The Recruiting Future Podcast - Innovation In Hr And Recruitment

Interviews have always been the central tenant of the hiring process and the one area where it has been most challenging to collect meaningful data. The mass move to video interviewing in the last 12 months has potentially changed everything. So, what data can we now gather, and how can it be analysed to drive actionable improvement in the interview process. My guest this week is Siadhal Magos, the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaview. Metaview is a technology start-up that is helping some well know employers gather data and act on interview intelligence in new and innovative ways. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   Using data to make sense of interviews at scale    ▪   Two techniques to improve interviews    ▪   Will technology replace traditional interviews?    ▪   What are the critical interview data points?    ▪   The correlation between hiring funnel efficiency and interview rigour    ▪   Bias and inclusivity    ▪   Addressing privacy concerns Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

The future of jobs in an age of AI and automation has been a popular topic on this show. We've tended to talk in quite theoretical terms and never truly considered what practical solutions there might be to the inevitable job displacement. Millions of jobs have already been lost in the pandemic, and the World Economic Forum predicts that an additional 85 million jobs with be lost to automation by 2025. So what type of jobs will disappear, and how do we upskill and transition the large proportion of the workforce who will be affected? My guests this week are Madeleine Gabriel and Karlis Kanders from Nesta, the UK's innovation agency for social good. Nesta has just completed a significant piece of research called Mapping Careers Causeways, which is intended to support job transitions and inform skills policy in a labour market that AI and Automation will forever change. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   The uncertain future of work    ▪   Which jobs are at risk of automation    ▪   Identifying pathways

Back in 2019, I interviewed Theo Smith about Neurodiversity at work. At the time, I didn't have much of an understanding of Neurodiversity, and it was great to learn from Theo about the challenges neurodivergent people face in the workplace, what employers can do to support them and the enormous benefits this support would bring to everyone. Theo has since teamed up with Professor Amanda Kirby, and they are about to publish a book on Neurodiversity at Work. A couple of weeks ago, I caught up with them to find out more about the book and what talent acquisition professionals can be doing to be more inclusive in recruiting and assessment. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   What is Neurodiversity    ▪   How do we get the best out of everyone at work?    ▪   Cognitive strengths and cognitive struggles    ▪   Spiky profiles    ▪   Unrealistic job descriptions    ▪   Focusing on what people can do rather than what they can't do    ▪   Making interviews and assessment more inclusive    ▪   How will work

Round up is the monthly show on The Recruiting Future Podcast channel that highlights episodes you may have missed and gives you my take on some of the key learnings from the guests. Episodes mentioned in this Round Up: Ep 328: Authentic Hiring Ep 331: Transforming Recruitment Marketing Ep 333: Automation, Simplicity and Experience Ep 332: Careers Site Systems Ep 329: Assessment Lessons From Elite Sport Ep 334: Fair AI Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts

The number of talent acquisition technology solutions offering AI continues to grow exponentially. However, we must look at AI's role in recruiting through a critical lens to ensure transparency and that technologies are fair and ethical. If AI is being used to improve the candidate experience and remove bias, how do we make sure it isn't actually making things worse. My guest this week is Barb Hyman, CEO of Predictive Hire, an AI based interviewing solution. Predictive Hire has recently published a paper on Fair AI in recruiting intended to provoke debate and help Talent Acquisition leaders ask the right questions when they are buying a solution. Barb has an HR leadership background which gives her a unique perspective on the dangers and opportunities of the AI revolution. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   Fair AI in Recruiting    ▪   The importance of vendor self regulation    ▪   Why AI should be unbiased, inclusive, valid and explainable    ▪   Building trust with talent acquisition leaders and c

As regular listeners will know, I often collaborate with HR Technology Analyst Mervyn Dinnen to produce research reports on various aspects of talent technology. Our latest report was published a few weeks ago with support from the learning and performance management platform Bridge. I wanted to bring some of the highlights of our findings to the podcast, so keep listening to hear what we discovered about how the landscape for learning and performance management has been changing during the pandemic. In the episode, we discuss:    ▪   Critical skills gaps    ▪   The challenges of talent mobility    ▪   The importance of specialist and fit for purpose technology    ▪   Training to support remote management    ▪   The employees perspective    ▪   Peer to peer interaction Download the Learning and Performance Management report Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts

The events of 2020 / 2021 will shape how talent acquisition operates for years, especially when it comes to recruiting automation. In the past automation in recruiting has often been dismissed as impersonal and ineffective. However, as technology has developed and strategies have changed the immense value and inevitability of automation is becoming clear.  My guest this week is Jeff Uden, Head of Talent for UK supermarket, Iceland. Like all frontline food retailers, Iceland has faced some unprecedented talent acquisition challenges during the pandemic. Jeff gives us an insight into the innovations these challenges have driven, and Iceland's successful use of automation to radical enhance both the candidate and hiring manager experience. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   The challenge of hiring 5,500 people in 8 weeks    ▪   Maximising simplicity and efficiency in the recruiting process    ▪   The critical importance of candidate experience    ▪   Automation with a human touch    ▪   Keeping hiring m

As I said at the start of the last episode reinventing recruitment marketing is a big topic for talent acquisition this year. Long term listeners to the podcast will also know about my deep-held belief that careers sites are the critical element of recruitment marketing that remains very much underutilised. Many forward-thinking employers are now turning to careers site systems to maximise the recruitment marketing benefits of careers site and minimise their development pain points. So what happens when we start thinking about careers sites as sophisticated software solutions rather than one-off creative projects? My guest this week is James Saunders, CEO of Attrax. Over the last few years, James has been one of the pioneers of careers site systems and has a massive amount of knowledge and experience to share. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   What is a careers site system?    ▪   The focal point of employer branding    ▪   Strategic positioning    ▪   Why employers should invest in their own asset

It's still early in the year, but the reimagining of Recruitment Marketing is already a big topic for 2021. This has been clear in several conversations I've had with talent acquisition leaders and in the results of the audience survey I currently have running. Many employers are looking to transform their recruitment marketing to meet the new challenges they have and leverage emerging techniques and technologies. So what is cutting-edge thinking in recruitment marketing and what steps do talent acquisition teams need to take to unlock the power of what is possible? To give us some insights to answer these questions, I'm delighted to welcome Allyn Bailey, Global Recruitment Marketing Leader at Intel, back to the podcast. Allyn is one of the most progressive thinkers in our industry, and this is genuinely a must-listen interview. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   Why and how recruitment marketing is transforming    ▪   Data decision mapping    ▪   Collecting target audience data via automation    ▪ 

We are living through a time of immense disruption the full scale of which we don't yet fully understand. The pandemic has caused millions to lose their jobs and changed the business models of entire industries. Understanding the skills now needed in the labour market and the level of reskilling required is further complicated by the rise of artificial intelligence and automation. So what does the future of work now look like and how can companies and individuals navigate the next few years? My guest this week is Dr Michelle Weise, Senior Advisor at Imaginable Futures and author of the book, Long Life Learning - Preparing for jobs that don't even exist yet. Michelle specialises in the future of work and the future of learning and has some incredibly valuable insights to share In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   A more positive vision for the future of work    ▪   The lack of a common skills taxonomy    ▪   Data infrastructure for talent mobility    ▪   Why employers are struggling to articulate the sk

Understanding and assessing talent is something I don't think we talk about in enough detail in our industry. Advances in both technology and neuroscience are challenging traditional thinking in recruiting if this will be another key topic for me this year. To get the conversation started my guests this week have a simple fascinating story to share. Eric Castien and Andries Van der Leij are the founder and CTO of Brainsfirst. Brainsfirst is a Dutch company that uses cognitive psychology and machine learning to help elite football teams identify future talent. They have brought their learnings into the business world and have some incredible insights to share. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   Talent identification in elite football    ▪   Studying the link between specific brain function and performance    ▪   Learnability over capability    ▪   How understanding brain skills can drive talent redistribution    ▪   Only assessing skills you can actually quantify    ▪   Seeing a role as a set of desi

Over the last six months, we have talked a lot about transformation in talent acquisition with a large number of employers working hard to reinvent their strategies to meet the new challenges they face. So what does great talent acquisition now look like in 2021? Well, that's a question I'll be focusing on a lot in the coming weeks and months. My guests this week are Rona Anhalt, and Ed Nathanson, the Chief People Officer and VP of Talent and Talent Branding at disruptive pharmaceutical startup EQRx. Since their launch early last year, EQRx has done fantastic work in talent branding and talent acquisition and really is a benchmark for what hiring strategies should now look like. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   How EQRx is disrupting the pharmaceutical industry    ▪   The challenges of scaling up talent acquisition in a pandemic    ▪   Building a purpose driven culture    ▪   Diversity, Equality, Fairness and Inclusion    ▪   Culture add over culture fit.    ▪   Superpowers    ▪   Being bold wit

It's only the end of January, and I think we can all clearly see that 2021 will be another challenging year. So what can talent acquisition leaders do to motivate and build resilience in their teams during these incredibly stressful times? My guest this week is Jen Thornton, a former Global Director of HR Operations who is now founder and CEO of 304 Coaching. Jen is an expert in conversational intelligence, something that can help everyone improve the quality and outcomes of their communication. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   What is Conversational Intelligence    ▪   Applying neuroscience to workplace communication    ▪   Having better conversations    ▪   Motivating Talent Acquisition teams in tough times    ▪   The importance of resilience and coping with change Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts

Recruiting Automation will be a topic we explore in a lot of detail over this coming year. The key to any automation strategy is removing friction in a way that saves time and resource but at the same time enhances the experience for candidates, recruiters and hiring managers. I wanted to bring this to life by looking at a very specific recruiting process area, interview scheduling. As we all know, talent acquisition has many nuances, and generic scheduling automation tools can often create more work than they save and damage the candidate experience. So how should we automate and what are the real benefits of doing it properly To help answer this question my guests this week are Adam Bird CEO and Co-Founder of scheduling platform Cronofy and Jon Eyers founder of tech recruitment company Harvey Thomas. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   Automating interview scheduling in a smart way    ▪   Improving the candidate, recruiters and hiring manager experience    ▪   Factoring recruiting nuances into automa

In this short episode, Matt reflects on the past 12 months and looks forward into 2021. Episodes Mentioned in this Round Up: Ep 321: The End Of Jobs Ep 32: Better Recruitment marketing Please help make the podcast better, fill in the audience survey. Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts

Recruiting at the C-Level presents some unique challenges, perhaps the most prominent being the long-standing inequality of the number of women hired at board level. The sudden move to remote recruiting has also significantly disrupted executive search's traditional high touch candidate experience. My guest this week is Venesa Klein, a partner at international search firm Calibre One. Venessa worked as an in house recruiter earlier in her career and has some valuable knowledge and insights to share on the current challenges in executive recruiting and the drive for more equality in the C-Suite. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   Building an effective in house executive recruiting team    ▪   How high touch candidate experience has adapted to remote    ▪   Is female representation in the C-Suite improving and what are the key issues    ▪   Why internal career pathing is critical to equity at the top    ▪   Being inclusive    ▪   How has 2020 changed the market    ▪   The value of the CHRO Subscrib

I've been involved in recruitment marketing and employer brand for a couple of decades now. I've consistently felt that although there is some outstanding work in this space, the overall quality of output is not as good as it could be. So how can we fix this and who can we learn from to make things better? My guest this week is Nick Thompson, Global Talent Marketing Team Manager at IBM. Nick and the teams that he has worked with have done some brilliant work in recruitment marketing and employer branding in the last few years and have developed ways of working that everyone can learn from In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   How can talent acquisition step up the quality of recruitment marketing and employer branding    ▪   Judging recruitment marketing against other types of marketing.    ▪   Effective methodologies and processes    ▪   Failing fast and iterating    ▪   Understanding your audience    ▪   Giving employees a voice    ▪   The role of technology    ▪   Thoughts and predictions for the

The past nine months have thrown up multiple challenges for talent acquisition leaders. While technology isn't ever the whole answer, it has been interesting to see how employers have been using emerging recruiting technologies to help address the unique problems 2020 has created. My guest this week is Michael Watson, Senior Director of Talent Transformation Advisory at Eightfold.ai. Michael has previously been a TA Leader and some great insights to share in terms of driving practical value from AI technology. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   The current challenges for talent acquisition    ▪   Using technology to separate the signal from the noise    ▪   What value does AI bring to talent acquisition?    ▪   Using technology to reduce bias    ▪   Enhancing human interaction by automating repeatable tasks    ▪   Mobility and retention    ▪   Building meaningful engagement    ▪   What's next for recruiting technology Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts

Careers Sites continue to be a much-neglected aspect of recruitment marketing. The fact that they receive so little attention has always been a pet hate of mine. Careers Sites are critical. They are also being required to do more heavy lifting than ever before, with the ever-increasing levels of interest employers are getting in their open jobs, ongoing talent shortages in specific markets and the need to showcase effective, authentic employer brands. So what can employers do to make their careers sites fit for purpose? My guest this week is Bas Van de Haterd, a consultant and leading global expert on careers site. Bas publishes some annual research in this area and has some hugely valuable insights to share. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   How the market has developed    ▪   What makes a good careers site    ▪   The importance of total experience    ▪   Why you shouldn't let your ATS dictate your application experience    ▪   Careers Site Systems and middleware    ▪   Who is doing this well?   

The Future Of Work has always been a popular topic on this podcast; however, it is also a topic that needs some serious recalibration in light of the events of 2020. Remote working, flexible working and automation are just three of many areas that have seen an utterly unpredicted acceleration in the last few months. So what does the future of work now look like and how should talent acquisition leaders be preparing for it? My guest this week is Jeff Wald, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of WorkMarket. Jeff has recently published a brilliant book on the future of work which is based on historical analysis and robust data. I have to say that this is one of my favourite ever conservations that I had on this topic. It's a must-listen. In the interview, we discuss:    ▪   Why Jeff wrote his book    ▪   How to learn from past historical shifts in work and jobs    ▪   Fluid always-on work from anywhere jobs and the pressures that come with them.    ▪   Remote work versus flexible work    ▪   What is an agi