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Special thanks this week go to: Ross Clennett, Manjuri Sinha, Lauren Sharp, Cathy Watson, Alison Birc
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October 13 · Issue #157 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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Special thanks this week go to: Ross Clennett, Manjuri Sinha, Lauren Sharp, Cathy Watson, Alison Birch, Simon Geere, Martyn Redstone, Stan Rolfe, Bob Lehto, Bas van de Haterd, John Bersentes, Renee Robson, Frank Gullo, Colin Donnery, Micole Garatti, Miguel Luis, Kevin Green, Steve Bebbington, Christian Madsen, Jose Luis Rodriguez Alves, Geraldine Butler-Wright, Stephen O'Donnell, Mark Edwards, Torin Ellis, Oliver Perry, Bharath C, Jonathan Stewart, Joey NK Koksal, Jonathan Baird, Sergej Zimpel, Tony Pitchford, Garry Turner, Giles Heckstall-Smith, Steve Pointer, Hannah Morgan, Giang Hughes, Sean Allen, Rich Lewis-Jones and Billy McDiarmid Public endorsement of this newsletter is the only way it can grow and kept free at point of use for everyone to enjoy! Can you help? Share this link: recruitingbrainfood.com on a LinkedIn status update and recommend to your network. Or if you prefer, send the link via email to one of your colleagues in the team who you think could get something from it. Cheers! Hung
Hung Lee is the founder of WorkShape.io - the revolutionary recruiting platform for Software engineers. Brainfood now has a private fb group for community discussions and a live talk show for fizzy chat. Subscribers are welcome to join either or both. Brainfood is now also a podcast.
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Hiring Success 2020
Hiring Success 20 is happening in San Francisco on February 11-12. Some of the brightest minds in Talent Acquisition are going with likes Gary A. Bolles (Singularity University), Celinda Appleby (VISA), and Sondra Dryer (Alexander Mann Solutions). Have a look at the speaker line-up so far. Register here, but remember to use code RECBRAINFOOD for a 30% discount, on top of the super early bird pricing. See you there! SPONSORS
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How To Find Female Software Developers
Jim Stroud brings his unique style to a well known hiring challenge - improving gender diversity in tech hiring. This is a super how-to packed with ‘do-it-today’ sourcing tips, presented in an inimical way. Tech recruiters please take note. SOURCING
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The Absolute Fool Proof, Data Driven Way To Measure the Effectiveness of Your Employment Brand
Andrew Gadomski in his element with an exceptional blog post on Employer Branding - and how to measure it. It’s all about the 3 buckets folks. And the understanding that whilst all data models are flawed, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to improve your estimates. Have a read here
EMPLOYER BRANDING
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Freelancing In America 2019
Upwork’s annual report on the state of freelancing in the US. Main takeaway? Industry professionals at the top of their game choosing the freelancing working pattern and would refuse a permanent job offer regardless of comp. Website here, slide deck here, one pager here
FUTURE OF WORK
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3 Reasons Why Traditional Diversity Metrics Don’t Work
Following on from Dr Steven Jones exceptional talk featured last week, I’m taking a deeper dive into D&I - especially via critical thinkers like Culture Amp Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Steven Huang. Point 3 is likely to cause consternation, which is precisely why it needs to be made. Have a read here
D&I
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Writing Is Thinking: Learning To Write With Confidence
Steph Smith has been a brainfood favourite for some time now; her content work at Toptal regularly featured in this newsletter (check out her work in the larder here). This post is a fascinating under-the-hood view on content creation process. Must read for content creators CONTENT MARKETING
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How to Get a Better Job as Software Developer (Without Sending a Single CV)?
Liking this post from Michael Talarek for three reasons. 1) genuinely adds value 2) useful mental exercise to think from a job seeker perspective and 3) a really clever way signal and connect to an audience that you want to recruit from. Have a read - and a think - here
CONTENT MARKETING
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What is Recruitment Operations?
It’s the function-within-a-function which is finally getting the corporate recognition it needs. Dedicated resource focussing on process improvements, tech and tools, business alignment and the rest. Great summary post from Yello here on what RecOps really is. Also check out the Larder for more posts on the topic. RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS
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SSaR
Pretty much the one stop resource for all your recruiting tooling needs. I’m fairly certain you might know about this amazing one pager already - and the author Dean Da Costa - but in case you haven’t, here you go. COOL TOOL
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Startup Dodges Trump Tariffs w/ AI & 3D Printing
Case studies which illustrate the transformational potential of 3D printing on logistics, supply chain and therefore - international trade and politics - are piling up. What happens to the world of work when we don’t have to ship anything but data? 3D/4D PRINTING
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Maintaining A Healthy Workplace In A High Pressure Industry
What is the difference between stress vs pressure? Interesting thoughts and practical tips in this post from Pipedrive in how we can create healthier workplaces for our people. CULTURE
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Global Talent Trends 2019
Important research from Mercer on global talent trends. Broad strokes are clear: employees want to be less like employees and more like freelancers, but with job security and benefits. Can employers adapt? If we can’t then employment might become untenable. Must read folks. FUTURE OF WORK
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Big List of Events to Attend in 2019
We’re into Q4 now and the events keep piling up. Check out the expanding list here, and add your own if you’re running one here. July- Dec 2019, Worldwide
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UNLEASH 19
Unleash 19 is back, and back in Paris for 2019. I’ll be there, on the Social Talent stage, talking brainfood. Come up and say hello if you’re there. See you next week! Oct 22-23, Paris Convention Hall, Paris, France
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#trukyiv
Delighted to be supporting the expansion of the #tru unconference concept internationally. Ukraine has a justified reputation as a source for outstanding sourcers and recruiters - look forward to learning from the the community there. Tickets here. Oct 25, INVERIA, 49А, Volodymyrska St, 49А, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Social Recruiting Days 2019
Look forward to coming back to Berlin after too long away. Tons of great speakers covering Talent Sourcing, Recruitment Analytics&AI, Employer Branding and Employee Experience. Tickets here
Oct 29-30, Ellington Hotel, Nürnberger Str. 50-55, Berlin, Germany
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If you are an event organiser want to get featured in the newsletter, get in touch and give the community a deal. Email me hung[email protected]
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Big List of Podcasts to Listen to in 2019
We’re up to 100 now - some new discoveries for me too. Check out the list here. If you want to add a podcast to this list, access the google sheet here and add to the bottom of the spreadsheet PODCAST
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The Future of Work
I had the honour of moderating the this debate between two titans of the TA / HR scene in Amsterdam last month. 30 minutes of pure gold from Kevin Wheeler and Karen Rivoire. Have a listen and watch here
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Interview with Leena Nair, CHRO at Unilever
Brainfooder David Green consistently gets some world class guests on his 1-2-1 interview show, This week it’s Leena Nair from Unilever. Have a listen here
PODCAST
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If are a brainfood subscriber and want to post your in-house recruiting / people ops / HR jobs in next weeks newsletter, reply to this email with job title and link so people can apply
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Adam Gordon and his crew at Candidate-ID is releasing a Free CRM to the market - worth checking out if you think candidate nurturing is important for your business.
This is a new segment and experiment in ‘community news’. If you are a brainfood subscriber and something exciting news to share and want more people to know about it, reply to this email and let me know…
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Have a great week everybody. Hung
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