This week we welcome guest co-host Michelle Berg and we realize the dangers of mixing alcohol and MC’ing an HR event, this is your cautionary tale. 

• With only weeks to go in 2021, we strapped ourselves in for riding out the nutty season of performance reviews and everyone expecting a raise.  

• Our recruitment insights this week - lots of talk about money!

• Consider the consequences of employers who drop your wages if you choose to WFH

• Do they really need more men in nursing? We call out the most cringe worthy recruitment campaign ever. 

Angela Hood, CEO and founder of This Way Global who is in the Google Accelerator program. No half hearted efforts allowed. We talked about what it takes to be brought along in this program and it's nothing short of incredible. 

• Are gaps in employment a good reason to pass over a candidate or is that bias? 

• After reading the first 100 resumes can anyone really be expected to read another 100? 

• Its pretty bad when you think most candidates apply for the wrong job. 

• Fear not, TWG has created what we knew someone would eventually build and then took it a step further and made integration a snap. 

Remember you heard it here first! The future has arrived

With guest cohost Kim Wilkinson, Founder of Verve Recruitment.

Recruiters are held to a higher standard when we are bringing on new team members. Melissa joined Shelley’s team and without a medical degree has saved her from having an aneurysm. From botox to hair plugs this episode has it all.  

• While some dusty old school staffing agencies are putting down their tools during December, we fire back with why December is the best time to recruit. 

• When someone quits, do you throw a party or escort them out the door? TA pros know the value of being gracious as talent leaves as when we recruited them in  

• Speaking of changing jobs, we chat through some sure signs when it time to look for another job. Ever been asked for feedback only to have the survey results ignored? Being told we are a hybrid model who now dictates when you work or better yet, your boss now wants to inspect your work from home set up. Red flags and alarm bells are going off everywhere.

Bas Van de Haterd, Mr. Netherlands and host of Talent Savvy Podcast

• Did you ever think we would see a good case for assessments in the hiring process? Make it fun, make it Relevant

Shelley came bearing gifts for Serge’s sweet little girls and they got to meet IRL over the weekend! Plus Shelley’s oldest son, Chandler crossed the stage, for his Bachelor’s degree this week, a very proud moment!

Our recruiting insights this week

• Avoid seeing your boss the same way you see your dad. Mixed messages on calling your workplace ‘family’ can spell disaster

• Solid recommendations for TA content in 2022. Employee stories will dominate top employer brands and it will be authentic, not scripted by CorpComm. 

**Find our past episode with Elena Valentine, Founder of Skill Scout for more inspiration.

• Employee Referral programs, please stop making employees grovel for their reward money! You are better off with a dollar store card and a hand written thank you note. TA needs to drive the whole thing - no strings attached. Just pay people their referral fee!

Every company needs to have a great employment lawyer on speed dial! Rick brings over 30 years as an Employment Lawyer to this episode. We tackle a very controversial topic vaccines mandates, Bit of feelings, bit of opinions but mostly just facts.

• Get schooled on what we forgot from grade 9 on The Canadian Charter, laws vs bylaws & what this means when we start talking about COVID mandates

• The final word on including “Must be fully immunized” on our job ads.

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This is not a normal show for us! When we first started The Recruitment Flex we never thought we would get to a 100th episodes but here we are.

In this episode we reminisce a bit and go through the journey of this podcast.

We sincerely appreciate to anyone who has listened to The Recruitment Flex and has engaged in this community!

This week is a bit different as we will be airing our 100th episode, so for this 99th episode we decided to do our weekly recruitment insight episode.

Shelley ponders Botox but then realizes that Zoom has a beauty filter! As always we discuss today's recruitment challenges.

This week Kim Wilkinson teams up with Serge to try to sell Shelley on getting a French Bulldog! We also tackle some recruitment topics.

Exciting to bring one of the most influential leaders in the Talent Acquisition space Christian Forman - CEO of Appcast.