The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

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 efficiently. Whether we use interview, game based assessment, set take home projects, have presentations delivered or even take the candidates out for a meet-the-team exercise, we rarely consider the scenario from the...

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 on how to get away with (illegally) working more than one job. Once considered a myth promulgated by managers who want to manufacture consent for return to office, a body of evidence is building both from res...

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. The landmark Dobbs vs Jackson ruling, which removed the Federal protection of a women's right to choose, has led to a number of states changing their laws which various reduce woman's right to abortion. What i...

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 gender and ethnicity. And yet perhaps most egregious form of discrimination is against the older worker - who we will all one day become - who are often stereotyped as stuck in their ways, lacking energy and ini...

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 your just rewards. Whilst not of this is false, it is certainly not complete and as we get older we have to resist the cynicism which inevitably takes hold as we watch others advance more quickly and further...

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 flowing into the business. How to do it when the entire market is retrenching and every penny is being accounted for? We're in a moment right now but rather than give up on the situation, can we reframe the pro...

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 to facilitate internal mobility and the continuous upskilling of the employee base in order to create an agile and resilient organisation fit for todays volatile and unpredictable world.   TA need to respond by...

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 recruitment technology business than Indeed, a company which somehow manages to be dominant incumbent and disruptive innovator at the same time. We're with VP and GM, Raj Mukherjee on the latest changes at I...

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, in which 84,000 employees received training on how to be a LinkedIn influencer. We can forget that almost all of us have powerful networks, many of which are plugged into the world's number one professional...

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 some significant changes to the newsfeed algorithm which all recruiters need to be aware of. Revealed in an interview with Entrepreneur, it seems that LinkedIn is prioritising content which genuinely adds value (how...

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 anything else. Lets take a leap forward and see how it might be accomplished!   - Identification - Engagement - Assessment - Negotiation - Close   How does technology do all of this, WITHOUT just moving a h...

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 months for the VC backed tech sector, as we've seen a refocus on profitability over growth as investors turn conservative in light of high interest rates, constantly VUCA-ring uncertainty and, perhaps, the p...

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 themselves 'fractional'. A very recent phenomenon, this is the belated recognition that sometimes you may not need a key resource 100% of the time, all of the time, and in fact you only really need that person a pe...

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 bring some mega brands together - it's Ryan Steelberg, President at Veritone with Alex Fourlis, CEO of Broadbean - who are going to talk to us about leadership, vision, M&A and the future of recruitment te...

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 about the mental aspect of doing things which give us anxiety, especially the sense that 'you might not be good enough'.   - What is imposter syndrome and do we all experience it? - How prevalent is it for rec...

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' for a little while now is because there are a number of critically important macro trends which are forcing factors to decisions government, businesses and individuals have to make. The candidate shortage, the rise of AI...

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 intelligence is the sector that built it. Software engineers were amongst the first to see a mainstreaming of this new class of technologies (GitHub Copilot) and were amongst the first to realise the Janus-like fu...

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 contributors operating on their own initiative in to get more efficiency in their personal work. This has been amazing to see, but something is clearly missing - where are the strategic initiatives, what are TA leaders,...

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 if not bigger than semantic search, with Google generating content from a user prompt a la ChatGPT rather than just presenting a list of blue links for the user to further investigate. The implications of this ch...

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 of the critical components for success of the companies they invest in. The formation of the 'recruiter in residence' or 'Head of People' who work across the portfolio is one of the most interesting developments of the re...

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 the world where the candidate retains high level expectations and has the research skills to unearth information about an employers reputation, it is more important than ever to make sure that companies have EB at the for...

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 hiring on bio / experience is welcome, as we know correlation is very weak before prior experience and job performance, but how exactly are we meant to identify people who can / want to do the job?   - What is SBH? - Are cer...

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 that they are quickly up to productivity and adding competitive value to the business. And yet, Quality of Hire remains the metric is which least monitored by TA - why is this?   We're going to explore the context behind...

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 intelligence (external labour market) and Talent analytics (internal people analytics) are two halves of one of the most important functions leading recruitment teams are building in order to make data driven decisions on hir...

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 mega scale organisations. What is it like to be working for an organisation with tens of thousands of employees? How do you do TA leadership in an environment like this - what are the things you have to do which differ fro...