Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #295

Thank you. It was my birthday last week and I wanted to start off today’s newsletter by thanking everybody for your incredibly kind messages and warm wishes on the day. Even for a skeptic like me, it was a real boost to feel your goodwill and it reminded me how impactful it can be to simply reach out and say that you care.

As we struggle toward our shared future, I can’t help but think of the role communities like ours might play in nudging our species toward better outcomes. We are just a bunch of recruiters and HR people at the end of the day, but we have nonetheless come together in community because we share a passion for the work and, perhaps, a belief that it is through connection and communication that complex human problems can best be solved.

I suspect we will need remember this as we navigate uncertain futures. Keep connecting, keep communicating, keep leading with goodwill, especially with, to and for those with perspectives different from our own. It is only through connection that we give ourselves the opportunity to see the humanity in the other and through that awareness, preserve the humanity in ourselves. I believe we will get there. I hope you do too.

Brainfood Jobs: We have a big reduction in live jobs this week - everyone on holiday or an augury of the economic headwinds to come? Subscribe to the board if you have not already done so - it might be more relevant to you than you might otherwise desire. Hiring for recruiters / HR? Post here

Founders Focus - another week, another double header of our favourite founder’s interview series. Starting Tuesday 12pm BST we have Stephen Anderson, MD of Crooton, then on Wednesday 12pm BST / 1pm CEST it is Virgile Raingeard, CEO of Figures - click on the above links to register for more unique leadership and entrepreneur insights from the world of recruitment technology founders.

Brainfood food Live On Air, Ep158: Recession Proofing Your Recruitment Career. The show we never want to do but its smart work to model worst case and be prepared for it. We’re with industry analysts and recruitment career consultants in this show, we discuss who recruiters can best position themselves in a down market. We’re on Friday 10th June 2pm BST - register here

Special thanks this week to: Dorothy Dalton, Kevin Green, Eugène van den Hemel, Clair Mohamed, Bas van de Haterd, Heather Kitto, Hannah Morgan, Joey NK Koksal, Christian Klenner, Tim Sanchez, Naomi Paik, Peter Wharton, Anastasiia Holub, Juliette Rouquet, Ben Gledhill, Steven Brand, Katie Paterson, Laura Podesta, Laura Romero Frías, Aleksandra Bagińska, Sarah Grothe and Matthias Schmeißer for your public support of all things brainfood - essential for keeping this show on the road and free for all members.

Now check out your 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

Ok so back on the road this week, going to be in sunny (better be) Barcelona this week, and will be there for around 10 days, so I hope to get the time see some of you around. Main mission is Hired!BCN when I’ve got to update my research on ‘What Recruiters Want’….see you there if you are in town.

My search for sun has revealed this cool website, where you can see what the weather looks like all year round…

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

Have a great week everybody. 

Hung