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June 7 · Issue #191 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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#BlackLivesMatter: Racial injustice is everybody’s problem. Fixing it must be everybody’s responsibility. I hope I made my position clear on these matters in the video I posted online last week. For those who want to learn more about racism - please check out the Who’s Talking section of this newsletter, which this week is dedicated to African American voices who offer perspective for those who wish to learn.
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Special thanks this week to: James Osborne, Romuald Restout, Mandeep Singh Sibia, Kevin Green, Antonio Arias Lopez, Adam Gordon, Luca Cicatelli, Bas van de Haterd, Mark Edwards, Gautam Ghosh, Tris Revill, Clair Mohamed, Alison Birch, Felix Wetzel, Jo Weech, Jo McCatty, Joey NK Koksal, Michael Keleman, Stuart Jones, John Rose, Francois Gauthier, Shelley Billinghurst, Koos Wurzer, Rich Lewis-Jones, Nikhil Jain, Christy Collins, Bharath C, Mark Long, Adriaan Kolff, Christian Payne, Steve Jacobs, Nicki Cutler, Oonagh Clarke, Ersin Erdem, Mark Hothi, Christina Robinson and Simon McSorley for your public support of the newsletter.
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Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals
The co-author of the Spotify model 2 and multiple agile coaches who worked at Spotify have been telling people to not copy it for years. Unfortunately, truth doesn’t spread as quickly or as widely as an idea people want to believe in. This post is less about Spotify, and more about us wanting to believe in miracle frameworks to solve complex challenges. Which - if we’re honest - may always be with us as a basic condition of collaborating with others. Extraordinary insiders diagnostic on Spotify’s Squads
RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS
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Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot
I just witnessed the lynching of a black man, but don’t worry Ted, I’ll have those deliverables to you end of day. How do you manage staff performance during a crisis? Its a question which has been asked by our community members before, but sometimes we cannot - perhaps should not - ask our employees to compartmentalise. Essential essay - have a read
CULTURE
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Better Wiki
A curated directory of best practices from great companies 👆..and it is. Find: technical career frameworks, remote working guides, culture guides and - my personal favourite - manager readme’s. You’re going to want to take a look at this. H/T brainfooder Denys Dinkevych for the share RESOURCE
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Stripe's Remote Engineering Hub, One Year In
Stripe’s decision a year ago to experiment with a ‘co-equal’ remote hub has proved prescient, and now puts them far enough ahead of the curve that they can now do a retro, whilst everyone else is still trying to getting a grip. Accessible read, essential for anyone wrestling with the shift to remote working REMOTE WORKING
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Bruno Simon
Creative developer living in Paris, freelancer, former lead developer at Immersive Garden, former developer at Uzik and teacher. I don’t think Bruno is going to out of work for long - this is the coolest CV website I’ve seen this year. Talk about ‘evidentialising’ your skill set. H/T to brainfooder Graham Thornton for the share in the fb group
CONTENT MARKETING
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State of Marketing 2020
Massive annual State of Marketing Report from Salesforce. 7000 CMO’s & Senior Marketeers surveyed and insights put into this 88 pager. Important read for anyone caring about employer branding, candidate experience or candidate acquisition. Download it here
RECRUITMENT MARKETING
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‘Double Nudge’ Encourages Employers To Offer Flexibility, In Turn Boosting Job Application Rates
Fascinating story on a platform ‘nudging’ employers to offer flexibility in job postings by repositioning the option to do so on the job creation flow, which in turn led to increased applicant rates after the job was posted. Can be read from an information architecture / UX point of view, and / or from the job seeker sentiment perspective. Either way, it’s definitely brainfood. H/T brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING
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Google Hacking Databases (GHDB)
Do you know what a ‘Google Dork’ is? Basically advanced instructions to the search engine to ‘limit results to’. All sourcers need to be aware of it, and of this site, which is an extensive database of such dorks. Check it out here
SOURCING
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The Exact 3 Closing Words That Maximize Email Results
[Spoiler alert] - the three words are ‘thanks in advance’, a classic presumptive close on a request made. IM is influencing email communication though, so I suspect there will be a time limit to the relevance of this research. Raises an interesting angle though - how you end an email maybe even more important than how you start it. ENGAGEMENT
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Talent Intelligence – A Recruiter’s View
Excellent overview of ‘Talent Intelligence’ by brainfooder Marie Herlihy. There is a healthy mixture of research, theory and call-to-action in this post on the competitor talent pools. RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS
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Statement of Alliance
The topic of Internal Mobility came up again on last Friday’s Brainfood Live so timing is right to review LinkedIn’s ‘ Tour of Duty’ concept - basic at one level but no less fundamental for it. It is about understanding the lack of permanence in work. H/T to brainfooder Pedro Oliveira for the share FUTURE OF WORK
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7 Real-Life Examples of Constructive Criticism
Are you any good at giving constructive criticism? I’m not, so I found this post remarkably useful as it is packed with theory supported by practical example. Loads of acronyms too, so that’s a bonus. Have a read here
CULTURE
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Dear White HR Ladies, We Need To Talk: How a Homogenous Profession Has Shaped Our Workplaces, and What We Need To Do About It
D&I has a problem because the department most responsible for D&I is itself usually very far from D&I. Tough, necessary talk on the white, female, middle class dominated department of HR. Have a read here folks. D&I
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Brainfood Hall of Fame
Recruiter, HR, Marketer or Sales - if you are a subscriber of this newsletter you are welcome to sign up for the Brainfood Hall of Fame. Set your availability for projects and diversify our revenue streams. Free to use 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 Craigslist for Recruiters. Sign up and set your bandwidth for new work for the week ahead
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How To Deconstruct Racism, One Headline At A Time
Profound, thought-provoking and hilarious talk by Baratunde Thurston on how we become conditioned to believe in untruths, and how to actually combat the conditioning. Must watch folks VIDEO
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How to Become an Inclusive Leader
I had the honour of being front row for this talk by Dr Steven Jones in Amsterdam last year. His definition of ‘inclusion’ as a condition of psychological safety in the act of publicly disagreeing redefined its meaning to me. Another must watch folks VIDEO
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Deeper Conversations About Taboo Topics at Work
Brainfooder Dethra Giles delivers this outstanding talk on how to talk about topics where we might be fearful to offend. We can’t eliminate racial discrimination without talking about racial discrimination Have a watch here
VIDEO
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The Recovery Summit
There is no end of cool online events happening this month, so it’s tough to pick out what to tune into. Going further afield than just recruiting this month, so event looks like it’s worth the money, especially as cost is zero. Check it out here. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share. 15-16 June, 2020
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Distributed Teams Conference
As we move from ‘are we doing it?’ to ‘how can we do it better?’, this conference could not be more timely. Speakers are practitioners and the talks look practical so have at it here
15-17 June, 2020
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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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I’m still in London folks, prepping ‘phase 2’ of my Covid-19 strategy. I need to have my own strategy as UK govt doesn’t seem to have one, other than be persistently 3 months behind what everyone else in the world is doing. Got to improve my mask game in any case, so I may well pay any amount of money for a prototype of this effort from tech innovator Tyler Glaiel. Have a great week everybody. Hung
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