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The Gene Pool
Season 2 · Episode 172

The Gene Pool

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June 23, 202342m 46sExplicit

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Show Notes

This week on TRF


  • Graduation day and Serge is worried all the well educated women will have a shallow gene pool to select from


  • Shelley is off to celebrate her son’s graduation - who will be a positive contribution to the gene pool!


  • ‘Remember when’ is the lowest form of conversation - Tony Soprano. Remember when we didn't have cell phones?


In the news


  • Digging deeper into the express entry for trades and the French language requirement - makes more sense when you see the number of vacant positions broken down by province


  • Inflation is dragging people over 60 back to work.


Tip of the Week

  • 3 easy and cheap things to reduce candidate ghosting


Recruiting Insights


  • Offer letters that feel like a baseball bat to the face. After a pleasant recruiting experience, the offer is supposed to be the best part not a 10 page legal contract.


  • New research proves that simply changing gender troubling words in your job ad does go far enough to have a measurable impact. 


  • DEI needs to up the game on collecting data. Why would a job seeker trust the company to NOT discriminate if I self-identify?


  • IBM vs Accenture - polarising decisions on how generative AI will impact the world of work