The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

LETS FACE IT: Pre-covid, a great deal of Employer branding was focused on the physical space of the office building and the on premise experience that new employees could expect to have upon joining.. This was the reason for the huge investment employers made in commercial real estate, opening up space for WeWork (remember them?) to create a category which promised the experience without the fixed...

'Founders Focus' - a new Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space. Next up is Hanno Renner, CEO of Personio, the HR operating system for your growing business - Who is Hanno Renner? - What is his leadership philosophy? - How do you CEO a rocketship? - What is it like building a European company vs a US compa...

THE DARK SIDE OF LINKEDIN: DEALING WITH BULLIES, STALKERS & TROLLS If you're a follower of this channel chances are you use LinkedIn every day as part of your essential toolkit as a professional in the people business. We don't expect to encounter trouble here do we? And yet, there is a price to be paid when you are a user of the platform where anyone can sign up, anyone can post, anyone can comme...

Introducing 'Founders Focus' - a new Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space. First up is Steve Lucas, CEO of iCIMS, the market leading cloud recruitment platform provider. - Who is Steve Lucas? - What is his leadership philosophy? - What has he learned from being CEO? - What can iCIMS customers expect in 2...

A big problem with DE&I is that it is considered a topic 'for HR'. And HR can often by at fault, taking 'ownership' of DE&I initiatives and inadvertently preventing the ideas from really embedding into the rest of business. Its time for change folks - and that change has to be on how we get DE&I out of HR and into the rest of the business! We're going to be joined by an ensemble guest lists includ...

The shift to remote has had the effect of digitising previously analogue processes. This is lead to a bloom of workforce data which we previously could not collate or make use of. We are now swimming in data which can used to better understand employee sentiment and productivity, skill distribution across the company, how time is spent doing what. There is a conundrum though - at what point does t...

WHAT DO DEVELOPERS REALLY THINK ABOUT ONBOARDING? We all know that concern for the candidate journey should not stop at the job offer, yet all too often it does, often leaving a yawning gap between verbal yes and employee start. How can we better manage this process? Who is even in charge of it? What do developers want after they have said yes to a job offer? All this and more in the last episode...

In Ep86, we talked about universal values & concepts in recruitment and wondered how they really applied to local contexts. This is especially important given that the ideas driving the industry come mainly from one place - the United States of America - with its own unique history and cultural context How do these ideas apply Down Under? We're looking at Australia and New Zealand - culturally lin...

LinkedIn - alternative universe for us recruiters that it is inevitably is - remains the No1 application that we use to do our work. It has dozens of products, hundreds of features within products and al kind of ways to optimise between them which no one knows everything about. Andy Foote probably comes closer than most; brainfood's favourite LinkedIn commentator, Andy is back for the first of his...

WHAT DO DEVELOPERS REALLY THINK ABOUT INTERVIEWING?   Part Three of our mini series 'From the Developers POV' will examine the next stage in the hiring process - the interview. Probably the most important single stage in the recruiting process, the interview has always been one of two things - obviously suboptimal as a method of assessing candidates, yet persistently integral to the hiring decisio...

WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN IN 2021? Brainfood Live On Air is kicking off the 2021 season why a new year forecast with subject matter experts in every category which brainfood chronicles. What do you think is going to happen in - AI - People Analytics - Employer branding - Sourcing - Candidate experience  - Economy - Society - DE&I  ? Guests are going to be ensemble of the great and the good, renowned i...

What do developers really think about that coding challenge that recruiters send out? Do they think the tech interview is any better, or perhaps a return the whiteboard exercise? Assessing the functional capability of any worker is essential but equally important is to make sure that the tool for assessment is the right one for the job. What do developers think about this - is there a way to under...

Hiring qualified software developers remains one of the hard challenges in business today. With Covid-19 forcing the world to accelerate digital transformation, demand for the builders of tomorrow's tools and systems  never been greater.  Brainfood Live On Air is delighted to introduce a new series - From the Developers POV - where the guest speakers and panellists will be developers themselves -...

Increased recruitment automation has been a trend accelerated by the pandemic economy; as recruiters are forced to do more with less, the adoption of tools and processes which can reduce overhead or even eliminate tasks previously conducted by a human being has become a primary concern for CEO, CFO and CPO's alike.  And yet at the same moment, the requirement for empathy and the higher expectation...

Human Resources. Talent Acquisition.  The relationship between these two people functions is often critically important, yet also equally often poorly managed. How can we forge better relationships with each other? What does HR really need from TA? What does TA really want from HR? Do they even belong together, under the same organisational structure? We're going to learn all this and more. by put...

Over 60%+ of the world's population live in Asia-Pacific region Yet all the conversation in recruiting & HR is seems centred in the US / UK and Europe. We all talk a good game about diversity, equity and inclusion, but what does that really mean if those ideas and values are consistently created and propagated from the same places, the same cultures, the same peoples? Brainfood Live is going to st...

How has pandemic changed employer branding?  Pre-covid, an effective employer branding strategy was critical to winning the 'war on talent' - helping you attract and hire the most in-demand candidates. And yet, how much of EB was based around the physical location, the perks associated with being in the office, the sell of the amazing company culture (again on premise).  - What EB rules are more t...

We have to talk about it - the US Presidential election on the 3rd November - will have reverberating impact across the globe, such is influence of the United States.  The radically different persona's, philosophies, even values of the two contenders will have more direct impact to the world economy and the world of business and recruitment than we might first realise.  - What does a Trump win mea...

Get the feeling that the idea of the 'talent pipeline' might be over? It was always a nonsense - that people who move in one direction through an interaction with an employer, and only end up with one outcome - offer of a job or not.  We know that the the relationship between potential employee and future employer is much more complex, multi-faceted. at multi-speeds. More recruiters will be speaki...

How do we measure Recruitment performance in 2020? Our historical data can now only provide us with a guideline rather than a benchmark on what good performance looks like; we know that the game has changed, in some respects, in fundamental ways. and we need to get on with the business of translating that change into something we can quantify and measure.  What are the new Recruiting KPI's?  What...

How has 2020 changed Tech Recruiting? Amongst the hardest challenges in the recruiting business, hiring in-demand software developers, designers and data scientists was consistently popular topic over the past decade.  How has Covid-19 changed this? We will learn about Employer branding for tech talent Changing candidate demands from employers The near mandatory provision of flexible working Chang...

One thing that Covid-19 and lockdown has taught us that there are new communication channels which recruiters truly need to embrace.  Email + telephone - whilst still important - are yesterday's communication tech, being first supplemented by chat, video and livestream, before being supplanted by them.  It's time we all upgraded our game in how to communicate the covid era. Jose Kadlec - author of...

How transferrable are your recruiter skills? There is no question that flexibility in career path is smart thinking for anyone in any line of work right now, and us recruiters are no exception.  Today's show we will be exploring the career paths which recruiters can explore. Helping us do it? Will be a line up of recruiters who have made the move to - Software vendor - Online investigator / Online...

Heading into the final quarter, I think we can all agree that 2020 has been an incredible year The global pandemic has acted like universal accelerant to the underlying trends like remote working, alternative workforce, income inequality, social inequality, political unrest and the rest.  Our industry, in recruiting & HR, as seen at the forefront of these changes; and we now may be given an early...

5 years ago, hiring for 'culture fit' was the thing all the cool companies were doing.  But hiring for 'fit' of any kind fell into the criticism of reinforcing in-group bias, creating homogeneity and further disadvantaging already disadvantaged groups.  Where is the conversation now? Is culture fit truly in the dustbin of recruiting history, or can the concept of hiring for people who are inherent...