Colleen Pelly
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Because it's so easy to say, oh, well, they've done exactly my type of recruiting for this many years, but that doesn't mean that they're going to give you the same experience.
And I would say you could actually take that into the hiring process, too, because I think if we talk about sort of like more traditional recruitment methods, I think there's a way a lot of people are so stuck on. I need them to have experience in this industry or they need to have done this. But it's like, no, let's break down the fundamental skills for the role.
And if they did this in automotive, they can also do it in tech.
If it's the same skill set, like a project manager can manage any like different types of projects.
And I think the clients we love working with understand that. And it's our job, I guess, to sell the transferable skill set too. But I think people get really stuck on like titles and industry. And it's like, no, like we need to focus a little bit more. And like, can they do the job properly, regardless if they've done it in the exact same way before?
Yeah, that was my start into recruitment.
Yeah, a little bit. I think like there's definitely like a manifesto or that way, but I feel like a lot of it was sort of how do you want to operate in the world? And like at the time it was like, yeah, do you like to move your body? Like, you know, is mindfulness a part of your everyday, that kind of thing.
But the whole, from a recruitment perspective, when a company does that really well, man, my job was easy. Right. Because everyone wanted to work there.
Yeah.
Yeah. And I think I, I probably didn't fit into a certain extent cause I'd never done yoga before and it was a yoga company. So, but I remember that made me stand out, but I think
It's still so crazy to think about.
Yeah, and there's so many. But yeah, I think that- They were the pioneer. The collective mindset, I guess, is the best way to put it, would be like goal setting and always wanting to better yourself. So there's like a personal development piece that I feel like everyone we hired sort of had in common. And it was sort of like never settling for less and- there's always more you can do.
And there's always, there's a continuous learning piece and there's just like a hunger to be better. A hunger. It was part of the consistency.
So at the store level, that's where I started. I started in the stores as a sales associate and they're called educators. And the front people at the time, this was years ago, but they were called DOFI, which is director of first impressions. And you had to greet someone within six seconds of them coming in. I love this.
And so like you can't, if you're coming in the door, I can't let you get past me essentially without like... morning. You're welcome. Like, thanks so much. So there's definitely a peppy energy. You're not, you're not wrong about that.
Yeah.
There's training too. Yeah. Like, and I think there's sort of the stores sort of broken down into different sections and yeah, but it was... It never felt, I think, I mean, I was young, like it was one of my first jobs.
And I think like one of the things that always landed for me was it never felt like work because every, maybe because everyone was like-minded in a certain, but like I loved everyone. Like a lot of them are still close friends of mine today. And we had so much fun. Really? Like it was such, I would recommend any young person to like work in the stores if that's like the type of retail job.
Yeah, really fun.
And the hiring kind of came into play with like seasonal, like holiday hiring. So it was like when you're on store leadership and then you're sort of voluntold, you have to hire your team.
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