The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

TALENT TRENDS REPORT: SOURCING IN 2024   Sourcing has returned to being a hot topic in 2024 in light of the recent restrictions on Linkedin data which may be significantly altered the efficacy of previously reliable sourcing techniques. We've had the expert sourcing view - lets now look at what data can tell us as CRM / ATS provider Ashby takes a deep dive on actual recruiter behaviour on their pl...

The State of Hiring Market Intelligence Report 2024   Continuing with our theme of showcasing companies who are conducting research valuable to the recruiting community, today we focus on the work our friends at Willo have done over the past year, surveying customers on hiring trends from AI, remote work, candidate experience and focus for 2024.   Find out what other TA, HR and Senior level execs...

The State of Background Screening Compliance 2024   Checkr have released the definitive research piece on the State of Background Screening Compliance and we will use this week's Brainfood Live On Air to interview Su-Han Wang, Managing Litigation & Compliance Counsel at Checkr to better understand:   what percentage of US employers are compliant with Federal regulations on background screening...

LINKEDIN X-RAY: DEAD OR DYING OR WHAT?   Using a search engine to 'X-ray' an ostensibly closed social network is the quintessential activity of a sourcer. You could probably argue that the entire sourcing discipline emerged as a result of recruiters discovering sophisticated ways to interrogate a system to retrieve information about potential candidates.   Consequently, the news that LinkedIn had...

OFFBOARDING: HOW TO AVOID PR DISASTER!   We have seem the company wide Zoom call, the recorded 1-2-1 videos, the mass email and even the classic no notice account lock out - it seems that whatever method an employer takes, there is always a risk of PR disaster when making lay offs.   Is this a matter of training, tooling or values? How can we create the right sort of process which humanises this h...

Happy New 2024 Everybody!   We're back with the series where we get up close and personal with the tech entrepreneurs changing the way we work today.   Next up we've got we've got one of the most unique stories to come out of the UK recruitment tech scene in recent years. Richard and Beverly Collins, Co-founders of CVWallet are not only manage to be successful entrepreneurs, coming around for the...

HOW TO HIRE AI (10 THINGS RECRUITERS HAVE TO KNOW)   There is likely no major corporate employer on the planet that isn't interested in becoming more 'AI-enabled'. And traditionally the quickest way to get there is to hire elite AI skills into the our organisation. The demand for the AI at elite level - data engineers, research scientists and the like - is going through the roof and it is high tim...

MEASURING THE QUALITY OF HIRE (IN THE AGE OF AI)     My most popular post of 2023 was one I wrote on the How to Measure Quality of Hire. It was certainly not the quality of the writing which made it a hit - it was the obviously more that we hit a sore point for Talent Acquisition leaders and Hiring Managers on how we actually know whether we are doing a good job or not, in terms of raising the the...

STATE OF TECH HIRING IN 2024   In 2021 the Brainfood community was 50% self identified as 'tech recruiters'   Since that time, we've seen a huge changes in the world - the collapse of VC investment, the end of zero interest rate policy, the advent of generative AI and the shift of focus from intangible to tangible value economy. Where does that leave tech in 2024?   I've asked our friends at Otta...

FORECASTING THE YEAR IN RECRUITMENT 2024,Pt2   Part Two of our two-part forecast series, where we look forward to what we think is going to happen in the year ahead. Lets see if we can make some S.M.A.R.T (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound) predictions on the following topics:   - SMB Recruitment Agency Market - D&I, especially Gender and Pay Equity - Labour Market Econom...

FORECASTING THE YEAR IN RECRUITMENT 2024,Pt1   Start of the New Year and we are going to collate our thoughts and project forward on what we think is going to happen in 2024. None of us are prophets but can we gather together enough intuition and trends analysis to produce some viable forecasts? Lets try:   - Global Economy in 2024 - State of VC / Investment Markets - Tech Hiring will it bounce ba...

2023 Year in Review: Labour Market, Jobs, Vacancies, Work   Final part of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, we are zooming out to the macro and looking at state of the economy, the labour market, the vacancy market and our verdict of the year in the recruitment really has been.   - Economy in 2023 - US, UK and elsewhere - Impact of high interest rates - Labour supply - Ec...

2023 Year in Review: LinkedIn Content Marketing & LinkedIn Sourcing   Part 3 of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, we're looking back at our old and necessary friend, LinkedIn! Recruiters No1 most important platform, how did it treat you in 2023? We're going to review the major changes on:   - LinkedIn Newsfeed algorithm - Post types - Creator Mode / Livestream / Audio...

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 Branding. What the heck happened on these two domains this year?   - SEO / Changes on Google Jobs - Behavioural ad targeting / retargeting - Impact of Search Generative Experience - CPC vs CPA - State of Job Bo...

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 topics packed into 4 sessions, so make sure you follow the channel in order to be notified of them all when we go live.   We being with AI, WorkTech Investment and DEIB - what has happened in 2023 on these three...

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 inherent and potentially significant moment in women's lives, one which is under discussed in society at large and certainly in the world of work. Does your company have a plan for menopause? If you have women in your work...

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.   Lets hear from Aref on tech startup, leadership during an extraordinary period in the global economy, how Joblyon conquered the Nordic market and what the plans are going forward with expansion into UK, EU and beyon...

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 can expect this number to increase as competition for opportunities continues to be high and innovation in tech becomes ever more sophisticated. Do we recruiters have a plan to deal with this?   You will le...

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 recruiters looking for work, but I don't think we can say that it has. The market buoyancy that we've experienced over the past decade and half might turn to be entirely a zero interest rate phenomenon, and we nee...

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 & progression framework for Talent Acquisition. A structure of this type is essential for any significant department in business, helping not only create visibility on resourcing gaps but also on how candidates and em...

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 and regional blocs, as well as jobs shifting across those boundaries as companies seek the best available talent at the best available price, we are overdue a visit to Latin America and all the diverse econom...

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 AI. What advances have happened in that time, how have recruiters taken advantage of the innovations, what practical use cases can see we illustrate to the audience?   We're bringing the best of the best aga...

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 the EU AI directive or the New York AEDT or the increasing numbers of cases going through the law courts on AI, automation and bias.   Smart TA departments will want to be using GAI to secure efficiency gai...

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 diversity in the world of technology. Despite the decade of effort, goodwill and investment, the ratio of women to men in the tech remains stubbornly fixed. Perhaps it is time to challenge previously held as...

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 socials and puts your business on blast. Dealing with feedback is difficult, but when it is a public call out then the potential damage to employer brand far exceeds any personal pressure that might be felt.   How...