Kicking off the summer of love, Serge has big plans for his 10 year wedding anniversary! Class act James Ellis as he shares his book, Talent Chooses You with the world as a google doc. Making it an interactive discussion for Employer Branding and Talent Acquisition pros who need to understand how to harness the power of their EB. You can find it here http://employerbrandbook.com/ Big Talk on today’s episode 7 habits of effective recruiters - pick 2 and run with it Are agency recruiters missing out with WFH? Will LinkedIN fade in our lifetime?

The day has finally arrived after months of Serge’s wild predictions that Recruit Holdings would buy up ZipRecruiter, we find out he was dead wrong. - Shelley’s birthday and the best birthday gift EVER! Shocking to hear it involved shopping, eating and 5 types of rum in 1 drink! - Staffing industry trends and who are the top dogs - Women in software engineering - what can we learn from most progressive markets in the world. Bonus material - how dating and recruiting are kinda the same thing. The link to the video is below. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jobsyncio_dont-be-this-guy-activity-6803386816868208640-CDl9 https://amazinghiring.com/how-hard-is-it-to-hire-a-female-senior-software-engineer-in-europe/?utm_campaign=Recruiting%20Brainfood&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Shelley is a bit of jealous of how easy it is to be able to record your young kids now compared to the days she had young kids where the slide carousel was the standard ;). Quite a few disagreement in this episode!

 - Diversity Statements, should you have one? 

- Are fortune 500 companies leveraging AI correctly? 

- Unique or "weird" interview question, should it be a thing?

Serge disagree's Chad and Cheese and they're take on TikTok for jobs.

This week The Recruitment Flex we welcome Alex Murphy CEO of JobSync. We dig into why are Talent Acquisition process so different from company to company plus we dig into, - What is your conversion rate of candidates clicking to apply to your jobs, if it's not 20% or above you probably have an issue. - How can you save more time as a recruiter by automating or replacing time spent with technology - Why is it important for your process to be consistent no matter where the candidate found your job. - Are you taking too long to reach out to your candidates.

Find out why you should never call Shelley a #GirlBoss. Is TikTok for jobs going to be a thing? Plus some ‘healthy’ banter on the new recruitment metrics. Time to apply Applicant to hire Sourcing channel effectiveness Time to interview Offer Acceptance Also Coinbase tries to solve the gender wage gap.

The busiest man in recruitment technology Chris Russell joins us to talk all things recruitment related. - Why rejecting candidates properly is so important and how Rejobify can help. - The future of gig platforms and who is Indeed pissing off now. - How Google for Jobs and Facebook are trying to grab strong market share in the job board world - What's next for Zip Recruiter and Talent.com As always great insights from Chris! www.rejobify.com, hrlancers.com 

Should political discourse happen at work? what is considered political? We try to figure what happened at BaseCamp. Shelley buys a new car and we try to solve all the worlds talent challenges. 

- Are people excited about going back to the office?

- What are candidates profile? - We talk about roles in Talent Acquisition that might never heard of 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d291pcxKtK4 

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/4/22419512/basecamp-political-speech-policy-fallout

How do you know you’ve hit the big time as a software start up? When the lawyers from Craigslist send you a ‘cease and desist’ letter! Hear the whole story on this week’s episode.

Terry talks about the history of Pandologic and how they resisted the swirl of programmatic companies being swallowed up in 2019.

Programmatic job advertising explained by the original visionary who invented the space.

TRY THIS:

Its Tesla Autonomous Driving VS basic cruise control for advertising jobs

Having 90% accuracy in predicting where your job posting will attract the right candidates

Bonus material: what’s the future of programmatic

Serge and Shelley are back after brief hiatus! As always we cover recruitment tips and news on the Recruitment industry. This week we also talk about Shelley shopping for a new car, is it different for a woman buying a car then a man? Topics for the week - How do you recruit in a tight labour market? - Training new recruiters. - Jobvite Acquires JazzHR and NXXThing RPO - Zip Recruiter prepping for IPO

This week we welcome Brad DiPaolo CEO of Candidate Hub. We find out if Brad is the source of many of Serge's emotional scars around HR!

We deep dive on Candidate Hub and why nurture marketing to candidates is especially critical in this economy. We also try to figure out all the worlds problem including 

- Talent pipelines and why they're critical

- What is the difference between an ATS CRM and Candidate Hub

- Why do hiring managers not held accountable to hire

And so much more!