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2024 in Review: UK Staffing Market
Recruitment has gone through another turbulent year and it's clear that the global staffing market has had one its most challenging years recent times. How has the UK fared, what are the reasons for this and how do we think the prospects will look in 2025 and beyond?
- State of UK staffing Marketing
- Big agency bottom line
- Contract market vs Perm Market
- Growth industries where labour demand is high
- Declining industries where labour demand is low
- Avg fee / commission
- Cash collection / invoice reneges
- Technology implementation - big news in 2024 sector
- Business development in demand - how have sales techniques evolved in 2024?
- What should individual business owners do to prepare for 2025?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Neil Carberry, CEO, (The Recruitment & Employers Confederation), Simon Bliss, Chairman (TEAM), Angela Cripps, MD (Recruiting Gym) & Darren Topping, Director of Solutions & Insight (Impellam Group)
We're on Friday 1st Nov, 1pm GMT
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Saturday Oct 26, 2024
Saturday Oct 26, 2024
Diversify Your Talent Pipeline with Employee Referrals
Employee Referrals are often thought of as 'anti-diversity' because we inevitably recommend people who are most like us. However, are we throwing out the baby with the bathwater if we dismiss ERP as a channel for talent?
- State of Employee Referrals - how many people get hired via this method?
- How many companies have a formal ERP programme?
- What are the hallmarks of the great ERP programme?
- Can you use ERP to specifically help with workforce diversification?
- What techniques can be used to do this, without being discriminatory?
- Can you give examples where this has been a success?
- What expected problems might we launch a programme like this?
- How do we build upon the success of a successful ERP campaign?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Sam Davies, CEO (Real Links), Akbar Karenga, Founder, (Maarusi), Daen Fox, Head of Talent (tbc!) & friends Friday 25th Oct, 2pm GMT
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Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep278 - Hiring in the Gulf States in 2024 & Beyond
Over the past 24 months there is been no region on the planet more dynamic and exciting than the Gulf. For decades a commodity / resource economy dominated by the Oil industry, in recent years we have seen huge changes at every level of society, government and industry as the Gulf States seek to reinvest trade surplus into green tech, tech innovation, AI, satellite & space tech, tourism, architecture and the rest. I'm delighted to be in Dubai for the week, where I'll be spending at least some of the time talking Brainfood Live.
- What are the key challenges hiring in the Gulf in 2024?
- How has this changed since 2023?
- What techniques have proven useful?
- What are the major legislative and cultural considerations when hiring in the Gulf?
- Key industry sectors:
- Key labour shortages:
- How does talent acquisition work?
- What do candidates expect from a hiring process?
- How are TA teams typically structured?
- What is the relationship with agencies, job boards?
- What do recruiters need to know to succeed in the Gulf?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Javeed Khan, Director Levant Cluster, (KPMG), Zahia T. Abu Ali, Head of Talent Acquisition & Talent Management, Myriam Dimitriou, Head of Talent Management, Acquisition and Organization Design,
General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority - GCGRA & Matt Hesketh, Regional Head of Resourcing & Onboarding MENAT (HSBC) & friends
We're on Wed 23rd October, 12pm GST
Ep278 is sponsored by our friends RL100 Middle East
RL Middle East is the leading Peer Network for Senior In-House Talent Acquisition Leaders in the region.
Now in its second year, RL Middle East has an active membership of over 90 members from leading global and regional organisations, both from the public and private sector. We operate a strict membership policy which ensures the correct level of seniority of members and a closed door forum, meaning discussions can be held without judgement.
Friday Oct 18, 2024
Friday Oct 18, 2024
Brainfood On Tour - Hiring in Hong Kong in 2024 & Beyond
I am in Hong Kong at least once every year (hi Ma) but have never done a focused show on the recruitment and job market in the Fragrant Harbour! Huge amounts of change going in HK, as elsewhere - how is the recruitment market changing and what are the prospects for the future?
- State of Hiring in Hong Kong
- Demographics and population - what is the working age population?
- Tech & Startup, viable sectors in HK?
- Relationship with Shenzen & Guangdong
- Greater Bay Area, anything happening here?
- Financial & Legal services - HK still a gateway to the Western world?
- Crypto and Bitcoin is a possible future for HK economy?
- Hospitality and Tourism - can it survive competition with rising hotspots Thailand, Vietnam and in the Mainland?
- Language: Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin and English
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Tak Lo, Founder (Kedoom Technologies), Mat Gollop, MD (Connected People), Andrew Ladommatos, Founder (Aureum Partners), Rita Tsang, Team Manager, BCG Group) & friends & friends. We're on Friday 18th October, 10am HKT Time
Friday Oct 11, 2024
Friday Oct 11, 2024
Brainfood On Tour - Hiring in Australia in 2024 & Beyond
Its been two year since I was last in Australia so it is a welcome return to one of the most unique recruitment markets on the planet. Everything about Australia is simultaneously familiar yet strange and that includes everything you're going to see in recruiting. How has Australia weathered the storms of 2024?
- State of Hiring in Australia
- State of TA Job Market
- Growth sectors: where in the economy?
- How are agencies / RPO's changing their game?
- AI & Automation...what is going on
- Recruitment & HR Technology providers, who is winning here
- DEI has this suffered from the US woke lash?
- Remote working: this still a thing?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Emily Atkins, Director Talent Acquisition APAC (LinkedIn), Matt Woodard, Founder (scalr), Lauren Sharp & Craig Watson (TAPod), Andrea Kirby, Founder, (Talent Table) & friends
We're on Friday 11th October, 1pm AEST Time
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Friday Oct 04, 2024
Friday Oct 04, 2024
Brainfood On Tour - Hiring in the Thailand in 2024 & Beyond
I've been to Thailand a number of times but never long enough to actually speak to a local recruiters on what is going on in this beautiful country. Unfortunately, I don't speak Thai so until Crowdcast manages to do auto translate on the fly, we're going to be speaking with English speaking recruiters who can say a thing or two about hiring for employers in Thailand.
- What are the key challenges hiring in Thailand in 2024?
- With the recent change of govt, does this impact hiring and if so, in what way?
- What does sourcing work over here?
- What are the major legislative and cultural considerations when hiring in Thailand?
- What are the key industry sectors in Thailand?
- Where are there candidate shortages?
- What do candidates expect from a hiring process?
- How are TA teams typically structured?
- What is the relationship with agencies, job boards?
- What do recruiters need to know to succeed in Thailand?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Ondrej Prochazka, Global Head of Talent Sourcing (Agoda), Gary Woollacott, Managing Partner - Thailand, (Horton International), Machar Smith, Head of Talent Acquisition (True Corp) & Kamolwan Charuthas, Recruitment Strategy (Nestlé)
We're on Friday 4th October, 2pm Bangkok Time
Friday Sep 27, 2024
Friday Sep 27, 2024
Hiring Manager Self Serve: How To Can Empower the Line!
Centralising recruitment is the default for 'knowledge' based businesses; the opposite is true for every other type of business. If your organisation is a multi-location, moves physical items, has warehouses, and huge diversity of job roles, then chances are you will necessarily have a more de-centralised hiring approach. What can we learn from organisations like this? What is the ideal relationship between central TA vs decentralised hiring managers in the line?
- Key differences between Head Office vs On Location Hiring
- What do HM want / need?
- How to ensure increase QoH but also empower local decision making?
- What is the ideal technology stack?
- What is the ideal TA org structure for decentralised HM centred hiring?
- How to ensure DEI initiatives are maintained?
- How to improve EB?
- QoH requires connected systems, what is the best way to do this?
- What can Head Office hiring lean from Hiring Manager Self Serve.
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Deborah Caulet, Founder (Aligned Collective), Arjan Spies, Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding Lead (tHRibe.Builders) & Mary Kay Baldino, Head of Talent Acquisition (R1 RCM) on Friday 27th September, 2pm BST
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Friday Sep 20, 2024
Friday Sep 20, 2024
EU AI Act: Implications for Recruiters, Talent Acquisition and HR
One of the biggest challenges we have in our industry is to stay compliant. In a world where the innovation rate of Artificial Intelligence has long since outstripped anyone's ability to keep on top of it, we're left to seek guidance from legislators which we hope know what they're doing. Let's review what the EU AI Act is and how it will impact how recruits, talent acquisition and HR can and should use software which has an AI component.
- Review of EU AI Act - in laymen's terms!
- 4 key points of the EU AI Act
- What parts of the recruitment process - discovery, privacy, assessment, safety - are most significantly exposed to potential AI non-compliance?
- Has anyone analyses existing tools yet for AI compliance?
- What does this mean for US recruitment tech - do we need different versions?
- Can European recruitment tech take advantage of regulatory divergence?
- What lawsuits are happening right now?
- What can we expect in advent of a Trump 2.0 Presidency?
- What is the best way a recruitment business owner or TA or HR leader best
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Friday Sep 13, 2024
Friday Sep 13, 2024
Reviewing 'Do More With Less' - Recruitment Efficiency in 2024
Recruiters have been under pressure all year - maybe even longer than that - to 'do more with less'. This means either increase effort or increase efficiency. And given that we are already at 100% capacity with reduced TA teams, the latter is the only option!
How have we done - what examples have we seen of recruitment efficiency at company wide level?
We will discuss the following:
- How to measure recruitment efficiency?
- How to identify which areas of inefficiencies to tackle.
- Buy or Build: how to make the right choice?
- How to reduce switching costs?
- Managing internal communications
- Stakeholder management
- Managing up to C-level
- How do you know it's done
- Examples of improvement in recruitment efficiency
- What to look forward to in 2025?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Alan Price, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, (Deel), Manjuri Sinha, VP of Talent Succcess (OLX) & Jane Curran, Global Head of Talent Operations (JLL) on Friday 13th September, 2pm BST / 9am ET
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Friday Sep 06, 2024
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Hiring Insights from 1 Million Job Interviews
Interview Intelligence is a category which has exploded into industry consciousness over the past 12 months. Employers are finally learning that in order to have hiring success, you have to ensure that your interviewing game is elite. We are finding out some incredible insights in how recruiters and hiring managers interview, many of which have been posted online already, mainly by BrightHire CEO Ben Sesser's amazing posts on interview insights
I've grabbed some time with Ben to run through these insights, how recruiters can take this understanding to improve their hiring process and why the near future is going to include new industry standards like Interview Quality Score (IQS) and Voice of the Candidate (VoC)
We will discuss the following:
- Gender variance in speaking time
- Candidate motivations correlation with interview rating
- M/F candidate motivations on opportunity
- What AE candidates REALLY care about
- M/F hiring manager interviewing styles
- Topics most discussed by top sales candidates
- Volume of interviews required to hire great sales candidates
- What percentage of interviews are 'structured'?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Ben Sesser, CEO of BrightHire on Friday 6th September, 2pm BST / 9am ET
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