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The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast: Your weekly 60 minute dose of brilliant conversation about Recruiting & HR
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Friday Nov 06, 2020
Friday Nov 06, 2020
We have to talk about it - the US Presidential election on the 3rd November - will have reverberating impact across the globe, such is influence of the United States.
The radically different persona's, philosophies, even values of the two contenders will have more direct impact to the world economy and the world of business and recruitment than we might first realise.
- What does a Trump win mean for offshoring & international trade?
- What does a Biden win mean for Universal Basic Income?
- Does DE&I go into reverse under a second Trump Presidential term?
- Will AI accelerate or decelerate under either of these men?
- What role does HR play during / after politically divisive moments?
We're going to be speculating about the near future folks, on the most important single event in 2020.
Laurie Ruettiman, Lars Schmidt & Tim Sackett joins to help guide us through the culture, politics and economics of the next 4 years in the United States.
Ep84 is supported by our buddies at Workable. Hire better, hire faster, with Workable. Free 15 day trial here
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Get the feeling that the idea of the 'talent pipeline' might be over?
It was always a nonsense - that people who move in one direction through an interaction with an employer, and only end up with one outcome - offer of a job or not.
We know that the the relationship between potential employee and future employer is much more complex, multi-faceted. at multi-speeds. More recruiters will be speaking to candidates years before they become employees, relationships built over time and many iterations.
The question for modern TA departments is: how best to nurture relationships? Don't tell me an email drip campaign is the way. We got to be smarter than that ;-)
We're going to be gathering together experts in online relationship building, including the awesome Vanessa Raath, who has built a community of recruiters across South Africa, Rosie Sherry, Community Manager at Indie Hackers and the ever awesome Allyn Bailey at Intel.
Don't miss this one folks - register on the green button on the top right, and follow the channel here (recommended) for future updates.
Ep83 is supported by our buddies at Workable. Hire better, hire faster, with Workable. Free 15 day trial here
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
How do we measure Recruitment performance in 2020?
Our historical data can now only provide us with a guideline rather than a benchmark on what good performance looks like; we know that the game has changed, in some respects, in fundamental ways. and we need to get on with the business of translating that change into something we can quantify and measure.
What are the new Recruiting KPI's? What are the new numbers we need to care about?
- Time to Hire
- Applicants to Hire
- Quality of Hire
- Diversity at shortlist
- Recruiter NPS
- and more
Marisa Bryan, Head of Operations at Scede and Andrea Marston (EMEA VP of Talent Acquisition, VMware) will be joining
Friday 23rd October, 12.00pm GMT
Don't miss this - click on the green button on the top right to register and follow the channel here (recommended) for updates
Episode 82 is supported by our buddies at CVCheck
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Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
How has 2020 changed Tech Recruiting?
Amongst the hardest challenges in the recruiting business, hiring in-demand software developers, designers and data scientists was consistently popular topic over the past decade.
How has Covid-19 changed this?
We will learn about
- Employer branding for tech talent
- Changing candidate demands from employers
- The near mandatory provision of flexible working
- Changes in the core metrics of recruiting - has time to hire reduced?
- Sources of talent - what has happened to tech job vacancy / advertising?
- D&I in tech - how, what are we doing about this, since Covid-19 hit.
Manjuri Sinha, Global Head of Tech Recruiting at OLX and Alla Pavlova, Tech Recruiter at Miro, will be joining the debate. Pedro Oliveira from Future Works steps in as co-host
Ep81 is sponsored by our buddies at PASS. PASS make background checking, simple centralising background screening in one location for a faster, fully compliant and more cost-effective process.
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Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
One thing that Covid-19 and lockdown has taught us that there are new communication channels which recruiters truly need to embrace.
Email + telephone - whilst still important - are yesterday's communication tech, being first supplemented by chat, video and livestream, before being supplanted by them.
It's time we all upgraded our game in how to communicate the covid era. Jose Kadlec - author of the wildly popular Covid Proof Virtual Trainer, is our special guest today on will help us run through the technology & set up options for provide the best possible experience for both us, as the communicator / creator and for them, the audience and the recipient.
You will learn about
- Best Webcams
- Lighting techniques / hacks
- Shoot with mobile or via laptop
- Best Mic's
- Video options for live synchronoous chat, for broadcast, for video notes and the rest.
This is it folks - in 1 hour we are going to cover all you need to know to upgrade your video set up.
Episode 80 is supported by our buddies at VideoMyJob.
VideoMyJob is an award-winning video platform used by teams to create authentic video content that attracts talent and engages employees. Up your recruitment marketing game today - here
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
How transferrable are your recruiter skills?
There is no question that flexibility in career path is smart thinking for anyone in any line of work right now, and us recruiters are no exception.
Today's show we will be exploring the career paths which recruiters can explore. Helping us do it? Will be a line up of recruiters who have made the move to
- Software vendor
- Online investigator / Online researcher
- HR
- Marketing
- Programming
- Entrepreneurship
This is going to be a lesson for us on a) what really are your transferrable skills and b) what steps you need to take to maintain career agility.
Episode 79 is sponsored by our buddies at Codility - the evidence-based platform that helps hiring teams predict the real-life skills of their developer candidates, remotely and at scale.
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Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
Heading into the final quarter, I think we can all agree that 2020 has been an incredible year
The global pandemic has acted like universal accelerant to the underlying trends like remote working, alternative workforce, income inequality, social inequality, political unrest and the rest.
Our industry, in recruiting & HR, as seen at the forefront of these changes; and we now may be given an early glimpse as to what the short term post pandemic future might look like.
What are the underlying Recruitment Trends that we are going to see manifest over the next 12 months?
We will be examining:
- Candidate communications
- Authenticity in employer branding
- Optionality and the candidate demand for choice
- Flexibility and employee agency
- Sourcing over advertising
- Work trials over assessments
- Short term before Long term
All this and more, in Brainfood Live On Air. Leading industry analysts Sarah Brennan and Kevin Wheeler will be joining us to help us talk through the topic
Ep78 is supported by our buddies at Workable. Hire better, hire faster, with Workable. Free 15 day trial here
Friday Sep 18, 2020
Friday Sep 18, 2020
5 years ago, hiring for 'culture fit' was the thing all the cool companies were doing.
But hiring for 'fit' of any kind fell into the criticism of reinforcing in-group bias, creating homogeneity and further disadvantaging already disadvantaged groups.
Where is the conversation now? Is culture fit truly in the dustbin of recruiting history, or can the concept of hiring for people who are inherently compatible with business operations something we recruiters still need to do?
Lets talk
- what do we mean by 'cultural fit'
- can the concept be recovered?
- what framework to use to capture multi-culturalism within a company culture?
- can we capture dynamism and change when assessing culture?
Ep77 is sponsored by our buddies at Platypus. Platypus are a game changing cultural & team analysis platform. If you want to understand how you company really operates, book a demo with the team here
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Unconscious bias is now at least a topic that we are conscious of!
But what to do about it is another matter.
As recruiters in the business of hiring the best people we can for the businesses we work for, reducing the degree of unconscious bias at every stage of the recruiting process is a critical measure of how well we are doing our jobs.
But how? What are the techniques to reduce bias that we are normally not even aware of?
Good job we have Unconscious bias trainer, recruitment leader, and podcast legend, Lorne Epstein will be joining us as special guest to help us talk through it. Christine Ng from the Financial Times dropping in also
Must listen for anyone involved in candidate assessment
Episode 76 is sponsored by our buddies at Bryq. Bryq blindly screens candidates by matching skills and personality to job and company requirements, eliminating bias and boosting Diversity & Inclusion. Sign up for the 14 day free trial here.
Friday Sep 04, 2020
Friday Sep 04, 2020
How do you make the business case for more budget during times of Covid-19?
Moving the against the market is often the toughest, yet smartest thing that companies can do; leaders are made through being able to see the opportunity amid the emergency. The question is: what are the tactics & techniques to get there?
In this episode of Brainfood Live On Air, you will learn
- how to speak the language of the CEO / CFO, not the language of HR / TA
- how to align your department with the calendar of the CEO
- how to overcome common objections
- how to communicate your spending, at the same time when you have to be cutting elsewhere
- the importance of external profile for internal success
Lisa Scales steps up as co-host and Jerome Ternynck joins are specialist guest to help us think through the challenges
Ep75 is sponsored by our buddies at SmartRecruiters. Download SmartRecruiters free white paper on How to get budget for business transformation here