The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

By Hung LeeBusiness

The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast episodes

April 30, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep106 - On Hiring Senior Execs
ON HIRING SENIOR LEADERS

Have you had this experience?

CEO comes to you and asks you to begin a confidential search for a replacement for an incumbent C-level leaders. Search is going to take 6 months, so you need to get started now as there is a predicted need to upgrade the department - what do you do?

I have no idea, as no one (rightly) has ever trusted me to hire for their senior executive team, but it may be one of the most critical recruitment events to happen to a business.

- How to hire C-suite?
- How to hire confidentially?
- What are the qualities required to lead?
- Can these be quantified or is really just chemistry with the CEO?
- What techniques, approaches work best when hiring at this level?
- What are the differences between in-house vs 3rd party search?
All this and more in Brainfood Live On Air.
Ep 106 is sponsored by our buddies ESIX
Executive Search Information Exchange or ESIX is the world's leading membership network exclusively for Corporate Talent Officers operating at Executive hiring. Featuring members from over 100 of the leading employers in the world, it is the one stop shop for networking amongst peers, information exchange, personal and career development.

Find out more about membership here
1 hr 25 min
April 23, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep105 - Quantifying Company Culture - Why & How?
QUANTIFYING COMPANY CULTURE - WHY & HOW?
There isn't a TA, HR Manage or CEO who doesn't think their company culture is the most important thing about their business.....but is there a way to actually measure it?
In a world increasingly driven by metrics, company culture is one where we are consistently lagging, relying at best on periodic pulse surveys, at worst on - you guessed it - gut feel.

Is there a better way? Can we actually measure company culture? And if so, what do we measure? Are there any patterns to see in how the most effective companies operate?

These are the questions we are going to try and answer in this week's Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Social Psychologist and Talent Intelligence lead Leila Mortet (Philips), Skill Scout CEO Elena Valentine and People Analytics Consultant, Natasha Oulis (NeoConsulting) and Brian Evje, Head of People (Uncapped)

Nico Blier-Silvestri in the co-pilot seat.

Ep105 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.
1 hr 32 min
April 16, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep104 - How to work with RPO's
WORKING WITH RPO - BEST PRACTICE & TOP TIPS

There comes a moment, in every recruiters life, when the right decision is to work with a Recruiting Outsourcing Partner. RPO's have traditionally been a model uses for super large scale enterprise projects but increasingly have found markets in rapid scale up environments, especially in technology. Partnered in the right way, RPO's can provide an essential component in hitting your hiring targets,

But how?

- When is the moment right to outsource?
- What do you outsource - a segment, or everything?
- How do you select a provider?
- How do we create a relationship which is win / win?
- How much does it / should it cost?
- What to do to make sure it goes right?

All this and more in Brainfood Live On Air!

Ep104 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies Kelly Services.
Kelly Services are a global specialty talent solutions provider, connecting great people with great companies in fields including Science, Engineering, Office, Light Industrial, Education, and more. Whether you’re a job seeker or an employer, we’ll help you ditch the script on old ways of thinking, so you can meet your goals and reach your potential.
Find out more about our services here
1 hr 11 min
April 13, 2021 Founders Focus - Ep6 - Josh Brenner, CEO of Hired
Ep6 of 'Founders Focus' - Josh Brenner, CEO of Hired

It's the Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space.
Next up is Josh Brenner, CEO of Hired, the tech talent marketplace which matches employers with the highly skilled, in-demand tech talent.
- Who is Josh Brenner?
 - What is his leadership philosophy? 
- What has he learned from being CEO? 
- What were the challenges in taking over the leadership role from the founding team?
- What made the Hired acquisition happen?
- What is the future of talent marketplaces?
 All this and more, as we take a deep dive into the personalities leading the technology businesses changing the way we hire  

Click on the green button on the top right to register, and follow the channel here (recommended) for more Founder Focus stories 
Ep6 of Founders Focus is sponsored by Hired
Game-changing features queuing up in your product roadmap? We understand the urgency of hiring top talent. In fact, we've helped our fair share of companies around the world build their tech and sales teams while saving over 45+ hours per hire on average.
Our curated pool of pre-screened and experienced job-seekers are waiting to hear from you - try Hired for free here!
Interested in learning how Hired can help promote DEI in your hiring processes? Register for our upcoming webinar on “Awareness, Action, & Accountability; Embedding Technology into DEI Hiring Strategies” on April 27th here.
1 hr
April 09, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep103 - How and When To Measure Candidate Experience
HOW & WHEN TO MEASURE CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE?

The key to making improvement on any aspect of recruiting is to first measure it. We have to understand where we are first, before we are able to get to where we want to be going.

How and when do you measure candidate experience? At the beginning of the hiring process? After first interaction? Continuously as they progress we together develop a relationship with them?

We are going to narrow the lens on this Brainfood Live folks and take a deep dive into this specialist topic, which really, should be a generalist one for all recruiters.

Friday 9th April, 2021 - 12.00pm UTC

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

Ep103 is sponsored by our buddies Starred.

Starred is the candidate feedback solution for the innovative employers who really care about delivering a world-class Candidate Experience at scale. Measure each step of your hiring process through customisable surveys, fully integrated with your ATS, and gather valuable insights you can act on.

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1 hr 22 min
April 06, 2021 Founders Focus - Ep5 - Up close and personal with Adam Bird, CEO of Cronofy
Ep5 of 'Founders Focus' - the Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space.
Next up is Adam Bird, CEO of Cronofy, the enterprise ready scheduling platform
- Who is Adam Bird?
- What is his leadership philosophy?
- What has he learned from being CEO?
- Does he still know how to code?
- Do engineers make good CEO's?
- What is the future for workforce automation - what else is going to get 'scheduled' away?

All this and more, as we take a deep dive into the personalities leading the technology businesses changing the way we hire

Ep5 of Founders Focus is sponsored by Cronofy
There is no better time than now to rework your hiring process and help your team be more efficient. Our buddies at Cronofy have launched an enterprise-ready interview scheduling tool, which works using real-time availability to improve the candidate experience and speed up time to hire.

Save hundreds of recruiter hours using Cronofy - check out the free trial and get more information here.
1 hr 10 min
March 26, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air - Talent Intelligence - What, Why, How
TALENT INTELLIGENCE - WHAT, WHY, HOW

Do you know what 'talent intelligence' is?

You'd be forgiven if you didn't, because it's a concept which has stubbornly stayed on the fringes of the TA, mainly due to strategic neglect by businesses who had long under estimated the impact acquiring top talent had on the bottom line.

But as businesses better understand the importance of the talent they have a their disposal, Talent Intelligence is becoming a function distinct with the TA function, sitting in between traditional recruiter and analytics. They are there to tell you where the best talent is in the market - where best to put the jobs, where best to put the recruiter hiring for those jobs.

We're going to be talking about Talent Intelligence in Ep102 of Brainfood Live On Air, with some of the leading brains in the industry - Leila Mortet, Talent Intelligence at Philips, Toby Culshaw, Talent Intelligence Lead at Amazon and Allison Ettridge, Founder at Talent Intuition.

Ep102 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies Kelly Services.
Kelly Services are a global specialty talent solutions provider, connecting great people with great companies in fields including Science, Engineering, Office, Light Industrial, Education, and more. Whether you’re a job seeker or an employer, we’ll help you ditch the script on old ways of thinking, so you can meet your goals and reach your potential.
Find out more about our services here
1 hr 5 min
March 24, 2021 Founders Focus - Ep4 - Vivek Ravisankar CEO HackerRank
Ep4 of 'Founders Focus' - a new Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space.
Next up is Vivek Ravisankar, CEO of market leading tech assessment platform HackerRank
- Who is Vivek Ravisankar?
- What is his leadership philosophy?
- What has he learned from being CEO?
- Does he still know how to code?
- Do engineers make good CEO's?
- How is digital collaboration going to change in a remote first world?
- What does work from anywhere do to labour migration?

All this and more, as we take a deep dive into the personalities leading the technology businesses changing the way we hire

Click on the green button on the top right to register, and follow the channel (here) for more Founder Focus stories

Ep4 of Founders Focus is sponsored by HackerRank

Build great tech teams end-to-end, fully remote and from anywhere in the world.

Take the 2 min.HackerRank Hiring Maturity assessment to find out how your hiring process stacks up against the most innovative companies in the world

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1 hr 4 min
March 19, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air 101 - How to hire when you're overwhelmed by Job Applications
HOW TO HIRE (WHEN YOUR OVERLOADED WITH JOB APPLICATIONS?)

Over the past 12 months we've observed the phenomenon of surging applicant volume, with numbers from 100-1000% more than the same moment the year before. For many industries, especially ones which are absorbing workers from industries made dormant by lockdown, handing excess volume of job applications has become THE hiring challenge to tackle.

The shift to remote - and the 'hire from anywhere' approach - suggests that this pattern of high volume job applications can be expected for many types of job role.

- How to structure your TA team to handle it?
- How do you maintain / improve candidate experience?
- Does your relationship with the hiring managers change?
- What tech stack do you need to handle the volume?
- How do you ensure the TA team - the recruiter experience - remains intact?

All this and more in Ep101 of Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Clair Bush, VP of Marketing at ph.creative, Jelmer Koppelmans Founder at Roadtrip and Ben Gledhill, Head of Resourcing at Thames Water

Ep101 is sponsored by our buddies Occupop
Attract, manage and hire the right people for your business with software designed for in-house recruiters in mind. Looking to upgrade from spreadsheets or swap out your legacy ATS? Check out Occupop, start with a free 14 day trial here
1 hr 11 min
March 16, 2021 Founders Focus - Ep3 - Mickael Cabrol, MD EMEA, ICIMS
Ep3 of 'Founders Focus' - a new Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space.
Next up is Mickael Cabrol, MD, EMEA of iCIMS, after the successful acquisition with EASYRECRUE where he was the CEO.
- Who is Mickael Cabrol ?
- What is his leadership philosophy?
- What has he learned from being CEO?
- How was the EASYRECRUE / iCIMS deal sealed?
- What can EASYRECRUE/iCIMS customers expect in 2021?
- What is it like to transition to being a leader vs the leader?

All this and more, as we take a deep dive into the personalities leading the technology businesses changing the way we hire

Ep2 of Founders Focus is sponsored by iCIMS
Create your winning workforce with iCIMS’ industry-leading service and platform, backed by today’s top analysts and independent researchers.

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1 hr 3 min