Jul 10, 2022

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #300

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: Welcome return for McKinsey & Co, who are hiring for an Associate Director of Recruiting for Digital & Analytics. Still only 9 jobs on the board, so high visibility for any employers who are looking to hire recruiters. Post here

Brainfood Live, Ep163: Recruitment Marketing for Different Generations another show I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, how to market and communicate with different generational cohorts. Yes, we know that we should stereotype people, but we also need to recognise that generational gaps exist mainly based how we consume media. If we are ever going achieve an inter-generational workforce, we are going to need to vary our approach. Superb guest line up, so no missing this one - Friday 15th July, 2pm BST - register here

Rare opportunity to see a leading industry in a live webinar - register

Special thanks this week to: Kevin Green, James Osborne, Achyut Menon, Eugène van den Hemel, Max Armbruster, Dorothy Dalton, Joey NK Koksal, Pedro Oliveira, John Rose, John Bersentes, Sean Wilkes, Tim Sanchez, Marlies Speaks, Colin Donnery, Nico Meyering, Dom Blossom, Ivan Harrison, Patricia Chmielowiec, Jo McCatty, Sebastian Schüller, Brittany King, Maury Hanigan, Bas van de Haterd and Juliette Rouquet for your support on all things Brainfood! Especial thanks to David Manaster, Jo Weech, Carmen Hudson and Martyn Redstone for your support during the last 24 hours!

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Hung

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The Brainfood

10 Common Reasons Why Your Sourcing Team is Not Successful

So the first thing to say is brainfooder Noé Antona needs to have more follows on his Medium than he currently does. His post here outlines why your sourcing function fails - and it’s most often due to structural issues with the other parts of TA and with the wider business. Essential reading if you’re in a performance turnaround or greenfield set up scenario. H/T to brainfooder Guillaume Alexandre for the share - I was indeed busy at Recfest!

SOURCING

noe-antona.medium.com

Company Culture Is Really Important, But The Way We Talk About It Is Wrong

Important post on the reframing required when discussing company culture. What is a good or bad culture is so often contextual to the individual employee, but it turns out there is a better way of thinking about it. It’s about being transparent in who you really are, and thus enabling effective candidate self selection. Must read

CULTURE

hunterwalk.com

Top 8 Most Demanded Programming Languages in 2022

We can probably guess which ones these are, but always good to get some validation - this type from a job scraper which pulled in data from 7 Million tech job adverts to come up with this list. Worth a click if you’re a tech recruiter and may be also be useful as nurture content for that candidate you promised to keep in touch with.

ENGAGEMENT

www.devjobsscanner.com

Repeat After Me (Give Keywords Weights in Google)

Brainfooder Irina Shamaeva never ceases to amaze with her discoveries on how search engines work. It takes a combination of knowledge, discipline and curiosity to come up with techniques like this. Must read for all sourcers, as usual.

SOURCING

booleanstrings.com

New Firefox Privacy Feature Strips URLs of Tracking Parameters

As privacy advocacy bleeds into product development, we are heading toward a future where we will be trackerless by default. Firefox is not at all the most popular browser, but it is No2 or No3 in the world and this move is highly significant portend of things to come. H/T brainfooder Nick Thompson for the share

RECRUITMENT MARKETING

www.bleepingcomputer.com

There's a Front Door and a Back Door

Two things on the Internet give me joy - cool twitter threads and non-recruiters talking recruitment from the candidates POV. This post from a Hedge Fund manager to people looking to break into the industry combines both and contains truths all of us recruiters would recognise. Outstanding post, a lot of these lessons would apply to any industry. Share with your candidates.

ENGAGEMENT

twitter.com

Insights at Work 2022

A key theme in this piece of research from brainfooder Sarah White is the ‘empathy gap’ between Boss vs Employee on stress and mental health. It shouldn’t be surprising that the further away you are from owning the business, the greater the risk of misalignment on priorities. Have a read here.

CULTURE

www.dropbox.com

Overview & Key Findings of the 2022 Digital News Report

How do we consume the news? We have never had more news than today, and our relationship with it can be intense, emotional and probably unhealthy. Massive report from Reuters on where we are at in 2022, cross country analysis. One to download and refer to as we go.

SOCIETY

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

3 Tips for Hiring Top Talent in 2022

Gary Vee on recruiting? Of course I am going to read it, as whatever people might think of Gary Vaynerchuk, there is no escaping the phenomenal success of his business and his brand. One key line in this short essay stood out for me to be profoundly true - ‘because I’m not afraid to be wrong, I’m not afraid to hire’.

Yes is always the riskier decision but you don’t grow with a no. Have a read - H/T brainfooder Jo McCatty for the share.

ASSESSMENT

www.linkedin.com

The Case for Lunch

Until very recently, it was against the law to eat lunch at your desk in France. The reasoning was straightforward and endured for more than a century: eating in the workplace is hazardous to your health.

So begins this fascinating piece of social commentary on the place of lunch as a boundary marker where obligations to employer should stop.

CULTURE

annehelen.substack.com

Reddit Moderators do $3.4 million Worth of Unpaid Work Each Year

Did you know that ‘the mods’ who maintain the standard of content on Reddit’s forums do 466 hours of work every day – labour that would cost 2.8 per cent of the firm’s revenue? Community management is a job, but one which is acquires social but not material return. Any community managers here, can you relate?

FUTURE OF WORK

12ft.io

How Salary Transparency Can Help Your Company Advance its DEI Initiatives

The intersection between salary transparency and DEIB should now be pretty clear to most of us; more than anything makes the shift inevitable, so this handy how-to from our buddies ChartHop is both timely and useful. H/T to brainfooder Caroline Hunter for the share

D&I

www.charthop.com

The Opportunity Atlas

Perhaps the most important single factor which determines your life outcomes - where you live. Beautifully rendered interactive on economic inequity in the United States. I suspect most countries would produce similar results.

D&I

www.opportunityatlas.org

A Slightly Head-down Posture Might Help You Look More Friendly

I’ve been interested in ‘digital body language’ ever since I first came across the term and I think we likely don’t pay enough attention to it at all. Did you know that the position of your webcam alters the angle of your face, impacting how friendly you come across? We use video all the time but have not learned how to optimise on it.

REMOTE WORKING

oa.mg

World’s First Raspberry Picking Robot Cracks the Toughest Nut: Soft Fruit

One of the main challenges to workforce automation in agriculture is the picking of soft fruit. Apples machines can do, blueberries have always been another matter, instead requiring legions of human fruit pickers to not damage the fruit. That challenge now seems to be solved.

WORKFORCE AUTOMATION

www.theguardian.com

Have People Forgotten How to Behave in the Office?

Some more juicy brainfood from BBC Worklife - what the new resentments that we may be bringing into the office, having spent the best part of two years working in the comfort of our own homes. I think …we are likely to have become less tolerant.…

CULTURE

www.bbc.com

Who's Talking?

The Dark Side of South Korea's Incredible Economic Success

It is the same pattern throughout all the East Asian tigers….an economic miracle to get out of grinding poverty, but which required a massive society wide commitment to very hard work. Have a watch

SOCIETY

www.youtube.com

Still A White Hot Recruitment Market? Maybe......

William Tincup is one of the smartest people in the business, and also one with the most melodious voices for radio. Here he is talking anthropology of recruitment, what Karl Marx has to say about society and where we all go from here. Cool interview with Chris Taylor, have a listen here.

ECONOMY

podcasts.apple.com

End notes

So for those in the know, Revue - the Twitter acquired newsletter service which I use to make this newsletter - was down for over 24 hours yesterday. The lack of communication during this time makes it clear that the service is not a priority for Twitter and therefore a risky proposition for people who use it. I’ll be casting around for alternatives from now, so let me know if you have any other newsletter services which you would recommend I move Recruiting Brainfood to!

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Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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