Brainfood Marathon
The Story Behind The Day Recruiters Broke The Internet...
The Story Behind The Day Recruiters Broke The Internet...
Dear Brainfood Marathoners!
It’s been a month since you joined me on a crazy idea to do a non stop global 24 hour marathon livestream.
The idea to pull together the global recruiting & HR community, in a single day, to connect those who needed help with those who were offering help, could not have happened without the support of the speakers, sponsors, organising team and the thousands of people like you who signed up to participate on the day.
This e-book is our first step to follow up.
It re-introduces the two new products announced on the day - Brainfood Hall of Fame and Brainfood Chatbot - both of which the community might find useful for discovering content, connections and contracts.
The book also highlights the awesome organising team who made it all happen, the speaker sessions you may wish to catch up on and collects together the sponsor offers in one place so you can get ready access to them.
I hope you get value from it!
Hung
Originally a public gallery to say ‘thank you’ to community contributors, the Brainfood Hall of Fame is now a place where you can advertise your availability per week for side hustles, collaborations or full time work to other members of the community.
Sign in, tell us about what in Recruiting & HR you do, set your hourly bandwidth to do it and join the Brainfood Hall of Fame.
Brainfooders are already finding paid work through the Hall, so if you want to diversify your income supply chain, this is the way to do it.
Discover Brainfood connect, experts and - in near future - work opportunities - through the Brainfood Chatbot on WhatsApp
I geek-out on anything HR Tech related.
From strategic ops & business management to content creation & lead generation. This includes event coordination and working on projects that benefit the general Recruiting/HR/TA community globally.
Focused on people. Keen to make the world a better place.
How?
By putting my Marketing and Communications skills to good use - by working on Brainfood Marathon, for example.
Digital marketing executive, with a passion for all things tech...
I enjoy working on projects where I can streamline the tech stack, so that it helps achieve key business results - like designing & developing webpages and online forms, driving registrations of events, automating contact creation and communications.
I enjoy being a part of the Brainfood Community in particular, because of the unique and high levels of engagement in the community - I've never seen anything like it.
People are such an important part of any success story. Finding the right people and - whether it's through leading TA programs or engaging with talented people directly - matching people with the right career is what I love doing.
As a Resourcing & Talent Leader, I’m focused on improving the recruitment industry every day, through continuous learning and sharing best and next practices. I’ve got a proven track record of designing and delivering successful, innovative talent acquisition solutions at a global, regional, and local level – within large, complex matrixed organisations and also smaller start-up companies.
Ever since I can remember, I have lived for creating experiences; meeting new people and leaving an incredible and lasting impression. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I could turn this love into a lifelong career.
I knew early on that I wanted something bigger, something important where I made an impact - where I had the chance to make change and when I moved to Boston I was able to make that a reality.
Getting to work with start ups was the biggest opportunity to test my ability to create something new - to disrupt and challenge the status quo.
Now looking for my next opportunity in marketing & growth for HR tech!
Having amassed over 20 years in marketing, within the professional services and recruitment industries, I have worked for global SaaS and tech businesses, multi-brand recruitment agencies and job advertising and media organisations.
I founded AM-Bush, a marketing consultancy for HR and Recruitment tech businesses providing branding, communications, demand generation, content and events strategies, marketing support and mentoring.
My passion is marketing. I'm at my best knee-deep in ambitious organisations, with talent and creativity in abundance.
Chief Talent Navigator at Transforming Talent, a globally active consultancy specializing in people and culture solutions for organizational transformations.
What does this actually mean? It means looking end-to-end: where is your business heading and what are the people practices you need in place to help make that happen?
I work on conference facilitation, strategic Leadership team meetings, redesigning People and Operations processes, Employer Branding, Leadership Development, Executive and team coaching.
Talent Coach at Founders Factory
Recruitment geek with experience hiring talent for leading tech companies.
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Founder at Udder
Alan Walker is the founder and Editor of ChatTalent - THE place to find original content for the HR, Talent & Recruitment community.
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Recruitment Marketing at RecruiterLabs
Attempting to Reinvent Recruitment’s Lame Reputation.
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Director at The Recruitment Events Co
Unique events for talent acquisition professionals
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Founder at Talenza
Talenza is built around 4 core values to raise the bar of the recruitment industry and shows clients & fellow recruiters that it can be done differently.
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Founder at Digitaal-Werven
Independent digital assessment expert, helping organisations select the best talent from their applicants.
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Startup Advisor/ Investor
Bill is the founder of Trumunity & an active stand up comedian.
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Host at The Chad & Cheese Podcast
After 20+ years of failure and success in the recruitment industry, he shares strong opinion though one of the industry's biggest megaphones.
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Global Employer Branding Lead at Danaher Corporation
International bestselling author of Give & Get Employer Branding, Charlotte was named the 2019-2020 Employer Brand Leader of the Year and has built and launched five F500 employer brands.
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Senior Economist at ANZ Bank
A professional business economist focussed on the Australian macroeconomic outlook & public sector.
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Head of Global Talent Solutions at Preacta
Building game-changing teams
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Head of Recruitment Strategy at Sainsbury's
Recruitment leader with a proven track record of leading ground breaking innovation in TA.
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MD at Green Umbrella
Christina is MD of Green Umbrella Marketing, a recognised brand known within the UK recruitment industry for providing social media management and coaching services, design and print services, and online marketing strategies.
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General Manager at FRS Recruitment
Founder, business & community leader.
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Cohost at TAPod
Craig runs a global community of Freelance Recruiters (Recstra) and talks nonsense on his weekly podcast Tapod - that covers all things TA & Recruitment.
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Founder at Empathetic Consulting
Daniel Murray blends empathy and psychology with strategic thinking and pragmatic application to train and coach teams to higher performance.
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Founder at Ph.Creative
Recognised as a thought leader in employer brand and recruitment marketing, “Google” Dave Hazlehurst has is a seasoned presenter.
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Success Partner at Hi5 Technologies
I help Business & HR Leaders to transform organisations and improve workplace culture, employee engagement and work performance
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Chief Bridge Architect at ExecuPrep
Helping organisations and leaders build and cross their bridge from “I want to be” to “I am.”
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CEO at SkillScout
SkillScout is a world class media company helping clients like Nike and American Airlines engage candidates and employees alike.
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Head of Talent Acquisition ANZ at LinkedIn
Connecting talent with opportunity at LinkedIn
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Founder at WOW Recruitment
Specialising in recruitment for sales, marketing, tech & business services.
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MD at Spencer Lane
Ez is the founder of Spencer Lane, a specialist rec2rec agency servicing Melbourne & Sydney recruitment agencies and Recruiters.
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CEO at College Recruiter
Faith Rothberg is the Chief Executive Officer of College Recruiter, which believes that every student and recent graduate deserved a great career.
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Founder at Comba Consulting
Employer brand strategist, advising companies in building human, authentic and inspiring employer brand.
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CEO at TQ Solutions
TQSolutions is a leading consulting and advisory business focused on the talent industry.
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Host at Value through Vulnerability
Garry facilitates individual, team, and leadership enhancements as an interpersonal catalyst via workshops, coaching, keynote talks and live events.
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Principal Analyst at HRWins
Industry leading HR Tech & HR Tech Investment Analyst & Advisor.
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Director of Strategic Development at Jobtrain
Giles loves sharing 20 years' experience and knowledge and developing relationships and win/win propositions to drive Jobtrain forward.
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Principal at The Savage Truth
Business leader, NED and best selling author of ;'The Savage Truth'.
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Author of The Adaption Advantage
Future-of-work strategist Heather E. McGowan helps leaders prepare their people and organisations for our VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) World.
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Head of Data Science at Adzuna
James runs the data science team at Adzuna, a job search engine in 15 countries with over 10m monthly visits.
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Director of Employer Brand at Universum
Noted employer brand and talent strategy thinker, keynote speaker, consultant, and podcaster, James is soon to publish his first book, Talent Chooses You.
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Coach at Outerbox Consulting
Jane has been training and coaching global corporates and consultancies for 20+ years and can’t wait to partner with you to help maximise your potential.
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Director at Silver17
As the creator of Recruiting Masterclass, and the learning series "Decoding Boolean Search and Sourcing", Jennifer teaches the fundamentals & leverages her networks.
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Co-founder at Udder
Part of the Udder team that is creating the perfect storm of better HR tech - that solves real world problems - and informed HR tech buyers, making better buying decisions
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CEO at SmartRecruiters
On a mission to connect people to jobs at scale. Founder & CEO of SmartRecruiters, the global talent acquisition suite, creator of the Reverse Recruiting movement and author of the best seller Hiring Success.
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Chief Revenue Officer at High Road Human Capital
Chief Sales Guy at High Road Human Capital - A Veteran Owned, Diversity Supplier
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Inclusion & Belonging Specialist at See Change Happen
Joanne is a leading authority on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging who engages with organisations to develop policy and best practise to be more inclusive for all people.
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Associate Director at Precision Recruiting
Joel's worked within Data Recruitment for 10+ years in Australia and currently manages a team of successful Recruiters at specialist agency Precision Sourcing.
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People Engagement Partner at Resourceful
John is an experienced recruitment advisor to corporates in both Canada and the UK.
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MD at Social Talent
Helping talent leaders enable hiring excellence through capability development
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Organisational Strategist at Great Mondays
Org Culture Strategist and Brand Expert.
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Executive Director at Disability Solutions
Executive Director of Disability Solutions & the co-host of the Crazy and the King Podcast. She lives with mental illness & is passionate about driving the conversation forward for her community.
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Co-founder at VideoMyJob
Entrepreneur, business and community leader.
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Director of Strategy at Beamery
With a passion for transformative talent strategies that create innovative solutions for complex problems, Kyle launched Spark, a community dedicated to empowering and elevating the talent operations function.
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Coach at The FlexAgility Group
Kylee works with executive leaders and entrepreneurs to ignite their passion, grow their influence and amplify the impact they have.
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Founder at AmplifyHR
Lars is the founder of Amplify, host of 21st Century HR multimedia series, Fast Company contributor, and fierce advocate for modern people practices.
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Co-host of TAPod
Podcast co-Host at TaPod & Director of Sharp People
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Host at PunkRockHR
Laurie Ruettimann is a former HR leader turned writer, speaker, and entrepreneur. Find her at punkrockhr.com or listen to her podcast called Punk Rock HR.
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CEO at Grokker
Tech entrepreneur
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Founder at MAYDAY Recruitment
Business & Community leader
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COO at Simply Wall Street
Tech startup recruitment & ops leader
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CEO at Employer Branding Australia
Mark is CEO at Employer Branding Australia, where he helps fantastic, imperfect organisations connect with fantastic, imperfect people. He loves his wife and kids, employer branding and gin, sometimes in that order.
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Freelance Consultant
5 years of engineering, 14 years of recruitment operations and almost 3 years of recruitment chatbots. I think of myself as a 'recruitment engineer', solving blockers in the recruitment process using technology.
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Head of EMEA at Indeed
Pawel is an economist at Indeed in London. He researches trends in the vast amounts of data on job search collected by Indeed to make sense of what’s going on in the global labour market. Read his research on the Indeed Hiring Lab blog.
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Founder at People and Transformational HR
Perry's mission: Better business for a better world. Having a specialism for Agile, self-management, inclusion and creativity for progressive HR, OD and people-powered change.
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Global Employer Branding Manager at RMIT University
I’m a New York City native, living in Melbourne pioneering Employer Branding for organisations like Australia Post and now, RMIT University.
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Enterprise Accounts Lead APAC at SmartRecruiters
Rich Lewis-Jones - 12+ years of industry experience across agency, talent acquisition, HR & TA Tech, now leading SmartRecruiters growth in Asia-Pacific.
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Director of Customer Success at 7Geese
HR Polymath
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Head of Communications at SmartRecruiters
Roy is the Head of Communications at SmartRecruiters, the recruiting software that powers Jobs for Lebanon and 4000 other businesses worldwide including VISA & LinkedIn.
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CEO at The Nudge Group
Steve’s the CEO of The Nudge Group, a staffing business born from a genuine desire to help businesses grow from Start-up to Unicorn.
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Author of The Adaption Advantage
Steven Rothberg is the president and founder of College Recruiter, which believes that every student and recent graduate deserved a great career.
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CEO at exaqueo
Susan LaMotte is the CEO of exaqueo, a workforce and employer brand consulting firm and agency. A two-decade veteran of recruiting and employer brand, she also thrives on being a wife and mom to two littles in Charleston, SC, USA.
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Global Talent Acquisition Leader at Mondelez International
Founder of the TA Academy at Mondelēz International & currently leading our recruiter capability & development agenda, Tracy sets recruiters up for success to continuously improve & innovate talent attraction.
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Global Sourcing Lead at Doctorlib
I grow companies by building and implementing highly scalable recruiting practices.
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Founder of The Talent Hunter
Vanessa trains Recruiters, globally, to source for Top Talent more efficiently and effectively. Described as a ‘Guru’ in the Tech Sourcing space Vanessa is the ‘go to’ person for Sourcing in Africa.
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Host at The Recruitment Marketing Podcast
Victoria Rush, host of the recruitment marketing podcast, and Producer of The Social Movement, Amazon Prime docu-series. She is an award winning marketer with over 10 years’ experience developing recruitment marketing and employer brand strategies for brands across the globe.
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Offer: RecruiterHub is a talent pool for the best recruiters affected by the current situation, and your first stop when you need top talent. Teams can find recruiters with the skills they need, and out of work recruiters can get their name in front of some of the biggest companies in the UK.
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Offer: Recruiters for Good project, an instance of SmartRecruiters DB to collect emergency hire jobs & get redundant recruiters on them.
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Offer: Create your accessible COVID-19 Information landing page for FREE with Recite.me
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Offer: Talkpush is offering Brainfooders one month completely free! You’ll have access to the CRM and chatbot solution, as well as our dedicated CS team to help integrate seamlessly with your existing tech stack.
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Offer: Talent Exchange is a new platform which we built to specifically help workers impacted by COVID-19 connect with the right jobs, instantly.
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Offer: We would like to support those made redundant with the ability to learn about Talent Analytics, we are offering free workshops and access to our platform if you are unfortunate to find yourself redundant.
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Grokker
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End notes
Congratulations on making it to the finish line again Brainfood Marathoner!
I hope you got some great value from this e-book.
It’s been a pleasure running with you all this way.
And I hope we will find a way to stay connected.
Subscribe to the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter if you haven’t already done so and feel free to message me via email or in any of the networks you find me in (Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn)
Some other channels to know The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast, Brainfood Live On Air and Recruiting Brainfood Facebook Group (Private)
See you next year for Brainfood Marathon 2021 ??
Hung
