Recruiters: how do you plan to gain competitive advantage in 2020's?

In fast moving industry, we need to be on top of our game for the year ahead. But time is the constant resource and we have to prioritise. 

What skills recruiters need to develop, and which ones we might need to let go in 2020?

Brainfood Live is back with Season 2, Ep41 to discuss this crucial topic for the years ahead.  Adam Gordon will be back and we'll be joined by Kevin Blair,  Global VP of TA at IBM. 

We'll be covering: 

• Sourcing

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Have you used Facebook Ads for Recruiting?

I know I haven't but I probably should, as Facebook remains by far the largest, engaged and most important social network on the planet. A report from Hootsuite, shared on Recruiting Brainfood last week, showed us that there are THIRTEEN paid social options on Facebook.

There was never any chance that we could get to the end of 2019 and not do at least one show covering Brexit. 

Do you worry about the impact of AI & Automation?

The answer should be 'damn right' because these foundational technological trends are sure to have pervasive impact on all the work we do. The question is 

- which sectors most affected?

- which populations most exposed?

- how / when will impact be felt?

- and what can we recruiters do to ensure OUR roles are not dis-intermediated by more efficient software and less bias robots. 

This topic is way too big for Adam Gordon and I to handle by ourselves, so we've enrolled some experts in the field to help us think through the problem. 

- Yvette Cameron, Principal Analyst at NextGen Insights

This week sees the final end of Tru - one of the seminal event series in the recruiting industry. 

Adam Gordon and I will be joined by three great community leaders

- Jamie Leonard, Founder of The Recruitment Events Co & RL100

- Piret Luts, Head of TA at Nortal and Founder of Recruitment Thursday

- Shannon Pritchett, MD at CareerXRoads

How to make your employer brand stick?

Turns out - you don't

Real Employer Branding is about discovering what is true about the work in your business and exposing that truth the outside world, warts and all.

Fascinating conversation with James Ellis and Elena Valentine which segued into ethnography, anthropology, design thinking, film and media, authenticity vs diversity, Fox News and the rest.

Must watch / listen for anyone interested in the state of recruitment in 2019

Brainfood Live On Air from Kiev, #truKiev. Fascinating chat with Ukrainian recruitment hero's Denis Dinkevich and Andrei Stetsenko on the conditions on recruiting in Ukraine. We're talking Skype as a CRM, Telegram as a Slack competitor, impact of IT outsourcing on IT recruiter practice and the fragmented nature of IM.

"Magnificent Melbourne" - the cultural capital of Australia - and some might say, the real capital of the country (sorry Sydneysiders - take it up with your cousins in Victoria ;-))

I'm with Vervoe CEO Omer Molad, TAPOD's Lauren Sharp, Deloitte Head of APAC Consulting Adam Walker and the one and only Ross Clennett, as we talk Brainfood, D&I, hiring in Melbourne and hiring in Australia. 

Live from Sydney: we're talking agency recruiters, Brits abroad, call aversion culture, the importance of relationships and the unique rectech eco-system in Australia

w/

- Laura Johnson (PASS Technologies)

- Rich Lewis-Jones (SmartRecruiters)

- Mark Mansour (Servian)

- Michael Delaney (Barhead Solutions)

Perth: one of the most remote big city metropolises anywhere: how does recruiting work over here? Is it all mining & water management?

Brainfood Live is Live from Perth this Friday, where I'll be joined by 3 local experts who are going show tell us what the challenges are in hiring for roles based in Western Australia.

- Stan Rolfe

Fascinating conversation about fifo, aboriginal employment, contingent workforce, workforce automation and the continued role of the skilled recruiter