Son Win is a Global Campus Recruiting Manager at LinkedIn and is responsible for hiring and coaching entry-level talent for 300+ business and technical roles around the world. Prior to joining the talent acquisition team at LinkedIn, he worked in recruiting for Target Headquarters as well as college admissions at Notre Dame, Columbia, and Michigan. --- Here are some questions we will be answering: What makes a good and bad LinkedIn profile? How to get recruiters to respond to your...

Niki Woodall is a Product Leadership Recruiter at Facebook, the most popular social media platform in the world. Niki Woodall has spent 10+ years recruiting for all types of companies, including startups, nonprofits, and tech companies. She is also a mindset and career coach where she helps individuals tap into their limitless potential. So stop scrolling through your Facebook feed because you are going to "like" our next episode... --- Here are some questions we will be answering: Biggest...

Have you heard of Masterclass, Coursera, Turnitin, Coursehero, and Handshake? Our guest today is the Head of Talent at GSV Ventures, an early-stage investment fund that has invested in all of these companies and manages over $270M in assets. We are lucky to have Amanda Porter who supports talent acquisition and performance management across GSV Ventures and its portfolio companies. --- Here are some questions we will be answering: How to know if VC is right for you? How do you break into...

Lizzie Ann Jones has been a recruiter at Amazon and Expedia for over 4 years including MBA recruiting and global talent acquisition. She is a recruiting thought leader on LinkedIn where she has gained over 8M+ annual views on her career content. Lizzie is currently completing her MBA and is an incoming Product Marketing Manager MBA Intern at Microsoft. --- Here are some questions we will be answering: How to win as an underdog? What is it like to work at Amazon? The key trait to breaking...

Farah Sharghi-Dolatabadi is currently a Global Talent Acquisition Partner at TikTok and has previously been a recruiter at 5 other companies such as Google, Uber, and Lyft. She has a Computer Science degree and worked in finance before pivoting to talent acquisition.  --- In this unique episode, we will be debunking common career myths on TikTok:  Applying on a company’s careers page is a black hole You should apply to as many companies as you can It is a bad idea to apply to multiple...

Ogai Zemarialai is a recruiter at Google, specifically for product management roles in areas like Cloud and YouTube. Prior to Google, she recruited for a Healthcare firm and an Information Technology & Services firm. Outside of recruiting, she is a career coach, investor, entrepreneur, MBA candidate, and aspiring real estate agent.  --- Here are some questions we will be answering: Google Interview Process and Brainteaser questions? How to have "Googliness"? Networking even after you...

Anastasia Ecin is a Recruiting Associate at Tesla. She has completed 4 internships in both startups and fortune 500 companies such as Tesla and Salesforce (with zero referrals). She was able to successfully navigate the recruitment process all while being a first-generation college student and a graduate from a "non-target" school. --- Here are some questions we will be answering: What's it like to work at Tesla? Are unpaid internships worth it? How to navigate your job search as a...

Greg Share has 12 years of university recruitment experience sourcing top-candidates, and 5 of which have been as a campus recruiter for Ernst & Young (EY).  Here are some questions we will be answering: How do navigate virtual career fairs with big firms like EY? Who should you speak with, what do you say, how do you differentiate yourself? Should the conversation you have with a recruiter be different than speaking with a professional from that company? How do you have an organic...

Marisa Jones is an established technical recruiter having worked at multiple tech companies in the Bay Area. She was previously a recruiting coordinator, talent sourcer, and technical recruiter for 4 years at Salesforce, and for the last 3 years has worked as a senior technical recruiter at Airbnb.   Learn about how tech recruiters are beneficial to network with even if you are applying to non-tech roles, the difference between a technical recruiter and a general recruiter, asking for...

As the first guest from the commercial real estate industry, Garland Fuller has over 15 years of experience in talent acquisition. Previously, she was a regional recruiter for JLL. Currently, she is the Sr. Diversity Recruiting Business Partner at CBRE which is the largest commercial real estate services and investment firm in the world. The firm’s assets under management exceed $104 billion and have over 100,000 professionals worldwide. Learn about how to break into commercial real estate,...

With the first episode of The Final Round Podcast, we sit down with Bruce Smolen, a Talent Acquisition Senior Specialist at the Boston Consulting Group (or BCG for short). He has recruited for the BCG Los Angeles office for over 15 years. During that time he has reviewed thousands of applications and helped recruit hundreds of consultants into BCG offices all over North America.  For those of you who are not familiar with BCG, it is a global management consulting firm with $8.5 billion in...

Welcome to The Final Round Podcast.  Join us in the ring as our host, A.J. Eckstein, speaks with RECRUITERS at top companies in multiple industries to learn the secrets why certain applicants get knocked-out and others are still standing after the final round. Learn more at www.careercoachingcompany.com/podcast