Mike Overell

How a small group of peers, radical honesty, and 8 years of showing up changed my life.

I've spent maybe 30 hours researching ski trips over two years.

What I shipped, what I learned, a new personal mission.

Finding the perfect early startup hire is no easy task.

The year felt like a decade, but I'm grateful for so much.

If you’re a founder or business leader faced with doing hard things in this hot mess, try to do them right.

2018 was a year of refuelling—financially, physically, emotionally.

After 7 years building RecruitLoop, I stepped back from my operating role.

A year ago I wrote that “2016 was a watershed year in recruitment tech” with a flood of investment, new entrants and mega M&A.

I'm taking a 30-day break from all social networks.

This post was originally published on Techcrunch .

Last month RecruitLoop shifted from a remote ‘friendly’ company to ‘Remote First’.

This post was originally published at CorpMagazine .

This post was first published in The Huffington Post.

I found this article on my hard drive today and it made me smile.

We had a baby last year.

I identify distinct phases of my life based on running tracks.

Diverse teams are better.

We just ran my first CEO performance review.

Every year our founding team closes out with a long walk in nature.

I was in NYC last week, for the second InfluenceHR Event.

RecruitLoop just raised a seed round.

I recently upgraded to a Macbook 13″ Retina.

Every startup founder complains about finding the right talent.

In January we decided to move from Sydney to San Francisco.

An Aussie goes Valley.

My productivity system after trying GTD, Omnifocus, and Asana.

My ERE.net article on LinkedIn's disruption of traditional recruiting generated heated debate.

I’ve heard this sentiment expressed in different ways for startups.

I enjoyed a post from Brad Feld today about ’having a wake for failed startups’.

When a recruiter justifies poaching staff from non-paying clients, it reveals exactly why people distrust the recruitment industry.

A memorable piece of live chat feedback that reminded us: when you're making waves, not everyone will be happy about it.

Blackbox Connect.

Field notes from Sydney Startup Weekend 2012: the brutal marketplace for ideas, developer shortage, and lessons from 54 hours of building.

Robert Scoble swung for a night at Blackbox Mansion.

Week 2 of Blackbox Connect.

Everything you do is wrong.

I’ve just landed in San Francisco, after a long flight ex-Sydney.

Why Microsoft Office is losing relevance—and the app stack that replaced it.

Job ad data is a leading employment indicator—except the data isn't reliable.

The internet is just beginning to disrupt how we work.

Are small employers shifting jobs offshore to escape regulation?

2011 was an up and down year, with 2-speed economies across the globe.