The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

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.

SThree are the 1.258 billion GBP revenue staffing business - and one of the most well known businesses in the space. If you're in recruiting, you're going to know SThree! Who better than CEO Mark Dorman to take us through the evolution of the business and what is coming next for staffing agencies in the post Covid-19 era? Here about Balance between Contract / Permanent businesses Future of RPO / BPO How distributed working impacts the organisation of recruitment companies Future of the solo trader And more Tune in to hear from one of the captains of the industry. Episode 65 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

One of the second order effects of a default to 'remote first' culture is a massively expanded pool of available candidates. After all, once you take off the location requirements, the world becomes your market. Combined with worldwide economic retrenchment, we will shockingly have a labour market entirely the reverse of what was the case 3 months ago - candidate & applicant rich. What to do when you have too many candidates? What assessment tools do we need to use to control applicant flow? What happens to candidate experience when there are so many candidates? What types of assessment should employers lean on? Should recruiters shift from acquisition experts to assessment experts? We're with Bas van de Haterd, Ben Gledhill & (hopefully!) Modiara Kamps Episode 64 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at Indorse. Want to host an online Hackathon? Click here and request a demo today

Is the 'new normal' here yet? We are certainly beginning to see glimpses of it. Whilst some employers have frozen hiring in anticipation of a return to normalcy which may never happen, others have forged ahead with new processes fit for the remote first / remote only world. Questions we will seek to answer: How do you hire and onboard new candidates, having never met them in person? What happens to candidate experience when everything is fully remote? How do we do employer branding? What communications channels work best in a distributed context? How to design a remote on boarding process which works? We'll be joined by Charu Malhotra, Employer Branding Leader, Oana Iordachescu, Senior Talent Acquisition Lead at Zalando, and Adam Episode 63 is supported by our buddies at VideoMyJob. VideoMyJob is an award-winning recruitment video production app used by top companies to create their own branded videos in-house. Up for your employer branding game today - request a demo here

Know who Glen Cathey is? If you're a sourcer, you really should, because Glen played a pivotal role in defining the discipline as being different from the traditional recruiter, and in doing so opened the way for much greater diversity of people and skillsets to enter the recruitment industry. Glen is making is debut on Brainfood Live in this episode, and you can expect that we'll be discussing Future of Sourcing in a candidate rich world Sourcing vs Recruiting - time to bend back toward each other? Sourcers born or made? Avenues of learning & personal development as a sourcer Sourcing for the hidden Sourcing for the intangible Episode 62 is supported by our buddies at Seen By Indeed.

Every business wants to improve their ability to directly source premium candidates. This need has become even more acute during Covid-19, as talent attraction techniques inevitably leads to a flood of often unsuitable candidates. Being able to target, identify and engage the highly skilled, in-demand is itself a highly skilled, in-demand skill! I'll be speaking with Sourcer & Sourcing Training extraordinaires David Galley and Katharine Robinson on how best to upskill your existing recruiters to become expert sourcers themselves. - How to train sourcing skills? - What are the best techniques to use? - What sources are best to learn from? - Which are the strongest communities to belong to? All this and more, in another unmissable episode of Brainfood Live On Air. Follow the channel here (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show Episode 61 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at Stack Overflow Talent. Talk to developers where they already want to be - on the tech world's most popular Q&A site. Contact a member of the team for more information here

With a change to scheduled programming, we are going to be talking why BAD VIDEO IS BAD BUSINESS on Brainfood Live On Air Ep60! Lets face it folks - not only are we doing too many video calls, too many of these are a terrible experience, mainly due to correctable mistakes that we routinely make which makes the experience harder than it should be for the viewers & participants. I AM NO DIFFERENT! Even though I had done 60 of these webinars, it still took me some time to understand basic sh1t like 'place your camera higher' so people can see more than just your head. I'm gathering together a load of video con experts to tell us how it is done. This is an act of altruism - lets elevate our collective video game. Episode 60 is supported by our buddies at VideoMyJob. VideoMyJob is an award-winning recruitment video production app used by top companies to create their own branded videos in-house. Up for your employer branding game today - request a demo here

The growth of recruiter communities has been one of the great developments in the industry, particularly over the past decade. Now in the Covid world, community has never been more important for people in the people business. DBR, RL100, HROS, Growth Hacking Recruiters, Trumunity - which are the best communities to belong to, and what makes them good? Fanny Comba and I will get the admins and managers of these groups on screen and see what insights they can share on what makes their community great. We'll be joined by two of the pioneers of the recruiter community space, James Osborne (TRN) and Emma Mirrington (the FIRM). Not one to miss folks - follow the channel here (recommended), and click the green button above to save your spot. Episode 58 is supported by our buddies at Seen By Indeed.

Job and income insecurity has become real for us in the recruitment industry. It's now everyone's problem as hiring freezes continue, investment plans cut back and growth plans go into reverse. What should recruiters be doing right now? This is the topic of Brainfood Live On Air this Friday - we're doing a special webinar focusing for the first time ON US. - Key Resources for Recruiters during Covid-19 - Communities to connect with - Network building strategies - LinkedIn polish up - Do you have a website / get yourself a website - Content creation - time to tell your story & why?

The end of 'hyper growth' has given TA teams an unprecedented opportunity to do something which they never previously had the time to do - to review, remove & renew inherited process. The world renowned recruiting expert, John Vlastelica, will be giving us 1 hour of his time to impart insights on what world class Talent Acquisition teams are doing in times of hiring standstill. This show is going to be about - process - mindset - culture - tools - skills Can't miss, with one of the best in the business. Follow the channel here (recommended), and click on the green button to save your seat. Episode 57 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

In a change to scheduled programming, we've got an awesome surprise for you: its Andy Foote, founder of LinkedIn Insights coaching business, with his annual update on all the important changes to LinkedIn in 2020. You can't miss this folks - full presentation on screen share with the legend himself. Episode 56 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at Stack Overflow Talent. Talk to developers where they already want to be - on the tech world's most popular Q&A site. Contact a member of the team for more information here

It is become clear that Covid-19 will be a world changing event. Economies, political systems, values, social behaviours, workplace culture - all are poised to be radically altered by a pandemic which has devastated the planet. With new realities of the post-Covid world beginning to emerge, what opportunities do we have to creating better systems than the ones that went before. If the world is going to reset, lets make sure we can reset to a better way of doing things. Industry legends Torin Ellis & Julie Ann Sowash will be joining the show with cohost Luke Davis to talk us through what it might look like if we could reset on D&I. - What do we keep / what we do throw away? - What are the challenges of wiping the slate clean? - What are the intractable issues in D&I that might be swept away if we started again? Episode 55 of Brainfood Live On Air is jointly supported by our friends at BAME Recruitment & Diversifying.io If you are looking to diversify your talent pool, get in touch with either or both of these two businesses for a free consultation. BAME Recruitment here, Diversify.io here

Covid-19 has enforced the radical virtualisation of the recruitment process. Events which previously were in-person have now shifted online and there is a scramble for tools and techniques on how to do it. This episode we are going to explore one of these techniques - the Online Hiring Hackathon, I'll be joined by recruiting pioneer Eva Zils, whose HR Hackathon in 2016 was one of the first true hackathons in our industry.

Mental health has never been a more important topic, especially in the light of the shocking phase shift we have all experienced during this enduring pandemic. We all need to learn to recognise the symptoms of stress behaviour - in our colleagues, as well as a amongst ourselves.. Importantly, as we adjust to our new realities, we need to quickly learn strategies for dealing with mental health challenges that we are likely to need in today and tomorrow. I'll be joined by creator of Value Through Vulnerability podcast host Garry Turner, Leadership Coach Helen Amery & Integrative Psychotherapist Zuzana Tarcalova Episode 53 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at Applied. If you are serious about de-biasing your recruiting, you need to take a look at Applied's unique diversity & inclusion recruiting tools. Contact a member of the team for more information here

The most popular content categories in Recruiting Brainfood every week are 'SOURCING' and 'COOL TOOLS'. That tells me one thing: recruiters are always looking for a edge to get to the best candidates more effectively. Who better than the Wizard Sourcer himself - Jonathan Kidder Tech Recruiter at Amazon - to help us navigate the world of chrome extensions, free tools, sourcing channels and the rest. Must watch for anyone who is interested in improving their sourcing game We're on at Friday 27th March, 3.,30pm GMT / 09.30 CST Episode 52 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at Stack Overflow Talent. Talk to developers where they already want to be - on the tech world's most popular Q&A site. Contact a member of the team for more information here

How do you build a differentiated employer brand? When your employer already is a famous B2C brand, what steps do you need to take to position your company as an employer of choice, especially if you need to attract the highly skilled, in-demand tech talent to a non-tech brand? This is the topic of Brainfood Live On Air, Ep51. We will be joined by Chris Wray, Head of Recruitment Strategy at Sainsburys Episode 51 is supported by our buddies at VideoMyJob.VideoMyJob is an award-winning recruitment video production app used by top companies to create their own branded videos in-house. Up for your employer branding game today - request a demo here

Do your company run an Internal Mobility programme? Chances are it does. and equal chances are, that it is NOT running effectively. Even the best employers frequently lose their top talent to competitors, rather than have staff transfer internally to other positions in the business. Why does this happen? And how do we fix it? This is the topic of Ep50 of Brainfood Live On Air. I'll be joined by industry experts Andrew Gadomski and Katrina Hutchinson-O'Neill who will help us uncover the real reasons behind the failure of Internal Mobility and what steps you can take to fix it. Episode 50 is supported by our buddies at EASYRECRUE. - the single platform to manage the talent lifecycle, from job application to career development. Take the first step towards optimising your TA strategy by registering for a demo here

Have you heard of Open Hiring? It's a radical method of recruiting which does away entirely with CV and Interview - and indeed, any other form of assessment - and simply hires people for jobs if they want them. Crazy eh? But some companies have experimented with it and they swear that it works better than any other method. And if they are right, what does that mean for our industry? Has it all been a lie? What if 'randomised' hiring like this could produce a more effective workforce? It would certainly improve diversity, which we all convinced is the key to high performing teams. We're talking about this, and assessment methods, in Ep49 of Brainfood Live. I'll be joined by recruiting legends Robin Schooling and Gerry Crispin who will help us guide through the conversation. Also with bonus segment on COVID-19 and impact on recruiting with Lars Schmidt Episode 49 is supported by our buddies at PASS. If you plan on doing some radical hiring, you probably still want to do a decent background check.PASS is the one stop shop for all the checks you need to do. Claim your free 30 day trial here

Brainfood Live is back with a focus on Sourcing Mentality - with one of the world's best to help guide us through it - Aaron Lintz, Recruitment Leader at Thoughtworks, with additional guests Guillaume Alexandre and Katherine Robinson - What is the state of sourcing today? - How important is sourcing amongst all the other responsibilities a recruiter has to perform? - Have we hit 'peak sourcing' - How do we source for intangibles? - How do we source for soft skills? - How do we source for diversity? - And most importantly, how to develop a sourcers mentality? Awesome conversation with 3 of the best sourcers on the planet - make sure to give this a listen Episode 48 is supported by our buddies at Seen By Indeed. Hiring for tech talent? Talk to thousands of qualified candidates today - contact Seen By Indeed here

As the conversation in D&I matures from diversity to inclusion, this show is a timely primer for the elements recruiters need to bake into their recruiting approach in order to support the building of truly inclusive workplace culture. I'm joined by D&I expert Joanne Lockwood, to explore the recruiter challenges of creating a truly inclusive workplace culture. You will learn about: 1. 3 x Layers of Diversity Framework 2. Inclusion is an active term 3. Privilege - can we use the term inclusively? 4. Intersectionality 5. Role of the Incumbent for change 6. Relationship between Identity & Idea 7. How to truly include everyone in the debate Must listen for anyone interested in D&I - give it a listen Episode 47 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at Applied. If you are serious about de-biasing your recruiting, you need to take a look at Applied's unique diversity & inclusion recruiting tools. Contact a member of the team for more information here

Do you want to know how well your job ads are doing? Appcast - recently acquired for $70 million by StepStone, are one of the few businesses who might be able to give us the numbers. They are publishing their annual report on job application metrics and Brainfood Live has none other than CEO Christian Forman as special guest to talk us through the show. Must attend webinar for anyone spending budget on job ads and employer branding. - What is the behaviour of the modern job applicant? - How does applicant behaviour differ across industry segments? - What is the regional variability of job applicant metrics? - How do you know you job ad is going well? - What is the future of programmatic job advertising? - Any opinion on what Facebook / Google are going to do? Episode 46 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies atUncubed- tech recruiters, community for tech recruiters and genuinely awesome newsletter - get it all from Uncubed here