Scaling Recruitment in Private Equity with Dina DeMarco of Hueman Private Equity Talent Solutions 5-28-25
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What is the focus of Hueman Private Equity Talent Solutions?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. We're thrilled today to be joined by a brilliant leader. We're joined today by Dina DiMarco. Dina is the president of Human Private Equity Talent Solutions. They've done an incredible job of building a company and building a division that serves private equity-sponsored companies in the middle market and otherwise. Simply remarkable. Before I get started, I'll just make a quick note that the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast is recently surpassed 7 million downloads on the podcast. We're thrilled with that. We're very thankful to our listeners and our guests for helping us do that. Tina, can you take a moment and tell us a little bit about yourself and about Human Private Equity Talent Solutions?
Yeah, perfect. Well, Scott, thank you so much for spending a few minutes with me today. As you've mentioned, I have been with Human for 15 years, and I have spent the majority of my time at the organization leading large-scale RPO operations, so helping organizations to build high-performing recruitment teams. About five years ago, I pivoted my role and I have helped to launch and subsequently lead our private equity division. Today within our PE division, we created this division after we realized that there was a gap in the market. Portfolio companies needed help hiring and not just with executives.
How does Hueman address recruitment challenges in private equity?
There are tons of great executive search firms out there, but when it comes to hiring staff and middle management, what we found was there wasn't necessarily a great solution. So that's how we started this business. Today, we partner with PE firms to ensure that their portfolio companies have access to scalable, flexible, and affordable recruitment resources so they can help build out their teams quickly without having to rely on an overpriced headhunter or Sometimes they're under-resourced internal HR teams. So that's what we do here in Human PE Talent Solutions. Myself, as I said, I've been with the organization for 15 years. I am based in Atlantic Beach, Florida. I do a good amount of charitable work. I was previously on the board of our local humane society. So anything with animals, I love. I'm working on becoming a certified bird or wildlife rehabilitation specialist. That'll take a while, but that's the next thing on the docket for me.
So simply amazing. When you look at talent in the work that you do, is it at the middle level, the staff level, the executive level, all of the above? And is it typically with the portfolio company of a private equity funded, sponsored company? Talk to us a little bit about sort of the target and who you closely work with.
Yeah, yeah. So what we found is that lower middle market private equity firms that are investing in the lower middle market often have significant growth plans for their investment. However, those portfolio companies lack the resources and know how to effectively recruit. So rather than calling in a search firm, a different search firm for every role, Human is designed to be a holistic recruitment solution. So the majority of our partners are PE backed portfolio companies, and we can come in and hire one role up to 100 roles. And that's anything from your staff level positions up to your VP level roles. And concurrently, we're not only there to fill positions, but we're also there to help these organizations build out their own recruitment functions. So we do something that we call an outsource to insource model, where we actually help companies build a best-in-class recruitment process.
So when they're ready for their next transaction, they have the systems and processes in place to really maximize value.
Dino, let me ask you a question because one of the things I understand from having watched you over the years and what you do is that you've got sort of a compelling pricing structure. Can you take a second and tell us about that? Because everybody's trying to make sure they're doing things efficiently and intelligently and they're not spending more money than they have to.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the focus of Hueman Private Equity Talent Solutions?
0:00–1:26
2
How does Hueman address recruitment challenges in private equity?
1:26–5:32
3
What is the unique pricing structure of Hueman's recruitment services?
5:32–13:01
4
What trends are currently influencing the hiring landscape?
13:01–13:25
5
How does the current labor market affect recruitment strategies?
13:25–17:05
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