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May 17 · Issue #188 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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Recruitee
This week’s brainfood is supported by our buddies Recruitee. With the global health crisis shifting workplace dynamics, the roles and responsibilities of recruiters are changing. Preparing for the future must begin with up-skilling the talent acquisition function. Special guest Johnny Campbell, CEO of SocialTalent will lead a free 1 hour webinar on the Thursday 28 May, 3pm CEST on how companies best do this - don’t miss this, register here! SPONSORS
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8 Laws Driving Success
What separates success from failure? These 8 laws contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products. CULTURE
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Understanding Dwell Time to Improve LinkedIn Feed Ranking
LinkedIn have tweaked their newsfeed algorithm, with a heightened focus on ‘dwell time’. Implications for posting behaviour are unclear (if you have a theory, let me know…), but this post explains why your view counts may have crashed in recent weeks. H/T brainfooder Guillaume Alexandre for the share RECRUITMENT MARKETING
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Reimagining Work in the Age of COVID-19
We’ve tried to do ‘ open source’ in recruiting & HR for a long time but this may be the moment when we might finally realise it. Fitting that this is a project by brainfooder Lars Schmidt, who pioneered the idea with HROS back in the day, and now finally has the right platform to make it happen. RESOURCE
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Rezi
Filtering candidate resumes using AI? Well you can expect candidates to use AI for getting past your filter. Cool tool here from Rezi, and another example of the evolutionary arms race between assessors and the assessed. H/T to brainfooder Liz van Zyl for the share COOL TOOL
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A Guide to Searching LinkedIn by Email Address
What if you have candidate email but want to map to the candidates LinkedIn profile? Nice way to do this data enrichment through Outlook manager. H/T brainfooder Guillaume Lhote for the share SOURCING
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Peacetime Bureaucracy / Wartime Bureaucracy
If war and peace are fundamentally different states - then we need fundamentally different modes of operating to succeed in them. Line-by-line comparison in this thought provoking post on how to organise for either circumstance, though tellingly it doesn’t deal with how you are meant to switch between the two….. CULTURE
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HackerNews Trends
This is just a really cool tool. Keyword search input on trending topics on Hacker News (hint: ‘hiring’) in order to output a clickable bubble chart from which you can explore further. Some obvious business development / candidate sourcing applications here. Give it a go. COOL TOOL
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Now Is an Unprecedented Opportunity to Hire Great Talent
Unusually practical post from HBR, with some excellent do-it-today tactics on hiring during a downturn. Also includes evidence that the strongest companies to emerge from recessions are those which manage to resist thinking in the binary states of ‘grow vs cut’. Useful ammo for us in HR / TA, for conversations at the top. CULTURE
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Here’s Why Our Considerations About The Workplace Must Include Domesticity
Exceptional post which articulates what most of us are experiencing first hand right now - our homes as economic spaces. Important to read this, so have at it here
D&I
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What do Job Seekers Ask Chatbots About During a Pandemic?
Guess what? Candidates are asking about Covid-19 and what your lay-off policy might be when they visit your career page. Nice piece of research from our buddies at jobpal - important read for those who care about candidate experience and employer brand CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE
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Why Are Some People Better At Working From Home Than Others?
‘Boundary violations’, ‘energy shots’, ‘micro-transitions’ - sometimes we just need the right words to help us understand what we feel. Excellent post from the Beeb which gives us the vocabulary on how to become more effective as a remote worker REMOTE WORKING
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Job Searching & Lay off Resources
Lay off lists, searchable candidate databases, crowdsourced google sheets - you name it, Bret Feig has collated it. Useful for jobseeking recruiters or recruiters looking for ready-to-go candidates. Take a look here
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The Neoliberal Era is Ending. What Comes Next?
Exceptional essay, referencing 3 of the smartest economists currently in the game - Mariana Mazzucato, Carlota Perez and Stephanie Kelton. As we all had to study up on epidemiology on the outbreak of Covid-19, so we need all need to up our game on economics as we begin the exit of phase 1, of wave 1. Must read folks ECONOMY
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Brainfood Hall of Fame
Update your availability for new work, side projects or collaborations in the Brainfood Hall of Fame. More UX improvements this week, plus further reports that brainfooders are getting work through this. Sign up if you haven’t already done so here
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The foodhall of fame is a repurposed public ‘thank you’ to community contributors which we have now repurposed into a kind of Craigslist for Available Recruiters / HR people.
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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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The Blunder Years, Episode 36: "Nobody's F*cking equal!"
How equal are we, really? And if we’re not that equal, what does that mean for both raising kids and HR best practices? Really important questions asked in this excellent podcast by Ted Bauer PODCAST
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Ep 18: Bill Boorman - The Master of Ceremonies and Hero of Superhero's
Great series by brainfooder Theo Smith. This week it is Bill Boorman talking the place of neurodiversity in d&I and tech. It’s great chat with two of the genuine good guys in the game. PODCAST
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#truInclusion May 2020 - The Ultimate On-Line Global Inclusion
This has got a chance to be really good. Brainfooder Jo Lockwood hosts an all star cast in #truinclusion online. Donation to register, (with a guide price of only £10) - going to be a cracker 19 May 2020, Online
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Building the Business Case for your TA Transformation
Conversation between two industry giants here with David Wilson, CEO of Fosway, Europe’s pre-eminent HR Analyst Group, and Jerome Ternynck, CEO and Founder of SmartRecruiters. Free webinar - register here
20 May 2020, Online
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Sourcing Summit Virtual
49 days to go before the worlds premier sourcing summit kicks off. Now over 3 days, you get the chance to learn from 70+ of the best do-ers and thinkers in the business today. Register here . (10% off use the code: BRAINFOODSOSUV10)
6-9 July 2020, Online
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Getting harder to beat the dawn on my morning bike rides, so sorry for the lack of update on the ‘gram lately. Might start taking pictures of my food, like everyone else, but I realise I’m generally eating from a menu of around 4 meals right now - most of which is porridge. DM me on twitter or Instagram if you have any do-able recipes more interesting than this Finally, you might want to see this video of transparent space rockets Have a great week everybody. Hung
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