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The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast: Your weekly 60 minute dose of brilliant conversation about Recruiting & HR
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Friday Jun 28, 2024
Friday Jun 28, 2024
SKILL BASED HIRING: A CONVERSATION WITH JOHNNY CAMPBELL
One of the first people to really break down to task and activity level was Johnny Campbell. As CEO of market leading hiring training company SocialTalent, his taxonomy of the skills required by a recruiter to perform in their work remains a canonical artefact in the world of talent acquisition to this day.
This is why I was excited to get a DM from Johnny on the topic of Skill Based Hiring - in particular, why we might have cause to pause in our charge to implement a concept which requires greater understanding, definition and modelling before put into the workplace.
We are shifting gears in today's Brainfood Live - instead of a panel, we are going to critically but fairly examine Skill Based Hiring in a 1-2-1 conversation. Expect the following topics to be covered:
- How to define skills that need to hired?
- How to identify those skills pre-assessment
- How to effectively and fairly assess for those skills, in a scalable way
- What is the expected outcome of SBH hiring done well? Do we have any examples of this?
- Is downgrading credentialism risking the downgrading of valuable experience?
- Do we expect greater workforce diversity with Skill Based Hiring? What we do not get this result?
- Where does Skills Based Hiring need to get to before it becomes viable?
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Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today.
I'm delighted to be speaking to the one and only Roderick Smyth - serial entrepreneur with multiple exits and now the founder and CEO of Glyde Talent - the AI powered recruitment platform which enables recruiters to source and screen at scale.
- What has changed in product development over the past 20 years?
- Can you describe the history of recruitment tech solutions in this time?
- As a tech orientated CEO, what advantages do you think you have over non-tech CEO's
- What disadvantages?
- As a serial founder with multiple exits, to what do you attribute your success?
- Do you think success compounds?
- What was the most important decision you made as an entrepreneur?
- What was one decision you wish you could take back?
- Over twenty years, what has changed about your leadership style and what has stayed the same?
- How do you get the leadership team right?
- What is one question you always ask when interviewing candidates?
- Why Glyde Talent?
All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.
Ep46 of Founders Focus is supported by Glyde Talent
Glyde is an innovative platform revolutionizing the top of funnel in recruiting using advanced AI. Glyde transforms the candidate experience improving outcomes for candidates and hiring teams at scale. Glyde creates a positive engagement for more talent than any human could, identifies more suitable candidates faster and delivers actionable results to your recruiters.
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Friday Jun 21, 2024
Friday Jun 21, 2024
HOW TO SELECT AND IMPLEMENT AN ATS: A MASTERCLASS
There will come a point in every Talent Acquisition professionals career where you will have to make a decision on which ATS to use. Likely to be the most significant technology decision you'll ever make, it is also - outside of payroll - likely to be the biggest ticket investment that you'll ever have responsibility for also. So how exactly are you meant to go about making such a big decision a success?
- Top 10 things to consider when choosing an ATS
- What is the business requirement
- Who are the users?
- What are you currently using to manage recruitment?
- What are the compliance requirements?
- What performance improvement do we expect to gain by upgrading?
- Have you calculated switching costs?
- Who is impacted by this decision?
- Have you developed a communication strategy?
- Who is the decision maker?
- Where do I source the products?
- How can I validate what vendors say?
- What is the budget?
- How long a contract?
- How do we test the vendor relationship?
- Will I be around long enough to see it through?
All this and more on Brainfood Live on Air. We're with leading industry expert, Patrick Boonstra and on Friday 21st June, 1pm BST
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Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
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 Barb Hyman, CEO of Sapia. I had the great pleasure of meeting up with Barb for a coffee in Shoreditch earlier this year and I'm delighted to be able to reconnect with her on her founder story and what exactly made her embark on the journey of recruitment technology entrepreneurship
- When did you realise you had to do Sapia?
- Were you always thinking about becoming an entrepreneur?
- From a UX POV, what are the main differences in being a CEO vs C-level employee?
- How did you start in the HR / TA world?
- Why do you think so few recruitment tech entrepreneurs actually come from recruitment background?
- Do you think this is a problem?
- What have you discovered about yourself as a leader?
- What decisions would you take back if you had the chance?
- Coming from Down Under, what are the main challenges for global breakthrough?
- What recommendations and warning signs would you give to people thinking about tech startup?
- Brand change - why and...did it make a difference?
- What is new with Sapia in 2024?
- How do you think recruitment will change in the next 5 years?
All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.
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Friday Jun 14, 2024
Friday Jun 14, 2024
FUTURE OF JOB BOARDS & JOB ADVERTISING (PART DEUX)
The best Brainfood Lives always leave more to be said. Ep254 set new standards for intellectual horsepower, as we discussed GenAI impact on the future of job boards and job advertising. We had such great feedback that we had to bring the crew back to follow up, this time taking things a step further with an examination of 'agentic AI'
- How are job boards responding to AI agents?
- What demands are employers making of job boards?
- At what point do job boards recognise the risk that employers will no longer advertise jobs?
- How do employers identify such risks?
- Where is programmatic job advertising in this story?
- What are the challenges of having peek-a-boo job ads when the application speed from job candidates increases?
- What innovations do we expect to see from candidate side?
- Has anyone actually tested 'AI MassApply'?
- What assessment load should jobs boards take?
- Are agencies and job boards coming together in some sort of digital managed service?
All this and more, with Bill Fischer, CTO (VONQ), Louise Triance, Founder (UK Recruiter),
Josh Willows, Head of Programmatic Sales (Veritone), Alex Chukowski, Advisor (Jobiqo), Steven Rothberg, Founder (College Recruiter), Chris Russell, Founder (RecTech Media) & friends on Friday 14th June, 2pm BST / 9am ET
VONQ simplifies job publishing online, serving over 1,000 top companies, including 25+ Fortune 500 firms. Integrating with over 100 ATS and HCM platforms, we reach 80% of US and EU talent teams. Our network spans +5000 media channels, leveraging automation, data insights, and recruitment marketing to target the right talent efficiently. Recognized by Fosway as a Strategic Leader in Talent Acquisition, VONQ continues to lead in innovative recruitment solutions
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
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 on is one of brainfood's oldest buddies, Max Armbruster, CEO of Talkpush. If you've ever met Max you'd know about it - a unique, effervescent character whose passion for tech and recruitment is matched only by his vision for the future of recruitment optimisation. Let's find out more about who this guy is and what drives him to do what he does.
- What important thing did you have cancel to appear on Founders Focus today?
- What does a day in the life look like for the CEO of Talkpush?
- Could a different personality do your job? If so, how would their impact differ?
- Building a team..what are the main principles you have when hiring for your own department?
- Were you always destined to be CEO?
- What leadership lessons have you learned in your time as CEO of Talkpush?
- What do you think the world of recruitment look like if Talkpush reached its goals?
- What exciting things can customers of Talkpush have the rest of this year?
- Back in time: if you timewarp back to the start of your journey with Talkpush what things would you change?
All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.
Wed 12th June, 10.30am BST
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Ep44 of Founders Focus is supported by Talkpush
Talkpush automates the repetitive parts of sourcing, screening and hiring talent, using various technologies such as chatbots, artificial intelligence, automated workflows, robotic process automation and optical character recognition to do in a fraction of a second what would normally take days or week to do manually. We talk with candidates on any channel their prefer, including SMS and email, as well as messaging platforms like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or Telegram, to make candidates more accessible to our customers.
Friday May 31, 2024
Friday May 31, 2024
EXPANDING SCOPE: FROM TALENT ACQUISITION TO TALENT EVERYTHING
Talent Acquisition has spent the past two decades attempting to create an identity distinct from HR....was this mistake, and do we now need to discreetly reverse course??
Apologies for the provocation but I suspect this is more or less what we NEED to be doing, especially as the employers everywhere demand more from people teams, forcing us all to expand scope to take on work that was previously someone else's theatre. Additionally, our understanding of the human journey through a company tells us that we need break functional siloes which emerged in a different era of business.
What is it like to expand scope beyond TA? Should more of us do it? Let's speak to TA professionals who have already.
- How did this journey start?
- Was it a strategic decision to expand scope from just TA?
- What new functions are most interesting for you?
- Which ones are most difficult for a person coming from a TA perspective?
- What have you learned ABOUT TA since you expanded scope BEYOND TA?
- What skills should professionals develop in order to best position for future expansive roles like this?
- What next, what else do you personally need to learn about your current career path?
- How do you envisage the future of TA / Talent Everything?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air, We're with Manjuri Sinha, VP of Talent Success, OLX Group, Yasar Ahmad, VP of People (HelloFresh), Christine Ng, Head of Talent & Communication (Quantum Motion) and on Friday 31st May, 2pm BST / 9am ET
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Friday May 24, 2024
Friday May 24, 2024
PROGRAMMATIC JOB ADVERTISING: THE MASTERCLASS
I am convinced that programmatic job advertising will become a necessity for the employers hiring at any kind of scale. Applicant overflow will become untenable without automated system which can respond to flow rate by either increasing or decreasing the visibility of the advert. And yet the solutions remain mysterious for the majority of recruiters, most of whom have never used programmatic job advertising tools; market penetration in the UK is <10%. In EU, even less. Why is this and what can done about it?
- What is Programmatic Job Adverting?
- Can you please show me how it works
- What employers does it serve, for whom is this not the right solution
- Why?
- Where is programmatic for smaller scale job ads?
- What jobs are most well served by programmatic?
- What jobs are not suitable for this?
- What impact does this have on job ad writing...does it become less relevant?
- Is there any 'skill' in programmatic job advertising?
- What is the minimum order purchase?
- Why is it this number?
- What integrations do we need to understand?
- What examples of success have we seen in employers who have used programmatic?
By popular demand, we are bringing back Yaz Dalal, Chief Growth Officer at Joveo, to hand hold us through this on Brainfood Live On Air
We're on Friday 24th May, 2pm BST / 9am ET
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Tuesday May 21, 2024
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today
Scotty AI is a technology business where the market has finally caught up with the vision. Their pioneering software provides the sort of automation of workflow which recruiters have been screaming out for, especially in the era of 'do more with less'
Let's hear from the man who built the thing - Engineer, CTO and Co-founder Reiner Bruns.
- What important thing did you have cancel to appear on Founders Focus today?
- What does a day in the life look like for a CTO of Scotty AI?
- Could a different personality do your job? If so, how would their impact differ?
- Exec team...how do you agree to disagree?
- Building a team..what are the main principles you have when hiring for your own department?
- Were you always destined to be CTO?
- How is founding a business different from being a senior employee?
- What do you think the world of recruitment look like if Scotty reached its goals?
- Can you explain what value Scotty provides, and to whom?
- What expectations can customers of Scotty have the rest of this year?
- Back in time: if you timewarp back to the start of your journey with Scotty what advice would you give to younger Reiner?
All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.
Tuesday 21st May, 12pm BST / 1pm CEST
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Ep43 of Founders Focus is supported by Scotty
Friday May 17, 2024
Friday May 17, 2024
RECRUITMENT AUTOMATION TIPS YOU CAN DO RIGHT AWAY
As the case studies accumulate, we are beginning to see the outline of what an AI-enabled recruiter looks like: it is indeed x10 more productive, perhaps even x100 more productive in certain tasks and functions. It's time to stop watching folks, and time to start doing.
- Examples of Recruitment Automation which can be done today
- What areas of in the workflow should recruiters be focussing on automating?
- What are the impediments to automation beyond the individual recruiter?
- Or should the automation always be individuated?
- How do recruitment leaders coach their teams to improve using AI?
- What the best tools to use today?
- Why is Ai-enabling a process so difficult?
- How do we get the pay off?
- How do we know when to abandon a bad idea?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Martyn Redstone, AI Automation Consultant (PPLBOTS), Bret Feig, VP Talent Acquisition (Zip Co), Mike Wolford, AI Implementation Consultant (Eponymous) and friends, on Friday 17th May, 2pm BST / 9am ET
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