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 ...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 98
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? ...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 97
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 fr...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 96
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...
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 95
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? A...
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 94
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 b...
Mar 26, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 93
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? - Wh...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 92
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...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 91
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 ...
Mar 16, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 90
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 ...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 89
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 of...
Mar 05, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 88
'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 thi...
Mar 04, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 87
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, c...
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 86
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 de...
Feb 23, 2021•58 min•Ep. 85
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 Diversi...
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 84
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...
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 83
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 buddi...
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 82
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 cou...
Jan 30, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 81
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...
Jan 29, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 80
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...
Jan 15, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 79
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 ...
Jan 08, 2021•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 78
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 ...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 77
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: Effecti...
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 76
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 m...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 75
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. - Lis...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 74
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...
Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 73
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...
Nov 13, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 72
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? -...
Nov 06, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 71
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 iteration...
Oct 30, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 70
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 - Div...
Oct 23, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 69
