The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Brainfood Live On Air 101 - How to hire when you're overwhelmed by Job Applications

HOW TO HIRE (WHEN YOUR OVERLOADED WITH JOB APPLICATIONS?)

Over the past 12 months we've observed the phenomenon of surging applicant volume, with numbers from 100-1000% more than the same moment the year before.  For many industries, especially ones which are absorbing workers from industries made dormant by lockdown, handing excess volume of job applications has become THE hiring challenge to tackle.

The shift to remote - and the 'hire from anywhere' approach - suggests that this pattern of high volume job applications can be expected for many types of job role.

- How to structure your TA team to handle it?
- How do you maintain / improve candidate experience?
- Does your relationship with the hiring managers change?
- What tech stack do you need to handle the volume?
- How do you ensure the TA team - the recruiter experience - remains intact?

All this and more in Ep101 of Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Clair Bush, VP of Marketing at ph.creative, Jelmer Koppelmans Founder at Roadtrip and Ben Gledhill, Head of Resourcing at Thames Water

Ep101 is sponsored by our buddies Occupop

Attract, manage and hire the right people for your business with software designed for in-house recruiters in mind. Looking to upgrade from spreadsheets or swap out your legacy ATS? Check out Occupop, start with a free 14 day trial here

Founders Focus - Ep3 - Mickael Cabrol, MD EMEA, ICIMS

Ep3 of 'Founders Focus' - a new Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space.

Next up is Mickael Cabrol, MD, EMEA of iCIMS, after the successful acquisition with EASYRECRUE where he was the CEO. 

- Who is Mickael Cabrol ?
- What is his leadership philosophy?
- What has he learned from being CEO?
- How was the EASYRECRUE / iCIMS deal sealed?
- What can EASYRECRUE/iCIMS customers expect in 2021?
- What is it like to transition to being a leader vs the leader?

All this and more, as we take a deep dive into the personalities leading the technology businesses changing the way we hire

Ep2 of Founders Focus is sponsored by iCIMS

Create your winning workforce with iCIMS’ industry-leading service and platform, backed by today’s top analysts and independent researchers. 

Book a demo here

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep100 - Better Way To Reject Candidates: Tips, Templates & Techniques

Rejecting candidates is one of the hard parts of the job of any recruiter. None of us like to do it, but we not only have to do it, but have to get better at it.

- What makes a good rejection message?
- Phone call or email?
- How much feedback can you / do you give?
- What to do if the rejection or the feedback is disputed by the candidate?
- Does they stage of the application process influence rejection handling?Is it actually an opportunity to create an employer brand advocate?

We're going to examine this question and more, as we discuss one of the most neglected aspects of the recruiting process - how to reject candidates, better

Ep100 is sponsored by our buddies Occupop

Attract, manage and hire the right people for your business with software designed for in-house recruiters in mind. Looking to upgrade from spreadsheets or swap out your legacy ATS? Check out Occupop, start with a free 14 day trial here

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep99 - Employer Branding Tips for a Remote First World

LETS FACE IT: Pre-covid, a great deal of Employer branding was focused on the physical space of the office building and the on premise experience that new employees could expect to have upon joining.. This was the reason for the huge investment employers made in commercial real estate, opening up space for WeWork (remember them?) to create a category which promised the experience without the fixed costs.

NOW THIS,

- we're all at home, working remote
- we don't care about the conditions of the office
- we're beginning to not care about the location of the office

WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN FOR EMPLOYER BRANDING?

How do companies communicate their EB when the physical environment isn't going to change for the employee? Some top tips on how to do this from our guests this week - Steve Ward (Universum) Heidi Wassini, Global Talent Acquisition. Helen Durkin EB Program Lead, Indeed.com  & Employer Branding Partner, Vivino & Akbar Karenga Head of Talent (Storyblok)

Ep99 is sponsored by our buddies CA3

CA3 is an award-winning employer brand agency that helps organisations attract, onboard and engage with talent through compelling creative comms. Great work, great relationships is their raison d'être, the reason their clients (the likes of Expedia Group, Johnson Matthey, Smartest Energy, Audley Group, Aviva, GE Healthcare and Rolls-Royce) love working with them, and their people come to work smiling (even on Mondays apparently).

 

If your EVP or employer brand is in need of a little love and attention after a tough 2020 why not check out their website today.

Founders Focus - Ep2 - Hanno Renner, CEO of Personio

'Founders Focus' - a new Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space.

Next up is Hanno Renner, CEO of Personio, the HR operating system for your growing business

- Who is Hanno Renner?
- What is his leadership philosophy?
- How do you CEO a rocketship?
- What is it like building a European company vs a US company?
 -How does technology change behaviour?
- What can Personio customers expect in 2021?

All this and more, as we take a deep dive into the personalities leading the technology businesses changing the way we hire

Ep2 of Founders Focus is sponsored by Personio

HR, Recruiting and Payroll, Personio supports all of the core HR processes in one easy-to-implement system. More than 3000 satisfied customers including Premier Inn, Spendesk, Statista and Clevershuttle use Personio.

Schedule a demo today with one of Personio’s friendly reps and they’ll be happy to help. Or try it for free here

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep98 - The Dark Side of LinkedIn: Dealing with Bullies, Stalkers & Trolls

THE DARK SIDE OF LINKEDIN: DEALING WITH BULLIES, STALKERS & TROLLS

If you're a follower of this channel chances are you use LinkedIn every day as part of your essential toolkit as a professional in the people business.

We don't expect to encounter trouble here do we?

And yet, there is a price to be paid when you are a user of the platform where anyone can sign up, anyone can post, anyone can comment or message. Some of us - by dint of gender, ethnicity, professional role or something else, can be a target more than others.

This week's brainfood is a change of pace - lets have a think about how other people experience LinkedIn and how best to deal with troublesome or malevolent interactions we might encounter there.

Friday 26th February, 2.00pm UTC

Ep98 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies Kelly Services. 

Kelly Services are a global specialty talent solutions provider, connecting great people with great companies in fields including Science, Engineering, Office, Light Industrial, Education, and more. Whether you’re a job seeker or an employer, we’ll help you ditch the script on old ways of thinking, so you can meet your goals and reach your potential.

Find out more about our services here

Founders Focus - Ep1 - Steve Lucas, CEO, iCIMS

Introducing 'Founders Focus' - a new Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space.

First up is Steve Lucas, CEO of iCIMS, the market leading cloud recruitment platform provider.

- Who is Steve Lucas?
- What is his leadership philosophy?
- What has he learned from being CEO?
- What can iCIMS customers expect in 2021?
- What movie villain does Steve have most sympathy with?

All this and more, as we take a deep dive into the personalities leading the technology businesses changing the way we hire

Ep1 of Founders Focus is sponsored by iCIMS

Create your winning workforce with iCIMS’ industry-leading service and platform, backed by today’s top analysts and independent researchers. 

Book a demo here

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep97 - How to get DE&I out of HR, and into the business

A big problem with DE&I is that it is considered a topic 'for HR'. And HR can often by at fault, taking 'ownership' of DE&I initiatives and inadvertently preventing the ideas from really embedding into the rest of business.

Its time for change folks - and that change has to be on how we get DE&I out of HR and into the rest of the business!

We're going to be joined by an ensemble guest lists including Vessy Tasheva (inclusion specialist & consultant), Rocki Howard (Head of Diversity), non-HR managers who have taken leadership roles in DE&I - Garry Turner (IMCD Group), Jessy Halison (ecosia), African Munoz (LinkedIn), as well as by recruiters who are responsible to top of funnel acquisition of candidates (Katy Peichert).

Kind of a can't miss folks


Ep97 is sponsored by our buddies Applied

Applied is blind recruitment software for unbiased hiring. Make hiring decisions based on data, not background or bias. Employers like ASOS.com, Centrica, GroupM and many others use Applied. Not convinced?  Request a demo here and a friendly member of our team will get in touch!

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep96 - People Analytics.....or Bossware?

The shift to remote has had the effect of digitising previously analogue processes. This is lead to a bloom of workforce data which we previously could not collate or make use of. We are now swimming in data which can used to better understand employee sentiment and productivity, skill distribution across the company, how time is spent doing what.

There is a conundrum though - at what point does the burgeoning new discipline of 'People Analytics' become 'Bossware' or workforce surveillance?

What is the difference between caring about employees mental health vs intrusion onto people's personal lives?

This is the topic of Ep96 of Brainfood Live On Air. If you care about what to do with the data your employees are now producing - and how to use this effectively AND ethically


Ep96 is sponsored by our buddies Charthop. 

ChartHop is the world's first org management platform, empowering leaders to see their organization's past while designing its future. It automatically builds fluid views of a company through real-time updated org charts, custom reporting & analytics, and headcount planning that boosts efficiency across teams.

ChartHop integrates with 20+ HR tech & data platforms, and companies like Peloton, MongoDB, Starburst, Postman and InVision rely on the company to plan, organize and visualize their orgs.

Find out more here or click here to request a demo.

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep95 - From the Developers POV Part Four - Onboarding

WHAT DO DEVELOPERS REALLY THINK ABOUT ONBOARDING?

We all know that concern for the candidate journey should not stop at the job offer, yet all too often it does, often leaving a yawning gap between verbal yes and employee start.

How can we better manage this process? Who is even in charge of it? What do developers want after they have said yes to a job offer? All this and more in the last episode of our mini series, From the Developers POV.

Ep95 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies VanHack. 

Simply put, VanHack is the fastest way to hire tech talent. Connect over a community of over 200,000 qualified developers from over 100+ countries through out the world. 

Sign up for an employer account and start hiring tech talent today.