The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

State of the Recruiter Job Market 2023   Let's face it head on folks - this is turning out to the a tough year for recruiters! We all know that the big tech winter is going to impact us in recruiting and it's essential we have a good gauge as to how far and deep the winter is going to be. We've got some numbers and analysis to get through this week, as we go in real time on Horsefly Analytics proprietary dataset to find out where the recruiter jobs are and who is posting them.   We will discuss:   - Big tech winter, what are the theories? - Will other sectors follow the downsizing? - Which sectors might prove resilient? - What does it look like globally? - Recruiters on the market - what are they finding on the job search? - Do we know how long a recruiter job stays vacant for? - Do we know applicant rate per job? - What advice to give to recruiters on the market right now?   All this and more in Brainfood Live   Emma Mirrington, Founder (The FIRM), Mike Basnett Sandiford, Head of Partnerships (Horsefly), Mariano Mamertino, Labour Economist (Amazon) & friends   Ep194 is sponsored by our buddies Horsefly Analytics Horsefly's web based platform provides the most accurate and comprehensive labour market data available. Horsefly gathers labor market data from around the globe to quickly paint a real time picture of the talent market. Accurately view labour supply & demand, find hidden talent pools, view gender and diversity data for any position or skill set your business needs - with just a few clicks.  Horsefly's customer success team is available to assist every step of the way to ensure our clients meet their KPIs and derive clear ROI from our platform.    Get a demo today to see how our labour market insights can power your talent acquisition, business and workforce planning initiatives.

Hiring in Saudi Arabia & the Gulf States   Brainfood World Tour is restarting, with a visit to a region where countries are in the middle of vast transformation. We hear a great deal about Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, but always from the Western lens. What do local recruiters and HR people say and do, on the ground? We're going to learn from locals, ex-pats and partners alike in this week's episode of Brainfood Live On Air.   We will discuss:   - How does hiring differ in Saudi / Gulf vs outside - What do recruiters new to the region must know first? - Tactical level...what recruiting techniques are most effective for entry, individual contributor, senior manager, leadership hiring? - What are the latest regulations with regards to gender, religion, ethnicity? - Are there hiring quotas for employers in the region? - What are the language requirements for candidates? - What are the most important challenged Recruiters / HR need to overcome to succeed in Saudi Arabia / Gulf? - What is going on with these mega infrastructure projects??   All this and more in Brainfood Live   Please note: in line with Friday day of prayer, we are moving this week's Brainfood Live to Thursday.   We're with Katrina Hutchinson-O'Neill, CEO (Join Talent), Ahmed Alqahtani, Human Resources Director (Seera Group), Hicham Wifaq, VP Global Talent Acquisition (Property Finder), Majed Alshehri, HR Director (SVTS) & friends         Ep193 is sponsored by our buddies Join Talent Have you heard about Join Talent's amazing Talent Acquisition Insights project? They are a series of how-to guides on topics such as Using Assessments in Talent Acquisition, Market Mapping, Benchmarking, Building KPI's and Using Data and more. It's some of the most pragmatic recruiter centric guides I've seen - and all freely downloadable in the Join Talent Resources Hub. All free to download, so get to it!

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 an old friend of Brainfood - the one and only Mark Chaffey, CEO of hackajob   - What is the original story of hackajob? - As an unusually young CEO, what challenges have you found growing the business? - Were you always going to go on the entrepreneur track? - Do you think everyone should do it or are there certain traits and circumstances which would make entrepreneurship a better or worse idea? - Have you done any personality assessment and if so, what did it say about your leadership style? - What keeps you going? Is there an end state at hackajob where you can say, we've done it? - When was the last time you achieved a long cherished goal? Can you tell us what that was? - With the rise of technologies like low code no code and GAI, how would entrepreneurship change in future? - What is next for hackajob in 2023?   All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.   Ep36 of Founders Focus is supported by hackajob   Are you tired of spending endless hours sifting through resumes and struggling to find the perfect candidates for your open positions?   Look no further! hackajob is here to revolutionize the way you recruit top talent.   Our state-of-the-art recruitment marketplace connects you with qualified candidates in your industry, saving you time and resources in the hiring process. Plus, our advanced matching algorithm ensures that you're only presented with the most relevant candidates for your open roles.   But don't just take our word for it - book a demo with our team and see for yourself how hackajob can transform your recruiting efforts. Trust us, you won't be disappointed.  

Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, Part 2!   Alright folks, we are going to have to do this again - after an amazing first event where we had 1000+ people attending, the demand for more was overwhelming, so here it is! We are going to repeat the format - so expect recruiter use cases presented by practitioners, followed by product demo's from founders and concluding with some wise takes from industry vets who are going to forecast what all this means for recruitment technology. We're with Martyn Redstone, Founder (BotJobs), Marcel van der Meer, Sourcing Trainer (Klikwork),  Christine Ng, Head of Talent & Media (Quantum Motion), Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games), Alan Walker, CEO (Udder) and friends!   Ep192 is sponsored by our buddies Metaview Use the power of AI to make onerous interview note-taking a thing of the past.   Get automatic, AI-generated interview notes from Metaview, saving you hours of time and allowing you to focus on high-quality interactions with candidates.    AI Notes are already having a transformative effect on recruiting teams who no longer have to spend time relentlessly typing away. Here’s just some of what we’ve heard from early users: ”Just WOW!” ”This feature has been life changing. It definitely allows me to focus more on the conversation and candidate, plus I take less time to fill in my report after the fact.” “I not only found AI Notes helpful, but I was blown away by how refined the information is.” Request access here to try it for yourself. 

Personalised or Standardised?   What is the base philosophy for Candidate Experience - do you attempt to give everyone the same branded experience, or do you vary it according to the individual and the individual circumstance? And if we do 'both' (I know you will say this!), then what are the circumstances when one approach makes sense and not the other?   We will discuss   - Types of Candidate - are all candidates the same? - Costs of CX, how do we measure the effort and the effect? - What are the benefits of improving CX? - Do we have any evidence of this, other than 'right thing to do'? - Why are recruiters reporting bad CX when they are looking for jobs - how much of a factor is how in-demand certain candidates are? - Do we need specialists in TA to run this? - How do we incentivise recruiters and managers to improve CX? - Do we know what candidates want?   We're with Heidi Wassini, InHouse Consultant (CopenHagen Airports), Christine Ng, Head of Talent & Media (Quantum Motion), Sian Sidaway, Global Talent Experience Manager (GoCardless) & Gem Parker, Candidate Engagement Lead (EY)     Ep191 is sponsored by our buddies Starred Starred is a Candidate Experience analytics platform that helps recruitment teams collect, analyze, benchmark, and act on candidate feedback at every stage of the recruitment process. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to data-driven hiring. With actionable insights, you'll have a deeper understanding of your candidates' experiences so you can improve the recruitment process.   We combine insights from your candidates with hiring manager and recruiter feedback allowing you to get a 360 view of your recruitment operations. By pulling fields from your ATS, you can segment your insights on whatever level you want, think recruiter, hiring manager, department, job role, country, and many more.   Curious how leading names like Diageo, HelloFresh, Dropbox, Twilio, and Deloitte are leveraging Starred insights to make better hiring decisions? Have a look at our website, or book a demo with our team.  

State of Global Mobility in 2023   Does anyone here have a plan for hiring globally this year?   Candidate shortages are persistent in many sectors, in many countries (see the UK and the NHS...) and for many employers there is no option other than to hire from overseas and relocate.   - What are the challenges of doing this at scale? - Where do you even start? - What territories have got an excess of labour? - How do we tap into that market? - Do we have to do 'destination branding'? - How much of the process is performed in candidates home country? - What about family, when do we start this conversation? - How employers present an inclusive culture? - What support is needed for relocation?   We're with Richard Bradley, VP, (Kelly Services), Ruben Tieken, Squad Lead (Immersive), Toby Culshaw, Talent Intelligence Lead (Amazon) & Federica Cei, Global Talent Acquisition Manager (SITA)     Ep190 is sponsored by our buddies Localyze   Localyze is the all-in-one platform that makes it easy to manage your global mobility needs in one simple place. We can guide you through your global mobility challenges, from relocating new hires to visa changes, postings and transfers between offices. By combining the power of our platform with our team’s and partners’ experience with global mobility, we can support you in successfully managing an international team.   Hiring globally for the best talent? Localyze it - free demo with one of our friendly team today

We have not seen a technology breakthrough like ChatGPT for a long time. Only released last December, it has already racked up millions of users attracted to its almost magical outputs to queries made by human users. The application for business has been obvious - and every day we are seeing new ideas to produce outputs which can be immediately put into production, saving workers hundreds of hours of work. It's a game changer folks, and if we recruiters don't get good at, we are going to regret missing out on the opportunity. Already massively oversubscribed, this show is going to focus on how recruiters can use ChatGPT, bringing together expert users as well as technologists who are integrating ChatGPT into their product roadmaps. The future is folks - register and see for yourself what it is going to look like!   We're with Martyn Redstone, Founder (BotJobs), Glen Cathey, SVP Head of Digital Strategy (Randstad), Bill Fischer, CTO (VONQ), Sajithkumar Swaminathan, Corporate Recruiter (Replicon) & Friends     Ep189 is sponsored by our buddies Join Talent Have you heard about Join Talent's amazing Talent Acquisition Insights project? They are a series of how-to guides on topics such as Using Assessments in Talent Acquisition, Market Mapping, Benchmarking, Building KPI's and Using Data and more. It's some of the most pragmatic recruiter centric guides I've seen - and all freely downloadable in the Join Talent Resources Hub. All free to download, so get to it!

I don't know about you but I've been consuming TikTok videos like a billion other people on the planet and been amazed at the creativity, community and controversy that you find on there. It's also been pretty clear that the opportunity for potentially massive reach is there to be explored!   Conspicuously missing though, has been any sense of how recruiters can use TikTok. 2022 was the year when I first started noticing recruiter accounts build an audience, and after seeing a few familiar faces from different domains also build a crowd, the time is right to get them on screen and find out what they've learned!   This is the topic of Brainfood Live ON Air - How to be a Recruiter on TikTok!   You are going to learn:   - What is TikTok? - How does it work? - Where are my friends? - What is the content that works best? - Content cadence - Employer branding on TikTok? - Can you source on the app? - How do ads work?   All this and more - essential viewing if you to figure out what how the hottest app over the past 3 years actually works.   We're with Joel Lalgee, BDM (Hirewell), Sara Dalsfelt, Community Manager (Adway) & Mike Manzi, Fractional VP Sales (Official Sales)     Ep188 is sponsored by our buddies Adway Adway - Automated Social Recruitment Marketing Way simpler. Way smarter. Way more talent. Curious about the next gen solution for recruitment marketing? Adway provides ambitious talent acquisition teams with a fully automated platform to unleash their recruitment marketing and ensure more, better candidates at scale.

Welcome back to Brainfood Live 2023!   I hope everyone has had a great holiday break and are refreshed for the challenges and opportunities of the year ahead. So what exactly IS ahead for us in 2023? We're going to talk to industry experts from recruiting agency, recruiting tech investment, in-house recruiter, LinkedIn, Sourcing, Web3 and everything else we care about in this wonderful industry of ours! Lets figure out where we are and make some predictions on:   - Economy - Recruitment industry - Sectors of growth / retrenchment - Priority challenges in hiring - DEIB - Recruitment technology investment - Hot HR tech trends - Bersin's predictions - ChatGPT in Recruitment  & more.   We're with Kate Shoesmith, Deputy CEO (Recruitment & Employers Confederation), Madeline Laurano, Founder (Aptitude Research), George LaRoque, Founder (WorkTech), Andy Spence, Founder (Glassbead), Andy Foote, Founder (LinkedInsights), Jo Avent, CPO (CrosscHQ) & friends.     Ep187 is sponsored by our buddies Greenhouse Greenhouse is the hiring software company. We help businesses become great at hiring through our powerful hiring approach, complete suite of software and services, Hiring MaturityTM methodology and large partner ecosystem with some of the best-in-class point solutions in the market. Optimize every phase of your hiring with our sourcing automation, multi-site job posting, interview scheduling, end-to-end candidate management, and new hire onboarding tools. Thousands of top class employers use Greenhouse to power their hiring, including Hubspot, Wise, Wayfair, Graphcore, Squarespace and many more. Need to upgrade your ATS in 2023?

The State of Recruitment: 2022 Year in Review   Final show of the year folks, so perfect moment to celebrate ANOTHER 50 episodes of Brainfood Live On Air, review the best moments from each show and talk about what we've learned in our year of conversation on air. It will also be a great opportunity to invite back some of favourite guests and co-hosts each with a message of advice for the year 2023 ahead.   One thing to do for 2023 in....   - Recruitment Marketing - Sourcing - DEIB - CX - Company Culture - Compensation - Employer branding - Talent intelligence - Recruitment automation - & more   We're with guests and co-hosts from all the year, including YOU if you put your hand up and want to come on screen