The Recruitment Flex with Serge and Shelley
By Serge Boudreau
The Recruitment Flex with Serge and ShelleyJun 18, 2021
Is This Seat Taken!
Is this seat taken?
In true form, Serge has big news and you get to hear it before he even updates his LinkedIn profile!
Our Recruiting Insights this week:
Retention bonus as an afterthought may have the reverse effect. Keeping your employees happy is a less expensive way of keeping them.
What’s a quitting bonus? Maybe we fell for some click bait here; the idea is nothing new but an Arizona CEO grabbed a few headlines by doubling his quit bonus to $5000 when no one took him up on the original $2500.
If 16,000 recruiters get hired by March 1 2022 - then we’ve only begun to see the great resignation.
Big shout out to James Ellis of the Talent Cast podcast, I’m signing up for his new book reading.
The Job Board Geeks
The Job Board Geeks Steven Rothberg and Jeff Dickey-Chasins join Serge and Shelley to give us their lowdown on what will be happening in Recruitment Tech and Job Board world in 2022.
- We recep what happened in 2021 in the Job Board Space
- Facebook jobs shutting down everywhere except Canada and US
- Google for jobs impact since changes in October
- Advice for TA Practitioners for budget allocation between the big boards and niche sites
Check out the guys on their podcast The Job Board Geeks available on all major podcast players.
The Recruitment Flex - Recruitment Tech Breakdown with Jeff Dickey-Chassins
Industry heavyweight The job Board Doctor gives us a breakdown of what's happening in the Recruitment Tech and Job board world for 2021.
The Recruitment Flex joins HR PODSQUAD
Serge and Shelley join Chris Russell and Joel Cheesman on the HR Podsquad.
Crystal Ball Gazing for 2022
Allie Knull, Founder of ResumeFree joins as co-host with Serge and Shelley.
Grinch for hire - the only time getting a 1 star rating is the point. When an actor hired as the Grinch trashes the house. What did you think would happen?
Top Recruiter award, with no audit or due diligence it feels like a popularity contest.
Recruiters creating idiot polls on LinkedIn, the idea is a bit like catfishing to us
The tragedy left behind from the tornado in Kentucky, with only one side of the story being reported, we debated if the scented candle business will ever recover.
Lastly, our predictions for 2022.
Check out the healthy debate.
Bunch of Dumb Dolphins
Smaller markets are so underserved yet such a delight to do business with. Serge and Shelley do a road trip to visit a great organization who are sincerely looking to up their game in TA. Such a breath of fresh air!
What’s happening in the Talent Acquisition world this episode?
Better.com with their CEO blunder makes them a perfect target for TA professionals. Top talent never sticks around to see how this shit show turns out. Time to sign up to poaching.ai
Soooo tired of trying to make social media work; join the club. Yet we still find great tips and some back to basics on where it fits into our master plan in TA
Work samples. Dont be lame and let your Hiring Manager build some stupid work assignment that takes 8 hours to complete, get with the cool kids who keep the candidate experience in check.
West meets East - Tapod joins The Recruitment Flex
TaPod of Australian fame joins The Recruitment Flex for a world view on talent acquisition. With Harvey the office dog riding shotgun, we see the world is smaller than we thought.
Craig and Lauren are a fun couple of Aussies who really know their stuff in TA; we take on the hot topics of today and find out the Recruiter shortage is global.
- Who knew candidate ghosting is a worldwide issue
- What are the top ATS technologies in Canada and Australia
- Top job boards Down Under and in the Great White North
- The Wish List for 2022 in TA
Are you happy at Work?
Super Dad to the Rescue, when you’re little ones are sick and mom is under the weather, you do what you gotta for and clean up puke.
- Benefits beyond tablestake and add and life insurance won’t cut it, what will will recruitment bring to the table that will turn heads
- Is anyone happy at work, we ponder the choice of asking it anyways
- The neverending curiosity around money and salaries, does anyone know WTF they’re doing
Pornhub on my Mind
Michelle Berg from ElevateHR joins Serge and Shelley.
The Future is Here and It's Utopia with Angela Hood
Angela Hood from ThisWayGlobal joins the Recruitment Flex.
You're Dead to Me!
Kim Wilkinson joins Serge and Shelley.
Who's Really Driving? w/Bas Von de Haterd
Bas Von De Haterd joins The Recruitment Flex.
Where's my Money?
Serge and Shelley cover employee referral programs, what culture you should be sharing in 2022 and why describing your work culture as a family might be troublesome.
Vaccine Mandates - Rick Mckee
We bring in top employment lawyer Rick Mckee to discuss Vaccine Mandates.
The Recruitment Flex -100th Episode!
Serge and Shelley celebrate their 100th Episode.
Click Here!
Serge and Shelley discuss the value of One Click Apply.
It's the Serge Show
Serge/Shelley/Kim discuss what's going in the recruitment space.
Christian Forman - CEO of Appcast
Christian Forman - CEO of Appcast joins us to discuss recruitment trends and the evolution of Appcast.
Free(lance)dom
Is Freelance the new way to work?
Steven Rothberg - College Recruiter
Steven Rothberg - CollegeRecruiter.com
What Recruiters Want
Guest host Allie Knull
Adam Gordon
Adam Gordon CEO of CanadidateID
It's Raining Men
Serge drops that he will be retiring from recruitment to run for city council next election in 2025. Will the things he's said on this podcast hurt him in his political careers?! Both Serge and Shelley have to be censored this week, that won't help.
We cover a lot of segments this week that focus on men and their place in the future workforce.
- Men are opting out of University, what's causing this and what does it mean to the future workforce?
- Truck drivers, why is it impossible to recruit them? maybe treat them better.
- Pizza Hut is trying to hire 40,000 service workers in 3 months with no new benefits, wage hike but instead hold a Career Development Event with motivational speakers and bs benefits... just embarrassing!
Guest Co-Host Allie Knull
The Recruitment Flex with Allie knull
Lori Sylvia
Lori Sylvia - Rally Recruitment Marketing
All Roads Lead to Recruitment
RPO what does it stand for? We cant seem to agree on this- Shelley says Project and Serge says Process (Shelley is wrong!)
How does a low unemployment rate feel? Its like everyone left the mall and you’re the only person there.
Quick and simple things for your employer brand and it doesn't have to be cheesy
BIG money in the job board world - we are watching this rollercoaster ride!
The Recruitment Flex - 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.
Talking about recruitment
- Cramming in your EVP into a job ad is repelling candidates.
- The banking industry continues to throw money at people rather than fix the problem
- The quick fix for the shortage of Recruiters is going to implode.
https://www.ere.net/the-problem-with-emphasizing-employer-branding-in-job-posts/
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/wall-street-bumping-up-entry-level-investment-banker-salaries-to-100k-and-bonuses-up-to-200k
https://recruitingdaily.com/employers-confront-shortage-of-recruiters-in-midst-of-talent-war/
The Recruitment Flex - 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&I tools is TalVista.
- Where to start on DE&I? What can TA do to move the needle?
- Take a listen as Scot explains where the real work gets done and how TA can work with conscious inclusion.
- Job ads that speak to everyone
- Screening candidates who can do the job
- Interview guides created specifically for the job
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.
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TalVista.com
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The Recruitment Flex - No Ghosting
The Recruitment Flex - Katrina Kibben
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.
- Writing to attract Tech talent made easy - Hold up the mirror and see yourself as the ideal candidate
- The final answer on why the staffing industry will never pick up their game on writing good quality job ads.
- 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
The Recruitment Flex - Seeing it First Hand
- 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!
The Recruitment Flex - Take your Non-Compete and Shove it
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!
The Recruitment Flex - Can Google for Jobs Fix the Candidate Experience
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.
- Should you do a culture audit, where do you start?
- The future is being a creator, 489,000% increase in creator job posting since 2016
The Recruitment Flex - Micole Garatti
- 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!
The Recruitment flex - Gone with the Wind
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?
The Recruitment Flex - Vaccinated?
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 signs
Listen in and join the conversation
The Recruitment Flex - Great Recruitment Starts Here
The Recruitment Flex - Stop Being so Soft
The Recruitment Flex - Who Owns Employment Brand
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.
We also deep dive into these topics:
- JobVite 2020 Recruiter Nation Survey - Candidate Dealbreakers https://www.jobvite.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Jobvite-RecruiterNation-Report-Final.pdf
- The education system is broken! Will a 4 year degree be always relevant?
- Shelley and Serge are everywhere!
The Recruitment Flex - Dr. Leeno Karumanchery
The Recruitment Flex - Kicking Off the Summer of Love
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 employerbrandbook.com/
Big Talk on today’s episode
7 habits of effective recruiters - pick 2 and run with it
Are agency recruiters missing out with WFH?
Will LinkedIN fade in our lifetime?
The Recruitment Flex - Zip 1 Serge 0
The Recruitment Flex - Is There Such a Thing as a Stupid Question?
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!
- Diversity Statements, should you have one?
- Are fortune 500 companies leveraging AI correctly?
- Unique or "weird" interview question, should it be a thing?
Serge disagree's Chad and Cheese and they're take on TikTok for jobs.
The Recruitment Flex - Alex Murphy CEO of JobSync
- 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.
The Recruitment Flex - TikTok for Jobs??
Time to apply
Applicant to hire
Sourcing channel effectiveness
Time to interview
Offer Acceptance
Also Coinbase tries to solve the gender wage gap.
The Recruitment Flex - The Mad Scientist of Online Recruitment Chris Russell
- 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.com
As always great insights from Chris! www.rejobify.com, hrlancers.com
The Recruitment Flex - What's happening at BaseCamp
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.
- Are people excited about going back to the office?
- What are candidates profile? - We talk about roles in Talent Acquisition that might never heard of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d291pcxKtK4
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/4/22419512/basecamp-political-speech-policy-fallout
The Recruitment Flex - Terry Baker CEO of PandoLogic
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.
Terry talks about the history of Pandologic and how they resisted the swirl of programmatic companies being swallowed up in 2019.
Programmatic job advertising explained by the original visionary who invented the space.
TRY THIS:
Its Tesla Autonomous Driving VS basic cruise control for advertising jobs
Having 90% accuracy in predicting where your job posting will attract the right candidates
Bonus material: what’s the future of programmatic
The Recruitment Flex - What's Zip Recruiter worth?
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
The Recruitment Flex - Brad DiPaolo from Candidate Hub
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!
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
- Talent pipelines and why they're critical
- What is the difference between an ATS CRM and Candidate Hub
- Why do hiring managers not held accountable to hire
And so much more!