The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep412 - How to Assess for Human Judgement Oct 9, 2026 3830 HOW TO ASSESS FOR HUMAN JUDGEMENT As AI takes over more of the heavy lifting in recruitment — screening CVs, drafting interview questions, even conducting first-round interviews — the skills we hire for are shifting. Technical proficiency can increasingly be automated, augmented or verified by machines. What's becoming harder to replace, and harder to find, is human judgement: the ability t

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep411 - Employer Branding in the Era of AI Generated Career Sites - Who Owns the Story? Oct 2, 2026 3915 Employer Branding in the Era of AI Generated Career Sites - Who Owns the Story? The career site is the front door to your employer brand — and until recently, building or even tweaking it meant months of agency briefs, dev tickets, and design sign-offs. Not anymore. A new wave of AI-powered platforms now lets recruiters and TA teams build entire career sites simply by typing what they want

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep409 - Vibe Coding TA Tools - How Viable Is This Really? Sep 18, 2026 4049 Vibe Coding TA Tools - How Viable Is This Really? The promise is intoxicating: describe the recruiting tool you want in plain English, and AI writes the code for you. No engineering team. No six-month procurement cycle. No budget request that dies in finance. Just you, a prompt, and a working prototype by lunchtime. "Vibe coding" - building software through conversational AI rather t

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep408 - Assessing the Skilful Use of AI Sep 18, 2026 3641 How to Assess Skillful Use of AI The way we assess engineering talent is undergoing a fundamental shift. With AI now capable of generating functional code in seconds, the old evaluation playbook - whiteboard algorithms, take-home tests, "does it compile?"- is looking increasingly obsolete. The real question for hiring teams isn't whether a candidate can write syntax; it's whether the

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep410 - Future of Hiring with Matt Wilson, CEO of Jack & Jill Sep 15, 2026 2250 The Future of Hiring, with Matt Wilson, CEO of Jack & Jill Matt Wilson, CEO of Jack & Jill, joins Hung Lee live to discuss what happens when AI makes applying almost effortless, application volumes explode, and the traditional signals recruiters rely on start to disappear. Key Themes We'll Cover: The End of the Application? - What happens when applying becomes effectivel

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep407 - Disconnected AI vs Multi-Agent Ecosystem: How to build a TA Tech Stack for the Agentic Era Sep 11, 2026 3754 Disconnected AI vs. Multi-Agent Ecosystems: Building a TA Tech Stack in the Agentic AI Era For the past few years, talent acquisition teams have been bolting AI tools onto their existing tech stacks - an AI scheduler here, a chatbot there, a CV parser with some machine learning sprinkled on top. It's worked, sort of! But we're now entering the agentic AI era, where autonomous AI agent

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep405 - What the EU AI Act Means for Recruiters Sep 4, 2026 3706 EU AI Act is Now in Force! What Recruiters Need To Do Now The EU AI Act is no longer a future concern - it's live, enforceable, and already reshaping how organisations can use artificial intelligence in hiring. For recruiters and talent acquisition teams, this isn't just a compliance headache for the legal department. If your tech stack includes AI-powered sourcing, CV screening, video inte

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep404 - In Conversation with John Vlastelica Aug 28, 2026 3738 IN CONVERSATION WITH JOHN VLASTELICA Few people have done more to shape the modern Talent Advisor than John Vlastelica. From leading recruiting at Amazon and Expedia to founding Recruiting Toolbox, John has spent the past two decades helping hundreds of organisations transform Talent Acquisition from a transactional function into a strategic business partner. His ideas around recruiter capa

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep403 - From Talent Acquisition to Organisational Performance Aug 21, 2026 3936 From Talent Acquisition to Organisational Performance For years, Talent Acquisition has been measured by hiring metrics: time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, source-of-hire and offer acceptance rates. While these remain important, they only tell part of the story. The real question is not whether we filled the vacancy quickly, but whether hiring decisions improve business performance. As organisati

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep401 - National Interview Week - Helping 100,000 People Back to Work Aug 21, 2026 3713 NATIONAL INTERVIEW WEEK - HELPING 100,000 YOUNG PEOPLE INTO THE WORKFORCE National Interview Week is a nationwide movement designed to equip young people from state-educated schools with the confidence, skills, and professional exposure they need to succeed in interviews and access meaningful career opportunities. Over the next five years, we aim to support 100,000 students through st

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep398 - Meet Ema - Your AI Employee for HR, IT and Finance (Live Demo) Aug 19, 2026 3654 MEET EMA - YOUR AI EMPLOYEE FOR HR, IT & FINANCE (LIVE DEMO) We're back with another founder chat and live demo, this time with Surojit Chatterjee, CEO of Ema. Former CPO of Coinbase and Senior Exec at Google and Flipkart, Surojit is a vastly experienced tech executive. I'm delighted to be share some time with him to learn about his vision and why the future of human-AI collaboration is

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep 400 - The State of AI Readiness: Is Your Organisation Ready? Aug 14, 2026 3862 The State of AI Readiness: A Framework to Gauge Your Organisation's AI Readiness Every organisation says it's embracing AI - but very few can answer a simple question: how AI-ready are we, really? While new tools continue to appear at breakneck speed, successful AI adoption depends on much more than buying software. It requires the right leadership, governance, skills, culture, data,

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep396 - The Employer Branding: the Reckoning - Automation vs Authenticy Aug 7, 2026 3885 The Employer Branding Reckoning: Authenticity vs Automation Employer branding has entered a new era. AI can now write careers content, personalise candidate outreach, generate videos, and automate engagement at a scale that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. At the same time, candidates have never been better at spotting generic messaging, over-produced content, or a culture

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep399 - The Essential Guide for Increasing Talent Density Jul 31, 2026 3953 Essential Guide for Increasing Talent Density In an era of relentless cost optimisation, organisations face a pivotal choice: maintain headcount breadth or concentrate excellence. Talent density—the concentration of exceptional performers within a team, function, or entire company—has emerged as the decisive competitive advantage for high-performing organisations. This is not merely about h

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep397 - Calculating Employee Lifetime Value (in Era of AI) Jul 24, 2026 3851 CALCULATING EMPLOYEE LIFETIME VALUE For decades, talent acquisition has been measured by speed and cost—time-to-fill and cost-per-hire dominated the conversation while the true economic impact of every hire remained frustratingly opaque. Yet as workforce strategy matures into a board-level priority, a critical shift is underway: organisations are finally beginning to quantify what an employ

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep395 - The Death of the Junior Recruiter Jul 17, 2026 3548 The Death of the Junior Recruiter: Where Is the Next Generation Coming From? Since 2022, the talent acquisition landscape has undergone a seismic shift. Once a thriving entry point for ambitious professionals, the function has been systematically truncated as economic pressures mount, headcount budgets shrink, and AI tools increasingly optimise workflows that once demanded human intuitio

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep393 - Fixing Hiring Manager and Recruiter Misalignment Jul 11, 2026 4205 Fixing Hiring Manager vs Recruiter MIS-Alignment The recruiter-hiring manager relationship is the most consequential partnership in talent acquisition—and yet, according to Metaview's 2026 AI & Hiring Alignment Report surveying 505 recruiting and hiring leaders, it is also the most dangerously misaligned. While an overwhelming 90% of leaders describe their partnerships as "good," a staggering

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep392 - The Recfest Recap 2026 Jul 8, 2026 3672 The Recfest Recap 2026 We’re unpacking the absolute best moments, groundbreaking strategies, and actionable takeaways from RecFest 2026. Whether you were dodging the summer sun at Knebworth Park or couldn't make it across the pond, this exclusive recap session distills the high-impact content from the industry's top thought leaders. Get ready to supercharge your TA strategy, embrace the hum

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep391 - Evolution of Talent CRM's Jul 4, 2026 4110 THE EVOLUTION OF TALENT CRMS (Building Talent Communities in the Agentic Era) The recruitment technology stack is undergoing its most profound transformation since the shift from paper CVs to applicant tracking systems. Autonomous AI agents—capable of reasoning, planning, and executing complex workflows without human intervention—are now infiltrating every stage of the talent lifecycle, ren

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep389 - HR vs People Ops: Semantic vs Substantive Difference? Jun 27, 2026 3794 HR vs People Ops: Semantic or Substantive Difference? IsIf your organization is still running a traditional Human Resources function - policy police, form processors, compliance checkers - you are bleeding candidates before they even apply. Modern talent acquisition doesn't need more administrators; it needs a People Operations engine built for growth, experience, and competitive advantage.

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep390 - How do AI-enabled Recruiters Spend Their Time Jun 19, 2026 3948 How Are AI-enabled Recruiters Spending Their Time? The recruiter's day used to disappear into Boolean strings, resume scanning, and the futile pursuit of inbox zero. Now that AI has swallowed the repetitive mechanics of talent acquisition, a profound shift is underway. The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will change recruiting—it is how the best recruiters are redeploy

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep387 - GEO vs SEO - What Recruitment Marketeers Need to Know in 2026 Jun 12, 2026 4318 GEO vs SEO: What Recruitment Marketers Need to Know in 2026 Everyone know's the search landscape has fundamentally shifted. In 2026, candidates are no longer typing keywords into Google - they are asking AI assistants where to work, who pays fairly, and which cultures actually thrive. If your recruitment marketing strategy still revolves around traditional SEO alone, you are optimisi

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep386 - What if AI Actually Costs More Than Humans? Jun 5, 2026 4020 What if AI Actually Costs More Than Humans? The headcount reduction mandate has landed on your desk: replace talent with AI and cut costs. But beneath the vendor demos and boardroom promises lies a dangerous assumption - that artificial intelligence is automatically cheaper than human expertise. What if the token economics tell a different story? Join us for a provocative live

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep384 - The Hire Standard 2026 Benchmark Report May 29, 2026 3800 The hiring environment has fundamentally reset—and most talent acquisition teams are still using benchmarks built for a world that no longer exists. Between 2022 and 2025, everything changed: application volumes surged 385%, recruiter teams were cut by 57%, and AI simultaneously flooded pipelines with noise while offering new efficiencies. Yet against this backdrop, Greenhouse data from 17M+ appl

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep388 - Introducing Next Generation AI Recruitment Agents - Juicebox Live Demo May 26, 2026 3422 INTRODUCING NEXT GENERATION AI RECRUITING AGENTS Juicebox have been one of the most impressive businesses in the AI recruiting space. Now with 6,000 customers, they are ready to announce a step change in how Juicebox works for recruiters to keep a competitive edge. Juicebox agents now REMEMBER AND SELF CORRECT. When a search isn't surfacing the right people, Agents reflect on th

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep383 - How to Hire for AI Fluency - The Zapier Framework May 23, 2026 3716 Everyone claims they're "good with AI" on their CV. Almost no one can prove it. As AI tools proliferate across every function, talent leaders face a critical gap: we need people who don't just use AI, but wield it strategically—and we have no reliable way to identify them. Enter Zapier. The automation platform that helped democratise no-code workflows has developing and refining a practical frame

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep381 - How to Hire in Hong Kong (SAR) in 2026 May 14, 2026 3258 Hong Kong's talent market has been stress-tested like no other—and emerged with a new identity. The old playbook - expat packages, regional hub prestige, English-only operations - now guarantees mediocrity. Yet for those who understand the new dynamics, Hong Kong offers something rare: a gateway to mainland opportunity with international legal frameworks, a financial center pivoting hard i

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep379 - AI Recommendations vs Human Judgement (Part Two) May 8, 2026 3744 AI RECOMMENDATION VS HUMAN JUDGEMENT - PT2. Can we detect, assess, train for and hire for 'human judgement'? Following our amazing conversation a month ago, we're back with Pt2 of our conversation on AI Recommendation vs Human Judgement. This time, we're going to examine whether it is possible to hire for human judgement, whether this should be a quality we actively look for and cultivate i

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep378 - How to Hire in China in 2026 May 8, 2026 3792 HOW TO HIRE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN 2026 The post-pandemic recovery, shifting regulatory landscape, and explosive growth of domestic tech giants and surprising resilience of export economy in face of Trump Tariff War, have completely rewired how Chinese professionals evaluate opportunities. What attracted top talent five years ago - multinational brand prestige, expat pa

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep377 - Job Advertising on Social Media in 2026 May 8, 2026 3774 JOB ADVERTISING ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN 2026 Front line work - in healthcare, retail, hospitality & logistics, construction, warehousing and the rest remain the most in-demand jobs in almost every economy. And the only way people know how to hire them is through advertising on Facebook! Whilst old school techniques might still work, the manual effort is exhausting, cost inefficient and

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep376 - We're Going To Do An OpenClaw Install Apr 25, 2026 3746 We're Going To Do An OpenClaw Install (Live Demo) Meet OpenClaw - the open-source AI that's been the sensation of the year so far. Imagine an actual 24/7 AI Agents that does the work for your automatically. Can it work for real world recruiting? We're not just talking about it - we're showing you. In this live demo session, watch us tackle: • How fast can you spin up a cus

Brainfood Live on Air Ep385 - Screening at Scale Metaview Applicant Review Live Demo Apr 24, 2026 3790 Your recruiters are drowning. 474 applications per role. 385% volume increase since 2022. And your screening process still relies on humans reading resumes one by one. The maths doesn't work anymore - yet quality can't slip. Metaview has built something different: an Applicant Screener that doesn't just automate rejection emails, but actually understands candidate fit at scale. In this ses

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep375 - How to Hire in Japan in 2026 Apr 22, 2026 4154 How to Hire in Japan in 2026 Japan's talent landscape is shifting fast—and foreign employers are scrambling to catch up. With accelerating demographic decline, evolving work culture norms, and new government visa reforms, 2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for recruitment in the world's third-largest economy. The old playbook - post on Daijob, hire a bilingual coordinator, hope for the

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep374 - Automation is Eating Recruiting (And What Recruiters Should be Doing Now) Apr 17, 2026 4040 Automation is Eating Recruitment! 10 Tips for What Talent Acquisition & HR Should Be Doing NOW The robots aren't coming - they're already here. AI sourcing, automated screening, chatbot scheduling, and predictive analytics are devouring the recruitment tasks we used to own. So what should recruiters be doing now? This isn't a eulogy for recruiting. It's a battle plan for th

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep373 - How to Hire in Korea in 2026 Apr 14, 2026 3498 How to Hire in Korea in 2026 Korea's talent market is at an inflection point. With the world's lowest birth rate, a fiercely competitive corporate culture, and a government aggressively courting foreign investment, 2026 presents both unprecedented hiring challenges and massive opportunities. The Seoul-centric, degree-obsessed, seniority-driven playbook is crumbling. A new generation of tale

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep372 - Do Candidates Really Prefer AI Interviewers? Apr 10, 2026 3766 Candidates prefer AI Interviews? Candidate Experience for Different Demographic Cohorts AI interviewing isn't the future - it's the now. From one-way video screens to conversational chatbots, candidates are increasingly meeting algorithms before they meet humans. But here's what nobody's asking: does a Gen Z grad feel the same way about a bot interviewer as a mid-career professional?

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep371 - How AI is Reshaping Sourcing Apr 2, 2026 3704 Ep371 is sponsored by our friends Pin. Join Pin and our recruiting industry experts for a live conversation on “How AI is Reshaping Sourcing in 2026.” We’ll explore how leading teams are moving beyond experimentation and turning AI into a true competitive advantage. In this session, we’ll cover: - How AI is changing the role of the sourcer - What automation should (and shouldn

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep370 - AI Sourcing Agents & AI Job Search Agents - Archer Live Demo Mar 31, 2026 3594 AI Sourcing Agents in the Enterprise: Live demo! Following on from Archer's phenomenal success, it's time to catch up with CEO Mark Chaffey on what happens when a feature becomes a product, and that product turns into the main thing. Archer is the AI sourcing agent which has not only enabled hackajob to expand beyond the talent market place model but also expand scope beyond tech domain als

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep369 - Optimising Your Recruiter Workflow with AI - Real Examples Mar 27, 2026 5502 OPTIMISING YOUR RECRUITER WORKFLOW WITH AI - EXAMPLES! AI is transforming recruitment at lightning speed. Recruiters who embrace it are filling roles faster, delivering better candidate experiences, and outperforming competitors stuck in manual processes. Yet many professionals hesitate - not because they doubt AI's potential, but because they lack concrete, real-world examples of how to im

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep368 - LinkedIn Content Intelligence Q1 2026 Mar 20, 2026 4320 LINKEDIN CONTENT INTELLIGENCE REPORT Q1 2026 The LinkedIn newsfeed has completely changed how professional content gets seen and shared — and old posting playbooks are now obsolete. In “LinkedIn Content Intelligence Report Q1 2026”, we’ll break down how LinkedIn’s evolving algorithm prioritises relevance, meaning, and audience interest — not just likes and vanity metrics — and what this mea

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep367 - Human Judgement vs AI Recommendation - What do we really mean by 'humans-in-the-loop'? Mar 13, 2026 4136 HUMAN JUDGEMENT VS AI RECOMMENDATION: WHAT 'HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP' ACTUALLY MEAN? AI is now embedded across sourcing, screening, matching, and interview scheduling. Yet one phrase keeps appearing in every vendor pitch and compliance policy: human-in-the-loop. But what does that actually mean in practice? In this livestream, “Human Judgement vs AI Recommendation – What does it really mean to say

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep366 - The State of the TA / HR Job Market 2026 - Q1 Mar 11, 2026 3690 THE STATE OF THE TALENT ACQUISITION & HR JOB MARKET Q 2026 The talent acquisition and HR profession is facing its own reckoning. After years of contraction, cautious hiring, automation investment, and cost discipline, the very functions built to fuel growth are now navigating scarcity themselves. In this livestream, The State of the Talent Acquisition & HR Job Market Q1 2026, we’ll

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep365 - The Recruitment Advertising Benchmark Report 2026 Mar 6, 2026 3888 THE RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING BENCHMARK REPORT 2026 The labor market story of 2026 cannot be told through a single headline. Behind the macro narrative of cooling growth lies a structural split that is reshaping how recruiting actually works. In this livestream, we’ll break down Joveo’s Recruiting Benchmarks Report 2026 and discuss 9x surge in applicant volume for some roles to the persistent

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep364 - How to Hire in South Africa in 2026 Mar 3, 2026 3790 HOW TO HIRE IN SOUTH AFRICA IN 2026 Friends, I am back in South Africa, in one of my favourite cities for one of my favourite conferences, Recruiters Unite! As has become tradition, we're going to do a Brainfood Live on the day the event, to speak to local South African recruiters and discuss the main challenges in hiring in South Africa in 2026. We hope to share knowledge between loc

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep383 - The AI in Hiring Report 2026 Feb 27, 2026 3944 THE AI IN HIRING REPORT 2026 AI now shapes how candidates are discovered, evaluated, progressed, and hired. What began as productivity tooling has become a decision-making layer across the hiring funnel, influencing speed, fairness, quality, and outcomes at scale. As adoption accelerates, the focus has shifted from novelty to impact: what AI is actually doing inside hiring workflows, where

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep362 - From Talent Acquisition to Talent Operations? Feb 20, 2026 4158 FROM TALENT ACQUISITION TO TALENT OPERATIONS is a forward-looking show for TA leaders who can feel the function changing - but need clarity on what it is becoming. We’ll examine the rise of talent operations as a distinct capability, driven by automation across scheduling, screening, compliance, and workflow management. As logistics are increasingly handled by platforms and AI, the skil

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep361 - Leadership in Crisis - How to do RIF for TA Feb 13, 2026 3900 REDUCTION IN FORCE: HOW TO LEAD DURING CRISIS! This show focuses on the practical reality of TA downsizing, told by leaders who have already been through it. Not theory. Not platitudes. Real decisions, real mistakes, and hard-won lessons. We explore how leaders decide when reductions are unavoidable, who to let go, and how to do it in a way that is fair, defensible, and humane—while still p

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep360 - The State of Talent Intelligence 2026 Feb 6, 2026 4088 THE STATE OF TALENT INTELLIGENCE 2026 As we barrel through the year 2026, labour markets are being redefined by emerging technologies, shifting skills demand, and data-driven workforce strategies. Organisations worldwide are adopting sophisticated talent intelligence tools to forecast skills gaps, optimise hiring, and build resilient workforces — but staying ahead requires deeper insight an

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep359 - What Responsible AI Means for Recruiters? Feb 4, 2026 3728 WHAT RESPONSIBLE AI MEANS FOR RECRUITERS? What is Responsible AI for Talent Acquisition Teams? is a practical, straight-talking podcast for recruiters who are already using AI—and now need to make sure they’re using it properly. AI is no longer a future experiment in hiring. It’s embedded in sourcing, screening, assessment, and workforce planning. The real question facing TA leaders t

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep358 - 6 x AI Frameworks for Talent Acquisition Jan 30, 2026 4480 6 x AI USAGE FRAMEWORKS FOR TALENT ACQUISITION Closing the gap between proclaimed capability of AI vs the practical impact of AI is set to become one of the main stories of 2026, as function leaders in every department scramble to deliver against the expectations of an increasingly impatient C-level. Are there any frameworks or maturity models which can help? Brainfooder Soeren

Brainfood Live on Air - Ep357 - Why You Need RecOps To Accelerate AI in TA Jan 23, 2026 3570 WHY YOU NEED RECOPS TO ACCELERATE AI IN TA Recruiters are the busiest people in white collar work because there is often no way to accurately forecast resource demands - you never know how long a requirement is going to take to fill or how many hours of time it is going to take to get it done. People are variable and in recruitment, there are people who will impact the state of any project,

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep356 - How Police Use AI to Hire Jan 21, 2026 3660 TOO COMPLEX FOR AI? HOW POLICE SCOTLAND SOLVED THE UNSOLVABLE HIRING PUZZLE Most recruiters think their organisation is too "unique" or "complex" to trust AI. Then there is Police Scotland. Operating across 13 regions, managing 22,000+ staff, and balancing the hyper-sensitive vetting requirements, their hiring process is as high-stakes as it gets. Yet, they didn't just implement AI—they use

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep355 - Talent Strategy - What, Why, How and When Jan 16, 2026 3816 TALENT STRATEGY: WHAT, WHY, HOW AND WHEN Does your company have a talent strategy? It's probably the right thing to say that you do, but how much do we know about what a Talent Strategy is really? I asked this question within the Brainfood community and received some outstanding observations, so much so that we have to elevate this to a full discussion on Brainfood Live. “Talen

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep354 - Vibe Sourcing 101 - Live Demo of Metaview Sourcing Agent Jan 14, 2026 3962 VIBE SOURCING 101: LEARN TO SOURCE FROM THE WEB & YOUR ATS WITH METAVIEW AI AGENT We are going to look back at 2025 as the year it all changed for sourcing. AI Agents entered the market and immediately began to demonstrate talent acquisition teams could become massively more efficient by leverage the increasable ability of AI Agents to ingest huge amounts of candidate data and instantly

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep353 - Hiring Benchmarks - 16 x Most Common Job Occupations in the USA Jan 9, 2026 3726 HIRING BENCHMARKS FOR THE 16 MOST COMMON OCCUPATIONS IN THE USA We all want to be 'data driven' but most of the time the only data we have access to are those which we have recorded of ourselves and our own activity. This is vitally important for tracking your progress over time, but not the complete picture when it comes to how you are doing against the market and against the competition.

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep352 - Hiring Intelligence Report 2026 Jan 7, 2026 3564 Informing Happy Hiring: Signals from Willo's Hiring Intelligence Report 2026 This year, Willo didn’t just watch hiring change, they measured it. In this episode of Brainfood Live on Air, we’ll explore what the data from Willo’s Hiring Intelligence Report 2026 reveals about how hiring teams are actually operating in the AI-era, how this compares to previous years, and what that means as we

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep349 - Review of the Year - Economy & AI Dec 19, 2025 3904 REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2025 - Economy & AI Final part of our 4 part series on the Review of the Year. The two dominant mega themes of this year has undoubtedly been the global economy and the rise of AI. The two are becoming intertwined, especially with the AI investment boom drawing down investments from other parts of the US economy, whilst Trump Trade War 2.0 hobbles global economic grow

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep348 - Review of the Year in Recruitment 2025 - Sourcing, Employer Branding & RecOps Dec 12, 2025 4688 REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2025 - Sourcing, Employer Branding & RecOps Third of our 4 part series reviewing the major events and trends of the year in Sourcing, Employer Branding & RecOps What has happened this year that we got on talk about? - End of an Era? Irina Shamaeva - SOSU review - Is Sourcing dead or shifting toward automation of candidate discovery? - Demand for sourci

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep351 - Fraud Prood AI - Live Demo (Endorsed) Dec 10, 2025 3470 FRAUD PROOF AI? - ENDORSED LIVE DEMO We will look back at 2025 as the year when candidate fraud escalated into amongst the top priorities of employers looking who were still looking to hire but also now needing to securitise their companies from risk. Huge credit goes to technology vendors for responding to the demand - and we're seeing a lot of interesting techniques deployed to ide

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep347 - Review of the Year 2025 - CX, Assessment and DEIB Dec 5, 2025 3954 REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2025 - CX, Assessment & DEIB Second of our 4 part series reviewing the major events and trends of the year in CX, Assessment and DEIB. What has happened this year that we got on talk about?? - Mobley vs Workday, let's get an update on this, the quintessential CX challenge! - CX resentment rate...where are we tracking on this? - What do we know about AI and C

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep346 - REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2025 - TALENT TECHNOLOGY Nov 28, 2025 4394 REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2025 - TALENT TECHNOLOGY Can you believe that we're at the end of another year in Brainfood? As is tradition, we're going to do a 4 part series to conclude the year - and I will be a 4 part series where we review the major events and trends which have occurred on all the topics which matter to us. To kick off the series, let's talk about the the talent tech landscap

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep345 - Recruitment Advertising ....with AI Agents? Nov 21, 2025 3500 RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING ....WITH AI AGENTS? We may look back at 2025 has a pivotal year in online job advertising. Economic chaos, investment uncertainty, rise of AI, has made employers change how they think about headcount and are increasingly scrutinising the ROI of traditional job distribution. The flood of irrelevant applications has more or less killed the ppc model - what other iterat

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep350 - Diversity & Inclusion in the Era of AI and Emerging Cybersecurity Threats Nov 14, 2025 3596 Diversity & Inclusion in an Era of Emerging AI and Cyberthreats The rise of candidate fraud has been a huge topic in recruitment in 2025, so much so that employers have had to take extreme steps to protect their businesses, from asking candidates to physically move on command in front of screen to come in person to attend interview on premise, to go through ID verification procedures wh

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep344 - Grading My Recruitment Predictions for 2025 Nov 14, 2025 3654 GRADING MY RECRUITMENT FORECASTS FOR 2025 Every year I write a long post making 20 predictions for the year ahead. This year, for the first time ever, I'm going to grade my predictions and see how I have got on 20 x Predictions for Recruiting in 2025 1. AI Assessment mainstreams; 50% of high volume hirers (more than 5000 hires per year) will have a solution in place by EOY. 2.

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep342 - Career Transition - Trips from Ex-Pro Athletes Nov 7, 2025 3934 CAREER TRANSITION - LESSONS FROM EX-PRO ATHLETES Changing career is never easy, especially if you've committed everything into a vocation which you might have thought to be your whole of life focus. I know well myself, having previously attempted to go down the tech entrepreneur path but now very happily but very fortuitously landing into what seems to be a media business! Perhaps no

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep341 - Talent Acquisition Budgeting for the AI-Enabled Function Oct 31, 2025 3458 BUDGETING FOR AN AI-ENABLED TALENT ACQUISITION FUNCTION We're racing toward the end of the year and inevitably attention turns to plans for the future. But today we face a future which is increasingly difficult to predict and where agility, resilience and ability to quickly pivot without loss of performance are the qualities every function needs to develop to maintain value to the business.

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep343 - Future of Recruiter Enablement - Vouch Live Demo Oct 29, 2025 3554 FASTER, SMARTER, MORE HUMAN: THE FUTURE OF RECRUITER ENABLEMENT. Hiring has never been harder. Recruiters are under pressure to move fast, personalise outreach, and tell a story candidates believe in. But here’s the problem: recruiters don’t have the same tools that sales or marketing teams take for granted. I’m teaming up with Vouch to show how recruiters can finally cat

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep340 - A Psychologist Perspective on Candidate Feedback Oct 24, 2025 3966 A PSYCHOLOGISTS TAKE ON CANDIDATE FEEDBACK. Bad feedback - or no feedback - is perhaps the most common criticism by job candidates looking for work. Why is feedback important, and why do recruiters do this so badly? We're going to take the psychologists perspective one of the most persistent problems in our industry and see whether we can learn from a field of study outside of our own!

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep334 - Interviews Are Not Evaluating the Right Skills Oct 23, 2025 3346 INTERVIEWS AREN'T EVALUATING THE RIGHT SKILLS: INSIGHTS FROM ANALYSING 1,311 INTERVIEW LOOPS What is actually happening at interviews? It's the most critical part of any assessment process yet it is also the one which we know least about, not least because we've never had the means to really study them at scale. That is why this latest research from Harvard Business Review is so signi

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep339 - State of C Level Hiring - Annual ESIX Report 2025 Oct 19, 2025 3267 ANNUAL BENCHMARK REPORT 2025: CORPORATE EXECUTIVE SEARCH There probably isn't a recruitment function more shrouded in mystery than Corporate Exec Search! This is hiring for the function leaders who will make disproportionate impact on your organisations bottom line and often involves a high degree of discretion, especially as incumbent-in-place is a common scenario. For organisations

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep338 - Recruitment Agency 2028! Oct 10, 2025 3768 RECRUITMENT AGENCY: 2028! It's been an incredibly challenging 3 year period for the staffing agency market. Hostile de-globalisation, End of ZIRP, and the Rise of AI has prompted employers to radically rethinking their workforce requirements - and in the case of many of the highest paying sectors - finance, technology, consultancy - reduce absolute number of heads in order to do more with l

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