The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

State of Global Mobility in 2023

Does anyone here have a plan for hiring globally this year?

Candidate shortages are persistent in many sectors, in many countries (see the UK and the NHS...) and for many employers there is no option other than to hire from overseas and relocate.

- What are the challenges of doing this at scale?

- Where do you even start?

- What territories have got an excess of labour?

- How do we tap into that market?

- Do we have to do 'destination branding'?

- How much of the process is performed in candidates home country?

- What about family, when do we start this conversation?

- How employers present an inclusive culture?

- What support is needed for relocation?

We're with Richard Bradley, VP, (Kelly Services), Ruben Tieken, Squad Lead (Immersive), Toby Culshaw, Talent Intelligence Lead (Amazon) & Federica Cei, Global Talent Acquisition Manager (SITA)

Ep190 is sponsored by our buddies Localyze

Localyze is the all-in-one platform that makes it easy to manage your global mobility needs in one simple place. We can guide you through your global mobility challenges, from relocating new hires to visa changes, postings and transfers between offices. By combining the power of our platform with our team’s and partners’ experience with global mobility, we can support you in successfully managing an international team.

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We have not seen a technology breakthrough like ChatGPT for a long time. Only released last December, it has already racked up millions of users attracted to its almost magical outputs to queries made by human users. The application for business has been obvious - and every day we are seeing new ideas to produce outputs which can be immediately put into production, saving workers hundreds of hours of work.

It's a game changer folks, and if we recruiters don't get good at, we are going to regret missing out on the opportunity. Already massively oversubscribed, this show is going to focus on how recruiters can use ChatGPT, bringing together expert users as well as technologists who are integrating ChatGPT into their product roadmaps. The future is folks - register and see for yourself what it is going to look like!

We're with Martyn Redstone, Founder (BotJobs), Glen Cathey, SVP Head of Digital Strategy (Randstad), Bill Fischer, CTO (VONQ), Sajithkumar Swaminathan, Corporate Recruiter (Replicon) & Friends

Ep189 is sponsored by our buddies Join Talent

Have you heard about Join Talent's amazing Talent Acquisition Insights project?

They are a series of how-to guides on topics such as Using Assessments in Talent Acquisition, Market Mapping, Benchmarking, Building KPI's and Using Data and more. It's some of the most pragmatic recruiter centric guides I've seen - and all freely downloadable in the Join Talent Resources Hub.

All free to download, so get to it!

I don't know about you but I've been consuming TikTok videos like a billion other people on the planet and been amazed at the creativity, community and controversy that you find on there. It's also been pretty clear that the opportunity for potentially massive reach is there to be explored!

Conspicuously missing though, has been any sense of how recruiters can use TikTok. 2022 was the year when I first started noticing recruiter accounts build an audience, and after seeing a few familiar faces from different domains also build a crowd, the time is right to get them on screen and find out what they've learned!

This is the topic of Brainfood Live ON Air - How to be a Recruiter on TikTok!

You are going to learn:

- What is TikTok?

- How does it work?

- Where are my friends?

- What is the content that works best?

- Content cadence

- Employer branding on TikTok?

- Can you source on the app?

- How do ads work?

All this and more - essential viewing if you to figure out what how the hottest app over the past 3 years actually works.

We're with Joel Lalgee, BDM (Hirewell), Sara Dalsfelt, Community Manager (Adway) & Mike Manzi, Fractional VP Sales (Official Sales)

Ep188 is sponsored by our buddies Adway

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Welcome back to Brainfood Live 2023!

I hope everyone has had a great holiday break and are refreshed for the challenges and opportunities of the year ahead. So what exactly IS ahead for us in 2023? We're going to talk to industry experts from recruiting agency, recruiting tech investment, in-house recruiter, LinkedIn, Sourcing, Web3 and everything else we care about in this wonderful industry of ours!

- Economy

- Recruitment industry

- Sectors of growth / retrenchment

- Priority challenges in hiring

- DEIB

- Recruitment technology investment

- Hot HR tech trends

- Bersin's predictions

- ChatGPT in Recruitment  & more.

We're with Kate Shoesmith, Deputy CEO (Recruitment & Employers Confederation), Madeline Laurano, Founder (Aptitude Research), George LaRoque, Founder (WorkTech), Andy Spence, Founder (Glassbead), Andy Foote, Founder (LinkedInsights), Jo Avent, CPO (CrosscHQ) & friends.

Ep187 is sponsored by our buddies Greenhouse

Greenhouse is the hiring software company. We help businesses become great at hiring through our powerful hiring approach, complete suite of software and services, Hiring MaturityTM methodology and large partner ecosystem with some of the best-in-class point solutions in the market.

Optimize every phase of your hiring with our sourcing automation, multi-site job posting, interview scheduling, end-to-end candidate management, and new hire onboarding tools. Thousands of top class employers use Greenhouse to power their hiring, including Hubspot, Wise, Wayfair, Graphcore, Squarespace and many more.

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The State of Recruitment: 2022 Year in Review

Final show of the year folks, so perfect moment to celebrate ANOTHER 50 episodes of Brainfood Live On Air, review the best moments from each show and talk about what we've learned in our year of conversation on air. It will also be a great opportunity to invite back some of favourite guests and co-hosts each with a message of advice for the year 2023 ahead.

One thing to do for 2023 in....

- Recruitment Marketing

- Sourcing

- DEIB

- CX

- Company Culture

- Compensation

- Employer branding

- Talent intelligence

- Recruitment automation

- & more

We're with guests and co-hosts from all the year, including YOU if you put your hand up and want to come on screen

Recruiter Job Search & Promotion as a Mother-to Be

Continuing our series of 'true inclusion', we are turning our attention to the subterranean biases which occur in recruitment. Perhaps the most invidious is the challenge women in particular have - how to manage career and future motherhood. For men, this is substantively different - we never get asked whether we are about to become a parent, nor is parenthood any sort of impediment toward getting a job or promotion; but it is for women.

What can we do about it? This is the topic of Brainfood Live On Air

We are going to explore:

- How to create a safe environment to be transparent with family and career goals

- How to signal such support in hiring process

- What approaches are recommended from candidate POV?

- How to recognise an opportunity is unwelcoming?

- What commitments can employers make to ensure mothers-to-be feel welcome as candidates?

- What is the role of men here?

We're with Rebecca Collis, Talent Acquisition Manager (AMS), Carly Poulson, People + Culture Partner (Hazy) & Sara Dalsfelt, Head of Community (Adway)

Ep185 is sponsored by our buddies Metaview

With the recent hiring slow down, quality of hire is the top priority for high-performing companies. Metaview gives you visibility into your interviews so you can identify and fix problems, and make more confident hiring decisions. 

With Metaview's recording and transcription, you can capture and replay what actually happened in interviews. Get unprecedented insight into metrics around rigor and consistency to ensure you’re keeping quality of interviews—and quality of hire—high. 

As a Brainfood Live listener, you can get started on Metaview with up to 5 of your team members without paying anything. Book a demo with one of our friendly experts and reference "Brainfood" in the form.

The Hidden Bias in Recruiting: Class & Accent

How we speak are signifiers of our social class - formerly known as 'social standing' - information which still determines our life journeys much more than it should. How many people with regional accents end up as CEO of a business? How many as Prime Minister or President? Class and Accent bias is a the hidden bias in recruiting and one which is woefully under discussed.

That's why we're the ones doing it in this week's topic of Brainfood Live On Air.

We are going to explore:

- How have you personally been impacted by class bias?

- How do you know?

- What to do when your hiring manager exhibits this bias?

- What techniques are available to change behaviours?

- Is there any tooling which can help with this?

This is a conversation we're going to have with recruiters and business leaders who themselves have directly experienced this hidden bias. We're with

We're with John Rose, Talent Sourcer (Volvo), Ashley Wallace, Tech Talent Lead (Papercup), Mel Hayes, CPO (Nash Squared) & Nick Court, Director (The People Experience Hub)

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

Next up is Christian Payne, CEO of Talentiir

- What is the main idea behind Talentiir?

- What do you think is going to be your biggest learning curve?

- What assumptions have you had to let go, which ones are you now gambling to be true?

- What are the main decisions that need to be made for 2023?

- What leadership lessons have you learned that you would like to pass onto yourself if you could?

- What is the roadmap for Talentiir in 2023?

- What counts as success if you were to look back at the end of next year?

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

Wednesday 7th December, 12.00pm GMT / 1pm CET

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Ep35 Founders Focus is supported by Talentiir

Talentiir enables scale-up and growth-stage companies to hire the best talent. They offer 3 tiir levels of service, and modular plug and play services - talent searching, in-house recruiter and recruitment RPO. 

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Contact Talentiir for the best solution for your business. 

The Psychology of Redundancy: Mental Health Tips for Recruiters Affected

Big Tech Winter + Economies close to recession....means redundancies for many members of our community. It's incredible that we are back here again, after the first wave of layoffs in 2019/2020, but here we are. What has been missing from the discourse is the psychological impact of redundancy, especially on the suddenness it has been happening!

We are going to explore:

- Loss of identity

- Loss of relationships & social network

- Change of pattern of behaviours

- Lack of closure

- Dangers of negativity as basis of forward relationships

- Survivor bias for those who stay

- Appropriate distance with former colleagues, bosses and reports.

It's going to the fascinating conversation, with recruiters who have psychology backgrounds, have experienced redundancy before in the past, and are currently in the middle of redundancy today.

We're with Linnea Bywall, Head of People, (Alva Labs), Kristian Bright, Recruitment Lead (Rooser), Octav Buzoianu, Lead Tech Recruiter (Snyk) & Katrina Zlateva-Bowles, Founder (PeopleHealers)

Ep182 is sponsored by our buddies Metaview

With the recent hiring slow down, quality of hire is the top priority for high-performing companies. Metaview gives you visibility into your interviews so you can identify and fix problems, and make more confident hiring decisions. 

With Metaview's recording and transcription, you can capture and replay what actually happened in interviews. Get unprecedented insight into metrics around rigor and consistency to ensure you’re keeping quality of interviews—and quality of hire—high. 

Join us for a live 30-minute demo on Tuesday, December 6th where our Co-founder & CEO, Siadhal Magos, will share how Metaview's latest features enable you to supercharge quality of hire. Reserve your spot here! (And as a thank you for attending, lunch is on us with an UberEats gift card.)

Welcome to Ep34 of Founder's Focus - the show where we get up close and personal with the founder's of recruitment technology businesses - who are the people behind the product?

- What is the Day in the Life of a Recruitment Tech Founder?