The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

RECRUITING IN THE MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA IN 2021 Brainfood virtual roadshow is taking a long overdue visit to the Middle East & North Africa! There are recruiting challenges unique to every region on earth, that is under served by universalistic approaches, so it is vital that we connect with recruiters & HR community members from everywhere on the globe. There are so many brainfooders in the...

FROM AGENCY TO INHOUSE - TOP TIPS I've been fielding a lot of questions lately from recruiters agency side who are keen to explore the challenges of the working in-house, so this is a show dedicated to those folks who are thinking about making this move! Almost all in-house recruiters worked formerly agency side and the rise of direct hiring by employers has led to explosive growth of the in-house...

LINKEDIN UPDATES; WHAT'S NEW for Q2? We use LinkedIn everyday - weirdo's that we are - and we simply must keep on top of what is happening on the platform. Turns out, there is huge amount going - LinkedIn audio? LinkedIn newsletter? LinkedIn magic sourcing tools? All stuff that we need to know but few of us do. Good job we have brainfood favourite's LinkedIn expert - Andy Foote himself - to come o...

Is there going to be a wave of resignations post pandemic? This is a concern for many in our industry as the return to the office clashes with elevated expectations of flexibility from the employee population used to setting their own schedules, their own mode of work, their own rules..... It makes sense for any HR / TA / People Ops professional to anticipate the challenge and mitigate for it. - h...

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 Jerry Collier, MD of Product Innovation at AMS, leading a new tech startup within AMS.  Hourly is the first solution built by AMS from the ground up, targeting the growing demand for an improved experience in high-volume hiring. - Who is...

ON HIRING SENIOR LEADERS Have you had this experience? CEO comes to you and asks you to begin a confidential search for a replacement for an incumbent C-level leaders. Search is going to take 6 months, so you need to get started now as there is a predicted need to upgrade the department - what do you do? I have no idea, as no one (rightly) has ever trusted me to hire for their senior executive tea...

QUANTIFYING COMPANY CULTURE - WHY & HOW? There isn't a TA, HR Manage or CEO who doesn't think their company culture is the most important thing about their business.....but is there a way to actually measure it? In a world increasingly driven by metrics, company culture is one where we are consistently lagging, relying at best on periodic pulse surveys, at worst on - you guessed it - gut feel. Is...

WORKING WITH RPO - BEST PRACTICE & TOP TIPS   There comes a moment, in every recruiters life, when the right decision is to work with a Recruiting Outsourcing Partner. RPO's have traditionally been a model uses for super large scale enterprise projects but increasingly have found markets in rapid scale up environments, especially in technology. Partnered in the right way, RPO's can provide an esse...

Ep6 of 'Founders Focus' - Josh Brenner, CEO of Hired It's the Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space. Next up is Josh Brenner, CEO of Hired, the tech talent marketplace which matches employers with the highly skilled, in-demand tech talent. - Who is Josh Brenner? 
- What is his leadership philosophy?
 - Wh...

HOW & WHEN TO MEASURE CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE? The key to making improvement on any aspect of recruiting is to first measure it. We have to understand where we are first, before we are able to get to where we want to be going. How and when do you measure candidate experience? At the beginning of the hiring process? After first interaction? Continuously as they progress we together develop a relations...

Ep5 of 'Founders Focus' - the Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space. Next up is Adam Bird, CEO of Cronofy, the enterprise ready scheduling platform - Who is Adam Bird? - What is his leadership philosophy? - What has he learned from being CEO? - Does he still know how to code? - Do engineers make good CEO'...

TALENT INTELLIGENCE - WHAT, WHY, HOW Do you know what 'talent intelligence' is? You'd be forgiven if you didn't, because it's a concept which has stubbornly stayed on the fringes of the TA, mainly due to strategic neglect by businesses who had long under estimated the impact acquiring top talent had on the bottom line. But as businesses better understand the importance of the talent they have a th...

Ep4 of '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 Vivek Ravisankar, CEO of market leading tech assessment platform HackerRank  - Who is Vivek Ravisankar? - What is his leadership philosophy? - What has he learned from being CEO? - Does he still know how to code? - Do engine...

HOW TO HIRE (WHEN YOUR OVERLOADED WITH JOB APPLICATIONS?) Over the past 12 months we've observed the phenomenon of surging applicant volume, with numbers from 100-1000% more than the same moment the year before.  For many industries, especially ones which are absorbing workers from industries made dormant by lockdown, handing excess volume of job applications has become THE hiring challenge to tac...

Ep3 of '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 Mickael Cabrol, MD, EMEA of iCIMS, after the successful acquisition with EASYRECRUE where he was the CEO.  - Who is Mickael Cabrol ? - What is his leadership philosophy? - What has he learned from being CEO? - How was the EA...

Rejecting candidates is one of the hard parts of the job of any recruiter. None of us like to do it, but we not only have to do it, but have to get better at it. - What makes a good rejection message? - Phone call or email? - How much feedback can you / do you give? - What to do if the rejection or the feedback is disputed by the candidate? - Does they stage of the application process influence re...

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...