Recruiting Future Round-Up is a new monthly show on The Recruiting Future Podcast channel.
Now that I’m publishing two podcasts a week, I’m aware that not everyone has time to listen to every show. Moving forward I’ll be recording a short monthly round-up episode highlighting episodes you may have missed and giving you my take on some of the key talking points.
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Matt Alder [00:00:00]:
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Matt Alder [00:00:50]:
Hi everyone, this is Matt Alder. Welcome to the launch episode of Recruiting Future Round, a new monthly show on the Recruiting Future Podcast channel. My podcast is nearly five years old and in that time I’ve published 85 hours worth of content. For context, the entire Game of Thrones box set is only 70 hours long. I’m now publishing two episodes a week, and I’m very aware that very few people have time to listen to every single one. So from now on, I’m planning on releasing a short monthly roundup episode every few weeks to talk about some of the most interesting things that have stood out for me in the previous month’s interviews and to hopefully bring episodes to your attention that are very relevant to what you do, but you may have missed in the constant stream of content that flows past you. So to kick off the series, let’s look at the episodes I published in November. That’s November 2019 for anyone listening on Catch Up. And that’s a serious point as well. I love the fact that people are still listening to shows that I publish. Nearly five years ago, when I was re listening to the episodes I’m covering in this show, I noticed that they had some common related themes. Firstly, the changing mindset in recruiting that’s needed to effectively solve the talent challenges companies face. Secondly, how many employers are finding previous hidden pools of talent by changing their mindset and thinking more openly and thirdly, the critical importance of understanding your target audiences. First up in November was episode 222, in which I spoke to Bryn Kelly, a US congressional candidate and founder of talent mobility company Topia. We talked a lot about the changing world of work and explored the whole concept of talent mobility. The biggest takeaway for me though was the importance of recruiting for skills rather than titles and experience, and why resumes are such an inadequate tool to support this. More on that later.
In episode 223 I spoke to Amy Schultz, a director of talent acquisition at LinkedIn about LinkedIn’s recently published research report on the future of recruiting Lots of great chat here, but the standout part for me was the need for recruiters to be strategic rather than reactive and focus on engaging, analyzing and advising in order to be successful in the future.
I actually had two guests for episode 224 Megan Deville, an HRIS analyst, and Alison Thomas, a talent acquisition recruiter, both of whom work for Lake Tram in Louisiana. They shared some great learning from their experience implementing, optimizing and driving adoption for recruitment technology. There is some great practical advice in this episode, but the thing that really stood out for me was just how different Megan and Alison are in terms of background skills and mindset, something they themselves point out. It really shows that successful talent acquisition relies so much on diversity of thought.
In episode 225 I was lucky enough to partner with Safa, the Armed Forces charity in the UK, and as part of their Friendly to Forces campaign I spoke to Tim Redfern, Managing Director, Defence at Amy. We spoke about what employers need to be doing differently to hire more veterans. Thinking differently about transferable skills, challenging recruiting mindsets and working hard to understand the audience were all key learnings from this conversation. Episode 226 took us back to the subject of recruiters reinventing themselves, but this time we focused on personal branding. Rising podcast star Hesha Mazouz was my guest and he shared some of the strategies and tactics recruiters need to be thinking about if they want to stand out from all the noise and properly engage with potential hires. Understanding your target audience was once more the big theme here, and it’s something that seems to come up in every piece of consulting work that I do at the moment. I’m sure this is going to continue to be a massive theme in 2020 and beyond into the next decade.
Recruiting superstar Matt Buckland seems to end up being a guest on the show every time he gets a new job, and episode 227 was no exception as he’s a few months into his new role of founder and head of Talent at Rainmaker Venture Studio. This was another interview about the uselessness of resumes as a tool to meet current talent challenges. Matt has been doing some very effective experimentation using anonymous testing to turn bias and assump on their head. I won’t go into great detail on this now as I think this episode is a must listen for everyone in recruiting. If you haven’t listened to it already, then you really are missing out.
I had a great conversation about coaching with Ozlem Saragold, the founder of Digital coaching platform Sparkas in episode 228 and you should definitely check out our conversation if you’re leading a team or even just out of interest for your own personal development.
However, to finish this first Roundup show, I want to focus on episode 229, mostly because it’s probably one of my favorite interviews of the year. Lisa Scales is Head of Resourcing Executive and new talent at 7 Trent and her organization has been doing some work to improve social mobility through their hiring practices, which is innovative, pioneering and inspiring. The key themes of our conversation precisely match the key themes of all the episodes in the last month challenging recruiting mindsets, tapping into hidden pools of talent, and of course, cultivating a deep understanding of your target audience. Congratulations to Lisa and 7 Trent for recently moving up to third place in the UK Social Mobility Employers Index. It certainly is very well deserved.
So I really hope you enjoyed this first edition of Recruiting Future Roundup. What I really need now is your feedback to make it better. Let me know what you thought of the content, the length and anything you think I could do to improve the format. You can email me on mattashift.co.uk or I’m very easy to find on both Twitter and LinkedIn. Talking of feedback, I’ll shortly be sharing a listener survey as I want to know what topics you think I should be covering in the Recruiting Future podcast in 2020. Listen out for the announcement in the next show or get ahead of the curve by visiting www.rfpodcast.com and subscribing to the show’s mailing list. If you haven’t subscribed to the Recruiting Future podcast already, you can subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts. Thanks for listening and thanks to my sponsors format. Make sure you download their ebook. To finish off, here’s a trailer for another recruiting podcast, one that I think at least some of you will really like.
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