Until you travel to the US its hard to get your head around the dire situation the service industry is dealing with. Serge made his way to Detroit on business this week and shares his experience. - We raise our little Canadian flag and are grateful for being in a country with a unified approach on health care. - TA is the canary in the coal mine. The crushing workload all TA practitioners are feeling is supported by the latest study. Recruiter burnout is real. - Big tech is dialing back their mandate to return to working in person. - Will CareerBuilder be saved or is the dumpster fire still smouldering? Our favourite and not so favourite TA tech firms are in the news this week. Find out who landed $15MM in Series B funding - its good news for TA!

If your company is still leveraging non-compete ask yourself what are you trying to protect? There is alternatives and way better hiring practices you can adopt to limit your risk. We also cover: - Smart Recruiter has now reached Unicorn status, plus couple more of smaller HRTech firms also get paid! - How do you handle the post interview briefing with you hiring managers!

Serge and Shelley square off on Google for Jobs recent changes. Shelley has a strong argument that they need to fix their own s***! The other argument is who else is better suited to be able to fix the candidate experience then Google. 

- Should you do a culture audit, where do you start? 

- The future is being a creator, 489,000% increase in creator job posting since 2016

This week week we welcome Micole Garatti. Micole is the CEO of SocialMicole.com, Director B2B Marketing at Fairygodboss.com and together we try to solve all the problems in the talent community. - How men can be allies to women in the workforce (and at home!) - The pandemic has proven to be disastrous for women in the workforce, how can we reverse this? - What will the biggest disruptors in the in HR and recruitment Plus we cover the he Most Inclusive HR Influencer List and much more!

Serge notices some subtle and not so subtle events happening that will have a ripple effect in the service industry sector. Staking his claim as a capitalist, there is no sympathy for corporate giants who whine about their entire staff quitting. A big assortment of topics today - ”Must be a team player” says every single job posting out there. Isn't everyone? Let's talk more about the use of jargon in our job ads. - “As God is my witness” I will never work for minimum wage again. Could this be at the heart of all the corporate crying over trying to find someone to cook burgers or stock grocery shelves? - It's official, TikTok has a job board. A perfect answer for the 18-29 year job seeker. Or is it? Where is this headed?

Will the workplace be forced to shun those who are unvaccinated? How will this affect recruitment? Discuss. - The US court have made a clear and swift ruling on the matter when it comes to mandating vaccination as a pre-hire requirement - Jump off the bandwagon, put some effort into your employment brand statements. - Trouble is brewing when both ZipRecruiter and Indeed are reporting the same warning signs Listen in and join the conversation

The importance of mastering the job order intake will never be lost on us. Those who rely on a 1-dimensional piece of paper as their mandate to recruit will fail. We cover the idea that sourcing candidates should be a separate function from the transaction work of Recruiters. Full Cycle Recruiting and how it sets up successful careers Great Sourcers share these traits This is AWKWARD - 2 episodes in a row, we bring the hottest controversy on Linked In onto the episode ** Being in HR does NOT qualify you to lead DE&I. Maybe HR is part of the problem?

Another action packed episode as we unpack what 7 Economists believe is next up for the world of work - post covid. What the F&@! is happening in the labour market? Job postings are up, candidate traffic is down - nobody predicted this was going to happen!! Or did we? Everyone calm down, this is a temporary bottleneck & yes, this too shall pass We set Serge’s hair on fire & Shelley threw gasoline on it with the winey blog article of the most entitled Developer she could find. There is much debate over office chairs, gaining an extra 20 lbs and how Japan gets their workers to stop smoking

Serge has mountains to climb before he has some of his kids graduating from University unlike Shelley as she is 2 down and 1 to go! In this episode we try to figure out if Marketing or Talent Acquisition owns Employment Brand.

We also deep dive into these topics:

- JobVite 2020 Recruiter Nation Survey - Candidate Dealbreakers https://www.jobvite.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Jobvite-RecruiterNation-Report-Final.pdf

- The education system is broken! Will a 4 year degree be always relevant?

- Shelley and Serge are everywhere! 

If you want to hear the simple truth about DE&I in the workplace - you have come to the right place. Dr. Leeno Karumamchery from Mesh/Diversity breaks it down it down for us. Let's begin with the simple facts of the human brain and neurons. OK, so there is nothing simple about the human brain yet Leeno explains this in a way we grasp. In this episode we hear: - Culture fit’ is a smoke bomb - Elephants look different to everyone - Employee surveys might not be the best way to approach DE&I When you hear; “We have an inclusive culture, but we promote based on merit” Just run away!