The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

STARTING & SCALING A SUCCESSFUL RECRUITMENT BUSINESS It has never been easier to start a recruitment business - in the networked era, anyone with some industry knowledge, decent number of connections and maybe a few early customers already onboard, can leave their employer, set up and start trading. But starting is not the same as succeeding; and succeeding is not the same as scaling. What can we learn from recruitment entrepreneurs who have taken the plunge and grown their businesses to success? That is the topic of this episode of Brainfood Live On Air - What's the biggest challenge for recruitment entrepreneurs? - What is the most important piece to advice you would give to yourself if you could do it again? - What mistakes did you make when you first started? - What is the biggest risk you took in your business? - What will cause your business to fail? - How to did you finance your business? - How does Covid-19 impact the future of starting up in recruitment? All this and more as we talk to the folks who have done it, and are planning to do it.   We’re with  Katrina Hutchinson-O’Neill, MD (Join Talent), James Osborne, Founder (The Recruitment Network), Adam Gordon, CEO (Candidate-ID)  & Alex van Klaveren, CEO (KANDIDATE) Louise Triance in the co-pilot seat   Ep117 Brainfood Live is supported by Greenhouse Looking for practical insights on how to attract talent and build a competitive hiring strategy? Look no further than Amazon’s #1 Hot New Release in HR: Talent Makers: How the Best Organizations Win through Structured and Inclusive Hiring by Greenhouse Software’s Daniel Chait and Jon Stross. Order your copy today. Interested in becoming a Talent Maker? Join the Talent Maker Community and connect with other leaders who are transforming the way their companies use hiring to drive business growth.

RECRUITMENT IN CHINA IN 2021 Brainfood virtual roadshow is taking a long overdue visit one of the most important, maligned yet misunderstood recruitment markets on the planet - China. Home to over 1.4 billion people, millions of job seekers and hundreds of thousands of employers, there is a great deal of recruiting going on in the Middle Kingdom that I’m guessing few of us have the even the faintest idea about. Despite growing fragmentation, de-globalisation and geopolitical tension, anyone with even a passing interest in how the world works should want to improve our China know-how.  Questions to debate: - How has Covid-19 impacted recruitment in China? - What is the status of remote work in China? - How is labour allocated - market, state or both? - What is the Hukou system and how does it work? - What do we mean when we talk about DE&I in China? - What is the role of AI for assessment or not? - What are the Hiring & HR priorities for employers? - How do you get good at hiring for the China market?   We’re with Anne-Marie McCaughan, Greater China Recruitment Lead (GSK), Janet Lui, MD (Asian Carbon Search), Beecher Ashley-Brown, CEO (AJINGA.COM), James Morley-Kirk, Founder (China Select) and Brian Su, Career Coach (Workforce Singapre). Sergei Mak, MD APAC (Daxtra) is in the co-pilot seat   Ep116 is sponsored by Daxtra. Daxtra is on a mission to make data more useful for recruiters. Transform your dormant and disorganised database into your primary source for making actual hires.  Download the Data Nexus Search guide here 

HEADCOUNT PLANNING FOR HYPERGROWTH When you are working TA in a rapidly scaling business, business as usual won’t suffice because nothing at all is usual about the circumstances you’re in. As the recruiter / Head of TA (guess what, at early stage chances are, you are both!) the founding team is going to look at you to make it happen for the business.  - What roles to hire first at Seed, Serie A, Serie B? - How to prioritise, based on need for business or difficulty in hiring? - How to ensure diversity & inclusion when the pressure is to hire today and yesterday? - How to keep track of all of this, what are tools we can use to manage & report? - What are the essential tools TA needs to use? - When do we expand the TA team? - How do we structure it? We’re with Matthias Schmeißer, Director of Talent (Beamery), Robert Krzyzaniak, Head of Talent (Taxfix) and Sanne Goslinga, Director of Talent (Marathon VC) Ep115 is sponsored by our buddies Charthop.  ChartHop delivers a fresh take on People Analytics, bringing disparate sources of people data together in a dynamic platform that’s visual and actionable. Unlike legacy People Analytics solutions, ChartHop is designed to be used by the whole organization. This helps companies improve organizational health, drive alignment and accountability, and save time and money.  ChartHop plays well with dozens of platforms through robust integrations across the HR tech stack, and serves companies like BetterCloud, Lightspeed, Starburst and InVision.   Head to the ChartHop website to learn more!

THE ETHICS OF AI IN HIRING   OK I think we ‘get it’ - Artificial Intelligence or ‘AI’ is no silver bullet for the removal of bias in recruiting. In fact, we’ve seen no shortage of reports over the past few years that illustrate that perhaps AI powered solutions might inadvertently make the situation worse.  And yet we are faced with the unavoidable reality that a hiring process involved only human beings is already bias and in desperate need of improvement.  How can we use AI to help us recruit in a less bias way? - what do we need to know about forms of bias? - where does technology need to applied / withdrawn? - what role should the candidate have in deciding this? - what is the ideal relationship between human intelligence vs artificial intelligence? We’re with renowned industry expert John Sumser, founder of HR Examiner, and Rob McCargow, Director of AI at PwC amongst others to talk through how AI can be ethnically used in recruiting.  We’re on: Friday 25th June, 3.00pm BST / 7.00am PDT Click on the green button on the top right to register for the show, and follow the channel here (recommended) for updates   Ep 114 is sponsored by our buddies Bryq Bryq blindly screens your candidates, resulting in more diverse and equitable hires – and less hiring mistakes. DE&I is crucial to a productive and profitable workplace.  Ready to get started? Sign up for free no obligation 14 day trial now

HOW TO HIRE MORE WOMEN ENGINEERS? If you’re in tech recruiting, diversifying the composition of your engineering team must be one of your top priorities - and most persistent challenges. We’re gathering together an elite panel of guests - tech recruiters, tech vendors and CTO’s to try and figure out what the best options are for recruiters who want to hire more women into tech roles.  - Is it just better sourcing? - do we need to differentiate outreach? - how significant is hiring manager buy in? - do we need to reexamine who we know what good looks like? - what is the impact of credentialism and tenure when it comes to gender diversity? We’re with Alla Pavlova, Tech Recruiter (Miro), Joshua Hoffman, CTO (ex-Blendle, Soundcloud) and Oana Iordachescu, Head of Tech TA (Wayfair) on the panel, Markellos Diorinos, (CEO Bryq) steps into the co-pilot.  Ep 113 is sponsored by our buddies Bryq Bryq blindly screens your candidates, resulting in more diverse and equitable hires – and less hiring mistakes. DE&I is crucial to a productive and profitable workplace. Ready to get started? Sign up for free no obligation 14 day trial here

PROBLEMS WITH HYBRID? As we begin to think about the bounce back from the pandemic, the growing consensus is that the ‘hybrid’ model of working - flexibility for staff to work either from home, with an office provided - is going to be the default setting for the majority of businesses.  Candidates and employees seem to want this flexibility…..but does it really work? Are there any trade offs with hybrid? What are we losing if we work this way? What worries business owners, managers, CEO’s - key executives with a responsibility for the health of the business - about this modus operandi? This is the topic of Brainfood Live On Air  We’re with Alex DePledge, MBE, CEO of Resi, Neil Carberry, CEO of Recruitment & Employers Confederations and Nims Dhawan, Organisational Design at the UK Ministry of Defence.  We’ve heard from the employees; now we have to hear from the bosses 👇   Ep 112 is sponsored by our buddies ESIX Executive Search Information Exchange or ESIX is the world's leading membership network exclusively for Corporate Talent Officers involved in Executive hiring. Featuring members from around 100 of the leading employers in the world, it is the one stop shop for networking amongst peers, information exchange, personal and career development. Buy their book ‘Leadership Recruiting’ or find out more about membership here

How To Become A Better Story Teller - Top Tips for Recruiters If you conduct a keyword search on 'storytelling' on LinkedIn, you'll find that it is one of the fastest growing skills on the platform. There's probably not an employer branding profile which doesn't contain the term! And yet, what exactly IS storytelling? Isn't this just a new / old term for marketing? How do you get better at it?  - story telling techniques - best mediums for your style of storytelling - psychology of story telling - why it works  - how can you do it   Ep111 is sponsored by our buddies CA3 CA3 is an award-winning employer brand agency that helps organisations attract, onboard and engage with talent through compelling creative comms. Great work, great relationships is their raison d'être, the reason their clients (the likes of Expedia Group, Johnson Matthey, Smartest Energy, Audley Group, Aviva, GE Healthcare and NatWest Group) love working with them, and their people come to work smiling (even on Mondays apparently). Perhaps that’s also why they picked the Grand Prix award at the RMAs last November. If your EVP or employer brand is in need of a little love and attention after a tough 2020 why not check out their website today or email hello@cathree.com

RECRUITING IN THE MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA IN 2021 Brainfood virtual roadshow is taking a long overdue visit to the Middle East & North Africa! There are recruiting challenges unique to every region on earth, that is under served by universalistic approaches, so it is vital that we connect with recruiters & HR community members from everywhere on the globe. There are so many brainfooders in the Middle East, especially based in UAE, so we are taking this week to speak to professionals in the region and learn about their challenges and solutions for 2021 - How has Covid-19 impacted recruitment? - What is the status of remote work in MENA? - What do we mean when we talk about DE&I? - Are into AI for assessment or not?   Ep110 is sponsored by Daxtra.   Daxtra is on a mission to make data more useful for recruiters. Transform your dormant and disorganised database into your primary source for making actual hires.  Download the Data Nexus Search guide here 

FROM AGENCY TO INHOUSE - TOP TIPS I've been fielding a lot of questions lately from recruiters agency side who are keen to explore the challenges of the working in-house, so this is a show dedicated to those folks who are thinking about making this move! Almost all in-house recruiters worked formerly agency side and the rise of direct hiring by employers has led to explosive growth of the in-house recruiter business. What are the differences, what are the similarities? How does a recruiter move from 3rd party to in-house - and for that matter, vice versa?   Ep109 is sponsored by our buddies Occupop Attract, manage and hire the right people for your business with software designed for in-house recruiters in mind. Looking to upgrade from spreadsheets or swap out your legacy ATS? Check out Occupop, start with a free extended 30 day trial here

LINKEDIN UPDATES; WHAT'S NEW for Q2? We use LinkedIn everyday - weirdo's that we are - and we simply must keep on top of what is happening on the platform. Turns out, there is huge amount going - LinkedIn audio? LinkedIn newsletter? LinkedIn magic sourcing tools? All stuff that we need to know but few of us do. Good job we have brainfood favourite's LinkedIn expert - Andy Foote himself - to come on down and talk with us every quarter to keep us regulated on LinkedIn updates. Can't miss this one folks - if you're into Recruiting Brainfood, you're going to be into this Ep108 is sponsored by our buddies Occupop Attract, manage and hire the right people for your business with software designed for in-house recruiters in mind. Looking to upgrade from spreadsheets or swap out your legacy ATS? Check out Occupop, start with a free extended 30 day trial here