The Recruitment Flex

Excited to have Jason Putnam from PandoLogic join us to help Serge in his journey for everyone to understand programmatic recruitment advertising. PandoLogic made some major moves this year by first acquiring Wade & Wendy a conversational AI tool then getting acquired by a new player in the HRTech space Veritone. The what, why and how of programmatic recruitment advertising. Jason tries to dem...

This week we bring one of our favourite person in recruitment Allie Knull. Allie shares some exciting personal news and brings the fire! We deep dive on the one question to ask if you want to know if your candidate is full of s*** Are Career Fairs still a thing? Who actually gets value from them...not the candidate and not the company...maybe the company hosting them? Where do you start to build a...

With a solid track record as a CMO who introduces new concepts to consumers; she made the leap over to HR & Recruitment where Lori has been instrumental in building the Recruitment Marketing profession. Taking Rally members from 100 to 30,000 strong. For recruiters who are sick and tired of chasing the next requisition with nothing but crayons & string maybe it's time for an upgrade.  Rall...

We have the ultimate jack of all trades in recruitment Will Van Middendorp join Serge and Shelley as a co-host. We cover some really controversial topics and you might not agree with some of the opinions. Can you add Vaccination requirements on your job ads? Will the office ever be the same? Bad apples in recruitment Tell us what you think, are we off base?

Jeff holds the record for gathering the biggest crowd on The Recruitment Flex podcast, so we knew our listeners needed more from The Job Board Doctor. Jeff brings his deep knowledge and global perspective on the job board industry  Diagnosing when to use programmatic advertising? Is Appcast the Leader of the Pack? Prescription written for anyone thinking they want to start their own job board. We...

This week we bring another guest co-host with lost of opinions! Jesse has been able to hire 9 recruiters in this crazy market. How was he able to do it...one word "Flexibility". We deep dive on RPO and no it doesn't stand for Recruitment Project Outsourcing, but maybe could in some cases? This Market is forcing recruiters into being real when dealing with managers about their hiring needs - flexin...

We brought in the big guns for this one! Ira is Chief Googlization Officer and Alex founded the leading tech firm Jobsync, they will break it down for all of us to understand what Google is up to! Let’s understand who we are dealing with here, it's all about search results and Google gets to call the shots on this. Carrot or stick - you get to choose. No more excuses on why you wont post the salar...

Kim joins Shelley & Serge as our special co-host. After we get all the nicitiest out of the way, it gets pretty dicey. You can hear Serge blushing as we had to use our very first censor bleep! Listen in as Shelley and Kim call it like it is! Sending your job order to multiple agencies is like hiring multiple accountants to do your tax and only paying the one you liked the most. Guarantees on j...

Hung Lee Chief Curator at the Recruiting Brainfood rejoins The Recruitment Flex to try to give some clarity with what's going on in this crazy recruitment world right now. We always get incredible insights from Hung and this episode is no different starting with why you should not drink coffee first thing in the morning. Hung's strategy for Recruiting Brainfood - It's brilliant he doesn't have one...

Big drum roll… We are officially part of the the Evergreen Podcast Network! As part of their newly created HR channel, we join forces with the biggest HR Influencers from around the world! On this very special episode, we are stoked to have the original bad boy of recruitment Chad Sowash, co-host of the Chad and Cheese Podcast. Joining us from his working vacation in Portugal, we test his knowledg...

Things going on in our industry, it seems every headline and radio commercial has something to do with hiring. RPO what does it stand for? We cant seem to agree on this- Shelley says Project and Serge says Process (Shelley is wrong!) How does a low unemployment rate feel? Its like everyone left the mall and you’re the only person there. Quick and simple things for your employer brand and it doesn'...

As we high five ourselves on hitting 1000 LinkedIn followers and over 80 weeks of delivering episodes; we hear an encore coming. Talking about recruitment - Cramming in your EVP into a job ad is repelling candidates. - The banking industry continues to throw money at people rather than fix the problem - The quick fix for the shortage of Recruiters is going to implode. https://www.ere.net/the-probl...

With so much clutter and noise in the HR Tech space, we wanted to help our listeners cut to the chase. Our top pick for DE&I tools is TalVista. - Where to start on DE&I? What can TA do to move the needle? - Take a listen as Scot explains where the real work gets done and how TA can work with conscious inclusion. - Job ads that speak to everyone - Screening candidates who can do the job - I...

Some industries intentionally over hire, knowing that 30% of the people they hired will not show up to start work. While that may be normal for some, candidate ghosting is showing up in places where this was rare. - Use a bit of psychology & try getting micro commitments - some great HR tech can make your life easier - Campus recruitment Canada VS the USA - Is your recruitment process is buste...

Shelley fly's solo this weeks and welcomes a recruitment industry powerhouse! Katrina Kibben, CEO of Three Ears Media We found the cure for Recruiters who have writer's block! Let’s get back to our roots on why we love this industry. Katrina is the pace setter on how to extract the information you need to write compelling honest job advertisements.  - Writing to attract Tech talent made easy - Hol...

Until you travel to the US its hard to get your head around the dire situation the service industry is dealing with. Serge made his way to Detroit on business this week and shares his experience. - We raise our little Canadian flag and are grateful for being in a country with a unified approach on health care. - TA is the canary in the coal mine. The crushing workload all TA practitioners are feel...

If your company is still leveraging non-compete ask yourself what are you trying to protect? There is alternatives and way better hiring practices you can adopt to limit your risk. We also cover: - Smart Recruiter has now reached Unicorn status, plus couple more of smaller HRTech firms also get paid! - How do you handle the post interview briefing with you hiring managers!

Serge and Shelley square off on Google for Jobs recent changes. Shelley has a strong argument that they need to fix their own s***! The other argument is who else is better suited to be able to fix the candidate experience then Google.  - Should you do a culture audit, where do you start?  - The future is being a creator, 489,000% increase in creator job posting since 2016

This week week we welcome Micole Garatti. Micole is the CEO of SocialMicole.com, Director B2B Marketing at Fairygodboss.com and together we try to solve all the problems in the talent community. - How men can be allies to women in the workforce (and at home!) - The pandemic has proven to be disastrous for women in the workforce, how can we reverse this? - What will the biggest disruptors in the in...

Serge notices some subtle and not so subtle events happening that will have a ripple effect in the service industry sector. Staking his claim as a capitalist, there is no sympathy for corporate giants who whine about their entire staff quitting. A big assortment of topics today - ”Must be a team player” says every single job posting out there. Isn't everyone? Let's talk more about the use of jargo...

Will the workplace be forced to shun those who are unvaccinated? How will this affect recruitment? Discuss. - The US court have made a clear and swift ruling on the matter when it comes to mandating vaccination as a pre-hire requirement - Jump off the bandwagon, put some effort into your employment brand statements. - Trouble is brewing when both ZipRecruiter and Indeed are reporting the same warn...

The importance of mastering the job order intake will never be lost on us. Those who rely on a 1-dimensional piece of paper as their mandate to recruit will fail. We cover the idea that sourcing candidates should be a separate function from the transaction work of Recruiters. Full Cycle Recruiting and how it sets up successful careers Great Sourcers share these traits This is AWKWARD - 2 episodes...

Another action packed episode as we unpack what 7 Economists believe is next up for the world of work - post covid. What the F&@! is happening in the labour market? Job postings are up, candidate traffic is down - nobody predicted this was going to happen!! Or did we? Everyone calm down, this is a temporary bottleneck & yes, this too shall pass We set Serge’s hair on fire & Shelley thr...

Serge has mountains to climb before he has some of his kids graduating from University unlike Shelley as she is 2 down and 1 to go! In this episode we try to figure out if Marketing or Talent Acquisition owns Employment Brand. We also deep dive into these topics: - JobVite 2020 Recruiter Nation Survey - Candidate Dealbreakers https://www.jobvite.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Jobvite-RecruiterNati...

If you want to hear the simple truth about DE&I in the workplace - you have come to the right place. Dr. Leeno Karumamchery from Mesh/Diversity breaks it down it down for us. Let's begin with the simple facts of the human brain and neurons. OK, so there is nothing simple about the human brain yet Leeno explains this in a way we grasp. In this episode we hear: - Culture fit’ is a smoke bomb - E...