The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Hung Lee

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.

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep293 - Talent Trends Report - Recruiter Productivity 2025

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep293 - Talent Trends Report - Recruiter Productivity 2025

Talent Trends: Recruiter Productivity 2025   Ashby produce some fantastic quarterly reports, taking information from their platform to better understand the behaviour of the recruiters in the market. Hot of the press with the latest report, we are going to take this session to deep dive into a topic we all need to care about in 2025 - Recruiter Productivity.   We will find out:   - What are the productivity benchmarks for recruiting in 2024? - Can we distinguish between how A+ performers beha

Feb 21, • 59:03

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep292 - AI Agents in Recruitment & HR - Hype or Reality?

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep292 - AI Agents in Recruitment & HR - Hype or Reality?

AI Agents in TA & HR Hype vs Reality?   Some people are saying that will be the year of the AI Agent - an advancement of AI where it crosses over from being an amazing tool to being a competent colleague. The Google Whitepaper shared in recruiting brainfood a few weeks ago was an outstanding introduction to the topic and we're going to use this session to deep dive into state of play when it comes to Agentic AI   You will learn what TA Leaders think about:   - What is Agentic AI? - Why is this

Feb 14, • 1:26:15

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep291 - What Do 100x TA Leaders Think About Hiring in 2025?

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep291 - What Do 100x TA Leaders Think About Hiring in 2025?

State of Hiring - What Do 100 Talent Leaders Think for 2025?   Every year Willo put together a report from an in-depth survey of 100+ Heads of Talent. And every year Brainfood Live gets CEO Euan Cameron on screen to talk us through it. If you're a TA Leader who needs to benchmark what your peers are thinking, this show is for you:   You will learn what TA Leaders think about:   - Budget allocation in 2025 - Tech / Tools which are the priorities - TA upskilling, what are the skills gaps in the

Feb 7, • 1:01:57

Brainfood On Tour - How to Hire in Malaysia in 2025

Brainfood On Tour - How to Hire in Malaysia in 2025

How to Hire in Malaysia in 2025   Brainfood On Tour is back on folks - we're now in Malaysia and its time to deep dive into this fascinating country made of many ethnicities, faiths and regions. A nation of 70 million people, Malaysia is a coming powerhouse of SE Asia region with huge economic potential   We will find out:   - What are the main things people need to know about hiring in Malaysia? - In economy, what are the most dynamic sectors? - What are the demographics looking like here? - W

Feb 7, • 1:08:14

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep290 - Insight on the TA Landscape from 7000 Employers

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep290 - Insight on the TA Landscape from 7000 Employers

Talent Insights for 2025 from 1000 CHRO's   Nobody doubts this 2025 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for how businesses organise. Transformational breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence, rapid remodelling of organisation structure, requirement for re-skilling and re-deployment, almost every job will be impacted. How do CHRO's think about this year, and what do they see as the priorities?   - Demographics of respondents - Priorities: talent acquisition, talent density, talent retention? - Te

Jan 31, • 1:03:22

Brainfood On Tour - How to Hire in India in 2025

Brainfood On Tour - How to Hire in India in 2025

How to Hire in India in 2025   Brainfood On Tour is back for another season! I am delighted to back in India - for the first time since before Covid. This is one of the most diverse, vibrant, populous and important countries in the world - and potentially one of the major engines of economic growth for the future. Let's find out what it is like to hire in India!   We will find out:   - What are the main things people need to know about hiring in India? - In economy, what are the most dynamic s

Jan 28, • 1:11:37

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep289 - Req Load: How Much Is Too Much Per Recruiter in the Age of AI

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep289 - Req Load: How Much Is Too Much Per Recruiter in the Age of AI

Req Load: How Much is Too Much Per Recruiter in the Age of AI?   If Artificial Intelligence going to make recruiters hyper productive, how many requirements can we now expect to manage? There's no question that this question is going to be on the mind of CEO's going into 2025. Whilst we CAN expect some increase in req load, how much is too much?   In this session, we are going to discuss the variables which go into calculating requirements per recruiter, and how to explain that numbers don't ca

Jan 24, • 1:15:16

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep288 - Forecasting 2025 Year Ahead in Recruiting

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep288 - Forecasting 2025 Year Ahead in Recruiting

Forecasting Recruiting in 2025   Happy New Year Everybody!   And welcome to Season 5 of Brainfood Live On Air - the weekly show where we gather the world's top experts to come on and discuss live on air the topics of the day. The year would not make a proper start without a forecast of what we think the recruiting environment is going to look like. Lets review how we think the market is going to shape up:   - Investment in TA / HR Tech - Assessment & Candidate use of AI - Volume of job applica

Jan 10, • 1:18:57

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep287 - Christmas Special, Open Mic

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep287 - Christmas Special, Open Mic

Brainfood Live Christmas Party 2024 - Open Mic   Friends, this is the last Brainfood Live of the year!   This will be our 50th show of the year, so our cadence of doing these more or less once per week, every week, remains pretty much unbroken - not even sure where the two missing weeks went!   In any case, we're going to do an Open Mic session where all the years panelists and guests can come on and say their piece to the camera on what they thought of 2024. See the great and the good join Bra

Dec 30, 2024 • 1:00:05

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep283 - Sustainable Healthcare Recruitment - Strategies for 2024 & Beyond

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep283 - Sustainable Healthcare Recruitment - Strategies for 2024 & Beyond

Sustainable Recruitment in Healthcare: Strategies for 2024 and Beyond   The UK healthcare sector is at a critical crossroads. Recruitment challenges are intensifying, driven by an aging population, workforce burnout, and shifting political landscapes. As we enter 2024 under a new Labour government, healthcare recruiters must brace for significant policy changes while continuing to navigate the existing talent shortages. This event will explore the current state of healthcare hiring, the impact

Dec 16, 2024 • 1:01:47

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep286 - 2024 in Review - State of Talent Acquisition

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep286 - 2024 in Review - State of Talent Acquisition

2024 in Review: State of Talent Acquisition   It's been another challenging year for Talent Acquisition - I make it two years since the hey days of 2021/2022. What can we learn from the current market conditions for Talent Acquisition, how are companies seeing the function and what are professionals doing to ensure they are staying ahead of the competition?   - Real Talk: Is Talent Acquisition heading toward extinction? - How are employers viewing TA in the era of AI / Doing More With Less? -

Dec 13, 2024 • 1:13:38

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep285 - 2024 in Review - State of Recruitment Advertising

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep285 - 2024 in Review - State of Recruitment Advertising

2024 in Review: State of Recruitment Job Advertising   One of the themes of 2024 has been the surge of job applicants for the job adverts employers are posting out. It's clear that the economic conditions + AI-enablement has created the conditions where traditional duration based advertising is no longer a viable hiring approach - in fact, a counter productive one, as it absorbs all the recruiters capacity to deal with the flood!   What is the current state of recruitment job advertising and wh

Dec 6, 2024 • 1:03:09

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep284 - 2024 in Review - State of Flexible Working

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep284 - 2024 in Review - State of Flexible Working

2024 in Review: State of Flexible Working   The rise of the 'Alternative Workforce' has been a trend since before pandemic, as organisations sort to increase agility and reduce risk by expanding the pool of non-FTE into the workforce. Workers too have been keen to explore other ways in which to commercially engage with companies rather than being full time, permanent, on site workers.   What is the state of Flexible working in 2024 - and how do we expect this to develop over the coming years?

Nov 29, 2024 • 1:01:48

Founders Focus - Ep52 - Up close and personal with Matthijs Metzamaekers, Founder of Carv

Founders Focus - Ep52 - Up close and personal with Matthijs Metzamaekers, Founder of Carv

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 Matthijs Metzemaekers, CEO of Carv   - Why do it the second time round? - What are you doing differently at Carv vs your previous tech startup projects? - What are you doing in a same or similar way? - When did the idea for Carv first emerge - do you remember the exact moment? - What are the first steps you took, as an experienced entrepreneur are there

Nov 19, 2024 • 57:29

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep282 - 2024 in Review - State of Sourcing

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep282 - 2024 in Review - State of Sourcing

2024 in Review: State of Sourcing   Being able to find candidates for hard to hire roles - typically 'sourcing' them from the Internet - has been the backbone of the recruiter skills matrix since the early 2000's. There are thousands of people in industry who consider themselves to be 'sourcers' first rather than 'recruiters'. Yet with the rise of GenAI, sourcing products have dramatically increased their capability, such that many more people are now able to do what once only a few specialists

Nov 16, 2024 • 1:10:17

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep281 - US Presidential Election - Impact on TA and HR

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep281 - US Presidential Election - Impact on TA and HR

US Presidential Election: Implications for TA / HR   Perhaps the most significant election on the planet is who our American friends choose to be the next President of the country. Will it be current VP Kamala Harris who offers a continuity programme or will be it be a remarkable return to Donald Trump for a second term?   It's an incredible moment and one which has huge implications for TA / HR particularly given that the two candidates represent two sides of a culture war in which our sector

Nov 8, 2024 • 1:15:47

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep280 - 2024 in Review UK Staffing Market

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep280 - 2024 in Review UK Staffing Market

2024 in Review: UK Staffing Market   Recruitment has gone through another turbulent year and it's clear that the global staffing market has had one its most challenging years recent times. How has the UK fared, what are the reasons for this and how do we think the prospects will look in 2025 and beyond?   - State of UK staffing Marketing - Big agency bottom line - Contract market vs Perm Market - Growth industries where labour demand is high - Declining industries where labour demand is low - A

Nov 1, 2024 • 1:14:38

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep279 - Diversifying Your Talent Pipeline Using Employee Referrals

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep279 - Diversifying Your Talent Pipeline Using Employee Referrals

Diversify Your Talent Pipeline with Employee Referrals   Employee Referrals are often thought of as 'anti-diversity' because we inevitably recommend people who are most like us. However, are we throwing out the baby with the bathwater if we dismiss ERP as a channel for talent?   - State of Employee Referrals - how many people get hired via this method? - How many companies have a formal ERP programme? - What are the hallmarks of the great ERP programme? - Can you use ERP to specifically help wi

Oct 26, 2024 • 1:02:54

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep278 - Hiring in the Gulf States in 2024 & Beyond

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep278 - Hiring in the Gulf States in 2024 & Beyond

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep278 - Hiring in the Gulf States in 2024 & Beyond   Over the past 24 months there is been no region on the planet more dynamic and exciting than the Gulf. For decades a commodity / resource economy dominated by the Oil industry, in recent years we have seen huge changes at every level of society, government and industry as the Gulf States seek to reinvest trade surplus into green tech, tech innovation, AI, satellite & space tech, tourism, architecture and the rest. I'm

Oct 23, 2024 • 1:09:45

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep277 - Hiring in Hong Kong and Beyond

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep277 - Hiring in Hong Kong and Beyond

Brainfood On Tour - Hiring in Hong Kong in 2024 & Beyond   I am in Hong Kong at least once every year (hi Ma) but have never done a focused show on the recruitment and job market in the Fragrant Harbour! Huge amounts of change going in HK, as elsewhere - how is the recruitment market changing and what are the prospects for the future?   - State of Hiring in Hong Kong - Demographics and population - what is the working age population? - Tech & Startup, viable sectors in HK? - Relationship with S

Oct 18, 2024 • 57:37

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep276 - Hiring in Australia 2024 & Beyond

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep276 - Hiring in Australia 2024 & Beyond

Brainfood On Tour - Hiring in Australia in 2024 & Beyond   Its been two year since I was last in Australia so it is a welcome return to one of the most unique recruitment markets on the planet. Everything about Australia is simultaneously familiar yet strange and that includes everything you're going to see in recruiting. How has Australia weathered the storms of 2024?   - State of Hiring in Australia - State of TA Job Market - Growth sectors: where in the economy? - How are agencies / RPO's ch

Oct 11, 2024 • 1:09:20

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep275 - How to Hire in Thailand in 2024 & Beyond

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep275 - How to Hire in Thailand in 2024 & Beyond

Brainfood On Tour - Hiring in the Thailand in 2024 & Beyond   I've been to Thailand a number of times but never long enough to actually speak to a local recruiters on what is going on in this beautiful country. Unfortunately, I don't speak Thai so until Crowdcast manages to do auto translate on the fly, we're going to be speaking with English speaking recruiters who can say a thing or two about hiring for employers in Thailand.   - What are the key challenges hiring in Thailand in 2024? - With

Oct 4, 2024 • 1:07:18

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep274 - Hiring Manager Self Serve - How TA Can Empower the Line!

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep274 - Hiring Manager Self Serve - How TA Can Empower the Line!

Hiring Manager Self Serve: How To Can Empower the Line!   Centralising recruitment is the default for 'knowledge' based businesses; the opposite is true for every other type of business. If your organisation is a multi-location, moves physical items, has warehouses, and huge diversity of job roles, then chances are you will necessarily have a more de-centralised hiring approach. What can we learn from organisations like this? What is the ideal relationship between central TA vs decentralised hi

Sep 27, 2024 • 1:10:32

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep273 - EU AI Act 2024 - Implications for Recruiters, TA, HR and Rectech

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep273 - EU AI Act 2024 - Implications for Recruiters, TA, HR and Rectech

EU AI Act: Implications for Recruiters, Talent Acquisition and HR   One of the biggest challenges we have in our industry is to stay compliant. In a world where the innovation rate of Artificial Intelligence has long since outstripped anyone's ability to keep on top of it, we're left to seek guidance from legislators which we hope know what they're doing. Let's review what the EU AI Act is and how it will impact how recruits, talent acquisition and HR can and should use software which has an AI

Sep 20, 2024 • 1:12:12

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep272 - Reviewing Doing More With Less - A Year in Recruitment Efficiency

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep272 - Reviewing Doing More With Less - A Year in Recruitment Efficiency

Reviewing 'Do More With Less' - Recruitment Efficiency in 2024   Recruiters have been under pressure all year - maybe even longer than that - to 'do more with less'. This means either increase effort or increase efficiency. And given that we are already at 100% capacity with reduced TA teams, the latter is the only option!   How have we done - what examples have we seen of recruitment efficiency at company wide level?   We will discuss the following:   - How to measure recruitment efficiency?

Sep 13, 2024 • 1:01:39

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep271 - Hiring Insights from 1 Million Job Interviews

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep271 - Hiring Insights from 1 Million Job Interviews

Hiring Insights from 1 Million Job Interviews   Interview Intelligence is a category which has exploded into industry consciousness over the past 12 months. Employers are finally learning that in order to have hiring success, you have to ensure that your interviewing game is elite. We are finding out some incredible insights in how recruiters and hiring managers interview, many of which have been posted online already, mainly by BrightHire CEO Ben Sesser's amazing posts on interview insights

Sep 6, 2024 • 1:07:05

Founders Focus - Ep50 - Up close and personal with Maxime Legardez Coquin, CEO of Maki People

Founders Focus - Ep50 - Up close and personal with Maxime Legardez Coquin, CEO of Maki People

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 Maxime Legardez Coquin, CEO of Maki   - When did you know you were going to be an entrepreneur? - What are the strengths of a founder coming into a new domain? - Is there a formula for success as a CEO of a fast growing scale up? - What recruiting lessons did you personally learn when building businesses? - If I could ask a former colleague of yours to

Sep 4, 2024 • 54:21

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep270 - Maternity Return - Are Employers Doing Enough (or Anything At All?)

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep270 - Maternity Return - Are Employers Doing Enough (or Anything At All?)

Maternity Returnees: Are Employers Doing Enough (Or Anything At All?)   Maternity Leave is a policy most employers have in place, but what about Maternity Return? Most employers seem not to have any policy at all, leaving the experience of returning mothers mainly up to the line management, with predictably variable results!   We're going to dive into an under discussed topic on what the current experience is like for Maternity Returnees, and what policies employers can produce to be truly incl

Aug 30, 2024 • 1:10:41

Founders Focus - Ep51 - Up close and personal with Runar Reistrup, CEO of YunoJuno

Founders Focus - Ep51 - Up close and personal with Runar Reistrup, CEO of YunoJuno

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 Runar Reistrup, CEO of YunoJuno   - What are the differences leading a startup / scale up vs a mega corp? - Do the order of the most management skills change with this context? - As a leader, how do you prepare a company for every stage of its journey? - How much of being a leader is innate vs learnt? - What have been the most significant changes in the

Aug 29, 2024 • 33:53

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep269 - New Labour Govt - What Can Recruiters / HR Expect?

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep269 - New Labour Govt - What Can Recruiters / HR Expect?

NEW GOVERNMENT: WHAT CAN RECRUITERS / HR EXPECT?   We'll be over a month since the General Election, in which almost all pollsters predict the Labour Party forming the government with the largest majority since Tony Blair 1997. How radical will this new government be? Are we going to see New Labour 2.0 or as some critics contend, Tory-lite 2.0?   Whatever the flavour of personal politics, it remains the case that change of government means change in legislation, especially in taxation, employme

Aug 22, 2024 • 1:14:06

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep268 - How to Build a Job Scraper (as a non-coder!)

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep268 - How to Build a Job Scraper (as a non-coder!)

HOW TO BUILD A JOB SCRAPER USING PYTHON (AS A NON-CODER!)   Friends, you don't need me to tell you that the job market for Talent Acquisition professionals has been in the toilet for the past 18 months. So much so that I have even had to close down the Brainfood Jobs Job Board - for lack of posted jobs! When the competition out there is as fierce as it is, you have to think about how to give yourself an edge. How about creating a lead generation tool which automatically scrapes new TA jobs as s

Aug 16, 2024 • 1:09:25

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep267 - Real Use Cases in Recruitment Automation Live Demos

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep267 - Real Use Cases in Recruitment Automation Live Demos

REAL USE CASES IN RECRUITMENT AUTOMATION: LIVE DEMO   Friends, I'm on a mission: industry everywhere is in a race for become AI-enabled, and those that are slow to adopt are going to be outcompeted by those who can now move faster and better. What we've been lacking is real examples of how RPA (Recruitment Process Automation) and AI can really take out chunks of the work recruiters do. That changes today!   - Where in the recruiting pipeline does RPA / AI have greatest impact? - What does it lo

Aug 9, 2024 • 2:09:07

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep266 - How to Hire a Chief People Officer

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep266 - How to Hire a Chief People Officer

HOW TO HIRE A CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER (CPO)   It's the most senior role in the People department, one that many a recruiter eventually aspires to, but I suspect not many of us have had to try and recruit for one! We're going to dive into the world of C-level hiring, but with a twist, for the C-suite exec leading our own department!   - What are the circumstances where this role emerges? - How do we capture the requirement? - From whom do we collect it from? - Who is the hiring manager - CEO, com

Aug 2, 2024 • 1:04:25

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep265 - New Job as a Recruitment Leader - The 100 Day Plan

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep265 - New Job as a Recruitment Leader - The 100 Day Plan

NEW JOB AS A RECRUITMENT LEADER: THE 100 DAY PLAN   We know that it continues to be a tough market out there, but I am heartened to see more than few of my close contacts secure new positions lately. Not only do we hope that this is the beginning of a mini-bounce back for the TA job market, but it is also an ideal opportunity to speak to the newly hired and figure out what the best approach might be to ensure you get off to a running start!   - How long is the honeymoon period? - What is the be

Jul 26, 2024 • 1:09:59

Founders Focus - Ep49 - Up close and personal with Steve Bartel, CEO of Gem

Founders Focus - Ep49 - Up close and personal with Steve Bartel, CEO of Gem

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 Steve Bartel, CEO of Gem.   - When did you realise you were going to set up a company? - In what ways does being an engineer help you as a tech CEO? - In what was does it hinder you? - What aspects of being a CEO have you discovered to be a strength? - What areas do you think are not your strongest as CEO? - If I could ask a former colleague of yours to

Jul 24, 2024 • 1:01:09

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep264 - How to Ethically Implement AI into Talent Acquisition

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep264 - How to Ethically Implement AI into Talent Acquisition

HOW TO ETHICALLY IMPLEMENT AI INTO TALENT ACQUISITION   One of the factors slowing down AI Adoption is justifiable concern on the ethics of AI. How do we ensure that we are not exacerbating bias, privileging one demographic over another and treating human beings as lesser than the machines?   It's been great to see software vendors take the lead in trying find a path forward. A superb how-to guide from our friends Willo was featured in Recruiting Brainfood Issue 399 (free to download, no gate h

Jul 20, 2024 • 1:02:34

Founders Focus - Ep48 - Up close and personal with Sam Dhesi CEO of Popp.ai

Founders Focus - Ep48 - Up close and personal with Sam Dhesi CEO of Popp.ai

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 the CEO of one the new wave of AI-native tech startups which are transforming enterprise recruitment, Sam Dhesi   - When did you realise you were going to set up a company? - What are the strengths of a founder coming into a new domain? - How did you assemble the founding team? - What protocols do you have when you disagree? - If I could ask a former col

Jul 16, 2024 • 1:03:12

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep263 - Public Speaking Tips for Newbies

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep263 - Public Speaking Tips for Newbies

PUBLIC SPEAKING TIPS FOR NEWBIES: HOW TO DELIVER YOUR BEST RECFEST TALK   Once upon a time, I too was also a reluctant public speaker. In fact, I did not even see the point of attending industry conferences - after all, what did I have to say, what did I have to learn? I am very glad that I accepted the invitation of one Mr Stephen Donaldson to give a talk at one of his events, Bill Boorman, who set up the first (ur) conference I really attended and Sarah Cooper, who by turning up at the door a

Jul 5, 2024 • 1:12:39

Founders Focus - Ep47 - Up close and personal with Dina Bay, CEO of PitchMe

Founders Focus - Ep47 - Up close and personal with Dina Bay, CEO of PitchMe

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 Dina Bay, CEO of PitchMe. I do believe this is the first time we have had a Founders Focus with the fellow Alumni of St Andrews University - a moment to celebrate!   - When did you realise you were going to set up a company? - What was the biggest difference between the world's of research, corporate and startup? - What skills do you think you have as C

Jul 3, 2024 • 1:01:37

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep262 - Skill Based Hiring - A Conversation with Johnny Campbell, CEO of Social Talent

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep262 - Skill Based Hiring - A Conversation with Johnny Campbell, CEO of Social Talent

SKILL BASED HIRING: A CONVERSATION WITH JOHNNY CAMPBELL   One of the first people to really break down to task and activity level was Johnny Campbell. As CEO of market leading hiring training company SocialTalent, his taxonomy of the skills required by a recruiter to perform in their work remains a canonical artefact in the world of talent acquisition to this day.   This is why I was excited to get a DM from Johnny on the topic of Skill Based Hiring - in particular, why we might have cause to

Jun 28, 2024 • 1:01:52

Founders Focus - Ep46 - Up close and personal with Roderick Smythe, CEO of Glyde Talent

Founders Focus - Ep46 - Up close and personal with Roderick Smythe, CEO of Glyde Talent

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today.   I'm delighted to be speaking to the one and only Roderick Smyth - serial entrepreneur with multiple exits and now the founder and CEO of Glyde Talent - the AI powered recruitment platform which enables recruiters to source and screen at scale.   - What has changed in product development over the past 20 years? - Can you describe the history of recruitment tech sol

Jun 27, 2024 • 1:09:15

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep261 - How to Assess and Implement Your New ATS (Part One)

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep261 - How to Assess and Implement Your New ATS (Part One)

HOW TO SELECT AND IMPLEMENT AN ATS: A MASTERCLASS   There will come a point in every Talent Acquisition professionals career where you will have to make a decision on which ATS to use. Likely to be the most significant technology decision you'll ever make, it is also - outside of payroll - likely to be the biggest ticket investment that you'll ever have responsibility for also. So how exactly are you meant to go about making such a big decision a success?   - Top 10 things to consider when choo

Jun 21, 2024 • 1:11:32

Founders Focus - Ep45 - Up close and personal with Barb Hyman, CEO of Sapia.ai

Founders Focus - Ep45 - Up close and personal with Barb Hyman, CEO of Sapia.ai

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 Barb Hyman, CEO of Sapia. I had the great pleasure of meeting up with Barb for a coffee in Shoreditch earlier this year and I'm delighted to be able to reconnect with her on her founder story and what exactly made her embark on the journey of recruitment technology entrepreneurship   - When did you realise you had to do Sapia? - Were you always thinking

Jun 19, 2024 • 59:29

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep260 - Future of Job Boards & Job Board Advertising (Part Deux)

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep260 - Future of Job Boards & Job Board Advertising (Part Deux)

FUTURE OF JOB BOARDS & JOB ADVERTISING (PART DEUX)   The best Brainfood Lives always leave more to be said. Ep254 set new standards for intellectual horsepower, as we discussed GenAI impact on the future of job boards and job advertising. We had such great feedback that we had to bring the crew back to follow up, this time taking things a step further with an examination of 'agentic AI'   - How are job boards responding to AI agents? - What demands are employers making of job boards? - At what

Jun 14, 2024 • 1:07:59

Founders Focus - Ep44 - Up close and personal with Max Armbruster, CEO of Talkpush

Founders Focus - Ep44 - Up close and personal with Max Armbruster, CEO of Talkpush

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 on is one of brainfood's oldest buddies, Max Armbruster, CEO of Talkpush. If you've ever met Max you'd know about it - a unique, effervescent character whose passion for tech and recruitment is matched only by his vision for the future of recruitment optimisation. Let's find out more about who this guy is and what drives him to do what he does.   - What im

Jun 12, 2024 • 1:00:52

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep259 - Expanding Scope from Talent Acquisition to Talent Everything

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep259 - Expanding Scope from Talent Acquisition to Talent Everything

EXPANDING SCOPE: FROM TALENT ACQUISITION TO TALENT EVERYTHING   Talent Acquisition has spent the past two decades attempting to create an identity distinct from HR....was this mistake, and do we now need to discreetly reverse course??   Apologies for the provocation but I suspect this is more or less what we NEED to be doing, especially as the employers everywhere demand more from people teams, forcing us all to expand scope to take on work that was previously someone else's theatre. Additional

May 31, 2024 • 1:09:04

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep258 - Programmatic Job Advertising - A Masterclass

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep258 - Programmatic Job Advertising - A Masterclass

PROGRAMMATIC JOB ADVERTISING: THE MASTERCLASS   I am convinced that programmatic job advertising will become a necessity for the employers hiring at any kind of scale. Applicant overflow will become untenable without automated system which can respond to flow rate by either increasing or decreasing the visibility of the advert. And yet the solutions remain mysterious for the majority of recruiters, most of whom have never used programmatic job advertising tools; market penetration in the UK is

May 24, 2024 • 1:06:35

Founders Focus - Ep43 - Up close and personal with Reiner Bruns, CTO Scotty AI

Founders Focus - Ep43 - Up close and personal with Reiner Bruns, CTO Scotty AI

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today   Scotty AI is a technology business where the market has finally caught up with the vision. Their pioneering software provides the sort of automation of workflow which recruiters have been screaming out for, especially in the era of 'do more with less'   Let's hear from the man who built the thing - Engineer, CTO and Co-founder Reiner Bruns.     - What important thin

May 21, 2024 • 1:04:23

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep257 - Recruitment Automation Tips You Can Do Right Now

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep257 - Recruitment Automation Tips You Can Do Right Now

RECRUITMENT AUTOMATION TIPS YOU CAN DO RIGHT AWAY   As the case studies accumulate, we are beginning to see the outline of what an AI-enabled recruiter looks like: it is indeed x10 more productive, perhaps even x100 more productive in certain tasks and functions. It's time to stop watching folks, and time to start doing.   - Examples of Recruitment Automation which can be done today - What areas of in the workflow should recruiters be focussing on automating? - What are the impediments to auto

May 17, 2024 • 1:29:06

Founders Focus - Ep42 - Up close and personal with Tycho van Paassen, Co-founder, VONQ

Founders Focus - Ep42 - Up close and personal with Tycho van Paassen, Co-founder, VONQ

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today   VONQ has been one of the recruitment technology providers who have undergirded the recruitment advertising eco-system, often in a way unknown to recruiters at the operations side of the business. What a better opportunity to find out more about this company than getting face time with one of the founders, Tycho van Paassen?   - Why is VONQ organised the way it is? -

May 15, 2024 • 1:00:51

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep256 - How To Set Up a Recruitment Analytics Dashboard

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep256 - How To Set Up a Recruitment Analytics Dashboard

HOW TO SET UP A RECRUITMENT ANALYTICS DASHBOARD   Having strong analytics is critical to increasing the degree of your hiring success. Much more challenging is how best to set up a dashboard which works best for your organisation and your needs. We're going to get some expert advice from talent leaders whose speciality is enabling organisations to have access to, and make better quality decisions on, the data from the talent team.   - What metrics do elite organisations use? - Are there common

May 10, 2024 • 1:06:52

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep255 - No LinkedIn X-Ray - What Next?

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep255 - No LinkedIn X-Ray - What Next?

NO LINKEDIN X-RAY? WHAT NEXT?   The sourcing community has been monitoring the changes on LinkedIn, particularly on the availability of public data to search engines. 2 months since the news first broke that 'LinkedIn X Ray is dead', what is the latest from the front lines of the sourcing world. And...if LinkedIn X-Ray IS on its last legs, what does that mean for people aggregators, data enrichers and the like?   - Latest on LinkedIn X-Ray - update - Implications for recruiters, more upgrades t

Apr 26, 2024 • 1:03:03

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep254 - Data or Ads? Future of Job Board Advertising in the Era of GenAI

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep254 - Data or Ads? Future of Job Board Advertising in the Era of GenAI

DATA OR ADS: FUTURE OF JOB BOARD ADVERTISING IN THE ERA OF GENERATIVE AI   Job Boards are going through a moment. What had felt like a clear progression of business model towards Pay-Per-Applicant, is now changing in the era of GenAI, especially with the AI-enabled job candidate conducting mass apply. Opportunities and risks have both increased for the job board vendors, and the decisions that these players make will have downstream impact on the sort of services employers and job seekers alike

Apr 19, 2024 • 1:13:49

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep253 - Skill Based Hiring - Rhetoric or Reality?

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep253 - Skill Based Hiring - Rhetoric or Reality?

SKILL BASED ORGANISATION: REALITY VS RHETORIC?   The consensus in the industry is that Skill Based Hiring and Skill Based Organisation is the way forward for the next generation of future fit organisations, but what does successful implementation actually look like? We're beginning to see the emergence of a debate on the wisdom and practicality of the idea - can it even be done?   Join us, as we discuss the issue from different points of view from the TA Leadership community   - Definitions: Wh

Apr 12, 2024 • 1:14:19

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep252 - How To Pull Off a Global TA Restructure

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep252 - How To Pull Off a Global TA Restructure

HOW TO PULL OFF A GLOBAL TA ORG RESTRUCTURE   The post 2021 drive for optimisation has led to a global wave of organisation restructuring, as every department, in every company, probably in every country comes to terms with a world of high interest rates, slowing growth, tougher margins and ever increasing volatility.   How have multinational TA teams responded, and reorganised?   - What prompted the decision to reorg? - How long a run way do you need to even think about this?? - What are the

Apr 5, 2024 • 1:05:38

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep251 - Innovation in High Volume Hiring - Faster, Better, Cheaper?

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep251 - Innovation in High Volume Hiring - Faster, Better, Cheaper?

HIGH VOLUME HIRING: FASTER, BETTER, CHEAPER?   Recruitment optimisation gets more serious at scale. 1% efficiency improvement means a lot more when you're hiring for 10,000 people vs hiring for 100. What can we learn from high volume hirers when it comes to increasing efficiency?   - Why radical solutions are required - How to determine where gains can be achieved? - What areas of inefficiency to be tackled first? - What is the relationship between C-level and TA in high volume hi

Mar 27, 2024 • 1:01:59

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep250 - Developer Skills Report 2024

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep250 - Developer Skills Report 2024

WHAT DO DEVELOPERS WANT? SKILLS & SENTIMENT REPORT 2024   One of the annual must read reports in the recruiting industry is the HackerRank's Developer Skills Report. With huge changes in the skills make up of the software developer workforce of tomorrow, we need to review what kind of skills developers care about, are getting good at and are letting go as the future leaves them behind.   Who better to talk us through the insights than Vivek Ravisankar and Juan Herrera, the senior hombres of Ha

Mar 22, 2024 • 1:03:44

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep249 - Future of Work - Talent Acquisition - Not Invited?

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep249 - Future of Work - Talent Acquisition - Not Invited?

FUTURE OF WORK: TALENT ACQUISITION...NOT INVITED?   Talent Acquisition has long fought a battle for a 'seat at the table' when the big decisions are made about the future of an organisation but we really need to come to that table with unique perspective, value and confidence.   With the era of Generative AI already upon us, let's do a sense check on where Talent Acquisition is when conversations about the future shape of an organisation takes place.   - Do we know what the CEO vision of an A

Mar 15, 2024 • 1:13:24

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep248 - Talent Trends Report 2024 - Sourcing & Engagement

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep248 - Talent Trends Report 2024 - Sourcing & Engagement

TALENT TRENDS REPORT: SOURCING IN 2024   Sourcing has returned to being a hot topic in 2024 in light of the recent restrictions on Linkedin data which may be significantly altered the efficacy of previously reliable sourcing techniques. We've had the expert sourcing view - lets now look at what data can tell us as CRM / ATS provider Ashby takes a deep dive on actual recruiter behaviour on their platform .   Find out about:   - Outreach volume change over time - Candidate response rates to recru

Mar 9, 2024 • 53:22

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep247 - State of Hiring Report Market Intelligence 2024

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep247 - State of Hiring Report Market Intelligence 2024

The State of Hiring Market Intelligence Report 2024   Continuing with our theme of showcasing companies who are conducting research valuable to the recruiting community, today we focus on the work our friends at Willo have done over the past year, surveying customers on hiring trends from AI, remote work, candidate experience and focus for 2024.   Find out what other TA, HR and Senior level execs are saying about:   - Headcount growth for 2024 - Role of AI in recruiter enablement - Remote & Fl

Mar 1, 2024 • 1:03:16

Background Live On Air - Ep246 - State of Background Screening Compliance 2024

Background Live On Air - Ep246 - State of Background Screening Compliance 2024

The State of Background Screening Compliance 2024   Checkr have released the definitive research piece on the State of Background Screening Compliance and we will use this week's Brainfood Live On Air to interview Su-Han Wang, Managing Litigation & Compliance Counsel at Checkr to better understand:   what percentage of US employers are compliant with Federal regulations on background screening which segments / states are most / least compliant what are the potential hazards for employers

Feb 23, 2024 • 1:01:40

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep245 - Is LinkedIn X-Ray Dead Dying or What?

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep245 - Is LinkedIn X-Ray Dead Dying or What?

LINKEDIN X-RAY: DEAD OR DYING OR WHAT?   Using a search engine to 'X-ray' an ostensibly closed social network is the quintessential activity of a sourcer. You could probably argue that the entire sourcing discipline emerged as a result of recruiters discovering sophisticated ways to interrogate a system to retrieve information about potential candidates.   Consequently, the news that LinkedIn had begun to suppress important biographical data from being crawled by search engines (especially Goo

Feb 16, 2024 • 1:08:32

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep244 - Offboarding - How to Avoid PR Disaster

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep244 - Offboarding - How to Avoid PR Disaster

OFFBOARDING: HOW TO AVOID PR DISASTER!   We have seem the company wide Zoom call, the recorded 1-2-1 videos, the mass email and even the classic no notice account lock out - it seems that whatever method an employer takes, there is always a risk of PR disaster when making lay offs.   Is this a matter of training, tooling or values? How can we create the right sort of process which humanises this hardest of moments within a business?   You will learn   - Psychology of lay offs - Impact of trans

Feb 10, 2024 • 1:10:50

Founders Focus - Ep41 - Up close and personal with Richard Collins, Founder, CVWallet

Founders Focus - Ep41 - Up close and personal with Richard Collins, Founder, CVWallet

Happy New 2024 Everybody!   We're back with the series where we get up close and personal with the tech entrepreneurs changing the way we work today.   Next up we've got we've got one of the most unique stories to come out of the UK recruitment tech scene in recent years. Richard and Beverly Collins, Co-founders of CVWallet are not only manage to be successful entrepreneurs, coming around for the second time after successfully exciting previous startup ClickIQ to Indeed.com, but also life part

Feb 7, 2024 • 1:01:00

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep243 - How to Hire AI - 10 Things Recruiters HAVE to Know

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep243 - How to Hire AI - 10 Things Recruiters HAVE to Know

HOW TO HIRE AI (10 THINGS RECRUITERS HAVE TO KNOW)   There is likely no major corporate employer on the planet that isn't interested in becoming more 'AI-enabled'. And traditionally the quickest way to get there is to hire elite AI skills into the our organisation. The demand for the AI at elite level - data engineers, research scientists and the like - is going through the roof and it is high time we recruiters figured out how best to hire for those skills.   - What are the roles in AI? - How

Feb 2, 2024 • 1:11:10

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep242 - Measuring Quality of Hire (in the Age of AI)

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep242 - Measuring Quality of Hire (in the Age of AI)

MEASURING THE QUALITY OF HIRE (IN THE AGE OF AI)     My most popular post of 2023 was one I wrote on the How to Measure Quality of Hire. It was certainly not the quality of the writing which made it a hit - it was the obviously more that we hit a sore point for Talent Acquisition leaders and Hiring Managers on how we actually know whether we are doing a good job or not, in terms of raising the the talent density of the organisation.   Let's review what we know already about QoH and ask the que

Jan 26, 2024 • 1:09:20

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep241 - State of Tech Hiring 2024

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep241 - State of Tech Hiring 2024

STATE OF TECH HIRING IN 2024   In 2021 the Brainfood community was 50% self identified as 'tech recruiters'   Since that time, we've seen a huge changes in the world - the collapse of VC investment, the end of zero interest rate policy, the advent of generative AI and the shift of focus from intangible to tangible value economy. Where does that leave tech in 2024?   I've asked our friends at Otta to dive into their proprietary platform data and share with us their view on the state of tech hiri

Jan 19, 2024 • 1:06:25

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep240 - Forecasting 2024 Year in Recruitment, Part Two

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep240 - Forecasting 2024 Year in Recruitment, Part Two

FORECASTING THE YEAR IN RECRUITMENT 2024,Pt2   Part Two of our two-part forecast series, where we look forward to what we think is going to happen in the year ahead. Lets see if we can make some S.M.A.R.T (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound) predictions on the following topics:   - SMB Recruitment Agency Market - D&I, especially Gender and Pay Equity - Labour Market Economics (EMEA/APAC) - Assessments and Career Sites - In-house Recruitment market     All this and more wit

Jan 12, 2024 • 1:07:10

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep239 - Forecasting 2024 in Recruitment, Part One

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep239 - Forecasting 2024 in Recruitment, Part One

FORECASTING THE YEAR IN RECRUITMENT 2024,Pt1   Start of the New Year and we are going to collate our thoughts and project forward on what we think is going to happen in 2024. None of us are prophets but can we gather together enough intuition and trends analysis to produce some viable forecasts? Lets try:   - Global Economy in 2024 - State of VC / Investment Markets - Tech Hiring will it bounce back? - What is happening in the world of RPO? - Where in the world are we continuing to hire? - Whi

Jan 5, 2024 • 1:14:05

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep238 - 2023 Year in Review: Economy, Labour Markets & Jobs

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep238 - 2023 Year in Review: Economy, Labour Markets & Jobs

2023 Year in Review: Labour Market, Jobs, Vacancies, Work   Final part of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, we are zooming out to the macro and looking at state of the economy, the labour market, the vacancy market and our verdict of the year in the recruitment really has been.   - Economy in 2023 - US, UK and elsewhere - Impact of high interest rates - Labour supply - Economic growth - Company formation vs company growth - Job applicant behaviour - Workforce particip

Dec 22, 2023 • 1:21:59

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep237 - 2023 Year in Review - LinkedIn: Content, Newsfeed and Search

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep237 - 2023 Year in Review - LinkedIn: Content, Newsfeed and Search

2023 Year in Review: LinkedIn Content Marketing & LinkedIn Sourcing   Part 3 of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, we're looking back at our old and necessary friend, LinkedIn! Recruiters No1 most important platform, how did it treat you in 2023? We're going to review the major changes on:   - LinkedIn Newsfeed algorithm - Post types - Creator Mode / Livestream / Audio Event - LinkedIn Newsletters - LinkedIn Talent Solutions - LinkedIn Recruiter - Search on LinkedIn -

Dec 15, 2023 • 1:04:51

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep236 - 2023 Year in Review - Recruitment Advertising & Employer Branding

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep236 - 2023 Year in Review - Recruitment Advertising & Employer Branding

2023 Year in Review: Recruitment Advertising & Employer Branding   Part 2 of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, focus is on Recruitment Advertising and Employer Branding. What the heck happened on these two domains this year?   - SEO / Changes on Google Jobs - Behavioural ad targeting / retargeting - Impact of Search Generative Experience - CPC vs CPA - State of Job Boards - State of Programmatic Advertising - Employer branding during recession / lay offs - Rise of cand

Dec 8, 2023 • 1:19:01

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep235 - Year in Review 2023 - AI, WorkTech Investment & DEIB

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 - A

Dec 1, 2023 • 1:21:16

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep235 - Do You Have A Menopause Plan?

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

Nov 24, 2023 • 1:28:20

Founders Focus - Ep40 - Up close and personal with Aref Abedi, CEO of Jobylon

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. Th

Nov 21, 2023 • 58:50

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep233 - AI Enabled Candidates - What is the Plan?

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? -

Nov 16, 2023 • 1:20:23

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep232 - State of the Recruiter Job Market, Part 2

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

Nov 10, 2023 • 1:19:49

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep231 - Creating A Career Framework for Talent Acquisition Department

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

Nov 10, 2023 • 1:02:21

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep230 - How to Hire in LATAM

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

Nov 1, 2023 • 1:11:12

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep229 - Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT and GAI, Part Four

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 reci

Oct 27, 2023 • 1:09:13

Brainfood Live on Air - Ep228 - How to Conduct an AI Bias Audit

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

Oct 20, 2023 • 1:01:34

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep227 - What Works for Women (in Tech)

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 gend

Oct 13, 2023 • 1:05:56

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep226 - Being Put On Blast - How to Respond to Negative Publicity from an Unhappy Job Candidate

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

Oct 6, 2023 • 1:14:44

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep225 - The Psychological Impact of Candidate Assessments

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 fai

Sep 29, 2023 • 1:06:15

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep224 - Recruiter Fraud - How to Spot and Stop Overworking Remote Workers

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

Sep 22, 2023 • 1:01:47

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep223 - When Politics & Employer Branding Collide

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 in

Sep 15, 2023 • 1:03:45

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep222 - Age & Ageism - Generational Diversity in Recruiting

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 - a

Sep 8, 2023 • 1:08:42

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep221 - Career Progression Tips for TA Leaders

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

Sep 1, 2023 • 1:13:17

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep220 - Making the Case for Budget (When Times Are Tough!)

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

Aug 25, 2023 • 1:04:50

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep219 - FromTA to TA+

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

Aug 21, 2023 • 1:07:30

Founders Focus - Ep39 - Up close and personal with Raj Mukherjee, VP & GM of Indeed

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 - wha

Aug 17, 2023 • 1:00:40

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep218 - Turning Employees into Linkedin Talent Influencers

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 r

Aug 11, 2023 • 0:00

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep217 - LinkedIn Algorithm Updates - Redux

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

Aug 9, 2023 • 1:00:30

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep216 - Fully Automated Hiring

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 l

Jul 28, 2023 • 1:13:30

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep216 - Tech Hiring Landscape 2023 Mid Year Review

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

Jul 21, 2023 • 1:11:50

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep214 - WTF is Fractional Working?

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 O

Jul 14, 2023 • 1:09:40

Founders Focus- Ep38 - Up close and personal with Ryan Steelberg CEO of Veritone & Alex Fourlis MD of Broadbean

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

Jul 13, 2023 • 1:01:50

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep213 - Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

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 w

Jul 7, 2023 • 1:20:00

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep212 - Demographic Crisis: AI, Immigration and the Future of Work

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 betwe

Jun 30, 2023 • 1:13:18

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep211 - How AI Changes Software Engineering - What Tech Recruiters Have Got To Know

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

Jun 23, 2023 • 1:24:02

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep210 - How TA Leaders Are Using ChatGPT and GAI

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 situa

Jun 18, 2023 • 1:28:22

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep208 - How Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience changes Recruitment Marketing

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

Jun 2, 2023 • 1:12:24

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep207 - Life and Times of a VC Portfolio Recruiter

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

May 26, 2023 • 1:08:50

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep206 - Measuring the Impact of Employer Brand

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

May 19, 2023 • 1:14:54

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep205 - Moving to Skill Based Hiring (SBH)

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

May 12, 2023 • 1:11:14

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep204 - Measuring Quality of Hire

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 w

May 5, 2023 • 1:03:12

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep203 - How to Set Up an Elite Talent Analytics Function

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 Talen

Apr 28, 2023 • 1:10:14

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep202 - Recruitment Leadership in a Mega Scale Organisation

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 Headwort

Apr 21, 2023 • 1:09:58

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep201 - Prompt Engineering for Sourcers

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

Apr 14, 2023 • 1:09:40

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep200 - Supercharge Recruitment Marketing with AI

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

Apr 6, 2023 • 1:03:24

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep199 - Tech Layoffs & the Tech Job Market - From the Developers POV

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

Mar 31, 2023 • 1:23:04

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep198 - Mental Challenges of the Neurodiverse - Real Talk from Recruitment Heroes

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

Mar 24, 2023 • 1:14:36

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep197 - Hiring in South Africa in 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 pla

Mar 17, 2023 • 1:09:52

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep196 - Impact of GAI in EDI

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 - Danger

Mar 10, 2023 • 1:04:21

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep195 - Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, Part 3 - Ethics & Concerns

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

Mar 3, 2023 • 1:10:26

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep194 - State of the Recruiter Job Market

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:

Feb 24, 2023 • 1:20:46

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep193 - Hiring in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States

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 ou

Feb 16, 2023 • 1:10:00

Founders Focus - Ep36 - Up close and personal with Mark Chaffey CEO of hackajob

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

Feb 14, 2023 • 1:02:20

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep192 - Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, Part 2!

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 R

Feb 10, 2023 • 1:56:19

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep191 - Personalisation or Standardisation? How Best To DO Candidate Experience

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

Feb 3, 2023 • 1:17:32

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep190 - The State of Global Mobility 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

Jan 27, 2023 • 1:14:56

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep189 - Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT

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

Jan 20, 2023 • 1:36:45

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep189 - How to Recruit on TikTok

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

Jan 13, 2023 • 1:09:40

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep187 - Forecasting the Year Ahead in Recruitment 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 industr

Jan 6, 2023 • 1:19:50

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep186 - State of Recruitment 2022 - Year in Review

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

Dec 23, 2022 • 1:16:08

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep185 - Job Search & Promotion as a Mother to Be

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.   Wha

Dec 16, 2022 • 1:04:36

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep184 -Social Class & Accent: The Hidden Bias in Recruiting

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 O

Dec 9, 2022 • 1:04:30

Founders Focus - Ep35 - Up close and personal with Christian Payne, CEO of Talentiir

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

Dec 7, 2022 • 1:00:54

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep183 - The Psychology of Recruiter Redundancy

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 & soc

Dec 2, 2022 • 1:06:18

Founders Focus - Ep34 - Up close and personal with Davide Rivel, Head of Clinch Europe

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 lea

Nov 30, 2022 • 1:01:54

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep182 - Hiring the Formerly Institutionalised

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 ne

Nov 25, 2022 • 1:04:00

Founders Focus - Ep33 - Up close and personal with Arielle Kilroy, CEO of Dado

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

Nov 22, 2022 • 1:02:40

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep181 - Must Have Recruitment Automation Backs for 2023

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 Hac

Nov 18, 2022 • 1:06:00

Brainfood Live On Air  Ep180 - Is Boolean Dead? Latest Update on Google Search

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 Br

Nov 11, 2022 • 1:04:42

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep179 - Employer Branding in a Recession Economy

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 cri

Nov 4, 2022 • 1:01:44

Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep7 - Issue 316 in Review

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 n

Oct 31, 2022 • 41:14

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep178 - From Talent Intelligence to Talent Acquisition

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 goa

Oct 28, 2022 • 1:04:36

Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep6 - Issue 315 in Review

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!

Oct 24, 2022 • 36:12

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep177 - Hard Truths About Startup: Hiring, Firing & Culture

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 diff

Oct 21, 2022 • 1:03:28

Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep5 - Issue 314 in Review

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....

Oct 17, 2022 • 30:44

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep176- Sourcing & Recruiting on Discord

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, technica

Oct 14, 2022 • 1:01:54

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep175 - Blockchain, Web3 and the Future of Work

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 ear

Oct 8, 2022 • 1:03:44

Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep4 - Issue 312 in Review

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!

Oct 3, 2022 • 35:02

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep174 - Where are the Missing Workers?

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

Sep 30, 2022 • 1:07:08

Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep3 - Issue 311 in Review

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

Sep 26, 2022 • 45:44

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep173 - How to Source Candidates on Slack!

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 t

Sep 23, 2022 • 1:03:34

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep172 - How to Make Sense of the Economy

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 explai

Sep 16, 2022 • 1:00:50

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep171 - How to Better Handle LayOffs

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? - Import

Sep 9, 2022 • 1:03:26

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep170 - How to Hire in the Nordics

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 consi

Sep 2, 2022 • 1:04:30

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep169 - How To Build A Recruitment Marketing Content

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 amplif

Aug 26, 2022 • 1:06:16

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 - 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

Aug 22, 2022 • 34:56

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep168 - Changing the Culture of Your Talent Acquisition Team

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 lea

Aug 19, 2022 • 1:10:50

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep167 - LinkedIn Content Feed - What Recruiters Have Got To Know

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

Aug 12, 2022 • 1:07:12

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep166 - Sourcing Candidates on Reddit

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

Aug 5, 2022 • 1:09:54

Founders Focus - Ep32 - Up close and personal with Mehul Bhatt CEO of FloCareer

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 w

Aug 3, 2022 • 1:05:00

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep165 - How to be Influential on Video

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??   - H

Jul 29, 2022 • 1:02:20

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep164 - Can Recruiters Do A 4 Day Week?

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, SHOU

Jul 21, 2022 • 1:17:48

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep163 - Recruitment Marketing to Different Generations

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

Jul 15, 2022 • 1:07:26

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep162 - Employer Branding......When Making Layoffs?

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

Jul 8, 2022 • 1:01:54

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep161- How to Hire for a No Name Brand

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 f

Jul 1, 2022 • 1:05:50

Brainfood Live On Air- Ep160 - Sourcing without LinkedIn- A 7 Day Challenge

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

Jun 24, 2022 • 1:11:36

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep159 - How to know a Recruiter is Any Good

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

Jun 17, 2022 • 1:05:06

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep158 - Recession Proofing Your Recruitment Career

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 d

Jun 10, 2022 • 1:00:22

Founders Focus - Ep31 - Up close and personal with Virgile Raingeard, CEO of Figures

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 no

Jun 8, 2022 • 1:00:16

Founders Focus - Ep30 - Up close and personal with Stephen Anderson, MD of Crooton

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 busine

Jun 7, 2022 • 1:02:28

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep157 - How to Organise a Sourcing Jam!

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

Jun 3, 2022 • 1:06:18

Founders Focus - Ep29 - Up close and personal with Viktor Nord and Adrian McDonald, Cofounder and CEO of Adway

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

Jun 1, 2022 • 1:09:16

Founders Focus - Ep28 - Up close and personal with Ilya Brotzky CEO of VanHack

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

May 31, 2022 • 1:00:32

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep156 - Mega Scale Hiring (10,000+)

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

May 27, 2022 • 1:07:20

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep155 - Moving to Salary Transparency

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 th

May 19, 2022 • 1:05:20

Founders Focus - Ep27 - Up close and personal with Will Laufer, CEO of Prelude

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

May 17, 2022 • 1:01:54

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep154 - Strategic Workforce Planning

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

May 13, 2022 • 1:08:42

Founders Focus - Ep26 - Up close and personal with Markellos Diorinos CEO of Bryq

Founders Focus - Ep26 - Up close and personal with Markellos Diorinos CEO of Bryq

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 Markellos Diorinos, CEO of Bryq - Is Product the best training for being a CEO of Product based business? - What do you learn in being a PM that you is useful as a CEO? - What is missing from a PM career path? - When did you realise you wanted to run a company? - When did you realise that Bryq was going to be a thing? - What do you do well as a business le

May 10, 2022 • 1:03:56

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep153 - Programmatic Job Advertising, For Dummies

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep153 - Programmatic Job Advertising, For Dummies

Programmatic Job Advertising, for Dummies   Are you struggling to find high quality candidates for your open roles within your budget? Programmatic recruitment advertising can help.   Programmatic is the use of software and data to ensure your online job ads are in front of the right people, at the right time, at the best possible price. Hiring organizations that use programmatic often see a reduced cost per hire and time to fill and an increase in qualified and diverse candidates.   The best pa

May 6, 2022 • 1:08:40

Founders Focus - Ep25 - Up close and personal with Alex van Klaveren CEO of KANDIDATE

Founders Focus - Ep25 - Up close and personal with Alex van Klaveren CEO of KANDIDATE

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 Alex van Klaveren, CEO of KANDIDATE   - What are the benefits of being a non-recruiter, getting into the recruitment business? - Were you always going to start a business or did it just happen? - When did you know it was going to happen? - What are the key differences from being a CEO vs senior manager? - What are the toughest challenges of the role today?

May 4, 2022 • 1:05:34

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep152 - Career Ladder to Chief People Officer

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep152 - Career Ladder to Chief People Officer

The Career Ladder to CPO!   Chief People Officer or 'CPO' is pretty much the top job in the internal side of the recruiter industry. I'm delighted to say that several people I knew when they were individual contributors have progressed their careers so that they now hold this position. How did they get there? We're bringing in a squad of recently minted CPO's to let us know what we need to know if we ever want to get to this spot.   You will learn   - How is CPO different from the other roles in

Apr 29, 2022 • 1:09:42

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep151 - The State of Agency Recruitment 2022 (Down Under!)

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep151 - The State of Agency Recruitment 2022 (Down Under!)

The State of Agency Recruitment in 2022 (Down Under!)   Universal challenges + local conditions = unique solutions. There are no doubts that the ANZ market, and the APAC region in general has unique characteristics which influence the behaviour of clients, colleagues and candidates alike. We're going to use the opportunity in my last week in Australia to speak to recruiters and recruitment agency owners and learn how they have tackled the challenges of this year:       You will learn   - Candida

Apr 22, 2022 • 1:05:28

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep151 - Leadership Fitness(In A Remote First World)

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep151 - Leadership Fitness(In A Remote First World)

Leadership Fitness (For a Remote First World)   A cynical take on why execs vs employees are divided in their attitude to WFH is that managers don't know how to do their job when they are not 'overseeing' their team and hence insist on 'back to the office'. And yet the logic of the remote or at least hybrid working is irresistible and perhaps a significant percentage of leaders trained in the on premise style may struggle to be effective in this new future we find ourselves in. What do leaders n

Apr 15, 2022 • 1:01:22

Founders Focus - Ep24 - Up close and personal with Martin Herbst, CEO of JobAdder

Founders Focus - Ep24 - Up close and personal with Martin Herbst, CEO of JobAdder

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 Martin Herbst, CEO of JobAdder   - How is recruitment technology different from e-commerce? - What do you think e-commerce could learn from recruitment, and vice versa? - What are the qualities which make you a good leader? - Did you develop these or were they crib born skills? - What do you look for when hiring for your leadership team? - How do you think

Apr 8, 2022 • 1:05:42

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep149 - How to Build Social Capital in a Remote First World

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep149 - How to Build Social Capital in a Remote First World

How to Build Social Capital (In A Remote First World)   Everyone in recruitment agrees that building your network is one of the key components of sustainable success in this business. There is no doubt that in-person connection helped deepen relationships with clients, colleagues and candidates alike. So what does it mean now that we are mainly doing our work in a remote first way? Are our networks going to be smaller, less effective? And are there any ways in which networking can be done more e

Apr 1, 2022 • 1:06:18

Founders Focus - Ep23 - Up close and personal with Siadhal Magos, CEO of Metaview

Founders Focus - Ep23 - Up close and personal with Siadhal Magos, CEO of Metaview

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 Siadhal Magos, CEO of Metaview   - When did you realise there was an opportunity to create a new category in recruitment technology? - How has your background in Product helped and hindered you as a CEO? - What have been the biggest differences between senior exec vs CEO? - What are the things you can't / won't let go? - If you could improve your skills as

Mar 30, 2022 • 1:05:12

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep148 - Data Driven Recruitment - What,Why & How?

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep148 - Data Driven Recruitment - What,Why & How?

DDR - or Data Driven Recruitment, what is this, why do we need it and how do we get there? I don't think any one topic has achieved wide spread consensus as quickly as being 'data driven'. What does this really mean and why is it better than the other thing? How are recruiting teams which operate in a data driven way, different from those that do not? You will learn - Difference between Data Driven / not Data Driven (pst - it's a sliding scale) - Data maturity model - how to analyse the state of

Mar 25, 2022 • 1:06:40

Founders Focus - Ep22 - Up close and personal with Ammon Bartram, CEO of Triplebyte

Founders Focus - Ep22 - Up close and personal with Ammon Bartram, CEO of Triplebyte

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 Ammon Bartram, CEO of Triplebyte   - When did you know Triplebyte was going to happen? - What were the good things about Y Combinator? - In what ways do you think Y Comb might be damaging? - Engineering led startups - strengths, weaknesses - What did you learn from Justin? - What product innovations can we expect from Triplebyte in 2022? - How much will the

Mar 23, 2022 • 1:01:16

Founders Focus - Ep21 - Up close and personal with Mark Chaffey, CEO of hackajob

Founders Focus - Ep21 - 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 Mark Chaffey, CEO of hackajob   - Where are we with talent marketplaces? - When you first set up hackajob, what did you think it would be, and what are we now? - Can you tell us what the hardest decision has been during your time as CEO of hackajob? - What has been your best decision? Why? - What needs to happen in order for hackajob to go to next level (wh

Mar 23, 2022 • 1:01:42

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep147 - Best Times To Post A Job Advert (According to Data)

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep147 - Best Times To Post A Job Advert (According to Data)

We all know job ads are under performing - with crashing applicant rates as talent shortage persists throughout 2022. It's timely we have expert opinion from recruitment marketers, recruitment ad professionals and algorithmic job posting vendors to help us get better value from our posts   We are going to find out: - What day of the week is best for applicant rate - What time of the day is best for applicant rate - What week of the month is best for applicant rate - How long should your job titl

Mar 18, 2022 • 1:08:10

Founders Focus - Ep20 - Up close and personal with Ryan McCabe CEO of Odro

Founders Focus - Ep20 - Up close and personal with Ryan McCabe CEO of Odro

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 Ryan McCabe, CEO of Odro   - How did this happen Ryan - When did you know Odro was happening - What lessons did you bring from mechanical engineering to recruiting then recruiting to CEO-ing - If you do it again, what would you do exactly the same way? - What would you do differently? - From idea to business, what do most first time entrepreneurs miss? - Re

Mar 16, 2022 • 1:03:04

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep146 - The Candidate Experience Report 2022

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep146 - The Candidate Experience Report 2022

How has Candidate Experience changed from 2021 to 2022? We all know that the market has rebalanced in favour of the job seeker in the past 12 months, elevating expectations on compensation and work flexibility - and likely reducing job seeker tolerance for poor and inefficient recruitment processes. What are candidates saying to us today and how are we to adapt? We are going to find out: - CX minimum hygiene standards in 2022 - Universal standard or Customised CX based on candidate source? - How

Mar 11, 2022 • 1:06:40

Founders Focus - Ep19 - Up close and personal with Troy Sultan, CEO Guide

Founders Focus - Ep19 - Up close and personal with Troy Sultan, CEO Guide

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today   Next up is Troy Sultan, CEO of Guide - What is the difference between being C-level and Senior Exec? - Why does it seem rare for talent pro's to become successful HR tech entrepreneurs - Decisions as CEO: toughest, best and the one you would like to take back! - Were you always going to do startup? - What have you learned about yourself, after

Mar 9, 2022 • 1:01:24

Founders Focus - Ep18 - Up close and personal with Pedro Torrecillas, CEO of Circular

Founders Focus - Ep18 - Up close and personal with Pedro Torrecillas, CEO of Circular

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 Pedro Torrecillas, CEO of Circular   - What is the original story of Circular? - What are the CEO things that you don't do well? - How do you hire your leadership team? - Your background in product - how is this a strength and weakness for a CEO? - How are the buyer markets different, in different countries? - What would you do differently if you could star

Mar 9, 2022 • 1:01:36

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep145 - How to become a Strategic Recruitment Partner

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep145 - How to become a Strategic Recruitment Partner

We all love the word 'strategic'. We probably all think we are strategic. But it means something different from at the customer perspective, if you're considered a strategic partner or asset. It means that they factor in your service and availability when they are designing their own strategies.   - What is being a  'strategic partner'? - Is this even possible to achieve for an agency supplier? - What needs to happen, for this to happen? - How to build and deepen trust relationships - How to add

Mar 4, 2022 • 1:02:42

Founders Focus Ep17 Up close and personal with Nico Blier-Silvestri, CEO Platypus

Founders Focus Ep17 Up close and personal with Nico Blier-Silvestri, CEO Platypus

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 Nico Blier-Silvestri, CEO of Platypus - What are the benefits of being a recruiter before becoming CEO of a rectech business? - What are the handicaps? - What blind spots did you have when become a first time founder / CEO? - When did you know Platypus was going to happen? - Can you remember the first big decision you made? - What lessons would you give to

Mar 2, 2022 • 1:04:24

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep144 - Building Institutional Confidence for TA & HR

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep144 - Building Institutional Confidence for TA & HR

There is status gap between departments in business. Finance is the treasury. Sales bring the money. Product / Engineering might make the things we sell. Legal creates the contracts we are all bound by. Where does TA / HR sit in this order? Why do recruiters / TA consistently seem to be a department that has fight extra hard to be heard? Perhaps, we lack 'institutional confidence'   - What is 'institutional confidence' - How do we know this is a problem - What do we need to do on departmental le

Feb 26, 2022 • 1:05:42

FoundersFocus - Ep16 - Up close and personal with Jonathan Romley, CEO of Lundi

FoundersFocus - Ep16 - Up close and personal with Jonathan Romley, CEO of Lundi

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 Jonathan Romley, CEO of Lundi   - Why are you always the boss of your businesses? - What are the CEO things that you don't do well? - How do you hire your leadership team? - What is the original story of Lundi? - What is does the final outcome for Lundi look like? - What exciting things can the market expect from Lundi in 2022? - If you were to teleport bac

Feb 23, 2022 • 1:00:44

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep143 - Why TA should (re)integrate with HR

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep143 - Why TA should (re)integrate with HR

How long has the argument been that TA should be in a separate department from HR, either a stand alone reporting into the CEO or part of Marketing or part of Operations - anything but HR! Where is the state of this argument and does it still stand? What might the benefits be of moving closer to HR rather than away?   - Isn't TA really about marketing these days? - What has been the influence of covid 19 onto this conversation? - Should it even matter which reporting line? - Why TA benefits from

Feb 18, 2022 • 1:09:44

Founders Focus -Ep15 - Up close and personal with Pedro Oliveira, CEO of Talent Protocol

Founders Focus -Ep15 - Up close and personal with Pedro Oliveira, CEO of Talent Protocol

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today   Next up is Pedro Oliveira, CEO of Talent Protocol - What is the difference between being CEO of a web2 vs a web3 organisation? - What have you learned in your career as a leader of tech business? - What assumptions have you had to let go, which ones are you now gambling to be true? - Decisions as CEO: toughest, best and the one you would like to

Feb 16, 2022 • 1:03:52

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep142 - How To Know A Good Recruiter

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep142 - How To Know A Good Recruiter

How To Know A Good Recruiter?   Everybody is hiring for recruiters these days and - in moments of candidate shortage for recruiters - we may be tempted to say to anybody with a pulse! However, how can we tell a good recruiter apart from the others? Is there a way to do it before we actually get to see them in action?   - Red flags on candidates - Key assessment criteria - How important is prior experience (really) - How important are the recruiting stages? - How important is domain knowledge? -

Feb 11, 2022 • 1:26:06

Founders Focus - Ep14 - Up close and personal with Tony Jamous, CEO of Oyster

Founders Focus - Ep14 - Up close and personal with Tony Jamous, CEO of Oyster

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 Tony Jamous, CEO of Oyster - What's the Oyster original story? - When did you realise it would be a billion dollar opportunity? - How much bigger did Covid / Shift to remote make the market, make the business? - What's the difference in leading a Unicorn business, going for all the marbles vs just another great business? - What is the hardest part of the jo

Feb 4, 2022 • 1:02:08

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep141 - Recruiter Enablement - How to Set up a RecOps function

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep141 - Recruiter Enablement - How to Set up a RecOps function

Recruiter Enablement - How to set up an effective Recaps function   We heard a lot of recruitment operations or 'RecOps' in recent years but it is still an uncommon specialist function in TA teams. What is RecOps, why is not just plain old recruiting and why do some people think it is the key to hyper scaling?   - Definitions - what is recruitment operations? - What are the key tasks and objectives involved in RecOPs? - How do we know Recaps is performing well? - What kind of KPI's do RecOps mos

Jan 28, 2022 • 1:11:54

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep140 - Setting Salary for Remotely Distributed Teams

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep140 - Setting Salary for Remotely Distributed Teams

Setting Salaries for Remotely Distributed Teams   As candidate shortage continues to bite in 2022, employers will increasingly look to shift jobs to location agnostic setting. However as one problem may be solved others rise up to take their place - how do we handle the compensation for our newly remote workforce? This is topic of Brainfood Live On Air - Ep140   - Shifting to remote....what is the framework to use? - What are the common objections and challenges when setting compensation for rem

Jan 21, 2022 • 1:17:30

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