Podcasts by The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep236 - 2023 Year in Review - Recruitment Advertising&Employer Branding from 2023-12-08T21:40:01

2023 Year in Review: Recruitment Advertising & Employer Branding   Part 2 of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, focus is on Recruitment Advertising and Employer Bra...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep235 - Year in Review 2023 - AI, WorkTech Investment&DEIB from 2023-12-01T18:48:37

2023 Year in Review: AI, DEIB and Worktech Investment   Coming in for the final 4 Brainfood Live sessions of the year and we are going to do a series on 'Review of the Year 2023. We've 12 topic...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep235 - Do You Have A Menopause Plan? from 2023-11-24T17:34:57

DOES YOUR COMPANY HAVE A MENOPAUSE PLAN?

Worldwide Menopause day went by last month and I - like most men I suspect - totally did not know about it(!). And yet menopause is an in...

Founders Focus - Ep40 - Up close and personal with Aref Abedi, CEO of Jobylon from 2023-11-21T15:09:27

AREF ABEDI, CEO OF JOBLYON   We're up and close and personal with the entrepreneurs changing the way in which we work today. Next up is Aref Abedi, CEO of up and coming ATS, Joblyon.   Let...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep233 - AI Enabled Candidates - What is the Plan? from 2023-11-16T17:19:02

AI Enabled Job Seekers - What is the Assessment Plan?   We know that job candidates are now extensively using generative AI tools to improve their chances of passing through job assessments. We...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep232 - State of the Recruiter Job Market, Part 2 from 2023-11-10T17:47:58

STATE OF THE RECRUITER JOB MARKET, PT2   It has been a very challenging market. We did the pt1 of this mini series at the start of the year and we had hoped that things would improve for recrui...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep231 - Creating A Career Framework for Talent Acquisition Department from 2023-11-10T14:48:15

CREATING A CAREER PATHING FRAMEWORK FOR YOUR TA DEPARTMENT   Inspired by a question asked in the online community, we're going to do this conversation on how to build career path & progress...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep230 - How to Hire in LATAM from 2023-11-01T17:19:34

HOW TO HIRE IN LATAM   As I will be in Colombia this week, it is fitting that I should do a Brainfood Live on the topic of Hiring in LATAM. As the world re-globalises around new supply chains a...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep229 - Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT and GAI, Part Four from 2023-10-27T16:52:24

RECRUITER USE CASES FOR CHATGPT - PART 4   It's been nearly 6 months since we last ran Part 3 on Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, and as you know by now, 6 months is a lifetime in the world of ...

Brainfood Live on Air - Ep228 - How to Conduct an AI Bias Audit from 2023-10-20T21:20:14

HOW TO CONDUCT AN AI BIAS AUDIT   If you've been following me on any channel you will know that one of the hot items we're tracking is the state of regulation when it comes to AI. Whether it is...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep227 - What Works for Women (in Tech) from 2023-10-13T16:58:47

WHAT WORKS FOR WOMEN (IN TECH)   As another technology wave crashes over society and forces us to adapt to new realities, we again need to review what the recurring motif of the lack of gender ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep226 - Being Put On Blast - How to Respond to Negative Publicity from an Unhappy Job Candidate from 2023-10-06T17:57:39

BEING PUT ON BLAST: HOW TO HANDLE NEGATIVE PUBLICITY FROM UNHAPPY JOB CANDIDATES   Perhaps one of the most challenging moments in a recruiters career is when an irate candidate takes the social...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep225 - The Psychological Impact of Candidate Assessments from 2023-09-29T18:00:12

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF CANDIDATE ASSESSMENTS   As recruiters our task to build a hiring process which enables our employers and clients to hire the most suitable candidates most efficientl...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep224 - Recruiter Fraud - How to Spot and Stop Overworking Remote Workers from 2023-09-22T17:22:32

RECRUITER FRAUD: HOW TO SPOT AND STOP 'OVERWORKING' REMOTE RECRUITERS   'Overworking' is one of the most popular subreddits on Reddit, and it's a discussion community of people who share tips o...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep223 - When Politics&Employer Branding Collide from 2023-09-15T18:54:19

WHEN POLITICS & EMPLOYER BRANDING COLLIDE   The Culture War gripping the United States has culminated a number of legislative changes which have direct impact on the recruiting industry. Th...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep222 - Age&Ageism - Generational Diversity in Recruiting from 2023-09-08T17:20:04

GENERATIONAL DIVERSITY: AGE & AGE-ISM     We all care about diversity and inclusion, but there seems to be a hierarchy as to which measures of diversity matter more than others, mainly ge...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep221 - Career Progression Tips for TA Leaders from 2023-09-01T17:01:49

CAREER PROGRESSION TIPS FOR TALENT ACQUISITION LEADERS   Back when you were you kid, the advice was always 'keep your head down, don't cause any trouble, work hard' and you will inevitably get ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep220 - Making the Case for Budget (When Times Are Tough!) from 2023-08-25T17:35:50

THE BUSINESS CASE FOR BUDGET (WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH!)     It's easy to get budget for your new recruitment toy, or cool event to attend or extra headcount when times are good and the cash is f...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep219 - FromTA to TA+ from 2023-08-21T10:21:25

EXPANDING SCOPE: FROM TA TO TA+     Talent Acquisition is entering into a new era where organisations are prioritising flexible workforces on demand, fluid internal organisational structure t...

Founders Focus - Ep39 - Up close and personal with Raj Mukherjee, VP&GM of Indeed from 2023-08-17T18:21:53

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today   There probably hasn't been a more disruptive and then dominant ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep218 - Turning Employees into Linkedin Talent Influencers from 2023-08-11T16:41:41

TURNING EMPLOYEES INTO LINKEDIN TALENT INFLUENCERS   One of the great case studies which have emerged in recruitment over the past month has been Cisco's remarkable employee advocacy programme,...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep217 - LinkedIn Algorithm Updates - Redux from 2023-08-09T17:39:08

LINKEDIN ALGORITHM UPDATES     Have you noticed a collapse in the effectiveness of your LinkedIn posts?   If you have, then it seems that you might not be alone, as LinkedIn have made so...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep216 - Fully Automated Hiring from 2023-07-28T16:53:33

Fully Autonomous Hiring   The promise is there: a recruiting process which runs autonomously without the need for a human recruiter or a human hiring manager, coordinator, background checker or...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep216 - Tech Hiring Landscape 2023 Mid Year Review from 2023-07-21T16:54:58

Tech Hiring Landscape: 2023 Mid Year Review   We're well into Q3 and by now we should have a reasonable view as to how the tech hiring landscape is going. It has been an extremely challenge 12 ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep214 - WTF is Fractional Working? from 2023-07-14T17:00:25

WTF is Fractional Working?   Do a search on LinkedIn for 'Fractional' and you find increasingly large number of results for experienced professionals - sometimes C-level pro's - calling themsel...

Founders Focus- Ep38 - Up close and personal with Ryan Steelberg CEO of Veritone&Alex Fourlis MD of Broadbean from 2023-07-13T17:44:10

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 are two business leaders who have come together to ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep213 - Overcoming Imposter Syndrome from 2023-07-07T18:27:20

Recruiters Moving On Up: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome:   Fresh from seeing tons of recruiters make their speaking debuts on Recfest, we're going to speak to as many of them as we can to chat a...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep212 - Demographic Crisis: AI, Immigration and the Future of Work from 2023-06-30T17:04:02

Demographic Crisis, AI, Immigration & the Future of Work

Do you have the feeling that there are big changes happening in the world? The reason why we haven't have a 'new normal' ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep211 - How AI Changes Software Engineering - What Tech Recruiters Have Got To Know from 2023-06-23T17:08:26

AI is changing Software Engineering: What Tech Recruiters Have Got To Know

It should come as no surprise that the sector that is most exposed to the implications of generative artificial ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep210 - How TA Leaders Are Using ChatGPT and GAI from 2023-06-18T23:03:54

How TA Leaders Use ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence?

My observations on ChatGPT / Generative AI is that the most advanced users in our industry have been individual...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep208 - How Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience changes Recruitment Marketing from 2023-06-02T17:23:48

How Google's AI Search Changes Recruitment Marketing

Google's response to the gauntlet thrown own by Open AI has been belated, but increasingly impressive. AI Search promises to be as big...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep207 - Life and Times of a VC Portfolio Recruiter from 2023-05-26T16:52:04

Life & Times of a Portfolio Recruiter in VC

One of the most promising developments of the tech scale up era has been the recognition by Venture Capital firms that Talent is one o...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep206 - Measuring the Impact of Employer Brand from 2023-05-19T16:56:36

How to Measure the Impact of Employer Brand?

Few people in recruiting would doubt the importance of Employer Brand, especially when hiring for the highly skilled, in-demand. In t...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep205 - Moving to Skill Based Hiring (SBH) from 2023-05-12T16:45:41

Moving to Skills Based Hiring (SBH)

We've heard a great deal about Skills Based Hiring but what is it and what does it actually look like in practice? The movement away from hiri...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep204 - Measuring Quality of Hire from 2023-05-05T17:06:32

How To Measure Quality of Hire

Quality of Hire is without doubt the most important metric that CEO's care about. They want to hire the best people for the business and make sure ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep203 - How to Set Up an Elite Talent Analytics Function from 2023-04-28T17:23:14

How to set up an Elite Talent Analytics Function

We can't have a workable recruitment strategy if we don't have access to accurate, current and relevant information. Talent intel...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep202 - Recruitment Leadership in a Mega Scale Organisation from 2023-04-21T17:55:14

Recruitment Leadership in a Mega Scale Organisation

Most of us have had experience of SME and Corp size organisations, but few of us might have had the chance to work at truly me...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep201 - Prompt Engineering for Sourcers from 2023-04-14T17:03:20

Prompt Engineering for Sourcing

We can already predict that 'prompt' is going to be the Word of the Year 2023. The idea that we can get good at asking and contextualising questions has ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep200 - Supercharge Recruitment Marketing with AI from 2023-04-06T15:35:44

Supercharge your Recruitment Marketing with AI

Recruiters have been going crazy about the AI revolution but most of what we have been doing has been focused on direct candidate acquisitio...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep199 - Tech Layoffs&the Tech Job Market - From the Developers POV from 2023-03-31T17:17:15

Tech Layoffs & the Tech Job Market: From the Developers POV

There's probably no bigger story in the world of recruitment that the Big Tech Winter - led by VC backed scale ups who...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep198 - Mental Challenges of the Neurodiverse - Real Talk from Recruitment Heroes from 2023-03-24T16:57:14

Mental Challenge of the Neurodiverse: Real Talk from Recruiter Heroes

Important change of pace to Brainfood Live today. I was approached by Balazs, Michael and Vanessa to do a sh...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep197 - Hiring in South Africa in 2023 from 2023-03-17T16:57:46

Hiring in South Africa in 2023

Brainfood World Tour continues and this time we go to one of my favourite countries, who have one of my favourite recruiting communities - South Af...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep196 - Impact of GAI in EDI from 2023-03-10T16:45:22

Impact of Generative AI on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

One of the most telling things about output from Generative AI is the inevitable stereotyping that is produced. Go to M...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep195 - Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, Part 3 - Ethics&Concerns from 2023-03-03T17:01:25

Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT - Part 3 - Ethics & Concerns

We have to keep going with ChatGPT, because whilst we are getting the hang of how it works for us, we are also beginn...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep194 - State of the Recruiter Job Market from 2023-02-24T14:55:12

State of the Recruiter Job Market 2023

Let's face it head on folks - this is turning out to the a tough year for recruiters! We all know that the big tech winter is going to impa...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep193 - Hiring in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States from 2023-02-16T16:55:26

Hiring in Saudi Arabia & the Gulf States

Brainfood World Tour is restarting, with a visit to a region where countries are in the middle of vast transformation. We hear a great de...

Founders Focus - Ep36 - Up close and personal with Mark Chaffey CEO of hackajob from 2023-02-14T14:45:22

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 an old friend of Brainfood - the one an...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep192 - Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, Part 2! from 2023-02-11T00:52:40

Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, Part 2!

Alright folks, we are going to have to do this again - after an amazing first event where we had 1000+ people attending, the demand for m...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep191 - Personalisation or Standardisation? How Best To DO Candidate Experience from 2023-02-03T14:50:38

Personalised or Standardised?

What is the base philosophy for Candidate Experience - do you attempt to give everyone the same branded experience, or do you vary it according to t...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep190 - The State of Global Mobility 2023 from 2023-01-27T14:50:50

State of Global Mobility in 2023

Does anyone here have a plan for hiring globally this year?

Candidate shortages are persistent in many sectors, in many countries...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep189 - Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT from 2023-01-20T21:20:23

We have not seen a technology breakthrough like ChatGPT for a long time. Only released last December, it has already racked up millions of users attracted to its almost magical outputs to querie...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep189 - How to Recruit on TikTok from 2023-01-13T19:46:18

I don't know about you but I've been consuming TikTok videos like a billion other people on the planet and been amazed at the creativity, community and controversy that you find on there. It's a...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep187 - Forecasting the Year Ahead in Recruitment 2023 from 2023-01-06T19:17:58

Welcome back to Brainfood Live 2023!

I hope everyone has had a great holiday break and are refreshed for the challenges and opportunities of the year ahead. So what exactly IS ah...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep186 - State of Recruitment 2022 - Year in Review from 2022-12-23T18:33:55

The State of Recruitment: 2022 Year in Review

Final show of the year folks, so perfect moment to celebrate ANOTHER 50 episodes of Brainfood Live On Air, review the best moments f...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep185 - Job Search&Promotion as a Mother to Be from 2022-12-16T17:16:12

Recruiter Job Search & Promotion as a Mother-to Be

Continuing our series of 'true inclusion', we are turning our attention to the subterranean biases which occur in recruitment. ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep184 -Social Class&Accent: The Hidden Bias in Recruiting from 2022-12-09T16:52:24

The Hidden Bias in Recruiting: Class & Accent

How we speak are signifiers of our social class - formerly known as 'social standing' - information which still determines our life ...

Founders Focus - Ep35 - Up close and personal with Christian Payne, CEO of Talentiir from 2022-12-07T15:08:31

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment businesses changing the way we work today

Next up is Christian Payne, CEO of Tal...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep183 - The Psychology of Recruiter Redundancy from 2022-12-02T17:19:43

The Psychology of Redundancy: Mental Health Tips for Recruiters Affected

Big Tech Winter + Economies close to recession....means redundancies for many members of our community. I...

Founders Focus - Ep34 - Up close and personal with Davide Rivel, Head of Clinch Europe from 2022-11-30T13:11:40

Welcome to Ep34 of Founder's Focus - the show where we get up close and personal with the founder's of recruitment technology businesses - who are the people behind the product? Next up is Davi...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep182 - Hiring the Formerly Institutionalised from 2022-11-25T18:17:58

True Inclusion: Hiring the Formerly Institutionalised

We talk a a good DEIB game in TA / HR but it's pretty clear that there are certain groups which are always excluded from the...

Founders Focus - Ep33 - Up close and personal with Arielle Kilroy, CEO of Dado from 2022-11-22T15:11:06

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 are  Listen

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep179 - Employer Branding in a Recession Economy from 2022-11-04T17:09:13

Employer Branding in a Recession Economy

As the world looks down into economic slowdown and maybe worse, it behooves us to consider how this impacts many of the recruiting concep...

Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep7 - Issue 316 in Review from 2022-10-31T16:16:51

Topics to discuss (and if you're registering now, you are getting a sneak preview of what's coming up on Sunday)

- Open Letter to Elon Musk from Twitter Employees

- Big Te...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep178 - From Talent Intelligence to Talent Acquisition from 2022-10-28T17:24:13

From Talent Intelligence to Talent Acquisition

Talent Intelligence or TI has been the coolest kid in the recruitment block for a little while now, with elite employers using labo...

Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep6 - Issue 315 in Review from 2022-10-24T15:20:23

We're back with Brainfood Baked Fresh - 30 minute on air live review of the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter. Get ready to talk about - VC / Angel investor collapse confirmed - Hiring in a Distr...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep177 - Hard Truths About Startup: Hiring, Firing&Culture from 2022-10-21T17:13:14

Hard Truths About Startup: Hiring, Firing & Culture

There has not been a sector so widely lauded and intensively covered by the press that tech startup / tech scale up. We hear a...

Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep5 - Issue 314 in Review from 2022-10-17T15:03:37

Welcome to Brainfood Baked Fresh, the Monday call in show where we discuss the contents of Recruiting Brainfood, Issue 314

Including:

  - Bellingcats Hackathon Results

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep176- Sourcing&Recruiting on Discord from 2022-10-14T17:44:41

Sourcing & Recruiting on Discord

Did you know Recruiting Brainfood has a Discord server? I was planning to use it for doing virtual events but never in the end did any virtual ev...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep175 - Blockchain, Web3 and the Future of Work from 2022-10-08T08:58:46

Blockchain, Web3 & The Future of Work

I'll be at the Future Works conference in Lisbon so fitting that we are going to be using the opportunity to talk about the next age of the ...

Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep4 - Issue 312 in Review from 2022-10-03T14:50:09

Back with Baked Fresh, the call in show where we take questions from readers of the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter, Issue 312. We'll be talking about 

- Value of Weak Ties for Career Ad...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep174 - Where are the Missing Workers? from 2022-09-30T17:41:26

Where Are The Missing Workers?

The 'Labour Market Paradox' is most keenly felt by us - the recruiters who are struggling to make hires, even when key macro indicators - such as n...

Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep3 - Issue 311 in Review from 2022-09-26T15:14:24

We're back folks, after a three week hiatus!

Going to try and keep to this time but it is apparent with travel, covid and change of regnal eras, that we might not be as consisten...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep173 - How to Source Candidates on Slack! from 2022-09-23T16:58:49

How to Source Candidates from Slack

There probably isn't a tech startup anywhere that does not use Slack as its internal communication platform. It's also an amazing place to cre...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep172 - How to Make Sense of the Economy from 2022-09-16T18:21:40

Making Sense of the Economy: Resilient Sectors for Recruiting.

The high profile tech lay offs dominate the headlines but does that tell us the real story of what is going on in t...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep171 - How to Better Handle LayOffs from 2022-09-09T17:00:13

Ethics & Experience: How to Better Handle Layoffs

The high profile tech layoffs keep coming, and the response of employers forced to make cuts has been under scrutiny, whether th...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep170 - How to Hire in the Nordics from 2022-09-02T17:12:29

How to Hire in the Nordics?

Brainfood Live is back on tour! This time we are virtually visiting our friends in the North and to try and better understand how the universal challe...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep169 - How To Build A Recruitment Marketing Content from 2022-08-26T17:09:55

How to Build a Recruitment Marketing Content Engine

We know that producing quality content is mandatory in todays world of hyper competition for attention. And whilst many of us ...

Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep1 - Issue 306 - Big List of Recruiting Events to Attend, Open Source Tool kit and Discrimination agains White Men from 2022-08-22T18:14:10

BRAINFOOD BAKED FRESH - EP1 - ISSUE 306 Introducing the new show, where we review the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter Listen

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep167 - LinkedIn Content Feed - What Recruiters Have Got To Know from 2022-08-12T17:37:19

LinkedIn Content Feed: What Recruiters Have Got To Know

For the past 5 years LinkedIn has been one of the preeminent places to create content and build audience. In fact, without...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep166 - Sourcing Candidates on Reddit from 2022-08-05T18:16:48

Sourcing Candidates on Reddit

Reddit is one of the world's most popular websites with millions of visitors every day, and yet its comment based interface has proven to be a puzzl...

Founders Focus - Ep32 - Up close and personal with Mehul Bhatt CEO of FloCareer from 2022-08-03T18:41:18

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 are Mehul Bhatt, CEO of FloCareer...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep165 - How to be Influential on Video from 2022-07-29T17:08:57

How to Influential on Video

The shift to remote has changed the way in which we work and communicate; it makes sense to think that it may well have changed the way we sell and in...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep164 - Can Recruiters Do A 4 Day Week? from 2022-07-21T18:13:52

Can Recruiters Shift To A 4 Day Work Week?

Alongside the shift to remote, the desire for employees to shift to a 4 day work week has been one of the most startling demands from t...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep163 - Recruitment Marketing to Different Generations from 2022-07-15T17:38:10

Recruitment Market for Different Generations

We hate generation stereotypes for a reason, but it is also undeniable that there are differences in how we consume information, that...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep162 - Employer Branding......When Making Layoffs? from 2022-07-08T17:43:44

Employer Brand...When Making Layoffs?

2022 was not meant to be like this. Coming into the year, we had the expectation of a strong economic rebound after the covid induced slowdo...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep161- How to Hire for a No Name Brand from 2022-07-01T17:39:33

How To Hire for a Brand No One Knows

I mean no offence! But lets face it, there are some brands which are too new, too niche or simply too back in the supply chain to be well kno...

Brainfood Live On Air- Ep160 - Sourcing without LinkedIn- A 7 Day Challenge from 2022-06-24T17:47:27

Sourcing without LinkedIn....A 7 Day Challenge

We all b1tch about LinkedIn, but how many of us can actually recruit without it? I suspect it will be fewer than we would like to t...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep159 - How to know a Recruiter is Any Good from 2022-06-17T16:59:36

How to know if a Recruiter is any good?

I have been thinking about this question ever since Tim Sackett published his post on an experienced recruiter candidate who had an aberra...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep158 - Recession Proofing Your Recruitment Career from 2022-06-10T23:33:12

Recession Proofing Your Recruitment Career

If you've been following the market, the news is looking increasingly grim - record inflation, energy prices, increase taxation, tech h...

Founders Focus - Ep31 - Up close and personal with Virgile Raingeard, CEO of Figures from 2022-06-08T15:07:45

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  Listen

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep157 - How to Organise a Sourcing Jam! from 2022-06-03T17:29:34

How to Organise A Sourcing Jam!

The true mission of a great recruiter is to get EVERYONE in the business operating as a recruiter; after all they are they ones with the strongest...

Founders Focus - Ep29 - Up close and personal with Viktor Nord and Adrian McDonald, Cofounder and CEO of Adway from 2022-06-01T15:34:56

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 are Viktor Nord, Co-founder and Adrian Mac...

Founders Focus - Ep28 - Up close and personal with Ilya Brotzky CEO of VanHack from 2022-05-31T19:24:55

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 Ilya Brotzky, CEO of VanHack

  Listen

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep156 - Mega Scale Hiring (10,000+) from 2022-05-27T17:22:20

Mega Scale Hiring (10,000+!)

We talk about scale, then we talk about 'hyper scale', I'm going to go one further and talk about 'mega scale' - this is a hiring of tens of thousand...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep155 - Moving to Salary Transparency from 2022-05-19T14:34:15

Moving to Salary Transparency

It's becoming cool - and in a growing number of regions, it's also becoming law. Publishing how much you pay for a certain role has a number of stro...

Founders Focus - Ep27 - Up close and personal with Will Laufer, CEO of Prelude from 2022-05-17T18:11:42

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 Will Laufer, CEO of  Listen

Founders Focus - Ep26 - Up close and personal with Markellos Diorinos CEO of Bryq from 2022-05-10T15:33:29

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 Markellos Diorinos, CEO of Bryq - Is Product the bes...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep151 - Leadership Fitness(In A Remote First World) from 2022-04-15T08:53:51

Leadership Fitness (For a Remote First World)

A cynical take on why execs vs employees are divided in their attitude to WFH is that managers don't know how to do their job when t...

Founders Focus - Ep24 - Up close and personal with Martin Herbst, CEO of JobAdder from 2022-04-08T14:13:26

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  Listen

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep148 - Data Driven Recruitment - What,Why&How? from 2022-03-25T18:08:53

DDR - or Data Driven Recruitment, what is this, why do we need it and how do we get there?

I don't think any one topic has achieved wide spread consensus as quickly as being 'data driven'...

Founders Focus - Ep22 - Up close and personal with Ammon Bartram, CEO of Triplebyte from 2022-03-23T22:15:22

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 Ammon Bartram, CEO of Triplebyte

Founders Focus - Ep21 - Up close and personal with Mark Chaffey, CEO of hackajob from 2022-03-23T16:02:26

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 Mark Chaffey, CEO of  Listen

Founders Focus - Ep20 - Up close and personal with Ryan McCabe CEO of Odro from 2022-03-16T17:29:38

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 Ryan McCabe, CEO of Odro

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep146 - The Candidate Experience Report 2022 from 2022-03-11T18:53:53

How has Candidate Experience changed from 2021 to 2022?

We all know that the market has rebalanced in favour of the job seeker in the past 12 months, elevating expectations on compensati...

Founders Focus - Ep19 - Up close and personal with Troy Sultan, CEO Guide from 2022-03-09T19:57:29

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today

Next up is Troy Sultan, C...

Founders Focus - Ep18 - Up close and personal with Pedro Torrecillas, CEO of Circular from 2022-03-09T14:45:08

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 Pedro Torrecillas, CEO of Circular Listen

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep145 - How to become a Strategic Recruitment Partner from 2022-03-04T21:47:20

We all love the word 'strategic'. We probably all think we are strategic. But it means something different from at the customer perspective, if you're considered a strategic partner or asset. It...

Founders Focus Ep17 Up close and personal with Nico Blier-Silvestri, CEO Platypus from 2022-03-02T16:00:14

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 Nico Blier-Silvestri, CEO of Platypus...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep144 - Building Institutional Confidence for TA&HR from 2022-02-26T10:46:03

There is status gap between departments in business. Finance is the treasury. Sales bring the money. Product / Engineering might make the things we sell. Legal creates the contracts we are all b...

FoundersFocus - Ep16 - Up close and personal with Jonathan Romley, CEO of Lundi from 2022-02-23T15:27:47

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  Listen

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep140 - Setting Salary for Remotely Distributed Teams from 2022-01-21T19:38:27

Setting Salaries for Remotely Distributed Teams

As candidate shortage continues to bite in 2022, employers will increasingly look to shift jobs to location agnostic setting. Ho...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep139 - Selling TA Transformation to the Business from 2022-01-14T17:22:04

Selling Talent Acquisition Transformation to the Business

As recruitment leaders we are brought on board to make step change improvements in how talent acquisition is conducted...

Founder’s Focus - Ep13 - Up close and personal with Dan Kirkland and Dean Sadler, Co-founders, Tribepad from 2022-01-12T16:39:33

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today.

Next up are Dan Kirkland & Dean ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep138 - Brainfood Recruitment Forecast 2022 from 2022-01-07T17:43:54

What is going to happen in Recruiting for 2022? Its going to be another crazy year in our game, as candidate shortages continue to drive up demand for recruiters, organisations contort and resh...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep137 - Recruitment Review of the Year 2021 from 2021-12-17T18:58:34

RECRUITMENT REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2021

We're finally here folks - the last Brainfood Live of the year! I know that it's only the 17th December but it's Christmas Eve next Friday a...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep136 - Employer Branding for Controversial Brands from 2021-12-03T16:55:02

EMPLOYER BRANDING FOR CONTROVERSIAL BRANDS

One of the most interesting challenges in employer branding and talent attraction is to build and execute strategy for a company whos...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep135 - Recruites Switching Industry Verticals - A Guide from 2021-11-26T17:15:47

SWITCHING INDUSTRIES: A GUIDE FOR RECRUITERS

The agility of recruiters is one of the main reasons why we are resilient during times of change. Switching industry focus is one o...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep134 - Candidate Journeys - The Good, The Bad&the Ugly from 2021-11-19T17:34:59

CANDIDATE JOURNEYS: THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY

Finding candidates is one problem, making sure that they stick with you throughout the recruiting process is another! The white hot mar...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep133 - What Do Recruiters Want? from 2021-11-12T19:17:47

WHAT DO RECRUITERS WANT?

It's a question whose time has come, as employers everywhere attempt to staff up their recruiting teams in order to be competitive in this candidate sh...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep132 - Employee Generated Content - A Case Study With IBM from 2021-11-05T20:35:12

EMPLOYEE GENERATED CONTENT: A CASE STUDY FROM IBM

There is no better form of content than EGC - Employee Generated Content. Today's job seeker does not want to see slick corpor...

Founders Focus - Ep12 - Rick Mare&Nicole Clarke, Co-founders SHAZAMME from 2021-11-03T14:18:48

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today.

Next up are Rick Mare & Nicole C...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep131 - Future Fit Talent Acquisition Leaders from 2021-10-29T19:09:52

FUTURE FIT TALENT ACQUISITION LEADERS

Talent Acquisition is a function no stranger to change, but perhaps there has never been a moment quite like this that is confronting our ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep130 - Recruiting in India 2021-2022 from 2021-10-22T12:53:39

RECRUITING IN INDIA IN 2021 / 2022

Brainfood virtual roadshow is taking a long overdue visit one of the most important recruitment markets on the planet - India. Home to over 1...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep129 - Where does ‘culture‘ fit in today‘s hiring process from 2021-10-15T17:20:12

As Recruiters and HR professionals we care more than most about company culture. Hiring new people into the organisation is probably the quickest way to change company culture. So how do we make...

Founders Focus - Ep11 -Euan Cameron and Andrew Wood, Co-founders, Willo from 2021-10-13T15:14:14

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today.

Next up Euan Cameron and...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep128 - The Psychology Behind Unconscious Bias In Hiring from 2021-10-08T19:23:37

Unconscious (or perhaps more accurately, subconscious) Bias is a familiar yet widely misunderstood phenomena. In recruitment, it's critical we improve our understanding if we are to mitigate aga...

Founders Focus - Ep10 - Up close and personal with Caroline Gleeson, CEO of Occupop from 2021-10-06T16:26:24

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today. Next up is Caroline Gleeson, CEO of up an...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep127 - Diversifying the Talent Pipeline - MORE or LESS candidate data from 2021-10-01T20:34:46

Diversify The Talent Pipeline: More Data or Less Data?

Diversifying the workforce has become a pre-eminent concern for TA and HR. Almost all of us accept the value of the outco...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep126 - Ageism In Recruitment: To Do‘s for Candidates&Employers from 2021-09-24T18:37:30

AGEISM IN RECRUITMENT - TO DO's FOR CANDIDATES & EMPLOYERS

Two things are unfortunately true: age-ism in hiring is real and it's a problem that ALL of us will have to face sooner or lat...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep125 - From Sign Up to Show Up - How To Organise Recruitment Events from 2021-09-10T18:07:35

We have all missed the live events, especially in-person. For the past 18 months, we've had to cope with the digital only conference, which in the end turned out to be a long string endless zoom...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep124 - How to Have Better Intake Meetings With Hiring Managers from 2021-09-03T19:49:35

HOW TO HAVE BETTER INTAKE MEETINGS WITH HIRING MANAGERS

One of the most important parts of the hiring process is the intake meeting with the hiring manager. Get this wrong, and...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep123 - Building Culture for Hybrid Teams from 2021-08-27T17:17:56

BUILDING CULTURE FOR HYBRID TEAMS 

One of main concerns with operating a 'hybrid' mode of work is 'cultural cohesion' - how to ensure that team members are fully included in th...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep122 - Gen Z and the New World of Work from 2021-08-20T17:28:07

GEN Z AND THE NEW WORLD OF WORK Covid-19 has accelerated the digitisation and distribution of work. For Gen Z, it will be a matter of entering the world of work for the first time, at a time, w...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep121 - The First 100 Days from 2021-08-13T17:07:01

THE FIRST 100 DAYS Congratulations on your new job! Now what do you do? We're going to take a different tack in this Brainfood Live as we explore what a recruiter or HR pro should do in their ...

Founders Focus - Ep9 - Up close&personal with Jon Stross&Daniel Chait, Co-founders, Greenhouse from 2021-08-10T16:51:48

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today

Next up are Jon Stross and Daniel ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep120 - Remaking Candidate Experience, Post Pandemic from 2021-08-06T17:11:52

REMAKING CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE POST PANDEMIC

As we emerge from the pandemic era, we are beginning to realise that the world of work might begin to look radically different from ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep119 - Building Social Capital with Software Developers from 2021-07-30T17:34:55

BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL WITH SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS

As any tech recruiters knows, in 2021 finding software developers isn't the hard part, getting them to talk to you is!

We can spe...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep118 - How To Be A Better Talent Acquisition Leader from 2021-07-23T17:07:21

HOW TO BE A BETTER TALENT ACQUISITION LEADER

We often complain that managers get 'over promoted' and yet how many of us had adequate training before we suddenly became 'Head of Talent'...

Founders Focus - Ep8 - Up close&personal with Ben Sesser&Teddy Chestnut, Co-founders, Brighthire from 2021-07-22T21:06:17

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today

Next up are Benjamin Sesser and Ted...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep116 - Starting&Scaling A Successful Recruitment Business from 2021-07-17T18:15:25

STARTING & SCALING A SUCCESSFUL RECRUITMENT BUSINESS

It has never been easier to start a recruitment business - in the networked era, anyone with some industry knowledge, decent number o...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep116 - Recruiting in China in 2021 from 2021-07-09T12:42:28

RECRUITMENT IN CHINA IN 2021

Brainfood virtual roadshow is taking a long overdue visit one of the most important, maligned yet misunderstood recruitment markets on the planet - China. Ho...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep115 - Headcount Planning for HyperGrowth from 2021-07-02T17:19:05

HEADCOUNT PLANNING FOR HYPERGROWTH

When you are working TA in a rapidly scaling business, business as usual won’t suffice because nothing at all is usual about the circumstances you’re i...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep114 - The Ethics of AI in Recruiting from 2021-06-25T18:05:43

THE ETHICS OF AI IN HIRING

OK I think we ‘get it’ - Artificial Intelligence or ‘AI’ is no silver bullet for the removal of bias in recruiting. In fact, we’ve seen no shortage o...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep113 - How to Hire More Women Into Engineering from 2021-06-18T17:40:40

HOW TO HIRE MORE WOMEN ENGINEERS?

If you’re in tech recruiting, diversifying the composition of your engineering team must be one of your top priorities - and most persistent challenges....

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep112 - Problems with Hybrid from 2021-06-12T01:53:57

PROBLEMS WITH HYBRID?

As we begin to think about the bounce back from the pandemic, the growing consensus is that the ‘hybrid’ model of working - flexibility for staff to work either fro...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep112 - How To Be A Better Storyteller from 2021-06-05T02:37:55

How To Become A Better Story Teller - Top Tips for Recruiters

If you conduct a keyword search on 'storytelling' on LinkedIn, you'll find that it is one of the fastest growing skills on...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep110 - Recruiting in MENA (Middle East, North Africa) in 2021 from 2021-05-27T18:12:44

RECRUITING IN THE MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA IN 2021

Brainfood virtual roadshow is taking a long overdue visit to the Middle East & North Africa! There are recruiting challenges unique ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep109 - From Agency Recruiter to In-House Recruiter from 2021-05-21T15:35:24

FROM AGENCY TO INHOUSE - TOP TIPS

I've been fielding a lot of questions lately from recruiters agency side who are keen to explore the challenges of the working in-house, so this is a s...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep108 - LinkedIn Updates With Andy Foote from 2021-05-14T18:53:01

LINKEDIN UPDATES; WHAT'S NEW for Q2?

We use LinkedIn everyday - weirdo's that we are - and we simply must keep on top of what is happening on the platform. Turns out, there is huge am...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep107 - Post Pandemic Crisis - Employee Retention from 2021-05-07T15:02:34

Is there going to be a wave of resignations post pandemic? This is a concern for many in our industry as the return to the office clashes with elevated expectations of flexibility from the emplo...

Founder's Focus - Ep7- Up close and personal with Jerry Collier, MD of Hourly, by AMS from 2021-05-04T20:02:59

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today

Next up is Jerry Collier, MD of Pro...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep106 - On Hiring Senior Execs from 2021-04-30T15:38:32

ON HIRING SENIOR LEADERS

Have you had this experience? CEO comes to you and asks you to begin a confidential search for a replacement for an incumbent C-level leaders. Search is going ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep105 - Quantifying Company Culture - Why&How? from 2021-04-23T17:35:24

QUANTIFYING COMPANY CULTURE - WHY & HOW?

There isn't a TA, HR Manage or CEO who doesn't think their company culture is the most important thing about their business.....but is there a wa...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep104 - How to work with RPO's from 2021-04-16T15:06:12

WORKING WITH RPO - BEST PRACTICE & TOP TIPS

There comes a moment, in every recruiters life, when the right decision is to work with a Recruiting Outsourcing Partner. RPO's have...

Founders Focus - Ep6 - Josh Brenner, CEO of Hired from 2021-04-13T19:20:13

Ep6 of 'Founders Focus' - Josh Brenner, CEO of Hired It's the Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep103 - How and When To Measure Candidate Experience from 2021-04-09T15:26:51

HOW & WHEN TO MEASURE CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE?

The key to making improvement on any aspect of recruiting is to first measure it. We have to understand where we are first, before we are abl...

Founders Focus - Ep5 - Up close and personal with Adam Bird, CEO of Cronofy from 2021-04-06T15:07:54

Ep5 of 'Founders Focus' - the Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space.

Next up is Adam Bird, C...

Brainfood Live On Air - Talent Intelligence - What, Why, How from 2021-03-26T16:00:39

TALENT INTELLIGENCE - WHAT, WHY, HOW Do you know what 'talent intelligence' is? You'd be forgiven if you didn't, because it's a concept which has stubbornly stayed on the fringes of the TA, ma...

Founders Focus - Ep4 - Vivek Ravisankar CEO HackerRank from 2021-03-24T22:50:11

Ep4 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 Vivek Ravi...

Brainfood Live On Air 101 - How to hire when you're overwhelmed by Job Applications from 2021-03-19T15:58:55

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 momen...

Founders Focus - Ep3 - Mickael Cabrol, MD EMEA, ICIMS from 2021-03-16T15:32:36

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 Ca...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep100 - Better Way To Reject Candidates: Tips, Templates&Techniques from 2021-03-12T17:23:39

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 m...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep99 - Employer Branding Tips for a Remote First World from 2021-03-05T16:17:26

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 joi...

Founders Focus - Ep2 - Hanno Renner, CEO of Personio from 2021-03-04T17:58:28

'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...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep98 - The Dark Side of LinkedIn: Dealing with Bullies, Stalkers&Trolls from 2021-02-26T18:46:21

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 professiona...

Founders Focus - Ep1 - Steve Lucas, CEO, iCIMS from 2021-02-23T18:22:33

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 Stev...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep97 - How to get DE&I out of HR, and into the business from 2021-02-19T17:29:13

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 embeddi...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep96 - People Analytics.....or Bossware? from 2021-02-12T16:57:03

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 swi...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep95 - From the Developers POV Part Four - Onboarding from 2021-02-05T17:38:01

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...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep93 - Recruitment Forecast Australia and New Zealand 2021 from 2021-01-30T13:28:04

In Ep86, we talked about universal values & concepts in recruitment and wondered how they really applied to local contexts. This is especially important given that the ideas driving the industry...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep94 - LinkedIn Q1 2021; Andy Foote Updates from 2021-01-29T17:18:24

LinkedIn - alternative universe for us recruiters that it is inevitably is - remains the No1 application that we use to do our work. It has dozens of products, hundreds of features within produ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep92 - From the Developers POV Part Three - Interviewing from 2021-01-15T17:49:32

WHAT DO DEVELOPERS REALLY THINK ABOUT INTERVIEWING?

Part Three of our mini series 'From the Developers POV' will examine the next stage in the hiring process - the interview. P...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep91 - Expert Forecast - What is happening in Recruiting for 2021? from 2021-01-08T17:56:56

WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN IN 2021? Brainfood Live On Air is kicking off the 2021 season why a new year forecast with subject matter experts in every category which brainfood chronicles. What do you...

Brainfood Live On Air -Ep90 - From the Developers POV Part Two - Technical Assessments from 2020-12-18T17:49:44

What do developers really think about that coding challenge that recruiters send out? Do they think the tech interview is any better, or perhaps a return the whiteboard exercise? Assessing the...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep89 - From the Developers POV Part One - Recruiter outreach from 2020-12-11T17:28:07

Hiring qualified software developers remains one of the hard challenges in business today. With Covid-19 forcing the world to accelerate digital transformation, demand for the builders of tomorr...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep88 - More Robots....Better Experience w/ Sofia Broberger, Patrick Boonstra&Martyn Redstone from 2020-12-04T15:07:28

Increased recruitment automation has been a trend accelerated by the pandemic economy; as recruiters are forced to do more with less, the adoption of tools and processes which can reduce overhea...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep87 - HR vs TA: How to build a stronger relationship w/ Lisa Scales, Robert Hicks&Julie Griggs from 2020-11-27T15:37:55

Human Resources. Talent Acquisition.  The relationship between these two people functions is often critically important, yet also equally often poorly managed. How can we forge better relations...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep86 - Asia-Pac Focus - Recruiting in 2021 from 2020-11-20T11:36:23

Over 60%+ of the world's population live in Asia-Pacific region Yet all the conversation in recruiting & HR is seems centred in the US / UK and Europe. We all talk a good game about diversity, ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep85 - How has pandemic changed Employer Branding w/ Dave Hazlehurst from 2020-11-13T14:49:42

How has pandemic changed employer branding? 

Pre-covid, an effective employer branding strategy was critical to winning the 'war on talent' - helping you attract and hire the most in-dem...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep84 - Reflections On the Election: w/Tim Sackett&friends from 2020-11-06T18:51:36

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 p...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep83 - Nurturing Online Communities with Rosie Sherry, Vanessa Raath&Allyn Bailey from 2020-10-30T20:08:41

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 w...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep82 - Recruiting KPI's for the Pandemic Era w/Marisa Bryan&Andrea Marston from 2020-10-23T15:22:03

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 gam...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep81 - What Tech Recruiting Looks Like Post Covid-19 w/ Manjuri Sinha (OLX), Alla Pavlova (Miro)&Katy Peichert (The Workshop) from 2020-10-16T15:26:28

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 popu...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep80 - The Ultimate Guide to Video&Livestreaming Tech for Recruiters w/ Josef Kadlec from 2020-10-09T15:00:37

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'...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep79 - Alternative Career Paths for Recruiters from 2020-10-02T15:29:04

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....

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep78 - Recruiting Trends: The Next 12 Months with Sarah Brennan and Kevin Wheeler from 2020-09-25T19:53:50

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 remot...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep77 - Culture Fit is Bullsh1t with Jess Hayes and Nico Blier-Silvestri from 2020-09-18T16:35:54

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 ho...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep76 - De-biasing the Interview: Best Practice w/ Lorne Epstein, Christine Ng&Markellos Diorinos from 2020-09-11T18:31:15

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 ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep75 - Making the Business Case for Budget during Covid-19 w/ Lisa Scales&Jerome Ternynck from 2020-09-04T19:21:05

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 mad...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep74 - Recruiting Lessons from the Remote First with Mark Deubel (Elastic) and Anastasia Pshegodskaya (Gitlab) from 2020-08-28T17:03:34

As companies experiment with the complexity of hybrid remote working styles, the pressure to simplify by adopting remote or onsite only approach will continue to build. 

What can we lear...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep73 - The Beauty Bias from 2020-08-21T19:05:59

Perhaps one subconscious human bias we can all have experience of is....'the beauty bias'.  Good looking people - regardless of gender identity - on balance get better treatment than people not...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep72 - Job Seeking... as a Head of TA w/ Chad Horn and Lyndsey Shankland from 2020-08-14T17:36:48

What is the job search and candidate experience like for  Heads of TA at the moment? The moment is of course dominated by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the necessary public health response and...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep71 - How to become the Indispensable Recruiter with Neil Carberry from 2020-08-07T16:18:51

There has never been a more important time to be strategically valuable to your customers. 

If you are a recruiter or a recruitment business owner and you're thinking about how you can s...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep70 - Automation Recipes Recruiters Really Need To Know from 2020-07-31T18:51:56

The best recruiters are those who are most efficient with their time. Modern tech has given us the opportunity to automate a lot of time intensive, repetitive work freeing us to move up the valu...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep69 - Practical Tips to Diversify Your Talent Pool w/ Jelmer Koppelmans, Christine Ng, Katrina Kibben&Andrew Gadomski from 2020-07-24T19:00:53

Diversifying our workforce starts with diversify our talent pools. 

What are the techniques which deliver actual results? 

In this week's Brainfood Live On Air, we are going to b...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep68 - How To Be a Great Interviewer w/ Charlotte Mutsaerts from 2020-07-17T16:13:17

What are the best questions to really get to know someone? I asked this question (very meta) on LinkedIn last month and it spawned. a whole avalanche of amazing responses, many of which I hope ...

Brainfood Live On Air Ep67 - Upgrade Your LinkedIn Game with Andy Foote from 2020-07-10T18:51:36

Andy Foote - author of the amazing LinkedInsights blog - and a leading authority on how to get better on LinkedIn is going to come on screen and deliver a custom presentation and Q&A on how to u...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep66 - Politics in the Workplace w/ Jim Stroud&Kate Bischoff from 2020-07-03T18:28:08

Politics in the Workplace is a tough topic which most folks try to avoid; isn't there actually a saying to that effect? And yet, as social tensions rise throughout the world, it is increasingly...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep65 - Game Changer - Future of Recruitment Agencies in the ear of Covid-19 with Mark Dorman, CEO of SThree from 2020-06-26T17:29:19

SThree are the 1.258 billion GBP revenue staffing business - and one of the most well known businesses in the space.  If you're in recruiting, you're going to know SThree! Who better than CEO ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep64 - Massive Volume Applicants w/ Bas van de Haterd, Ben Gledhill&Modiar Kamps from 2020-06-19T16:18:59

One of the second order effects of a default to 'remote first' culture is a massively expanded pool of available candidates. After all, once you take off the location requirements, the world bec...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep63 - Virtualisation of On-boarding with Charu Malhotra and Oana Iordaschescu from 2020-06-12T16:42:53

Is the 'new normal' here yet?

We are certainly beginning to see glimpses of it.  Whilst some employers have frozen hiring in anticipation of a return to normalcy which may never happen,...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep62 - Sourcing with the Grandmaster - An Audience with Glen Cathey from 2020-06-05T17:12:35

Know who Glen Cathey is? If you're a sourcer, you really should,  because Glen played a pivotal role in defining the discipline as being di...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep61 - Levelling Up Your Sourcing Capability with Katharine Robinson and David Galley from 2020-05-29T17:35:27

Every business wants to improve their ability to directly source premium candidates.

This need has become even more acute during Covid-19, as talent attraction techniques inevita...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep60 - Bad Video is Bad Business with Louise Triance, Ben Dowse, Jo Lockwood & Stephen O'Donnell from 2020-05-22T16:25:30

With a change to scheduled programming, we are going to be talking why BAD  VIDEO IS BAD BUSINESS on Brainfood Live On Air Ep60!

Lets face it folks - not only are we doing too many vide...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep59 - Why Recruiter Communities Should Be Core To Your Strategy with Fanny Comba, James Osborne & Emma Mirrington from 2020-05-15T16:25:38

The growth of recruiter communities has been one of the great developments in the industry, particularly over the past decade. 

Now in the Covid world, community has never been m...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep58 - Made Redundant? Actions Recruiters Need To Take Right NOW from 2020-05-08T19:46:01

Job and income insecurity has become real for us in the recruitment industry. It's now everyone's problem as hiring freezes continue, investment plans cut back and growth plans go into reverse. ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep57 - How Top TA Teams Are Retooling for the Post Covid World with John Vlastelica from 2020-05-01T19:25:26

The end of 'hyper growth' has given TA teams an unprecedented opportunity to do something which they never previously had the time to do - to review, remove & renew inherited process. 

...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep56 - NEW - LinkedIn Changes in 2020 with Andy Foote & Victoria Rush from 2020-04-24T19:38:06

In a change to scheduled programming, we've got an awesome surprise for you: its Andy Foote, founder of LinkedIn Insights coaching business, ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep55 - Pushing the Reset Button on D&I with Luke Davis, Torin Ellis & Julie Ann Sowash from 2020-04-24T19:06:38

It is become clear that Covid-19 will be a world changing event. 

Economies, political systems, values, social behaviours, workplace culture - all are poised to be radically altered by ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep54 - How to Organise an Online Hackathon from 2020-04-09T21:30:23

Covid-19 has enforced the radical virtualisation of the recruitment process. Events which previously were in-person have now shifted online and there is a scramble for tools and techniques on ho...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep53 - Mental Health for Recruiters During Lockdown w/ Garry Turner, Helen Amery & Zuzana Tarclova from 2020-04-03T16:06:54

Mental health has never been a more important topic, especially in the light of the shocking phase shift we have all experienced during this enduring pandemic. 

We all need to learn to ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep52 - Sourcing Shortcuts - Best tools & extensions with Jonathan Kidder from 2020-03-27T20:01:27

The most popular content categories in Recruiting Brainfood every week are 'SOURCING' and 'COOL TOOLS'.

That tells me one thing: recruiters are always looking for a edge to get t...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep51 - How to build a Differentiated Employer Brand w/ Chris Wray, Head of Recruitment Strategy at Sainsbury's from 2020-03-20T18:15:08

How do you build a differentiated employer brand?

When your employer already is a famous B2C brand, what steps do you need to take to position your company as an employer of choice, esp...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep50 - Internal Mobility w/ Andrew Gadomski & Katrina Hutchinson-O-Neill from 2020-03-13T19:17:11

Do your company run an Internal Mobility programme? 

Chances are it does. and equal chances are, that it is NOT running effectively. 

Even the best employers freq...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep49 - Open Hiring No CV, No Interview w/ Robin Schooling & Gerry Crispin from 2020-03-06T17:44:34

Have you heard of Open Hiring?

It's a radical method of recruiting which does away entirely with CV and Interview - and indeed, any other form of assessment - and simply hires pe...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep48 - How to develop a Sourcers Mentality w/ Aaron Lintz from 2020-02-28T17:25:44

Brainfood Live is back with a focus on Sourcing Mentality - with one of the world's best to help guide us through it - Aaron Lintz, Recruitm...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep47 - Mainstreaming D&I - A Brainfood How-To with Joanne Lockwood & Neil Morrison from 2020-02-21T16:16:33

As the conversation in D&I matures from diversity to inclusion, this show is a timely primer for the elements recruiters need to bake into their recruiting approach in order to support the build...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep46 - Recruitment Marketing Benchmarks Report with Chris Forman from 2020-02-15T13:37:43

Do you want to know how well your job ads are doing?

Appcast - recently acquired for $70 million by StepStone, are one of the few businesses who might be able to give us the numb...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep45 - How to Write Copy Candidates Want To Read with Katrina Kibben and Mitch Sullivan from 2020-02-07T18:31:35

Job Descriptions: is there a more reviled document in the our business?

Hard to think of a document which is held is less esteem than any other by nearly every stakeholder involved - th...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep44 pt2 - Assessing Coders - A Brainfood How To with Amy Miller from 2020-02-01T06:53:41

How do you assess software engineers?

One of the toughest challenges in tech recruiting is how usually non-tech people (tech recruiters) can effectively assess software engineers. 

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep43 - How to message software engineers w_Erin Mathew from 2020-01-25T18:46:43

Can't find Software Developers? Or is it that the ones you DO find don't want to talk with you?

In a world that is way too noisy, no one gets hit harder with messaging spam that the hig...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep42, Social Good for Hiring Success with Jerome Ternynck from 2020-01-19T10:37:10

Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters, joins us for a 1 to 1 interview special. One of the preeminent figures in recruitment and recruitment technology over the past 20 years, Jerome will shar...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep41: MUST HAVE RECRUITER SKILLS for the 2020's w/ Kevin Blair from 2020-01-10T16:18:29

Recruiters: how do you plan to gain competitive advantage in 2020's?

In fast moving industry, we need to be on top of our game for the year ahead. But time is the constant resour...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep40, Facebook Ads for Recruiting, w/ Fanny Comba, Jelmer Zuidema, Jelmer Koeppalmans and Andrew Bryce from 2019-12-06T19:49:37

Have you used Facebook Ads for Recruiting?

I know I haven't but I probably should, as Facebook remains by far the largest, engaged and most important social network on the planet...

Brainfood Live On Air, Ep39 - We Have To Talk Brexit w/ Dr Sarah Lieberman from 2019-11-22T19:35:35

There was never any chance that we could get to the end of 2019 and not do at least one show covering Brexit. 

Whether you voted Leave or Remain or whether you are now Leave or Remain (...

Brainfood Live On Air, Ep38 - Tech Related Job Displacement with Rob McCargow & Yvette Cameron from 2019-11-15T19:14:33

Do you worry about the impact of AI & Automation?

The answer should be 'damn right' because these foundational technological trends are sure to have pervasive impact on all the w...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep37, TruTibute & the Value of Community w/ Piret Luts, Shannon Pritchett, Jamie Leonard & Bill Boorman from 2019-11-08T19:54:14

This week sees the final end of Tru - one of the seminal event series in the recruiting industry. 

We're going to take a look at what Tru has meant over the past 10 years, pay tribute t...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep36, How to make Employer Brand Stick w/ James Ellis & Elena Valentine from 2019-11-01T20:24:38

How to make your employer brand stick?

Turns out - you don't

Real Employer Branding is about discovering what is true about the work in your business and exposing...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep35, Live from Kiev, with Denis Dinkevich and Andrei Stetsenko from 2019-10-26T14:33:25

Brainfood Live On Air from Kiev, #truKiev. Fascinating chat with Ukrainian recruitment hero's Denis Dinkevich and Andrei Ste...

Brainfood Live On Air, Ep34 - Live from Melbourne, Aus w/ Omer Molad, Lauren Sharp, Ross Clennett & Adam Walker from 2019-10-21T11:35:51

"Magnificent Melbourne" - the cultural capital of Australia - and some might say, the real capital of the country (sorry Sydneysiders - take it up with your cousins in Victoria ;-))

Brainfood Live On Air, Live from Sydney w/ Laura Johnson, Rich Lewis-Jones, Mark Mansour & Michael Delaney from 2019-10-11T05:53:55

Live from Sydney: we're talking agency recruiters, Brits abroad, call aversion culture, the importance of relationships and the unique rectech eco-system in Australia

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep32, Live from Perth, WA w/ Stan Rolfe, Dani Tamati, Jon Bowker & Nicole La Gallia from 2019-10-04T10:12:55

Perth: one of the most remote big city metropolises anywhere: how does recruiting work over here? Is it all mining & water management?

Brainfood Live is Live from Perth this Frid...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep31- Live from Hong Kong with Daxtra Technologies & Dr Richard Claydon from 2019-09-28T03:56:12

We're live from Hong Kong with the great team at Daxtra - CV parsing tech, and perhaps one of the first 'workforce automation' technologies to change the recruitment industry.

Fe...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep30, Live from Yerevan, with Ach Petrosyan, Tigran Sloyan and Meruzhan Danielyan from 2019-09-21T08:32:14

On the eve of the Independence Day for Republic of Armenia, my buddies at Meetall and I held a meetup at PicsArts HQ for 100+ recruiters from the local scene at Yerevan. 

Wi...

Brainfood Live On Air, Ep29 - Future Proof Your Employer Brand w/ Bill Boorman and Bryan Chaney from 2019-09-19T18:26:56

The Future of Employer Branding is the topic of this week's Brainfood Live. And we have invoked the help of an incredible trio guests to help us talk through challenges of Future EB.

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep28, Miniblogging on LinkedIn w/ Mitch Sullivan & Kasia Tang from 2019-08-30T20:01:22

It's pretty clear that LinkedIn can also be an amazing channel for getting your content seen by the audience you care about.

I know it's been an important channel in growing the Recruit...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep27, Blue Collar Recruitment w/ Ben Gledhill & Tim Sackett from 2019-08-23T19:13:09

We're talking How to Hire for the Blue Collar with Tim Sackett and Ben GledHill

Questions we are going to try and answer: 

• Difference between hiring white vs blue c...
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep26, How To Create A Great Recruiting Podcast from 2019-08-16T20:52:58

Are you running a recruiting podcast? 

If you're not, you're probably thinking about doing so.

In the era of multi-screen, endless notifications and permanent distraction, audi...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep25, Video in Recruiter, with Maury Hanigan, Erin Douglas & Mark Lundgren from 2019-08-09T20:01:05

How do you use video in recruiting?

As an industry culture first dominated by phone and then email, we recruiters can be awfully slow in adopting new ways to interact with candidates an...

Brainfood Live On Air Ep24, HR Conferencing vs HR Reality with Katrina Hutchinson-O'Neill from 2019-08-02T22:20:41

In honour of this amazing post by Robin Schooling, we are running a special debate show on Brainfood Live this Friday 2nd August. 

I'm embedded in the HR conference scene and gen...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep23, Programmatic What? w/ Rene Bolier, Steven Rothberg and Leah Daniels from 2019-07-26T21:19:56

What is programmatic advertising?

When do you need to use it?

HOW do you use it?

and Why should you use it?

It's the recruitment technolo...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep22, Employee Infinity Loop with Coby Schneider of Intel Corp from 2019-07-19T20:43:18

Do you know what the 'Employee Infinity Loop' is?

Forget about 'candidate experience' or even 'employee experience'

How about the lifetime nurturing of relationships wit...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep21, Early Career Hiring w/ Euan Blair, Sophie Adelman, Steven Rothberg, Chris Garinger and Rowena Bach from 2019-07-05T21:37:38

How to become the employer of choice for early career talent?

- How to make your employer attractive to early stage talent

- What do young people want?

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep20, Live from Lisbon at Landing Fest, w/ Pedro Oliveira - Crowdcast from 2019-07-01T10:55:51

Special podcast from Lisbon, live at Landing Fest with Pedro Oliveira (Landing Jobs), Ana Gaspar (Volkswagen), Ana Tavares (Pipedrive) and Alvaro Rojas (IronHack). 

We cover: 

...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep19, Mary Meekers Internet Trends Report 2019 in Review from 2019-06-21T19:31:33

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep19, Mary Meekers Internet Trends Report 2019 in Review. 

Adam Gordon and I go through Meeker's 333 page monster slide deck on Internet trends. 

We're ...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep17, AI in Recruiting, Pt2 from 2019-05-31T20:38:30

AI in Recruiting, Pt 2

Where is AI going to have the most impact in the work recruiters do? How do we define the learning models? How does it all apply to hiring and ......how do...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep16, How to Hire on Reddit, w/ Erin Mathew from 2019-05-10T21:11:14

Reddit is the 8th most visited website on the planet, with over 300 million MAU's. 
Here Erin Mathew, Wim Dammans, Jiri Herodek and Stan Wasowicz discuss 1. How to ID candidates2. How to engage...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep15, How to get a public speaking gig w/ Jamie Leonard from 2019-05-03T21:15:28

Is it a good idea to do public speaking?There's pro's and cons but if you're in the business of getting the attention of your audience, there's no better way that getting up on stage and talking ab...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep14, Inbound Marketing with Joe Mullings from 2019-04-27T12:03:20

Brainfood Live On Air is now also a podcast!Audio track of Ep14, with special guest Joe Mullings of the Mullings Group, talking Inbound marketing as the only way to scale. We will be talking: 
...