The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

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 is  Alex van Klaveren , CEO of KANDIDATE   - What are the benefits of being a non-recruiter, getting into the recruitment business? - Were you always going to start a business or did it just happen? - When did you know it was going to happen? - What are the key...

The Career Ladder to CPO!   Chief People Officer or 'CPO' is pretty much the top job in the internal side of the recruiter industry. I'm delighted to say that several people I knew when they were individual contributors have progressed their careers so that they now hold this position. How did they get there? We're bringing in a squad of recently minted CPO's to let us know what we need to know if...

The State of Agency Recruitment in 2022 (Down Under!)   Universal challenges + local conditions = unique solutions. There are no doubts that the ANZ market, and the APAC region in general has unique characteristics which influence the behaviour of clients, colleagues and candidates alike. We're going to use the opportunity in my last week in Australia to speak to recruiters and recruitment agency...

Leadership Fitness (For a Remote First World)   A cynical take on why execs vs employees are divided in their attitude to WFH is that managers don't know how to do their job when they are not 'overseeing' their team and hence insist on 'back to the office'. And yet the logic of the remote or at least hybrid working is irresistible and perhaps a significant percentage of leaders trained in the on p...

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 is  Martin Herbst , CEO of JobAdder   - How is recruitment technology different from e-commerce? - What do you think e-commerce could learn from recruitment, and vice versa? - What are the qualities which make you a good leader? - Did you develop these or were t...

How to Build Social Capital (In A Remote First World)   Everyone in recruitment agrees that building your network is one of the key components of sustainable success in this business. There is no doubt that in-person connection helped deepen relationships with clients, colleagues and candidates alike. So what does it mean now that we are mainly doing our work in a remote first way? Are our network...

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 is Siadhal Magos, CEO of  Metaview   - When did you realise there was an opportunity to create a new category in recruitment technology? - How has your background in Product helped and hindered you as a CEO? - What have been the biggest differences between senio...

DDR - or Data Driven Recruitment, what is this, why do we need it and how do we get there? I don't think any one topic has achieved wide spread consensus as quickly as being 'data driven'. What does this really mean and why is it better than the other thing? How are recruiting teams which operate in a data driven way, different from those that do not? You will learn - Difference between Data Drive...

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 is Ammon Bartram, CEO of Triplebyte   - When did you know Triplebyte was going to happen? - What were the good things about Y Combinator? - In what ways do you think Y Comb might be damaging? - Engineering led startups - strengths, weaknesses - What did you lear...

We all know job ads are under performing - with crashing applicant rates as talent shortage persists throughout 2022. It's timely we have expert opinion from recruitment marketers, recruitment ad professionals and algorithmic job posting vendors to help us get better value from our posts   We are going to find out: - What day of the week is best for applicant rate - What time of the day is best fo...

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 is Ryan McCabe, CEO of Odro   - How did this happen Ryan - When did you know Odro was happening - What lessons did you bring from mechanical engineering to recruiting then recruiting to CEO-ing - If you do it again, what would you do exactly the same way? - What...

How has Candidate Experience changed from 2021 to 2022? We all know that the market has rebalanced in favour of the job seeker in the past 12 months, elevating expectations on compensation and work flexibility - and likely reducing job seeker tolerance for poor and inefficient recruitment processes. What are candidates saying to us today and how are we to adapt? We are going to find out: - CX mini...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today   Next up is Troy Sultan, CEO of Guide - What is the difference between being C-level and Senior Exec? - Why does it seem rare for talent pro's to become successful HR tech entrepreneurs - Decisions as CEO: toughest, best and the one you would like...

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 is Pedro Torrecillas, CEO of Circular   - What is the original story of Circular? - What are the CEO things that you don't do well? - How do you hire your leadership team? - Your background in product - how is this a strength and weakness for a CEO? - How are th...

We all love the word 'strategic'. We probably all think we are strategic. But it means something different from at the customer perspective, if you're considered a strategic partner or asset. It means that they factor in your service and availability when they are designing their own strategies.   - What is being a  'strategic partner'? - Is this even possible to achieve for an agency supplier? -...

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 is Nico Blier-Silvestri, CEO of Platypus - What are the benefits of being a recruiter before becoming CEO of a rectech business? - What are the handicaps? - What blind spots did you have when become a first time founder / CEO? - When did you know Platypus was go...

There is status gap between departments in business. Finance is the treasury. Sales bring the money. Product / Engineering might make the things we sell. Legal creates the contracts we are all bound by. Where does TA / HR sit in this order? Why do recruiters / TA consistently seem to be a department that has fight extra hard to be heard? Perhaps, we lack 'institutional confidence'   - What is 'ins...

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 is  Jonathan Romley,  CEO of Lundi   - Why are you always the boss of your businesses? - What are the CEO things that you don't do well? - How do you hire your leadership team? - What is the original story of Lundi? - What is does the final outcome for Lundi loo...

How long has the argument been that TA should be in a separate department from HR, either a stand alone reporting into the CEO or part of Marketing or part of Operations - anything but HR! Where is the state of this argument and does it still stand? What might the benefits be of moving closer to HR rather than away?   - Isn't TA really about marketing these days? - What has been the influence of c...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today   Next up is Pedro Oliveira, CEO of Talent Protocol - What is the difference between being CEO of a web2 vs a web3 organisation? - What have you learned in your career as a leader of tech business? - What assumptions have you had to let go, which on...

How To Know A Good Recruiter?   Everybody is hiring for recruiters these days and - in moments of candidate shortage for recruiters - we may be tempted to say to anybody with a pulse! However, how can we tell a good recruiter apart from the others? Is there a way to do it before we actually get to see them in action?   - Red flags on candidates - Key assessment criteria - How important is prior ex...

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 is Tony Jamous, CEO of Oyster - What's the Oyster original story? - When did you realise it would be a billion dollar opportunity? - How much bigger did Covid / Shift to remote make the market, make the business? - What's the difference in leading a Unicorn busi...

Recruiter Enablement - How to set up an effective Recaps function   We heard a lot of recruitment operations or 'RecOps' in recent years but it is still an uncommon specialist function in TA teams. What is RecOps, why is not just plain old recruiting and why do some people think it is the key to hyper scaling?   - Definitions - what is recruitment operations? - What are the key tasks and objective...

Setting Salaries for Remotely Distributed Teams   As candidate shortage continues to bite in 2022, employers will increasingly look to shift jobs to location agnostic setting. However as one problem may be solved others rise up to take their place - how do we handle the compensation for our newly remote workforce? This is topic of Brainfood Live On Air - Ep140   - Shifting to remote....what is the...

Selling Talent Acquisition Transformation to the Business   As recruitment leaders we are brought on board to make step change improvements in how talent acquisition is conducted at our employers. Yet translating the objectives into actual change on the ground is one of the recurring challenges for TA today.   Why is it so difficult? Why did they even hire you if they don't listen to your ideas?  ...