NO LINKEDIN X-RAY? WHAT NEXT?   The sourcing community has been monitoring the changes on LinkedIn, particularly on the availability of public data to search engines. 2 months since the news first broke that 'LinkedIn X Ray is dead', what is the latest from the front lines of the sourcing world. And...if LinkedIn X-Ray IS on its last legs, what does that mean for people aggregators, data enrichers and the like?   - Latest on LinkedIn X-Ray - update - Implications for recruiters, more upgrades to LinkedIn Recruiter? - Implications for sourcing for diversity...good or bad? - Implicatio ..read more

DATA OR ADS: FUTURE OF JOB BOARD ADVERTISING IN THE ERA OF GENERATIVE AI   Job Boards are going through a moment. What had felt like a clear progression of business model towards Pay-Per-Applicant, is now changing in the era of GenAI, especially with the AI-enabled job candidate conducting mass apply. Opportunities and risks have both increased for the job board vendors, and the decisions that these players make will have downstream impact on the sort of services employers and job seekers alike can expect.   What is the state of job board advertising in 2024? What do we expect to see ..read more

SKILL BASED ORGANISATION: REALITY VS RHETORIC?   The consensus in the industry is that Skill Based Hiring and Skill Based Organisation is the way forward for the next generation of future fit organisations, but what does successful implementation actually look like? We're beginning to see the emergence of a debate on the wisdom and practicality of the idea - can it even be done?   Join us, as we discuss the issue from different points of view from the TA Leadership community   - Definitions: What is Skill Based Hiring? - Isn't this just ignoring credentials on the CV? - Isn't th ..read more

HOW TO PULL OFF A GLOBAL TA ORG RESTRUCTURE   The post 2021 drive for optimisation has led to a global wave of organisation restructuring, as every department, in every company, probably in every country comes to terms with a world of high interest rates, slowing growth, tougher margins and ever increasing volatility.   How have multinational TA teams responded, and reorganised?   - What prompted the decision to reorg? - How long a run way do you need to even think about this?? - What are the most important elements of a successful reorganisation? - Bundling and unbundling jobs ..read more

WHAT DO DEVELOPERS WANT? SKILLS & SENTIMENT REPORT 2024   One of the annual must read reports in the recruiting industry is the HackerRank's Developer Skills Report. With huge changes in the skills make up of the software developer workforce of tomorrow, we need to review what kind of skills developers care about, are getting good at and are letting go as the future leaves them behind.   Who better to talk us through the insights than Vivek Ravisankar and Juan Herrera, the senior hombres of HackerRank. Millions of data points from developer behaviour on the platform, as well as 5 ..read more

FUTURE OF WORK: TALENT ACQUISITION...NOT INVITED?   Talent Acquisition has long fought a battle for a 'seat at the table' when the big decisions are made about the future of an organisation but we really need to come to that table with unique perspective, value and confidence.   With the era of Generative AI already upon us, let's do a sense check on where Talent Acquisition is when conversations about the future shape of an organisation takes place.   - Do we know what the CEO vision of an AI-enabled company looks like? - Do we know what the CFO vision is? - Do we understand ho ..read more

TALENT TRENDS REPORT: SOURCING IN 2024   Sourcing has returned to being a hot topic in 2024 in light of the recent restrictions on Linkedin data which may be significantly altered the efficacy of previously reliable sourcing techniques. We've had the expert sourcing view - lets now look at what data can tell us as CRM / ATS provider Ashby takes a deep dive on actual recruiter behaviour on their platform .   Find out about:   - Outreach volume change over time - Candidate response rates to recruiter outreach - segmented regionally, sectionally, chronologically - Ideal message len ..read more

The State of Hiring Market Intelligence Report 2024   Continuing with our theme of showcasing companies who are conducting research valuable to the recruiting community, today we focus on the work our friends at Willo have done over the past year, surveying customers on hiring trends from AI, remote work, candidate experience and focus for 2024.   Find out what other TA, HR and Senior level execs are saying about:   - Headcount growth for 2024 - Role of AI in recruiter enablement - Remote & Flexible working relationship to talent attraction - The balance between recruiting a ..read more

The State of Background Screening Compliance 2024   Checkr have released the definitive research piece on the State of Background Screening Compliance and we will use this week's Brainfood Live On Air to interview Su-Han Wang, Managing Litigation & Compliance Counsel at Checkr to better understand:   what percentage of US employers are compliant with Federal regulations on background screening which segments / states are most / least compliant what are the potential hazards for employers who are out of compliance how realistic are these scenarios, and what degree of virulence? w ..read more

LINKEDIN X-RAY: DEAD OR DYING OR WHAT?   Using a search engine to 'X-ray' an ostensibly closed social network is the quintessential activity of a sourcer. You could probably argue that the entire sourcing discipline emerged as a result of recruiters discovering sophisticated ways to interrogate a system to retrieve information about potential candidates.   Consequently, the news that LinkedIn had begun to suppress important biographical data from being crawled by search engines (especially Google) brought alarm to the entire recruiting community.   We need to come to the bottom ..read more