Mike Joyner

Partner

Mike has broad scaling experience in leadership roles within IT, HR, Total Rewards, People Analytics, and Recruiting while also helping two companies IPO. His background includes recruiting and people operations leadership experience during pivotal growth stages at some of the world’s most recognizable technology companies -- Apple during global retail expansion, Facebook pre-IPO 1,500 employees to over 7,000, and Pinterest from Series D pre-revenue and 150 to over 2,000 employees. As a partner and founder at GBD Talent, Mike leads foundational projects, enhancing our clients operational and foundational processes, market mapping and intelligence for executive searches, and Academy operations.

Blog Posts

Influencing With Data

What does it mean to influence with data and drive operational excellence?

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Headcount Planning

This time of year is often the most challenging — you’re trying to stay on track to hit your hiring goals while in parallel trying to look ahead to anticipate and plan next year’s hiring plan. Here are our tips on how to juggle these parallel realities as a recruiting leader:

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5 Things to Prioritize During a Market Downturn

We can’t predict how markets and the economy will change in the future. But, we do know that downturns are ALWAYS followed by expansion and growth. 2021 was an extreme example of how quickly things can change. Here are five things to prioritize during a market downturn

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GBD Benchmarking: Recruiting Leader Compensation

While compensation shouldn’t be the sole factor when evaluating opportunities, we understand that it’s an important consideration when making such a big life decision. We ran a compensation benchmarking survey focused on recruiting leaders at high growth companies.

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Recruiting Operations Focus for 2022

Common themes for what Recruiting Operations teams are focusing on in 2022

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Recruiting Tools Insights

Results reflecting benchmarks collected in November, 2021.

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IPO Readiness Guide

We’ve heard from recruiting leaders in our community that have struggled with what to do when their company announces that it’s going public. Whether you’re anticipating this reality soon or it’s still a hope at some point in the future, we thought it would be helpful to share tips from our experiences of navigating this challenging time.

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Diversity Recruiting Trends — Insights and Recommendations

What we learned from surveying 80 technology companies representing different stages of growth, industries, and geographies about their diversity recruiting practices.

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Four Takeaways from our Virtual Recruiting Operations Academy

What we learned from bringing a group of recruiting operations leaders together during a pandemic.

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Your Guide to a Successful Recruiting Operations Sprint

A well-defined sprint creates urgency and accountability, a feeling of speed and momentum, and most importantly a shared purpose.

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What Recruiting Teams have Learned 3 Weeks into the COVID-19 Pandemic

3 Insights & 5 Emerging Strategies to help others as we all work through these uncertain times together

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Recruiting Leadership Guide — Navigating through Uncertain Times

There are no playbooks for what we’re experiencing in this moment, which means that we’re all in this together to figure out how we navigate through the fog of uncertainty.

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Advice for crushing work from home

Some tips for adjusting to remote work to keep you energized, feeling connected, and avoiding the feeling of isolation, which is definitely a real thing.

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5 Ways Recruiting Teams are Adjusting to Coronavirus (COVID-19)

COVID-19 is forcing us to innovate new ways of working together and move toward a style of recruiting that we never would have otherwise embarked upon.

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The journey begins with Growth by Design Talent

We have shot out of the cannon these past couple of months in the best possible way, and I wanted to take a moment now to reflect.

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