This week we release an episode of our practitioner series with a Calgarian Vered Levant, Lead Executive Officer at Vimy HR

After 12 years in the corporate HR world, building up a team with great hiring, making lots of great friends then having to lay them off was enough to inspire Vered to build her own company. 

Shelley is officially done with winter, bad news is that she can't control the weather!

This week we cover:

Tip of the Week

• Looking for transferrable skills is a great skill in itself!

Recruitment insights

Lauren Sharp and Craig Watson the dynamic duo from down-under join us to compare notes on TA challenges faced in Canada and what they are faced with in Australia. The pressure is on for The Recruitment Flex and TaPod to unite in London for RecFest at Knebworth Park. We are saving ourselves for RecFest Nashville! Sorry 

• Australia was slower to recover after the toughest lockdown globally, the good news is, concerts with big acts are back in full swing

• Labor mismatch and attracting newcomers, what is the Dept of Immigration doing to solve this 

• Indeed in Canada is what Seek is in Australia holding 80% of the job seeker’s attention

• Seek is evolving - hear what they are doing to keep job seekers coming back

• ChatGPT is a hot topic in both countries

• Lauren & Craig share a few up and coming HR Tech players

International Women’s Day this week and we have many women in our lives we are grateful for. 

Someone, please, take Elon Musk’s phone away from him! It's like letting kids play with matches and wonder why the house burned down.

Beware the scams targeting recently by tech firm layoff. Linked In is not a safe place to play. 

Pay transparency laws in Canada have officially expanded to include our 2nd most populated province, BC. 

Tip of the Week

277 word challenge.

Take your job ad and boil it down to just the good stuff. 

*Extra points if you use ChatGPT for the assist.

Recruiting Insights

• JP Morgan handcuffs  certain IT employees to give 6 months notice when you quit. Its time to spend some quality time with your employment agreement, before you accept another offer.

• RTO horrors or is Amazon an evil genius

• Contractor VS Employee, slimy employer trick to take advantage of younger workers. Just bad for business.

• Trigger warning! If hearing the marimba ring on your iPhone feels like being electrocuted and you have the compulsion to respond immediately. You could identify as part of Gen Z - Generation Quit. 

This week we welcome Andrew Flowers, Labour Economist at Appcast. We go through the key findings of the 2023 Appcast Recruitment Marketing Benchmark Report. Download here

• Schadenfreude! As the media revels in reporting layoffs in big tech, Andrew gives us the truth behind it.

• What job seekers want, pay transparency.

• The impact of the smart phone

• Recruiters who have never worked in such a tight labor market need to take a page out of the 1990’s recruiting playbook.

• Andrew gives us 2 predictions for 2023. 

This week on the Recruitment Flex:

The Last of Us, filmed in our fair city is getting world wide attention. 

Celebrity sightings, John Ham is in town shooting next season of Fargo. 

Speaking of great, the recruitment marketing video for VF Corporation was filmed and produced by friend of the show, Helena Valentine and SkillScout! 

https://youtu.be/D3dkX0fnQyQ

Google is officially in the game of sponsored jobs, being tested in select markets in the US

Tip of the Week

Spotting fake job ads. They spoof your brand and steal job seekers private info to use in making fake job applications. Beware the bot farms in foreign countries. Getting a job offer for something you haven't applied to is the hook.

Recruiting Insights

• 4 day work week, 32 hours, same pay as before and productivity increased! A UK study proves that working the extra 8 hours per week had no benefit.

• Hiring kids as young as 14 to fill the labor shortage, some US states don't see a problem, besides kids can sue the employer if they are mistreated and will work for lower wages, sounds like a win-win? 

• Companies with great career development can outshine their competitors when attracting new talent and expect to see 174% more engagement.

• Bonus points for using ChatGPT to write your resume, it will land you better responses!

This week we welcome return guest Lori Sylvia Founder of Rally

As the founder of Rally, it has been Lori’s mission to teach marketing to recruiters. True to her mission and why she founded Rally, Lori’s hand is extended to any recruiter who was laid off and is looking for a better place to be. 

Here are some impressive updates from Rally. 

• Rally Recruitment Marketing community is now 43,000 members strong

• Being a member of the Rally Community gives you access to a recruitment marketing dashboard, resources, blogs, idea books and the outcomes of the biggest A/B test conducted in recruitment marketing. 

• Marketing your company in the Nursing or Engineering job families? Listen to find out what gets the highest engagement on social media.

• Twitter is off the list for your social media recruitment marketing plan.

Ziprecruiter suffers the same fate as all job boards in North America; lower than expected revenue. Hold on to your hats, we are about to be hit by a tsunami of pent up demand - 2 years in a row

Congratulations to our friends at PLUM.io! Its a $6M USD dollar baby!

JOB ALERT: King Charles needs a Talent Acquisition Manager

Tip of the Week

Think like a job seeker when posting your job ads. 

Recruiting Insights

• Middle skills jobs, so when Harvard studies reveal university degrees are the thorn in the labour markets side, here’s where we go from here…. Listen up

• Fear based leadership (we just made that up) is dragging us back to the office where they can keep an eye on you. The ball & chain is back

• Let's take a lesson from SMBs. They can respond to job seeker’s quickly and eat the slow moving dinosaurs for breakfast! 

From the beautiful city of Moncton, NB, Serge gets to see family and his work crew. 

Shelley waits patiently for her Valentine flowers and chocolates from Serge, which sadly, never arrived!

Prince in 2007 or Lady Gaga in 2017, set the pace for what a Super Bowl half time show should be, Rihanna disappoints.

LinkedIn lays off Recruiters & DEI leaders; telling your entire network how it sucks to be let go on your employer’s platform is never a good look. Stay classy, wait a week, then post. 

Tip of the Week

Free recruiting resources list from our friends at RecTechMedia.com. Did you know SmartRecruiters offers a free version of their ATS?

Recruiting Insights

• Canada defied economic theory on unemployment and inflation. The job market continue to be strong and inflation is dropping.

• Being in a zero unemployment market puts strain on essential and non essential services in your community. Immigration seems to be a solution, yet before you try that political grenade, try sourcing older workers & other categories.

• Bias against the use of pronouns on a resume, is real. Research confirms the problem sits with hiring managers and their bias against it’s use. Don't shoot the messenger here!

David Bernstein at PivotCX.io

Return guest, David is valued friend of the show who has endorsed & connected us to some great contacts in the HR Tech world.

David is the SVP of Corporate Development & Strategy at PivotCX.io and after 27 years in HR Tech, one thing we all agree on - communication is hard. 

Text, voice, video, email; 90% of candidates accept the first offer they get. It's a race! PivotCX.io can help.

What’s hot in TA for 2023? There’s lots we can learn if we take a page out of the sales & marketing playbook or the call center industry and how they measure success. Treating candidates with the same respect we treat our customers with.