The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

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

Job Descriptions: is there a more reviled document in the our business? Hard to think of a document which is held is less esteem than any other by nearly every stakeholder involved - the Hiring manager, the recruiter and not least - the candidate. Why are they are so bad? Why do we still need them? And more importantly, how could be do better with them? This is the topic of Ep45 of Brainfood Live On Air - how to write Authentic Job descriptions that Candidates Want to Read with ace writer and consultant, Katrina Kibben. You will learn how to find your 'voice' how to write as you speak how to structure a JD that flows how to tell the salient points how to write tight and compelling copy Episode 45 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

How do you assess software engineers? One of the toughest challenges in tech recruiting is how usually non-tech people (tech recruiters) can effectively assess software engineers. All the signals are bad... Resume / CV ....self reported document, easy to game Brand name previous employers.....'must be good because she worked at Google' Phone screen....irrelevant testing, using a medium that engineers don't often use Face to face interview....rote pitching of questions, looking for bingo buzzword answers. Tech-to-tech interviews.....many critiques of the whiteboard Coding challenge....how can recruiters interpret the results? It's a conundrum which is annoying to recruiters and candidates alike. So what is the best practice for recruiters who want to credibly assess an engineers suitability for a role they are hiring for? This is the topic of Ep44 of Brainfood Live On Air; I'll be joined by tech sourcing legend Amy Miller formerly of Google and now at Amazon Lab126 , who is going to help me unpack the challenge and together work through some options we might consider. Episode 44 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at Codility. Improve your tech hiring efforts with online technical skills assessments to identify the strongest developer hires. Check out more information here.

Can't find Software Developers? Or is it that the ones you DO find don't want to talk with you? In a world that is way too noisy, no one gets hit harder with messaging spam that the highly skilled, in-demand. In our world, that's usually someone in tech - a developer, a designer, a data scientist. And yet, someone has to initiate the conversation. Listen in to a super conversation with Erin Mathew, ace tech sourcer at Space Tech company, Maxar Technologies, who will share her know-how on : - how to make first contact - what channel is best to use - message composition - when to 'ask for the order' - why not to ask for referrals - how to handle the seemingly inevitable 'no' We'll also be joined by ex-techie. now tech recruiter Mark Deubel (Elastic) and UK Country Lead of Stack Overflow, Anton Boner, who will be bringing in some benchmark data on response rates Episode 43 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

Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters, joins us for a 1 to 1 interview special. One of the preeminent figures in recruitment and recruitment technology over the past 20 years, Jerome will share his thoughts on entrepreneurship, building recruitment technology businesses whilst launching events and social initiatives. You will learn about Impact of recruitment technology over the past 20 years Move from SMB to Enterprise Difference between companies who make tech work & those who don't The future of ATS / CRM Data privacy and implications for recruiter behaviour Product roadmap for SmartRecruiters ATS Hiring Success - what to look forward to Recruiters / HR social responsibility for the greater good. Rare opportunity to learn from one of the key influencers in the recruitment industry Episode 42 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at SmartRecruiters. SmartRecruiters signature event - Hiring Success20 - is on 11-12th February at the Marriot Marquis. This is a unique conference marrying the twin themes of recruiting operational excellence with the social responsibility recruiters & HR have for wider society. Register for your tickets here

Recruiters: how do you plan to gain competitive advantage in 2020's? In fast moving industry, we need to be on top of our game for the year ahead. But time is the constant resource and we have to prioritise. What skills recruiters need to develop, and which ones we might need to let go in 2020? Brainfood Live is back with Season 2, Ep41 to discuss this crucial topic for the years ahead. Adam Gordon will be back and we'll be joined by Kevin Blair, Global VP of TA at IBM. We'll be covering: Sourcing Engagement Employer branding Analytics Tools usage Audience Episode 41 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 a free 1 month trial with PASS here

Have you used Facebook Ads for Recruiting? I know I haven't but I probably should, as Facebook remains by far the largest, engaged and most important social network on the planet. A report from Hootsuite, shared on Recruiting Brainfood last week, showed us that there are THIRTEEN paid social options on Facebook. We're going to use this week's Brainfood Live ON Air to talk about each one - what are they, when to use them and how to get the best results from them. With Fanny Comba, Jelmer Zuidema, Jelmer Koeppalmans and Andrew Bryce

There was never any chance that we could get to the end of 2019 and not do at least one show covering Brexit. Whether you voted Leave or Remain or whether you are now Leave or Remain (or something else), all of us might find common ground in accepting that it's likely to be a profound change in the UK economic, regulatory, cultural and political environments. It's time to forecast the scenarios and get some expert advice on how to prepare for the various futures that will become clear in only a few more weeks. Adam and I are joined this week by regulatory expert and academic Sarah Lieberman in a 1 hour special. Don't miss this - follow the channel here (recommended) Register for the show here

Do you worry about the impact of AI & Automation? The answer should be 'damn right' because these foundational technological trends are sure to have pervasive impact on all the work we do. The question is - which sectors most affected? - which populations most exposed? - how / when will impact be felt? - and what can we recruiters do to ensure OUR roles are not dis-intermediated by more efficient software and less bias robots. This topic is way too big for Adam Gordon and I to handle by ourselves, so we've enrolled some experts in the field to help us think through the problem. - Rob McCargow, Director of AI at PwC - Yvette Cameron, Principal Analyst at NextGen Insights

This week sees the final end of Tru - one of the seminal event series in the recruiting industry. We're going to take a look at what Tru has meant over the past 10 years, pay tribute to the man in the hat Bill Boorman, as well discuss the value of recruiter communities. Adam Gordon and I will be joined by three great community leaders - Jamie Leonard, Founder of The Recruitment Events Co & RL100 - Piret Luts, Head of TA at Nortal and Founder of Recruitment Thursday - Shannon Pritchett, MD at CareerXRoads Follow the channel here (recommended) Register for the show here

How to make your employer brand stick? Turns out - you don't Real Employer Branding is about discovering what is true about the work in your business and exposing that truth the outside world, warts and all. Fascinating conversation with James Ellis and Elena Valentine which segued into ethnography, anthropology, design thinking, film and media, authenticity vs diversity, Fox News and the rest. Must watch / listen for anyone interested in the state of recruitment in 2019

Brainfood Live On Air from Kiev, #truKiev. Fascinating chat with Ukrainian recruitment hero's Denis Dinkevich and Andrei Stetsenko on the conditions on recruiting in Ukraine. We're talking Skype as a CRM, Telegram as a Slack competitor, impact of IT outsourcing on IT recruiter practice and the fragmented nature of IM.

"Magnificent Melbourne" - the cultural capital of Australia - and some might say, the real capital of the country (sorry Sydneysiders - take it up with your cousins in Victoria ;-)) I'm with Vervoe CEO Omer Molad, TAPOD's Lauren Sharp, Deloitte Head of APAC Consulting Adam Walker and the one and only Ross Clennett, as we talk Brainfood, D&I, hiring in Melbourne and hiring in Australia. It's a brilliant conversation with some brilliant Aussies

Live from Sydney: we're talking agency recruiters, Brits abroad, call aversion culture, the importance of relationships and the unique rectech eco-system in Australia w/ - Laura Johnson (PASS Technologies) - Rich Lewis-Jones (SmartRecruiters) - Mark Mansour (Servian) - Michael Delaney (Barhead Solutions)

Perth: one of the most remote big city metropolises anywhere: how does recruiting work over here? Is it all mining & water management? Brainfood Live is Live from Perth this Friday, where I'll be joined by 3 local experts who are going show tell us what the challenges are in hiring for roles based in Western Australia. - Stan Rolfe - Jon Bowker & Nicole La Gallia - Dani Tamati Fascinating conversation about fifo, aboriginal employment, contingent workforce, workforce automation and the continued role of the skilled recruiter

We're live from Hong Kong with the great team at Daxtra - CV parsing tech, and perhaps one of the first 'workforce automation' technologies to change the recruitment industry. Featuring cameo's from my cousin Stephen Li, dialling from the UK, we were also joined by Behavioural Scientist Dr Richard Claydon for a discussion on collaboration vs connection work It was great discussion in the chaos that is Hong Kong

On the eve of the Independence Day for Republic of Armenia, my buddies at Meetall and I held a meetup at PicsArts HQ for 100+ recruiters from the local scene at Yerevan. With Ach Petrosyan, Tech Recruiter at Meetall, Tigran Sloyan CEO at CodeSignal and Meruzhan Danielyan CEO at Teamable.

The Future of Employer Branding is the topic of this week's Brainfood Live. And we have invoked the help of an incredible trio guests to help us talk through challenges of Future EB. Learn from recruitment luminaries like: Bryan Chaney, Director of Global Employer Brand at Indeed James Ellis, Director of Employer Brand at Universum Bill Boorman, Recruiting legend, truConference founder and Stand up Comedian We're on at Friday 13th, 4pm BST Join the debate and follow the channel here (recommended) And register to watch the livestream here

It's pretty clear that LinkedIn can also be an amazing channel for getting your content seen by the audience you care about. I know it's been an important channel in growing the Recruiting Brainfood community, up to the 16,300+ opt in subscribers to date Some people are really great at this 'mini blogging' format and I'm delighted to make it the topic of this week's Brainfood Live On Air We'll be covering Status Updates vs LinkedIn Articles Posting frequency - how much is too much? What to do do with 1400 characters Content generation engine Links + Images + Videos in post Hierarchy of engagement events (Comments vs Share vs Like) Newsfeed algorithm and how it works We'll be joined by Mitch Sullivan (51st best blogger on LinkedIn) Kasia Tang, trainer / community builder / LinkedIn poster hero. If you ever wondered about how to get more views on your content on LinkedIn, this is the show to tune into. Friday 4pm BST, 30th August. Follow the channel here (recommended) Register for the show here

We're talking How to Hire for the Blue Collar with Tim Sackett and Ben GledHill Questions we are going to try and answer: Difference between hiring white vs blue collar workers Impact of location of hiring Recruitment best practice No CV / No resume - no problem? Communication channels for hiring Where is the tech in hiring for the hour? It's a brilliant show with some intriguing insights, from referral programmes, automated scheduling and SMS techniques. Follow the channel here (recommended) And watch the show here

Are you running a recruiting podcast? If you're not, you're probably thinking about doing so. In the era of multi-screen, endless notifications and permanent distraction, audio only is turning out to be an exceptional way to connect with your audience We are doing a special Brainfood Live On this Friday with the stars of the recruiting podcast firmanent Adam is away (thank goodness), so I will be joined by folks who will need no introduction: - Matt Alder of the Recruiting Future Podcast - Lars Schmidt of 21st Century HR - Laurie Ruettimann of Let's Fix Work - Chad Sowash & Joel Cheesman of The Chad n Cheese Show. There's never been a better line up of recruiting podcast masters. Don't miss this - follow the channel here (recommended) and register for the show here

How do you use video in recruiting? As an industry culture first dominated by phone and then email, we recruiters can be awfully slow in adopting new ways to interact with candidates and clients. Here's some usse Cases of Video Tech - Enriched job descriptions - Enhanced outreach messaging - Authentic employer branding - Video messages rather than Audio only voicemail - Asynch video interview - And more Adam and I will be examining Video in Tech this week, along with reviewing last week's brainfood and the chat in the fb group. We'll be joined by experts in video Maury Hanigan, Nicolas Mirail and Mark Lundgren. Follow the channel here (recommended)

In honour of this amazing post by Robin Schooling, we are running a special debate show on Brainfood Live this Friday 2nd August. I'm embedded in the HR conference scene and generally am massive supporter of the idea of in-person industry events. But is there a gap between the rhetoric and reality when it comes to the ideas presented on stage at conferences? Questions we are going to explore: - What explains the gap between saying vs doing? - How much is true vs how much is exaggerated? - What stops delegates from applying their learning? - Is survivor bias a problem in HR talks? - Biggest mistakes, lets confess Adam and I will be tackling these issues, along with reviewing last week's brainfood and the chat in the fb group.