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December 6 · Issue #217 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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Brainfood Live, Ep89: From the Developers POV Part One: Recruiter messaging & outreach. Start of a 4 part mini series with a new idea: all the panelists are going to be software engineers who are going to tell us what they think of regular recruiter behaviour. First part is this Friday 11th December, 2pm UTC, on Recruiter messaging. Kind of a mandatory if you’re a tech recruiter - register now (200 seat limit)
Special thanks this week to: Mark Edwards, Garry Turner, Eugene van den Hemel, Andrew Packiarajah, Elizabeth Murphy, Kevin Green, Colin Donnery, Joey NK Koksal, Hend Halim, Hannah Morgan, Alison Birch, Bas van de Haterd, Laurie Ruettimann, Carrie Corcoran, James Osbourne, Steven Brand, Somer Hackley, Carmen Hudson, Dan Logan, Ross Clennett, Mark Uz, Ben Norton, Chad Horne, Michael Münnich, Martyn Redstone, Celeste Sirin, Liza Van den Berg, Marianna Krol, James Ellis, Karen Dyson, Ben Muwoki, Emma Davis, Janine Owen, Łukasz Korczyk, Elizabeth Murphy and Ronald van Driel for your public support of this newsletter last week - essential for the continuation of this newsletter!
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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The Napoleon Technique: Postponing Things to Increase Productivity
‘Just leave it’ - I imagine Napoleon saying to his Marshalls when responding to yet another unnecessary demand on his time. In this example, his advice to his aides to leave all letters unopened for 3 weeks, with the view that the vast majority of issues will be resolved by the sender themselves in that time. If Bonaparte can apply it to matters of war, surely we can apply it to the corporate in tray. Fascinating, fun and maybe useful read
PRODUCTIVITY
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Employers Start Preparing For The Coronavirus Vaccine With A Question: Can We Require It?
The coronavirus continues to present new dilemma’s eh? The welcome news of vaccines coming into production produces the second order challenge - what to do with employees who refuse vaccination? An employee safety issue, as well as a potential DE&I headache. DE&I
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Why Most “Culture Work” Actually HURTS Your Company
I’m liking the commentary coming from startup founders on company culture. It’s often raw and unfiltered (see last week’s post from Alexandr Wang), but equally often contains insight missing from observations written by specialist recruiters. This post - on company culture being emergent rather than designed - is the start of a convincing argument. Have a read CULTURE
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#Scrapingisnotacrime
Well argued thread from Tricia Wang defending the act, art and science of web scraping - the automated collection of public data. As Tricia makes clear in this thread, the practice is foundational to a great deal of the modern internet, powering indie tools to global applications. It’s also essential to sourcing community, yet it might soon be considered a criminal act. Must read thread
PS: the Van Buren highlights the risk of out of touch legislators who have the power but not always the competence to make rulings of this type; see AB5
SOURCING
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Turning Hope Into Reality
Are we back? Depends on how well your government has handled the pandemic, which you can correlate to economic outlook in this simple country picker from the OECD, using the latest forecast data up to December 2020. ECONOMY
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Should Robots Be Gendered?
I’ve been a follower of embodied AI since i first came across Tengai in 2018 and as more physical robots with AI come into the workplace, new challenges emerge in how think about them (or they objects like tools. or colleagues who happen to be machine?) and how we build relationships with them. Gendering of robots might be the first major challenge we have to face, so this accessible essay is a great outline of the history and potential future for how we might do it. It’s a great read. D&I
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Pay Me or Fork This
Open source communities are a fascinating laboratory for observing future-of-work scenarios play out. The free rider problem is an inherent risk in open source, and whilst not a problem under implicitly agreed fair use rules, it does become irksome when multi-million dollar businesses are the ones doing i., So Marak is downing tools. Top comment on the post on HN on the options available for creators , none of which seem too great FUTURE OF WORK
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The Datafication Of The Workplace
Nothing revelatory in this report from Cardiff University / Data Justice Lab, but it does a rigorous job of outlining where in the recruiting process that data is being collected, and how it is or might be used. Accessible reading on a phenomena accelerated by remote - the digitisation and therefore datafication of the workplace. PEOPLE ANALYTICS
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What Restaurants and Maps Can Tell us About Billions of Dollars of Covid-19 Relief Funds
Superbly detailed analysis of the geographic distribution of Covid-19 relief funds, comparing the differing impact of policies in the US, UK and France. The research points to exacerbation of pre-existing inequities in some of the programs. Relevant to us as we project forward and forecast which sectors (and which locations) are in best/worse position in the post pandemic economy SOCIETY
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The State of AI In 2020
Wonder how of this AI ‘adoption’ rate from McKinsey is just vendors upgrading software and rolling it out to existing customers. Probably most of it, but maybe I’m a cynic and should be more generous in reviewing info like this. Still, including it as there is a decent table at the end which provides something 5 point plan to increase of the to increase the efficacy of AI adoption in your business. AI
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Pushed by Pandemic, Amazon Goes on a Hiring Spree Without Equal
The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million. The closest comparisons are the hiring that entire industries carried out in wartime, such as shipbuilding during the early years of World War II or home building after soldiers returned, economists and corporate historians said. Incredible post on Amazon’s pandemic inducing hiring spree, with several good ideas emerging in the report, including having a dedicated group whose job was a nurture relationships with other companies, in order to be in position to support anticipated furlough / redundancy. No one is doing recruiting like Amazon. H/T brainfooder Chris Raw for the share in the fb group
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Realistic and Interactive Robot Gaze
So the final post this week is relevant in context with the gendering of robots. In 60 seconds this video manages to amaze and creep out at the same time. Embodied AI is happening and perhaps there is another, more important question to be asked - do we even want embodied AI to be human-like at all? H/T brainfooder Colin McNicol for the share in the fb group
AI
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Brainfood Hall of Fame
How are you looking going into 2021? If you feel income secure or would otherwise like to explore other revenue opportunities, I have set up the Brainfood Hall of Fame as a Talent Directory which members of the community can freely use - both to search and to advertise. Get to it, here
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Your Story, Your Voice
Brainfood Tribune continues to grow. This week we have Conversation AI consultant Martyn Redstone, newly minted Global TA & EB Manager at Acoustic Alex Her and award winning Exec Coach Henna Pryor. Get to know your community folks - have a read
If you are a brainfooder, I invite you to share your story with the community. Email me at [email protected]
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The Big Slack-quisition
Big news in the M&A game was Salesforces acquisition of Slack this week. Who better than Chad and Cheese to tell us all the about it? Still the No1 podcast for industry news and analysis. PODCAST
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Johnny Campbell, Co-founder & CEO at Social Talent
Two of my favourite people - Johnny Campbell, CEO of Social Talent and Johnny and Dimitar Stanimiroff, Head of EMEA at Handshake - talk early career hiring on video. Great watch
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From Prison To Tech Giant
Two more of my favourite people talking with each other - it’s Shelley Winner and Theo Smith, talking DE&I, and particularly on Shelley’s personal story and her current advocacy for the formerly incarcerated. Must listen folks. PODCAST
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SOSUDE
This is it folks - for my money, the best single online event focused on sourcing, anywhere this year. It’s probably too long but the price point makes that a bonus you can use later. Another bonus: BRAINFOOD10 discount code here. 8-10 Dec, Online
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How to Enable Faster & Better Hires Through The Right Assessment Tools?
Moderating this fantastic panel on tech assessment - with Jessica Hayes (Whereby), Mario Rodrigues (Farfetch) and the one and only Bas van de Haterd. Can you afford to miss this? Of course not - register here - free 1 hour webinar. Thurs December 10, 12:00 pm UTC.
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Recruiter Nation Live 2020
Jobvite bringing it to you with an action packed day of talks, presentations, panel discussion and Q&A for the annual Recruiter National Live. I’m with Jobvite CEO Aman Brar and GroupM Global Head of TA Michael Wright for the Q&A. Register here
Thur December 10, 1-6pm ET
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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I’m still in London folks, where my primary concern this week is trying to guess what MCU ‘Titan Series’ super hero character to get my little nephew for this birthday. Already boobed with the Black Widow purchase (he got it already), so it’s between Ant-Man and Armoured Spiderman. What say you? Have a great week everybody. Hung
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