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The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast: Your weekly 60 minute dose of brilliant conversation about Recruiting & HR
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2 days ago
2 days ago
STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING IN AN AGENTIC WORLD
Recruiters have long said that stronger SWP would solve all recruitment problems - if the business only told us with a bit more notice what they were looking for! But now with AI Agents becoming a population in the workforce, can we really know what the right size for a team is anymore?
We're taking a deep dive into the world of talent intelligence and trying to figure out how exactly we can plan for a future workforce of AI-abled human workers, perhaps alongside Human-empathetic AI workers...
- How has AI changed the demand Strategic Workforce Planning?
- What have employers been looking for, what can we learn from their demands on TalentNeuron?
- What types of company are doing what things - how does demand intersect with sector & region?
- Real talk: are companies getting smaller or planning to get smaller?
- What type of work previous exclusively done by humans, is likely to be done partly or wholly by AI?
- How does SWP work when considering AI...how it takes to ramp up / train?
- How do companies think about managing KPI's of Agentic workers?
- What is the future of Talent Acquisition / HR in this context?
- TA / HR Transformation: define the work that future TA / HR should be doing?
All this and more with Dave Wilkins, Chief Product & Strategy Officer, TalentNeuron
We are on Friday 25th July, 2pm BST / 9ET - follow the channel here (recommended) and save your spot for this demo by clicking on the green button.
There’s no shortage of AI in recruiting. The hard part is finding what’s actually useful. Ashby’s one of the few building practical tools that make recruiters’ lives better.
Their latest Ashby One release shows what thoughtful AI looks like:
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AI Notetaker that automatically captures transcripts, summaries, and feedback prompts
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AI‑Assisted Report Builder uses plain English to ask questions of your data
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AI Candidate Assistant to help you understand candidate histories and next steps at a glance
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Plus AI‑Generated Feedback Tokens that let you send polished rejection or update emails in seconds
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No AI for AI’s sake. Just practical tools that reduce busywork and help teams move faster.
4 days ago
4 days ago
Forget Filters: 1,000 AI Recruiters On-Demand - ENDORSED LIVE DEMO
It should go without saying that finding suitable candidates is the primary purpose of recruiting. The promise of Artificial Intelligence is enabling more companies to do that more effectively than ever before. What does next generation sourcing tech actually look like?
We're continuing our Live Demo series by challenging the founders of the business to come on screen to show what their tech can do. Next up, David Head, CEO of Endorsed!
- When did you know Endorsed was going to be a thing?
- Why this problem to tackle?
- What advantage do recruiters who use Endorsed have over the competition?
- FAQ's from buyers who say yes vs FAQ's from prospects who say no
- Can we carry out some live searches?
- How does application review work?
- How do you handle questions on bias on candidate ranking?
- Fraud detector - what caused you to build this feature?
- Can you explain how this works?
- How do you see this feature integrating with other software tools?
Any questions for David? Let me know in the comments below.
We are on Tuesday 22nd July, 10am PT / 1pm ET - follow the channel (recommended) and save your spot for this demo by clicking on the green button.
Endorsed.com is the AI recruiting agent platform for rapidly building talent-dense teams.
Rapidly growing companies like Quince, Eight Sleep, and Prokeep rely on Endorsed to surface hidden stars, combat candidate fraud, and streamline sourcing and applicant review workflows. Endorsed increases quality-of-hire, reduces time-to-fill by up to 75%, and boosts recruiter role capacity by up to 2x.
Get 10% off your subscription with the code BRAINFOOD
See Endorsed instantly triple your number of gold medal candidates on your real role by booking a demo.
Friday Jul 18, 2025
Friday Jul 18, 2025
COMPANY CULTURE: AI FIRST VS HUMAN CENTRED?
We know the right answer is 'both' but really - when push comes to shove - what is the driving principle in how you build your business? Two emerging philosophies are driving the decision making in companies - lets use Brainfood Live to figure out which one is going to be the right one when it comes your business
- What is AI First?
- What is Human Centred?
- What are the main points of both / either?
- In what points do they overlap, and which points are they fundamentally in tension?
- What can we learn from the companies that use these philosophies?
- What difference does it make to TA decision making when operating under one of these principles?
- AI First companies have been innovative but have also rolled back from experiments - what does this tell us?
- How do we assess for technology when operating under either of these principles?
- Can Human Centred by characterised by 'human-in-the-loop' / humans-always-in-the-loop decision making?
- Which principle ultimately is best suited for which sector?
All this and more with Jessie Schofer,Founder (Stakkd), Anna Ott, VP of People (HV Capital), Carrie Brophy, Senior Director Talent Acquisition (Marriot International) & Sammi Abdoh, People Technology Manager (ARM)
We are on Friday 18th July, 2pm BST - follow the channel here (recommended) and save your spot for this demo by clicking on the green button.
Great teams start with great hiring — and that’s exactly what Teamtailor is built for.
Loved by companies like Happy Socks, OneFlow, Oatly, and Five Guys, Teamtailor is the all-in-one recruitment platform trusted by over 10,000 businesses and 150,000 recruiters worldwide.
It combines a powerful ATS with fully customizable, AI-powered tools to elevate your employer brand and deliver a standout candidate experience.
From career sites to collaboration workflows, Teamtailor helps talent teams move faster, work smarter, and create hiring journeys that people actually enjoy — candidates and hiring managers alike.
See how top teams are hiring better with Teamtailor: Experience the magic today!
Friday Jul 11, 2025
Friday Jul 11, 2025
STATE OF TALENT ACQUISITION: THE RECFEST REVIEW 2025
Recfest is the largest in person event for Talent Acquisition professionals and the perfect barometer for the state of the market. Let's see what we learn from the 100+ talks and conversations with 1000's of delegates who will have attended the industry's premier event.
We will review
- RecFest main themes
- UK Economy vs Global Macro
- AI-enablement and the AI First Movement
- Where are we with DEI?
- Employer branding when the Internet is dominated by AI slop
- All we need to know about bias
- Organisational agility - can we train for this?
- Update on AI legislation in TA / HR
- Expanding scope beyond Permanent Hiring
- Expanding scope beyond Recruiting
- New Metrics for the AI Era
- Core skills for Future Fit Recruiters
- AI leaving TA Leaders Behind
- TA transformation: Moving from cliche to confirmation
All this and more with Jamie Leonard, Founder (RecFest), Clair Bush, Fractional CMO (AM-Bush), Bas van de Haterd, Founder (Digitaal-Werven & friends)
We are on Friday 11th July, 2pm BST - follow the channel here (recommended) and save your spot for this demo by clicking on the green button.
There’s no shortage of AI in recruiting. The hard part is finding what’s actually useful. Ashby’s one of the few building practical tools that make recruiters’ lives better.
Their latest Ashby One release shows what thoughtful AI looks like:
-
AI Notetaker that automatically captures transcripts, summaries, and feedback prompts
-
AI‑Assisted Report Builder uses plain English to ask questions of your data
-
AI Candidate Assistant to help you understand candidate histories and next steps at a glance
-
Plus AI‑Generated Feedback Tokens that let you send polished rejection or update emails in seconds
-
No AI for AI’s sake. Just practical tools that reduce busywork and help teams move faster.
Friday Jul 04, 2025
Friday Jul 04, 2025
HOW TO ASSESS JOB CANDIDATES FOR AI LITERACY?
There is no company in the world that is not interested in becoming more AI-enabled. One of the ways to do this is directly relevant to us - recruit new people who can bring up the level of AI literacy in the workforce. In a direct analogy to the digitisation wave of the early 2000's, we now have the AI wave of the 2020's - becoming AI-enabled by hiring AI-enabled employees.
Question is...how do we assess for this? This is the topic of Brainfood Live
- What is AI-literacy?
- How close are we to an industry consensus on levels of capability?
- Can we identify AI literacy on CV / background?
- If so, what signals?
- If not, can we do so via any other online method?
- What is the best interview technique to assess candidates AI-fluency?
- How do we assess in a non-interview based way?
- What assessment tech assists that can help us with this?
- Does AI fluency correlate with traits or attributes in any way?
- For recruiter roles - what kind of assessments should we undertake to hire AI-fluent candidates?
All this and more with Martyn Redstone, Founder, Eunomia HR, Johannes Sundlo, FullStack HR & friends
We are on Friday 4th July, 2pm BST - follow the channel here (recommended) and save your spot for this demo by clicking on the green button.
BrightHire is the leading Interview Intelligence platform, used by teams at Canva, Hubspot, Ramp, Webflow, and 500+ other organizations to:
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Optimize with powerful insights
Learn why world class companies choose BrightHire to drive significant efficiency while raising the bar.
Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
RECRUITER SKILLS PROFILE: HOW AI CHANGES THE GAME
We all know that AI is going to change every job, but we don't know precisely how or when, much less the implications on the type of skills we need to be hiring when recruiting for 'AI first' employers.
- What do we know about the impact of AI / Automation in knowledge work?
- What skills are going to be insulated and valued from this impact?
- Do we 'design out' job roles which have high component of these insulated skills?
- How do humans uniquely add value to any process, for any outcome?
- Do we actually do this?
- If AI takes on admin, logistics, note taking, CV screening etc - what other activities remain?
- Will these remain valuable for the business or simply disappear if the scaffolding that holds up the rest of the job disppears?
- What do we know are the skill we WON'T need on future TA?
- What are the skills which we will need going forward?
- How do we assess for those skills - with AI or without AI?
- Do we go back to attribute based hiring?
- Can incumbent employees improve their attributes in order to be future fit?
- How do companies ensure that you have the right skills / capability mix in your recruiting team?
- What do leaders themselves need to do to be future fit?
All this and more, with Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with the one and only Tom Sayer, Global Recruiting Strategy (Accenture)
We are on Friday 27th June, 2pm BST
Click on the Save My Spot button to attend for free, and follow the channel here (recommended) to be notified for this and all future Brainfood Lives
Great teams start with great hiring — and that’s exactly what Teamtailor is built for.
Loved by companies like Happy Socks, OneFlow, Oatly, and Five Guys, Teamtailor is the all-in-one recruitment platform trusted by over 10,000 businesses and 150,000 recruiters worldwide.
It combines a powerful ATS with fully customizable, AI-powered tools to elevate your employer brand and deliver a standout candidate experience.
From career sites to collaboration workflows, Teamtailor helps talent teams move faster, work smarter, and create hiring journeys that people actually enjoy — candidates and hiring managers alike.
Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
CANDIDATE FRAUD: IT'S A RECRUITING EMERGENCY
We probably never thought we'd ever encounter this challenge, but in 2025 there is no denying that candidate fraud poses an increasing danger to the fidelity of traditional hiring practices, Increase global economic uncertainty, a globalised talent pool who can find jobs and apply from anywhere in the world and the advent of powerful AI tools on the candidate side have increase the risk to employers, as well as damage the prospects of legitimate and genuine job seekers.
It's a recruiting emergency and we need a plan!
- What is the current state of candidate fraud?
- Can we taxonomise the fraud techniques?
- How much as remote hiring practices increased risk?
- What methods are employers currently deploying to deal with fraud?
- Do we have any examples of successful fraud mitigation?
- What do we anticipate the future top-of-funnel to look like?
- What immediate steps should top talent teams take today?
- Hiring managers; Help or hinder?
- What tools / technologies can help reduce candidate fraud?
- How do we ensure fair recruitment practices whilst hardening employer defences?
- Are we going to roll all the way back to analogue recruiting practices?
All this and more with Ryan Coulthorp, Senior Director of Workforce Planning & Recruiting Operations (Okta), Glenn Lindley, Founder (TalentIP) & Timothy Khoo-Jones, Head of Talent (TBC)
We are on Friday 27th June, 10am PT / 1pm ET - follow the channel here (recommended) and save your spot for this demo by clicking on the green button.
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Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Brainfood on Tour - How to Hire in Brazil in 2025 & Beyond
Brazil - the largest country in South America, an emerging power in the world with enormous natural resources, a growing population and huge space for development. What is it like hiring in Brazil in 2025? How will it look going forward? Brainfood is back on tour, so let’s talk to local recruiters and find out.
We’re going to speak with Juliana Park, Founder (HRX Brasil), Monaly Malucelli, Exec Search (MMT), Patrick Gouy, CEO (Recrut.AI), Karina Fiod, Talent Acquisition Lead (SumUp), Davi Bufalo, LATAM Head of Talent (OLIVER) & friends
- What is the state of the economy in Brazil in 2025?
- What are the main strengths, main challenge here?
- What sectors are the largest employers?
- What is the competition for the top talent?
- What defines top talent here?
- How do candidates behave - what is the best channel of communication for first contact?
- What skills are most in-demand here?
- How is the use of AI changing how companies recruit?
- How is the relationship with the US & China changing the economy here?
- What are the 10 things a recruiter should know in order to become more successful in Brazil?
All this and more, on Wednesday 25th June,2pm BRT / 6pm BST
Click on here to follow the channel (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.
Friday Jun 20, 2025
Friday Jun 20, 2025
BEYOND TALENT ACQUISITION: LEADERSHIP SKILLS NEEDED TO EXPAND SCOPE
Talent Acquisition was the optimal specialism in the People Ops function during the ZIRP of hyper growth; but what organisations needed in 2019 is not what organisations need in 2025. We're already in a world where global growth is slowing, companies are getting smaller, more efficient, more automated. The need for everyone in Talent Acquisition is to expand scope but what skills are needed for us to get there?
- Lay of the land: State of Talent Acquisition
- What is changing in terms of skills demand?
- As companies become 'AI first', what does this mean for organisation structure and team size
- Non-FTE: who is currently doing this and how does TA takes this on?
- Workflow automation: can TA / HR take on the role of 'automators-in-chief'?
- Internal mobility - how to unlock IM, retain the talent and reduce demand for external hire?
- Technology: what innovations can support TA / HR expansion of scope?
- It's too much - how to take on too much and still be effective?
- How to delegate
- How to hire and grow leaders to whom delegation is possible?
- What the main attributes needed for a TA leader to expand scope?
- What skills need to be developed?
- How to accelerate the development of those skills?
All this and more, with Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Johnny Campbell, CEO (Social Talent), Lyndsey Taylor, Global Head of HR Transformation (Brooks Automation), Christine Ng, Head of Talent (Quantum Motion) & friends
We are on Friday 20th June, 2pm BST
Click on the Save My Spot button to attend for free, and follow the channel here (recommended) to be notified for this and all future Brainfood Lives
Hiring is hard, and getting it right is even harder. It’s a core business-building function with high stakes that takes a lot of moving parts to see real success. You need workflows that accommodate how you function given your company size and goals. You need a user experience that hiring managers actually buy into. And you need an application process that locks talent in.
Only Greenhouse gives you all that in one platform.
Friday Jun 13, 2025
Friday Jun 13, 2025
TALENT ACQUISITION WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: LEADERSHIP LESSONS FOR GLOBAL TA TEAMS
There are many reasons why companies become geographically dispersed - to better service local markets, to develop specific new products, tap into specialist labour markets, corporate tax efficiency and wage arbitrage, taking advantage of skilled labour wherever it can be found at the best cost coefficient for the business.
How is it like to work in, manage and lead a Global Talent Acquisition team? This is the question we'll be looking to ask in this week's Brainfood Live
- What are the main challenges of working with global TA teams?
- How real are cultural differences when it comes to talent acquisition?
- Do local recruiters NEED to operate differently, with behaviours best suited to the local landscape?
- How does AI innovation impact global communication?
- What is the impact of remote vs hybrid vs on premise on management of global Talent Acquisition?
- Can it be said that different countries have different status for TA?
- How realistic / fair is it to cultivate different practices in TA - how do we determine which is most appropriate?
- DEI: how does this work in Global TA?
- What are the best methods of fostering team cohesion across distance / time boundaries?
- KPI's - are these localised and should they be?
- EVP - are these localised and should they be?
- Career pathing / Internal mobility - how can leaders provide internal labour liquidity in TA?
- Hiring leaders...what best tips / techniques?
- Implementing technology ...how to select and implement?
All this and more, with Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Sandy Grewal, Global HR Transformation Lead (Kambi), Harpreet Kaur, Director Talent Acquisition (Adobe) & Jennifer Candee, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, (IMI)
We are on Friday 13th June, 2pm BST
Click on the Save My Spot button to attend for free, and follow the channel here (recommended) to be notified for this and all future Brainfood Lives
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