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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Kicking Off the Summer of Love
Kicking off the summer of love, Serge has big plans for his 10 year wedding anniversary!Class act James Ellis as he shares his book, Talent Chooses You with the world as a google doc. Making it an interactive discussion for Employer Branding and Talent Acquisition pros who need to understand how to harness the power of their EB. You can find it here http://employerbrandbook.com/Big Talk on today’s episode7 habits of effective recruiters - pick 2 and run with itAre agency recruiters missing out with WFH?Will LinkedIN fade in our lifetime?
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Zip 1 Serge 0
The day has finally arrived after months of Serge’s wild predictions that Recruit Holdings would buy up ZipRecruiter, we find out he was dead wrong.- Shelley’s birthday and the best birthday gift EVER! Shocking to hear it involved shopping, eating and 5 types of rum in 1 drink!- Staffing industry trends and who are the top dogs- Women in software engineering - what can we learn from most progressive markets in the world.Bonus material - how dating and recruiting are kinda the same thing. The link to the video is below.https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jobsyncio_dont-be-this-guy-activity-6803386816868208640-CDl9https://amazinghiring.com/how-hard-is-it-to-hire-a-female-senior-software-engineer-in-europe/?utm_campaign=Recruiting%20Brainfood&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
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Is There Such a Thing as a Stupid Question?
<p>Shelley is a bit of jealous of how easy it is to be able to record your young kids now compared to the days she had young kids where the slide carousel was the standard ;). Quite a few disagreement in this episode!</p><p>&nbsp;- Diversity Statements, should you have one?&nbsp;</p><p>- Are fortune 500 companies leveraging AI correctly?&nbsp;</p><p>- Unique or "weird" interview question, should it be a thing?</p><p>Serge disagree's Chad and Cheese and they're take on TikTok for jobs.</p>
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Alex Murphy CEO of JobSync
This week The Recruitment Flex we welcome Alex Murphy CEO of JobSync. We dig into why are Talent Acquisition process so different from company to company plus we dig into,- What is your conversion rate of candidates clicking to apply to your jobs, if it's not 20% or above you probably have an issue.- How can you save more time as a recruiter by automating or replacing time spent with technology- Why is it important for your process to be consistent no matter where the candidate found your job.- Are you taking too long to reach out to your candidates.
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TikTok for Jobs??
Find out why you should never call Shelley a #GirlBoss. Is TikTok for jobs going to be a thing? Plus some ‘healthy’ banter on the new recruitment metrics.Time to applyApplicant to hireSourcing channel effectivenessTime to interviewOffer AcceptanceAlso Coinbase tries to solve the gender wage gap.
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The Mad Scientist of Online Recruitment Chris R...
The busiest man in recruitment technology Chris Russell joins us to talk all things recruitment related.- Why rejecting candidates properly is so important and how Rejobify can help.- The future of gig platforms and who is Indeed pissing off now.- How Google for Jobs and Facebook are trying to grab strong market share in the job board world- What's next for Zip Recruiter and Talent.comAs always great insights from Chris! www.rejobify.com, hrlancers.com 
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What's happening at BaseCamp
<p>Should political discourse happen at work? what is considered political? We try to figure what happened at BaseCamp. Shelley buys a new car and we try to solve all the worlds talent challenges.&nbsp;</p><p>- Are people excited about going back to the office?</p><p>- What are candidates profile? - We talk about roles in Talent Acquisition that might never heard of&nbsp;</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d291pcxKtK4&nbsp;</p><p>https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/4/22419512/basecamp-political-speech-policy-fallout</p>
36 min
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Terry Baker CEO of PandoLogic
<p><strong>How do you know you’ve hit the big time as a software start up? When the lawyers from Craigslist send you a ‘cease and desist’ letter! Hear the whole story on this week’s episode.</strong></p><p><strong>Terry talks about the history of Pandologic and how they resisted the swirl of programmatic companies being swallowed up in 2019.</strong></p><p><strong>Programmatic job advertising explained by the original visionary who invented the space.</strong></p><p><strong>TRY THIS:</strong></p><p><strong>Its Tesla Autonomous Driving VS basic cruise control for advertising jobs</strong></p><p><strong>Having 90% accuracy in predicting where your job posting will attract the right candidates</strong></p><p><strong>Bonus material: what’s the future of programmatic</strong></p>
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What's Zip Recruiter worth?
Serge and Shelley are back after brief hiatus! As always we cover recruitment tips and news on the Recruitment industry. This week we also talk about Shelley shopping for a new car, is it different for a woman buying a car then a man?Topics for the week- How do you recruit in a tight labour market?- Training new recruiters.- Jobvite Acquires JazzHR and NXXThing RPO- Zip Recruiter prepping for IPO
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Brad DiPaolo from Candidate Hub
<p>This week we welcome Brad DiPaolo CEO of Candidate Hub. We find out if Brad is the source of many of Serge's emotional scars around HR!<br><br>We deep dive on Candidate Hub and why nurture marketing to candidates is especially critical in this economy. We also try to figure out all the worlds problem including&nbsp;</p><p>- Talent pipelines and why they're critical<br>- What is the difference between an ATS CRM and Candidate Hub<br>- Why do hiring managers not held accountable to hire<br><br>And so much more! <br><br></p>
33 min
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Be Fast or Don't Bother
<p>Do you wait 3 weeks or a month before calling your candidates for roles. Serge and Shelley explain why that's probably a bad idea. Shelley still not impressed by Wedge (She loves Matt BAXTER though!) even after a great performance on the Chad and Cheese firing squad. <br><br>Topics this week</p><p>- LinkedIn gets in the re-skilling game.<br>- " Creative Job Titles" and why it's hurting you<br>- Setting expectations with hiring manager<br><br><br><br></p>
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Joe O'Connor From Vizi Recruiter
The question was asked to Joe 6 years ago why most marketing material were visual but not in the recruitment space where we we have been using for the last 80 years text based job description. Joe decided to change that and voila! He created visual job ads.We cover a broad range of topics including- Why Shelley loves Vizi Recruiter- How does a serial entrepreneur who has run a yogourt company, bakery and market research firm gets involved in HRTech- Why visual job ads over text based- The future of Job Boards- Z vs. Zed
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Tales From the Road
Tales from the road, Serge and Shelly are sharing their top tips this week.The best advise to win the heart of your top candidate! Old school is back in style.Looking at a new ATS, we have a tip for you.Stop calling your employer brand your EVP, you are confusing everyone!Three cheers for Linked IN.
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Adam Chambers from Applichat
The Recruitment Flex is launching a new schedule which this is our first Tuesday episode. Many more updates coming up as well.This week we welcome Adam Chambers President of Applichat! Adam is an impressive person and has created a compelling RPO service targeted at Healthcare around the world.We cover some great topics including- Who is Adam Chambers and why does his mom still does his laundry?- What is Applichat and what problem are they trying to solve?- Facebook Targeted Ads for recruitment.- Influencer marketing for recruitment??- Where in the world is Adam this week
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The Robots Are Taking Over
More great suggestions from 2 people who have lived through the challenges faced by Talent Acquisition practitioners in every type of business.Tangai - the Swedish invention launched in 2018 using a robot that looks like something from I, Robot! How would you feel about being rejected for a role from a robot?You will never out recruit what good retention will do. Gets some practical tips on how TA can support the businessCandidates ghosting recruiters? Is this an American thing?Google in the news - they are mandating employees back to the office. Grab your kombucha mug and get on the bus, they are going back to the billion dollar palace!
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Shelley Takes Over The World.
Serge and Shelley try to figure out this current recruiting landscape including mass movement of employees happening, should you be transparent of the pay range on your jobs ads? plus Shelley gets nominated for another award and Serge complains about a mancold.
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Video Is The Way Feat. Matt Baxter
Coming to us from the tech hot spot of Michigan, Matt Baxter the CEO of Wedge tell us how they are changing 1-way video interviewing.The great debate continues as Shelley continues to endure the lashings from Serge on this topic.It was starting to feel like the deck was stacked against Shelley, but the 1-way video interview industry has a lot of wounds they need to heal before candidates consider this as a better way to interview.Win for Serge - top talent get a custom video welcome from the Hiring Manager, brilliant.Win for Shelley - messed up recruitment process will not be cured with 1-way video interviews; it only gets worse.Win for Matt - rave reviews from 100s of candidates who landed their next role and Wedge was a big part of it.Settle the score - who won this battle?
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Resumes Suck with Allie Knull
Resumes SuckWe decided to make this International Women’s Week, we invited an incredible entrepreneur, tech startup founder, mom and wife to celebrate her success; and wonder, how does she do it?Digging deep to understand how ResumeFree is going to change how companies hire, Allie has passion to solve the biggest problem the world is facing - social injustice in the hiring process.Hiring people based on how well they write a resume is crap!In this economy? During a pandemic? YUP - she did itMBTI and DiSC are a jokeHas Allie found the ideal candidate formula?Will we ever get Boomers to let go of the old ways of hiring or do we have to wait until they all retire?Answers to these life changing questions and more on this weeks episode.
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Shelley joins the Chad & Cheese Podcast
When you think of Podcast in this industry you think of the Chad & Cheese Podcast. This week in our special crossover episode Shelley joins Chad to Co-Host Shelley makes us proud on the big stage!- Facebook is getting serious about #jobs- Will COVID dramatically change job board?- Will Facebook & Google smash Indeed.com?- Iceland schools everyone on closing the wage gap- Prop 22 won't save Uber, Lyft, and gig platforms.
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The Chad and Cheese Crossover with guest Brian ...
The better looking co-host of Chad & Cheese Podcast joins Serge in hosting this crossover Show. Shelley takes some time off from Serge but you can get your fill of Shelley as she makes her grand debut with Chad on this weeks episode.Serge and Joel welcome Canadian recruiting gangster Brian Thompson of RecTxt. There's nothing we don't cover on this week show.- Is Trailer Park Boys the greatest Canadian show of all time?- Is 15$ minimum wage to much to ask?- We cover what a recruiter can expect in the near future, will knowledge workers ever want to go back to the office? who is going to fill those towers? Plus you get to find out what Joel has planned for the summer.
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David Bernstein
The Recruitment Flex this week features David Bernstein VP Partnerships and Industry Relations.Solving TA problems we know we have - yet tolerate - that’s what David taught us today. When most of our tech stack is 13 or 14 systems, how to get it all to flow nicely seems to confuse us in TA.David shared his journey from Berkeley Psychology to a little start up, at the time, called PeopleSoft to where he is today.The native apply on Linked In and Indeed has a dark sideWhere TA practitioners should start automating turned into David breaking up a fight between usNatural evolution and what being in the gig work economy give us - David’s psych degree was showing
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HR Tech Series with Jon MacConnell from Buoyanc...
HR Tech Series Feat NudgeJobs by BuoyancyAnyone out there ever had a WOW experience with an Outplacement firm?Spoiler Alert:​ This is going to rattle the Outplacement IndustryA start up before it is started; we met with Jon MacConnel the founder of Buoyancy.works and NudgeJobThe journey of a great idea rooted in behavioral science, Jon comes fresh off the world’s most prestigious Masters program in the world. With deep empathy for the real human journey of looking for a new job, when you are not working.Nudgejobs V1 was launched looking a bit like a Trello BoardDeep understanding of the emotional journey of looking for workKeep the job seeking on task and anticipate the lull and discouraging times We challenged the notion of charging the job seek
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Hot in Here
Serge and Shelley try to keep warm by tackling a ton of topics this week including Bell Let’s talk, EVP now TVP? Serge was right on WFH changes and outcome based work environment.
30 min
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HRTech Special with Dan Giurescu from Terra Hub
Special new series where we talk to startups in HRTech space. Dan Giurescu founder of TerraHub Technologies & Blockchain Guru joins the Recruitment Flex and we tried to be easy on himWe figured this was a good time to see if we could get our heads around what Blockchain is and what this means for recruitment. Turns out, this technology will be left on HR’s chair!The future for recruitment would look very different if everyone had their resume as a verified document.Dan gives us some real world examples of how Blockchain is being used in lots of industries. We think we get it…..Digital Identity explained…. I thinkHR needs to understand this to support the business and protect their employer
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The Shitshow with Chad Sowash
Chad is the co- founder of the #1 podcast in the HR industry, The Chad and Cheese Show with over 600 episodes in their catalog they are responsible for setting the pace on what’s going on around the world. Shelley & Serge are huge fans so this was a blast to have an exclusive time with him. Chad schools Serge on why programmatic advertising for job ads suck*Bonus material, a recommendation from Chad on which programmatic vendors are doing it well - Jovio, PandalogicChad & Serge join forces to convince Shelley the value of 1-way video interviews and Shelley is still not buying itFuture predictions on the job board industry for 2021 and will in-person events ever return?
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