Recruiting Insight
In the Recruiting Insight podcast, industry veterans Mark Johnson and Ben Hess deliver timely, relevant, and actionable insights for real estate leaders. Together, they serve as Managing Partners at Recruiting Insight, a comprehensive talent acquisition solutions provider for the real estate industry, specializing in agent recruitment, hiring, and retention.
Ben Hess is serial entrepreneur, writer, and coach who has helped hundreds of real estate companies, teams, and managers excel at recruiting. In 2006, he co-founded ThirdPool Recruiting, a new agent recruiting marketing and software company that operates in more than 100 metro areas in the United States. He also co-founded CoRecruit, a coaching and training company specializing in experienced agent recruiting.
Mark is the former President and CEO of JPAR, a high performing real estate company with $8B in sales and 4,000 agents. Under his leadership, JPAR expanded rapidly and grew revenue 5X in five years. Mark’s passion and expertise is helping real estate owners and team leaders create the systems, structure, and processes to support their growth.
Recruiting Insight
Learn how RYAN O’NEILL’S Real Estate Team became the Best Place to Work in Minneapolis
Hey, it’s a great day to recruit, and today we’re making a stop in Minneapolis to check in with Ryan O’Neill.
Ryan is the founder and team leader of The Minnesota Real Estate Team. This is an appropriate name because they have been the #1 selling team in the State of Minnesota for many years.
Ryan started his team in 2005 (long before teams were common in the real estate industry) and built it into an organization that is much larger and prominent than most brokerages.
Last year, they were ranked #14 on the Real Trends list of the highest producing mega-teams in the country. They got there by closing over 2,200 transactions and making $750 million in sales.
Of course, it takes a lot of recruiting to achieve this level of success, and Ryan is one of the best in the industry at attracting and retaining the best agents in his marketplace.
In fact, he’s so good at attracting talent, the Minnesota Star Tribune named Ryan’s team as the #1 Mid-Sized company to work for in Twin City metro area.
This isn’t just the top spot for real estate companies, this is #1 ranking among all companies. I’ve never seen a real estate company win an award like this, so he must be doing something special.
Let’s jump in and see what we can learn from Ryan’s achievements.
