NEW GOVERNMENT: WHAT CAN RECRUITERS / HR EXPECT? We'll be over a month since the General Election, in which almost all pollsters predict the Labour Party forming the government with the largest majority since Tony Blair 1997. How radical will this new government be? Are we going to see New Labour 2.0 or as some critics contend, Tory-lite 2.0? Whatever the flavour of personal politics, it remains the case that change of government means change in legislation, especially in taxation, employment la...
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 309
HOW TO BUILD A JOB SCRAPER USING PYTHON (AS A NON-CODER!) Friends, you don't need me to tell you that the job market for Talent Acquisition professionals has been in the toilet for the past 18 months. So much so that I have even had to close down the Brainfood Jobs Job Board - for lack of posted jobs! When the competition out there is as fierce as it is, you have to think about how to give yourself an edge. How about creating a lead generation tool which automatically scrapes new TA jobs as soon...
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 308
REAL USE CASES IN RECRUITMENT AUTOMATION: LIVE DEMO Friends, I'm on a mission: industry everywhere is in a race for become AI-enabled, and those that are slow to adopt are going to be outcompeted by those who can now move faster and better. What we've been lacking is real examples of how RPA (Recruitment Process Automation) and AI can really take out chunks of the work recruiters do. That changes today! - Where in the recruiting pipeline does RPA / AI have greatest impact? - What does it look li...
Aug 09, 2024•2 hr 9 min•Ep. 307
HOW TO HIRE A CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER (CPO) It's the most senior role in the People department, one that many a recruiter eventually aspires to, but I suspect not many of us have had to try and recruit for one! We're going to dive into the world of C-level hiring, but with a twist, for the C-suite exec leading our own department! - What are the circumstances where this role emerges? - How do we capture the requirement? - From whom do we collect it from? - Who is the hiring manager - CEO, committee ...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 306
NEW JOB AS A RECRUITMENT LEADER: THE 100 DAY PLAN We know that it continues to be a tough market out there, but I am heartened to see more than few of my close contacts secure new positions lately. Not only do we hope that this is the beginning of a mini-bounce back for the TA job market, but it is also an ideal opportunity to speak to the newly hired and figure out what the best approach might be to ensure you get off to a running start! - How long is the honeymoon period? - What is the best ap...
Jul 26, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 305
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 Steve Bartel, CEO of Gem. - When did you realise you were going to set up a company? - In what ways does being an engineer help you as a tech CEO? - In what was does it hinder you? - What aspects of being a CEO have you discovered to be a strength? - What areas do you think are not your strongest as CEO? - If I could ask a former colleague of yours to descri...
Jul 24, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 304
HOW TO ETHICALLY IMPLEMENT AI INTO TALENT ACQUISITION One of the factors slowing down AI Adoption is justifiable concern on the ethics of AI. How do we ensure that we are not exacerbating bias, privileging one demographic over another and treating human beings as lesser than the machines? It's been great to see software vendors take the lead in trying find a path forward. A superb how-to guide from our friends Willo was featured in Recruiting Brainfood Issue 399 (free to download, no gate here )...
Jul 20, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 303
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 the CEO of one the new wave of AI-native tech startups which are transforming enterprise recruitment, Sam Dhesi - When did you realise you were going to set up a company? - What are the strengths of a founder coming into a new domain? - How did you assemble the founding team? - What protocols do you have when you disagree? - If I could ask a former colleague...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 302
PUBLIC SPEAKING TIPS FOR NEWBIES: HOW TO DELIVER YOUR BEST RECFEST TALK Once upon a time, I too was also a reluctant public speaker. In fact, I did not even see the point of attending industry conferences - after all, what did I have to say, what did I have to learn? I am very glad that I accepted the invitation of one Mr Stephen Donaldson to give a talk at one of his events, Bill Boorman, who set up the first (ur) conference I really attended and Sarah Cooper, who by turning up at the door at t...
Jul 05, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 301
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 Dina Bay, CEO of PitchMe. I do believe this is the first time we have had a Founders Focus with the fellow Alumni of St Andrews University - a moment to celebrate! - When did you realise you were going to set up a company? - What was the biggest difference between the world's of research, corporate and startup? - What skills do you think you have as CEO? - W...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 300
SKILL BASED HIRING: A CONVERSATION WITH JOHNNY CAMPBELL One of the first people to really break down to task and activity level was Johnny Campbell. As CEO of market leading hiring training company SocialTalent, his taxonomy of the skills required by a recruiter to perform in their work remains a canonical artefact in the world of talent acquisition to this day. This is why I was excited to get a DM from Johnny on the topic of Skill Based Hiring - in particular, why we might have cause to pause ...
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 299
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today. I'm delighted to be speaking to the one and only Roderick Smyth - serial entrepreneur with multiple exits and now the founder and CEO of Glyde Talent - the AI powered recruitment platform which enables recruiters to source and screen at scale. - What has changed in product development over the past 20 years? - Can you describe the history of recruitment tech solutions ...
Jun 27, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 298
HOW TO SELECT AND IMPLEMENT AN ATS: A MASTERCLASS There will come a point in every Talent Acquisition professionals career where you will have to make a decision on which ATS to use. Likely to be the most significant technology decision you'll ever make, it is also - outside of payroll - likely to be the biggest ticket investment that you'll ever have responsibility for also. So how exactly are you meant to go about making such a big decision a success? - Top 10 things to consider when choosing ...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 297
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 Barb Hyman , CEO of Sapia. I had the great pleasure of meeting up with Barb for a coffee in Shoreditch earlier this year and I'm delighted to be able to reconnect with her on her founder story and what exactly made her embark on the journey of recruitment technology entrepreneurship - When did you realise you had to do Sapia? - Were you always thinking about...
Jun 19, 2024•59 min•Ep. 296
FUTURE OF JOB BOARDS & JOB ADVERTISING (PART DEUX) The best Brainfood Lives always leave more to be said. Ep254 set new standards for intellectual horsepower, as we discussed GenAI impact on the future of job boards and job advertising. We had such great feedback that we had to bring the crew back to follow up, this time taking things a step further with an examination of 'agentic AI' - How are job boards responding to AI agents? - What demands are employers making of job boards? - At what p...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 295
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 on is one of brainfood's oldest buddies, Max Armbruster, CEO of Talkpush. If you've ever met Max you'd know about it - a unique, effervescent character whose passion for tech and recruitment is matched only by his vision for the future of recruitment optimisation. Let's find out more about who this guy is and what drives him to do what he does. - What important...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 294
EXPANDING SCOPE: FROM TALENT ACQUISITION TO TALENT EVERYTHING Talent Acquisition has spent the past two decades attempting to create an identity distinct from HR....was this mistake, and do we now need to discreetly reverse course?? Apologies for the provocation but I suspect this is more or less what we NEED to be doing, especially as the employers everywhere demand more from people teams, forcing us all to expand scope to take on work that was previously someone else's theatre. Additionally, o...
May 31, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 293
PROGRAMMATIC JOB ADVERTISING: THE MASTERCLASS I am convinced that programmatic job advertising will become a necessity for the employers hiring at any kind of scale. Applicant overflow will become untenable without automated system which can respond to flow rate by either increasing or decreasing the visibility of the advert. And yet the solutions remain mysterious for the majority of recruiters, most of whom have never used programmatic job advertising tools; market penetration in the UK is <...
May 24, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 292
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Scotty AI is a technology business where the market has finally caught up with the vision. Their pioneering software provides the sort of automation of workflow which recruiters have been screaming out for, especially in the era of 'do more with less' Let's hear from the man who built the thing - Engineer, CTO and Co-founder Reiner Bruns. - What important thing did you ...
May 21, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 291
RECRUITMENT AUTOMATION TIPS YOU CAN DO RIGHT AWAY As the case studies accumulate, we are beginning to see the outline of what an AI-enabled recruiter looks like: it is indeed x10 more productive, perhaps even x100 more productive in certain tasks and functions. It's time to stop watching folks, and time to start doing. - Examples of Recruitment Automation which can be done today - What areas of in the workflow should recruiters be focussing on automating? - What are the impediments to automation...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 290
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today VONQ has been one of the recruitment technology providers who have undergirded the recruitment advertising eco-system, often in a way unknown to recruiters at the operations side of the business. What a better opportunity to find out more about this company than getting face time with one of the founders, Tycho van Paassen ? - Why is VONQ organised the way it is? - What...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 289
HOW TO SET UP A RECRUITMENT ANALYTICS DASHBOARD Having strong analytics is critical to increasing the degree of your hiring success. Much more challenging is how best to set up a dashboard which works best for your organisation and your needs. We're going to get some expert advice from talent leaders whose speciality is enabling organisations to have access to, and make better quality decisions on, the data from the talent team. - What metrics do elite organisations use? - Are there common analy...
May 10, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 288
NO LINKEDIN X-RAY? WHAT NEXT? The sourcing community has been monitoring the changes on LinkedIn, particularly on the availability of public data to search engines. 2 months since the news first broke that 'LinkedIn X Ray is dead', what is the latest from the front lines of the sourcing world. And...if LinkedIn X-Ray IS on its last legs, what does that mean for people aggregators, data enrichers and the like? - Latest on LinkedIn X-Ray - update - Implications for recruiters, more upgrades to Lin...
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 287
DATA OR ADS: FUTURE OF JOB BOARD ADVERTISING IN THE ERA OF GENERATIVE AI Job Boards are going through a moment. What had felt like a clear progression of business model towards Pay-Per-Applicant, is now changing in the era of GenAI, especially with the AI-enabled job candidate conducting mass apply. Opportunities and risks have both increased for the job board vendors, and the decisions that these players make will have downstream impact on the sort of services employers and job seekers alike ca...
Apr 19, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 286
SKILL BASED ORGANISATION: REALITY VS RHETORIC? The consensus in the industry is that Skill Based Hiring and Skill Based Organisation is the way forward for the next generation of future fit organisations, but what does successful implementation actually look like? We're beginning to see the emergence of a debate on the wisdom and practicality of the idea - can it even be done? Join us, as we discuss the issue from different points of view from the TA Leadership community - Definitions: What is S...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 285
HOW TO PULL OFF A GLOBAL TA ORG RESTRUCTURE The post 2021 drive for optimisation has led to a global wave of organisation restructuring, as every department, in every company, probably in every country comes to terms with a world of high interest rates, slowing growth, tougher margins and ever increasing volatility. How have multinational TA teams responded, and reorganised? - What prompted the decision to reorg? - How long a run way do you need to even think about this?? - What are the most imp...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 284
HIGH VOLUME HIRING: FASTER, BETTER, CHEAPER? Recruitment optimisation gets more serious at scale. 1% efficiency improvement means a lot more when you're hiring for 10,000 people vs hiring for 100. What can we learn from high volume hirers when it comes to increasing efficiency? - Why radical solutions are required - How to determine where gains can be achieved? - What areas of inefficiency to be tackled first? - What is the relationship between C-level and TA in high volume hiring companies? - D...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 283
WHAT DO DEVELOPERS WANT? SKILLS & SENTIMENT REPORT 2024 One of the annual must read reports in the recruiting industry is the HackerRank's Developer Skills Report. With huge changes in the skills make up of the software developer workforce of tomorrow, we need to review what kind of skills developers care about, are getting good at and are letting go as the future leaves them behind. Who better to talk us through the insights than Vivek Ravisankar and Juan Herrera, the senior hombres of Hack...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 282
FUTURE OF WORK: TALENT ACQUISITION...NOT INVITED? Talent Acquisition has long fought a battle for a 'seat at the table' when the big decisions are made about the future of an organisation but we really need to come to that table with unique perspective, value and confidence. With the era of Generative AI already upon us, let's do a sense check on where Talent Acquisition is when conversations about the future shape of an organisation takes place. - Do we know what the CEO vision of an AI-enabled...
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 281
TALENT TRENDS REPORT: SOURCING IN 2024 Sourcing has returned to being a hot topic in 2024 in light of the recent restrictions on Linkedin data which may be significantly altered the efficacy of previously reliable sourcing techniques. We've had the expert sourcing view - lets now look at what data can tell us as CRM / ATS provider Ashby takes a deep dive on actual recruiter behaviour on their platform . Find out about: - Outreach volume change over time - Candidate response rates to recruiter ou...
Mar 09, 2024•53 min•Ep. 280
