What happens when life gives you the push you’ve been avoiding? For Julia Arpag, getting laid off just five weeks after giving birth wasn’t a setback; it was the spark that launched her recruiting agency, Aligned Recruitment. In this inspiring episode, Julia shares how losing her “stable” W-2 job opened her eyes to the power of owning your career path.

With roots in therapy and a passion for meaningful connections, Julia reveals how she has built a thriving business by leading with empathy, curiosity, and authenticity, proving that recruitment doesn’t have to be transactional. She also challenges the hustle-at-all-costs startup myth, showing how it’s possible to grow a business and design a life you love.

From navigating motherhood to embracing AI in recruiting, Julia offers hard-won wisdom and a rallying cry for anyone contemplating entrepreneurship: "If you're determined to learn, no one can stop you."

Additional Resources:

• Aligned Recruitment
• Recruiting Trends for 2025
• Can You Trust AI to Handle Recruitment?
• The Benefits of Working With a Staffing Agency

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Hiring the right people has never been more critical, or more challenging. If your team is stretched thin, facing aggressive hiring deadlines, or searching for niche talent in a competitive market, a staffing agency could be your best-kept secret.

In this episode, we break down how the right partner can act as an extension of your team, handling everything from sourcing to screening to onboarding. You'll learn when it makes sense to bring in outside help, the difference between contract, direct hire, and contract-to-hire models, and how a great staffing partner can speed up hiring while raising the bar on candidate quality.

Whether you're building a team from scratch or just trying to keep up with demand, this episode will help you rethink what's possible when you stop hiring alone.

Additional Resources:

1. The Benefits of Working With a Staffing Agency
2. Staffing Services
3. Is Your Business Ready for Professional Staffing Services?
4. Advantages of Hiring a Third-Party Small Business Recruiter

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Most recruiters waste time chasing leads that will never convert. Patrick Barbour decided to fix that with a new recruitment automation tool.

In this episode, we dive into the story behind RecStack, an AI-powered business development platform built specifically for staffing firms. Patrick, a former oil and gas recruiter, shares how a single insight changed everything: at any given time, only 3–5% of companies are actively looking for recruiting support. The rest? Wasted outreach.

RecStack flips the script by using AI to track real-time sales triggers, like funding rounds, leadership changes, and key departures, so you only engage with companies ready to hire. It doesn’t just identify targets; it researches them, enriches contact data, and crafts personalized outreach that sounds like you wrote it yourself.

Patrick explains why this shift isn’t about replacing recruiters, but freeing up time to do more. Automation handles the grunt work. You build the relationships.

Whether you're a solo recruiter or scaling an agency, this episode reveals how top firms are already using automation to win faster, work smarter, and never cold call a dead lead again.

Additional Resources:

• RecStack.ai
• What Is Recruitment Automation and How Can You Use It to Hire Smarter?
• Can You Trust AI to Handle Recruitment?
• Trending Recruiting Technology: Must-Have Tools

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