Apr 10, 2022

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #287

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: Quiet week for Brainfood Jobs - the first week in a long time that no new jobs were posted! Is this a sign that the white hot market is cooling down? Still, we have recruiter jobs with Tender Foods, TQ Solutions, Singular Talent, Brad’s Deal, TransFICC and others. Hiring for a recruiter - post here

Shout out to the Aussies: I am going to be Sydney (13th) and Brisbane (20th). If you’re in any of those places and want to hang out, register here folks. Hope to catch up with as many of you as I can!

Brainfood Live, Ep150: Leadership Fitness for Remote First World

We are have special this week folks as we are speaking with the superb Dr Richard Claydon, one of the smartest people in the business of organisation design, company culture and business leadership. It is 1-2-1 and we’re doing it Friday 15th, 11am HKT / 1pm AEST. Don’t miss this one folks - register here

Special thanks this week to: Christian Madsen, Kevin Green, Dave Hazlehurst, Jon Hull, Colin Donnery, Dorothy Dalton, Erin Peterson, Elizabeth Lembke, Elizabeth Murphy, Alla Pavlova, Bas van de Haterd, Chris Yea, Liam Fitzgerald, Joey NK Koksal, Ivan Harrison, Eugène van den Hemel, Richard Bradley, Ioana Biggers, Jean Martin Kyssama and Andrea Kirby for your public support of all things brainfood - noted and appreciated! Now check out your scores on the Brainfood Hall of Fame😉

Can you help? Simply share this link recruitingbrainfood.com on a LinkedIn status update and recommend it to your network - it’s the best way to keep the growing the brainfood community.

Cheers!

Hung

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

The Rise of the Triple Peak Day

Interesting research yet again from Microsoft, whose tracking of internal data on MS Teams is providing insight on the evolving rhythms of work as we habituate to remote first, asynchronised way of working. Are you experiencing a ‘triple peak’ of work during your working day?

REMOTE WORKING

www.microsoft.com

Working Across Departments

One of the best management blogs around at the moment, Stay Sassy makes insightful observations on common organisational challenges in language any one can understand. This one about seniority conflict between members of different departments, surely resonates with us recruiters…

CULTURE

staysaasy.com

Can an Experienced Recruiter be any Good with 378 LinkedIn Connections?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - brainfooder Tim Sackett is one of the best conversation starters in our business, mainly through poke-the-bear provocations like this. Is the number of LinkedIn Connections just a vanity metric or a genuine measure of recruiter competence? Read on the get Tim’s take.

ASSESSMENT

timsackett.com

Top Methods for Building Trust in Virtual Teams

Like for like comparison on the strengths and weaknesses of on-premise vs remote. The consistent structure is super useful in surfacing up potential challenges with either case. Again quality content from non-HR management. Have a read.

REMOTE WORKING

codingsans.com

Alexandria Search

Free (and ad free) search engine. I presume it might be useful or interesting for sourcers interested in figuring out whether you can find candidates from this. Check it out.

SOURCING

www.alexandria.org

Today’s Creator Economy was Built on Subscribers and Patrons. What Comes Next?

Even though this newsletter is curated, rather than created content, in many ways the concerns outlined in this post reflect the challenges of running Recruiting Brainfood as a ‘sponsor paid, subscriber free’ business. Competition for attention is steep, so greater incentive for content to clickbait. I hope I am avoiding this, but please do let me know how I am doing keeping this ‘brainfood’

CREATOR ECONOMY

blog.dropbox.com

We Analyzed 100K Technical Interviews to see where the Best Performers Work. Here are the Results

Interesting conjecture on which tech employers have the best tech interviewers. Some methodology concerns with this analysis (HN doesn’t like the findings, but guess what, they are a tough crowd ;-), but great to see some more attention paid to quantitatively assessing the quality of interviews. Have a read.

ASSESSMENT

blog.interviewing.io

Dear Manager, You’re Holding Too Many Meetings

I think we all agree on this, and yet we keep on having meetings overload. Are we ‘communicating’ or doing something else? The evidence is clear, we need to be militant against unnecessary meetings. Easy read from HBR, along with some easy-on-the-eye charts to illustrate the point.

CULTURE

archive.ph

I Tried GitHub Copilot and it's the Best Thing Ever

Some effusive praise for one of the most exciting developments in AI in recent years; Github’s Copilot is essentially a code auto-generator, leveraging the best solutions committed by hundreds of human software engineers trying to solve similar problems in the past. OP rates the value in terms of time save + better quality output and rates his chances of tech unemployment as…at least 10 years away. It is, inevitably, coming though.

FUTURE OF WORK

davegebler.com

Mental Health and Employers

Report from Deloitte on mental health that focuses on making the business the case for investment . I suspect everyone who reads this newsletter should have this on hand. Download the report here

D&I

www2.deloitte.com

Welcome Back! Employers Rush to Hire Talent That Left Just 17 months Ago

Disappointingly short post from LinkedIn, but some interesting things to think about nonetheless, especially on how boomerang hiring rates vary according to industry. Do you know your industry rate, how does your company compare?

CULTURE

www.linkedin.com

Metaverse and Money

I won’t pretend that a 184 page document on the Metaverse is going to be easy reading, but a surface scan of this massive tome suggests that it well worth downloading as a keep-and-refer-to-it-later kind of resource. Accessible language, excellent illustrations - grab a copy here

AR / VR

www.dropbox.com

‘This Game is so Realistic! It Feels Just Like Working Overtime’

Perhaps the most useful use case for online gaming is social experimentation in a safe environment. Create the world, set some incentives and trade offs and let the users tell you what is going to be happen. Great story coming out of China, here

SOCIETY

www.sixthtone.com

Does the Gender-Equality Paradox Actually Exist?

The paradox is this: the countries which talk most loudly about gender equality, actually produce more less women engineers than those countries which do not prominently have ideological arguments about it. Some data, some meta-analysis and some wisdom, on a fascinating phenomena. Great post

D&I

dynomight.net

Mesmerizing Labor

Bet you never thought you’d read an article about people using the occult as a labour management tool, did ya?

OBSCURA

daily.jstor.org

How Virtual Reality Can Help to Recruit and Train Staff

“…once people adopt this training, it’s tough to go back to computer-based training. This is just so immersive and engaging that companies will definitely be adding this to their overall training solutions…”

True for anyone who has ever put on an Occulus I think. It is the near total immersion which gets you. Good article from BBC on how AR / VR is being implemented for training and upskilling.

AR / VR

www.bbc.co.uk

Who's Talking?

McKinsey & Company: The First Management Consultants

Founded during Industrial Revolution, James McKinsey set about professionalizing the way businesses were managed, and some 100 years later, the business he founded remain top of a category they created and continue to dominate. 1 hour podcast on the history of this iconic business. Worthy brainfood folks.

CULTURE

www.joincolossus.com

International Recruiting: Top 10 Tips on Recruiting in the USA, Czech Republic and Poland

So this was an impromptu charity event which was organised by Elena Volk and to which I was very happy to provide some moderating support. Nearly $9K USD raised for humanitarian relief for the people of Ukraine after one one week from conception to execution. With superb assistance via presentations from brainfooders Irina Shamaeva, Kasia Tang and Jan Tegze. Might be a series coming up on this - check out the video on the learnings here

SOURCING

www.youtube.com

The Power Of Personal Branding with Amelia Sordell, Founder of Klowt

Recruiters remain disappointingly unconvinced about the merits of personal branding, which is a shame because when the competition for candidate attention is as fierce as this, every little bit is going to help. The awesome Amelia Sordell with the words of wisdom and encouragement. Have a listen here

PERSONAL BRANDING

jbmc.co.uk

End notes

I’m writing this newsletter from Rye, a beachside town on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. It’s a beautiful place but there is no internet and I’m currently tethering on a mobile phone which is not mine. Got me interested in the this cool open source map of the world’s cellular towers. Pretty cool huh?

Going to be in South Victoria for the next couple days, before heading up to Sydney in Tuesday. DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you are in town and at a loose end….

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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