Aug 2, 2020

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #199

Hung Lee

Brainfood Live, Ep72: How can recruiters remain indispensable when companies are not hiring? Neil Carberry, CEO of REC (Recruitment & Employment Confederation) joins to provide unique insight derived from the aggregate view of thousands of recruitment companies in the UK.

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The Brainfood

Quality Matches via Personalized AI for Hirer and Seeker Preferences

The engineering blog on LinkedIn contains fascinating posts on the mechanics of the platform; if you want to know how big blue works, you really have to be on it with this blog series. This post provides a detail on how the job matching algorithm works - a fascinating breakdown of the relevancy challenge. H/T to brainfooder Colin McNicol for the share in the fb group.

engineering.linkedin.com

Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce

Microsoft - by mandating every employee to use the same Teams platform - might be uniquely positioned to commentate on the true implications of the global shift to remote work; some key findings in this summary post: meetings have increased in frequency, but reduced in duration (hurray!); also, change happens fast when it comes from the employees up vs managers down. Some must read corporate anthropology.

REMOTE WORKING

hbr.org

Blurring the Line Between Sourcing and Hacking

Cool speculation by brainfooder Mark Tortorici on what the act of sourcing actually constitutes, and how similar it is straight up hacking. Both are grabbing information that perhaps the subject did not intend for you to grab. Perhaps less of a blurred line, more a line lightly traced? Have a read and a think, here

SOURCING

marktortorici.wordpress.com

Nikolay Ironov

Know his name, because ‘he’ doesn’t actually exist. Fascinating story / PR stunt by a Russian design studio who passed off the bot ‘Nikolay Ironov’ as a human designer - and won awards for the work. Overlay this story of human like AI performance on top of the phase shift to remote only….and the inevitable future moves into focus.

www.artlebedev.com

The Right Compensation Model for Remote-First Teams, an Unsolved Case

Do you pay ‘market rate’ regardless of the location of the employee? Do you compensate for WFH set up? Do you reduce pay based on reduced commute costs? Plenty of brainfood here in this essential post every manager needs to read. H/T to brainfooder Viktoriya Vasileva for the share

REMOTE WORKING

www.linkedin.com

How to Cold Email Your Way into Your Dream Job

Excellent post on improving the effectiveness of your cold email outreach. First contact by email remains the go to for recruiters, and this advice from the job seekers perspective is imminently adaptable to prospecting for clients or engaging with candidates. H/T brainfooder Dominic Rohde for the share

ENGAGEMENT

www.morningbrew.com

WhatsMyName

So this website searches a username (i.e ‘hunglee’) and brings back all the social profiles of people using that username. Obviously useful for sourcing & prospecting. PS: I didn’t forensically audit my own name so pls let me know if you find anything dodgy under my name…..H/T brainfooder Jan Tegze for the share

COOL TOOL

whatsmyname.app

Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice

Fascinating essay on personal development and skills learning, essentially that deliberate practice is only useful for skills where knowledge is explicit, generalisable and therefore teachable. Bit of a mind bender of a post, but the author has a case I think, and makes a rather good job of explaining it. Might also be relevant to how we interview for talent

ASSESSMENT

commoncog.com

Code Completion Demo from OpenAI

More on OpenAI’s GPT-3. The lesson here is that AI doesn’t have to be all that smart for it to be practically useful - it just has to have a massive dataset (like, for instance, the Internet). 3 minute video on how simple commands can compile into complicated code, and run. Basically ….means the end of reinventing the wheel?

player.vimeo.com

The Two Most Important Letters Missing From Your Job Postings

I believe brainfooder Katrina Kibben mentioned this point in Brainfood Live a couple weeks ago - which caused me to look a bit deeper in the brainfood content queue and I fished out this post in response. Pretty much spot on. Must read if you’re writing job adverts

RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING

medium.com

How Dark Mode for Email Can Boost Your Deliverability

The shift to remote work is extending our day, meaning that ‘dark mode’ might become ever more important UX consideration, especially as messaging moves ever further from the 9-5 work cycle. Here’s a short and useful post on how to make your email dark mode friendly (+1 for transparent images)

ENGAGEMENT

sendgrid.com

How To Land An OSINT Job

Time to pivot out of recruitment? It is for many of us, so this post is timely and useful in equal measure. Echoing Mark on sourcing vs hacking earlier in this newsletter, it is an exploration of the types of non-recruiter roles a recruiter might want to look into…check it out here.

ECONOMY

osintcurio.us

The Evidence Is Clear, Caste Hurts Corporations In India And Abroad

One of the sad ironies of D&I is just how diverse we really are when it comes to discriminatory practices. Fascinating story on the persistence of ‘casteism’ in India, as well as in companies where there is significant Indian representation. Of interest to me: how is caste data collected? Any one know, let me know…

D&I

www.huffingtonpost.in

Who's Available & Who's Hiring?

Brainfood Hall of Fame

Keep piling into this folks - we’re going to be at 800+ in the Hall of Fame in a week or so. So much so the intro animation might have to go - loading way too much right now. Also, thinking of integrating the Tribune stories to this also. Main thing though: advertise your availability for work on it. 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

Whose Story?

A Letter To My 13 Year Old Self…Randy Moore

Randy Moore, Board member at Pocket Recruiter, recruitment business owner, ex-professional baseball player and HR Tech Evangelist with 5 lessons he would give in A Letter to his 13 year old self. Another amazing story from the community - take a read here

If you are a brainfooder, I invite you to share your story with the community. Email me at [email protected]

www.recruitingbrainfood.com

Who's Talking?

Big List of Podcasts to Listen to in 2020

This is the collection of the best recruiting / HR podcasts in our space. We’re up to 100 now - some new discoveries for me too. 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

www.recruitingbrainfood.com

Building Companies in Times of Change

Reid Hoffman on ‘blitz scaling’ - and how relevant this hyper growth approach is in the post Covid era. It’s an excellent wide ranging interview on the topics of the day - have a listen here

PODCAST

soundcloud.com

‎Yang Speaks: Wanda Sykes on Cancel Culture, UBI, and the 2020 Election

As unemployment support payments begin to end, there has never been a more timely moment to remind ourselves for the argument for Universal and Unconditional Basic Income. Andrew Yang has become the face behind the idea, so good job he has a podcast in which he bangs on (entertainingly) about it. Have listen here

PODCAST

podcasts.apple.com

End notes

So my 100 litre turtle tank decided to spring a leak this week, which basically means pet turtle is now living in a tupperware box and I’m now living in a space dominated by buckets of sand, PVC piping and tubes of silicon sealant.

A great opportunity to learn about fluid dynamics….

Got pets causing problems? DM me on some snaps of your critters on twitter or Instagram!

Finally, here’s a bit of amazing for you.

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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