The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

By Hung LeeBusiness

The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast episodes

March 12, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep100 - Better Way To Reject Candidates: Tips, Templates & Techniques
Rejecting candidates is one of the hard parts of the job of any recruiter. None of us like to do it, but we not only have to do it, but have to get better at it.

- What makes a good rejection message?
- Phone call or email?
- How much feedback can you / do you give?
- What to do if the rejection or the feedback is disputed by the candidate?
- Does they stage of the application process influence rejection handling?Is it actually an opportunity to create an employer brand advocate?

We're going to examine this question and more, as we discuss one of the most neglected aspects of the recruiting process - how to reject candidates, better

Ep100 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 23 min
March 05, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep99 - Employer Branding Tips for a Remote First World
LETS FACE IT: Pre-covid, a great deal of Employer branding was focused on the physical space of the office building and the on premise experience that new employees could expect to have upon joining.. This was the reason for the huge investment employers made in commercial real estate, opening up space for WeWork (remember them?) to create a category which promised the experience without the fixed costs.

NOW THIS,

- we're all at home, working remote
- we don't care about the conditions of the office
- we're beginning to not care about the location of the office

WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN FOR EMPLOYER BRANDING?

How do companies communicate their EB when the physical environment isn't going to change for the employee? Some top tips on how to do this from our guests this week - Steve Ward (Universum) Heidi Wassini, Global Talent Acquisition. Helen Durkin EB Program Lead, Indeed.com & Employer Branding Partner, Vivino & Akbar Karenga Head of Talent (Storyblok)

Ep99 is sponsored by our buddies CA3

CA3 is an award-winning employer brand agency that helps organisations attract, onboard and engage with talent through compelling creative comms. Great work, great relationships is their raison d'être, the reason their clients (the likes of Expedia Group, Johnson Matthey, Smartest Energy, Audley Group, Aviva, GE Healthcare and Rolls-Royce) love working with them, and their people come to work smiling (even on Mondays apparently).

If your EVP or employer brand is in need of a little love and attention after a tough 2020 why not check out their website today.
1 hr 19 min
March 04, 2021 Founders Focus - Ep2 - Hanno Renner, CEO of Personio
'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 Hanno Renner, CEO of Personio, the HR operating system for your growing business
- Who is Hanno Renner?
- What is his leadership philosophy?
- How do you CEO a rocketship?
- What is it like building a European company vs a US company?
-How does technology change behaviour?
- What can Personio customers expect in 2021?

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 Personio
HR, Recruiting and Payroll, Personio supports all of the core HR processes in one easy-to-implement system. More than 3000 satisfied customers including Premier Inn, Spendesk, Statista and Clevershuttle use Personio.

Schedule a demo today with one of Personio’s friendly reps and they’ll be happy to help. Or try it for free here
1 hr 2 min
February 26, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep98 - The Dark Side of LinkedIn: Dealing with Bullies, Stalkers & Trolls
THE DARK SIDE OF LINKEDIN: DEALING WITH BULLIES, STALKERS & TROLLS

If you're a follower of this channel chances are you use LinkedIn every day as part of your essential toolkit as a professional in the people business.

We don't expect to encounter trouble here do we?

And yet, there is a price to be paid when you are a user of the platform where anyone can sign up, anyone can post, anyone can comment or message. Some of us - by dint of gender, ethnicity, professional role or something else, can be a target more than others.

This week's brainfood is a change of pace - lets have a think about how other people experience LinkedIn and how best to deal with troublesome or malevolent interactions we might encounter there.
Friday 26th February, 2.00pm UTC
Ep98 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 32 min
February 23, 2021 Founders Focus - Ep1 - Steve Lucas, CEO, iCIMS
Introducing 'Founders Focus' - a new Recruiting Brainfood series where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the burgeoning Recruitment & HR technology space.
First up is Steve Lucas, CEO of iCIMS, the market leading cloud recruitment platform provider.
- Who is Steve Lucas?
- What is his leadership philosophy?
- What has he learned from being CEO?
- What can iCIMS customers expect in 2021?
- What movie villain does Steve have most sympathy with?

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

Ep1 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.

Book a demo here
58 min
February 19, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep97 - How to get DE&I out of HR, and into the business
A big problem with DE&I is that it is considered a topic 'for HR'. And HR can often by at fault, taking 'ownership' of DE&I initiatives and inadvertently preventing the ideas from really embedding into the rest of business.

Its time for change folks - and that change has to be on how we get DE&I out of HR and into the rest of the business!

We're going to be joined by an ensemble guest lists including Vessy Tasheva (inclusion specialist & consultant), Rocki Howard (Head of Diversity), non-HR managers who have taken leadership roles in DE&I - Garry Turner (IMCD Group), Jessy Halison (ecosia), African Munoz (LinkedIn), as well as by recruiters who are responsible to top of funnel acquisition of candidates (Katy Peichert).

Kind of a can't miss folks

Ep97 is sponsored by our buddies Applied

Applied is blind recruitment software for unbiased hiring. Make hiring decisions based on data, not background or bias. Employers like ASOS.com, Centrica, GroupM and many others use Applied. Not convinced? Request a demo here and a friendly member of our team will get in touch!
1 hr 23 min
February 12, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep96 - People Analytics.....or Bossware?
The shift to remote has had the effect of digitising previously analogue processes. This is lead to a bloom of workforce data which we previously could not collate or make use of. We are now swimming in data which can used to better understand employee sentiment and productivity, skill distribution across the company, how time is spent doing what.

There is a conundrum though - at what point does the burgeoning new discipline of 'People Analytics' become 'Bossware' or workforce surveillance?

What is the difference between caring about employees mental health vs intrusion onto people's personal lives?

This is the topic of Ep96 of Brainfood Live On Air. If you care about what to do with the data your employees are now producing - and how to use this effectively AND ethically

Ep96 is sponsored by our buddies Charthop.
ChartHop is the world's first org management platform, empowering leaders to see their organization's past while designing its future. It automatically builds fluid views of a company through real-time updated org charts, custom reporting & analytics, and headcount planning that boosts efficiency across teams.

ChartHop integrates with 20+ HR tech & data platforms, and companies like Peloton, MongoDB, Starburst, Postman and InVision rely on the company to plan, organize and visualize their orgs.

Find out more here or click here to request a demo.
1 hr 14 min
February 05, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep95 - From the Developers POV Part Four - Onboarding
WHAT DO DEVELOPERS REALLY THINK ABOUT ONBOARDING?

We all know that concern for the candidate journey should not stop at the job offer, yet all too often it does, often leaving a yawning gap between verbal yes and employee start.

How can we better manage this process? Who is even in charge of it? What do developers want after they have said yes to a job offer? All this and more in the last episode of our mini series, From the Developers POV.
Ep95 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies VanHack.
Simply put, VanHack is the fastest way to hire tech talent. Connect over a community of over 200,000 qualified developers from over 100+ countries through out the world.
Sign up for an employer account and start hiring tech talent today.
1 hr 22 min
January 30, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep93 - Recruitment Forecast Australia and New Zealand 2021
In Ep86, we talked about universal values & concepts in recruitment and wondered how they really applied to local contexts. This is especially important given that the ideas driving the industry come mainly from one place - the United States of America - with its own unique history and cultural context

How do these ideas apply Down Under? We're looking at Australia and New Zealand - culturally linked to Mother England but divergent now is so many ways that its been a long time since they could be considered 'the same'.

Lets look beyond shared language and lineage and speak to recruiters from ANZ and whether universal ideas apply.

What do our friends down under think about
- DE&I
- Politics in the workplace
- Remote working
- Artificial intelligence
- Data protection and privacy
- Workforce automation
- Candidate experience
- Employer branding
- Open Talent marketplace
- and more

Essential viewing if you are in ANZ, plan to be in ANZ or have recruiting in ANZ.
Ep93 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
1 hr 47 min
January 29, 2021 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep94 - LinkedIn Q1 2021; Andy Foote Updates
LinkedIn - alternative universe for us recruiters that it is inevitably is - remains the No1 application that we use to do our work.

It has dozens of products, hundreds of features within products and al kind of ways to optimise between them which no one knows everything about.

Andy Foote probably comes closer than most; brainfood's favourite LinkedIn commentator, Andy is back for the first of his quarterly update shows on Brainfood Live On Air = where he updates us on what the latest changes to Linkedin have been and what we - as super users - need to do about it.

Learn about
- LinkedIn newfeed algorithm
- Linkedin new search features
- Linkedin Live / Newsletter / Articles / Posts / Polls
and much more.
Ep94 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
1 hr 22 min