The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

How To Measure Quality of Hire Quality of Hire is without doubt the most important metric that CEO's care about. They want to hire the best people for the business and make sure that they are quickly up to productivity and adding competitive value to the business. And yet, Quality of Hire remains the metric is which least monitored by TA - why is this? We're going to explore the context behind this measurement, why we think QofH is under utilised, and how it may be possible to implement if we want to change. - What is Quality of Hire? - Why do we think it is not measured by TA? - Does HR own this metric as part of the responsibilities for Talent Management and Development? - What role do Hiring Managers play in this measurement? - If TA does connect QoH with hiring measures, what benefits can we expect? - Are there any examples of TA being able to implement QoH? - Do we think AI will help us solve these problems? - How do we go about implementing QofH if we have not done it before? All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're with proponents and opponents this week with Rob McIntosh, VP of Recruiting Solutions (PSG Global Solutions), Chloe Morrison, Recruiting Operations Programme Manager (Datadog), Chantelle Jones, Talent Strategy Director (Nash Squared) & Andrew Gadomski, Operations Research Senior Analyst within CISA (US Dept of Homeland Security Ep204 is sponsored by our buddies Greenhouse In today’s hiring landscape, everything worth doing is worth measuring. Whether you’re planning for growth, experiencing a slowdown or just focused on strategic hires, you need to ensure accountability to help improve your hiring process. To help strengthen hiring processes and drive measurable results, Greenhouse recently released three new products. These features join a robust set of existing tools to help our customers better understand their performance and enhance goal setting, tracking and reporting on goal alignment. Register for the Greenhouse Goals webinar to hear from top TA leaders how to set your team up for success in any hiring climate.

How to set up an Elite Talent Analytics Function We can't have a workable recruitment strategy if we don't have access to accurate, current and relevant information. Talent intelligence (external labour market) and Talent analytics (internal people analytics) are two halves of one of the most important functions leading recruitment teams are building in order to make data driven decisions on hiring. But how do you start? This is topic of Brainfood Live On Air - Talent Intelligence vs Talent Analytics - what's the difference? - What talent information is relevant to the business? - How universal or contextual is this information? - Where does the information sit, how do we access this? - What value do you (as leader) and the business (as customer) expect from Talent Analytics? - Does this pertain to recruiting only, or to Talent management also? - What tools can I use / should I use? - What size organisation is ideal / mandatory for a Talent Analytics function? - Can you give examples of where Talent Analytics has changed a decision for the better? - For the worse? - How does GAI impact the future of Talent analytics? All this and more as we dive into the an importance niche in the Talent Acquisition. With Piret Luts, Global Head of Talent Analytics (Nortal), Facundo Tripodi, People Analytics Senior Manager (Medallia) & Allie Bleier, People Analytics Consulting Lead Ep203 is sponsored by our buddies Greenhouse In today’s hiring landscape, everything worth doing is worth measuring. Whether you’re planning for growth, experiencing a slowdown or just focused on strategic hires, you need to ensure accountability to help improve your hiring process. To help strengthen hiring processes and drive measurable results, Greenhouse recently released three new products. These features join a robust set of existing tools to help our customers better understand their performance and enhance goal setting, tracking and reporting on goal alignment. Register for the Greenhouse Goals webinarto hear from top TA leaders how to set your team up for success in any hiring climate.

Recruitment Leadership in a Mega Scale Organisation Most of us have had experience of SME and Corp size organisations, but few of us might have had the chance to work at truly mega scale organisations. What is it like to be working for an organisation with tens of thousands of employees? How do you do TA leadership in an environment like this - what are the things you have to do which differ from leadership at smaller scale? We're delighted to host the recruiting legend that is Andy Headworth and interview him on his experience at as Deputy Director of TA at HMRC - What do outsiders need to know about recruiting at HMRC? - How does it differ from other government departments? - What does a person transitioning from private sector most need to know? - What are the most important constraints? - What are the competitive advantages? - Personal skills - how would you prioritise the skills required to lead a department in this organisation? - What are the main reasons why a recruiter should look at mega scale organisations for a career? Ep202 is sponsored by our buddies Willo Speaking to candidates on Zoom, Teams or Skype and It’s a great way to meet people, but it can also exhausting, inefficient and inconvenient Willo has taken the interviewing process and brought it into the 21st century. They looked at all the negatives of traditional interviews like scheduling, fatigue, anxiety and travel, and created a virtual interview process that candidates actually love - and they have an NPS score to prove it... They also have native integrations with Workable, Greenhouse and Zapier, so you can automate your selection process, cast a wider net, and really scale things up. Get 10% off when you signup at willo.video, that's W-i-l-l-o dot video with coupon 'brainfood'.

Prompt Engineering for Sourcing We can already predict that 'prompt' is going to be the Word of the Year 2023. The idea that we can get good at asking and contextualising questions has probably never come up before, but now that the outputs we want from generative AI is dependent on how skilfully we communicate what we want to the LLM that powers the AI, it has become a skill that we must develop. Already, "Prompt Engineer" has become a job, and so we have got to ask, is this the Sourcing, and if so how can we get good at it? - History of Sourcing - What is different between Sourcing vs Prompt Engineering? - Can't I just ask the AI what the best prompt is? - What kind of elements make a good prompt? - Have we developed a 'golden set' of prompts which universally improve the outputs? - Do prompts differ according to application (like sourcing does across search engines) - What recruiter specific prompts are working best - Compare Bing / Bard / ChatGPT / Other - What are the best resources for Prompt Engineering online All this and more as we bring together the leading sourcers who are also becoming leading prompt engineers for recruitment - Denys Dinkevych, Global Talent Sourcer, Irina Shamaeva, Partner (Brain Gain Recruiting) & Greg Hawkes, Principal Sourcing Leader M&T Bank. We're on Friday 14th April, 2pm BST Ep201 is supported by PitchMe PitchMe helps recruiters hire faster and cut costs by automatically sourcing, updating and shortlisting candidates in their ATS. Their data-driven technology automates sourcing, updating and shortlisting to enable recruiters to spend more time getting to know their talent, rather than updating databases. PitchMe’s smart solution draws data from 30+ digital sources to build accurate, in-depth and up-to-date profiles of candidates, and uses objective and unbiased skills assessment to rank the best candidates for every role.

Supercharge your Recruitment Marketing with AI Recruiters have been going crazy about the AI revolution but most of what we have been doing has been focused on direct candidate acquisition. What are other adjacent disciplines doing with Generative AI? I'm finding that recruitment marketers are doing some crazy things with AI, short circuiting processes which in usual case would take days and weeks. Whether it is image creation, video generation, lead research or process optimisation, we're going to take a deep dive with industry heroes who have taken a hands on approach to supercharging their recruitment marketing - What gains have you made with Generative AI? - How have you used this for content? - How have you used it for relationship management? - How has AI helped with distribution, or has it not? - Has AI helped close customers? In what way? - What are the most useful tools today? - Lets have a look at some recipes - Into the future - where do we go from here? We're with Sara Dalsfelt, Head of Brand & Community (Adway), Martyn Redstone, Founder (BotJobs), Bobby Leonard, MD (The Recruitment Events Co), Sam Berthoud, Director of Account Management (hackajob) & friends Ep200 is sponsored by our buddies Adway 👉 5 x relevant applicants per tech vacancy 👉 200% increase in fill rate 👉 Zero time spent sourcing 👉Half the recruitment marketing costs 👉When hiring senior tech talent? That’s what tech consulting firm, ELITS were able to achieve using Adway’s Automated Social Recruitment Marketing platform! Adway provides ambitious talent acquisition teams with a fully automated platform to ensure more, relevant candidates at scale whilst simultaneously getting your employer branding to market. Want to know how they did it? Check out the case study here: https://lp.adway.ai/case-elits-adway-tech-talent-sourcing

Tech Layoffs & the Tech Job Market: From the Developers POV There's probably no bigger story in the world of recruitment that the Big Tech Winter - led by VC backed scale ups who started make big staffing cuts, followed by the FAANG who have all made unprecedented cuts to staffing. What does this mean for the tech labour market? What indeed, do the engineers themselves think of the situation? We are going to learn directly from the software engineering community and platform them to tell us what they think the market looks like. As tech recruiters you will learn - Developer mindset to new opportunity - Most important reasons to move - Value of Flexible working - Value of equity / stock options - What has the compensation rate been? - What industries are most attractive for software engineers - What industries are engineers avoiding? - What technologies / tools / frameworks does it matter? - What about GAI - how does this impact job discovery as a software engineer? - Where the places developers go to look for jobs? We're with Ollie Glass, Data Engineer, Tancredi Trugenberger, Senior Front End Engineer, Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games), Iwan Gulenko, Founder (CoderFit), Fabrizio Moscon, CTO (Ninety Nine) on Friday 31st March, 2pm BST Ep199 is sponsored by our buddies CodeSignal CodeSignal is how companies can identify the right candidates with the right skills – even if they don’t have the “right” profile. We provide everything from initial assessments to technical screens and onsite interviews. For too long companies have spent too much time sifting through all the noise produced by traditional resumes, inconsistent interviews, and homegrown assessments when all they really want to know is how well this person can do the job. Want to learn more about going beyond the noise in technical hiring? Learn how to go beyond the noise.

Mental Challenge of the Neurodiverse: Real Talk from Recruiter Heroes Important change of pace to Brainfood Live today. I was approached by Balazs, Michael and Vanessa to do a show on the topic of neurodiversity within our OWN community, and especially on the value from confessionals which can help others understand the different types of neurodiversity, how they can be manifested and expressed, what challenges this can mean for the individual and what challenges it can mean for others around them! This is real talk folks from friends who are prepared to care and share. Nobody is going to be an expert here, we are all just going to talk about what we know and how simply doing that may be step 1 in creating a healthier environment for human relations. We're with Vanessa Raath, Founder (Talent Hunter), Michael 'Batman' Cohen, Founder (Wayne Technologies), Balazs Paroczay, Founder, (The Source Code Agency) Ep198 is sponsored by our buddies Symphony Talent Symphony Talent combines CRM, career site, programmatic advertising and creative services for the most complete recruitment marketing and campaigning capabilities you'll find in one platform. Increase applicant flow, reduce hiring time and build a world class employer-of-choice employer brand with Symphony Talent's unique technology and services suite. Need to improve your top of funnel talent acquisition? Contact one of our friendly team today.

Hiring in South Africa in 2023 Brainfood World Tour continues and this time we go to one of my favourite countries, who have one of my favourite recruiting communities - South Africa. There are challenges and problems with every country and region of the world, but I think fair to say that Africa in general and perhaps South Africa in particular, were early examples of what we can now see as 'disaster pron' where media coverage could only be negative. One of the missions of brainfood is to platform local people and local recruiters and learn more from them directly, rather than through our own distorted media lens. Tons of stuff happening in South Africa, so lets find out what they are! We will discuss: - Labour market economics - Skills dispersal in South Africa - Shift to remote / global shift of jobs - DEIB - what does this mean in SA? - Core challenges to overcome - who needs to know what? - Why hire in South Africa? - How to hire in South Africa? We're with Vanessa Raath, Founder (Talent Hunter), Lerato Mopeli Dibodu, Talent Acquisition Partner (Bash), Megan Petty, Senior Marketplace Specialist (NTT) & Nkosinomqhele Zulu, Talent Acquisition Specialist (Kindred) Ep197 is sponsored by our buddies Join Talent Have you heard about Join Talent's amazing Talent Acquisition Insights project? They are a series of how-to guides on topics such as Using Assessments in Talent Acquisition, Market Mapping, Benchmarking, Building KPI's and Using Data and more. It's some of the most pragmatic recruiter centric guides I've seen - and all freely downloadable in the Join Talent Resources Hub. All free to download,so get to it!

Impact of Generative AI on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion One of the most telling things about output from Generative AI is the inevitable stereotyping that is produced. Go to Mid Journey and ask it to generate images of doctors, and guess what type of images come up? Now try the same with nurses. Or hunter gatherers. Or Fireman. Or Jesus for that matter. The point is that GAI is trained on historical data that is already out there, and will l We will discuss: - AI Hallucinations - Dangerous knowledge made more accessible - Lack of equivocation - everything is plausibly true - Death of the Internet (we stop searching) - Copy right / Copy wrong - Inevitable rise of spam - End of trust And what is the ethical AND practical the way forward for recruiters in the post ChatGPT world? We're with Devoreaux Walton, Diversity Sourcing Consultant (IBM), Bas van de Haterd, Founder (Digitaal-Werven) & Daniela Felletti, Founder (Talents Connection) Ep196 is sponsored by our buddies Metaview Use the power of AI to make onerous interview note-taking a thing of the past. Get automatic, AI-generated interview notes from Metaview, saving you hours of time and allowing you to focus on high-quality interactions with candidates. AI Notes are already having a transformative effect on recruiting teams who no longer have to spend time relentlessly typing away. Here’s just some of what we’ve heard from early users: ”Just WOW!” ”This feature has been life changing. It definitely allows me to focus more on the conversation and candidate, plus I take less time to fill in my report after the fact.” “I not only found AI Notes helpful, but I was blown away by how refined the information is.” Request access here to try it for yourself.

Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT - Part 3 - Ethics & Concerns We have to keep going with ChatGPT, because whilst we are getting the hang of how it works for us, we are also beginning to see the outline of the challenges ahead of us. From AI hallucinations, overly authoritative single answers, political ideology baked into responses, crazy outputs from jailbreaks, as well as a host of legal and ethical issues stemming from the use of training data by human hand. Let's go through the major areas of ethical concern in the use of ChatGPT for Recruiting. We will discuss: - AI Hallucinations - Dangerous knowledge made more accessible - Lack of equivocation - everything is plausibly true - Death of the Internet (we stop searching) - Copy right / Copy wrong - Inevitable rise of spam - End of trust And what the way forward for recruiters will be in the post ChatGPT world! We're with Irina Shamaeva, Founder (Brain Gain), Mark Deubel, Recruiter (GitLab), Matt Burney, VP (Indeed), Tony Fish, Lecturer AI & Ethics (London School of Economics) & friends Ep195 is sponsored by our buddies Greenhouse Despite big tech layoffs dominating the headlines, many companies continue to hire. In fact, a reported 94% of employers plan to add headcount in 2023 in a newly released report from WorkTech (principal analyst George LaRocque) in partnership with Greenhouse:New Technology Shaping the Future of Work. This new research also shows 71% of companies plan to increase or maintain Hiring Work Tech budgets in 2023. Is your company prioritizing the right Work Tech to help your team connect better and be more effective? Dive into the research here.

State of the Recruiter Job Market 2023 Let's face it head on folks - this is turning out to the a tough year for recruiters! We all know that the big tech winter is going to impact us in recruiting and it's essential we have a good gauge as to how far and deep the winter is going to be. We've got some numbers and analysis to get through this week, as we go in real time on Horsefly Analytics proprietary dataset to find out where the recruiter jobs are and who is posting them. We will discuss: - Big tech winter, what are the theories? - Will other sectors follow the downsizing? - Which sectors might prove resilient? - What does it look like globally? - Recruiters on the market - what are they finding on the job search? - Do we know how long a recruiter job stays vacant for? - Do we know applicant rate per job? - What advice to give to recruiters on the market right now? All this and more in Brainfood Live Emma Mirrington, Founder (The FIRM), Mike Basnett Sandiford, Head of Partnerships (Horsefly), Mariano Mamertino, Labour Economist (Amazon) & friends Ep194 is sponsored by our buddies Horsefly Analytics Horsefly's web based platform provides the most accurate and comprehensive labour market data available. Horsefly gathers labor market data from around the globe to quickly paint a real time picture of the talent market. Accurately view labour supply & demand, find hidden talent pools, view gender and diversity data for any position or skill set your business needs - with just a few clicks. Horsefly's customer success team is available to assist every step of the way to ensure our clients meet their KPIs and derive clear ROI from our platform. Get a demo today to see how our labour market insights can power your talent acquisition, business and workforce planning initiatives.

Hiring in Saudi Arabia & the Gulf States Brainfood World Tour is restarting, with a visit to a region where countries are in the middle of vast transformation. We hear a great deal about Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, but always from the Western lens. What do local recruiters and HR people say and do, on the ground? We're going to learn from locals, ex-pats and partners alike in this week's episode of Brainfood Live On Air. We will discuss: - How does hiring differ in Saudi / Gulf vs outside - What do recruiters new to the region must know first? - Tactical level...what recruiting techniques are most effective for entry, individual contributor, senior manager, leadership hiring? - What are the latest regulations with regards to gender, religion, ethnicity? - Are there hiring quotas for employers in the region? - What are the language requirements for candidates? - What are the most important challenged Recruiters / HR need to overcome to succeed in Saudi Arabia / Gulf? - What is going on with these mega infrastructure projects?? All this and more in Brainfood Live Please note: in line with Friday day of prayer, we are moving this week's Brainfood Live to Thursday. We're with Katrina Hutchinson-O'Neill, CEO (Join Talent), Ahmed Alqahtani, Human Resources Director (Seera Group), Hicham Wifaq, VP Global Talent Acquisition (Property Finder), Majed Alshehri, HR Director (SVTS) & friends Ep193 is sponsored by our buddies Join Talent Have you heard about Join Talent's amazing Talent Acquisition Insights project? They are a series of how-to guides on topics such as Using Assessments in Talent Acquisition, Market Mapping, Benchmarking, Building KPI's and Using Data and more. It's some of the most pragmatic recruiter centric guides I've seen - and all freely downloadable in the Join Talent Resources Hub. All free to download, so get to it!

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up is an old friend of Brainfood - the one and only Mark Chaffey, CEO of hackajob - What is the original story of hackajob? - As an unusually young CEO, what challenges have you found growing the business? - Were you always going to go on the entrepreneur track? - Do you think everyone should do it or are there certain traits and circumstances which would make entrepreneurship a better or worse idea? - Have you done any personality assessment and if so, what did it say about your leadership style? - What keeps you going? Is there an end state at hackajob where you can say, we've done it? - When was the last time you achieved a long cherished goal? Can you tell us what that was? - With the rise of technologies like low code no code and GAI, how would entrepreneurship change in future? - What is next for hackajob in 2023? All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today. Ep36 of Founders Focus is supported by hackajob Are you tired of spending endless hours sifting through resumes and struggling to find the perfect candidates for your open positions? Look no further! hackajob is here to revolutionize the way you recruit top talent. Our state-of-the-art recruitment marketplace connects you with qualified candidates in your industry, saving you time and resources in the hiring process. Plus, our advanced matching algorithm ensures that you're only presented with the most relevant candidates for your open roles. But don't just take our word for it - book a demo with our team and see for yourself how hackajob can transform your recruiting efforts. Trust us, you won't be disappointed.

Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, Part 2! Alright folks, we are going to have to do this again - after an amazing first event where we had 1000+ people attending, the demand for more was overwhelming, so here it is! We are going to repeat the format - so expect recruiter use cases presented by practitioners, followed by product demo's from founders and concluding with some wise takes from industry vets who are going to forecast what all this means for recruitment technology. We're with Martyn Redstone, Founder (BotJobs), Marcel van der Meer, Sourcing Trainer (Klikwork), Christine Ng, Head of Talent & Media (Quantum Motion), Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games), Alan Walker, CEO (Udder) and friends! Ep192 is sponsored by our buddies Metaview Use the power of AI to make onerous interview note-taking a thing of the past. Get automatic, AI-generated interview notes from Metaview, saving you hours of time and allowing you to focus on high-quality interactions with candidates. AI Notes are already having a transformative effect on recruiting teams who no longer have to spend time relentlessly typing away. Here’s just some of what we’ve heard from early users: ”Just WOW!” ”This feature has been life changing. It definitely allows me to focus more on the conversation and candidate, plus I take less time to fill in my report after the fact.” “I not only found AI Notes helpful, but I was blown away by how refined the information is.” Request access here to try it for yourself.

Personalised or Standardised? What is the base philosophy for Candidate Experience - do you attempt to give everyone the same branded experience, or do you vary it according to the individual and the individual circumstance? And if we do 'both' (I know you will say this!), then what are the circumstances when one approach makes sense and not the other? We will discuss - Types of Candidate - are all candidates the same? - Costs of CX, how do we measure the effort and the effect? - What are the benefits of improving CX? - Do we have any evidence of this, other than 'right thing to do'? - Why are recruiters reporting bad CX when they are looking for jobs - how much of a factor is how in-demand certain candidates are? - Do we need specialists in TA to run this? - How do we incentivise recruiters and managers to improve CX? - Do we know what candidates want? We're with Heidi Wassini, InHouse Consultant (CopenHagen Airports), Christine Ng, Head of Talent & Media (Quantum Motion), Sian Sidaway, Global Talent Experience Manager (GoCardless) & Gem Parker, Candidate Engagement Lead (EY) Ep191 is sponsored by our buddies Starred Starred is a Candidate Experience analytics platform that helps recruitment teams collect, analyze, benchmark, and act on candidate feedback at every stage of the recruitment process. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to data-driven hiring. With actionable insights, you'll have a deeper understanding of your candidates' experiences so you can improve the recruitment process. We combine insights from your candidates with hiring manager and recruiter feedback allowing you to get a 360 view of your recruitment operations. By pulling fields from your ATS, you can segment your insights on whatever level you want, think recruiter, hiring manager, department, job role, country, and many more. Curious how leading names like Diageo, HelloFresh, Dropbox, Twilio, and Deloitte are leveraging Starred insights to make better hiring decisions? Have a look at our website, or book a demo with our team.

State of Global Mobility in 2023 Does anyone here have a plan for hiring globally this year? Candidate shortages are persistent in many sectors, in many countries (see the UK and the NHS...) and for many employers there is no option other than to hire from overseas and relocate. - What are the challenges of doing this at scale? - Where do you even start? - What territories have got an excess of labour? - How do we tap into that market? - Do we have to do 'destination branding'? - How much of the process is performed in candidates home country? - What about family, when do we start this conversation? - How employers present an inclusive culture? - What support is needed for relocation? We're with Richard Bradley, VP, (Kelly Services), Ruben Tieken, Squad Lead (Immersive), Toby Culshaw, Talent Intelligence Lead (Amazon) & Federica Cei, Global Talent Acquisition Manager (SITA) Ep190 is sponsored by our buddies Localyze Localyze is the all-in-one platform that makes it easy to manage your global mobility needs in one simple place. We can guide you through your global mobility challenges, from relocating new hires to visa changes, postings and transfers between offices. By combining the power of our platform with our team’s and partners’ experience with global mobility, we can support you in successfully managing an international team. Hiring globally for the best talent? Localyze it - free demo with one of our friendly team today

We have not seen a technology breakthrough like ChatGPT for a long time. Only released last December, it has already racked up millions of users attracted to its almost magical outputs to queries made by human users. The application for business has been obvious - and every day we are seeing new ideas to produce outputs which can be immediately put into production, saving workers hundreds of hours of work. It's a game changer folks, and if we recruiters don't get good at, we are going to regret missing out on the opportunity. Already massively oversubscribed, this show is going to focus on how recruiters can use ChatGPT, bringing together expert users as well as technologists who are integrating ChatGPT into their product roadmaps. The future is folks - register and see for yourself what it is going to look like! We're with Martyn Redstone, Founder (BotJobs), Glen Cathey, SVP Head of Digital Strategy (Randstad), Bill Fischer, CTO (VONQ), Sajithkumar Swaminathan, Corporate Recruiter (Replicon) & Friends Ep189 is sponsored by our buddies Join Talent Have you heard about Join Talent's amazing Talent Acquisition Insights project? They are a series of how-to guides on topics such as Using Assessments in Talent Acquisition, Market Mapping, Benchmarking, Building KPI's and Using Data and more. It's some of the most pragmatic recruiter centric guides I've seen - and all freely downloadable in the Join Talent Resources Hub. All free to download, so get to it!

I don't know about you but I've been consuming TikTok videos like a billion other people on the planet and been amazed at the creativity, community and controversy that you find on there. It's also been pretty clear that the opportunity for potentially massive reach is there to be explored! Conspicuously missing though, has been any sense of how recruiters can use TikTok. 2022 was the year when I first started noticing recruiter accounts build an audience, and after seeing a few familiar faces from different domains also build a crowd, the time is right to get them on screen and find out what they've learned! This is the topic of Brainfood Live ON Air - How to be a Recruiter on TikTok! You are going to learn: - What is TikTok? - How does it work? - Where are my friends? - What is the content that works best? - Content cadence - Employer branding on TikTok? - Can you source on the app? - How do ads work? All this and more - essential viewing if you to figure out what how the hottest app over the past 3 years actually works. We're with Joel Lalgee, BDM (Hirewell), Sara Dalsfelt, Community Manager (Adway) & Mike Manzi, Fractional VP Sales (Official Sales) Ep188 is sponsored by our buddies Adway Adway - Automated Social Recruitment Marketing Way simpler. Way smarter. Way more talent. Curious about the next gen solution for recruitment marketing? Adway provides ambitious talent acquisition teams with a fully automated platform to unleash their recruitment marketing and ensure more, better candidates at scale.

Welcome back to Brainfood Live 2023! I hope everyone has had a great holiday break and are refreshed for the challenges and opportunities of the year ahead. So what exactly IS ahead for us in 2023? We're going to talk to industry experts from recruiting agency, recruiting tech investment, in-house recruiter, LinkedIn, Sourcing, Web3 and everything else we care about in this wonderful industry of ours! Lets figure out where we are and make some predictions on: - Economy - Recruitment industry - Sectors of growth / retrenchment - Priority challenges in hiring - DEIB - Recruitment technology investment - Hot HR tech trends - Bersin's predictions - ChatGPT in Recruitment & more. We're with Kate Shoesmith, Deputy CEO (Recruitment & Employers Confederation), Madeline Laurano, Founder (Aptitude Research), George LaRoque, Founder (WorkTech), Andy Spence, Founder (Glassbead), Andy Foote, Founder (LinkedInsights), Jo Avent, CPO (CrosscHQ) & friends. Ep187 is sponsored by our buddies Greenhouse Greenhouse is the hiring software company. We help businesses become great at hiring through our powerful hiring approach, complete suite of software and services, Hiring MaturityTM methodology and large partner ecosystem with some of the best-in-class point solutions in the market. Optimize every phase of your hiring with our sourcing automation, multi-site job posting, interview scheduling, end-to-end candidate management, and new hire onboarding tools. Thousands of top class employers use Greenhouse to power their hiring, including Hubspot, Wise, Wayfair, Graphcore, Squarespace and many more. Need to upgrade your ATS in 2023?

The State of Recruitment: 2022 Year in Review Final show of the year folks, so perfect moment to celebrate ANOTHER 50 episodes of Brainfood Live On Air, review the best moments from each show and talk about what we've learned in our year of conversation on air. It will also be a great opportunity to invite back some of favourite guests and co-hosts each with a message of advice for the year 2023 ahead. One thing to do for 2023 in.... - Recruitment Marketing - Sourcing - DEIB - CX - Company Culture - Compensation - Employer branding - Talent intelligence - Recruitment automation - & more We're with guests and co-hosts from all the year, including YOU if you put your hand up and want to come on screen

Recruiter Job Search & Promotion as a Mother-to Be Continuing our series of 'true inclusion', we are turning our attention to the subterranean biases which occur in recruitment. Perhaps the most invidious is the challenge women in particular have - how to manage career and future motherhood. For men, this is substantively different - we never get asked whether we are about to become a parent, nor is parenthood any sort of impediment toward getting a job or promotion; but it is for women. What can we do about it? This is the topic of Brainfood Live On Air We are going to explore: - How to create a safe environment to be transparent with family and career goals - How to signal such support in hiring process - What approaches are recommended from candidate POV? - How to recognise an opportunity is unwelcoming? - What commitments can employers make to ensure mothers-to-be feel welcome as candidates? - What is the role of men here? We're with Rebecca Collis, Talent Acquisition Manager (AMS), Carly Poulson, People + Culture Partner (Hazy) & Sara Dalsfelt, Head of Community (Adway) Ep185 is sponsored by our buddies Metaview With the recent hiring slow down, quality of hire is the top priority for high-performing companies. Metaview gives you visibility into your interviews so you can identify and fix problems, and make more confident hiring decisions. With Metaview's recording and transcription, you can capture and replay what actually happened in interviews. Get unprecedented insight into metrics around rigor and consistency to ensure you’re keeping quality of interviews—and quality of hire—high. As a Brainfood Live listener, you can get started on Metaview with up to 5 of your team members without paying anything. Book a demo with one of our friendly experts and reference "Brainfood" in the form.

The Hidden Bias in Recruiting: Class & Accent How we speak are signifiers of our social class - formerly known as 'social standing' - information which still determines our life journeys much more than it should. How many people with regional accents end up as CEO of a business? How many as Prime Minister or President? Class and Accent bias is a the hidden bias in recruiting and one which is woefully under discussed. That's why we're the ones doing it in this week's topic of Brainfood Live On Air. We are going to explore: - How have you personally been impacted by class bias? - How do you know? - What to do when your hiring manager exhibits this bias? - What techniques are available to change behaviours? - Is there any tooling which can help with this? This is a conversation we're going to have with recruiters and business leaders who themselves have directly experienced this hidden bias. We're with We're with John Rose, Talent Sourcer (Volvo), Ashley Wallace, Tech Talent Lead (Papercup), Mel Hayes, CPO (Nash Squared) & Nick Court, Director (The People Experience Hub)

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Christian Payne, CEO of Talentiir - What is the main idea behind Talentiir? - What do you think is going to be your biggest learning curve? - What assumptions have you had to let go, which ones are you now gambling to be true? - What are the main decisions that need to be made for 2023? - What leadership lessons have you learned that you would like to pass onto yourself if you could? - What is the roadmap for Talentiir in 2023? - What counts as success if you were to look back at the end of next year? All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today. Wednesday 7th December, 12.00pm GMT / 1pm CET Click on the green button to register and follow the channel here (recommended) for further updates Ep35 Founders Focus is supported by Talentiir Talentiir enables scale-up and growth-stage companies to hire the best talent. They offer 3 tiir levels of service, and modular plug and play services - talent searching, in-house recruiter and recruitment RPO. Need to hire at scale? Contact Talentiir for the best solution for your business.

The Psychology of Redundancy: Mental Health Tips for Recruiters Affected Big Tech Winter + Economies close to recession....means redundancies for many members of our community. It's incredible that we are back here again, after the first wave of layoffs in 2019/2020, but here we are. What has been missing from the discourse is the psychological impact of redundancy, especially on the suddenness it has been happening! We are going to explore: - Loss of identity - Loss of relationships & social network - Change of pattern of behaviours - Lack of closure - Dangers of negativity as basis of forward relationships - Survivor bias for those who stay - Appropriate distance with former colleagues, bosses and reports. It's going to the fascinating conversation, with recruiters who have psychology backgrounds, have experienced redundancy before in the past, and are currently in the middle of redundancy today. We're with Linnea Bywall, Head of People, (Alva Labs), Kristian Bright, Recruitment Lead (Rooser), Octav Buzoianu, Lead Tech Recruiter (Snyk) & Katrina Zlateva-Bowles, Founder (PeopleHealers) Ep182 is sponsored by our buddies Metaview With the recent hiring slow down, quality of hire is the top priority for high-performing companies. Metaview gives you visibility into your interviews so you can identify and fix problems, and make more confident hiring decisions. With Metaview's recording and transcription, you can capture and replay what actually happened in interviews. Get unprecedented insight into metrics around rigor and consistency to ensure you’re keeping quality of interviews—and quality of hire—high. Join us for a live 30-minute demo on Tuesday, December 6th where our Co-founder & CEO, Siadhal Magos, will share how Metaview's latest features enable you to supercharge quality of hire. Reserve your spot here! (And as a thank you for attending, lunch is on us with an UberEats gift card.)

Welcome to Ep34 of Founder's Focus - the show where we get up close and personal with the founder's of recruitment technology businesses - who are the people behind the product? Next up is David Rivel, Co-founder of PathMotion and now Head of Clinch Europe, the online discussion platform which enables candidates to talk directly with existing employees of the organisation. - What is the Day in the Life of a Recruitment Tech Founder? - Having done the job for several years, which parts of leading do you enjoy? Which parts do you dislike? - What is the most important lesson you have learned in your time as Cofounder of the business? - What was the one decision you would take back if you could? - How would you describe yourself as a leader to a person who did not know you? - Why online discussion - what was the origin story behind PathMotion? - What have you learned about the industry since starting this business? - What exciting things can customers expect in 2023?

True Inclusion: Hiring the Formerly Institutionalised We talk a a good DEIB game in TA / HR but it's pretty clear that there are certain groups which are always excluded from the conversation of inclusion. When the last time your company hired someone who had been institutionalised? Chances are, never - as gaps in work history is knock out criteria, experience in prison or mental institution considered entirely discounted and moral judgements become the only signal we pay attention to. We need to change this folks, not only because of the ethical imperative but also because there is an untapped talent pool which can really help solve some of the toughest hiring challenges we have today. I'm going to be joined by Christine Ng in the co-pilot seat, as we interview James Fellowes, Founder, (Bridge of Hope) and Chance Bleu-Montgomery, Partner Support Manager (Bridge of Hope), hear their stories and try and learn from them how we can unlock human potential by adopting a new mindset and providing the kind of environment in which the human spirit can thrive. Ep182 is sponsored by our buddies Metaview With the recent hiring slow down, quality of hire is the top priority for high-performing companies. Metaview gives you visibility into your interviews so you can identify and fix problems, and make more confident hiring decisions. With Metaview's recording and transcription, you can capture and replay what actually happened in interviews. Get unprecedented insight into metrics around rigor and consistency to ensure you’re keeping quality of interviews—and quality of hire—high. As a Brainfood Live listener, you can get started on Metaview with up to 5 of your team members without paying anything. Book a demo with one of our friendly experts and reference "Brainfood" in the form, or get started now.

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up are Arielle Kilroy, CEO of Dado! - What is the original story of Dado? - What was the most important decision you got right in Year 1 of the business? - How clear was the vision from the beginning - was it always there or did it emerge for contact with the market? - How do you feel being a woman CEO has helped and hindered you as an entrepreneur? - Were you always going to be an entrepreneur? - As CEO, what is your approach when handling conflict between leaders in your management team? - What's the hardest decision you've made this year? - What advice would you give to a person thinking about launching a business for the first time? All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today. Ep33 of Founders Focus is supported by Dado Are you confident about your Employee Experience? Getting it wrong means lower morale, higher risk of attrition and a ton of extra problems you didn't need to have. Dado provides an all-in-one employee experience platform from new hire onboarding, employee career progression to future alumni off boarding, all from one dashboard. Create meaningful experiences for your employees through Dado. Book a demo with one of our friendly staff today

Must Have Recruitment Automation Hacks for 2023 Ok so this is going to be a fun one. We all know that in recruitment there is never enough time to get your work done - there is always another email to send, another candidate to call, another search to try. Wouldn't it be handy if we were able to get some help in the form of automated programs which can be configured to do the work for you? That's right folks, the topic of today's Brainfood Live is going to be a the Recruitment Automation Hacks you HAVE to know for 2023. - What is recruitment automation? - What are the most common tasks that can be automated? - How does a recruiter figure out what tasks can be automated? - Can you automate at scale? - Lets see some example some what are the top 3 recruitment automation hacks recruiters need to implement by 2023? All this and more folks - it is going to be a demystifier and a practical how-to We're with Sofia Broberger, Recruitment Manager (Toca boca), Ivan Stojanovic, Talent Acquisition Manager (Odyssey VC) & Greg Hawkes, Principal Sourcing Lead (M&T Bank) on Friday 18th November, 2pm GMT / 6am PDT. Click on the green button on the top right to register and follow the channel here (recommended) to be notified when we go live. Ep181 is sponsored by our buddies Talentiir Talentiir is the Talent Partner for Companies in Scandinavia and enables growth stage scale-ups to hire the best talent in the most efficient way. We offer 3 Tiir levels of service, and modular plug and play services. Talent Search, In-house Talent or Talent RPO, contact one of our friendly team today and we will work with you to find the best option to support your growing organisation.

Is Boolean Broken? Latest update from Google It's been 10 years since the sourcing community really started to separate itself as being distinct from 'recruiter'. In that time, the sub discipline has been a place of investigation, discovery, enhancement and close-to-magical tricks to get outcomes beyond those available to 'normal recruiters' Nobody has been a more significant populariser of sourcing than Irina Shamaeva - whose blog Boolean Strings has been regularly featured in Recruiting Brainfood, and has by conservative estimate personally trained hundreds of sourcers around the world. So when Irina has a problem with how Boolean search works on Google, even the Google product team pay attention! - What is Boolean search and why is it important for recruiters? - How has this changed on Search engines? - Why are google changing how search works? - What techniques can be used to gather results which Google now hides or misses? - What practices should recruiters adopt if Google continues down this path? - How does Boolean compare with other search engines? Essential to watch this one folks - 99% of online sourcing is done first via Google. We're with Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games) and Irina Shamaeava, Partner, (Brain Gain Recruiting) . Ep180 is sponsored by our buddies HiPeople HiPeople keeps your hiring data-driven, on point, and on time. Unlock your team’s best hiring capabilities and improve your quality of hire with rich talent insights on your candidates. Know who to hire before you hire, discover how they work, and build the foundations for long-term success. With a focus on assessments, reference checks, candidate experience, and quality of hire, HiPeople makes it fast and delightful for teams to make better hiring decisions. Book a demo and learn how HiPeople can help your organization hire the right people faster.

Employer Branding in a Recession Economy As the world looks down into economic slowdown and maybe worse, it behooves us to consider how this impacts many of the recruiting concepts that emerged during more bullish times. Employer Branding was certainly one of those, which arose as a key way in which to beat the competition for the best talent. How does all this change when the market turns bearish? - How to work with positive messaging in a negative atmosphere - Dealing with authenticity crisis - How to do EB when making redundancies - How to change tone whilst maintaining brand - Is the brand message recession proof? - Different techniques / cases for EB in downturn - How to maintain morale of EB team We're with the awesome Clair Bush, VP of Marketing (Adway), Susan Strayer LaMotte, CEO (Exaqueo) & Paul Bhangoo, Global Employer Brand & Attraction Manager (BT) We're on at Friday 4th November, 2pm GMT. Click on the green button on the top right, and follow the channel here for updates (recommended) Ep179 is sponsored by our buddies Adway Adway - Automated Social Recruitment Marketing Way simpler. Way smarter. Way more talent. Curious about the next gen solution for recruitment marketing? Adway provides ambitious talent acquisition teams with a fully automated platform to unleash their recruitment marketing and ensure more, better candidates at scale.

Topics to discuss (and if you're registering now, you are getting a sneak preview of what's coming up on Sunday) - Open Letter to Elon Musk from Twitter Employees - Big Tech Winter is Here - AI vs Gig Economy, who wins the creative war? - 2022 Gen Z Survey (Cost of Living + Side Hustle, changing the nature of work) - Can you train emotional intelligence? Google tried - Re-shoring might mean re-importing labour violations - Van Life is Homelessness All this and more folks, as we discuss the newsletter going on 30th. Register to join the chat and, if you fancy it, let me know if you want to come on screen

From Talent Intelligence to Talent Acquisition Talent Intelligence or TI has been the coolest kid in the recruitment block for a little while now, with elite employers using labour market intelligence to properly plan their hiring strategy. Even more relevant in the era of distributed working, employers now need to reach the global talent pool but do so based on data, rather than gut feel. So far, so good eh? However, how exactly do we get there? - Case study from Citi - What was the end goal of the project? - What value was expected to be gained? - How was the business case put together? - What was the change management plan? - How to get Hiring Managers, C-level and Recruiters to agree - Key criteria for vendor / tools selection - What were the main challenges? - How do we know it's worked? All this and more with w/ Jeremy Thornton, Senior Project Manager (Citi) Friday 28th October, 2pm GMT Click on the green button on the top right to register for the show, and follow the channel here (recommended) for updates Ep178 is sponsored by our buddies Platypus Platypus is the HR and recruitment tool that measures cultural drivers of people across the organization to help you qualify decisions on hiring and managing your culture. Get started from free, here

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!

Hard Truths About Startup: Hiring, Firing & Culture There has not been a sector so widely lauded and intensively covered by the press that tech startup / tech scale up. We hear a great deal about the extraordinary growth, market leading competition and often cutting edge technical and cultural innovation. But beyond the hype, what really lies underneath the world of startup? We are going to be talking hard truths about startup - the hiring, the firing and culture. - What makes startup different? - When does it become a scale up? - When does it stop being a startup? - Top 3 skills / traits a recruiter should have to thrive in this environment - Top 3 things that we know are true but we don't talk about enough - What are the most important things to get right when you start - First 100 days what do they look like? - How do you balance 'getting stuff done' with sustainable process? All this and more with Meggy Sailer, Author (Culture Up), Anessa Fike, Interim Head of Talent Acquisition (NPR) & Robert Krzyzaniak, Global Head of Tech & Product Recruitment (Forto)

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....

Sourcing & Recruiting on Discord Did you know Recruiting Brainfood has a Discord server? I was planning to use it for doing virtual events but never in the end did any virtual events so it basically has sat lying dormant ever since. And yet Discord has rapidly become one of the main places where interest communities come together to connect, share knowledge, meet each other and generally share community. What should we recruiters do about this? - What is Discord? - How does it work, technically? - How is this different from Slack? - How do I find communities to join? - What is the etiquette upon entry? - How should recruiters behave in these spaces? - Scraping or Social Engineering? - What is the best tools for find Discord data? - Do you have the same profile across Discord servers? - Has anyone had any success hiring from Discord? All this and more with w/ Wim Dammans, Talent Sourcer (Tennet) & Rosie Sherry, Founder (Rosieland, ex-Indie Hackers)

Blockchain, Web3 & The Future of Work I'll be at the Future Works conference in Lisbon so fitting that we are going to be using the opportunity to talk about the next age of the Internet and what it means for the world of work. When Satoshi Nakomoto first released his manifesto "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" in 2009, it introduced the world to the blockchain and the possibility of a decentralised internet where the users would simultaneously be producers, distributors and earners. - How does Blockchain - or Web3 - impact the world of work? - What applications outside of currency have we need with Blockchain? - What are the most promising HR related opportunities? - What the technical and cultural challenges behind Web3 projects? - How do we make Web3 more accessible to genpop? - What kind of recruiting goes on Web3? All this and more with Pedro Oliveira, Founder, (Talent Protocol), Andy Spence, Founder, (WorkForce Futurist), Inês Santos Silva, Ops Lead (AthenaDAO) & Fem Markslag, Head of Talent & People Operations (Cryptio)

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!

Where Are The Missing Workers? The 'Labour Market Paradox' is most keenly felt by us - the recruiters who are struggling to make hires, even when key macro indicators - such as number of people economically inactive - should suggest otherwise. How are we to understand the mixed messages we are getting from the commentariat, politicians and our own lived experience? Good news is, Brainfood Live has got you! You will learn: - What does the data say (US, UK & EMEA) - Explanations for labour force participation - Government initiatives to increase labour force participation - What about the 'New New Deal'? - Are we all an undeclared general strike? - How does remote and demand for more, lead to labour inactivity? - How does this all manifest to recruiting challenges and solutions? All this and more with global experts such as Anita Lettink, Partner (Strategic Management Centre), Pawel Adrjan, Director EMEA Economic Research (Indeed), Dr Sarah Ali, Global Economist (Radancy) & Tony Wilson, Director (Institute for Employment Studies) Friday 30th September, 2pm BST / 9am EDT Click on the green button on the top right to register for the show, and follow the channel here (recommended) for updates Ep174 is sponsored by our buddies iCIMS In the last few years how we work has changed. So too has how we connect and build relationships with talent. In this guide provided by iCIMS - recruiting software platform that helps accelerate and streamline the entire recruitment process, you can explore 4 ways to engage top talent. Download the guide to get started! > ‘The definite guide to engaging top talent’

We're back folks, after a three week hiatus! Going to try and keep to this time but it is apparent with travel, covid and change of regnal eras, that we might not be as consistent as we want to be on this show! Lets see how we go on this - we're review in the Sunday newsletter, with sneak peak content including: How Does UpWork, Work? Redundancy as a path to Diversifying the Workforce? Golden Handcuffs or Indentured Service? Why Hiring for Clones is Good and Bad All this and more, in our weekly review of Recruiting Brainfood, Issue 311. Join us on Monday, click on the green button on the top right to register.

How to Source Candidates from Slack There probably isn't a tech startup anywhere that does not use Slack as its internal communication platform. It's also an amazing place to create intra-company communities, a place where professionals of all disciplines get together and share knowledge. Might these also be places where you can source candidates? You will learn: - What is Slack and how do you join? - Recruiter behaviours to avoid - How to create relationships in Slack communities - When to post jobs - if at all? - How to engage on Slack - Scraping Slack from the outside - Resources and tools All this and more with w/ Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games), Nicolas Darcis, Founder (Ocetelo) & Mark Deubel, Senior Technical Recruiter (Gitlab) Ep173 is sponsored by Cronofy Cronofy offer an enterprise-ready suite of interview scheduling tools and ATS integrations. Using real-time availability they improve the candidate experience and speed up time-to-hire by arranging interviews in minutes. For candidates, it’s just two clicks to select a time. Recruiters can now coordinate interviews on behalf of hiring managers, to keep the hiring process moving, save even more time and deliver a slicker candidate experience. Save your team hundreds of recruiter hours every year using Cronofy - check it out and get more information here or contact one of their friendly product team and ask for a demo

Making Sense of the Economy: Resilient Sectors for Recruiting. The high profile tech lay offs dominate the headlines but does that tell us the real story of what is going on in the economy? We're looking at the sectors which continue to hire today, as well as those which are destined to grow as the new economic future unfolds. You will learn: - How do we understand the start up / scale up market today? - What sectors continue to hire? - Are these trends universal or regional? - What explains the persistent hiring challenges for many of the sectors today? - What should recruiters do if they are working in tech scale up? - What future economic sectors are good bets for recruiter resilience? All this and more with Katrina Hutchinson O'Neill, Founder (Join Talent), Jonathan Boys, Labour Market Economist, (CIPD), Colin Donnery, CEO (FRS Network) & Dr Sarah Ali, Chief Economist (Radancy) Ep172 is sponsored by our buddies Tribepad More candidates doesn't mean better candidates. Across the country, recruiters are reporting a decrease in the quality and relevance of applications. One click applications might be easy for candidates but are draining resources for hirers. Are you seeing similar results with your applications? In our latest research report, we hear from over 500 Talent acquisition professionals on how they're handling the shift in the recruitment industry. Access our State of the Recruitment Sector report here

Ethics & Experience: How to Better Handle Layoffs The high profile tech layoffs keep coming, and the response of employers forced to make cuts has been under scrutiny, whether the method is via mass zoom calls, or through making vulnerability posts on LinkedIn. Got me thinking - IS there a good way to do this, or or is this simply a hard task which is always going to be unpleasant? You will learn: - Ethics and Experience, guiding principles of redundancy - CEO, HR or Line Manager? - Importance of messaging sequencing - Fiduciary duty to organisation, account lockouts, permission, access - Do we have a redundancy protocol? - How does Remote impact Redundancy approach - Psychological closure for stakeholders - Off boarding & support - Employer action, Hiring Manager action, Colleague action All this and more with Christine Ng, Head of Talent & Media (Quantum Motion), Brian Evje, HR Lead (NREP), Kate Bischoff, Attorney & HR Consultant (k8bisch LLC) & Margaret Buj, Senior Talent Partner, (MixMax)

How to Hire in the Nordics? Brainfood Live is back on tour! This time we are virtually visiting our friends in the North and to try and better understand how the universal challenges of recruiting are solved by local recruiters in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. I actually couldn't find any Icelandic or Faroese recruiters so if you are there, make sure you pipe up during the livestream! You will learn: - What are the unifying characteristics of hiring in the Nordics? Can we even consider it a category? - How would you describe the culture in Nordic society - what do outsiders most often get wrong? - Working with hiring managers - what do recruiters have to know? - Working with candidates - what do recruiters have know? - How do we handle the English vs Native language divide? - What differences are there between the countries in the Nordics? - Is there a city vs rural divide? - Most important things to get right in TA? All this and more with our Nordic heroes Per Tjenberg, Founder (TBA), Danny Crook, Talent Acquisition Manager (Kognity), Niklas Lerner, Founder (Krut), & Kati Kitti, Director of Talent Acquisition (Solita) Ep170 is sponsored by our buddies Talentiir Talentiir is the Talent Partner for Companies in Scandinavia and enables growth stage scale-ups to hire the best talent in the most efficient way. We offer 3 Tiir levels of service, and modular plug and play services. Talent Search, In-house Talent or Talent RPO, contact one of our friendly team today and we will work with you to find the best option to support your growing organisation.

How to Build a Recruitment Marketing Content Engine We know that producing quality content is mandatory in todays world of hyper competition for attention. And whilst many of us have enough in us to produce one or two pieces here and there, very few of us have the ability to consistently output high quality stuff. Why is this? How come other people are more able? Is it just talent or is it really technique? You will learn: - Ideas generation - Writing for your audience - Network and amplification - Conversational marketing - Algorithm activation - Content repurposing / content upcycling - Transparency as a content source - and making gold out of lead. All this and more with Joel Lalgee, Lead Recruiter (Hirewell), Christina Robinson, MD (Green Umbrella) & Clair Bush, VP of Marketing (Adway) Ep169 is sponsored by our buddies Adway Adway - Automated Social Recruitment Marketing Way simpler. Way smarter. Way more talent. Curious about the next gen solution for recruitment marketing? Adway provides ambitious talent acquisition teams with a fully automated platform to unleash their recruitment marketing and ensure more, better candidates at scale.

BRAINFOOD BAKED FRESH - EP1 - ISSUE 306 Introducing the new show, where we review the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter Issue 306 and pick out some highlights which were particularly interesting food for the recruiting brain...... 1. Big List of Recruiting & HR Events to Attend in 2023 2. THESE ARE THE OPEN SOURCE TOOLS RESEARCHERS SAY THEY NEED 3. THE BEST TIMES TO POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA (FROM 35 MILLION POSTS) 4. THE GRADUATE JOB MARKET HAS BOUNCED BACK 5. I GOT SCAMMED ON A JOB OFFER 6.RAF RECRUITMENT FREEZE FOR WHITE MEN

Changing the Culture of Your Talent Acquisition Team You know the scenario: you've inherited an under performing team and need to reset and redirect. How do you do this? What are the techniques available for TA leaders that work most consistently to get the best out of the existing team? You will learn: - How to diagnose under performance - How to audit the KPI's - How to identify high potential under performers - How to identify disguised malcontents - Communication strategies for new leaders - Role of symbolism and ritual for culture change All this and more with Nims Dhawan, Organisational Design, (UK Ministry of Defence), Rassam Yaghmaei, Talent Acquisition Director (Doctorlib) & Jon Hull, Head of Resourcing (Balfour Beatty) Ep168 is sponsored by our buddies Platypus Platypus is the HR and recruitment tool that measures cultural drivers of people across the organization to help you qualify decisions on hiring and managing your culture. Get started from free, here

LinkedIn Content Feed: What Recruiters Have Got To Know For the past 5 years LinkedIn has been one of the preeminent places to create content and build audience. In fact, without LinkedIn, it is unlikely that Recruiting Brainfood would have got anywhere near the size it has. It is therefore essential for us recruiters to better understand who the content feed works, especially as LinkedIn keep on changing it! That's why we're going to focus this show on the mighty content feed and how to get your content seen by as many relevant people as possible. You will learn - Latest understanding on how the content feed works - Who sees your content and why - What the impact of followers, connections, subscribers and engagers is to your reach - Why it makes sense to continually build network - Why it makes sense to continually engage - Impact of various content types - Making sense of new LinkedIn post analytics - How to be a LinkedInfluencer (or not) All this and more with the one and only Andy Foote, LinkedIn Content Strategist of global renown(!) Ep167 is sponsored by our buddies Screenloop Screenloop is the Hiring Intelligence platform. Attract, hire and retain the best candidates faster and more efficiently than your competitors with Screenloop's platform. Request a demo here

Sourcing Candidates on Reddit Reddit is one of the world's most popular websites with millions of visitors every day, and yet its comment based interface has proven to be a puzzle for most recruiters who might have found it too intimidating a place to source candidates. This is a shame as the demographic on reddit skews towards tech and engineering, some of the most in-demand skills in the current market place. We need to get better at this, so today's Brainfood Live is going to be about how we get to grips with this platform and mine the gold that is right there at our fingertips - What is Reddit? - How to understand the information architecture - How to search for subreddits - X-ray vs in-platform search - Identifying candidates on Reddit - Messaging etiquette - Advertising options - Building social capital - Following and being Followed All this and more with Erin Mathew, Senior Tech Talent Sourcer, (PayPal) & Wim Dammans Recruiter (TenneT) Episode 166 is supported by our buddies Join Talent Join Talent is EMEA's fastest growing embedded talent solution provider. We deliver a market-leading and super-agile boutique Project RPO solution for scaling businesses - supporting with hiring demand in tech, product, digital, design, commercial/GTM & corporate vacancies. If you're a recruiter looking to join a rocketship - you should Join 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 Next up are Mehul Bhatt, CEO of FloCareer! - What is the original story of FloCareer? - What was the most important decision you got right in Year 1 of the business? - How clear was the vision from the beginning - was it always there or did it emerge for contact with the market? - How did coming from a technical background help you as a entrepreneur? In what way was it a hindrance? - What are the unique challenges of starting up in India? - As CEO, what is your approach when handling conflict between leaders in your management team? - Were you always going to be entrepreneurs? - What advice would you give to a person thinking about launching a business for the first time? All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today. Ep32 of Founders Focus is supported FloCareer FloCareer provides 'Interview-as-a-Service' to rapidly scaling businesses who need support in effectively screening candidates. With a unique 'You Source, We Interview' approach, FloCareer works closely with over 150+ employers worldwide to interview efficiently and at high quality. Best of all, it leads to a hugely reduced recruiting process, upgrading candidate experience who no longer have to wait days and weeks to know whether they have got the job Curious about interviewing at scale? Find out more at https://www.FloCareer.com/