The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today   VONQ has been one of the recruitment technology providers who have undergirded the recruitment advertising eco-system, often in a way unknown to recruiters at the operations side of the business. What a better opportunity to find out more about this company than getting...

HOW TO SET UP A RECRUITMENT ANALYTICS DASHBOARD   Having strong analytics is critical to increasing the degree of your hiring success. Much more challenging is how best to set up a dashboard which works best for your organisation and your needs. We're going to get some expert advice from talent leaders whose speciality is enabling organisations to have access to, and make better quality decisions...

NO LINKEDIN X-RAY? WHAT NEXT?   The sourcing community has been monitoring the changes on LinkedIn, particularly on the availability of public data to search engines. 2 months since the news first broke that 'LinkedIn X Ray is dead', what is the latest from the front lines of the sourcing world. And...if LinkedIn X-Ray IS on its last legs, what does that mean for people aggregators, data enrichers...

DATA OR ADS: FUTURE OF JOB BOARD ADVERTISING IN THE ERA OF GENERATIVE AI   Job Boards are going through a moment. What had felt like a clear progression of business model towards Pay-Per-Applicant, is now changing in the era of GenAI, especially with the AI-enabled job candidate conducting mass apply. Opportunities and risks have both increased for the job board vendors, and the decisions that the...

SKILL BASED ORGANISATION: REALITY VS RHETORIC?   The consensus in the industry is that Skill Based Hiring and Skill Based Organisation is the way forward for the next generation of future fit organisations, but what does successful implementation actually look like? We're beginning to see the emergence of a debate on the wisdom and practicality of the idea - can it even be done?   Join us, as we d...

HOW TO PULL OFF A GLOBAL TA ORG RESTRUCTURE   The post 2021 drive for optimisation has led to a global wave of organisation restructuring, as every department, in every company, probably in every country comes to terms with a world of high interest rates, slowing growth, tougher margins and ever increasing volatility.   How have multinational TA teams responded, and reorganised?   - What prompted...

HIGH VOLUME HIRING: FASTER, BETTER, CHEAPER?   Recruitment optimisation gets more serious at scale. 1% efficiency improvement means a lot more when you're hiring for 10,000 people vs hiring for 100. What can we learn from high volume hirers when it comes to increasing efficiency?   - Why radical solutions are required - How to determine where gains can be achieved? - What areas of inefficiency to...

WHAT DO DEVELOPERS WANT? SKILLS & SENTIMENT REPORT 2024   One of the annual must read reports in the recruiting industry is the HackerRank's Developer Skills Report. With huge changes in the skills make up of the software developer workforce of tomorrow, we need to review what kind of skills developers care about, are getting good at and are letting go as the future leaves them behind.   Who b...

FUTURE OF WORK: TALENT ACQUISITION...NOT INVITED?   Talent Acquisition has long fought a battle for a 'seat at the table' when the big decisions are made about the future of an organisation but we really need to come to that table with unique perspective, value and confidence.   With the era of Generative AI already upon us, let's do a sense check on where Talent Acquisition is when conversations...

TALENT TRENDS REPORT: SOURCING IN 2024   Sourcing has returned to being a hot topic in 2024 in light of the recent restrictions on Linkedin data which may be significantly altered the efficacy of previously reliable sourcing techniques. We've had the expert sourcing view - lets now look at what data can tell us as CRM / ATS provider Ashby takes a deep dive on actual recruiter behaviour on their pl...

The State of Hiring Market Intelligence Report 2024   Continuing with our theme of showcasing companies who are conducting research valuable to the recruiting community, today we focus on the work our friends at Willo have done over the past year, surveying customers on hiring trends from AI, remote work, candidate experience and focus for 2024.   Find out what other TA, HR and Senior level execs...

The State of Background Screening Compliance 2024   Checkr have released the definitive research piece on the State of Background Screening Compliance and we will use this week's Brainfood Live On Air to interview Su-Han Wang, Managing Litigation & Compliance Counsel at Checkr to better understand:   what percentage of US employers are compliant with Federal regulations on background screening...

LINKEDIN X-RAY: DEAD OR DYING OR WHAT?   Using a search engine to 'X-ray' an ostensibly closed social network is the quintessential activity of a sourcer. You could probably argue that the entire sourcing discipline emerged as a result of recruiters discovering sophisticated ways to interrogate a system to retrieve information about potential candidates.   Consequently, the news that LinkedIn had...

OFFBOARDING: HOW TO AVOID PR DISASTER!   We have seem the company wide Zoom call, the recorded 1-2-1 videos, the mass email and even the classic no notice account lock out - it seems that whatever method an employer takes, there is always a risk of PR disaster when making lay offs.   Is this a matter of training, tooling or values? How can we create the right sort of process which humanises this h...

Happy New 2024 Everybody!   We're back with the series where we get up close and personal with the tech entrepreneurs changing the way we work today.   Next up we've got we've got one of the most unique stories to come out of the UK recruitment tech scene in recent years. Richard and Beverly Collins, Co-founders of CVWallet are not only manage to be successful entrepreneurs, coming around for the...

HOW TO HIRE AI (10 THINGS RECRUITERS HAVE TO KNOW)   There is likely no major corporate employer on the planet that isn't interested in becoming more 'AI-enabled'. And traditionally the quickest way to get there is to hire elite AI skills into the our organisation. The demand for the AI at elite level - data engineers, research scientists and the like - is going through the roof and it is high tim...

MEASURING THE QUALITY OF HIRE (IN THE AGE OF AI)     My most popular post of 2023 was one I wrote on the How to Measure Quality of Hire. It was certainly not the quality of the writing which made it a hit - it was the obviously more that we hit a sore point for Talent Acquisition leaders and Hiring Managers on how we actually know whether we are doing a good job or not, in terms of raising the the...

STATE OF TECH HIRING IN 2024   In 2021 the Brainfood community was 50% self identified as 'tech recruiters'   Since that time, we've seen a huge changes in the world - the collapse of VC investment, the end of zero interest rate policy, the advent of generative AI and the shift of focus from intangible to tangible value economy. Where does that leave tech in 2024?   I've asked our friends at Otta...

FORECASTING THE YEAR IN RECRUITMENT 2024,Pt2   Part Two of our two-part forecast series, where we look forward to what we think is going to happen in the year ahead. Lets see if we can make some S.M.A.R.T (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound) predictions on the following topics:   - SMB Recruitment Agency Market - D&I, especially Gender and Pay Equity - Labour Market Econom...

FORECASTING THE YEAR IN RECRUITMENT 2024,Pt1   Start of the New Year and we are going to collate our thoughts and project forward on what we think is going to happen in 2024. None of us are prophets but can we gather together enough intuition and trends analysis to produce some viable forecasts? Lets try:   - Global Economy in 2024 - State of VC / Investment Markets - Tech Hiring will it bounce ba...

2023 Year in Review: Labour Market, Jobs, Vacancies, Work   Final part of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, we are zooming out to the macro and looking at state of the economy, the labour market, the vacancy market and our verdict of the year in the recruitment really has been.   - Economy in 2023 - US, UK and elsewhere - Impact of high interest rates - Labour supply - Ec...

2023 Year in Review: LinkedIn Content Marketing & LinkedIn Sourcing   Part 3 of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, we're looking back at our old and necessary friend, LinkedIn! Recruiters No1 most important platform, how did it treat you in 2023? We're going to review the major changes on:   - LinkedIn Newsfeed algorithm - Post types - Creator Mode / Livestream / Audio...

2023 Year in Review: Recruitment Advertising & Employer Branding   Part 2 of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, focus is on Recruitment Advertising and Employer Branding. What the heck happened on these two domains this year?   - SEO / Changes on Google Jobs - Behavioural ad targeting / retargeting - Impact of Search Generative Experience - CPC vs CPA - State of Job Bo...

2023 Year in Review: AI, DEIB and Worktech Investment   Coming in for the final 4 Brainfood Live sessions of the year and we are going to do a series on 'Review of the Year 2023. We've 12 topics packed into 4 sessions, so make sure you follow the channel in order to be notified of them all when we go live.   We being with AI, WorkTech Investment and DEIB - what has happened in 2023 on these three...

DOES YOUR COMPANY HAVE A MENOPAUSE PLAN?   Worldwide Menopause day went by last month and I - like most men I suspect - totally did not know about it(!). And yet menopause is an inherent and potentially significant moment in women's lives, one which is under discussed in society at large and certainly in the world of work. Does your company have a plan for menopause? If you have women in your work...