The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast Hung Lee

Setting Salaries for Remotely Distributed Teams


 


As candidate shortage continues to bite in 2022, employers will increasingly look to shift jobs to location agnostic setting. However as one problem may be solved others rise up to take their place - how do we handle the compensation for our newly remote workforce? This is topic of Brainfood Live On Air - Ep140


 


- Shifting to remote....what is the framework to use?


- What are the common objections and challenges when setting compensation for remote?


- What caveats pertain to hybrid mode of work?


- Are there or should there be different compensation packages for different types of remote?


- How do we deal with increasing demands for pay transparency?


- How tenable is to pay a global minimum / maximum?


- How do we handle salary review?


- What are the back office options available?


- For employers looking to shift to remote from on premise, what challenges can they anticipate?


 


With Rachel Gibbs, Global Compensation & Benefits Advisor (Independent), Megan O'Malley, Senior Director Global Recruitment, International Rescue Committee & Andrew Gadomski, Founder (Aspen Analytics)


 


Ep140 is sponsored by Oyster


 


Oyster is on a mission to remove barriers to cross-border employment and enable companies to tap into the global talent pool. Our end-to-end distributed HR platform streamlines global employment across the full remote employee lifecycle, enabling companies to hire, pay, and care for talented teammates regardless of location.

Selling Talent Acquisition Transformation to the Business


 


As recruitment leaders we are brought on board to make step change improvements in how talent acquisition is conducted at our employers. Yet translating the objectives into actual change on the ground is one of the recurring challenges for TA today.


 


Why is it so difficult? Why did they even hire you if they don't listen to your ideas?


 


This is the topic for Brainfood Live On Air - Ep139 - Hard hitting chat and advice on how to sell change to the business.


 


- What are the typical objectives for the TA / HR leader?


- What does the business expect?


- What predictable obstacles can YOU expect as a new leader in TA?


- How do we secure early wins?


- How do we build relationships in a remote setting?


- What tools, techniques, frameworks can we use?


 


w/ Maury Hanigan, CEO (SparcStart), Ben Gledhill, VP Global Talent Acquisition (WorldRemit), Paul Maxin, VP Talent Acquisition, (Publicis Sapient) & Allyn Bailey, Founder (Transformation Tapas)


 


Ep139 is sponsored by Sparcstart


When employers provide interesting and useful information, candidates make well-informed decisions and better hires are made. SparcStart is the award winning video platform that powers employers' Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding video. Our two products, Sparc - which adds hiring manager video to job descriptions, and Amplify VMS - which manages the creation and sharing of employee generated content enables employers to easily engage candidates with content that is credible and authentic.






Employers need to use video in 2022 - contact one of our friendly product team today


 

Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today.




Next up are Dan Kirkland & Dean Sadler, Co-founders of Tribepad


- What is the difference between being C-level vs Senior Exec?


- How did a career in engineering prepare you for being a founder of a recruitment tech business?


- Were you always going to be doing startup?


- What areas of being a CEO do you feel you need support?


- What do you look for when hiring for leadership potential?


- How did the idea for Tribepad emerge?


- What was your biggest doubt before you both agreed to do this?


- What does the product roadmap look like for 2022?


All this and more as we take a deep dive into the business leaders building the technology changing the way we work today.


 


Ep13 Founders Focus is supported by Tribepad


 


Tribepad TA Platform is the easiest-to-use and most configurable enterprise-grade talent acquisition software you’ll see. Seamlessly integrating ATS, CRM, onboarding and video interviewing functionality, Tribepad gives you everything you need to transform your end-to-end recruitment from one powerfully straightforward platform.

Book a demo with our product team today. 

What is going to happen in Recruiting for 2022?

Its going to be another crazy year in our game, as candidate shortages continue to drive up demand for recruiters, organisations contort and reshape to better access different types of worker and new technologies bring big ramifications for how we do our work.




Questions to consider


How does employer branding look like at a time when workers have the upper hand?

What is the upper limit to the increase in comp & ben?

When do organisations begin to actively offshore unfillable jobs?

What HR tech unicorns will be the big stories of 2022?

Will the hybrid hype finally burst?


All this and more as we discuss and forecast what is going to happen in 2022.  With Madeline Laurano, Founder (Aptitude Research), George Laroque, Founder, (Worktech), Neil Carberry, CEO (Recruitment & Employment Confederation), Sue Marks, CEO (Cielo) and Mervyn Dinnen, Founder (TwoHeads)


 


We're on Friday 7th January, 10.00am ET / 2.00pm GMT - register by clicking on the green button and follow the channel here (recommended)




Episode 138 is supported by our buddies Join Talent


Join Talent is EMEA's fastest growing embedded talent solution provider. We deliver a market-leading and super-agile boutique Project RPO solution for scaling businesses - supporting with hiring demand in tech, product, digital, design, commercial/GTM & corporate vacancies.


 


If you're a recruiter looking to join a rocketship - you should  Join Talent

RECRUITMENT REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2021


 


We're finally here folks - the last Brainfood Live of the year! I know that it's only the 17th December but it's Christmas Eve next Friday and I suspect everybody will either by with friends and family for the holidays, or zoning out on Netflix and whiskey on their own, so this is the day we're going to close the year on.


 


As such, lets talk about this year - what was the biggest thing to happen in recruiting in 2021 and why?


 


How about


 


- The Great Resignation - did it happen, and if so, where?


- The Hybrid Hype - are we over it yet?


- Apple kills Facebook with ad opt in


- Facebook pivots the Metaverse (and becomes Meta)


- Big blockchain revival, have we seen the already the next dominant players for Web3?


- New HR Tech stack - Deal, Oyster, Remote


- What else?


 


Lets talk about it in a rolling two hour special, as we talk with the great and the good in the community, including but not restricted to Louise Triance, Founder (UK Recruiter), Neil Carberry, MD, (REC), James Osborne, Founder (The Recruitment Network), Heidi Wassini, Global Talent Acquisition Manager (Vivo) & Colin Donnery, CEO, (FRS) & Wolfgang Brickwedde, Founder (ICR)


 


All this and more in Brainfood Live on Air - it promises to be a fascinating show!


 


Ep137 is sponsored by Platypus.


 


With systematic data on team culture and candidate values, Platypus allows you to track alignment, build stronger teams, and improve quality of hire.


They’ve just launched Platypus Connect (Beta), a new add-on to help you discover and connect with culturally aligned talent. Read more here. 


It’s next-generation stuff folks, so book a demo with a friendly member of the Platypus team, or try out their candidate flow. 

EMPLOYER BRANDING FOR CONTROVERSIAL BRANDS


 


One of the most interesting challenges in employer branding and talent attraction is to build and execute strategy for a company whose brand which might usually draw prejudgement and high emotion. How do you go about your work as a recruiter or talent attraction strategist in this circumstance?


 


- How to refute the claims and challenge the brand perception


- How to tell a different story


- How to respond to the charges, public and private


- Using the perception as a filter for values fit


- Embrace the position and present the challenge


 


All this and more in Brainfood Live on Air - it promises to be a fascinating show. We're with Sam Newell, Founder (Alvarium Talent), Katrina Fox Founder, (Peters-Fox) & Noel Thomas, Director (CA3)


 


Ep136 is sponsored by our buddies CA3


 


CA3 is an award-winning employer brand agency that helps organisations attract, onboard and engage with talent through compelling creative comms. Great work, great relationships is their raison d'être, the reason their clients (the likes of Expedia Group, Johnson Matthey, Smartest Energy, Audley Group, Aviva, GE Healthcare and NatWest Group) love working with them, and their people come to work smiling (even on Mondays apparently). Perhaps that’s also why they picked the Grand Prix award at the RMAs last November.


 


If your EVP or employer brand is in need of a little love and attention after a tough 2021 why not check out their website today or email hello@cathree.com