By The Sub1000 Recruitment Podcast
The recruitment podcast for recruiters working for organisations with less than 1,000 staff.
Hosted by the co-founder of hireful, Adrian McDonagh, who has spent the last 10 years travelling
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The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.
COVID-19 changed everything and things are still far from normal. Everyone is talking about a “new normal” but what does this really mean for recruitment? What lessons have we learnt from the lockdown that we will want to continue? What will recruitment look like with 3m people unemployed? How will your organisation adapt to this new normal?
In this episode Adrian shares the recording from his recent Recruiter Roundtable event where he spoke with 3 experienced recruiters on their expectations of what like will be like recruiting in this “new normal”
If you want to connect to any of the recruiters featured in this episode please use the links below:
This episode is an interview with Michael Gilbertson, Recruitment Manager for the Air Ambulance Service (c.350 staff). They are an innovative charity with a great culture who recently signed up for our help100 programme (https://hireful.co.uk/help100-programme/)
This episode was recorded remotely during lockdown and we discussed:
You can connect with Michael on LinkedIn , and information on The Air Ambulance careers can be found here: https://theairambulanceservice.org.uk/our-work/work-with-us/
This episode is an interview with Max Encke, Talent Acquisition Lead for Eigen Technologies (c.150 staff). They are a fast growing tech company working in the machine learning sector.
This episode was recorded remotely during lockdown and we discussed:
You can connect with Max on LinkedIn, and information on Eigen Technologies careers can be found here: https://eigentech.com/careers
Resources mentioned in this episode:
This episode is an interview with Julia Seymour, the Group Resourcing Manager for Sigma Financial Group (c.500 staff). Most of their recruitment is based around customer service/call centre staff to work on client campaigns.
This episode was recorded remotely during lockdown and we discussed:
You can connect with Julia on LinkedIn, and information on Sigma Financial Group careers can be found here: http://www.sigfin.co.uk/work-for-us/
Resources mentioned in this episode:
· Microsoft Teams: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software
· Books by Dorothy Koomson: https://www.dorothykoomson.co.uk/
This is the second of Adrian’s solo episodes. With more and more people being made redundant and others feeling that their job might not be secure, we thought we should do an episode to share a few jobseeking tips. This episode is not specifically aimed at recruiters, so feel free to share to anyone who is looking and might need some help.
This session will cover:
If you like your jobseeking training more visual, then we would also recommend these training videos, Adrian recorded: https://hireful.co.uk/job-seekers/advice/
Finally, we are running a jobseeker surgery on LinkedIn once a fortnight on Tuesday mornings (9.30am). This is an opportunity to update your skills and come along to a Q&A with other jobseekers. We plan to run this till the end of the Summer of 2020 and then we will review and see what the ongoing demand is. The details of the next upcoming event will be listed on our LinkedIn Company page, see: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hireful/
This episode is an interview with Baljit Kaur, an Equality and Diversity expert and also founder of Innate Consultancy.
This is another of our “expert” interviews and focused on the subject of equality and inclusion which is very prominent in the news at the moment. This episode was recorded in 2020 and one of the main takeaways is that organisations have been talking about this subject for a while and now they need to start taking action. This is very timely given the reaction to the Government’s recent announcement of another inequality review, when it appears most of the country is keen that we enact many of the recommendations of the previous reviews. Anyway, you will be pleased to hear that Baljit kept the conversation away from the politics of the day and focused on practical steps you can take as an organisation to be more inclusive.
Specifically, we discussed:
You can connect with Baljit on LinkedIn, and Innate Consultancy’s website can be found here: https://www.innateconsultancy.co.uk/
Resources mentioned in this episode:
This episode is an interview with Matt Birtchnell, Talent Specialist at Xero (c.400 UK staff).
Matt has almost 15 years’ experience in the recruitment sector across a wide range of industries. He joined Xero as their first inhouse dedicated recruiter, as has been heavily involved in building up their resourcing capability. Xero is a young “hyper growth” organisation and this presents lots of challenges to the recruitment function. Matt and his colleagues are challenged to recruit highly talented people at volume (c. 170 hires this year).
This was a wide ranging discussion that includes how:
You can connect with Matt on LinkedIn, and take a look at the Xero’s career opportunities on their website, here: https://www.xero.com/uk/about/careers/
Resources mentioned in this episode:
This episode is an interview with Simon Connell from WebOnboarding.
Simon recently completed a guest webinar for us and as the lockdown has made onboarding an even hotter topic than it already was, I twisted his arm as I was keen to deliver an “expert episode” on the subject of onboarding.
We had a great conversation that started with the revelation that Simon’s passion outside of work is wrestling (hence the title of the episode). The conversation covered lots of interesting ground in the onboarding arena, including:
You can connect with Simon here, and see more from WebOnboarding on their website.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
This episode is an interview with Catherine Mayo, Resourcing Manager at Solicitors Regulatory Authority (c.640 staff).
Catherine has worked in a wide variety of industries from Construction, Engineering and Software through to her current role working for a Regulatory Body.
Since joining the SRA in 2015, she has been heavily involved in their diversity and inclusivity efforts. These overall collaborative efforts led to the SRA recently being listed in the Stonewall 100 list of Top Employers who achieve acceptance without exception for all LGBT people.
In addition, to D&I we also discussed the following:
You can connect with Catherine on LinkedIn, and take a look at the SRA’s career opportunities on their website.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
This episode is an interview with Martin Price, Co-Founder at Secure Screening Services.
This was the first of our “expert” interviews that we also plan to fit into the podcast. Martin’s area of expertise is background checking. This can sound like a slightly dull subject but bear with us, Martin has a very interesting background and operates his business differently to the rest of the market.
Some of the items we discussed in this episode includes:
You can connect with Martin on LinkedIn and take a look at the Secure Screening Services website here.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.