The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

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 are Dan Kirkland & Dean Sadler, Co-founders of Tribepad - What is the difference between being C-level vs Senior Exec? - How did a career in engineering prepare you for being a founder of a recruitment tech business? - Were you always going...

What is going to happen in Recruiting for 2022? Its going to be another crazy year in our game, as candidate shortages continue to drive up demand for recruiters, organisations contort and reshape to better access different types of worker and new technologies bring big ramifications for how we do our work. Questions to consider How does employer branding look like at a time when workers have the...

RECRUITMENT REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2021   We're finally here folks - the last Brainfood Live of the year! I know that it's only the 17th December but it's Christmas Eve next Friday and I suspect everybody will either by with friends and family for the holidays, or zoning out on Netflix and whiskey on their own, so this is the day we're going to close the year on.   As such, lets talk about this year -...

EMPLOYER BRANDING FOR CONTROVERSIAL BRANDS   One of the most interesting challenges in employer branding and talent attraction is to build and execute strategy for a company whose brand which might usually draw prejudgement and high emotion. How do you go about your work as a recruiter or talent attraction strategist in this circumstance?   - How to refute the claims and challenge the brand percep...

SWITCHING INDUSTRIES: A GUIDE FOR RECRUITERS   The agility of recruiters is one of the main reasons why we are resilient during times of change. Switching industry focus is one of those skills which makes most sense in the present moment as industries rise and fall with the shift to remote, the change in work habits, the change in people's priorities.   Is there a technique or system for doing thi...

CANDIDATE JOURNEYS: THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY Finding candidates is one problem, making sure that they stick with you throughout the recruiting process is another! The white hot market of 2021 has shown us that our current neglect of candidate experience is no long tenable and is manifestly hampering our ability to recruit for our businesses.   - How do we rethink the candidate journey? - What...

WHAT DO RECRUITERS WANT?   It's a question whose time has come, as employers everywhere attempt to staff up their recruiting teams in order to be competitive in this candidate short post pandemic economy. I've been dealing with this my own way of late - launching the Brainfood Jobs Job Board to help employers and now the What Do Recruiters Want survey, which hundreds of you have contributed to alr...

EMPLOYEE GENERATED CONTENT: A CASE STUDY FROM IBM   There is no better form of content than EGC - Employee Generated Content. Today's job seeker does not want to see slick corporate videos, over produced marketing lit or sermon delivered by the CEO. What they want is to see people who are doing the jobs they are doing telling them how it is to work at the employer.   But knowing is not the same as...

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 are Rick Mare & Nicole Clarke, Co-founders of Shazamme. - What is the difference between being C-level vs Senior Exec? - How did a career in recruitment prepare you for being a founder of a recruitment tech business? - Were you always going...

FUTURE FIT TALENT ACQUISITION LEADERS   Talent Acquisition is a function no stranger to change, but perhaps there has never been a moment quite like this that is confronting our industry; radical decentralisation of organisation structure, diversification of employee contracts, shift from one to maybe multi-modal ways of operating, the blurring the divide between 'company' and 'market', the rise o...

RECRUITING IN INDIA IN 2021 / 2022   Brainfood virtual roadshow is taking a long overdue visit one of the most important recruitment markets on the planet - India. Home to over 1 billion people, India's working population size, distinct regional diversity, leading edge technology companies and world famous off shoring / services companies combine to make this market one of the most dynamic to revi...

As Recruiters and HR professionals we care more than most about company culture. Hiring new people into the organisation is probably the quickest way to change company culture. So how do we make sure that change happens for the better, and not for the worse? - How do we talk about company culture? - Do we share an understanding on what it is? - How do we capture the dynamism of organisational cult...

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 Euan Cameron and Andrew Wood, Co-founders of Willo, the one-way video interviews that is the fastest way to discover and develop talent for your growing business - What is the difference between being C-level vs Senior Exec? - Why recruit...

Unconscious (or perhaps more accurately, subconscious) Bias is a familiar yet widely misunderstood phenomena. In recruitment, it's critical we improve our understanding if we are to mitigate against the worst affects often inadvertent bias.   - what is unconscious bias? - how do we acquire bias? - how do our bias's change? - where does is it occur the recruiting process? - how can we mitigate agai...

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 Caroline Gleeson, CEO of up and coming ATS provider Occupop.   - What is the difference between being C-level vs Senior Exec? - How did a career in recruitment prepare you for being a founder of a recruitment tech business? - Were you al...

Diversify The Talent Pipeline: More Data or Less Data?   Diversifying the workforce has become a pre-eminent concern for TA and HR. Almost all of us accept the value of the outcome, but we often struggle to choose which strategy is best suited to deliver this outcome. Additionally, what approach is taken is often regionally divergent, based on historical context and compliance with local jurisdict...

AGEISM IN RECRUITMENT - TO DO's FOR CANDIDATES & EMPLOYERS Two things are unfortunately true: age-ism in hiring is real and it's a problem that ALL of us will have to face sooner or later. What can we as recruiters do about this? What can we as candidates do to improve our chances? This is the focus of this week's Brainfood Live On Air   - evidence of ageism in hiring - intersection with gender /...

We have all missed the live events, especially in-person. For the past 18 months, we've had to cope with the digital only conference, which in the end turned out to be a long string endless zoom calls....not the experience that we were looking for! We need a return to in-person events, but undoubtedly this has changed for us and everyone else going forward.   This is the focus of this week's Brain...

HOW TO HAVE BETTER INTAKE MEETINGS WITH HIRING MANAGERS   One of the most important parts of the hiring process is the intake meeting with the hiring manager. Get this wrong, and you will end up doing a lot of work for absolutely zero gain; worse you may additionally damage the relationships you need to have in order to succeed.   This is the focus of this week's Brainfood Live On Air   - When do...

BUILDING CULTURE FOR HYBRID TEAMS    One of main concerns with operating a 'hybrid' mode of work is 'cultural cohesion' - how to ensure that team members are fully included in the company culture, irrespectively of their working style. Critics will say that this is an impossible task and better to accept cultural separation; advocates are determined to make it work and have ideas on how.   We're g...

GEN Z AND THE NEW WORLD OF WORK Covid-19 has accelerated the digitisation and distribution of work. For Gen Z, it will be a matter of entering the world of work for the first time, at a time, when it is in the middle of radical change. - How does this generation think about work? - What relationship do they expect from employers? - What kind of work qualifies as 'good work'? - Do they care about r...

THE FIRST 100 DAYS Congratulations on your new job! Now what do you do? We're going to take a different tack in this Brainfood Live as we explore what a recruiter or HR pro should do in their first 100 days on the job. What are the most important things to achieve in 100 days? How to prioritise between competing demands? How soon do you start - you know - recruit? What are the hygiene factors you...

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 are Jon Stross and Daniel Chait - the co-founders of award winning ATS provider Greenhouse. - What is the difference between being C-level vs Senior Exec? - What happens when you two disagree? - Were you always going to be doing startup, lea...

REMAKING CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE POST PANDEMIC   As we emerge from the pandemic era, we are beginning to realise that the world of work might begin to look radically different from what we were used to in the before times. Super hot labour market,  elevated candidate expectations, widespread re-evaluation of our relationship with work, changes in preferred methods of communication, reorientation and...

BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL WITH SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS As any tech recruiters knows, in 2021 finding software developers isn't the hard part, getting them to talk to you is! We can spend a lot of time writing clever emails, being cute with copy and going with hyper personalised approach, but can we find other ways to make a better connection? How do we build 'social capital' with the audience we want to...