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Brainfood Live, Ep81: How has Tech Recruiting changed over the past 6 months? We speak with Manjuri
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October 11 · Issue #209 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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Brainfood Live, Ep81: How has Tech Recruiting changed over the past 6 months? We speak with Manjuri Sinha (Global Head of Tech Recruiting at OLX) and Alla Pavlova (Tech recruiter at Miro) for the low down on might still be one of the toughest challenges in hiring today - how to hire Software developers - and the impact Covid-19 has had on the mindset of this market. Friday 16 October, 12.00pm GMT / 1pm CET - register š here
Special thanks this week to: Mark Edwards, Colin Donnery, Kevin Green, Simon Geere, David Green, Luca Cicatelli, Christian Madsen, Janine Owen, Romuald Restout, Navin Hathiramani, Matheos Simou, Eugene van den Hemel, Garry Turner, Bas van de Haterd, Joey NK Koksal, Hilton Barbour, Jessica McFadden, James Ellis, Christian Buttrose, Manjuri Sinha, Robert Nunn, Bharath C, Michael Blakely, Luke Zammit, Martyn Redstone, Chad Horne. Oonagh Clarke, Jo McCatty and Olga Shatokha - your public support is essential for the survival of this newsletter!
Can you help? Simply share this link recruitingbrainfood.com on a LinkedIn status update and recommend it to your network - itās the best way to keep the growing the brainfood community. Cheers! Hung
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Workable
This weekās brainfood is supported by our buddies atĀ Workable, an all-inclusive recruitment solution for busy hiring teams. Right now, theyāre conducting a survey on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), and theyād love to learn how DEI fits within your own company.Ā Fill out the survey hereĀ and enter to win a US$100 Amazon gift card! SPONSORS
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The Post Pandemic Workforce: Responses to a McKinsey Global Survey of 800 Executives
Two findings stand out: the rather conservative projection on the extent of remote work (1/10th of workforce, āsome daysā of the week?) by exec level and the concurrent drive to diversify on premise workforce away from FTE. Management fear losing their grip? Take a look at this accessible report summary. H/T to brainfooder Adam Gordon for the share in the fb group
FUTURE OF WORK
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10 Creative Job Posts and Ads That Will Inspire Yours
Pretty spectacular assembly of creative job advertising. Love some of these, especially the in-game advertising in Animal Crossing. Some very easy-to-try examples also - get inspired and give one of these i deas a try. H/T to brainfooder Denys Dinkevych for the share RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING
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Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You
Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers. Now the pandemic is creating a boom in the industry. A brave new world folks, though with some rather old economics. Still, the future is being made and if we want a more equitable proposition, we have to build a better offering. Meanwhile, others are building this
GIG ECONOMY
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Job Page Grader
This tool has been featured in Brainfood before, but itās been given a significant upgrade and now outputs a much stronger report. Put in your career page url, and this app will give you a report on where it could improve - from SEO to D&I. Free to use so get to it. EMPLOYER BRANDING
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2020 Kleiner Perkins People Report
Love seeing Coda.io being used to produce interactive, explorable resources, something that even 12 months ago wouldāve been a pdf or static webpage. Summary of research performed at the KP portfolio - some interesting benchmark data on hiring, especially for scale-ups RESOURCE
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2 Viewpoints on Bias in AI in HR
Thereās not many people in our business smarter than brainfooder John Sumser. A great writer - capable of find new and important angles to describe problems which might otherwise seem intractable, yet through his exposition, offers a way out. Read this, on bias and AIā¦.see what I mean? AI
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Dsxyliea
The past week has been Dyslexia and Dyscalculia awareness week - an often hidden disability which inevitably impacts more people than we realise. How many of us, for instance, test our career pages to be inclusive of people who may be dyslexic? This tool is a useful visualisation of what dyslexia looks like. Good education folks, so have a look here
D&I
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Chris Herd on Twitter: "I've spoken to around 1,000 companies over the last 6 months about their plans for remote work going forward Here are a few things I've learned š»š š"
Chris Herd is becoming something of a master of the twitter thread on remote work. Obviously he has an agenda but his musings are worthy, especially on the pressure to āout-remoteā your competitors. Read in combo with the McKinsey report above REMOTE WORKING
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How Empathy Can Lead to Bad Decisions
Well this is a challenging read - can you be too empathetic a manager? Understanding how a team member feels is important but perhaps also dangerous if it clouds your judgement as a team lead. Interesting perspective from Dave Bailey - have a read, here
CULTURE
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Visualizing UBI Research
Iām including this because basically Iām all in on whatever Andrew Yang says, but also because UBI is clearly going to seriously explored at some point. The visualisation is also interesting - not sure it entirely works but a reasonable attempt to connect the dots of a complicated topic in a non-linear way. UBI
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HR Metrics and Analytics: How Both Can Add Value
File this post under ādidnāt know, afraid to askā - an excellent overview of the difference between two terms which are often conflated. Kind of a must read I think PEOPLE ANALYTICS
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Japan's Shut-Ins, Hikikomori, Are Living With Their Parents and Have No Jobs
Fascinating study on Japanās Lost Generation - now middle aged adults, irregularly employed, living with ageing parents. A phenomenon exclusive to Japan, or a window into a future we might all share? Must read
SOCIETY
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Brainfood Hall of Fame
Starting to see some requests come in for TA / HR folks - this great news! Of course, feel free to ask me directly, but chances are Iām going to be using this searchable talent directory for recommendations, so you might as well have a look for yourself. Free to sign up, free to use here
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The foodhall of fame is a repurposed public āthank youā 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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If you are a brainfooder and want your job featured in next weekās issue, email me the link at [email protected]
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The Brainfood Tribune
Anastasia Pshegodskaya Manager of Sourcing at Gitlab and Garry Turner, host of the awesome Value Through Vulnerability podcast, take their turn in answer 20 Questions for the Brainfood Tribune. Check out their stories šand those nearly 40 other community members, here. If you are a brainfooder and would like to share your story, email me at [email protected]
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50 Diversity Hiring Tools
Well does what it says on the tin - 50 different technology tools and sites for diversity hiring. Excerpted from the 2020 Diversity Technology Expo. Have a watch here
VIDEO
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Coinbase Chief People Officer, L.J. Brock
The bold move by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, to declare his company a politics free zone, sparked a conversation which is still ongoing throughout the industry. Timely then for brainfooder Lars Schmidt to get hold of company CPO for add perspective from the inside out. Incidentally, 5% of staff have accepted the offer of severance, whilst Armstrong follows up his initial announcement with further update here. All links worth a click folks PODCAST
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Is A More Automated Job Market Less Fair?
An interesting question posed by non-industry perspectives on the digitisation and automation of the job market. More or less fair? Well worth a watch (and reminder too to read John Sumserās post on this earlier in the issue) H/T brainfooder Tom Lakin for the share VIDEO
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Middle East TA Global Gathering
Great to showcase online focused on hiring challenges in different parts of the world. Our buddies at Recruitment Events Co are organising this, for the Middle East region. Check it out here
14-15 Oct, Online
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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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The only other thing you need to worry about this week is the trailer The Expanse Season 5 is out. Hands down the best sci-fi series to emerge about since Battlestar Galactica got rebooted a decade ago. Get into it, you wonāt regret it. DM me on twitter or Instagramā¦if you have any other recommends on Netflix or Prime Have a great week everybody.Ā Hung
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