Another Google blunder. This time, Bard, their answer to ChatGPT and their google ad had an inaccurate answer.

SMB's feeling the impact of Indeed's new model?

Billy Idol, Ozzy Ozbourne earned their title of Rockstar, Workday’s Super Bowl ad wags a finger at the corporate use of their title. 

Alberta is throwing the doors open! Ontario talent is searching for jobs in Alberta. 

Tip of the Week

Your interview process is a nightmare. Some practical advice to test it out. 

Recruiting Insights

• We continue to be in a worker’s market, even with all the hand wringing over recession & the media drama around layoffs.

• Getting paid by the minute; just because you can do it doesn't mean you should

• Top 4 favourites uses of ChatGPT in recruitment  

 Welcome return guest the Job Board Doctor Jeff Dickey-Chasins

Jeff consults to 100’s of job boards from around the world, he brings a wealth of knowledge on how, why and what’s happening.

Highlights

• Cost per apply on Indeed was a self fulfilling prophecy - who knew, creating a problem and then solving the problem was a business model.

• The little blue box on Google, friend or enemy? It still does not give people what we want, that is great jobs by direct employers. 

• Like William and Harry, ZipRecruiter is the spare.  

• Duration based job ads still dominate globally.

Jeff shares his favorite job board and what he likes about them and his greatest frustration with job ads.

Google’s employer brand leads us to believe they have their house in order. We try to rationalize how they messed up the layoff process last week. 

Just to make us all feel better, we found the world’s worst recruitment process. Be thankful your employer doesn't use polygraphs. 

Recruiting Tip

The easiest and cheapest way to recruit; boomerang employees.

Recruiting Insights

• Textio raises concern over ChatGPT, legit or scared what it means to their their business.

• The unintended consequence of treating hiring managers as customers and not as a business partner. 

• Much can be said in a 6 page resume. Plan to be there all afternoon, they will talk the whole time. 

• If you can concisely describe your work history on a single page, is this not the ultimate demonstration of communication? 

Sarah brings personal experience and deep industry expertise in creating OnwardsHR.com, a severance automation platform. 

Highlight of our conversation:

• Layoffs, restructure, terminations, voluntary turnover; like being in the funeral home business, no one wants to think about this stuff until it happens to you or someone you know. 

• A positive OFF boarding experience sounds like an oxymoron. 

• It is possible if you plan it properly, ensure legal and finance are plugged in and most importantly what you say, how you say it and when you say it are locked down. 

Working in both USA and Canada, you can find them at www.OnwardsHR.com

With our beloved Serge getting hit with the 'Vid' , Allie Knull joins as CoHost with Shelley, listen who gets the last word now!

It’s official RecFest will be in Nashville, TN on Sept 13 & 14

Allie & Shelley share their favourite interview questions. 

Tip of the Week: Never underestimate the emotional toll that being laid off brings. For those leaving and those left behind. 

Recruiting Insights This Week

• Canadian company, Media Profile sets the pace for best perk ever. A change of scenery and $3K to work from anywhere for a month, now that’s creative thinking

• On-boarding or pre-boarding ideas that don't cost anything.

• Unlimited vacation may sound good but requesting the time off, in reality, is falling flat - on either side of the border.

• Gen Z, “If you don't understand why I traveled Europe for 5 months, then I don't want to work for you”. How dare we question a gap on your resume. 

Affectionately called The Indeed Whisperer, Jim Durbin is truly one of a kind. 

Let’s unpack this 

• Think like a software developer, then do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. 

• As The Master of Search using Indeed’s resume database, Jim’s take on why there were little waves when changes were rolled out 

• Leading the TA function and the top 3 things you need to do

• Recruitment marketing operates where traditional marketing was in 2010.

• The real reason your ATS needs to be stand alone.

• Not too far fetched;  Twitter evolves to a job board.

As our credit card statements arrive this week, we have to ask, “Was all the Christmas spending worth it?” Or did you have a blue Monday type of week?

A great new tool if you are thinking to feature your hiring managers in recruitment videos, try putting the script into Https://bigvu.tv for a free teleprompter

Speaking of video, the industry saw the merger of video interviewing with the guardrails of structured unbiased interview guides, Clovers.ai and TalVista.com

Recruiting Insights

• The headline grabbing news of more layoffs, yet 40% of tech workers land elsewhere within a month of starting to apply.

• Chief Talent Officer, the article in fastcompany.com got most of it right; the CTO has to be a recruitment expert not an HR expert.

• The top 15 jobs for 2023 in Canada was a list of old favorites. Were all the Data Scientists found or do we call them something else now?  

• Creative liberties when coming up with job titles has unintended consequences.

We welcome another great Canadian HRtech start up. Although we didn't get to meet Leah in person at HRTech last fall, we were finally able to align our schedules. 

All the analysis and industry reports point to the skills gap as being our biggest concern. tilr.com bridges the gap for companies of 1,000 employees, give or take, to extract meaningful data from your HRIS and LMS and line it up with the skills you need and the skills your current employees have or skills they want to have. 

Plus as a CEO Leah prefers hybrid and explains why.

Investment advice from Serge on ZipRecruiter stock and a tip on who is heading to IPO. 

868M568F+C9 - Decoding the message from our friend Jamie Leonard about RecFest, we will need to bring him on to the show and confirm this. Could the worlds largest recruitment conference be coming to North America?

ChatGPT is just over 30 days on the market and MicroSoft pays $10B to breath life into Bing.

You should be using this for all your job ads https://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/

Recruitment Insights

• Being good looking does not get you very far on Zoom. Charm and charisma need to be experienced in person to give someone the advantage.

• Finally! The sandwich maker and hair stylist can work where they get paid the best, the US does away with noncompete agreements. 

• No crystal ball needed for this prediction; GenZ has no interest in blue collar work. Good luck finding an electrician in the year 2043, unless we all live on Mars by then.

Proud to partner with our friends at Rectxt check them out at Rectxt.com

This week we welcome Amanda Hahn Chief Marketing Officer at HireVue. Amanda gets top spot for being one of the only guests on the show who was born to be in Talent Acquisition. 

• Being at HireVue for the last 10 years and the pioneer of video interviewing platforms, long before the pandemic made it an everyday tool, Amanda bring a front row seat to where the hiring process is going. 

• We take a deep dive into where their product has been and where they are headed with the latest product offering in conversational AI and pre-hire assessments.

• Beyond the video interview, hear what companies are using to adapt their hiring process and assess candidates for their ability to adapt to change.