The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

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?  ...

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...