Dec 5, 2021

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #269

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: Massive injection of new jobs this week, including from the likes of OLX Group, Frontiers, Tipico, LendInvest, AMBOSS and many more. Check out the full list here

NO Brainfood Live this week: going to reschedule the LATAM show for 2022, so that leaves only one more Brainfood Live left for 2021 - the Review of the Year. 2 hour special with all your favourite guest this year, on Friday 17th December 1-3pm. Register here folks.

What Do Recruiters Want?: 2334 completed responses, target is 5000 so do the survey now if you haven’t already - thank you!

Special thanks this week to: Jan Tegze, Mark Mansour, Neil Carberry, James Osborne, Clair Mohamed, Kevin Green, Joey NK Koksal, Bas van de Haterd, Vanessa Raath, John Rose, Colin Donnery, Dave Hazlehurst, Lisa Doorly, Oonagh Clarke, Antonio Arias Lopez, Eugène van den Hemel, Hannah Morgan, Ross Clennett, Sarah Lane, Garry Turner, Michelle Bullock, Tony Restell, Milda Skladaityte, Michael Kelemen and Luke Davis for your public support last week - vital stuff to keep this thing rolling.

Now check out your scores on the Brainfood Hall of Fame😉

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Cheers!

Hung

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

25 Tips for Purposeful Career Planning

Another exception long read from FirstRound, collating input from startup leaders and CHRO’s on how to build your career plan. Can be read both ways - as an individual looking to optimise your chances and your choices, or as an employer thinking about internal mobility, employee well being and performance management.

INTERNAL MOBILITY

review.firstround.com

Advangle: Advanced Web Search in Google and Bing

Would be it be useful to have a single interface to create and run boolean searches on Google and Bing? The massive input box is enough for this cool tool to get a thumbs up from me.

SOURCING

advangle.com

UK Jobs Recovery Tracker

Nice bit of research from our friends at the Recruitment & Employment Confederation, with year-on-year data on job postings, regional (sadly no surprise to see North East again in last place) and even sectoral segmentation. For UK subscribers, must read.

ECONOMY

www.rec.uk.com

The Employee Expectations Report 2021

Liking this report from Peakon because it collects the data in a consistent way, presents it in a compelling way, before translating it into recommendations which we, can take-away.

SOCIETY

peakon.com

How to Mix Your Talent Strategies to Bridge Skills Gaps

At a moment where every requisition is a hiring challenge, it might be time to ‘mix and match’ your strategy based on the skills you need to acquire. Accessible how-to guide outlining the resourcing options ahead of us, along with a framework for deciding which one to go for. Must read folks

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

www.gartner.com

Video Viewer Study 2021

We all know video is where it’s at but I feel that it is still peripheral rather than integral to the work recruiters do. Some statistics might help, so check out this report from TechSmith, the makers of Jing and Camtasia, on video viewer behaviour. Perhaps short form instructionals have a place in your content marketing strategy for 2022?

CONTENT MARKETING

www.dropbox.com

Scaling Teams Like Parallel Computing Systems

It is Amdahl’s Law on parallel processing, why it might explain why productivity does not scale with team size. The writing in this post could be more readable I think, but its is worth persevering for the value of the idea at root - that as the team grows, so do the co-ordination / communication challenges between team members. Give it a shot, here

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

getsturdy.com

12 Social Selling Statistics You NEED To Know For 2022

This post would’ve benefited from stronger methodology and at least some referencing, but the thrust of the message is on point - we can and need to get better at using LinkedIn to build social capital. Improved candidate engagement, increased reach on job distribution, easier conversion - all will happen if we become better social sellers.

ENGAGEMENT

www.linkedin.com

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg Lays Off 900 Employees In Mass Zoom Call

Well here’s the video of that Zoom call, which an enterprising employee on the other end managed to record; it’s only 3 minutes long and I recommend you watch it (mild profanity warning), and have a think about EB, employee well being and company culture whilst doing so.

CULTURE

www.youtube.com

Tulsa Remote Report

Has anyone been to Tulsa? They were one of the very earliest places to think about ‘destination branding’ and in particular, the idea of relocating remote workers to the city. What sounds like a contradiction makes sense when you give a seconds thought - why do the same work in an expensive city when you could do it in more reasonable city for the same pay? 2021 report on progress, worth everyone’s time to read.

REMOTE WORKING

www.dropbox.com

Redesigning Performance Management for a Hybrid Workplace

It’s all about being SMART folks - setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound objectives. This is a just good management, but in non-office environment, the requirement to be crystal clear on SMART has become decisively important. Good reminder of eternal management best practice.

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

www.cultureamp.com

Culture Matters

Dan Luu again, with a companion piece to last week’s featured post ‘Individuals Matter’. This time, Dan applies his scrutiny to how and why company cultures matter, especially when making a job move. His blog is simply a must read

Bonus: includes a very handy back-of-envelope framework on how to create & maintain culture, right at the start of the post.

danluu.com

DAO Guide!

As cryptocurrencies ‘go on sale’ this week, it’s worthwhile having a think about other applications of blockchain which might have more direct relevance to our work. Here is a ‘big list’ (I miss those days!) of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations or DAO’s - for those who want a deeper dive.

BLOCKCHAIN

docs.google.com

"Analysis Paralysis: Gathering a lot of information doesn’t really help you make up your mind"

Ethan Molick has been my favourite tweeter this year, with his style of crunching research papers no one is ever going to read into digestible tweet storms which everyone can read. This one - on the uselessness of too much information - has some obvious ramifications for recruitment.

ASSESSMENT

twitter.com

Talent Market Drivers Since the Start of COVID

What do people want? I am guessing LinkedIn might be one of the few organisations with the reach to actually tell us something useful. No huge surprises on this interactive (people want flexibility!) but interesting to do country by country comparisons in the regional section. Have a go here

EMPLOYER BRANDING

business.linkedin.com

Who's Talking?

This Crypto Token Helps You Find Jobs

Justin Kan, founder of Twitch in conversation with Adam Jackson and Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski, founders of Braintrust. Good entry into Web3 and why blockchain matters for HR. H/T to brainfooder Mark Chaffey for the share,

BLOCKCHAIN

www.youtube.com

The Employer Brand Nerd

Employer branding is the only place in marketing where more is worse.

Great line of a high energy conversation between two great supporters of brainfood - Christina Robinson and James Ellis - on employer branding. Get into it here

EMPLOYER BRANDING

podfollow.com

Growth Secrets from Tinder, Uber, and Twitch

So you get to past the sponsor messages and you get two smart guys who between them may have written half the rules of content and growth which we now apply. It’s bro talk but its full of great nuggets of wisdom especially for content creators.

CONTENT MARKETING

tim.blog

End notes

It has been a busy few weeks, mainly on socialising I have to say and I had forgotten how expensive this city can really be. Still, it might be necessary to get used to spending money again, as so many industries in a big city like this, are dependent on food & entertainment consumption by the residents still here.

So DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you have any restaurant / bar / cafe recommendations I should check out - I need them as all the stuff I used to know is either closed or cliché.

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

BTW: this is pudding.cool, which is always pretty cool.

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