The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

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/

How to Influential on Video The shift to remote has changed the way in which we work and communicate; it makes sense to think that it may well have changed the way we sell and influence also. Remember when the telephone was the primary channel of communication, before email and internet? The same skills were not necessarily transferrable to the new media and many former elite performers fell behind because they were unable to adapt to new technology. Are we in the same place with video?? - How is video similar to sales / influence in person, on phone, via email - In what ways is video different? - What types of video - synch vs async? - What are the types of influence - executive, agenda setting, reframing - What contexts are influence do recruiters need to be aware about? - Practical techniques to get better at video influence / video sale All this and more with Somer Hackley, Author (Demystifying Exec Search), Mike Basnett Sandiford, Head of Partnerships (Horsefly), Stephen O'Donnell, Chief Growth Officer, (TATech) & Anton Boner, Commercial Director (Screenloop) Ep165 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

Can Recruiters Shift To A 4 Day Work Week? Alongside the shift to remote, the desire for employees to shift to a 4 day work week has been one of the most startling demands from the workers. Even more surprisingly, many employers are listening and have reduced hours, often times at full pay. Can recruiters also shift to this new mode of working? On the one hand it makes sense as we work off hours in any case, but on the other, we are often in 'on-demand' mode. How do we do the 4 day week, SHOULD we do the 4 day week? - Pro's & Cons of 4 day week - Types of 4 day week - Which roles, which company's most able to move - What are the challenges / objections? - How do you make the decision? - What happens if productivity / performance drops? - What is the impact on Employer Branding / Talent Attraction? - What are the unique challenges of moving to a 4 day week for recruiters? All this and more with Steven Brand, Global Employer Brand Manager (Mambu), Natalie Glick, Director of Talent Management (Mambu), Kasia Tang, Founder (Super Source Me), Jamie Leonard, MD (Recruitment Events Co) & Andy Davis, Director (Highfield PS) Ep164 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

Recruitment Market for Different Generations We hate generation stereotypes for a reason, but it is also undeniable that there are differences in how we consume information, that can be split along age demographics. As the information ecosystem changes so rapidly, this means that we all start our journey in digital from a different place, and therefore consume information in different ways. So... for recruiters.....how do we market and sell to different generational cohorts? - Overly broad strokes, lets talk cohorts - What medium? - What message on that medium? - What types of content work best on those mediums? - What are the key differences to recruitment marketing to Gen Z, Gen X, Millenials and the Baby Boomers? All this and more with Clair Bush, VP of Marketing (Adway), Josh Willows, Global Job Distribution & Performance Specialist (IBM) & Dave Hazlehurst, Founder (Ph.Creative) Ep163 is sponsored by our buddies Adway Adway - Automated Social Recruitment Marketing Way 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.

Employer Brand...When Making Layoffs? 2022 was not meant to be like this. Coming into the year, we had the expectation of a strong economic rebound after the covid induced slowdown of two years previous. And yet, 6 months in we are are seeing conflict, inflation, public sector strikes, social conflict, crypto crashes and yes....looming recession. What do we need to know as EB / TA professionals in these circumstances - can we even do our jobs in these conditions? - Is EB the first to go when employers are no longer recruiting? - What role does EB / TA play when hiring freeze and layoffs are happening? - How can we become indispensable when core function is not being performed? - What role do we have to play in internal / external messenging? - What do we do if we are still hiring in one area, whilst making lay offs in another? - How do we manage brand when the number of disappointed ex-employees goes up? All this and more with w/ Will Staney, Founder (ProActive Talent), Alex Her, Manager Employer Brand (GoDaddy), Natasha Nagra, Talent Director (Valor Hospitality Partners) Ep162 is sponsored by our buddies SparcStart Employee generated video is the most cost-effective and credible way to keep your brand in front of candidates. If your hiring is slowing down or facing possible budget reductions, now is the time to build a video library so you have the content you need for your social media efforts and nurturing campaigns. Don’t lose the awareness you have built among potential candidates. SparcStart makes it simple, secure and scalable. To learn more, reach out to [email protected].

How To Hire for a Brand No One Knows I mean no offence! But lets face it, there are some brands which are too new, too niche or simply too back in the supply chain to be well know to the masses. I suspect hiring for these companies may well be different prospect to hiring for well known B2C players, especially in tech. How do you go about marketing job opportunities for an employer no one knows? - What the challenges of hiring for a brand that is less well known? - Is it harder than hiring for a well known company? - What strategies work / don't work? - What is the best outreach strategy when name recognition is zero? - How to overcome common objections? All this and more with Iwan Gulenko, Founder (CoderFit), Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games) & Wim Dammans, Recruiter (TenneT) - experienced recruiters who have all worked for employers no one knows. Ep161 is sponsored by our buddies Talentiir Talentiir is the Talent Partner for Companies in Scandinavia and enables growth 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.

Sourcing without LinkedIn....A 7 Day Challenge We all b1tch about LinkedIn, but how many of us can actually recruit without it? I suspect it will be fewer than we would like to think! Hence, when Balazs and Ildiko posted about their 7 day experiment, it immediately grabbed my attention. What would we learn if we tried to live without unquestionably the most important service recruiters are using today? You will learn: - How much dependency do we actually have on LinkedIn? - What percentage of recruiters are on what plans? - What are the standard activities recruiters perform on LinkedIn? - Without LinkedIn, what are the options? - Alternative sites - Scraping tools - Community spaces - Events data All this and more with Ildikó Jakab, Senior IT Researcher & Onboarding Consultant (Qualysoft), Balazs Paroczay, Global Sourcing Strategist (Cielo Talent) & Alla Pavlova, Tech & Art Talent Sourcer (Riot Games)

How to know if a Recruiter is any good? I have been thinking about this question ever since Tim Sackett published his post on an experienced recruiter candidate who had an aberrantly small LinkedIn network. Got me thinking - how small is too small? Lets face it, it WOULD arouse suspicion to see a recruiter candidate without a LinkedIn profile (they do exist!) so it got me thinking about how do we background check when hiring for other recruiters - is there a best way to do it? - Relevance of LinkedIn - How valid is social media behaviour? - Can presence / or lack thereof, say something about the style of recruiter you are getting? - What other signals can we use, as we obviously cannot trust self reporting? - Would you conduct your own back-channel references? Is this even legal to do? - What sorts of questions would you ask a referee, in order to get a good idea as what kind of colleague you are getting? - Can we create a list of questions to ask referees? All this and more with Tim Sackett, President (HRU Technical Resources), Ed Han, Senior Recruiter (Cenlar FSB) & Erin Mathew, Senior Sourcer Ep159 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.

Recession Proofing Your Recruitment Career If you've been following the market, the news is looking increasingly grim - record inflation, energy prices, increase taxation, tech hiring freezes, stock market collapse and the possible end of crypto - its looking like the good times have ended already. As recruiters, we are often the first to feel the effects of the economy, and we each need to take action before the sh1t hits the fan. So, lets forget these past amazing 12 months, what actions do we need to take to future proof our recruitment careers? - State of the Economy - Growth sectors of the economy - What happens to recruiters in recession - past experience - Actions for 3rd party, in-house and RPO recruiters - What happens to the freelance market during downturn? - How do technological change since last downturn change the dynamic? - Is remote a help or a hindrance for recruiters looking for work? - Will wages decline in real terms if we are in global competition/ - What practical things should a recruiter be doing, right now? All this and more with Vanessa Raath, Founder (Talent Hunter), Neil Carberry, CEO (Recruitment & Employment Confederation) & Dorothy Dalton, Exec Career Coach (3Plus International) Ep158 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’

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Virgile Raingeard, CEO of Figures - When did you realise that Figures was going to be a thing? - What are the key differences between being a CEO of a Startup vs Senior Exec of a People function? - How has a career in HR / Recruitment prepared you to be a CEO? - In what way has a career in TA / HR been a disadvantage for you? - In building your startup now, what kind of leaders are you looking for? - Why is compensation intelligence becoming relevant now? - What impact will compensation transparency have on company structure? - How do you think it will impact recruiting strategy? All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today. Ep31 Founders Focus is supported by Figures Figures aggregates and anonymised compensation data from thousands of employers so that you can accurately benchmark how you pay your staff. Explore compensation data, review the gender pay index and find out how fairly you are paying your employees. Book a demo here

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Stephen Anderson, MD of Crooton - Why do you think innovation is so rare in recruitment? - What do you think have been the main technology disruptors in recruiting in your career? - What do you think is going to be next big thing? - What parts of being a business leader do you do well? Which do you do poorly? - Were you always going to run your own business? - Can you tell us what has been your worst decision as MD of Crooton? - If you could rewind the clock, what would you do differently? - What advice do you have for recruiters listening to this and thinking about starting up? - What can customers of Crooton expect in 2022? All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today. Ep30 of Founders Focus is supported byCrooton Crooton provide a smart option for employers to outsource the management of the candidate funnel. Give us the brief and we will take it off your hands from multi-channel marketing for candidate acquisition, candidate engagement, assessment and management, delivering to you only qualified and motivated candidates. Want to control costs? Choose our fixed fee recruitment option and hire as many candidates as you need. Contact one of Crooton's friendly staff for a free consultation today

How to Organise A Sourcing Jam! The true mission of a great recruiter is to get EVERYONE in the business operating as a recruiter; after all they are they ones with the strongest networks of relevant talent! One of the ways to activate the company 'recruiting muscle' is to organise a Sourcing Jam - a half or full day session where a department works with the TA team to dive into our professional networks, collate relevant candidate details and set about contacting them! If you want to surge your hiring for a particular department, a sourcing jam is the way to do it. You will learn: - How to do you plan a sourcing jam - How to communicate the plan with the departmental head - How to encourage the shy - How to moderate the not shy(!) - What about bias? - Tools and techniques on the day - How to collect the data - What do you drive the campaign towards? - How to create a repeatable process. All this and more with Vanessa Raath, Founder (Talent Hunter), Tereza Machackova, Head of People, Deepnote, Joey NK Koksal, Lead Tech Talent Acquisition Partner at PVH & Matthias Schmeißer, Global Director of Talent (Beamery) Ep157 is sponsored by our buddies Bryq The workforce is changing at an exponential rate. Are you keeping up? Bryq is an award-winning Talent Intelligence solution that will transform and future-proof the way you manage your talent. Whether your goal is to eliminate bias and uncover hidden talent from the hiring process, promote internal mobility for your employees through career pathing, or to grow and cultivate your company culture through culture mapping, Bryq is able to help you create and manage teams that are more than just the sum of their parts. Book a demo with Bryq's Customer Success Team today to see just how much their science can accomplish for your organization.

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up are Viktor Nord, Co-founder and Adrian MacDonald, CEO of Recruitment Marketing Automation firm, Adway - What is the original story of Adway? - What was the most important decision you got right in Year 1 of the business? - How clear was the vision from the beginning - was it always there or did it emerge for contact with the market? - What do C-level leaders coordinate and align? - What method do you have of handling disagreements? - As the company matures, how do you stay on top of the changing challenges? - As CEO what are the things that you delegate, what are the things that you want to own? - What has been the most difficult challenge so far? What do you anticipate being the most difficult challenge in the next 12 months? - Were you always going to be entrepreneurs? - What advice would you give to a person thinking about launching a 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.

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Ilya Brotzky, CEO of VanHack - What's the story with Brazil? - What did you learn about business when you were there? - What did you learn about yourself? - As an entrepreneur, what are things you do well? - As a CEO what are the things you don't do well? - When did you realise that VanHack was going to be a thing? - What leadership qualities do you look for in your management team? - How has remote impacted the idea of relocating staff? - Do you see geopolitical tension / de-globalisation to be an accelerant or decelerant for immigration? - What exciting things can customers expect from VanHack in 2022? All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today. Ep28 of Founders Focus is supported by VanHack Simply put, VanHack is the fastest way to hire tech talent. Connect over a community of over 200,000 qualified developers from over 100+ countries through out the world. Sign up for an employer account and start hiring tech talent today.

Mega Scale Hiring (10,000+!) We talk about scale, then we talk about 'hyper scale', I'm going to go one further and talk about 'mega scale' - this is a hiring of tens of thousands of workers in short time frame. Pretty certain this is the sort of recruiting challenge that existing systems, processes and even people are not designed to do. So how do you do it? You will learn: - Under what circumstances does mega scale hiring happen - What are the first 3 things to get right before you start - How do we calculate the capacity required to hire the volume we need? - What tooling is available to support acquisition, assessment and management? - How do you think about candidate experience at this type of scale? - How does the relationship between hiring manager and recruiter change? - What makes a good mega scale project vs a bad one? - What recruiter skills are needed to succeed at mega scale? All this and more with Thomas Waldman, Director of Workforce Growth (Getir) and Kirsten Tolfree-Dart, Contingent Worker Programme Manager (Kantar) Ep156 is sponsored by 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'.

Moving to Salary Transparency It's becoming cool - and in a growing number of regions, it's also becoming law. Publishing how much you pay for a certain role has a number of strong arguments for: more equitable income, remove bias, upgrade employer brand / reputation, perhaps even improve recruitment efficiency by providing a mechanism for self selection by candidates. So, what do you do when you want to move to salary transparency? We are talking to recruitment managers who have overseen this move and figure out what they know having seen it and done it. - Was there resistance? - How bad was the attrition? - What happened to legacy salaries which were now out of level? - What is the impact on hiring for candidates, especially in this hyper competitive market? - Who was most for / against the idea in your business? - How has salary transparency changed recruiting? All this and more with Annie Jackson, Head of Talent Acquisition (CLEO), Mick Griffin, Chief Growth Officer (TRAFFIT), Raluca Jamault-Otelea, Talent Acquisition Director (360Learning), Matt Bradburn, Founder (People Collective) & Jessica Zwaan, COO (Whereby) Thursday 19th May, 12pm BST Click on the green button on the top right to register for the show, and follow the channel here (recommended) for updates Ep155 is sponsored by Daxtra Daxtra is on a mission to make data more useful for recruiters. Transform your dormant and disorganised database into your primary source for making actual hires. Need to clean, enrich and activate dormant applicant data? Contact us for a demo today

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Will Laufer, CEO of Prelude - When was the moment when you realised Prelude would be a thing? - Were you always planning to be an entrepreneur? - How is being a CEO different from being a senior exec? - What things do you not do well as a CEO? - What do you look for when hiring for leaders in your team? - How do you see the shift to remote / shift back to office playing out for CX? - What exciting things can existing customers of Prelude expect in 2022? - If you could give yourself once piece of advice as a entrepreneur what would that be? All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today. Ep27 Founders Focus is supported byPrelude Prelude’s candidate experience platform supercharges recruiting operations and simplifies the most manual parts of scheduling interviews. The Prelude scheduling engine can help recruiting teams schedule everything from screens to complex onsite interviews in seconds while leading with their brand and values. Manage your interviewers’ preferences, competencies, and ongoing training in one place folded seamlessly into intuitive scheduling. Integrate with existing systems and workflows to remove friction from recruiting logistics. Supercharge Your Hiring Process & Remove Friction From Scheduling - sign up for a free demo today here

Solving Recruitment: Strategic Workforce Planning Don't you feel that recruitment is generally moving from one crisis to another? It seems there is NEVER a moment when recruitment is steady, under control, low stress, high confidence project. Instead, it's a fire that we need to put out yesterday. Why is this - why can we not plan our hiring in more strategic way? You will learn - What is strategic workforce planning - Why does it not happen enough? - Key blockers to implementing strategic workforce planning - What is the role of TA vs HR in planning hiring? - How to build better relationships with stakeholders in hiring - What technologies support SWP? - How can ATS / HRIS data be used to support better planning - How do we know it is working, if we feel we have implemented SWP? All this and more as we tackle the lack of planning in hiring. With Perry Timms, Founder (People & Transformational HR), CJ Green, Founder (Brave Goose) & Danny Hodgson, CEO (Foresight) Ep154 is sponsored by Tribepad The current approach to ED&I isn't working. In fact, not only is their scepticism and levels of mistrust from candidates around data collection, but 80% feel processes would be fairer if recruitment simply remained anonymous. And they might be right. It's time that we stopped seeing ED&I as a tick box exercise, and start putting vital data to good use. Download the latest 'Stop the Bias' report today. Understand why candidates believe that their prospects are being harmed, and their data isn't being used to benefit their applications.

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 leader? - Can you remember a moment when you thought, this isn't happening? How did you cope? - What mental health regime do you practice? - Do you feel a CEO has to lead on values? - What are your theories on balancing diversity of views with group cohesion? - What exciting things can customers expect from Bryq this year? All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today. Ep26 of Founders Focus is supported by Bryq Looking to uncover hidden talent in the hiring process? Trying to help your current employees optimize their performance? Wanting to counter the "Great Resignation" and retain your talent? The Bryq Talent Intelligence platform has your answers to these questions and many others. Book a meeting with Bryq's Customer Success Team today to see just how much their science can accomplish

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 part? You don’t have to be a tech expert to leverage programmatic. We're going to do a Brainfood special, a 1-2-1 with Robin Stander, VP of Sales at Appcast, who is basically going to teach us what programmatic advertising is You will learn - What is programmatic advertising? - How does it work? - How do we know the ads are shown to the right audience? - How is ad performance tracked? - What is an ad exchange? - Is this ad retargeting? - What are the privacy issues? - How does the cookie less future impact programmatic? - How do we implement programmatic solutions? All this and more - at the end of this hour, we are going to know what programmatic job advertising is and how to implement it. Don't miss this one folks Ep153 is sponsored by Appcast In a competitive hiring market, it’s essential to craft job ads that tell would-be employees what they want to know about the job and your organization to attract qualified candidates. When creating job ads, think like a job seeker. Share details about your company and your culture; optimize your job titles, location, and requirements; highlight your compensation, benefits and career development, using straightforward language that leaves little or no room for interpretation. The Appcast guide “Best Practices in Job Ad Content” will provide what best practices should be followed to optimize your job advertising strategy and highlight the key areas you should focus on. Download your free copy 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 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? - What role does technology play in solving the talent acquisition problem? - What exciting things can customers expect from KANDIDATE in 2022? All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today. Ep25 Founders Focus is supported by KANDIDATE “I Love Spending Money on Head Hunters” - said no one, ever… The Embedded Sourcer model will get you results by finding new candidates for hard to fill roles. This is not just operating Linkedin Recruiter - this is advanced Boolean Search, X Ray Search, Social Search, and AI based diversity sourcing to find you new, quality candidates that you hadn’t found before. We build talent pipelines of 150+ per role, find candidate email addresses, and write engaging reach out copy. We offer a flat fee monthly pricing model-contact [email protected] to find out more

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 the function? - What are the knowledge gaps which are most important to fill in this role? - How do CPO positions emerge? - What is the optimal career trajectory to be considered for role? - How important is domain experience for this role? - Is it better that the person comes from HR, TA or something else? - What was the interview process like, what do you have to prepare for? All this and more in this week's Brainfood Live On Air. w/ Layla Kidwai, VP People, (Funding Circle), Antonio Arias Lopez, CPO (QuoIntelligence) & Leslie Kivit, Founder, (The People Lab) Ep152 is sponsored by Zinc Zinc is an automated reference and background checking toolkit, with a difference. Onboard employees faster. Zinc saves talent teams an average of 90 minutes per candidate checked, reducing turnaround times from weeks to days. Their all-in-one global solution offers checks including; criminal record, ID, credit, financial, media, identity, and education checks—perfect for regulated businesses. On top of this, Zinc transforms your candidate’s experiences through radical transparency, keeping candidates informed and allowing them to keep their checking data. With direct ATS integrations with Greenhouse, Workable, Teamtailor, SmartRecruiters, LinkedIn Talent Hub, Comeet and Lever and most recently, Hibob, you only need to click a button to stay compliant. See it in action today. Book a free trial with Zinc here

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 - Candidate shortage, how real, which sectors, how to deal? - Candidate drop out rate, how to mitigate? - Increasing process efficiency, how to advise clients on moving more quickly for in-demand candidates - Automation and tooling, how are recruiters adopting tech, what works best today - Shift to remote / WFH - how do we persuade employers to flex? All this and more in this Brainfood Live with Jo McCatty, Founder (Protoscience), Ez Khan, MD (Spencer Lane), Dani Tamati, MD (The Resources Hub) & Ross Clennett, Director (Ross Clennett) Ep151 is sponsored by 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'.