How has 2020 changed Tech Recruiting?

Amongst the hardest challenges in the recruiting business, hiring in-demand software developers, designers and data scientists was consistently popular topic over the past decade. 

We will learn about

• Employer branding for tech talent

Ep81 is sponsored by our buddies at PASS. PASS make background checking, simple centralising background screening in one location for a faster, fully compliant and more cost-effective process. 

One thing that Covid-19 and lockdown has taught us that there are new communication channels which recruiters truly need to embrace. 

• Best Webcams

This is it folks - in 1 hour we are going to cover all you need to know to upgrade your video set up. 

How transferrable are your recruiter skills?

- Online investigator / Online researcher

- HR

- Marketing

- Entrepreneurship

This is going to be a lesson for us on a) what really are your transferrable skills and b) what steps you need to take to maintain career agility. 

Heading into the final quarter, I think we can all agree that 2020 has been an incredible year

The global pandemic has acted like universal accelerant to the underlying trends like remote working, alternative workforce, income inequality, social inequality, political unrest and the rest. 

What are the underlying Recruitment Trends that we are going to see manifest over the next 12 months?

• Candidate communications

All this and more, in Brainfood Live On Air. Leading industry analysts Sarah Brennan and  Kevin Wheeler will be joining us to help us talk through the topic

5 years ago, hiring for 'culture fit' was the thing all the cool companies were doing. 

But hiring for 'fit' of any kind fell into the criticism of reinforcing in-group bias, creating homogeneity and further disadvantaging already disadvantaged groups. 

Where is the conversation now? Is culture fit truly in the dustbin of recruiting history, or can the concept of hiring for people who are inherently compatible with business operations something we recruiters still need to do?

Lets talk

- what do we mean by 'cultural fit'

- can the concept be recovered?

- what framework to use to capture multi-culturalism within a company culture?

- can we capture dynamism and change when assessing culture?

Ep77 is sponsored by our buddies at Platypus. Platypus are a game changing cultural & team analysis platform. If you want to understand how you company really operates, book a demo with the team here

Unconscious bias is now at least a topic that we are conscious of!

But what to do about it is another matter. 

As recruiters in the business of hiring the best people we can for the businesses we work for, reducing the degree of unconscious bias at every stage of the recruiting process is a critical measure of how well we are doing our jobs. 

But how?  What are the techniques to reduce bias that we are normally not even aware of?

Good job we have Unconscious bias trainer, recruitment leader, and podcast legend, Lorne Epstein will be joining us as special guest to help us talk through it. Christine Ng from the Financial Times dropping in also

Must listen for anyone involved in candidate assessment

How do you make the business case for more budget during times of Covid-19?

Moving the against the market is often the toughest, yet smartest thing that companies can do; leaders are made through being able to see the opportunity amid the emergency. The question is: what are the tactics & techniques to get there?

• how to speak the language of the CEO / CFO, not the language of HR / TA

Lisa Scales steps up as co-host and Jerome Ternynck joins are specialist guest to help us think through the challenges

As companies experiment with the complexity of hybrid remote working styles, the pressure to simplify by adopting remote or onsite only approach will continue to build. 

What can we learn from companies which have never had a central location?  Distributed companies are nothing new but their early experimentation in this new way of working can give insight to all those thinking or struggling to make the transition. 

• Different flavours of remote

With Mark Deubel from Elastic and Anastasia  Pshegodskaya from Gitlab

Episode 74 is supported by our buddies at VideoMyJob.

Perhaps one subconscious human bias we can all have experience of is....'the beauty bias'. 

• What is the beauty bias - and is it myth?

Episode 72 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at PASS. 

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What is the job search and candidate experience like for  Heads of TA at the moment?

Job search has never been easy, but perhaps now more than ever the challenge is acute. 

• candidate experience

If you're in recruitment and find yourself in job seeking mode, this episode of Brainfood Live is a must attend. 

Episode 72 of Brainfood Live On Air is sponsored by our buddies SmartRecruiters. SmartRecruiters is the Hiring Success company - their best-in-class Talent Acquisition Suite powers the success of recruiting teams in Ubisoft, Allegis, LinkedIn and many more. Get a demo here