Episode Summary

Joel sits down with Katie Krupar, a San Diego-based talent leader with 18 years in recruiting who now leads talent at Asset Watch, a manufacturing company offering software and hardware as a service. Katie talks about her path from staffing to in-house roles, nearly nine years scaling GoFundMe through the pandemic boom and the layoffs that followed, and her philosophy for adopting AI on a lean team without giving up the human side of hiring.

Key topics

Falling into recruiting. Katie graduated in 2008 into a collapsed economy and entered recruiting through a staffing firm she met