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#105 - Yeliz Castillo | Co-Host Announcement & 2024 re-cap
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Yeliz Castillo is a dedicated TA professional starting her journey in London with little English, she embraced the challenge and became fluent in her third language while developing a passion for recruitment. Yeliz thrives on connecting with people, making an impact on their lives, and building meaningful relationships. She values authenticity, collaboration, and stepping out of her comfort zone to pursue her goals. Liz is currently TA Lead & Sr. Talent Partner at pplwise.
Links
Guest Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yeliz-akin/
Thomas Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kohler-pplwise/
Thomas e-mail: thomas@pplwise.com
pplwise: https://pplwise.com/
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Transcript
Introduction of New Co-Host
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Speaker
Hello, everybody. And hello, Liz. I'm really looking forward to this um short episode um because I just want to do a short review and announcement. So we have two announcements. One announcement is that Liz will be the co-host in 2025 of the People Factor podcast. And I'm really looking forward to do this because I know that you are a passionate podcast listener.
00:00:23
Speaker
ah like and we already had an episode and I'm looking forward that you will also contribute to the show so maybe a few words from your side. Yeah, absolutely. So I am so excited to do this. It's kind of nerve-wracking, I have to say, if I'm very honest, but that's where growth happens. So um yeah, I'm really, really happy to step out of my comfort zone and do that. And then yeah, I'm so excited about all the interesting conversations I'm going to have and all the things that we're going to be doing in this podcast.
Festive Episode Plans
00:00:57
Speaker
Definitely. And also nice Christmas outfit, because this episode will go live on 25th of um December, I guess, on the Wednesday. And um so, um yeah, you you chose the perfect outfit. I actually, I don't have one, unfortunately. But the People Vice logo is red, so it's it's the Christmas logo.
00:01:17
Speaker
And also I want to add this had also obviously a occasion because we had our all hands today, our 2020 for all hands and it was a Christmas theme. Well, I kind of, um, instigated to have a Christmas jumper day, um, since we're all online. So yeah, this is why I thought I could keep it for the day.
Podcast Milestones and Future Ideas
00:01:36
Speaker
Yes, and also nice, um a short announcement on the podcast. We publish now more than 100 episodes. um The podcast has around 1.5 million views on LinkedIn, um around 1,000 followers, um regular listeners and fans um across um Germany, yeah Austria, the UK and the US are the main countries.
00:02:00
Speaker
and um I'm really looking forward to also developing the show together with you. So um we will try and test maybe some new ideas and introduce maybe some new formats. This is still in discussion and I'm looking forward to continue because we're just getting started, right? Absolutely. Absolutely. I can't wait.
Company Financial Success
00:02:21
Speaker
Yes, and also on people-wise an update. So we really finished the year strong and closing it at a revenue of more than 2.1, maybe even 2.2 million in revenue. That's a 125% year-over-year growth.
00:02:40
Speaker
with an estimated EBIT of somewhere between 21% and 25%. And um a healthy service business is always somewhere between 20% and 30%. And I sometimes also looked into recruiting companies' benchmarks, where most of them are somewhere between 15% and 17%. So we also reinvest a lot into growth. We do a lot of these ah dinners. We do a lot of podcasts. We really make sure that everybody has um the right tools, the right tech capabilities. We invest into benchmarks. um and So we really reinvest a lot, but the good thing is that it's productive what we do and that we are very effective in how we do it because we have such a strong team, such a clear focus, such a strong value proposition, and and such a strong collaboration with our customers and our framework-based scientific approach and and allows us to be so focused on profitable growth.
00:03:36
Speaker
um And that's also very good for all our individuals because it also means um commission, it also means bonuses, it also means freedom, flexibility and all um as a remote first company with now around 20 talent partners.
Looking Forward to 2025
00:03:50
Speaker
Yeah, incredible. Like the growth that we had this year and all the things that happened, you know, ah like all the different journeys on on growth and learnings and success. It's incredible, like crazy. And I am just super excited about the next year. Me too. And so i I'm really looking forward to this. Let's close it like this. um Five minute announcement and i'm very glad um to start or to finish the year strong and ah start strongly into 2025. Yeah, let's do it.