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February 7 · Issue #226 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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Brainfood Live, Ep96: People Analytics: essential business intelligence or worker surveillance? We’re talking the ethics of data collection folks, where is the line we need to draw:
Friday 12th February, 2pm UTC - register here
Special thanks this week to: Vanessa Raath, Jan Tegze, Neil Carberry, Garry Turner, Bas van de Haterd, Eugène van den Hemel, Simon Geere, Christian Madsen, James Osborne, Mark Edwards, Martyn Redstone, Alison Birch, Kevin Green, Christian Payne, Gwenda Retuadan, Christina Canning, Joey NK Koksal, Colin Donnery, Tris Revill, Ross Clennett, Debbie Harrison, Neil Carberry, Warren Hammond, Ebony Lawless-McCrea, Pooja Alpha Philip, Per Tjernberg, Steven Brand, Alexa Bradbury, ZiChuan Lim, Divya Sharma, Alla Pavlova, Mitasha Singh, Sjamilla van der Tooren, Sarah Grisman, Martin Poole, Adam Gordon and Elena Valentine for your public support of this newsletter - essential to keep this free at point of consumption for everyone else in 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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Paradox
This week’s brainfood is supported by our buddies Paradox. Meet Olivia, the AI Assistant built to save recruiters time and money. She can screen candidates, schedule interviews, answer questions, and more — and do it all in seconds. Want to know more? Chat with Olivia yourself right now and see for yourself! SPONSORS
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Jeff Bezos Steps Down As CEO of Amazon
Brilliant tweet thread, listing the most important lessons OP has learned from Jeff Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon CEO in stunning fashion last week. Productivity, innovation and performance gold right here. For the official rationalie, here is Bezos email to Amazonians making the announcement. Looks like its a focus on making humanity an interplanetary species. I’m going to leave the last word to former Amazon employee Steve Yegge who, nearly 10 years ago, penned one of the all time great company culture posts, comparing the cultures of Amazon vs Google. You won’t read a better breakdown of what makes Bezos and Amazon different to the rest - and its a counter intuitive eulogy to micro-management. Read it all here
CULTURE
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The Massive Market Impact of Microsoft Viva
Given the dominance of Microsoft in enterprise, moves like Microsoft Viva are inevitably market making. As the ad revenue business model of internet gets a hammering, it is worth speculating what an alternative timeline of Microsoft dominated web might’ve looked like. Paying for Internet explorer, cost-per-usage on search, annual subscription fees for access to a locked in eco-system. That world might come again, and it’s tough to think of a better positioned company that Microsoft to own it. CULTURE
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3 Steps To Building A Values Engine to Transform Culture
Couple of strands in this post from our buddies at Zinc that are worth thinking about, especially on the use of scenario questions to help crystallise your company values. What-would-you-do-if-X formulations - is this a technique which is widely used? Be interested in if so, and if not, what other techniques you do use to help define company culture. Delighted to collaborate on this post, so have a read here
CULTURE
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ARK Invest Big Ideas 2021
It’s smart policy to take an interest in longitudinal trends. Big Ideas by ARK Invest is as good as place to start as any - an accessible report on some of the big trends which have transformatory potential in industry. H/T brainfooder Pedro Oliveira for the share SOCIETY
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7 Ways We Created the Talent Shortage
Just about every consulting firm, CEO, hiring manager, and recruiter believes there is a significant shortage of qualified people, especially for positions requiring artificial intelligence experts, machine learning gurus, data scientists, and some engineering categories. Kevin Wheeler think they’re wrong. And you know what? He is more right than they are. Have a read here. H/T to brainfooder Jacob Sten Madsen for the share in the fb group
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Why Games Are The Solution To Remote Team Building
I’m beginning to believe multiplayer gaming might be the future of corporate culture in a remote first world. AR / VR is still too clunky, and not always on, and flat screen video interaction is not immersive enough to support the making of strong social bonds. Might start a brainfood Twitch channel - anyone in? REMOTE WORKING
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If You Use LinkedIn, This Is the Dark Side of the Platform
Can you relate? This post came as welcome counterpoint to my consistent advocacy of LinkedIn as a must use channel to generate opportunities. There is a dark side to it, and undoubtedly we all experience these spaces differently based on our identity. Going to make this a Brainfood Live topic so if you have something to say about it, register here. ENGAGEMENT
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Analysis of Global Talent Sourcing Job Saturation
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Starred Candidate Experience Benchmark Report 2020
This is an interesting survey, particularly in connecting the stage of application with how candidate experience recruiting. Got me thinking…..what is the psychology behind providing poor ratings? It might not always (or even frequently) be accurate assessment. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share, and for our buddies at Starred releasing it beyond the reg wall. Have a read here
CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE
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How to Attract Candidates With Spotify
Clever bit of recruitment advertising by our buddies at MatchHR, using the song titles of a Spotify playlist to communicate a recruitment message. Probably not a scalable method, but undeniably clever and a great example of being creative in your recruiting. RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING
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Human Capital Era Reality: The Skills Gap May Never Close
Pretty much anything that brainfooder Heather McGowan writes is a must read, but this series in Forbes is simply superb: Perishable skills, ‘Promethean’ revolutions, the Skills Abyss and the inability of academic management of knowledge transfer to bridge the ‘skills abyss’. Read every word folks. FUTURE OF WORK
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Brainfood Hall of Fame
Talent Directory, for us. Sign up if you’re looking for work, or looking for recruiters / HR people who are passionate about their careers. You know this because the read newsletters on Sunday. Free to use here
The foodhall of fame is a repurposed public ‘thank you’ to community contributors which we have now repurposed into a Craigslist for Recruiters. Sign up and set your bandwidth for new work for the week ahead
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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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The Brainfood Tribune
The Brainfood Tribune welcomes three more members this week - Africa Muñoz, Talent and Community at LinkedIn, Kate Bischoff , Employment Attorney and fearless advocate for social justice and the awesome Toni Gimeno Solans, Inbound Recruitment guru and the most famous man in Spain. Read more on the brainfood stories here
If you are a brainfooder, I invite you to share your story with the community. Email me at [email protected]
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Assessment Lessons From Elite Sport
In many respects, talent assessment in elite sports is way ahead of the corporate world. Brainfood favourite Matt Alder talks to Eric Castien and Andries Van der Leij from Brainsfirst about it here. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share in the fb group
PODCAST
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Adding HR Data to SEC Filings
The requirement for human capital data to be part of the SEC filing in the US is a big deal. You think D&I wasn’t important, this ruling escalates it to C-level priority. Brainfooders Andrew Gadomski and Jason Roberts on the call. Have a listen here
PODCAST
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Looking Back at 2020 - and into 2021 - with George LaRocque
Another great conversation between two people who probably know more about the HR tech landscape than everyone else combined. It’s Martin Burns with George LaRocque. Have a listen here. VIDEO
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From AI to D&I
Going to be out of my league for this one: I’m with Jobvite’s VP of Marketing Kerry Gilliam and Chief Data Scientist Morgan Lewellyn to talk intersection of AI and D&I. Sign up here for a challenging panel folks. Tues 9th Feb, 6.00pm GMT, Online
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L&D Cares Career Growth Summit
Must attend for L&D practitioners - 4 day career growth summit, packed with useful workshops on career resiliencies for L&D pro’s. I’m even giving a talk at this - on how default to public rather than private is the most efficient way for job search. Sign up, free here. 9th - 12th Feb, Online
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Three of a Kind - Acing Recruitment Collaboration
Hiring at volume presents a set of unique challenges we require creative solutions and courageous collaborations. Excited to host this panel on one such example, where Iceland Foods, Kallidus and PredictiveHire combined to create a high volume hiring engine. Register here
Thurs 25th Feb, 11.00 am GMT
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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’ve been experimenting with TikTok in recent days, basically shooting a TikTok every day for 30 days to test functionality and algorithm. It’s a fascinating app, decisively moving video creation from desktop to mobile, and inadvertently I think - democratising content creation for millions of people. Some interesting recruiting / job search accounts on there, though the field is wide open for anyone who fancies grabbing a potentially very rich piece of online real estate. I’m already beginning to see some opportunities for recruiters there, especially on EB. We have to get into it. Have a great week everybody. Hung
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