The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast
Hung Lee
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2 hosts, 3 guest, 60 minutes - it's your weekly dose of Recruiting Brainfood.
My name is Hung Lee and every week I host a talkshow with leading figures in the staffing industry where we AI, future of work, recruitment agencies, diversity & inclusion, gig economy, recruiting technology, workplace culture and the rest.
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep235 - Year in Review 2023 - AI, WorkTech Investment & DEIB
2023 Year in Review: AI, DEIB and Worktech Investment
Coming in for the final 4 Brainfood Live sessions of the year and we are going to do a series on 'Review of the Year 2023. We've 12 topics packed into 4 sessions, so make sure you follow the channel in order to be notified of them all when we go live.
We being with AI, WorkTech Investment and DEIB - what has happened in 2023 on these three domains?
- Timeline of AI events and milestones
- Major impact of AI on recruitment industry
- AI enablement of candidates
- AI roll out across all major consumer apps
- AI as a disruptor to the workforce
- VC Investment in Work Tech - what is the situation Mr LaRoque?
- DEIB - have we taken backward step in 2023?
- What has been the DEIB domain of the year?
- How do we know where we're at with DEIB?
Let's take a look back folks at three critically important domains of the recruiting industry.
We're with Martyn Redstone, Founder (PPBOTS), George LaRoque, Founder (WorkTech), Joanne Lockwood, Consultant (SEEChange), Theo Smith, Founder (NeuroDiversity World) & Friends
Ep235 is sponsored by our buddies Poetry
"This is a blueprint for improving our talent acquisition maturity." TA Leader, Engineering
Poetry is a recruiter workspace including solutions for recruitment marketing, recruitment operations, recruiter learning and a launchpad for all the other tools you need to accomplish your daily tasks.
We enable recruiters to be better marketers through enhanced collaboration, genAI assistance and automatic recommendations. These are the days of brilliant content. Gone are the days of re-writing InMails, social media posts and email copy.
We save you considerable 'toggle tax' by providing so many solutions within the one app. Rapidly locate your job ad templates, competitor intelligence, interview policies and TikTok sourcing tools. Everything's in the one place.
Managers, this is for you too. Our workspace analysis and reporting tells you how the team are using the solutions and provides you with automatic coaching, recommendations and ROI.
Get started for free at www.poetryhr.com
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24 Nov 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep235 - Do You Have A Menopause Plan?
DOES YOUR COMPANY HAVE A MENOPAUSE PLAN?
Worldwide Menopause day went by last month and I - like most men I suspect - totally did not know about it(!). And yet menopause is an inherent and potentially significant moment in women's lives, one which is under discussed in society at large and certainly in the world of work. Does your company have a plan for menopause? If you have women in your workforce, you had better.
You will learn:
Basics:
- What is menopause, who is affected, when does it happen?
- What are stages of menopause?
- How does menopause manifest?
- What can women expect to experience during menopause?
- How long does menopause last?
- What do we think of the recommended medical advice?
- What is the state of menopause in the workplace?
- What can employers do to normalise menopause, whilst also helping employees who may need extra help?
- How can other employees assist?
- What kind of work configurations, work designs should be considered?
All this and more as we dive into a critically important yet neglected topic in the workplace. We're with Angela Cripps, MD, (Recruiting Gym), Kellie Millar, Recruitment Manager (Space & Time), Sally Higham, Head of Talent Attraction, (Lonza), Clair Bush, Founder (CareerSix), Lou Furby, Senior Events & Communications Manager (SpecSavers), Marisa Esteves, Manager, Talent Acquisition, (ScribeAmerica) & Jennifer Candee, Global Director of Talent Acquisition (Cargill)
Ep234 is sponsored by our buddies Poetry
"This is a blueprint for improving our talent acquisition maturity." TA Leader, Engineering
Poetry is a recruiter workspace including solutions for recruitment marketing, recruitment operations, recruiter learning and a launchpad for all the other tools you need to accomplish your daily tasks. We enable recruiters to be better marketers through enhanced collaboration, genAI assistance and automatic recommendations. These are the days of brilliant content. Gone are the days of re-writing InMails, social media posts and email copy. We save you considerable 'toggle tax' by providing so many solutions within the one app.
Rapidly locate your job ad templates, competitor intelligence, interview policies and TikTok sourcing tools. Everything's in the one place. Managers, this is for you too. Our workspace analysis and reporting tells you how the team are using the solutions and provides you with automatic coaching, recommendations and ROI.
Get started for free at www.poetryhr.com
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21 Nov 2023
Founders Focus - Ep40 - Up close and personal with Aref Abedi, CEO of Jobylon
AREF ABEDI, CEO OF JOBLYON
We're up and close and personal with the entrepreneurs changing the way in which we work today. Next up is Aref Abedi, CEO of up and coming ATS, Joblyon.
Lets hear from Aref on tech startup, leadership during an extraordinary period in the global economy, how Joblyon conquered the Nordic market and what the plans are going forward with expansion into UK, EU and beyond.
Ep40 is supported by Jobylon.
In today’s talent landscape, change is the only constant. That’s why you need a flexible hiring system. Jobylon is the ATS tailor-made for top employers, adapting seamlessly to your processes and ways of working. Whether you’re hiring 50 or 5,000, Jobylon helps you attract, manage, and hire the best candidates.
Learn more at Jobylon.com
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16 Nov 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep233 - AI Enabled Candidates - What is the Plan?
AI Enabled Job Seekers - What is the Assessment Plan?
We know that job candidates are now extensively using generative AI tools to improve their chances of passing through job assessments. We can expect this number to increase as competition for opportunities continues to be high and innovation in tech becomes ever more sophisticated. Do we recruiters have a plan to deal with this?
You will learn:
- Candidate usage of GAI - status
- Surge of job applicants ...is it from mass apply tech?
- GAI for CV, Cover letter, Application form
- Teleprompter tech for video interview
- Touch up enhancements (visual, audio) for video interview
- Available techniques for mitigation - detect, deter, design
- Which assessments types are MOST exposed to job seeker use of GAI?
- Which assessments types are LEAST exposed?
- What does the most future proofed assessment flow look like?
All this and more as we dip our toe into a future, where every candidate is a centaur.
We're with Christine Ng, Head of People & Talent (Quantum Motion), Robert Newry, CEO (Arctic Shores), Antonia Manoochehri, Founder (Lumenai), Becky Lee, Head of Student Talent Attraction (EY) & Bas van de Haterd, Founder (Digitaal-Werven)
Ep233 is sponsored by our buddies Pinpoint
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10 Nov 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep232 - State of the Recruiter Job Market, Part 2
STATE OF THE RECRUITER JOB MARKET, PT2
It has been a very challenging market. We did the pt1 of this mini series at the start of the year and we had hoped that things would improve for recruiters looking for work, but I don't think we can say that it has. The market buoyancy that we've experienced over the past decade and half might turn to be entirely a zero interest rate phenomenon, and we need to adjust to changed realties.
Let's talk to recruiters who are at different stages of the job search - from recently looking, on the market for a while, to those successfully closed. We need to talk about what we're seeing, so that we can share learnings, connect and figure out how best to optimise for these suboptimal conditions.
You will learn:
- Market perspective from the job seekers
- Germany, UK, USA, Ireland
- What trends are discernible?
- Salary / compensation
- Status of remote
- Language requirements
- Applicant volume
- Inbound opportunities...any at all?
- Best practice / recommendations
We're with Nikki Tarr, Head of TA (ex-ClearCourse), Tanguy Lacroix, Talent Acquisition Partner (ex-Qonto), Sofia Broberger, Recruitment Trainer (Freelance), Jon Hull, Head of Resourcing (ex-Balfour Beatty), Amanda-Jane Lamont, TA Leader (ex-Zalando) & Caroline Hunter, Recruitment & Talent Director (ex-Cielo) & friends.
Ep232 is sponsored by our buddies Symphony Talent
Symphony Talent combines CRM, career site, programmatic advertising and creative services for the most complete recruitment marketing and campaigning capabilities you'll find in one platform. Increase applicant flow, reduce hiring time and build a world class employer-of-choice employer brand with Symphony Talent's unique technology and services suite.
Need to improve your top of funnel talent acquisition? Contact one of our experts today.
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10 Nov 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep231 - Creating A Career Framework for Talent Acquisition Department
CREATING A CAREER PATHING FRAMEWORK FOR YOUR TA DEPARTMENT
Inspired by a question asked in the online community, we're going to do this conversation on how to build career path & progression framework for Talent Acquisition. A structure of this type is essential for any significant department in business, helping not only create visibility on resourcing gaps but also on how candidates and employees can progress their careers within the business.
How many of us have one of these for TA? My guess is, not nearly enough.
You will learn:
- What is the right size of department to start to build out a career pathing framework?
- What models are available and which should you choose?
- How to do build the compensation framework?
- How do we ensure substantive differentiation between the levels?
- How to do keep flat hierarchy?
- What is the typical structure which most TA departments use?
- Are there any industry standards on this?
- How do we implement once a framework has been designed?
All this anymore as we learn about How to Create A Career Pathing framework for TA.
We're with Annie Jackson, Head of Talent Acquisition (CLEO), Andrea Marston, Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition (VMWare) & Andreea Lungulescu, Founder (TA Crunch)
Ep231 is sponsored by our buddies Greenhouse
In today’s competitive talent landscape, being people-first is business-first. Greenhouse helps companies adopt a flexible, fair, and efficient approach to hiring. Empower everyone from recruiters to hiring managers to make confident decisions that strengthen your business. Get measurably better at hiring with a data-driven approach. Discover how Greenhouse can help you hire for the kind of business you want to build.
Learn more at Greenhouse.com/hire
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1 Nov 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep230 - How to Hire in LATAM
HOW TO HIRE IN LATAM
As I will be in Colombia this week, it is fitting that I should do a Brainfood Live on the topic of Hiring in LATAM. As the world re-globalises around new supply chains and regional blocs, as well as jobs shifting across those boundaries as companies seek the best available talent at the best available price, we are overdue a visit to Latin America and all the diverse economies of this 1 billion person region.
This is a show for every recruiter currently or previously working in or for LATAM, as well as for employers who have a global hiring perspective.
You will learn:
- What are the core considerations of an external employer hiring LATAM employees?
- How great are the regional differences within Latin America?
- What degree of English language proficiency can be expected?
- Where is the technical / commercial / support talent?
- Compensation exceptions
- Relocation interest or demand
- Competitor employers are local level
- Competitor employers are international level
- What is the status of remote, D&I, employee mobility?
All this anymore as we learn about hiring in LATAM.
We're with Juliana Park, Founder (HRX Brasil), Izka Gonzalez, Founder (The Hiring Revolution), Carlos Guillermo Lopez, Founder (IHR Latin America) & Stephan Poweska, Head of Global Talent Acquisition (Lionbridge), with Jonathan Romley, CEO of Lundi in the copilot seat.
Ep230 is sponsored by our buddies Lundi
Most companies struggle with hiring, especially internationally. Lundi empowers you to recruit talent anywhere in 40 languages and across 65+ countries, fast.
Not sure where to start? Lundi will help you identify the best countries for every role, so that you can unlock global hiring at scale and grow your business.
Contact us here if you're hiring in a market you're unfamiliarity with - free consultation + direct connection with local staffing experts.
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27 Oct 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep229 - Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT and GAI, Part Four
RECRUITER USE CASES FOR CHATGPT - PART 4
It's been nearly 6 months since we last ran Part 3 on Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, and as you know by now, 6 months is a lifetime in the world of AI. What advances have happened in that time, how have recruiters taken advantage of the innovations, what practical use cases can see we illustrate to the audience?
We're bringing the best of the best again for this rapid fire on screen demo show where expert recruiters will share their amazing AI recipes,
We're with Alexandra Gyetvai, Talent Acquisition Consultant (The Source Code), Alexander Chukovski, AI Advisor (Jobiqo), Dov Zavadskis, Founder (BeFriend AI) & Johannes Sundlo, Senior Human Resource Manager (Avalanche Studios) and friends!
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20 Oct 2023
Brainfood Live on Air - Ep228 - How to Conduct an AI Bias Audit
HOW TO CONDUCT AN AI BIAS AUDIT
If you've been following me on any channel you will know that one of the hot items we're tracking is the state of regulation when it comes to AI. Whether it is the EU AI directive or the New York AEDT or the increasing numbers of cases going through the law courts on AI, automation and bias.
Smart TA departments will want to be using GAI to secure efficiency gains but at the same time must be wary of building processes and using technologies which may be non-compliant with near future regulation. What do do know of the rulings so far, can we guess where we need to be in to pre-compliant with AI laws?
We're going to have a go at this one with Bob Pulver, Founder (Cognitive Path), Andrew Gadomski, Founder (Aspen Analytics), with Vanessa Raath, Founder (Talent Hunter) in the co-pilot seat
Ep228 is sponsored by our buddies Greenhouse
In today’s competitive talent landscape, being people-first is business-first. Greenhouse helps companies adopt a flexible, fair, and efficient approach to hiring. Empower everyone from recruiters to hiring managers to make confident decisions that strengthen your business. Get measurably better at hiring with a data-driven approach. Discover how Greenhouse can help you hire for the kind of business you want to build.
Learn more at Greenhouse.com/hire
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13 Oct 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep227 - What Works for Women (in Tech)
WHAT WORKS FOR WOMEN (IN TECH)
As another technology wave crashes over society and forces us to adapt to new realities, we again need to review what the recurring motif of the lack of gender diversity in the world of technology. Despite the decade of effort, goodwill and investment, the ratio of women to men in the tech remains stubbornly fixed. Perhaps it is time to challenge previously held assumptions and think whether we have actually created the environment with allows people of any gender thrive.
So...What works for women in tech?
We're going to do a deep dive with one of the leading thinker-do-ers in this space, Fionnuala O'Conor, CEO of OpDem
Ep227 is sponsored by our buddies Greenhouse
In today’s competitive talent landscape, being people-first is business-first. Greenhouse helps companies adopt a flexible, fair, and efficient approach to hiring. Empower everyone from recruiters to hiring managers to make confident decisions that strengthen your business. Get measurably better at hiring with a data-driven approach. Discover how Greenhouse can help you hire for the kind of business you want to build.
Learn more at Greenhouse.com/hire
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6 Oct 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep226 - Being Put On Blast - How to Respond to Negative Publicity from an Unhappy Job Candidate
BEING PUT ON BLAST: HOW TO HANDLE NEGATIVE PUBLICITY FROM UNHAPPY JOB CANDIDATES
Perhaps one of the most challenging moments in a recruiters career is when an irate candidate takes the socials and puts your business on blast. Dealing with feedback is difficult, but when it is a public call out then the potential damage to employer brand far exceeds any personal pressure that might be felt.
How do you handle such a situation? Can it turned around?
We're looking at a specific example this week when TestGorilla - themselves a HR Tech business - came under fire when a candidate took to LinkedIn to publicly lambast the company for she felt was a terrible candidate experience. The response from TestGorilla Head of People, Nadia Vatalidis was a lesson on how to take on the criticism directly and publicly.
We speak with Nadia in Brainfood Live to discuss how exactly this situation occurred, how the decision was made to go to Loom and what lessons can be learned on how to handle bad PR from unhappy candidates.
We're on Friday 6th October 2pm BST with Nadia Vatalidis, Head of People & Culture (TestGorilla)
Ep226 is sponsored by our buddies Adway
Adway UK Summit on Nov 9th - registrations now open for Talent Acquisition Leaders. Join Adway for a day of learning, market intelligence and a sneak peak of some of the most innovative technology in the recruitment tech space. Limited spaces so RSVP here
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29 Sept 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep225 - The Psychological Impact of Candidate Assessments
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF CANDIDATE ASSESSMENTS
As recruiters our task to build a hiring process which enables our employers and clients to hire the most suitable candidates most efficiently. Whether we use interview, game based assessment, set take home projects, have presentations delivered or even take the candidates out for a meet-the-team exercise, we rarely consider the scenario from the candidate perspective - what are the psychological impacts on the assessments we set? Are they fair?
New thoughts as always in this topic on Brainfood Live On Air
- Assessing the assessment
- What is the least challenging assessment from a psychological perspective?
- Why might job assessment by psychologically challenge to candidates?
- Are certain assessments inherently more challenging?
- In what circumstances would these assessments be fair, regardless of the psychological challenge?
- How can better understanding on psychological impact of assessment types informati…
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22 Sept 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep224 - Recruiter Fraud - How to Spot and Stop Overworking Remote Workers
RECRUITER FRAUD: HOW TO SPOT AND STOP 'OVERWORKING' REMOTE RECRUITERS
'Overworking' is one of the most popular subreddits on Reddit, and it's a discussion community of people who share tips on how to get away with (illegally) working more than one job. Once considered a myth promulgated by managers who want to manufacture consent for return to office, a body of evidence is building both from research and from direct experience that overworking is indeed an issue, simply because employers have limited means to mitigate the risk.
What is the phenomena of overworking and how significant is it in the recruiting industry?
- Overworking, review of the subreddit
- How does this happen?
- Employer surveillance backlashed
- How would you know?
- Examples
- How to spot a recruiter working more than 1 more employer
- How to prove it?
- What steps to take if you suspect a recruiter in team is working for more than one employer
- Is there a way we can make this legal for recr…
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15 Sept 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep223 - When Politics & Employer Branding Collide
WHEN POLITICS & EMPLOYER BRANDING COLLIDE
The Culture War gripping the United States has culminated a number of legislative changes which have direct impact on the recruiting industry. The landmark Dobbs vs Jackson ruling, which removed the Federal protection of a women's right to choose, has led to a number of states changing their laws which various reduce woman's right to abortion. What impact does this have on employer branding and talent attraction?
Indeed collaborated with academic institutions to tackle this very question - and will be sharing insights into this situation, before moving onto the panel discussion on what we can do about it, or even if we should.
- Recaps Dobbs vs Jackson
- Context: Culture War
- Indeed research - what is it, what do we know, how significant is the impact?
- Company vs State, examples of measures taken
- Distributed workforce, will this accelerate shift to remote?
- What is the TA / HR policy, short of relocating HQ
- Individu…
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8 Sept 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep222 - Age & Ageism - Generational Diversity in Recruiting
GENERATIONAL DIVERSITY: AGE & AGE-ISM
We all care about diversity and inclusion, but there seems to be a hierarchy as to which measures of diversity matter more than others, mainly gender and ethnicity. And yet perhaps most egregious form of discrimination is against the older worker - who we will all one day become - who are often stereotyped as stuck in their ways, lacking energy and initiative, overly expensive, a management problem and the rest. Let's also not be afraid of real talk - age is real, and no question as our minds and bodies degrade we may be more or less suitable for or interested in different types of work
What is the state of age and ageism in the workplace, and what can in TA / HR do about it?
- Egregious examples of age-ism
- Job search as an older recruiter
- Common reasons why employers discriminate against older workers
- Hiring manager vs TA - who is responsible for this?
- Techniques job seekers can use to increase / optimise chances…
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1 Sept 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep221 - Career Progression Tips for TA Leaders
CAREER PROGRESSION TIPS FOR TALENT ACQUISITION LEADERS
Back when you were you kid, the advice was always 'keep your head down, don't cause any trouble, work hard' and you will inevitably get your just rewards. Whilst not of this is false, it is certainly not complete and as we get older we have to resist the cynicism which inevitably takes hold as we watch others advance more quickly and further along, despite perhaps not having any excess of capability!
The reason is of course, the missing component to career progression - profile. We live in a world where information is both complex and incomplete. In order for us progression on our just merits, we need also to let others know about our work.
This is the topic of today's Brainfood Live On Air
- What is the PIE framework?
- How do we define profile?
- What are the differences between internal / external profile?
- Can the two help each other?
- What the best ways to increase profile in your business?
- What mi…
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25 Aug 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep220 - Making the Case for Budget (When Times Are Tough!)
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR BUDGET (WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH!)
It's easy to get budget for your new recruitment toy, or cool event to attend or extra headcount when times are good and the cash is flowing into the business. How to do it when the entire market is retrenching and every penny is being accounted for? We're in a moment right now but rather than give up on the situation, can we reframe the proposition such that we might give ourselves as chance at grabbing some budget for to do what we need?
Lets speak to experienced TA leaders who know to put together a business case for budget when times are tough!
- When do you know you need budget?
- How do you broach the conversation?
- How important is pre-building the social capital?
- Speaking the language of business - how does TA do this?
- Do we think about other departmental heads and coordinate / compete?
- Formal vs Informal - when to go through the back door?
- Business case design - what is the formula?
- How t…
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21 Aug 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep219 - FromTA to TA+
EXPANDING SCOPE: FROM TA TO TA+
Talent Acquisition is entering into a new era where organisations are prioritising flexible workforces on demand, fluid internal organisational structure to facilitate internal mobility and the continuous upskilling of the employee base in order to create an agile and resilient organisation fit for todays volatile and unpredictable world.
TA need to respond by expanding scope - doing more than acquiring external talent, and instead reimagining itself as a function whose aim is to deliver skills to demand, on demand. How can TA do this, what can we learn from TA leaders who are on this journey?
- What are the responsibilities of traditional talent acquisition?
- What areas have fallen outside that scope?
- How do TA leaders expand scope and take on further domains?
- Is this a turf battle with other leaders in HR?
- How do we make the business case that it should fall to TA?
- How do you best prepare to lead domains where you do no…
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17 Aug 2023
Founders Focus - Ep39 - Up close and personal with Raj Mukherjee, VP & GM of Indeed
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today
There probably hasn't been a more disruptive and then dominant recruitment technology business than Indeed, a company which somehow manages to be dominant incumbent and disruptive innovator at the same time. We're with VP and GM, Raj Mukherjee on the latest changes at Indeed, and what this means for customers and users in 2023 and beyond
- Pay per application - what, why, how and what would you do if we could do it again?
- Tough decision: when did you know of the need for reduction in force?
- As a leader, how does one repair the hurt from RIF - what techniques did you use?
- What do you think you do especially well as a leader? What not so well?
- Was it always an ambition to reach a leadership like GM of Indeed?
- What lessons have you learned along the way which young Raj might have benefited from?
- What is the state of recruitment today,…
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11 Aug 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep218 - Turning Employees into Linkedin Talent Influencers
TURNING EMPLOYEES INTO LINKEDIN TALENT INFLUENCERS
One of the great case studies which have emerged in recruitment over the past month has been Cisco's remarkable employee advocacy programme, in which 84,000 employees received training on how to be a LinkedIn influencer. We can forget that almost all of us have powerful networks, many of which are plugged into the world's number one professional networking site, but few of us are actively posting on it. Might it be that we have simply never received the training for it?
We're going to explore this example and figure out whether it can be replicated for other employers
- How many employees are on LinkedIn
- How many are daily active users
- How many are weekly active, or monthly active
- Can we identify those who are already active on platform?
- What training is required to activate more?
- How can we reward such behaviour?
- What are the risks of activating an employee base on LinkedIn?
- What direct incentives c…
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9 Aug 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep217 - LinkedIn Algorithm Updates - Redux
LINKEDIN ALGORITHM UPDATES
Have you noticed a collapse in the effectiveness of your LinkedIn posts?
If you have, then it seems that you might not be alone, as LinkedIn have made some significant changes to the newsfeed algorithm which all recruiters need to be aware of. Revealed in an interview with Entrepreneur, it seems that LinkedIn is prioritising content which genuinely adds value (how do they determine this), is resonant with your profile page (we need to pay attention to this) as well as post frequency, media choices and engagement back with engagers.
Pretty much essential that we get on top of this, so I'm bringing back one of the best experts in the business to help update us on the state of the LinkedIn algorithm. Andy Foote, flying in solo with this for this one!
Ep217 is sponsored by our buddies KANDIDATE
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28 Jul 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep216 - Fully Automated Hiring
Fully Autonomous Hiring
The promise is there: a recruiting process which runs autonomously without the need for a human recruiter or a human hiring manager, coordinator, background checker or anything else. Lets take a leap forward and see how it might be accomplished!
- Identification
- Engagement
- Assessment
- Negotiation
- Close
How does technology do all of this, WITHOUT just moving a human being through a process which is which demonstrably inhumane? What does candidate experience look like when we have no human contact on the other side. Who will be the first company to try this?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're on Friday 28th July, 2pm BST, and we will be following a presentation by Stan Wasowicz on this speculative future, and use it as a launching pad for a conversation of the de-humanisation of hiring.
Click on the save your spot button to register and follow the channel here (recommended) to be notified when we go live.…
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21 Jul 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep216 - Tech Hiring Landscape 2023 Mid Year Review
Tech Hiring Landscape: 2023 Mid Year Review
We're well into Q3 and by now we should have a reasonable view as to how the tech hiring landscape is going. It has been an extremely challenge 12 months for the VC backed tech sector, as we've seen a refocus on profitability over growth as investors turn conservative in light of high interest rates, constantly VUCA-ring uncertainty and, perhaps, the prospect of a decade long slow down on economic growth. How does this all affect tech recruiters and tech hiring?
- Volume of tech jobs
- Regional variance - UK, EU, USA, APAC, LATAM etc
- End of super star cities?
- Has remote redistributed tech jobs, dispersing them geographically?
- If so, which places have been the beneficiaries?
- What are candidates saying?
- How does this impact KPI's on recruiting for tech roles?
- Has the role of the tech recruiter changed?
- Advent of AI, has this changed tech candidate behaviour?
- What should tech recruiters be doing for the rest of…
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14 Jul 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep214 - WTF is Fractional Working?
WTF is Fractional Working?
Do a search on LinkedIn for 'Fractional' and you find increasingly large number of results for experienced professionals - sometimes C-level pro's - calling themselves 'fractional'. A very recent phenomenon, this is the belated recognition that sometimes you may not need a key resource 100% of the time, all of the time, and in fact you only really need that person a percentage of the time. This is the fractional working and it's the topic of today's Brainfood Live On Air.
- How does Fractional Working differ from Contracting or Freelancing?
- What does the taxonomy of working styles look like?
- What kind of contractual relationship do fractional workers have with employers
- Are they employers?
- And if so, how are benefits handled?
- How do companies handle confidentiality and conflict of interest issues?
- What are the benefits of working in fractional way, for worker and employer?
- How does this differ from 'overworking'?
- What roles a…
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13 Jul 2023
Founders Focus- Ep38 - Up close and personal with Ryan Steelberg CEO of Veritone & Alex Fourlis MD of Broadbean
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today
Next up are two business leaders who have come together to bring some mega brands together - it's Ryan Steelberg, President at Veritone with Alex Fourlis, CEO of Broadbean - who are going to talk to us about leadership, vision, M&A and the future of recruitment technology and how it applies to the changing behaviours of job seekers and employers alike
- How did the deal happen?
- When was the moment when it was clear it was going to happen?
- As business leaders, who do you separate from the rational from the emotional?
- Do you think everyone should do it or are there certain traits and circumstances which would make entrepreneurship a better or worse idea?
- Have you done any personality assessment and if so, what did it say about your leadership style?
- How does transitioning to senior leadership feel like after being sole leader?
-…
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7 Jul 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep213 - Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Recruiters Moving On Up: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome:
Fresh from seeing tons of recruiters make their speaking debuts on Recfest, we're going to speak to as many of them as we can to chat about the mental aspect of doing things which give us anxiety, especially the sense that 'you might not be good enough'.
- What is imposter syndrome and do we all experience it?
- How prevalent is it for recruiters / HR, do we feel it more than professionals in other departments?
- What techniques do we have to combat it?
- How does identity interact with imposter syndrome?
- Is it matter of in-group vs out-group?
- How do we help others ameliorate the feeling?
- What can TA Leaders do to help direct reports overcome it?
- Does it get better with age?
We're on Friday 7th July, 2pm BST, with Lauren Harrop, Talent Acquisition Partner, (D2L), Becca Collis, Senior Manager Talent Acquisition (AMS), Anna Pokrzywka-Szklarska, Sourcing Manager (RTS People) & Alex Geht, Talent Sourci…
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30 Jun 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep212 - Demographic Crisis: AI, Immigration and the Future of Work
Demographic Crisis, AI, Immigration & the Future of Work
Do you have the feeling that there are big changes happening in the world? The reason why we haven't have a 'new normal' for a little while now is because there are a number of critically important macro trends which are forcing factors to decisions government, businesses and individuals have to make. The candidate shortage, the rise of AI, the need for, yet hostility to, immigration and some very real questions on the relationship between economy, society and technology.
- What contribution does the demographic crisis make to candidate shortage?
- How effective will extending the pension age increase the workforce?
- Do we need immigration, if so, why are we seeming so against it?
- Has any society reversed population decline without immigration?
- Will AI / Automation be the 'solution' for organisations who can't hire enough people?
- How does AI disintermediation impact the government tax base?
- What are the technique…
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23 Jun 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep211 - How AI Changes Software Engineering - What Tech Recruiters Have Got To Know
AI is changing Software Engineering: What Tech Recruiters Have Got To Know
It should come as no surprise that the sector that is most exposed to the implications of generative artificial intelligence is the sector that built it. Software engineers were amongst the first to see a mainstreaming of this new class of technologies (GitHub Copilot) and were amongst the first to realise the Janus-like future we have before us: extraordinary gains in productivity vs existential risk of disintermediation!
One thing that software engineers realise is that GAI is going to change software engineering work. With that change will come a re-prioritisation of skills, and with that, a reorientation of what the most in-demand skills to hire might be. Today's topic of Brainfood Live on Air is going to be tech intensive review of what's going to change, and from the developers voice themselves, what tech recruiters have GOT TO KNOW.
- What is the sentiment in Software engineering about Generative AI?…
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18 Jun 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep210 - How TA Leaders Are Using ChatGPT and GAI
How TA Leaders Use ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence?
My observations on ChatGPT / Generative AI is that the most advanced users in our industry have been individual contributors operating on their own initiative in to get more efficiency in their personal work. This has been amazing to see, but something is clearly missing - where are the strategic initiatives, what are TA leaders, Heads of function doing to make sure their teams are 'AI enabled'? We might be looking at the situation where the leadership tier are the last to know about this incredibly significant technological change - not good when exactly those same leaders will be charged within making decisions on the use of AI.
- Use cases for TA Leadership on Generative AI
- What are the challenges for leadership in AI adoption?
- How do you get your team AI enabled?
- Where can Generative AI be most valuable for TA leaders, not only delivering efficiency gains for their own work, but also in performance improv…
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2 Jun 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep208 - How Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience changes Recruitment Marketing
How Google's AI Search Changes Recruitment Marketing
Google's response to the gauntlet thrown own by Open AI has been belated, but increasingly impressive. AI Search promises to be as big if not bigger than semantic search, with Google generating content from a user prompt a la ChatGPT rather than just presenting a list of blue links for the user to further investigate. The implications of this change - from candidate sourcing to employer branding is profound.
- What happens to site traffic once Google stops being a sign post to end destinations?
- Does this mean career pages are over?
- What can content marketers do, has the final bell tolled for SEO?
- Do we even care about SERPS?
- How are ads going to be work in this new Google?
- How are job ads going to work in this new Google?
All this and more - we're with Steven Rothberg, Founder (College Recruiter), Louise Triance, Founder (UK Recruiters), Viktor Nord, CEO (Adway) and Matt Burney, Strategic Talent Advisor (Indeed)
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26 May 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep207 - Life and Times of a VC Portfolio Recruiter
Life & Times of a Portfolio Recruiter in VC
One of the most promising developments of the tech scale up era has been the recognition by Venture Capital firms that Talent is one of the critical components for success of the companies they invest in. The formation of the 'recruiter in residence' or 'Head of People' who work across the portfolio is one of the most interesting developments of the recruiter career path and one which brings unique challenges - neither fully in-house, nor exactly 3rd party, but something in between.
It's the topic of today's Brainfood Live, where we talk to Portfolio recruiters on the why this role is different, how to get good at it, and how to get on this career track if you are looking for it.
- What are the main differences between in-house, agency and portfolio recruiting?
- What things would you do differently if you could have the chance the do it again?
- How do you decide what projects to work on?
- Any tips for dealing with headstrong founders…
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19 May 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep206 - Measuring the Impact of Employer Brand
How to Measure the Impact of Employer Brand?
Few people in recruiting would doubt the importance of Employer Brand, especially when hiring for the highly skilled, in-demand. In the world where the candidate retains high level expectations and has the research skills to unearth information about an employers reputation, it is more important than ever to make sure that companies have EB at the forefront of their attraction strategies. But how do we measure the impact of it?
- What is Employer Brand?
- Why is it important to measure the impact of EB?
- What information should we trust?
- What information is dangerous to trust too much?
- What are expected to be the collectors or source of this data?
- How do we do attribution?
- What are the quick and dirty solutions to getting some numbers in this?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Modiara Kamps, Head of Employer Branding (Boston Consulting Group), Lindsey Sanford, Director of Business Operations (Patreon),…
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12 May 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep205 - Moving to Skill Based Hiring (SBH)
Moving to Skills Based Hiring (SBH)
We've heard a great deal about Skills Based Hiring but what is it and what does it actually look like in practice? The movement away from hiring on bio / experience is welcome, as we know correlation is very weak before prior experience and job performance, but how exactly are we meant to identify people who can / want to do the job?
- What is SBH?
- Are certain job roles more suited to it than others?
- How do you understand what skills are required to do a job?
- Are we talking about personality traits?
- What kind of assessments are suitable for the task?
- What kind of business case can be made for SBH?
- Do recruiter skills change, in the context of SBH?
- What benefits can we expect, what challenges?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Andrea Marston, Senior Director Global Talent Acquisition (VMWare), Luke Davis, Founder (Diversify.io), Chantelle Jones, Talent Strategy Director, (Nash Squared) & Richard Bradley,…
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5 May 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep204 - Measuring Quality of Hire
How To Measure Quality of Hire
Quality of Hire is without doubt the most important metric that CEO's care about. They want to hire the best people for the business and make sure that they are quickly up to productivity and adding competitive value to the business. And yet, Quality of Hire remains the metric is which least monitored by TA - why is this?
We're going to explore the context behind this measurement, why we think QofH is under utilised, and how it may be possible to implement if we want to change.
- What is Quality of Hire?
- Why do we think it is not measured by TA?
- Does HR own this metric as part of the responsibilities for Talent Management and Development?
- What role do Hiring Managers play in this measurement?
- If TA does connect QoH with hiring measures, what benefits can we expect?
- Are there any examples of TA being able to implement QoH?
- Do we think AI will help us solve these problems?
- How do we go about implementing QofH if we have not done it b…
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28 Apr 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep203 - How to Set Up an Elite Talent Analytics Function
How to set up an Elite Talent Analytics Function
We can't have a workable recruitment strategy if we don't have access to accurate, current and relevant information. Talent intelligence (external labour market) and Talent analytics (internal people analytics) are two halves of one of the most important functions leading recruitment teams are building in order to make data driven decisions on hiring.
But how do you start? This is topic of Brainfood Live On Air
- Talent Intelligence vs Talent Analytics - what's the difference?
- What talent information is relevant to the business?
- How universal or contextual is this information?
- Where does the information sit, how do we access this?
- What value do you (as leader) and the business (as customer) expect from Talent Analytics?
- Does this pertain to recruiting only, or to Talent management also?
- What tools can I use / should I use?
- What size organisation is ideal / mandatory for a Talent Analytics function?
- Can you give…
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21 Apr 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep202 - Recruitment Leadership in a Mega Scale Organisation
Recruitment Leadership in a Mega Scale Organisation
Most of us have had experience of SME and Corp size organisations, but few of us might have had the chance to work at truly mega scale organisations. What is it like to be working for an organisation with tens of thousands of employees? How do you do TA leadership in an environment like this - what are the things you have to do which differ from leadership at smaller scale?
We're delighted to host the recruiting legend that is Andy Headworth and interview him on his experience at as Deputy Director of TA at HMRC
- What do outsiders need to know about recruiting at HMRC?
- How does it differ from other government departments?
- What does a person transitioning from private sector most need to know?
- What are the most important constraints?
- What are the competitive advantages?
- Personal skills - how would you prioritise the skills required to lead a department in this organisation?
- What are the main reasons why a recruite…
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14 Apr 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep201 - Prompt Engineering for Sourcers
Prompt Engineering for Sourcing
We can already predict that 'prompt' is going to be the Word of the Year 2023. The idea that we can get good at asking and contextualising questions has probably never come up before, but now that the outputs we want from generative AI is dependent on how skilfully we communicate what we want to the LLM that powers the AI, it has become a skill that we must develop. Already, "Prompt Engineer" has become a job, and so we have got to ask, is this the Sourcing, and if so how can we get good at it?
- History of Sourcing
- What is different between Sourcing vs Prompt Engineering?
- Can't I just ask the AI what the best prompt is?
- What kind of elements make a good prompt?
- Have we developed a 'golden set' of prompts which universally improve the outputs?
- Do prompts differ according to application (like sourcing does across search engines)
- What recruiter specific prompts are working best
- Compare Bing / Bard / ChatGPT / Other
- What are the b…
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6 Apr 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep200 - Supercharge Recruitment Marketing with AI
Supercharge your Recruitment Marketing with AI
Recruiters have been going crazy about the AI revolution but most of what we have been doing has been focused on direct candidate acquisition. What are other adjacent disciplines doing with Generative AI? I'm finding that recruitment marketers are doing some crazy things with AI, short circuiting processes which in usual case would take days and weeks. Whether it is image creation, video generation, lead research or process optimisation, we're going to take a deep dive with industry heroes who have taken a hands on approach to supercharging their recruitment marketing
- What gains have you made with Generative AI?
- How have you used this for content?
- How have you used it for relationship management?
- How has AI helped with distribution, or has it not?
- Has AI helped close customers? In what way?
- What are the most useful tools today?
- Lets have a look at some recipes
- Into the future - where do we go from here?
We're with…
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31 Mar 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep199 - Tech Layoffs & the Tech Job Market - From the Developers POV
Tech Layoffs & the Tech Job Market: From the Developers POV
There's probably no bigger story in the world of recruitment that the Big Tech Winter - led by VC backed scale ups who started make big staffing cuts, followed by the FAANG who have all made unprecedented cuts to staffing. What does this mean for the tech labour market? What indeed, do the engineers themselves think of the situation?
We are going to learn directly from the software engineering community and platform them to tell us what they think the market looks like. As tech recruiters you will learn
- Developer mindset to new opportunity
- Most important reasons to move
- Value of Flexible working
- Value of equity / stock options
- What has the compensation rate been?
- What industries are most attractive for software engineers
- What industries are engineers avoiding?
- What technologies / tools / frameworks does it matter?
- What about GAI - how does this impact job discovery as a software engineer?
- Where…
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24 Mar 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep198 - Mental Challenges of the Neurodiverse - Real Talk from Recruitment Heroes
Mental Challenge of the Neurodiverse: Real Talk from Recruiter Heroes
Important change of pace to Brainfood Live today. I was approached by Balazs, Michael and Vanessa to do a show on the topic of neurodiversity within our OWN community, and especially on the value from confessionals which can help others understand the different types of neurodiversity, how they can be manifested and expressed, what challenges this can mean for the individual and what challenges it can mean for others around them!
This is real talk folks from friends who are prepared to care and share. Nobody is going to be an expert here, we are all just going to talk about what we know and how simply doing that may be step 1 in creating a healthier environment for human relations.
We're with Vanessa Raath, Founder (Talent Hunter), Michael 'Batman' Cohen, Founder (Wayne Technologies), Balazs Paroczay, Founder, (The Source Code Agency)
Ep198 is sponsored by our buddies Symphony Talent
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17 Mar 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep197 - Hiring in South Africa in 2023
Hiring in South Africa in 2023
Brainfood World Tour continues and this time we go to one of my favourite countries, who have one of my favourite recruiting communities - South Africa. There are challenges and problems with every country and region of the world, but I think fair to say that Africa in general and perhaps South Africa in particular, were early examples of what we can now see as 'disaster pron' where media coverage could only be negative. One of the missions of brainfood is to platform local people and local recruiters and learn more from them directly, rather than through our own distorted media lens.
Tons of stuff happening in South Africa, so lets find out what they are!
We will discuss:
- Labour market economics
- Skills dispersal in South Africa
- Shift to remote / global shift of jobs
- DEIB - what does this mean in SA?
- Core challenges to overcome - who needs to know what?
- Why hire in South Africa?
- How to hire in South Africa?
We're with Vanessa Raat…
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10 Mar 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep196 - Impact of GAI in EDI
Impact of Generative AI on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
One of the most telling things about output from Generative AI is the inevitable stereotyping that is produced. Go to Mid Journey and ask it to generate images of doctors, and guess what type of images come up? Now try the same with nurses. Or hunter gatherers. Or Fireman. Or Jesus for that matter. The point is that GAI is trained on historical data that is already out there, and will l
We will discuss:
- AI Hallucinations
- Dangerous knowledge made more accessible
- Lack of equivocation - everything is plausibly true
- Death of the Internet (we stop searching)
- Copy right / Copy wrong
- Inevitable rise of spam
- End of trust
And what is the ethical AND practical the way forward for recruiters in the post ChatGPT world?
We're with Devoreaux Walton, Diversity Sourcing Consultant (IBM), Bas van de Haterd, Founder (Digitaal-Werven) & Daniela Felletti, Founder (Talents Connection)
Ep196 is sponsored by our buddies Meta…
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3 Mar 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep195 - Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, Part 3 - Ethics & Concerns
Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT - Part 3 - Ethics & Concerns
We have to keep going with ChatGPT, because whilst we are getting the hang of how it works for us, we are also beginning to see the outline of the challenges ahead of us. From AI hallucinations, overly authoritative single answers, political ideology baked into responses, crazy outputs from jailbreaks, as well as a host of legal and ethical issues stemming from the use of training data by human hand. Let's go through the major areas of ethical concern in the use of ChatGPT for Recruiting.
We will discuss:
- AI Hallucinations
- Dangerous knowledge made more accessible
- Lack of equivocation - everything is plausibly true
- Death of the Internet (we stop searching)
- Copy right / Copy wrong
- Inevitable rise of spam
- End of trust
And what the way forward for recruiters will be in the post ChatGPT world!
We're with Irina Shamaeva, Founder (Brain Gain), Mark Deubel, Recruiter (GitLab), Matt Burney, VP (Indeed), Tony F…
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24 Feb 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep194 - State of the Recruiter Job Market
State of the Recruiter Job Market 2023
Let's face it head on folks - this is turning out to the a tough year for recruiters! We all know that the big tech winter is going to impact us in recruiting and it's essential we have a good gauge as to how far and deep the winter is going to be. We've got some numbers and analysis to get through this week, as we go in real time on Horsefly Analytics proprietary dataset to find out where the recruiter jobs are and who is posting them.
We will discuss:
- Big tech winter, what are the theories?
- Will other sectors follow the downsizing?
- Which sectors might prove resilient?
- What does it look like globally?
- Recruiters on the market - what are they finding on the job search?
- Do we know how long a recruiter job stays vacant for?
- Do we know applicant rate per job?
- What advice to give to recruiters on the market right now?
All this and more in Brainfood Live
Emma Mirrington, Founder (The FIRM), Mike Basnett Sandiford, Head of Pa…
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16 Feb 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep193 - Hiring in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States
Hiring in Saudi Arabia & the Gulf States
Brainfood World Tour is restarting, with a visit to a region where countries are in the middle of vast transformation. We hear a great deal about Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, but always from the Western lens. What do local recruiters and HR people say and do, on the ground? We're going to learn from locals, ex-pats and partners alike in this week's episode of Brainfood Live On Air.
We will discuss:
- How does hiring differ in Saudi / Gulf vs outside
- What do recruiters new to the region must know first?
- Tactical level...what recruiting techniques are most effective for entry, individual contributor, senior manager, leadership hiring?
- What are the latest regulations with regards to gender, religion, ethnicity?
- Are there hiring quotas for employers in the region?
- What are the language requirements for candidates?
- What are the most important challenged Recruiters / HR need to overcome to succeed in Saudi Arabia / Gulf?
- W…
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14 Feb 2023
Founders Focus - Ep36 - Up close and personal with Mark Chaffey CEO of hackajob
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today
Next up is an old friend of Brainfood - the one and only Mark Chaffey, CEO of hackajob
- What is the original story of hackajob?
- As an unusually young CEO, what challenges have you found growing the business?
- Were you always going to go on the entrepreneur track?
- Do you think everyone should do it or are there certain traits and circumstances which would make entrepreneurship a better or worse idea?
- Have you done any personality assessment and if so, what did it say about your leadership style?
- What keeps you going? Is there an end state at hackajob where you can say, we've done it?
- When was the last time you achieved a long cherished goal? Can you tell us what that was?
- With the rise of technologies like low code no code and GAI, how would entrepreneurship change in future?
- What is next for hackajob in 2023?
All this and more as we…
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10 Feb 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep192 - Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, Part 2!
Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, Part 2!
Alright folks, we are going to have to do this again - after an amazing first event where we had 1000+ people attending, the demand for more was overwhelming, so here it is! We are going to repeat the format - so expect recruiter use cases presented by practitioners, followed by product demo's from founders and concluding with some wise takes from industry vets who are going to forecast what all this means for recruitment technology.
We're with Martyn Redstone, Founder (BotJobs), Marcel van der Meer, Sourcing Trainer (Klikwork), Christine Ng, Head of Talent & Media (Quantum Motion), Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games), Alan Walker, CEO (Udder) and friends!
Ep192 is sponsored by our buddies Metaview
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3 Feb 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep191 - Personalisation or Standardisation? How Best To DO Candidate Experience
Personalised or Standardised?
What is the base philosophy for Candidate Experience - do you attempt to give everyone the same branded experience, or do you vary it according to the individual and the individual circumstance? And if we do 'both' (I know you will say this!), then what are the circumstances when one approach makes sense and not the other?
We will discuss
- Types of Candidate - are all candidates the same?
- Costs of CX, how do we measure the effort and the effect?
- What are the benefits of improving CX?
- Do we have any evidence of this, other than 'right thing to do'?
- Why are recruiters reporting bad CX when they are looking for jobs - how much of a factor is how in-demand certain candidates are?
- Do we need specialists in TA to run this?
- How do we incentivise recruiters and managers to improve CX?
- Do we know what candidates want?
We're with Heidi Wassini, InHouse Consultant (CopenHagen Airports), Christine Ng, Head of Talent & Media (Quantum Motion),…
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27 Jan 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep190 - The State of Global Mobility 2023
State of Global Mobility in 2023
Does anyone here have a plan for hiring globally this year?
Candidate shortages are persistent in many sectors, in many countries (see the UK and the NHS...) and for many employers there is no option other than to hire from overseas and relocate.
- What are the challenges of doing this at scale?
- Where do you even start?
- What territories have got an excess of labour?
- How do we tap into that market?
- Do we have to do 'destination branding'?
- How much of the process is performed in candidates home country?
- What about family, when do we start this conversation?
- How employers present an inclusive culture?
- What support is needed for relocation?
We're with Richard Bradley, VP, (Kelly Services), Ruben Tieken, Squad Lead (Immersive), Toby Culshaw, Talent Intelligence Lead (Amazon) & Federica Cei, Global Talent Acquisition Manager (SITA)
Ep190 is sponsored by our buddies Localyze
Localyze is the all-in-one platform that makes it easy t…
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20 Jan 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep189 - Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT
We have not seen a technology breakthrough like ChatGPT for a long time. Only released last December, it has already racked up millions of users attracted to its almost magical outputs to queries made by human users. The application for business has been obvious - and every day we are seeing new ideas to produce outputs which can be immediately put into production, saving workers hundreds of hours of work.
It's a game changer folks, and if we recruiters don't get good at, we are going to regret missing out on the opportunity. Already massively oversubscribed, this show is going to focus on how recruiters can use ChatGPT, bringing together expert users as well as technologists who are integrating ChatGPT into their product roadmaps. The future is folks - register and see for yourself what it is going to look like!
We're with Martyn Redstone, Founder (BotJobs), Glen Cathey, SVP Head of Digital Strategy (Randstad), Bill Fischer, CTO (VONQ), Sajithkumar Swaminathan, Corporate Recruiter (…
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13 Jan 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep189 - How to Recruit on TikTok
I don't know about you but I've been consuming TikTok videos like a billion other people on the planet and been amazed at the creativity, community and controversy that you find on there. It's also been pretty clear that the opportunity for potentially massive reach is there to be explored!
Conspicuously missing though, has been any sense of how recruiters can use TikTok. 2022 was the year when I first started noticing recruiter accounts build an audience, and after seeing a few familiar faces from different domains also build a crowd, the time is right to get them on screen and find out what they've learned!
This is the topic of Brainfood Live ON Air - How to be a Recruiter on TikTok!
You are going to learn:
- What is TikTok?
- How does it work?
- Where are my friends?
- What is the content that works best?
- Content cadence
- Employer branding on TikTok?
- Can you source on the app?
- How do ads work?
All this and more - essential viewing if you to figure out what how the…
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6 Jan 2023
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep187 - Forecasting the Year Ahead in Recruitment 2023
Welcome back to Brainfood Live 2023!
I hope everyone has had a great holiday break and are refreshed for the challenges and opportunities of the year ahead. So what exactly IS ahead for us in 2023? We're going to talk to industry experts from recruiting agency, recruiting tech investment, in-house recruiter, LinkedIn, Sourcing, Web3 and everything else we care about in this wonderful industry of ours!
Lets figure out where we are and make some predictions on:
- Economy
- Recruitment industry
- Sectors of growth / retrenchment
- Priority challenges in hiring
- DEIB
- Recruitment technology investment
- Hot HR tech trends
- Bersin's predictions
- ChatGPT in Recruitment & more.
We're with Kate Shoesmith, Deputy CEO (Recruitment & Employers Confederation), Madeline Laurano, Founder (Aptitude Research), George LaRoque, Founder (WorkTech), Andy Spence, Founder (Glassbead), Andy Foote, Founder (LinkedInsights), Jo Avent, CPO (CrosscHQ) & friends.
Ep187 is sponsored by our buddie…
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23 Dec 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep186 - State of Recruitment 2022 - Year in Review
The State of Recruitment: 2022 Year in Review
Final show of the year folks, so perfect moment to celebrate ANOTHER 50 episodes of Brainfood Live On Air, review the best moments from each show and talk about what we've learned in our year of conversation on air. It will also be a great opportunity to invite back some of favourite guests and co-hosts each with a message of advice for the year 2023 ahead.
One thing to do for 2023 in....
- Recruitment Marketing
- Sourcing
- DEIB
- CX
- Company Culture
- Compensation
- Employer branding
- Talent intelligence
- Recruitment automation
- & more
We're with guests and co-hosts from all the year, including YOU if you put your hand up and want to come on screen
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16 Dec 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep185 - Job Search & Promotion as a Mother to Be
Recruiter Job Search & Promotion as a Mother-to Be
Continuing our series of 'true inclusion', we are turning our attention to the subterranean biases which occur in recruitment. Perhaps the most invidious is the challenge women in particular have - how to manage career and future motherhood. For men, this is substantively different - we never get asked whether we are about to become a parent, nor is parenthood any sort of impediment toward getting a job or promotion; but it is for women.
What can we do about it? This is the topic of Brainfood Live On Air
We are going to explore:
- How to create a safe environment to be transparent with family and career goals
- How to signal such support in hiring process
- What approaches are recommended from candidate POV?
- How to recognise an opportunity is unwelcoming?
- What commitments can employers make to ensure mothers-to-be feel welcome as candidates?
- What is the role of men here?
We're with Rebecca Collis, Talent Acquisition Man…
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9 Dec 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep184 -Social Class & Accent: The Hidden Bias in Recruiting
The Hidden Bias in Recruiting: Class & Accent
How we speak are signifiers of our social class - formerly known as 'social standing' - information which still determines our life journeys much more than it should. How many people with regional accents end up as CEO of a business? How many as Prime Minister or President? Class and Accent bias is a the hidden bias in recruiting and one which is woefully under discussed.
That's why we're the ones doing it in this week's topic of Brainfood Live On Air.
We are going to explore:
- How have you personally been impacted by class bias?
- How do you know?
- What to do when your hiring manager exhibits this bias?
- What techniques are available to change behaviours?
- Is there any tooling which can help with this?
This is a conversation we're going to have with recruiters and business leaders who themselves have directly experienced this hidden bias. We're with
We're with John Rose, Talent Sourcer (Volvo), Ashley Wallace, Tech Talent Lea…
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7 Dec 2022
Founders Focus - Ep35 - Up close and personal with Christian Payne, CEO of Talentiir
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment businesses changing the way we work today
Next up is Christian Payne, CEO of Talentiir
- What is the main idea behind Talentiir?
- What do you think is going to be your biggest learning curve?
- What assumptions have you had to let go, which ones are you now gambling to be true?
- What are the main decisions that need to be made for 2023?
- What leadership lessons have you learned that you would like to pass onto yourself if you could?
- What is the roadmap for Talentiir in 2023?
- What counts as success if you were to look back at the end of next year?
All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.
Wednesday 7th December, 12.00pm GMT / 1pm CET
Click on the green button to register and follow the channel here (recommended) for further updates
Ep35 Founders Focus is supported by Talentiir
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2 Dec 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep183 - The Psychology of Recruiter Redundancy
The Psychology of Redundancy: Mental Health Tips for Recruiters Affected
Big Tech Winter + Economies close to recession....means redundancies for many members of our community. It's incredible that we are back here again, after the first wave of layoffs in 2019/2020, but here we are. What has been missing from the discourse is the psychological impact of redundancy, especially on the suddenness it has been happening!
We are going to explore:
- Loss of identity
- Loss of relationships & social network
- Change of pattern of behaviours
- Lack of closure
- Dangers of negativity as basis of forward relationships
- Survivor bias for those who stay
- Appropriate distance with former colleagues, bosses and reports.
It's going to the fascinating conversation, with recruiters who have psychology backgrounds, have experienced redundancy before in the past, and are currently in the middle of redundancy today.
We're with Linnea Bywall, Head of People, (Alva Labs), Kristian Bright, Recru…
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30 Nov 2022
Founders Focus - Ep34 - Up close and personal with Davide Rivel, Head of Clinch Europe
Welcome to Ep34 of Founder's Focus - the show where we get up close and personal with the founder's of recruitment technology businesses - who are the people behind the product? Next up is David Rivel, Co-founder of PathMotion and now Head of Clinch Europe, the online discussion platform which enables candidates to talk directly with existing employees of the organisation.
- What is the Day in the Life of a Recruitment Tech Founder? - Having done the job for several years, which parts of leading do you enjoy? Which parts do you dislike? - What is the most important lesson you have learned in your time as Cofounder of the business? - What was the one decision you would take back if you could? - How would you describe yourself as a leader to a person who did not know you? - Why online discussion - what was the origin story behind PathMotion? - What have you learned about the industry since starting this business? - What exciting things can customers expect in 2023?
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25 Nov 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep182 - Hiring the Formerly Institutionalised
True Inclusion: Hiring the Formerly Institutionalised
We talk a a good DEIB game in TA / HR but it's pretty clear that there are certain groups which are always excluded from the conversation of inclusion. When the last time your company hired someone who had been institutionalised? Chances are, never - as gaps in work history is knock out criteria, experience in prison or mental institution considered entirely discounted and moral judgements become the only signal we pay attention to.
We need to change this folks, not only because of the ethical imperative but also because there is an untapped talent pool which can really help solve some of the toughest hiring challenges we have today.
I'm going to be joined by Christine Ng in the co-pilot seat, as we interview James Fellowes, Founder, (Bridge of Hope) and Chance Bleu-Montgomery, Partner Support Manager (Bridge of Hope), hear their stories and try and learn from them how we can unlock human potential by adopting a new mindset and p…
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22 Nov 2022
Founders Focus - Ep33 - Up close and personal with Arielle Kilroy, CEO of Dado
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today
Next up are Arielle Kilroy, CEO of Dado!
- What is the original story of Dado?
- What was the most important decision you got right in Year 1 of the business?
- How clear was the vision from the beginning - was it always there or did it emerge for contact with the market?
- How do you feel being a woman CEO has helped and hindered you as an entrepreneur?
- Were you always going to be an entrepreneur?
- As CEO, what is your approach when handling conflict between leaders in your management team?
- What's the hardest decision you've made this year?
- What advice would you give to a person thinking about launching a business for the first time?
All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.
Ep33 of Founders Focus is supported by Dado
Are you confident about your Employee Exper…
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18 Nov 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep181 - Must Have Recruitment Automation Backs for 2023
Must Have Recruitment Automation Hacks for 2023
Ok so this is going to be a fun one. We all know that in recruitment there is never enough time to get your work done - there is always another email to send, another candidate to call, another search to try. Wouldn't it be handy if we were able to get some help in the form of automated programs which can be configured to do the work for you?
That's right folks, the topic of today's Brainfood Live is going to be a the Recruitment Automation Hacks you HAVE to know for 2023.
- What is recruitment automation?
- What are the most common tasks that can be automated?
- How does a recruiter figure out what tasks can be automated?
- Can you automate at scale?
- Lets see some example some what are the top 3 recruitment automation hacks recruiters need to implement by 2023?
All this and more folks - it is going to be a demystifier and a practical how-to
We're with Sofia Broberger, Recruitment Manager (Toca boca), Ivan Stojanovic, Talent Ac…
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11 Nov 2022
Brainfood Live On Air Ep180 - Is Boolean Dead? Latest Update on Google Search
Is Boolean Broken? Latest update from Google
It's been 10 years since the sourcing community really started to separate itself as being distinct from 'recruiter'. In that time, the sub discipline has been a place of investigation, discovery, enhancement and close-to-magical tricks to get outcomes beyond those available to 'normal recruiters'
Nobody has been a more significant populariser of sourcing than Irina Shamaeva - whose blog Boolean Strings has been regularly featured in Recruiting Brainfood, and has by conservative estimate personally trained hundreds of sourcers around the world. So when Irina has a problem with how Boolean search works on Google, even the Google product team pay attention!
- What is Boolean search and why is it important for recruiters?
- How has this changed on Search engines?
- Why are google changing how search works?
- What techniques can be used to gather results which Google now hides or misses?
- What practices should recruiters adopt if Google…
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4 Nov 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep179 - Employer Branding in a Recession Economy
Employer Branding in a Recession Economy
As the world looks down into economic slowdown and maybe worse, it behooves us to consider how this impacts many of the recruiting concepts that emerged during more bullish times. Employer Branding was certainly one of those, which arose as a key way in which to beat the competition for the best talent. How does all this change when the market turns bearish?
- How to work with positive messaging in a negative atmosphere
- Dealing with authenticity crisis
- How to do EB when making redundancies
- How to change tone whilst maintaining brand
- Is the brand message recession proof?
- Different techniques / cases for EB in downturn
- How to maintain morale of EB team
We're with the awesome Clair Bush, VP of Marketing (Adway), Susan Strayer LaMotte, CEO (Exaqueo) & Paul Bhangoo, Global Employer Brand & Attraction Manager (BT)
We're on at Friday 4th November, 2pm GMT. Click on the green button on the top right, and follow the channel here for…
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31 Oct 2022
Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep7 - Issue 316 in Review
Topics to discuss (and if you're registering now, you are getting a sneak preview of what's coming up on Sunday)
- Open Letter to Elon Musk from Twitter Employees
- Big Tech Winter is Here
- AI vs Gig Economy, who wins the creative war?
- 2022 Gen Z Survey (Cost of Living + Side Hustle, changing the nature of work)
- Can you train emotional intelligence? Google tried
- Re-shoring might mean re-importing labour violations
- Van Life is Homelessness All this and more folks, as we discuss the newsletter going on 30th. Register to join the chat and, if you fancy it, let me know if you want to come on screen
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28 Oct 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep178 - From Talent Intelligence to Talent Acquisition
From Talent Intelligence to Talent Acquisition
Talent Intelligence or TI has been the coolest kid in the recruitment block for a little while now, with elite employers using labour market intelligence to properly plan their hiring strategy. Even more relevant in the era of distributed working, employers now need to reach the global talent pool but do so based on data, rather than gut feel. So far, so good eh? However, how exactly do we get there?
- Case study from Citi
- What was the end goal of the project?
- What value was expected to be gained?
- How was the business case put together?
- What was the change management plan?
- How to get Hiring Managers, C-level and Recruiters to agree
- Key criteria for vendor / tools selection
- What were the main challenges?
- How do we know it's worked?
All this and more with w/ Jeremy Thornton, Senior Project Manager (Citi)
Friday 28th October, 2pm GMT
Click on the green button on the top right to register for the show, and follow t…
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24 Oct 2022
Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep6 - Issue 315 in Review
We're back with Brainfood Baked Fresh - 30 minute on air live review of the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter. Get ready to talk about - VC / Angel investor collapse confirmed - Hiring in a Distributed World - Women in Work 2022 Report - Pre-Columbian Meso American Jobs - More candidate fakery in the world of candidate fraud. Join us and come on screen if you have to discuss!
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21 Oct 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep177 - Hard Truths About Startup: Hiring, Firing & Culture
Hard Truths About Startup: Hiring, Firing & Culture
There has not been a sector so widely lauded and intensively covered by the press that tech startup / tech scale up. We hear a great deal about the extraordinary growth, market leading competition and often cutting edge technical and cultural innovation. But beyond the hype, what really lies underneath the world of startup?
We are going to be talking hard truths about startup - the hiring, the firing and culture.
- What makes startup different?
- When does it become a scale up?
- When does it stop being a startup?
- Top 3 skills / traits a recruiter should have to thrive in this environment
- Top 3 things that we know are true but we don't talk about enough
- What are the most important things to get right when you start
- First 100 days what do they look like?
- How do you balance 'getting stuff done' with sustainable process?
All this and more with Meggy Sailer, Author (Culture Up), Anessa Fike, Interim Head of Talent Acq…
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17 Oct 2022
Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep5 - Issue 314 in Review
Welcome to Brainfood Baked Fresh, the Monday call in show where we discuss the contents of Recruiting Brainfood, Issue 314
Including:
- Bellingcats Hackathon Results
- State of AI 2022
- Tech lay offs.....who exactly is being laid off?
- UK Right to Work Checks
- Global Culture Report
- and a Dutch guy who won a court case which might have profound implications for employee surveillance technology....
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14 Oct 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep176- Sourcing & Recruiting on Discord
Sourcing & Recruiting on Discord
Did you know Recruiting Brainfood has a Discord server? I was planning to use it for doing virtual events but never in the end did any virtual events so it basically has sat lying dormant ever since. And yet Discord has rapidly become one of the main places where interest communities come together to connect, share knowledge, meet each other and generally share community. What should we recruiters do about this?
- What is Discord?
- How does it work, technically?
- How is this different from Slack?
- How do I find communities to join?
- What is the etiquette upon entry?
- How should recruiters behave in these spaces?
- Scraping or Social Engineering?
- What is the best tools for find Discord data?
- Do you have the same profile across Discord servers?
- Has anyone had any success hiring from Discord?
All this and more with w/ Wim Dammans, Talent Sourcer (Tennet) & Rosie Sherry, Founder (Rosieland, ex-Indie Hackers)
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8 Oct 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep175 - Blockchain, Web3 and the Future of Work
Blockchain, Web3 & The Future of Work
I'll be at the Future Works conference in Lisbon so fitting that we are going to be using the opportunity to talk about the next age of the Internet and what it means for the world of work. When Satoshi Nakomoto first released his manifesto "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" in 2009, it introduced the world to the blockchain and the possibility of a decentralised internet where the users would simultaneously be producers, distributors and earners.
- How does Blockchain - or Web3 - impact the world of work?
- What applications outside of currency have we need with Blockchain?
- What are the most promising HR related opportunities?
- What the technical and cultural challenges behind Web3 projects?
- How do we make Web3 more accessible to genpop?
- What kind of recruiting goes on Web3?
All this and more with Pedro Oliveira, Founder, (Talent Protocol), Andy Spence, Founder, (WorkForce Futurist), Inês Santos Silva, Ops Lead (Athen…
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3 Oct 2022
Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep4 - Issue 312 in Review
Back with Baked Fresh, the call in show where we take questions from readers of the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter, Issue 312. We'll be talking about
- Value of Weak Ties for Career Advancement - Candidate Fraud in Remote Working - Power Law of the Creator Economy - Figures Levelling Framework - Cool list of Resources for Tracking Layoffs And loads more!
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30 Sept 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep174 - Where are the Missing Workers?
Where Are The Missing Workers?
The 'Labour Market Paradox' is most keenly felt by us - the recruiters who are struggling to make hires, even when key macro indicators - such as number of people economically inactive - should suggest otherwise. How are we to understand the mixed messages we are getting from the commentariat, politicians and our own lived experience?
Good news is, Brainfood Live has got you!
You will learn:
- What does the data say (US, UK & EMEA)
- Explanations for labour force participation
- Government initiatives to increase labour force participation
- What about the 'New New Deal'?
- Are we all an undeclared general strike?
- How does remote and demand for more, lead to labour inactivity?
- How does this all manifest to recruiting challenges and solutions?
All this and more with global experts such as Anita Lettink, Partner (Strategic Management Centre), Pawel Adrjan, Director EMEA Economic Research (Indeed), Dr Sarah Ali, Global Economist (Radancy) & To…
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26 Sept 2022
Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep3 - Issue 311 in Review
We're back folks, after a three week hiatus!
Going to try and keep to this time but it is apparent with travel, covid and change of regnal eras, that we might not be as consistent as we want to be on this show!
Lets see how we go on this - we're review in the Sunday newsletter, with sneak peak content including:
* How Does UpWork, Work?
* Redundancy as a path to Diversifying the Workforce?
* Golden Handcuffs or Indentured Service?
* Why Hiring for Clones is Good and Bad
All this and more, in our weekly review of Recruiting Brainfood, Issue 311. Join us on Monday, click on the green button on the top right to register.
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23 Sept 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep173 - How to Source Candidates on Slack!
How to Source Candidates from Slack
There probably isn't a tech startup anywhere that does not use Slack as its internal communication platform. It's also an amazing place to create intra-company communities, a place where professionals of all disciplines get together and share knowledge. Might these also be places where you can source candidates?
You will learn:
- What is Slack and how do you join?
- Recruiter behaviours to avoid
- How to create relationships in Slack communities
- When to post jobs - if at all?
- How to engage on Slack
- Scraping Slack from the outside
- Resources and tools
All this and more with w/ Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games), Nicolas Darcis, Founder (Ocetelo) & Mark Deubel, Senior Technical Recruiter (Gitlab)
Ep173 is sponsored by Cronofy
Cronofy offer an enterprise-ready suite of interview scheduling tools and ATS integrations. Using real-time availability they improve the candidate experience and speed up time-to-hire by arranging interviews…
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16 Sept 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep172 - How to Make Sense of the Economy
Making Sense of the Economy: Resilient Sectors for Recruiting.
The high profile tech lay offs dominate the headlines but does that tell us the real story of what is going on in the economy? We're looking at the sectors which continue to hire today, as well as those which are destined to grow as the new economic future unfolds.
You will learn:
- How do we understand the start up / scale up market today?
- What sectors continue to hire?
- Are these trends universal or regional?
- What explains the persistent hiring challenges for many of the sectors today?
- What should recruiters do if they are working in tech scale up?
- What future economic sectors are good bets for recruiter resilience?
All this and more with Katrina Hutchinson O'Neill, Founder (Join Talent), Jonathan Boys, Labour Market Economist, (CIPD), Colin Donnery, CEO (FRS Network) & Dr Sarah Ali, Chief Economist (Radancy)
Ep172 is sponsored by our buddies Tribepad
More candidates doesn't mean better candidates. Acr…
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9 Sept 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep171 - How to Better Handle LayOffs
Ethics & Experience: How to Better Handle Layoffs
The high profile tech layoffs keep coming, and the response of employers forced to make cuts has been under scrutiny, whether the method is via mass zoom calls, or through making vulnerability posts on LinkedIn. Got me thinking - IS there a good way to do this, or or is this simply a hard task which is always going to be unpleasant?
You will learn:
- Ethics and Experience, guiding principles of redundancy
- CEO, HR or Line Manager?
- Importance of messaging sequencing
- Fiduciary duty to organisation, account lockouts, permission, access
- Do we have a redundancy protocol?
- How does Remote impact Redundancy approach
- Psychological closure for stakeholders
- Off boarding & support
- Employer action, Hiring Manager action, Colleague action
All this and more with Christine Ng, Head of Talent & Media (Quantum Motion), Brian Evje, HR Lead (NREP), Kate Bischoff, Attorney & HR Consultant (k8bisch LLC) & Margaret Buj, Senior Talen…
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2 Sept 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep170 - How to Hire in the Nordics
How to Hire in the Nordics?
Brainfood Live is back on tour! This time we are virtually visiting our friends in the North and to try and better understand how the universal challenges of recruiting are solved by local recruiters in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. I actually couldn't find any Icelandic or Faroese recruiters so if you are there, make sure you pipe up during the livestream!
You will learn:
- What are the unifying characteristics of hiring in the Nordics? Can we even consider it a category?
- How would you describe the culture in Nordic society - what do outsiders most often get wrong?
- Working with hiring managers - what do recruiters have to know?
- Working with candidates - what do recruiters have know?
- How do we handle the English vs Native language divide?
- What differences are there between the countries in the Nordics?
- Is there a city vs rural divide?
- Most important things to get right in TA?
All this and more with our Nordic heroes Per Tjenbe…
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26 Aug 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep169 - How To Build A Recruitment Marketing Content
How to Build a Recruitment Marketing Content Engine
We know that producing quality content is mandatory in todays world of hyper competition for attention. And whilst many of us have enough in us to produce one or two pieces here and there, very few of us have the ability to consistently output high quality stuff. Why is this? How come other people are more able? Is it just talent or is it really technique?
You will learn:
- Ideas generation
- Writing for your audience
- Network and amplification
- Conversational marketing
- Algorithm activation
- Content repurposing / content upcycling
- Transparency as a content source
- and making gold out of lead.
All this and more with Joel Lalgee, Lead Recruiter (Hirewell), Christina Robinson, MD (Green Umbrella) & Clair Bush, VP of Marketing (Adway)
Ep169 is sponsored by our buddies Adway
Adway - Automated Social Recruitment Marketing
Way simpler. Way smarter. Way more talent.
Curious about the next gen solution for recruitment ma…
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22 Aug 2022
Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep1 - Issue 306 - Big List of Recruiting Events to Attend, Open Source Tool kit and Discrimination agains White Men
BRAINFOOD BAKED FRESH - EP1 - ISSUE 306 Introducing the new show, where we review the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter Issue 306 and pick out some highlights which were particularly interesting food for the recruiting brain...... 1. Big List of Recruiting & HR Events to Attend in 2023 2. THESE ARE THE OPEN SOURCE TOOLS RESEARCHERS SAY THEY NEED 3. THE BEST TIMES TO POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA (FROM 35 MILLION POSTS) 4. THE GRADUATE JOB MARKET HAS BOUNCED BACK 5. I GOT SCAMMED ON A JOB OFFER
6.RAF RECRUITMENT FREEZE FOR WHITE MEN
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19 Aug 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep168 - Changing the Culture of Your Talent Acquisition Team
Changing the Culture of Your Talent Acquisition Team
You know the scenario: you've inherited an under performing team and need to reset and redirect. How do you do this? What are the techniques available for TA leaders that work most consistently to get the best out of the existing team?
You will learn:
- How to diagnose under performance
- How to audit the KPI's
- How to identify high potential under performers
- How to identify disguised malcontents
- Communication strategies for new leaders
- Role of symbolism and ritual for culture change
All this and more with Nims Dhawan, Organisational Design, (UK Ministry of Defence), Rassam Yaghmaei, Talent Acquisition Director (Doctorlib) & Jon Hull, Head of Resourcing (Balfour Beatty)
Ep168 is sponsored by our buddies Platypus Platypus is the HR and recruitment tool that measures cultural drivers of people across the organization to help you qualify decisions on hiring and managing your culture. Get started from free, here
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12 Aug 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep167 - LinkedIn Content Feed - What Recruiters Have Got To Know
LinkedIn Content Feed: What Recruiters Have Got To Know
For the past 5 years LinkedIn has been one of the preeminent places to create content and build audience. In fact, without LinkedIn, it is unlikely that Recruiting Brainfood would have got anywhere near the size it has. It is therefore essential for us recruiters to better understand who the content feed works, especially as LinkedIn keep on changing it!
That's why we're going to focus this show on the mighty content feed and how to get your content seen by as many relevant people as possible. You will learn
- Latest understanding on how the content feed works
- Who sees your content and why
- What the impact of followers, connections, subscribers and engagers is to your reach
- Why it makes sense to continually build network
- Why it makes sense to continually engage
- Impact of various content types
- Making sense of new LinkedIn post analytics
- How to be a LinkedInfluencer (or not)
All this and more with the one and…
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5 Aug 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep166 - Sourcing Candidates on Reddit
Sourcing Candidates on Reddit
Reddit is one of the world's most popular websites with millions of visitors every day, and yet its comment based interface has proven to be a puzzle for most recruiters who might have found it too intimidating a place to source candidates. This is a shame as the demographic on reddit skews towards tech and engineering, some of the most in-demand skills in the current market place.
We need to get better at this, so today's Brainfood Live is going to be about how we get to grips with this platform and mine the gold that is right there at our fingertips
- What is Reddit?
- How to understand the information architecture
- How to search for subreddits
- X-ray vs in-platform search
- Identifying candidates on Reddit
- Messaging etiquette
- Advertising options
- Building social capital
- Following and being Followed
All this and more with Erin Mathew, Senior Tech Talent Sourcer, (PayPal) & Wim Dammans Recruiter (TenneT)
Episode 166 is supported by o…
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3 Aug 2022
Founders Focus - Ep32 - Up close and personal with Mehul Bhatt CEO of FloCareer
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today
Next up are Mehul Bhatt, CEO of FloCareer!
- What is the original story of FloCareer?
- What was the most important decision you got right in Year 1 of the business?
- How clear was the vision from the beginning - was it always there or did it emerge for contact with the market?
- How did coming from a technical background help you as a entrepreneur? In what way was it a hindrance?
- What are the unique challenges of starting up in India?
- As CEO, what is your approach when handling conflict between leaders in your management team?
- Were you always going to be entrepreneurs?
- What advice would you give to a person thinking about launching a business for the first time?
All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.
Ep32 of Founders Focus is supported FloCareer
FloCareer…
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29 Jul 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep165 - How to be Influential on Video
How to Influential on Video
The shift to remote has changed the way in which we work and communicate; it makes sense to think that it may well have changed the way we sell and influence also. Remember when the telephone was the primary channel of communication, before email and internet? The same skills were not necessarily transferrable to the new media and many former elite performers fell behind because they were unable to adapt to new technology. Are we in the same place with video??
- How is video similar to sales / influence in person, on phone, via email
- In what ways is video different?
- What types of video - synch vs async?
- What are the types of influence - executive, agenda setting, reframing
- What contexts are influence do recruiters need to be aware about?
- Practical techniques to get better at video influence / video sale
All this and more with Somer Hackley, Author (Demystifying Exec Search), Mike Basnett Sandiford, Head of Partnerships (Horsefly), Stephen O…
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21 Jul 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep164 - Can Recruiters Do A 4 Day Week?
Can Recruiters Shift To A 4 Day Work Week?
Alongside the shift to remote, the desire for employees to shift to a 4 day work week has been one of the most startling demands from the workers. Even more surprisingly, many employers are listening and have reduced hours, often times at full pay. Can recruiters also shift to this new mode of working? On the one hand it makes sense as we work off hours in any case, but on the other, we are often in 'on-demand' mode.
How do we do the 4 day week, SHOULD we do the 4 day week?
- Pro's & Cons of 4 day week
- Types of 4 day week
- Which roles, which company's most able to move
- What are the challenges / objections?
- How do you make the decision?
- What happens if productivity / performance drops?
- What is the impact on Employer Branding / Talent Attraction?
- What are the unique challenges of moving to a 4 day week for recruiters?
All this and more with Steven Brand, Global Employer Brand Manager (Mambu), Natalie Glick, Director of Ta…
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15 Jul 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep163 - Recruitment Marketing to Different Generations
Recruitment Market for Different Generations
We hate generation stereotypes for a reason, but it is also undeniable that there are differences in how we consume information, that can be split along age demographics. As the information ecosystem changes so rapidly, this means that we all start our journey in digital from a different place, and therefore consume information in different ways.
So... for recruiters.....how do we market and sell to different generational cohorts?
- Overly broad strokes, lets talk cohorts
- What medium?
- What message on that medium?
- What types of content work best on those mediums?
- What are the key differences to recruitment marketing to Gen Z, Gen X, Millenials and the Baby Boomers?
All this and more with Clair Bush, VP of Marketing (Adway), Josh Willows, Global Job Distribution & Performance Specialist (IBM) & Dave Hazlehurst, Founder (Ph.Creative)
Ep163 is sponsored by our buddies Adway
Adway - Automated Social Recruitment Marketing
Way si…
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8 Jul 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep162 - Employer Branding......When Making Layoffs?
Employer Brand...When Making Layoffs?
2022 was not meant to be like this. Coming into the year, we had the expectation of a strong economic rebound after the covid induced slowdown of two years previous. And yet, 6 months in we are are seeing conflict, inflation, public sector strikes, social conflict, crypto crashes and yes....looming recession. What do we need to know as EB / TA professionals in these circumstances - can we even do our jobs in these conditions?
- Is EB the first to go when employers are no longer recruiting?
- What role does EB / TA play when hiring freeze and layoffs are happening?
- How can we become indispensable when core function is not being performed?
- What role do we have to play in internal / external messenging?
- What do we do if we are still hiring in one area, whilst making lay offs in another?
- How do we manage brand when the number of disappointed ex-employees goes up?
All this and more with w/ Will Staney, Founder (ProActive Talent), Alex He…
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1 Jul 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep161- How to Hire for a No Name Brand
How To Hire for a Brand No One Knows
I mean no offence! But lets face it, there are some brands which are too new, too niche or simply too back in the supply chain to be well know to the masses. I suspect hiring for these companies may well be different prospect to hiring for well known B2C players, especially in tech. How do you go about marketing job opportunities for an employer no one knows?
- What the challenges of hiring for a brand that is less well known?
- Is it harder than hiring for a well known company?
- What strategies work / don't work?
- What is the best outreach strategy when name recognition is zero?
- How to overcome common objections?
All this and more with Iwan Gulenko, Founder (CoderFit), Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games) & Wim Dammans, Recruiter (TenneT) - experienced recruiters who have all worked for employers no one knows.
Ep161 is sponsored by our buddies Talentiir
Talentiir is the Talent Partner for Companies in Scandinavia and enables growth sta…
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24 Jun 2022
Brainfood Live On Air- Ep160 - Sourcing without LinkedIn- A 7 Day Challenge
Sourcing without LinkedIn....A 7 Day Challenge
We all b1tch about LinkedIn, but how many of us can actually recruit without it? I suspect it will be fewer than we would like to think! Hence, when Balazs and Ildiko posted about their 7 day experiment, it immediately grabbed my attention. What would we learn if we tried to live without unquestionably the most important service recruiters are using today?
You will learn:
- How much dependency do we actually have on LinkedIn?
- What percentage of recruiters are on what plans?
- What are the standard activities recruiters perform on LinkedIn?
- Without LinkedIn, what are the options?
- Alternative sites
- Scraping tools
- Community spaces
- Events data
All this and more with Ildikó Jakab, Senior IT Researcher & Onboarding Consultant (Qualysoft), Balazs Paroczay, Global Sourcing Strategist (Cielo Talent) & Alla Pavlova, Tech & Art Talent Sourcer (Riot Games)
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17 Jun 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep159 - How to know a Recruiter is Any Good
How to know if a Recruiter is any good?
I have been thinking about this question ever since Tim Sackett published his post on an experienced recruiter candidate who had an aberrantly small LinkedIn network. Got me thinking - how small is too small? Lets face it, it WOULD arouse suspicion to see a recruiter candidate without a LinkedIn profile (they do exist!) so it got me thinking about how do we background check when hiring for other recruiters - is there a best way to do it?
- Relevance of LinkedIn
- How valid is social media behaviour?
- Can presence / or lack thereof, say something about the style of recruiter you are getting?
- What other signals can we use, as we obviously cannot trust self reporting?
- Would you conduct your own back-channel references? Is this even legal to do?
- What sorts of questions would you ask a referee, in order to get a good idea as what kind of colleague you are getting?
- Can we create a list of questions to ask referees?
All this and more w…
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10 Jun 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep158 - Recession Proofing Your Recruitment Career
Recession Proofing Your Recruitment Career
If you've been following the market, the news is looking increasingly grim - record inflation, energy prices, increase taxation, tech hiring freezes, stock market collapse and the possible end of crypto - its looking like the good times have ended already.
As recruiters, we are often the first to feel the effects of the economy, and we each need to take action before the sh1t hits the fan. So, lets forget these past amazing 12 months, what actions do we need to take to future proof our recruitment careers?
- State of the Economy
- Growth sectors of the economy
- What happens to recruiters in recession - past experience
- Actions for 3rd party, in-house and RPO recruiters
- What happens to the freelance market during downturn?
- How do technological change since last downturn change the dynamic?
- Is remote a help or a hindrance for recruiters looking for work?
- Will wages decline in real terms if we are in global competition/
- Wha…
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8 Jun 2022
Founders Focus - Ep31 - Up close and personal with Virgile Raingeard, CEO of Figures
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today
Next up is Virgile Raingeard, CEO of Figures
- When did you realise that Figures was going to be a thing?
- What are the key differences between being a CEO of a Startup vs Senior Exec of a People function?
- How has a career in HR / Recruitment prepared you to be a CEO?
- In what way has a career in TA / HR been a disadvantage for you?
- In building your startup now, what kind of leaders are you looking for?
- Why is compensation intelligence becoming relevant now?
- What impact will compensation transparency have on company structure?
- How do you think it will impact recruiting strategy?
All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.
Ep31 Founders Focus is supported by Figures
Figures aggregates and anonymised compensation data from thousands of employers so that you can…
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7 Jun 2022
Founders Focus - Ep30 - Up close and personal with Stephen Anderson, MD of Crooton
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today
Next up is Stephen Anderson, MD of Crooton
- Why do you think innovation is so rare in recruitment?
- What do you think have been the main technology disruptors in recruiting in your career?
- What do you think is going to be next big thing?
- What parts of being a business leader do you do well? Which do you do poorly?
- Were you always going to run your own business?
- Can you tell us what has been your worst decision as MD of Crooton?
- If you could rewind the clock, what would you do differently?
- What advice do you have for recruiters listening to this and thinking about starting up?
- What can customers of Crooton expect in 2022?
All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.
Ep30 of Founders Focus is supported byCrooton
Crooton provide a smart option for employers…
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3 Jun 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep157 - How to Organise a Sourcing Jam!
How to Organise A Sourcing Jam!
The true mission of a great recruiter is to get EVERYONE in the business operating as a recruiter; after all they are they ones with the strongest networks of relevant talent! One of the ways to activate the company 'recruiting muscle' is to organise a Sourcing Jam - a half or full day session where a department works with the TA team to dive into our professional networks, collate relevant candidate details and set about contacting them!
If you want to surge your hiring for a particular department, a sourcing jam is the way to do it.
You will learn:
- How to do you plan a sourcing jam
- How to communicate the plan with the departmental head
- How to encourage the shy
- How to moderate the not shy(!)
- What about bias?
- Tools and techniques on the day
- How to collect the data
- What do you drive the campaign towards?
- How to create a repeatable process.
All this and more with Vanessa Raath, Founder (Talent Hunter), Tereza Machackova, Head…
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1 Jun 2022
Founders Focus - Ep29 - Up close and personal with Viktor Nord and Adrian McDonald, Cofounder and CEO of Adway
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today
Next up are Viktor Nord, Co-founder and Adrian MacDonald, CEO of Recruitment Marketing Automation firm, Adway
- What is the original story of Adway?
- What was the most important decision you got right in Year 1 of the business?
- How clear was the vision from the beginning - was it always there or did it emerge for contact with the market?
- What do C-level leaders coordinate and align?
- What method do you have of handling disagreements?
- As the company matures, how do you stay on top of the changing challenges?
- As CEO what are the things that you delegate, what are the things that you want to own?
- What has been the most difficult challenge so far? What do you anticipate being the most difficult challenge in the next 12 months?
- Were you always going to be entrepreneurs?
- What advice would you give to a person thinking about launching a bus…
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31 May 2022
Founders Focus - Ep28 - Up close and personal with Ilya Brotzky CEO of VanHack
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today
Next up is Ilya Brotzky, CEO of VanHack
- What's the story with Brazil?
- What did you learn about business when you were there?
- What did you learn about yourself?
- As an entrepreneur, what are things you do well?
- As a CEO what are the things you don't do well?
- When did you realise that VanHack was going to be a thing?
- What leadership qualities do you look for in your management team?
- How has remote impacted the idea of relocating staff?
- Do you see geopolitical tension / de-globalisation to be an accelerant or decelerant for immigration?
- What exciting things can customers expect from VanHack in 2022?
All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.
Ep28 of Founders Focus is supported by VanHack
Simply put, VanHack is the fastest way to hire tech talent. Conne…
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27 May 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep156 - Mega Scale Hiring (10,000+)
Mega Scale Hiring (10,000+!)
We talk about scale, then we talk about 'hyper scale', I'm going to go one further and talk about 'mega scale' - this is a hiring of tens of thousands of workers in short time frame. Pretty certain this is the sort of recruiting challenge that existing systems, processes and even people are not designed to do. So how do you do it?
You will learn:
- Under what circumstances does mega scale hiring happen
- What are the first 3 things to get right before you start
- How do we calculate the capacity required to hire the volume we need?
- What tooling is available to support acquisition, assessment and management?
- How do you think about candidate experience at this type of scale?
- How does the relationship between hiring manager and recruiter change?
- What makes a good mega scale project vs a bad one?
- What recruiter skills are needed to succeed at mega scale?
All this and more with Thomas Waldman, Director of Workforce Growth (Getir) and Kirsten…
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19 May 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep155 - Moving to Salary Transparency
Moving to Salary Transparency
It's becoming cool - and in a growing number of regions, it's also becoming law. Publishing how much you pay for a certain role has a number of strong arguments for: more equitable income, remove bias, upgrade employer brand / reputation, perhaps even improve recruitment efficiency by providing a mechanism for self selection by candidates.
So, what do you do when you want to move to salary transparency? We are talking to recruitment managers who have overseen this move and figure out what they know having seen it and done it.
- Was there resistance?
- How bad was the attrition?
- What happened to legacy salaries which were now out of level?
- What is the impact on hiring for candidates, especially in this hyper competitive market?
- Who was most for / against the idea in your business?
- How has salary transparency changed recruiting?
All this and more with Annie Jackson, Head of Talent Acquisition (CLEO), Mick Griffin, Chief Growth Officer (TRAFF…
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17 May 2022
Founders Focus - Ep27 - Up close and personal with Will Laufer, CEO of Prelude
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today
Next up is Will Laufer, CEO of Prelude
- When was the moment when you realised Prelude would be a thing?
- Were you always planning to be an entrepreneur?
- How is being a CEO different from being a senior exec?
- What things do you not do well as a CEO?
- What do you look for when hiring for leaders in your team?
- How do you see the shift to remote / shift back to office playing out for CX?
- What exciting things can existing customers of Prelude expect in 2022?
- If you could give yourself once piece of advice as a entrepreneur what would that be?
All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.
Ep27 Founders Focus is supported byPrelude
Prelude’s candidate experience platform supercharges recruiting operations and simplifies the most manual parts of scheduling interview…
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13 May 2022
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep154 - Strategic Workforce Planning
Solving Recruitment: Strategic Workforce Planning
Don't you feel that recruitment is generally moving from one crisis to another? It seems there is NEVER a moment when recruitment is steady, under control, low stress, high confidence project. Instead, it's a fire that we need to put out yesterday. Why is this - why can we not plan our hiring in more strategic way?
You will learn
- What is strategic workforce planning
- Why does it not happen enough?
- Key blockers to implementing strategic workforce planning
- What is the role of TA vs HR in planning hiring?
- How to build better relationships with stakeholders in hiring
- What technologies support SWP?
- How can ATS / HRIS data be used to support better planning
- How do we know it is working, if we feel we have implemented SWP?
All this and more as we tackle the lack of planning in hiring. With Perry Timms, Founder (People & Transformational HR), CJ Green, Founder (Brave Goose) & Danny Hodgson, CEO (Foresight)
Ep154 is sp…
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