Brainfood Live On Air - Ep306 - Transitioning to CV Free Hiring

2025-05-10

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TRANSITIONING TO CV FREE HIRING The CV has been around for maybe even longer than recruiting itself become a distinct profession, so are we destined to forever have a document like this in our hiring process? What does it look like if we can remove the CV - does it thicken our pipeline, improve it or make it even harder to handle or process? Lets have a chat with TA leaders who have made the shift to CV Free Hiring and see if we can learn how they did it, what they learned and what they would recommend to others contemplating the same.

TRANSITIONING TO CV FREE HIRING

The CV has been around for maybe even longer than recruiting itself become a distinct profession, so are we destined to forever have a document like this in our hiring process? What does it look like if we can remove the CV - does it thicken our pipeline, improve it or make it even harder to handle or process?

Lets have a chat with TA leaders who have made the shift to CV Free Hiring and see if we can learn how they did it, what they learned and what they would recommend to others contemplating the same.

- Why CV Free Hiring?

- How does this argument translate into the business case?

- What types of scenario is optimal for CV Free Hiring?

- What kind of roles are most suitable for it?

- Conversely, what scenarios / roles are NOT suitable for CV free hiring?

- Change management: what were the expected outcomes of shifting to CV free hiring?

- What challenges can TA Leaders expect to encounter?

- How did you handle them?

- What did the recruitment team think of CV free hiring?

- What TA strategies are eliminated by going CV Free hiring - presumably, sourcing?

- Short / Medium / Long term outcomes of the shift

- CX impact?

All this and more as we tackle an issue whose moment may be now!

We are on Friday 9th May, 2pm BST with Jessie Schofer, Founder (Stakked), Matthias Schmeisser, VP People & Operations (Emnify), Tony McCaffery, Founder (Diversity Scotland) & Kare Heward, Talent Acquisition Manager (QVC)

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