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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
AI powered one stop shop to engage, assess and develop talents across the globe. Allowing to assess 300+ skills from coding to cognitive, langage to soft skills, video interviewing to personality traits etc in real time using speech to text and AI/LLMs module while offering a great immersive experience to candidates.
Book a demo with our friendly team today
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
Transform your talent sourcing with the global leader in programmatic job advertising. Joveo is revolutionizing recruitment for the world’s most prominent employers, staffing firms, RPOs, and media agencies. Our advanced platform ensures you attract, engage, and hire the best candidates efficiently and within budget. Powering millions of jobs daily, Joveo leverages cutting-edge data science and machine learning to optimize your recruitment process across all online channels. Experience unparalleled control and insights, from initial click to final hire, making your talent acquisition seamless and effective.
Embrace the future of hiring with Joveo — where precision meets performance. Schedule a demo with one of our friendly experts today here
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
Ep257 is sponsored by our buddies Metaview
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Wednesday May 15, 2024
Wednesday May 15, 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
VONQ has been one of the recruitment technology providers who have undergirded the recruitment advertising eco-system, often in a way unknown to recruiters at the operations side of the business. What a better opportunity to find out more about this company than getting face time with one of the founders, Tycho van Paassen?
- Why is VONQ organised the way it is?
- What was the plan when the company started - was there a clear vision or a matter of step by step problem solving?
- What have you learnt about yourself as an executive in your various roles at the company?
- Exec / leadership hiring - how do you select leaders for the company, is there a formula?
- VONQ culture...was this something you thought about it or did it emerge through the building the business?
- Can you explain to the audience where VONQ sits in the tech eco-system?
- What do you think will be the main value for customers of VONQ in 2024 and beyond?
- How do you think AI will change jobs advertising?
- How do you think AI will change VONQ?
- What exciting things can customers expect to see from the company in 2024?
- If you could do it all over again, what decision would be stick to, and which one 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.
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
Friday May 10, 2024
Friday May 10, 2024
HOW TO SET UP A RECRUITMENT ANALYTICS DASHBOARD
Having strong analytics is critical to increasing the degree of your hiring success. Much more challenging is how best to set up a dashboard which works best for your organisation and your needs. We're going to get some expert advice from talent leaders whose speciality is enabling organisations to have access to, and make better quality decisions on, the data from the talent team.
- What metrics do elite organisations use?
- Are there common analytics themes amongst high vs low performing TA teams?
- Give us the metrics that matter - please no context!
- How long do you go back in history when you get there?
- What method do we have to connecting performance data back to the assessment flow?
- Do we need a specialist analytics function to do this?
- How does Ai help us identify important metrics - can we now find / use more?
- What software works best?
- Can we see a few examples here??
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Luke Eaton, Head of Talent Operations (WellTech), Michael Talarek, Senior Analyst (Zalando) & Jeremy Thornton, Senior Project Manager (Citi) on Friday 10th May, 2pm BST / 9am ET
Greenhouse is your all-together hiring platform — there to meet your company’s needs at every stage with comprehensive solutions that power your hiring process.
Bringing together technology and expertise, scalable workflows from Greenhouse help you connect recruiters, interviewers, hiring managers, and candidates. Use smart sourcing tools that help you discover and engage top talent, and create organized interview plans that empower your team to make their best hiring decisions with fairness. And when new hires start onboarding, you can easily track and manage the process, complete essential to-dos, and orchestrate next steps.
At each stage of hiring, you can set goals and get meaningful insights — so your team can make measurable improvements.
With Greenhouse, hiring is more than a series of tasks — it’s strategic and purposeful, delivering value at every step, helping you connect teams and achieve the best outcomes.
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Friday Apr 26, 2024
NO LINKEDIN X-RAY? WHAT NEXT?
The sourcing community has been monitoring the changes on LinkedIn, particularly on the availability of public data to search engines. 2 months since the news first broke that 'LinkedIn X Ray is dead', what is the latest from the front lines of the sourcing world. And...if LinkedIn X-Ray IS on its last legs, what does that mean for people aggregators, data enrichers and the like?
- Latest on LinkedIn X-Ray - update
- Implications for recruiters, more upgrades to LinkedIn Recruiter?
- Implications for sourcing for diversity...good or bad?
- Implications for the freelance recruiter
- Workable workarounds
- Shift to alternative models of sourcing / people finding
- Present and future of sourcing
- Can next generation sourcing solutions provide?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Brian Fink, Talent Acquisition Partner, (McAfee), Erin Mathew, Exec Search (PayPal), Dean da Costa, Senior Staff TA (Lockheed Martin) & friends on Friday 26th April, 2.00pm BST. Follow the channel here (recommended) and register by clicking on Save My Spot
Attract, source, engage, and hire the most relevant candidates on time, within their budget.
Friday Apr 19, 2024
Friday Apr 19, 2024
DATA OR ADS: FUTURE OF JOB BOARD ADVERTISING IN THE ERA OF GENERATIVE AI
Job Boards are going through a moment. What had felt like a clear progression of business model towards Pay-Per-Applicant, is now changing in the era of GenAI, especially with the AI-enabled job candidate conducting mass apply. Opportunities and risks have both increased for the job board vendors, and the decisions that these players make will have downstream impact on the sort of services employers and job seekers alike can expect.
What is the state of job board advertising in 2024? What do we expect to see in next year, next 5? We're bringing together the top experts in the job board field to talk us through the future of job board advertising.
- Macro View: State of Job Boards
- Volume of job ads vs Revenue
- Programmatic vs non-programmatic
- Impact of GenAI for job boards
- New GenAI job board features - will internal search change?
- Data and LLM, what is the real value of job board data?
- What is the impact of job board users - job seekers and employers?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Yazad Dalal, Chief Growth Officer (Joveo), Bill Fischer, CTO (VONQ), Louise Triance, Founder (UK Recruiter) Alexander Chukowski, Senior AI Advisor (Job Boards),Chris Russell, Founder (RecTech Media) & Steven Rothberg, Founder (College Recruiter) on Friday 19th April, 2.00pm BST. Follow the channel here (recommended) and register by clicking on Save My Spot
Transform your talent sourcing with the global leader in programmatic job advertising. Joveo is revolutionizing recruitment for the world’s most prominent employers, staffing firms, RPOs, and media agencies. Our advanced platform ensures you attract, engage, and hire the best candidates efficiently and within budget. Powering millions of jobs daily, Joveo leverages cutting-edge data science and machine learning to optimize your recruitment process across all online channels. Experience unparalleled control and insights, from initial click to final hire, making your talent acquisition seamless and effective.
Embrace the future of hiring with Joveo—where precision meets performance. Schedule a demo with one of our friendly experts today here
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Friday Apr 12, 2024
SKILL BASED ORGANISATION: REALITY VS RHETORIC?
The consensus in the industry is that Skill Based Hiring and Skill Based Organisation is the way forward for the next generation of future fit organisations, but what does successful implementation actually look like? We're beginning to see the emergence of a debate on the wisdom and practicality of the idea - can it even be done?
Join us, as we discuss the issue from different points of view from the TA Leadership community
- Definitions: What is Skill Based Hiring?
- Isn't this just ignoring credentials on the CV?
- Isn't this just ignoring the CV?
- What does a Skill Based Organisation look like, after the external recruitment has been through Skill Based Hiring?
- What does this mean for jobs - are they being unbundled?
- How do we recruiters assess for skills?
- What are the problems of Skill Based Hiring?
- What are the advantages?
We're with Matthias Schmeißer, Global Senior Director, (Emnify), Andrew Grier, Head of TA (Helping Hands Home Care), Dan Logan, Director of Transformation (Advance) & Marija Kose, CPO (Human Edge) and on Friday 12th April, 2.00pm BST.
Everyone is talking about skills. But what does it mean?
Research by Deloitte found that less than 20% of companies have embarked on the transformative journey toward becoming a skill-based organisation (SBO). Taking action requires more than just recognition. Amidst the strategic shift towards skills, many business and HR leaders find themselves navigating through a maze of information, unsure of where to start.
This guide demystifies the process with three practical tips to guide you on the path to implementing a skill-based approach:
Why go skill-based?
- The obstacles to becoming an SBO
- Practical tips to get you started with skills