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We dive deeper in the 4 go to market (GTM) success cores to achieve and prove customer experience: Messaging, Design, Tech, and Experience. These 4 essentials don't only apply to marketing. Guests have marketing, sales, customer experience, revops, recruiting, data, and product backgrounds. Today, each business function grows either through customers or employees converging back to those 4 success cores.
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  <title>Episode 114: How Simplifying the Hiring Process Delivers Better Candidate Experiences</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Sean sits down with Carolyn Estelle, Director of Executive Search at Captivate Talent. They dive into why Carolyn joined Captivate Talent and what about the company sets them apart from the competition. They go deeper into her experience on how companies can get better at candidate experiences. Carolyn explains how this is a candidate market and how companies should adapt to find the best talent. Carolyn shares insights on how the Captivate Talent team guides clients through their hiring needs. HINT: Simplifying the process helps tremendously. Carolyn's helpful and passionate tone shows how much she loves helping clients find great talent and also uplifting to find more female executive being placed. She shows her advocacy to help females and young recruiters to excel.

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  <description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Sean sits down with Carolyn Estelle, Director of Executive Search at &lt;a href="https://www.captivatetalent.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Captivate Talent&lt;/a&gt;. They dive into why Carolyn joined Captivate Talent and what about the company sets them apart from the competition. They go deeper into her experience on how companies can get better at candidate experiences. Carolyn explains how this is a candidate market and how companies should adapt to find the best talent. Carolyn shares insights on how the Captivate Talent team guides clients through their hiring needs. HINT: Simplifying the process helps tremendously. Carolyn's helpful and passionate tone shows how much she loves helping clients find great talent and also uplifting to find more female executive being placed. She shows her advocacy to help females and young recruiters to excel.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Her motto: “Diamonds are made under pressure.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More About Carolyn. &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/estelle298/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.linkedin.com/in/estelle298/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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<p>Her motto: “Diamonds are made under pressure.”</p>

<p>More About Carolyn. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/estelle298/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/estelle298/</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>In this episode, Sean sits down with Carolyn Estelle, Director of Executive Search at <a href="https://www.captivatetalent.com/" rel="nofollow">Captivate Talent</a>. They dive into why Carolyn joined Captivate Talent and what about the company sets them apart from the competition. They go deeper into her experience on how companies can get better at candidate experiences. Carolyn explains how this is a candidate market and how companies should adapt to find the best talent. Carolyn shares insights on how the Captivate Talent team guides clients through their hiring needs. HINT: Simplifying the process helps tremendously. Carolyn&#39;s helpful and passionate tone shows how much she loves helping clients find great talent and also uplifting to find more female executive being placed. She shows her advocacy to help females and young recruiters to excel.</p>

<p>Her motto: “Diamonds are made under pressure.”</p>

<p>More About Carolyn. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/estelle298/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/estelle298/</a></p>]]>
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