The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

How do you build a differentiated employer brand? When your employer already is a famous B2C brand, what steps do you need to take to position your company as an employer of choice, especially if you need to attract the highly skilled, in-demand tech talent to a non-tech brand? This is the topic of Brainfood Live On Air, Ep51. We will be joined by  Chris Wray , Head of Recruitment Strategy at Sain...

Do your company run an Internal Mobility programme?  Chances are it does. and equal chances are, that it is NOT running effectively.  Even the best employers frequently lose their top talent to competitors, rather than have staff transfer internally to other positions in the business.  Why does this happen? And how do we fix it? This is the topic of Ep50 of Brainfood Live On Air.  I'll be joined b...

Have you heard of Open Hiring? It's a radical method of recruiting which does away entirely with CV and Interview - and indeed, any other form of assessment - and simply hires people for jobs if they want them.  Crazy eh? But  some companies  have experimented with it and they swear that it works better than any other method. And if they are right, what does that mean for our industry? Has it all...

Brainfood Live is back with a focus on Sourcing Mentality - with one of the world's best to help guide us through it -  Aaron Lintz , Recruitment Leader at Thoughtworks, with additional guests Guillaume Alexandre and Katherine Robinson - What is the state of sourcing today? - How important is sourcing amongst all the other responsibilities a recruiter has to perform? - Have we hit 'peak sourcing'...

As the conversation in D&I matures from diversity to inclusion, this show is a timely primer for the elements recruiters need to bake into their recruiting approach in order to support the building of truly inclusive workplace culture. I'm joined by D&I expert  Joanne Lockwood , to explore the recruiter challenges of creating a truly inclusive workplace culture. You will learn about:  1. 3 x Layer...

Do you want to know how well your job ads are doing? Appcast - recently acquired for $70 million by StepStone, are one of the few businesses who might be able to give us the numbers.  They are publishing their annual report on job application metrics and Brainfood Live has none other than CEO  Christian Forman  as special guest to talk us through the show.  Must attend webinar for anyone spending...

Job Descriptions: is there a more reviled document in the our business? Hard to think of a document which is held is less esteem than any other by nearly every stakeholder involved - the Hiring manager, the recruiter and not least - the candidate.  Why are they are so bad? Why do we still need them? And more importantly, how could be do better with them? This is the topic of Ep45 of Brainfood Live...

How do you assess software engineers? One of the toughest challenges in tech recruiting is how usually non-tech people (tech recruiters) can effectively assess software engineers.  All the signals are bad... Resume / CV ....self reported document, easy to game Brand name previous employers.....'must be good because she worked at Google' Phone screen....irrelevant testing, using a medium that engin...

Can't find Software Developers? Or is it that the ones you DO find don't want to talk with you? In a world that is way too noisy, no one gets hit harder with messaging spam that the highly skilled, in-demand. In our world, that's usually someone in tech - a developer, a designer, a data scientist.  And yet, someone has to initiate the conversation. Listen in to a super conversation with  Erin Math...

Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters, joins us for a 1 to 1 interview special. One of the preeminent figures in recruitment and recruitment technology over the past 20 years, Jerome will share his thoughts on entrepreneurship, building recruitment technology businesses whilst launching events and social initiatives.  You will learn about Impact of recruitment technology over the past 20 years M...

Recruiters: how do you plan to gain competitive advantage in 2020's? In fast moving industry, we need to be on top of our game for the year ahead. But time is the constant resource and we have to prioritise.  What skills recruiters need to develop, and which ones we might need to let go in 2020? Brainfood Live is back with Season 2, Ep41 to discuss this crucial topic for the years ahead.  Adam Gor...

Have you used Facebook Ads for Recruiting? I know I haven't but I probably should, as Facebook remains by far the largest, engaged and most important social network on the planet. A report from Hootsuite, shared on Recruiting Brainfood last week, showed us that there are THIRTEEN paid social options on Facebook. We're going to use this week's Brainfood Live ON Air to talk about each one - what are...

There was never any chance that we could get to the end of 2019 and not do at least one show covering Brexit.  Whether you voted Leave or Remain or whether you are now Leave or Remain (or something else), all of us might find common ground in accepting that it's likely to be a profound change in the UK economic, regulatory, cultural and political environments.  It's time to forecast the scenarios...

Do you worry about the impact of AI & Automation? The answer should be 'damn right' because these foundational technological trends are sure to have pervasive impact on all the work we do. The question is  - which sectors most affected? - which populations most exposed? - how / when will impact be felt? - and what can we recruiters do to ensure OUR roles are not dis-intermediated by more efficient...

This week sees the final end of Tru - one of the seminal event series in the recruiting industry.  We're going to take a look at what Tru has meant over the past 10 years, pay tribute to the man in the hat Bill Boorman, as well discuss the value of recruiter communities.  Adam Gordon and I will be joined by three great community leaders -  Jamie Leonard , Founder of The Recruitment Events Co & RL1...

How to make your employer brand stick? Turns out - you don't Real Employer Branding is about discovering what is true about the work in your business and exposing that truth the outside world, warts and all. Fascinating conversation with James Ellis and Elena Valentine which segued into ethnography, anthropology, design thinking, film and media, authenticity vs diversity, Fox News and the rest. Mu...

Brainfood Live On Air from Kiev, #truKiev . Fascinating chat with Ukrainian recruitment hero's Denis Dinkevich and Andrei Stetsenko on the conditions on recruiting in Ukraine. We're talking Skype as a CRM, Telegram as a Slack competitor, impact of IT outsourcing on IT recruiter practice and the fragmented nature of IM.

"Magnificent Melbourne" - the cultural capital of Australia - and some might say, the real capital of the country (sorry Sydneysiders - take it up with your cousins in Victoria ;-)) I'm with Vervoe CEO Omer Molad, TAPOD's Lauren Sharp, Deloitte Head of APAC Consulting Adam Walker and the one and only Ross Clennett, as we talk Brainfood, D&I, hiring in Melbourne and hiring in Australia.  It's a bri...

Live from Sydney: we're talking agency recruiters, Brits abroad, call aversion culture, the importance of relationships and the unique rectech eco-system in Australia w/ - Laura Johnson (PASS Technologies) - Rich Lewis-Jones (SmartRecruiters) - Mark Mansour (Servian) - Michael Delaney (Barhead Solutions)

Perth: one of the most remote big city metropolises anywhere: how does recruiting work over here? Is it all mining & water management? Brainfood Live is Live from Perth this Friday, where I'll be joined by 3 local experts who are going show tell us what the challenges are in hiring for roles based in Western Australia. - Stan Rolfe - Jon Bowker & Nicole La Gallia - Dani Tamati Fascinating conversa...

We're live from Hong Kong with the great team at Daxtra - CV parsing tech, and perhaps one of the first 'workforce automation' technologies to change the recruitment industry. Featuring cameo's from my cousin Stephen Li, dialling from the UK, we were also joined by Behavioural Scientist Dr Richard Claydon for a discussion on collaboration vs connection work It was great discussion in the chaos tha...

On the eve of the Independence Day for Republic of Armenia, my buddies at Meetall and I held a meetup at PicsArts HQ for 100+ recruiters from the local scene at Yerevan.  With Ach Petrosyan, Tech Recruiter at Meetall, Tigran Sloyan CEO at CodeSignal and Meruzhan Danielyan CEO at Teamable. 

The Future of Employer Branding is the topic of this week's Brainfood Live. And we have invoked the help of an incredible trio guests to help us talk through challenges of Future EB. Learn from recruitment luminaries like: Bryan Chaney , Director of Global Employer Brand at Indeed James Ellis , Director of Employer Brand at Universum Bill Boorman , Recruiting legend, truConference founder and Stan...

It's pretty clear that LinkedIn can also be an amazing channel for getting your content seen by the audience you care about. I know it's been an important channel in growing the Recruiting Brainfood community, up to the 16,300+ opt in subscribers to date Some people are really great at this 'mini blogging' format and I'm delighted to make it the topic of this week's Brainfood Live On Air We'll be...

We're talking How to Hire for the Blue Collar with Tim Sackett and Ben GledHill Questions we are going to try and answer:  Difference between hiring white vs blue collar workers Impact of location of hiring  Recruitment best practice  No CV / No resume - no problem? Communication channels for hiring Where is the tech in hiring for the hour? It's a brilliant show with some intriguing insights, from...