The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

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...

HOW TO BE A BETTER TALENT ACQUISITION LEADER We often complain that managers get 'over promoted' and yet how many of us had adequate training before we suddenly became 'Head of Talent'? The reality is that when employers made the push to develop direct recruiting capacity, many operational recruiters who zero management or even team lead responsibility where thrust into departmental head roles wit...

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 Benjamin Sesser and Teddy Chestnut, Co-founders of Brighthire, the interview analytics company which gives employers the edge in making smarter decisions at job interview.  - Who are Benjamin and Teddy? - What are their leadership values...

STARTING & SCALING A SUCCESSFUL RECRUITMENT BUSINESS It has never been easier to start a recruitment business - in the networked era, anyone with some industry knowledge, decent number of connections and maybe a few early customers already onboard, can leave their employer, set up and start trading. But starting is not the same as succeeding; and succeeding is not the same as scaling. What can we...

RECRUITMENT IN CHINA IN 2021 Brainfood virtual roadshow is taking a long overdue visit one of the most important, maligned yet misunderstood recruitment markets on the planet - China. Home to over 1.4 billion people, millions of job seekers and hundreds of thousands of employers, there is a great deal of recruiting going on in the Middle Kingdom that I’m guessing few of us have the even the fainte...

HEADCOUNT PLANNING FOR HYPERGROWTH When you are working TA in a rapidly scaling business, business as usual won’t suffice because nothing at all is usual about the circumstances you’re in. As the recruiter / Head of TA (guess what, at early stage chances are, you are both!) the founding team is going to look at you to make it happen for the business.  - What roles to hire first at Seed, Serie A, S...

THE ETHICS OF AI IN HIRING   OK I think we ‘get it’ - Artificial Intelligence or ‘AI’ is no silver bullet for the removal of bias in recruiting. In fact, we’ve seen no shortage of reports over the past few years that illustrate that perhaps AI powered solutions might inadvertently make the situation worse.  And yet we are faced with the unavoidable reality that a hiring process involved only human...

HOW TO HIRE MORE WOMEN ENGINEERS? If you’re in tech recruiting, diversifying the composition of your engineering team must be one of your top priorities - and most persistent challenges. We’re gathering together an elite panel of guests - tech recruiters, tech vendors and CTO’s to try and figure out what the best options are for recruiters who want to hire more women into tech roles.  - Is it just...

PROBLEMS WITH HYBRID? As we begin to think about the bounce back from the pandemic, the growing consensus is that the ‘hybrid’ model of working - flexibility for staff to work either from home, with an office provided - is going to be the default setting for the majority of businesses.  Candidates and employees seem to want this flexibility…..but does it really work? Are there any trade offs with...

How To Become A Better Story Teller - Top Tips for Recruiters If you conduct a keyword search on 'storytelling' on LinkedIn, you'll find that it is one of the fastest growing skills on the platform. There's probably not an employer branding profile which doesn't contain the term! And yet, what exactly IS storytelling? Isn't this just a new / old term for marketing? How do you get better at it?  -...