The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Hiring Manager Self Serve: How To Can Empower the Line!

 

Centralising recruitment is the default for 'knowledge' based businesses; the opposite is true for every other type of business. If your organisation is a multi-location, moves physical items, has warehouses, and huge diversity of job roles, then chances are you will necessarily have a more de-centralised hiring approach. What can we learn from organisations like this? What is the ideal relationship between central TA vs decentralised hiring managers in the line?

 

- Key differences between Head Office vs On Location Hiring

- What do HM want / need?

- How to ensure increase QoH but also empower local decision making?

- What is the ideal technology stack?

- What is the ideal TA org structure for decentralised HM centred hiring?

- How to ensure DEI initiatives are maintained?

- How to improve EB?

- QoH requires connected systems, what is the best way to do this?

- What can Head Office hiring lean from Hiring Manager Self Serve.

 

All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.

 

We're with Deborah Caulet, Founder (Aligned Collective), Arjan Spies, Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding Lead (tHRibe.Builders) & Mary Kay Baldino, Head of Talent Acquisition (R1 RCM) on Friday 27th September, 2pm BST

 

 

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Ep274 is sponsored by our friends Zinc

 

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EU AI Act: Implications for Recruiters, Talent Acquisition and HR

 

One of the biggest challenges we have in our industry is to stay compliant. In a world where the innovation rate of Artificial Intelligence has long since outstripped anyone's ability to keep on top of it, we're left to seek guidance from legislators which we hope know what they're doing. Let's review what the EU AI Act is and how it will impact how recruits, talent acquisition and HR can and should use software which has an AI component.

 

- Review of EU AI Act - in laymen's terms!

- 4 key points of the EU AI Act

- What parts of the recruitment process - discovery, privacy, assessment, safety - are most significantly exposed to potential AI non-compliance?

- Has anyone analyses existing tools yet for AI compliance?

- What does this mean for US recruitment tech - do we need different versions?

- Can European recruitment tech take advantage of regulatory divergence?

- What lawsuits are happening right now?

- What can we expect in advent of a Trump 2.0 Presidency?

- What is the best way a recruitment business owner or TA or HR leader best

 

We're on Friday 20th September, 2pm BST / 3pm CEST with Martin Woodward, Director of Global Legal (Randstad), Jaap Kersten, International Legal (Textkernel), Vincent Slot, Team Lead, R&D (Textkernel) & Thibault Allard, Privacy & AI Analyst (SmartRecruiters)

 

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Ep273 is sponsored by our friends Textkernel

 

The AI foundation empowering your organisation to streamline recruitment with automated data flows.

 

Establish a foundation for success with reliable and structured data.

 

Implement skills-based practices by unifying scattered skills across multiple systems within your platform of choice.

 

Scale through automation of candidate engagement, matching and mid-office operations.

 

Our innovative technologies empower more than 2,500 Staffing & Recruitment agencies, leading employers, job boards, and HR Software Vendors worldwide. This enables them to work smarter, fostering a culture of innovation and faster advancement.

 

At Textkernel, we are dedicated to championing responsible AI in recruitment, placing a premium on ethical practices and inclusivity to pave the way for a brighter, more equitable future.

 

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Reviewing 'Do More With Less' - Recruitment Efficiency in 2024

 

Recruiters have been under pressure all year - maybe even longer than that - to 'do more with less'. This means either increase effort or increase efficiency. And given that we are already at 100% capacity with reduced TA teams, the latter is the only option!

 

How have we done - what examples have we seen of recruitment efficiency at company wide level?

 

We will discuss the following:

 

- How to measure recruitment efficiency?

- How to identify which areas of inefficiencies to tackle.

- Buy or Build: how to make the right choice?

- How to reduce switching costs?

- Managing internal communications

- Stakeholder management

- Managing up to C-level

- How do you know it's done

- Examples of improvement in recruitment efficiency

- What to look forward to in 2025?

 

All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.

 

We're with Alan Price, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, (Deel), Manjuri Sinha, VP of Talent Succcess (OLX) & Jane Curran, Global Head of Talent Operations (JLL) on Friday 13th September, 2pm BST / 9am ET

 

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Ep272 is sponsored by our friends Metaview

 

Still furiously scribbling or typing interview notes? It’s time to leave note-taking in the pre-AI era and join the thousands of recruiters already using Metaview.

 

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Supercharge your efficiency: Whether it’s automatically generated candidate TL;DRs, auto-filled scorecards, or any of our other AI-assisted features, Metaview makes every step of the interview process delightfully efficient.

 

Make more confident hiring decisions: With perfect, instantly-queryable candidate data at your fingertips, you can be sure you’re making hiring decisions based on what actually happened in interviews.

 

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Hiring Insights from 1 Million Job Interviews

 

Interview Intelligence is a category which has exploded into industry consciousness over the past 12 months. Employers are finally learning that in order to have hiring success, you have to ensure that your interviewing game is elite. We are finding out some incredible insights in how recruiters and hiring managers interview, many of which have been posted online already, mainly by BrightHire CEO Ben Sesser's amazing posts on interview insights

 

I've grabbed some time with Ben to run through these insights, how recruiters can take this understanding to improve their hiring process and why the near future is going to include new industry standards like Interview Quality Score (IQS) and Voice of the Candidate (VoC)

 

We will discuss the following:

 

- Gender variance in speaking time

- Candidate motivations correlation with interview rating

- M/F candidate motivations on opportunity

- What AE candidates REALLY care about

- M/F hiring manager interviewing styles

- Topics most discussed by top sales candidates

- Volume of interviews required to hire great sales candidates

- What percentage of interviews are 'structured'?

 

All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.

 

We're with Ben Sesser, CEO of BrightHire on Friday 6th September, 2pm BST / 9am ET

 

 

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Ep271 is sponsored by our friends BrightHire

 

Not another note-taking tool. BrightHire helps you transform your quality of hire with AI interview summaries and highlights that capture every detail for better hiring decisions, to AI-powered analytics for consistently better interviews. Trusted by top class employers like HCA Healthcare, Rippling, Canva and Zapier. Upgrade your hiring efficiency and quality with BrightHire - get a demo today

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today.

 

Next up is Maxime Legardez Coquin, CEO of Maki

 

- When did you know you were going to be an entrepreneur?

- What are the strengths of a founder coming into a new domain?

- Is there a formula for success as a CEO of a fast growing scale up?

- What recruiting lessons did you personally learn when building businesses?

- If I could ask a former colleague of yours to describe your management style, what would they say?

- Can you describe what your Day in the Life looks like?

- What are the main challenges of recruitment tech founders right now?

- What do you think will happen to software development if AI continues on current path?

- What do you think recruitment will look like in 2030?

- How will companies and organisations change with the integration with AI and Automation?

 

All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.

 

Tues 3rd Sept, 2pm BST / 3pm CEST

 

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Ep50 of Founders Focus is supported by Maki

 

AI powered one stop shop to engage, assess and develop talents across the globe. Allowing to assess 300+ skills from coding to cognitive, langage to soft skills, video interviewing to personality traits etc in real time using speech to text and AI/LLMs module while offering a great immersive experience to candidates.

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Maternity Returnees: Are Employers Doing Enough (Or Anything At All?)

 

Maternity Leave is a policy most employers have in place, but what about Maternity Return? Most employers seem not to have any policy at all, leaving the experience of returning mothers mainly up to the line management, with predictably variable results!

 

We're going to dive into an under discussed topic on what the current experience is like for Maternity Returnees, and what policies employers can produce to be truly inclusive for all members of the workforce.

 

- What is the current legal status of Maternity Return?

- What do most employers do?

- What has been the experience (bad, ok, good) of maternity leave returners

- What makes an experience this way?

- Do we have standardisation or customisation?

- What support do managers need to do better for returning workers?

- Psychology: what are the common psychological challenges of returning to a team?

- Re-onboarding rituals: does anyone do this?

- Returning to lead: different from being a returning IC?

- What recommendations do we have for returnees, and employers embracing returnees?

 

All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.

 

We're with Kirsty Wigley-Smith, Senior Manager Talent Acquisition, (LogicMonitor) Heidi Wassini,

Director, Global Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding (Too Good To Go), Kellie Nedelcoux, Founder (Career & Parenthood) & friends and on Friday 30th August, 2pm BST / 3pm CEST

 

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Ep270 is sponsored by our friends Equitas

 

The all-in-one interview platform helping you hire the best candidates, in half the time, in the fairest way possible. If you want to make sure that your recruiters and Hiring managers have the best support in interviewing in a non-bias way, Equitas is the interview intelligence platform for you. 1000's of interviewers are using Equitas, 95% report they would not interview any other way. Want to know more?

 

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Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today.

 

Next up is Runar Reistrup, CEO of YunoJuno

 

- What are the differences leading a startup / scale up vs a mega corp?

- Do the order of the most management skills change with this context?

- As a leader, how do you prepare a company for every stage of its journey?

- How much of being a leader is innate vs learnt?

- What have been the most significant changes in the workforce over the past decade?

- How would you describe 2010-2019 period of London Startup?

- How do you think 2020-2039 London startup to be defined?

- How do you see companies changing shape over the next 10 years?

- What can customers expect of YunoJuno in 2025 and beyond?

 

 

All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.

 

Wednesday 28th Aug, 12pm Midday

 

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Ep51 of Founders Focus is supported by YunoJuno

 

YunoJuno helps the world's leading companies in reducing costs, hiring times and ensuring full compliance when working with contractors and freelancers worldwide.

 

What started as a platform to connect the best freelancers with forward-thinking companies has now redefined how businesses source and manage their entire contingent workforce.

 

Sourcing, compliance, payments, cost tracking, insights and much more - YunoJuno has it all covered for you, combining a a full lifecycle system with a curated marketplace of 100,000+ global contractors.

 

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NEW GOVERNMENT: WHAT CAN RECRUITERS / HR EXPECT?

 

We'll be over a month since the General Election, in which almost all pollsters predict the Labour Party forming the government with the largest majority since Tony Blair 1997. How radical will this new government be? Are we going to see New Labour 2.0 or as some critics contend, Tory-lite 2.0?

 

Whatever the flavour of personal politics, it remains the case that change of government means change in legislation, especially in taxation, employment law, immigration law, pension reform and the rest. What does this mean for us recruiters and HR professionals? What can we expect from the new government?

 

We're going to look into a foggy crystal ball and try to have a look, with market observers Neil Carberry, CEO (Recruitment & Employment Confederation, Tony Wilson, Director (Institute of Employment Studies), Ray Walker, VP of Contingent Workforce (Worksome) & friends. We're on Thursday 22nd August, 2pm BST

 

 

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Ep269 is sponsored by our friends Worksome

 

Worksome removes HR, Legal and Finance friction between companies and independent contractors at scale. Managing a significant number of independent contractors in your business? You need Worksome. Connect here with a member of friendly team today.

HOW TO BUILD A JOB SCRAPER USING PYTHON (AS A NON-CODER!)

 

Friends, you don't need me to tell you that the job market for Talent Acquisition professionals has been in the toilet for the past 18 months. So much so that I have even had to close down the Brainfood Jobs Job Board - for lack of posted jobs! When the competition out there is as fierce as it is, you have to think about how to give yourself an edge. How about creating a lead generation tool which automatically scrapes new TA jobs as soon as they're published?

 

That's what Aaron Lintz did, to support his own job search. He's also now showing everyone else how he did it, so he can support YOUR job search.

 

You will learn the step-by-step of who Aaron did this task. Not only is the output super useful but also a lesson for all of us that it is possible to super scale up your effort if we dove just a little deeper on the tech that is available to us. And finally, what a demonstration this is to future employers?

 

Aaron Lintz, Senior Sources (Black & Veatch) will lead, and I will be joined by Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games), Erin Mathew (Recruiter) and friends. We're on Friday 16th August, 2pm BST /3pm CEST / 9am ET

 

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Ep268 is sponsored by our friends Atlas

 

Atlas is an end-to-end recruitment platform built from the ground up with generative AI.

 

Everything you do is covered in one single platform, including:

 

- Candidate Sourcing

- Candidate Pool management

- Candidate GPT

- End-to-end project management

- AI interview scheduling

- AI interview notes

- Company wide LLM

- Actionable analytics

- Business Development platform

 

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REAL USE CASES IN RECRUITMENT AUTOMATION: LIVE DEMO

 

Friends, I'm on a mission: industry everywhere is in a race for become AI-enabled, and those that are slow to adopt are going to be outcompeted by those who can now move faster and better. What we've been lacking is real examples of how RPA (Recruitment Process Automation) and AI can really take out chunks of the work recruiters do. That changes today!

 

- Where in the recruiting pipeline does RPA / AI have greatest impact?

- What does it look like from lead generation / prospecting POV

- Lead enrichment

- Outreach, email and calling

- Meeting scheduling

- Candidate sourcing

- Offer management

- Back office RPA

- What else?

 

Mark Chaffey, CEO (hackajob), Jordan Shlosberg, CEO (Atlas), Nikos Moraitis, CEO (Workable), Stan Wasowicz, Founder (ScottyAI), Mayur Macwan, CEO (Round.One), Max Armbruster, CEO (TalkPush) & friends are going live demo their own products on Brainfood Live - never before seen footage of Founders who probably haven't done a demo themselves in years ;-)