Mar 7, 2021

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #230

Hung Lee

Brainfood Live, Ep100: How To Better Reject Your Candidates?

There is a better way than auto reject. We’re going to be talking templates, tools and timing on how to give unsuccessful candidates a better outcome and the message they need to improve the job search whilst boosting your employer brand.

Friday 12th March, 2.00pm UTC / 9.00am ET - register here

Special thanks this week to: Gautam Ghosh, Adam Bolton, James, Osborne, Colin Donnery, Kevin Green, Bas van de Haterd, Simon Geere, Christian Madsen, Mark Edwards, Manjuri Sinha, Brian Fink, Luca Cicatelli, Oonagh Clarke, Joey NK Koksal, Dave Hazlehurst, John Bersentes, Ross Clennett, Alison Birch, Steven Brand, Andrea Kirby, Alison Kemp, Matthias Schmeißer, Romuald Restout, Arjan Spies, Chris Raw, Steve Gard, Jonathan Martin, Nico Blier-Silvestri, Martin Poole, Heidi Wassini, Ebony Lawless-McCrea, William Geldart and Fanny Comba - your public support for Brainfood initiatives is essential and noticed - thank you!

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Cheers!

Hung

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Sponsors

Personio

This week’s brainfood is supported by our buddies Personio.

Earlier this year, Personio raised a $125 million Series D round to build out its product roadmap and fully support its 3000+ customers as it scales to be Europe’s most valuable HR tech company and the No1 HR operating system for your innovative business.

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SPONSORS

www.personio.com

The Brainfood

2021 State of Software Engineering Report

One of the classic annuals, this report by talent marketplace Hired has pretty much been the benchmark report, especially on salary given the companies access to employment contract data. tl:dr is ‘demand remains robust for more or less the same skills’ Must read obviously for any tech recruiter - download here. H/T to brainfooder Denys Dinkevych for the share

RESEARCH

www.dropbox.com

The Future of Work After Covid-19

What is the impact of the pandemic on labour demand? Less of it overall, are the hard fax, and particularly so in those industries which require workers to be physically proximate. The ‘proximity score’ for job categories is useful - maybe something we can use as we analysis workforce composition to future proof our organisations. Must read folks

FUTURE OF WORK

www.mckinsey.com

Bias On LinkedIn

Some new terms for us to learn: ‘Agenic’ vs ‘Communal’ profile pictures. Agenic as in ‘having agency, propensity for action’, which we seemingly prefer when presented against more ‘Communal’ LinkedIn profiles pictures. Obviously we need to ask questions about the methodology but this experiment presents yet another challenge in how we make assessments when reviewing candidates. H/T brainfooders Joseph Slavin and Michael Blakely for the share

ASSESSMENT

www.morethannow.co.uk

Back To The Office

The data for Elad Gil’s claim is somewhat Trumpian (‘people tell me….’) but no reason to doubt the guy is super connected at least in SV tech, and others have claimed the same; that remote utopianism has given way somewhat to back-to-office romanticism. The possible models outlined toward the second half of this post make it really worthwhile - especially the nuance of options 2A and 2B. H/T to brainfooder Pedro Oliveira for the share in the fb group.

REMOTE WORKING

blog.eladgil.com

How Typeform Reduced Hiring Times by 43% in Two Quarters

Three things to admire with this; 1) Transparency of the retrospective 2) clear process which others can replicate or draw inspiration from 3) That Typeform actually have a Head of Content producing stuff like this. Which, incidentally, also serves effectively serves as a recruitment ad. Have a read here H/T to brainfooder Simon McSorley in the fb group

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

www.typeform.com

Sourcing in Practice: Dev Advocate Example

You won’t find anything impressive in this article. No crazy hack, no crazy exotic sourcing, no database leak exploit. This article is made for people starting in sourcing.

Still great stuff though by brainfooder Noé Antona. Great to learn about the mindset and process of a pro sourcer. Have a read if this is your career path. H/T Guillaume Lhote for the share

SOURCING

noe-antona.medium.com

Gender Bias in Hiring Report: Data-backed Strategies for Improving Gender Equality in the Workplace

Aggregating a number of reports on gender bias, this post from our buddies at Applied underlines the need for gender bias mitigation and elimination in the recruiting process. The how-to at the end in particular is worth spending some time to review. H/T to brainfooder Heidi Wassini for the share in the fb group

D&I

www.beapplied.com

NFTs and the Tokenization of Work

Non-fungible Tokens or NFT’s show us a future of work which might be truly revolutionary. Concepts like ownership, copyright, compensation and companies as the optimal way of co-ordinating labour are up in the air. Brainfooder Andy Spence is one to follow here, and his overview is accessible and well referenced for those who want to dive deeper. You really should.

BLOCKCHAIN

workforcefuturist.substack.com

Coronavirus: Protecting Your Workforce FAQs

What is your company policy on vaccinations / masking? Sadly controversial in many jurisdictions, employers who are returning to the office face the Scylla and Charibdys of discrimination vs duty of care to employee health. The UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has a comprehensive FAQ’s section on this issue. Obviously relevant to UK employers but non-UK employers might draw some inspiration from the answers found here. H/T to brainfooder Colin McNicol for the share in the fb group

CULTURE

www.cipd.co.uk

Wanted: Developers With Opinions and Range

This is cool. Video collage from Shopify, stitched together from interviews with engineering team answering pre-set questions on camera. Pay attention to the structure and the EB message they want to communicate. Simple, beautifully executed and entirely do-able by anyone with a decent camera and mic. H/T to brainfooders John Vlastelica and David D'Souza for the share in the fb group

EMPLOYER BRANDING

www.linkedin.com

The AI Index Report

Huge report on the ‘state of AI’, this is one to download and save for reading / referencing later. The summary on the homepage is decent for those who want to skim. Main takeaways for me are: generative applications of AI cutting deeply into ‘content’ production (any of us doing anything here?) work, continuing diversity challenge in AI and the competition for immigrant labour which maybe the determining factor for ‘winning’ the AI race

aiindex.stanford.edu

dearMoon 8 Crew Members Wanted!

Space X’s civilian Mission to the Moon will take place in 2023. In 2018, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maesawa or ‘MZ’, bought all 9 available seats - and now is opening up the remaining 8 for anyone to apply to join. Be cool to get a brainfooder to the moon wouldn’t it? It’s for real so apply here if you wanna….

RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING

dearmoon.earth

Who's Available?

Brainfood Hall of Fame

Anyone looking for work, or have capacity for additional work or looking for people to do that work, you will find 1,000+ members of the brainfood community here - filter by timezone and availability. Free to use, so get to it

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

community.recruitingbrainfood.com

Who's Hiring?

Recruitment Business Partner (Tech) (m/f/d), CarSW.org, Berlin or Ingolstadt, Germany

Technical Talent Sourcer (m/f/d), CarSW.org, Berlin or Ingolstadt, Germany

Tech Talent Acquisition Lead (m/w/x), Grover, Berlin, Germany

Talent Manager, Sorare, Paris, France

Technical Recruiter, FRVR, Lisbon, Portugal

Talent Sourcing Intern (m/f/d), Freeletics, Munich, Germany

Recruiter, Western Union, Vilnius, Lithuania

Talent Acquisition Partner, Graphcore, Beijing, China

Talent Acquisition Partner, Graphcore, Oslo, Norway

Talent Acquisition Specialist - Tech & Product, Currencycloud, London, UK

Recruiter, Redis Labs, Mountain View (CA) or Austin (TX), USA

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

Who's Story?

The Brainfood Tribune

The Brainfood Tribune keeps growing. This week it is with two gentlemen I hold in the highest esteem. Community, meet Michael Delaney, Head of Talent at Humanforce and the one and only Torin Ellis, industry Diversity Strategist. More stories in the archive here

If you are a brainfooder, I invite you to share your story with the community. Email me at [email protected]

www.recruitingbrainfood.com

Who's Talking?

Big List of Podcasts to Listen to in 2021

Honestly I did not listen to much this week, so you might as well check out the big 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

www.recruitingbrainfood.com

What's On?

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Recruiting House: Talk with Hung Lee - ClubLink.to

Excited to join Elena Volk, Lesya Arnold and Yana Pampukha and the rest of the Ukrainian recruiter community to talk all things hiring. If you’re CH and want to tune in, you can do it here

10 March, 6.00pm UTC

clublink.to

THC Expert Sessions S01E06: Hiring Lessons from Tech TA Leaders: Becky McCullough, VP Global Recruiting at HubSpot

Really enjoying my collab with Landing, mainly because it gives me an excuse to chat with some of the extraordinary members of this community. This week, it’s Becky McCullough, VP of Global Recruiting at HubSpot - going to be great fireside chat. Register here

11 March, 2.00pm UTC / 9.00am ET

www.crowdcast.io

Founders Focus - Ep3 - Up close & personal with Mickael Cabrol, MD EMEA at iCIMS

Founders Focus already onto Ep3! I’m excited to be chatting with Mickael Cabrol, now ex-CEO of EASYRECRUE, after the company was acquired by iCIMS. Going to talk entrepreneurship, leadership, partnership and ship ships. Register here

16 March, 11.00am UTC

www.crowdcast.io

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]

End notes

I’m still in London - which you know already - and it has suddenly gone super cold once again. Times like this make thing think ‘man I really would like to be somewhere warmer this time of year’

This music map of the world from Pudding Cool provided some entertainment. Did you know that Bandido by Myke Towers was the No1 tune in Ecuador last month? Neither did I but now, you do

DM me on twitter, Instagram or TikTok if you got any interesting Internet for me to check out…

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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