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

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Passion Shortage not a Labor Shortage
With Jason Putnam - PandoLogic
29 min
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Hiring Events vs. Career Fairs
Guest Co-Host Allie Knull
38 min
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Lori Sylvia - Rally Recruitment Marketing
32 min
279
Vaccine Requirements on Job Ads?
Guest Co-Host Will Van Middendorp
30 min
280
The Doctor is in
Guest Jeff Dickey-Chassins AKA The Job Board Doctor
27 min
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Flex your Recruitment Muscles
Guest Co-Host Jesse Ryan
33 min
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Google for Jobs for Dummies
with Alex Murphy and Ira Wolfe
42 min
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3 Canaries that Survived the Coal Mine
36 min
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Hung Lee from Recruiting Brainfood
32 min
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A trip to Bull**** Mountain with Chad Sowash
37 min
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All Roads Lead to Recruitment
36 min
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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
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Micole Garatti
This week week we welcome Micole Garatti. Micole is the CEO of SocialMicole.com, Director B2B Marketing at Fairygodboss.com and together we try to solve all the problems in the talent community.- How men can be allies to women in the workforce (and at home!)- The pandemic has proven to be disastrous for women in the workforce, how can we reverse this?- What will the biggest disruptors in the in HR and recruitment Plus we cover the he Most Inclusive HR Influencer List and much more!
21 min
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Gone with the Wind
Serge notices some subtle and not so subtle events happening that will have a ripple effect in the service industry sector. Staking his claim as a capitalist, there is no sympathy for corporate giants who whine about their entire staff quitting.A big assortment of topics today- ”Must be a team player” says every single job posting out there. Isn't everyone? Let's talk more about the use of jargon in our job ads.- “As God is my witness” I will never work for minimum wage again. Could this be at the heart of all the corporate crying over trying to find someone to cook burgers or stock grocery shelves?- It's official, TikTok has a job board. A perfect answer for the 18-29 year job seeker. Or is it? Where is this headed?
31 min
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Vaccinated?
Will the workplace be forced to shun those who are unvaccinated? How will this affect recruitment?Discuss.- The US court have made a clear and swift ruling on the matter when it comes to mandating vaccination as a pre-hire requirement- Jump off the bandwagon, put some effort into your employment brand statements.- Trouble is brewing when both ZipRecruiter and Indeed are reporting the same warning signsListen in and join the conversation
29 min
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Great Recruitment Starts Here
The importance of mastering the job order intake will never be lost on us. Those who rely on a 1-dimensional piece of paper as their mandate to recruit will fail. We cover the idea that sourcing candidates should be a separate function from the transaction work of Recruiters.Full Cycle Recruiting and how it sets up successful careersGreat Sourcers share these traitsThis is AWKWARD  - 2 episodes in a row, we bring the hottest controversy on Linked In onto the episode** Being in HR does NOT qualify you to lead DE&I. Maybe HR is part of the problem?
37 min
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Stop Being so Soft
Another action packed episode as we unpack what 7 Economists believe is next up for the world of work - post covid. What the F&@! is happening in the labour market? Job postings are up, candidate traffic is down - nobody predicted this was going to happen!! Or did we? Everyone calm down, this is a temporary bottleneck & yes, this too shall pass We set Serge’s hair on fire & Shelley threw gasoline on it with the winey blog article of the most entitled Developer she could find. There is much debate over office chairs, gaining an extra 20 lbs and how Japan gets their workers to stop smoking
42 min
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Who Owns Employment Brand
<p>Serge has mountains to climb before he has some of his kids graduating from University unlike Shelley as she is 2 down and 1 to go! In this episode we try to figure out if Marketing or Talent Acquisition owns Employment Brand.<br><br>We also deep dive into these topics:<br><br>- JobVite 2020 Recruiter Nation Survey - Candidate Dealbreakers https://www.jobvite.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Jobvite-RecruiterNation-Report-Final.pdf</p><p>- The education system is broken! Will a 4 year degree be always relevant?<br><br>- Shelley and Serge are everywhere!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>
37 min
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Dr. Leeno Karumanchery
If you want to hear the simple truth about DE&I in the workplace - you have come to the right place. Dr. Leeno Karumamchery from Mesh/Diversity breaks it down it down for us.Let's begin with the simple facts of the human brain and neurons. OK, so there is nothing simple about the human brain yet Leeno explains this in a way we grasp.In this episode we hear:- Culture fit’ is a smoke bomb- Elephants look different to everyone- Employee surveys might not be the best way to approach DE&IWhen you hear; “We have an inclusive culture, but we promote based on merit” Just run away!
40 min