Brainfood Live, Ep82: How pandemic has changed Recruiter KPI's. We're with Marisa Bryan, VP of Ops at
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October 18 · Issue #210 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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Brainfood Live, Ep82: How pandemic has changed Recruiter KPI’s. We’re with Marisa Bryan, VP of Ops at Scede and Andrea Marston, Director of TA EMEA, VMWare - and taking a deep dive into how we now measure recruiter performance. Don’t miss this one folks, especially if you are a recruitment leader - Friday 23rd October - register here
Special thanks this week to: Eugene van den Hemel, Kevin Green, Mark Edwards, Vanessa Raath, Simon Geere, Colin Donnery, Garry Turner, Adam Gordon, Christian Payne, Torin Ellis, John Bersentes, Antonio Arias Lopez, Joey NK Koksal, Andrea Morabito, Neil Carberry, Karen Hutchison, Alastair Cartwright, Baukelien van Minnen, Chad Horne, Alison Birch, Michael Kelemen, Andrew Packiarajah, Simon Geere, Elena Valentine, Siadhal Magos, Jo McCatty and Symon Irving for your public support last week - vital to keep the newsletter free for everyone else to read.
Can you help? 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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Survey on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
This week’s brainfood sponsor, Workable, is running a survey on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and how that looks in your company. Take 10 minutes to fill out the survey here and enter to win a US$100 Amazon gift card! SPONSORS
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How Normal Am I?
Experience the world of face detection algorithms in this freaky test. 👆 OK, I thought and clicked on through. Turns out to be a fascinating exercise, illustrating some of the core concepts on how facial recognition works. Also note the psychological manipulation (a.k.a marketing) techniques used throughout to get you to do it. Fun, creepy, educational,maybe risky …..so check it out. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share in the fb group
AI
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Four Unstoppable Workforce Trends
Exceptional white paper on the world of professional services from our buddies at ProFinda. Obviously must read if you’re in consulting, but of value to everyone who is on this newsletter as there are some interesting concepts and language, which can help us build the toolkit to tackle the challenges of post pandemic world of work. Have a read, here
FUTURE OF WORK
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MIT SMR’s Culture 500
How does your company culture compare? There is of course, inherent problems with competitively ranking cultures in this way (imagine doing this with national cultures…), but still, this is an undoubtedly a pretty cool tool to play with. Here are the values: agility, collaboration, customer orientation, diversity, execution, innovation, integrity, performance, and respect - data, from Glassdoor reviews. CULTURE
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Why Having "People People" Is Important
Is the recruiter-to-employee ratio a reasonable signal for how much a company cares about people and culture? Interesting conjecture from brainfooder Lucas Tang in this post, which makes the case, that it does. Have a read
CULTURE
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Emotional Resilience In Leadership Report 2020
Someone really needs to throw some design resource at this report on Emotional Resilience. Click through it though and you’ll find really useful information on how leaders have coped during high stress scenarios - and also on techniques on how to do it better. H/T to brainfooder Alexandru Gotoi in the fb group
RESOURCE
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How Salary Transparency Can Help Your Company Advance Its DEI Initiatives
Excellent post weaving together two interrelated topics which are often - and perhaps mistakenly - treated as separable. Particularly like the use of analogies in the table - we should do more of this. H/T to brainfooder Mark Rogers for the share D&I
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What Working At Stripe Has Been Like
You could probably take this template of questions, hand them to any tenured employee in your business, and get a result like this - powerful, authentic, transparent communication of company culture, which doubles up as great marketing, employer branding and as a job advert. Great ROI EMPLOYER BRANDING
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Pyn Employee Journey Map
Very good interactive visualisation of the events which Pyn employees can expect to go through. Full marks for: transparency (see the EB value here?), implementation (really cool use of Miro mapping tool) and Pavi Iyer for the share in the fb group
COOL TOOL
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Consistent Caliber Teams
The clarity of thinking of this blog is what makes it remarkable - intelligent, high value content the reader can consume in under a minute. Not saying this writer is Hemingway, but s/he …is kind of like Hemingway. Anyway, this on consistently high performing teams, is great. CULTURE
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Will Robots Take My Job?
How susceptible is your job to computerization? Fun to try with ‘recruiter’ or ‘HR’ of course, but an interesting exercise to intel on which job types are more or less likely to be resilient against automation - and therefore good or bad markets to focus on if we need to port over. Cool tool and H/T brainfooder Martin Poole for the share WORKFORCE AUTOMATION
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The Problem of Overfitting in Tech Hiring
It’s always fascinating to read recruitment content from the candidate perspective. Often times, there are some useful concepts for us, including this concept of ‘ overfitting’. Perhaps this could be a criteria in how we think about jobs….how precise does the need actually need to be for a person to do this job? Brainfood for sure, so have a read here
ASSESSMENT
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Italian Woman Tells How Colleague Spiked Coffee To 'Eliminate' Her From Job
Alice Bordon says she is still shocked co-worker drugged her to make her underperform
Shocking story of hobbling a colleague in order to safeguard your own job. Crazy stuff - add it to the long list of reasons not to return to the office…. OBSCURA
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Brainfood Hall of Fame
Any brainfooder that is currently or feel that in future may be a job seeker needs to sign up to the Brainfood Hall of Fame. This is a free to use talent directory that all community members can search and connect with each other. Get to it.
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If you are a brainfooder, and want your job featured in the next’s brainfood, reply to this email with a link to that job - its that simple
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The Brainfood Tribune
If you are a brainfooder, I invite you to share your story with the community. Email me at [email protected]
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How To Create Google People Cards
Google People Cards how-to from brainfooder Sarang Brahme. Well worth a watch for those who want to keep an eye out on a potential move by Google into LinkedIn’s playground. VIDEO
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Five Technological Revolutions In Three Minutes (feat. Prof. Carlota Perez)
Carlota Perez is one of the most cogent thinkers in economics today. You tell me she’s going to give you a history lesson in technological revolutions in 3 minutes? I’m going to auto share it in brainfood VIDEO
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South Korea’s Universal Basic Income Experiment to Boost the Economy
More regional experiments on UBI, this time from South Korea. Great to see trialling of UBI - we need to be bold here. Have a watch
UBI
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Key Trends Guiding Recruitment Leaders through the New COVID-19 World
As people leaders orient business processes to a true people-first paradigm, three guiding themes have emerged: the need for empathy, resilience, and empowerment. Taken together, these themes encompass six trends guiding HR leaders through changing times I’m in - free entry registration here
21 Oct, Online
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Managing Editor Live 2020
If you care about content and audience, then this event is for you. By brainfooder Mary Ellen Slayter, this one day event is focused on how to create content and build audience. So smart speakers, including Laurie Ruettimann, and me, doing a fireside chat on Brainfood. Register here
22 Oct, Online
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Hiring Success Virtual Event - EU Tour
Hiring Success is one of the best vendor managed events; I’ve had the pleasure of participating in person in Amsterdam, San Francisco, Berlin and now - online. Here with Bill Boorman and Rob Symons, talking future trends, next week. Sign up here
22 Oct, Online
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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So I finished watching Hellsing on Netflix this week. Its 2004 era Japanese horror anime - which should tell you all you need to know about it. I think its a classic though and worth a watch so long as you don’t mind gratuitous ‘injury detail’ in your cartoons…. Still in London folks - of course - so DM me on twitter or Instagram if you got any more tips on things I need to binge watch. Have a great week everybody. Hung
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