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January 24 · Issue #224 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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Brainfood Live, Ep94: LinkedIn Updates Recruiters Need To Know for 2021? The one and only Andy Foote, on all the changes LinkedIn have made over the past few months, as well as predictions on what features we might expect to see over the next few months. You canât really afford to miss this one folks đ
Friday 29th Jan, 2pm UTC - register here
Special thanks this week to: Jan Tegze, Darren Westall, James Osborne, Vanessa Raath, Mark Edwards, Kevin Green, Achyut Menon, Simon Geere, Christian Madsen, Steve Bebbington, Adam Gordon, Colin Donnery, EugÚne van den Hemel, Alison Birch, Somer Hackley, Joey NK Koksal, Oonagh Clarke, Steve Brand, Bas van de Haterd, Carmen Hudson, Mark Uz, Liza Van den Berg, Martyn Redstone, Darren Topping, Hayley Ramm, Martin Poole, Elena Valentine, Craig Turner, René Bolier, Bharat Siyani, David Green and Olga Barrett for your public support of this newsletter.
Can you help? Simply share this link recruitingbrainfood.com on a LinkedIn status update and recommend it to your network - itâs the best way to keep the growing the brainfood community. Cheers! Hung
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Bryq
This weekâs brainfood is supported by our buddies Bryq. Bryq is an AI-powered talent assessment platform that blindly screens candidates, by matching skills and personality to job and company requirements without bias, boosting Diversity & Inclusion. Hire the best talent, bias free - 14 day free trial here! SPONSORS
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How Management by Metrics Leads Us Astray
âWhen a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measureâ Do you make data driven hiring decisions? We should try to (I think) but we always need to remember what data is - flawed measurements of some activities and events, not all activities and events. This excellent post is about running a business based on metrics and perils of âdoing what you measureâ. Relevant whenever we think about recruiting KPIâsâŠ..have a read. RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS
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How to Find People on Clubhouse
There isnât a successful community out there that doesnât become a sourcing site for recruiters who know their way around how the Internet. Great breakdown here from brainfooder Jan Tegze on sourcing on Clubhouse. Obviously donât be a d1ck about it. H/T to brainfooder Tris Revill for the share SOURCING
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The Biden Administration Puts Recruitment Easter Egg On White House Website
Nothing new in sneaking in recruitment ads in the source code but this idea was clever timing which foresaw that traffic to whitehouse.gov was going to spike following the inauguration of Joe Biden as President of the United States. Well done the recruiter who suggested putting it in there, love to know who that might be. A brainfooder? I hope so. H/T brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share in the fb group
RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING
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Fjord Trends 2021
You can expect anything that Fjord produces to be a superbly slick user experience. Their Trends 2021 interactive report provides insights into emerging trends in business, technology & design focused on meeting human needs. If âdesign thinkingâ was ever a thing for you, then this post is for you. CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE
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How to Stop Endless Discussions
Quick answer? Create a RFC - Request For Comments document where both the proposition and the comments are publicly shared. We get emotionally invested in our ideas and become motivated reasoners seeking to âwinâ the argument without really understanding why that is important. The RFC forces you to justify your point, in writing and publicly. We really should do this more - have a read. CULTURE
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Know Your Audience
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FirstLook
The talent directory became a thing last year, when tech companies took the time to build a tool to help increase the visibility of team members they had to let go. It was something both sad and cool. One more to add to the list - FirstLook from Booking.com. Have a look here if youâre hiring. Dominic Rohde for the share in the fb group
COOL TOOL
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The Europeans Rethinking The Gig Economy Model
Can Europeans come up with an alternative to the gig economyâs âgrowth at all costâ model?
The post gets more interesting at the halfway point when it looks at cooperatives like CoopCycle. We really need to recognise the diversity of possible relationships between individual and organisation - and move away from the over simplistic binary of âexploited gig workerâ vs âprivileged employee. H/T brainfooder Tris Revill for the share in the fb group
GIG ECONOMY
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State of JS 2020
The annual survey about the latest trends in the JavaScript ecosystem. As you can expect, itâs a beautifully implemented website, full of rich data on what technologies JavaScript engineers are using. Must read for tech recruiters and anyone who loves a great web experience - have at it, here
ECONOMY
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Texans Chaos: Why Jack Easterby Is Still There & Deshaun Watson Wants Out
Superb long read about organisational dysfunction, accelerated by broken promises, unequal treatment, a lack of transparency on process, a lack of definition on role and - perhaps - the role of prayer in candidate selection. Itâs the story of the Houston Texans, who stand to end their catastrophic 2020 season by losing their star quarterback - and probably a great deal of the fan base. CULTURE
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Diversity Recruiting Efforts Wonât Significantly Improve Until We Address These 2 Barriers
We talked about the tyranny of metrics in the first post in this newsletter, so perhaps fitting that we end on the same note, this time on how classic recruiting KPIâs like TTH can adversely impact efforts to diversify the workforce. Optimising for one thing, is going to mean debilitating another. Great writing by John Vlastelica. H/T to brainfooder Jacob Sten Madsen for the share in the fb group
D&I
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Brainfood Hall of Fame
Wanna talent directory? The Brainfood Hall of Fame is that for the brainfood community. Sign up for advertise yourself for work or search for others who are. Set and reset your weekly availability for collaboration. Free for all subscribers, so get to it here
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Sourcer, OKCoin, San Francisco, CA, USA If you are a brainfooder and have a job you would like to have featured in next weekâs newsletter, reply to this email with a link to the job
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The Brainfood Tribune
Your story, your voice. This week we see two more brainfooders join the Brainfood Tribune - Christine Ng, Talent Acquisition at Financial Times and Brainfood Live co-host upgrade & Mike Wood, Director of Analyst Relations at Jobvite. Have a read of their personal stories via 20 Questions here đ
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. Weâre 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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Recruiting Brainfood and Beyond!
Marcus Edwardes may have the most melodious voice Iâve heard on a recruiting podcast. I mean - just listen to the manâs dulcet tones here. Delighted to join him for this pod, which is mainly focused on Recruiting Brainfood so if you want to know more about how this thing has become what it is, have a listen here.
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Simon Sinek on Developing an Infinite Mindset
Brené Brown and Simon Sinek are two of the most admired people in the brainfood community. I confess I know little about either one, so this podcast interview was a two birds, one stone experience for me. Have a listen here. H/T to brainfooder Sukanya Patel for the share PODCAST
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SoâŠ..what do you all think of Clubhouse? On the one hand I think itâs a fantastic opportunity to have some great conversations with people youâve never met; on the other, it can be noisy, cliquey and unwelcoming. I suspect this duality is characteristic of any new social setting where norms are only just being established. I think there is something we can do, and I might do some brainfood on there. Follow my account there if youâre on it - and if you want an invite, let me know seems I have a few⊠Anyway, Iâm still in London obviously, mainly watching Economics Explained videos on Youtube because who doesnât need simplified content on economics. DM me on twitter or Instagram if you got any other channel you want me to check out. Have a great week everybody. Hung
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