Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #294

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: New roles from GlaxoSmithKline, ThoughtSpot, On Running, Insights & Learning, Hubble and more. Times are looking insecure again for recruiters, so now is the moment to make sure you are subscribed to this job board. Employers hiring for recruiters, post here

Founder’s Focus double header this week; first up it is my friend Ilya Brotzky, whose 4 part ‘From A Developers POV’ mini series remains one of my favourite series I’ve done. Now it is the turn of the man himself to be in the spotlight - find out who the CEO of VanHack is on Tuesday 31st May, 8am PDT / 4pm BST. One day later and we have the good folks behind Recruitment Marketing Automators, Adway. It’s serial investor / entrepreneur Viktor Nord and CEO Adrian MacDonald. Wednesday 1st June, 12.00pm BST / 1pm CEST.

Brainfood Live, Ep157: How to Organise A Sourcing Jam - excited to be part of this, where we gather together a group of recruiters who have organised ‘sourcing jams’ - group sourcing sessions with hiring managers and software engineers to rapidly fill pipeline with top level talent. If finding tech candidates has been a challenge for you, then this is a must attend. Friday 3rd June, 2pm BST / 3pm CEST

Special thanks this week to: Jan Tegze, Eugène van den Hemel, James Osborne, Bas van de Haterd, Joey NK Koksal, Kevin Green, Alison Birch, Neil Carberry, Lars Schmidt, Vanessa Raath, Tim Sanchez, John Bersentes, Dave Hazlehurst, Colin Donnery, Oonagh Clarke, Tash Stoeckel, Ian Turnpenny, Jo McCatty, Peter Wharton, Jonathan Martin, Andrew Packiarajah, Celeste Sirin, Jonathan Martin and Thomas Waldman for your amazing public support of all things brainfood. Scores updated on the Brainfood Hall of Fame…might well convert this into something at some point….points will mean prizes…😉

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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The Brainfood

Escaping the Great Stagnation

News media is dominated by negativity bias and whilst we cannot pretend there are no bad things happening in the world, we also need to remember the many good things that are happening at the same time, and give some thought as to why these are under-reported, under observed and under discussed. Erik Torenberg with a much needed validation of humanity. Must read folks - get some balance as to where we are as a species.

SOCIETY

www.recruitingbrainfood.com

The Evolution of Developer Salaries: Looking Back 20 Years

Really interesting bit of modern economic history from CodeSubmit- tracing 20 years of the evolution of developer categorisations and salaries, based mainly the US Labour of Statistics, along with tech job advertising data. Accessible bit of nerdery but also decent nurture content to share with your developer candidates.

ENGAGEMENT

codesubmit.io

Sink Into LinkedIn Headlines – Tie inanchor: To Your Strings

Great find by brainfooder Mike Santoro, writing as guest on the awesome Boolean Strings blog, on hidden search operators which allow you to X-ray for profiles without LinkedIn Recruiter. Approx 50% of us here do not use LIR, so this type of research is invaluable in helping balance the field. Also, we are doing a Brainfood Live special on ‘how to source w/o LinkedIn Recruiter’ - register here if you want to watch.

SOURCING

booleanstrings.com

Why Some Quit, and Some Stay: A Surprising Take

Employee retention efforts are designed on individual scale, as if employees were atomic units rather than nodes-in-network that they are. Would we have a better understanding of attrition risk if we considered the ‘employee AND their in-company network’? I rather think we would. Super interesting read.

ONA

medium.com

How Salary Transparency Can Help Your Company Advance its DEI Initiatives

We talked about Moving to Salary Transparency in Brainfood Live two weeks ago but I failed to write it up, so it is just as well I got this excellent guide from our friends from Charthop to share. It’s a great how-to guide, especially as it connects the idea DEIB. H/T to brainfooder Gerry Crispin for the share

D&I

www.charthop.com

Tech Layoff Tracker

The growth or de-growth for tech scaleups? This tracker from Trueup gives a snapshot. Remember, joining the community and the job board are two of the must do things to do right now, no matter how confident you feel about your immediate prospects

ECONOMY

www.trueup.io

Elon Musk on Twitter: "Tesla is building a hardcore litigation department where we directly initiate & execute lawsuits. The team will report directly to me. Please send 3 to 5 bullet points describing evidence of exceptional ability. justice@tesla.com"

Might this be the most effectively distributed job advert ever? 25K retweets, 200K likes….you have to think that there are going to be some decent applications coming through, based on reach alone.

RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING

twitter.com

Spotting Talent

Tyler Cowen has become of the leading iconoclastic public intellectuals of our time, and his newsletter Marginal Revolutions has become a must read for many, including me. He’s a got a new book out, focused on how to spot unique talent. This is a decent review of it, and do also check out an interview with Cowen on the same topic, here. H/T to brainfooder Petar Vujosevic

ASSESSMENT

www.city-journal.org

System Design And Recommendation Algorithm Of 20 Big Companies

Whilst we might be coming to the end of the Big Data + Recommendation Algorithm era, it still behooves us to understand how the major services we’ve come to rely on serve us information, as it will also help us understand how to amplify our own. Detailed, technical yet accessible breakdown on how the algorithms of Uber, YouTube, WhatsApp, Twitter, Amazon, Zomato and Netflix work.

CONTENT MARKETING

www.theinsaneapp.com

7 Crowdcast Tips for Better Lead Generation

I’m referred to in this post on ‘how to do Crowdcast’ but I think the lessons all apply to any kind of livestream / webinar / audio space where you are broadcasting to audience. Key idea is to not have to re-market every time you do an event. Need to do more repurposing though, this is where I think I am going to need to hire someone…

CONTENT MARKETING

zapier.com

Does Communication Matter In Technical Interviews? We Looked at Over 100K Interviews to Find Out

That communication is a critical skill for engineers has become a counter cliche….but how relevant is it really? Some interesting research from Interviewing.io on how low scores on communication had least impact on negative assessment; in other words, if you were going to score low on one attribute for an engineering job, then communication would be it. Clearly, engineers are outraged at this but hey, this is the revealed preference.

ASSESSMENT

blog.interviewing.io

Finding it Hard to Get a New Job? Robot Recruiters Might be to Blame

Journalists are expert writers not experts on the topics they write about. Therein lies misinformation at the heart of our informational eco-system, produced by institutions who have most power to amplify. One of a long line of articles on ‘rejected by a robot’ journalistic pieces, which, whilst not technically inaccurate, still manages to mislead. I’m filing this piece under CX because misrepresentation may lead to complaints on assessment technology that you might need to pre-emptively handle.

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

www.theguardian.com

Housing Demand and Remote Work

Why is academic research presented as a form of mathematics? The inaccessibility of academic research provides an informational gap, which inevitably gets plugged by journalists with ads to sell. Someone could do a much better job of communicating the message in this research on the impact of remote work on housing demand by the National Bureau of Economic Research, which is that remote work actually increased house prices on aggregate, mainly in ‘Zoom’ towns, whilst city centres have yet to lose commensurate value.

REMOTE WORKING

www.dropbox.com

Is the ‘Remote Work Window’ About to Close?

Remote working has become a privilege we can no longer do without…so what happens if the default we currently have is only temporary? Rhetoric from politicians + the very real prospect of a sooner-than-expected recession is going to bring all this to a head, so best get ready for a battle folks.

REMOTE WORKING

www.bbc.com

The Dark Side of Collaboration

Collaborative dishonesty is clearly a hazard of group work. But our findings point to specific ways people could encourage honesty when groups work together.

We are driven by incentives, not values.

CULTURE

archive.ph

Who's Talking?

Partnering with Jean Oelwang

Secret to success? Great partnerships says Jean Oelwang. Inspirational stories on how non-judgement is key to relationships and relationships are key to collaborative success. If you don’t listen to someone, you are telling them they don’t matter. So have a listen here

NETWORKING

castbox.fm

What Matters More Now - Company Culture or Flexible Working?

I’m in this and talking with Ben Gately on whether you can quantify culture and whether remote companies simply have less of it, which may be a good thing. Have a listen.

REMOTE WORKING

podcasts.bcast.fm

Slack VP on Proximity Bias and More

Sheela Subramanian, is the VP of Future Forum, and Technical.ly CEO Christopher Wink on remote working. Lots of concise concepts to learn, including ‘guided autonomy’. Have a watch / listen here.

REMOTE WORKING

www.youtube.com

End notes

I’m back in London, after a couple weeks and a few amazing events in Berlin and New York. Quick shout out to the brainfooders in those places - wonderful to meet so many of you - everyone was so kind and I am very glad to know that this newsletter and other brainfood channels are adding something to your work.

Got a two week break back in London now and looking forward to the belated onset of summer. Still badly playing Chess so add me on here if you want to help me improve my score. In the meantime, here is a cool and unusual search engine to check out….the oldest results on the Internet. Pretty cool huh?

DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you have any more cool internet for me to check out.

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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