Surpassing a decade and a half of direct experience now, Emily Keyes has developed a stronger philosophy than any of her competitors. She “zigs when others zag,” and because of how consistently she stays on her toes, her headhunting and recruiting prowess speaks for itself. The Talent Boom Global has gone from a small bootstrapped company to Emily’s eight figure baby. She and her team are dedicated to providing creative, digital, and product recruitment services, supported by a strong network of professionals and business partnerships.
When she was 15, Emily left school and her family, packed for Europe, and went all-in on her talents. She’s always been someone who can make business magic happen when she’s face-to-face with clients. Between London and Amsterdam living situations, she scoured many neighborhoods to showcase her businesswoman demeanor and recruitment talents. Before social media was prevalent in modern society, efforts like these personal door-knocking trips made The Talent Boom known as the world’s first word-of-mouth recruitment agency. She continued working in Europe until she saw the chance to open up her business officially in Cape Town. She brought $100 to do the trick, and this recruitment industry baby grew and grew. Looking back on it from her current headquarters in Miami, Emily can proudly call this business bootstrapped.
This development was not without challenges, however. The recruitment industry works with people—the least reliable and most unfinished product—so Emily has developed adept people skills on top of her marksmanship in high stakes C-level recruiting. She’s lost recruiters to her competitors after training them for years, risked her ability to make payroll at times, and even catapulted the business into relevance after starting it with no business experience. For Emily, confidence, motivation, and knowledge are one of them. She is confident in her preparation, which comes from years of dealing with the unexpected, and she motivates herself with both her pride and refusal to fail.
The Talent Boom is a uniquely situated expat recruiter. Emily herself has developed the ability to quickly learn and engage with cultures because she’s lived in four countries across three continents. Her team, following the zigzag philosophy, attends creative festivals like Cannes or Spikes Asia and makes more international connections there. They have experience recruiting hundreds of expat hires from the US to Japan, establishing a reputation for excellence in global recruitment. They recruit digital marketers, developers, UX/UI designers, creative directors, and more for your digital business. What better place to look for your team than the whole world?
If you’re from the talent end, The Talent Boom Global will meet with you to go over your resume and portfolio before keeping in contact to help you find great roles. Both talent and recruiting businesses value The Talent Boom for its streamlined approach, efficiently connecting them with qualified candidates. The Talent Boom Global connects Fortune 500 companies, along with other leading firms and startups, with experienced C-level and SVP talent. The company runs on a boutique model, so they emphasize the recurring human connection between their partners, and this partner list is quite impressive. VaynerMedia, Audible, Amazon, Adidas, and AKQA are just some of the names who appreciate Emily’s help.
To this day, Emily has no line of credit or investors she depends on; her baby is grown and shocking the recruiting world. With the newfound time and platform from her business success, Emily has opened up more and taken more roles on podcasts and TV shows. She’s mentored over 100 US small businesses as a judge on multiple entrepreneur TV shows, and she’s trained up 200 more entrepreneurs through her personal business coaching program—The Global Business Coach—which is targeting both new and experienced business owners. She is a contributing writer for Entrepreneur, Inc., and she continues to show up in press around the world.
Emily has been at this business for many many years, and she’s happy to have a team on the same page as her in maintaining a strong global reach for the best-of-the-best clients. Personally, she will continue to help businesses hire their perfect C-level executives until she loses interest in the work, which won’t happen any time soon. Some people are career hustlers, and you have to tear them away from their jobs to get them to rest at all. Emily is a hustler, and her headhunting and global recruiting firm is the place to take your business, whether that business is in the East, West, or Antarctic. Check out her website to see The Talent Boom Global’s partners, get in touch, or learn more about the business.
Published by: Martin De Juan
