The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

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The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast episodes

August 14, 2020Brainfood Live On Air - Ep72 - Job Seeking... as a Head of TA w/ Chad Horn and Lyndsey Shankland
What is the job search and candidate experience like for Heads of TA at the moment?

The moment is of course dominated by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the necessary public health response and the cratering of the global economy as a consequence.
Job search has never been easy, but perhaps now more than ever the challenge is acute.

We are speaking to Heads of TA who are themselves on the job search to canvass their opinions on
candidate experience
employer branding
candidate assessment
hiring manager attitude
competition for roles
mental health / mental well being
side projects
alt career paths
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
1 hr 8 min
August 07, 2020 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep71 - How to become the Indispensable Recruiter with Neil Carberry
There has never been a more important time to be strategically valuable to your customers.
If you are a recruiter or a recruitment business owner and you're thinking about how you can secure your share of what looks to be a shrinking market for recruitment, it is vital that you move away from the 'supplier' mindset and into one of 'strategic partner'.
- What are the steps required to making this transition?
- What do clients want / need from a recruitment supplier, other than candidates
- 360 or 180 degree cycle recruiting focus
- What services now vs what services then?
All this and more, as we discuss recruitment agencies and how they need to move upstream.
Special Guest providing special knowledge is Recruitment & Employment Confederation CEO, Neil Carberry,

Episode 71 is supported by our buddies at CVCheck
CVCheck is a leading provider of background screening services, conducting more than 300,000 checks every year for businesses, government organisations and individuals in Australia, New Zealand and worldwide. To validate your candidates credentials more efficiently –request a demofrom CVCheck today.

1 hr 7 min
July 31, 2020 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep70 - Automation Recipes Recruiters Really Need To Know
The best recruiters are those who are most efficient with their time. Modern tech has given us the opportunity to automate a lot of time intensive, repetitive work freeing us to move up the value chain to business.

Our focus in this week's Brainfood Live On Air will be examining the opportunities to automate at different stages of the hiring funnel, including actual examples of automation by experts in the field of recruiting efficiency.

Joined by the smartest recruiters currently operating at the coalface, these weeks special guests are Sofia Broberger, Marcel van der Meer and Adam Chambers.

Friday 31st July, 3.30pm BST - follow the channel (here) recommended and click on the green button on the top right to save your seat for this event (limited to 250)

Ep70 is sponsored by our buddies at Workable. More than an Applicant Tracking System, Workable’s Recruiting Software improves the way teams find, evaluate and hire candidates. Thinking of switching ATS? Grab the free 15 day trial here
1 hr 2 min
July 24, 2020 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep69 - Practical Tips to Diversify Your Talent Pool w/ Jelmer Koppelmans, Christine Ng, Katrina Kibben & Andrew Gadomski
Diversifying our workforce starts with diversify our talent pools.
What are the techniques which deliver actual results?
In this week's Brainfood Live On Air, we are going to be discussing practical ideas to get better diversity outcomes from job ads, sourcing, assessment, process engineering and the rest.

We'll be joined by Recruitment Marketing expert Jelmer Kopplemans, Copy Writing Extraordinaire Katrina Kibbben and lead recruiter & diversity recruiter, Christine Ng from the Financial Times.

Not one to miss folks!

Ep69 is sponsored by our buddies at Workable. More than an Applicant Tracking System, Workable’s Recruiting Software improves the way teams find, evaluate and hire candidates. Thinking of switching ATS? Grab the free 15 day trial here
1 hr 11 min
July 17, 2020 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep68 - How To Be a Great Interviewer w/ Charlotte Mutsaerts
What are the best questions to really get to know someone?

I asked this question (very meta) on LinkedIn last month and it spawned. a whole avalanche of amazing responses, many of which I hope to share with you all in this show.

As recruiters & HR people, we are often asking people questions - at interview, at briefing meetings, at disciplinaries, at performance reviews.

Do we know what are the best questions to ask, in order to get the real and not canned responses?

This is the topic of this episode of Brainfood Live On Air. Joined by Behavioural Scientist turned Recruiter Charlotte Mutsaerts, we'll be learning about what and how to ask the best questions.

Episode 68 is supported by our buddies at CVCheck
CVCheck is a leading provider of background screening services, conducting more than 300,000 checks every year for businesses, government organisations and individuals in Australia, New Zealand and worldwide. To validate your candidates credentials more efficiently –request a demo from CVCheck today.
1 hr 3 min
July 10, 2020Brainfood Live On Air Ep67 - Upgrade Your LinkedIn Game with Andy Foote
Andy Foote - author of the amazing LinkedInsights blog - and a leading authority on how to get better on LinkedIn is going to come on screen and deliver a custom presentation and Q&A on how to up your LinkedIn Game.

Expect:
Latest product / feature updates from Q2
Audience / Follower growth tips
Boosting post view count
LinkedIn Company page optimisation
Community management
Newsfeed Algorithm

And make sure to follow the channel (recommended)

Episode 67 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at Indorse. Want to host your own online Hackathon for Hiring? Click here and request a demo today
1 hr 11 min
July 03, 2020 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep66 - Politics in the Workplace w/ Jim Stroud & Kate Bischoff
Politics in the Workplace is a tough topic which most folks try to avoid; isn't there actually a saying to that effect?

And yet, as social tensions rise throughout the world, it is increasingly obvious that we cannot compartmentalise our professional from our political selves.

Which brings a set of challenges for HR / TA which we may be ill equipped or trained to handle.

In this episode, we are going to grasp the nettle. What should the people function do when the political beliefs of one employee contravene the political beliefs of another?

Episode 66 is supported by our buddies at CVCheck
CVCheck is a leading provider of background screening services, conducting more than 300,000 checks every year for businesses, government organisations and individuals in Australia, New Zealand and worldwide. To validate your candidates credentials more efficiently – request a demo from CVCheck today.
1 hr 6 min
June 26, 2020Brainfood Live On Air - Ep65 - Game Changer - Future of Recruitment Agencies in the ear of Covid-19 with Mark Dorman, CEO of SThree
SThree are the 1.258 billion GBP revenue staffing business - and one of the most well known businesses in the space.

If you're in recruiting, you're going to know SThree!

Who better than CEO Mark Dorman to take us through the evolution of the business and what is coming next for staffing agencies in the post Covid-19 era?

Here about
Balance between Contract / Permanent businesses
Future of RPO / BPO
How distributed working impacts the organisation of recruitment companies
Future of the solo trader
And more
Tune in to hear from one of the captains of the industry.
Episode 65 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported 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.
Grab 30 day free trial at PASS here
1 hr 4 min
June 19, 2020 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep64 - Massive Volume Applicants w/ Bas van de Haterd, Ben Gledhill & Modiar Kamps
One of the second order effects of a default to 'remote first' culture is a massively expanded pool of available candidates. After all, once you take off the location requirements, the world becomes your market.

Combined with worldwide economic retrenchment, we will shockingly have a labour market entirely the reverse of what was the case 3 months ago - candidate & applicant rich.

What to do when you have too many candidates?

What assessment tools do we need to use to control applicant flow?

What happens to candidate experience when there are so many candidates?

What types of assessment should employers lean on?

Should recruiters shift from acquisition experts to assessment experts?
We're with Bas van de Haterd, Ben Gledhill & (hopefully!) Modiara Kamps

Episode 64 of Brainfood Live On Air is supported by our buddies at Indorse. Want to host an online Hackathon? Click here and request a demo today
1 hr 7 min
June 12, 2020 Brainfood Live On Air - Ep63 - Virtualisation of On-boarding with Charu Malhotra and Oana Iordaschescu
Is the 'new normal' here yet?
We are certainly beginning to see glimpses of it.

Whilst some employers have frozen hiring in anticipation of a return to normalcy which may never happen, others have forged ahead with new processes fit for the remote first / remote only world.
Questions we will seek to answer:
How do you hire and onboard new candidates, having never met them in person?
What happens to candidate experience when everything is fully remote?
How do we do employer branding?
What communications channels work best in a distributed context?

How to design a remote on boarding process which works?
We'll be joined by Charu Malhotra, Employer Branding Leader, Oana Iordachescu, Senior Talent Acquisition Lead at Zalando, and Adam

Episode 63 is supported by our buddies at VideoMyJob.

VideoMyJob is an award-winning recruitment video production app used by top companies to create their own branded videos in-house. Up for your employer branding game today - request a demo here
1 hr 1 min