The Recruitment Flex

Kicking off the summer of love, Serge has big plans for his 10 year wedding anniversary! Class act James Ellis as he shares his book, Talent Chooses You with the world as a google doc. Making it an interactive discussion for Employer Branding and Talent Acquisition pros who need to understand how to harness the power of their EB. You can find it here http://employerbrandbook.com/ Big Talk on today...

The day has finally arrived after months of Serge’s wild predictions that Recruit Holdings would buy up ZipRecruiter, we find out he was dead wrong. - Shelley’s birthday and the best birthday gift EVER! Shocking to hear it involved shopping, eating and 5 types of rum in 1 drink! - Staffing industry trends and who are the top dogs - Women in software engineering - what can we learn from most progre...

Shelley is a bit of jealous of how easy it is to be able to record your young kids now compared to the days she had young kids where the slide carousel was the standard ;). Quite a few disagreement in this episode!  - Diversity Statements, should you have one?  - Are fortune 500 companies leveraging AI correctly?  - Unique or "weird" interview question, should it be a thing? Serge disagree's Chad...

This week The Recruitment Flex we welcome Alex Murphy CEO of JobSync. We dig into why are Talent Acquisition process so different from company to company plus we dig into, - What is your conversion rate of candidates clicking to apply to your jobs, if it's not 20% or above you probably have an issue. - How can you save more time as a recruiter by automating or replacing time spent with technology...

Find out why you should never call Shelley a #GirlBoss. Is TikTok for jobs going to be a thing? Plus some ‘healthy’ banter on the new recruitment metrics. Time to apply Applicant to hire Sourcing channel effectiveness Time to interview Offer Acceptance Also Coinbase tries to solve the gender wage gap.

The busiest man in recruitment technology Chris Russell joins us to talk all things recruitment related. - Why rejecting candidates properly is so important and how Rejobify can help. - The future of gig platforms and who is Indeed pissing off now. - How Google for Jobs and Facebook are trying to grab strong market share in the job board world - What's next for Zip Recruiter and Talent.com As alwa...

Should political discourse happen at work? what is considered political? We try to figure what happened at BaseCamp. Shelley buys a new car and we try to solve all the worlds talent challenges.  - Are people excited about going back to the office? - What are candidates profile? - We talk about roles in Talent Acquisition that might never heard of  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d291pcxKtK4  https...

How do you know you’ve hit the big time as a software start up? When the lawyers from Craigslist send you a ‘cease and desist’ letter! Hear the whole story on this week’s episode. Terry talks about the history of Pandologic and how they resisted the swirl of programmatic companies being swallowed up in 2019. Programmatic job advertising explained by the original visionary who invented the space. T...

Serge and Shelley are back after brief hiatus! As always we cover recruitment tips and news on the Recruitment industry. This week we also talk about Shelley shopping for a new car, is it different for a woman buying a car then a man? Topics for the week - How do you recruit in a tight labour market? - Training new recruiters. - Jobvite Acquires JazzHR and NXXThing RPO - Zip Recruiter prepping for...

This week we welcome Brad DiPaolo CEO of Candidate Hub. We find out if Brad is the source of many of Serge's emotional scars around HR! We deep dive on Candidate Hub and why nurture marketing to candidates is especially critical in this economy. We also try to figure out all the worlds problem including  - Talent pipelines and why they're critical - What is the difference between an ATS CRM and Ca...

Do you wait 3 weeks or a month before calling your candidates for roles. Serge and Shelley explain why that's probably a bad idea. Shelley still not impressed by Wedge (She loves Matt BAXTER though!) even after a great performance on the Chad and Cheese firing squad. Topics this week - LinkedIn gets in the re-skilling game. - " Creative Job Titles" and why it's hurting you - Setting expectations w...

The question was asked to Joe 6 years ago why most marketing material were visual but not in the recruitment space where we we have been using for the last 80 years text based job description. Joe decided to change that and voila! He created visual job ads. We cover a broad range of topics including - Why Shelley loves Vizi Recruiter - How does a serial entrepreneur who has run a yogourt company,...

Tales from the road, Serge and Shelly are sharing their top tips this week. The best advise to win the heart of your top candidate! Old school is back in style. Looking at a new ATS, we have a tip for you. Stop calling your employer brand your EVP, you are confusing everyone! Three cheers for Linked IN.

The Recruitment Flex is launching a new schedule which this is our first Tuesday episode. Many more updates coming up as well. This week we welcome Adam Chambers President of Applichat! Adam is an impressive person and has created a compelling RPO service targeted at Healthcare around the world. We cover some great topics including - Who is Adam Chambers and why does his mom still does his laundry...

More great suggestions from 2 people who have lived through the challenges faced by Talent Acquisition practitioners in every type of business. Tangai - the Swedish invention launched in 2018 using a robot that looks like something from I, Robot! How would you feel about being rejected for a role from a robot? You will never out recruit what good retention will do. Gets some practical tips on how...

Serge and Shelley try to figure out this current recruiting landscape including mass movement of employees happening, should you be transparent of the pay range on your jobs ads? plus Shelley gets nominated for another award and Serge complains about a mancold.

Coming to us from the tech hot spot of Michigan, Matt Baxter the CEO of Wedge tell us how they are changing 1-way video interviewing. The great debate continues as Shelley continues to endure the lashings from Serge on this topic. It was starting to feel like the deck was stacked against Shelley, but the 1-way video interview industry has a lot of wounds they need to heal before candidates conside...

Resumes Suck We decided to make this International Women’s Week, we invited an incredible entrepreneur, tech startup founder, mom and wife to celebrate her success; and wonder, how does she do it? Digging deep to understand how ResumeFree is going to change how companies hire, Allie has passion to solve the biggest problem the world is facing - social injustice in the hiring process. Hiring people...

When you think of Podcast in this industry you think of the Chad & Cheese Podcast. This week in our special crossover episode Shelley joins Chad to Co-Host Shelley makes us proud on the big stage! - Facebook is getting serious about #jobs - Will COVID dramatically change job board? - Will Facebook & Google smash Indeed.com? - Iceland schools everyone on closing the wage gap - Prop 22 won't...

The better looking co-host of Chad & Cheese Podcast joins Serge in hosting this crossover Show. Shelley takes some time off from Serge but you can get your fill of Shelley as she makes her grand debut with Chad on this weeks episode. Serge and Joel welcome Canadian recruiting gangster Brian Thompson of RecTxt. There's nothing we don't cover on this week show. - Is Trailer Park Boys the greates...

The Recruitment Flex this week features David Bernstein VP Partnerships and Industry Relations. Solving TA problems we know we have - yet tolerate - that’s what David taught us today. When most of our tech stack is 13 or 14 systems, how to get it all to flow nicely seems to confuse us in TA. David shared his journey from Berkeley Psychology to a little start up, at the time, called PeopleSoft to w...

HR Tech Series Feat NudgeJobs by Buoyancy Anyone out there ever had a WOW experience with an Outplacement firm? Spoiler Alert:​ This is going to rattle the Outplacement Industry A start up before it is started; we met with Jon MacConnel the founder of Buoyancy.works and NudgeJob The journey of a great idea rooted in behavioral science, Jon comes fresh off the world’s most prestigious Masters progr...

Serge and Shelley try to keep warm by tackling a ton of topics this week including Bell Let’s talk, EVP now TVP? Serge was right on WFH changes and outcome based work environment.

Special new series where we talk to startups in HRTech space. Dan Giurescu founder of TerraHub Technologies & Blockchain Guru joins the Recruitment Flex and we tried to be easy on him We figured this was a good time to see if we could get our heads around what Blockchain is and what this means for recruitment. Turns out, this technology will be left on HR’s chair! The future for recruitment wo...

Chad is the co- founder of the #1 podcast in the HR industry, The Chad and Cheese Show with over 600 episodes in their catalog they are responsible for setting the pace on what’s going on around the world. Shelley & Serge are huge fans so this was a blast to have an exclusive time with him. Chad schools Serge on why programmatic advertising for job ads suck *Bonus material, a recommendation fr...