The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

How to Source Candidates from Slack   There probably isn't a tech startup anywhere that does not use Slack as its internal communication platform. It's also an amazing place to create intra-company communities, a place where professionals of all disciplines get together and share knowledge. Might these also be places where you can source candidates?   You will learn:   - What is Slack and how do you join? - Recruiter behaviours to avoid - How to create relationships in Slack communities - When to post jobs - if at all? - How to engage on Slack - Scraping Slack from the outside - Resources and tools   All this and more with w/ Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games), Nicolas Darcis, Founder (Ocetelo) & Mark Deubel, Senior Technical Recruiter (Gitlab)     Ep173 is sponsored by Cronofy Cronofy offer an enterprise-ready suite of interview scheduling tools and ATS integrations. Using real-time availability they improve the candidate experience and speed up time-to-hire by arranging interviews in minutes. For candidates, it’s just two clicks to select a time. Recruiters can now coordinate interviews on behalf of hiring managers, to keep the hiring process moving, save even more time and deliver a slicker candidate experience. Save your team hundreds of recruiter hours every year using Cronofy - check it out and get more information here or  contact one of their friendly product team and ask for a demo

Making Sense of the Economy: Resilient Sectors for Recruiting.   The high profile tech lay offs dominate the headlines but does that tell us the real story of what is going on in the economy? We're looking at the sectors which continue to hire today, as well as those which are destined to grow as the new economic future unfolds.   You will learn:   - How do we understand the start up / scale up market today? - What sectors continue to hire? - Are these trends universal or regional? - What explains the persistent hiring challenges for many of the sectors today? - What should recruiters do if they are working in tech scale up? - What future economic sectors are good bets for recruiter resilience?   All this and more with Katrina Hutchinson O'Neill, Founder (Join Talent), Jonathan Boys, Labour Market Economist, (CIPD), Colin Donnery, CEO (FRS Network)  & Dr Sarah Ali, Chief Economist (Radancy)     Ep172 is sponsored by our buddies Tribepad More candidates doesn't mean better candidates. Across the country, recruiters are reporting a decrease in the quality and relevance of applications. One click applications might be easy for candidates but are draining resources for hirers.   Are you seeing similar results with your applications?   In our latest research report, we hear from over 500 Talent acquisition professionals on how they're handling the shift in the recruitment industry.   Access our State of the Recruitment Sector report here

Ethics & Experience: How to Better Handle Layoffs   The high profile tech layoffs keep coming, and the response of employers forced to make cuts has been under scrutiny, whether the method is via mass zoom calls, or through making vulnerability posts on LinkedIn. Got me thinking - IS there a good way to do this, or or is this simply a hard task which is always going to be unpleasant?   You will learn:   - Ethics and Experience, guiding principles of redundancy - CEO, HR or Line Manager? - Importance of messaging sequencing - Fiduciary duty to organisation, account lockouts, permission, access - Do we have a redundancy protocol? - How does Remote impact Redundancy approach - Psychological closure for stakeholders - Off boarding & support - Employer action, Hiring Manager action, Colleague action   All this and more with Christine Ng, Head of Talent & Media (Quantum Motion), Brian Evje, HR Lead (NREP), Kate Bischoff, Attorney & HR Consultant (k8bisch LLC) & Margaret Buj, Senior Talent Partner, (MixMax)

How to Hire in the Nordics?   Brainfood Live is back on tour! This time we are virtually visiting our friends in the North and to try and better understand how the universal challenges of recruiting are solved by local recruiters in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. I actually couldn't find any Icelandic or Faroese recruiters so if you are there, make sure you pipe up during the livestream!   You will learn:   - What are the unifying characteristics of hiring in the Nordics? Can we even consider it a category? - How would you describe the culture in Nordic society - what do outsiders most often get wrong? - Working with hiring managers - what do recruiters have to know? - Working with candidates - what do recruiters have know? - How do we handle the English vs Native language divide? - What differences are there between the countries in the Nordics? - Is there a city vs rural divide? - Most important things to get right in TA?   All this and more with our Nordic heroes Per Tjenberg, Founder (TBA), Danny Crook, Talent Acquisition Manager (Kognity),  Niklas Lerner, Founder (Krut), & Kati Kitti, Director of Talent Acquisition (Solita)   Ep170 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.

How to Build a Recruitment Marketing Content Engine   We know that producing quality content is mandatory in todays world of hyper competition for attention. And whilst many of us have enough in us to produce one or two pieces here and there, very few of us have the ability to consistently output high quality stuff. Why is this? How come other people are more able? Is it just talent or is it really technique?   You will learn:   - Ideas generation - Writing for your audience - Network and amplification - Conversational marketing - Algorithm activation - Content repurposing / content upcycling - Transparency as a content source - and making gold out of lead.   All this and more with Joel Lalgee, Lead Recruiter (Hirewell), Christina Robinson, MD (Green Umbrella) & Clair Bush, VP of Marketing (Adway)   Ep169 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.

BRAINFOOD BAKED FRESH - EP1 - ISSUE 306 Introducing the new show, where we review the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter Issue 306 and pick out some highlights which were particularly interesting food for the recruiting brain...... 1. Big List of Recruiting & HR Events to Attend in 2023  2. THESE ARE THE OPEN SOURCE TOOLS RESEARCHERS SAY THEY NEED 3. THE BEST TIMES TO POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA (FROM 35 MILLION POSTS)  4. THE GRADUATE JOB MARKET HAS BOUNCED BACK  5. I GOT SCAMMED ON A JOB OFFER 6.RAF RECRUITMENT FREEZE FOR WHITE MEN 

Changing the Culture of Your Talent Acquisition Team   You know the scenario: you've inherited an under performing team and need to reset and redirect. How do you do this? What are the techniques available for TA leaders that work most consistently to get the best out of the existing team?   You will learn:   - How to diagnose under performance - How to audit the KPI's - How to identify high potential under performers - How to identify disguised malcontents - Communication strategies for new leaders - Role of symbolism and ritual for culture change   All this and more with Nims Dhawan, Organisational Design, (UK Ministry of Defence), Rassam Yaghmaei, Talent Acquisition Director (Doctorlib) & Jon Hull, Head of Resourcing (Balfour Beatty)     Ep168 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

LinkedIn Content Feed: What Recruiters Have Got To Know   For the past 5 years LinkedIn has been one of the preeminent places to create content and build audience. In fact, without LinkedIn, it is unlikely that Recruiting Brainfood would have got anywhere near the size it has. It is therefore essential for us recruiters to better understand who the content feed works, especially as LinkedIn keep on changing it!   That's why we're going to focus this show on the mighty content feed and how to get your content seen by as many relevant people as possible. You will learn   - Latest understanding on how the content feed works - Who sees your content and why - What the impact of followers, connections, subscribers and engagers is to your reach - Why it makes sense to continually build network - Why it makes sense to continually engage - Impact of various content types - Making sense of new LinkedIn post analytics - How to be a LinkedInfluencer (or not)   All this and more with the one and only Andy Foote, LinkedIn Content Strategist of global renown(!)     Ep167 is sponsored by our buddies Screenloop Screenloop is the Hiring Intelligence platform. Attract, hire and retain the best candidates faster and more efficiently than your competitors with Screenloop's platform.  Request a demo here

Sourcing Candidates on Reddit   Reddit is one of the world's most popular websites with millions of visitors every day, and yet its comment based interface has proven to be a puzzle for most recruiters who might have found it too intimidating a place to source candidates. This is a shame as the demographic on reddit skews towards tech and engineering, some of the most in-demand skills in the current market place.   We need to get better at this, so today's Brainfood Live is going to be about how we get to grips with this platform and mine the gold that is right there at our fingertips   - What is Reddit? - How to understand the information architecture - How to search for subreddits - X-ray vs in-platform search - Identifying candidates on Reddit - Messaging etiquette - Advertising options - Building social capital - Following and being Followed   All this and more with Erin Mathew, Senior Tech Talent Sourcer, (PayPal) & Wim Dammans Recruiter (TenneT)   Episode 166 is supported by our buddies Join Talent Join Talent is EMEA's fastest growing embedded talent solution provider. We deliver a market-leading and super-agile boutique Project RPO solution for scaling businesses - supporting with hiring demand in tech, product, digital, design, commercial/GTM & corporate vacancies. If you're a recruiter looking to join a rocketship - you should  Join Talent

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 Mehul Bhatt, CEO of FloCareer!   - What is the original story of FloCareer? - 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 did coming from a technical background help you as a entrepreneur? In what way was it a hindrance? - What are the unique challenges of starting up in India? - As CEO, what is your approach when handling conflict between leaders in your management team? - Were you always going to be entrepreneurs? - 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.     Ep32 of Founders Focus is supported  FloCareer FloCareer provides 'Interview-as-a-Service' to rapidly scaling businesses who need support in effectively screening candidates. With a unique 'You Source, We Interview' approach, FloCareer works closely with over 150+ employers worldwide to interview efficiently and at high quality. Best of all, it leads to a hugely reduced recruiting process, upgrading candidate experience who no longer have to wait days and weeks to know whether they have got the job   Curious about interviewing at scale? Find out more at https://www.FloCareer.com/