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Training and Mentorship for Recruiters | Guest on Manatal’s Podcast Ep 42

It was a pleasure to be invited to be a Guest on Manatal‘s Podcast. Mantal is an AI Recruitment Software designed to source and hire candidates faster. Tailored for HR teams, recruitment agencies, and headhunters. This is what they had to say about our time together: This week, Vanessa Raath of The Talent Hunter joins us to go deeper into…

Brainfood Live On Air | Ep197 | Hiring in South Africa in 2023

Brainfood World Tour continues and this time we go to one of my favourite countries, which has one of my favourite recruiting communities – South Africa. There are challenges and problems with every country and region of the world, but I think it fair to say that Africa in general and perhaps South Africa in…

Vanessa Raath is a global Talent-Sourcing Trainer. But before that, she was a schoolteacher in the UK, a scuba diving instructor in places like Thailand and Zanzibar, and an agency recruiter in South Africa. The Talent Hunter is Vanessa’s one-stop Talent Sourcing Training Company, where she sources top talent across the globe while training others…

Guest on the Recruiting Trailblazers Podcast | Sourcing Secrets, Better Boolean and Chat GPT Has Arrived!

In this episode, Marcus Edwardes once again speaks with Vanessa Raath, a freelance Sourcer, a global Talent Sourcing Trainer, an international Keynote Speaker, and a wildlife photographer. She recently founded the online educational platform, Vanessa Raath Academy. Listen in as Vanessa shares what sourcers can do to be steps ahead of the competition once the…

Back with a vengeance, Vanessa Raath, the South African Goddess of Sourcing, better known as “The Talent Hunter” sits in with the team to talk sourcing, training, and events. Teaching and empowering others is in Vanessa’s blood. We’ll dig into what’s changing in sourcing for 2023, especially with the industry layoffs. Sign up for Vanessa’s free…

New job? Go out there and introduce yourself to everyone | Guest on Radio 702

According to Vanessa Raath, prospective employees have to establish the environment that they will be working in and have proper orientation whether in person or virtually. She added that the human resources department should be upfront and share all the necessary information with prospective employees. It should not be the employee who is following up…

Guest on the REC Podcast: Talking Recruitment

Episode 18: How to up your talent sourcing game: Tips from a global talent sourcing trainer Guest Speaker & Host: Vanessa Raath, Head Cheerleader Neil Carberry, CEO at the UK Recruitment & Employment Confederation A recruiter wears many hats during their career – from being a marketer building brands and deploying marketing strategies to source the…

A lot of people think it’s about putting [on your CV] what you studied, what your subjects were. As recruiters, we want to see what societies did you belong to. Did you hit up the debating team, were you a prefect? It’s all about finding out more about the person.

Candidate Communication – Being Creative in Your Outreach | Guest on Jobsync’s Marketing Roundtable

It’s the heat of August, the last days of summer, and Vanessa Raath, in her peak of winter (coming to us all the way from South Africa) joined us to talk about talking, what to say and more importantly how to say it to get candidates to engage. This talent shortage isn’t going away any…

How far is too far when setting the bait to attract passive candidates? | Guest appearance on The Recruitment Hackers podcast with Max Armbruster

In this podcast episode, Max and Global Talent Sourcing Trainer, Vanessa Raath explore non-traditional techniques for finding and hiring the right tech and non-tech candidates. Listen as they discuss tips for attracting unsuspecting talents and activating passive candidates. If you would prefer to read the transcript of our conversation you can do that here. If…

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