Virtual Equity
Virtual Equity
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Welcome to Virtual Equity, the podcast where recruiting meets real talk. Join us as we dive into the world of staffing, sales, and candidate connections. Whether you’re a recruiter navigating tough conversations or a sales pro building strong client relationships, we share actionable tips, personal stories, and industry insights to help you grow your accounts and master the art of talent acquisition. No fluff — just honest conversations about what it takes to succeed in the ever-evolving staffing industry. Tune in, level up, and close more deals.
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The podcast covers critical themes in the staffing industry, such as effective recruiting strategies, candidate engagement techniques, and essential traits for successful recruiters. Specific episodes explore topics such as the importance of touchpoints in candidate recruitment, ways to reset recruiting efforts, and key characteristics that make a strong recruiter.
Virtual Equity is the podcast from the team at Unified Linc — where real talk meets career growth. Hosted by Lindsey Meske and Nicole Evans, we share honest, practical conversations about recruiting, HR, business operations, and professional development.
Whether you’re a business owner trying to calm the chaos and run better, or a professional ready to level up your career — this podcast is for you. We cover recruiter tips, interview strategies, career coaching, hiring best practices, and the real skills you need to grow.
No fluff. No filler. Just the people, systems, and growth strategies that actually work.
New episodes every two weeks. Tune in and Run Better.
Learn more at unifiedlinc.com
You can buy better software, switch vendors, and automate everything, and still have the same payroll problem. In this episode, Nicole and Lindsey talk with Nakiea Bridges, CPP, of The Payroll Plug, about how to tell whether you’re dealing with a technology problem, a provider problem, or an internal process problem. Nakiea has worked payroll from the front end of a staffing agency, the corporate side of global companies, and the vendor side, so she knows what happens when systems, people, and providers collide. We talk about crap in, crap out, why payroll errors usually start in another department, and why the way you resolve a pay issue can matter more than the mistake. Nakiea shares how to diagnose a bad provider relationship with an issues log, and Lindsey explains the red flags that mean it really is time to switch and why you should never stop at the salesperson. We close with the one step every business owner can take tomorrow and why small businesses should build their payroll foundation before they need it.
What we cover:
- Crap in, crap out in payroll
- Payroll as an operations problem
- The onboarding field that broke an integration
- Payroll and employee retention
- Diagnosing provider versus process issues
- Keeping an issues log with owners and root causes
- When switching providers is the right call
- Vetting providers past the sales demo
- Writing it down, automating, and auditing
- Planning payroll before you grow
Key quotes:
- “Computers do not make decisions. Automation does not make decisions. Humans do.” Lindsey
- “If people can’t trust that they’re going to be paid correctly and accurately on time, they might not want to work for you anymore.” Nakiea Bridges
- “Just because you automate something doesn’t mean that you can forget about it. You still got to audit it.” Nakiea Bridges
- “Technology can make a good process better, but it can’t create ownership.” Nicole
Timestamps:
0:00 Tech, provider, or process?
2:56 Crap in, crap out 5:05 Payroll is an operations problem
10:22 Payroll as a retention tool 12:54 “Our payroll company is terrible”
17:27 When switching is the right call 22:46 Write it down, automate it, audit it
27:52 Your first step tomorrow
32:27 Don’t wait until you’re big
Links:
- Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RuW-rYNXjzY
- The Payroll Plug: https://payrollplug.com
- Nakiea Bridges on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nakiea-bridges-cpp-94626a118/
- Free Payroll Problem Diagnostic: https://www.unifiedlinc.com/Free%20Downloadable/Unified%20Linc%20The%20Payroll%20Problem%20Diagnostic.pdf
- Book a business chat with Unified Linc: https://zbooking.us/gEWMX
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