The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Are you running a recruiting podcast?  If you're not, you're probably thinking about doing so. In the era of multi-screen, endless notifications and permanent distraction, audio only is turning out to be an exceptional way to connect with your audience We are doing a special Brainfood Live On this Friday with the stars of the  recruiting podcast firmanent Adam is away (thank goodness), so I will b...

How do you use video in recruiting? As an industry culture first dominated by phone and then email, we recruiters can be awfully slow in adopting new ways to interact with candidates and clients.  Here's some usse Cases of Video Tech - Enriched job descriptions - Enhanced outreach messaging - Authentic employer branding - Video messages rather than Audio only voicemail - Asynch video interview - A...

In honour of this amazing post by Robin Schooling, we are running a special debate show on Brainfood Live this Friday 2nd August.  I'm embedded in the HR conference scene and generally am massive supporter of the idea of in-person industry events. But is there a gap between the rhetoric and reality when it comes to the ideas presented on stage at conferences? Questions we are going to explore:  -...

What is programmatic advertising? When do you need to use it? HOW do you use it? and Why should you use it? It's the recruitment technology that has been so hot in this last few weeks, as leading players Appcast, Perengo and ClickIQ get acquired by recruitment giants Stepstone, TMP Worldwide and Indeed respectively.  And yet we in TA know far too little nothing about it, so this week's show will b...

Do you know what the 'Employee Infinity Loop' is? Forget about 'candidate experience' or even 'employee experience' How about the lifetime nurturing of relationships with people who will work with, now and in future. Think Alumni / Boomerang hiring on steroids.  This is the topic of today's Brainfood Live On Air - how to nurture and retain the relationships with people who might and have worked wi...

How to become the employer of choice for early career talent? - How to make your employer attractive to early stage talent - What do young people want? - Generational stereotypes - yes or no? - Common mistakes employers make when hiring for early stage - Assessment of potential vs experience With: - Euan Blair & Sophie Adelman, Co-founders of WhiteHat - Chris Garinger, Snr University Recruiter for...

Special podcast from Lisbon, live at Landing Fest with Pedro Oliveira (Landing Jobs), Ana Gaspar (Volkswagen), Ana Tavares (Pipedrive) and Alvaro Rojas (IronHack).  We cover:  - Future of online tech marketplaces - Inbound vs Outbound comms - Anti-recruiter countermeasures by Developers - how devs are responding to Recruiter spam - Importance of community & eco-system in hiring devs - Waterfall vs...

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep19, Mary Meekers Internet Trends Report 2019 in Review.  Adam Gordon and I go through Meeker's 333 page monster slide deck on Internet trends.  We're talking - Online advertising - E-commerce - Privacy & Adtech - Image vs text communications - and much more.  60 mins of fizzy chat on a topic which matters to us all. Give it a blast folks, I run out of steam at the end, so...

AI in Recruiting, Pt 2 Where is AI going to have the most impact in the work recruiters do? How do we define the learning models? How does it all apply to hiring and ......how do we get ahead of the inevitable change? Adam Gordon and I are joined by:  Megan Butler, Research Analyst at CogX John Sumser, Research Analyst at HRExaminer Vineet Vashishta, Data Scientist at PocketRecruiter Dr Nathan Mon...

Reddit is the 8th most visited website on the planet, with over 300 million MAU's.  Here Erin Mathew, Wim Dammans, Jiri Herodek and Stan Wasowicz discuss  1. How to ID candidates 2. How to engage / message 3. How to build authentic credibility 4. How to bring inbound notice to your hiring efforts. 5. How to learn the ‘rules of the road’ 6. How to be a productive and valued member of the community...

Is it a good idea to do public speaking? There's pro's and cons but if you're in the business of getting the attention of your audience, there's no better way that getting up on stage and talking about it.  Adam and I speak to the one and only Jamie Leonard, founder of The Recruitment Event's Co - to give insight on what he looks for when selecting who is going to be his keynote Including Special...

Brainfood Live On Air is now also a podcast! Audio track of Ep14, with special guest Joe Mullings of the Mullings Group, talking Inbound marketing as the only way to scale.  We will be talking:  future of recruitment agencies media + recruiting storytelling (and how to do it) quality vs quantity inbound vs outbound top tips in inbound marketing for the modern recruiter Fantastic conversation with...