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The Talent Advocate Strategy: How recruiters align candidate aspirations with the right role

See how ZoomInfo’s Prathap Maruthi Gandikota uses first conversations to match candidates to the right role and earn hiring manager trust.

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Most of what makes a candidate a strong fit never shows up on their resume. Where they want their career to go, the adjacent experience they’ve picked up along the way, and what they’d want from their next role usually only come out in conversation.

On December 1, Prathap Maruthi Gandikota, Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at ZoomInfo, joins us for The Talent Advocate Strategy. He’ll share how he approaches a first conversation to surface that information and how he uses it to make recommendations hiring managers trust. He’ll also walk through a live example showing how the same approach helps with understanding professionals outside recruiting, including sales and marketing teams.

What you’ll take away

  • Ways to learn more about a candidate, or a customer, than their profile shows
  • How to connect what a candidate wants next with roles that genuinely fit
  • How to advocate for candidates while staying a trusted advisor to hiring managers
  • How sales and marketing teams can borrow a recruiter’s approach to understanding people

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