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Introducing: The Brainfood Tribune As we accelerate through this incredible period of change, it's cr
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July 19 · Issue #197 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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Introducing: The Brainfood Tribune As we accelerate through this incredible period of change, it’s crucial we reconnect to one of the things that will always be true: we share our humanity. Through the medium of personal storytelling, the Brainfood Tribune is the place where we will be able to see and acknowledge this truth. Expect -honesty, vulnerability, heartbreak, wisdom, joy - as community members set aside their professional persona and tell us who they really are. I invite you all to take part in this initiative. Do this first by exploring the stories told by our first cohort of 12 contributors - Elena Valentine, Glen Cathey, Dethra Giles, Maisha Cannon, Kris Bright, Chad Sowash, AK Menon, Pedro Oliveira, Narek Aslikyan, Joanne Lockwood, Manjuri Sinha and Jo Weech. Second, if you want to be part of the next cohort of 12, just let me know. Apply by replying to this email and say that you want to share your story.
Thanks this week to: Tom Waddell, Garry Turner, Eugene van den Hemel, Kevin Green, Alison Birch, David Barlow, Adam Gordon, Stefan Welack, Bas van de Haterd, Mark Uz, Mark Edwards, Manjuri Sinha, Joey NK Koksal, Václav Kotyk, Andrew Packiarajah, James Osborne, Mick Griffin, Nikhil Jain, Jon Brooks, Guillermo Rademakers, Adrian Holtham, Greg Poole, Steve Jacobs. Lauren Sharp, Ersin Erdem, Luke Shipley and Andrew Elliott - your public endorsement of this newsletter helps ensure it stays free for everyone to read.
Can you help? Simply share this link recruitingbrainfood.com on a LinkedIn status update and recommend it to your network - it’s the best way to keep the growing the brainfood community. Cheers! Hung
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Codility
This week’s brainfood is supported by our buddies at Codility - the evidence-based platform that helps hiring teams predict the real-life skills of their developer candidates, remotely and at scale. Request a demo to see why Slack, Microsoft, and Tesla choose Codility. SPONSORS
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Why It’s Time to End the “Ideal Target Candidate Profile”
Outstanding thinking from brainfooder John Vlastelica whose suggestion of focusing on the work rather than the ‘ideal candidate profile’ may be a critical step to not only diversifying your talent pool, but also elevating the role of recruiter from provider to advisor. Must read
RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS
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Nice! #opentowork is Public
Following Irina Shamaeva is step No1 to improving your sourcing game. She isn’t always ingenious but she is always on it. LinkedIn’s new feature to help out of work users is public, and therefore, open for X-ray search. Simple yet massively useful post - as usual. SOURCING
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COVID-19 Digital Engagement Report
Outstanding research from Twilio, who surveyed a global audience of 2,500 enterprise leaders to gauge their views on how digital engagement has changed as a result of COVID-19. This virus may have done more to accelerate digital transformation than all the change managers on the planet. Great report folks - download the PDF version here. H/T Martyn Redstone for the share in the fb group
ENGAGEMENT
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A New Approach to People Ops That Puts Employee Experience First
‘Holistic People Ops’? Cynics going to cynic but I really like the base idea of expanding scope; it is critical that HR / TA functions do this, especially in the light of shrinking FTE as a percentage of the workforce population. This is a great read, as you can expect from First Round. RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS
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How Companies Can Make Remote Working A Success
This post is here primarily for this chart - a very decent way of visualising which flavour of remote working you’re going to try. It’s going to be easier to go all in or all out, naturally, but at least with this, you’re going to know what your choices are. REMOTE WORKING
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When Your Coworker Does Great Work, Tell Their Manager
Another great post from the tech world, this time from Julie Evans, who not only gives us a handy culture / team building tip, but also why you should ask before you do the good deed. CULTURE
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How People Read Online
Looking back at findings from a series of eyetracking studies over 13 years, we see that fundamental scanning behaviors remain constant, even as designs change. Incredibly useful (and accessible) report on how human beings consume data on a screen. Essential reading for anyone producing content on the Internet. RECRUITMENT MARKETING
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Debuild: Build Web Apps Lightning Fast.
Want to build an app? Why not give Debuild real english language commands and have it auto-generate and deploy the code for you. Workforce automation is coming folks - and it will come for the coders too. H/T brainfooder Craig Hughes for the share (and for the conversation all those years ago) COOL TOOL
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The Greatest Privilege We Never Talk About: Beauty
Beautiful people have it easier, and it’s not fair. Important points raised in this thought provoking if rather imperfect essay, (entirely missing the concept of evolutionary fitness…) but ends with suggestions I can fully agree with. Also seems to have produced a decent reason for the positive application of deep fakes…. D&I
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23 Alternative Career Paths that Software Developers Can Grow Into
Someone should do this for the recruiting community. Not saying that we necessarily need to think about alternative careers…. but it would be great to see those paths visualised. Do we agree? NB: oh yeah: this post is also pretty useful for understanding tech roles. ASSESSMENT
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Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills
The design of “technical interviews” is hurting the tech sector. I’d actually argue the purpose is the bigger problem. As we discussed in last Friday’s awesome Brainfood Live, interviews are not what we think they are, and don’t assess for what we think they assess. This excellent retrospective adds more weight to the argument that we need a fundamental rethink of the interview. H/T brainfooder Kristian Bright for the share ASSESSMENT
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Tools for Better Thinking
A collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems. 👆we can all get behind this. Super initiative, beautifully presented. Brainfood for sure - have a look here
RESOURCE
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My Bizarre Stint As an Amazon Reviewer for Hire
Fascinating mea culpa from a guy who ended up lying for money on the Internet. Review sites of all types have got to be subject to gaming of this sort - too cheap and too easy to buy someone off to give you a good rating. Anyone done this with LinkedIn endorsements? btw: feel free to endorse me, but only for LinkedIn endorsements…. FUTURE OF WORK
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Brainfood Hall of Fame
Busted through the 700 member mark this week - awesome to have all of you onboard! Sign up, set your bandwidth, get contacted by other members for side projects, collaborations or full time work. Free to use, here so get to it. |
The foodhall of fame is a repurposed public ‘thank you’ to community contributors which we have now repurposed into a Craigslist for Recruiters.
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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 your job posting
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Big List of Podcasts to Listen to in 2020
Are we still adding to this? I hope so, because I think it’s going to need a refresh. Check 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
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Next Wave Talent
I’ve been parachuted in to open this super looking event this week. Talking about not having a plan but maybe have a direction. I over ran by 10 minutes on the recording. There are better speakers on it than me, so take a look at the agenda here and register here
21-24 July, Online
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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep69 - Practical Tips to Diversify Your Talent Pool w/ Jelmer Koppelmans, Christine Ng and Katrina Kibben
Brainfood Live is a weekly livestream I do with guests selected from members of the brainfood community. This week we’re talking practical tips on diversifying your talent pool - from process, job ad writing, sourcing, and assessment. Can’t miss this one folks, so register here. 24th July, Online
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The Virtual Reality HR Conference
The wholesale shift to remote work is an accelerant to adoption of VR / AR / MR. Expect to hear more about these spaces in brainfood going forward. You might as well get your first taste - $89 for 2 days in AltSpace with the first HR conference in VR. Tickets here - see you there 28-29 July, Virtual Reality
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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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If you’re sick of looking out your window, how about you look outside from someone else’s? H/T to brainfooder Simon Hammond for the share….going set my webcam up this week, and we can all stare at the store front of the ever busy, Hoxton Best Kebab. Have a great week everybody. Hung
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