The world of in-person events is coming alive. We are feeling left out. Who’s in if we bring global TA thought leaders to Canada? Comments welcome.

Recruitment Insights of the Week

• Despite all the hype around TA technology, Bersin Research proves the human part of the process, great Recruiters are the defining factor of finding and keeping great performing employees.

• Remote jobs are king, for now. The upside, quality of life & the downside, the grass is not always greener. The great resignation is quickly becoming the great regret.  

• Onboarding is not a short term HR thing. Getting it right is the difference between new employees staying or constant churn.

After a week of partying like he was 25 again, its good to have Serge back behind the mic.  Let’s keep an eye out for video evidence of why he thinks he is a good dancer after a few shots!

Happenings in TA this week.

• Do you feel happy at work, most of the time? Indeed’s happiness score gives job seekers a bit more insight.

• The world changed, in case no one noticed, perhaps it's time to refresh your EVP.

• California introduces legislation for the 32-hour workweek. Following….

• Let us get the door for you! Canada has always rolled out the welcome mat for international talent and Toronto has become the place for tech talent. Well done! 

If Ironman’s Jarvis has a baby, is what the newest announcement from This Way Global has coming down.

• Their partnership with IBM’s Watson is about to take a bite out of the mundane work, that no one in HR likes to do. 

• Crazy times in the VC world where taking too much money (yes, there is such as thing).

• Angela gave us just a little hint about how incredible their time as a Google Accelerator was and how it opened doors. 

Check out the news wire from Bloomberg!

https://landingpage.thiswayglobal.com/ibm-0

With Serge missing in action, Shelley and Kim take over the mic. We did our best to hold down the fort but we missed our little French friend!

Kim was tapped to host some training by none other than LinkedIn! It's about time they took note of her Influencer style!

Up for Discussion in this episode

• Taking a page out of “The Talent Fix” by Tim Sackett, the DNA of a great recruiter. 

• Time to hire is a useless metric in recruitment, the addiction to speed has consequences. 

• Some sage advice from Kim, if you think it's time to hang out your own shingle as a Recruiter, be prepared to invest in yourself. There’s more to it than searching for candidates on LinkedIn!

Friend of the show Adam Gordon gets paid. We we're excited to see that Candidate I.D sold to iCIMS as it looks like the perfect marriage!

With a bank account bursting at the seams, how do you wisely spend $120 million? Talent.com is a job aggregator, much like Indeed. Can they really take on the giants like Indeed and Zip? 

• We talked with Rob about how they will spend the money. Talent.com is a Canadian firm whos’ about to expand their offerings and venture into other countries. 

• We talked about how remote work has unlocked how candidates look for work outside traditional borders and Talent.com

• The struggle is real for employers of all sizes. More Jobs, fewer applicants. For those in the services sectors, like healthcare and blue collar, the CPC and CPA is up 50%, will it continue to climb? 

Powering through a man-cold, Serge brings his A game on today’s episode and Shelley is ready to go to war with her condo board!  

• The difference between good and great Recruiters. There are some essential ingredients, see if you agree.

• Remote, hybrid, WFH or full time back to the office; those with the most property, like major retailers are starting to look beyond the traditional way of selling their goods.

• The employees have voted with their feet at Goldman Sachs in New York. Given 2 weeks notice to get back to the office only 50% made it.

• Asking for demographics information before candidates apply is built in bias in the name of compliance

• Indeed Labour Market report for March 2022 - American data gives us in Canada a heads up on what may be coming. Check it out! 

In 2017 Ira released a book called Recruiting in the age of Googlisation and was pretty bang on what was going to happen to the world of work and recruiting.

We took a deep dive:

Europe’s favorite, or at least the Netherlands favorite TA leader graces us with his royal presence. Bas is heading to the land down under for 3 TA events as a guest speaker and travel buddy with the Hung Lee of Recruiting Brainfood! Jealous much? 

• More about the Metaverse and a virtual career fairs, its everything we dreaded about going to these pointless events only now we can do it with creepy avatars. The saving grace is for early talent and cheers to not having to travel there and find parking!

• Bas is convinced people will forget the ongoing blunders and missteps with Better.com goofing up their latest round of terminations. 

• What’s up with Register before you apply? HR is stuck in a rut from 10 years ago when someone thought it would save them a few minutes in sending out the offer. 

• All 3 of us take shots at poorly written job ads. Europe and Canadian companies continue to pour money into their career pages only to have long dry boring job descriptions. 

Extra tips on some great tech coming to the rescue to write better job ads, check out Dover.com and Jarvis.ai

The charming podcaster from Edinborough has just published his 2nd book, Digital Talent and we got an exclusive scoop. Or at least it felt like an exclusive!

Digital Talent is available on this side of the pond March 29, 2022

• From his first book in 2017 to now; the speed at which we work and the use of AI will be challenging to get it right. The companies who will struggle with this are large and small. 

• Looking at the future of recruiting, Matt shares why personalisation is the clear winner. 

• From whitepapers to consulting to 417 podcast episodes, Matt is at the forefront of what’s happening around the world.

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