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Ep. 37: Erik Kostelnik - Building a Side Hustle Start-up while you are the VP of Sales

Secret Tech Sauce Podcast - A Podcast With Ben Martinez

Release Date: 02/20/2018

Ep. 38: Ryan Hart- Behind the scenes of employment background checks and drug screens

Secret Tech Sauce Podcast - A Podcast With Ben Martinez

Ryan Hart is the Director of Product for the background check and drug screening company, Verified First. Verified First is improving the HR Tech industry by making technology integrations better within the recruiting and onboarding process and improving the candidate experience. Ryan met the founder of Verified First (Devon Dickinson) while pursuing his MBA in Entrepreneurship and knew he had to work with him. That was almost four years ago and the company is exploding in growth since then.

Ep. 37: Erik Kostelnik - Building a Side Hustle Start-up while you are the VP of Sales

Secret Tech Sauce Podcast - A Podcast With Ben Martinez

Ep. 36: Matt Schwartz - Behind the scenes of Executive Search

Secret Tech Sauce Podcast - A Podcast With Ben Martinez

Matt Schwartz started his executive search firm back in 2003. After looking for his next gig working in a search firm he quickly realized that he could go out on his own. Fifteen years later and growing his firm “one logo at a time” his company is known for bringing “Transformative Talent” into companies. His recruiting firm recruits some big players in the executive space who make anywhere from $500K to $2M in total compensation.

Ep. 35: Lane Sutton - This Gen Z kid, gets it!

Secret Tech Sauce Podcast - A Podcast With Ben Martinez

Lane Sutton started a blog when he was 11 years old and a decade later he is doing more in the employment branding and recruiting space than your entire recruiting and employment branding team on steroids. Lane gets it. He has worked with some of the biggest brands - Hubspot, TripAdvisor, Sprinklr and Walt Disney.

Ep. 34: Jörgen Sundberg- Employee Advocacy & Employment Branding - The Ultimate Handbook

Secret Tech Sauce Podcast - A Podcast With Ben Martinez

Jörgen Sundberg gets employment branding. He runs Link Humans, London’s employment branding agency. In this episode you will learn more about employment branding than any conference can teach you because we touch on metrics, real life examples and then cover areas in Jörgen’s book, Employee Advocacy: The Ultimate Handbook. Jörgen also comes alive on his views about generations in the workplace, books to read, coffee to drink and advice to his younger self.

Ep. 33: Coffee, Coffee And Consulting

Secret Tech Sauce Podcast - A Podcast With Ben Martinez

Ben Martinez shares an update on ., his plans with his consulting work at Secret Tech Sauce Talent, how guitar changed his views on entrepreneurism and upcoming plans with podcast guests specializing in employment branding. This episode is part check-in/part advice. Enjoy the show. Links: Website - Instagram - Facebook - Twitter -

Ep. 32: Zach Daggett - Specialty Coffee in Guatemala

Secret Tech Sauce Podcast - A Podcast With Ben Martinez

Zach Daggett packed his bags from Arkansas and went to Jalapa, Guatemala to start a specialty coffee shop, . Four years later they have a flourishing business doing small batch coffee roasting, barista training and offering wholesale coffee. Prior to starting La Fabrica, Zach received his formal barista training through Anacafe (National Association of Coffee Producers in Guatemala), coffee contributor for and still does import/export work with various different coffee brokers. Enjoy this episode as we cover the following... Agenda: Ben/Zach find common ground with ties to...

Ep. 31: What I have been doing - Sumato Coffee Co.

Secret Tech Sauce Podcast - A Podcast With Ben Martinez

Ben Martinez shares what he is been up to and why you should care if you care about coffee. Ben has been focusing all his time and energy into reimagining coffee in the workplace. In 1952, the phrase "coffee break" came about from a massive ad campaign targeted for workers to take a moment & get their "caffeine jolt" BUT nobody focused on the quality of the coffee in the workplace. In the coming weeks, Ben and his team of coffee slingers are launching - Their purpose is to reimagine coffee in the workplace. Ben shares insight on what fresh coffee is, the benefits and the industry...

Episode #30 - Comedian – Steve Soelberg - talks comedy, free speech & believing in yourself

Secret Tech Sauce Podcast - A Podcast With Ben Martinez

I had the opportunity to meet live at with comedian, . Steve is a comedian centered on making his audience laugh. He prepares his material without the worry of being politically correct and believes that comedy is the last form of “free speech”. Being alone on stage with the goal of making hundreds of people laugh and connect with you requires personal power and Steve gets this power with a deep-rooted believe in himself. If you do not believe in yourself, then nobody will. Steve has performed all over America and knows that he needs to believe he is the best before he can think...

Episode #29 - PluggedIn - CEO/Founder - Colleen Jenkins - talks start-ups, recruiting & life in her 20s

Secret Tech Sauce Podcast - A Podcast With Ben Martinez

With all the attention of start-ups going in the big cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles or New York City - has found her niche in St. Louis with She has created a customized technology platform as a service as a software. During her days leading Talent Acquisition for the VC firm, Cultivation Capital, she realized that early stage start ups do not have the time or help finding top talent. Thus, she took her entrepreneur skills to work and started Entrepreneurship is nothing new to Colleen. In May 2014, she founded and launched CoderGirl, an all-women’s coding meet-up and training...

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Erik Kostelnik is the Co-Founder and CEO of TextRecruit, a candidate and employee engagement platform that leverages text, chat and artificial intelligence to help companies hire better people, faster. Prior to TextRecruit, Erik served as the Head of Sales at Wrike from 2014 to 2016 helping it reach #116 in 2015 Deloitte Fastest 500 and ran sales as VP at Identified through its acquisition by Workday in 2014. He acts as an advisor to startups including Eatify.com, Outreach.io and HIRABL, was named an Upstart 50 Inventor by the Silicon Valley Business Journal and lives in San Jose with his wife and three kids.

Agenda:

Ben/Erik find common ground with basketball - Erik played power forward in college.
Erik talks about his Finance background in college on the east coast and how he made it to Silicon Valley
Erik gets tired of making a lot of money for other people as a sales pro. Starts TextRecruit
Erik opens up about how recruiters use texting for recruiting. Coming soon - You will soon be able to apply to Chipotle over text message. Can I get guacamole with that?
Erik talks about how his company got acquired by iCims
Erik gifts a bag of coffee to his friend at Cracker Barrel, Sumato Coffee of course
Out

Links:

TextRecruit website - https://www.textrecruit.com/

Erik on LinkedIn - Erik Kostelnik

Erik on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErikKostelnik

Sponsor: www.sumatocoffee.com

Coming soon: New Secret Tech Sauce website, here - www.benmartinez.co

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