Best BrainFood Podcasts (2024)

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep260 - Future of Job Boards & Job Board Advertising (Part Deux) 1:07:59

10h ago1:07:59

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FUTURE OF JOB BOARDS & JOB ADVERTISING (PART DEUX) The best Brainfood Lives always leave more to be said. Ep254 set new standards for intellectual horsepower, as we discussed GenAI impact on the future of job boards and job advertising. We had such great feedback that we had to bring the crew back to follow up, this time taking things a step furthe…

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192. Brian DePalma's 'Scarface' (1983) 1:37:20

7h ago1:37:20

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Say hello to my little podcast about Brian DePalma and Oliver Stone's 1983 Cocainesterpiece, 'Scarface'.By Meetinghousetv.com

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Founders Focus - Ep44 - Up close and personal with Max Armbruster, CEO of Talkpush 1:00:52

15m ago1:00:52

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Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today. Next up on is one of brainfood's oldest buddies, Max Armbruster, CEO of Talkpush. If you've ever met Max you'd know about it - a unique, effervescent character whose passion for tech and recruitment is matched only by his…

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191. 'Scarface' (1932) 1:07:48

14h ago1:07:48

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Before I get to Oliver Stone and Brian DePalma's 1983 Miami-set remake of 'Scarface'...here's a background episode about the 1932 'Scarface', written by Ben Hecht and directed by Howard Hawks, the Steven Spielberg of the 1930's and 40's. From that still-vital, seminal gangster film, I also found my way to some others: Little Caesar is a 1931 Americ…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep259 - Expanding Scope from Talent Acquisition to Talent Everything 1:09:04

12d ago1:09:04

1:09:04

EXPANDING SCOPE: FROM TALENT ACQUISITION TO TALENT EVERYTHING Talent Acquisition has spent the past two decades attempting to create an identity distinct from HR....was this mistake, and do we now need to discreetly reverse course?? Apologies for the provocation but I suspect this is more or less what we NEED to be doing, especially as the employer…

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190. The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (1976) 1:07:53

9d ago1:07:53

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One of the stranger and most poorly-marketed films of the 70's is Nicholas Gessner's adaptation of Laird Koenig's 1974 novel 'The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane'. Far from the horror film the poster and trailer tried to sell audiences on, it's instead an unsettling but realistic portrait of a young girl in an uncertain situation, and a film th…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep258 - Programmatic Job Advertising - A Masterclass 1:06:35

14d ago1:06:35

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PROGRAMMATIC JOB ADVERTISING: THE MASTERCLASS I am convinced that programmatic job advertising will become a necessity for the employers hiring at any kind of scale. Applicant overflow will become untenable without automated system which can respond to flow rate by either increasing or decreasing the visibility of the advert. And yet the solutions …

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189. Yacht Rock Spectacular! 1:40:06

20d ago1:40:06

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It's almost Memorial Day Weekend in the States and that means it's time for Yacht Rock! The term didn't exist before the 2005 web series of the same name was written, directed, and produced by J. D. Ryznar, David Lyons, Hunter D. Stair, and Lane Farnham. You can revisit their highly specific genius here. Before that, music of the type we now refer …

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Founders Focus - Ep43 - Up close and personal with Reiner Bruns, CTO Scotty AI 1:04:23

17d ago1:04:23

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Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Scotty AI is a technology business where the market has finally caught up with the vision. Their pioneering software provides the sort of automation of workflow which recruiters have been screaming out for, especially in t…

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188. Dead & Company @ the Sphere Las Vegas, Night Three 1:17:44

25d ago1:17:44

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Some thoughts on gratitude and appreciation, and a few anecdotes about how quickly humans go from wide-eyed wonder and astonishment to entitled self-centered expectations, drawn from my three-concert experiences during Dead & Company's recent inaugural stint at MSG's groundbreaking new concert and film venue, Sphere Las Vegas.…

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187. Dead & Company @ the Sphere Las Vegas, Night Two 42:01

28d ago42:01

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OK so today in Las Vegas I learned it's "Sphere" and not "The Sphere". And we're back recording for posterity impressions of the 2nd night of the inaugural 3-show residency kick-off for Dead & Company at Sphere Las Vegas.By Meetinghousetv.com

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep257 - Recruitment Automation Tips You Can Do Right Now 1:29:06

21d ago1:29:06

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RECRUITMENT AUTOMATION TIPS YOU CAN DO RIGHT AWAY As the case studies accumulate, we are beginning to see the outline of what an AI-enabled recruiter looks like: it is indeed x10 more productive, perhaps even x100 more productive in certain tasks and functions. It's time to stop watching folks, and time to start doing. - Examples of Recruitment Aut…

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186. Dead & Company @ the Sphere Las Vegas, Night One 43:40

24d ago43:40

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Some thoughts on an extraordinary in-person collective entertainment experience...remember those??By Meetinghousetv.com

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Founders Focus - Ep42 - Up close and personal with Tycho van Paassen, Co-founder, VONQ 1:00:51

23d ago1:00:51

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Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today VONQ has been one of the recruitment technology providers who have undergirded the recruitment advertising eco-system, often in a way unknown to recruiters at the operations side of the business. What a better opportunity …

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep256 - How To Set Up a Recruitment Analytics Dashboard 1:06:52

29d ago1:06:52

1:06:52

HOW TO SET UP A RECRUITMENT ANALYTICS DASHBOARD Having strong analytics is critical to increasing the degree of your hiring success. Much more challenging is how best to set up a dashboard which works best for your organisation and your needs. We're going to get some expert advice from talent leaders whose speciality is enabling organisations to ha…

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185. The Women of 'Blade Runner 2049' 2:10:18

1M ago2:10:18

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The female actors of 'Blade Runner 2049' are a huge part of the brilliance of Denis Villenueve's 2017 sequel to Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner'. They bring to life such wonderfully complicated, original, genre-bending, emotionally resonant, funny, and strong characters. In this special episode of the podcast, I take a look at all of the scenes featur…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep255 - No LinkedIn X-Ray - What Next? 1:03:03

1M ago1:03:03

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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 …

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184. 'Dune 2' 56:30

2M ago56:30

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Denis Villenueve's masterpiece 2nd part of his 'Dune' trilogy.By Meetinghousetv.com

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep254 - Data or Ads? Future of Job Board Advertising in the Era of GenAI 1:13:49

2M ago1:13:49

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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 t…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep253 - Skill Based Hiring - Rhetoric or Reality? 1:14:19

2M ago1:14:19

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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 th…

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183. 'Get Shorty' (1995) 1:06:58

2M ago1:06:58

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Barry Sonnenfeld and Scott Frank's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1990 crime novel 'Get Shorty' was the 2nd film that John Travolta made after returning to top stardom with a bang in Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction'. This vibe-y, enjoyable, smartly-written and brilliantly-acted mid-90's example of the $20-30 million-dollar studio movie that now seems lik…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep252 - How To Pull Off a Global TA Restructure 1:05:38

2M ago1:05:38

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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 …

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep251 - Innovation in High Volume Hiring - Faster, Better, Cheaper? 1:01:59

3M ago1:01:59

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HIGH VOLUME HIRING: FASTER, BETTER, CHEAPER? Recruitment optimisation gets more serious at scale. 1% efficiency improvement means a lot more when you're hiring for 10,000 people vs hiring for 100. What can we learn from high volume hirers when it comes to increasing efficiency? - Why radical solutions are required- How to determine where gains can …

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep250 - Developer Skills Report 2024 1:03:44

3M ago1:03:44

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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 …

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182. 'Sunset Boulevard' (1950) with Special Guest Brad Caleb Kane 1:26:06

3M ago1:26:06

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I'm joined again by multi-hyphenate Brad Caleb Kane for a discussion about Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett's iconic 1950 satirical noir Hollywood cautionary tale 'Sunset Boulevard' and various other digressions!By Meetinghousetv.com

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep249 - Future of Work - Talent Acquisition - Not Invited? 1:13:24

3M ago1:13:24

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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 w…

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181. All of Brad Pitt's Cliff Booth Scenes from 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' 1:59:30

3M ago1:59:30

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The second in my growing collection of episodes devoted to 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'...this time it's an episode celebrating all the brilliant Cliff Booth scenes...scenes representing some of Brad Pitt's finest acting to date and the heart and soul of Tarantino's greatest homage to the Hollywood of his youth.…

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180. Oscars 2024 Recap 36:24

3M ago36:24

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It's my annual Oscar Recap. And Killers of the Flower Moon wuz robbed!By Meetinghousetv.com

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep248 - Talent Trends Report 2024 - Sourcing & Engagement 53:22

3M ago53:22

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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 dee…

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179. All of Leonardo Dicaprio's Rick Dalton Scenes from 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' 1:35:35

3M ago1:35:35

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All of Leonardo DiCaprio's scenes as Rick Dalton in Quentin Tarantino's movie-making love-letter 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' If you're new to the podcast, there's an episode just for you. Previous All Their Scenes episodes: Phillip Seymour Hoffman in 'Charlie Wilson's War' Michael Keaton in 'Jackie Brown' and 'Out of Sight' as Special Agent Ray…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep247 - State of Hiring Report Market Intelligence 2024 1:03:16

3M ago1:03:16

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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…

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178. 'Klute' (1971) 1:19:55

4M ago1:19:55

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Alan J. Pakula deserves more attention and respect as one of the grestest American film directors of any era. His run of films in the 70's, from 'Klute' to 'The Parallax View' to 'All The President's Men'...all brilliantly shot by Cinematographer Gordon Willis (The Godfather films)...are as impressive and of their moment as any films made in this t…

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Background Live On Air - Ep246 - State of Background Screening Compliance 2024 1:01:40

4M ago1:01:40

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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 F…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep245 - Is LinkedIn X-Ray Dead Dying or What? 1:08:32

4M ago1:08:32

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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 candida…

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177. 'The Third Man' (1949) 1:19:37

4M ago1:19:37

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Carol Reed and Graham Greene's iconic post-war neo noir classic 'The Third Man'. A perfect movie. Steven Soderbergh calls it the only movie you need to watch in order to learn how to make a movie. In this episode I cover the making of, the battles between David O. Selznick, Alexander Korda, Reed and Orson Welles, the happenstance score to end all f…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep244 - Offboarding - How to Avoid PR Disaster 1:10:50

4M ago1:10:50

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OFFBOARDING: HOW TO AVOID PR DISASTER! We have seem the company wide Zoom call, the recorded 1-2-1 videos, the mass email and even the classic no notice account lock out - it seems that whatever method an employer takes, there is always a risk of PR disaster when making lay offs. Is this a matter of training, tooling or values? How can we create th…

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176. 'The Long Good Friday' (1980) 1:14:42

4M ago1:14:42

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In which my evolving, complicated relationship with the crowd-pleasing John 'Frenzy' MacKenzie's exuberant, vibe-y classic 'The Long Good Friday' is flayed open and nailed to the floor for your auditory enjoyment.By Meetinghousetv.com

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Founders Focus - Ep41 - Up close and personal with Richard Collins, Founder, CVWallet 1:01:00

4M ago1:01:00

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Happy New 2024 Everybody! We're back with the series where we get up close and personal with the tech entrepreneurs changing the way we work today. Next up we've got we've got one of the most unique stories to come out of the UK recruitment tech scene in recent years. Richard and Beverly Collins, Co-founders of CVWallet are not only manage to be su…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep243 - How to Hire AI - 10 Things Recruiters HAVE to Know 1:11:10

4M ago1:11:10

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HOW TO HIRE AI (10 THINGS RECRUITERS HAVE TO KNOW) There is likely no major corporate employer on the planet that isn't interested in becoming more 'AI-enabled'. And traditionally the quickest way to get there is to hire elite AI skills into the our organisation. The demand for the AI at elite level - data engineers, research scientists and the lik…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep242 - Measuring Quality of Hire (in the Age of AI) 1:09:20

5M ago1:09:20

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MEASURING THE QUALITY OF HIRE (IN THE AGE OF AI) My most popular post of 2023 was one I wrote on the How to Measure Quality of Hire. It was certainly not the quality of the writing which made it a hit - it was the obviously more that we hit a sore point for Talent Acquisition leaders and Hiring Managers on how we actually know whether we are doing …

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175. The King Crimson documentary 1:17:52

5M ago1:17:52

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Director Toby Amies and I discuss his excellent and unexpected documentary 'In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50'.By Meetinghousetv.com

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep241 - State of Tech Hiring 2024 1:06:25

5M ago1:06:25

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STATE OF TECH HIRING IN 2024 In 2021 the Brainfood community was 50% self identified as 'tech recruiters' Since that time, we've seen a huge changes in the world - the collapse of VC investment, the end of zero interest rate policy, the advent of generative AI and the shift of focus from intangible to tangible value economy. Where does that leave t…

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174. 'Aliens' and 'Alien 3' 1:18:22

5M ago1:18:22

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Ridley Scott's brilliant 1979 sci-fi/horror classic 'Alien' burnished his deserved reputation as bold re-interpreter of techno-dystopian futurism and exploder of genres. But it made a lot of money and dollar signs in the eyes of 'Alien' producers Brandywine Productions led them to turn for a sequel to James Cameron, who had already done a similar t…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep240 - Forecasting 2024 Year in Recruitment, Part Two 1:07:10

5M ago1:07:10

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FORECASTING THE YEAR IN RECRUITMENT 2024,Pt2 Part Two of our two-part forecast series, where we look forward to what we think is going to happen in the year ahead. Lets see if we can make some S.M.A.R.T (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound) predictions on the following topics: - SMB Recruitment Agency Market- D&I, especially Gen…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep239 - Forecasting 2024 in Recruitment, Part One 1:14:05

5M ago1:14:05

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FORECASTING THE YEAR IN RECRUITMENT 2024,Pt1 Start of the New Year and we are going to collate our thoughts and project forward on what we think is going to happen in 2024. None of us are prophets but can we gather together enough intuition and trends analysis to produce some viable forecasts? Lets try: - Global Economy in 2024- State of VC / Inves…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep238 - 2023 Year in Review: Economy, Labour Markets & Jobs 1:21:59

6M ago1:21:59

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2023 Year in Review: Labour Market, Jobs, Vacancies, Work Final part of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, we are zooming out to the macro and looking at state of the economy, the labour market, the vacancy market and our verdict of the year in the recruitment really has been. - Economy in 2023 - US, UK and elsewhere- Impac…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep237 - 2023 Year in Review - LinkedIn: Content, Newsfeed and Search 1:04:51

6M ago1:04:51

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2023 Year in Review: LinkedIn Content Marketing & LinkedIn Sourcing Part 3 of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, we're looking back at our old and necessary friend, LinkedIn! Recruiters No1 most important platform, how did it treat you in 2023? We're going to review the major changes on: - LinkedIn Newsfeed algorithm- Post …

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173. 'Withnail & I' (1987) 1:57:37

6M ago1:57:37

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One of the most quotable and iconic of British films, born out of writer/director Bruce Robinson's personal experiences and shepherded to the big screen by George Harrison and his Handmade Films company. 'Withnail & I' is a beloved comedy but in this episode I talk as much about its forlorn, end-of-an-era wistful heart as I do the incredibly quotab…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep236 - 2023 Year in Review - Recruitment Advertising & Employer Branding 1:19:01

6M ago1:19:01

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2023 Year in Review: Recruitment Advertising & Employer Branding Part 2 of our 4 part series looking back at the year 2023. This time, focus is on Recruitment Advertising and Employer Branding. What the heck happened on these two domains this year? - SEO / Changes on Google Jobs- Behavioural ad targeting / retargeting- Impact of Search Generative E…

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep235 - Year in Review 2023 - AI, WorkTech Investment & DEIB 1:21:16

6M ago1:21:16

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2023 Year in Review: AI, DEIB and Worktech Investment Coming in for the final 4 Brainfood Live sessions of the year and we are going to do a series on 'Review of the Year 2023. We've 12 topics packed into 4 sessions, so make sure you follow the channel in order to be notified of them all when we go live. We being with AI, WorkTech Investment and DE…

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