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November 22 · Issue #215 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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Brainfood Live, Ep87: HR + TA - How to build a better relationship? It might be critically important we do so as organisations get remodelled for the post pandemic future With Lisa Scales (Nestle), Robert Hicks (Reward Gateway) and Julie Griggs (Greenhill HR)
Friday 27th Nov, 12.00pm GMT - register here
Rare opportunity to see a leading industry in a live webinar - register
Special thanks this week to: Mark Edwards, Steve Ward, Simon Geere, Colin Donnery, Elizabeth Murphy, James Osborne, Nina Lockwood, Kevin Green, Joey NK Koksal, Somer Hackley, Steven Brand, Jessica McFadden, Oonagh Clarke, Todd Raphael, Erin Peterson, Bas van de Haterd, Eugene van den Hemel, Karen Hutchison, Stephen O'Donnell, Graham Thornton, Garry Turner, , Alison Birch, Andrew Packiarajah, Aliso Birch, Romuald Restout, John Hull, Ross Clennett, Achyut Menon, Chad Horne, Alexandru Gotoi, Bharath C, Sarah Wardle, Ersin Erdem, Lee Hayes, Christina Robinson, Jess Rush and Jo McCatty for your public support for this newsletter last week - vital to keep it going free for everyone else 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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SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters are delighted to announce the acquisition of jobpal, an enterprise-grade chatbot technology, to take recruitment efficiency to the next level.
Smartpal is already available for SmartRecruiter customers who want to super charge their recruitment efficiency by automated all repetitive tasks. SPONSORS
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Get to Know Job Candidates Better and Faster with LinkedIn’s New Video Intro
LinkedIn getting into the asynchronous video interview game with this under-the-radar release of the ‘ video intro’. Recruiters set the questions, job applicants record the responses on the mobile app. We’re inevitably going to use this, even though questions raised on DE&I implications on video tech like this. H/T to brainfooder Marcel van der Meer for the share in the fb group
COOL TOOL
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Is Remote Working Only a Pitstop on the Way to More Precarity?
Wonderful post on the ‘smile curve’ and the inevitable commoditisation and offshoring of knowledge work, accelerated by the radical shift to remote. A challenging future ahead - on the one hand, long overdue economic rebalancing on a global level; on the other, will the WEIRD populations tolerate the relative drop in standards of living? Today’s politics gives us some indication as to what that answer might be. A must read folks REMOTE WORKING
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Everyone’s A Copywriter. Right?
Are you a ‘grammar prescriptivist’? If you are, look away now because this post is torches your position and blames you for the terrible copy we see so often on the Internet. Great article on what makes great writing, but also on creativity in general - it’s about knowing the rules enough to have fun in breaking them. Good read for anybody producing content on the Internet. CONTENT MARKETING
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How to Exceed 1,000 Search Results on Bing
Following on from last week’s popular post by Irina, brainfooder Glenn Gutmacher arrives with another ‘exceed the result limit’ hack, this time on Bing. Seems like including image results is the common denominator. Must read if you’re in sourcing SOURCING
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A New Work Ecosystem
Brainfooder Kevin Wheeler is doing a huge amount of the intellectual heavy lifting when it forecasting the future of the talent acquisition department. Reaching back a couple decades to revive the Shamrock model for the post pandemic era is a testament to the breadth of knowledge from different eras he can bring to bear on the topic. Essential reading for anyone in TA RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS
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In-Demand Talent Playbook 2020
Useful workflows + content ideas in this accessible how-to guide from Candidate-ID. Download this if you’re in an engagement crisis, realise you need to nurture relationships for a lot longer than you did before, or if you still just sending job alerts to your database. ENGAGEMENT
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The Tribal Network Effect
Interesting post introducing community building concepts, which we as recruiters & HR are likely to need to know more about. Have digest on this - main points: identity required for tribe formation, and exclusion is key tribal coherence. Brainfood for sure and definitely worth a read. COMMUNITY
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Cold Email Templates Find Inspiration From Best Performing Cold Emails, Sorted By Categories.
We all need to get better at outreach, so why not ‘gain inspiration’ from those which have already had success? Nothing wrong with templating per se, but it will hit a critical point before it becomes cliche, so get whilst the getting is good. H/T to brainfooder Denys Dinkevych for the share ENGAGEMENT
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Meet Reid
Reid being Reid Hoffmann, founder of LinkedIn amongst other things. Including this post for two reasons - firstly an excellent demonstration of the value of no-code platforms like Coda (hear Lars Schmidt interview with Coda founder Shishir Mehrotra in ‘Who’s Talking), and secondly, wouldn’t it be an awesome idea for your C-suite or Hiring managers to each do one of these? EMPLOYER BRANDING
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DE&I In Hiring Is A Process, Not A Policy
Powerful essay on the trade offs you have to make it commit to DE&I. Especially interesting was the call for universalist application process, which is debatable on several grounds including that equity and diversity. Still, an important read. H/T brainfooder Heidi Wassini for the share the fb group
D&I
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"Working" Remotely 2020
What if remote working secures productivity gains only for those who were previously on-premise? Intriguing research on this recent paper from Harvard University which suggests that there may be a novelty factor involved in the positive assessment of remote work. A bit technical so the abstract is here, full report here
REMOTE WORKING
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South Korea Now Has An AI-Powered News Anchor That Is Capable Of Working 24/7
South Korean cable channel MBN has virtually replicated one of their news anchors, who then has to introduce her potential replacement. Fascinating conjecture as to who owns the replica - perhaps something we would embrace if ownership to the individual being replicated. Like we’ve said before in this newsletter, the future isn’t going to wait for us to get comfortable with it. Have a read (and watch - video embedded) AI
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Brainfood Hall of Fame
Talent directory for the brainfood community, Sign in here if you want to search or join,. 100% for use, so you are looking or interested in work, collaboration, side projects or whatever else, we’re all in here. Get to it 👆 |
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If you are a brainfooder and want a job featured in next week’s newsletter, reply to this email with your job and a link to it
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Your Voice, Your Story
The Brainfood Tribune continues at add amazing personal stories to the libary. This week, Anglo-American’s Global Head of TA Salima Shariff, and Re:works MD Mark Shortall answer 20 Questions and whilst The WorkShop’s Katy Peichert tells us about the Best She’s Ever Worked With. Full archive here
If you are a brainfooder, I invite you to share your story with the community, let me know by replying to this email,
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Big List of Podcasts to Listen to in 2020
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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Coda Cofounder & CEO, Shishir Mehrotra
Coda Cofounder & CEO Shishir Mehrotra on the “Big pond, small pond” approach to career development, what he looks for in his people executives, remote/distributed work and rethinking performance and growth measures. Have a listen here
PODCAST
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Alexis Ohanian's Vision for the Future
There are some great leaders in the United States - just not enough of them in political office. Here Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian speaks with Andrew Yang on the future of the social contract, and yes, UBI. Have a watch here
VIDEO
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Facebook’s Tech Chief: How We Built It and Where We’re Going
Super podcast from staunch Facebook critic Azeem Azhar who interviews Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer on what fb has built, what it is doing to combat misinformation and what the roadmap of the future looks like. PODCAST
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Recruiting Trends In A Remote First World
I’m giving a 45 minute talk next month, reviewing the recruiting trends we are seeing as employers worldwide respond to new reality of the remote first world. New talk, synthesising the key trends in recruiting which are going to persist post pandemic, so register here.
1 Dec, 2020, 2,00pm AEDT, Online
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CTO Craft Con: The People One
You know I’m a big fan of non-specialists talking / thinking about recruiting, HR, teams and culture. Well this event by a load of CTO’s should be interesting - as it’s about exactly those topic. Bargain at £95.00 for all three days, but this link you even get £15 discount off the price. Should be different, should be interesting. 1-3 Dec, 2020, 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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Thoughts are still racing with me on what brainfood initiative to tackle but the ideas are struggling to take shape. I suspect some experimentation will be required rather than just sitting here thinking about it. Anyway, I’ll keep you updated. In the meantime, here’s a website which includes a controller for ‘splat radius’ which basically means you’ve got to click it, Have a great week everybody. Hung
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