The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

The shift to remote has had the effect of digitising previously analogue processes. This is lead to a bloom of workforce data which we previously could not collate or make use of. We are now swimming in data which can used to better understand employee sentiment and productivity, skill distribution across the company, how time is spent doing what. There is a conundrum though - at what point does the burgeoning new discipline of 'People Analytics' become 'Bossware' or workforce surveillance? What is the difference between caring about employees mental health vs intrusion onto people's personal lives? This is the topic of Ep96 of Brainfood Live On Air. If you care about what to do with the data your employees are now producing - and how to use this effectively AND ethically Ep96 is sponsored by our buddies Charthop.  ChartHop is the world's first org management platform, empowering leaders to see their organization's past while designing its future. It automatically builds fluid views of a company through real-time updated org charts, custom reporting & analytics, and headcount planning that boosts efficiency across teams. ChartHop integrates with 20+ HR tech & data platforms, and companies like Peloton, MongoDB, Starburst, Postman and InVision rely on the company to plan, organize and visualize their orgs. Find out more here or click here to request a demo.

WHAT DO DEVELOPERS REALLY THINK ABOUT ONBOARDING? We all know that concern for the candidate journey should not stop at the job offer, yet all too often it does, often leaving a yawning gap between verbal yes and employee start. How can we better manage this process? Who is even in charge of it? What do developers want after they have said yes to a job offer? All this and more in the last episode of our mini series, From the Developers POV. Ep95 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. 

In Ep86, we talked about universal values & concepts in recruitment and wondered how they really applied to local contexts. This is especially important given that the ideas driving the industry come mainly from one place - the United States of America - with its own unique history and cultural context How do these ideas apply Down Under? We're looking at Australia and New Zealand - culturally linked to Mother England but divergent now is so many ways that its been a long time since they could be considered 'the same'. Lets look beyond shared language and lineage and speak to recruiters from ANZ and whether universal ideas apply. What do our friends down under think about - DE&I - Politics in the workplace - Remote working - Artificial intelligence - Data protection and privacy - Workforce automation - Candidate experience - Employer branding - Open Talent marketplace - and more Essential viewing if you are in ANZ, plan to be in ANZ or have recruiting in ANZ. Ep93 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 

LinkedIn - alternative universe for us recruiters that it is inevitably is - remains the No1 application that we use to do our work. It has dozens of products, hundreds of features within products and al kind of ways to optimise between them which no one knows everything about. Andy Foote probably comes closer than most; brainfood's favourite LinkedIn commentator, Andy is back for the first of his quarterly update shows on Brainfood Live On Air = where he updates us on what the latest changes to Linkedin have been and what we - as super users - need to do about it. Learn about - LinkedIn newfeed algorithm - Linkedin new search features - Linkedin Live / Newsletter / Articles / Posts / Polls and much more. Ep94 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 

WHAT DO DEVELOPERS REALLY THINK ABOUT INTERVIEWING?   Part Three of our mini series 'From the Developers POV' will examine the next stage in the hiring process - the interview. Probably the most important single stage in the recruiting process, the interview has always been one of two things - obviously suboptimal as a method of assessing candidates, yet persistently integral to the hiring decision  - What do developers think about interviews? - What style of interview works best? - Biographical or behavioural? - Or should it all be technical interviewing? - How accessible are interviews for the neuro diversity? - What is the impact of video interviewing? Ep92 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. 

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