Personalised or Standardised? What is the base philosophy for Candidate Experience - do you attempt to give everyone the same branded experience, or do you vary it according to the individual and the individual circumstance? And if we do 'both' (I know you will say this!), then what are the circumstances when one approach makes sense and not the other? We will discuss - Types of Candidate - are all candidates the same? - Costs of CX, how do we measure the effort and the effect? - What are the be...
Feb 03, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 219
State of Global Mobility in 2023 Does anyone here have a plan for hiring globally this year? Candidate shortages are persistent in many sectors, in many countries (see the UK and the NHS...) and for many employers there is no option other than to hire from overseas and relocate. - What are the challenges of doing this at scale? - Where do you even start? - What territories have got an excess of labour? - How do we tap into that market? - Do we have to do 'destination branding'? - How much of the...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 218
We have not seen a technology breakthrough like ChatGPT for a long time. Only released last December, it has already racked up millions of users attracted to its almost magical outputs to queries made by human users. The application for business has been obvious - and every day we are seeing new ideas to produce outputs which can be immediately put into production, saving workers hundreds of hours of work. It's a game changer folks, and if we recruiters don't get good at, we are going to regret ...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 217
I don't know about you but I've been consuming TikTok videos like a billion other people on the planet and been amazed at the creativity, community and controversy that you find on there. It's also been pretty clear that the opportunity for potentially massive reach is there to be explored! Conspicuously missing though, has been any sense of how recruiters can use TikTok. 2022 was the year when I first started noticing recruiter accounts build an audience, and after seeing a few familiar faces f...
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 216
Welcome back to Brainfood Live 2023! I hope everyone has had a great holiday break and are refreshed for the challenges and opportunities of the year ahead. So what exactly IS ahead for us in 2023? We're going to talk to industry experts from recruiting agency, recruiting tech investment, in-house recruiter, LinkedIn, Sourcing, Web3 and everything else we care about in this wonderful industry of ours! Lets figure out where we are and make some predictions on: - Economy - Recruitment industry - S...
Jan 06, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 215
The State of Recruitment: 2022 Year in Review Final show of the year folks, so perfect moment to celebrate ANOTHER 50 episodes of Brainfood Live On Air, review the best moments from each show and talk about what we've learned in our year of conversation on air. It will also be a great opportunity to invite back some of favourite guests and co-hosts each with a message of advice for the year 2023 ahead. One thing to do for 2023 in.... - Recruitment Marketing - Sourcing - DEIB - CX - Company Cultu...
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 214
Recruiter Job Search & Promotion as a Mother-to Be Continuing our series of 'true inclusion', we are turning our attention to the subterranean biases which occur in recruitment. Perhaps the most invidious is the challenge women in particular have - how to manage career and future motherhood. For men, this is substantively different - we never get asked whether we are about to become a parent, nor is parenthood any sort of impediment toward getting a job or promotion; but it is for women. Wha...
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 213
The Hidden Bias in Recruiting: Class & Accent How we speak are signifiers of our social class - formerly known as 'social standing' - information which still determines our life journeys much more than it should. How many people with regional accents end up as CEO of a business? How many as Prime Minister or President? Class and Accent bias is a the hidden bias in recruiting and one which is woefully under discussed. That's why we're the ones doing it in this week's topic of Brainfood Live O...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 212
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Christian Payne, CEO of Talentiir - What is the main idea behind Talentiir? - What do you think is going to be your biggest learning curve? - What assumptions have you had to let go, which ones are you now gambling to be true? - What are the main decisions that need to be made for 2023? - What leadership lessons have you learned that you would lik...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 211
The Psychology of Redundancy: Mental Health Tips for Recruiters Affected Big Tech Winter + Economies close to recession....means redundancies for many members of our community. It's incredible that we are back here again, after the first wave of layoffs in 2019/2020, but here we are. What has been missing from the discourse is the psychological impact of redundancy, especially on the suddenness it has been happening! We are going to explore: - Loss of identity - Loss of relationships & socia...
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 210
Welcome to Ep34 of Founder's Focus - the show where we get up close and personal with the founder's of recruitment technology businesses - who are the people behind the product? Next up is David Rivel, Co-founder of PathMotion and now Head of Clinch Europe, the online discussion platform which enables candidates to talk directly with existing employees of the organisation. - What is the Day in the Life of a Recruitment Tech Founder? - Having done the job for several years, which parts of leading...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 209
True Inclusion: Hiring the Formerly Institutionalised We talk a a good DEIB game in TA / HR but it's pretty clear that there are certain groups which are always excluded from the conversation of inclusion. When the last time your company hired someone who had been institutionalised? Chances are, never - as gaps in work history is knock out criteria, experience in prison or mental institution considered entirely discounted and moral judgements become the only signal we pay attention to. We need t...
Nov 25, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 208
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up are Arielle Kilroy , CEO of Dado! - What is the original story of Dado ? - What was the most important decision you got right in Year 1 of the business? - How clear was the vision from the beginning - was it always there or did it emerge for contact with the market? - How do you feel being a woman CEO has helped and hindered you as an entrepreneur? - Were you al...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 207
Must Have Recruitment Automation Hacks for 2023 Ok so this is going to be a fun one. We all know that in recruitment there is never enough time to get your work done - there is always another email to send, another candidate to call, another search to try. Wouldn't it be handy if we were able to get some help in the form of automated programs which can be configured to do the work for you? That's right folks, the topic of today's Brainfood Live is going to be a the Recruitment Automation Hacks y...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 206
Is Boolean Broken? Latest update from Google It's been 10 years since the sourcing community really started to separate itself as being distinct from 'recruiter'. In that time, the sub discipline has been a place of investigation, discovery, enhancement and close-to-magical tricks to get outcomes beyond those available to 'normal recruiters' Nobody has been a more significant populariser of sourcing than Irina Shamaeva - whose blog Boolean Strings has been regularly featured in Recruiting Brainf...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 205
Employer Branding in a Recession Economy As the world looks down into economic slowdown and maybe worse, it behooves us to consider how this impacts many of the recruiting concepts that emerged during more bullish times. Employer Branding was certainly one of those, which arose as a key way in which to beat the competition for the best talent. How does all this change when the market turns bearish? - How to work with positive messaging in a negative atmosphere - Dealing with authenticity crisis ...
Nov 04, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 204
Topics to discuss (and if you're registering now, you are getting a sneak preview of what's coming up on Sunday) - Open Letter to Elon Musk from Twitter Employees - Big Tech Winter is Here - AI vs Gig Economy, who wins the creative war? - 2022 Gen Z Survey (Cost of Living + Side Hustle, changing the nature of work) - Can you train emotional intelligence? Google tried - Re-shoring might mean re-importing labour violations - Van Life is Homelessness All this and more folks, as we discuss the newsl...
Oct 31, 2022•41 min•Ep. 203
From Talent Intelligence to Talent Acquisition Talent Intelligence or TI has been the coolest kid in the recruitment block for a little while now, with elite employers using labour market intelligence to properly plan their hiring strategy. Even more relevant in the era of distributed working, employers now need to reach the global talent pool but do so based on data, rather than gut feel. So far, so good eh? However, how exactly do we get there? - Case study from Citi - What was the end goal of...
Oct 28, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 202
We're back with Brainfood Baked Fresh - 30 minute on air live review of the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter. Get ready to talk about - VC / Angel investor collapse confirmed - Hiring in a Distributed World - Women in Work 2022 Report - Pre-Columbian Meso American Jobs - More candidate fakery in the world of candidate fraud. Join us and come on screen if you have to discuss!
Oct 24, 2022•36 min•Ep. 201
Hard Truths About Startup: Hiring, Firing & Culture There has not been a sector so widely lauded and intensively covered by the press that tech startup / tech scale up. We hear a great deal about the extraordinary growth, market leading competition and often cutting edge technical and cultural innovation. But beyond the hype, what really lies underneath the world of startup? We are going to be talking hard truths about startup - the hiring, the firing and culture. - What makes startup differ...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 200
Welcome to Brainfood Baked Fresh, the Monday call in show where we discuss the contents of Recruiting Brainfood, Issue 314 Including: - Bellingcats Hackathon Results - State of AI 2022 - Tech lay offs.....who exactly is being laid off? - UK Right to Work Checks - Global Culture Report - and a Dutch guy who won a court case which might have profound implications for employee surveillance technology....
Oct 17, 2022•31 min•Ep. 199
Sourcing & Recruiting on Discord Did you know Recruiting Brainfood has a Discord server? I was planning to use it for doing virtual events but never in the end did any virtual events so it basically has sat lying dormant ever since. And yet Discord has rapidly become one of the main places where interest communities come together to connect, share knowledge, meet each other and generally share community. What should we recruiters do about this? - What is Discord? - How does it work, technica...
Oct 14, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 198
Blockchain, Web3 & The Future of Work I'll be at the Future Works conference in Lisbon so fitting that we are going to be using the opportunity to talk about the next age of the Internet and what it means for the world of work. When Satoshi Nakomoto first released his manifesto "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" in 2009, it introduced the world to the blockchain and the possibility of a decentralised internet where the users would simultaneously be producers, distributors and e...
Oct 08, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 197
Back with Baked Fresh, the call in show where we take questions from readers of the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter, Issue 312. We'll be talking about - Value of Weak Ties for Career Advancement - Candidate Fraud in Remote Working - Power Law of the Creator Economy - Figures Levelling Framework - Cool list of Resources for Tracking Layoffs And loads more!
Oct 03, 2022•35 min•Ep. 196
Where Are The Missing Workers? The 'Labour Market Paradox' is most keenly felt by us - the recruiters who are struggling to make hires, even when key macro indicators - such as number of people economically inactive - should suggest otherwise. How are we to understand the mixed messages we are getting from the commentariat, politicians and our own lived experience? Good news is, Brainfood Live has got you! You will learn: - What does the data say (US, UK & EMEA) - Explanations for labour for...
Sep 30, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 195
We're back folks, after a three week hiatus! Going to try and keep to this time but it is apparent with travel, covid and change of regnal eras, that we might not be as consistent as we want to be on this show! Lets see how we go on this - we're review in the Sunday newsletter, with sneak peak content including: How Does UpWork, Work? Redundancy as a path to Diversifying the Workforce? Golden Handcuffs or Indentured Service? Why Hiring for Clones is Good and Bad All this and more, in our weekly ...
Sep 26, 2022•46 min•Ep. 194
How to Source Candidates from Slack There probably isn't a tech startup anywhere that does not use Slack as its internal communication platform. It's also an amazing place to create intra-company communities, a place where professionals of all disciplines get together and share knowledge. Might these also be places where you can source candidates? You will learn: - What is Slack and how do you join? - Recruiter behaviours to avoid - How to create relationships in Slack communities - When to post...
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 193
Making Sense of the Economy: Resilient Sectors for Recruiting. The high profile tech lay offs dominate the headlines but does that tell us the real story of what is going on in the economy? We're looking at the sectors which continue to hire today, as well as those which are destined to grow as the new economic future unfolds. You will learn: - How do we understand the start up / scale up market today? - What sectors continue to hire? - Are these trends universal or regional? - What explains the...
Sep 16, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 192
Ethics & Experience: How to Better Handle Layoffs The high profile tech layoffs keep coming, and the response of employers forced to make cuts has been under scrutiny, whether the method is via mass zoom calls, or through making vulnerability posts on LinkedIn. Got me thinking - IS there a good way to do this, or or is this simply a hard task which is always going to be unpleasant? You will learn: - Ethics and Experience, guiding principles of redundancy - CEO, HR or Line Manager? - Importan...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 191
How to Hire in the Nordics? Brainfood Live is back on tour! This time we are virtually visiting our friends in the North and to try and better understand how the universal challenges of recruiting are solved by local recruiters in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. I actually couldn't find any Icelandic or Faroese recruiters so if you are there, make sure you pipe up during the livestream! You will learn: - What are the unifying characteristics of hiring in the Nordics? Can we even consider it...
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 190
