Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #290

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: Microsoft make their debut on the board, with two roles for EMEA, Join Talent, Cielo Talent and WeAreKeen all in with multiple recruiter positions, along with new posts from Getir, Stream, JLL and more. Check out the full list here. Hiring for recruiters? Post here

Founders Focus - Ep25 - Up close & personal with Alex van Klaveren, CEO of KANDIDATE. One of the great supporters of brainfood submits to friendly interrogation that is FF this Weds. Leadership lessons from recruitment & recruitment technology business owners - this Weds, 12pm BST - register here

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep153 - Programmatic Job Advertising, for Dummies. Change of pace this Friday, because we are going to do tutorial on one of the topics recruiters really need to get better at. I’ve asked Robin Stander to present a dummy’s guide on programmatic job advertising, so that we move beyond blindly multi-posting everywhere and hoping for the best. Want more and better quality applicant flow? - register here

Special thanks this week to: Kevin Green, Gautam Ghosh, Colin Donnery, Eugène van den Hemel, David Green, Bas van de Haterd, Joey NK Koksal, Adnan Zubeary, Andrew McDonald, Oonagh Clarke, Rob White, Hélène Ly, David Green, Paul Church, Hannah Morgan, Zsuzsa Urbanovici and Christian Madsen for your public support of all things brainfood - noted, appreciate and necessary to keep growing this community. Thank you. 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

Airbnb’s Design to Live and Work Anywhere

If there is one company which is going to be able to enable work from anywhere, it would be the one which enabled live from anywhere. Blog post based on a Letter to Employees by Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on their new global policy, including location agnosticism (albeit in-country) on salary. Laudable stuff but I suspect only companies with insuperable market dominance will be able get away with this type of maximalist approach to remote working. I doubt also-rans will get away with it. Have a read here

REMOTE WORKING

news.airbnb.com

The Top 12 Interview Questions You Should Ask When Hiring a Recruiter

Do we recruiters ‘eat our own dog food’? 12 questions to ask when you are hiring for your team - some of these are cliché but some new ones there too. Might be fun to add to this list actually, a future brainfood crowdsource methinks. H/T to brainfooder Gary Berney for the share in the fb group.

ASSESSMENT

www.linkedin.com

2022 Creator Report by Linktree

Wonderfully executed interactive report on the creator economy in 2022. Apparently, there are 41 million people who have a trackable following of 10,000 or more, enough to turn it into some sort of full time business. Kind of a must read - creator economy is one of the many futures of work that lay ahead of us. Also downloadable PDF here

CREATOR ECONOMY

linktr.ee

The Ultimate Guide to Onboarding Software Engineers

Love it when managers write about recruiting - the content is always refreshingly free of caveat and cliche. Here is a software engineering manager having a go at explaining why onboarding goes wrong, and what you can do to improve it. Check out the templates at the end of the post too - excellent resources for anyone looking to formalise and upgrade your onboarding experience

ONBOARDING

leadership.garden

New Options for Removing Your Personally Identifiable Information from Search

Is sourcing fundamentally an invasion of privacy? Increasingly it seems that it might be, as the mood on data ownership and data privacy manifests in policy changes in both public and private sector. Latest update from Google last week - you can now ask for phone number, email and address to removed from search results.

SOURCING

blog.google

How to Get the Most Out of Your 1:1s

Interesting post which centres the POV of the direct report in manager 1:1’s. Contrary to last week’s recommendation, this one keeps the meeting agenda free and driven by the needs of the employee. Cadence is important here - OP is doing this on a monthly basis. One for TA / HR leaders

RECRUITING OPERATIONS

erik.wiffin.com

A Full Stack Compensation Strategy

Cool collaboration from two of brainfood’s buddies, Ledgy and Hibob, on the challenge mid-sized businesses have in putting together a competitive comp package for in-demand candidates. What do you do when you can’t offer the mega bucks of the enterprise, nor the equity of the startups? You need a ‘full stack compensation strategy, tied to company culture’. Readable and downloaded document

CULTURE

6881367.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net

We Need Someone Who Has Done "It" Before

Odd but interesting post, which accepts the messiness of recruiting, then proceeds to manifest it but putting together a seriously messy post. OP is obviously an artist. Features Wardley maps which is always a bonus, and some penetrating insights on why some hiring challenges repeatedly fail. Intriguing, leaves you wanting more.

ASSESSMENT

cutlefish.substack.com

"One of the companies I interviewed with ended up restoring my faith in technical interviews...."

Short yet illuminating thread on how to improve candidate experience - talk in the language of the candidate, use real world assessments, have the candidate take the lead in figuring out the problem in the collaborative assessment. You are going to need to resource this properly, but this is how you do it. Have a read.

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

twitter.com

Esports Players Retire Extremely Young. It's Not Why You Think

It’s basically about the training demands required to stay on top of your game - especially as the competition are other young adults who may be able to play 12+ hours per day. Add in some life changes, and capacity is going to go down. Fascinating story on one of the first creator economy careers which achieved mainstream consciousness.

CREATOR ECONOMY

www.washingtonpost.com

The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights

A fun new term for us to learn - instead of the ‘a-ha’ moment of revelation, how about the ‘duh-ha’ moment of obvious insight 🤣? Old post from Adam Grant but resurfacing up here because of it’s clarity of purpose - how the provision of the obvious can be an effective lever for change. Have a read.

CULTURE

archive.ph

All Roads Lead to Rome: The Machine Learning Job Market in 2022

Eric Jang - now VP of AI at a robotics firm - chronicles his job search and in so doing writes a superbly educational essay on the state of AI. Travels through job search mentality, how AI candidates evaluation job opportunities and the EB of having leading edge tech. Essential reading for any recruiter hiring for AI skills, or anyone interested in the future of technology, where artificial general intelligence will inevitably take over problem solving.

AI

evjang.com

Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Team Performance

Ethan Mollick (must follow on Twitter), once again doing God’s work by crunching down academic research papers in human-readable tweets. The conjecture here is that we over index on IQ, over EQ, and in so doing handicap team performance. How do we assess for candidates again? It’s generally I over E. Full paper here, Ethan’s tweet summary (and links) here.

ASSESSMENT

twitter.com

Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer

Among high-legibility fonts, a study found 35% difference in reading speeds between the best and the worst.

Really interesting study on the impact of font choice; do we even think about how this might impact engagement, candidate experience, employer branding? Imagine if you could increase your open rate by switching from Arial to Tahoma….

ENGAGEMENT

www.nngroup.com

The Simmering Tension between Remote and In-Office Workers

I think recognition of the inherent challenges of ‘hybrid’ is what made Brian Chesky move to hybrid maximalism - it’s still going to be problematic, but now the employees will need to own the circumstance. Excellent post again from BBC Worklife on how informational divergence between workers inevitably leads to tension,

REMOTE WORKING

www.bbc.com

I Was a Call Center Worker in the Philippines. The Racism was Unbearable

Do we become more racist when we offshore work? When there is no social cost to bear, we inevitably do. As the world shifts to remote first, remote only, the further distribution of work to places and people with whom we have had no prior contact or relationship nor any realistic prospect of one in future, might be dehumanising, for them and for us. Sober, important reading - do it here.

D&I

restofworld.org

Who's Talking?

Open Hiring

One of the great cases for Open Hiring - the philosophy of abandoning assessment in favour of just offering the job to the people who want it, Matt Alder is with Nykeba King, Global Head of Inclusion and Belonging at The Body Shop. Must listen.

ASSESSMENT

recruitingfuture.com

What Happens to Humans When We Can't Touch?

Having been to 4 in-person events in the past 4 weeks, I’ve come to realise how much human touch is important to human health. Not sure the Metaverse is going to fix this one, we need to be physically present! H/T to brainfooder Jo McCatty for the share.

REMOTE WORKING

winners.webbyawards.com

Your Childhood in the Workplace

Do we re-enact our family drama’s in the workplace? Fascinating interview with psychotherapist Naomi Shragai on how our early childhood interactions imprint a template on our social interactions which we then bring into the office….

CULTURE

www.bbc.co.uk

End notes

I’m back in London folks and will be here for next 3 weeks at least. Totally disappointed that the summer has not arrived yet, so it had better hurry up because I’m not going to tolerate this BS for much longer!

Tons of stuff going on, especially with the revival of in-person events. Look forward to seeing you at some of these, and I’m going to update and revive the Big List of Recruiting / HR Events to attend, so watch out for this in case you are running an in-person event this year - you will be able to update your event into it.

On other matters, check out this exploration of space, which you can indeed do in a browser….DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you got any more cool internet for me to check out.

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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