The Search Podcast - Inspiring Recruitment
Sep 23, 2026 · 21 min · 11 segments
Elliott is joined by Joe Walsh, Founder & Managing Partner at Mural Group Joe is a former internal tech recruiter who recently set up his own agency and is about to hit $10 million in his third year…
Joe WalshGuest
Elliott ManningHost
And we started the business, um, about three years ago, it'd be three years in January.
Um, started just doing fractional, you know, hourly billings and then, you know, eventually moved into.
And so today we primarily work with industrial manufacturing companies and tech startups, usually in that like C to series B range.
Is this your background, Joe? Is this what you've always done? Was it predominantly, you know, tech or a bit of industrial, like where did this all come from?
I did an internship and realized that that was probably not the path I was going to take.
In my senior year, as I was about to graduate, got searched out of there or recruited out of there.
to go to a firm called Mondo, which one of the sales manager had worked at S3 and was like very familiar with the company and the culture and the style.
And yeah, so learned a ton there, did it a year and a half at the agency, worked on kind of a little bit of everything worked on some roles for Grubhub, which eventually would lead to my role at Uber, but did a year and a half there, one rookie of the year, really fell in love with recruiting, but didn't fall in love with agency, wanted to get out, was going to try to get out and move to LA and get into TV maybe, and it just didn't end up working out.
And we started the business, um, about three years ago, it'd be three years in January.
Um, started just doing fractional, you know, hourly billings and then, you know, eventually moved into.
And so today we primarily work with industrial manufacturing companies and tech startups, usually in that like C to series B range.
Is this your background, Joe? Is this what you've always done? Was it predominantly, you know, tech or a bit of industrial, like where did this all come from?
I did an internship and realized that that was probably not the path I was going to take.
In my senior year, as I was about to graduate, got searched out of there or recruited out of there.
to go to a firm called Mondo, which one of the sales manager had worked at S3 and was like very familiar with the company and the culture and the style.
And yeah, so learned a ton there, did it a year and a half at the agency, worked on kind of a little bit of everything worked on some roles for Grubhub, which eventually would lead to my role at Uber, but did a year and a half there, one rookie of the year, really fell in love with recruiting, but didn't fall in love with agency, wanted to get out, was going to try to get out and move to LA and get into TV maybe, and it just didn't end up working out.
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