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Nov 4, 2026
Building a TA Function That Flexes With Demand
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Johnny CampbellHOST
Well, speaking of used to, walk me through what hiring at Watlow looked like two years ago, as in before you and your team would have been involved.
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8:48Patrick GrantGUEST
So before I joined, there was a TA person here in the US that had done a lot of the foundational TA work specifically for the US and a little bit of Mexico.
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9:01Patrick GrantGUEST
But the rest of the regions, the rest of the countries that we're in, we're really operating with a contractor or using the agency model.
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9:10Patrick GrantGUEST
And we were heavy on the agency model here because if you think of one person in TA is not able to fill all the jobs at the company.
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9:18Patrick GrantGUEST
Before I joined, there was a heavy usage on agencies with very high fees and a lot of different agencies.
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9:24Patrick GrantGUEST
If you can imagine, a hiring manager just made the phone call with who they used in the past and that person filled the job for them.
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