Aug 1, 2021

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #251

Hung Lee

Brainfood Live, Ep120: Remaking Candidate Experience, Post Pandemic

Engagement rates dropping, drop out rates increasing, all the signs are there for a talent crunch maybe of the like we have not seen before - not so much no candidates in the market, more so candidates now being much more discerning than they were before. How do we remake candidate experience to better compete as an employer? Friday 6th August, 2pm BST - must attend for talent acquisition / EB / CX folks - register here

Special thanks this week to: Christian Madsen, Achyut Menon, Eugène van den Hemel, Garry Turner, Mark Edwards, Mitasha Singh, Simon Geere, Mark Deubel, Joey NK Koksal, Colin Donnery, Kevin Green, Marcus Reif, Vanessa Raath, Alison Birch, Oonagh Clarke, Caroline Hunter, John Bersentes, William Geldart, Eva Zils, Mikey Weil, Matthias Schmeißer, Calyph Curtain, Manjuri Sinha, Patricia Chmielowiec, Emma Davies, Eva Zils, Iwan Gulenko, Madeline Timmer and Martin Poole - your public endorsement of this newsletter is what keeps it going - thanks!

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

New Data Shows a Soaring Demand for Recruiters and Where You Can Find More of Them

LinkedIn confirms what we all knew already - the market for recruiters is white hot. We also seem to be cannibalising the industry, mainly hiring those who have previous experience of recruitment, circulating talent around rather than growing the large overall pool. What are we going to do about it? - that is the question. H/T brainfooder Manjuri Sinha for sharing

ECONOMY

www.linkedin.com

130+ Recruiting Tools and Software: The Complete List

Members regularly ask questions about ‘what tech solves which problem’ in the brainfood fb group, so always useful to find vendor information condensed into a single place. Plenty of providers missing of course - so far from complete - but this is a worthy effort of an impossible task. Pragmatic for those buying software and looking for vendor comparisons. Check it out

RESOURCE

www.talentheromedia.com

Hyper Growth Playbook: From Startup To Scaleup

Rough, ready, incredibly useful, this how-to guide from Snyk VP of People, Dipti Salopek is essential reading for any of us here working in rapid growth environments. The writing is the essence of telling it as it is. Google doc, make sure you make a copy and download it

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

docs.google.com

Are You Prepared To Lose 40% of Your Employees?

Fascinating research from brainfooder Jan Tegze, who analysed the number of employees at top companies who have indicated they are ‘open for work’ on their Linkedin profiles. Headline figure suggests that 40% attrition can be expected - double the norm. Evidence of the ‘turnover tsunami’? Another interpretation is that these are deferred resignations - effectively 2 years worth of discontent jammed into 1 year. Whichever the case, retention / succession planning have never been more important - needs to be as high a priority now, as much as talent attraction.

CULTURE

blog.jantegze.com

The Best New Tech Talent May Not Be Where You Think: A Guide to Hiring from Universities in 2021

This is cool 👉 1 million certification attempts on HackerRank’s coding assessment platform, analysed for performance, broken down by programming language, then correlated with University the applicant attended. Pretty much essential reading for any tech recruiter out there.

ASSESSMENT

blog.hackerrank.com

GitHub Copilot: First Impressions

Staying with coding, the conversation in the tech world is about the future of programming itself, given the rise of AI code generators like GitHub Copilot. Vlad Iliescu, Head of AI at Strongbytes, gives first impressions….and it broadly positive. Significant ramifications for the nature of programming - and, the type of skills a programmer is going to need - in the near future.

vladiliescu.net

Netflix CEO Responds to Slack Firing

The story 👉 3 x employees at Netflix were criticising a colleague during a presentation that colleague was giving, on a slack channel they thought was private between them. It wasn’t, they were found out and were fired as a result. Is this management overreach, looking into private conversation of employees, or correct policing of company culture? Also worth noting how the story is reported - first the The Hollywood Reporter and how LinkedIn was used by CEO Ted Sarandos for the rebuttal.

CULTURE

www.linkedin.com

Research: Why Rejected Internal Candidates End Up Quitting

We all love internal mobility but what happens when your internal candidates are not successful? Turns out they often end up leaving the company entirely. Some interesting data on the post-rejection attrition rate for internal candidates, as well as the impact of the hiring manager interview on those rates.

CULTURE

hbr-org.cdn.ampproject.org

10 Challenges When Transitioning To A New Job

What do you do in your first 90 days? Useful sketch note on 10 things you got to do, especially No1 (promote yourself), No4 (secure early wins) and No8 (creating coalitions). Btw, we are doing a Brainfood Live on exactly this topic for recruiters starting a new job - register here if you want to take part

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

twitter.com

How To Bond With Tech Candidates

Delighted to get brainfooder Iwan Gulenko onto Brainfood Live this week. His blog precursor for the show is an excellent primer on how to build rapport with software developers (or anyone else who is highly skilled, in-demand). Great read folks.

ENGAGEMENT

klang.so

In-house Leadership Hiring Key Insights

Interesting research in Leadership Hiring, especially on the volume of leadership hires vs how you do it (i.e internal team, exec search). H/T to brainfooder Emma Mirrington for opening this up outside the membership tier for the FIRM.

RESEARCH

www.dropbox.com

A Prehistory of DAOs

DAOs could out-compete by out-cooperating the modern firm.

Unapologetically long, this essay on the rise of the DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation) is a fascinating primer for a deeper dive into web3 and the future of co-operation. One for the anthropologists, crypto nerds, gaming enthusiasts and anyone interested in how technology shapes human organisations.

BLOCKCHAIN

gnosisguild.mirror.xyz

The SaaS Org Chart

You’ve raised a new funding round. You need to staff up. Here’s what that looks like.

Another rough and ready how-to, this time from David Sacks, founder of Yammer / COO of PayPal. Hiring priorities mapped to successive funding rounds. Useful for any recruiter working in SaaS

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

sacks.substack.com

Want Your Unemployment Benefits? You May Have To Submit To Facial Recognition First

Fascinating report on the prevalence of facial recognition technology in the United States. We have seen this technology pretty much roundly lambasted in its application in recruiting over concerns of bias and inaccuracy, so its adoption in other domains is interesting - do the same concerns apply?

edition.cnn.com

Global Co-Creation: The Process Behind Forming Vodafone’s New EVP

What are the pitfalls of repositioning the employer brand of a global company? Refreshing to read from the perspective of someone - Dawn Hollingworth, Global Head of EB at Vodafone - who has done it.

EMPLOYER BRANDING

employerbrandwagon.com

Worlds Apart- Technology, Remote Work, and Equity

Two major phenomena shaped the U.S. news for most of 2020: the COVID-19 pandemic and a new civil rights movement. In this article, we examine the intersection of these events and their effects on the tech work landscape.

Written by two IT / Technology academics, this accessible 11 pager identifies 6 population groups and predicts the technological innovation that will address their unique needs. Worth a read

D&I

www.dropbox.com

Who's Talking?

LinkedIn Made Simple

Very glad to see the awesome Andy Foote finally get onto LinkedIn Live. Here he is dispensing his know-how on the platform we all love to love and hate. Must watch - and do follow Andy

VIDEO

www.linkedin.com

Secrets From The Habitologist

Tony is mixed race but everyone thinks he is white and it’s resulted in situations where he’s discovered some people’s true thoughts on racism

Fascinating premise and an opportunity to hear from an under covered perspective. Great podcast by brainfooder Joanne Lockwood

PODCAST

seechangehappen.co.uk

The Power of Assessments In A Tight Labor Market

Assessment tech seems to have been getting a hammering of late (mainly due to the combo of perceived bias / inaccuracy) so refreshing to two experts conduct a deeper dive on it. Excellent con conversation between Dr. Charles Handler and brainfooder Bas van de Haterd - have a listen here.

PODCAST

podcasts.apple.com

End notes

I’m in London and - what do you know - it’s a super expensive city to live in. I’ve been out 4 times this past week and I’m £350 down - a shocking figure as nightclubs were not involved! Probably not extraordinary for London pre-pandemic but it feels like excess after 18 months of spending pretty much nothing at all.

Going out of home is definitively necessary but I’m going to have figure out a way to do so without this type of conspicuous spending. It contributes to the world we’re seeing right now.

So DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you have any ideas on ‘stuff to do’ which isn’t consumerism, cheers

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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