Kevin Harrington, original Shark from the Shark Tank:
“You want to track down Alana Fulvio and Pendulum. You are America’s top Hiring and Talent Acquisition Strategist and Advisor. Your role is so important. I love your story. Their hiring teams weren’t equipped to handle hiring the right way. You offer that to companies.”
I was interviewed by the powerhouse businessman, Kevin Harrington. He wanted to know how I was getting profit-driven results from non-expert hiring teams (note: these are not the recruiters, these are the hiring decision-makers), by doing something that the majority of the market has yet to grasp, that is, until they lose profit, have turnover, their culture deteriorates or worse, their companies fail.
It’s a sabotaging blindspot for the majority of the world.
I told him, “I put PEOPLE and STRATEGY FIRST, we’re all in this together. WIthout WE we cannot achieve success.
I’ve created the strategies and solutions to make the non-hiring experts capable of delivering profitability by hiring well. I train them to be the best with the best processes to win, every time in less than 30 days. His eyes widened and then, he smiled.
It takes something.
I had more managers than not tell me I had to walk a straight line or gave me no direction at all, focus on numbers rather than humans; and if I didn’t hit them, I was out. I never wavered even with the ones that yelled, screamed and belittled me. Most telling me not to push the boundaries. I always hit my numbers, but NEVER at the expense of another human.
So I knew…there was another way.
Then there were my hiring teams — the engineers, product, program, IT, project, marketing, sales, and all the other non-hiring experts who put their trust in me to guide them as their trusted recruiting partner. THEY made the difference and confirmed for me that my methods and mindset were aligned with what they needed and they proved to exceed company expectations. WE DID IT TOGETHER.
I stayed my course.
For the non-recruiting experts who do their best at being hiring experts without training.
For the candidates.
For the current and future companies who don’t know.
A few clarifying distinctions:
-Hiring is about HUMAN CONNECTION and EVERYONE getting the life they want, not just the company.
-People are NOT resumes
-The one-sided interview is out of style.
-No interviewer is a great interviewer without a company that invests in them being a great interviewer. -Whoever was great without learning how? (and I’m not talking about books)
-”Ghosting” candidates should not be considered the norm just because others do it, EVER. There is no excuse. -Treat others with the respect they deserve.
-No one EVER did anything great without pushing boundaries and I knew, we as a human race were better than how we were dealing with Hiring.
-How companies treat candidates.
-How we rarely train the non-experts how to hire, never gave them a process or a communication strategy to help them yet, expected them to hire and get it right.
Some Success Takeaways for you from the interview:
🔷Invest In your #1 asset: Your People, first and early.
🔷Profit-driving, high performing, culturally aligned employees come from hiring leaders who are trained with the skills to hire well and aligned, as a team, In the right process, communication strategy and are WE, not ME, focused
🔷Candidates deserve to be seen and heard and you need to know if you can support their life outside of the time they put into making your dream successful
🔷Systemizing your hiring function drives profitability
🔷Retention and Hiring start at the same time
🔷Know how to create your best “Candidate Experience”
🔷If you’re a small business hiring one or hiring your next 40 or more, every hire counts
🔷Strategy before resumes
❌ Candidates are not resumes, they give you the opportunity to succeed as a company.
❌ Don’t wait until your company sees a loss of profit from mismatched hires, unoptimized hiring process, turnover, unfilled positions, cultural breakdowns or lack of skilled hiring managers.
❌Don’t assume your hiring leaders enjoy or are good at hiring
❌ Don’t do what history has done, decade after decade: like Einstein says “don’t expect different results by doing the same thing, that’s insanity.”
So I created what I know is needed, and, it is helping hiring teams get back to what they love to do and companies gain profit, faster.
I created www.pendulumglobal.com and my 3 immediately impactful solutions that any company can use and see results in under 30 days when implemented correctly.
Be the difference in the world. Don’t give up. Kevin didn’t and look at where he is now.
It was a pleasure.
Written by Pendulum Founder, Alana Fulvio. “America’s top Hiring and Talent Acquisition Strategist and Advisor.”
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