Oct 3, 2021

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #260

Hung Lee

5 Years Ago Today….

The very first issue of newsletter was sent 5 years ago today. I had so little idea what I was doing that I managed to send it to the only person who had subscribed……myself! Since that rather inauspicious start, Recruiting Brainfood gone from being my favourite thing to do, to a reasonable side hustle, to a full time, multi-channel business supporting to the recruiting eco-system worldwide.

I want to take this moment to thank you all for your attention. Your attention is a precious resource in today’s information saturated world, and I’m humbled that you have seen fit to spend a small part of it on Recruiting Brainfood. Your support is hugely motivating and makes writing this newsletter still my favourite thing to do

Thank you!

Brainfood Jobs Job Board: new roles every week it seems, with Relayr, Join Talent, Resource Solutions, Vimcar leading the charge. London, Berlin and Remote seem to be top locations - check it the full list here.

Brainfood Live, Ep128: The Psychology Behind Unconscious Bias in Hiring. I am getting the psychologists in for this one, where we deep dive into why unconscious bias is pervasive, examine the evolutionary roots to cognitive shortcuts and how this understanding is critical for better solutions in de-biasing recruiting. Friday 8th Oct, 2.00pm register here

Special thanks this week to: Clair Mohamed, James Osborne, Christian Madsen, Bas van de Haterd, Joey NK Koksal, Somer Hackley, Oonagh Clarke, John Bersentes, Hannah Morgan, Chris Brown, Ross Clennett, Patricia Chmielowiec, Katie Parker, Luke Davis,Matthias Eisterer, Andrea Kirby, Christian Buttrose,Guillaume Alexandre, Lars Schmidt, Caroline Chavier, Ute Neher and Julia Reis - as ever, your public support of this newsletter makes all the difference in keeping this community growing. Scores updated on the Brainfood Hall of Fame!

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Cheers!

Hung

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

10 New Truths About The HR Technology Market

HR Tech was on last week, and a great deal has been written about the world’s biggest showcase for Recruiting and HR technology. Catch up with Josh Bersin’s preview post here, and read alongside brainfooder Tim Sackett‘s review on Madeline Laureno’s talk post event. H/T brainfooder Markellos Diorinos for the share.

FUTURE OF WORK

joshbersin.com

The Greatest Resume I've Ever Seen

One of those stories which so great that you think it must be apocryphal but you want to believe it to be true 🤣. It is fundamentally a critique of the CV / resume as a method of assessing for competence, in preference to skills based assessment.

ASSESSMENT

cloudirregular.substack.com

Investigating Discord: A Primer

With over 300 million registered users, Discord is primed to become the next big community space where interest groups will cohere. A primer to source from it then, probably will be useful at some point.

SOURCING

osintcurio.us

Employee Referral Benchmark Study 2021

350 firms surveyed by our buddies Firstbird on the ‘state of employee referrals’. Did you know that the median referral fee is a super stingy €500-€1000 for successful hire? Really needs to be 5 x or even 10 x more. Accessible reading

RESEARCH

www.dropbox.com

This Is How Many Hours You Should Really Be Working

Some interesting findings: not a huge amount of difference between people who felt time pressured (8.6 hrs) vs those who felt they had good work / life balance (7.6 hrs) suggests it might not take too much for employers to improve employee happiness. Post is sparse but well linked to deeper research pieces, so do check it out.

CULTURE

www.atlassian.com

12 Questions About Hybrid Work, Answered

This is an interesting post. You may not agree with every answer OP gives here but we have to agree the answers are full and considered. 12 questions asked about ‘how to do hybrid’ - Remote Working Revolution author Tsedal Neeley responds.

REMOTE WORKING

hbr.org

Steve Jobs Emails Eric Schmidt March 7, 2007…

Steve Jobs makes another appearance in Tech Emails….seemed to be a common motif amongst the biggest of big tech to informally agree not to hire from each other’s companies. Crazy that the recruiter was sacked for it though…none of this would fly in today’s game.

CULTURE

twitter.com

As More Workers Go Solo, the Software Stack Is the New Firm

Leaving aside the opening paragraphs which rather inaccurately categorises ‘creators’ as a just another subset of freelancer, this post improves as you go, especially in the main body of the piece, which makes the claim that networks+communication tech enable many people to exit employment in favour of solo operating. Makes you think of what the purpose of the firm is really, which is all the excuse I need to bring up Ronald Coase again….

FUTURE OF WORK

future.a16z.com

Job Boards For Workplaces That Specifically Don't Require COVID-19 Vaccinations

“This job board is for sharing job openings that do not require employees to inject themselves with an experimental substance,”

It’s from Gab (of course), in response to growing US employer mandates for employees to be vaccinated or be fired. Expect the argumentation techniques of the left to be adopted by the right. And…when is the D&I argument going to be used?

D&I

www.businessinsider.com

How Work Will Rebundle Into Decentralized Teams

Brainfooder Andrew Spence is forging out on his own as a future of work thinker of Web3. Fascinating post with examples of institutional reinvention from the grass roots. Excellent read

GIG ECONOMY

workforcefuturist.substack.com

"We built an internal game at Shopify to make virtual hangouts more fun"

Online gaming was the pre-covid example of where real connections, relationships and community could be built entirely remotely. It should come to nobody’s surprise that we will be turning its mechanics and experience design the more we shift to remote. Great example here from Shopify.

REMOTE WORKING

twitter.com

Survey Shows Opinions About Work After COVID-19 Pandemic

Short survey report from the WEF on employee attitudes towards remote working. There’s a few interesting charts in this, particularly the country comparison of what employees want vs what employees expect to happen.

REMOTE WORKING

www.weforum.org

Age and Occupation

What is the average age range of your occupation? Couldn’t find ‘recruiter’ in this interactive but you can find almost everything else on this very cool tool. H/T brainfooder Nick Price for the share

COOL TOOL

flowingdata.com

Why the Term 'JEDI' Is Problematic for Describing Programs That Promote Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Written by DE&I professionals who are also clearly long time fans of Star Wars franchise, this essay is an extraordinary critique on the use of pop culture to advance social justice goals. So many points of interest here - relevant to us in recruiting & HR, especially as we often bear witness to - and participate in - the creation of in-company elites.

D&I

www.scientificamerican.com

Who's Talking?

Building Collaboration and Trust in the Workplace with Dan Schawbel

Brainfooder Laurie Ruettimann and Dan Schawbel were both some of the earliest HR bloggers who came to my attention a decade or so ago. So fun to hear them come together to discuss collaboration and trust in the workplace. Two great conversationalists, here

CULTURE

laurieruettimann.com

The Job Board Doctor

Brainfooders Serge Boudreau and Shelley Billinghurst interview the great Jeff Dickey-Chasins on the state of the job boards. Lots happening in the recruitment jobs advertising space, so lets learn about it here

RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING

podcasts.apple.com

The Science Behind Forming Better Habits, with Katy Milkman

Behaviour science behind habits - why we get stuck into bad ones and why they are - seemingly - so difficult to change. One for all of us to learn from I’d say - have a listen. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share

PRODUCTIVITY

news.uchicago.edu

End notes

I’m still in London, where it has suddenly become grey, dark and wet. Times like this are an easy reminder as to pub culture is such a thing in the UK - everybody just keen to get inside and get warm. This period will be an interesting test on the efficacy of the vaccination rate - lets hope the population has reached herd immunity before we start spending all our times in the social indoors…..

Been expanding my horizons with new sounds lately so here’s youtube video of noises of a dark water forest. Good work music. DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you have anything else I should be listening to…

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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