The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

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...

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...