How to Hire the Best Talent in 2021: Changing Landscape and Expectations

Rebecca Boersma leads the Executive Recruiting team at Momentive (formerly SurveyMonkey), responsible for ensuring a white-glove recruiting experience for candidates and hiring managers alike. She joined the company in 2020 to build their first in-house executive recruiting function overseeing global Director+ hiring across the business. In the past year, she’s scaled Executive Recruiting from its individual-contributor roots to a growing team of 3. Before joining Momentive, Rebecca served as a trusted advisor to the leadership team at Box, where she was a member of the Executive Recruiting team. Prior to moving in-house, she spent 4 years at H.I. Executive Consulting, a mid-size global executive search firm focused on hiring transformational leaders at the Board, C-suite, and Senior levels in Digital & Technology across a range of industry sectors. She began her career in the technology industry as one of the early employees at MoviePass. Rebecca is a graduate of the University of Florida where she earned her B.A. in Theatre Arts.

ZeShaan is a Partner at The People Collective where he works with growing teams to avoid People Debt - he does this by helping build the strategies and rollouts to enable startups and scale up to scale without stress. ZeShaan has 13+ years of experience, primarily in Digital/Tech having worked in Agency, Public Service (BBC), Public Sector (GDS) and Tech Startup > Scaleup (Onfido). He transformed recruitment at both BBC and GDS and scaled Onfido from 50 to 250+ people across 7 global locations.

He's passionate about great recruitment service design and cares deeply about inclusivity, proactive communication, and positive candidate/hiring manager experience.

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Kate has been working in the People space with start-ups and scale-ups for nearly 15 years. First in Executive Search, then a tech consultancy and venture builder, and more recently consulting to high growth people-centered start-ups in London. She is passionate about building environments where employees can do their best work, without geographical or cultural limitations, and have fun doing it! She gained a degree in Physics before getting the bug of helping companies deliver their mission through their greatest asset - their people!

Jonathan is co-founder and CEO of Lundi, an international recruitment marketplace that helps companies scale their global talent acquisition, Jonathan realized that for us to truly change the world, we needed to rethink labor mobility—essentially enabling employers to have access to the world's talent in one platform.

Prior to Lundi, Jonathan started and ran companies, advised and invested in startups, and built products and teams in the US, China, and Europe. Jonathan is a global citizen with strong ties to the entrepreneurial community and has mentored and coached many entrepreneurs to achieve success.