The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

There has never been a more important time to be strategically valuable to your customers.  If you are a recruiter or a recruitment business owner and you're thinking about how you can secure  your share of what looks to be  a shrinking market for recruitment, it is vital that you move away from the 'supplier' mindset and into one of 'strategic partner'.  - What are the steps required to making this transition? - What do clients want / need from a recruitment supplier, other than candidates - 360 or 180 degree cycle recruiting focus - What services now vs what services then? All this and more, as we discuss recruitment agencies and how they need to move upstream.  Special Guest providing special knowledge is Recruitment & Employment Confederation CEO, Neil Carberry,    Episode 71 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 demofrom CVCheck today.  

The best recruiters are those who are most efficient with their time. Modern tech has given us the opportunity to automate a lot of time intensive, repetitive work freeing us to move up the value chain to business.  Our focus in this week's Brainfood Live On Air will be examining the opportunities to automate at different stages of the hiring funnel, including actual examples of automation by experts in the field of recruiting efficiency.  Joined by the smartest recruiters currently operating at the coalface, these weeks special guests are Sofia Broberger, Marcel van der Meer and Adam Chambers.  Friday 31st July, 3.30pm BST - follow the channel (here) recommended and click on the green button on the top right to save your seat for this event (limited to 250)   Ep70 is sponsored by our buddies at Workable. More than an Applicant Tracking System, Workable’s Recruiting Software improves the way teams find, evaluate and hire candidates. Thinking of switching ATS? Grab the free 15 day trial here

Diversifying our workforce starts with diversify our talent pools.  What are the techniques which deliver actual results?  In this week's Brainfood Live On Air, we are going to be discussing practical ideas to get better diversity outcomes from job ads, sourcing, assessment, process engineering and the rest.  We'll be joined by Recruitment Marketing expert Jelmer Kopplemans, Copy Writing Extraordinaire Katrina Kibbben and lead recruiter & diversity recruiter, Christine Ng from the Financial Times.  Not one to miss folks!   Ep69 is sponsored by our buddies at Workable. More than an Applicant Tracking System, Workable’s Recruiting Software improves the way teams find, evaluate and hire candidates. Thinking of switching ATS? Grab the free 15 day trial here

What are the best questions to really get to know someone? I asked this question (very meta) on LinkedIn last month and it spawned. a whole avalanche of amazing responses, many of which I hope to share with you all in this show.  As recruiters & HR people, we are often asking people questions - at interview, at briefing meetings, at disciplinaries, at performance reviews.  Do we know what are the best questions to ask, in order to get the real and not canned responses? This is the topic of this episode of Brainfood Live On Air. Joined by Behavioural Scientist turned Recruiter Charlotte Mutsaerts, we'll be learning about what and how to ask the best questions.  Episode 68 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.

Andy Foote - author of the amazing LinkedInsights blog - and a leading authority on how to get better on LinkedIn is going to come on screen and deliver a custom presentation and Q&A on how to up your LinkedIn Game.  Expect:  Latest product / feature updates from Q2 Audience / Follower growth tips Boosting post view count LinkedIn Company page optimisation Community management  Newsfeed Algorithm And make sure to follow the channel (recommended) Episode 67 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at Indorse.  Want to host your own online Hackathon for Hiring? Click here and request a demo today

Politics in the Workplace is a tough topic which most folks try to avoid; isn't there actually a saying to that effect? And yet, as social tensions rise throughout the world, it is increasingly obvious that we cannot compartmentalise our professional from our political selves.  Which brings a set of challenges for HR / TA which we may be ill equipped or trained to handle.  In this episode, we are going to grasp the nettle. What should the people function do when the political beliefs of one employee contravene the political beliefs of another? Episode 66 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.

SThree are the 1.258 billion GBP revenue staffing business - and one of the most well known businesses in the space.  If you're in recruiting, you're going to know SThree! Who better than CEO Mark Dorman to take us through the evolution of the business and what is coming next for staffing agencies in the post Covid-19 era? Here about Balance between Contract / Permanent businesses Future of RPO / BPO How distributed working impacts the organisation of recruitment companies Future of the solo trader And more Tune in to hear from one of the captains of the industry.  Episode 65 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at PASS.  PASS make background checking, simple centralising background screening in one location for a faster, fully compliant and more cost-effective process.  Grab 30 day free trial at PASS here

One of the second order effects of a default to 'remote first' culture is a massively expanded pool of available candidates. After all, once you take off the location requirements, the world becomes your market.  Combined with worldwide economic retrenchment, we will shockingly have a labour market entirely the reverse of what was the case 3 months ago - candidate & applicant rich.  What to do when you have too many candidates? What assessment tools do we need to use to control applicant flow? What happens to candidate experience when there are so many candidates? What types of assessment should employers lean on? Should recruiters shift from acquisition experts to assessment experts? We're with Bas van de Haterd, Ben Gledhill & (hopefully!) Modiara Kamps Episode 64 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at Indorse. Want to host an online Hackathon? Click here and request a demo today

Is the 'new normal' here yet? We are certainly beginning to see glimpses of it.  Whilst some employers have frozen hiring in anticipation of a return to normalcy which may never happen, others have forged ahead with new processes fit for the remote first / remote only world.  Questions we will seek to answer:  How do you hire and onboard new candidates, having never met them in person? What happens to candidate experience when everything is fully remote? How do we do employer branding? What communications channels work best in a distributed context? How to design a remote on boarding process which works? We'll be joined by Charu Malhotra, Employer Branding Leader, Oana Iordachescu, Senior Talent Acquisition Lead at Zalando, and Adam Episode 63 is supported by our buddies at VideoMyJob. VideoMyJob is an award-winning recruitment video production app used by top companies to create their own branded videos in-house. Up for your employer branding game today - request a demo here

Know who Glen Cathey is? If you're a sourcer, you really should,  because Glen played a pivotal role in defining the discipline as being different from the traditional recruiter, and in doing so opened the way for much greater diversity of people and skillsets to enter the recruitment industry.  Glen is making is debut on Brainfood Live in this episode, and you can expect that we'll be discussing Future of Sourcing in a candidate rich world Sourcing vs Recruiting - time to bend back toward each other? Sourcers born or made? Avenues of learning & personal development as a sourcer Sourcing for the hidden Sourcing for the intangible Episode 62 is supported by our buddies at Seen By Indeed.