The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast
The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast: Your weekly 60 minute dose of brilliant conversation about Recruiting & HR
Episodes
February 6, 2026 • 68 mins
THE STATE OF TALENT INTELLIGENCE 2026
As we barrel through the year 2026, labour markets are being redefined by emerging technologies, shifting skills demand, and data-driven workforce strategies. Organisations worldwide are adopting sophisticated talent intelligence tools to forecast skills gaps, optimise hiring, and build resilient workforces — but staying ahead requires deeper insight and expert foresight. Drawing on the ...
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February 4, 2026 • 62 mins
WHAT RESPONSIBLE AI MEANS FOR RECRUITERS?
What is Responsible AI for Talent Acquisition Teams? is a practical, straight-talking podcast for recruiters who are already using AI—and now need to make sure they’re using it properly.
AI is no longer a future experiment in hiring. It’s embedded in sourcing, screening, assessment, and workforce planning. The real question facing TA leaders today is not whether to use AI, but ...
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January 30, 2026 • 74 mins
6 x AI USAGE FRAMEWORKS FOR TALENT ACQUISITION
Closing the gap between proclaimed capability of AI vs the practical impact of AI is set to become one of the main stories of 2026, as function leaders in every department scramble to deliver against the expectations of an increasingly impatient C-level.
Are there any frameworks or maturity models which can help?
Brainfooder Soeren Winter has identified 6 AI Usage F...
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January 23, 2026 • 59 mins
WHY YOU NEED RECOPS TO ACCELERATE AI IN TA
Recruiters are the busiest people in white collar work because there is often no way to accurately forecast resource demands - you never know how long a requirement is going to take to fill or how many hours of time it is going to take to get it done. People are variable and in recruitment, there are people who will impact the state of any project, who are fully outside a recruiters...
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January 21, 2026 • 61 mins
TOO COMPLEX FOR AI? HOW POLICE SCOTLAND SOLVED THE UNSOLVABLE HIRING PUZZLE
Most recruiters think their organisation is too "unique" or "complex" to trust AI. Then there is Police Scotland. Operating across 13 regions, managing 22,000+ staff, and balancing the hyper-sensitive vetting requirements, their hiring process is as high-stakes as it gets. Yet, they didn't just implement AI—they used it to automate 90% of candidate e...
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January 16, 2026 • 63 mins
TALENT STRATEGY: WHAT, WHY, HOW AND WHEN
Does your company have a talent strategy?
It's probably the right thing to say that you do, but how much do we know about what a Talent Strategy is really? I asked this question within the Brainfood community and received some outstanding observations, so much so that we have to elevate this to a full discussion on Brainfood Live.
“Talent strategy is how the business ensu...
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January 14, 2026 • 66 mins
VIBE SOURCING 101: LEARN TO SOURCE FROM THE WEB & YOUR ATS WITH METAVIEW AI AGENT
We are going to look back at 2025 as the year it all changed for sourcing. AI Agents entered the market and immediately began to demonstrate talent acquisition teams could become massively more efficient by leverage the increasable ability of AI Agents to ingest huge amounts of candidate data and instantly return viable results from natural...
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January 9, 2026 • 62 mins
HIRING BENCHMARKS FOR THE 16 MOST COMMON OCCUPATIONS IN THE USA
We all want to be 'data driven' but most of the time the only data we have access to are those which we have recorded of ourselves and our own activity. This is vitally important for tracking your progress over time, but not the complete picture when it comes to how you are doing against the market and against the competition.
In partnership with our frie...
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January 7, 2026 • 59 mins
Informing Happy Hiring: Signals from Willo's Hiring Intelligence Report 2026
This year, Willo didn’t just watch hiring change, they measured it.
In this episode of Brainfood Live on Air, we’ll explore what the data from Willo’s Hiring Intelligence Report 2026 reveals about how hiring teams are actually operating in the AI-era, how this compares to previous years, and what that means as we look ahead.
What will we be talk...
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December 19, 2025 • 65 mins
REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2025 - Economy & AI
Final part of our 4 part series on the Review of the Year. The two dominant mega themes of this year has undoubtedly been the global economy and the rise of AI. The two are becoming intertwined, especially with the AI investment boom drawing down investments from other parts of the US economy, whilst Trump Trade War 2.0 hobbles global economic growth, likely inadvertently accelerati...
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REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2025 - Sourcing, Employer Branding & RecOps
Third of our 4 part series reviewing the major events and trends of the year in Sourcing, Employer Branding & RecOps What has happened this year that we got on talk about?
- End of an Era? Irina Shamaeva
- SOSU review
- Is Sourcing dead or shifting toward automation of candidate discovery?
- Demand for sourcing training being replaced by deman...
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December 10, 2025 • 57 mins
FRAUD PROOF AI? - ENDORSED LIVE DEMO
We will look back at 2025 as the year when candidate fraud escalated into amongst the top priorities of employers looking who were still looking to hire but also now needing to securitise their companies from risk.
Huge credit goes to technology vendors for responding to the demand - and we're seeing a lot of interesting techniques deployed to identify potential fraud risk. I'm del...
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December 5, 2025 • 65 mins
REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2025 - CX, Assessment & DEIB
Second of our 4 part series reviewing the major events and trends of the year in CX, Assessment and DEIB. What has happened this year that we got on talk about??
- Mobley vs Workday, let's get an update on this, the quintessential CX challenge!
- CX resentment rate...where are we tracking on this?
- What do we know about AI and CX, can we see positive impact of AI...
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November 28, 2025 • 73 mins
REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2025 - TALENT TECHNOLOGY
Can you believe that we're at the end of another year in Brainfood?
As is tradition, we're going to do a 4 part series to conclude the year - and I will be a 4 part series where we review the major events and trends which have occurred on all the topics which matter to us. To kick off the series, let's talk about the the talent tech landscape - what is going on the tools we r...
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November 21, 2025 • 58 mins
RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING ....WITH AI AGENTS?
We may look back at 2025 has a pivotal year in online job advertising. Economic chaos, investment uncertainty, rise of AI, has made employers change how they think about headcount and are increasingly scrutinising the ROI of traditional job distribution. The flood of irrelevant applications has more or less killed the ppc model - what other iterations do we expect to see over the n...
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November 14, 2025 • 59 mins
Diversity & Inclusion in an Era of Emerging AI and Cyberthreats
The rise of candidate fraud has been a huge topic in recruitment in 2025, so much so that employers have had to take extreme steps to protect their businesses, from asking candidates to physically move on command in front of screen to come in person to attend interview on premise, to go through ID verification procedures which would have previously been rese...
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November 14, 2025 • 60 mins
GRADING MY RECRUITMENT FORECASTS FOR 2025
Every year I write a long post making 20 predictions for the year ahead. This year, for the first time ever, I'm going to grade my predictions and see how I have got on
20 x Predictions for Recruiting in 2025
1. AI Assessment mainstreams; 50% of high volume hirers (more than 5000 hires per year) will have a solution in place by EOY.
2. ‘Skill based hiring’ revives as em...
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November 7, 2025 • 65 mins
CAREER TRANSITION - LESSONS FROM EX-PRO ATHLETES
Changing career is never easy, especially if you've committed everything into a vocation which you might have thought to be your whole of life focus. I know well myself, having previously attempted to go down the tech entrepreneur path but now very happily but very fortuitously landing into what seems to be a media business!
Perhaps no other vocation is as tunnel focused...
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October 31, 2025 • 57 mins
BUDGETING FOR AN AI-ENABLED TALENT ACQUISITION FUNCTION
We're racing toward the end of the year and inevitably attention turns to plans for the future. But today we face a future which is increasingly difficult to predict and where agility, resilience and ability to quickly pivot without loss of performance are the qualities every function needs to develop to maintain value to the business. What does this mentality mean for ...
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October 29, 2025 • 59 mins
FASTER, SMARTER, MORE HUMAN: THE FUTURE OF RECRUITER ENABLEMENT.
Hiring has never been harder.
Recruiters are under pressure to move fast, personalise outreach, and tell a story candidates believe in.
But here’s the problem: recruiters don’t have the same tools that sales or marketing teams take for granted.
I’m teaming up with Vouch to show how recruiters can finally catch up — with a new way to cut throu...
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