The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

By Hung LeeBusiness

The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast episodes

August 17, 2023 Founders Focus - Ep39 - Up close and personal with Raj Mukherjee, VP & GM of Indeed
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today

There probably hasn't been a more disruptive and then dominant recruitment technology business than Indeed, a company which somehow manages to be dominant incumbent and disruptive innovator at the same time. We're with VP and GM, Raj Mukherjee on the latest changes at Indeed, and what this means for customers and users in 2023 and beyond

- Pay per application - what, why, how and what would you do if we could do it again?
- Tough decision: when did you know of the need for reduction in force?
- As a leader, how does one repair the hurt from RIF - what techniques did you use?
- What do you think you do especially well as a leader? What not so well?
- Was it always an ambition to reach a leadership like GM of Indeed?
- What lessons have you learned along the way which young Raj might have benefited from?
- What is the state of recruitment today, where will be in 12 months time?
- How does Indeed decide which moonshots to try, when do you decide to preserve or stop?
- What are the marketing challenges for Indeed, a brand which everyone knows already?
- How has AI impacted the Indeed product roadmap?

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

Ep39 of Founders Focus is supported by Indeed

More people find jobs on Indeed than anywhere else. Indeed is the #1 job site in the world (Comscore, Total Visits, September 2022) and allows job seekers to search millions of jobs in more than 60 countries and 28 languages. Over 3 million employers use Indeed to find and hire new employees. More than 300 million unique visitors use Indeed each month to search for jobs, post resumes, research companies and more.

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1 hr 1 min
August 11, 2023 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep218 - Turning Employees into Linkedin Talent Influencers
TURNING EMPLOYEES INTO LINKEDIN TALENT INFLUENCERS

One of the great case studies which have emerged in recruitment over the past month has been Cisco's remarkable employee advocacy programme, in which 84,000 employees received training on how to be a LinkedIn influencer. We can forget that almost all of us have powerful networks, many of which are plugged into the world's number one professional networking site, but few of us are actively posting on it. Might it be that we have simply never received the training for it?

We're going to explore this example and figure out whether it can be replicated for other employers

- How many employees are on LinkedIn
- How many are daily active users
- How many are weekly active, or monthly active
- Can we identify those who are already active on platform?
- What training is required to activate more?
- How can we reward such behaviour?
- What are the risks of activating an employee base on LinkedIn?
- What direct incentives can we put into place?
- How can we track performance over time?

Let's see if we can put together an employee advocacy plan for LinkedIn!

We're with Vicki Saunders, Employer Brand Lead (Curry's plc), Richard Bradley, VP Strategic Sales & Customer Success (Kelly), Leah Wise, Global Employer Branding (Hellofresh) & Marian Jarzak, Employer Brand Partner and we're on Friday 11th August, 2pm BST - save your spot by clicking on the green button!

Ep218 is sponsored by our buddies Greenhouse

In today’s competitive talent landscape, being people-first is business-first. Greenhouse helps companies adopt a flexible, fair, and efficient approach to hiring. Empower everyone from recruiters to hiring managers to make confident decisions that strengthen your business. Get measurably better at hiring with a data-driven approach. Discover how Greenhouse can help you hire for the kind of business you want to build.

Learn more at Greenhouse.com/hire

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1 hr 6 min
August 09, 2023 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep217 - LinkedIn Algorithm Updates - Redux
LINKEDIN ALGORITHM UPDATES

Have you noticed a collapse in the effectiveness of your LinkedIn posts?

If you have, then it seems that you might not be alone, as LinkedIn have made some significant changes to the newsfeed algorithm which all recruiters need to be aware of. Revealed in an interview with Entrepreneur, it seems that LinkedIn is prioritising content which genuinely adds value (how do they determine this), is resonant with your profile page (we need to pay attention to this) as well as post frequency, media choices and engagement back with engagers.

Pretty much essential that we get on top of this, so I'm bringing back one of the best experts in the business to help update us on the state of the LinkedIn algorithm. Andy Foote, flying in solo with this for this one!

Ep217 is sponsored by our buddies KANDIDATE

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1 hr 1 min
July 28, 2023 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep216 - Fully Automated Hiring
Fully Autonomous Hiring

The promise is there: a recruiting process which runs autonomously without the need for a human recruiter or a human hiring manager, coordinator, background checker or anything else. Lets take a leap forward and see how it might be accomplished!

- Identification
- Engagement
- Assessment
- Negotiation
- Close

How does technology do all of this, WITHOUT just moving a human being through a process which is which demonstrably inhumane? What does candidate experience look like when we have no human contact on the other side. Who will be the first company to try this?

All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're on Friday 28th July, 2pm BST, and we will be following a presentation by Stan Wasowicz on this speculative future, and use it as a launching pad for a conversation of the de-humanisation of hiring.

Click on the save your spot button to register and follow the channel here (recommended) to be notified when we go live.

Ep216 is sponsored by our buddies KANDIDATE

Would You Like 20 Top Candidates Added to Your Hardest-to-fill Talent Pipeline, For FREE?

✅ 100% FREE trial to work with one of our world-class Sourcers
✅ 20 superstar candidates added to your talent pipeline
✅ We will work on ANY role, no matter how challenging
✅ Particularly effective for Engineering and Senior hires

To make it even better, there are:
🚫 No charges if you hire
🚫 No hidden fees at all - it’s a 100% free trial

Email CEO Alex van Klaveren directly at [email protected] and ask for a trial. Mention you saw it on Brainfood!
1 hr 14 min
July 21, 2023 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep216 - Tech Hiring Landscape 2023 Mid Year Review
Tech Hiring Landscape: 2023 Mid Year Review

We're well into Q3 and by now we should have a reasonable view as to how the tech hiring landscape is going. It has been an extremely challenge 12 months for the VC backed tech sector, as we've seen a refocus on profitability over growth as investors turn conservative in light of high interest rates, constantly VUCA-ring uncertainty and, perhaps, the prospect of a decade long slow down on economic growth. How does this all affect tech recruiters and tech hiring?

- Volume of tech jobs
- Regional variance - UK, EU, USA, APAC, LATAM etc
- End of super star cities?
- Has remote redistributed tech jobs, dispersing them geographically?
- If so, which places have been the beneficiaries?
- What are candidates saying?
- How does this impact KPI's on recruiting for tech roles?
- Has the role of the tech recruiter changed?
- Advent of AI, has this changed tech candidate behaviour?
- What should tech recruiters be doing for the rest of 2023?

All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're on Friday 21st July, 2pm BST, with Matt Doyle, Senior Manager Talent Acquisition (Tenable), Sam Berthoud, Director of Account Management (hackajob), Ach Petrosyan, Recruiter (Levelup Ventures) & Bharath C, Recruiter (Meta)

Click on the green button on the top right to register and follow the channel here (recommended) to be notified when we go live.

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1 hr 12 min
July 14, 2023 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep214 - WTF is Fractional Working?
WTF is Fractional Working?

Do a search on LinkedIn for 'Fractional' and you find increasingly large number of results for experienced professionals - sometimes C-level pro's - calling themselves 'fractional'. A very recent phenomenon, this is the belated recognition that sometimes you may not need a key resource 100% of the time, all of the time, and in fact you only really need that person a percentage of the time. This is the fractional working and it's the topic of today's Brainfood Live On Air.

- How does Fractional Working differ from Contracting or Freelancing?
- What does the taxonomy of working styles look like?
- What kind of contractual relationship do fractional workers have with employers
- Are they employers?
- And if so, how are benefits handled?
- How do companies handle confidentiality and conflict of interest issues?
- What are the benefits of working in fractional way, for worker and employer?
- How does this differ from 'overworking'?
- What roles are most suited to be fractionalised?
- How do I find fractional work?

All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're on Friday 14th July, 2pm BST, with Barry Flack, Fractional HR Exec (BF Consultancy), Leah Sharma, Head of TA (various), Clair Bush, Fraction CMO (Thrive) & Alan Walker, Founder (Udder)

Ep214 is sponsored by our buddies Symphony Talent

Symphony Talent combines CRM, career site, programmatic advertising and creative services for the most complete recruitment marketing and campaigning capabilities you'll find in one platform. Increase applicant flow, reduce hiring time and build a world class employer-of-choice employer brand with Symphony Talent's unique technology and services suite.
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1 hr 10 min
July 13, 2023 Founders Focus- Ep38 - Up close and personal with Ryan Steelberg CEO of Veritone & Alex Fourlis MD of Broadbean
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 are two business leaders who have come together to bring some mega brands together - it's Ryan Steelberg, President at Veritone with Alex Fourlis, CEO of Broadbean - who are going to talk to us about leadership, vision, M&A and the future of recruitment technology and how it applies to the changing behaviours of job seekers and employers alike

- How did the deal happen?
- When was the moment when it was clear it was going to happen?
- As business leaders, who do you separate from the rational from the emotional?
- Do you think everyone should do it or are there certain traits and circumstances which would make entrepreneurship a better or worse idea?
- Have you done any personality assessment and if so, what did it say about your leadership style?
- How does transitioning to senior leadership feel like after being sole leader?
- What are the main market drivers which are impacting product makers right now?
- With the rise of technologies like low code no code and GAI, how would entrepreneurship change in future?
- How do exogenous factors influence the thinking of a CEO?
- Has AI changed the Veritone / Broadbean roadmap
- What does the recruiting world look like once AI becomes ubiquitous?
- What can customers of the Veritone family of products expect for the rest of 2023

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

Ep38 of Founders Focus is supported by Veritone

Veritone, a leading provider of enterprise AI solutions, has acquired Broadbean, a global recruitment SaaS technology company, from CareerBuilder. This acquisition significantly bolsters Veritone's AI-driven Human Resources portfolio, building on their previous acquisition of PandoLogic in 2021. With Broadbean’s job distribution software and extensive job board network paired with PandoLogic’s programmatic AI technology, Veritone’s HR Solutions will bring the full benefits of the latest recruitment marketing technologies to companies worldwide
1 hr 2 min
July 07, 2023 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep213 - Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Recruiters Moving On Up: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome:

Fresh from seeing tons of recruiters make their speaking debuts on Recfest, we're going to speak to as many of them as we can to chat about the mental aspect of doing things which give us anxiety, especially the sense that 'you might not be good enough'.

- What is imposter syndrome and do we all experience it?
- How prevalent is it for recruiters / HR, do we feel it more than professionals in other departments?
- What techniques do we have to combat it?
- How does identity interact with imposter syndrome?
- Is it matter of in-group vs out-group?
- How do we help others ameliorate the feeling?
- What can TA Leaders do to help direct reports overcome it?
- Does it get better with age?

We're on Friday 7th July, 2pm BST, with Lauren Harrop, Talent Acquisition Partner, (D2L), Becca Collis, Senior Manager Talent Acquisition (AMS), Anna Pokrzywka-Szklarska, Sourcing Manager (RTS People) & Alex Geht, Talent Sourcing Lead, Added Value

Ep213 is sponsored by our buddies Greenhouse

In today’s competitive talent landscape, being people-first is business-first. Greenhouse helps companies adopt a flexible, fair, and efficient approach to hiring. Empower everyone from recruiters to hiring managers to make confident decisions that strengthen your business. Get measurably better at hiring with a data-driven approach. Discover how Greenhouse can help you hire for the kind of business you want to build.

Learn more at Greenhouse.com/hire
1 hr 20 min
June 30, 2023 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep212 - Demographic Crisis: AI, Immigration and the Future of Work
Demographic Crisis, AI, Immigration & the Future of Work

Do you have the feeling that there are big changes happening in the world? The reason why we haven't have a 'new normal' for a little while now is because there are a number of critically important macro trends which are forcing factors to decisions government, businesses and individuals have to make. The candidate shortage, the rise of AI, the need for, yet hostility to, immigration and some very real questions on the relationship between economy, society and technology.

- What contribution does the demographic crisis make to candidate shortage?
- How effective will extending the pension age increase the workforce?
- Do we need immigration, if so, why are we seeming so against it?
- Has any society reversed population decline without immigration?
- Will AI / Automation be the 'solution' for organisations who can't hire enough people?
- How does AI disintermediation impact the government tax base?
- What are the techniques we can use to balance the need for workers, the need for rest, the need for pay and the need for tax?
- How does all this impact the work we humans should be doing, and will be paid for doing?

It's big talk folks, so we have big hitters leading the conversation. We're on Friday 30th June, 2pm BST, with Kevin Wheeler, Founder (Future of Talent Institute), Laetitia Vitaud, Director (Cadre Noir) & Mariano Mamertino, Economist, (The Burning Glass Institute)

Ep212 is sponsored by our buddies Kandidate

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1 hr 14 min
June 23, 2023 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep211 - How AI Changes Software Engineering - What Tech Recruiters Have Got To Know
AI is changing Software Engineering: What Tech Recruiters Have Got To Know
It should come as no surprise that the sector that is most exposed to the implications of generative artificial intelligence is the sector that built it. Software engineers were amongst the first to see a mainstreaming of this new class of technologies (GitHub Copilot) and were amongst the first to realise the Janus-like future we have before us: extraordinary gains in productivity vs existential risk of disintermediation!
One thing that software engineers realise is that GAI is going to change software engineering work. With that change will come a re-prioritisation of skills, and with that, a reorientation of what the most in-demand skills to hire might be. Today's topic of Brainfood Live on Air is going to be tech intensive review of what's going to change, and from the developers voice themselves, what tech recruiters have GOT TO KNOW.
- What is the sentiment in Software engineering about Generative AI?
- What percentage of software engineers currently use GAI?
- How does Copilot help individual software engineers?
- How does it impact the thinking of software engineering leaders?
- When we visualise the future engineering team in a GAI world, what does that look like?
- How do the required skills change?
- What do engineering managers look for when they next think about hiring for skills?
- How do we assess for them?
- How do developers think tech recruiting will change?
- How are tech recruiters going to win in this new future?
All this and more folks - essential one for anyone hiring for tech
We're on Friday 23rd June, 2pm BST, with Joshua Hoffman, VP of Engineering (Sharpist), Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games), Iwan Gulenko, Founder (CoderFit) & Serban Constantinescu, (Random Tech Guy)

Ep211 is sponsored by our buddies CodeSignal

CodeSignal is how companies can identify the right candidates with the right skills – even if they don’t have the “right” profile. We provide everything from initial assessments to technical screens and onsite interviews.
For too long companies have spent too much time sifting through all the noise produced by traditional resumes, inconsistent interviews, and homegrown assessments when all they really want to know is how well this person can do the job.
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1 hr 25 min