The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

How to make your employer brand stick? Turns out - you don't Real Employer Branding is about discovering what is true about the work in your business and exposing that truth the outside world, warts and all. Fascinating conversation with James Ellis and Elena Valentine which segued into ethnography, anthropology, design thinking, film and media, authenticity vs diversity, Fox News and the rest. Must watch / listen for anyone interested in the state of recruitment in 2019

Brainfood Live On Air from Kiev, #truKiev. Fascinating chat with Ukrainian recruitment hero's Denis Dinkevich and Andrei Stetsenko on the conditions on recruiting in Ukraine. We're talking Skype as a CRM, Telegram as a Slack competitor, impact of IT outsourcing on IT recruiter practice and the fragmented nature of IM.

"Magnificent Melbourne" - the cultural capital of Australia - and some might say, the real capital of the country (sorry Sydneysiders - take it up with your cousins in Victoria ;-)) I'm with Vervoe CEO Omer Molad, TAPOD's Lauren Sharp, Deloitte Head of APAC Consulting Adam Walker and the one and only Ross Clennett, as we talk Brainfood, D&I, hiring in Melbourne and hiring in Australia.  It's a brilliant conversation with some brilliant Aussies 

Live from Sydney: we're talking agency recruiters, Brits abroad, call aversion culture, the importance of relationships and the unique rectech eco-system in Australia w/ - Laura Johnson (PASS Technologies) - Rich Lewis-Jones (SmartRecruiters) - Mark Mansour (Servian) - Michael Delaney (Barhead Solutions)

Perth: one of the most remote big city metropolises anywhere: how does recruiting work over here? Is it all mining & water management? Brainfood Live is Live from Perth this Friday, where I'll be joined by 3 local experts who are going show tell us what the challenges are in hiring for roles based in Western Australia. - Stan Rolfe - Jon Bowker & Nicole La Gallia - Dani Tamati Fascinating conversation about fifo, aboriginal employment, contingent workforce, workforce automation and the continued role of the skilled recruiter

We're live from Hong Kong with the great team at Daxtra - CV parsing tech, and perhaps one of the first 'workforce automation' technologies to change the recruitment industry. Featuring cameo's from my cousin Stephen Li, dialling from the UK, we were also joined by Behavioural Scientist Dr Richard Claydon for a discussion on collaboration vs connection work It was great discussion in the chaos that is Hong Kong

On the eve of the Independence Day for Republic of Armenia, my buddies at Meetall and I held a meetup at PicsArts HQ for 100+ recruiters from the local scene at Yerevan.  With Ach Petrosyan, Tech Recruiter at Meetall, Tigran Sloyan CEO at CodeSignal and Meruzhan Danielyan CEO at Teamable. 

The Future of Employer Branding is the topic of this week's Brainfood Live. And we have invoked the help of an incredible trio guests to help us talk through challenges of Future EB. Learn from recruitment luminaries like: Bryan Chaney, Director of Global Employer Brand at Indeed James Ellis, Director of Employer Brand at Universum Bill Boorman, Recruiting legend, truConference founder and Stand up Comedian We're on at Friday 13th, 4pm BST Join the debate and follow the channel here (recommended) And register to watch the livestream here

It's pretty clear that LinkedIn can also be an amazing channel for getting your content seen by the audience you care about. I know it's been an important channel in growing the Recruiting Brainfood community, up to the 16,300+ opt in subscribers to date Some people are really great at this 'mini blogging' format and I'm delighted to make it the topic of this week's Brainfood Live On Air We'll be covering Status Updates vs LinkedIn Articles Posting frequency - how much is too much? What to do do with 1400 characters Content generation engine Links + Images + Videos in post Hierarchy of engagement events (Comments vs Share vs Like) Newsfeed algorithm and how it works We'll be joined by Mitch Sullivan (51st best blogger on LinkedIn) Kasia Tang, trainer / community builder / LinkedIn poster hero.  If you ever wondered about how to get more views on your content on LinkedIn, this is the show to tune into. Friday 4pm BST, 30th August. Follow the channel here (recommended) Register for the show here

We're talking How to Hire for the Blue Collar with Tim Sackett and Ben GledHill Questions we are going to try and answer:  Difference between hiring white vs blue collar workers Impact of location of hiring  Recruitment best practice  No CV / No resume - no problem? Communication channels for hiring Where is the tech in hiring for the hour? It's a brilliant show with some intriguing insights, from referral programmes, automated scheduling and SMS techniques.  Follow the channel here (recommended) And watch the show here