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I hired more than 120 people for my own agency, and now I headhunt across Europe. Your listeners get what I learned doing both.

I am a headhunter, a former agency founder and an MBA professor. On your show I talk about what I have done myself, I leave listeners with things they can use, and I share the episode with my LinkedIn audience.

LinkedInNo. 1 recruiting creator and No. 11 creator overall on LinkedIn in Estonia. Favikon, September 2026.

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Recognition

LinkedInNo. 1 in recruiting and No. 11 overall on LinkedIn in Estonia

Favikon ranking card dated 16 September 2026 for Julien Sicard: number 1 in Talent Acquisition and Recruiting in Estonia, number 11 on LinkedIn in Estonia

Favikon ranks LinkedIn creators by country and topic. Its ranking of 16 September 2026 places me here.

  • No. 1Talent Acquisition and Recruiting creators on LinkedIn, Estonia
  • No. 11All LinkedIn creators in Estonia, in the top 200 list
  • 15,000+followers on LinkedIn, where I write every day
30podcasts had me on as a guest in 1 year
1,500professionals hired through Euro Remote Talent
120+remote professionals I hired personally for my own 32-person agency
5business schools and universities I have taught at since 2018

For your audience

What your listeners take away

I prepare for your audience, not for mine. 3 things you can count on.

First-hand numbers

Everything I say comes from a company I built or a search I ran. When I give a number, it is mine.

Something to use tomorrow

Years of MBA classrooms taught me to give a conversation a clear arc and to leave people with steps they can act on the next morning.

Both sides of the hiring table

I have been the founder who had to hire, and I am the headhunter who vets the candidates. I can explain what each side does not see.

Episode ideas

4 conversations, matched to your show

Each comes from work I did myself. Pick 1, mix 2, or tell me what your listeners struggle with and I will prepare for that.

Founder and remote work shows

Hiring across Europe without the guesswork

Europe is not 1 talent market. Pay, notice periods and expectations change at every border. I headhunt across the continent, including people who are not looking for a job.

Your listeners leave with

  • How pay for the same senior role differs between European markets
  • How to vet for skill, English fluency, communication and fit
  • How to approach people who are not looking

HR and recruiting shows

Recruiting in public

Most companies use LinkedIn as a job board. I write there every day about hiring. We can talk about what daily content does for recruiting, and what it cannot do.

Your listeners leave with

  • What to post when you want candidates and not just likes
  • How founders and recruiters can share the work
  • What to measure, and what to ignore

Marketing and agency shows

The agency with no office

For 6 years I ran a content agency that grew to 32 people across Europe, with no office. I can walk your listeners through the systems that kept quality steady, the hires that worked and the ones that did not.

Your listeners leave with

  • The screening steps that predicted a good remote hire, and the ones that did not
  • Where remote hires go wrong in the first 90 days
  • How to build workflows so quality does not depend on 1 person

Career and job search shows

What makes me hire 1 candidate and reject 200 others

I read profiles every day as a headhunter, and most are a list of jobs and tools. This is the talk I gave at Nomad Summit in Tallinn in 2026, turned into a conversation.

Your listeners leave with

  • What a headhunter looks for first in a profile
  • How to turn a list of jobs into a position backed by proof
  • A LinkedIn routine that builds a reputation before you need one

For your show

I do my share of the promotion

An episode should travel further than your own feed. Figures from LinkedIn analytics for my profile, read on 6 October 2026.

What I do once the episode is out

  1. A LinkedIn post about the episodeI write a dedicated post when it goes live and tag you and the show.
  2. Your clips, resharedSend me the short clips you publish and I repost them.
  3. A guest kit before we recordBio, headshot, questions and links are ready further down this page.
349,094people saw at least 1 of my posts in the last 12 months
724,142post impressions in the last 12 months
85%of impressions came from people outside my network

Where the people who read me are

  • New York
  • London
  • San Francisco
  • Berlin
  • Tallinn
  • Los Angeles
  • Sofia
  • Amsterdam
  • Bucharest

Top cities by viewers. Founder is the most common job title among them.

Past episodes

Where I have been a guest

Earlier conversations, most of them recorded in 2020 and 2021 when I ran a LinkedIn marketing agency in Shanghai.

Evolvepreneur Podcast ShowEP047: Creating a Process Driven Business. October 2020.Watch on YouTube → Winning at Business and Life PodcastEpisode 175. November 2020.Watch on YouTube → Peak Performance PodcastEP026: Dominate On LinkedIn, with Chris McLean. April 2021.Watch on YouTube → Talk 2 Brazil PodcastLinkedIn Local Shanghai. February 2020.Watch on YouTube →
  • The Honest DrinkEpisode 58: “Smoke & Mirrors”. October 2020.
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  • The Grow With Moin PodcastEpisode 33: Do What You Love.
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  • Hong Kong ConfidentialWith Jules Hannaford, on life as a founder and using LinkedIn.
    See the post →

Guest kit

Everything you need before we record

Copy what you need for your intro and your show notes. You do not have to ask me first.

Intro to read on air

Julien Sicard is a headhunter and the founder of Euro Remote Talent. Before that he built a 32-person remote content agency and hired more than 120 people himself. He teaches on the MBA programme at Riga Business School and writes about hiring on LinkedIn every day.

Short bio

Julien Sicard is the founder of Euro Remote Talent, where he headhunts European talent for remote companies. He previously built a 32-person fully remote content agency and personally hired more than 120 people. He teaches digital marketing on the MBA programme at Riga Business School and lives in Tallinn.

Longer bio

Julien Sicard is a headhunter, former agency founder and business school professor based in Tallinn, Estonia. He co-founded The Copy Broker in 2017 and grew it into a 32-person fully remote content agency across Europe, personally hiring more than 120 remote professionals before exiting in 2023. He now runs Euro Remote Talent, a headhunting firm that finds European talent for remote companies and through which 1,500 professionals have been hired. He has taught at 5 business schools and universities since 2018, including ESSCA and emlyon business school in Shanghai, and today teaches digital marketing on the MBA programme at Riga Business School. In September 2026 Favikon ranked him the number 1 recruiting creator and the number 11 creator overall on LinkedIn in Estonia. He has spoken at Cloud Connect, LinkedIn Local Shanghai and Nomad Summit.

Julien Sicard, founder of Euro Remote Talent

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Questions you can ask me

  1. You hired more than 120 people for your own agency. What did you get wrong at the start?
  2. What makes you pick 1 candidate and reject 200 others?
  3. How does pay for the same role change between European countries?
  4. How do you approach someone who is not looking for a job?
  5. You ran a 32-person company with no office. What kept the quality steady?
  6. What should people post on LinkedIn if they want job offers and not just likes?
  7. Why did you go from running an agency to headhunting?

Practical

Based in
Tallinn, Estonia
Time zone
Eastern European Time (UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer)
Language
English
Recording
Remote, audio or video
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