The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Is Boolean Broken? Latest update from Google   It's been 10 years since the sourcing community really started to separate itself as being distinct from 'recruiter'. In that time, the sub discipline has been a place of investigation, discovery, enhancement and close-to-magical tricks to get outcomes beyond those available to 'normal recruiters'   Nobody has been a more significant populariser of so...

Employer Branding in a Recession Economy   As the world looks down into economic slowdown and maybe worse, it behooves us to consider how this impacts many of the recruiting concepts that emerged during more bullish times. Employer Branding was certainly one of those, which arose as a key way in which to beat the competition for the best talent. How does all this change when the market turns beari...

Topics to discuss (and if you're registering now, you are getting a sneak preview of what's coming up on Sunday)   - Open Letter to Elon Musk from Twitter Employees - Big Tech Winter is Here - AI vs Gig Economy, who wins the creative war? - 2022 Gen Z Survey (Cost of Living  + Side Hustle, changing the nature of work) - Can you train emotional intelligence? Google tried - Re-shoring might mean re-...

From Talent Intelligence to Talent Acquisition   Talent Intelligence or TI has been the coolest kid in the recruitment block for a little while now, with elite employers using labour market intelligence to properly plan their hiring strategy. Even more relevant in the era of distributed working, employers now need to reach the global talent pool but do so based on data, rather than gut feel. So fa...

We're back with Brainfood Baked Fresh - 30 minute on air live review of the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter. Get ready to talk about - VC / Angel investor collapse confirmed - Hiring in a Distributed World - Women in Work 2022 Report - Pre-Columbian Meso American Jobs - More candidate fakery in the world of candidate fraud. Join us and come on screen if you have to discuss!

Hard Truths About Startup: Hiring, Firing & Culture   There has not been a sector so widely lauded and intensively covered by the press that tech startup / tech scale up. We hear a great deal about the extraordinary growth, market leading competition and often cutting edge technical and cultural innovation. But beyond the hype, what really lies underneath the world of startup?   We are going to be...

Welcome to Brainfood Baked Fresh, the Monday call in show where we discuss the contents of Recruiting Brainfood, Issue 314   Including:   - Bellingcats Hackathon Results - State of AI 2022 - Tech lay offs.....who exactly is being laid off? - UK Right to Work Checks - Global Culture Report - and a Dutch guy who won a court case which might have profound implications for employee surveillance techno...

Sourcing & Recruiting on Discord   Did you know Recruiting Brainfood has a Discord server? I was planning to use it for doing virtual events but never in the end did any virtual events so it basically has sat lying dormant ever since. And yet Discord has rapidly become one of the main places where interest communities come together to connect, share knowledge, meet each other and generally share c...

Blockchain, Web3 & The Future of Work   I'll be at the Future Works conference in Lisbon so fitting that we are going to be using the opportunity to talk about the next age of the Internet and what it means for the world of work. When Satoshi Nakomoto first released his manifesto "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" in 2009, it introduced the world to the blockchain and the possibility...

Back with Baked Fresh, the call in show where we take questions from readers of the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter, Issue 312. We'll be talking about  - Value of Weak Ties for Career Advancement - Candidate Fraud in Remote Working - Power Law of the Creator Economy - Figures Levelling Framework - Cool list of Resources for Tracking Layoffs And loads more!

Where Are The Missing Workers?   The 'Labour Market Paradox' is most keenly felt by us - the recruiters who are struggling to make hires, even when key macro indicators - such as number of people economically inactive - should suggest otherwise. How are we to understand the mixed messages we are getting from the commentariat, politicians and our own lived experience?   Good news is, Brainfood Live...

We're back folks, after a three week hiatus!   Going to try and keep to this time but it is apparent with travel, covid and change of regnal eras, that we might not be as consistent as we want to be on this show!   Lets see how we go on this - we're review in the Sunday newsletter, with sneak peak content including:    How Does UpWork, Work? Redundancy as a path to Diversifying the Workforce? Gold...

How to Source Candidates from Slack   There probably isn't a tech startup anywhere that does not use Slack as its internal communication platform. It's also an amazing place to create intra-company communities, a place where professionals of all disciplines get together and share knowledge. Might these also be places where you can source candidates?   You will learn:   - What is Slack and how do y...

Making Sense of the Economy: Resilient Sectors for Recruiting.   The high profile tech lay offs dominate the headlines but does that tell us the real story of what is going on in the economy? We're looking at the sectors which continue to hire today, as well as those which are destined to grow as the new economic future unfolds.   You will learn:   - How do we understand the start up / scale up ma...

Ethics & Experience: How to Better Handle Layoffs   The high profile tech layoffs keep coming, and the response of employers forced to make cuts has been under scrutiny, whether the method is via mass zoom calls, or through making vulnerability posts on LinkedIn. Got me thinking - IS there a good way to do this, or or is this simply a hard task which is always going to be unpleasant?   You will le...

How to Hire in the Nordics?   Brainfood Live is back on tour! This time we are virtually visiting our friends in the North and to try and better understand how the universal challenges of recruiting are solved by local recruiters in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. I actually couldn't find any Icelandic or Faroese recruiters so if you are there, make sure you pipe up during the livestream!   Y...

How to Build a Recruitment Marketing Content Engine   We know that producing quality content is mandatory in todays world of hyper competition for attention. And whilst many of us have enough in us to produce one or two pieces here and there, very few of us have the ability to consistently output high quality stuff. Why is this? How come other people are more able? Is it just talent or is it reall...

BRAINFOOD BAKED FRESH - EP1 - ISSUE 306 Introducing the new show, where we review the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter Issue 306 and pick out some highlights which were particularly interesting food for the recruiting brain...... 1. Big List of Recruiting & HR Events to Attend in 2023   2. THESE ARE THE OPEN SOURCE TOOLS RESEARCHERS SAY THEY NEED 3. THE BEST TIMES TO POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA (FROM 35 M...

Changing the Culture of Your Talent Acquisition Team   You know the scenario: you've inherited an under performing team and need to reset and redirect. How do you do this? What are the techniques available for TA leaders that work most consistently to get the best out of the existing team?   You will learn:   - How to diagnose under performance - How to audit the KPI's - How to identify high poten...

LinkedIn Content Feed: What Recruiters Have Got To Know   For the past 5 years LinkedIn has been one of the preeminent places to create content and build audience. In fact, without LinkedIn, it is unlikely that Recruiting Brainfood would have got anywhere near the size it has. It is therefore essential for us recruiters to better understand who the content feed works, especially as LinkedIn keep o...

Sourcing Candidates on Reddit   Reddit is one of the world's most popular websites with millions of visitors every day, and yet its comment based interface has proven to be a puzzle for most recruiters who might have found it too intimidating a place to source candidates. This is a shame as the demographic on reddit skews towards tech and engineering, some of the most in-demand skills in the curre...

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 are Mehul Bhatt, CEO of FloCareer!   - What is the original story of FloCareer? - What was the most important decision you got right in Year 1 of the business? - How clear was the vision from the beginning - was it always there or did it emerge for contact wit...

How to Influential on Video   The shift to remote has changed the way in which we work and communicate; it makes sense to think that it may well have changed the way we sell and influence also. Remember when the telephone was the primary channel of communication, before email and internet? The same skills were not necessarily transferrable to the new media and many former elite performers fell beh...

Can Recruiters Shift To A 4 Day Work Week?   Alongside the shift to remote, the desire for employees to shift to a 4 day work week has been one of the most startling demands from the workers. Even more surprisingly, many employers are listening and have reduced hours, often times at full pay. Can recruiters also shift to this new mode of working? On the one hand it makes sense as we work off hours...

Recruitment Market for Different Generations   We hate generation stereotypes for a reason, but it is also undeniable that there are differences in how we consume information, that can be split along age demographics. As the information ecosystem changes so rapidly, this means that we all start our journey in digital from a different place, and therefore consume information in different ways.   So...