The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

BUILDING CULTURE FOR HYBRID TEAMS 

One of main concerns with operating a 'hybrid' mode of work is 'cultural cohesion' - how to ensure that team members are fully included in the company culture, irrespectively of their working style.

Critics will say that this is an impossible task and better to accept cultural separation; advocates are determined to make it work and have ideas on how.

We're going to be exploring both perspectives in this episode of Brainfood Live On Air

• What the most important cultural concerns for hybrid mode of work?

We're with Melanie Hayes, VP of People (Harvey Nash), Julian Steinbuch, Founder (TechMinders) and Mertcan Uzun, Senior Manager  People & Culture (Blinkist)

Trying the Hybrid mode of work? You can't miss this folks.

Ep123 is sponsored by our buddies Platypus

Platypus makes company culture easy to understand, measurable and actionable, so that you can make smarter decisions on hiring and growing your team.

GEN Z AND THE NEW WORLD OF WORK

- How does this generation think about work?

- What relationship do they expect from employers?

- What kind of work qualifies as 'good work'?

- Do they care about remote work? Or would Gen Z prefer to start in the office?

- How long do they expect to be staying with their first employer?

- Do they expect to be working full time, part time or something else?

Must attend if you are hiring for an employer who cares about early career talent

Ep122 is sponsored by our friends at iCIMS

Download the Class of 2021 report here

THE FIRST 100 DAYS

• What are the most important things to achieve in 100 days?

All this and more, as explore first 100 days on Brainfood Live On Air.

Ep121 Sponsored by our friends at Hourly, by AMS

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We’ve combined intelligent automation and mobile access with velocity in mind, enabling employers to progress applicants into your hiring pipeline in minutes not days

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

- What happens when you two disagree?

- Were you always going to be doing startup, leading a business?

- What skills are you guys lacking as C-level execs? How do you fill it?

- What do you look for when hiring for leadership potential

- What has been the impact of the TPG deal?

- What does the product roadmap look like for 2021?

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

Ep9 Founders Focus is supported by Greenhouse

Looking for practical insights on how to attract talent and build a competitive hiring strategy? Look no further than Amazon’s #1 Hot New Release in HR: Talent Makers: How the Best Organizations Win through Structured and Inclusive Hiring by Greenhouse Software’s Daniel Chait and Jon Stross. Order your copy today.

Interested in becoming a Talent Maker? Join the Talent Maker Community and connect with other leaders who are transforming the way their companies use hiring to drive business growth.

REMAKING CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE POST PANDEMIC

As we emerge from the pandemic era, we are beginning to realise that the world of work might begin to look radically different from what we were used to in the before times. Super hot labour market,  elevated candidate expectations, widespread re-evaluation of our relationship with work, changes in preferred methods of communication, reorientation and re-prioritisation of values.

How does all this impact the design of Candidate Experience?

• Has CX increased / decreased in importance?

All this and more, as we explore the changing expectations of job candidates

We're with Jana Staníková (Autodesk), James Ellis (Roku), Christina Robinson (Green Umbrella), Adam Gordon, CEO, (Candidate-ID)and Steve Usher (5ive Studios). It's a must attend for anyone involved in top-of-the-funnel talent attraction

Click on the green button on the top right to register and follow the channel here (recommended) for more updates.

Ep120 Sponsored by our friends at Guide

BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL WITH SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS

As any tech recruiters knows, in 2021 finding software developers isn't the hard part, getting them to talk to you is!

We can spend a lot of time writing clever emails, being cute with copy and going with hyper personalised approach, but can we find other ways to make a better connection? How do we build 'social capital' with the audience we want to recruit from? If we can gain the respect of software developers, we might find we don't need to be clever to get a response.

- What do developers want?

- How do developers prefer to be contacted?

- How to communicate 'we mean know harm'?

- How do we build trust, efficiently?

- What do tech recruiters need to show online? Do we even need to be there?

- What kind of dialogue style works best?

- Is there geographical variation on how to build trust?

We're with Alla Pavlova, Recruiter (Riot Games), Wim Dammans, Talent Sourcer (TenneT) and Iwan Gulenko, founder (Coderfit)

Sponsored by our friends at Triplebyte

Resumes are subjective and bias-prone. Use skills data to identify talent you should interview.  Triplebyte Screen provides a granular skills report for each applicant, including calibration against 200,000+ engineers who have taken the assessment. This gives hiring teams a data-driven way to identify top talent, reduce wasted interviews and find hidden gems from underrepresented backgrounds. 

HOW TO BE A BETTER TALENT ACQUISITION LEADER

We often complain that managers get 'over promoted' and yet how many of us had adequate training before we suddenly became 'Head of Talent'? The reality is that when employers made the push to develop direct recruiting capacity, many operational recruiters who zero management or even team lead responsibility where thrust into departmental head roles without any support.

It's still happening today - as the worldwide demand for talent acquisition talent, leads to candidates being over recruited; great for career acceleration but it means gaps in knowledge for many of the first time Heads of TA now learning on the job.

What advice can experienced TA leaders give to first timers starting off as departmental heads?

- What is the most important difference between management vs operator?

- How to position TA as equal footing to other departments?

- What is the difference between adequate leader and exceptional leader?

- What is the one piece of advice you would give to yourself if you could do it over again?

- What is the biggest mistake you made when you became Head of department for the first time?

- What are the most important tools for head of department?

- What are the most important skills for the job?

All this and more as we set aside time to help TA Leaders become better leaders.

With Jane Reddin, Director of TA (AlbionVC), Elaine Atkinson, Director of TA (Sabbatical) and Paul Maxin, Founder (MaxinTalent)

Ep 118 is sponsored by our buddies at Hourly, by AMS

When you have high-volumes of applicants, sifting through them to find qualified candidates can feel impossible. Hourly harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and scientifically-proven assessment insight to help you identify the very best-fit applicants for every role.

Want to get control over your way too high applicant flow? Self schedule a demo here.

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

Next up are Benjamin Sesser and Teddy Chestnut, Co-founders of Brighthire, the interview analytics company which gives employers the edge in making smarter decisions at job interview. 

- Who are Benjamin and Teddy?

BrightHire’s interview intelligence platform helps business leaders make better, faster and more equitable hiring decisions. Built seamlessly on top of the tools teams already use, our platform automatically records and transcribes interviews, unlocks speed and collaboration across hiring teams, and brings evidence and insight into every hiring decision. BrightHire is advised by renowned organizational psychologist Adam Grant, and backed by Laszlo Bock, Jeff Weiner, Rosanna Durruthy, and the investors behind Figma, MongoDB, Instacart and DataDog. 

Want to learn more?  Schedule a demo with the BrightHire team today.

STARTING & SCALING A SUCCESSFUL RECRUITMENT BUSINESS

It has never been easier to start a recruitment business - in the networked era, anyone with some industry knowledge, decent number of connections and maybe a few early customers already onboard, can leave their employer, set up and start trading.

We’re with  Katrina Hutchinson-O’Neill, MD (Join Talent), James Osborne, Founder (The Recruitment Network), Adam Gordon, CEO (Candidate-ID)  & Alex van Klaveren, CEO (KANDIDATE)

Ep117 Brainfood Live is supported by Greenhouse

Looking for practical insights on how to attract talent and build a competitive hiring strategy? Look no further than Amazon’s #1 Hot New Release in HR: Talent Makers: How the Best Organizations Win through Structured and Inclusive Hiring by Greenhouse Software’s Daniel Chait and Jon Stross. Order your copy today.

Interested in becoming a Talent Maker? Join the Talent Maker Community and connect with other leaders who are transforming the way their companies use hiring to drive business growth.

RECRUITMENT IN CHINA IN 2021

Brainfood virtual roadshow is taking a long overdue visit one of the most important, maligned yet misunderstood recruitment markets on the planet - China. Home to over 1.4 billion people, millions of job seekers and hundreds of thousands of employers, there is a great deal of recruiting going on in the Middle Kingdom that I’m guessing few of us have the even the faintest idea about.

Despite growing fragmentation, de-globalisation and geopolitical tension, anyone with even a passing interest in how the world works should want to improve our China know-how. 

Questions to debate:

- How has Covid-19 impacted recruitment in China?

- What is the status of remote work in China?

- How is labour allocated - market, state or both?

- What is the Hukou system and how does it work?

- What are the Hiring & HR priorities for employers?

- How do you get good at hiring for the China market?

We’re with Anne-Marie McCaughan, Greater China Recruitment Lead (GSK), Janet Lui, MD (Asian Carbon Search), Beecher Ashley-Brown, CEO (AJINGA.COM), James Morley-Kirk, Founder (China Select) and Brian Su, Career Coach (Workforce Singapre). Sergei Mak, MD APAC (Daxtra) is in the co-pilot seat

Ep116 is sponsored by Daxtra.

Daxtra is on a mission to make data more useful for recruiters. Transform your dormant and disorganised database into your primary source for making actual hires.  Download the Data Nexus Search guide here