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 250: Recruiting In Extraordinary Times
Ep 253: Remote Working – A CEO’s Perspective
Ep 245: Programmatic Advertising Explained
Ep 246: Solving Challenges With Technology
Ep 247: Working Strategically With Hiring Managers
Ep 249: Delivering A Custom Experience
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Transcript:
Matt Alder [00:00:00]:
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Matt Alder [00:01:01]:
Hi everyone, this is Matt Alder. Welcome to Recruiting Future Roundup for March. Roundup is a 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.
First of all, I hope you’re all safe and well. March seems to have gone on forever and certainly here in Scotland, despite warnings from around the world. I don’t think we had any real idea about how much and how quickly life was going to change as people stay at home and connect themselves with information sources. Listen numbers to the podcast have increased by a third this month. I’m taking my role of providing continuity and a calm voice to our talent acquisition community very seriously during this difficult time. I’m committed to continue to publish at least two shows a week, and I’ll add to that if the demand is there.
During March. I’ve alternated between providing content for the situation right now and content that focuses on areas that will be very important in the medium to long term. So rather than reviewing each episode in the order that it was published, I’ll group them into those categories.
So first of all, the content for right now in episode 250, I spoke to Johnny Campbell from Social Talent about the effects of the pandemic on the hiring market and approach to talent acquisition. We then updated things by talking to Johnny’s colleague Holly Fawcett on the same topics. Two weeks later we covered who’s hiring and who isn’t, the move towards virtual recruitment processes, onboarding new hires remotely, and the likely longer term implications for talent acquisition. Well worth checking out if you want to get a sense of what’s going on in the market right now. One of the things we have seen in March is the understandable publication of vast amounts of content about remote working. While a lot of this content is very useful, unfortunately there does seem to be a tendency not to acknowledge that lots of people are being forced to work from home rather than choosing to work from home. There’s a big difference between working in a ready prepared and well appointed home office and trying to work from your kitchen kitchen table while simultaneously homeschooling your kids.
So to properly add some value to this remote working content tsunami in episode 253 I invited Victor Smit back to the show. Victor is Executive Chairman and co founder of Netguru, a company which has always had a remote first ethos for its employees. We talked about some of the more strategic aspects of remote working, including maintaining culture remotely, the vital importance of trust, and keeping a remote team motivated and productive over long periods of time.
Happiness is something we could all do with right now and in episode 252 I was pleased to welcome Nick Marks to the show. Nick is famous for applying statistical thinking to happiness and has a TED Talk on the topic which has over 2 million views. We discussed what leaders can be doing in the current crisis to improve the happiness of their teams, the five main drivers of happiness at work, and happiness in the recruiting process, as well as this right now content. There were four other interviews in March which provided much food for thought for the medium and long term.
In episode 245 I teamed up with Talent Nexus to explore the emerging world of programmatic recruitment advert. This is definitely worth listening to because this type of paper performance advertising is going to be huge as we come out of this current Crisis.
In episode 246, James Edwards from Mitchells and Butlers shared his experiences of developing a strategic approach to workforce planning as well as implementing a new ATS and career site. One of the most interesting aspects of this was the importance that was put on hiring managers as key users the new systems, something that isn’t done anywhere near as much as it should be.
Hiring manager relations was a topic I also discussed with the always brilliant John Vlastoleca, who returned to the show in episode 247. John shared his insights on how talent acquisition teams can work more strategically with hiring managers and introduced me to the concept of a constipated funnel.
Finally, I’m not allowed to have favorite episodes, but if I did, a strong contender for my favorite episode of the month would be the interview with Anna shalom from Frame IO. In episode 249, Anna shared some fantastic insights into ways of delivering a personalized candidate experience at speed, avoiding unconscious bias, as well as creative thinking and empathy in recruitment.
I just wanted to say a big thank you to shl, Social Talent and Attrax for sponsoring the show in March and also a big thank you to all the new sponsors who’ve signed up in the last few weeks. The biggest thank you of all though, goes to all of you for subscribing and listening. If there are any topics you want to see me cover in the coming weeks, then please get in touch and let me know. Stay safe. I’ll be back next week and I hope you’ll join me.
