Episode 17: A Buzzing, Diverse 'Hive' of Career Preparedness
In our most recent podcast, we delve into a conversation with Byron Slosar, the CEO and Founder of hellohive. Byron shares his vision of revolutionizing the traditional talent employment landscape.
hellohive, a virtual recruiting platform that secured $3.4 million in Series A funding earlier this year, is committed to connecting next-gen talent to companies with a significant diversity and inclusivity lens, making everyone feel valued and integral to the recruitment process.
Byron shares how the platform facilitates self-identification and self-expression for students and recent graduates. hellohive allows corporations to find talent and understand them better, enabling a more humanized interaction throughout the recruiting process.
Byron talks about his founder story, how it’s a full circle moment that connects many of the talents he had built throughout his life journey and includes a stop-off at the circus. As with many founders, he talks about the challenges building a business brings while raising a son and how he has learned to embrace his perceived weaknesses and turn them into a source of strength and grit.
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Show Notes
Byron Slosar is the Founder & CEO of hellohive, a diversity recruitment platform that, through patented resume technology and industry-leading data solutions, breaks down historical and institutional barriers between employers and candidates from unlimited diverse backgrounds.
Byron previously spent 15 years in career advising and undergraduate recruiting, working with thousands of candidates over his career. In 2018, he recognized that traditional recruitment models were becoming outdated, inefficient, and oftentimes inequitable and set out to modernize and democratize the career process and job search experience for next-generation talent.
More Elephant Moments in this Episode:
Byron shares his journey of becoming an entrepreneur, his challenges, and how he turned perceived weaknesses into strengths.
Byron outlines what traditional recruiting processes are missing in their standardized approach.
Built for equity and powered by inclusion, we discuss the vital role of technology in providing equity and access to students who lack the resources or knowledge to confront traditional recruiting processes.
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More About HelloHive: hellohive.com | Instagram
Connect with Byron: byron@hellohive.com | LinkedIn
Transcript
More Elephant Intro
[00:00:37] Jason Rudman: Welcome to the latest More Elephant podcast, where we talk about and talk with idea agents and folks who are, in their own way, changing the way that we think about the world and building solutions to help people lead a better life.
I'm delighted to welcome Byron Slosar to today's podcast. He is the Founder and CEO of hellohive, a virtual recruiting platform that connects companies with next gen talent with an overarching diversity lens that, as we get into this conversation, we will learn helps companies find talent and go to places that they might not necessarily go to or know how to reach.
So, Byron, thrilled that you're here looking forward to hearing your journey and your story of HelloHive.
[00:01:27] Byron Slosar: I'm just excited that you pronounced my last name. Ah, well, a win, a win. It's funny, we've been doing a lot of like, studying about our names and our name origins recently. And I've learned a lot about mine. So, my last name is Slosar now, because I've been married, formerly it was Kantrow, but people always say like slow zar or, and so I've started saying, you know, it's slow, not fast, sir, not ma'am.
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