Recruiting Brainfood

By Hung Lee

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #265

#265・ Nov 7, 2021

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Brainfood Jobs: New from Friendsurance, Salesroom, Kinsta, Street Group, Fonoa and Moonfare both with multiple roles. Mainly in London, Berlin, New York - and of course, remote! Check out the full list here

Brainfood Live, Ep133: What Do Recruiters Want?

Recruiting recruiters has become the next big problem in our industry; with everyone getting multiple offers, how can employers stand out from the crowd and design jobs that recruiters actually want to do? We’re with agency, in-house and RPO recruiters in Brainfood Live this Friday. Can’t miss this one folks - register here

Special thanks this week to: Eugène van den Hemel, Christian Madsen, Jan Tegze, Kevin Green, Manjuri Sinha, Mark Edwards, Luca Cicatelli, Clair Mohamed, Joey NK Koksal, John Bersentes, Dave Hazlehurst, Richard Bradley, Somer Hackley, Gerry Crispin, Simon Geere, Bas van de Haterd, Caroline Hunter, Oliver Beckett, Rick Gillis, Simon Gomez, Mary Ellen Slayter and Ross Clennett for your public support of this newsletter, vital to keep this going! Scores updated on the Brainfood Hall of Fame😉

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Hung

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

Hiring a VP of Engineering?

Outstanding post from FirstRound, which manages to combine framework level abstractions with real world illustrations which you can immediately apply. Must read for anyone hiring for tech, especially for tech leadership roles.

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

review.firstround.com

The State of Video in Talent 2021 Report

700+ employers from 41 countries contributed to this report from our buddies VideoMyJob on the State of Video in Talent. Some interesting insight, especially on the value of quantity (output more folks!) as well as a decent maturity model to see where your organisation sits in its use of video in recruitment. Download here

EMPLOYER BRANDING

www.dropbox.com

Trying to Get a Job in a Labor Shortage is Harder Than You Think

In the middle of a labor shortage, a man in Florida applied to 60 jobs only to receive one interview.

So begins this fascinating story on broken recruiting systems which progressively degrade when there is less resources around to maintain them. If you’re familiar with cascade theory of system collapse, or want to ruminate on why process is so important in our work, then this post is for you.

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

goodjobsinstitute.medium.com

Job Postings Through 22 October: Growth Continues

You can adjust these charts by country (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom, and United States) as well as by sector. HR comes into the top 5 sectors to experience significant increase of job postings - no surprise. Take a look here

ECONOMY

www.hiringlab.org

Are Daily Stand Ups Hurting Your Team?

The daily stand up has become a common ritual for many of us now working in distributed teams. Designed to connect team mates, unblock problems and increase velocity, they can also become deeply problematic and damaging for employee morale. Super interesting thread from engineers who talk about how they do (or don’t) do stand ups.

REMOTE WORKING

news.ycombinator.com

Women in the Workplace

McKinsey’s annual report on gender in the workplace enters its 7th year. Handily, all the previous reports are also listed at the end of the this online report. The analysis feels a little weak in some places, and is missing any age related correlations - surely a key component of intersectionality. Still, it’s an accessible report we should read and bookmark.

D&I

www.mckinsey.com

The Toxic Effects of Branding Your Workplace As “Family”

Intelligent post from brainfooder Joshua A. Luna discussing on the implications of using ‘family’ as the template for social organisation in business. Particularly good in providing a balanced review, as well as recommendations of what how to do it better.

CULTURE

hbr.org

This Resume Got Me An Interview!

Fake resumes / CV’s are excellent in-production tests for recruiter biases. Software engineer “Angelina Lee” faked her resume to see whether recruiters really were susceptible to credentialism. To the surprise of no one, of course we are. Original reddit post and thread here, twitter commentary here. H/T brainfooder Christine Ng for the share.

ASSESSMENT

twitter.com

Help Job Seekers Understand your Job Postings by Including a Complete Description

Strange, under-the-radar update on how google index and display job adverts. The tone is so low key it’s incongruous with the potential significance of the information. Seems to me we should take note of this, especially if your organisation has an active career page.

RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING

developers.google.com

Biden's Vaccine Rules for 100 million Workers Are Here.

We have already seen ‘job boards for the unvaccinated’, so one wonders what other innovations might emerge from US President Biden’s mandate for employees to be vaccinated? Summary of the rules & implications for our US readers here

SOCIETY

www.npr.org

Intuitive Timezone Viewer

In the distributed world of working, time becomes more important than place. We definitely need better ways to figure out the time for workers in different time zones. Timezone Viewer might be the tool to do it. H/T brainfooder Mathilde Kurzawa for the share

COOL TOOL

whena.re

4 Savvy Ways to Source Top-Tier Talent with Automation

Any PhantomBuster fans out there? I suspect this post might make a few more. Illustrated with realistic use cases, this post outlines 4 ways in which connecting together different tools and platforms can accelerate your sourcing. Have a read here

SOURCING

amazinghiring.com

Big Book About Culture

Every organisation has a culture whether it is explicitly discussed or not. How we go about improving it to better help that meet organisational goals might depend on first being able to measure and define it. Our buddies at Bryq have a view on this, and so they have released an accessible e-book discussing key concepts and methods. Free and un-gated - get it here

CULTURE

www.dropbox.com

What if Performance Advertising isn't Just an Analytics Scam?

If you read last week’s post on performance advertising (not many of you did!) then this rather magnificent rebuttal is a must read. It’s rare to see intelligent debate carried out this way, where each protagonist takes care to accurately understand the argument of the other. Look forward to the rebuttal of the rebuttal if they have the energy to do it.

This is all relevant to recruitment advertising btw.

RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING

mackgrenfell.com

Picking Co-Founders the Army Officer Way

It’s fascinating to read how people from different organisational cultures think about recruiting. OP is an ex-Singaporean Army Officer, turned startup founder and he expounds on the lessons learned in the military on trust, competence and leadership.

CULTURE

sorryspeakup.substack.com

Revolt of the NYC Delivery Workers

Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. New York City’s 65,000 delivery workers have only themselves to count on. They’ve improvised solutions, like bridge patrol to protect themselves from attacks, to make their jobs feasible.

It’s ‘decentralised collective action’. Wonderful essay on a social phenomenon we are likely to see a great deal more of

GIG ECONOMY

www.curbed.com

Who's Talking?

How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Economy?

Fascinating journey through history on the economic impact of discriminatory policies in society. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share.

D&I

castbox.fm

Building a Multibillion-Dollar Company in 18 Months

‎Hopin is one of the fastest-growing startups in history. The virtual events company had six employees in February 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. A year and a half later, it employs more than eight hundred and is valued at almost $8 billion.

Crazy growth indeed. What are the recruiting challenges? Azeem Azhar with CEO Johnny Boufarhat for an hour of quality of chat

CULTURE

podcasts.apple.com

Why a Ransomware Group Is Pretending to Be a Real Company

A major hacking group has been recruiting tech talent by setting up a fake cybersecurity company

What can I say? It’s fascinating to see recruitment innovation in the world of cybercrime. Have a listen here. H/T again to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share.

ASSESSMENT

www.wsj.com

End notes

I’m back in London folks, after a few days and one night in Whitstable last week. Big shout out to the awesome crew at The Recruitment Events Co and the RL100 group for laying on a great event.

It’s getting cold in the Northern hemisphere and inevitably my mind turns to food - namely, hot spicy food. So this cool website tracking the history of spices was exactly what I need.

DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok - what is your favourite spice?

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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