May 30, 2022
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Today we are joined by the VP of Talent at Gusto, Emil Yeargin. Emil has a tech background and an extensive career in talent and recruitment. We discuss Emil’s recruitment goals for Gusto and tap into how leaders respond to the feedback he gives. Emil also explains what makes recruitment successful before diving into his background and an overview of his career up to this point. Emil then dismisses stereotypes surrounding his role and explains why the new generation will be passionate about recruitment. We discuss the new generation’s relationship with technology and how it has evolved over the last few years. Finally, Emil gives advice to those who want to pursue recruitment as their career.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Introducing today’s guest, Emil Yeargin.
- How things are going at Gusto.
- How Emil prepares for the meetings at the end of the year so the team gets what it needs.
- Emil’s goal for reinventing recruitment in Gusto.
- How leaders take Emil’s feedback about their recruitment skills.
- Emil explains good recruitment on a very basic level – knowing your organization.
- An arc of Emil’s extensive career and how he ended up in his current role at Gusto.
- How he realized that recruitment is about more than just placing someone in a job position.
- Why the new generation will be very passionate about recruitment as a career.
- The new generation’s interaction with technology.
- How Emil thinks HR tech has evolved over the last few years.
- Advice Emil would give for people who want to have a similar career to his.
Tweetables:
“How are you going to be impactful in really driving this company to its optimal greatness?” — Emil Yeargin [0:04:43]
“I think the next generation unlike us are going to grow up wanting to be recruiters.” — Emil Yeargin [0:17:47]
“Drive impact, drive high-level philosophy and drive a culture where you can tie business objectives to your work, so that you feel attached to it.” — Emil Yeargin [0:26:26]
“Recruiting is all about narrative. It’s all about being able to tell a holistic cohesive story.” — Emil Yeargin [0:27:33]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Emil Yeargin on Linkedln