Nov 14, 2021

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #266

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: all recruiter jobs, from as far away as Taipei, New York City, London, Berlin, as well as Remote EU and Remote Global. Check out the list here - don’t forget the free deal for recruiters who complete the What Do Recruiters Want? survey.

Brainfood Live, Ep134: Candidate Journeys: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. This is a classic how-to format folks - we are three experts on EB from startup, big corp and expert consultancy who are going to show us how to use design principles for CX in prep for 2022. Friday 19th November, 2pm GMT - register here

Special thanks this week to: Vanessa Raath, Eugène van den Hemel, William Geldart, Kevin Green, James Osborne, Jon Hull, Joey NK Koksal, Bas van de Haterd, Dave Hazlehurst, Erin Peterson, Jo Weech, Mark Edwards, Ross Clennett, Neil Foames, Renate Mikucevska, Adam Gordon, Caroline Hunter, Sarah Lane, Andreea Lungulescu, Elaine Rice, Emir Terzo, Craig Turner, Helen Murdoch and all the good folks who have been spreading the good word about the survey - we are getting there, 1200 completes so far, 2 more weeks to get to 5K. Lets do this!

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Cheers!

Hung

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

The Power of Performance Reviews: Use This System to Become a Better Manager

Are we still running performance reviews? Out of fashion in public discourse, they remain essential tools for improving employee well being, reducing employee attrition and retaining institutional knowledge. Lenny Rachitsky with the framework and the template. Must read

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

review.firstround.com

My First 100 Days as the New Head of People Analytics & HR Tech

I’m a fan of these ‘100 days in’ reviews - we did a Brainfood Live on this for recruiters a couple months ago. Here is Serena Huang talking about her experience as a new Head of People Analytics. Worth reading, especially if you think you might be making a move yourself in near future. PS: also, decent intro to People Analytics

PEOPLE ANALYTICS

www.linkedin.com

How to Increase Collaborative Productivity in a Pandemic

Here’s an interesting idea - all jobs can be divided into 3 types and which type you do will determine how ‘remote-able’ your job might be. Excellent framework from Lynda Gratton - I think it works for most roles we can think of. We’re probably not doing it this way though, and maybe we should. Have a read

REMOTE WORK

sloanreview.mit.edu

21 Experts on the Future of Expertise

How are we to understand people who are ‘experts’ when creation and dissemination of the knowledge has been so democratised that we no longer share consensus on what is true? Truly fascinating long read with contributions from science, arts, business and more. Very worthy read folks. H/T to brainfooder Denys Dinkevych for the share.

FUTURE OF WORK

future.a16z.com

The Easiest Way to Extract and Monitor Data from Any Website.

What would happen if your favourite web scraper tool connected to something like IFTTT? You’d probably get something like Browse.ai. I haven’t tried this yet, but based the sell, I probably will. One for the technical sourcers out there - let me know what you think.

COOL TOOL

www.browse.ai

That's a Big, Poorly Camouflaged Red Flag

I think fair to say that OP doesn’t like surveillance tech 🤣. Great essay on how to understand company culture based on how it is approaching the return to the office. Some good tips, along with the polemicism. H/T to brainfooder Colin Donnery in the fb group

CULTURE

annehelen.substack.com

Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Work

Accessible white paper on the impact of AI on the future of work. Strikes a necessary professional balance between the utopic / dystopic appraisals of artificial intelligence and instead explains - in plain language - where we are, where we might want to go and how to get there. Download it.

www.dropbox.com

Being Transgender At Work

The experience of being transgender at work is under researched, so this report by McKinsey is much needed. Sober reading, especially in the lack of security (physical, mental, social) transgender workers feel at work. Some excellent practical guidance at the end to support organisation culture more inclusive to transgender people - have a read. H/T to brainfooder Bill Boorman for the share in the fb group

D&I

www.mckinsey.com

"Hire awesome people, listen to them and get out of their way" Let me tell ya, this is not advice. It's wishful thinking"

This is why I like it when non-recruiters share their thinking on recruiting. Straight shooting from a hiring manager unafraid to slay a few sacred cows. It might be the only way to be useful.

ASSESSMENT

twitter.com

12 Competencies Shared by Exceptional Recruiters, According to LinkedIn’s Recruiting Leaders

This is an oldie (published in 2020) but as we’re all trying our best to hire recruiters, it might be a good idea to remind ourselves what competences a great recruiter should have, according to LinkedIn’s own recruiting team. H/T to one of those leaders, brainfooder Emily Atkins for the share.

ASSESSMENT

www.linkedin.com

Facebook Hiring Crisis In Leaked Docs

Are Facebook’s hiring challenges the result of the media propaganda campaign or rather more an example of market conditions not specific to the company? Maybe a bit of both. Always interesting to read internal memo’s though. H/T to brainfooder Manjuri Sinha in the fb group

EMPLOYER BRANDING

www.protocol.com

Wage Growth Tracker

With US CPI at 6.2%, any wage increase in the past 12 months less than this is a low ball. No surprise that your best bet might be to quit and find uplift in salary as a new hire somewhere else. Local data but a cool sample of what we all know to be true - you get bigger jumps in salary, if you quit.

ECONOMY

www.atlantafed.org

How to Set Up Linkedin Autoresponders, Automatic Replies, and Away Messages

Not a fan of OOO but given the volume of auto response messages I receive from sending this newsletter I suspect I am in a small minority 🤣. Anyways, I came across this post and thought….maybe we can use this employer branding or something.

ENGAGEMENT

aboundsocial.com

Inside Unilever's program that allows employees to try out new jobs and gig working opportunities at the company

There is probably a need for a new category of content to focus on ‘Internal mobility’ or ‘Talent marketplace’. Unilever seem to have a mission to be HR innovators so no surprise to see them being the case study again. Worth a look folks, if you have any plan to unlock internal mobility and retain the talent within your business. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share.

CULTURE

www.businessinsider.com

Confessions of a Ransomware Negotiator: Well, somebody's got to talk to the Criminals holding data hostage

This person looks like he is being seconded in to do this, but you do wonder there may be a future career path as cybercrime becomes ever more pervasive. Interesting interview on what might be somebody’s full time job one day

OBSCURA

www.theregister.com

Who's Talking?

Do Your Genes Determine Your Success In Life?

Can we talk about the impact of genes on life outcomes? It’s not an easy topic to have, but I think this one was sensitively handled. Well worth a listen folks, do it here. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for share.

D&I

castbox.fm

Growing Your Company Into a Global Powerhouse

Cool interview with brainfooder Anna Brandt on what you need to do to scale, especially on what you need to do when you’ve just raised a massive round. It’s an action packed 25 minutes, have a listen here.

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

open.spotify.com

‎Transforming Work with Sophie Wade

High quality conversation between two of the leading students of the future of work, Sophie Wade with Laetitia Vitaud. Welcome critique of the fetishization of the FTE, along with lots of things. Must listen folks.

GIG ECONOMY

podcasts.apple.com

End notes

I’m still in London folks, though in different part of London, as I’ve woken up in Clapham, following one of my few planned ‘big nights out’. Great night celebrating Steve Ward’s 50th - thanks to Jennifer Candee for organising it!

Perhaps this is a good time to tune into the ‘natural ambience sound generator’ - great for zoning out. DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you got any other soundscape websites to check out.

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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