How to Attract and Retain Top Sales Reps in A Competitive Market [Event]
Sales has quickly become the #1 hiring priority among tech companies, and the market is more competitive than ever. Not only is it more challenging to find and attract salespeople, but also to retain them.
Come and join your peers and top industry experts as we discuss strategies to keep up with the ever-changing sales hiring and recruiting market. The goal is for all of us to walk away with actionable insights on how to improve (or build) our own processes.
Some of the topics we’ll be covering:
- Inbound pipeline – employer branding and creative ways to bring the candidates to you
- Sourcing – tools and methodologies for finding and contacting those hard-to-reach candidates
- Retaining – best practices for making your company the right environment for the salespeople you hire
- Diversity – how to find and attract diverse sales candidates, and create an environment of inclusion
If sales hiring is a priority, you won’t want to miss this.
This event is exclusively for internal recruiting teams and internal talent and HR leadership. Please, no third party / agency recruiters!
When: June 13, 2019 – Thursday. 6:00pm – 8:30pmWhen – 6-7pm, but advertise for earlierSetup: 4:30pm – 5pm
Where: 181 2nd Street – Main Lounge
Why: Sales recruiting is a challenge. Let’s help each other.
About the speakers:
Jessica Bent:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicarbent/
Jessica Bent currently works in the San Francisco Bay Area as a Recruiter for Crunchbase, a platform for finding information about private and public businesses. She revamped Crunchbase’s hiring processes company wide, created a referral program resulting in 20% more referrals within the first two quarters, and is responsible for developing onboarding processes to mentor and train new hires.
Jessica’s received her Bachelor of Arts degree from San Francisco State University and her former roles include being a Recruiter for Wish, an HR/Admin Associate for Foreo, and a Benefits Administrator for Restoration Hardware.
Luke Baseda:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbeseda/
Luke Baseda is the VP of Talent for Lightspeed Venture Partners, an early-state venture capital firm located in Menlo Park, CA that focuses on accelerating innovations and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. Lightspeed has helped build over 300 companies including Nutanix, AppDynamics, MuleSoft, and The Honest Company.
Luke recived his Bachelor of Arts degree from Syracuse University and his prior roles include Head of Recruiting for Flurry, Inc. and Head of Talent Acquisition at Nextag.com/WizeCommerce.
Gordon Lewis:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordon-lewis-4624691a/
Gordon Lewis is the Head of Talent & Recruiting at Scout RFP in San Francisco, CA. Scout RFP is a sourcing and supplier engagement platform used to streamline procurement processes for SaaS companies.
Gordon’s former roles include being an Advisory Board Member for Rainmakers.co, Talent Staffing Consultant for TapInfluence, and Interm Head of Talent for LendUp. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.
Mario Espindola:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marioespindola/
Mario Espindola is the Head of Recruiting and Talent for BuildingConnected in San Francisco, CA. Mario has developed several company wide talent programs including referral programs, health/wellness programs, and company performance management.
Mario received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University-Chico and his prior roles include Advisor for PeopleTech Partners, Advisor for Rainmakers.co, and Consultant – Talent for Connery Consulting.
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About Rainmakers:
Rainmakers is the data-driven sales hiring platform. The coolest tech companies utilize Rainmakers to hire top, diverse sales talent including Crunchbase, Affirm, Algolia, JFrog, BuildingConnected, and Scout RFP.
So if you’re looking to build or scale your sales team, and want to connect directly with pre-screened candidates, come and chat with a member of our team or email us directly at mike.fossi@rainmakers.co Attracting top sales talent.
