May 31, 2020

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #190

Hung Lee

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

The Unbearable Weightlessness of Being (In Lockdown)

As we begin to emerge from lockdown, big questions are being asked on what the standard operating model of business should be: remote, hybrid or co-located? An interesting angle from this post which argues for the existence of an essential ‘gravity’ to a businesses which is missing when you don’t have a physical HQ. What do we think - do companies have a soul and - if so - must it be at a physical place? Even as a remote only advocate, I’m kind of thinking…..maybe it does. Fascinating conjecture: have a read here

REMOTE WORKING

www.linkedin.com

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020

Stack Overflow produce perhaps the most important report on developer marketplace. Their annual report is a must read for anyone hiring or planning to hire for Software engineers. Also looks fantastic in dark mode.

RESEARCH

insights.stackoverflow.com

The Three Sides of Risk

Some stories are so well told that you don’t mind if they take the long route to get to the point. A tragic, personal story to illustrate what must have been a remarkable presentation. It’s about the nature of risk and, if you only read one thing in brainfood this week, read this.

ECONOMY

www.collaborativefund.com

Investigate TikTok Like A Pro!

Does anyone know how to source from TikTok? The only social media rocketship that is still flying north east, TikTok continues its extraordinary rise and it’s about time we recruiters knew how to make it work for us. This post from Bellingcat is as comprehensive a guide as you’ll find. H/T brainfooder Yulia Bondar for the share in the fb group

SOURCING

www.bellingcat.com

Spain Takes 'Giant Step' On Guaranteed Minimum Income

There is no guaranteed outcome for the policy of guaranteed minimum income but it feels like past time to give it a shot. Now looking like Spain could be first out of gate with something close to universal, unconditional income. Particularly important, as any economic ‘recovery’ is unlikely to be measured in gainful and dignified employment, as brainfooder Kevin Wheeler succinctly observed in the fb group earlier this week.

UBI

euobserver.com

Recruiter Templates List

Here’s what you need: a massive database of first contact messaging templates written by one of the best in the business. Brainfooder Jonathan Kidder provides the gold - just take a look and copy and paste what you need.

ENGAGEMENT

wizardsourcer.com

The Corporate Culture Gap

Some acronyms to learn: CAI (Culture As Imagined) vs CAP (Culture As Practiced), and the distance between the two being CCG (Corporate Culture Gap). Beginnings of a framework here in this thought provoking post on employers walking the talk. H/T brainfooders Pedro Oliveira & Catia Sousa for the share

CULTURE

rkoutnik.com

Mythical Man Month: Why More Manpower Doesn’t Mean Faster Work

Is hiring more people always the answer? Of course, we know it isn’t, but perhaps have never seen the reason why so well described as in this superb 5 minute lesson to the wise. Not sure what category this should go under, other than ‘must watch’

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

www.youtube.com

The VC & Founder Sentiment Survey

NFX surveyed 286 Founders and 114 VCs to capture sentiment data during the COVID-19 crisis. No surprise that founders are more optimistic than VC’s. Lots of interesting in this report, so have at it here. Download the PDF here

ECONOMY

www.nfx.com

Tesla's Return-to-Work Playbook

Elon Musk lost some serious brown points over his approach to Covid-19, but that should not take away from this excellent guide his company has put together for inevitable return to the factory. H/T brainfooder Denys Dinkevych for the share

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

www.dropbox.com

Coronavirus Contact Tracing: My New Skill

Fascinating report on a job that thousands of people are now going to do doing. Journalist Rory Cellan-Jones gives it contact tracing a go and his findings are eye opening. Lot of transferrable skills from sourcing / recruiting here to the Covid economy it seems. H/T brainfooder Petar Vujosevic for the share.

FUTURE OF WORK

www.bbc.co.uk

Companies Must Pay Share of Rent for Employees Working from Home

Important ruling (Swiss brainfooders pls update where you are with this) from Switzerland’s top court: employers are required to contribute to employees’ rent if they work from home. Being a little stunned by unexpected second order effects of Covid-19 will be only thing that is predictable these days. Fascinating changes in the relationship between individual, company and the state. Have a read here

SOCIETY

www.swissinfo.ch

Who's Available?

Brainfood Hall of Fame

We went over over 500+ brainfooders in the Hall of Fame this week - great to see this directory begin to populate. Sign up, set your weekly bandwidth for collaborations, side projects or full time work. Do it here

community.recruitingbrainfood.com

The foodhall of fame is a repurposed public ‘thank you’ to community contributors which we have now repurposed into a Craigslist for Recruiters. Sign up and set your bandwidth for new work for the week ahead

Who's Hiring?

Head of Talent Management, Danone, Istanbul, Turkey

HR Specialist - Talent & Learning, Danone, Solna, Sweden

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

Who's Talking?

Big List of Podcasts to Listen to in 2020

This list is probCheck 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

www.recruitingbrainfood.com

How COVID Accelerates the Arrival of our Future

If read this newsletter you know that I’m #YangGang all the way. His improbably journey arguably started with his appearance on Sam Harris Making Sense podcast in 2018. Andrew Yang, now with his own pod, returns the favour here. As you can expect, its all about UBI

PODCAST

www.youtube.com

Ep 269: Find Your Voice

I’m increasingly becoming interested in the technical aspects of AV. This podcast from the consistently excellent Recruiting Future podcast features internationally renowned voice coach Caroline Goyder on how to use your voice. It’s a mandatory listen.

PODCAST

recruitingfuture.com

What's On?

BYP In Partnership With Facebook Presents: A Special Webinar For Recruiters

This looks like a superb initiative from the BYP and brainfooder Oli Urpi and the rest recruiting team at Facebook. Recruiters have a vital role to play in creating a more equitable society. Sign up to this folks and tune in

Thursday, June 4, 2020

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Virtual CogX 2020

Claim your free ticket to this event. CogX is the premier event for all things AI & FutureTech and the online version is on with an offer of a FREE ticket if you’re quick enough to grab one of the remaining few. I got mine - have you got yours?

8-10 June, Online

cogx.co

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]

End notes

It’s my birthday this Tuesday, so normally I would use this moment to ask you to take part in the Brainfood Forest and join me in planting some trees for the planet. However, it’s been a weird year for everybody and I think this is moment that is going to have to be revisited later in the year.

Expect an email from me at some point late in 2020 asking you for $10 or your local currency equivalent.

In the meantime, I got to bake a cake.

Anyone got any recipes? I have no idea what I’m doing.

DM me on twitter or Instagram

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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