Brainfood on Tour - How to Hire in Singapore in 2025 and Beyond?

 

Friends, we’re always on the move and visiting local recruiter communities to find out how those folks here in their local territories. I am delighted to be visiting Singapore once again - the Mighty Mouse of SE Asia! One of the smallest countries by landmass, yet one of the economically most important, the city state has been a huge centre of financial innovation and a place where many MNC’s have operations. What is it like to hire for talent in Singapore?

 

We’re going to learn:

- State of the Singapore Economy 2025

- Major challenges, major opportunities

- Political environment - how does business feel about Lawrence Wong?

- Economic plans from the Govt, what is the plan for employment / growth?

- Demographics …where is Singapore getting the workforce?

- Employment law…what do foreigners need to know about hiring in Singapore?

- Local vs Ex-pat vs Immigrant - who hires who and how?

- In-demand sectors

- How do recruiters operate here?

- Recruitment technology - who is using what?

- Talent import / export …who is going, who is staying?

- JB / Singapore economic zone…who big a deal?

- What do Recruiters need to know to become successful in Singapore?

 

All this and more, on Weds 26th February, 930am local time.

 

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Talent Trends: Recruiter Productivity 2025

 

Ashby produce some fantastic quarterly reports, taking information from their platform to better understand the behaviour of the recruiters in the market. Hot of the press with the latest report, we are going to take this session to deep dive into a topic we all need to care about in 2025 - Recruiter Productivity.

 

We will find out:

 

- What are the productivity benchmarks for recruiting in 2024?

- Can we distinguish between how A+ performers behave compared to C- performers?

- What are the most impactful changes TA teams can make when deciding to uplevel their productivity?

- At individual level, what are the ways leaders can fairly measure performance?

- Can we discern the impact of AI on recruiter activity?

- Are there any sectors, regions, company types that seem to be most productive?

- If so, what is transferrable from these to others?

 

All this and more, as we deep dive into the numbers, followed by panel discussion with Heads of TA!

 

We're with with Willem Wijnans, Community & Talent Advisory Lead (Ashby), Andrea Marston, Talent Acquisition Director (Nutanix), Alexa McWilliam, Global Head of Talent Acquisition (numa) & Andy Mountney, Global Head of Talent Acquisition (Chainlink)

 

We are on Friday 21st February, 2pm GMT

 

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Ep293 is sponsored by our friends Ashby

 

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AI Agents in TA & HR Hype vs Reality?

 

Some people are saying that will be the year of the AI Agent - an advancement of AI where it crosses over from being an amazing tool to being a competent colleague. The Google Whitepaper shared in recruiting brainfood a few weeks ago was an outstanding introduction to the topic and we're going to use this session to deep dive into state of play when it comes to Agentic AI

 

You will learn what TA Leaders think about:

 

- What is Agentic AI?

- Why is this a step change from 'normal AI'?

- Do we have AI Agents currently out there in production?

- In what fields or sectors: can we see one in action?

- How are AI agents built?

- What might be the use cases for Agentic AI in Recruitment?

- How do we anticipate Agentic AI making an appearance in the workflow?

- Are there any Agentic AI's operating in recruiting or HR right now?

- What is the best thing that TA / HR should do in given what we know about Agentic AI?

 

All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Johannes Sundlo, People Director, (Avalanche Studios Group), Jessie Schofer, Founder (Stakkd), Simão Nogueira, Head of AI (Talent Protocol) & Jose Kadlec, Author (HR Robosapiens) - on Friday 14th Feb, 11.00am GMT

 

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State of Hiring - What Do 100 Talent Leaders Think for 2025?

 

Every year Willo put together a report from an in-depth survey of 100+ Heads of Talent. And every year Brainfood Live gets CEO Euan Cameron on screen to talk us through it. If you're a TA Leader who needs to benchmark what your peers are thinking, this show is for you:

 

You will learn what TA Leaders think about:

 

- Budget allocation in 2025

- Tech / Tools which are the priorities

- TA upskilling, what are the skills gaps in the current Talent Acquisition set up

- Hiring: what is the scale of hiring for TA, what skills / attributes are most important right now?

- Compensation: what rates for which levels in TA

- How does the TA structure look like 2024 vs 2025?

- What is the degree of off shoring in team?

- FTE vs Non-FTE in team

- What even is the right size of a TA team?

 

 

All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're on Friday 7th Feb, 10am GMT

 

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Ep291 is sponsored by our friends Willo

 

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How to Hire in Malaysia in 2025

 

Brainfood On Tour is back on folks - we're now in Malaysia and its time to deep dive into this fascinating country made of many ethnicities, faiths and regions. A nation of 70 million people, Malaysia is a coming powerhouse of SE Asia region with huge economic potential

 

We will find out:

 

- What are the main things people need to know about hiring in Malaysia?

- In economy, what are the most dynamic sectors?

- What are the demographics looking like here?

- What are the main government policies which employers need to be aware of when hiring in Malaysia?

- Language & diversity: how do employers navigate this?

- What are the main qualities of a great recruiter for the Malaysia market?

- What tools / technologies are important for the recruiter community here?

- How does one find out more about how to hire in Malaysia?

 

All this and more as we deep dive into what makes the Malaysia recruitment market tick!

 

We're with Ian Turnpenny Andrei Perevalov, Head of People Ops (Virtual Internships) , Elena Argyriou, Head of People & Culture (SnappyMob), Rodica Belocosov, VP of People (MoneyLion), Sam Baxendale, CEO (Kinetik) & friends

 

 

And on Friday 7th February, 12pm KUL

 

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Talent Insights for 2025 from 1000 CHRO's

 

Nobody doubts this 2025 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for how businesses organise. Transformational breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence, rapid remodelling of organisation structure, requirement for re-skilling and re-deployment, almost every job will be impacted. How do CHRO's think about this year, and what do they see as the priorities?

 

- Demographics of respondents

- Priorities: talent acquisition, talent density, talent retention?

- Technology & tools

- Budget allocation, where is it going in 2025?

- Non-FTE vs FTE

- DEIB: is HR under attack? And if so what do we need to do about it?

- Generational differences in the workforce

- Impact of AI in the job market

- Has it changed your source of hire?

 

All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. Greenhouse Co-founder Jon Stross with run us through the results. We're on Friday 31st Jan, 2pm GMT

 

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Ep290 is sponsored by our friends Greenhouse

How to Hire in India in 2025

 

Brainfood On Tour is back for another season! I am delighted to back in India - for the first time since before Covid. This is one of the most diverse, vibrant, populous and important countries in the world - and potentially one of the major engines of economic growth for the future. Let's find out what it is like to hire in India!

 

We will find out:

 

- What are the main things people need to know about hiring in India?

- In economy, what are the most dynamic sectors?

- How do employers plan for the talent surplus that India consistently produces?

- What are the main government policies which employers need to be aware of when hiring in India?

- Language & diversity: how do employers navigate this?

- What are the main qualities of a great recruiter for the India market?

- What tools / technologies are important for the recruiter community here?

- How does one find out more about how to hire in India?

 

All this and more as we deep dive into what makes the India recruitment market tick!

 

We're with with Bharath C, Senior Manager Talent Acquisition (Ultraviolette Automotive), AK Menon, Director (Options Exec Search), Ridhi Malhotra, Demand Generation, Deepa Joshi, Head of Talent Acquisition (Novonesis) & friends

 

And on Tuesday 28th January, 12pm IST

 

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Req Load: How Much is Too Much Per Recruiter in the Age of AI?

 

If Artificial Intelligence going to make recruiters hyper productive, how many requirements can we now expect to manage? There's no question that this question is going to be on the mind of CEO's going into 2025. Whilst we CAN expect some increase in req load, how much is too much?

 

In this session, we are going to discuss the variables which go into calculating requirements per recruiter, and how to explain that numbers don't capture everything a recruiter does.

 

- Volume of roles

- Number of repeats

- Complexity of hire

- Availability of talent

- Condition of employer branding - are we an attractive employer?

- Calibre of current team

- EVP

- Tools / techniques - do we even have a LinkedIn Recruiter license (jk)

- Impact of DEIB, are we invested and committed?

- Hiring philosophy: open hiring, skills based hiring, traditional hiring?

- Structure of organisation

- Regional variance

- Functional variance.

 

All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Matthias Schmeisser, Head of Talent, (Emnify), Mark Deubels, TA Leader (Synthesia), Oksana Strippentow, Head of Talent (ex-Mangopay) & Mary Kay Baldino, Head of Talent Acquisition (Morningstar)

 

We're on Friday 24th Jan, 2pm GMT

 

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Forecasting Recruiting in 2025

 

Happy New Year Everybody!

 

And welcome to Season 5 of Brainfood Live On Air - the weekly show where we gather the world's top experts to come on and discuss live on air the topics of the day. The year would not make a proper start without a forecast of what we think the recruiting environment is going to look like. Lets review how we think the market is going to shape up:

 

- Investment in TA / HR Tech

- Assessment & Candidate use of AI

- Volume of job applications / job advert volume

- TA organisational set up / and role distribution

- Decentralised hiring - will more recruiting work be pushed back to the line?

- State of DEI

- Use of Artificial Intelligence - where do we stand on this?

- Future for Employer branding, what innovations do we expect?

- TA job market - any recovery, and if so, where?

 

All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.

 

We are bringing all of the big guns: join George LaRoque, Founder (Workbench), Madeline Laurano, Founder (Aptitude Research), Bas van de Haterd, Author (Talent Acquisition Excellence), Tim Sackett, President (HRU), Torin Ellis (himself) & friends

 

We're on Friday 10th Jan, 2pm GMT

 

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Ep288 is sponsored by our friends Ashby

 

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Brainfood Live Christmas Party 2024 - Open Mic

 

Friends, this is the last Brainfood Live of the year!

 

This will be our 50th show of the year, so our cadence of doing these more or less once per week, every week, remains pretty much unbroken - not even sure where the two missing weeks went!

 

In any case, we're going to do an Open Mic session where all the years panelists and guests can come on and say their piece to the camera on what they thought of 2024. See the great and the good join Brainfood Live one last time for 2024 - and feel welcome to join on screen if you want to say your piece.

 

What do you think about:

 

- Job market for TA

- Skill Based Hiring

- Talent Density

- Offshoring

- Automation and AI

- DEI vs Wokelash

- Pay equity

- Fractional HR / TA

- LinkedIn search / copilot

- Content and Audience building

- Network value

- Conference scene

 

All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We'e with the great and the good and YOU!

We're on Friday 20th Dec, 2pm GMT

 

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