The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

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 Stephen Anderson, MD of Crooton   - Why do you think innovation is so rare in recruitment? - What do you think have been the main technology disruptors in recruiting in your career? - What do you think is going to be next big thing? - What parts of being a business leader do you do well? Which do you do poorly? - Were you always going to run your own business? - Can you tell us what has been your worst decision as MD of Crooton? - If you could rewind the clock, what would you do differently? - What advice do you have for recruiters listening to this and thinking about starting up? - What can customers of Crooton expect in 2022?   All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.     Ep30 of Founders Focus is supported byCrooton Crooton provide a smart option for employers to outsource the management of the candidate funnel. Give us the brief and we will take it off your hands from multi-channel marketing for candidate acquisition, candidate engagement, assessment and management, delivering to you only qualified and motivated candidates. Want to control costs? Choose our fixed fee recruitment option and hire as many candidates as you need. Contact one of Crooton's friendly staff for a free consultation today

How to Organise A Sourcing Jam!   The true mission of a great recruiter is to get EVERYONE in the business operating as a recruiter; after all they are they ones with the strongest networks of relevant talent! One of the ways to activate the company 'recruiting muscle' is to organise a Sourcing Jam - a half or full day session where a department works with the TA team to dive into our professional networks, collate relevant candidate details and set about contacting them!   If you want to surge your hiring for a particular department, a sourcing jam is the way to do it.   You will learn:   - How to do you plan a sourcing jam - How to communicate the plan with the departmental head - How to encourage the shy - How to moderate the not shy(!) - What about bias? - Tools and techniques on the day - How to collect the data - What do you drive the campaign towards? - How to create a repeatable process.   All this and more with Vanessa Raath, Founder (Talent Hunter), Tereza Machackova, Head of People, Deepnote, Joey NK Koksal, Lead Tech Talent Acquisition Partner at PVH & Matthias Schmeißer, Global Director of Talent (Beamery)     Ep157 is sponsored by our buddies Bryq The workforce is changing at an exponential rate. Are you keeping up? Bryq is an award-winning Talent Intelligence solution that will transform and future-proof the way you manage your talent. Whether your goal is to eliminate bias and uncover hidden talent from the hiring process, promote internal mobility for your employees through career pathing, or to grow and cultivate your company culture through culture mapping, Bryq is able to help you create and manage teams that are more than just the sum of their parts. Book a demo with Bryq's Customer Success Team today to see just how much their science can accomplish for your organization.

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 Viktor Nord, Co-founder and Adrian MacDonald, CEO of Recruitment Marketing Automation firm, Adway   - What is the original story of Adway? - 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? - What do C-level leaders coordinate and align? - What method do you have of handling disagreements? - As the company matures, how do you stay on top of the changing challenges? - As CEO what are the things that you delegate, what are the things that you want to own? - What has been the most difficult challenge so far? What do you anticipate being the most difficult challenge in the next 12 months? - 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.

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 Ilya Brotzky, CEO of VanHack   - What's the story with Brazil? - What did you learn about business when you were there? - What did you learn about yourself? - As an entrepreneur, what are things you do well? - As a CEO what are the things you don't do well? - When did you realise that VanHack was going to be a thing? - What leadership qualities do you look for in your management team? - How has remote impacted the idea of relocating staff? - Do you see geopolitical tension / de-globalisation to be an accelerant or decelerant for immigration? - What exciting things can customers expect from VanHack in 2022?   All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.     Ep28 of Founders Focus is supported by VanHack Simply put, VanHack is the fastest way to hire tech talent. Connect over a community of over 200,000 qualified developers from over 100+ countries through out the world.   Sign up for an employer account and start hiring tech talent today.

Mega Scale Hiring (10,000+!)   We talk about scale, then we talk about 'hyper scale', I'm going to go one further and talk about 'mega scale' - this is a hiring of tens of thousands of workers in short time frame. Pretty certain this is the sort of recruiting challenge that existing systems, processes and even people are not designed to do. So how do you do it?   You will learn:   - Under what circumstances does mega scale hiring happen - What are the first 3 things to get right before you start - How do we calculate the capacity required to hire the volume we need? - What tooling is available to support acquisition, assessment and management? - How do you think about candidate experience at this type of scale? - How does the relationship between hiring manager and recruiter change? - What makes a good mega scale project vs a bad one? - What recruiter skills are needed to succeed at mega scale?   All this and more with Thomas Waldman, Director of Workforce Growth (Getir) and Kirsten Tolfree-Dart, Contingent Worker Programme Manager (Kantar)     Ep156 is sponsored by Willo   Speaking to candidates on Zoom, Teams or Skype and It’s a great way to meet people, but it can also exhausting, inefficient and inconvenient   Willo has taken the interviewing process and brought it into the 21st century. They looked at all the negatives of traditional interviews like scheduling, fatigue, anxiety and travel, and created a virtual interview process that candidates actually love - and they have an NPS score to prove it...   They also have native integrations with Workable, Greenhouse and Zapier, so you can automate your selection process, cast a wider net, and really scale things up.   Get 10% off when you signup at willo.video, that's W-i-l-l-o dot video with coupon 'brainfood'.

Moving to Salary Transparency   It's becoming cool - and in a growing number of regions, it's also becoming law. Publishing how much you pay for a certain role has a number of strong arguments for: more equitable income, remove bias, upgrade employer brand / reputation, perhaps even improve recruitment efficiency by providing a mechanism for self selection by candidates.   So, what do you do when you want to move to salary transparency? We are talking to recruitment managers who have overseen this move and figure out what they know having seen it and done it.   - Was there resistance? - How bad was the attrition? - What happened to legacy salaries which were now out of level? - What is the impact on hiring for candidates, especially in this hyper competitive market? - Who was most for / against the idea in your business? - How has salary transparency changed recruiting?   All this and more with Annie Jackson, Head of Talent Acquisition (CLEO), Mick Griffin, Chief Growth Officer (TRAFFIT), Raluca Jamault-Otelea, Talent Acquisition Director (360Learning), Matt Bradburn, Founder (People Collective) & Jessica Zwaan, COO (Whereby)   Thursday 19th May, 12pm BST   Click on the green button on the top right to register for the show, and follow the channel here (recommended) for updates     Ep155 is sponsored by Daxtra Daxtra is on a mission to make data more useful for recruiters. Transform your dormant and disorganised database into your primary source for making actual hires. Need to clean, enrich and activate dormant applicant data? Contact us for a demo today

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 Will Laufer, CEO of Prelude   - When was the moment when you realised Prelude would be a thing? - Were you always planning to be an entrepreneur? - How is being a CEO different from being a senior exec? - What things do you not do well as a CEO? - What do you look for when hiring for leaders in your team? - How do you see the shift to remote / shift back to office playing out for CX? - What exciting things can existing customers of Prelude expect in 2022? - If you could give yourself once piece of advice as a entrepreneur what would that be?   All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.   Ep27 Founders Focus is supported byPrelude   Prelude’s candidate experience platform supercharges recruiting operations and simplifies the most manual parts of scheduling interviews. The Prelude scheduling engine can help recruiting teams schedule everything from screens to complex onsite interviews in seconds while leading with their brand and values. Manage your interviewers’ preferences, competencies, and ongoing training in one place folded seamlessly into intuitive scheduling. Integrate with existing systems and workflows to remove friction from recruiting logistics. Supercharge Your Hiring Process & Remove Friction From Scheduling - sign up for a free demo today here

Solving Recruitment: Strategic Workforce Planning   Don't you feel that recruitment is generally moving from one crisis to another? It seems there is NEVER a moment when recruitment is steady, under control, low stress, high confidence project. Instead, it's a fire that we need to put out yesterday. Why is this - why can we not plan our hiring in more strategic way?   You will learn   - What is strategic workforce planning - Why does it not happen enough? - Key blockers to implementing strategic workforce planning - What is the role of TA vs HR in planning hiring? - How to build better relationships with stakeholders in hiring - What technologies support SWP? - How can ATS / HRIS data be used to support better planning - How do we know it is working, if we feel we have implemented SWP?   All this and more as we tackle the lack of planning in hiring. With Perry Timms, Founder (People & Transformational HR), CJ Green, Founder (Brave Goose) & Danny Hodgson, CEO (Foresight)   Ep154 is sponsored by Tribepad   The current approach to ED&I isn't working. In fact, not only is their scepticism and levels of mistrust from candidates around data collection, but 80% feel processes would be fairer if recruitment simply remained anonymous. And they might be right. It's time that we stopped seeing ED&I as a tick box exercise, and start putting vital data to good use. Download the latest 'Stop the Bias' report today. Understand why candidates believe that their prospects are being harmed, and their data isn't being used to benefit their applications.

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 Markellos Diorinos, CEO of Bryq - Is Product the best training for being a CEO of Product based business? - What do you learn in being a PM that you is useful as a CEO? - What is missing from a PM career path? - When did you realise you wanted to run a company? - When did you realise that Bryq was going to be a thing? - What do you do well as a business leader? - Can you remember a moment when you thought, this isn't happening? How did you cope? - What mental health regime do you practice? - Do you feel a CEO has to lead on values? - What are your theories on balancing diversity of views with group cohesion? - What exciting things can customers expect from Bryq this year? All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today. Ep26 of Founders Focus is supported by Bryq   Looking to uncover hidden talent in the hiring process?  Trying to help your current employees optimize their performance? Wanting to counter the "Great Resignation" and retain your talent?  The Bryq Talent Intelligence platform has your answers to these questions and many others. Book a meeting with Bryq's Customer Success Team today to see just how much their science can accomplish

Programmatic Job Advertising, for Dummies   Are you struggling to find high quality candidates for your open roles within your budget? Programmatic recruitment advertising can help.   Programmatic is the use of software and data to ensure your online job ads are in front of the right people, at the right time, at the best possible price. Hiring organizations that use programmatic often see a reduced cost per hire and time to fill and an increase in qualified and diverse candidates.   The best part? You don’t have to be a tech expert to leverage programmatic. We're going to do a Brainfood special, a 1-2-1 with Robin Stander, VP of Sales at Appcast, who is basically going to teach us what programmatic advertising is   You will learn   - What is programmatic advertising? - How does it work? - How do we know the ads are shown to the right audience? - How is ad performance tracked? - What is an ad exchange? - Is this ad retargeting? - What are the privacy issues? - How does the cookie less future impact programmatic? - How do we implement programmatic solutions?   All this and more - at the end of this hour, we are going to know what programmatic job advertising is and how to implement it. Don't miss this one folks   Ep153 is sponsored by Appcast   In a competitive hiring market, it’s essential to craft job ads that tell would-be employees what they want to know about the job and your organization to attract qualified candidates.   When creating job ads, think like a job seeker. Share details about your company and your culture; optimize your job titles, location, and requirements; highlight your compensation, benefits and career development, using straightforward language that leaves little or no room for interpretation.   The Appcast guide “Best Practices in Job Ad Content” will provide what best practices should be followed to optimize your job advertising strategy and highlight the key areas you should focus on. Download your free copy now!