Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #293

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: Great to see GSK and Microsoft amongst the employers hiring on Brainfood Jobs Job Board. With the market starting to look less benign(!) it might be prudent to subscribe to the board and get notifications for the jobs that match your interest - free to use for candidates and you can do it here. Hiring for recruiters? Post here

Brainfood Live, Ep156: Challenges of Mega Scale Hiring (10,000+!). Most of us do ‘normal’ 30 roles a year type of recruitment. But some organisations have to hire at a scale several orders of magnitude larger. How does recruitment operate in these circumstances? What tools, processes, techniques work here and nowhere else? Should be a fascinating conversation folks - we are back on normal programming time Friday 27th May, at 2pm BST - register here

Special thanks this week to: Mark Deubel, Garry Turner, Bas van de Haterd, Alison Birch, Christian Madsen, Eugène van den Hemel, Dorothy Dalton, Kevin Green, James Osborne, Dave Hazlehurst, Colin Donnery, Lars Schmidt, Gautam Ghosh, Maury Hanigan, Joey NK Koksal, Danny Hodgson, Jeremy Buentello, Juliette Rouquet,Tereza Machackova, Manjuri Sinha, Jessica Zwaan, Marie Krebs, Matt Bradburn, Carl-Christoph Fellinger and Gordon Dudley for public and conspicuous support for all things brainfood - vital and appreciated - thank you!

The Brainfood Hall of Fame is there to mark your contribution, I suspect one day it might be tokenised…

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Cheers!

Hung

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The Brainfood

The Top 10 Strategic Talent Acquisition and HR Metrics That CEOs Want to See

Legacy recruitment KPI’s that ‘time-to-hire’ and ‘cost-per-hire’ are not only being recognised as crude and counterproductive, but potentially discrediting to TA. How about some metrics C-level really wants to know about? Essential reading for everyone here, especially those who are in TA leadership roles or aspire to it at some point.

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

www.visier.com

Stop – Don’t Choose Remote Work Without Reading This (The Top 10 Career Advantages from Working “In the Office”)

Dr John Sullivan dropping the truth about the advantages of in-person collaboration - for the persons doing it, proximity and visibility are going to be career boost. Only a problem for those who’ve chosen the non-choice of ‘hybrid’ though - notice how these challenges go away once we have the courage to make the real choice of remote only or office only. Have a read

REMOTE WORKING

drjohnsullivan.com

Your Hiring Pulse report for May 2022

These pulse reports are invaluable - can we get all ATS’s to start doing them? Workable have been pumping these out on the regular - H/T to brainfooder Keith Mackenzie - and this consistency allows us to see trends on hiring volume based on vacancies created on-platform. It is what you expect.

ECONOMY

resources.workable.com

State of CSS 2022

This is a blog post summarising the events that took place at Google IO 2022, plus some additional commentary on the state of CSS. I don’t expect that the readers here will get too much out of this, but it looks like the sort of stuff which would be ideal to distribute to your front-end / UX candidates as a nurture content. It is also very pretty to look at

ENGAGEMENT

web.dev

Turn Your Employer Brand Into a Growth Driver

Do you need a unified brand (Consumer, Corporate, Employer)? I always thought that these might stand separately, especially if you work for a tobacco company or arms manufacturer or something, but the latest argument seems to be unify them in a more coherent way. Love to get your thoughts on this - implications as to where EB ‘sits’ if we go through with the recommendations provided here.

EMPLOYER BRANDING

www.linkedin.com

Monthly Churn Continues to Rise Throughout 2022

Compensation tech is an emerging category in HR, and I’m all for it especially as it should mean greater access to comp data on aggregate. This short post from Pave shows an increase in monthly churn, as the Great Resignation continues. Though I wonder whether this is now more to do with the Great Reset…

ECONOMY

www.pave.com

Prepare for the Rebound: Why a Veteran Recruiter Isn’t Worried About the Tech Hiring Slowdown

Use the time to improve process folks, says said veteran Richard Cho, Chief Recruiting Officer at our buddies Gem. We need words of wisdom like this, remember the lessons learned during Lockdown 1 and apply them. H/T to brainfooder Suvasanamayee Viswanatha for the share.

ECONOMY

www.protocol.com

New Work: How HR Leaders Can Design the Future of Work and Win the War for Talent

The ‘impact over hours’ mantra is something I agree with but it will broadly lead to the reduction of hiring of FTE - why bring on fixed costs if you don’t have them truly ‘on-demand’? Nice e-book from our friends at Blinkist, good to read as a comparator to Dr John Sullivan’s critique above. H/T to brainfooder Deborah Caulet for the share.

REMOTE WORKING

www.dropbox.com

Google Search Operators: The Complete List (42 Advanced Operators)

Always good to have a nice blog post on Google Search Operators. First published in 2020, it’s unclear whether this post is being continually updated, but many of the advanced operators here still work as described. Useful, in case you ever fall out with LinkedIn. Incidentally, there’s a Brainfood Live on non-LinkedIn sourcing next month - sourcers, sign up.

SOURCING

ahrefs.com

Alex Brogan 🚢 on Twitter: "Most people suck at decision-making. Let's change that. Here are 15 of the best decision-making mental models I've found 🧵"

I love threads like this - the natural structure of them gives the reader a mental milestone with the encouragement for more if the last piece was good enough. This one on decision making models, might help us better understand the metacognition that goes on inside our evolved brains. Might be useful, but only if we put it into practice, otherwise it will turn into yet more junk info leading to ‘intellectual obesity’….

ASSESSMENT

twitter.com

At Work: The 2022 Workplace Trends Report

‘At Will’ Hybrid is a failure of leadership but it seems like it is still the most common way in which employers are operating, as of April 2022. Some interesting data here from HRDrive, which have reproduced Envoy’s report in sufficient detail for it to merit inclusion here. Get the full report here for the price of your email or just read the good-enough summary here. H/T to brainfooder Ivan Harrison for the share

REMOTE WORKING

www.hrdive.com

What are the Best Family Leave Policies for Mothers, Fathers?

Pregnancy, childbirth and recovery are not gender-neutral processes. Leave policies for mothers and fathers should take this into account

The drive for more equitable share of parental leave gets a pushback from this author who makes the clearly correct assertion that motherhood is different from fatherhood. First of three posts this week, which cover the challenge of having kids whilst working.

D&I

www.deseret.com

Why Chinese Women Are Angry About Expanded Maternity Benefits

With the ‘domestic supply of infants’ causing concern at the very highest levels of US society, we also need to recognise the declining birth rate is a paramount concern for any country on the road to economic development. Reaction of Chinese women to the attempts by the People’s Republic to encourage more childbirth might seem surprisingly familiar….

D&I

qz.com

The Economics of Fertility

Time for some optimism then: this huge report on the Economics of Fertility provides evidence for the first time that the relationship between economic development at the societal level and declining birthrate at the family level, might be decoupled through greater provision of welfare. Who would have thought? Important read, so download.

D&I

www.dropbox.com

Are Podcasts Getting Worse?

Fun post reviewing reviews. Seems that old podcasts get harsher treatment, maybe as a result of dated content or audio quality. Also, it seems that the people who do rate pods peaked in 2016. If you want to review (positively mind you!) the Recruiting Brainfood Podcast do so here in Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

RECRUITMENT MARKETING

rephonic.com

Justice Department and EEOC Warn Against Disability Discrimination

Antipathy towards technology manifesting in legislation is nothing new; latest developments from the US is worth keeping an eye on, EU will certainly not do any less than this. Missing from this legislation is of course the idea that humans do any less discrimination against the differently abled.

ASSESSMENT

www.justice.gov

This Will Change How You Write Emails

Been thinking about doing this for a long time, but it is no surprise to be beaten to the punch by recruitment pioneer and long time brainfooder Jan Tegze. I won’t spoil the twist so go ahead and read this post and let me know what you think 😉

AI

blog.jantegze.com

3,200-Year-Old Egyptian Tablet Records Excuses for Why People Missed Work: "The Scorpion Bit Him," "Brewing Beer" & More

One of the revelations of archaeology is that earliest forms of writing cover the most prosaic topics - complaints on bad business deals or unpaid taxes and the like. This one, seems to be a record of excuses ancient Egyptians used to skive from work. More the world changes, the more the world stays the same….🤣

OBSCURA

www.openculture.com

Who's Talking?

Politics in the Workplace

Brainfooder Robin Choy challenged me to talk about politics in his excellent podcast series and I thought, sure why the hell not. It’s something we do need to discuss more openly as having no policy may be worse than having bad policy. Have a listen here.

D&I

open.spotify.com

Global Employer Branding

One of the biggest challenges in successful podcasting is getting the best guests to join. Few work harder than brainfooder Matt Alder, and few are more successful in getting amazing guests. Latest episode of the The Recruiter Future Podcast is a great example - it’s Marije van der Togt, Head of Employer Branding at Just Eat Takeaway.com, about developing a global employer brand.

EMPLOYER BRANDING

recruitingfuture.com

Culture: What's a CEO to do?

So you’ve heard a French guy and a Chinese-Dutch-Anglo guy talk about politics, how about we get two Americans to do the same? It’s brainfooders Julie Sowash and Torin Ellis on the same topic, with a different take!

CULTURE

www.crazyandtheking.com

End notes

It’s fair to say I’m bouncing around a bit in recent days - just back from Berlin after 3 superb days hanging out with Anna Ott and friends, now off to New York tomorrow to attend Greenhouse Open and whatever parties they allow me into. Let me know if you’re going to these events - or these parties - it will be great to meet up.

DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you’re around…

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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