The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep145 - How to become a Strategic Recruitment Partner

We all love the word 'strategic'. We probably all think we are strategic. But it means something different from at the customer perspective, if you're considered a strategic partner or asset. It means that they factor in your service and availability when they are designing their own strategies.

 

- What is being a  'strategic partner'?

- Is this even possible to achieve for an agency supplier?

- What needs to happen, for this to happen?

- How to build and deepen trust relationships

- How to add value services

- How to be the consigliere to the key stakeholders

 

With Louise Triance, Founder (UK Recruiter), James Osborn, Founder (The Recruitment Network) & Ben Browning, MD (Resonant Recruitment Development)

 

 

Ep145 is sponsored by Willo

 

Speaking to candidates on Zoom, Teams or Skype and It’s a great way to meet people, but it can also exhausting, inefficient and inconvenient

Willo has taken the interviewing process and brought it into the 21st century. They looked at all the negatives of traditional interviews like scheduling, fatigue, anxiety and travel, and created a virtual interview process that candidates actually love - and they have an NPS score to prove it...

 

They also have native integrations with Workable, Greenhouse and Zapier, so you can automate your selection process, cast a wider net, and really scale things up.

Founders Focus Ep17 Up close and personal with Nico Blier-Silvestri, CEO Platypus

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 Nico Blier-Silvestri, CEO of Platypus

- What are the benefits of being a recruiter before becoming CEO of a rectech business?

- What are the handicaps?

- What blind spots did you have when become a first time founder / CEO?

- When did you know Platypus was going to happen?

- Can you remember the first big decision you made?

- What lessons would you give to yourself if you could time machine back to the start?

- What does the product roadmap look like for customers in 2022

- As CEO, what do you need to more / less of in order for the business to grow?

- What busy CEO things do you need to do after this show?

 

All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.

 

Ep17 Founders Focus is supported by Platypus

With systematic data on team culture and candidate values, Platypus allows you to track alignment, build stronger teams, and improve quality of hire.

Check out Platypus Connect, a new recruiting platform where candidates match directly with teams based on shared values. Create your own profile and be among the first to try it out. It’s next-generation stuff folks, so book a demo with a friendly member of the Platypus team, or try their candidate flow.

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep144 - Building Institutional Confidence for TA & HR

There is status gap between departments in business. Finance is the treasury. Sales bring the money. Product / Engineering might make the things we sell. Legal creates the contracts we are all bound by. Where does TA / HR sit in this order? Why do recruiters / TA consistently seem to be a department that has fight extra hard to be heard? Perhaps, we lack 'institutional confidence'

 

- What is 'institutional confidence'

- How do we know this is a problem

- What do we need to do on departmental level to level the playing field?

- Is this even possible, or desirable thing to do?

- What is the role of evidence / data in producing better relationships

- How can we become more central to decision making

- Can a department build confidence?

 

w/ Lesa Molinari, Global Branding & Talent Acquisition Director (Colt), Juliette Rouquet, DITA SME (Danaher Corporation), Raj Gill, Talent Acquisition Manager (British Telecom) & Jon Hull, Head of Resourcing (Balfour Beatty)

 

Ep144 is sponsored by Oyster

 

Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. Their end-to-end distributed HR platform enables companies to deliver locally compliant payroll and benefits, as well as a smooth onboarding experience to team members and contractors regardless of their location.

FoundersFocus - Ep16 - Up close and personal with Jonathan Romley, CEO of Lundi

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 Jonathan Romley, CEO of Lundi

 

- Why are you always the boss of your businesses?

- What are the CEO things that you don't do well?

- How do you hire your leadership team?

- What is the original story of Lundi?

- What is does the final outcome for Lundi look like?

- What exciting things can the market expect from Lundi in 2022?

- If you were to teleport back in time to when you first started entrepreneurship, what 3 lessons would you impart to younger Jonathan?

- What are the most common mistakes you see inexperienced CEO's make?

 

All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.

 

Wednesday 23rd Feb, 12.00pm GMT / 2pm EET

 

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Ep16 Founders Focus is supported by Lundi

Recruit the right talent—no matter where they're located. Lundi is a marketplace which connects global employers with local recruiters, helping you access talent from over 65+ countries. Struggling to fill your international vacancies? Post the job up on Lundi and have expert local recruiters bid to submit candidates for the role.

 

Access the global talent pool, reduce your time to hire. Lundi is the talent solution for the world. Request a personal demo today

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep143 - Why TA should (re)integrate with HR

How long has the argument been that TA should be in a separate department from HR, either a stand alone reporting into the CEO or part of Marketing or part of Operations - anything but HR! Where is the state of this argument and does it still stand? What might the benefits be of moving closer to HR rather than away?

 

- Isn't TA really about marketing these days?

- What has been the influence of covid 19 onto this conversation?

- Should it even matter which reporting line?

- Why TA benefits from being closer / further away from HR

- How to make the HR relationship work

- Do different organisations require different functional structures?

 

Lets talk about organisational design folks.

 

With Kevin Green, Chief People Officer (FirstGroup),  Jo Weech, Global Head of People & Talent (Clements Worldwide) & Geraldine Butler-Wright, Chief People & Culture Officer (Healthily)

 

Friday 18th February, 2.00pm GMT

 

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Ep143 is sponsored by Oyster

Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. Their end-to-end distributed HR platform enables companies to deliver locally compliant payroll and benefits, as well as a smooth onboarding experience to team members and contractors regardless of their location.

Founders Focus -Ep15 - Up close and personal with Pedro Oliveira, CEO of Talent Protocol

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today

 

Next up is Pedro Oliveira, CEO of Talent Protocol

- What is the difference between being CEO of a web2 vs a web3 organisation?

- What have you learned in your career as a leader of tech business?

- What assumptions have you had to let go, which ones are you now gambling to be true?

- Decisions as CEO: toughest, best and the one you would like to take back!

- How do you find the co-founding team? How was this group assembled?

- What is Talent Protocol, how does it work?

- What is the roadmap for TP in 2022?

- What counts as success if you were to look back at the end of next year?

 

All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.

 

Ep15 Founders Focus is supported by Talent Protocol

 

Talent Protocol is a web3 platform where talent can easily launch a token for their career, and where users can back people they believe in. Support undiscovered talent and be rewarded as they grow. Join the waitlist here

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep142 - How To Know A Good Recruiter

How To Know A Good Recruiter?

 

Everybody is hiring for recruiters these days and - in moments of candidate shortage for recruiters - we may be tempted to say to anybody with a pulse! However, how can we tell a good recruiter apart from the others? Is there a way to do it before we actually get to see them in action?

 

- Red flags on candidates

- Key assessment criteria

- How important is prior experience (really)

- How important are the recruiting stages?

- How important is domain knowledge?

- Junior recruiter from remote?

 

Lets talk about how to assess recruiters folks!

 

With Mark Deubels, Senior Technical Recruiter (Gitlab), Katrina Hutchinson-O'Neill, Founder (Join Talent) & Farah Kanji, Chief People Officer (Founder's Factory)

 

Ep142 is sponsored by Bryq

 

Looking to uncover hidden talent in the hiring process? 

Trying to help your current employees optimize their performance? Wanting to counter the "Great Resignation" and retain your talent? 

The Bryq Talent Intelligence platform has your answers to these questions and many others.

Book a meeting with Bryq's Customer Success Team today to see just how much their science can accomplish

Founders Focus - Ep14 - Up close and personal with Tony Jamous, CEO of Oyster

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 Tony Jamous, CEO of Oyster

- What's the Oyster original story?

- When did you realise it would be a billion dollar opportunity?

- How much bigger did Covid / Shift to remote make the market, make the business?

- What's the difference in leading a Unicorn business, going for all the marbles vs just another great business?

- What is the hardest part of the job today?

 

All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.

 

Ep14 Founders Focus is supported by Oyster

 

Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. Their end-to-end distributed HR platform enables companies to deliver locally compliant payroll and benefits, as well as a smooth onboarding experience to team members and contractors regardless of their location.

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep141 - Recruiter Enablement - How to Set up a RecOps function

Recruiter Enablement - How to set up an effective Recaps function

 

We heard a lot of recruitment operations or 'RecOps' in recent years but it is still an uncommon specialist function in TA teams. What is RecOps, why is not just plain old recruiting and why do some people think it is the key to hyper scaling?

 

- Definitions - what is recruitment operations?

- What are the key tasks and objectives involved in RecOPs?

- How do we know Recaps is performing well?

- What kind of KPI's do RecOps most care about?

- Do you need to be an ex-recruiter to be a good recops person?

- When would be a good time to set up this function?

 

All this and more, as we take a deep dive into an emerging function in highly effective recruiting organisations.

 

With Stephanie Baysinger, Director of Recruiting Operations (Marqeta) & Dani Martos, Recruiting Operations Lead (Preply) & Chloe Morrison, Recruitment Ops (Datadog)

 

Friday 28th January, 3.00pm GMT / 4.00pm CET / 7.00am PT

 

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Ep141 is sponsored by Oyster

 

Oyster is on a mission to remove barriers to cross-border employment and enable companies to tap into the global talent pool. Our end-to-end distributed HR platform streamlines global employment across the full remote employee lifecycle, enabling companies to hire, pay, and care for talented teammates regardless of location.

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep140 - Setting Salary for Remotely Distributed Teams

Setting Salaries for Remotely Distributed Teams

 

As candidate shortage continues to bite in 2022, employers will increasingly look to shift jobs to location agnostic setting. However as one problem may be solved others rise up to take their place - how do we handle the compensation for our newly remote workforce? This is topic of Brainfood Live On Air - Ep140

 

- Shifting to remote....what is the framework to use?

- What are the common objections and challenges when setting compensation for remote?

- What caveats pertain to hybrid mode of work?

- Are there or should there be different compensation packages for different types of remote?

- How do we deal with increasing demands for pay transparency?

- How tenable is to pay a global minimum / maximum?

- How do we handle salary review?

- What are the back office options available?

- For employers looking to shift to remote from on premise, what challenges can they anticipate?

 

With Rachel Gibbs, Global Compensation & Benefits Advisor (Independent), Megan O'Malley, Senior Director Global Recruitment, International Rescue Committee & Andrew Gadomski, Founder (Aspen Analytics)

 

Ep140 is sponsored by Oyster

 

Oyster is on a mission to remove barriers to cross-border employment and enable companies to tap into the global talent pool. Our end-to-end distributed HR platform streamlines global employment across the full remote employee lifecycle, enabling companies to hire, pay, and care for talented teammates regardless of location.