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Hosted by Richard Milligan, Recruiting Coach · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 100 episodes
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Welcome to the Recruiting Conversations Podcast, a conversation designed to help Recruiting Leaders who manage a team as well as recruit. Richard Milligan is a speaker, author, strategist, and recruiting coach who built 21 teams as a Recruiting Leader.
Richard Milligan, Recruiting Coach hosts Recruiting Conversations, a business show with 100 episodes published.
You start strong on Monday with the best intentions, and by Wednesday the fires have won, and by Friday the recruiting you swore you'd protect never happened. Here's what I want you to walk away with today. You don't ris
The producers you want are watching you before they ever reply, and a rate sheet doesn't make anybody want to follow you. You know you need to be visible, but every time you show up, the only thing you know how to talk a
You sit down with a recruit and you start talking, and halfway through you realize you sound exactly like the company website. The platform, the products, the tech stack, the comp plan, all the stuff every other leader i
The market turns, a big producer walks out the door, rates move, a deal blows up, three fires start before you've finished your coffee. And that big vision you were so clear on a few months ago suddenly feels like a luxu
You found the producer you want. Big numbers, great reputation, exactly the kind of person who'd be a great addition to your team. So you reach out and you get the wall. They're not looking, they're comfortable, they've
You're making the calls, you're sending the messages, you're showing up every single day and outworking everybody you know, and the recruiting board just isn't moving. The seats aren't filling, and there's this quiet voi
You know you need to be consistent. The leaders who win are the ones who stay in the conversation over months and years. But the moment you try to automate your follow-up, it feels robotic, and people can smell a templat
You can have the perfect words. The script can be tight, and it still falls flat, because people hear the hesitation. They feel the doubt underneath your voice, and they react to your tone long before they process a sing
You've got somebody with real potential. You can see exactly what they could become, so you pour in time, coaching, and energy, and they just don't move. Instead of reading that, you double down, because surely if you ca
You need help to grow. You can't keep doing every part of this yourself and expect the team to get bigger. But every time you bring up a recruiter or a dialer, the conversation stalls, and you walk out with a no, or a ma
Here's the Ep 216 summary, following the SOP, in Richard's voice. You've worked on your vision. You've refined the message, you say it on a call, and people nod. They agree, they tell you it sounds great, and then nothin
Here's the summary rewritten in Richard's voice, speaking directly to the listener. You're growing, which means you're recruiting. But every time you go hard after new talent, this quiet fear shows up. Are you telling yo
You see something in this recruit. The character, the work ethic, the attitude, the way they think. You believe that in the right environment they become a top performer. But the numbers are not there yet. This is one of
You've been in a growth phase and felt the pressure to add people. So you did. And then you spent the next year cleaning it up. More headcount is not more growth. Sometimes it is more complexity, more culture dilution, a
You have a producer in your network who is doing well. Making money. Stable. From the outside, everything looks fine. But you know something is off. They are comfortable, but they are not fulfilled. And if you approach t
Most leaders are measuring the wrong thing in recruiting. They look at one number. Did someone join… or not? And when that is your only scoreboard, recruiting becomes frustrating, emotional, and inconsistent. You can hav
You know you need to show up on LinkedIn. You know your recruits are watching. You know your positioning matters. But there is a tension. You want to cast vision… Without sounding like a corporate press release. Because
This is not a comfortable question. Especially if your numbers are decent. Especially if you've had success. Especially if no one around you is challenging you. But here's the truth. Stagnation rarely announces itself lo
Most leaders don't have a recruiting problem. They have a process problem. They reach out when they feel like it. They follow up when they remember. They set meetings when someone feels warm. And then they wonder why rec
Most leaders believe they are creating value in their recruiting conversations. But here is the truth. Most of that value is forgettable. It sounds good in the moment. It feels professional. It checks the box. But a week
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Recruiting Conversations is hosted by Richard Milligan, Recruiting Coach. The show is categorised under business (marketing) and has published 100 episodes.
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