The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

2023 Year in Review: Labour Market, Jobs, Vacancies, Work   Final part of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, we are zooming out to the macro and looking at state of the economy, the labour market, the vacancy market and our verdict of the year in the recruitment really has been.   - Economy in 2023 - US, UK and elsewhere - Impact of high interest rates - Labour supply - Economic growth - Company formation vs company growth - Job applicant behaviour - Workforce participation - Impact of AI, if any? - Sector specificity - White collar recession? - Market for recruiters....are we good canaries for this coal mine?   We're with Emma Mirrington, Founder (The Firm), Neil Carberry, MD (Recruitment and Employers Confederation), Dr Sarah Ali, VP of Economic Forecasting (Indiana Economic Development Corporation)     Ep238 is sponsored by our buddies Poetry   "This is a blueprint for improving our talent acquisition maturity." TA Leader, Engineering   Poetry is a recruiter workspace including solutions for recruitment marketing, recruitment operations, recruiter learning and a launchpad for all the other tools you need to accomplish your daily tasks.   We enable recruiters to be better marketers through enhanced collaboration, genAI assistance and automatic recommendations. These are the days of brilliant content. Gone are the days of re-writing InMails, social media posts and email copy.   We save you considerable 'toggle tax' by providing so many solutions within the one app. Rapidly locate your job ad templates, competitor intelligence, interview policies and TikTok sourcing tools. Everything's in the one place.   Managers, this is for you too. Our workspace analysis and reporting tells you how the team are using the solutions and provides you with automatic coaching, recommendations and ROI.   Get started for free at www.poetryhr.com

2023 Year in Review: LinkedIn Content Marketing & LinkedIn Sourcing   Part 3 of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, we're looking back at our old and necessary friend, LinkedIn! Recruiters No1 most important platform, how did it treat you in 2023? We're going to review the major changes on:   - LinkedIn Newsfeed algorithm - Post types - Creator Mode / Livestream / Audio Event - LinkedIn Newsletters - LinkedIn Talent Solutions - LinkedIn Recruiter - Search on LinkedIn - AI features - BTS with LinkedIn Engineering     We're with Andy Foote, Founder (LinkedInsights) & Irina Shamaeva, Partner (Braingain Consulting)         Ep237 is sponsored by our buddies Pinpoint     Be ready for anything with Pinpoint—the fast, flexible applicant tracking software. Talent teams are constantly faced with change. From hypergrowth to evolving policies to hiring managers simply changing their minds, recruiters need to quickly respond to new demands.   Your ATS should make that easier to do, not harder.   Enter Pinpoint: Our intuitive platform means it will always be easy-to-use for your talent team, hiring managers, and candidates. And under the surface, you’ll find the flexible tools you need to continue evolving. Stay agile as you grow your company, advance your talent strategy, or hire across different markets.   Fast, flexible software and unlimited help from our team means you'll attract the right candidates, select the best, and wow your new hires from the moment they say ‘yes.’   Book your demo now.

2023 Year in Review: Recruitment Advertising & Employer Branding   Part 2 of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, focus is on Recruitment Advertising and Employer Branding. What the heck happened on these two domains this year?   - SEO / Changes on Google Jobs - Behavioural ad targeting / retargeting - Impact of Search Generative Experience - CPC vs CPA - State of Job Boards - State of Programmatic Advertising - Employer branding during recession / lay offs - Rise of candidate ghosting as recruiters get overwhelmed - Career site chatBots to deal with FAQ - Candidate portals....did this become a thing?   We're with Alex Chukovski, Founder (Crypto Careers), Robin Stander, VP Sales (Appcast), Josh Willows, Head of Programmatic Sales (Veritone), Jeff Dickey-Chasins, (The Job Board Doctor), Steve Ward, Head of Employer Branding Solutions, (Universum) & Vicki Saunders, Founder (EVP) & Charu Malhotra, Head of Global Talent Branding (PA Consulting)       Ep236 is sponsored by our buddies Poetry     "This is a blueprint for improving our talent acquisition maturity." TA Leader, Engineering   Poetry is a recruiter workspace including solutions for recruitment marketing, recruitment operations, recruiter learning and a launchpad for all the other tools you need to accomplish your daily tasks.   We enable recruiters to be better marketers through enhanced collaboration, genAI assistance and automatic recommendations. These are the days of brilliant content. Gone are the days of re-writing InMails, social media posts and email copy.   We save you considerable 'toggle tax' by providing so many solutions within the one app. Rapidly locate your job ad templates, competitor intelligence, interview policies and TikTok sourcing tools. Everything's in the one place.   Managers, this is for you too. Our workspace analysis and reporting tells you how the team are using the solutions and provides you with automatic coaching, recommendations and ROI.   Get started for free at www.poetryhr.com

2023 Year in Review: AI, DEIB and Worktech Investment   Coming in for the final 4 Brainfood Live sessions of the year and we are going to do a series on 'Review of the Year 2023. We've 12 topics packed into 4 sessions, so make sure you follow the channel in order to be notified of them all when we go live.   We being with AI, WorkTech Investment and DEIB - what has happened in 2023 on these three domains?   - Timeline of AI events and milestones - Major impact of AI on recruitment industry - AI enablement of candidates - AI roll out across all major consumer apps - AI as a disruptor to the workforce - VC Investment in Work Tech - what is the situation Mr LaRoque? - DEIB - have we taken backward step in 2023? - What has been the DEIB domain of the year? - How do we know where we're at with DEIB?   Let's take a look back folks at three critically important domains of the recruiting industry.     We're with Martyn Redstone, Founder (PPBOTS), George LaRoque, Founder (WorkTech), Joanne Lockwood, Consultant (SEEChange), Theo Smith, Founder (NeuroDiversity World) & Friends       Ep235 is sponsored by our buddies Poetry     "This is a blueprint for improving our talent acquisition maturity." TA Leader, Engineering   Poetry is a recruiter workspace including solutions for recruitment marketing, recruitment operations, recruiter learning and a launchpad for all the other tools you need to accomplish your daily tasks.   We enable recruiters to be better marketers through enhanced collaboration, genAI assistance and automatic recommendations. These are the days of brilliant content. Gone are the days of re-writing InMails, social media posts and email copy.   We save you considerable 'toggle tax' by providing so many solutions within the one app. Rapidly locate your job ad templates, competitor intelligence, interview policies and TikTok sourcing tools. Everything's in the one place.   Managers, this is for you too. Our workspace analysis and reporting tells you how the team are using the solutions and provides you with automatic coaching, recommendations and ROI.   Get started for free at www.poetryhr.com

DOES YOUR COMPANY HAVE A MENOPAUSE PLAN?   Worldwide Menopause day went by last month and I - like most men I suspect - totally did not know about it(!). And yet menopause is an inherent and potentially significant moment in women's lives, one which is under discussed in society at large and certainly in the world of work. Does your company have a plan for menopause? If you have women in your workforce, you had better.   You will learn: Basics: - What is menopause, who is affected, when does it happen? - What are stages of menopause? - How does menopause manifest? - What can women expect to experience during menopause? - How long does menopause last? - What do we think of the recommended medical advice? - What is the state of menopause in the workplace? - What can employers do to normalise menopause, whilst also helping employees who may need extra help? - How can other employees assist? - What kind of work configurations, work designs should be considered? All this and more as we dive into a critically important yet neglected topic in the workplace. We're with Angela Cripps, MD, (Recruiting Gym), Kellie Millar, Recruitment Manager (Space & Time), Sally Higham, Head of Talent Attraction, (Lonza), Clair Bush, Founder (CareerSix), Lou Furby, Senior Events & Communications Manager (SpecSavers), Marisa Esteves, Manager, Talent Acquisition, (ScribeAmerica) & Jennifer Candee, Global Director of Talent Acquisition (Cargill)   Ep234 is sponsored by our buddies Poetry "This is a blueprint for improving our talent acquisition maturity." TA Leader, Engineering Poetry is a recruiter workspace including solutions for recruitment marketing, recruitment operations, recruiter learning and a launchpad for all the other tools you need to accomplish your daily tasks. We enable recruiters to be better marketers through enhanced collaboration, genAI assistance and automatic recommendations. These are the days of brilliant content. Gone are the days of re-writing InMails, social media posts and email copy. We save you considerable 'toggle tax' by providing so many solutions within the one app. Rapidly locate your job ad templates, competitor intelligence, interview policies and TikTok sourcing tools. Everything's in the one place. Managers, this is for you too. Our workspace analysis and reporting tells you how the team are using the solutions and provides you with automatic coaching, recommendations and ROI. Get started for free at www.poetryhr.com

AREF ABEDI, CEO OF JOBLYON   We're up and close and personal with the entrepreneurs changing the way in which we work today. Next up is Aref Abedi, CEO of up and coming ATS, Joblyon.   Lets hear from Aref on tech startup, leadership during an extraordinary period in the global economy, how Joblyon conquered the Nordic market and what the plans are going forward with expansion into UK, EU and beyond.   Ep40 is supported by Jobylon.   In today’s talent landscape, change is the only constant. That’s why you need a flexible hiring system. Jobylon is the ATS tailor-made for top employers, adapting seamlessly to your processes and ways of working. Whether you’re hiring 50 or 5,000, Jobylon helps you attract, manage, and hire the best candidates.   Learn more at Jobylon.com

AI Enabled Job Seekers - What is the Assessment Plan?   We know that job candidates are now extensively using generative AI tools to improve their chances of passing through job assessments. We can expect this number to increase as competition for opportunities continues to be high and innovation in tech becomes ever more sophisticated. Do we recruiters have a plan to deal with this?   You will learn: - Candidate usage of GAI - status - Surge of job applicants ...is it from mass apply tech? - GAI for CV, Cover letter, Application form - Teleprompter tech for video interview - Touch up enhancements (visual, audio) for video interview - Available techniques for mitigation - detect, deter, design - Which assessments types are MOST exposed to job seeker use of GAI? - Which assessments types are LEAST exposed? - What does the most future proofed assessment flow look like?   All this and more as we dip our toe into a future, where every candidate is a centaur.   We're with Christine Ng, Head of People & Talent (Quantum Motion), Robert Newry, CEO (Arctic Shores), Antonia Manoochehri, Founder (Lumenai), Becky Lee, Head of Student Talent Attraction (EY) & Bas van de Haterd, Founder (Digitaal-Werven)       Ep233 is sponsored by our buddies Pinpoint     Be ready for anything with Pinpoint—the fast, flexible applicant tracking software. Talent teams are constantly faced with change. From hypergrowth to evolving policies to hiring managers simply changing their minds, recruiters need to quickly respond to new demands.   Your ATS should make that easier to do, not harder.   Enter Pinpoint: Our intuitive platform means it will always be easy-to-use for your talent team, hiring managers, and candidates. And under the surface, you’ll find the flexible tools you need to continue evolving. Stay agile as you grow your company, advance your talent strategy, or hire across different markets.   Fast, flexible software and unlimited help from our team means you'll attract the right candidates, select the best, and wow your new hires from the moment they say ‘yes.’   Book your demo now.

STATE OF THE RECRUITER JOB MARKET, PT2   It has been a very challenging market. We did the pt1 of this mini series at the start of the year and we had hoped that things would improve for recruiters looking for work, but I don't think we can say that it has. The market buoyancy that we've experienced over the past decade and half might turn to be entirely a zero interest rate phenomenon, and we need to adjust to changed realties.   Let's talk to recruiters who are at different stages of the job search - from recently looking, on the market for a while, to those successfully closed. We need to talk about what we're seeing, so that we can share learnings, connect and figure out how best to optimise for these suboptimal conditions.   You will learn: - Market perspective from the job seekers - Germany, UK, USA, Ireland - What trends are discernible? - Salary / compensation - Status of remote - Language requirements - Applicant volume - Inbound opportunities...any at all? - Best practice / recommendations     We're with Nikki Tarr, Head of TA (ex-ClearCourse), Tanguy Lacroix, Talent Acquisition Partner (ex-Qonto), Sofia Broberger, Recruitment Trainer (Freelance), Jon Hull, Head of Resourcing (ex-Balfour Beatty), Amanda-Jane Lamont, TA Leader (ex-Zalando) & Caroline Hunter, Recruitment & Talent Director (ex-Cielo) & friends.     Ep232 is sponsored by our buddies Symphony Talent     Symphony Talent combines CRM, career site, programmatic advertising and creative services for the most complete recruitment marketing and campaigning capabilities you'll find in one platform. Increase applicant flow, reduce hiring time and build a world class employer-of-choice employer brand with Symphony Talent's unique technology and services suite.   Need to improve your top of funnel talent acquisition? Contact one of our experts today.

CREATING A CAREER PATHING FRAMEWORK FOR YOUR TA DEPARTMENT   Inspired by a question asked in the online community, we're going to do this conversation on how to build career path & progression framework for Talent Acquisition. A structure of this type is essential for any significant department in business, helping not only create visibility on resourcing gaps but also on how candidates and employees can progress their careers within the business.   How many of us have one of these for TA? My guess is, not nearly enough.   You will learn: - What is the right size of department to start to build out a career pathing framework? - What models are available and which should you choose? - How to do build the compensation framework? - How do we ensure substantive differentiation between the levels? - How to do keep flat hierarchy? - What is the typical structure which most TA departments use? - Are there any industry standards on this? - How do we implement once a framework has been designed?     All this anymore as we learn about How to Create A Career Pathing framework for TA.   We're with Annie Jackson, Head of Talent Acquisition (CLEO), Andrea Marston, Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition (VMWare) & Andreea Lungulescu, Founder (TA Crunch)     Ep231 is sponsored by our buddies Greenhouse     In today’s competitive talent landscape, being people-first is business-first. Greenhouse helps companies adopt a flexible, fair, and efficient approach to hiring. Empower everyone from recruiters to hiring managers to make confident decisions that strengthen your business. Get measurably better at hiring with a data-driven approach. Discover how Greenhouse can help you hire for the kind of business you want to build. Learn more at Greenhouse.com/hire

HOW TO HIRE IN LATAM   As I will be in Colombia this week, it is fitting that I should do a Brainfood Live on the topic of Hiring in LATAM. As the world re-globalises around new supply chains and regional blocs, as well as jobs shifting across those boundaries as companies seek the best available talent at the best available price, we are overdue a visit to Latin America and all the diverse economies of this 1 billion person region.   This is a show for every recruiter currently or previously working in or for LATAM, as well as for employers who have a global hiring perspective.   You will learn: - What are the core considerations of an external employer hiring LATAM employees? - How great are the regional differences within Latin America? - What degree of English language proficiency can be expected? - Where is the technical / commercial / support talent? - Compensation exceptions - Relocation interest or demand - Competitor employers are local level - Competitor employers are international level - What is the status of remote, D&I, employee mobility?   All this anymore as we learn about hiring in LATAM.   We're with Juliana Park, Founder (HRX Brasil), Izka Gonzalez, Founder (The Hiring Revolution), Carlos Guillermo Lopez, Founder (IHR Latin America) & Stephan Poweska, Head of Global Talent Acquisition (Lionbridge), with Jonathan Romley, CEO of Lundi in the copilot seat.       Ep230 is sponsored by our buddies Lundi   Most companies struggle with hiring, especially internationally. Lundi empowers you to recruit talent anywhere in 40 languages and across 65+ countries, fast.   Not sure where to start? Lundi will help you identify the best countries for every role, so that you can unlock global hiring at scale and grow your business.   Contact us here if you're hiring in a market you're unfamiliarity with - free consultation + direct connection with local staffing experts.