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Recruiting Top Talent in a Fast-Paced Industry: Wills Group Shares Their Experience

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Headquartered in La Plata, Maryland, Wills Group is a third-generation family-owned company, specializing in convenience retailing, fuels marketing, and commercial real estate. As a Great Place to Work Certified company with a vast network of 300 retail locations across the Mid-Atlantic region, recruiting the right talent efficiently is crucial for the company’s ongoing success.

In 2016, Wills Group partnered with Reflik to streamline their recruitment and gain access to a pool of high-quality candidates quickly for their roles that range from Software Developers to HVAC Service Technicians.

We had the opportunity to chat with Lorissa Martin, the Talent Acquisition and Development Manager, and Michelle Hackett, Senior Recruiter at Wills Group. We discussed how their ongoing partnership with Reflik has helped them overcome the challenges of finding top talent in a fast-paced industry.

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Wunderlich-Malec and Reflik Partnership: Mutual Growth through Efficient Recruiting

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Founded in 1981, Wunderlich-Malec is a top engineering firm specializing in the design, programming, and deployment of automation systems for clients across different industries. The nature of their business requires the company to provide ongoing support to their clients. Therefore, it is important to get the right people and partners on board.

Reflik is a proud partner of Wunderlich-Malec supporting their hiring needs through efficient recruiting.

Wunderlich-Malec Reach Expands with Reflik

The organization is both aware and proud of the reputation it has built over the decades. As a company at the top of their field, the company is inundated with resumes. To streamline processes and improve quality, they partnered with Reflik.

Recently, we spoke to the client about the impact of our partnership on getting the right talent efficiently for their niche engineering roles.

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How Reflik Has Helped Interactive Brokers Hire Top Talent

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Evan Lerman is the Director of Recruiting at Interactive Brokers. He uses external vendors to find the best talent out there in the recruiting industry. He isn’t alone.

Outsourcing the process of finding top talent allows senior management to focus on building strategy and strengthening their company – rather than having to read thousands of resumes or worse speak to thousands of potential candidates.

Ironically, many senior talent acquisition executives wind up sifting through hundreds of emails and voice mails trying to find the right vendors for their companies. It’s especially hard when you have to keep efficiency, quality of work, and your company’s budget in mind. [Read more…]

3 Reasons Why J.B. Hunt Hires Top Talent On Reflik

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Note: At the request of the Talent Acquisition team at J.B. Hunt, we have not used names of J.B. Hunt employees in this blog post. 

J.B. Hunt is a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest transportation logistics companies in North America.

Johnnie Bryan Hunt founded his namesake company in Arkansas in August 1961. In about 20 years, from 1961 to 1983, the company transformed from a small business with about five trucks and seven refrigerated trailers to the 80th largest trucking company in the US with approximately $83 million in annual revenue.

Today, J.B. Hunt employs over 124,000 people and operates more than 12,000 trucks. Its annual revenue is estimated at $7 billion.

J.B. Hunt has entered the technology space, as well, and is now seeing a tremendous amount of success with J.B. Hunt 360. The full-service platform, with 360-degree visibility into supply chains, is the most successful digital broker in the logistics and transportation industry.

Meet the J.B. Hunt Recruiting Team

Every Friday, the recruiting team at J.B. Hunt speaks with their dedicated Reflik account manager, Anthony Fruncillo. The J.B. Hunt team put aside a few minutes toward the end of the call to speak with Reflik’s marketing and communications team about how talent crowdsourcing helped them recruit and hire a Branch Manager.

We spoke with members of the J.B. Hunt team who were all very impressed with Reflik’s process, service, and product. Each member of the team is responsible for recruiting branch-based leadership positions in different regions: the West Coast, the East Coast, and the Central Region.

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3 Reasons Why Niche Companies Trust Reflik’s Recruiting Solution

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Magnus Textile is a Chelmsford, MA-based textile manufacturer, importer, and distributor. It offers Southern India’s finest textile products to American restaurants, hotels, as well as hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

The niche company leverages a process tested by time to produce the best textiles in the world.

“Our story begins on the manufacturing floors of our family-owned textile mills in Southern India. For generations, this renowned group of mills have produced textile products used throughout the world.” (Source: magnustextile.com)

Magnus is growing quickly and relies on recruiting and hiring top talent to fuel that growth.

From Left to Right: Edward Coady (CMO), Dev Ramasubbu (CEO), Prat Patel (COO)

According to the CMO at Magnus Textile, Edward Coady, “Reflik is a no-brainer.” With Reflik’s help, he recently hired the perfect sales manager for the niche textile company.

Before Magnus Textile, Edward worked for Launch Capital – the Venture Capital arm of the multibillion-dollar Pritzker/Vlock family. He has been a member of Boston’s Venture Capital community for over five years. In June 2017, Magnus Textile raised a round of funding from Launch Capital. This was when he jumped on board the management team at Magnus.

We sat down with Edward to get his take as an employer on Reflik. We talked about the challenges he faced while navigating today’s recruiting services landscape and how he overcame them using Reflik.

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Talent Crowdsourcing: Talent Acquisition Solution of the Future

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Talent Crowdsourcing is the Talent Acquisition Solution of the FutureEvery month, Reflik hosts a webinar for hundreds of Talent Acquisition and Recruiting leaders from companies across the US. Attendees represent a variety of verticals and industries including technology, financial services, manufacturing, legal services, healthcare, hospitality, and more.

In this month’s webinar, Reflik’s Director of Business Development Michael Bavaro discussed how crowdsourcing. Talent Crowdsourcing is a talent acquisition solution that helps hiring managers and Talent Acquisition executives recruit and hire the perfect candidates for their organizations. To talk about how Reflik’s talent acquisition solution has helped the leading legal services firm on the East Coast, Stern & Eisenberg P.C., Jorida Jaho joined the webinar.

Jorida spent a few minutes talking about how her team recruited before they began using Reflik and the talent acquisition solutions they used. She then went into detail about how Reflik’s Talent Crowdsourcing Platform helped Stern & Eisenberg recruit and hire top talent. In this quick interview, Jorida discussed why talent crowdsourcing is the talent acquisition solution of the future. She laid down three reasons:

  1. Talent Crowdsourcing Helps Specialized Companies Find the Perfect Candidates
  2. Talent Crowdsourcing is Effective and Simple
  3. Talent Crowdsourcing, through Reflik, Makes Talent Acquisition Effortless

Below is the transcribed interview – a quick excerpt of the 45-minute webinar. To watch the full webinar, click here.

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Fast Growing Companies Need Reliable Recruiting Solutions

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Company on a Mission: Nutiva

Having brought to life five ecological non-profits since the 1980s, John Roulac founded Nutiva in 1999 with 500 hemp bars and a mission to revolutionize the way the world eats. Today, Nutiva is the leading plant-based organic food brand and has been named one of the fastest-growing companies in America by Inc. Magazine seven times. Read more >>

Innovative Talent Acquisition Right Now: The no-brainer next step when you need that perfect next hire!

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You have tried everything. You have followed recruiting best practices to find the most qualified candidates.

“What now?” you ask yourself. The candidates you are reviewing just aren’t good fits for your organization’s needs. You know there has to be a next move. You know there has to be more to innovative talent acquisition out there. But what is it? How do you find the perfect next hire?

Kathryn Kurinsky is the Director of Human Resources at Simpson Technologies and, believe it or not, she was in your shoes just a few weeks ago. Read more >>

NYC-Based Virtual Reality Startup Uses Reflik, Finding the Perfect Candidate in 2 Weeks!

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Melanie Shellhorn is the Director of Human Resources at YouVisit, a New York City-based immersive technology company.

YouVisit helps brands, corporations, destinations, and institutions to drive deeper levels of engagement and conversions through interactive 360 experiences. YouVisit’s award-winning production studio has created over 1,000 interactive experiences that are viewable across mobile, desktop, and VR devices.

The idea behind YouVisit, which was founded in 2010, came about when college buddies Abi Mandelbaum, Taher Baderkhan, and Endri Tolka realized that there was no easy way for prospective students to tour college campuses – especially when travelling to the campus is not possible.

YouVisit recently hired a sales consultant using Reflik. We spoke with Melanie about her experience with Reflik. Read more >>

Large Enterprise Chemicals Manufacturer Tried Reflik, Quickly Successful

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PetroChem Image-FINALIn the spring of 1958, talks broke down between 38-year-old distributor Charles Webb and Rocket Chemical – predecessor to the WD-40 Company, which continues to manufacture the mechanic lubricant WD-40 today out of its San Diego headquarters.

Shortly thereafter, Webb founded Corrosion Reaction Consultants – renamed CRC Industries later on in the 1980s – to compete directly with Rocket. One of Rocket’s lead chemists and the apparent inventor of WD-40, Norman Larsen, headed the newly-formed Corrosion Reaction Consultants out of Warminster, Pennsylvania.

Today, CRC Industries is a global supplier of chemical specialty products, manufacturing over 1,300 items and developing specialized formulas to meet the unique needs of the Automotive, Marine, Heavy Truck, Hardware, Electrical, Industrial and Aviation markets. Read more>>