Jun 28, 2020

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #194

Hung Lee

Brainfood Live, Ep66: Politics in the Workplace: What is the role of HR & Recruitment? Not one we can ignore so good job Jim Stroud and Kate Bischoff are going to help us talk through it. Can’t miss this one folks 👇

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Special thanks this week to: Luca Cicatelli, Mark Edwards, Bas van de Haterd, Colin Donnery, Eugene van den Hemel, Christian Payne, Martyn Redstone, Glenn Southam, Alison Birch, Kevin Green, John Bersentes, Romuald Restout, Graham Thornton, Bharath C, James Osborne, Steven Brand, Kevin Cardozo, Christian Buttrose, Alison Birch, Katharina Schütte, Andrea Morabito, Joey NK Koksal, David Finlay, Patricia Chmielowiec, Ross Clennett, Aimee Mail, Nina Lockwood, Nikhil Jain, Sammie Walker Herrera, Katrina Kibben, Paul Moir, Jackson Huang, Kasia Tang, Grant Whelan, Adriaan Kolff, Ersin Erdem, Amanda Lamont, Adam Gordon and Jo McCatty for your public endorsement of this newsletter - it is the only way it can stay free for all subscribers to read!

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

Outrage

Much needed introspection on last week’s outrage of the week - BrewDog’s CEO James Watt’s crude LinkedIn update on why recruiters aren’t worth the money, triggering a mini campaign by recruiters to boycott BrewDog’s IPA’s. Plenty of brainfood in this post folks, delivered with Mitch Sullivan‘s usual panache.

EMPLOYER BRANDING

fasttrackrecruitment.com

Send Better Email: A Step-by-Step Guide

Important read from Intercom . We all need to get better at this so while there is nothing previously unknown in this article, the recommendations are worth the reminder. H/T to brainfooder Denys Dinkevych for the share

ENGAGEMENT

www.intercom.com

9 Future of Work Trends Post-COVID-19

Excellent high level view from Gartner. Especially significant: Expansion of the role of the employer in society, accelerating trend for alternative workforce, increase of remote working. Can HR / TA expand scope beyond the payroll? We had better…

FUTURE OF WORK

www.gartner.com

How An Interview Code Submission That Wasn’t Even Submitted Changed Our Process

I wondered: what more am I hoping to learn?

One of many great lines in this fantastic retrospective from a manager brave enough to break from the protocol. It encourages us to go further: what are we really hoping to learn in each stage of the hiring funnel? Must read folks.

ASSESSMENT

stackoverflow.blog

40 Custom Search Engines

Irina Shamaeva is regularly featured on this newsletter for the simple reason that she consistently provides practical advice and resources which anyone can use immediately. This self explanatory post is a great instance. Get the good stuff here

SOURCING

booleanstrings.com

The New Generation of Labor Marketplaces

The role of online labour marketplaces is set to grow in the post Covid-19 world, as the marketplaces ‘verticalise’ (i.e produce better signal) and employers diversify workforce composition. Let’s get better at knowing the landscape. H/T brainfooder Pedro Oliveira for the share.

FUTURE OF WORK

www.nfx.com

Recruiting Representative, Diverse Talent

2020 is turning out to be the Year of the Big List. Here’s another one - an excellent collection of HR & Recruiting resources from brainfooder Jess Hayes for folks serious about D&I

D&I

docs.google.com

World Economic Outlook Update, June 2020

Volatility - as Mark Dorman explained in this week’s Brainfood Live - is the only consistent characteristic of our future. These monthly projections from IMF on the state of the global economy are an essential resource in such circumstances. H/T Colin McNicol for the share in the fb group.

ECONOMY

www.dropbox.com

3 Principles Most Knowledge Workers Ignore

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology

So starts this outstanding article on how to energize, focus & recover. Includes quotes from Daniel Kahnemann as a bonus. H/T to brainfooder Heidi Wassini for the share.

PRODUCTIVITY

www.linkedin.com

Remote Workers Just Outsourced Themselves...

Will Covid-19 lead to the long overdue global redistribution of wealth? According to this writer, it’s already happening, as remote working advocates inadvertently lay the groundwork for the large scale offshoring of all knowledge work. It’s a persuasive argument.

REMOTE WORKING

medium.com

Candidate Experience Statistics

What do job candidates care about? 1000+ US Mechnical Turkers answer the survey. Bit of a messy report, but readable enough here. H/T Denys Dinkevych - again - for the share ( 👈 follow Denys obviously)

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

zety.com

AI Latency

That cultures change is an important idea we struggle to embed in our discourse on organisational culture. How do we reduce the distance between what we think is there, and what really is there now? The challenges for AI are also the challenge of HI - human intelligence. Great brainfood from John Sumser- have a read here

www.hrexaminer.com

Who's Available?

Brainfood Hall of Fame

We’re getting around 25-30 new brainfooders sign up to the Hall of Fame each week - really need to start thinking about adding messaging into the app. This is a classifieds for availability folks - get on it if you have capacity for additional work. 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.

Who's Hiring?

Director of Global Benefits, Dropbox, San Francisco, USA

Senior HR Business Partner, Austin HR Site Lead, Dropbox, Austin, Tx, USA

Senior HR Business Partner (GBO), Dropbox, San Francisco, USA

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 your job posting

Who's Talking?

Inside the Liverpool Culture of Jurgen Klopp

Consistent delivery of elite performance, culminating in this years unprecedented Premier League campaign, has already made Klopp a guaranteed management case study. Have a listen of what 4 psycho analysts have to say, here

PODCAST

podfollow.com

‎The Recruitment Flex with Serge and Shelley

Cool pod coming out of Canada hosted by brainfooders Serge Boudreau and Shelley Billinghurst. Love the chemistry these two have with each other, and the guests they invite on the show…including me. Have a listen here.

PODCAST

podcasts.apple.com

How Are Hiring Decisions Made? It's Probably Not What You Think!

Amy Miller has a great Youtube channel - medium length video typically on a single topic relevant to the job. Fun and useful, which is what modern content is all about. Check it out here.

VIDEO

www.youtube.com

What's On?

Recruitment Leaders Virtual Conference

Our friends at IHR create some wonderful events - and they’ve been excellent at adapting to the virtual format. On the 1st of July 2020, their annual In-house Recruitment Leaders Conference returns – and it’s all online. In this ultimate learning & development day, In-house Recruiters will be able to witness unique case-study presentations, all from the comfort of your office or home. Get it in your calendar - it’s free to attend - register here

July 1, 2020, Online

www.inhouserecruitment.co.uk

Next Wave Talent

2.5 hours per day, 4 days in the event. Could this be the way to go for online events? Some great speakers lined up for this, especially great to see new faces amongst the old (sorry Bas). Register here

July 21-24, 2020, Online

content.recruitmentevents.com.au

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]

What Are You Doing?

Jan Tegze‘s Full Stack Recruiter - Ultimate Edition is out. If you’re a sourcer / manage a sourcing team, you need this book - get it here.

Sean Echevarria has a new product, launching with Rees, an online career coaching service

Iwo Szapar, has a time limited offer on Virtual Coworking. Always innovating, always doing it from a beach…

If you are a brainfooder and have a new project or initiative you want to share, email me at [email protected]

End notes

So I DIY'ed my haircut this week and it wasn’t a total disaster. Two people in particular to thank for this - Jackson Huang for DM'ing me the tutorial and Jensen Tung actually showing us all how.

It was an interesting experiment:

Lesson No1: it’s totally possible to learn new skills, even when your competence at the start is zero.

Lesson No2: Youtube is an incredible medium for knowledge transfer for physical tasks.

What next - eyebrows?

DM me on twitter or Instagram…

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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