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This week on TRF we cover: 7 weeks to TATech, Should Serge wear a Bond Tux to MC the event at the International Spy Museum in Washington? Fun private client and friends dinner event with @Plum and coming up. In The News HiBob launches Bob Hiring Pandlogic and Broadbean become Veritone Hire Try getting a candidate to move cities when they're on a low rate mortgage? The data is showing that's it's nearly impossible. Kenya cracking down on recruitment agencies scamming job seekers Tip of The Week (Brought to you by Plum) We're not a "family" I think Netflix got it right: it's a professional team. One where colleagues earn a spot by being really good in their given position. Recruiting insights (Brought to you by Metova) CEO's turnover is huge right now, hitting a record high last year Which candidate attraction channels work best, we dig in HR has a lot of work to do for skills based hiring to succeed.

This week on TRF we cover: Blink and we missed it. From our part of the world, there wasn't much fanfare over the solar eclipse.  Fama’s newest product inspired a #MagiOfFit on several channels and gave us a chance to share how hiring the right fit will raise everyone’s game. Leah Sobering was Shelley’s Instant Fit. In the News Angela Hood named by Inc. as 106 out of the 250 top female founders. Big round of applause for Angela and This Way Global.  Canada’s unemployment rate jumps to 6.1% in March, yet the job numbers remain flat. US Economists are still shaking their heads as 303,000 jobs were added in March plus the unemployment rate edged down to 3.8% 109 young men for every 100 young women in Canada giving us the widest gap in nearly 50 years. Our liberal immigration policy is a key factor.  Tip of the Week The less talking from the recruiter, the better the interview. Favourite interview question: When were you happiest at work? What were you working on?  Your only job is to listen. Recruiting Insight New catch phrase alert: The Great Talent Grab. ZipRecruiter survey reveals incredible growth of new hires reporting they were recruited in. Speculation on why? VP of HR claims she was not moved forward in the hiring process because of her natural appearance, no make-up.  Internal mobility is a belief that the best new talent are those who already work for you. Hiring Managers struggle to get on board with letting their top performers move internally.

This week on TRF we cover: Will Serge jump 829ft into the Las Vegas Skyline? In the News Statistics Canada says population growth rate in 2023 was highest since 1957 Indeed Launches Smart Sourcing tool Employ names Steve Cox as CEO LinkedIn testing new TikTok style video feed. Tip of the Week To determine a candidate’s level of business acumen, simply ask: “How does the company you last worked for make money?” Recruiting Insights A recent survey with over 11,000 participants calls out there's still a "Boys Club" in recruitment. Zuck putting on his recruitment hat on to go after AI talent Automation in recruitment ‘humiliates and alienates young people’

This week on TRF we cover: When your Linked In post gets hi-jacked, it can be a complement or just annoying. What was Barry thinking, his //bit.ly would create an avalanche of qualified candidates? Congrats to one of the OG's of HR podcasting, Matt Alder hits 600 episodes.  In the news Federal minimum wage in Canada jumps to $17.30. Sad to see the US federal minimum wage still sits at $7.25 per hour. Realtors in the US are facing some drastic changes that will hit their commissions. There should be an app for this! No one ever felt good about paying $25,000 to someone for selling their biggest investment - your home.  NASA vs SpaceX. It all comes down to hiring and perhaps keeping costs in line. Consider their spending habits over the last 10 years, NASA clocked in at $21.2 BILLION and SpaceX at $500-750 million.  Tip of the Week Recruiters being interviewed by a Recruiter for a recruiting role, feels like jedi mind trick. Showing up isn't what you wear, it's asking great questions.  Recruiting Insights Glassdoor controversy this week. Adding the Fishbowl means you give your identifying information sparks fear into the hearts of some users that employers will someone find you out for the nasty review you left.  Global Trends Report 2024 from HireVue uses an impressive survey size of 6,000 leaders. 2 things stood out, skills based hiring to identify transferable skills and getting comfortable with using AI. Boomerang employees have risen by more than 30% since Covid with half of them returning within 2 years of leaving.

This week on TRF we cover: Love the new car smell. Car manufacturers offer fewer options in the post chip shortage car buying market.   Just a little FOMO about Transform held in Las Vegas last week. DuoLingo wins the top spot for employer brand.  In the News Paradox names Adam Godson as the new CEO. Big congratulations to Adam who started his career as an HR professional and climbed all the way to the top! Employers are optimistic about hiring according to the Q2 US net employment outlook.  Clear winners in revenue increases are Upwork and Fivvr as the traditional job board world all report losses.  Tip of the Week The flat boring resume dates back to the 1930’s - its time to up our game with more visual documents from the likes of Canva and Enhancv.  Recruiting Insights With all the concerns of AI threatening to replace workers, we review the list of Top 5’s. Blue collar and white collar jobs that are AI-Proof. Video continues to dominate with over 80% of global internet traffic. TikTok has become the goto platform for younger demographics who crave unique and entertaining ways to communicate your employer brand.  2024 Edelman Trust Barometer global report proves the power of the Influencer is equal to the trust we have in scientists for telling the truth!

This week on TRF we cover: HiringBranch challenged Shelley’s 30 years of recruiting experience against their AI tool, Serge believes the Robot won. Vastly different responses to a Hotel fire alarm at midnight.  The twins turn 5 - HBD! In the news Canada’s economy added 41,000 jobs and unemployment rose to 5.8% TikTok ban in the US - Influencers & content provider are panicked. 42% of companies with RTO mandates have higher turnover than expected. Tip Of The Week Nurture your relationship with Hiring Managers, prepare for your intake meeting with data such as: Time to Find, Time to Engage, Competitors recruiting for the same role to have meaningful conversations and set realistic expectations. Recruiting Insights OpenAI’s ChatGPT dream solution or opening up a nightmare? Is it even legal? Singing their own praises, Coinbase CEO and COO now must approve every hire. We debate the claim of being ground breaking.

Happy International Women’s Day!  After several attempts to invite women leaders in TA to be a guest on the podcast, we are asking for your help. Please send us nominations or referrals, we promise it will be fun! In the News Vice.com lays off employees on a town hall zoom call with no preparation and a 2019 understanding of zoom features, like how to disable the emoji feature.  Taking a page out of her own playbook as a Product Manager, Marta Puerto’s video goes viral on Linked In. Tip of the Week The resourceful recruiter, follow layoff trackers and strict return to office mandates to know where talent will be more likely to depart.   https://www.warntracker.com/ https://talentedgeweekly.com/p/talent-edge-weekly-issue-226 Recruiting Insight LazyApply lives up to its name. Aki Ito test drives the bot who will apply for 750 jobs a day for you. It will be chaos for recruiters and for Aki Ito too! EY sets the pace for how to nurture a talent pool, by using their rejection email. Recruiting 101, exhaust the local market first before you undertake the expensive and time consuming task of relocation, immigration and 8 weeks to start.

This week on TRF we cover: Hear what Serge did with a room of over 100 Recruiters at the Canadian Recruiters Networking Group. All good fun. Tim Sackett composes a hilarious list of HR’s results of Dating at Work, there is always truth in jest.  Events March 11 Hiring Branch presents, Demystifying Ai and Skills Based Hiring Workshop; send us a DM if you are interested! June 6-9 TA Tech Conference in Washington, DC where we will be the MC’s! In the News Big acquisitions going down this week, Workday acquires HiredScore and Deel acquires Zavvy.  Canada picks up the pace on post-graduation work permits offering Masters and PhD graduate 3 years to work and hopefully stay. Tip of the Week Saying NO is a good thing. Never leave candidates hanging, if they are not getting the job, we have a responsibility and professional courtesy to let them know. Recruiting Insights Harvard & Burning Glass Institute release their findings on the impact of removing degree requirements in job postings. We highlight their key findings.  Centralized vs Decentralized - the Global Candidate Experience Benchmark Report; we deep dive into what TA Teams from around the world are doing and how they are changing.

This week on TRF we cover: We may need to call for a security escort after Serge presents at the CRNG event in Calgary. On one hand for the riots that may ensue and on the other hand, the ladies who will be storming the stage.  Work assignments gone wild. We rip into Eight Sleep for thinking getting hired by them is like an audition for SNL - Saturday Night Live is notorious for stealing comic’s material in their auditions.  In The News Air Canada tries to blame their own chatbot for giving out the wrong information to a customer. The ruling was watched around the world and is a clear indication that companies will be held accountable for their rogue chatbots! Indeed will be the headline partner for RecFest UK and RecFest USA. A little late to the party but the wallet is open. CRA clarifies how employers must determine the province of employment for remote workers. Tip Of The Week If your interview process is greater than 3, take this as your warning, the company you are recruiting for is dysfunctional . Recruiting Insights Mercer gives us the measuring stick for how big your TA team should be.  We arent making this up, job search is rigged. We pull back the covers on how companies are behaving badly.

This week on TRF: Research takes on a whole new meaning as Serge prepped for co-hosting on the Chad & Cheese podcast.  Famous by 8, Mallory gets a big round of applause and a Taylor Swift hoodie. Lucky 13 and the power of Swifty nation dominated social media speculation after the Super Bowl.  In the News PLUM.io shares positive news GenZ and not Baby Boomers are most afraid of AI, some fatherly advice from Serge to GenZ. Bell Canada cuts 4,800 job even when they had revenue growth in Q4/23, there is more to this headline Tip of the Week Reverse engineer your TA metrics. Define the problem first, then the metrics.  Recruiting Insights Chocolate for TA Professionals, the Appcast 2024 Recruitment Benchmark Report. Interesting facts:  Mobile applications are still dominate yet they drop by 5% in 2023 Job titles need to be short & straight forward Job seeker action picked up with higher apply rates Recruiting costs declined across all job functions EXCEPT gig Career change or industries to pursue in recruitment, we list the top 10 Quality of Hire, don't give up yet, just take a simple approach. One job at a time.

This week on The Recruitment Flex we have a special guest co-host Deanna Brousseau as Shelley is travelling somewhere (maybe a hedonism island?!) We Cover: Super Bowl predictions and over/under of 12 on Taylor Swift cutaways In The News Google Job Ads gets killed before even being born 4 Million Canadians have a criminal record, a lot of them can't find a job Tip of the Week How to spot a toxic environment, hopefully you're not recruiting in one! Recruiting insights: Should you give directions to job seekers to what is acceptable Generative AI usage in your hiring process? Sometimes not recruiting is the best recruiting! Bonus: Listen to Chad & Cheese Podcast out Friday as Serge will try to fill Chad's shoes!

This week on TRF we cover: Riots in the streets of Calgary! The little bylaw was not very well thought out. In the News Remote workers face the cold facts, they are 35% higher risk of being laid off. Salesforce joins the flood of tech industry lay offs UPS cuts management and contractors in a bid to save $1BB in costs, that is out of the $100BB in sales in 2022 In happier news, the global online recruitment market is set to reach $49.2 BB by 2030 Tip of the Week 3 simple things to improve your job ads.  Shorten your sentences 3 bullet points max! Pay attention to the words you use. “Demonstrated ability” means different things to older workers than it does to younger workers Recruiting Insights  Linked In XRay search options, including key fields like job title will have an impact on sourcing tools. SeekOut and hireEZ have a work around. More on skills based hiring. When 46% of workers say their formal qualifications are not relevant to what they are doing in their current job. You need to ask yourself why the fixation on that bachelor’s degree. Bigger isn't better. 85% of mid-sized companies reported ZERO layoffs last year.

This week on TRF we cover: Shelley is on the list of the Top 24 HR Influencers to Watch in 2024 and gives credit where it’s due! Our LinkedIn feeds are full of our friends and followers getting new gigs! Lots of movement and it's only the 3rd week in January.  In the News Tech darlings Meta, HubSpot and Google loose their top spots on Glassdoors’s list of Best Places to work Watch the TikTok video of Brittany Pietsch getting let go and weigh in. Is she someone you’d want on your sales team? Tip of the Week Get your copy of the Interviewers Cheat Sheet for 2024. Recruiting Insights Appcast 2024 Top Recruiting Trends Revoking a job offer, lying during the interview process is reason enough?  Our first disagreement of the year, please comment!

This week on TRF we cover: Big thanks for our listeners who participated in our little survey. Some great suggestions that we will incorporate into the show! In The News: The US labour market is still chugging along with a 3.7% unemployment rate and 216,000 new jobs added in December.  217% increase in the number of Canadian employers using apprenticeships to fill the labour and skills shortage, all in the SMB sized companies. Tip of the Week Volunteer. Never loose sight of what it feels like to be a job seeker. Supporting a job seeker with tips and advice is looks good on you! Recruiting Insights Explaining pay policy to employees and to job seekers is art and science, well its math actually. Only 38% of HR pros surveyed felt they could effectively explain it to their managers.  Hiring the wrong person is expensive and deflating is not news to any of us. Mastering the intake to get the job description right is key. Gartner research predicts 50% of consumers will limit their interactions on social media by 2025 We see this as an early warning sign in recruitment advertising

This week on TRF we cover: The holidays are best with little people. Seeing how excited and happy they are to unwrap gifts is precious.  Some omens of the year to come based on how NYE was celebrated.  In the News Know when to stop talking is our advice to Wayfair’s CEO  Elite athletes and CEO’s get paid top dollar - also known as pay for performance, we wont get on the bandwagon to envy their success  Prediction from 2023 came true. Unionized workers flexed their muscles and took job action in many sectors New employment related laws in Canada coming into effect in 2024 Tip of the Week Flakes or Catalysts - great recruiters can identify candidates who are intelligent, intuitive, move fast and burn out quick and ensure Leaders know how to get the best from them. Recruiting Insights The evolution of DEI and why it may be losing steam in 2024 Deloitte’s feature on how IKEA’s leverage AI to the benefit of 10,000 staff members KPMG’s Future Workplace survey confirms what we all were sensing, fully remote work drops to 1%

TRF The year in review and predictions for 2024 How good were last year’s predictions? Serge gets a standing ovation for his prediction from last December, ChatGPT and AI rocked the world. Although YouTube shorts did not clobber TikTok, we are seeing a drop in use among teenagers. Surprises in 2023 The swing from employee to employer market was quick. Pay transparency law in British Columbia was passed adn now in effect Joel Lalgee becomes a star! Predictions for 2024 Wager from Shelley Assessments will be all the rage! Skyrocketing in popularity will be the likes PLUM.io, Hiring Branch, HackerRank.  A Linked In developer will harness AI to enable meaningful data mining on the platform & solve job matching Wager from Serge  Quick Apply / Easy apply for jobs becomes obsolete Recruit Holdings buys ZipRecruiter One major employer will eliminate the old school recruiter role

This week on TRF we cover: Shelley’s first born, Chandler defended his thesis and passed! Being a stand up comedian came in handy, the ability to handle hecklers or disruption when presenting, is a skill well earned on stage.  Global News Calgary anchor person Leslie Horton claps back at a rude email, making her internet famous for the 3rd time.  In the News Spotify’s third round of layoffs this year. Watching the giants start to fall this year as IBM, Google & Meta have all made significant reductions in staff this year.  Job Scams are up 250% compared to this time last year. Tip of the Week Dress for the job you want! Video interviews allow us to dress up the top half and not worry about the rest. Internal promotion or a new job, dress for success never goes out of style.  Recruiting insights AI training is in such high demand, employers can't find people with the skills they need. IBM and AWS have committed to providing over 4 million people with free AI education!  Skills based hiring is trending in popularity. The focus is shifting from things like formal education and a list of duties to the skills needed. In the US this year, 41.6% of US job postings dont list qualifications.  Got a beef with BDI? It's so outdated. Move to structured interviews. Ask interview questions to determine if someone has the skills needed to do the job.

This week on TRF we cover: Another trip, another band - Shelley and Brook are off to see The 1975 Serge must protest as the lead singer is now on Taylor Swift's long list of x-lovers. In the News    Elon cant help himself, throwing daggers at Linked In as X tries their hand at being a job board  Union Drama Queen gets in a snit over TFWs coming to build an EV battery plant in Windsor ON; he seems to think Canada has an extra 1600 unemployed technical experts just sitting on their hands. Easier said than done, using express entry to fill the huge demand for Truck drivers in an industry that is rotten with bad actors like Driver Inc. Tip of the Week Recruiters looking for a recession proof industry to specialize in? Start building a talent pool of electricians.  Recruiting Insights The best 2 places to start on your recruitment marketing journey. Google Analytics will give you a solid understanding of traffic and using Tableau to dashboard your analytics.  The 12 system features to look for in an ATS, our top picks are integration, user friendly interface and bonus points for pre-boarding and on-boarding features. A positive outlook for 2024. Employ survey says 61% of TA Leaders see increased budgets next year.

This week on TRF we cover: Like politics and religion, no one agrees on music. If you want to keep the peace, don't debate someone’s taste in music.  Mentoring with The Forum, Shelley is excited to give back to Women entrepreneurs who are early in their journey.  In the news HOT TAKES on the drama unfolding at OpenAI.  Tip of the Week Open Hiring is an honest solution when considering your entire workforce. No one size fits all when it comes to interview or not to interview before hiring.  Recruiting Insights Forrester’s predictions for 2024 with AI maturing on the employer side and applicant side. Grab the popcorn and watch which big name firm will be the first to hire a non-existant candidate Wyndham Hotels & Resorts put AI to good and ethical use.  New hires keep looking. In fact 6 months into a new job almost 40% are planning their escape. An easy fix is onboarding.  Growth by acquisition works well, so long as there is a solid plan in place to merge the new people into the company.  No connection between an employee’s age and their remote work preference. Survey says, consider the nature of the role and individual preferences. Sounds like management’s worst nightmare.

This week on TRF We cover: Refreshed and tanned, Serge shares his skin care secrets and the live free or die culture that is Florida.  In the News Apple pulls a fast one on Immigration and pays the price, is $25 million enough?  Not falling for the drama around Christmas hiring, let’s unpack the reality. ZipRecruiter and Indeed feel the drop in paid advertising again in their quarterly results. Ontario is on top of the bad actors in the staffing industry by requiring licenses and guarantees.  BC boldly goes where other provinces will follow, as of November 1 all employers must post pay ranges.  Tip Of The Week Recruiting events and how to get the most out of participating - should you choose to participate - be intentional.  Recruiting Insights A Tech Recruiter for Meta does the humble brag on why it's so easy to attract talent, starting with their perks.  Hiring strategy - applications vs sourcing. We are no further ahead after all this time and effort to build a candidate pipeline.  Recruiter skills for 2024, some are classic along with a few new ones. Cultural Intelligence makes the list.