Brainfood on Tour - How to Hire in Indonesia in 2025 and beyond?   Indonesia has nearly 300 million people and therefore MUST have a huge amount of recruiting going on! And yet, it will come to no surprise to anyone that this is yet another country of which I am shamefully ignorant! Let’s talk to local recruiters and found out how exactly recruiters, employers and candidates interact in this incredible country. We’re going to learn: - What is the state of the economy in Indonesia in 2025? - What are the main strengths, main challenges to the economy here? - What sectors are the largest employers? - What is the competition for the top talent? - What defines top talent here? - How do candidates behave - what is the best channel of communication for first contact? - What is the education level of the general population? - What skills are most in-demand here? - Does Indonesia export talent / skills? If so, what? - Does Indonesia import talent / skills? If so, what? - What is the relationship employers have with recruitment agencies here? - How is the use of AI changing how companies recruit? - Are the island economies effectively separate? - How has the new capital impacted demand in Jakarta? - What are the 10 things a recruiter should know in order to become successful in Indonesia?   All this and more, on Tues 4th March, 11AM WIT   Click on here to follow the channel (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.

Hiring Insights Report 2025   One of the best value changes for Brainfood Live in 2025 is showcasing proprietary data from recruitment technology companies who are able to aggregate data on how TA teams actually behave. Join us for an exclusive webinar as we dive into the key findings from GoodTime’s 2025 Hiring Insights Report, including trends, challenges, and strategies shaping talent acquisition in 2025. Here’s what we’ll cover: The state of hiring in 2025

• Why TA teams only hit 47.9% of their hiring goals in 2024
• How time-to-hire increased for 60% of companies

Top hiring challenges revealed

• What’s causing interview scheduling bottlenecks
• The rise of competition in a shifting talent market

How AI and automation are changing the game

• How 93% of TA leaders plan to use tech to achieve hiring goals
• Real-world examples of smarter tools driving efficiency and better candidate experiences

And so many more actionable strategies for success in 2025. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights that can transform your hiring strategy and set your team up for success in 2025!     We are on Friday 28th February, 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm GMT   Register by clicking the green button and follow the channel here (recommended)     Ep294 is sponsored by our friends GoodTime   GoodTime supercharges your recruiting coordination team to schedule 2-10X more interviews and helps them become more efficient and error-free. Automated, intelligent and human-centric interview scheduling is the simplistic way to deliver impactful improvements on how your business recruits. Schedule a demo here  

INTRODUCING AI AGENT BY JUICEBOX   AI Agents promise to revolutionise the work of recruiting but early experiments with generic products like OpenAI Operator have shown there is still some way to go - humans still needed to oversee, correct and train, especially for the unique use case of finding other human beings as candidates for the jobs we're recruiting for.   It's time for the recruitment technology vendors to step up and fill this need!   David Paffenholz, CEO of Juicebox, the company behind the groundbreaking talent sourcing tool 'PeopleGPT', think they have got the first breakthrough AI Agent focused on the recruiting use case. Let's put him and the AI Agent to the test in this LIVE DEMO of the how the product (or is it now, 'colleague'?) works.   We will learn:   - What instructions does AI Agent need to carry out its tasks? - How does AI Agent identify candidates from natural language prompts? - What sources does AI Agent use to find candidates? - How does it ensure data currency? - Does AI Agent score or rank candidates? - What is the mechanism if so? - Can AI Agent conduct outreach? - Can AI Agent conduct prescreening? - What can AI Agent NOT currently do? - How does a company optimally use AI Agent? - What is the story with compliance, especially with anticipated transatlantic divergence on AI safety? - What else do we need to know before we deploy AI Agent??       We are on Wednesday 26th February, 7am PT / 3pm GMT     Register by clicking the green button and follow the channel here (recommended)     Ep294-a is sponsored by our friends PeopleGPT by Juicebox   PeopleGPT is the leading outbound recruiting platform built on Generative AI. Find talent across 30+ data sources, get interactive Talent Insights, and reach out with personalized AI email campaigns.   Key features include:  

• PeopleGPT (Search): the world’s first people search engine that uses natural language. Describe who you’re searching for and find the perfect match from over 30 data sources.
• Talent Insights: Visualize your talent pool with 15+ interactive charts. Refine your search and dive deep into stats based on location, employers, job titles, skills, and more.
• Email Outreach: Maximize candidate engagement with AI-powered email campaigns. Personalize messaging at scale using AI commands, and boost response rates by 40%.

  Get 15% off your Juicebox subscription with code: BRAINFOOD15   Trusted by 400+ companies including Scale AI, Mindbloom, and Patreon. Free trial available - try it now here

Brainfood on Tour - How to Hire in Singapore in 2025 and Beyond?   Friends, we’re always on the move and visiting local recruiter communities to find out how those folks here in their local territories. I am delighted to be visiting Singapore once again - the Mighty Mouse of SE Asia! One of the smallest countries by landmass, yet one of the economically most important, the city state has been a huge centre of financial innovation and a place where many MNC’s have operations. What is it like to hire for talent in Singapore?   We’re going to learn: - State of the Singapore Economy 2025 - Major challenges, major opportunities - Political environment - how does business feel about Lawrence Wong? - Economic plans from the Govt, what is the plan for employment / growth? - Demographics …where is Singapore getting the workforce? - Employment law…what do foreigners need to know about hiring in Singapore? - Local vs Ex-pat vs Immigrant - who hires who and how? - In-demand sectors - How do recruiters operate here? - Recruitment technology - who is using what? - Talent import / export …who is going, who is staying? - JB / Singapore economic zone…who big a deal? - What do Recruiters need to know to become successful in Singapore?   All this and more, on Weds 26th February, 930am local time.   Click on here to follow the channel (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.   See you all later this month!

Talent Trends: Recruiter Productivity 2025   Ashby produce some fantastic quarterly reports, taking information from their platform to better understand the behaviour of the recruiters in the market. Hot of the press with the latest report, we are going to take this session to deep dive into a topic we all need to care about in 2025 - Recruiter Productivity.   We will find out:   - What are the productivity benchmarks for recruiting in 2024? - Can we distinguish between how A+ performers behave compared to C- performers? - What are the most impactful changes TA teams can make when deciding to uplevel their productivity? - At individual level, what are the ways leaders can fairly measure performance? - Can we discern the impact of AI on recruiter activity? - Are there any sectors, regions, company types that seem to be most productive? - If so, what is transferrable from these to others?   All this and more, as we deep dive into the numbers, followed by panel discussion with Heads of TA!   We're with with Willem Wijnans, Community & Talent Advisory Lead (Ashby), Andrea Marston, Talent Acquisition Director (Nutanix), Alexa McWilliam, Global Head of Talent Acquisition (numa) & Andy Mountney, Global Head of Talent Acquisition (Chainlink)   We are on Friday 21st February, 2pm GMT   Register by clicking the green button and follow the channel here (recommended)     Ep293 is sponsored by our friends Ashby   Ashby is what an ATS should be: an integration of sourcing automation, AI-supported outreach sequencing, native interview scheduling, a searchable CRM, and advanced analytics – all in one ATS++ system. That means better data, less context switching, and more streamlined workflows. Chosen by over a thousand companies, including Quora, Docker, Ironclad, and Multiverse, Ashby stands out as the top-rated ATS on G2. It is renowned for its real-time and reliable reporting, the ability to centralize the entire hiring process, and unparalleled customer support.   Talent Trends Reports are freely available: Download the latest here

AI Agents in TA & HR Hype vs Reality?   Some people are saying that will be the year of the AI Agent - an advancement of AI where it crosses over from being an amazing tool to being a competent colleague. The Google Whitepaper shared in recruiting brainfood a few weeks ago was an outstanding introduction to the topic and we're going to use this session to deep dive into state of play when it comes to Agentic AI   You will learn what TA Leaders think about:   - What is Agentic AI? - Why is this a step change from 'normal AI'? - Do we have AI Agents currently out there in production? - In what fields or sectors: can we see one in action? - How are AI agents built? - What might be the use cases for Agentic AI in Recruitment? - How do we anticipate Agentic AI making an appearance in the workflow? - Are there any Agentic AI's operating in recruiting or HR right now? - What is the best thing that TA / HR should do in given what we know about Agentic AI?   All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Johannes Sundlo, People Director, (Avalanche Studios Group), Jessie Schofer, Founder (Stakkd), Simão Nogueira, Head of AI (Talent Protocol) & Jose Kadlec, Author (HR Robosapiens) - on Friday 14th Feb, 11.00am GMT   Follow the channel here (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.     Ep292 is sponsored by our friends Metaview   Metaview is the No #1 AI Scribe purpose-built for recruiting.   Now with Metaview Free Plan, there is no excuse not to have an AI interview note taker. If you want to improve your hiring efficiency in 2025 and NOT yet implemented an AI interview note taking tool, then there is no longer any excuse: Metaview Free is a zero cost opportunity to build efficiencies into your own workflow; Metaview are SO confident that you will see the value that you will want to get your whole team and hiring managers on it too.   Sign up for a demo here, or just get on with the free plan here.

State of Hiring - What Do 100 Talent Leaders Think for 2025?   Every year Willo put together a report from an in-depth survey of 100+ Heads of Talent. And every year Brainfood Live gets CEO Euan Cameron on screen to talk us through it. If you're a TA Leader who needs to benchmark what your peers are thinking, this show is for you:   You will learn what TA Leaders think about:   - Budget allocation in 2025 - Tech / Tools which are the priorities - TA upskilling, what are the skills gaps in the current Talent Acquisition set up - Hiring: what is the scale of hiring for TA, what skills / attributes are most important right now? - Compensation: what rates for which levels in TA - How does the TA structure look like 2024 vs 2025? - What is the degree of off shoring in team? - FTE vs Non-FTE in team - What even is the right size of a TA team?     All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're on Friday 7th Feb, 10am GMT   Follow the channel here (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.     Ep291 is sponsored by our friends Willo   Increasingly, recruiting for high-volume positions within a global, diverse workforce requires moving beyond traditional methods and the limitations of written CVs. Handling thousands of applications manually is not only exhausting and inefficient, it can prevent you from finding the talent your organization needs most to succeed.   The award-winning Willo team is transforming hiring with a dynamic candidate screening solution that users love, backed by an NPS score to prove it!   Their web-based, human-centric platform allows candidates to record responses to a predefined set of questions at their convenience. With over 5,000 secure integrations, Willo makes it easy to supercharge your recruitment process, reduce bias, and support diversity, equity, and inclusion goals—all while helping you tap into a larger, more exciting pool of global candidates.   Sign up at willo.video this month to get 10% off—just use the coupon code "brainfood”.   That's W-i-l-l-o dot video.

How to Hire in Malaysia in 2025   Brainfood On Tour is back on folks - we're now in Malaysia and its time to deep dive into this fascinating country made of many ethnicities, faiths and regions. A nation of 70 million people, Malaysia is a coming powerhouse of SE Asia region with huge economic potential   We will find out:   - What are the main things people need to know about hiring in Malaysia? - In economy, what are the most dynamic sectors? - What are the demographics looking like here? - What are the main government policies which employers need to be aware of when hiring in Malaysia? - Language & diversity: how do employers navigate this? - What are the main qualities of a great recruiter for the Malaysia market? - What tools / technologies are important for the recruiter community here? - How does one find out more about how to hire in Malaysia?   All this and more as we deep dive into what makes the Malaysia recruitment market tick!   We're with Ian Turnpenny Andrei Perevalov, Head of People Ops (Virtual Internships) , Elena Argyriou, Head of People & Culture (SnappyMob), Rodica Belocosov, VP of People (MoneyLion), Sam Baxendale, CEO (Kinetik) & friends     And on Friday 7th February, 12pm KUL   Register by clicking the green button and follow the channel here (recommended)

Talent Insights for 2025 from 1000 CHRO's   Nobody doubts this 2025 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for how businesses organise. Transformational breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence, rapid remodelling of organisation structure, requirement for re-skilling and re-deployment, almost every job will be impacted. How do CHRO's think about this year, and what do they see as the priorities?   - Demographics of respondents - Priorities: talent acquisition, talent density, talent retention? - Technology & tools - Budget allocation, where is it going in 2025? - Non-FTE vs FTE - DEIB: is HR under attack? And if so what do we need to do about it? - Generational differences in the workforce - Impact of AI in the job market - Has it changed your source of hire?   All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. Greenhouse Co-founder Jon Stross with run us through the results. We're on Friday 31st Jan, 2pm GMT   Follow the channel here (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.     Ep290 is sponsored by our friends Greenhouse        

How to Hire in India in 2025   Brainfood On Tour is back for another season! I am delighted to back in India - for the first time since before Covid. This is one of the most diverse, vibrant, populous and important countries in the world - and potentially one of the major engines of economic growth for the future. Let's find out what it is like to hire in India!   We will find out:   - What are the main things people need to know about hiring in India? - In economy, what are the most dynamic sectors? - How do employers plan for the talent surplus that India consistently produces? - What are the main government policies which employers need to be aware of when hiring in India? - Language & diversity: how do employers navigate this? - What are the main qualities of a great recruiter for the India market? - What tools / technologies are important for the recruiter community here? - How does one find out more about how to hire in India?   All this and more as we deep dive into what makes the India recruitment market tick!   We're with with Bharath C, Senior Manager Talent Acquisition (Ultraviolette Automotive), AK Menon, Director (Options Exec Search), Ridhi Malhotra, Demand Generation, Deepa Joshi, Head of Talent Acquisition (Novonesis) & friends   And on Tuesday 28th January, 12pm IST   Register by clicking the green button and follow the channel here (recommended)

Req Load: How Much is Too Much Per Recruiter in the Age of AI?   If Artificial Intelligence going to make recruiters hyper productive, how many requirements can we now expect to manage? There's no question that this question is going to be on the mind of CEO's going into 2025. Whilst we CAN expect some increase in req load, how much is too much?   In this session, we are going to discuss the variables which go into calculating requirements per recruiter, and how to explain that numbers don't capture everything a recruiter does.   - Volume of roles - Number of repeats - Complexity of hire - Availability of talent - Condition of employer branding - are we an attractive employer? - Calibre of current team - EVP - Tools / techniques - do we even have a LinkedIn Recruiter license (jk) - Impact of DEIB, are we invested and committed? - Hiring philosophy: open hiring, skills based hiring, traditional hiring? - Structure of organisation - Regional variance - Functional variance.   All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air. We're with Matthias Schmeisser, Head of Talent, (Emnify), Mark Deubels, TA Leader (Synthesia), Oksana Strippentow, Head of Talent (ex-Mangopay) & Mary Kay Baldino, Head of Talent Acquisition (Morningstar)   We're on Friday 24th Jan, 2pm GMT   Follow the channel here (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.     Ep289 is sponsored by our friends BrightHire   BrightHire's market-leading Interview Intelligence platform powers hiring for game-changing companies like Canva, Ramp, Rippling, Multiverse, Vercel, and 000s more.   Not just another notetaking tool, BrightHire's platform transforms hiring quality and efficiency with AI that builds exceptional hiring plans, automates interview notes, improves decision-making, drives interview consistency, and delivers powerful talent insights. And they've just completed an independent 3rd party AI bias audit – a first in the Interview Intelligence category.   Learn more at BrightHire.com, and find out why companies from the most disruptive AI platforms in the world to the Fortune 100 trust BrightHire to transform their hiring with powerful, responsible AI.   Learn more