Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #307

Hung Lee

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Brainfood Live, Ep170: Hiring in the Nordics

Brainfood World Tour is making a return, aiming to virtually visits areas of the world which do not get enough attention on the industry press. This week, we are going to the Nordics, where we will speak to recruiters from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland to discuss how they handle the universal challenges in recruiting and HR. If you currently hire in the Nordics or plan to do so in future, don’t miss this one. We’re on Friday 2nd September, 2pm BST - register here

Special thanks this week to: Garry Turner, Kevin Green, Dave Hazlehurst, Joey NK Koksal, James Osborne, Clair Mohamed, Bas van de Haterd, Tim Sanchez, Chris Haslam, Eugène van den Hemel, Lu Wie Hu-Peijster and Sue Griffey for your support on all things brainfood - noted and appreciated!

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The Brainfood

The Confusing Job Market: CEOs and CHROs Seem Baffled

Reading the market under the conditions of chaotic change has become a fools errand. Josh Bersin has a go here, and his underplaying of the macro economic factors is less convincing than his observation that ‘every industry is transforming into something else’. That part couldn’t be more true. His highlight of PwC’s 4 R’s matrix is a useful orientating model for recruiting & HR.

ECONOMY

joshbersin.com

How to Advertise to Developers: Deep Dive into Paid Developer Marketing

Deep dive into running paid ads on developers (which is hard). I go through first principles, then dive into best practices, targeting, creatives, landing pages, channels and examples from the best developer-focused companies.

Pretty much exactly as the preview describes. If you hire from software engineers and advertising is part of your plan, you need to read this.

RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING

www.developermarkepear.com

Updates On HackerRank Sourcing

Brainfooder Balazs Paroczay is coming up with some great content these days. This technique reminds all of us that ‘webpages’ are published, they are just hidden from obvious view. One for tech recruiters out there, check it out.

SOURCING

thesourcecode.academy

The Value of Experience

It seems that in highly credentialised professions - lawyers, doctors etc - as high as 85% of career earnings could be attributed to pre-work qualifications. In fields with lower barriers to entry, work experience becomes the dominant factor. Stuff we know of course, but great to see the attempt to measure it. Also includes advice on how employers can cultivate social mobility by prompting internal job moves. Really good brainfood. H/T to brainfooder Petar Vujosevic for the share

CULTURE

www.mckinsey.com

Candidate Motivation

Nuanced post from brainfooder Sofia Broberger on the heterogenous nature of candidate motivation. It’s not just a binary case of ‘are they up for it or not’ rather than different types of motivation based on where that candidate is currently on their journey. Well worth a read for anyone who cares about candidate experience or candidate management for that matter.

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

sofiabroberger.se

Gender Pay Gaps For Women in the Gig Economy

Women working in the gig economy are being paid far less than men, according to a study of freelance workers in the US from WEF. Interestingly, this is based on the rates freelancers themselves set on platforms like Upwork. Why does this happen? Worth a read and a ponder here. Incidentally, I am hosting a webinar with our buddies Figures on How Men vs Women Talk Salary this week - register here if you want to discuss this topic with us!

GIG ECONOMY

www.weforum.org

Will AI Generated Replace Visual Effects Artists?

The answer is both yes and no depending what you believe is true in this superb piece of self referential artwork, a video which explains that yes it was made by AI but not it was made by humans pretending to be AI…..🤣. I think we are already at the point where we cannot reliably know.

AI

twitter.com

The AI Startup Erasing Call Center Worker Accents: Fighting Bias – or Perpetuating It?

Fascinating story of a technology which can eliminate how accents are heard, in real time and it’s rather discomforting use case in off-shored call centres, which I think boils down to the ethical conundrum of tricking someone to abandon their prejudice. The technology is called Sanas, the article on the call centre is well worth a read here. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share.

D&I

www.theguardian.com

Learning The Elite Class

Talking about accents, it is only one of the many markers of the perhaps only bias that really matters for the elite - social class. Anyone who has ever felt a little out of place in a group context would resonate with some of the vignettes in this well written semi-fictional account of a startup social. We need to talk about social class more, a very real issue in startup, a very real issue in DEIB across industry. Expect a Brainfood Live on it in Q3

D&I

aella.substack.com

How to Intentionally Structure & Scale Company Communications

I’m generally more ‘emergent’ than intentional but in one area where I think design is better than improv is communication, especially in distributed companies. Some great concepts delivered in this well referenced post, including the image you see in the thumbnail, detailing how adding people to teams exponentially increases the number of potential connections (or disruptions)…

H/T to brainfooder Michael Blakely for the share.

CULTURE

medium.com

Qatalog and GitLab Study Reveals Pervasive Culture of Digital Presenteeism

‘Digital presenteeism’ perfectly captures the sense of pressure remote employees feel to allay fears that they are working hard enough; equally interesting was how employees do it - responsiveness on email, constant presence in communication channels etc. No solutions in post but important concept for managers to know if you want to get the best out of your remote staff - have a read here

REMOTE WORKING

qatalog.com

Goggles - Brave Search

Interesting innovation from Brave browser, currently at public beta - kind of like a social, custom search engine. Create your own, add it to the community, browsers CSE’s that others have created. Obviously application for sourcing, maybe for content marketing also.

SOURCING

search.brave.com

Did Covid Induce A Labour Force Reallocation Wave?

The Great Resignation was replaced quickly the Great Reallocation….but did it really happen? I’ve read two reports in the past week which says rather counter intuitively now, that it didn’t. This one, from the ECB is aligned to this view, though I think more granular sector specific analysis would reveal a more significant shift.

ECONOMY

www.dropbox.com

39 Moves to Survive (& Thrive) in a Downturn

Directed at Startup founders, this comprehensive yet concise recommendations post contains some very decent parts on team, recruiting, culture and layoffs. Well worth reading for those parts alone, but enriching to read the rest of it also. Have a go here.

CULTURE

www.nfx.com

Ancient Egyptian Record of Work Absences

The best stuff from ancient history is always the routine records of humans going about their day. Or bunking off their day and doing something else, like drinking with Khonsu. The more things change, the more the stay the same.

OBSCURA

twitter.com

Who's Talking?

Powering Growth in 2023 and Beyond

Love this podcast from Neil Carberry and Greg Savage - two fellows who have some unique access to the boardrooms of staffing agencies. Have a listen to what they have to say about the state of the market. Have a listen

ECONOMY

soundcloud.com

Guess Culture vs. Ask Culture

Clearer Thinking is one of those non-recruitment podcasts that nevertheless consistently covers topics which are at least adjacent to our work. This one, on the type of culture you based on how you communicate. Excellent listening.

CULTURE

open.spotify.com

Mark Zuckerberg - The Joe Rogan Experience

There are only a few podcasts which can get real live players to sit down and go through a multi-hour on air conversation. Mark Zuckerberg on the future of AR / VR, which he is hoping to build. Not entirely convincing vision but it is a vision nonetheless. Have a listen

AR / VR

open.spotify.com

End notes

Last week in London before the crazy traveling starts up again. Get ready Gothenburg, Gdansk, Milan and Madrid - all happening in the first two weeks of September. If you’re in any of those places, do let me know - going to try and gather some brainfooders together in each place if there are enough numbers to do it.

DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you have any recommendations on things to do….

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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