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January 17 · Issue #223 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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Brainfood Live, Ep93: We’re going Down Under this week, as we pivot to focus on hiring in Australia & New Zealand. Big questions are - how do universal concepts (D&I, remote working, UBI, CX, EVP) translate to local conditions?
Friday 05.00am GMT / 16.00pm AEDT - register here if this is a market you hire for!
Special thanks this week to: Mark Deubel, Eugène van den Hemel, Martyn Redstone, Dan Kirkland, Mark Edwards, Simon Geere, Bert Wareham, Kevin Green, Christian Madsen, Kaja Ziębicka, Achyut Menon, Joey NK Koksal, Garry Turner, Mark Uz, Somer Hackley, Bas van de Haterd, Liam FitzGerald, Callum Stuckey, Tom Parker, Cais-Mari Bengtsson, Steven Brand, Paul Bridgewater, Alison Birch, Jean Martin Kyssama, Oliver Jackson, Gelly Mikko, Martin Poole, Ebony Lawless-McCrea, Andrea Kirby, Olga Barrett, Christian Buttrose, Jessie Panesar, Leni Rokosova, Navin Hathiramani, Rebekka Gotter, Graham Thornton and Oana Iordachescu for your public support of this newsletter. Thank you for spreading the word - it is essential for the growth of the community.
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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Personio
This weeks brainfood is supported by our buddies Personio - the all-in-one HR software for small and medium sized companies. HR, Recruiting and Payroll, Personio supports all of the core HR processes in one easy-to-implement system. More than 3000 satisfied customers including Premier Inn, Spendesk, Statista and Clevershuttle use Personio. In January 2020, Personio received a €75 million Series C investment led by Accel to continue its mission to make HR processes easy, so HR can focus on what’s most important - the people. Schedule a demo today with one of Personio’s friendly reps and they’ll be happy to help. Or try it for free here
SPONSORS
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Talent Professionals Share Their Top Recruiting Priorities for 2021
Great bit of crowdsourcing from LinkedIn; you could do worse than simply make note of each of these themes to use as a checklist for things you got to cover in 2021. My faves? Focus on hiring flexible work - we recruiters need new hiring models, tools, processes for this, and Internal mobility - TA have got to take ownership of the ‘talent marketplace’. Have a read here
RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS
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Remote Work Has Arrived, But It's Not Quite As Great As We Hoped
Josh Bersin is always worth a read, even in snap shot posts like this. Quick takeaways: remote is better for college educated, older workers, who are more likely to have the work type and the material means to make remote work work. Interesting challenges ahead, for companies, for society. Have a read here
REMOTE WORKING
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The Great Reset
The call to action from the World Economic Forum to build back better by going in a different direction from mindless profit maximisation of neo-liberal capitalism, baking in social good, green economics and stakeholder capitalism. Tons of resources in this website, which no doubt will continue to be added to. One to bookmark I’d say ECONOMY
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Why My Young Daughter Is So Much Better at Learning Chess Than I Am
Some new terms for us to learn: ‘synaptic density’, ‘fluid intelligence’ vs crystallised intelligence - and one we already know - ‘cognitive decline’. Generational stereotyping has been rightly lambasted over the past few years, but we cannot deny that each of us are on the same inevitable and measurable biological journey, and - where we are on that journey - materially impacts cognitive performance. A challenge for assessment, workplace culture, DE&I and ethics, which this superb post makes perfectly clear. PS: of course you know that the real mission of this newsletter is to encourage synaptic regeneration for the recruiting / HR community… ASSESSMENT
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Day 2: DownSizing The Team
Imagine that on the second day of your new job…..you get told to ‘focus’ the team - code for downsizing. How do you decide who loses their jobs? Tough situation relayed by OP, a CTO in this case, struggling with the challenge of making this decision. His framework for doing so, is well thought out and well worth a read. RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS
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2021 HR Statistics: Job Search, Hiring, Recruiting & Interviews
Definitive list of human resource & job search statistics for 2021: resumes, job interviews, hiring & recruiting in numbers. Great for HR experts and job seekers. 👆 And so it is, for anyone who is writing a post, delivering a presentation or building a business case. Doesn’t go into any QA on the data, but that is probably a good thing for a post of this type. H/T brainfooder Ivan Harrison for the share ECONOMY
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Inclusion Takes Root at Netflix: Our First Report
Netflix have been doing a great job of promoting their culture first approach to company building and this new report likely will be listed as another one of their lead-by-example initiatives. Note the conscious change of language to focus on inclusion as the orientating principle for action. D&I
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The Definitive Guide to Customer Experience v8
“Customers have made the move to messaging, but brands lag behind” - is the main point on this excellent annual report from Conversocial. Swap in ‘candidate’ for ‘customer’ and all of this suddenly becomes relevant. H/T brainfooder Martyn Redstone for the share in the fb group
CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE
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I Sent Out Over 100 Job Applications & Animated The Process With Moving Bubbles
One positive outcome of technically minded job seekers is that sometimes they produce stuff like this - a record and visualisation of a search for a summer internship, visualised on an animated bubble chart. No great practical use but hey - it’s a bubble chart and you know already how much I like those…. COOL TOOL
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Tech Workers Want To Relocate to Germany More Than Any Other Country In The World
Nice piece of research from brainfooder Andrew Stetsenko and our buddies at Relocate.me. Germany ranks No1 - likely to a range of factors including job density, country brand and track record of integrating immigrant communities. Useful for European tech recruiters. ECONOMY
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Workplace Knowledge Flows
Interesting report from Harvard Business School and NBER, which analysed the impact of informal ‘across the desk’ knowledge sharing and how it impacted sales performance. Perhaps the best argument for a return to office is the findings - it’s the un-trackable, unscheduled, randomised flow of information which can give individual performers the edge. Have a read
REMOTE WORKING
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Rebekah Neumann's Search For Enlightenment Fueled WeWork's Collapse
Are you part of a ‘values’ driven company culture? Of course you are, we have all drank the Kool Aid on this, so a cautionary tale might just be what the real doctors might order; thought provoking article on Rebekah Neumann’s influence on the direction of WeWork, undoubtedly a culture driven business…. CULTURE
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Brainfood Hall of Fame
I’m hoping you don’t need to use this! However, you may find yourself in a situation where it makes sense to hedge your bets and attract more revenue opportunity. Free to use talent directory for the brainfood community here - sign up, set your hours available and connect with others in the community. |
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Recruiter, McKinsey & Co, Amsterdam, Munich, Madrid, Lisbon or Wroclaw If you are a brainfooder and have a job you would like to have featured in next week’s newsletter, reply to this email with a link to the job
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Your Story, Your Voice
The Brainfood Tribune has three new voices this week - Susan Strayer LaMotte, founder of Employer Branding consultancy exaqueo, Michal Toman, founder of Engage Advisory, and perhaps the best in-person conference in Central & Eastern Europe - and one of the best anywhere - EVOLVE! Summit and the quiet hero of recruitment himself, Todd Raphael, Head of Content at eightfold.ai - make sure you find the time to check out their personal stories.
If you are a brainfooder, I invite you to share your story with the community. Email me at [email protected]
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Big List of Podcasts to Listen to in 2021
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
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How The Passion Economy Is Redefining Work
So many might have realised that Brainfood is essentially a passion project, but one which has ended up being a viable business for one person to run. This is great panel discussion for people who want to know more about the ‘passion economy’ - Li Jin from Andreesen Horowitz with Sam Yam, co-founder of Patreon. PODCAST
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And Then the CEO Said, 'We're So Committed'
Jackye Clayton and Katee van Horn are great conversationalists and I for one am delighted to see this podcast series begin a regular beat. Tune in if you want to hear smart people talk about inclusion. PODCAST
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Author & HR Consultant, Laurie Ruettimann
Always great to hear Laurie Ruettimann and Lars Schmidt. Getting them together? Even better. This one might be of particular interest to brainfooders who are currently writing a book (I know you are!) as both of these authors talk about the writing process for the new tomes they have out. Have a listen here
PODCAST
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The 5 Biggest Recruitment Trends of 2021
Folks, I am doing an AMA on 5 Big(gest) Recruitment Trends in 2021 this week. Should be a fun 1 hour interactive, sign up if you have a question to ask and which you think I might be able to muster an answer. 21 Jan, 11.30
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THC Expert Sessions S01E04: Hiring Lessons from Tech TA Leaders: Thom Staight
Sometimes, the best speakers are those who never do it. Thom Staight is one of those. Busy in the day job as Global Director of Engineering Talent Acquisition, EMEA at Microsoft, I’ve collared Thom to join me in a fireside chat later this month. Must attend for tech recruiters - register here
28 Jan, 1:00 pm WET.
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Career Growth Summit
4 day event for L&D professionals who are looking for a job. I’m pitching in on this, and going to give a short talk on audience and community as a strategy which might be useful for attracting inbound opportunities. Sign up here if you care about that, or if you’re interested in career development techniques in general 9-12 Feb
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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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I’m still in London folks, watching along with the rest of the world, as the US finally transitions to the Biden administration. Some interestingly progressive ideas in the incoming Presidents $1.9 trillion Covid relief programme, though falls short of a roll out of true UBI. Let’s see what happens this week - and cross fingers - hope that nothing bad does. DM me on twitter or Instagram if you have any interesting things for me to look at on the Internet, for example this heatmap of Hurricane Electric’s Internet Services. Cool huh? Have a great week everybody. Hung
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