The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

NEW JOB AS A RECRUITMENT LEADER: THE 100 DAY PLAN   We know that it continues to be a tough market out there, but I am heartened to see more than few of my close contacts secure new positions lately. Not only do we hope that this is the beginning of a mini-bounce back for the TA job market, but it is also an ideal opportunity to speak to the newly hired and figure out what the best approach might...

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 Steve Bartel, CEO of Gem.   - When did you realise you were going to set up a company? - In what ways does being an engineer help you as a tech CEO? - In what was does it hinder you? - What aspects of being a CEO have you discovered to be a strength? - What...

HOW TO ETHICALLY IMPLEMENT AI INTO TALENT ACQUISITION   One of the factors slowing down AI Adoption is justifiable concern on the ethics of AI. How do we ensure that we are not exacerbating bias, privileging one demographic over another and treating human beings as lesser than the machines?   It's been great to see software vendors take the lead in trying find a path forward. A superb how-to guide...

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 the CEO of one the new wave of AI-native tech startups which are transforming enterprise recruitment, Sam Dhesi   - When did you realise you were going to set up a company? - What are the strengths of a founder coming into a new domain? - How did you assembl...

PUBLIC SPEAKING TIPS FOR NEWBIES: HOW TO DELIVER YOUR BEST RECFEST TALK   Once upon a time, I too was also a reluctant public speaker. In fact, I did not even see the point of attending industry conferences - after all, what did I have to say, what did I have to learn? I am very glad that I accepted the invitation of one Mr Stephen Donaldson to give a talk at one of his events, Bill Boorman, who s...

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 Dina Bay, CEO of PitchMe. I do believe this is the first time we have had a Founders Focus with the fellow Alumni of St Andrews University - a moment to celebrate!   - When did you realise you were going to set up a company? - What was the biggest difference...

SKILL BASED HIRING: A CONVERSATION WITH JOHNNY CAMPBELL   One of the first people to really break down to task and activity level was Johnny Campbell. As CEO of market leading hiring training company SocialTalent, his taxonomy of the skills required by a recruiter to perform in their work remains a canonical artefact in the world of talent acquisition to this day.   This is why I was excited to ge...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today.   I'm delighted to be speaking to the one and only Roderick Smyth - serial entrepreneur with multiple exits and now the founder and CEO of Glyde Talent - the AI powered recruitment platform which enables recruiters to source and screen at scale.   - What has changed in p...

HOW TO SELECT AND IMPLEMENT AN ATS: A MASTERCLASS   There will come a point in every Talent Acquisition professionals career where you will have to make a decision on which ATS to use. Likely to be the most significant technology decision you'll ever make, it is also - outside of payroll - likely to be the biggest ticket investment that you'll ever have responsibility for also. So how exactly are...

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 Barb Hyman , CEO of Sapia. I had the great pleasure of meeting up with Barb for a coffee in Shoreditch earlier this year and I'm delighted to be able to reconnect with her on her founder story and what exactly made her embark on the journey of recruitment te...

FUTURE OF JOB BOARDS & JOB ADVERTISING (PART DEUX)   The best Brainfood Lives always leave more to be said. Ep254 set new standards for intellectual horsepower, as we discussed GenAI impact on the future of job boards and job advertising. We had such great feedback that we had to bring the crew back to follow up, this time taking things a step further with an examination of 'agentic AI'   - Ho...

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 on is one of brainfood's oldest buddies, Max Armbruster, CEO of Talkpush. If you've ever met Max you'd know about it - a unique, effervescent character whose passion for tech and recruitment is matched only by his vision for the future of recruitment optimisati...

EXPANDING SCOPE: FROM TALENT ACQUISITION TO TALENT EVERYTHING   Talent Acquisition has spent the past two decades attempting to create an identity distinct from HR....was this mistake, and do we now need to discreetly reverse course??   Apologies for the provocation but I suspect this is more or less what we NEED to be doing, especially as the employers everywhere demand more from people teams, fo...

PROGRAMMATIC JOB ADVERTISING: THE MASTERCLASS   I am convinced that programmatic job advertising will become a necessity for the employers hiring at any kind of scale. Applicant overflow will become untenable without automated system which can respond to flow rate by either increasing or decreasing the visibility of the advert. And yet the solutions remain mysterious for the majority of recruiters...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today   Scotty AI is a technology business where the market has finally caught up with the vision. Their pioneering software provides the sort of automation of workflow which recruiters have been screaming out for, especially in the era of 'do more with less'   Let's hear from...

RECRUITMENT AUTOMATION TIPS YOU CAN DO RIGHT AWAY   As the case studies accumulate, we are beginning to see the outline of what an AI-enabled recruiter looks like: it is indeed x10 more productive, perhaps even x100 more productive in certain tasks and functions. It's time to stop watching folks, and time to start doing.   - Examples of Recruitment Automation which can be done today - What areas o...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today   VONQ has been one of the recruitment technology providers who have undergirded the recruitment advertising eco-system, often in a way unknown to recruiters at the operations side of the business. What a better opportunity to find out more about this company than getting...

HOW TO SET UP A RECRUITMENT ANALYTICS DASHBOARD   Having strong analytics is critical to increasing the degree of your hiring success. Much more challenging is how best to set up a dashboard which works best for your organisation and your needs. We're going to get some expert advice from talent leaders whose speciality is enabling organisations to have access to, and make better quality decisions...

NO LINKEDIN X-RAY? WHAT NEXT?   The sourcing community has been monitoring the changes on LinkedIn, particularly on the availability of public data to search engines. 2 months since the news first broke that 'LinkedIn X Ray is dead', what is the latest from the front lines of the sourcing world. And...if LinkedIn X-Ray IS on its last legs, what does that mean for people aggregators, data enrichers...

DATA OR ADS: FUTURE OF JOB BOARD ADVERTISING IN THE ERA OF GENERATIVE AI   Job Boards are going through a moment. What had felt like a clear progression of business model towards Pay-Per-Applicant, is now changing in the era of GenAI, especially with the AI-enabled job candidate conducting mass apply. Opportunities and risks have both increased for the job board vendors, and the decisions that the...

SKILL BASED ORGANISATION: REALITY VS RHETORIC?   The consensus in the industry is that Skill Based Hiring and Skill Based Organisation is the way forward for the next generation of future fit organisations, but what does successful implementation actually look like? We're beginning to see the emergence of a debate on the wisdom and practicality of the idea - can it even be done?   Join us, as we d...

HOW TO PULL OFF A GLOBAL TA ORG RESTRUCTURE   The post 2021 drive for optimisation has led to a global wave of organisation restructuring, as every department, in every company, probably in every country comes to terms with a world of high interest rates, slowing growth, tougher margins and ever increasing volatility.   How have multinational TA teams responded, and reorganised?   - What prompted...

HIGH VOLUME HIRING: FASTER, BETTER, CHEAPER?   Recruitment optimisation gets more serious at scale. 1% efficiency improvement means a lot more when you're hiring for 10,000 people vs hiring for 100. What can we learn from high volume hirers when it comes to increasing efficiency?   - Why radical solutions are required - How to determine where gains can be achieved? - What areas of inefficiency to...

WHAT DO DEVELOPERS WANT? SKILLS & SENTIMENT REPORT 2024   One of the annual must read reports in the recruiting industry is the HackerRank's Developer Skills Report. With huge changes in the skills make up of the software developer workforce of tomorrow, we need to review what kind of skills developers care about, are getting good at and are letting go as the future leaves them behind.   Who b...

FUTURE OF WORK: TALENT ACQUISITION...NOT INVITED?   Talent Acquisition has long fought a battle for a 'seat at the table' when the big decisions are made about the future of an organisation but we really need to come to that table with unique perspective, value and confidence.   With the era of Generative AI already upon us, let's do a sense check on where Talent Acquisition is when conversations...