EXPANDING SCOPE: FROM TA TO TA+ Talent Acquisition is entering into a new era where organisations are prioritising flexible workforces on demand, fluid internal organisational structure to facilitate internal mobility and the continuous upskilling of the employee base in order to create an agile and resilient organisation fit for todays volatile and unpredictable world. TA need to respond by expanding scope - doing more than acquiring external talent, and instead reimagining itself as a function...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 249
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today There probably hasn't been a more disruptive and then dominant recruitment technology business than Indeed, a company which somehow manages to be dominant incumbent and disruptive innovator at the same time. We're with VP and GM, Raj Mukherjee on the latest changes at Indeed, and what this means for customers and users in 2023 and beyond - Pay per application - what, wh...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 248
TURNING EMPLOYEES INTO LINKEDIN TALENT INFLUENCERS One of the great case studies which have emerged in recruitment over the past month has been Cisco's remarkable employee advocacy programme, in which 84,000 employees received training on how to be a LinkedIn influencer. We can forget that almost all of us have powerful networks, many of which are plugged into the world's number one professional networking site, but few of us are actively posting on it. Might it be that we have simply never rece...
Aug 11, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 247
LINKEDIN ALGORITHM UPDATES Have you noticed a collapse in the effectiveness of your LinkedIn posts? If you have, then it seems that you might not be alone, as LinkedIn have made some significant changes to the newsfeed algorithm which all recruiters need to be aware of. Revealed in an interview with Entrepreneur, it seems that LinkedIn is prioritising content which genuinely adds value (how do they determine this), is resonant with your profile page (we need to pay attention to this) as well as ...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 246
Fully Autonomous Hiring The promise is there: a recruiting process which runs autonomously without the need for a human recruiter or a human hiring manager, coordinator, background checker or anything else. Lets take a leap forward and see how it might be accomplished! - Identification - Engagement - Assessment - Negotiation - Close How does technology do all of this, WITHOUT just moving a human being through a process which is which demonstrably inhumane? What does candidate experience look lik...
Jul 28, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 245
Tech Hiring Landscape: 2023 Mid Year Review We're well into Q3 and by now we should have a reasonable view as to how the tech hiring landscape is going. It has been an extremely challenge 12 months for the VC backed tech sector, as we've seen a refocus on profitability over growth as investors turn conservative in light of high interest rates, constantly VUCA-ring uncertainty and, perhaps, the prospect of a decade long slow down on economic growth. How does this all affect tech recruiters and te...
Jul 21, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 244
WTF is Fractional Working? Do a search on LinkedIn for 'Fractional' and you find increasingly large number of results for experienced professionals - sometimes C-level pro's - calling themselves 'fractional'. A very recent phenomenon, this is the belated recognition that sometimes you may not need a key resource 100% of the time, all of the time, and in fact you only really need that person a percentage of the time. This is the fractional working and it's the topic of today's Brainfood Live On A...
Jul 14, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 243
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 two business leaders who have come together to bring some mega brands together - it's Ryan Steelberg, President at Veritone with Alex Fourlis, CEO of Broadbean - who are going to talk to us about leadership, vision, M&A and the future of recruitment technology and how it applies to the changing behaviours of job seekers and employers alike - How did the ...
Jul 13, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 242
Recruiters Moving On Up: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Fresh from seeing tons of recruiters make their speaking debuts on Recfest, we're going to speak to as many of them as we can to chat about the mental aspect of doing things which give us anxiety, especially the sense that 'you might not be good enough'. - What is imposter syndrome and do we all experience it? - How prevalent is it for recruiters / HR, do we feel it more than professionals in other departments? - What techniques do we have t...
Jul 07, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 241
Demographic Crisis, AI, Immigration & the Future of Work Do you have the feeling that there are big changes happening in the world? The reason why we haven't have a 'new normal' for a little while now is because there are a number of critically important macro trends which are forcing factors to decisions government, businesses and individuals have to make. The candidate shortage, the rise of AI, the need for, yet hostility to, immigration and some very real questions on the relationship bet...
Jun 30, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 240
AI is changing Software Engineering: What Tech Recruiters Have Got To Know It should come as no surprise that the sector that is most exposed to the implications of generative artificial intelligence is the sector that built it. Software engineers were amongst the first to see a mainstreaming of this new class of technologies (GitHub Copilot) and were amongst the first to realise the Janus-like future we have before us: extraordinary gains in productivity vs existential risk of disintermediation...
Jun 23, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 239
How TA Leaders Use ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence? My observations on ChatGPT / Generative AI is that the most advanced users in our industry have been individual contributors operating on their own initiative in to get more efficiency in their personal work. This has been amazing to see, but something is clearly missing - where are the strategic initiatives, what are TA leaders, Heads of function doing to make sure their teams are 'AI enabled'? We might be looking at the situati...
Jun 18, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 238
How Google's AI Search Changes Recruitment Marketing Google's response to the gauntlet thrown own by Open AI has been belated, but increasingly impressive. AI Search promises to be as big if not bigger than semantic search, with Google generating content from a user prompt a la ChatGPT rather than just presenting a list of blue links for the user to further investigate. The implications of this change - from candidate sourcing to employer branding is profound. - What happens to site traffic once...
Jun 02, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 237
Life & Times of a Portfolio Recruiter in VC One of the most promising developments of the tech scale up era has been the recognition by Venture Capital firms that Talent is one of the critical components for success of the companies they invest in. The formation of the 'recruiter in residence' or 'Head of People' who work across the portfolio is one of the most interesting developments of the recruiter career path and one which brings unique challenges - neither fully in-house, nor exactly 3...
May 26, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 236
How to Measure the Impact of Employer Brand? Few people in recruiting would doubt the importance of Employer Brand, especially when hiring for the highly skilled, in-demand. In the world where the candidate retains high level expectations and has the research skills to unearth information about an employers reputation, it is more important than ever to make sure that companies have EB at the forefront of their attraction strategies. But how do we measure the impact of it? - What is Employer Bran...
May 19, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 235
Moving to Skills Based Hiring (SBH) We've heard a great deal about Skills Based Hiring but what is it and what does it actually look like in practice? The movement away from hiring on bio / experience is welcome, as we know correlation is very weak before prior experience and job performance, but how exactly are we meant to identify people who can / want to do the job? - What is SBH? - Are certain job roles more suited to it than others? - How do you understand what skills are required to do a j...
May 12, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 234
How To Measure Quality of Hire Quality of Hire is without doubt the most important metric that CEO's care about. They want to hire the best people for the business and make sure that they are quickly up to productivity and adding competitive value to the business. And yet, Quality of Hire remains the metric is which least monitored by TA - why is this? We're going to explore the context behind this measurement, why we think QofH is under utilised, and how it may be possible to implement if we wa...
May 05, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 233
How to set up an Elite Talent Analytics Function We can't have a workable recruitment strategy if we don't have access to accurate, current and relevant information. Talent intelligence (external labour market) and Talent analytics (internal people analytics) are two halves of one of the most important functions leading recruitment teams are building in order to make data driven decisions on hiring. But how do you start? This is topic of Brainfood Live On Air - Talent Intelligence vs Talent Anal...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 232
Recruitment Leadership in a Mega Scale Organisation Most of us have had experience of SME and Corp size organisations, but few of us might have had the chance to work at truly mega scale organisations. What is it like to be working for an organisation with tens of thousands of employees? How do you do TA leadership in an environment like this - what are the things you have to do which differ from leadership at smaller scale? We're delighted to host the recruiting legend that is Andy Headworth an...
Apr 21, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 231
Prompt Engineering for Sourcing We can already predict that 'prompt' is going to be the Word of the Year 2023. The idea that we can get good at asking and contextualising questions has probably never come up before, but now that the outputs we want from generative AI is dependent on how skilfully we communicate what we want to the LLM that powers the AI, it has become a skill that we must develop. Already, "Prompt Engineer" has become a job, and so we have got to ask, is this the Sourcing, and i...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 230
Supercharge your Recruitment Marketing with AI Recruiters have been going crazy about the AI revolution but most of what we have been doing has been focused on direct candidate acquisition. What are other adjacent disciplines doing with Generative AI? I'm finding that recruitment marketers are doing some crazy things with AI, short circuiting processes which in usual case would take days and weeks. Whether it is image creation, video generation, lead research or process optimisation, we're going...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 229
Tech Layoffs & the Tech Job Market: From the Developers POV There's probably no bigger story in the world of recruitment that the Big Tech Winter - led by VC backed scale ups who started make big staffing cuts, followed by the FAANG who have all made unprecedented cuts to staffing. What does this mean for the tech labour market? What indeed, do the engineers themselves think of the situation? We are going to learn directly from the software engineering community and platform them to tell us ...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 228
Mental Challenge of the Neurodiverse: Real Talk from Recruiter Heroes Important change of pace to Brainfood Live today. I was approached by Balazs, Michael and Vanessa to do a show on the topic of neurodiversity within our OWN community, and especially on the value from confessionals which can help others understand the different types of neurodiversity, how they can be manifested and expressed, what challenges this can mean for the individual and what challenges it can mean for others around th...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 227
Hiring in South Africa in 2023 Brainfood World Tour continues and this time we go to one of my favourite countries, who have one of my favourite recruiting communities - South Africa. There are challenges and problems with every country and region of the world, but I think fair to say that Africa in general and perhaps South Africa in particular, were early examples of what we can now see as 'disaster pron' where media coverage could only be negative. One of the missions of brainfood is to platf...
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 226
Impact of Generative AI on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion One of the most telling things about output from Generative AI is the inevitable stereotyping that is produced. Go to Mid Journey and ask it to generate images of doctors, and guess what type of images come up? Now try the same with nurses. Or hunter gatherers. Or Fireman. Or Jesus for that matter. The point is that GAI is trained on historical data that is already out there, and will l We will discuss: - AI Hallucinations - Dangerous kn...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 225
Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT - Part 3 - Ethics & Concerns We have to keep going with ChatGPT, because whilst we are getting the hang of how it works for us, we are also beginning to see the outline of the challenges ahead of us. From AI hallucinations, overly authoritative single answers, political ideology baked into responses, crazy outputs from jailbreaks, as well as a host of legal and ethical issues stemming from the use of training data by human hand. Let's go through the major area...
Mar 03, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 224
State of the Recruiter Job Market 2023 Let's face it head on folks - this is turning out to the a tough year for recruiters! We all know that the big tech winter is going to impact us in recruiting and it's essential we have a good gauge as to how far and deep the winter is going to be. We've got some numbers and analysis to get through this week, as we go in real time on Horsefly Analytics proprietary dataset to find out where the recruiter jobs are and who is posting them. We will discuss: - B...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 223
Hiring in Saudi Arabia & the Gulf States Brainfood World Tour is restarting, with a visit to a region where countries are in the middle of vast transformation. We hear a great deal about Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, but always from the Western lens. What do local recruiters and HR people say and do, on the ground? We're going to learn from locals, ex-pats and partners alike in this week's episode of Brainfood Live On Air. We will discuss: - How does hiring differ in Saudi / Gulf vs outs...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 222
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 is an old friend of Brainfood - the one and only Mark Chaffey, CEO of hackajob - What is the original story of hackajob? - As an unusually young CEO, what challenges have you found growing the business? - Were you always going to go on the entrepreneur track? - Do you think everyone should do it or are there certain traits and circumstances which would make entr...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 221
Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, Part 2! Alright folks, we are going to have to do this again - after an amazing first event where we had 1000+ people attending, the demand for more was overwhelming, so here it is! We are going to repeat the format - so expect recruiter use cases presented by practitioners, followed by product demo's from founders and concluding with some wise takes from industry vets who are going to forecast what all this means for recruitment technology. We're with Martyn Red...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 220
