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StartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #5 Erica Wass. Bad hires are a 2.5x salary burn.Scaling Product Teams with Zendesk's Former Director Erica Wass.In this episode, I sit down with Erica Wass, one of Australia's most respected product leaders and Former Director of Product at Zendesk. We dive deep into the art and science of building product teams that actually drive business outcomes.What we cover:The 3 C's every product manager must demonstrate (beyond technical skills)Why hiring the "perfect" PM might be costing you 2.5x their salaryHow to lead distributed product teams across impossible time zonesThe critical question every PM should ask before joining a startupWhy AI is happening FOR product managers...2025-06-0338 minStartUp HiringDaragh Kan - "There's no backup"Daragh Kan has been the first product manager at not one but two fast-growing startups — Me&U (formerly Mr Yum) and Cuttable. He’s built products under pressure, scaled alongside founders, and brought a deep sense of user empathy from years running his own hospitality venues.What I like about Daragh’s perspective is how much of it comes from actually doing the job, not in theory, but in the mess of real-world complexity. He’s made big product bets, worked through early hiring chaos, and found ways to bring structure without slowing teams down.2025-05-2837 minStartUp HiringStartUp Hiring James Dale - Joined Apple at 17 then sold a StartUp to SnapchatNavigating Startups: Insights from Moving to Apple at 17 and Founding a BusinessIn this conversation, James Dale shares his journey from a 17-year-old intern at Apple to founding his own business. He dives deep into the challenges of being a young founder, the importance of quality hiring, and the sheer amount of work required beyond one's main discipline. James reflects on the excitement and stress that comes with startups, offering valuable advice for anyone looking to join or start one. He also emphasises the evolving landscape of technology and the crucial role of customer feedback in product management. Whether you're...2025-05-2227 minStartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #15 Ben Mostafa - Engr to CTO in 10 years.When Ben Mostafa joined MessageMedia, he didn’t know what a CTO was. By the time he left, he’d been one. Over nearly ten years, he helped grow the company through different phases of scale, infrastructure-heavy tech, product-led SaaS, major user growth, and acquisitions. Along the way, he hired ICs and engineering leaders, built high-performing teams, and adapted his own leadership style.What I like about Ben’s perspective is how grounded it is. He’s technical, thoughtful, and clearly values people who take ownership, ask questions, and work well in ambiguous environments. The throughline in everything Ben shared w...2025-05-1529 minStartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #15 Paul Perrett. Billion Dollar Exec talks about hiring.$3bn +. That's the deal value that Paul Perrett has overseen as a leader, making him without doubt one of Australia's most successful B2B SaaS leaders. In this video, you'll learn how Paul thinks about the power of hiring the right people, why he still thinks that people are the number one asset of any business and how his approach to hiring and leading has evolved over the years.Paul’s perspective is built on reflection. He’s done the work. He’s made hiring mistakes. And he’s honest about what it takes to build trust in small teams, h...2025-05-1532 min
Crime Time FMThe Newcastle Noir 2024 Review Show Episode 1 of 3The Newcastle Noir Review Show on Crime Time FM featuring Trevor Wood, Sam Holland, Antony Johnstone, Jo Furniss, Rob Parker, Michael Wood and Paul Burke. The panel select some of their favourite crime novels of 2024 and look ahead to 2025. Selected BooksStuart Neville Blood Like Mine Dom Nolan White City The Escape Room LD SmithsonSpiral Cameron WardPeepshow Kate Summerscale Three Inch Teeth CJ BoxThe Finder novellas Simon MasonSanctuary Garry DisherThe Twelve Murders of Christmas...2024-12-141h 24
Rubberband - Talent Acquisition 🇦🇺Simon McSorley - CuttableGUEST: Simon McSorley -POSITION: Talent Lead -COMPANY: Cuttable -TOPIC: The Songs That Shaped My Career -FORMAT: Podcast.Support the showJoin RUBBERBAND today! 2024-12-0735 min
Crafty Sourcer - Stay Crafty✌🏽Episode 28 - Sourcing planning for success with Simon McSorleyDo you love it or hate it, text us here!Simon McSorley is the founder and owner of Crew Talent Advisory. He's worked with some of the most innovative clients in the tech industry and knows how important it is to get your hiring right from the get-go. "If you don't know what you're trying to hire, how will you know when you see it and how can you qualify it"? these are just some of the gems Simon shares in this episode.Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast...2024-06-1945 minStartUp HiringStartUp Hiring # 14 Dan Mottau. Better hiring through better leadershipWelcome to Start, Scale, Grow - the ultimate destination for technology companies looking to level up their hiring game. Whether you're just starting out or well on your way to becoming a major player in your industry, we've got you covered. In each episode we'll bring you insights and actionable tips from the people who’ve done it, to help you find, hire and retain the best talent possible in the competitive world of tech. We've all heard the saying that good people want to work for good leaders and that like attracts like. Ask any recruiter or talent ac...2024-05-0955 minStartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #12 Cameron Nott. Understanding people is the key to success.In all walks of life, trends drift in and out of popularity. Recruiting is no different. For years, personality profiling was a large part of many companies hiring processes. As the battle for talent got fiercer, hiring time became more important. Companies needed to move quickly for in-demand talent that had plenty of options. Personality profiling started to become seen as a friction point, something that slowed competitive processes down. But there seems to have been a resurgence of interest in this space over the last few years. The rise of remote and hybrid teams has forced many companies...2024-04-1537 minStartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #11 Jason Atkins. Demystifying Equity.In this episode, Jason Atkins the Co-Founder and President of Cake Equity shares his insights and demystifies the world of staff equity. From tax breaks to staff engagement, there are so many benefits to doing this, and it's not as difficult as you may think.Cake is 5 years old and has over 150k equity holders on the platform in 80 different countries. They're the definition of an Aussie tech success story. The big ticket items 👇🏻2:15 - what is equity? A term for the ownership of a company.6:15 - the impacts on founders of going down the equity share route. Founders techni...2023-12-1338 minStartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #10. Alana Bennett - New rules for employee experience?In this episode, Alana Bennett discusses the challenges of building and maintaining connections in a remote/distributed workforce. We’re all humans. And like most other mammals we are social beats. We thrive on and need connection. Covid, Post Covid hiring blitzes, tech sector layoffs, workers feeling commoditised, how do employers manage this?Alana describes this in two ways.1 - Connection intensity. The depth of connection we have with each other. 2 - Connection frequency. How often we need to connect.The hardware of connections used to be offices. Meeting rooms, offices, corporate kitchens. The software of connections is what we...2023-11-1747 minStartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #9 Meqa Smith: Rethinking the way we hire.Meqa is the owner/founder of the Unforgettable agency. She's on a mission to help companies stop employing people and start enrolling them. In this episode, we discuss how we all want to feel part of a tribe, how to inspire people to go the extra mile, leadership's role in hiring and the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.Big ticket items: 1:00 Employment mindset VS Enrolment mindset 1:50: Why is it so hard to recruit people? Hammers & Nails = we think that tactical issues hold us back. Mainly because that’s where we always seem to start.03:53: Starting from a place of...2023-10-3142 minStartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #8 Matt Woodard: What is a Talent Strategy?»»» Matt Woodard is a mainstay of the Australian Talent Acquisition community. With close to 2 decades of experience hiring for leading technology companies and now running his own business, Scalr, we thought he might be the best person to ask, What The F&@k is a Talent Strategy?It's a catchphrase we hear used a lot but like a lot of them, there's some ambiguity around what it actually is. Luckily Matt was able to help decipher it all for us..Matt business Scalr - https://www.scalr.com.au/Matt's linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattwooda...This epi...2023-10-0942 min
Aspects of HistoryFilm Club: Bloody Sunday (2002)This month's film club is Paul Greengrass' 2002 film, Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Gerard McSorley, Mary Moulds and Simon Mann.The film is realistic depiction of one of the worst atrocities of The Troubles, when 14 unarmed civilians were shot and killed by members of the Parachute Regiment.My next episode is a discussion with legendary BBC journalist Peter Taylor, out this Saturday so subscribe to add to your feed.Email me if you have any questions or comments: history@aspectsofhistory.comBloody Sunday Links...2023-06-2748 minAspects of HistoryFilm Club: Bloody Sunday (2002)This month's film club is Paul Greengrass' 2002 film, Bloody Sunday, starring James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Gerard McSorley, Mary Moulds and Simon Mann.The film is realistic depiction of one of the worst atrocities of The Troubles, when 14 unarmed civilians were shot and killed by members of the Parachute Regiment.My next episode is a discussion with legendary BBC journalist Peter Taylor, out this Saturday so subscribe to add to your feed.Email me if you have any questions or comments: history@aspectsofhistory.comBloody Sunday Links...2023-06-2748 minStartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #7 Adam Beck: Hiring & Interviewing tips for Software Engineers.With over a decade of software engineering exp Adam has been through interview processes with several big-name tech companies. He’s got some great thoughts and opinions on what things stand out as really positive and what could be done better. If you’re an engineer who’s thinking of the next role or someone who hires software engineers, you’ll find something useful in this discussion. The big ticket items:02.00 Why do you think everyone has an opinion about recruiting?- The recruitment process is often an extension of the personality of the people who are actually hiring.- We ask...2023-06-1438 minStartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #6: Matthew Clements. Early Stage Sales team hiringMatthew Clements is a "responsible steward of capital" ™️ AKA VP of Growth at Budgetly. Ker-ching 💰With 12 years of sales and 6 years of leadership experience, Matthew brings a wealth of experience in the tech space. He's grown sales teams in the B2B & B2C space and in this episode, he shares thoughts on early-stage hiring and sales in general.Matthew mentions the book Drive by Daniel PinkBig Ticket items:4:30 When growing the first sales team, you can’t just hire 10 salespeople and 10x your target.6:18 - You’d rather have your team drowning in leads as opposed not having enough & sa...2023-05-0937 minStartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #5 Catherine Toms. Is recruitment just marketing?Catherine Toms is one half (some would say the best half) of The Toms, a digital marketing consultancy that helps marketing teams to cut through all the noise in an evolving and shifting market.As an ex-recruiter she brings a unique insight into both worlds and actually works with agencies to think like marketers. “When a business takes a product or service to market, they are trying to clarify who their target market is and how they can best communicate why their product or service is the best. Recruitment is like this in the fact that the “customer” is a pote...2023-05-0237 minStartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #4 Lauren Grimes. Lessons in early stage hiring from an Engineering leader.Engineering Leader Lauren Grimes talk to us about the challenges and fun of early-stage hiring The Melbourne success story that is Xplor was the first role where she was responsible for hiring and not just a participant. Now she’s in a new start-up, and she’s applying the lessons she’s learnt from early stage, fast growth hiring and sharing them with us.4:54 Outside of tech skills, we looked for people who could go on a journey. People who were flexible, hungry to learn, growth mindset, could jump in and take ownership. The skills were secondary. As your busine...2023-04-0540 min
StartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #3 Sam Robb. StartUp hiring is challenging but fun.When we say that Sam Robb is a StartUp hiring veteran we don't mean that he's 65, we mean that he's been through several fast-growth StartUp journeys. His experience with organisations such as A Cloud Guru, My Yum and now EQL mean that he's got solid operational knowledge to share and some real-world lessons we can learn from.In this discussion, he shares his thoughts on blending pragmatism and the desire to move quickly with the need to stay true to best practice hiring. How do you coach new hiring managers?Do all new hires really need to buy into...2023-03-2053 min
StartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #2. Mitch King - StartUp hiring. The realityIn this episode, Talent Acquisition leader Mitch King shares his insights into StartUp hiring. When he joined a scrappy startup called Linktree that had a simple yet big idea, he couldn't have imagined growing the business from a handful of people to over 300. And that along the way, Linktree would raise ~$165m and go on to unicorn status. We talked to Mitch and got his opinion on several topics, including; On transparency in hiring. “My standpoint on this and it will always be my attitude I think is, the more transparent you are, the more likely you're going to...2023-02-1248 min
StartUp HiringStartUp Hiring #1 Caitlin Fairchild - Interview advice for fast growth businesses 🚀Welcome to today's episode (the first!) of Start, Scale. Grow, where we delve into the crucial aspect of hiring for startups and businesses of all sizes. Interviewing is a vital aspect of building a strong team, but it can be challenging, especially when starting out. How do you know what to look for in a candidate? How do you determine a good fit quickly? In this episode, we sit down with Caitlin Fairchild, who has extensive experience in exactly this when she helped to grow Xplor from 30 to 2000 employees. Together, we discuss the important elements of interviewing, i...2023-01-3046 min
Simon SquibbHow Do You Build A Sustainable Business? - Ryan McSorleyRyan and his Co-founder Josie have a combined 20 years of experience working for consumer goods brands, from Ecover and Method and Ella’s Kitchen to PepsiCo and Starbucks. Having both worked for larger cleaning brands for several years, we were aware of the fact that cleaning products are often 90% water and packaged in single-use plastic. Globally, homecare generates around 29.5 billion bottles each year, and in the UK less than one-third of plastic is recycled, according to Euromonitor.2022-08-0529 min
TaPod - We Talk Talent Acquisition.Episode 163 - Want to know what Benefits Candidates are really interested in? With Simon McSorleyToday on TaPod we have a WORLD EXCLUSIVE! Simon McSorley and the team at Crew Talent surveyed Candidates on what benefits they wanted to see from a prospective new employer... Then they checked over 1000 Career Sites to see what benefits (if any) they were communicating. The results are simply amazing, and here's 1 cheeky stat to get you started... Less than 30% of Career Sites mention any benefits at all... let that sink in...Oh & by the way, Craig flies solo as Lauren was sick (clearly that meant no swears in the episode!).One final note on Employee Benefits...2022-07-1741 min
Cabot Coverage: A Murder, She Wrote Podcast57. A Killing in Vegas (Season 8, Episode 8) (First Aired on November 24, 1991)Jessica tries to disprove charges against her friend's boyfriend, suspected of murdering a Las Vegas casino manager.This episode can be streamed on Peacock.Guest Stars include:1. David Soul (Starsky & Hutch) as Wes McSorley2. Shelley Smith (Simon & Simon) as Katherine McSorley3. Amy O'Neill (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) as Susan Hartley4. Jeff Kaake (Viper) as Eddie Wheaton5. Howard Keel (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) as Larry Thorson6. Stephen Macht (Suits) as Frank Stinson7. Andreas Katsulas (Babylon 5) as Jerry Pappas8. Richard Portnow (Trumbo) as Lt. Walt Murphy9...2021-07-081h 02
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaTwo Doors Down: The Complete Series 1-3: A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama by Annie MccartneyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/458685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Doors Down: The Complete Series 1-3: A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama Author: Annie Mccartney Narrator: Sean Rafferty, Gerry Anderson, Eddie Mcllwaine, Stella Mccusker, Frances Tomelty, Full Cast, Gerard Murphy, Marcella Riordan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: December 17, 2020 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: All three series of the BBC radio sitcom about the people of Marlborough Road, Belfast The bohemian inhabitants of Marlborough Road lead lives of barely-contained chaos, full of demands, distractions and domestic dramas. Fortunately, they have one person they can count on when...2020-12-1705 min
Your Career Down UnderRecruitment goes undercover. You'd be surprised about what they know about you at one press of a buttonWant to know how a recruiter really works and how they view your online profile as well as your CV? You'd be surprised at what they can find out about you at the touch of a button. Delighted to welcome recruiter Simon McSorley to #CareerCarePackage
2020-10-0846 min
Listen, Relax and Enjoy the Wonders of Full AudiobookBBC Radio Shakespeare: A Collection of Eight Comedies Audiobook by William ShakespeareListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 413124
Title: BBC Radio Shakespeare: A Collection of Eight Comedies
Author: William Shakespeare
Narrator: Anne-Marie Duff, David Tennant, Full Cast , Helena Bonham-Carter, Martin Jarvis, Miriam Margolyes, Siân Phillips
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16:28:51
Language: English
Release date: 08-20-20
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Drama, Shakespeare, Classics
Summary:
Eight full-cast BBC Radio productions of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies
Full of merriment, mayhem, mischief and mistaken identity, here are eight iconic radio productions of Shakespeare's most magical comedies, featuring star casts and introduced by Sir Richard Eyre.
Much Ado About N...2020-08-204h 28
The St.Emlyn’s PodcastEp 69 - SMACC Dublin Day 1 Round UpDay One Highlights from the Smack Dub Conference: A St Emlyns Overview
Welcome to the St Emlyns blog! We, Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley, are thrilled to report from the first day of the Smack Dub Conference in Dublin. It's been a while since our last update, and we're eager to share the day's experiences, which were filled with emotional moments, innovative presentations, and deep discussions. Here's a summary of the key events and takeaways.
Opening with a Tribute to John Hinds
The conference started early at 8 AM, with the opening session dedicated to the memory of...2016-06-1509 min