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 Ryan McCabe, CEO of Odro   - How did this happen Ryan - When did you know Odro was happening - What lessons did you bring from mechanical engineering to recruiting then recruiting to CEO-ing - If you do it again, what would you do exactly the same way? - What would you do differently? - From idea to business, what do most first time entrepreneurs miss? - Recruiters as customers - what's the good, bad and ugly? - What is happening in the product for 2022? - What does success look like for Odro end of 2022?   All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.     Ep20 Founders Focus is supported by Odro   Odro is the No#1 Video Technology for recruitment agencies. - White label the platform to take to market as your own. - Win more retained business by being more valuable to your clients. - Makes your sales calls easier for your consultants by having a clear differentiator on the first call. - Record video interviews and send them to your clients. - Record sales messages and send them to potential clients to increase your response rates to avg. 92% - Record messages for passive candidates to stand out from the other recruiters sending them job specs. - Video shortlist your best candidates to spec to potential clients. Receive notifications when clients watch each video. Get in touch with our team on LinkedIn, or through our website odro.co.uk to arrange a 15 minute online demo.

How has Candidate Experience changed from 2021 to 2022? We all know that the market has rebalanced in favour of the job seeker in the past 12 months, elevating expectations on compensation and work flexibility - and likely reducing job seeker tolerance for poor and inefficient recruitment processes. What are candidates saying to us today and how are we to adapt? We are going to find out: - CX minimum hygiene standards in 2022 - Universal standard or Customised CX based on candidate source? - How does CRM improve CX? - What process inefficiencies are most problematic for UX - Has anyone solved the feedback problem? - How significant is 'candidate self serve'? - Job seeker agency, how do we shift the balance of power - Key steps to improve CX today All this and more..... With Chuck Solomon, Director of Employer Branding (LifeStance Health), Kevin Grossman, President (The Talent Board) & Christine Ng, Head of Talent & Media (Quantum Motion)   Ep147 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  

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today   Next up is Troy Sultan, CEO of Guide - What is the difference between being C-level and Senior Exec? - Why does it seem rare for talent pro's to become successful HR tech entrepreneurs - Decisions as CEO: toughest, best and the one you would like to take back! - Were you always going to do startup? - What have you learned about yourself, after becoming CEO of Guide? - How do you hire leaders for your team? What traits do you look for? - Why Guide? - What is the roadmap for customers in 2022? - 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.     Ep19 Founders Focus is supported by Guide   Guide is the first candidate experience platform that helps companies win more talent with a personalized interview experience from application to decision. With Guide, talent teams invite their candidates into a single hub where they can find everything they need during their hiring process, from interview details to timelines, prep materials and more. Unlike messy email threads, links and documents, Guide acts as the candidate’s centralized home base for real-time updates and information and unlocks rich insights for recruiters to understand which candidates are most engaged or need attention. By improving candidate engagement, Guide increases passthrough rates by over 200%, leading to more offer accepts for leading companies like Glossier, Reddit, Gitlab and One Medical. Interested in learning more? Get a free walkthrough of the Guide platform here.

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 Pedro Torrecillas, CEO of Circular   - What is the original story of Circular? - What are the CEO things that you don't do well? - How do you hire your leadership team? - Your background in product - how is this a strength and weakness for a CEO? - How are the buyer markets different, in different countries? - What would you do differently if you could start the journey again? - What was the No1 best decision you've made so far as CEO of Circular? - What advice would you give to young Pedro if he was to consider entrepreneurship for the first time? - What exciting things can customers expect of Circular 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.   Ep18 Founders Focus is supported by Circular   Circular is the network for hiring tech talent recommended by in-house recruiters. Hire up to 10 times faster by harnessing the network of 6,000 in-house recruiters, who are recruiting from, and recommending, peer approved talent, at scale. Circular lets you go straight to a great shortlist for tech talent hiring in London and Europe.

We all love the word 'strategic'. We probably all think we are strategic. But it means something different from at the customer perspective, if you're considered a strategic partner or asset. It means that they factor in your service and availability when they are designing their own strategies.   - What is being a  'strategic partner'? - Is this even possible to achieve for an agency supplier? - What needs to happen, for this to happen? - How to build and deepen trust relationships - How to add value services - How to be the consigliere to the key stakeholders   With Louise Triance, Founder (UK Recruiter), James Osborn, Founder (The Recruitment Network) & Ben Browning, MD (Resonant Recruitment Development)     Ep145 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.

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 Nico Blier-Silvestri, CEO of Platypus - What are the benefits of being a recruiter before becoming CEO of a rectech business? - What are the handicaps? - What blind spots did you have when become a first time founder / CEO? - When did you know Platypus was going to happen? - Can you remember the first big decision you made? - What lessons would you give to yourself if you could time machine back to the start? - What does the product roadmap look like for customers in 2022 - As CEO, what do you need to more / less of in order for the business to grow? - What busy CEO things do you need to do after this show?   All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.   Ep17 Founders Focus is supported by Platypus With systematic data on team culture and candidate values, Platypus allows you to track alignment, build stronger teams, and improve quality of hire. Check out Platypus Connect, a new recruiting platform where candidates match directly with teams based on shared values. Create your own profile and be among the first to try it out. It’s next-generation stuff folks, so book a demo with a friendly member of the Platypus team, or try their candidate flow.

There is status gap between departments in business. Finance is the treasury. Sales bring the money. Product / Engineering might make the things we sell. Legal creates the contracts we are all bound by. Where does TA / HR sit in this order? Why do recruiters / TA consistently seem to be a department that has fight extra hard to be heard? Perhaps, we lack 'institutional confidence'   - What is 'institutional confidence' - How do we know this is a problem - What do we need to do on departmental level to level the playing field? - Is this even possible, or desirable thing to do? - What is the role of evidence / data in producing better relationships - How can we become more central to decision making - Can a department build confidence?   w/ Lesa Molinari, Global Branding & Talent Acquisition Director (Colt), Juliette Rouquet, DITA SME (Danaher Corporation), Raj Gill, Talent Acquisition Manager (British Telecom) & Jon Hull, Head of Resourcing (Balfour Beatty)   Ep144 is sponsored by Oyster   Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. Their end-to-end distributed HR platform enables companies to deliver locally compliant payroll and benefits, as well as a smooth onboarding experience to team members and contractors regardless of their location.

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 Jonathan Romley, CEO of Lundi   - Why are you always the boss of your businesses? - What are the CEO things that you don't do well? - How do you hire your leadership team? - What is the original story of Lundi? - What is does the final outcome for Lundi look like? - What exciting things can the market expect from Lundi in 2022? - If you were to teleport back in time to when you first started entrepreneurship, what 3 lessons would you impart to younger Jonathan? - What are the most common mistakes you see inexperienced CEO's make?   All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.   Wednesday 23rd Feb, 12.00pm GMT / 2pm EET   Click on the green button to register and follow the channel here (recommended) for further updates   Ep16 Founders Focus is supported by Lundi Recruit the right talent—no matter where they're located. Lundi is a marketplace which connects global employers with local recruiters, helping you access talent from over 65+ countries. Struggling to fill your international vacancies? Post the job up on Lundi and have expert local recruiters bid to submit candidates for the role.   Access the global talent pool, reduce your time to hire. Lundi is the talent solution for the world. Request a personal demo today

How long has the argument been that TA should be in a separate department from HR, either a stand alone reporting into the CEO or part of Marketing or part of Operations - anything but HR! Where is the state of this argument and does it still stand? What might the benefits be of moving closer to HR rather than away?   - Isn't TA really about marketing these days? - What has been the influence of covid 19 onto this conversation? - Should it even matter which reporting line? - Why TA benefits from being closer / further away from HR - How to make the HR relationship work - Do different organisations require different functional structures?   Lets talk about organisational design folks.   With Kevin Green, Chief People Officer (FirstGroup),  Jo Weech, Global Head of People & Talent (Clements Worldwide) & Geraldine Butler-Wright, Chief People & Culture Officer (Healthily)   Friday 18th February, 2.00pm GMT   Click on the green button on the top right to register for the show, and follow the channel here (recommended) for updates     Ep143 is sponsored by Oyster Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. Their end-to-end distributed HR platform enables companies to deliver locally compliant payroll and benefits, as well as a smooth onboarding experience to team members and contractors regardless of their location.

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today   Next up is Pedro Oliveira, CEO of Talent Protocol - What is the difference between being CEO of a web2 vs a web3 organisation? - What have you learned in your career as a leader of tech business? - What assumptions have you had to let go, which ones are you now gambling to be true? - Decisions as CEO: toughest, best and the one you would like to take back! - How do you find the co-founding team? How was this group assembled? - What is Talent Protocol, how does it work? - What is the roadmap for TP in 2022? - 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.   Ep15 Founders Focus is supported by Talent Protocol   Talent Protocol is a web3 platform where talent can easily launch a token for their career, and where users can back people they believe in. Support undiscovered talent and be rewarded as they grow. Join the waitlist here