This week on TRF we cover:

• Wayfair CEO says uses his outside voice - again. He thinks he’s Elon Musk and can get away with saying whatever pops into his head. Its cringe worthy.

• Flockity, friend of the show Tracy Parsons creates the first Influencer platform for jobs.

• Hiring Branch study shows some surprising data on language skills connection to success on the job.

In the News

• Canada pumps the brakes on the number of International students, for all the right reasons.

• WebMD parent company Internet brands return to office video is so bad, we don't think their employer brand will ever recover.

Tip of the Week

• The top 15 jobs people want to quit. This list is a recruitment marketer's dream. Leverage this for the skills that will easily transfer to your organization. 

Recruiting Insights

• The weirdness of the US labour market continues. Job seeker behaviour is changing, more discerning than ever before. 

• Job postings in November took a nose dive and the rate of hiring dropped like a rock too, something we’ve not seen since the 2008 crash.

• Adriano Herdman strikes again. This week is the 21 Talent Acquisition Tatics comparison chart. Just brilliant.

The Recruitment Flex welcomes Cameron Laker CEO at MindField.

• If you think RPO is just rent-a-recruiter, prepare to be blown away by what Cameron has built, right here in Canada. 

• 12,000 jobs filled in 2023, makes us dizzy just thinking about how to pull that off. He shares how he did it and you can as well.

• Cameron openly shares his POV on HR tech and hints at some of the NON-industry thinking behind their incredible success. 

• Fears and reality of the hourly worker in Canada.

• 2024 looks to be the year of the RPO

This week on TRF we cover:

• Shelley is on the list of the Top 24 HR Influencers to Watch in 2024 and gives credit where it’s due!

• Our LinkedIn feeds are full of our friends and followers getting new gigs! Lots of movement and it's only the 3rd week in January. 

In the News

• Tech darlings Meta, HubSpot and Google loose their top spots on Glassdoors’s list of Best Places to work

• Watch the TikTok video of Brittany Pietsch getting let go and weigh in. Is she someone you’d want on your sales team?

Tip of the Week

• Get your copy of the Interviewers Cheat Sheet for 2024.

Recruiting Insights

• Appcast 2024 Top Recruiting Trends

• Revoking a job offer, lying during the interview process is reason enough? 

• Our first disagreement of the year, please comment!

TRF feat Andrew Flowers Labour Economist with Appcast:

Andrew recaps the 2023 labour market for US, Canada and Europe and a big round of applause on his predictions all being correct!

• The increase in US states who are adopting pay transparency laws and the positive impact it is having on candidate quality. 

• Beige is the color of 2024. Its kind of what we wished for in 2020!

• The 2 labour markets, standing up jobs and sitting down jobs.

• Victim of success, Canada’s immigration model puts extra pressure on housing

• WFH bites into commercial real estate

• 2024 predictions are good new bad news! 

This week on TRF we cover:

• Big thanks for our listeners who participated in our little survey. Some great suggestions that we will incorporate into the show!

In The News:

• The US labour market is still chugging along with a 3.7% unemployment rate and 216,000 new jobs added in December. 

• 217% increase in the number of Canadian employers using apprenticeships to fill the labour and skills shortage, all in the SMB sized companies.

Tip of the Week

• Volunteer. Never loose sight of what it feels like to be a job seeker. Supporting a job seeker with tips and advice is looks good on you!

Recruiting Insights

• Explaining pay policy to employees and to job seekers is art and science, well its math actually. Only 38% of HR pros surveyed felt they could effectively explain it to their managers. 

• Hiring the wrong person is expensive and deflating is not news to any of us. Mastering the intake to get the job description right is key.

• Gartner research predicts 50% of consumers will limit their interactions on social media by 2025 We see this as an early warning sign in recruitment advertising

Can a candidate's online presence reveal a lot about their authenticity, values, and potential red flags? In person at the HR Tech conference we get the down-low on social media background screening from FAMA CEO Ben Mones. 

• Big year so far with FAMA - they are the leading platform for screening for workplace misconduct. 

• FAMA acquires Social Intelligence, better friends than foes.

• The Hunova partnership offers a comprehensive talent intelligence, it feels like the first time you downloaded Waze - life just got easier.

• The most common type of workplace issue is harassment.

• Business impact of hiring bad apples will spoil the whole barrel. 

This week on TRF we cover:

• The holidays are best with little people. Seeing how excited and happy they are to unwrap gifts is precious. 

• Some omens of the year to come based on how NYE was celebrated. 

In the News

• Know when to stop talking is our advice to Wayfair’s CEO 

• Elite athletes and CEO’s get paid top dollar - also known as pay for performance, we wont get on the bandwagon to envy their success 

• Prediction from 2023 came true. Unionized workers flexed their muscles and took job action in many sectors

• New employment related laws in Canada coming into effect in 2024

Tip of the Week

• Flakes or Catalysts - great recruiters can identify candidates who are intelligent, intuitive, move fast and burn out quick and ensure Leaders know how to get the best from them.

Recruiting Insights

• The evolution of DEI and why it may be losing steam in 2024

• Deloitte’s feature on how IKEA’s leverage AI to the benefit of 10,000 staff members

• KPMG’s Future Workplace survey confirms what we all were sensing, fully remote work drops to 1%

Happy New Year! New Episodes coming Friday in the meantime enjoy one of our best episodes of the year.

TA Practitioners Series

With a TA team of 80 across Canada, Nicole and Harneet share with us why KPMG is the best place to work if you are a recruiter.

• Hiring Leaders who understand the value of TA is no accident. With Nicole flying the plane and Harneet as co-pilot, Hiring Managers are fully onboard with investing in TA. 

• Early talent, campus, internal mobility, alumni, sourcing for domestic and international, this team does it all.

• KPMG’s pandemic response was to upskill the team by investing in better technology to allow Recruiters to spend time where it matters - with candidates.

• When offer acceptance rates declined they built their own offer Playbook to enhance negotiation skills. 

• If by the end of this episode, you aren't on their careers page, then you weren't listening!

TRF Best Episode of 2023

When the classiest guy in HR Tech buys the nicest recruitment marketing agency, you get happy employees and delighted customers. 10 cities in 10 days to meet the Bayard team, he’s convinced this acquisition is a win-win. 

• Chris gives us an inside view of his personal journey and his philosophy on how to build a successful company. 

• Smart people are everywhere, so invest in overlooked communities like Fredericton, New Brunswick.

• Chris gives us some inside baseball on how the conversations with partners unfolded before the acquisition with Bayard was announced.

• 20 years of building business and selling them, this is a first to acquire one!

• Appcast is now the world’s largest buyer of Indeed and ZipRecruiter media.

• The definition of success 2 years after the acquisition.

• What's next for Appcast?

Bonus material:

• The best explanation on why job postings are down in 2023

TRF The year in review and predictions for 2024

• How good were last year’s predictions?

• Serge gets a standing ovation for his prediction from last December, ChatGPT and AI rocked the world.

• Although YouTube shorts did not clobber TikTok, we are seeing a drop in use among teenagers.

Surprises in 2023

• The swing from employee to employer market was quick.

• Pay transparency law in British Columbia was passed adn now in effect

• Joel Lalgee becomes a star!

Predictions for 2024

Wager from Shelley

• Assessments will be all the rage! Skyrocketing in popularity will be the likes PLUM.io, Hiring Branch, HackerRank. 

• A Linked In developer will harness AI to enable meaningful data mining on the platform & solve job matching

Wager from Serge 

• Quick Apply / Easy apply for jobs becomes obsolete

• Recruit Holdings buys ZipRecruiter

• One major employer will eliminate the old school recruiter role