The Recruiting Future Podcast - Innovation In Hr And Recruitment

As I said in my introduction to the last episode, the focus of the podcast is going to alternate between content to help you with your long term strategy and content to help you right now. This episode falls into the right now category and was recorded on Thursday 18th March 2020. My guest is Johnny Campbell, CEO at SocialTalent and in the interview we discuss: • Current market activity among global employers • Moving to a virtual recruiting process • Some important considerations for video interviews • Onboarding new hires when people are working from home • Motivating a remote talent acquisition team in a time of high anxiety • What help is there for recruiters who are being laid off or who are worried about their jobs Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts  

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk Candidate experience seems to be an evergreen topic and certainly one that will be with us and continually evolve for some time to come. We often talk about the challenges of delivering a quality candidate experience at scale, but for companies who are scaling quickly very often, it is about delivering a custom candidate experience at speed. My guest this week is Anna Chalon, Director of Recruiting and D&I at Frame.io. Whatever your candidate experiences are I guarantee you will get some valuable takeaways from this conversation. In the interview, we discuss: • The recruiting challenges at Frame.io • Creative thinking and empathy in recruiting • Speed, transparency and thoughtfulness • The role of technology • Avoiding unconscious bias • Measuring success • The future Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts

In light of events this week with the pandemic, here is a special short episode to help the talent acquisition community get access to relevant information. I'm joined by Lars Schmidt, who is curating an information resource that everyone needs to be aware of. Here is the link to the Google Doc

The latest McKinsey Women in the Workforce report illustrates that there is still a very long way to go before we get to gender equality in the workforce. McKinsey identifies a "broken rung" in the career ladder with only 72 women promoted or hired to manager level for every 100 men promoted or hired to manager level. So how do employers fix this situation, what support is required, and how do mindsets need to change? To help answer these questions my guest this week is Addie Swartz, CEO of reacHire. Addie has been on a three-decade-long mission to change the trajectory for women at work and has some extremely practical insights to share. In the interview, we discuss: • Addie's background and motivation for starting reacHire • Fixing the broken rung • The bottom-line impact of workforce equality • Investing to support women in their early careers • Why women leave the workforce and the challenges they can face when trying to return • Changing employer mindsets • Bias in recruiting • Reverse mentorin

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk Most recruiters would agree that hiring manager relationships are critical to effective corporate talent acquisition. But how do you develop effective relationships and what does it take to become a strategic talent advisor to your organization. I'm delighted to welcome the always brilliant John Vlastelica back to the show. John is the Founder and Managing Director of Recruiting Toolbox and helps companies raise the bar on recruiting effectiveness. He has some highly actionable insights to share on strategic hiring manager relationships, and I know you will find this interview really valuable. In the interview, we discuss: • The definition of a strategic talent advisor • Engaging hiring managers in pre-funnel work • Fluid workforces • The advantages of batch processing • False positives and false negatives in hiring • Fat, skinny and constipated funnels • The role of technology • John's predictions for the future Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts  

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk Recruiting technology, data analytics and employer branding are all regular topics on this podcast. However, we don't always talk about strategic thinking that is needed to make all three elements work together to solve recruiting challenges. My guest this week is James Edwards Digital Attraction Manager at Mitchells and Butlers, one of the largest operators of restaurants, pubs and bars in the UK. Mitchells and Butlers have been working on several interrelated projects using technology, creativity and data to solve their recruiting challenges. In the interview, we discuss: • The challenges of hiring 30,000 people each year with multiple consumer brands • ATS selection based on hiring manager experience • The importance of not making assumptions about technology features • Combing data sources to identify workforce trends • How a candidate experience audit identified the need for the new careers site. • Career site systems • The importance of content and job adverts tha

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk Programmatic Advertising is something that seems to strike confusion into the heart of many employers around the world. However, there are a growing number of talent acquisition teams who are using already programmatic techniques to drive some excellent results. So what techniques and technologies are they using and how does programmatic advertising even work? To get the definitive answers to these questions, I have not one, not two but three guests on the show this week. Jon Hull, Head of Resourcing Delivery at Nationwide Building Society and Ben Gledhill, Head of Talent Acquisition at Yodel will be sharing their experiences as practitioners. I'm also joined by Rob Prince from Talent Nexus who will be acting as our programmatic expert and helping to demystify what is fast becoming a significant area of talent attraction. In the interviews, we discuss: • Two different types of programmatic advertising and their benefits • The unique nature of programmatic job board advertisi

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk Recruiting Future Round-Up is the monthly show on The Recruiting Future Podcast channel. It's a short round-up that highlights episodes you may have missed and gives you my take on some of the key learnings from my guests. As I wasn't able to do a round up in January, this episode features interviews from both January and February. Here are the shows featured: Ep 237: Analysing The Recruiting Technology Market Ep 238: The Rise Of Talent Intelligence Ep 239: The Human Touch Ep 240: Global Talent Trends In 2020 Ep 241: Grit & Resilience In Talent Acquisition Ep 242: Purpose Ep 243: Attracting and Assessing Future Talent Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk Over the last few years, there has been a global shakeup in the way companies recruit future talent to their organisations. Many employers are now extending their search beyond university and college graduates to explore more diverse talent pools. But what is the best way to attract and assess future talent in 2020? My guest this week is Cameron Sorsby, CEO of Praxis, a six-month start-up boot camp aimed at skilling entry-level talent. Cameron has some brilliant insights to share on how companies should be attracting and assessing their future talent. In the interview, we discuss: • The evolving challenges of entry-level hiring • Framing opportunities in the right way to engage with the target audience • Taking a long term approach to recruiting • How assessment is changing • Candidate attitudes to recruiting technology • The rise of boot camps • The Future of entry-level hiring Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts  

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk I've been producing this podcast for five years, and I have to say that my guest in this episode is one of the most insightful people I've ever had on the show. Digital disruption is affecting everyone in ways we couldn't have even of imagined a few years ago. The companies who are thriving are the organisations that are taking bold strategic decisions and thinking several steps ahead of their competition. My guest this week is Balaji Ganapathy. Balaji is Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and Head of Workforce Effectiveness at Tata Consultancy Services, a company with 450,000 employees. TCS has responded to our changing digital world by radically upskilling a vast percentage of their workforce and completely reinventing the way they do talent acquisition to make it more inclusive. They are also proactively nurturing communities of future talent as well as supporting education systems all over the world. All of this has been built on their understanding of the vita

Well, that wasn't quite the start to the year I was expecting as I've been in and out of hospital for the last two weeks. I'm pleased to say though that I'm now well on the way to making a full recovery and regular podcasting service is now resumed. A huge thank you to Nick Price for helping me out and introducing last week's episode, and I would strongly recommend you check out Career Life Stories to find out more about the great work he does. So on with this week's show. After my recent hospital experience, it seems very fitting that the main focus for this week's guest is recruiting healthcare professionals. Blake Thiess is Director Of Talent Acquisition at Prestige Care. Recruiting healthcare professionals and nurses, in particular, is a real challenge in many countries, and Blake talks about the techniques his team use, as well as the importance of grit and resilience. In the interview, we discuss: • Recruiting in a hyper-competitive environment • Pipelining with a CRM • Highly targeted recruitment

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk A couple of weeks ago, LinkedIn published its annual Global Talent Trends research which explored some of the key themes they are seeing developing in talent acquisition for 2020. My guest this week is, Amy Schultz, Director of Talent Acquisition at LinkedIn. Amy is returning to the show for the second time to share her insights as a talent acquisition professional on the key findings in the research and also to tell us more about what we can expect to see from Linkedin in 2020 The key trends we discuss in the interview are: • Employee Experience • People Analytics • Internal Recruiting • Multi-Generational Workforce Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk With so much focus on technology, it's essential not to forget the human nature of recruiting. Engagement, empathy, influence and persuasion are not currently hard wired into chatbots or algorithms and are vital elements of effective recruiting. My guest this week is Jodi Cohen, Director Talent Acquisition at The Tombras Group. With many of Tombras's hires having to relocate Jodi using empathy and the questioning skills, she learned as an agency recruiter to build high levels of trust with her target talent. In the interview, we discuss: • The recruiting challenges at Tombras • Persuasion based on building trust • Personalization • Hiring manager relationships • Building an excellent candidate experience • The differences between agency recruiting and internal recruiting Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcast  

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk Data based intelligence is a critical part of the modern world, but historically talent acquisition has tended to be based on gut feel and lived experience, making it very slow to wake up to the new realities of data-based decision making. Thankfully things are now changing, and one aspect of this change is the rise of talent intelligence as a talent acquisition business function. My guest this week is Marlieke Pols, Talent Intelligence analyst at Philips. Marklieke recently authored a whitepaper that Phillips has published aimed at helping employers better appreciate the immense value of talent intelligence as a critical part of any talent acquisition strategy. In the interview, we discuss: • What is talent intelligence? • Why instinct is not good enough • Difference between talent intelligence and people analytics • The key benefits, KPIs and ROI of talent intelligence • Data sources • How many employers are using talent intelligence • Building the business case • Th

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk The recruiting technology marketplace is getting extremely complex, and it can be challenging for talent acquisition leaders to develop fully effective technology strategies. My guest this week is David Wilson, CEO of industry analysts The Fosway Group. In our interview, David talks about the kind of approach and insights Fosway used to analyse talent technology markets. We also talk in some depth about the HCM suite versus specialist solution debate. A debate I can see raging for some time yet and one that will continue to shape the patterns of investment and acquisition in the recruiting technology marketplace. In the interview we discuss: • The role of an industry analyst • Headline findings from Fosway’s 9 Grid report into Talent Acquisition • Why the talent acquisition technology market is currently in flux • HCM suite vendors versus specialists • The evolution of the ATS / CRM debate • Ecosystems over systems • Current shortcomings in data and analytics Download

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk Recruiting Future Round-Up is the new monthly show on The Recruiting Future Podcast channel. It's a short round-up that highlights episodes you may have missed and gives you my take on some of the key learnings from my guests. As this is my last show of the year, rather than offer you a round-up specifically for the December interviews, I thought I'd round up the whole of 2019 and at the same time take a little bit of a look forward to 2020. Links to interviews mentions in the show: Bruce Daisley Tom Goodwin Francesa Gino Matthew Syed Anna Whitehouse Podcast audience survey, I need your feedback. Thanks to 4MAT for sponsoring, if you are thinking of replacing or refreshing your careers website in 2020, I would strongly recommend downloading their new eBook. Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk It seems like we have been talking about the candidate experience forever, and while some employers have made progress in improving things, there is still a long way to go. One of the issues has always been the lack of a recognised model to explain and then consequently strategically address the candidate experience. I was therefore delighted to hear that Exaqueo, Career Crossroads and The Talent Board have been working in partnership with several Fortune 500 employers to develop a new employee lifecycle and candidate experience model. To tell us all about this, my guest this week is Susan LaMotte, Founder and CEO of Exaqueo. In the interview, we discuss: • Process versus experience • Phases of the candidate experience • The unification of candidate experience and employee experience • Why so few employers are fixing their candidate experience • Measurement • Source of influencer versus source of hire • Talking points and messaging for employee referrals • Employer Bra

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk Many organizations are currently finding talent acquisition very challenging and need to increase the sophistication of their recruitment marketing to connect with and influence their target audiences of talent. My guest this week is Celinda Appleby, Global Talent Attraction Director at Visa. Visa is using a strategy of data-driven recruitment marketing supported by sophisticated storytelling and technology to meet their recruiting challenges and Celinda has some great practical insights to share. In the interview, we discuss: • Visa's recruiting challenges • How recruitment marketing is changing • Dealing with multiple personas and target audiences • Using data for audience insight • The importance of market analysis • Working in close partnership with vendors • Building business cases and consensus internally • The role of technology • Redefining what storytelling means Celinda also shares her thoughts on where the industry is going over the next two to three years

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk Buying and implementing a new ATS can be a long, complicated and frustrating process, not to mention the additional work required to drive adoption once the system is actually in place. So what can employers do to set themselves up for success and make sure the process achieves its ultimate objectives? My guest this week is Shanu Varghese, Director, Global HR Technology at Apollo Global Management. During his career, Shanu has been responsible for over 50 HR technology implementations and has some great insights and advice to share. In the interview, we discuss: • The importance of keeping up to date with the market and having an open mind • How to approach the RFP process • Achieving stakeholder buy-in • Strategies for successful implementation • Tailoring your strategy to reflect geographical and role differences • How to encourage usage and adoption • The importance of understanding the vendor's product roadmap. Shanu also talks about recruiting automation and what'

Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk Back in September 2018, I interviewed industry consultant Bas Van De Haterd about his research work exploring emerging assessment technologies. The assessment market is moving exceptionally quickly, and I wanted to invite Bas back, a year later, to update us on what has changed. In the interview, we discuss: • The problems with traditional methods of assessment • Making sense of evolving technologies • The issue with black box algorithms • Are micro-expressions useful? • The power of game-based assessments • Using technology to broaden pools of talent Bas also shares several case studies from employers achieving considerable success with new assessment technology and give us his view on the future. Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts