Recruiting Future with Matt Alder - What's Next For Talent Acquisition, HR & Hiring?

In this episode Matt Alder speak to Mike Bailen, VP of People at Lever, about a modern approach to Recruitment Marketing

I launched The Recruiting Future Podcast in early 2015 as a way of making sense of what was going on in the Talent Acquisition space. The intention was to seek out stories and opinions from the people who are working on the front line of our changing industry and share them as widely as a possible. I’m absolutely delighted to have reached episode 100 and I’m hugely thankful to everyone who has helped to make the podcast so successful. It couldn’t happen without the brilliant guests, the supportive sponsors and the amazing listeners. There are over 45 hours of content across the recorded shows and to mark the 100th episode I wanted to do something to make it easier for people access some of the brilliant thinking and case studies that have been featured over the last two and half years. In this episode, you can hear extracts from 10 of my favourite interviews covering some of the key trends in talent acquisition including Recruitment Marketing, Recruiting Strategy, Data & Analytics, Recruiting Technology and The Future Of Work. Not only that you can find 40 interviews categorized by the key trends they cover in the free white paper I’ve written to accompany this show. Download the Trends In Talent Acquisition white paper here A special thanks to the wonderful people at Lever who are supporting the 100th episode and the white paper. Subscribe to this podcast in iTunes

Matt Alder talks to Louis Halton-Davies about the huge benefits of using Programmatic Advertising for Recruitment Marketing

Despite all the recent advances in recruitment technology focused on improving recruitment efficiency, speed of hiring remains a significant issue for the vast majority of organisations. In fact there is actually a growing body of evidence that suggests speed of hiring is slowing down. So what can employers do to improve this situation? My guest this week is author and consultant Scott Wintrip. Scott has developed a methodology to eliminate hiring delays which he sets out in his recently published book, “High Velocity Hiring” In the interview we discuss:     •    Why time to hire is such a problem     •    The concept of Candidate Gravity     •    How employers can enrich the flow of talent into their organizations     •    Why common interview techniques don’t work and what should be used to replace them     •    Maintaining an inventory of talent for on demand hiring Scott also shares his thoughts on recruitment technology and tells us the single most important question employers should be asking themselves before they make technology investments Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes

Employer Branding has changed significantly in the last few years. Challenges round talent availability and evolving communication trends are forcing companies to think more strategically about the way they get their message out to their markets. We often hear about Employer Brand innovation in technology companies but how are things now working in more traditional companies? My guest this week is Euan McNair, Talent Acquisition and Employer Brand Consultant at Standard Life who are based in Edinburgh. Standard Life have been doing some interesting employer branding work recently and I know you’ll find the insights that Euan shares fascinating. In the interview we discuss:     •    Why Euan is so passionate about Employer Branding and how he defines it     •    The end of job adverts and the rise of employee story telling     •    Who owns Employer Brand     •    Channels, data and formats     •    Having a candidate centric approach Euan also shares his view on the likely future of the Employer Brand space Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes

Ever since my earliest of days in this industry I’ve be fascinated by Corporate Career Sites. It’s also become very clear to me in recent years that career sites should absolutely be the focal point of the new approaches we are seeing in recruitment marketing. Unfortunately I don’t think many employers have realised just how critical their career site is to their recruiting success. One person who does understand this though is my guest this week. Adam Templeman is Head of Commercial Staffing at QuintilesIMS. He has recently helped launched a new careers site for the organization and has some great insights to share. In the interview we discuss:     •    How recruitment marketing challenges have stayed the same but the answers to them have changed     •    The vital importance of engaging with target audiences     •    Using rich, dynamic and targeted content on career sites     •    Getting ATS integration right to increase conversions and improve candidate experience     •    Matching employer brand to employee experience Adam also gives us his views on the importance of automation and talks about what is next for QuintilesIMS Subscribe to this podcast in iTunes

Data and analytics continue to be key topics in Talent Acquisition. But what should employers be measuring, what value can the data give them and how widely is a data driven approach to recruiting actually being adopted? To answer these questions as well as many others, I’m delighted to welcome Kyle Lagunas, Research Manager at IDC, as my guest for this week’s show. Kyle has been intensely studying the development of data driven recruiting for several years and has some very interesting insights to share. In the interview we discuss:     •    The gap between current technologies and adoption     •    The evolution of measurement practices in recruiting     •    Recruiting skills versus Recruitment Marketing skills     •    How data can be used to optimize a recruiting operation     •    What is possible with analytics and how to measure beyond the usual activity metrics     •    An example strategic framework for developing data driving recruiting Kyle also give us his view on the future of some other current trends in talent acquisition including AI, Recruitment Marketing Platform and Chatbots Subscribe to this podcast in iTunes Find out more about my new book “Exceptional Talent”

The trends in tech recruiting are something that every employer should be following with interest. Even if your company isn’t currently recruiting tech professionals, it is important to know what is happening in the sector as the methodologies and practices being used for tech recruiting today, are likely to be used by everyone tomorrow. Tech Recruiting is the bellwether sector of our industry. Who better to get us up to speed with developments in this area than my guest this week, Hung Lee the founder of Workshape.io. Hung always has some great insights to share and it was brilliant to have him on the show. In the interview we discuss:     •    The current challenges in tech recruiting and the strategic decisions companies need to make to deal with them     •    The importance of mind-set shift     •    Having an “Always On” attitude to recruiting     •    Myth busting     •    The re-invention of the recruitment process     •    Interoperability, modularisation and decoupling Hung also gives us his views on the future of the sector and shares some of the great content he has recently curated. Subscribe to this podcast in iTunes

This week we don’t just have one guest, we have eight guests! A couple of weeks ago the guys at TA Tech invited me to the Rec Tech conference in Barcelona. Rec Tech is one of the biggest global trade conferences for the Job Board and Recruitment Technology industry. In this episode of the podcast you’ll here from eight senior leaders from the industry talk about the future of their industry, the changing nature of candidate expectations, the threat from Google and the potential of programmatic advertising and artificial intelligence. Thanks to the following people for taking part     •    Dennis Alshuler - Zip Recruiter     •    Renato Profico - Job Cloud     •    Dominique Cerri - InfoJobs     •    Monis Rahman - Rozee.pk     •   Ben Sole - Reed.co.uk     • Angela Hood - This Way Global     •  Josh Gamble - Recruitics     •    Sergio Gonzalez - Cornerjobs Subscribe to this podcast in iTunes

During the research process for my book, Exceptional Talent, it became clear that the importance of the concept of Employee Experience was growing rapidly. To talk us through the reasons behind this and to break down the key elements of the employee experience, I’m delighted to welcome eminent futurist and best selling author Jacob Morgan to the show. Jacob has recently written a new book called “The Employee Experience Advantage” which is based on detailed research into over 250 global employers. In the interview we discuss:     •    The three systems that make up Employee Experience     •    Corporate culture as the “side effects” of working for a particular organization     •    The four attributes of physical space     •    Tools to get the job done     •    The ROI of having a great Employee Experience     •    The future of HR Jacob also give us some examples of employers who are doing great work shaping their Employee Experience and the trends we can expect to see in the coming few years Subscribe to this podcast in iTunes