The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

LINKEDIN UPDATES; WHAT'S NEW for Q2? We use LinkedIn everyday - weirdo's that we are - and we simply must keep on top of what is happening on the platform. Turns out, there is huge amount going - LinkedIn audio? LinkedIn newsletter? LinkedIn magic sourcing tools? All stuff that we need to know but few of us do. Good job we have brainfood favourite's LinkedIn expert - Andy Foote himself - to come on down and talk with us every quarter to keep us regulated on LinkedIn updates. Can't miss this one folks - if you're into Recruiting Brainfood, you're going to be into this Ep108 is sponsored by our buddies Occupop Attract, manage and hire the right people for your business with software designed for in-house recruiters in mind. Looking to upgrade from spreadsheets or swap out your legacy ATS? Check out Occupop, start with a free extended 30 day trial here

Is there going to be a wave of resignations post pandemic? This is a concern for many in our industry as the return to the office clashes with elevated expectations of flexibility from the employee population used to setting their own schedules, their own mode of work, their own rules..... It makes sense for any HR / TA / People Ops professional to anticipate the challenge and mitigate for it. - how to improve retention rate (and is it too late?) - how much accommodation is too much? - how clear are our communications? - has compensation changed, should it change - how we redesign career paths which encourage retention? All this and more as we talk about the next major challenge in the world of HR / TA. Ep107 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies Kelly Services. Kelly Services are a global specialty talent solutions provider, connecting great people with great companies in fields including Science, Engineering, Office, Light Industrial, Education, and more. Whether you’re a job seeker or an employer, we’ll help you ditch the script on old ways of thinking, so you can meet your goals and reach your potential. Find out more about our services here

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Jerry Collier, MD of Product Innovation at AMS, leading a new tech startup within AMS. Hourly is the first solution built by AMS from the ground up, targeting the growing demand for an improved experience in high-volume hiring. - Who is Jerry Collier? - What are his leadership values? - How do you lead in an enterprise size business like AMS? - What do you exactly run a startup within AMS? - What are the leadership lessons that he's learned during his time leading this new business unit? - What is the future for recruitment technology, especially in relation to the rise of alternative work? All this and more, as we take a deep dive into getting to know the people behind the technology. Ep7 of Founder's Focus is sponsored by Hourly, by AMS When you have high-volumes of applicants, sifting through them to find qualified candidates can feel impossible. Hourly harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and scientifically-proven assessment insight to help you identify the very best-fit applicants for every role. Want to get control over your way too high applicant flow? Self schedule a demo here

ON HIRING SENIOR LEADERS Have you had this experience? CEO comes to you and asks you to begin a confidential search for a replacement for an incumbent C-level leaders. Search is going to take 6 months, so you need to get started now as there is a predicted need to upgrade the department - what do you do? I have no idea, as no one (rightly) has ever trusted me to hire for their senior executive team, but it may be one of the most critical recruitment events to happen to a business. - How to hire C-suite? - How to hire confidentially? - What are the qualities required to lead? - Can these be quantified or is really just chemistry with the CEO? - What techniques, approaches work best when hiring at this level? - What are the differences between in-house vs 3rd party search? All this and more in Brainfood Live On Air. Ep 106 is sponsored by our buddies ESIX Executive Search Information Exchange or ESIX is the world's leading membership network exclusively for Corporate Talent Officers operating at Executive hiring. Featuring members from over 100 of the leading employers in the world, it is the one stop shop for networking amongst peers, information exchange, personal and career development. Find out more about membership here

QUANTIFYING COMPANY CULTURE - WHY & HOW? There isn't a TA, HR Manage or CEO who doesn't think their company culture is the most important thing about their business.....but is there a way to actually measure it? In a world increasingly driven by metrics, company culture is one where we are consistently lagging, relying at best on periodic pulse surveys, at worst on - you guessed it - gut feel. Is there a better way? Can we actually measure company culture? And if so, what do we measure? Are there any patterns to see in how the most effective companies operate? These are the questions we are going to try and answer in this week's Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Social Psychologist and Talent Intelligence lead Leila Mortet (Philips), Skill Scout CEO Elena Valentine and People Analytics Consultant, Natasha Oulis (NeoConsulting) and Brian Evje, Head of People (Uncapped) Nico Blier-Silvestri in the co-pilot seat. Ep105 is sponsored by our buddies Platypus Platypus makes company culture easy to understand, measurable and actionable, so that you can make smarter decisions on hiring and growing your team.

WORKING WITH RPO - BEST PRACTICE & TOP TIPS There comes a moment, in every recruiters life, when the right decision is to work with a Recruiting Outsourcing Partner. RPO's have traditionally been a model uses for super large scale enterprise projects but increasingly have found markets in rapid scale up environments, especially in technology. Partnered in the right way, RPO's can provide an essential component in hitting your hiring targets, But how? - When is the moment right to outsource? - What do you outsource - a segment, or everything? - How do you select a provider? - How do we create a relationship which is win / win? - How much does it / should it cost? - What to do to make sure it goes right? All this and more in Brainfood Live On Air! Ep104 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies Kelly Services. Kelly Services are a global specialty talent solutions provider, connecting great people with great companies in fields including Science, Engineering, Office, Light Industrial, Education, and more. Whether you’re a job seeker or an employer, we’ll help you ditch the script on old ways of thinking, so you can meet your goals and reach your potential. Find out more about our services here

Ep6 of 'Founders Focus' - Josh Brenner, CEO of Hired It's the Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space. Next up is Josh Brenner, CEO of Hired, the tech talent marketplace which matches employers with the highly skilled, in-demand tech talent. - Who is Josh Brenner? - What is his leadership philosophy? - What has he learned from being CEO? - What were the challenges in taking over the leadership role from the founding team? - What made the Hired acquisition happen? - What is the future of talent marketplaces? All this and more, as we take a deep dive into the personalities leading the technology businesses changing the way we hire Click on the green button on the top right to register, and follow the channel here (recommended) for more Founder Focus stories Ep6 of Founders Focus is sponsored by Hired Game-changing features queuing up in your product roadmap? We understand the urgency of hiring top talent. In fact, we've helped our fair share of companies around the world build their tech and sales teams while saving over 45+ hours per hire on average. Our curated pool of pre-screened and experienced job-seekers are waiting to hear from you - try Hired for free here! Interested in learning how Hired can help promote DEI in your hiring processes? Register for our upcoming webinar on “Awareness, Action, & Accountability; Embedding Technology into DEI Hiring Strategies” on April 27th here.

HOW & WHEN TO MEASURE CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE? The key to making improvement on any aspect of recruiting is to first measure it. We have to understand where we are first, before we are able to get to where we want to be going. How and when do you measure candidate experience? At the beginning of the hiring process? After first interaction? Continuously as they progress we together develop a relationship with them? We are going to narrow the lens on this Brainfood Live folks and take a deep dive into this specialist topic, which really, should be a generalist one for all recruiters. Friday 9th April, 2021 - 12.00pm UTC Click on the green button on the top right to register and follow the channel here (recommended) for more updates Ep103 is sponsored by our buddies Starred. Starred is the candidate feedback solution for the innovative employers who really care about delivering a world-class Candidate Experience at scale. Measure each step of your hiring process through customisable surveys, fully integrated with your ATS, and gather valuable insights you can act on. Get a demo with our team here

Ep5 of 'Founders Focus' - the Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space. Next up is Adam Bird, CEO of Cronofy, the enterprise ready scheduling platform - Who is Adam Bird? - What is his leadership philosophy? - What has he learned from being CEO? - Does he still know how to code? - Do engineers make good CEO's? - What is the future for workforce automation - what else is going to get 'scheduled' away? All this and more, as we take a deep dive into the personalities leading the technology businesses changing the way we hire Ep5 of Founders Focus is sponsored by Cronofy There is no better time than now to rework your hiring process and help your team be more efficient. Our buddies at Cronofy have launched an enterprise-ready interview scheduling tool, which works using real-time availability to improve the candidate experience and speed up time to hire. Save hundreds of recruiter hours using Cronofy - check out the free trial and get more information here.

TALENT INTELLIGENCE - WHAT, WHY, HOW Do you know what 'talent intelligence' is? You'd be forgiven if you didn't, because it's a concept which has stubbornly stayed on the fringes of the TA, mainly due to strategic neglect by businesses who had long under estimated the impact acquiring top talent had on the bottom line. But as businesses better understand the importance of the talent they have a their disposal, Talent Intelligence is becoming a function distinct with the TA function, sitting in between traditional recruiter and analytics. They are there to tell you where the best talent is in the market - where best to put the jobs, where best to put the recruiter hiring for those jobs. We're going to be talking about Talent Intelligence in Ep102 of Brainfood Live On Air, with some of the leading brains in the industry - Leila Mortet, Talent Intelligence at Philips, Toby Culshaw, Talent Intelligence Lead at Amazon and Allison Ettridge, Founder at Talent Intuition. Ep102 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies Kelly Services. Kelly Services are a global specialty talent solutions provider, connecting great people with great companies in fields including Science, Engineering, Office, Light Industrial, Education, and more. Whether you’re a job seeker or an employer, we’ll help you ditch the script on old ways of thinking, so you can meet your goals and reach your potential. Find out more about our services here

Ep4 of 'Founders Focus' - a new Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space. Next up is Vivek Ravisankar, CEO of market leading tech assessment platform HackerRank - Who is Vivek Ravisankar? - What is his leadership philosophy? - What has he learned from being CEO? - Does he still know how to code? - Do engineers make good CEO's? - How is digital collaboration going to change in a remote first world? - What does work from anywhere do to labour migration? All this and more, as we take a deep dive into the personalities leading the technology businesses changing the way we hire Click on the green button on the top right to register, and follow the channel (here) for more Founder Focus stories Ep4 of Founders Focus is sponsored by HackerRank Build great tech teams end-to-end, fully remote and from anywhere in the world. Take the 2 min.HackerRank Hiring Maturity assessment to find out how your hiring process stacks up against the most innovative companies in the world Sign up for a 14 day free trial here

HOW TO HIRE (WHEN YOUR OVERLOADED WITH JOB APPLICATIONS?) Over the past 12 months we've observed the phenomenon of surging applicant volume, with numbers from 100-1000% more than the same moment the year before. For many industries, especially ones which are absorbing workers from industries made dormant by lockdown, handing excess volume of job applications has become THE hiring challenge to tackle. The shift to remote - and the 'hire from anywhere' approach - suggests that this pattern of high volume job applications can be expected for many types of job role. - How to structure your TA team to handle it? - How do you maintain / improve candidate experience? - Does your relationship with the hiring managers change? - What tech stack do you need to handle the volume? - How do you ensure the TA team - the recruiter experience - remains intact? All this and more in Ep101 of Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Clair Bush, VP of Marketing at ph.creative, Jelmer Koppelmans Founder at Roadtrip and Ben Gledhill, Head of Resourcing at Thames Water Ep101 is sponsored by our buddies Occupop Attract, manage and hire the right people for your business with software designed for in-house recruiters in mind. Looking to upgrade from spreadsheets or swap out your legacy ATS? Check out Occupop, start with a free 14 day trial here

Ep3 of 'Founders Focus' - a new Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space. Next up is Mickael Cabrol, MD, EMEA of iCIMS, after the successful acquisition with EASYRECRUE where he was the CEO. - Who is Mickael Cabrol ? - What is his leadership philosophy? - What has he learned from being CEO? - How was the EASYRECRUE / iCIMS deal sealed? - What can EASYRECRUE/iCIMS customers expect in 2021? - What is it like to transition to being a leader vs the leader? All this and more, as we take a deep dive into the personalities leading the technology businesses changing the way we hire Ep2 of Founders Focus is sponsored by iCIMS Create your winning workforce with iCIMS’ industry-leading service and platform, backed by today’s top analysts and independent researchers. Book a demo here

Rejecting candidates is one of the hard parts of the job of any recruiter. None of us like to do it, but we not only have to do it, but have to get better at it. - What makes a good rejection message? - Phone call or email? - How much feedback can you / do you give? - What to do if the rejection or the feedback is disputed by the candidate? - Does they stage of the application process influence rejection handling?Is it actually an opportunity to create an employer brand advocate? We're going to examine this question and more, as we discuss one of the most neglected aspects of the recruiting process - how to reject candidates, better Ep100 is sponsored by our buddies Occupop Attract, manage and hire the right people for your business with software designed for in-house recruiters in mind. Looking to upgrade from spreadsheets or swap out your legacy ATS? Check out Occupop, start with a free 14 day trial here

LETS FACE IT: Pre-covid, a great deal of Employer branding was focused on the physical space of the office building and the on premise experience that new employees could expect to have upon joining.. This was the reason for the huge investment employers made in commercial real estate, opening up space for WeWork (remember them?) to create a category which promised the experience without the fixed costs. NOW THIS, - we're all at home, working remote - we don't care about the conditions of the office - we're beginning to not care about the location of the office WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN FOR EMPLOYER BRANDING? How do companies communicate their EB when the physical environment isn't going to change for the employee? Some top tips on how to do this from our guests this week - Steve Ward (Universum) Heidi Wassini, Global Talent Acquisition. Helen Durkin EB Program Lead, Indeed.com & Employer Branding Partner, Vivino & Akbar Karenga Head of Talent (Storyblok) Ep99 is sponsored by our buddies CA3 CA3 is an award-winning employer brand agency that helps organisations attract, onboard and engage with talent through compelling creative comms. Great work, great relationships is their raison d'être, the reason their clients (the likes of Expedia Group, Johnson Matthey, Smartest Energy, Audley Group, Aviva, GE Healthcare and Rolls-Royce) love working with them, and their people come to work smiling (even on Mondays apparently). If your EVP or employer brand is in need of a little love and attention after a tough 2020 why not check out their website today.

'Founders Focus' - a new Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space. Next up is Hanno Renner, CEO of Personio, the HR operating system for your growing business - Who is Hanno Renner? - What is his leadership philosophy? - How do you CEO a rocketship? - What is it like building a European company vs a US company? -How does technology change behaviour? - What can Personio customers expect in 2021? All this and more, as we take a deep dive into the personalities leading the technology businesses changing the way we hire Ep2 of Founders Focus is sponsored by Personio HR, Recruiting and Payroll, Personio supports all of the core HR processes in one easy-to-implement system. More than 3000 satisfied customers including Premier Inn, Spendesk, Statista and Clevershuttle use Personio. Schedule a demo today with one of Personio’s friendly reps and they’ll be happy to help. Or try it for free here

THE DARK SIDE OF LINKEDIN: DEALING WITH BULLIES, STALKERS & TROLLS If you're a follower of this channel chances are you use LinkedIn every day as part of your essential toolkit as a professional in the people business. We don't expect to encounter trouble here do we? And yet, there is a price to be paid when you are a user of the platform where anyone can sign up, anyone can post, anyone can comment or message. Some of us - by dint of gender, ethnicity, professional role or something else, can be a target more than others. This week's brainfood is a change of pace - lets have a think about how other people experience LinkedIn and how best to deal with troublesome or malevolent interactions we might encounter there. Friday 26th February, 2.00pm UTC Ep98 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies Kelly Services. Kelly Services are a global specialty talent solutions provider, connecting great people with great companies in fields including Science, Engineering, Office, Light Industrial, Education, and more. Whether you’re a job seeker or an employer, we’ll help you ditch the script on old ways of thinking, so you can meet your goals and reach your potential. Find out more about our services here

Introducing 'Founders Focus' - a new Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space. First up is Steve Lucas, CEO of iCIMS, the market leading cloud recruitment platform provider. - Who is Steve Lucas? - What is his leadership philosophy? - What has he learned from being CEO? - What can iCIMS customers expect in 2021? - What movie villain does Steve have most sympathy with? All this and more, as we take a deep dive into the personalities leading the technology businesses changing the way we hire Ep1 of Founders Focus is sponsored by iCIMS Create your winning workforce with iCIMS’ industry-leading service and platform, backed by today’s top analysts and independent researchers. Book a demo here

A big problem with DE&I is that it is considered a topic 'for HR'. And HR can often by at fault, taking 'ownership' of DE&I initiatives and inadvertently preventing the ideas from really embedding into the rest of business. Its time for change folks - and that change has to be on how we get DE&I out of HR and into the rest of the business! We're going to be joined by an ensemble guest lists including Vessy Tasheva (inclusion specialist & consultant), Rocki Howard (Head of Diversity), non-HR managers who have taken leadership roles in DE&I - Garry Turner (IMCD Group), Jessy Halison (ecosia), African Munoz (LinkedIn), as well as by recruiters who are responsible to top of funnel acquisition of candidates (Katy Peichert). Kind of a can't miss folks Ep97 is sponsored by our buddies Applied Applied is blind recruitment software for unbiased hiring. Make hiring decisions based on data, not background or bias. Employers like ASOS.com, Centrica, GroupM and many others use Applied. Not convinced? Request a demo here and a friendly member of our team will get in touch!

The shift to remote has had the effect of digitising previously analogue processes. This is lead to a bloom of workforce data which we previously could not collate or make use of. We are now swimming in data which can used to better understand employee sentiment and productivity, skill distribution across the company, how time is spent doing what. There is a conundrum though - at what point does the burgeoning new discipline of 'People Analytics' become 'Bossware' or workforce surveillance? What is the difference between caring about employees mental health vs intrusion onto people's personal lives? This is the topic of Ep96 of Brainfood Live On Air. If you care about what to do with the data your employees are now producing - and how to use this effectively AND ethically Ep96 is sponsored by our buddies Charthop. ChartHop is the world's first org management platform, empowering leaders to see their organization's past while designing its future. It automatically builds fluid views of a company through real-time updated org charts, custom reporting & analytics, and headcount planning that boosts efficiency across teams. ChartHop integrates with 20+ HR tech & data platforms, and companies like Peloton, MongoDB, Starburst, Postman and InVision rely on the company to plan, organize and visualize their orgs. Find out more here or click here to request a demo.

WHAT DO DEVELOPERS REALLY THINK ABOUT ONBOARDING? We all know that concern for the candidate journey should not stop at the job offer, yet all too often it does, often leaving a yawning gap between verbal yes and employee start. How can we better manage this process? Who is even in charge of it? What do developers want after they have said yes to a job offer? All this and more in the last episode of our mini series, From the Developers POV. Ep95 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies 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.

In Ep86, we talked about universal values & concepts in recruitment and wondered how they really applied to local contexts. This is especially important given that the ideas driving the industry come mainly from one place - the United States of America - with its own unique history and cultural context How do these ideas apply Down Under? We're looking at Australia and New Zealand - culturally linked to Mother England but divergent now is so many ways that its been a long time since they could be considered 'the same'. Lets look beyond shared language and lineage and speak to recruiters from ANZ and whether universal ideas apply. What do our friends down under think about - DE&I - Politics in the workplace - Remote working - Artificial intelligence - Data protection and privacy - Workforce automation - Candidate experience - Employer branding - Open Talent marketplace - and more Essential viewing if you are in ANZ, plan to be in ANZ or have recruiting in ANZ. Ep93 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. Download the Data Nexus Search guide here

LinkedIn - alternative universe for us recruiters that it is inevitably is - remains the No1 application that we use to do our work. It has dozens of products, hundreds of features within products and al kind of ways to optimise between them which no one knows everything about. Andy Foote probably comes closer than most; brainfood's favourite LinkedIn commentator, Andy is back for the first of his quarterly update shows on Brainfood Live On Air = where he updates us on what the latest changes to Linkedin have been and what we - as super users - need to do about it. Learn about - LinkedIn newfeed algorithm - Linkedin new search features - Linkedin Live / Newsletter / Articles / Posts / Polls and much more. Ep94 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. Download the Data Nexus Search guide here

WHAT DO DEVELOPERS REALLY THINK ABOUT INTERVIEWING? Part Three of our mini series 'From the Developers POV' will examine the next stage in the hiring process - the interview. Probably the most important single stage in the recruiting process, the interview has always been one of two things - obviously suboptimal as a method of assessing candidates, yet persistently integral to the hiring decision - What do developers think about interviews? - What style of interview works best? - Biographical or behavioural? - Or should it all be technical interviewing? - How accessible are interviews for the neuro diversity? - What is the impact of video interviewing? Ep92 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies 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.

WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN IN 2021? Brainfood Live On Air is kicking off the 2021 season why a new year forecast with subject matter experts in every category which brainfood chronicles. What do you think is going to happen in - AI - People Analytics - Employer branding - Sourcing - Candidate experience - Economy - Society - DE&I ? Guests are going to be ensemble of the great and the good, renowned industry experts who are going to give us 5 minutes on what they will be important for their topic in the year ahead. Don't miss this one folks. Ep91 is sponsored by our buddies Cronofy There is no better time than now to rework your hiring process and help your team be more efficient. Our buddies at Cronofy have launched an enterprise-ready interview scheduling tool, which works using real-time availability to improve the candidate experience and speed up time to hire. Save hundreds of recruiter hours using Cronofy - check out the free trial and get more information here.

What do developers really think about that coding challenge that recruiters send out? Do they think the tech interview is any better, or perhaps a return the whiteboard exercise? Assessing the functional capability of any worker is essential but equally important is to make sure that the tool for assessment is the right one for the job. What do developers think about this - is there a way to understand someone's capability before actually working with them? Part 2 of our 4 part series 'From the Developer's POV' where we take classic recruiting challenges and invite the candidates to tell us what they think about them. If you're a tech recruiter you need to listen to this. Ep90 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies 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.

Hiring qualified software developers remains one of the hard challenges in business today. With Covid-19 forcing the world to accelerate digital transformation, demand for the builders of tomorrow's tools and systems never been greater. Brainfood Live On Air is delighted to introduce a new series - From the Developers POV - where the guest speakers and panellists will be developers themselves - and they will tell us what works and what doesn't in conventional recruiter behaviour. Part 1: Effective Recruiter Outreach - What type of message works best for first contact? - What amount of customisation of the message is required? - Do tools like Crystal knows really work? - How about follow up - when and how many times? - What immediately turns you off in a recruiter message? - All this and more from developers who are receiving your messages daily. Must listen for any tech recruiter - learn from the community you want to hire from. Ep89 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies 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.

Increased recruitment automation has been a trend accelerated by the pandemic economy; as recruiters are forced to do more with less, the adoption of tools and processes which can reduce overhead or even eliminate tasks previously conducted by a human being has become a primary concern for CEO, CFO and CPO's alike. And yet at the same moment, the requirement for empathy and the higher expectations for candidate care, mean that candidate experience is a parallel priority. Can you two demands be met together? Might one actually be key to the other? This is the topic of this week's Brainfood Live On Air - how to use recruitment automation to improve candidate experience. We're with renowned recruitment automators Sofia Broberger, Martyn Redstone and Patrick Boonstra. Ep88 is sponsored by our buddies Cronofy. Cronofy provide data secure, enterprise friendly automated interview scheduling. Save your team hundreds of hours of unnecessary admin by using Cronofy. Watch the 60 second demo here Register for a free trial account here Check out the case study here

Human Resources. Talent Acquisition. The relationship between these two people functions is often critically important, yet also equally often poorly managed. How can we forge better relationships with each other? What does HR really need from TA? What does TA really want from HR? Do they even belong together, under the same organisational structure? We're going to learn all this and more. by putting HR vs TA together in the same space and talk about how we can build a better relationship. - Lisa Scales, Head of TA UK Nestle - Robert Hicks, Head of HR, Rewards Gateway - Julie Griggs. Founder, Greenhill HR Ep87 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. Download the Data Nexus Search guide here

Over 60%+ of the world's population live in Asia-Pacific region Yet all the conversation in recruiting & HR is seems centred in the US / UK and Europe. We all talk a good game about diversity, equity and inclusion, but what does that really mean if those ideas and values are consistently created and propagated from the same places, the same cultures, the same peoples? Brainfood Live is going to strike further out today in this 2 hour special: lets talk about hiring in Asia-Pacific. Topics to cover: - Covid-19: verdict on Asia-Pac - Remote hiring ...is it working, for who and where? - Immigration / Emigration - D&I ...how are we talking about this in Asia-Pac - Routes to candidates: advertising, sourcing, referrals - Geo-politics - how does the splinternet impact hiring? - Projections - how does 2021 look for the countries of the region? We're rounding up the cool cats from Asia Pac, led by Sergei Mahkmodov from Hong Kong, Martin Warren (Grab) & Nina Devouge (The Trade Desk) from Singapore and Matt Best (Best Practice) from Japan Ep86 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. Download the Data Nexus Search guide here

How has pandemic changed employer branding? Pre-covid, an effective employer branding strategy was critical to winning the 'war on talent' - helping you attract and hire the most in-demand candidates. And yet, how much of EB was based around the physical location, the perks associated with being in the office, the sell of the amazing company culture (again on premise). - What EB rules are more true now than before? - How important is transparency? - How important is visible leadership? - Can you get away with not offering remote / flexible work? - Is it possible to measure your EB? All this and more with the amazing Google Dave Hazlehurst. Episode 85 is supported by our buddies at VideoMyJob. VideoMyJob is an award-winning video platform used by teams to create authentic video content that attracts talent and engages employees. Up your recruitment marketing game today - here

We have to talk about it - the US Presidential election on the 3rd November - will have reverberating impact across the globe, such is influence of the United States. The radically different persona's, philosophies, even values of the two contenders will have more direct impact to the world economy and the world of business and recruitment than we might first realise. - What does a Trump win mean for offshoring & international trade? - What does a Biden win mean for Universal Basic Income? - Does DE&I go into reverse under a second Trump Presidential term? - Will AI accelerate or decelerate under either of these men? - What role does HR play during / after politically divisive moments? We're going to be speculating about the near future folks, on the most important single event in 2020. Laurie Ruettiman, Lars Schmidt & Tim Sackett joins to help guide us through the culture, politics and economics of the next 4 years in the United States. Ep84 is supported by our buddies at Workable. Hire better, hire faster, with Workable. Free 15 day trial here

Get the feeling that the idea of the 'talent pipeline' might be over? It was always a nonsense - that people who move in one direction through an interaction with an employer, and only end up with one outcome - offer of a job or not. We know that the the relationship between potential employee and future employer is much more complex, multi-faceted. at multi-speeds. More recruiters will be speaking to candidates years before they become employees, relationships built over time and many iterations. The question for modern TA departments is: how best to nurture relationships? Don't tell me an email drip campaign is the way. We got to be smarter than that ;-) We're going to be gathering together experts in online relationship building, including the awesome Vanessa Raath, who has built a community of recruiters across South Africa, Rosie Sherry, Community Manager at Indie Hackers and the ever awesome Allyn Bailey at Intel. Don't miss this one folks - register on the green button on the top right, and follow the channel here (recommended) for future updates. Ep83 is supported by our buddies at Workable. Hire better, hire faster, with Workable. Free 15 day trial here

How do we measure Recruitment performance in 2020? Our historical data can now only provide us with a guideline rather than a benchmark on what good performance looks like; we know that the game has changed, in some respects, in fundamental ways. and we need to get on with the business of translating that change into something we can quantify and measure. What are the new Recruiting KPI's? What are the new numbers we need to care about? - Time to Hire - Applicants to Hire - Quality of Hire - Diversity at shortlist - Recruiter NPS - and more Marisa Bryan, Head of Operations at Scede and Andrea Marston (EMEA VP of Talent Acquisition, VMware) will be joining Friday 23rd October, 12.00pm GMT Don't miss this - click on the green button on the top right to register and follow the channel here (recommended) for updates Episode 82 is supported by our buddies at CVCheck CVCheck is a leading provider of background screening services, conducting more than 300,000 checks every year for businesses, government organisations and individuals in Australia, New Zealand and worldwide. To validate your candidates credentials more efficiently –request a demo from CVCheck today.

How has 2020 changed Tech Recruiting? Amongst the hardest challenges in the recruiting business, hiring in-demand software developers, designers and data scientists was consistently popular topic over the past decade. How has Covid-19 changed this? We will learn about Employer branding for tech talent Changing candidate demands from employers The near mandatory provision of flexible working Changes in the core metrics of recruiting - has time to hire reduced? Sources of talent - what has happened to tech job vacancy / advertising? D&I in tech - how, what are we doing about this, since Covid-19 hit. Manjuri Sinha, Global Head of Tech Recruiting at OLX and Alla Pavlova, Tech Recruiter at Miro, will be joining the debate. Pedro Oliveira from Future Works steps in as co-host Ep81 is sponsored by our buddies at PASS. PASS make background checking, simple centralising background screening in one location for a faster, fully compliant and more cost-effective process. Grab 30 day free trial at PASS here

One thing that Covid-19 and lockdown has taught us that there are new communication channels which recruiters truly need to embrace. Email + telephone - whilst still important - are yesterday's communication tech, being first supplemented by chat, video and livestream, before being supplanted by them. It's time we all upgraded our game in how to communicate the covid era. Jose Kadlec - author of the wildly popular Covid Proof Virtual Trainer, is our special guest today on will help us run through the technology & set up options for provide the best possible experience for both us, as the communicator / creator and for them, the audience and the recipient. You will learn about Best Webcams Lighting techniques / hacks Shoot with mobile or via laptop Best Mic's Video options for live synchronoous chat, for broadcast, for video notes and the rest. This is it folks - in 1 hour we are going to cover all you need to know to upgrade your video set up. Episode 80 is supported by our buddies at VideoMyJob. VideoMyJob is an award-winning video platform used by teams to create authentic video content that attracts talent and engages employees. Up your recruitment marketing game today - here

How transferrable are your recruiter skills? There is no question that flexibility in career path is smart thinking for anyone in any line of work right now, and us recruiters are no exception. Today's show we will be exploring the career paths which recruiters can explore. Helping us do it? Will be a line up of recruiters who have made the move to - Software vendor - Online investigator / Online researcher - HR - Marketing - Programming - Entrepreneurship This is going to be a lesson for us on a) what really are your transferrable skills and b) what steps you need to take to maintain career agility. Episode 79 is sponsored by our buddies at Codility - the evidence-based platform that helps hiring teams predict the real-life skills of their developer candidates, remotely and at scale. Request a demo to see why Slack, Microsoft, and Tesla choose Codility.

Heading into the final quarter, I think we can all agree that 2020 has been an incredible year The global pandemic has acted like universal accelerant to the underlying trends like remote working, alternative workforce, income inequality, social inequality, political unrest and the rest. Our industry, in recruiting & HR, as seen at the forefront of these changes; and we now may be given an early glimpse as to what the short term post pandemic future might look like. What are the underlying Recruitment Trends that we are going to see manifest over the next 12 months? We will be examining: Candidate communications Authenticity in employer branding Optionality and the candidate demand for choice Flexibility and employee agency Sourcing over advertising Work trials over assessments Short term before Long term All this and more, in Brainfood Live On Air. Leading industry analysts Sarah Brennan and Kevin Wheeler will be joining us to help us talk through the topic Ep78 is supported by our buddies at Workable. Hire better, hire faster, with Workable. Free 15 day trial here

5 years ago, hiring for 'culture fit' was the thing all the cool companies were doing. But hiring for 'fit' of any kind fell into the criticism of reinforcing in-group bias, creating homogeneity and further disadvantaging already disadvantaged groups. Where is the conversation now? Is culture fit truly in the dustbin of recruiting history, or can the concept of hiring for people who are inherently compatible with business operations something we recruiters still need to do? Lets talk - what do we mean by 'cultural fit' - can the concept be recovered? - what framework to use to capture multi-culturalism within a company culture? - can we capture dynamism and change when assessing culture? Ep77 is sponsored by our buddies at Platypus. Platypus are a game changing cultural & team analysis platform. If you want to understand how you company really operates, book a demo with the team here

Unconscious bias is now at least a topic that we are conscious of! But what to do about it is another matter. As recruiters in the business of hiring the best people we can for the businesses we work for, reducing the degree of unconscious bias at every stage of the recruiting process is a critical measure of how well we are doing our jobs. But how? What are the techniques to reduce bias that we are normally not even aware of? Good job we have Unconscious bias trainer, recruitment leader, and podcast legend, Lorne Epstein will be joining us as special guest to help us talk through it. Christine Ng from the Financial Times dropping in also Must listen for anyone involved in candidate assessment Episode 76 is sponsored by our buddies at Bryq. Bryq blindly screens candidates by matching skills and personality to job and company requirements, eliminating bias and boosting Diversity & Inclusion. Sign up for the 14 day free trial here.

How do you make the business case for more budget during times of Covid-19? Moving the against the market is often the toughest, yet smartest thing that companies can do; leaders are made through being able to see the opportunity amid the emergency. The question is: what are the tactics & techniques to get there? In this episode of Brainfood Live On Air, you will learn how to speak the language of the CEO / CFO, not the language of HR / TA how to align your department with the calendar of the CEO how to overcome common objections how to communicate your spending, at the same time when you have to be cutting elsewhere the importance of external profile for internal success Lisa Scales steps up as co-host and Jerome Ternynck joins are specialist guest to help us think through the challenges Ep75 is sponsored by our buddies at SmartRecruiters. Download SmartRecruiters free white paper on How to get budget for business transformation here

As companies experiment with the complexity of hybrid remote working styles, the pressure to simplify by adopting remote or onsite only approach will continue to build. What can we learn from companies which have never had a central location? Distributed companies are nothing new but their early experimentation in this new way of working can give insight to all those thinking or struggling to make the transition. Learn about Different flavours of remote Importance of asynchronous communication Loss of management control (good thing) Importance of digitising communication Hiring for remote only business Cool tools to use What to look for when hiring for 'remote ready' employee Accessibility & D&I - are we removing on hurdle only to erect another? With Mark Deubel from Elastic and Anastasia Pshegodskaya from Gitlab Episode 74 is supported by our buddies at VideoMyJob. VideoMyJob is an award-winning video platform used by teams to create authentic video content that attracts talent and engages employees. Up your recruitment marketing game today - here

Perhaps one subconscious human bias we can all have experience of is....'the beauty bias'. Good looking people - regardless of gender identity - on balance get better treatment than people not so well blessed with good looks. From career progression, performance assessment, even moral character, the good looking ones amongst us have it good. Or do they? What is the beauty bias - and is it myth? What is the impact of remote working? What is the impact of undiagnosed bias? How can you mitigate bias if you like video interviewing? Are men and women subject to the same bias? Can the beauty bias backfire? It's a controversial topic folks, but one we are not afraid to grasp. We're joined by Erin Mathew (Maxar Technologies) and Petar Vujosevic (GapJumpers) & Charlotte Johns (Wellcome Trust) Episode 72 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at PASS. PASS make background checking, simple centralising background screening in one location for a faster, fully compliant and more cost-effective process. Grab 30 day free trial at PASS here

What is the job search and candidate experience like for Heads of TA at the moment? The moment is of course dominated by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the necessary public health response and the cratering of the global economy as a consequence. Job search has never been easy, but perhaps now more than ever the challenge is acute. We are speaking to Heads of TA who are themselves on the job search to canvass their opinions on candidate experience employer branding candidate assessment hiring manager attitude competition for roles mental health / mental well being side projects alt career paths If you're in recruitment and find yourself in job seeking mode, this episode of Brainfood Live is a must attend. Episode 72 of Brainfood Live On Air is sponsored by our buddies SmartRecruiters. SmartRecruiters is the Hiring Success company - their best-in-class Talent Acquisition Suite powers the success of recruiting teams in Ubisoft, Allegis, LinkedIn and many more. Get a demo here

There has never been a more important time to be strategically valuable to your customers. If you are a recruiter or a recruitment business owner and you're thinking about how you can secure your share of what looks to be a shrinking market for recruitment, it is vital that you move away from the 'supplier' mindset and into one of 'strategic partner'. - What are the steps required to making this transition? - What do clients want / need from a recruitment supplier, other than candidates - 360 or 180 degree cycle recruiting focus - What services now vs what services then? All this and more, as we discuss recruitment agencies and how they need to move upstream. Special Guest providing special knowledge is Recruitment & Employment Confederation CEO, Neil Carberry, Episode 71 is supported by our buddies at CVCheck CVCheck is a leading provider of background screening services, conducting more than 300,000 checks every year for businesses, government organisations and individuals in Australia, New Zealand and worldwide. To validate your candidates credentials more efficiently –request a demofrom CVCheck today.

The best recruiters are those who are most efficient with their time. Modern tech has given us the opportunity to automate a lot of time intensive, repetitive work freeing us to move up the value chain to business. Our focus in this week's Brainfood Live On Air will be examining the opportunities to automate at different stages of the hiring funnel, including actual examples of automation by experts in the field of recruiting efficiency. Joined by the smartest recruiters currently operating at the coalface, these weeks special guests are Sofia Broberger, Marcel van der Meer and Adam Chambers. Friday 31st July, 3.30pm BST - follow the channel (here) recommended and click on the green button on the top right to save your seat for this event (limited to 250) Ep70 is sponsored by our buddies at Workable. More than an Applicant Tracking System, Workable’s Recruiting Software improves the way teams find, evaluate and hire candidates. Thinking of switching ATS? Grab the free 15 day trial here

Diversifying our workforce starts with diversify our talent pools. What are the techniques which deliver actual results? In this week's Brainfood Live On Air, we are going to be discussing practical ideas to get better diversity outcomes from job ads, sourcing, assessment, process engineering and the rest. We'll be joined by Recruitment Marketing expert Jelmer Kopplemans, Copy Writing Extraordinaire Katrina Kibbben and lead recruiter & diversity recruiter, Christine Ng from the Financial Times. Not one to miss folks! Ep69 is sponsored by our buddies at Workable. More than an Applicant Tracking System, Workable’s Recruiting Software improves the way teams find, evaluate and hire candidates. Thinking of switching ATS? Grab the free 15 day trial here

What are the best questions to really get to know someone? I asked this question (very meta) on LinkedIn last month and it spawned. a whole avalanche of amazing responses, many of which I hope to share with you all in this show. As recruiters & HR people, we are often asking people questions - at interview, at briefing meetings, at disciplinaries, at performance reviews. Do we know what are the best questions to ask, in order to get the real and not canned responses? This is the topic of this episode of Brainfood Live On Air. Joined by Behavioural Scientist turned Recruiter Charlotte Mutsaerts, we'll be learning about what and how to ask the best questions. Episode 68 is supported by our buddies at CVCheck CVCheck is a leading provider of background screening services, conducting more than 300,000 checks every year for businesses, government organisations and individuals in Australia, New Zealand and worldwide. To validate your candidates credentials more efficiently –request a demo from CVCheck today.

Andy Foote - author of the amazing LinkedInsights blog - and a leading authority on how to get better on LinkedIn is going to come on screen and deliver a custom presentation and Q&A on how to up your LinkedIn Game. Expect: Latest product / feature updates from Q2 Audience / Follower growth tips Boosting post view count LinkedIn Company page optimisation Community management Newsfeed Algorithm And make sure to follow the channel (recommended) Episode 67 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at Indorse. Want to host your own online Hackathon for Hiring? Click here and request a demo today

Politics in the Workplace is a tough topic which most folks try to avoid; isn't there actually a saying to that effect? And yet, as social tensions rise throughout the world, it is increasingly obvious that we cannot compartmentalise our professional from our political selves. Which brings a set of challenges for HR / TA which we may be ill equipped or trained to handle. In this episode, we are going to grasp the nettle. What should the people function do when the political beliefs of one employee contravene the political beliefs of another? Episode 66 is supported by our buddies at CVCheck CVCheck is a leading provider of background screening services, conducting more than 300,000 checks every year for businesses, government organisations and individuals in Australia, New Zealand and worldwide. To validate your candidates credentials more efficiently – request a demo from CVCheck today.