Brainfood Live On Air - Ep387 - GEO vs SEO - What Recruitment Marketeers Need to Know in 2026

About this episode

The episode discusses the evolving landscape of recruitment marketing, focusing on the shift from traditional SEO to Generative Engine Optimisation in 2026.

GEO vs SEO: What Recruitment Marketers Need to Know in 2026 Everyone know's the search landscape has fundamentally shifted. In 2026, candidates are no longer typing keywords into Google - they are asking AI assistants where to work, who pays fairly, and which cultures actually thrive. If your recruitment marketing strategy still revolves around traditional SEO alone, you are optimising for a shrinking platform while missing the one that is exploding. Join us for a critical livestream exploring the new battleground between Generative Engine Optimisation and classic Search Engine Optimisation. • Why keyword density is dying while entity recognition and semantic context dominate AI search • How AI engines summarize your employer brand without ever sending traffic to your career site • The structured data revolution: schema markup that helps LLMs cite your jobs and culture pages • From backlinks to citations: how GEO rewards authoritative mentions differently than SEO • The zero-click crisis: when candidates get salary and culture answers without visiting your ATS • Voice and conversational search: optimising for "best places to work near me" spoken to assistants • Content…

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Host: Hung Lee

Topics covered

• GEO vs SEO
• Recruitment Marketing
• AI Search
• Generative Engine Optimisation
• Employer Branding
• Content Architecture
• Trust in AI Models

Keywords

• recruitment marketing
• SEO
• GEO
• AI assistants
• employer brand
• semantic context
• job descriptions
• voice search
• content architecture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, AI, ChatGPT, ATS

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