The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast
The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast: Your weekly 60 minute dose of brilliant conversation about Recruiting & HR
Episodes
July 11, 2025 • 60 mins
STATE OF TALENT ACQUISITION: THE RECFEST REVIEW 2025
Recfest is the largest in person event for Talent Acquisition professionals and the perfect barometer for the state of the market. Let's see what we learn from the 100+ talks and conversations with 1000's of delegates who will have attended the industry's premier event.
We will review
- RecFest main themes
- UK Economy vs Global Macro
- AI-enablement and t...
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July 4, 2025 • 61 mins
HOW TO ASSESS JOB CANDIDATES FOR AI LITERACY?
There is no company in the world that is not interested in becoming more AI-enabled. One of the ways to do this is directly relevant to us - recruit new people who can bring up the level of AI literacy in the workforce. In a direct analogy to the digitisation wave of the early 2000's, we now have the AI wave of the 2020's - becoming AI-enabled by hiring AI-enabled employees.
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June 30, 2025 • 65 mins
RECRUITER SKILLS PROFILE: HOW AI CHANGES THE GAME
We all know that AI is going to change every job, but we don't know precisely how or when, much less the implications on the type of skills we need to be hiring when recruiting for 'AI first' employers.
- What do we know about the impact of AI / Automation in knowledge work?
- What skills are going to be insulated and valued from this impact?
- Do we 'design ou...
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June 30, 2025 • 68 mins
CANDIDATE FRAUD: IT'S A RECRUITING EMERGENCY
We probably never thought we'd ever encounter this challenge, but in 2025 there is no denying that candidate fraud poses an increasing danger to the fidelity of traditional hiring practices, Increase global economic uncertainty, a globalised talent pool who can find jobs and apply from anywhere in the world and the advent of powerful AI tools on the candidate side have increase th...
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June 25, 2025 • 71 mins
Brainfood on Tour - How to Hire in Brazil in 2025 & Beyond
Brazil - the largest country in South America, an emerging power in the world with enormous natural resources, a growing population and huge space for development. What is it like hiring in Brazil in 2025? How will it look going forward? Brainfood is back on tour, so let’s talk to local recruiters and find out.
We’re going to speak with Juliana Park, Founde...
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June 20, 2025 • 61 mins
BEYOND TALENT ACQUISITION: LEADERSHIP SKILLS NEEDED TO EXPAND SCOPE
Talent Acquisition was the optimal specialism in the People Ops function during the ZIRP of hyper growth; but what organisations needed in 2019 is not what organisations need in 2025. We're already in a world where global growth is slowing, companies are getting smaller, more efficient, more automated. The need for everyone in Talent Acquisition is to expand...
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June 13, 2025 • 68 mins
TALENT ACQUISITION WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: LEADERSHIP LESSONS FOR GLOBAL TA TEAMS
There are many reasons why companies become geographically dispersed - to better service local markets, to develop specific new products, tap into specialist labour markets, corporate tax efficiency and wage arbitrage, taking advantage of skilled labour wherever it can be found at the best cost coefficient for the business.
How is it like to...
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VC Investment in WorkTech - Where is the Money Going in 2025?
We're halfway through the year (can you believe this??) and so a great time to stop and take stock on where we are going with recruitment and HR technology. It's pretty clear that investors know that the organisational transformation is underway - driven by AI innovation which is changing the nature of almost every job.
What can we learn from where the inve...
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HIRING EFFICIENCY: HOW AGENCIES, RPO'S AND IN-HOUSE USE AI / AUTOMATION
Agencies, RPO's and In-house - we're all recruiters at heart but we too often end up self siloing in order to create safe spaces, which whilst necessary, can also lead to a slow down in knowledge transfer across party lines.
Lets use this week's Brainfood Live to find out if we can break down some of these barriers
- How are recruitment agen...
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CHIEF OF STAFF - WTF IS THIS ROLE (and can TA / HR do it?)
Chief of STAFF? Sounds like it should be a role which falls into the People Org so its weird that such a senior position so often appears elsewhere ;-) What is the Chief of Staff role, how does it differ from CHRO / Head of HR / EA ....and is it a good idea to have one in your organisation?
- Wtf is Chief of Staff? Can we outline what it definitely is or isn't
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HIRING MANAGER SELF SERVE - THE PAST AND FUTURE OF RECRUITMENT?
It was also the Past of Recruitment - where hiring managers were doing most of the work in hiring for their teams, everything from putting up adverts in shop windows, handling the first enquiries, reviewing CV's, screening candidates, scheduling interviews, interviewing candidates and then offering / hiring said candidates. Perhaps Personnel got involved in the ...
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May 15, 2025 • 67 mins
HOW TO BUILD CAREER PAGES WHICH ACTUALLY WORK
One of the biggest mistakes in Talent Attraction is failure to maximise conversion from attention you've already captured! The people who visit your career page are ALREADY declaring interesting in working for your business and you need to have a digital property there that underlines your EVP, helps both self select in/out and makes it easy for the right candidates to enter into...
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RECRUITING REIMAGINED IN THE AI ERA
Friends, we have a special Brainfood Live to kick off the week! Continuing our series of profiling innovative AI solutions in the recruitment space, we have none other than Hari Srinivasan, VP of Product at LinkedIn, joining the show on May 12th to talk about LinkedIn’s AI hiring tools for recruiters!
Including LinkedIn’s first generative AI hiring experience, Recruiter, and the laun...
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May 9, 2025 • 69 mins
TRANSITIONING TO CV FREE HIRING
The CV has been around for maybe even longer than recruiting itself become a distinct profession, so are we destined to forever have a document like this in our hiring process? What does it look like if we can remove the CV - does it thicken our pipeline, improve it or make it even harder to handle or process?
Lets have a chat with TA leaders who have made the shift to CV Free Hiring and...
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May 2, 2025 • 71 mins
AI REGULATIONS IN TA & HR: 2025 Q2 UPDATE!
2025 has been the year of AI innovation in recruitment technology.
There hasn't been a serious recruitment tech vendor hasn't infused their product with AI, and more than a few are moving toward to next step with Agentic or Agent-like AI now taking on significant chunks of the recruiter / hr workload.
Time is perfect for us to update on our understanding of AI regu...
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April 26, 2025 • 77 mins
MITIGATION STRATEGIES VS FAKE JOB CANDIDATES
Reports of fraudulent job applications are on the rise. A globalised internet, universal job insecurity and the reduction of friction provided by technology innovation from EasyApply to AI-powered mass personalisation, is a producing a perfect storm which is overwhelming recruitment teams.
As these trends accelerate, we can expect the volume and sophistication of fake job a...
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April 17, 2025 • 76 mins
Agentic AI in the Wild: Live Demo
Some of you might have noticed that whenever a recruitment software business promotes their Agentic AI, Brainfood is here to challenge them to do a live demo. So far no one has yet shirked the challenge, nor have their agents disappointed - we're beginning to understand that the generalist agent is likely be to an aspiration goal for business, but those that domain specific are going to be i...
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April 11, 2025 • 92 mins
Sourcing Automation: What can be done in 2025?
Finding and engaging candidates more efficiently remains the No1 concern of recruiters the world over - nothing gets more clicks on the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter than cool new ways! And in 2025, there are so many things we can do - perhaps no time since the beginning of the web era have we seen such an opportunity to massively scale up our sourcing efforts.
Let's se...
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April 10, 2025 • 61 mins
Brainfood on Tour - How to Hire in China in 2025 & Beyond?
China has an enormous workforce and therefore a huge amount of recruitment. Most of the rest of the world knows very little about it! So it is time to speak to local Chinese citizens and residents to better understand how labour circulates through what by some measure has been the largest economy in the world since the mid 2010’s
We’re going to speak with L...
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April 3, 2025 • 61 mins
Key Recruitment Trends to Watch in 2025: What Top Agencies Are Doing Differently
Recruitment agencies continue to face major obstacles, including the paradox of a talent shortage despite a decrease in job openings. With more candidates rejecting job offers, it’s become essential to expand sourcing efforts for each vacancy.
According to this year’s GRID Industry Trends Survey by Bullhorn, the most successful agencies ha...
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