Jun 21, 2020

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #193

Hung Lee

Brainfood Live, Ep65: What is the future for recruitment agencies?

Mark Dorman - CEO of SThree Group - will be sharing his insight on how recruitment agents need to evolve their business, practice and brand. Can’t miss this one folks:

Friday 26th June, 2pm BST / 9am EDT - register here

Special thanks this week to: Bas van de Haterd, Martyn Redstone, Mark Edwards, Simon Geere, Eugene van den Hemel, Mark Uz, Colin Donnery, Simon McSorley, Alison Birch, David Green, Kevin Green, John Bersentes, Christian Madsen, James Osborne, Adam Gordon, Joey NK Koksal, Julia Reis, Micheal Conneely, Bob Lehto, Nikhil Jain, Jim Stroud, Lilyana Wilken, Adriaan Kolff, Antonio Arias Lopez, Elizabeth Murphy, Vanessa Raath, Václav Kotyk, Tris Revill and Heidi Wassini for your public support of this newsletter - it’s vital for keeping it free for all subscribers.

You’re all now permanently commemorated on the Brainfood Hall of Fame- check out your scores friends 😉

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Cheers!

Hung

Sponsors

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SPONSORS

www.codility.com

The Brainfood

The Global AI Talent Tracker

Fascinating research tracking the career paths of AI scientists and researchers, with a particular emphasis on immigration flow; which countries produce and ‘consume’ the most AI talent? It’s another story on China and the USA. H/T to brainfooder Petar Vujosevic for the share.

macropolo.org

🧠 The Psychology of Design:101 Cognitive Biases & Principles That Affect Your UX

“Every time users interact with your product, they:

🙈 Filter the information
🔮 Seek the meaning of it
⏰ Act within a given time
💾 Store bits of the interaction in their memories”

Marvellous project that is slowly adding more examples. There is already enough in there to be of value to right now. Lessons could be applied for almost any brainfood topic - candidate experience, assessment, marketing…anything a human might do in this business. Have a read here

ENGAGEMENT

growth.design

Searching Facebook Fans... IS BACK!

The existence of ‘unofficial Facebook pages’ - autogenerated by the platform when a user creates an employer alias - is the key to this sourcing technique from brainfooder Balazs Paroczay. Great example of how close we are to incredible sources of candidate data, if we just played around a little more with everyday social media.

SOURCING

thebalazs.com

Solving Online Events

Excellent thinking by Ben Evans on the ‘what’s missing’ from the online event; the hallway talk, the random meetings, the sheer density of participants - and the focused commitment of people who have took time out, paid for flights, booked a hotel. Online events are obviously here to stay, but in-person will surely make a comeback too is the verdict in this super interesting read. H/T brainfooder Irina Shamaeva for the share in the fb group

COMMUNITY

www.ben-evans.com

Corona: We’ve Been Laid Off. Learn How We Got Hired As A Team

Fascinating story coming out of Berlin of a team of laid off engineers who pitched and got hired as a team. Particularly interesting to see how standard recruitment artefacts emerge organically from the process - role allocation, record keeping protocols, kind of a reversed hiring funnel, and even a proto-ATS.

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

medium.com

Correcting a Team Member: Avoid My Damaging Rookie Mistakes

Simple, excellent advice from a manager who understood and learned from his error. If your task as a manager or team leader is to motivate your team members, de-motivating them by task based feedback is one of the worst things you can do.

CULTURE

deliverydoubled.com

Three Challenges of Distributed Teams

Challenging reading for a ‘remote only’ advocate like myself, but this is essential material for all of us who are currently wrestling with configuration of our teams. The three problems? - all management is indirect, you can’t hire junior people and you get way less creativity / unplanned wins. All true, I think. Have a read here. H/T Pedro Oliveira for the share

REMOTE WORKING

www.jamesshore.com

How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Stick Around?

Trick question as the answer isn’t the number but a lead into an excellent post about creating jobs which foster growth and development. Engineering focused but the advice translates to any discipline. H/T to brainfooder Denys Dinkevych for the share.

CULTURE

builtin.com

HR for HR Wellbeing Checkup

HR for HR is an individual wellbeing checkup for HR practitioners

First step in any emergency to make sure you are in the right condition to help, not hinder. Excellent initiative and application from our buddies at Culture Amp. Have a play here.

COOL TOOL

www.culturefirst.com

jobtitleheroes

Subreddit which consists of images of the crazy job titles, as seen on TV. Most of these must come from bored sub editors who wanted to a sneak in a laugh for posterity. My personal favourite?Alan Moore as Novelist / Mall Santa / Rasputin Impersonator. You’ll like this - click here

OBSCURA

www.reddit.com

Diversity & Inclusion Efforts That Really Work

Now might be good time to resurface up this report from Stanford University in 2018; 5 best practices which have been proven to improve D&I. Particularly like ‘alternative complaint procedures’- going the legal route often carries career ending consequences for stakeholders involved. Download the report here

D&I

www.dropbox.com

The Virtual Economy

The Virtual Economy is a system of sophisticated platforms, fledgling marketplaces, volatile assets, nixers & pioneers that exist solely in virtual environments.

We’re all going to get on this train at some point, so you might as well hop on now, into this superbly rendered, massively comprehensive, totally immersive experience. H/T to brainfooder Matt Best for the share in the fb group

AR / VR

atelier.net

Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn

Confounding post in which every line that seemed right (“nothing actually happens there - unless you are a recruiter or in enterprise sales)” was followed by a line which seemed wrong (“I’m fairly certain LinkedIn has never helped me in my job search”)

Got to respect this fellow for #deletinglinkedin - and a brainfood reminder to us, that Big Blue not the entirety of the world.

SOCIETY

www.pcmaffey.com

Who's Available & Who's Hiring?

Brainfood Hall of Fame

600+ of you now signed up to the Hall of Fame. Think of this as a place where you can declare your availability for collaboration, side hustles and full time work. Brainfooders have already got work through this and we all need more income opportunities. Free to use 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?

Talent Sourcer (m/f/x), Shpock, Vienna, Austria

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

Bit out of date this and ready for a refresh. If you want to add your podcast to this list, access the google sheet here and add to the bottom of the spreadsheet - this thing is going to get a relaunch!

PODCAST

www.recruitingbrainfood.com

The Unbundling of Jobs

I had the considerable honour of guesting on this excellent podcast series from Rob Stevenson. 30 minutes of quality chat on the future of work, mostly coming from Rob. Have a listen here

PODCAST

talktalenttome.com

What's On?

Connect 2020

Our buddies at the FIRM launch their 3 day virtual event for in-house recruiters. Take your pick from Day 1, Day 2 or Day 3 of quality content and - as the title suggests - connections. Free to attend, for member and non-member alike.

Jun 30 - July 2, 2020, Online

thefirm-network.com

Sourcing Summit Virtual

Less than 3 weeks to go before what must be the biggest sourcing event event organised. 3 days, 100+ sessions from the biggest brains in the sourcing business, including many authors featured in these newsletters. Tickets here folks - hit me up by reply to this email email if you want a brainfood discount

July 6-9, 2020, Online

sourcingsummit.net

TA Global Gathering

2 days worth of awesome content from in-house practitioners from all over the globe. From our buddies at The Recruitment Events Co and 100% free to attend - get your tickets here

July 8-9. 2020, Online

taglobalgathering.com

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

Thanks everyone who DM'ed me guidance videos on how to conduct a self administered haircut. I have the clippers, just now require the courage.

In the meanwhile, as we tentatively / brazenly / recklessly come out of lockdown, you might like to join me for a drive and listen in the cities of the world.

What’s your favourite city to drive through? DM me on twitter or Instagram..

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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