Episode Summary
In this season-opening episode of Recruiting Is No Joke, Joel welcomes Alex Marr, Director of Recruiting at Phil, a healthcare company that streamlines prior authorizations and ships medications directly to patients. With nearly 15 years in recruiting, Alex moved from high-volume technical agency work to in-house leadership, with a stint as a consultant to pre-seed through Series B startups in between.
Key topics
From agency to in-house. Alex got into recruiting through a friend’s referral and was thrown straight into a sales-style agency environment. The grind of 7am-to-7pm days, high volume, and a transactional feel eventually pushed