The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Sustainable Recruitment in Healthcare: Strategies for 2024 and Beyond   The UK healthcare sector is at a critical crossroads. Recruitment challenges are intensifying, driven by an aging population, workforce burnout, and shifting political landscapes. As we enter 2024 under a new Labour government, healthcare recruiters must brace for significant policy changes while continuing to navigate the existing talent shortages. This event will explore the current state of healthcare hiring, the impact of government reforms, and the best practices that will define success in the coming years.   Key Themes: State of Healthcare Hiring in the UK: An overview of the current recruitment crisis and the key factors driving demand in the NHS and care sectors. Impact of Labour's Government on Healthcare Recruitment: What changes to expect in workforce planning, immigration policies, pay structures, and working conditions as the Labour Party implements its healthcare reforms. Addressing Talent Shortages: Is the candidate shortage real or a result of inefficient hiring practices? Explore insights into the availability of healthcare talent and how organisations can strengthen their candidate pools. Role of Agency Workers & Workforce Flexibility: The growing reliance on agency staff and temporary workers in the NHS and care sectors—how can employers balance flexibility with stability? Pay Transparency & Equity: How will Labour's push for pay transparency and fair wages reshape compensation strategies in healthcare recruitment? Retention Strategies: The importance of retaining top talent in a high-turnover industry. Practical solutions for boosting employee engagement, reducing burnout, and creating long-term career pathways for healthcare professionals. Recruitment Best Practices: What recruitment channels and technologies are most effective in 2024? How can data-driven insights and diversity initiatives optimise hiring outcomes? Join us for a deep dive into the trends shaping healthcare recruitment and practical strategies to stay ahead in a transforming political and economic environment. Whether you’re a healthcare recruiter, HR leader, or agency professional, this event will equip you with the insights and tools needed to adapt and thrive. All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're on Monday 16th December, 4pm GMT   Follow the channel here (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.     Ep283 is sponsored by our friends Popp Put sourcing, matching & scheduling on autopilot with the world’s most powerful recruitment AI. Deep integrations with 40+ ATS systems, including Bullhorn. Automatically matches and ranks every candidate with explainable AI. Automatically engages suitable candidates with human-like conversations via WhatsApp, SMS or email. Constantly updates your database with the latest candidate data. Popp provides support, asks screening questions, collects information, and schedules calls. Works in 50+ languages, with less bias, and greater consistency than human teams alone. Recruitment companies and talent teams are using Popp to place 25% more candidates 40X faster, with ROI averaging >10X.   "Popp is a platform every company should have, I can imagine endless possibilities in which you can use Popp and make your work run smoothly. Work smarter and not harder.”   Monica - Strategic Sourcing Specialist at Randstad/Philips North America   You can book a demo through their website at https://www.joinpopp.com/book-a-demo   or Contact their Founder and COO, James Cochrane-Dyet, directly at [email protected]

2024 in Review: State of Talent Acquisition   It's been another challenging year for Talent Acquisition - I make it two years since the hey days of 2021/2022. What can we learn from the current market conditions for Talent Acquisition, how are companies seeing the function and what are professionals doing to ensure they are staying ahead of the competition?   - Real Talk: Is Talent Acquisition heading toward extinction? - How are employers viewing TA in the era of AI / Doing More With Less? - What are the challenges to function in a candidate rich market? - Expansion of scope - in what areas are TA moving their focus? - Contraction of scope - in what areas are TA reducing their focus? - AI in TA: what the current state / future states - Hiring for TA in 2024: what type of skills are we looking for? - How do candidates on the market distinguish themselves? - Global dispersal of TA - are functions being offshored? - How is this impact salary / compensation? - Fractional TA - is this happening? - Provisional projection for 2025 - recommendations for TA!     All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Emma Mirrington, CEO (The Talent Labs), Becky Lee, Global Early Careers Transformation Leader (Join Talent), Andreea Lungulescu, Founder (TA Talent Crunch) & Jim Miller, Head of Talent (Ashby)   We're on Friday 13th Dec, 2pm GMT     Follow the channel here (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.   Ep286 is sponsored by our friends Ashby   Tired of spending hours on manual recruiting tasks?   Ashby’s responsible AI and automation has got your back.   With smart scheduling that turns multi-hour coordination into just a few clicks and AI-powered email outreach that boosts reply rates by 46%, recruiting has never been easier — at least when it comes to process.   Ashby’s AI-Assisted Application Review tool lets you fly through your inbound volume — think 1,500 resumes in just 6 hours!   Plus, Ashby’s AI-generated feedback summaries speed up collaboration across teams.   Ready for an ATS that elevates your recruiting game with thoughtful AI and automation? Book your demo here.

2024 in Review: State of Recruitment Job Advertising   One of the themes of 2024 has been the surge of job applicants for the job adverts employers are posting out. It's clear that the economic conditions + AI-enablement has created the conditions where traditional duration based advertising is no longer a viable hiring approach - in fact, a counter productive one, as it absorbs all the recruiters capacity to deal with the flood!   What is the current state of recruitment job advertising and what may be the future?   - Volume of job advertising in 2024 - high or low - Volume of applications per job - Avg duration of job adverts: global, per country, per sector - Number of applications made per candidate - Most effective job title (quality of applicant) - Most effective job description (quality of applicant) - Impact of diversity statements in job adverts - Impact of benefits in job adverts - Shift to programmatic: what is the penetration? - Remote work job ads, up or down? - What is the avg spend per job advert in 2024? - What is the future model of job advertising?   All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Yazad Dalal, Chief Growth Officer, Joveo, Alexander Chukowski, HR Tech Consultant & Peter Weddle, Founder, TATech   We're on Friday 6th Dec, 2pm GMT     Follow the channel here (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.   Ep285 is sponsored by our friends Joveo   Joveo is the unified, high-performance Recruitment Marketing platform.   Best-of-breed programmatic job ad tech, a proprietary CMS to create world-class career sites, and a candidate engagement platform. Eliminate patched point solutions and data silos forever.   Reduce job advertising spend, control applicant flow rate, increased quality of application - contact Jove today.

2024 in Review: State of Flexible Working   The rise of the 'Alternative Workforce' has been a trend since before pandemic, as organisations sort to increase agility and reduce risk by expanding the pool of non-FTE into the workforce. Workers too have been keen to explore other ways in which to commercially engage with companies rather than being full time, permanent, on site workers.   What is the state of Flexible working in 2024 - and how do we expect this to develop over the coming years? This is the topic of Brainfood Live On Air   - Overview: Number of freelancers / non-FTE in UK - Organisational POV: why increase number of non-FTE? - Worker motivations: what reason might workers wish to do this? - Privileged vs Precarious - do we distinguish between these two? - What are the current categories of worker in the UK? - How does the latest budget change demand for permanent workers? - What is the DEIB angle to flexible working? - How does remote impact the idea of flexible working? - What are the best practices for ensuring performance management of flexible workers? - Culture: do we integrate or separate worker populations? - How can TA expand scope to take on full resource delivery function?   All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Sonal Bhardwaj, Head of Talent Acquisition, Financial Services, UK and Ireland, CapGemini, Runar Reistrup, CEO (YunoJuno) & friends   We're on Friday 29th Nov, 2pm GMT     Follow the channel here (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.   Ep284 is sponsored by our friends YunoJuno   Why YunoJuno?   Trusted by the world’s leading companies, YunoJuno is the only system you need to compliantly source, manage and pay a global contractor workforce.   From real-time sourcing from a pool of over 100,000 elite contractors worldwide to streamlined onboarding and automated compliance checks, YunoJuno ensures that your every step in managing a future fit flexible workforce is handled with efficiency and precision. Save time, reduce costs and mitigate risk - contact one of our friendly customer success team for a personalised demo here.

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 is Matthijs Metzemaekers, CEO of Carv   - Why do it the second time round? - What are you doing differently at Carv vs your previous tech startup projects? - What are you doing in a same or similar way? - When did the idea for Carv first emerge - do you remember the exact moment? - What are the first steps you took, as an experienced entrepreneur are there specific events and if so what sequence? - How do you think the recruitment landscape will change after the first big wave of automation? - Why do you think Dutch recruitment tech startups have had success? - How do you think values will change when the tooling does? - What new things can customers of Carv expect in 2025?   All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.   Tuesday 19th Nov, 11am CET   Click on the green button to save your spot and follow the channel here (recommended) for further updates     Ep52 of Founders Focus is supported by Carv   Carv is AI for recruiters, designed to take over your administrative tasks - so you can fully focus on what truly matters: placing candidates in jobs they love!   Team up with Carv so you can stop:   Writing job descriptions Taking meeting notes Drafting candidate profiles Creating candidate write ups Updating your ATS   And basically any other admin task you shouldn’t do!   And the best thing?   Carv is customized to fit your workflow and tone of voice to make sure the output is indistinguishable from yours!   Check out carv.com to learn more!