Jun 26, 2022

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #298

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: We are down to 4 live jobs on the board(!), down from a peak of hundreds when it was free, to a median of 35-40 when we went paid model. Got to say, this is one of the signals I use to get a vibe for the state of the market. However, compare that to the 73% of recruiters who say that they are still hiring for growth, and we see an incongruity. More to think about here, might do a labour market economics brainfood live on this. In the meantime though, perfect time to get high visibility for a recruiter job - congrats to Distillery, Wheely, Join Talent and KANDIDATE who are still hiring recruiters

Brainfood Live, Ep161: How to Hire for Brand No One Knows

Do big brands have it easier? Of course they do, though the problems shift to another stage of the hiring funnel. We’re going to be talking with recruiters who know how to message and engage with candidates when representing brands no one knows - if you’re not working for a household name, this one is for you. Friday 1st July 2pm BST / 3pm BST - register here

Special thanks this week to: Carl-Christoph Fellinger, Eugène van den Hemel, Kevin Green, Garry Turner, Joey NK Koksal, Oonagh Clarke, Bas van de Haterd, John Bersentes, Eva Zils, Eva Baluchova, Tim Sanchez, Colin Donnery, Patricia Chmielowiec, Tim Sackett, Nico Meyering, David Green, Camille Mongabure and Ross Clennett for your support on all things brainfood - it really helps keep this show on the road - thank you!

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Cheers!

Hung

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

What Do Recruiters Want?

OK folks, we finally have the results of that massive recruiter sentiment survey I sent out to you all 7 months ago. 2571 of you responded to questions related to how you thought about job opportunities. Check out where the community is on pay, DEIB, remote work and more. Check ‘survey’ top level link for the interactive visualisations and share with your Heads of TA who might want to think about how to design jobs recruiters want to do.

EMPLOYER BRANDING

www.recruitingbrainfood.com

Do Look Up!

During our great conversation on last week’s Brainfood Live (recommend you watch if you’re a sourcer), we ended up discussing a look up tool brainfooder Balazs Paroczay had put together. Well here it is. Useful if you have a list of something (i.e you’ve scraped Meetup event) and want to find their LinkedIn’s. Going to save you time, so go check it out.

SOURCING

thesourcecode.academy

Every Recession from U.S. History and How the Country Responded

Visual history of 47 recessions in American history, from stock market crashes, transitions from war to peace, Federal Reserve policy changes and so on. Long but readable post, useful for anyone who wants to place our moment today into historical context.

ECONOMY

stacker.com

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022

Another sentiment survey, one of the annual classics, Stack Overflow Developer Survey. 70,000 developers on learning, levelling up, salary, which tools they’re using - essentially, what developers want. Must read if you’re hiring for tech - use to inform your Tech TA strategy - and also useful as nurture content for your tech candidate contact list.

EMPLOYER BRANDING

survey.stackoverflow.co

Candidate Experience Values Report 2022

Rejected candidates: How to avoid upsetting them?

Love directly addressing the problem 🤣. One of many practical insights in this accessible report from our buddies at Starred. H/T to brainfooder Jasper Hissink for the share

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

www.dropbox.com

The Kool Aid Factory

I can’t work out whether I’m more impressed by the content (mainly organisational design / company culture) or the presentation (it’s ….a work of art). Incredible website which is truly like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

CULTURE

koolaidfactory.com

Supreme Court Ruling is a Devastating Setback for Equality

Last week’s decision by the US Supreme Court is part of a long game to reverse socially progressive values, the opposition to which is the true animus behind right wing nationalism everywhere. It will also have downstream impact on how HR leaders in the US lead and manage teams, communicate to staff - and communicate to candidates. Brainfooder Lars Schmidt with a collection of resources members here might find useful in all of those areas - make full use and contribute others where you can.

D&I

www.linkedin.com

GitHub Copilot is Generally Available to All Developers

Software writing software is the inevitable future of programming; GitHub Copilot brings that future much closer than we ever might thought, especially at the ridiculously accessible $10 per month price point. Think of this like a coding auto-correct / auto-filler - providing tremendous productivity boost to software engineering, whilst improve code quality, promoting standardisation and therefore interoperability. It really is an incredible innovation and it will basically mean ‘less coders required’

WORKFORCE AUTOMATION

github.blog

Four Day Week White Paper

Momentum is shifting for organisations moving to 4 day week, especially as a potential compromise to workers in exchange for a return-to-office. Useful white paper from Henley Business School, summary of Nov 2021 survey of 2000 employees from 500 businesses. Have a read here if you plan on making this shift.

CULTURE

www.dropbox.com

Love Working from Home? Maybe You’re a ‘Task Filler’

Working from home is bad for business and workers; after all, if your job can be done from Brighton or Parramatta or Chatswood, it can probably also be done from Bangalore or Johannesburg, for a lot cheaper.

I leave the quote in so you know what kind of post this is before clicking on it. However, remote as a stepping stone to offshoring is logical reasoning and - the inevitable outcome of a global shift to remote.

REMOTE WORKING

archive.ph

Jetson Hoverbike Flies CEO to Work, World’s 1st eVTOL Commute

…So if we are going to go back to the office in some form, we do have to improve the commute. How about doing it via a flying EV? Confidently named Jetson have a hoverbike, and their CEO flew in it, last week in a world’s first. Cool video footage of it, well worth a watch.

FUTURE OF WORK

earthsky.org

Why I’m Never Going To Freelance Again

Bracing self analysis on the life as a freelancer - in this case, a freelance copywriter / content creator. A few things identified: there is never really enough free time, the work is usually boring and you are under pressure on deadline, most of the time. Worth a read, there is a way to do it but always useful to identify which paths have the most obstacles.

GIG ECONOMY

medium.com

Zuckerberg Reveals Meta's Latest Prototype VR Headsets

We’re going to look back at Zuckerberg’s pivot to Meta has one of the biggest bets ever placed in the world of business - not only a bet that his company would dominate a new field, but that it would actually create it, sacrificing one of the world’s most profitable companies in order to do so. Short video progress update. btw add me on Occulus if you have a set, I will play you on Beat Sabre or something.

AR / VR

www.youtube.com

1979: Will Word Processors Start A Home Working revolution?

Fascinating documentary from the BBC archive, which looked at the impact of technology to the future of work, including very early speculation that that word processors would render the ‘inefficient office’ obsolete. 40 years later, we might finally be getting there. Or thereabouts

REMOTE WORKNG

www.youtube.com

Decentralized Autonomous Organisations Are Changing How Biotechs Are Run

Blockchain may no longer be cool with crashing of crypto currencies, but really there were always more exciting applications of the principle of decentralised, programmable and immutable way of organising work. This is a good example

BLOCKCHAIN

www.labiotech.eu

The Regional Accentism That Secretly Affects Job Prospects

One of the toughest de-biasing challenges is how someone speaks. In the UK in particular, there are certain prestige accents, and many others which are clear barriers to social and career progress. How to mitigate this, especially seeing as accents likely emerged as a way for humans to establish in-group / out-goup bias? More good stuff from one of the best resources around, BBC Worklife.

D&I

www.bbc.com

Who's Talking?

India: Why Did Working Women Disappear?

Millions of women have left the formal workforce, with India being an wanted leader in the category. Why has this happened, is this a problem and for whom, and if so, what can be done about it? Have a listen here

D&I

omny.fm

Why Video Calls Are Bad for Brainstorming

Talking in person is very different from talking via video. What is the difference? We spend too much cognitive energy trying to figure out the missing information- micro-expressions, tone, touch, even smell from the others - rather than working on the task. Evidence is building for innovation advantage of in person

REMOTE WORKING

www.youtube.com

Let’s Redefine the Role of Manager

Lynda Gratton is one of the foremost thinkers on the workplace, and so it is always a pleasure to hear talk about the new role for managers, especially on the overload managers are currently experiencing with the shift to holistic management and remote working.

CULTURE

hbr.org

End notes

Given that dialling the clock back on human progress is currently in the thing to do, I found myself wondering quite how far back the powers that be plan to go. How about the Late Permian?

DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you have any opinions on what the favourite antediluvian era the right wing might actually be.

Take care everybody.

Hung

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