The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Sourcing Automation: What can be done in 2025?   Finding and engaging candidates more efficiently remains the No1 concern of recruiters the world over - nothing gets more clicks on the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter than cool new ways! And in 2025, there are so many things we can do - perhaps no time since the beginning of the web era have we seen such an opportunity to massively scale up our sourcing efforts.   Let's see what leading experts in the European sourcing scene have to say about the Sourcing Automation in 2025. What can we do - and are we actually doing it?   - Finding candidates - Enriching candidate data - Pulling email / phone data - Automated, personalised outreach - Automated, multi-channel drip campaign - DIY vs Vendor integrated - How much time saved? - Sourcing outcomes....does it bring results? - GDPR: are we breaching all over the place?? - Candidate experience....what are we seeing? - How long before automation scales outreach to far too noisy levels? - Best targets to apply sourcing automation techniques - Won't your ATS do this all anyway?   All this and more with with Alexey Geht, Talent Sourcing Lead (Added Value), Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games), Kanwar Singh Kohli, Global Talent Leader (Booking.com) & friends     We are on Friday 11th April, 1pm BST   Register by clicking the green button and follow the channel here (recommended)     Ep301 is sponsored by our friends at Metaview   Run an intake meeting for a new role and automatically get a perfectly-tailored, on-brand, and compliant job post based on the conversation. 🤯   That’s exactly what Metaview’s new AI Job Posts deliver. It’s your AI-powered co-worker that guarantees job posts that stand out and get results. Here’s what it does:   📷 Thinks like your team: The AI bases your job posts on insights drawn directly from your actual intake meetings and interviews.   📷 Sweats the details: Job posts stay compliant and on-brand. Every word, every time.   📷 Delivers at scale: Automatically ensures consistency and quality across all your job posts, at lightning speed.   Sign up for a demo to see the magic in action

Brainfood on Tour - How to Hire in China in 2025 & Beyond?   China has an enormous workforce and therefore a huge amount of recruitment. Most of the rest of the world knows very little about it! So it is time to speak to local Chinese citizens and residents to better understand how labour circulates through what by some measure has been the largest economy in the world since the mid 2010’s   We’re going to speak with Lin Xin, Marketing Director (Avature), Maria Ma, Talent Acquisition Regional Head APAC and the legendary Beecher Ashley-Brown, CEO of AJINGA.com   - What is the state of the economy in China in 2025? - What are the main strengths, main challenge here? - What sectors are the largest employers? - What is the competition for the top talent? - What defines top talent here? - How do candidates behave - what is the best channel of communication for first contact? - What skills are most in-demand here? - How is the use of AI changing how companies recruit? - What are the 10 things a recruiter should know in order to become more successful in China?   All this and more, on Wednesday 9th April,1pm CST / 4pm AEDT   Click on here to follow the channel (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.

Lia Taniguchi, a Senior Research Manager at Bullhorn, and Liam Ryan, a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Bullhorn, dive into key recruitment trends reshaping the industry. They tackle the paradox of talent shortages amid declining job openings, highlighting the need for expanded sourcing strategies. The discussion reveals how top agencies leverage AI and automation to enhance candidate engagement and boost revenue. Insights from Bullhorn's latest survey shed light on innovative recruitment technologies and specialized tactics vital for navigating today's economic challenges.

Brainfood on Tour - How to Hire in Australia in 2025 & Beyond?   Australia is the 7th largest recruitment market by dollar value - a very decent barometer to how the global staffing market is performing. Let’s dive into the conversation with local recruiters and find out what’s going on in 2025   We’re going to learn:   - What is the state of the economy in Australia in 2025? - What are the main strengths, main challenge here? - What sectors are the largest employers? - What is the competition for the top talent? - What defines top talent here? - How do candidates behave - what is the best channel of communication for first contact? - What skills are most in-demand here? - How has the cost of living crisis / do more with less mantra impacted hiring demand? - Will a change of government help? - How is the use of AI changing how companies recruit? - What are the 10 things a recruiter should know in order to become successful in Indonesia?   All this and more, on Friday 28th March,12pm AEST   Click on here to follow the channel (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.

DOGE, US Fed Gov and the Future of HR & TA in the USA   We have to talk about DOGE.   The US Federal Government is the largest single employer in the United States at 2.5 million employees. The intent of the Trump 2.0 administration is to radically reduce this number - by at least 10% in the first tranche - and maybe to end up with a workforce of about 10% when it is all said and done.   This is unprecedented downsizing of government function, the likes of which we have rarely seen outside of active conflict situations. The role of TA / HR and People Ops in general is multi-faceted. On of the one hand, there are thousands of colleagues in these roles who will be impacted (perhaps disproportionately so?) and so might now find themselves abruptly on the job market. On another hand, as People Ops' pros one of the most important functions is to ensure organisational compliance with employment law - how can one do this when the organisation itself seems intent in ignoring it? Finally, People Ops functions have responsibility and duty of care for other employees, who will no doubt by overwhelming HR departments right now with requests for advice and support on what to do.   Brainfood Live cannot solve any of these problems but it can help shine a light into what is going on, so that we can better understand the implications and in so doing, find a way to best support the people most impacted.   It's going to be an open mic style show folks, so if you are in the US and want to talk part in this conversation, dial in. We're with Steve Rothberg, Founder (CollegeRecruiter), Mike Bruni, Partner (Talent Acquisition Strategies), Kate Bischoff, Founder (K8bisch LLC) & friends     We are on Friday 21st March, 11am PST / 2pm EST   Register by clicking the green button and follow the channel here (recommended)   Ep297 is sponsored by our friends at Greenhouse   Hiring is hard, and getting it right is even harder. It’s a core business-building function with high stakes that takes a lot of moving parts to see real success. You need workflows that accommodate how you function given your company size and goals. You need a user experience that hiring managers actually buy into. And you need an application process that locks talent in.   Only Greenhouse gives you all that in one platform.   Learn more

Join industry leaders Mary Kay Baldino, John Vlastelica, and Jim Miller as they explore the transformative impact of AI on talent acquisition. They discuss the current state of AI in recruitment and how it can reshape team structures for better efficiency and candidate experience. Delve into the critical balance of retaining human roles versus automation and the importance of empathy in decision-making. Expect a lively conversation on the evolving skills needed for recruiters and insights on how to navigate the future of hiring.

Autonomous Agentic AI Recruiters: Here, Now?   If 2025 is going to be year of the Agentic AI, then companies like SeekOut are going to be one of the tech companies at the frontier of building them. We have already reviewed what Agentic AI is (see Ep293!) - and discussed how close and how far we are away from seeing them in production. Can product builders shed more light on where we currently stand - can we even see some of these agents in action?   I challenged SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta to show us what is on the roadmap, and of course Anoop was up for the challenge! Not only will we see the next evolution of one of the most popular recruiting tools on the market, but in doing so better understand how this will shape the contours of future recruiting work.   Expectations are high: lets see whether Agentic AI is here, now!     We are on Friday 7th March, 1pm PT   Register by clicking the green button and follow the channel here (recommended)     Ep295 is sponsored by our friends SeekOut   SeekOut is one of the world's most popular recruitment technology platforms. Trusted by 1000's of employers worldwide to provide exceptional AI-enhanced candidate sourcing and personalising messaging services. Help your team hire the best talent by using SeekOut.

Brainfood on Tour - How to Hire in Indonesia in 2025 and beyond?   Indonesia has nearly 300 million people and therefore MUST have a huge amount of recruiting going on! And yet, it will come to no surprise to anyone that this is yet another country of which I am shamefully ignorant! Let’s talk to local recruiters and found out how exactly recruiters, employers and candidates interact in this incredible country. We’re going to learn: - What is the state of the economy in Indonesia in 2025? - What are the main strengths, main challenges to the economy here? - What sectors are the largest employers? - What is the competition for the top talent? - What defines top talent here? - How do candidates behave - what is the best channel of communication for first contact? - What is the education level of the general population? - What skills are most in-demand here? - Does Indonesia export talent / skills? If so, what? - Does Indonesia import talent / skills? If so, what? - What is the relationship employers have with recruitment agencies here? - How is the use of AI changing how companies recruit? - Are the island economies effectively separate? - How has the new capital impacted demand in Jakarta? - What are the 10 things a recruiter should know in order to become successful in Indonesia?   All this and more, on Tues 4th March, 11AM WIT   Click on here to follow the channel (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.

Arian Moon, Co-founder and CEO of GoodTime, and Charles Ma, Chief Customer and Operations Officer at GoodTime, discuss the transformative insights from the 2025 Hiring Insights Report. They reveal why talent acquisition teams hit only 47.9% of their hiring goals and the growing challenges in interview scheduling. Key topics include the impact of AI on hiring strategies, the competition in the talent market, and sector-specific performance contrasts. Their insights provide actionable strategies for effectively navigating recruitment in 2025.

David Paffenholz, co-founder of Juicebox, an AI recruiting platform, discusses the groundbreaking AI Agent designed to transform recruitment. He reveals how this tool can autonomously source and assess candidates using natural language prompts. Insights include the AI's ability to rank candidates, conduct outreach, and its reliance on real-time feedback for improvement. Paffenholz also addresses compliance concerns and offers strategies for effectively integrating AI into the recruitment process, reshaping the future of talent acquisition.