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Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #256

Hung Lee
Hung Lee
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SPONSORS
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The Brainfood
Why Innovation Heroes are a Sign of a Dysfunctional Organization
Why Innovation Heroes are a Sign of a Dysfunctional Organization
Steve Blank’s refusal to update his 1990’s era website is an admirable commitment to substance over style. His confidence is not often misplaced, with this outstanding post proves. On why heroic individual effort is a sign of systemic failure in organisations, and what culture architects need to do about it.
CULTURE
steveblank.com
9 Metrics To Help You Understand (And Prioritize) DEI
9 Metrics To Help You Understand (And Prioritize) DEI
Culture Amp consistently produce high quality, pragmatic, free-to-access content on how to improve company culture. You’ll find something in this post on DEI metrics which can be immediately implemented to your current flow - have a read.
D&I
www.cultureamp.com
Surveillance Sourcing: Building an OSINT Super Machine
Surveillance Sourcing: Building an OSINT Super Machine
OSINT - ‘open source intelligence’ - is a term coined in the information security space, but readily adopted by the more technical members of the recruiting community. Brainfooder José Kadlec writes an enormously rich post - what OSINT is, how it can be used, and what specific tools and techniques are most applicable and when. Must read for sourcers.
SOURCING
www.linkedin.com
People Are Hiring Out Their Faces To Become Deepfake-style Marketing Clones
People Are Hiring Out Their Faces To Become Deepfake-style Marketing Clones
They said AI will bring new kinds of work nobody ever thought would exist….I guess being a ‘rentable face’ might qualify? This story opens so many doors it is difficult categorise - future of work, potential D&I solution, workforce automation - even potentially blockchain. The future escapes analogy and is arriving whether we are comfortable with it or not. Have a read.
Also: feel free to rent your face out.
FUTURE OF WORK
www.technologyreview.com
Klang
Klang
Brainfooder Iwan Gulenko is an unusual community member - a tech recruiter who was an ex-engineer, and who is now combing both skill sets to bring new products to the market. Check out this ‘job description summariser’ here - simple stuff but….I think it will be effective, eh?
COOL TOOL
go.klang.so
7 Questions To Ask A Reference — And Become A Better Manager
7 Questions To Ask A Reference — And Become A Better Manager
Love it when non-specialists write about recruiting; there is often a clarity, free from the caveats and censoriousness which frequently accompany our words. This tweet thread from Amanda Natividad, Head of Marketing at SparkToro, makes references about becoming a better manager to that person, rather than a validation exercise for gut instinct.
CULTURE
twitter.com
Tech Interview Handbook
Tech Interview Handbook
Candidate guides for passing interviews is a great source of content for recruiters. This one is a pretty comprehensive how-to for tech candidates. Use it as an educational resource on tech assessment, and the guide book itself is a pretty awesome bit of relationship nurturing content to share to your tech candidate network. H/T brainfooder Jeroen Kneppers for the share.
ASSESSMENT
techinterviewhandbook.org
The Internet and the Pandemic
The Internet and the Pandemic
Some interesting insights presented here on how US citizens are using the Internet, during the pandemic era. Check out the demographic breakdown on those most likely to use video. Essential considerations if we are to be successful in engineering any kind of ‘whole of society’ recovery.
SOCIETY
www.pewresearch.org
About Super Follows
About Super Follows
With ‘Super Follows’ now being rolled out, Twitter joins the creator economy by allowing users to monetise their tweets via a subscription model - worth a shot if you’ve got a big following, I’d say. It’s inevitable that somebody in the brainfood community is going to make a success out of being a twitter hero, so why not you?
btw: anyone who really wants to know whats going to happen on twitter should follow Jane Manchung Wong - she’s like the Irina for twitter.
FUTURE OF WORK
help.twitter.com
The Role of AI in HR Decision Making
The Role of AI in HR Decision Making
Thought provoking essay on why the implementation of AI into HR is not straightforward - human behaviour is deeply embedded in context, and not easy to abstract into algorithms. There is a way out though, and a pretty cool framework on how to get there. Essential read
AI
www.myhrfuture.com
Gender Discrimination In Hiring: An Experimental Eeexamination of the Swedish Case
Gender Discrimination In Hiring: An Experimental Eeexamination of the Swedish Case
Our analysis of employer responses to more than 3,200 fictitious job applications across 15 occupations revealed that overall positive employer response rates were higher for women than men by almost 5 percentage points. We found that this gap was driven by employer responses in female-dominated occupations. Male applicants were about half as likely as female applicants to receive a positive employer response in female-dominated occupations. For male-dominated and mixed occupations we found no significant differences in positive employer responses between male and female applicants.
Fascinating, counter intuitive findings. Have a read
D&I
journals.plos.org
Jacksonville Jaguars' Urban Meyer Says Vaccination Status A Factor In Roster Cuts
Jacksonville Jaguars' Urban Meyer Says Vaccination Status A Factor In Roster Cuts
Should the vaccination status of your employees be considered when you’re making staff cuts? In the world of elite sports, at least one coach thinks so - or at least, did think so until forced to backtrack after the furore for freedom that ensued after he implicitly stated that non-vaxxed players worsened their case to stay on the team. Lots to think about here, particularly, as he clearly has a point.
D&I
www.espn.com
Group Chat: The Best Way to Totally Stress Out Your Team
Group Chat: The Best Way to Totally Stress Out Your Team
Companies which went remote only pre-covid are cultural pioneers; the better ones have thought deeply about how and why they do things and their documentation is well worth a read. This guidebook on how to have 1-2-many conversations - as we are all doing on Slack and Teams these days - is an essential read for anyone who wants to be more mindful other their impact on others.
CULTURE
basecamp.com
Who's Talking?
Two Indicators: Will Remote Work Kill The Office?
Two Indicators: Will Remote Work Kill The Office?
Superbly produced podcast on the future of remote vs office. The two co-hosts have superb rapport. Have a listen here. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd, who is fast becoming the singular source for cool podcast recommendations.
REMOTE WORKING
castbox.fm
Mastering Digital Body Language with Erica Dhawan
Mastering Digital Body Language with Erica Dhawan
Thought provoking conversation between Erica Dhawan and brainfooder Laurie Ruettimann, on the inadvertent messages sent and received on digital channels. Have a listen here
ENGAGEMENT
laurieruettimann.com
Back to the Office: When Meetings are No Longer Virtual
Back to the Office: When Meetings are No Longer Virtual
Fun skit on how zoom habits might accidentally migrate to in-person meetings. Comedy of course but perhaps something to think about as I suspect we are going to take some time to phase shift between the two modes. H/T to brainfooder Colin Donnery for the share
REMOTE WORKING
www.youtube.com
End notes
I’m still in London folks and I’m currently most excited about a toy dinosaur I bought for my nephew. This Carnotaurus figure is not only anatomically up-to-date, but also has articulated arms and legs and if you press a button on his tail, it actually roars. I’m really tempted to keep him for myself.
DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok, let me know if you think young Monty can do without…
Have a great week everybody.
Hung
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