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How Fast-Growing Teams Hire

Some teams are hiring constantly. Dozens of roles a year, across functions that didn’t exist two years ago. Job descriptions have been rewritten, teams are smaller, and the bar is higher. Agentic tools have absorbed parts of some roles and created new ones, which makes evaluating a candidate harder than it used to be.
In this session, two people who run that hiring every day walk through how they actually do it now.
Speakers
Tamika Bowman, Global Mobility at Tools for Humanity
Tamika builds the programs that let fast-growing teams hire international talent and keep them. She has run immigration operations from the company side and the law firm side, including advising Electronic Arts’ talent mobility team.
Melina Chervone, VP of Recruitment at micro1
Melina hires at high volume for roles that barely existed a few years ago, and she’s building micro1’s AI recruitment engine for finding and vetting talent worldwide. She came to recruiting through psychology and UX.
Moderator
Ashlee Drake Berry, Head of Legal at Casium
Ashlee works with employers every day on when to sponsor, when to hire abroad, and what it takes to get it right.
What we’ll cover
– How a role gets scoped and leveled before it’s ever posted
– Where the best candidates are coming from right now
– What to look for when a résumé no longer tells you much
– How to move fast without lowering the bar
– Where international talent fits: when to sponsor, when to hire abroad, and what makes a candidate worth the extra steps
Who this is for
– People and talent leaders: see how peers run hiring at scale, and what holds up under volume.
– HR, recruiters, and team leads: what to look for in a candidate now, and how roles are being redrawn.
– Job seekers: how hiring decisions actually get made, and what makes someone worth the effort.
Bring your questions. We’ll save time at the end for Q&A.
Register: https://luma.com/9yjjsvct