The Recruitment Flex

Serge and Shelley share their expertise and opinions from a collective 40+ years in the recruitment profession. The podcast is all things recruitment - from the latest trends, industry news, technology, helpful tips and interviews with some of the biggest globally recognized names in the recruitment industry

Business
Careers
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It's the Serge Show...
Guest Co-Host Kim Wilkinson
38 min
252
Christian Forman - CEO of Appcast
32 min
253
Free(Lance)dom
33 min
254
Class in Session with Steven Rothberg
35 min
255
What Recruiters Want
Guest Co-Host Allie Knull
34 min
256
Coming up for Air with Adam Gordon
Guest Adam Gordon
26 min
257
It's Raining Men
31 min
258
Passion Shortage not a Labor Shortage
With Jason Putnam - PandoLogic
29 min
259
Hiring Events vs. Career Fairs
Guest Co-Host Allie Knull
38 min
260
Lori Sylvia - Rally Recruitment Marketing
32 min
261
Vaccine Requirements on Job Ads?
Guest Co-Host Will Van Middendorp
30 min
262
The Doctor is in
Guest Jeff Dickey-Chassins AKA The Job Board Doctor
27 min
263
Flex your Recruitment Muscles
Guest Co-Host Jesse Ryan
33 min
264
Google for Jobs for Dummies
with Alex Murphy and Ira Wolfe
42 min
265
3 Canaries that Survived the Coal Mine
36 min
266
Hung Lee from Recruiting Brainfood
32 min
267
A trip to Bull**** Mountain with Chad Sowash
37 min
268
All Roads Lead to Recruitment
36 min
269
Recruiting is Easy
As we high five ourselves on hitting 1000 LinkedIn followers and over 80 weeks of delivering episodes; we hear an encore coming.</p><p>Talking about recruitment</p><p>- Cramming in your EVP into a job ad is repelling candidates.</p><p>- The banking industry continues to throw money at people rather than fix the problem</p><p>- The quick fix for the shortage of Recruiters is going to implode.</p><p>https://www.ere.net/the-problem-with-emphasizing-employer-branding-in-job-posts/</p><p>https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/wall-street-bumping-up-entry-level-investment-banker-salaries-to-100k-and-bonuses-up-to-200k</p><p>https://recruitingdaily.com/employers-confront-shortage-of-recruiters-in-midst-of-talent-war/</p>
29 min
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Scot Sessions CEO TalVista
With so much clutter and noise in the HR Tech space, we wanted to help our listeners cut to the chase. Our top pick for DE&amp;I tools is TalVista.</p><p>- Where to start on DE&amp;I? What can TA do to move the needle?</p><p>- Take a listen as Scot explains where the real work gets done and how TA can work with conscious inclusion.</p><p>- Job ads that speak to everyone</p><p>- Screening candidates who can do the job</p><p>- Interview guides created specifically for the job</p><p>Play along as Scot demonstrates on Shelley of how her brain is wired based on what she sees vs what she is told to do.</p><p>BSXGnv9IDkZa0ZsWNXyY</p><p><br></p><p>TalVista.com<br>info@talvista.com</p><p><br></p>
34 min
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No Ghosting
Some industries intentionally over hire, knowing that 30% of the people they hired will not show up to start work. While that may be normal for some, candidate ghosting is showing up in places where this was rare.- Use a bit of psychology & try getting micro commitments  - some great HR tech can make your life easier- Campus recruitment Canada VS the USA- Is your recruitment process is busted, who are you going to call?Plus do you care more about the Olympics or Bennifer?
31 min
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Katrina Kibben
<p>Shelley fly's solo this weeks and welcomes a recruitment industry powerhouse! Katrina Kibben, CEO of Three Ears Media We found the cure for Recruiters who have writer's block! Let’s get back to our roots on why we love this industry. Katrina is the pace setter on how to extract the information you need to write compelling honest job advertisements.&nbsp;</p><p>- Writing to attract Tech talent made easy - Hold up the mirror and see yourself as the ideal candidate&nbsp;</p><p>- The final answer on why the staffing industry will never pick up their game on writing good quality job ads.&nbsp;</p><p>- Do take the time to visit Katrina's site and download a practical guide on intake meetings. You can also find some really useful information and a great workbook on writing job ads. https://www.threeearsmedia.com/rewrite.html</p>
29 min
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Seeing it First Hand
Until you travel to the US its hard to get your head around the dire situation the service industry is dealing with. Serge made his way to Detroit on business this week and shares his experience.- We raise our little Canadian flag and are grateful for being in a country with a unified approach on health care.- TA is the canary in the coal mine. The crushing workload all TA practitioners are feeling is supported by the latest study. Recruiter burnout is real.- Big tech is dialing back their mandate to return to working in person.- Will CareerBuilder be saved or is the dumpster fire still smouldering? Our favourite and not so favourite TA tech firms are in the news this week. Find out who landed $15MM in Series B funding - its good news for TA!
31 min
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Take your Non-Compete and Shove it
If your company is still leveraging non-compete ask yourself what are you trying to protect? There is alternatives and way better hiring practices you can adopt to limit your risk. We also cover: - Smart Recruiter has now reached Unicorn status, plus couple more of smaller HRTech firms also get paid!- How do you handle the post interview briefing with you hiring managers!
33 min
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Can Google for Jobs Fix the Candidate Experience
<p>Serge and Shelley square off on Google for Jobs recent changes. Shelley has a strong argument that they need to fix their own s***! The other argument is who else is better suited to be able to fix the candidate experience then Google.&nbsp;</p><p>- Should you do a culture audit, where do you start?&nbsp;</p><p>- The future is being a creator, 489,000% increase in creator job posting since 2016</p>
30 min