The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Recruiter Job Search & Promotion as a Mother-to Be   Continuing our series of 'true inclusion', we are turning our attention to the subterranean biases which occur in recruitment. Perhaps the most invidious is the challenge women in particular have - how to manage career and future motherhood. For men, this is substantively different - we never get asked whether we are about to become a parent, nor is parenthood any sort of impediment toward getting a job or promotion; but it is for women.   What can we do about it? This is the topic of Brainfood Live On Air   We are going to explore:   - How to create a safe environment to be transparent with family and career goals - How to signal such support in hiring process - What approaches are recommended from candidate POV? - How to recognise an opportunity is unwelcoming? - What commitments can employers make to ensure mothers-to-be feel welcome as candidates? - What is the role of men here?   We're with Rebecca Collis, Talent Acquisition Manager (AMS), Carly Poulson, People + Culture Partner (Hazy) & Sara Dalsfelt, Head of Community (Adway)     Ep185 is sponsored by our buddies Metaview With the recent hiring slow down, quality of hire is the top priority for high-performing companies. Metaview gives you visibility into your interviews so you can identify and fix problems, and make more confident hiring decisions.  With Metaview's recording and transcription, you can capture and replay what actually happened in interviews. Get unprecedented insight into metrics around rigor and consistency to ensure you’re keeping quality of interviews—and quality of hire—high.  As a Brainfood Live listener, you can get started on Metaview with up to 5 of your team members without paying anything. Book a demo with one of our friendly experts and reference "Brainfood" in the form.

The Hidden Bias in Recruiting: Class & Accent   How we speak are signifiers of our social class - formerly known as 'social standing' - information which still determines our life journeys much more than it should. How many people with regional accents end up as CEO of a business? How many as Prime Minister or President? Class and Accent bias is a the hidden bias in recruiting and one which is woefully under discussed.   That's why we're the ones doing it in this week's topic of Brainfood Live On Air.     We are going to explore:   - How have you personally been impacted by class bias? - How do you know? - What to do when your hiring manager exhibits this bias? - What techniques are available to change behaviours? - Is there any tooling which can help with this?   This is a conversation we're going to have with recruiters and business leaders who themselves have directly experienced this hidden bias. We're with   We're with John Rose, Talent Sourcer (Volvo), Ashley Wallace, Tech Talent Lead (Papercup), Mel Hayes, CPO (Nash Squared) & Nick Court, Director (The People Experience Hub)

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment businesses changing the way we work today   Next up is Christian Payne, CEO of Talentiir   - What is the main idea behind Talentiir? - What do you think is going to be your biggest learning curve? - What assumptions have you had to let go, which ones are you now gambling to be true? - What are the main decisions that need to be made for 2023? - What leadership lessons have you learned that you would like to pass onto yourself if you could? - What is the roadmap for Talentiir in 2023? - What counts as success if you were to look back at the end of next year?   All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today. Wednesday 7th December, 12.00pm GMT / 1pm CET   Click on the green button to register and follow the channel here (recommended) for further updates   Ep35 Founders Focus is supported by Talentiir Talentiir enables scale-up and growth-stage companies to hire the best talent. They offer 3 tiir levels of service, and modular plug and play services - talent searching, in-house recruiter and recruitment RPO.    Need to hire at scale?    Contact Talentiir for the best solution for your business. 

The Psychology of Redundancy: Mental Health Tips for Recruiters Affected   Big Tech Winter + Economies close to recession....means redundancies for many members of our community. It's incredible that we are back here again, after the first wave of layoffs in 2019/2020, but here we are. What has been missing from the discourse is the psychological impact of redundancy, especially on the suddenness it has been happening!   We are going to explore:   - Loss of identity - Loss of relationships & social network - Change of pattern of behaviours - Lack of closure - Dangers of negativity as basis of forward relationships - Survivor bias for those who stay - Appropriate distance with former colleagues, bosses and reports.   It's going to the fascinating conversation, with recruiters who have psychology backgrounds, have experienced redundancy before in the past, and are currently in the middle of redundancy today.   We're with Linnea Bywall, Head of People, (Alva Labs), Kristian Bright, Recruitment Lead (Rooser), Octav Buzoianu, Lead Tech Recruiter (Snyk) & Katrina Zlateva-Bowles, Founder (PeopleHealers)     Ep182 is sponsored by our buddies Metaview With the recent hiring slow down, quality of hire is the top priority for high-performing companies. Metaview gives you visibility into your interviews so you can identify and fix problems, and make more confident hiring decisions.  With Metaview's recording and transcription, you can capture and replay what actually happened in interviews. Get unprecedented insight into metrics around rigor and consistency to ensure you’re keeping quality of interviews—and quality of hire—high.  Join us for a live 30-minute demo on Tuesday, December 6th where our Co-founder & CEO, Siadhal Magos, will share how Metaview's latest features enable you to supercharge quality of hire. Reserve your spot here! (And as a thank you for attending, lunch is on us with an UberEats gift card.)    

Welcome to Ep34 of Founder's Focus - the show where we get up close and personal with the founder's of recruitment technology businesses - who are the people behind the product? Next up is David Rivel, Co-founder of PathMotion and now Head of Clinch Europe, the online discussion platform which enables candidates to talk directly with existing employees of the organisation.    - What is the Day in the Life of a Recruitment Tech Founder? - Having done the job for several years, which parts of leading do you enjoy? Which parts do you dislike? - What is the most important lesson you have learned in your time as Cofounder of the business? - What was the one decision you would take back if you could? - How would you describe yourself as a leader to a person who did not know you? - Why online discussion - what was the origin story behind PathMotion? - What have you learned about the industry since starting this business? - What exciting things can customers expect in 2023?

True Inclusion: Hiring the Formerly Institutionalised   We talk a a good DEIB game in TA / HR but it's pretty clear that there are certain groups which are always excluded from the conversation of inclusion. When the last time your company hired someone who had been institutionalised? Chances are, never - as gaps in work history is knock out criteria, experience in prison or mental institution considered entirely discounted and moral judgements become the only signal we pay attention to.   We need to change this folks, not only because of the ethical imperative but also because there is an untapped talent pool which can really help solve some of the toughest hiring challenges we have today.   I'm going to be joined by Christine Ng in the co-pilot seat, as we interview James Fellowes, Founder, (Bridge of Hope) and Chance Bleu-Montgomery, Partner Support Manager (Bridge of Hope), hear their stories and try and learn from them how we can unlock human potential by adopting a new mindset and providing the kind of environment in which the human spirit can thrive. Ep182 is sponsored by our buddies Metaview   With the recent hiring slow down, quality of hire is the top priority for high-performing companies. Metaview gives you visibility into your interviews so you can identify and fix problems, and make more confident hiring decisions.  With Metaview's recording and transcription, you can capture and replay what actually happened in interviews. Get unprecedented insight into metrics around rigor and consistency to ensure you’re keeping quality of interviews—and quality of hire—high.  As a Brainfood Live listener, you can get started on Metaview with up to 5 of your team members without paying anything. Book a demo with one of our friendly experts and reference "Brainfood" in the form, or get started now.

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 Arielle Kilroy, CEO of Dado!   - What is the original story of Dado? - 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 with the market? - How do you feel being a woman CEO has helped and hindered you as an entrepreneur? - Were you always going to be an entrepreneur? - As CEO, what is your approach when handling conflict between leaders in your management team? - What's the hardest decision you've made this year? - What advice would you give to a person thinking about launching a business for the first time?   All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.     Ep33 of Founders Focus is supported by Dado Are you confident about your Employee Experience? Getting it wrong means lower morale, higher risk of attrition and a ton of extra problems you didn't need to have. Dado provides an all-in-one employee experience platform from new hire onboarding, employee career progression to future alumni off boarding, all from one dashboard. Create meaningful experiences for your employees through Dado. Book a demo with one of our friendly staff today

Must Have Recruitment Automation Hacks for 2023   Ok so this is going to be a fun one. We all know that in recruitment there is never enough time to get your work done - there is always another email to send, another candidate to call, another search to try. Wouldn't it be handy if we were able to get some help in the form of automated programs which can be configured to do the work for you?   That's right folks, the topic of today's Brainfood Live is going to be a the Recruitment Automation Hacks you HAVE to know for 2023.   - What is recruitment automation? - What are the most common tasks that can be automated? - How does a recruiter figure out what tasks can be automated? - Can you automate at scale? - Lets see some example some what are the top 3 recruitment automation hacks recruiters need to implement by 2023?   All this and more folks - it is going to be a demystifier and a practical how-to   We're with Sofia Broberger, Recruitment Manager (Toca boca), Ivan Stojanovic, Talent Acquisition Manager  (Odyssey VC) & Greg Hawkes, Principal Sourcing Lead (M&T Bank) on Friday 18th November, 2pm GMT / 6am PDT.   Click on the green button on the top right to register and follow the channel here (recommended) to be notified when we go live.     Ep181 is sponsored by our buddies Talentiir Talentiir is the Talent Partner for Companies in Scandinavia and enables growth stage scale-ups to hire the best talent in the most efficient way. We offer 3 Tiir levels of service, and modular plug and play services. Talent Search, In-house Talent or Talent RPO, contact one of our friendly team today and we will work with you to find the best option to support your growing organisation.

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 sourcing than Irina Shamaeva - whose blog Boolean Strings has been regularly featured in Recruiting Brainfood, and has by conservative estimate personally trained hundreds of sourcers around the world. So when Irina has a problem with how Boolean search works on Google, even the Google product team pay attention!   - What is Boolean search and why is it important for recruiters? - How has this changed on Search engines? - Why are google changing how search works? - What techniques can be used to gather results which Google now hides or misses? - What practices should recruiters adopt if Google continues down this path? - How does Boolean compare with other search engines?   Essential to watch this one folks - 99% of online sourcing is done first via Google.   We're with Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games) and Irina Shamaeava, Partner,  (Brain Gain Recruiting)  . Ep180 is sponsored by our buddies HiPeople   HiPeople keeps your hiring data-driven, on point, and on time. Unlock your team’s best hiring capabilities and improve your quality of hire with rich talent insights on your candidates. Know who to hire before you hire, discover how they work, and build the foundations for long-term success.   With a focus on assessments, reference checks, candidate experience, and quality of hire, HiPeople makes it fast and delightful for teams to make better hiring decisions. Book a demo and learn how HiPeople can help your organization hire the right people faster.

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 bearish?   - How to work with positive messaging in a negative atmosphere - Dealing with authenticity crisis - How to do EB when making redundancies - How to change tone whilst maintaining brand - Is the brand message recession proof? - Different techniques / cases for EB in downturn - How to maintain morale of EB team   We're with the awesome Clair Bush, VP of Marketing (Adway), Susan Strayer LaMotte, CEO (Exaqueo) & Paul Bhangoo, Global Employer Brand & Attraction Manager (BT)   We're on at Friday 4th November, 2pm GMT. Click on the green button on the top right, and follow the channel here for updates (recommended) Ep179 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.