The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

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 up your LinkedIn Game.  Expect:  Latest product / feature updates from Q2 Audience / Follower growth tips Boosting post view count LinkedIn Company page optimisation Community management  Newsfeed Algorithm...

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 obvious that we cannot compartmentalise our professional from our political selves.  Which brings a set of challenges for HR / TA which we may be ill equipped or trained to handle.  In this episode, we are...

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 Mark Dorman to take us through the evolution of the business and what is coming next for staffing agencies in the post Covid-19 era? Here about Balance between Contract / Permanent businesses Future of RPO /...

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 becomes your market.  Combined with worldwide economic retrenchment, we will shockingly have a labour market entirely the reverse of what was the case 3 months ago - candidate & applicant rich.  What to do whe...

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, others have forged ahead with new processes fit for the remote first / remote only world.  Questions we will seek to answer:  How do you hire and onboard new candidates, having never met them in person? What happen...

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 different from the traditional recruiter, and in doing so opened the way for much greater diversity of people and skillsets to enter the recruitment industry.  Glen is making is debut on Brainfood Live in this episode, and you can expect that we'll be discussin...

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 inevitably leads to a flood of often unsuitable candidates.  Being able to target, identify and engage the highly skilled, in-demand is itself a highly skilled, in-demand skill! I'll be speaking with Sourcer & Sourcing Training e...

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 video calls, too many of these are a terrible experience, mainly due to correctable mistakes that we routinely make which makes the experience harder than it should be for the viewers & participants. I AM NO DIFFERENT!...

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 more important for people in the people business.  DBR, RL100, HROS, Growth Hacking Recruiters, Trumunity - which are the best communities to belong to, and what makes them good? Fanny Comba and I will get the admins and ma...

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. What should recruiters be doing right now? This is the topic of Brainfood Live On Air this Friday - we're doing a special webinar focusing for the first time ON US. - Key Resources for Recruiters during Cov...

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.  The world renowned recruiting expert,  John Vlastelica , will be giving us 1 hour of his time to impart insights on what world class Talent Acquisition teams are doing in times of hiring standstill.  This show is go...

In a change to scheduled programming, we've got an awesome surprise for you: its  Andy Foote , founder of LinkedIn Insights coaching business, with his annual update on all the important changes to LinkedIn in 2020.  You can't miss this folks - full presentation on screen share with the legend himself.  Episode 56 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at Stack Overflow Talent. Talk...

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 a pandemic which has devastated the planet.  With new realities of the post-Covid world beginning to emerge, what opportunities do we have to creating better systems than the ones that went before. If the world is g...

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 how to do it.  This episode we are going to explore one of these techniques - the Online Hiring Hackathon,  I'll be joined by recruiting pioneer  Eva Zils , whose HR Hackathon in 2016 was one of the first tru...

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 recognise the symptoms of stress behaviour - in our colleagues, as well as a amongst ourselves.. Importantly, as we adjust to our new realities, we need to quickly learn strategies for dealing with mental health cha...

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 to the best candidates more effectively. Who better than the Wizard Sourcer himself - Jonathan Kidder Tech Recruiter at Amazon - to help us navigate the world of chrome extensions, free tools, sourcing channels and the rest...

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, especially if you need to attract the highly skilled, in-demand tech talent to a non-tech brand? This is the topic of Brainfood Live On Air, Ep51. We will be joined by  Chris Wray , Head of Recruitment Strategy at Sain...

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 frequently lose their top talent to competitors, rather than have staff transfer internally to other positions in the business.  Why does this happen? And how do we fix it? This is the topic of Ep50 of Brainfood Live On Air.  I'll be joined b...

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 people for jobs if they want them.  Crazy eh? But  some companies  have experimented with it and they swear that it works better than any other method. And if they are right, what does that mean for our industry? Has it all...

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 , Recruitment Leader at Thoughtworks, with additional guests Guillaume Alexandre and Katherine Robinson - What is the state of sourcing today? - How important is sourcing amongst all the other responsibilities a recruiter has to perform? - Have we hit 'peak sourcing'...

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 building of truly inclusive workplace culture. I'm joined by D&I expert  Joanne Lockwood , to explore the recruiter challenges of creating a truly inclusive workplace culture. You will learn about:  1. 3 x Layer...

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 numbers.  They are publishing their annual report on job application metrics and Brainfood Live has none other than CEO  Christian Forman  as special guest to talk us through the show.  Must attend webinar for anyone spending...

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 - the Hiring manager, the recruiter and not least - the candidate.  Why are they are so bad? Why do we still need them? And more importantly, how could be do better with them? This is the topic of Ep45 of Brainfood Live...

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.  All the signals are bad... Resume / CV ....self reported document, easy to game Brand name previous employers.....'must be good because she worked at Google' Phone screen....irrelevant testing, using a medium that engin...

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 highly skilled, in-demand. In our world, that's usually someone in tech - a developer, a designer, a data scientist.  And yet, someone has to initiate the conversation. Listen in to a super conversation with  Erin Math...