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The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast: Your weekly 60 minute dose of brilliant conversation about Recruiting & HR
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Friday Sep 13, 2024
Friday Sep 13, 2024
Reviewing 'Do More With Less' - Recruitment Efficiency in 2024
Recruiters have been under pressure all year - maybe even longer than that - to 'do more with less'. This means either increase effort or increase efficiency. And given that we are already at 100% capacity with reduced TA teams, the latter is the only option!
How have we done - what examples have we seen of recruitment efficiency at company wide level?
We will discuss the following:
- How to measure recruitment efficiency?
- How to identify which areas of inefficiencies to tackle.
- Buy or Build: how to make the right choice?
- How to reduce switching costs?
- Managing internal communications
- Stakeholder management
- Managing up to C-level
- How do you know it's done
- Examples of improvement in recruitment efficiency
- What to look forward to in 2025?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Alan Price, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, (Deel), Manjuri Sinha, VP of Talent Succcess (OLX) & Jane Curran, Global Head of Talent Operations (JLL) on Friday 13th September, 2pm BST / 9am ET
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Friday Sep 06, 2024
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Hiring Insights from 1 Million Job Interviews
Interview Intelligence is a category which has exploded into industry consciousness over the past 12 months. Employers are finally learning that in order to have hiring success, you have to ensure that your interviewing game is elite. We are finding out some incredible insights in how recruiters and hiring managers interview, many of which have been posted online already, mainly by BrightHire CEO Ben Sesser's amazing posts on interview insights
I've grabbed some time with Ben to run through these insights, how recruiters can take this understanding to improve their hiring process and why the near future is going to include new industry standards like Interview Quality Score (IQS) and Voice of the Candidate (VoC)
We will discuss the following:
- Gender variance in speaking time
- Candidate motivations correlation with interview rating
- M/F candidate motivations on opportunity
- What AE candidates REALLY care about
- M/F hiring manager interviewing styles
- Topics most discussed by top sales candidates
- Volume of interviews required to hire great sales candidates
- What percentage of interviews are 'structured'?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Ben Sesser, CEO of BrightHire on Friday 6th September, 2pm BST / 9am ET
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Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
Wednesday Sep 04, 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 Maxime Legardez Coquin, CEO of Maki
- When did you know you were going to be an entrepreneur?
- What are the strengths of a founder coming into a new domain?
- Is there a formula for success as a CEO of a fast growing scale up?
- What recruiting lessons did you personally learn when building businesses?
- If I could ask a former colleague of yours to describe your management style, what would they say?
- Can you describe what your Day in the Life looks like?
- What are the main challenges of recruitment tech founders right now?
- What do you think will happen to software development if AI continues on current path?
- What do you think recruitment will look like in 2030?
- How will companies and organisations change with the integration with AI and Automation?
All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.
Tues 3rd Sept, 2pm BST / 3pm CEST
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Friday Aug 30, 2024
Friday Aug 30, 2024
Maternity Returnees: Are Employers Doing Enough (Or Anything At All?)
Maternity Leave is a policy most employers have in place, but what about Maternity Return? Most employers seem not to have any policy at all, leaving the experience of returning mothers mainly up to the line management, with predictably variable results!
We're going to dive into an under discussed topic on what the current experience is like for Maternity Returnees, and what policies employers can produce to be truly inclusive for all members of the workforce.
- What is the current legal status of Maternity Return?
- What do most employers do?
- What has been the experience (bad, ok, good) of maternity leave returners
- What makes an experience this way?
- Do we have standardisation or customisation?
- What support do managers need to do better for returning workers?
- Psychology: what are the common psychological challenges of returning to a team?
- Re-onboarding rituals: does anyone do this?
- Returning to lead: different from being a returning IC?
- What recommendations do we have for returnees, and employers embracing returnees?
All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.
We're with Kirsty Wigley-Smith, Senior Manager Talent Acquisition, (LogicMonitor) Heidi Wassini,
Director, Global Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding (Too Good To Go), Kellie Nedelcoux, Founder (Career & Parenthood) & friends and on Friday 30th August, 2pm BST / 3pm CEST
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Thursday Aug 29, 2024
Thursday Aug 29, 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 Runar Reistrup, CEO of YunoJuno
- What are the differences leading a startup / scale up vs a mega corp?
- Do the order of the most management skills change with this context?
- As a leader, how do you prepare a company for every stage of its journey?
- How much of being a leader is innate vs learnt?
- What have been the most significant changes in the workforce over the past decade?
- How would you describe 2010-2019 period of London Startup?
- How do you think 2020-2039 London startup to be defined?
- How do you see companies changing shape over the next 10 years?
- What can customers expect of YunoJuno in 2025 and beyond?
All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.
Wednesday 28th Aug, 12pm Midday
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Thursday Aug 22, 2024
Thursday Aug 22, 2024
NEW GOVERNMENT: WHAT CAN RECRUITERS / HR EXPECT?
We'll be over a month since the General Election, in which almost all pollsters predict the Labour Party forming the government with the largest majority since Tony Blair 1997. How radical will this new government be? Are we going to see New Labour 2.0 or as some critics contend, Tory-lite 2.0?
Whatever the flavour of personal politics, it remains the case that change of government means change in legislation, especially in taxation, employment law, immigration law, pension reform and the rest. What does this mean for us recruiters and HR professionals? What can we expect from the new government?
We're going to look into a foggy crystal ball and try to have a look, with market observers Neil Carberry, CEO (Recruitment & Employment Confederation, Tony Wilson, Director (Institute of Employment Studies), Ray Walker, VP of Contingent Workforce (Worksome) & friends. We're on Thursday 22nd August, 2pm BST
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Friday Aug 16, 2024
Friday Aug 16, 2024
HOW TO BUILD A JOB SCRAPER USING PYTHON (AS A NON-CODER!)
Friends, you don't need me to tell you that the job market for Talent Acquisition professionals has been in the toilet for the past 18 months. So much so that I have even had to close down the Brainfood Jobs Job Board - for lack of posted jobs! When the competition out there is as fierce as it is, you have to think about how to give yourself an edge. How about creating a lead generation tool which automatically scrapes new TA jobs as soon as they're published?
That's what Aaron Lintz did, to support his own job search. He's also now showing everyone else how he did it, so he can support YOUR job search.
You will learn the step-by-step of who Aaron did this task. Not only is the output super useful but also a lesson for all of us that it is possible to super scale up your effort if we dove just a little deeper on the tech that is available to us. And finally, what a demonstration this is to future employers?
Aaron Lintz, Senior Sources (Black & Veatch) will lead, and I will be joined by Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games), Erin Mathew (Recruiter) and friends. We're on Friday 16th August, 2pm BST /3pm CEST / 9am ET
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Friday Aug 09, 2024
Friday Aug 09, 2024
REAL USE CASES IN RECRUITMENT AUTOMATION: LIVE DEMO
Friends, I'm on a mission: industry everywhere is in a race for become AI-enabled, and those that are slow to adopt are going to be outcompeted by those who can now move faster and better. What we've been lacking is real examples of how RPA (Recruitment Process Automation) and AI can really take out chunks of the work recruiters do. That changes today!
- Where in the recruiting pipeline does RPA / AI have greatest impact?
- What does it look like from lead generation / prospecting POV
- Lead enrichment
- Outreach, email and calling
- Meeting scheduling
- Candidate sourcing
- Offer management
- Back office RPA
- What else?
Mark Chaffey, CEO (hackajob), Jordan Shlosberg, CEO (Atlas), Nikos Moraitis, CEO (Workable), Stan Wasowicz, Founder (ScottyAI), Mayur Macwan, CEO (Round.One), Max Armbruster, CEO (TalkPush) & friends are going live demo their own products on Brainfood Live - never before seen footage of Founders who probably haven't done a demo themselves in years ;-)
Friday Aug 02, 2024
Friday Aug 02, 2024
HOW TO HIRE A CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER (CPO)
It's the most senior role in the People department, one that many a recruiter eventually aspires to, but I suspect not many of us have had to try and recruit for one! We're going to dive into the world of C-level hiring, but with a twist, for the C-suite exec leading our own department!
- What are the circumstances where this role emerges?
- How do we capture the requirement?
- From whom do we collect it from?
- Who is the hiring manager - CEO, committee of senior managers, the Board, the Chair?
- How to go about the search
- How to determine what is a qualified candidate?
- How do you deal with candidates who think they know than you do (and probably do!)
- What is the best method of approach?
- What is the best method of assessment?
- What red flags should you be aware of?
- How do you scorecard this?
All this and more - one of the most intriguing recruitment assignments you'll ever have. We're with Annie Jackson, Head of Talent Acquisition (Cleo), Simon Mullins, MD (ESIX), Lisa Scales, Talent Acquisition Director (Royal Mail), Jennifer Candee, Global TA Leader & Gaetan van Reusel, MD (Camario). We're on Friday 2nd August, 2pm BST
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Her secret? Popp AI.
Every month Ellie uses Popp to screen and manage human-like conversations with thousands of candidates, progressing them rapidly through the hiring funnel. She’s delegating her administrative responsibilities to her AI co-pilot, and focussing on where she adds real value - building meaningful relationships with the candidates that count. She’s embracing new technology to transform into a super-recruiter and accelerate her career.
Popp is trusted by some of the most innovative recruiters like Ellie, and some of the most innovative talent teams and staffing organisations, like Zoe and Randstad.
Popp plugs into your ATS or CRM to automate administrative tasks across the recruitment funnel, transforming your recruiters into a hyper-lean, AI-enabled team of super-recruiters, who can accelerate candidates through the recruitment funnel at breakneck speed while delivering a world-class candidate experience.
Popp is a compliant, audited, ethical partner that you can trust to:
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Unlock the value of your CRM. Popp will automatically deliver personalized interactions to candidates in your CRM to collect their latest information and keep their profiles enriched and updated.
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Screen thousands of candidates in seconds: Popp can screen thousands of candidates or new applicants at once. We allow you to dynamically change your scoring criteria to look at candidates in different ways and enable you to automatically shortlist the best candidates with detailed reports from our DE&I-compliant AI co-pilot.
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Build next-step automations in minutes: With Popp, you can easily set up next-step automations - like personalised feedback or role recommendations for unsuccessful candidates, screening conversations for your shortlist, or booking links and document requests for successful interview candidates.
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Converse with candidates on autopilot: Popp accelerates candidates through hiring processes using personalized and human-like conversations at scale. It takes the average Popp-enabled recruiter less than 9 minutes to set up a campaign to reach out to 1000s of candidates. 24/7, in any language. Popp answers candidate questions, advertises roles, collects docs, and schedules calls. And via high-response channels like SMS and WhatsApp.
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Integrations with your existing ATS/CRM: We update every candidate profile automatically based on every interaction.
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HitL: Our human-in-the-loop mechanism ensures that AI decisions and outputs are overseen and, when necessary, taken over by a human supervisor. Our AI recognises its shortcomings and automatically notifies human managers when it needs a hand.
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Friday Jul 26, 2024
Friday Jul 26, 2024
NEW JOB AS A RECRUITMENT LEADER: THE 100 DAY PLAN
We know that it continues to be a tough market out there, but I am heartened to see more than few of my close contacts secure new positions lately. Not only do we hope that this is the beginning of a mini-bounce back for the TA job market, but it is also an ideal opportunity to speak to the newly hired and figure out what the best approach might be to ensure you get off to a running start!
- How long is the honeymoon period?
- What is the best approach to most efficiently conduct the discovery process?
- Inheriting a team, what are the management 101's that you must ensure are done?
- How to identify, reach out to and make friends with key peer group members?
- Artefacts, what do you do with legacy, what do you do with new tools / techniques you want to bring in
- Quick wins: how to find them, how to make sure they make the right impact
- Managing up: what does your HM expect, how to ensure they are updated
- Internal profile, how best to raise this?
All this and more, as we speak to the newly minted, newly hired TA leaders such as Saqib Khan, Senior Director Talent Acquisition (Paramount), Chantelle Jones, Programme Manager Strategy & Enablement (NielsenIQ), Ludmila Tomperi, Global Talent Leader & friends, with ace consultant Adriano Herdman, Co-founder (Move) presenting his 100 Day template
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With Greenhouse, hiring is more than a series of tasks — it’s strategic and purposeful, delivering value and helping your team hire the right person for the right role, every time.