Hi, this is Greg Kielstrom. Welcome to season three of the Agile World, where we discuss customer

employee experience, organizational and workforce transformation, and how business can adapt and

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book, The Agile Workforce, now available on Amazon and other retailers. Hi, my name is Greg Kielstrom,

and I'm the host of the Agile World podcast. Today, we're going to talk about how organizations

can protect themselves against the great resignation through a smarter recruitment marketing strategy.

To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome Jared Hummel, president at Parker Digital

Marketing Agency. Jared, welcome to the show. Hey, Greg, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

Yeah, looking forward to talking with you. Why don't we start by, why don't you give a little

background on yourself and on Parker? Yeah, so starting with myself, I'm a little bit of a

wanderer, I guess. I started my career in manufacturing and then got into real estate property

management and then plumbing and heating and then eventually staffing and then digital marketing

for staffing. So, a little bit of a journeyman, but I think, you know, what I've learned through

that process is, you know, most business has the same common issues and it's a lot of times,

you know, around what we're talking about today of creating a great culture, hiring great people,

following the process and scaling and growing. And so, on the on the park side, we actually have

a sister company, a receipt searching consultant, which is a recruiting and staffing agency in the

Minneapolis Twin Cities market. And I actually started as the CFO for that company and then we had

a small digital agency that was flailing a little bit when I started and so I sat down with the

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