The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Reviewing 'Do More With Less' - Recruitment Efficiency in 2024   Recruiters have been under pressure all year - maybe even longer than that - to 'do more with less'. This means either increase effort or increase efficiency. And given that we are already at 100% capacity with reduced TA teams, the latter is the only option!   How have we done - what examples have we seen of recruitment efficiency a...

Hiring Insights from 1 Million Job Interviews   Interview Intelligence is a category which has exploded into industry consciousness over the past 12 months. Employers are finally learning that in order to have hiring success, you have to ensure that your interviewing game is elite. We are finding out some incredible insights in how recruiters and hiring managers interview, many of which have been...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today.   Next up is Maxime Legardez Coquin, CEO of Maki   - When did you know you were going to be an entrepreneur? - What are the strengths of a founder coming into a new domain? - Is there a formula for success as a CEO of a fast growing scale up? - What recruiting lessons di...

Maternity Returnees: Are Employers Doing Enough (Or Anything At All?)   Maternity Leave is a policy most employers have in place, but what about Maternity Return? Most employers seem not to have any policy at all, leaving the experience of returning mothers mainly up to the line management, with predictably variable results!   We're going to dive into an under discussed topic on what the current e...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today.   Next up is Runar Reistrup, CEO of YunoJuno   - What are the differences leading a startup / scale up vs a mega corp? - Do the order of the most management skills change with this context? - As a leader, how do you prepare a company for every stage of its journey? - How...

NEW GOVERNMENT: WHAT CAN RECRUITERS / HR EXPECT?   We'll be over a month since the General Election, in which almost all pollsters predict the Labour Party forming the government with the largest majority since Tony Blair 1997. How radical will this new government be? Are we going to see New Labour 2.0 or as some critics contend, Tory-lite 2.0?   Whatever the flavour of personal politics, it remai...

HOW TO BUILD A JOB SCRAPER USING PYTHON (AS A NON-CODER!)   Friends, you don't need me to tell you that the job market for Talent Acquisition professionals has been in the toilet for the past 18 months. So much so that I have even had to close down the Brainfood Jobs Job Board - for lack of posted jobs! When the competition out there is as fierce as it is, you have to think about how to give yours...

REAL USE CASES IN RECRUITMENT AUTOMATION: LIVE DEMO   Friends, I'm on a mission: industry everywhere is in a race for become AI-enabled, and those that are slow to adopt are going to be outcompeted by those who can now move faster and better. What we've been lacking is real examples of how RPA (Recruitment Process Automation) and AI can really take out chunks of the work recruiters do. That change...

  HOW TO HIRE A CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER (CPO)   It's the most senior role in the People department, one that many a recruiter eventually aspires to, but I suspect not many of us have had to try and recruit for one! We're going to dive into the world of C-level hiring, but with a twist, for the C-suite exec leading our own department!   - What are the circumstances where this role emerges? - How do we...

NEW JOB AS A RECRUITMENT LEADER: THE 100 DAY PLAN   We know that it continues to be a tough market out there, but I am heartened to see more than few of my close contacts secure new positions lately. Not only do we hope that this is the beginning of a mini-bounce back for the TA job market, but it is also an ideal opportunity to speak to the newly hired and figure out what the best approach might...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today.   Next up is Steve Bartel, CEO of Gem.   - When did you realise you were going to set up a company? - In what ways does being an engineer help you as a tech CEO? - In what was does it hinder you? - What aspects of being a CEO have you discovered to be a strength? - What...

HOW TO ETHICALLY IMPLEMENT AI INTO TALENT ACQUISITION   One of the factors slowing down AI Adoption is justifiable concern on the ethics of AI. How do we ensure that we are not exacerbating bias, privileging one demographic over another and treating human beings as lesser than the machines?   It's been great to see software vendors take the lead in trying find a path forward. A superb how-to guide...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today.   Next up is the CEO of one the new wave of AI-native tech startups which are transforming enterprise recruitment, Sam Dhesi   - When did you realise you were going to set up a company? - What are the strengths of a founder coming into a new domain? - How did you assembl...

PUBLIC SPEAKING TIPS FOR NEWBIES: HOW TO DELIVER YOUR BEST RECFEST TALK   Once upon a time, I too was also a reluctant public speaker. In fact, I did not even see the point of attending industry conferences - after all, what did I have to say, what did I have to learn? I am very glad that I accepted the invitation of one Mr Stephen Donaldson to give a talk at one of his events, Bill Boorman, who s...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today.   Next up is Dina Bay, CEO of PitchMe. I do believe this is the first time we have had a Founders Focus with the fellow Alumni of St Andrews University - a moment to celebrate!   - When did you realise you were going to set up a company? - What was the biggest difference...

SKILL BASED HIRING: A CONVERSATION WITH JOHNNY CAMPBELL   One of the first people to really break down to task and activity level was Johnny Campbell. As CEO of market leading hiring training company SocialTalent, his taxonomy of the skills required by a recruiter to perform in their work remains a canonical artefact in the world of talent acquisition to this day.   This is why I was excited to ge...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today.   I'm delighted to be speaking to the one and only Roderick Smyth - serial entrepreneur with multiple exits and now the founder and CEO of Glyde Talent - the AI powered recruitment platform which enables recruiters to source and screen at scale.   - What has changed in p...

HOW TO SELECT AND IMPLEMENT AN ATS: A MASTERCLASS   There will come a point in every Talent Acquisition professionals career where you will have to make a decision on which ATS to use. Likely to be the most significant technology decision you'll ever make, it is also - outside of payroll - likely to be the biggest ticket investment that you'll ever have responsibility for also. So how exactly are...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today.   Next up is Barb Hyman , CEO of Sapia. I had the great pleasure of meeting up with Barb for a coffee in Shoreditch earlier this year and I'm delighted to be able to reconnect with her on her founder story and what exactly made her embark on the journey of recruitment te...

FUTURE OF JOB BOARDS & JOB ADVERTISING (PART DEUX)   The best Brainfood Lives always leave more to be said. Ep254 set new standards for intellectual horsepower, as we discussed GenAI impact on the future of job boards and job advertising. We had such great feedback that we had to bring the crew back to follow up, this time taking things a step further with an examination of 'agentic AI'   - Ho...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today.   Next up on is one of brainfood's oldest buddies, Max Armbruster, CEO of Talkpush. If you've ever met Max you'd know about it - a unique, effervescent character whose passion for tech and recruitment is matched only by his vision for the future of recruitment optimisati...

EXPANDING SCOPE: FROM TALENT ACQUISITION TO TALENT EVERYTHING   Talent Acquisition has spent the past two decades attempting to create an identity distinct from HR....was this mistake, and do we now need to discreetly reverse course??   Apologies for the provocation but I suspect this is more or less what we NEED to be doing, especially as the employers everywhere demand more from people teams, fo...

PROGRAMMATIC JOB ADVERTISING: THE MASTERCLASS   I am convinced that programmatic job advertising will become a necessity for the employers hiring at any kind of scale. Applicant overflow will become untenable without automated system which can respond to flow rate by either increasing or decreasing the visibility of the advert. And yet the solutions remain mysterious for the majority of recruiters...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today   Scotty AI is a technology business where the market has finally caught up with the vision. Their pioneering software provides the sort of automation of workflow which recruiters have been screaming out for, especially in the era of 'do more with less'   Let's hear from...

RECRUITMENT AUTOMATION TIPS YOU CAN DO RIGHT AWAY   As the case studies accumulate, we are beginning to see the outline of what an AI-enabled recruiter looks like: it is indeed x10 more productive, perhaps even x100 more productive in certain tasks and functions. It's time to stop watching folks, and time to start doing.   - Examples of Recruitment Automation which can be done today - What areas o...