The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

HOW TO BUILD CAREER PAGES WHICH ACTUALLY WORK   One of the biggest mistakes in Talent Attraction is failure to maximise conversion from attention you've already captured! The people who visit your career page are ALREADY declaring interesting in working for your business and you need to have a digital property there that underlines your EVP, helps both self select in/out and makes it easy for the...

RECRUITING REIMAGINED IN THE AI ERA   Friends, we have a special Brainfood Live to kick off the week! Continuing our series of profiling innovative AI solutions in the recruitment space, we have none other than Hari Srinivasan, VP of Product at LinkedIn, joining the show on May 12th to talk about LinkedIn’s AI hiring tools for recruiters!   Including LinkedIn’s first generative AI hiring experienc...

TRANSITIONING TO CV FREE HIRING   The CV has been around for maybe even longer than recruiting itself become a distinct profession, so are we destined to forever have a document like this in our hiring process? What does it look like if we can remove the CV - does it thicken our pipeline, improve it or make it even harder to handle or process?   Lets have a chat with TA leaders who have made the s...

AI REGULATIONS IN TA & HR: 2025 Q2 UPDATE!   2025 has been the year of AI innovation in recruitment technology.   There hasn't been a serious recruitment tech vendor hasn't infused their product with AI, and more than a few are moving toward to next step with Agentic or Agent-like AI now taking on significant chunks of the recruiter / hr workload.   Time is perfect for us to update on our unde...

MITIGATION STRATEGIES VS FAKE JOB CANDIDATES   Reports of fraudulent job applications are on the rise. A globalised internet, universal job insecurity and the reduction of friction provided by technology innovation from EasyApply to AI-powered mass personalisation, is a producing a perfect storm which is overwhelming recruitment teams.   As these trends accelerate, we can expect the volume and sop...

Agentic AI in the Wild: Live Demo   Some of you might have noticed that whenever a recruitment software business promotes their Agentic AI, Brainfood is here to challenge them to do a live demo. So far no one has yet shirked the challenge, nor have their agents disappointed - we're beginning to understand that the generalist agent is likely be to an aspiration goal for business, but those that dom...

Sourcing Automation: What can be done in 2025?   Finding and engaging candidates more efficiently remains the No1 concern of recruiters the world over - nothing gets more clicks on the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter than cool new ways! And in 2025, there are so many things we can do - perhaps no time since the beginning of the web era have we seen such an opportunity to massively scale up our sou...

Brainfood on Tour - How to Hire in China in 2025 & Beyond?   China has an enormous workforce and therefore a huge amount of recruitment. Most of the rest of the world knows very little about it! So it is time to speak to local Chinese citizens and residents to better understand how labour circulates through what by some measure has been the largest economy in the world since the mid 2010’s   W...

Key Recruitment Trends to Watch in 2025: What Top Agencies Are Doing Differently   Recruitment agencies continue to face major obstacles, including the paradox of a talent shortage despite a decrease in job openings. With more candidates rejecting job offers, it’s become essential to expand sourcing efforts for each vacancy.   According to this year’s GRID Industry Trends Survey by Bullhorn, the m...

Brainfood on Tour - How to Hire in Australia in 2025 & Beyond?   Australia is the 7th largest recruitment market by dollar value - a very decent barometer to how the global staffing market is performing. Let’s dive into the conversation with local recruiters and find out what’s going on in 2025   We’re going to learn:   - What is the state of the economy in Australia in 2025? - What are the ma...

DOGE, US Fed Gov and the Future of HR & TA in the USA   We have to talk about DOGE.   The US Federal Government is the largest single employer in the United States at 2.5 million employees. The intent of the Trump 2.0 administration is to radically reduce this number - by at least 10% in the first tranche - and maybe to end up with a workforce of about 10% when it is all said and done.   This...

IDEAL STRUCTURE OF AI-ENABLED TA   You might have noticed a run of AI Agent demo's on Brainfood Live recently - product makers are increasingly confident that they are going to produce intelligent software which will increasingly behave more like a colleague than a tool. What does this mean for the humans in the recruitment function?   Transformation is closer than we think and we need to get busy...

Autonomous Agentic AI Recruiters: Here, Now?   If 2025 is going to be year of the Agentic AI, then companies like SeekOut are going to be one of the tech companies at the frontier of building them. We have already reviewed what Agentic AI is (see Ep293!) - and discussed how close and how far we are away from seeing them in production. Can product builders shed more light on where we currently stan...

Brainfood on Tour - How to Hire in Indonesia in 2025 and beyond?   Indonesia has nearly 300 million people and therefore MUST have a huge amount of recruiting going on! And yet, it will come to no surprise to anyone that this is yet another country of which I am shamefully ignorant! Let’s talk to local recruiters and found out how exactly recruiters, employers and candidates interact in this incre...

Hiring Insights Report 2025   One of the best value changes for Brainfood Live in 2025 is showcasing proprietary data from recruitment technology companies who are able to aggregate data on how TA teams actually behave. Join us for an exclusive webinar as we dive into the key findings from GoodTime’s 2025 Hiring Insights Report, including trends, challenges, and strategies shaping talent acquisiti...

INTRODUCING AI AGENT BY JUICEBOX   AI Agents promise to revolutionise the work of recruiting but early experiments with generic products like OpenAI Operator have shown there is still some way to go - humans still needed to oversee, correct and train, especially for the unique use case of finding other human beings as candidates for the jobs we're recruiting for.   It's time for the recruitment te...

Brainfood on Tour - How to Hire in Singapore in 2025 and Beyond?   Friends, we’re always on the move and visiting local recruiter communities to find out how those folks here in their local territories. I am delighted to be visiting Singapore once again - the Mighty Mouse of SE Asia! One of the smallest countries by landmass, yet one of the economically most important, the city state has been a hu...

Talent Trends: Recruiter Productivity 2025   Ashby produce some fantastic quarterly reports, taking information from their platform to better understand the behaviour of the recruiters in the market. Hot of the press with the latest report, we are going to take this session to deep dive into a topic we all need to care about in 2025 - Recruiter Productivity.   We will find out:   - What are the pr...

AI Agents in TA & HR Hype vs Reality?   Some people are saying that will be the year of the AI Agent - an advancement of AI where it crosses over from being an amazing tool to being a competent colleague. The Google Whitepaper shared in recruiting brainfood a few weeks ago was an outstanding introduction to the topic and we're going to use this session to deep dive into state of play when it c...

State of Hiring - What Do 100 Talent Leaders Think for 2025?   Every year Willo put together a report from an in-depth survey of 100+ Heads of Talent. And every year Brainfood Live gets CEO Euan Cameron on screen to talk us through it. If you're a TA Leader who needs to benchmark what your peers are thinking, this show is for you:   You will learn what TA Leaders think about:   - Budget allocation...

How to Hire in Malaysia in 2025   Brainfood On Tour is back on folks - we're now in Malaysia and its time to deep dive into this fascinating country made of many ethnicities, faiths and regions. A nation of 70 million people, Malaysia is a coming powerhouse of SE Asia region with huge economic potential   We will find out:   - What are the main things people need to know about hiring in Malaysia?...

Talent Insights for 2025 from 1000 CHRO's   Nobody doubts this 2025 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for how businesses organise. Transformational breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence, rapid remodelling of organisation structure, requirement for re-skilling and re-deployment, almost every job will be impacted. How do CHRO's think about this year, and what do they see as the priorities?   - D...

How to Hire in India in 2025   Brainfood On Tour is back for another season! I am delighted to back in India - for the first time since before Covid. This is one of the most diverse, vibrant, populous and important countries in the world - and potentially one of the major engines of economic growth for the future. Let's find out what it is like to hire in India!   We will find out:   - What are th...

Req Load: How Much is Too Much Per Recruiter in the Age of AI?   If Artificial Intelligence going to make recruiters hyper productive, how many requirements can we now expect to manage? There's no question that this question is going to be on the mind of CEO's going into 2025. Whilst we CAN expect some increase in req load, how much is too much?   In this session, we are going to discuss the varia...

Forecasting Recruiting in 2025   Happy New Year Everybody!   And welcome to Season 5 of Brainfood Live On Air - the weekly show where we gather the world's top experts to come on and discuss live on air the topics of the day. The year would not make a proper start without a forecast of what we think the recruiting environment is going to look like. Lets review how we think the market is going to s...