RECRUITING IN INDIA IN 2021 / 2022 Brainfood virtual roadshow is taking a long overdue visit one of the most important recruitment markets on the planet - India. Home to over 1 billion people, India's working population size, distinct regional diversity, leading edge technology companies and world famous off shoring / services companies combine to make this market one of the most dynamic to review. I also suspect, for folks on the outside, it is profoundly misunderstood. Questions to debate: - H...
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 128
As Recruiters and HR professionals we care more than most about company culture. Hiring new people into the organisation is probably the quickest way to change company culture. So how do we make sure that change happens for the better, and not for the worse? - How do we talk about company culture? - Do we share an understanding on what it is? - How do we capture the dynamism of organisational culture? - How do we use our understanding of company culture in assessing candidates? - What is the lin...
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 127
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today. Next up Euan Cameron and Andrew Wood, Co-founders of Willo, the one-way video interviews that is the fastest way to discover and develop talent for your growing business - What is the difference between being C-level vs Senior Exec? - Why recruitment, why recruitment tech? - Were you always going to be doing startup? - What skills are top CEO ski...
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 126
Unconscious (or perhaps more accurately, subconscious) Bias is a familiar yet widely misunderstood phenomena. In recruitment, it's critical we improve our understanding if we are to mitigate against the worst affects often inadvertent bias. - what is unconscious bias? - how do we acquire bias? - how do our bias's change? - where does is it occur the recruiting process? - how can we mitigate against the worst effects of UB? - what is the value of training? - can we do more on process design? - ca...
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 125
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today. Next up is Caroline Gleeson, CEO of up and coming ATS provider Occupop. - What is the difference between being C-level vs Senior Exec? - How did a career in recruitment prepare you for being a founder of a recruitment tech business? - Were you always going to be doing startup? - What skills are top CEO skills? What areas of being a CEO do you fee...
Oct 06, 2021•45 min•Ep. 124
Diversify The Talent Pipeline: More Data or Less Data? Diversifying the workforce has become a pre-eminent concern for TA and HR. Almost all of us accept the value of the outcome, but we often struggle to choose which strategy is best suited to deliver this outcome. Additionally, what approach is taken is often regionally divergent, based on historical context and compliance with local jurisdictions. We're going to explore two of these approaches - explicitly sourcing for candidates who represen...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 123
AGEISM IN RECRUITMENT - TO DO's FOR CANDIDATES & EMPLOYERS Two things are unfortunately true: age-ism in hiring is real and it's a problem that ALL of us will have to face sooner or later. What can we as recruiters do about this? What can we as candidates do to improve our chances? This is the focus of this week's Brainfood Live On Air - evidence of ageism in hiring - intersection with gender / ethnicity / social class - more / less prevalent in different industries? - where in the recruitin...
Sep 24, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 122
We have all missed the live events, especially in-person. For the past 18 months, we've had to cope with the digital only conference, which in the end turned out to be a long string endless zoom calls....not the experience that we were looking for! We need a return to in-person events, but undoubtedly this has changed for us and everyone else going forward. This is the focus of this week's Brainfood Live On Air - one day, two day, half days across days? - online vs in-person, or truly hybrid? - ...
Sep 10, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 121
HOW TO HAVE BETTER INTAKE MEETINGS WITH HIRING MANAGERS One of the most important parts of the hiring process is the intake meeting with the hiring manager. Get this wrong, and you will end up doing a lot of work for absolutely zero gain; worse you may additionally damage the relationships you need to have in order to succeed. This is the focus of this week's Brainfood Live On Air - When do you have an intake meeting? - How do you structure it? - What information do you need to capture? - How do...
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 120
BUILDING CULTURE FOR HYBRID TEAMS One of main concerns with operating a 'hybrid' mode of work is 'cultural cohesion' - how to ensure that team members are fully included in the company culture, irrespectively of their working style. Critics will say that this is an impossible task and better to accept cultural separation; advocates are determined to make it work and have ideas on how. We're going to be exploring both perspectives in this episode of Brainfood Live On Air What the most important c...
Aug 27, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 119
GEN Z AND THE NEW WORLD OF WORK Covid-19 has accelerated the digitisation and distribution of work. For Gen Z, it will be a matter of entering the world of work for the first time, at a time, when it is in the middle of radical change. - How does this generation think about work? - What relationship do they expect from employers? - What kind of work qualifies as 'good work'? - Do they care about remote work? Or would Gen Z prefer to start in the office? - How long do they expect to be staying wi...
Aug 20, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 118
THE FIRST 100 DAYS Congratulations on your new job! Now what do you do? We're going to take a different tack in this Brainfood Live as we explore what a recruiter or HR pro should do in their first 100 days on the job. What are the most important things to achieve in 100 days? How to prioritise between competing demands? How soon do you start - you know - recruit? What are the hygiene factors you MUST have if you are going to be successful BEYOND your first 100 days? What was the most important ...
Aug 13, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 117
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today Next up are Jon Stross and Daniel Chait - the co-founders of award winning ATS provider Greenhouse. - What is the difference between being C-level vs Senior Exec? - What happens when you two disagree? - Were you always going to be doing startup, leading a business? - What skills are you guys lacking as C-level execs? How do you fill it? - What do ...
Aug 10, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 116
REMAKING CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE POST PANDEMIC As we emerge from the pandemic era, we are beginning to realise that the world of work might begin to look radically different from what we were used to in the before times. Super hot labour market, elevated candidate expectations, widespread re-evaluation of our relationship with work, changes in preferred methods of communication, reorientation and re-prioritisation of values. How does all this impact the design of Candidate Experience? Has CX increa...
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 115
BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL WITH SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS As any tech recruiters knows, in 2021 finding software developers isn't the hard part, getting them to talk to you is! We can spend a lot of time writing clever emails, being cute with copy and going with hyper personalised approach, but can we find other ways to make a better connection? How do we build 'social capital' with the audience we want to recruit from? If we can gain the respect of software developers, we might find we don't need to be ...
Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 114
HOW TO BE A BETTER TALENT ACQUISITION LEADER We often complain that managers get 'over promoted' and yet how many of us had adequate training before we suddenly became 'Head of Talent'? The reality is that when employers made the push to develop direct recruiting capacity, many operational recruiters who zero management or even team lead responsibility where thrust into departmental head roles without any support. It's still happening today - as the worldwide demand for talent acquisition talent...
Jul 23, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 113
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today Next up are Benjamin Sesser and Teddy Chestnut, Co-founders of Brighthire, the interview analytics company which gives employers the edge in making smarter decisions at job interview. - Who are Benjamin and Teddy? - What are their leadership values? - What is the difference between being C-level vs Senior Exec? - What happens when you two disagree...
Jul 22, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 112
STARTING & SCALING A SUCCESSFUL RECRUITMENT BUSINESS It has never been easier to start a recruitment business - in the networked era, anyone with some industry knowledge, decent number of connections and maybe a few early customers already onboard, can leave their employer, set up and start trading. But starting is not the same as succeeding; and succeeding is not the same as scaling. What can we learn from recruitment entrepreneurs who have taken the plunge and grown their businesses to suc...
Jul 17, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 111
RECRUITMENT IN CHINA IN 2021 Brainfood virtual roadshow is taking a long overdue visit one of the most important, maligned yet misunderstood recruitment markets on the planet - China. Home to over 1.4 billion people, millions of job seekers and hundreds of thousands of employers, there is a great deal of recruiting going on in the Middle Kingdom that I’m guessing few of us have the even the faintest idea about. Despite growing fragmentation, de-globalisation and geopolitical tension, anyone with...
Jul 09, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 110
HEADCOUNT PLANNING FOR HYPERGROWTH When you are working TA in a rapidly scaling business, business as usual won’t suffice because nothing at all is usual about the circumstances you’re in. As the recruiter / Head of TA (guess what, at early stage chances are, you are both!) the founding team is going to look at you to make it happen for the business. - What roles to hire first at Seed, Serie A, Serie B? - How to prioritise, based on need for business or difficulty in hiring? - How to ensure dive...
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 109
THE ETHICS OF AI IN HIRING OK I think we ‘get it’ - Artificial Intelligence or ‘AI’ is no silver bullet for the removal of bias in recruiting. In fact, we’ve seen no shortage of reports over the past few years that illustrate that perhaps AI powered solutions might inadvertently make the situation worse. And yet we are faced with the unavoidable reality that a hiring process involved only human beings is already bias and in desperate need of improvement. How can we use AI to help us recruit in a...
Jun 25, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 108
HOW TO HIRE MORE WOMEN ENGINEERS? If you’re in tech recruiting, diversifying the composition of your engineering team must be one of your top priorities - and most persistent challenges. We’re gathering together an elite panel of guests - tech recruiters, tech vendors and CTO’s to try and figure out what the best options are for recruiters who want to hire more women into tech roles. - Is it just better sourcing? - do we need to differentiate outreach? - how significant is hiring manager buy in?...
Jun 18, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 107
PROBLEMS WITH HYBRID? As we begin to think about the bounce back from the pandemic, the growing consensus is that the ‘hybrid’ model of working - flexibility for staff to work either from home, with an office provided - is going to be the default setting for the majority of businesses. Candidates and employees seem to want this flexibility…..but does it really work? Are there any trade offs with hybrid? What are we losing if we work this way? What worries business owners, managers, CEO’s - key e...
Jun 11, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 106
How To Become A Better Story Teller - Top Tips for Recruiters If you conduct a keyword search on 'storytelling' on LinkedIn, you'll find that it is one of the fastest growing skills on the platform. There's probably not an employer branding profile which doesn't contain the term! And yet, what exactly IS storytelling? Isn't this just a new / old term for marketing? How do you get better at it? - story telling techniques - best mediums for your style of storytelling - psychology of story telling ...
Jun 05, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 105
RECRUITING IN THE MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA IN 2021 Brainfood virtual roadshow is taking a long overdue visit to the Middle East & North Africa! There are recruiting challenges unique to every region on earth, that is under served by universalistic approaches, so it is vital that we connect with recruiters & HR community members from everywhere on the globe. There are so many brainfooders in the Middle East, especially based in UAE, so we are taking this week to speak to professiona...
May 27, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 104
FROM AGENCY TO INHOUSE - TOP TIPS I've been fielding a lot of questions lately from recruiters agency side who are keen to explore the challenges of the working in-house, so this is a show dedicated to those folks who are thinking about making this move! Almost all in-house recruiters worked formerly agency side and the rise of direct hiring by employers has led to explosive growth of the in-house recruiter business. What are the differences, what are the similarities? How does a recruiter move ...
May 21, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 103
LINKEDIN UPDATES; WHAT'S NEW for Q2? We use LinkedIn everyday - weirdo's that we are - and we simply must keep on top of what is happening on the platform. Turns out, there is huge amount going - LinkedIn audio? LinkedIn newsletter? LinkedIn magic sourcing tools? All stuff that we need to know but few of us do. Good job we have brainfood favourite's LinkedIn expert - Andy Foote himself - to come on down and talk with us every quarter to keep us regulated on LinkedIn updates. Can't miss this one ...
May 14, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 102
Is there going to be a wave of resignations post pandemic? This is a concern for many in our industry as the return to the office clashes with elevated expectations of flexibility from the employee population used to setting their own schedules, their own mode of work, their own rules..... It makes sense for any HR / TA / People Ops professional to anticipate the challenge and mitigate for it. - how to improve retention rate (and is it too late?) - how much accommodation is too much? - how clear...
May 07, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 101
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Jerry Collier, MD of Product Innovation at AMS, leading a new tech startup within AMS. Hourly is the first solution built by AMS from the ground up, targeting the growing demand for an improved experience in high-volume hiring. - Who is Jerry Collier? - What are his leadership values? - How do you lead in an enterprise size business lik...
May 04, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 100
ON HIRING SENIOR LEADERS Have you had this experience? CEO comes to you and asks you to begin a confidential search for a replacement for an incumbent C-level leaders. Search is going to take 6 months, so you need to get started now as there is a predicted need to upgrade the department - what do you do? I have no idea, as no one (rightly) has ever trusted me to hire for their senior executive team, but it may be one of the most critical recruitment events to happen to a business. - How to hire ...
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 99
