The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Topics to discuss (and if you're registering now, you are getting a sneak preview of what's coming up on Sunday)   - Open Letter to Elon Musk from Twitter Employees - Big Tech Winter is Here - AI vs Gig Economy, who wins the creative war? - 2022 Gen Z Survey (Cost of Living  + Side Hustle, changing the nature of work) - Can you train emotional intelligence? Google tried - Re-shoring might mean re-importing labour violations - Van Life is Homelessness All this and more folks, as we discuss the newsletter going on 30th. Register to join the chat and, if you fancy it, let me know if you want to come on screen

From Talent Intelligence to Talent Acquisition   Talent Intelligence or TI has been the coolest kid in the recruitment block for a little while now, with elite employers using labour market intelligence to properly plan their hiring strategy. Even more relevant in the era of distributed working, employers now need to reach the global talent pool but do so based on data, rather than gut feel. So far, so good eh? However, how exactly do we get there?   - Case study from Citi - What was the end goal of the project? - What value was expected to be gained? - How was the business case put together? - What was the change management plan? - How to get Hiring Managers, C-level and Recruiters to agree - Key criteria for vendor / tools selection - What were the main challenges? - How do we know it's worked?   All this and more with w/ Jeremy Thornton, Senior Project Manager (Citi)   Friday 28th October, 2pm GMT    Click on the green button on the top right to register for the show, and follow the channel here (recommended) for updates       Ep178 is sponsored by our buddies Platypus   Platypus is the HR and recruitment tool that measures cultural drivers of people across the organization to help you qualify decisions on hiring and managing your culture.   Get started from free, here

We're back with Brainfood Baked Fresh - 30 minute on air live review of the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter. Get ready to talk about - VC / Angel investor collapse confirmed - Hiring in a Distributed World - Women in Work 2022 Report - Pre-Columbian Meso American Jobs - More candidate fakery in the world of candidate fraud. Join us and come on screen if you have to discuss!

Hard Truths About Startup: Hiring, Firing & Culture   There has not been a sector so widely lauded and intensively covered by the press that tech startup / tech scale up. We hear a great deal about the extraordinary growth, market leading competition and often cutting edge technical and cultural innovation. But beyond the hype, what really lies underneath the world of startup?   We are going to be talking hard truths about startup - the hiring, the firing and culture.   - What makes startup different? - When does it become a scale up? - When does it stop being a startup? - Top 3 skills / traits a recruiter should have to thrive in this environment - Top 3 things that we know are true but we don't talk about enough - What are the most important things to get right when you start - First 100 days what do they look like? - How do you balance 'getting stuff done' with sustainable process?   All this and more with Meggy Sailer, Author (Culture Up), Anessa Fike, Interim Head of Talent Acquisition (NPR) & Robert Krzyzaniak, Global Head of Tech & Product Recruitment (Forto)

Welcome to Brainfood Baked Fresh, the Monday call in show where we discuss the contents of Recruiting Brainfood, Issue 314   Including:   - Bellingcats Hackathon Results - State of AI 2022 - Tech lay offs.....who exactly is being laid off? - UK Right to Work Checks - Global Culture Report - and a Dutch guy who won a court case which might have profound implications for employee surveillance technology....

Sourcing & Recruiting on Discord   Did you know Recruiting Brainfood has a Discord server? I was planning to use it for doing virtual events but never in the end did any virtual events so it basically has sat lying dormant ever since. And yet Discord has rapidly become one of the main places where interest communities come together to connect, share knowledge, meet each other and generally share community. What should we recruiters do about this?   - What is Discord? - How does it work, technically? - How is this different from Slack? - How do I find communities to join? - What is the etiquette upon entry? - How should recruiters behave in these spaces? - Scraping or Social Engineering? - What is the best tools for find Discord data? - Do you have the same profile across Discord servers? - Has anyone had any success hiring from Discord?   All this and more with w/ Wim Dammans, Talent Sourcer (Tennet) & Rosie Sherry, Founder (Rosieland, ex-Indie Hackers)

Blockchain, Web3 & The Future of Work   I'll be at the Future Works conference in Lisbon so fitting that we are going to be using the opportunity to talk about the next age of the Internet and what it means for the world of work. When Satoshi Nakomoto first released his manifesto "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" in 2009, it introduced the world to the blockchain and the possibility of a decentralised internet where the users would simultaneously be producers, distributors and earners.   - How does Blockchain - or Web3 - impact the world of work? - What applications outside of currency have we need with Blockchain? - What are the most promising HR related opportunities? - What the technical and cultural challenges behind Web3 projects? - How do we make Web3 more accessible to genpop? - What kind of recruiting goes on Web3?   All this and more with Pedro Oliveira, Founder, (Talent Protocol), Andy Spence, Founder, (WorkForce Futurist), Inês Santos Silva, Ops Lead (AthenaDAO) & Fem Markslag, Head of Talent & People Operations (Cryptio)

Back with Baked Fresh, the call in show where we take questions from readers of the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter, Issue 312. We'll be talking about  - Value of Weak Ties for Career Advancement - Candidate Fraud in Remote Working - Power Law of the Creator Economy - Figures Levelling Framework - Cool list of Resources for Tracking Layoffs And loads more!

Where Are The Missing Workers?   The 'Labour Market Paradox' is most keenly felt by us - the recruiters who are struggling to make hires, even when key macro indicators - such as number of people economically inactive - should suggest otherwise. How are we to understand the mixed messages we are getting from the commentariat, politicians and our own lived experience?   Good news is, Brainfood Live has got you!   You will learn:   - What does the data say (US, UK & EMEA) - Explanations for labour force participation - Government initiatives to increase labour force participation - What about the 'New New Deal'? - Are we all an undeclared general strike? - How does remote and demand for more, lead to labour inactivity? - How does this all manifest to recruiting challenges and solutions?   All this and more with global experts such as Anita Lettink, Partner (Strategic Management Centre), Pawel Adrjan, Director EMEA Economic Research (Indeed), Dr Sarah Ali, Global Economist (Radancy) & Tony Wilson, Director (Institute for Employment Studies)   Friday 30th September, 2pm BST / 9am EDT   Click on the green button on the top right to register for the show, and follow the channel here (recommended) for updates     Ep174 is sponsored by our buddies iCIMS In the last few years how we work has changed. So too has how we connect and build relationships with talent. In this guide provided by iCIMS - recruiting software platform that helps accelerate and streamline the entire recruitment process, you can explore 4 ways to engage top talent. Download the guide to get started! > ‘The definite guide to engaging top talent’

We're back folks, after a three week hiatus!   Going to try and keep to this time but it is apparent with travel, covid and change of regnal eras, that we might not be as consistent as we want to be on this show!   Lets see how we go on this - we're review in the Sunday newsletter, with sneak peak content including:    How Does UpWork, Work? Redundancy as a path to Diversifying the Workforce? Golden Handcuffs or Indentured Service? Why Hiring for Clones is Good and Bad All this and more, in our weekly review of Recruiting Brainfood, Issue 311. Join us on Monday, click on the green button on the top right to register.