The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Employer Brand...When Making Layoffs?   2022 was not meant to be like this. Coming into the year, we had the expectation of a strong economic rebound after the covid induced slowdown of two years previous. And yet, 6 months in we are are seeing conflict, inflation, public sector strikes, social conflict, crypto crashes and yes....looming recession. What do we need to know as EB / TA professionals...

How To Hire for a Brand No One Knows   I mean no offence! But lets face it, there are some brands which are too new, too niche or simply too back in the supply chain to be well know to the masses. I suspect hiring for these companies may well be different prospect to hiring for well known B2C players, especially in tech. How do you go about marketing job opportunities for an employer no one knows?...

Sourcing without LinkedIn....A 7 Day Challenge   We all b1tch about LinkedIn, but how many of us can actually recruit without it? I suspect it will be fewer than we would like to think! Hence, when Balazs and Ildiko posted about their 7 day experiment, it immediately grabbed my attention. What would we learn if we tried to live without unquestionably the most important service recruiters are using...

How to know if a Recruiter is any good?   I have been thinking about this question ever since Tim Sackett published his post on an experienced recruiter candidate who had an aberrantly small LinkedIn network. Got me thinking - how small is too small? Lets face it, it WOULD arouse suspicion to see a recruiter candidate without a LinkedIn profile (they do exist!) so it got me thinking about how do w...

Recession Proofing Your Recruitment Career   If you've been following the market, the news is looking increasingly grim - record inflation, energy prices, increase taxation, tech hiring freezes, stock market collapse and the possible end of crypto - its looking like the good times have ended already.   As recruiters, we are often the first to feel the effects of the economy, and we each need to ta...

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 is  Virgile Raingeard , CEO of Figures   - When did you realise that Figures was going to be a thing? - What are the key differences between being a CEO of a Startup vs Senior Exec of a People function? - How has a career in HR / Recruitment prepared you to be a...

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 is  Stephen Anderson , MD of Crooton   - Why do you think innovation is so rare in recruitment? - What do you think have been the main technology disruptors in recruiting in your career? - What do you think is going to be next big thing? - What parts of being a...

How to Organise A Sourcing Jam!   The true mission of a great recruiter is to get EVERYONE in the business operating as a recruiter; after all they are they ones with the strongest networks of relevant talent! One of the ways to activate the company 'recruiting muscle' is to organise a Sourcing Jam - a half or full day session where a department works with the TA team to dive into our professional...

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 Viktor Nord, Co-founder and Adrian MacDonald, CEO of Recruitment Marketing Automation firm, Adway   - What is the original story of Adway? - What was the most important decision you got right in Year 1 of the business? - How clear was the vision from the beg...

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 is Ilya Brotzky, CEO of VanHack   - What's the story with Brazil? - What did you learn about business when you were there? - What did you learn about yourself? - As an entrepreneur, what are things you do well? - As a CEO what are the things you don't do well? -...

Mega Scale Hiring (10,000+!)   We talk about scale, then we talk about 'hyper scale', I'm going to go one further and talk about 'mega scale' - this is a hiring of tens of thousands of workers in short time frame. Pretty certain this is the sort of recruiting challenge that existing systems, processes and even people are not designed to do. So how do you do it?   You will learn:   - Under what cir...

Moving to Salary Transparency   It's becoming cool - and in a growing number of regions, it's also becoming law. Publishing how much you pay for a certain role has a number of strong arguments for: more equitable income, remove bias, upgrade employer brand / reputation, perhaps even improve recruitment efficiency by providing a mechanism for self selection by candidates.   So, what do you do when...

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 is Will Laufer, CEO of  Prelude   - When was the moment when you realised Prelude would be a thing? - Were you always planning to be an entrepreneur? - How is being a CEO different from being a senior exec? - What things do you not do well as a CEO? - What do yo...

Solving Recruitment: Strategic Workforce Planning   Don't you feel that recruitment is generally moving from one crisis to another? It seems there is NEVER a moment when recruitment is steady, under control, low stress, high confidence project. Instead, it's a fire that we need to put out yesterday. Why is this - why can we not plan our hiring in more strategic way?   You will learn   - What is st...

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 is Markellos Diorinos, CEO of Bryq - Is Product the best training for being a CEO of Product based business? - What do you learn in being a PM that you is useful as a CEO? - What is missing from a PM career path? - When did you realise you wanted to run a company?...

Programmatic Job Advertising, for Dummies   Are you struggling to find high quality candidates for your open roles within your budget? Programmatic recruitment advertising can help.   Programmatic is the use of software and data to ensure your online job ads are in front of the right people, at the right time, at the best possible price. Hiring organizations that use programmatic often see a reduc...

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 is  Alex van Klaveren , CEO of KANDIDATE   - What are the benefits of being a non-recruiter, getting into the recruitment business? - Were you always going to start a business or did it just happen? - When did you know it was going to happen? - What are the key...

The Career Ladder to CPO!   Chief People Officer or 'CPO' is pretty much the top job in the internal side of the recruiter industry. I'm delighted to say that several people I knew when they were individual contributors have progressed their careers so that they now hold this position. How did they get there? We're bringing in a squad of recently minted CPO's to let us know what we need to know if...

The State of Agency Recruitment in 2022 (Down Under!)   Universal challenges + local conditions = unique solutions. There are no doubts that the ANZ market, and the APAC region in general has unique characteristics which influence the behaviour of clients, colleagues and candidates alike. We're going to use the opportunity in my last week in Australia to speak to recruiters and recruitment agency...

Leadership Fitness (For a Remote First World)   A cynical take on why execs vs employees are divided in their attitude to WFH is that managers don't know how to do their job when they are not 'overseeing' their team and hence insist on 'back to the office'. And yet the logic of the remote or at least hybrid working is irresistible and perhaps a significant percentage of leaders trained in the on p...

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 is  Martin Herbst , CEO of JobAdder   - How is recruitment technology different from e-commerce? - What do you think e-commerce could learn from recruitment, and vice versa? - What are the qualities which make you a good leader? - Did you develop these or were t...

How to Build Social Capital (In A Remote First World)   Everyone in recruitment agrees that building your network is one of the key components of sustainable success in this business. There is no doubt that in-person connection helped deepen relationships with clients, colleagues and candidates alike. So what does it mean now that we are mainly doing our work in a remote first way? Are our network...

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 is Siadhal Magos, CEO of  Metaview   - When did you realise there was an opportunity to create a new category in recruitment technology? - How has your background in Product helped and hindered you as a CEO? - What have been the biggest differences between senio...

DDR - or Data Driven Recruitment, what is this, why do we need it and how do we get there? I don't think any one topic has achieved wide spread consensus as quickly as being 'data driven'. What does this really mean and why is it better than the other thing? How are recruiting teams which operate in a data driven way, different from those that do not? You will learn - Difference between Data Drive...

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 is Ammon Bartram, CEO of Triplebyte   - When did you know Triplebyte was going to happen? - What were the good things about Y Combinator? - In what ways do you think Y Comb might be damaging? - Engineering led startups - strengths, weaknesses - What did you lear...