The Recruitment Flex

Another Google blunder. This time, Bard, their answer to ChatGPT and their google ad had an inaccurate answer. SMB's feeling the impact of Indeed's new model? Billy Idol, Ozzy Ozbourne earned their title of Rockstar, Workday’s Super Bowl ad wags a finger at the corporate use of their title.  Alberta is throwing the doors open! Ontario talent is searching for jobs in Alberta.  Tip of the Week Your...

 Welcome return guest the Job Board Doctor Jeff Dickey-Chasins Jeff consults to 100’s of job boards from around the world, he brings a wealth of knowledge on how, why and what’s happening. Highlights Cost per apply on Indeed was a self fulfilling prophecy - who knew, creating a problem and then solving the problem was a business model. The little blue box on Google, friend or enemy? It still does...

Google’s employer brand leads us to believe they have their house in order. We try to rationalize how they messed up the layoff process last week.  Just to make us all feel better, we found the world’s worst recruitment process. Be thankful your employer doesn't use polygraphs.  Recruiting Tip The easiest and cheapest way to recruit; boomerang employees. Recruiting Insights Textio raises concern o...

Sarah brings personal experience and deep industry expertise in creating OnwardsHR.com, a severance automation platform.  Highlight of our conversation: Layoffs, restructure, terminations, voluntary turnover; like being in the funeral home business, no one wants to think about this stuff until it happens to you or someone you know.  A positive OFF boarding experience sounds like an oxymoron.  It i...

With our beloved Serge getting hit with the 'Vid' , Allie Knull joins as CoHost with Shelley, listen who gets the last word now! It’s official RecFest will be in Nashville, TN on Sept 13 & 14 Allie & Shelley share their favourite interview questions.  Tip of the Week: Never underestimate the emotional toll that being laid off brings. For those leaving and those left behind.  Recruiting Ins...

Affectionately called The Indeed Whisperer, Jim Durbin is truly one of a kind.  Let’s unpack this  Think like a software developer, then do the opposite of what everyone else is doing.  As The Master of Search using Indeed’s resume database, Jim’s take on why there were little waves when changes were rolled out  Leading the TA function and the top 3 things you need to do Recruitment marketing oper...

As our credit card statements arrive this week, we have to ask, “Was all the Christmas spending worth it?” Or did you have a blue Monday type of week? A great new tool if you are thinking to feature your hiring managers in recruitment videos, try putting the script into Https://bigvu.tv for a free teleprompter Speaking of video, the industry saw the merger of video interviewing with the guardrails...

We welcome another great Canadian HRtech start up. Although we didn't get to meet Leah in person at HRTech last fall, we were finally able to align our schedules.  All the analysis and industry reports point to the skills gap as being our biggest concern. tilr.com bridges the gap for companies of 1,000 employees, give or take, to extract meaningful data from your HRIS and LMS and line it up with t...

Investment advice from Serge on ZipRecruiter stock and a tip on who is heading to IPO.  868M568F+C9 - Decoding the message from our friend Jamie Leonard about RecFest, we will need to bring him on to the show and confirm this. Could the worlds largest recruitment conference be coming to North America? ChatGPT is just over 30 days on the market and MicroSoft pays $10B to breath life into Bing. You...

This week we welcome Amanda Hahn Chief Marketing Officer at HireVue. Amanda gets top spot for being one of the only guests on the show who was born to be in Talent Acquisition.  Being at HireVue for the last 10 years and the pioneer of video interviewing platforms, long before the pandemic made it an everyday tool, Amanda bring a front row seat to where the hiring process is going.  We take a deep...

Time to reset  our goals; Serge will put his phone down and Shelley will find a way to do something nice for someone every day. Hot tip: Guidelines on how much budget a company should have for recruitment advertising Recruitment Insights: We all know how powerful Influencers can be for a brand, this could be the year we see Influencers become part of TA Meetings are expensive and exhausting; preve...

Author of the best book ever written on the subject of employer brand, Talent Chooses You and the creative genius behind EmployerBrandLabs and our favourite guest, James Ellis joins us for an update on the world of what people want to know if they are going to change jobs. Employment Brand is to Recruiting as Marketing is to Sales   Discount Tire delivers top marks for how to communicate Why Work...

One of our favourite guest Katrina Collier who just released the second version of the Robot Proof Recruiter. With relentless passion, Katrina has over 2 decades in the recruitment industry, spoken on 5 continents and now has version 2 of the must read book for everyone in TA. Always generous with her recommendations, add to your must read list, Full Stack Recruiter by Jan Tegze and take your care...

In our best of 2022 it was an honour to bring on HR Legend Lou Adler on The Recruitment Flex If there was only one interview question you could ask, what would it be?   As an industry legend and innovator, Lou has the best stories about recruitment. When he talks about Performance Based Hiring, it seems so logical; just ask intelligent questions. For someone with a track record of quitting the sam...

Best of 2022: Matt Alder The charming podcaster from Edinborough has just published his 2nd book, Digital Talent and we got an exclusive scoop. Or at least it felt like an exclusive! Digital Talent is now available From his first book in 2017 to now; the speed at which we work and the use of AI will be challenging to get it right. The companies who will struggle with this are large and small.  Loo...

Kim Wilkinson, founder of Verve Recruitment joins us to debate and discuss what the world of work will shake out like in the coming 12 months. Kim brings us real time insights to what’s happening on the front lines of recruitment. Sharing our family plans for Christmas, Kim wins. Doing the holidays on a warm sandy beach in +28C weather, as Shelley & Serge sit under heated blankets to keep the...

For our 200th Episode! We welcome Chad Sowash and Joel Cheesman, the famous duo behind HR’s most dangerous podcast, join us to pick apart the big events in TA for 2022.  2022 the rollercoaster Recruiters go from hero to zero in less than 12 months The great resignation, the big relocation or Freedom 55; all swirled into on shit storm of labor market, all of which had been predicted, just not all a...

This week on The Recruitment Flex we debate the ideal length of a job ad, with some sources suggesting a limit of 300 words while other advise including as much info as necessary. Check out our Spotify wrapped, really cool marketing concept from Spotify! Spotify/TRF Recruitment Insights Facebook Jobs is officially dead, was it ever alive? CHATGPT makes us wonder if robots will after all replace hu...

Corey’s leadership at Employ Inc. (Owner of Jobvite, JazzHR, Lever etc..) makes us all envious; their executive and hiring manager’s commitment to the recruitment process sets the pace for all TA Leaders to follow.  For the love great research and reports, we go direct to the source with Jobvite | employ’s Q4 report and dig into the findings.  46% of HR decision makers say their company’s hiring i...

This week we settle the debate. Recruiting in December is a great idea.  With new evidence coming to light on a CBC.ca news interview, Serge was proven to be right about what new Canadians need to be successful.  Recruitment Insights Crosschq quality of hiring report is fascinating. Internal referrals driving lower quality of hire scores. 9 predictions for 2023. We took the easy way out and did a...

The world famous author of Full Stack Recruiter Jan Tegze has a new book out!   Job Search Guide: Be your own Career Coach  A great gift idea for the job seekers on your Christmas list. Written from the Recruiter’s perspective on how hiring actually works, Jan covers the 4 things we want every job seeker to know.  Jan busts the myths around how ATS and AI work (or don't work) in the hiring process...

This week on The Recruitment Flex Cheaters never prosper. An Osaka man was arrested after bragging on social media about his 95% pass rate for taking recruitment assessments online.  Ex-twitter staff will pollinate the growth of the tech companies they join, it's how the next greatest technologies are born. Recruiting Insights IRobot inspired Amazon to clone their good workers by using AI to sift...

Interesting observations from DisruptHRYYC, out of 250+ HR folks, we seem to have fewer men than in 2019.  How to lose $75 Million, lets to weigh in on who thought beer being served in a Muslim country was really going to happen. Penalty served to Air Canada’s job seeker experience. Please fake apply to your own company and please eat your own garbage.  Recruiting Insights New Canadians face discr...

Elon has too much work on his plate. With 3 companies to run, how does a nano-manager find time to sleep or eat?   Speaking of exhaustion, our admiration and respect for working parents has ballooned. Canadian families are facing more unprecedented times with a nationwide shortage of baby tylenol & advil PLUS the worst cold & flu season in a generation.  Recruiting Insights  If covering yo...

Superfan of the show and our favourite HR person (yes, you read that correctly) Michelle Berg, the Chief Visionary Officer at Elevated HR and the team of people who are powering DisruptHR YYC.  DisruptHR YYC Thursday, November 17 at 5 pm Platform Calgary at 407 9 Avenue Southeast Tickets are $40 on Eventbrite https://disrupthr.co/city/calgary/ There are some first time Speakers as well as a few re...