Oct 24, 2021

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #263

Hung Lee

What Do Recruiters Want? - a question which I think only we in this community might be able to answer. If you are a recruiter of any kind, please take 10 minutes to complete this survey. There are 25,000+ of us here - if enough of us do it, we will have a significant dataset we can send to our employers to say ‘this is how to design better recruiter jobs’. You can go ahead and give your input here - thank you!

Brainfood Jobs - new roles from Moonfare, Taxfix, SoSafe and gridX. Check out the full list of recruiter, RPO, HR jobs here

Brainfood Live, Ep131: Future Fit Talent Acquisition Leaders. Kevin Wheeler should require no introduction; he is joining us in a Brainfood Live special this Friday where we discuss what skills TA Leaders must acquire to be fit for the emerging future we see before us. Friday 29th October, 4pm BST - register here

Special thanks this week to: Bas van de Haterd, Hend Halim, Mark Edwards, Eugène van den Hemel, Tina Taft, Hannah Morgan, Kevin Green, Dave Hazlehurts, Colin Donnery, Alison Birch, Somer Hackley, Felix Wetzel, Daan Lancee, Tim Sanchez, Joey NK Koksal, Katy Peichert, Clair Mohamed, Simon Geere, Romuald Restout, Lara Plaxton, Simon Gomez and Liam FitzGerald for your public support of this newsletter - vital to keep us going!

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Cheers!

Hung

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

2022 Global Culture Report

Outstanding interactive report on the ‘state of company culture’ by O.C.Tanner. Covers hybrid work, peak experiences and employee experience being contingent on sense of connection. Also brave enough to draw controversial conclusions (i.e employee engagement is an over rated metric). Dive in folks, this is good.

CULTURE

www.octanner.com

Tips and Tricks for Targeted B2B Advertising on LinkedIn

You don’t have to have genius insight to get into this newsletter, sometimes you just need to explain what you are doing. This writer just explains his approach to ‘hyper targeting’ using LinkedIn job ads. You got to read it.

RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING

medium.com

Why Nobody Hires Junior Developers and What Happens Next

..because it’s cheaper to hire Senior Developers at exorbitant salaries than train up Junior Developers who then leave for better salaries, is the gist of this piece on the challenges of hiring experienced tech talent. Probably an oversimplification but an interesting angle nonetheless. H/T brainfooder Martyn Redstone for the share in the fb group.

ASSESSMENT

www.notonlycode.org

The A3 Work Revolution

Most of us have been participants of the ‘anytime, anyplace, anywhere’ work experiment - and it’s pretty clear that things will never be going back to the way they were. Some interesting visuals in this report from Talent Alpha - particularly on the rise of alternative work relationships beyond FTE. Download for free here, no requirement for email.

FUTURE OF WORK

talent-alpha.com

Indexing the Creator Economy

Using this post to create a new category here; it’s pretty clear that creators require a different classification to that of freelancer or entrepreneur or gig worker and - as this index from Stripe shows, they are increasing part of the new economy. Total number of creators on Stripe? 668,000 and counting….

CREATOR ECONOMY

stripe.com

Asterisk * vs. AROUND(X) on Google

It’s uncanny the impact brainfooder Irina Shamaeva has - again with the simple, do-it-today sourcing techniques which you should already know about - but didn’t. It’s brilliant stuff.

SOURCING

booleanstrings.com

Is College Worth It? A Comprehensive Return on Investment Analysis

University education has long been presented as the stepping stone for upward social mobility, but is that the case for all universities / colleges and for all degrees? In-depth, accessible, sobering research on the market value of the US college degree.

SOCIETY

freopp.org

1 in 3 Americans Admit To Lying On Resume

Fascinating research from Resumebuilder on the behaviour of 1500 sampled job hunters in the US. Most interesting nuggets: men lie x 2 as much as women and years experience is the most common lie. Lots to think about here, including….do we vary our due diligence based on this research? H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share in the fb group.

ASSESSMENT

www.resumebuilder.com

Sensory Words for Crafting Captivating Copy

Cool website with words categorised according to your five senses. Nice resource for anyone who is doing a lot of writing and needs an extension to vocab. H/T to brainfooder Denys Dinkevych for the share

CONTENT MARKETING

www.readstoleads.com

Innovation Theatre Doesn’t Just Kill Startups. It Kills Innovation Managers, Too

Interesting personal account on exec level burn out, mainly being due to the tension between innovation vs inertia. This is a case study on innovation management but I suspect any role or function where ‘change’ is the mission (i.e DEI) might find similar tensions. No obvious solutions here, but an understanding as to why ‘innovation theatre’ exists might help us eventually come up with one.

CULTURE

sifted.eu

A Handy Guide to Cognitive Biases

I think we need to be experts in this. We are making people judgements all the time - it’s a core part of our work. Hence we need better understanding on how to recognise and mitigate cognitive bias - it’s going to be useful for us professionally, especially when our employers lean on us to help the organisation get better at making better decisions. This beautiful website is one to bookmark

ASSESSMENT

en.shortcogs.com

Why Did We Ever Think the First Programming Language Didn't Matter?

Short, smart post, taking a countervailing position on the value of specific programming languages to the future capability of engineering talent. It’s based on transferability of technical skills - and that could be different, based on the first language you learn. Compelling argument on a controversial position.

ASSESSMENT

cacm.acm.org

Continued Rise of Remote Jobs

One of the best visualisations on the remote work as it illustrates the differential across different industries. IT/Software services lead the way, whilst some industries (i.e. Retail) simply can’t. Read this alongside material on labour reallocation and we can get some sort of sense as to which industries will continue to be candidate short.

REMOTE WORKING

www.visualcapitalist.com

Does School Cutoff Date Cause The Disadvantage for Children Born in July and August?

Compulsory education systems usually specify a cutoff date regulating the precise age for entry into primary school. Existing literature from the USA and Europe has demonstrated that children born just before the cutoff date are disadvantaged in academic performance and has formalized this phenomenon as the “age position effect.”

Fascinating study, and one wonders how significant age position effect might have for cumulative advantages and disadvantages thrown up by an education system we now know is optimised for getting parents back into the workplace.

D&I

journalofchinesesociology.springeropen.com

Who's Talking?

The Chappelle Controversy Tests Netflix

‘Radical candour’ can only exist if those conversations stay within the company. At Netflix, that didn’t happen. Excellent review on the culture challenges currently impacting Netflix following the fall out of the Dave Chappelle controversy. H/T to Bas van de Haterd for the share.

CULTURE

www.wsj.com

The Deadly Flaw In Our Judgment

“….there’s a massive flaw in human judgment that we’re just beginning to understand, and it’s called “noise.”

Fascinating concept, fascinating interview. Must listen

ASSESSMENT

bigbrains.libsyn.com

Revolutionising Recruitment

Had the pleasure to appearing on Kathleen Duffy‘s amazing podcast series earlier this month - what a great conversation with a great lady. We talk about a lot but I think mostly the value is about content marketing and personal branding. Have a listen to Pt1 and Pt2

CONTENT MARKETING

advantage-audio.com

End notes

I’m still in London folks, and it has suddenly become colder last couple days. Heating is still not on, but so I’m going to have to keep warm in some way. Any ideas?

On other matters, this is a cool project - where you live might determine how you take selfies - fascinating research on a beautiful website. DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you have any selfie ideas for me to take - I need a new profile pic!

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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