The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN IN 2021? Brainfood Live On Air is kicking off the 2021 season why a new year forecast with subject matter experts in every category which brainfood chronicles. What do you think is going to happen in - AI - People Analytics - Employer branding - Sourcing - Candidate experience  - Economy - Society - DE&I  ? Guests are going to be ensemble of the great and the good, renowned industry experts who are going to give us 5 minutes on what they will be important for their topic in the year ahead.  Don't miss this one folks.  Ep91 is sponsored by our buddies Cronofy There is no better time than now to rework your hiring process and help your team be more efficient. Our buddies at Cronofy have launched an enterprise-ready interview scheduling tool, which works using real-time availability to improve the candidate experience and speed up time to hire. Save hundreds of recruiter hours using Cronofy - check out the free trial and get more information here.

What do developers really think about that coding challenge that recruiters send out? Do they think the tech interview is any better, or perhaps a return the whiteboard exercise? Assessing the functional capability of any worker is essential but equally important is to make sure that the tool for assessment is the right one for the job. What do developers think about this - is there a way to understand someone's capability before actually working with them? Part 2 of our 4 part series 'From the Developer's POV' where we take classic recruiting challenges and invite the candidates to tell us what they think about them.  If you're a tech recruiter you need to listen to this.    Ep90 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies 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. 

Hiring qualified software developers remains one of the hard challenges in business today. With Covid-19 forcing the world to accelerate digital transformation, demand for the builders of tomorrow's tools and systems  never been greater.  Brainfood Live On Air is delighted to introduce a new series - From the Developers POV - where the guest speakers and panellists will be developers themselves - and they will tell us what works and what doesn't in conventional recruiter behaviour.  Part 1: Effective Recruiter Outreach - What type of message works best for first contact? - What amount of  customisation of the message is required? - Do tools like Crystal knows really work? - How about follow up - when and how many times? - What immediately turns you off in a recruiter message? - All this and more from developers who are receiving your messages daily.  Must listen for any tech recruiter - learn from the community you want to hire from.  Ep89 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies 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. 

Increased recruitment automation has been a trend accelerated by the pandemic economy; as recruiters are forced to do more with less, the adoption of tools and processes which can reduce overhead or even eliminate tasks previously conducted by a human being has become a primary concern for CEO, CFO and CPO's alike.  And yet at the same moment, the requirement for empathy and the higher expectations for candidate care, mean that candidate experience is a parallel priority.  Can you two demands be met together? Might one actually be key to the other? This is the topic of this week's Brainfood Live On Air - how to use recruitment automation to improve candidate experience. We're with renowned recruitment automators Sofia Broberger, Martyn Redstone and Patrick Boonstra.  Ep88 is sponsored by our buddies Cronofy. Cronofy provide data secure, enterprise friendly automated interview scheduling. Save your team hundreds of hours of unnecessary admin by using Cronofy.    Watch the 60 second demo here Register for a free trial account here Check out the case study here

Human Resources. Talent Acquisition.  The relationship between these two people functions is often critically important, yet also equally often poorly managed. How can we forge better relationships with each other? What does HR really need from TA? What does TA really want from HR? Do they even belong together, under the same organisational structure? We're going to learn all this and more. by putting HR vs TA together in the same space and talk about how we can build a better relationship.  - Lisa Scales, Head of TA UK Nestle - Robert Hicks, Head of HR, Rewards Gateway - Julie Griggs. Founder, Greenhill HR Ep87 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.  Download the Data Nexus Search guide here 

Over 60%+ of the world's population live in Asia-Pacific region Yet all the conversation in recruiting & HR is seems centred in the US / UK and Europe. We all talk a good game about diversity, equity and inclusion, but what does that really mean if those ideas and values are consistently created and propagated from the same places, the same cultures, the same peoples? Brainfood Live is going to strike further out today in this 2 hour special: lets talk about hiring in Asia-Pacific.  Topics to cover:  - Covid-19: verdict on Asia-Pac - Remote hiring ...is it working, for who and where? - Immigration / Emigration  - D&I ...how are we talking about this in Asia-Pac - Routes to candidates: advertising, sourcing, referrals - Geo-politics - how does the splinternet impact hiring? - Projections - how does 2021 look for the countries of the region? We're rounding up the cool cats from Asia Pac, led by Sergei Mahkmodov from Hong Kong, Martin Warren (Grab) & Nina Devouge (The Trade Desk) from Singapore and Matt Best (Best Practice) from Japan Ep86 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.  Download the Data Nexus Search guide here 

How has pandemic changed employer branding?  Pre-covid, an effective employer branding strategy was critical to winning the 'war on talent' - helping you attract and hire the most in-demand candidates. And yet, how much of EB was based around the physical location, the perks associated with being in the office, the sell of the amazing company culture (again on premise).  - What EB rules are more true now than before? - How important is transparency? - How important is visible leadership? - Can you get away with not offering remote / flexible work? - Is it possible to measure your EB? All this and more with the amazing Google Dave Hazlehurst.  Episode 85 is supported by our buddies at VideoMyJob. VideoMyJob is an award-winning video platform used by teams to create authentic video content that attracts talent and engages employees. Up your recruitment marketing game today - here

We have to talk about it - the US Presidential election on the 3rd November - will have reverberating impact across the globe, such is influence of the United States.  The radically different persona's, philosophies, even values of the two contenders will have more direct impact to the world economy and the world of business and recruitment than we might first realise.  - What does a Trump win mean for offshoring & international trade? - What does a Biden win mean for Universal Basic Income? - Does DE&I go into reverse under a second Trump Presidential term? - Will AI accelerate or decelerate under either of these men? - What role does HR play during / after politically divisive moments? We're going to be speculating about the near future folks, on the most important single event in 2020.  Laurie Ruettiman, Lars Schmidt & Tim Sackett joins to help guide us through the culture, politics and economics of the next 4 years in the United States.  Ep84 is supported by our buddies at Workable.  Hire better, hire faster, with Workable. Free 15 day trial here

Get the feeling that the idea of the 'talent pipeline' might be over? It was always a nonsense - that people who move in one direction through an interaction with an employer, and only end up with one outcome - offer of a job or not.  We know that the the relationship between potential employee and future employer is much more complex, multi-faceted. at multi-speeds. More recruiters will be speaking to candidates years before they become employees, relationships built over time and many iterations.  The question for modern TA departments is: how best to nurture relationships? Don't tell me an email drip campaign is the way. We got to be smarter than that ;-) We're going to be gathering together experts in online relationship building, including the awesome Vanessa Raath, who has built a community of recruiters across South Africa, Rosie Sherry, Community Manager at Indie Hackers and the ever awesome Allyn Bailey at Intel.  Don't miss this one folks - register on the green button on the top right, and follow the channel here (recommended) for future updates.  Ep83 is supported by our buddies at Workable.  Hire better, hire faster, with Workable. Free 15 day trial here

How do we measure Recruitment performance in 2020? Our historical data can now only provide us with a guideline rather than a benchmark on what good performance looks like; we know that the game has changed, in some respects, in fundamental ways. and we need to get on with the business of translating that change into something we can quantify and measure.  What are the new Recruiting KPI's?  What are the new numbers we need to care about? - Time to Hire - Applicants to Hire - Quality of Hire - Diversity at shortlist - Recruiter NPS - and more Marisa Bryan, Head of Operations at Scede and Andrea Marston (EMEA VP of Talent Acquisition, VMware) will be joining Friday 23rd October, 12.00pm GMT Don't miss this - click on the green button on the top right to register and follow the channel here (recommended) for updates Episode 82 is supported by our buddies at CVCheck CVCheck is a leading provider of background screening services, conducting more than 300,000 checks every year for businesses, government organisations and individuals in Australia, New Zealand and worldwide. To validate your candidates credentials more efficiently –request a demo from CVCheck today.