

Every recruiter has their first gig somewhere.

Technology Recruiter

Strateg -- Aperios

Obligatory failed start up. Great experience. Gotta take a shot, right?

Business Development

Akamai Technologies

Account Executive

WorldCom

If you don’t remember these guys, it’s only because of Enron. Fantastic way to start a career and gain perspective…

Hosting Sales Executive

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I’m a Partner at 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 and I host Hirewell's 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 podcast. Those are the high points.

But what do we do specifically?

We recognize that hiring is hard. And hiring well is even harder.

But, that’s exactly what we help companies do: 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹.

Since 2001, we've been a staple in the Chicago business community, helping our clients grow by recruiting the top-tier talent they need.

𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱.
The recruiting industry is chock full of single skill set providers. What companies really want is a partner who can have a broad impact across all facets of their organization, solving whatever hiring challenges they have. We’ve done just that, building diverse teams of highly specialized recruiters in the highest demand fields:

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆
𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀
𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 & 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴,
𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀
𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 & 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱...

𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲.
Flexibility in creating our custom solutions has been a staple in our approach. During our own growth, we recognized that the traditional fulfillment models for recruiting service are deeply flawed. 

Contingent Search is expensive and the two-sided lack of commitment often yields poor results. Recruitment Process Outsourcing suffers from poor fulfillment; flat-rate service means providers have no skin in the game to maximize the end result. And traditional Executive Retained Search is exorbitantly overpriced, tone-deaf to the modern world of freely available data.

But Hirewell’s 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀 are a paradigm shift in volume hiring. They’re built for fast growth situations, and more importantly, structured in a way that streamlines efficiency for all. It’s a best-of-all-worlds situation: Hirewell can provide dedicated onsite support, high-value services far beyond simple candidate sourcing (ATS management, hiring plans, job description creation and postings, interview set up and debrief, offer presentation and onboarding, etc.), and still utilize the entirety of Hirewell’s vast recruiting team and diverse skill area focus to achieve an optimized outcome.

See what our clients say about us on G2: https://www.g2.com/products/hirewell/reviews 

Contact me at james@hirewell.com or 312-386-1658.

James Hornick

Flytedesk

Flytedesk is the platform that controls ad inventory on college campuses. Over 2,300 schools make OOH, digital, email, influencer, and SMS marketing opportunities available to brands on flytedesk. With over 10,000 advertisers relying on flytedesk, it’s the default college marketing platform for brands that are winning college.

About my role:

As the Head of GTM and Brand at flytedesk I'm in charge of thinking about and designing how buyers meet and experience our company—from first interaction through the opportunity to work with our team.

Head of GTM

Before You Apply

BYA was acquired by Job Mobz. I'm staying on in an advisory role to help with the transition.

Acquired by Job Mobz (Advisor to the acquisition team)

Before You Apply is a media property for job seekers in the tech world. It's what my team members and I wish existed the last time we looked for work.

In short, we create a variety of different landing pages for companies, teams, and job descriptions. These pages give outsiders an insider's look at how companies and their teams operate, solve problems, and contribute to the larger mission of their organization. They un-gate information that is traditionally held behind employment—and move it to the top of the discovery process for candidates. 

Our landing pages are the best way we know to evaluate a job opportunity.

Co-Founder and Head of Brand

Nate is Learning

Every year I talk with hundreds of Marketing, Brand, Sales, and Recruiting leaders. These are the people doing the work that touches their markets. Most work in-house, on the front lines, in the weeds. What's keeping folks awake at night, and what are they doing about it? I use this newsletter to share what I'm hearing.

Newsletter writer

The Content Recruiter Podcast

Co Host

Job Portraits

So what's Brand Marketing look like at Job Portraits? In short, I'm an original content creator that leads happy conversations with industry leaders, brand advocates, partners, and clients. Honestly, it's about as fun as it gets!

In traditional company jargon (ugh!), this means I have my hand in things like Branding, Marketing, Sales, Product Development, Customer Journey, and Client Success.
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Job Portraits is a San Francisco-based creative studio that works with recruiting teams at startups. When startups need to hire a lot of people, fast, we create compelling content—photos, videos, blog posts, etc.—about their teams to help them market their job opportunities.

Brand Marketing

Janiis

JANIIS is a simple software platform, built for every aspect of the short term rental industry.

The Talent Collaborative

Hey, I'm Nate Guggia, an independent Business Development and Sales hunter for high growth startups and early stage companies.  If you're ready for your first sales hire, we should talk.

As a startup, building a pipeline of new prospects is critical when it comes time to sell your product or service.  But developing your outbound Business Development process can be difficult, confusing and expensive.  Especially if you're a Founder that's unaccustomed to prospecting and selling.  

That's where I come in.

As an extension of your team, I build and execute a prospecting and sales strategy that resonates with your organization and industry.

By helping early stage companies with the difficult tasks of creating a Business Development and Sales process, prospecting, building a pipeline and closing deals; Founders can focus their attention on growth, scalability and changing the landscape of their industry.

What I Do:

-New Business Development and Sales Process
-Write Email Copy
-Prospect for New Business
-Close New Deals
-Customer Success + Retention
-Nurture Existing Relationships and Create Additional Sales Opportunities

Past clients include:

-HireClub (San Francisco, Recruiting)
-WorkBubble (Santa Barbara, HR Tech)
-Pop, Inc. (Santa Monica, Social Media Tech)

Head Of Business Development

QueTech CE

QueTech offers innovative and convenient Continuing Education courses for a variety of disciplines including Physical Therapists, Nurses, Nursing Home Administrators, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, and more.

Head of Sales and Parterships (Independent Contract Position)

Pop Inc.

As the Head of Sales and Partnerships at FilterPop, I lead all things Sales and Business Development related, which includes:

-Building an Outbound Sales Process from the ground up
-Acting as Account Executive and Customer Success for our current clients
-Acting as SDR/BDR and owning the outbound lead generation process
-Managing our Agency and Influencer Partnerships

A bit on us-
FilterPop is a platform for Snapchat Geofilter graphics. We make it so that consumers can launch personalized Geofilter graphics on events and so that businesses can launch long-term Geofilters on locations with weekly, monthly, and annual subscriptions.

FilterPop was created inside of Science, Inc. Science is where Dollar Shave Club (acquired for $1 billion by Unilever), HelloSociety (acquired by The NY Times), and FameBit (acquired by Google) were started.

Head of Sales and Agency Relations (Independent Contract Position)

Wealth Factory

| Originally The Freedom FastTrack |

•	Worked one on one with business owners all over the world with coordinating tax strategy, insurance protection, investment options, business planning and cash flow.
•	Increased cash flow by an average of $2,000 per client
•	Responsible for the sales of high level financial consulting programs
•	Personally generated over $3M in gross sales revenue

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Now, about work stuff...

I'm currently the Head of GTM and Brand at flytedesk. What's flytedesk? It's the platform that controls ad inventory on college campuses. Over 2,300 schools make OOH, digital, email, influencer, and SMS marketing opportunities available to brands on flytedesk. With over 10,000 advertisers relying on flytedesk, it’s the default college marketing platform for brands that are winning college.

We've worked with lots of fancy companies, political campaigns, and advocacy groups like Adobe, Quizlet, Nintendo, Venmo, Headspace, Planned Parenthood, and the Bernie, Biden, Warnock, and Fetterman campaigns.

Young people form life-long brand preferences and habits in college. It’s the moment of highest lifetime customer value and lowest cost of customer acquisition.

College students are difficult to reach—most block ads online, few watch network TV, and over 80% skip ads on Snapchat and TikTok in under one second. Bottom line: You can't run the same marketing playbook on campus and hope to win.

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