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March 17 · Issue #127 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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Our buddies at HackerRank are surveying the tech recruiting community. If anyone has ever seen one of their reports, you’ll know the research and communication is top notch. If you hire for tech, pls spare 5 minutes to take this survey - thanks Special thanks this week to: Catia Sousa, Colin Donnery, Antonio Arias Lopez, Zuzana Bakış, Luca Cicatelli, Christian Madsen, Kevin Green, Linda Hugod, James Osbourne, Diana Furtună, Hilary Klassen, Andrea Marston, Navin Hathiramani, Tris Revilll, Radina Nedyalkova, Liza van den Berg, Vanessa Raath, Nick Thompson, Bas van de Haterd, Michael McLean, Paul Dewick, Andrew Packiarajah, Joey NK Koksal, Jim Berrisford, Ivan Harrison, Essie Russell Butler, Michal Toman, Bharath C, Hannah Keal, Gautam Ghosh, Lee Griffiths, Bhavani Veylan and Mark Deubel - thanks for the public endorsement. Your support is the only way the newsletter can keep going as a free service! Can you help? Please take a moment and share this link: recruitingbrainfood.com on a LinkedIn status update and recommend to your network. It really helps. Thank you! Hung
Hung Lee is the founder of WorkShape.io - the revolutionary recruiting platform for Software engineers. Brainfood now has a private fb group and online talkshow - subscribers are free to join either or both.
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Sourcing Success
Is acquiring more candidates important for your business? Our buddies at SmartRecruiters have partnered with VONQ, Recruitics, TalentBoard, SmartDreamers and Aptitude Research to put on a FREE one day online conference - #SourcingSuccess19 - on the 9th April. Check out the details here and register to save your spot here.
SPONSORS
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The MBA Myth & The Cult of the CEO
Fascinating study on ‘credentialism’ by Institutional Investor, which discovers no relationship between CEO background and company’s stock performance. Investment related, but relevant to us recruiters here, especially on how we use often use ‘past performance’ to predict future behaviour when assessing candidates - take a look here
ASSESSMENT
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SourcingHacks: Special Edition
More free stuff from our buddies at AmazingHiring. 10 outstanding hacks to power up your sourcing game. Great to see the list is entirely made of ‘foodie subscribers. Get the free book here. And - I think - AmazingHiring’s free 72 hour trial is still on using this link and the Promo code: BRAINFOOD… SOURCING
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You Don’t Have to Be Scared of People Analytics: A Data Scientist Breaks It Down
Accessible deconstruction of a critically important topic in HR by Panalyt’s Abdel-rahmen Korichi. This step-by-step guide is an ideal entry point for people wanting to take the next step with People Analytics - if you’re not familiar with it, take a read now. Also a fine example of how to write vendor side content ;-) PEOPLE ANALYTICS
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What Kind Of Person Fakes Their Voice?
Mind boggling brainfood in this post on Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, whose famously strange baritone voice was another thing about her that turned out to be fake. Got a bit of everything - gender, leadership, personal branding, psychology and how we make judgements on what people we like and trust. Have a read here
ASSESSMENT
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Learnings On How To Raise The Bar With A TA Event In Berlin
Berlin TA Labs is one of the best communities on in-house recruiter talent I know. Matthias Schmeißer is stepping back from leading / managing it, and this is his retro - it’s a great read on event and talent community building. Have a read here, and follow Matthias here. COMMUNITY
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Best Practices for Managing Remote Teams: A Psychological Perspective
Deeper dive into the psychology of managing remote teams by the outstanding Stephanie Smith of Toptal. The body of knowledge on remote work is growing as more of us do it and this is a fine contribution - take a read here
REMOTE WORK
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Writing For The 15 Second Attention Span
Amazingly useful post from Wix, on how to write for the modern day, permanently distracted audience. No1 rule? Accept that they are distracted. Must read for anyone writing just about anything, I’d say. So that’s everyone here, so read it here
CONTENT MARKETING
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Meet Tengai, The Job Interview Robot Who Won't Judge You
Love the boldness of this initiative - forget web based psychometrics - let’s build an actual robot to ask the questions. Meet Tengai, an assessment product by Swedish recruitment company TNG. Good news about this: TNG executives Elin Öberg Mårtenzon and Charlotte Ulvros will be joining us on Brainfood Live soon to talk about Tengai- follow the channel to watch the show. ASSESSMENT
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I Am Recruitr on Twitter:
We know that more is less on Twitter. This marvellously brief tweet from parody account I Am Recruitr says all it needs to in 14 characters, never mind 140. We got to improve our outreach folks……and really stop using this cliché ENGAGEMENT
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Employers of Reddit: What’s The Worst CV You’ve Ever Seen?
Some amazing stories here, which I’m sure will resonate to many of us. Make sure to filter for ‘Top’ and read the comment by Redditor doctor_7 - it’s a heart warming story and will be a smile to your day. ASSESSMENT
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Spice Up Your Stakeholder Relations: Hot Questions To Ask Before Starting Employer Branding
More great writing coming out of Germany. ‘foodie Marian Jarzak writes on the conversations you need to have with your stakeholders before you launch you EB campaign. Actionable insights, right here
EMPLOYER BRANDING
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What Are The Key Competencies and Traits of the Best Recruiters?
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Big List of Events to Attend in 2019
Keep adding your events to the Big List folks - let’s keep it the most comprehensive events schedule for our industry around. You can of course, just use it to see what cool events to go to. Check it out here
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Silver Medalists: Do You Have a Plan?
Delighted to announce Jeff Moore, Staffing Manager at Google, will be joining Brainfood Live On Air this Friday, to talk about how to re-engage lost candidates. Jeff is a rare do-er / thinker at the top of his game - don’t miss his wisdom this week. Free to register, save your spot for the show here
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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 [email protected]
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Does Work Culture Exist?
Two reasons why this video is being highlighted; first it features my buddy Dr. Richard Claydon talking work culture and second, it highlights the stunning visual storytelling techniques of Let’s Doodle It. Have a watch and listen to this
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Conversations with Tyler: Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise
Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, in conversation with Tyler Cowen, on bias and decision making. Important listening for anyone involved in assessing / hiring. 1 hour of the good stuff, here
PODCAST
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Deep Dive: How Blockchain will Change the Way We Work
It’s Andrew Spence, on Blockchain. He knows more about it than I do, so here’s his full talk from the recent TechHRSG'19 event in Singapore.
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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, please email me at [email protected] with job title and link so people can apply
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I’m at #truLondon on Monday and then at UNLEASH Tuesday and Wednesday - give me a shout if you’re about and want to talk hiring or the future of the planet. Message me twitter or Instagram. Have a great week everybody. Hung
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