AI Enabled Job Seekers - What is the Assessment Plan?   We know that job candidates are now extensively using generative AI tools to improve their chances of passing through job assessments. We can expect this number to increase as competition for opportunities continues to be high and innovation in tech becomes ever more sophisticated. Do we recruiters have a plan to deal with this?   You will learn: - Candidate usage of GAI - status - Surge of job applicants ...is it from mass...

STATE OF THE RECRUITER JOB MARKET, PT2   It has been a very challenging market. We did the pt1 of this mini series at the start of the year and we had hoped that things would improve for recruiters looking for work, but I don't think we can say that it has. The market buoyancy that we've experienced over the past decade and half might turn to be entirely a zero interest rate phenomenon, and we need to adjust to changed realties.   Let's talk to recruiters who are at different stages...

CREATING A CAREER PATHING FRAMEWORK FOR YOUR TA DEPARTMENT   Inspired by a question asked in the online community, we're going to do this conversation on how to build career path & progression framework for Talent Acquisition. A structure of this type is essential for any significant department in business, helping not only create visibility on resourcing gaps but also on how candidates and employees can progress their careers within the business.   How many of us have one of...

HOW TO HIRE IN LATAM   As I will be in Colombia this week, it is fitting that I should do a Brainfood Live on the topic of Hiring in LATAM. As the world re-globalises around new supply chains and regional blocs, as well as jobs shifting across those boundaries as companies seek the best available talent at the best available price, we are overdue a visit to Latin America and all the diverse economies of this 1 billion person region.   This is a show for every recruiter currently or...

RECRUITER USE CASES FOR CHATGPT - PART 4   It's been nearly 6 months since we last ran Part 3 on Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, and as you know by now, 6 months is a lifetime in the world of AI. What advances have happened in that time, how have recruiters taken advantage of the innovations, what practical use cases can see we illustrate to the audience?   We're bringing the best of the best again for this rapid fire on screen demo show where expert recruiters will share their...

HOW TO CONDUCT AN AI BIAS AUDIT   If you've been following me on any channel you will know that one of the hot items we're tracking is the state of regulation when it comes to AI. Whether it is the EU AI directive or the New York AEDT or the increasing numbers of cases going through the law courts on AI, automation and bias.   Smart TA departments will want to be using GAI to secure efficiency gains but at the same time must be wary of building processes and using technologies which...

WHAT WORKS FOR WOMEN (IN TECH)   As another technology wave crashes over society and forces us to adapt to new realities, we again need to review what the recurring motif of the lack of gender diversity in the world of technology. Despite the decade of effort, goodwill and investment, the ratio of women to men in the tech remains stubbornly fixed. Perhaps it is time to challenge previously held assumptions and think whether we have actually created the environment with allows people of...

BEING PUT ON BLAST: HOW TO HANDLE NEGATIVE PUBLICITY FROM UNHAPPY JOB CANDIDATES   Perhaps one of the most challenging moments in a recruiters career is when an irate candidate takes the socials and puts your business on blast. Dealing with feedback is difficult, but when it is a public call out then the potential damage to employer brand far exceeds any personal pressure that might be felt.   How do you handle such a situation? Can it turned around?   We're looking at a specific...

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF CANDIDATE ASSESSMENTS   As recruiters our task to build a hiring process which enables our employers and clients to hire the most suitable candidates most efficiently. Whether we use interview, game based assessment, set take home projects, have presentations delivered or even take the candidates out for a meet-the-team exercise, we rarely consider the scenario from the candidate perspective - what are the psychological impacts on the assessments we set? Are...

RECRUITER FRAUD: HOW TO SPOT AND STOP 'OVERWORKING' REMOTE RECRUITERS   'Overworking' is one of the most popular subreddits on Reddit, and it's a discussion community of people who share tips on how to get away with (illegally) working more than one job. Once considered a myth promulgated by managers who want to manufacture consent for return to office, a body of evidence is building both from research and from direct experience that overworking is indeed an issue, simply because...

WHEN POLITICS & EMPLOYER BRANDING COLLIDE   The Culture War gripping the United States has culminated a number of legislative changes which have direct impact on the recruiting industry. The landmark Dobbs vs Jackson ruling, which removed the Federal protection of a women's right to choose, has led to a number of states changing their laws which various reduce woman's right to abortion. What impact does this have on employer branding and talent attraction?   Indeed collaborated...

GENERATIONAL DIVERSITY: AGE & AGE-ISM     We all care about diversity and inclusion, but there seems to be a hierarchy as to which measures of diversity matter more than others, mainly gender and ethnicity. And yet perhaps most egregious form of discrimination is against the older worker - who we will all one day become - who are often stereotyped as stuck in their ways, lacking energy and initiative, overly expensive, a management problem and the rest. Let's also not be afraid of...

CAREER PROGRESSION TIPS FOR TALENT ACQUISITION LEADERS   Back when you were you kid, the advice was always 'keep your head down, don't cause any trouble, work hard' and you will inevitably get your just rewards. Whilst not of this is false, it is certainly not complete and as we get older we have to resist the cynicism which inevitably takes hold as we watch others advance more quickly and further along, despite perhaps not having any excess of capability!   The reason is of course,...

THE BUSINESS CASE FOR BUDGET (WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH!)     It's easy to get budget for your new recruitment toy, or cool event to attend or extra headcount when times are good and the cash is flowing into the business. How to do it when the entire market is retrenching and every penny is being accounted for? We're in a moment right now but rather than give up on the situation, can we reframe the proposition such that we might give ourselves as chance at grabbing some budget for to do what...

EXPANDING SCOPE: FROM TA TO TA+     Talent Acquisition is entering into a new era where organisations are prioritising flexible workforces on demand, fluid internal organisational structure to facilitate internal mobility and the continuous upskilling of the employee base in order to create an agile and resilient organisation fit for todays volatile and unpredictable world.   TA need to respond by expanding scope - doing more than acquiring external talent, and instead reimagining...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today   There probably hasn't been a more disruptive and then dominant recruitment technology business than Indeed, a company which somehow manages to be dominant incumbent and disruptive innovator at the same time. We're with VP and GM, Raj Mukherjee on the latest changes at Indeed, and what this means for customers and users in 2023 and beyond   - Pay per...

TURNING EMPLOYEES INTO LINKEDIN TALENT INFLUENCERS   One of the great case studies which have emerged in recruitment over the past month has been Cisco's remarkable employee advocacy programme, in which 84,000 employees received training on how to be a LinkedIn influencer. We can forget that almost all of us have powerful networks, many of which are plugged into the world's number one professional networking site, but few of us are actively posting on it. Might it be that we have simply...

LINKEDIN ALGORITHM UPDATES     Have you noticed a collapse in the effectiveness of your LinkedIn posts?   If you have, then it seems that you might not be alone, as LinkedIn have made some significant changes to the newsfeed algorithm which all recruiters need to be aware of. Revealed in an interview with Entrepreneur, it seems that LinkedIn is prioritising content which genuinely adds value (how do they determine this), is resonant with your profile page (we need to pay attention...

Fully Autonomous Hiring   The promise is there: a recruiting process which runs autonomously without the need for a human recruiter or a human hiring manager, coordinator, background checker or anything else. Lets take a leap forward and see how it might be accomplished!   - Identification - Engagement - Assessment - Negotiation - Close   How does technology do all of this, WITHOUT just moving a human being through a process which is which demonstrably inhumane? What does...

Tech Hiring Landscape: 2023 Mid Year Review   We're well into Q3 and by now we should have a reasonable view as to how the tech hiring landscape is going. It has been an extremely challenge 12 months for the VC backed tech sector, as we've seen a refocus on profitability over growth as investors turn conservative in light of high interest rates, constantly VUCA-ring uncertainty and, perhaps, the prospect of a decade long slow down on economic growth. How does this all affect tech...

WTF is Fractional Working?   Do a search on LinkedIn for 'Fractional' and you find increasingly large number of results for experienced professionals - sometimes C-level pro's - calling themselves 'fractional'. A very recent phenomenon, this is the belated recognition that sometimes you may not need a key resource 100% of the time, all of the time, and in fact you only really need that person a percentage of the time. This is the fractional working and it's the topic of today's Brainfood...

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today     Next up are two business leaders who have come together to bring some mega brands together - it's Ryan Steelberg, President at Veritone with Alex Fourlis, CEO of Broadbean - who are going to talk to us about leadership, vision, M&A and the future of recruitment technology and how it applies to the changing behaviours of job seekers and employers...

Recruiters Moving On Up: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome:   Fresh from seeing tons of recruiters make their speaking debuts on Recfest, we're going to speak to as many of them as we can to chat about the mental aspect of doing things which give us anxiety, especially the sense that 'you might not be good enough'.   - What is imposter syndrome and do we all experience it? - How prevalent is it for recruiters / HR, do we feel it more than professionals in other departments? - What...

Demographic Crisis, AI, Immigration & the Future of Work   Do you have the feeling that there are big changes happening in the world? The reason why we haven't have a 'new normal' for a little while now is because there are a number of critically important macro trends which are forcing factors to decisions government, businesses and individuals have to make. The candidate shortage, the rise of AI, the need for, yet hostility to, immigration and some very real questions on the...

AI is changing Software Engineering: What Tech Recruiters Have Got To Know It should come as no surprise that the sector that is most exposed to the implications of generative artificial intelligence is the sector that built it. Software engineers were amongst the first to see a mainstreaming of this new class of technologies (GitHub Copilot) and were amongst the first to realise the Janus-like future we have before us: extraordinary gains in productivity vs existential risk of...