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Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode features an artist discussing a song of theirs, breaking down the sounds and ideas that went into the writing and recording. Hosted and produced by Hrishikesh Hirway.
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Real & funny talk about Kate Winslet and how her acting work & related choices promote the hard work of acting, being present as an actor, getting the most out of (and giving the most to) the other actors in the room, female empowerment and characterization, evolution of female strength, and more. This podcast is for fun & education, and not for monetary purposes. Because I love acting and Kate Winslet! She's the best free actors' guide ever! Excuse me as we iron out the kinks and try to fin ...
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Value through Vulnerability which is dedicated to helping put the human back into humanity with a particular focus on inclusion, improving voice for all, and designing work to support everybody thriving at work is brought to you by HEXO Change. We catalyse ideas, opinions & challenges around courage, self-awareness, vulnerability, inclusion, listening, trust, values, mindset etc Join Garry Turner with co-host and HumansFirst founder Mike vacanti from Ep 100, as they host conversations where ...
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Leading design minds share their perspective on why, how and what design drives forward.
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A current affairs podcast on Taiwan and the world. Every episode, we invite a journalist to a conversation with an expert to get the big picture context of what we need to know. These are global issues, and this is The Taiwan Take. Nominated for Best News Podcast at 2020 Excellent Journalism Award in Taiwan. Produced by Ghost Island Media in Taipei, Taiwan. 2020年台灣卓越新聞獎 Podcast 新聞獎入圍者.這是一個專門討論臺灣時事的訪談性英文節目, 以「縱觀世界議題,以臺灣觀點論述」為主軸,由記者採訪跨領域專家、名人與來賓等,第一手將臺灣的故事推向國際. 鬼島之音製作播出.
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The Local Authority is a podcast by Local Government Chronicle. Each month, the podcast will ask fundamental questions about how local government needs to adapt to fulfil its full potential and best serve local populations. It will see LGC assemble a small panel of significant figures from the sector to discuss one specific issue per episode. All will have a focus on the future, with the emphasis being on innovation, fairness, policy change and place leadership. Between launch in May 2021 an ...
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep254 - Data or Ads? Future of Job Board Advertising in the Era of GenAI
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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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The band War formed in 1969, in Long Beach, California. “Low Rider” is from their 1975 album Why Can’t We Be Friends? The song was a hit as soon as it came out. It went to #1 on the Billboard R&B charts. And it’s just had tremendous lasting power ever since. Besides being in Dazed and Confused, where I heard it, it’s been sampled by The Beastie Boy…
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep253 - Skill Based Hiring - Rhetoric or Reality?
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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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Kate Winslet as Elena Vernham in HBO's The Regime, full episode
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"Bless our love, always." To celebrate The Regime starring Kate Winslet & Matthias Schoenaerts, coming out in the U.K. on April 8, and now that I've seen 5/6 episodes, I can go more into "What Would Kate Do". This is not a review nor are there spoilers. It's about what we can learn from Kate from an acting perspective. Can you guess who the child i…
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep252 - How To Pull Off a Global TA Restructure
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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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Shania Twain is a singer and songwriter from Ontario, Canada. She’s the only female artist to have had three consecutive Diamond albums — albums that have sold over ten million copies. Actually, her 1997 album Come On Over is the best-selling album by a female solo artist of all time. One of the most iconic songs from that iconic album is "You’re S…
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Local elections special: Colin Rallings on why Tories could lose half the seats they are defending. Also, do people care about mayors?
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The local elections are just around the corner, with everyone in England and Wales able to vote in either council, metro mayor or police and crime commissioner elections, or a combination of the three. With the Conservatives behind in national polling, the increasing importance of independent candidates, and some bellwether mayoral and council cont…
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep251 - Innovation in High Volume Hiring - Faster, Better, Cheaper?
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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
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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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Danny Brown - Y.B.P. (feat. Bruiser Wolf)
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Danny Brown started his career in 2007 by handing out mixtapes in Detroit, where he’s from. In 2011, he put out his acclaimed second album, XXX. Since then, he’s collaborated with rappers like Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky and JPEGMafia, but he’s also worked with electronic bands like Purity Ring and The Avalanches, and he did a verse on a remix for K…
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Community involvement, social media and misinformation, and are residents customers? With Elizabeth Campbell, Tracey Lee, and Adam Lent
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Councils are increasingly recognising the value of involving communities in the design of services meanwhile financial pressures have seen the delivery of services such as libraries outsourced to community groups. And though new technology has provided more ways for councils to engage with their residents and businesses, misinformation through soci…
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Felix is the Co-founder & CEO of ADPList and sets the vision and strategy for the company. Founded in 2021, the company grew into a global town square for expert knowledge, with 20K+ Mentors from companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and Google, hosting over 100 million minutes of sessions on topics such as product design, product management, and coding …
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep249 - Future of Work - Talent Acquisition - Not Invited?
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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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44. Academy Award nominee, “Island in Between”: S. Leo Chiang (Director)
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This was the first Oscar nomination for a documentary from Taiwan. “Island in Between”《金門》was a nominee for Best Documentary Short at the 2024 Academy Awards. In this 19-minute documentary, we see Kinmen (Quemoy) through the lens of filmmaker S. Leo Chiang (江松長) and the diverse cast of characters he meets there. Kinmen - made of a set of islands - …
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep248 - Talent Trends Report 2024 - Sourcing & Engagement
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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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Rhiannon Giddens has released five solo albums since 2015. Before that, she was a member of the Grammy-winning band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She is now also the artistic director of the Silkroad Ensemble, the musical supergroup that Yo-Yo Ma founded. Rhiannon Giddens is one of those people where I feel like they have to start inventing new aw…
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43. Ukraine War, 2 Years - Citizen Diplomacy with Alex Khomenko (Taiwan Stands with Ukraine)
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Alex Khomenko is the organizer of Taiwan Stands with Ukraine 台灣烏克蘭陣線. We talk about conducting citizen diplomacy at a time of war, Taiwan’s humanitarian aid to Ukraine and public donations that amounted to the sending of power generators and ambulances, Taiwan and Ukraine relations, and the internal politics the Ukrainian government may be facing a…
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep247 - State of Hiring Report Market Intelligence 2024
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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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Background Live On Air - Ep246 - State of Background Screening Compliance 2024
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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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I wanted to revisit an episode about one of my favorite songs from 2021, “Black Dog” by Arlo Parks. A few months after this episode originally came out, Arlo Parks won the Mercury Prize for Album of the Year. She was also nominated for two Grammys: Best New Artist and Best Alternative Album. Since then, she released a new album called My Soft Machi…
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The crisis in children’s services with Louise Gittins, Josh MacAlister, and Andy Smith
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Children’s services are frequently cited as the biggest current pressure on council budgets, with costs having spiralled in recent years. But despite huge increases in spending there is concern children are often not getting the care and support they need, with shortages of placements meaning young people can often find themselves placed many miles…
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep245 - Is LinkedIn X-Ray Dead Dying or What?
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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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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep244 - Offboarding - How to Avoid PR Disaster
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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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Green Day is a punk band from the East Bay in California. Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool have been playing music together since 1987. They’ve sold over 90 million records. They’ve won four Grammys, including twice for Best Rock Album. They put out their first album in 1990, and their second album, Kerplunk!, in 1991. And then, they m…
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Founders Focus - Ep41 - Up close and personal with Richard Collins, Founder, CVWallet
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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
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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)
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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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The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (Deluxe Anniversary Edition)
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The first episode of Song Exploder, about The Postal Service song "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight," came out 10 years ago, in January 2014. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the podcast, we're doing what bands do, and putting out a deluxe, expanded edition of our very first release: this version features a new interview, new insights, and new…
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42. Europe and Taiwan: Reinhard Bütikofer (Member of European Parliament)
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Reinhard Bütikofer is a familiar name in Europe and Taiwan relations. He has been an MEP since 2009, where he is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, chairperson of the Delegation for Relations with China, and an alternate member of the Committee on International Trade. Reinhard also co-chairs IPAC, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. …
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep241 - State of Tech Hiring 2024
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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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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep240 - Forecasting 2024 Year in Recruitment, Part Two
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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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This 5-episode limited series delves into policy debates within Taiwan that could have implications for the region and beyond. Each episode features Taiwanese local experts and voices weighing in on social, economic and defense issues as they discusses how Taiwanese society is responding to these challenges. From Ghost Island Media in Taipei and th…
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep239 - Forecasting 2024 in Recruitment, Part One
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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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40. Gold Card 2: Louis Heng (President, Taishin Life Insurance)
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Merry Christmas and happy holidays! Prior to moving to Taiwan, Louis Heng had spent time in Singapore, Germany, Malta, and Scotland. Louis’ first time in Taiwan was with the Singaporian military. He then worked briefly as an airline pilot before entering a career in life insurance. In this episode, Louis and Emily talk about relocation with your fa…
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep238 - 2023 Year in Review: Economy, Labour Markets & Jobs
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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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Kate Winslet as Iris Simpkins in The Holiday
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Listen to this BEAUTIFUL discussion with @unsinkable in a co-hosted podcast about Kate Winslet in The Holiday from 2006! Kate uses her real accent in this film (apparently for the first time in her career), but seems to play a real version of herself (down to earth, compassionate, goofy / real sense of humor). Thanks Brenda ( @kleoofdreams on Twitt…
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For the last episode of the year, I got the chance to drive up to Northridge, California, and have a conversation with Dave Grohl. We talked about the Foo Fighters song “The Teacher,” which is an epic, 10-minute-long song. Dave told me it’s the most important piece of music he’s ever written, because it’s dedicated to his mother, Virginia, who pass…
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