The Breakthrough Hiring Show: Modern Recruiting, AI, and Talent Strategy
Jul 7, 2026 · 57 min · 14 segments
Vincenzo Fasulo grew up in Benevento, Italy, a city older than Rome. After moving to the U.S. during one of the most uncertain chapters of his…
So when you say it's like one of the most formative experiences of your life, like what do you feel are like the top takeaways from that chapter and that transition and moving the States, getting married and everything that transpired with your mom and not being able to visit, like how did that change you?
It's really hard to say, to find like one, one word to say it, but I think it's, It was so deeply challenging on one hand to not have a job and kind of like feeling for a lot of times like a burden to my wife as well.
And on the other hand, I was constantly worried, you know, about will my mom, you know, make it? Will I be able to go see her in time? You know, like if something really bad had to happen.
So when I think about my... profession, my career as a recruiter, every day I always think about who I was, you know, back then and kind of like how I got into recruiting.
And I'm always thankful for the people that took a chance on me because both in my job and Nylabone, which was the manufacturing company that I was hired as my first corporate job and at SafeBridge, there were people that, you know, kind of like took a chance and a leap of faith in me because I had a very unconventional background.
I was kind of like a... like a fish in a pond, right? So someone had to take a chance at my unconventional background, unconventional resume, really no resume back then other than my degree.
I want to look past the document, the PDF, the Word document, and try to understand who that person is and kind of like what they have been through and what they're going through in order to find a job and kind of like have a good life.
So I think that's what every day I think about when I scroll through resumes or talk to people.
And that's not to say that I wouldn't have become this person if it weren't for my kind of like big life change and what happened in 2020.
But that definitely helped me become more empathetic and more understanding of people's each unique path, right? I think of...
And that helps, you know, traveling in general, but especially moving to a different country helps you, you know, kind of like understand and be more understanding of other people.
in a fictional world, let's take someone that has never traveled in their life.
They live in a remote village in any country that you can imagine, and they become a recruiter.
So when you say it's like one of the most formative experiences of your life, like what do you feel are like the top takeaways from that chapter and that transition and moving the States, getting married and everything that transpired with your mom and not being able to visit, like how did that change you?
It's really hard to say, to find like one, one word to say it, but I think it's, It was so deeply challenging on one hand to not have a job and kind of like feeling for a lot of times like a burden to my wife as well.
And on the other hand, I was constantly worried, you know, about will my mom, you know, make it? Will I be able to go see her in time? You know, like if something really bad had to happen.
So when I think about my... profession, my career as a recruiter, every day I always think about who I was, you know, back then and kind of like how I got into recruiting.
And I'm always thankful for the people that took a chance on me because both in my job and Nylabone, which was the manufacturing company that I was hired as my first corporate job and at SafeBridge, there were people that, you know, kind of like took a chance and a leap of faith in me because I had a very unconventional background.
I was kind of like a... like a fish in a pond, right? So someone had to take a chance at my unconventional background, unconventional resume, really no resume back then other than my degree.
I want to look past the document, the PDF, the Word document, and try to understand who that person is and kind of like what they have been through and what they're going through in order to find a job and kind of like have a good life.
So I think that's what every day I think about when I scroll through resumes or talk to people.
And that's not to say that I wouldn't have become this person if it weren't for my kind of like big life change and what happened in 2020.
But that definitely helped me become more empathetic and more understanding of people's each unique path, right? I think of...
And that helps, you know, traveling in general, but especially moving to a different country helps you, you know, kind of like understand and be more understanding of other people.
in a fictional world, let's take someone that has never traveled in their life.
They live in a remote village in any country that you can imagine, and they become a recruiter.
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