090 How to prepare your SaaS for high growth by building talent pipelines | Podcast with Samuli Salonen - TalentBee

Make sure that Talent Acquisition isn't your growth bottleneck. Make it your competitive advantage! They're helping SaaS companies build an Employer Brand that gets noticed, optimize their talent acquisition process, build a talent acquisition strategy, recruitment & headhunting, and talent acquisition technologies & data. Connect with Samuli 👇 TalentBee: https://www.talentbee.io LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samulisalonen Tekpon is a SaaS marketplace born out of the genuine desire to help people change how they consume and purchase software products and services. Tekpon has behind a team of enthusiastic tech lovers whose main goal is to help users boost their lives and businesses with the right software. Connect with Tekpon ⚡ Website: https://tekpon.com SaaS Entrepreneurs & Startups: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tekpon Listen to the podcast 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0sf7X3sC8Pg8gzpphTYxgi Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tekpon-saas-podcast/id1637493062 The topics we've discussed 🕐 00:00 Intro 00:10 What is TalentBee? 00:33 What services do you offer? 00:53 How do companies usually run their talent acquisition? 01:44 How should they actually do it? 04:10 What is the cost of a wrong hire? 05:25 When should you choose an agency, and when should you build an intern HR team? 05:55 If you ask any SaaS founder why they are successful, they will mention their team 08:18 How to find the right person to build your internal team? 10:20 Why you need a talent pipeline before starting to hire 11:35 What is employer branding? 14:05 TalentBee pricing 14:55 SaaS recruitment as a service 15:15 One interesting case study 17:05 How competitive is your space? 19:18 When did you start? 19:45 Bootstrapping 20:29 Did you find Product-Market-Fit? 21:07 3 great strategies they used for their growth 23:53 Biggest challenge since starting 25:50 What is your future vision? 27:51 Advice for starting founders - it's all about people 28:40 Positives & negatives SaaS companies do when hiring 29:55 When creating a new department, should your first hire an expert? 31:40 Hiring trends Samuli sees in the future 34:50 Favorite software? 35:55 Outro