Talent Savvy

In todays episode Bas, Sofia and Marlies talk about compensation and benefits. Not complaining about it as TA usually does, but talking about the things we can influence as TA professionals.  The article that led to this podcast is a Substack newsletter bij Andre Nader who explains how equity compensation has fallen for the Faang / Maang companies and how that makes hiring more difficult.&nbs...

In todays episode Bas, Olga and Matthias discuss strategic TA metrics.  Olga has extensive knowledge of TA metrics from a corporate perspective, having lots of experience at companies like PepsiCo and NielsenIQ while Matthias has mainly worked at scale ups and start up, like Zalando and Scout24.  The article that's the basis of our discussion is:  https://www.visier.com/blog/top-10-...

I today's Episode Bas is joined by Marlies Ferril from Canada and Michael Delany from Australia. A true tri continental podcast with ideas from all over the world.  The topic of today is Growth hacking for recruiters.  The main article we are talking about today is: https://www.growthtribe.io/blog/hiring-a-high-performance-growth-hacker-a-checklist Another article that is mentioned today...

In today's episode we talk about lessons from Recfest. The biggest recruitment event in the world. Together with Chantelle and Olga we talk about our main take-aways. What did we learn.  We talk about Bill Boorman's closing keynote on safeguarding your job, Felix Wetzel's how should vendors approach TA leaders, Nokia's internal mobility strategy, Haver's talk on using data to increasing diver...

In this weeks episode we'll be talking about what candidates want based on the report 'what turns candidates off' from Starred.  You can download the full report at: https://starred.com/what-turns-candidates-off/ Together with Sofia and Steve I'll talk about the lead findings from the report, notably:  - Feedback to candidates - Quality of assessment - Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DE&...

In this episode Bas, Marlies and Akbar will be talking about hiring the formerly incarserated.  We'll be sharing differences between countries, mainly the USA, Canada, the UK and the Netherlands. How else do these cultures deal with it. What are the benefits of different approaches.  But also practical tips on how do you hire them? How do you help them settle in? What are interesting sid...

In this weeks episode we talk about how much we can ask a candidate to do in the selection procedure?  Marlies at her former employer used to pay for original work that they are asking that's going to be more than 2 hours work for the applicant.  Sofia's company actually changed the work samples to non original work, to make sure candidates don't feel exploited.  Should you start pa...

In this weeks episode I'm joined by Kelly and Sofia to talk about recruiting in a recession or downturn.  First we'll talk about the question is a recession is imminent. The short answer is: it seems that way but it won't be as bad as we've seen before because there are still so many jobs.  Then we talk about what to do in these times if you are still hiring. Do you hunt people in compan...

In this weeks episode Bas, Steve and Marco talk about podcasting for recruitment. Marco has been developing a podcasting strategy for his current Employer Branding gig and talks about the choices they've made an why they made them.  Also two Werf& awards have been awarded to cases recently involving podcasts for recruitment and employer branding. The AIVD (Dutch NSA/CIA/MI6) won the jury...

In this weeks episode we'll be talking about remote work.  We'll be talking about remote work and does it help or hinder teamwork? What are the essentials of making remote work work? Hoe does it impact the talent you can recruit?  We have two experiences experts: Lucy Williams who manages her team remotely as a TA leader and Akbar who's worked with remote teams and has worked remote firs...

In this episode Bas, Ben and Steve talk about the recruiter experience. The candidate experience is the most talked about topic in the world, but we don't focus enough on the root cause, the recruiter experience. What can we do to improve the recruiter experience. How can we set the recruiter up for success? How do we give recruiters the time to be more human to candidates and give for example fee...

In today's episode we will talk about Personal Branding for recruiters and recruitment leaders with Sofia Broberger - Sourcing Trainer, Speaker and Consultant and Steve Jacobs - RL100 Member | DBR Admin. As Jeff Bezos put it  "Your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room." We will dive deeper into topics such as the Social Selling Index on Linkedin, the power of weak t...

While Bas is still touring as the TA expert that he is, this episode is brought to you by Oana Iordachescu, Lucy Williams and Ben Gledhill. They discuss the rise if the Embedded Model in TA with its challenges and opportunities: what makes a good partnership, what should recruiters expect and what are the trends to follow on the options for TA augmentation. Ben's news: https://www.linkedin.com/pul...

In this episode Bas, Oana and Kelly will be talking about recruitment marketing automation.  The news of the week is the purchase of Candidate. ID by ICIMS.  https://www.icims.com/company/newsroom/march29announcement/?fbclid=IwAR2-Qtl8UaK-dOeFZcpy8mBOl3MiyHfortoKehhml87EIdBrUpQKr_WlpgY Talking recruitment marketing automation.  We talk about starting small and where to start with re...

In this episode Bas is joined by Sofia and Oana on talking sourcing. Sourcing the candidates that get so many offers. How do you engage with them. Reach out to them. Get them to respond.  We answer questions like: - What's the best opening line?  - How do you engage?  - Do you need to be explicit or implicit in your communication? - Do you connect on personal or business interests?&...

In this episode I'm joined by Kelly Robinson and Marco Dalmeijer and we're talking Metaverse jobfairs. Kelly is a big fan, Marco and Bas are more sceptical.  Marco has some awesome idea's on how to make your Metaverse jobfair more attractive. What if we get inspirational speakers to join us in the metaverse. Perhaps even diseased people, like the former but famous CEO or founder.  This e...

In this episode Bas is joined by Lucy Williams and Steve Jacobs on team recruitment. Do you recruit the best person for the job or a person good enough for the job and best fit for the team.  Most interesting observations this podcast:  - You can't just have all A players - The office clown in more important than you'd think - We do far too little 'gap' analyses on missing talents News o...

In this weeks episode Sofia and Bas talk about work simulations. The most predictive of all assessments. Sofia uses work simulations for mainly tech and creative roles, while Bas did a few one of simulations for marketeers and so on.  Sofia shares what's important to give the candidates a great experience as well to show your quality. We also discuss if people should be paid for doing extensi...

In this episode we have a conversation with small improvements that have big impacts.  We talk about the small improvements that can improve attraction. Small improvements that can help conversation from candidate to applicant. Small improvements that can have big impacts on candidates dropping out of the process or not showing up.  News of the week:  Mask wearing leads to less beau...

In this episode Bas and Sofia talk about the importance of a candidate's motivation.  What's more important, the motivation for the job or the company?  How do we measure motivation?  Is there a bad motivation? Like if just wanting to move to a city something that's the wrong motivation?  We kick off the episode by talking about a scientific article that measures the ability of...

In this weeks episode we'll talk about recruiting for big brands vs lesser known brands with Lucy Williams and a new co host: Marco Dalmeijer.  Lucy has worked for both big brands (Visa) and much lesser known brands (Senderr and now Yoco) and Marco has had extensive knowledge of working with the biggest of brands (Deloitte, Accenture, Lidl and now Just Eat), but also works with smaller brands...

In today's show Bas, Sofia and Kelly share information on 'out of the box' ideas to attract candidates. All the interesting candidate attraction scheme's we've seen all over the world.  So only one question is answered in this show: what can you do to attract candidates to your position in this candidate-driven market?  News of the week: A German insurance firm pays candidates just to in...

In this episode Bas van de Haterd is joined by Akbar Karenga from the UK and Kelly Robinson in the USA to talk about mobile recruitment experiences. We answer the following question:  - What do you think is the biggest difference mobile and desktop?  - How do you make a mobile apply process?  And we give examples for great mobile recruitment experience.  The news of the week&nb...

In this show Bas is joined by Sofia and a new co host Steve Jacobs and we're talking buying HR technology. News of the week: Find the graph with declining labor market populations here (Dutch)  And the stat on the declining birth rates in the USA here .  The questions we answer in this episode are: - Should you buy an all-in-one application or go for a lot of point solutions and buy a be...

In today's episode we talk about the ATS and especially buying an ATS.  What is the proces to follow before even approaching ATS vendors?  Who do you involve in the proces? What do you look for in the ATS?  Oana mentions the Raci model here: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/RACI-model In a start-up or scale up environment, do you buy on current or future needs and budgets?  Links...