Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #308

Hung Lee

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PS: Immediately afterward I will be launching a new mini series ‘Champions of Talent’ - so make sure to tune in to that on this link, at 4.30pm BST

Special thanks this week to: Eugène van den Hemel, Colin Donnery, Kevin Green, Neil Carberry, Joey NK Koksal, Alison Birch, Kevin Green, Hannah Morgan, John Bersentes, Dave Hazlehurst, James Martin, Bas van de Haterd, Jose David Arteaga Alvarez, Lu Wie Hu-Peijster, Russell Liebowitz, Francesca Ceppi, Eugenia Filipovich, Tim Sackett, Rob Kelly, Hend Halim and Meagan Rebelo for your public support of all things brainfood - noted and appreciated it!

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The Brainfood

LinkedIn Workforce Report September

Remember the Labour Market Paradox in 2021? It’s back in its 2.0 version as talk of economic recession, high inflation and business closures collides with persistent talent shortage and record number of vacancies. US data here from LinkedIn (based on no. of people updating employment segment of their profiles) shows the K-shaped market. UK data from REC, a similar story. We’ll be talking about this in Brainfood Live later this month, Where are the Missing Workers - make sure to sign up!

ECONOMY

economicgraph.linkedin.com

Nixintel's OSINT Resource List

A massive list of OSINT tools, in a one page start.me page. What else is there to say? Click and bookmark if you’re in the business of finding candidates. Thought tbf you can just find it in the larder.

SOURCING

start.me

Layoffs Don't Tell the Whole Story

High profile tech layoffs capture the headlines but are less significant to the overall employment market than the less dramatic hiring freeze. Author crunches some simple arithmetic to tell us that it’s not lay offs we should be worried about but vacancy volume. Outstanding read.

ECONOMY

whoisnnamdi.substack.com

2022 Recruitment Marketing Benchmark Report

Been sharing these annual reports from Appcast past 3 years, but I realised that I somehow missed 2022. Better share it now, because its probably the definitive report you need to understand when and what to post in job ads. Essential reading. H/T brainfooder Oana Iordachescu for the share.

RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING

www.dropbox.com

Responding to Recruiter Emails With GPT-3

How far away are we from bot-to-bot communication? It’s the inevitable outcome of the communication arms race between tech recruiters and tech workers. This example of the developer using GPT-3 to automatically (and, you could say, intelligently) respond to recruiter emails brings us one step closer.

ENGAGEMENT

matthewbilyeu.com

How I Started Getting 400% More Inbound Leads on LinkedIn with One Simple Tactic.

There’s another way to get candidates, and that’s through interacting with them on posts they publish on social networks. Some clever thinking by the author here, who finds a way to ID viral posts on a topic he cares about, and uses comments to set up the follow up DM. A do-able technique.

SOURCING

www.indiehackers.com

Workplace Productivity: Are You Being Tracked?

At what point does People Analytics become Employee Surveillance? I wonder how many of us are tracked in this way - activity on screen, number of keystrokes per hour etc. Seems like quite a few might well be. Fascinating story which opens up a number of areas for discussion, most importantly of all, what exactly is work?

PEOPLE ANALYTICS

archive.ph

New Data Shows Long Covid Keeping as Many as 4 Million People Out of Work

Long term illness and disability might be one of the most significant consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic - latest study from Brookings suggests a figure as high as 4 million US citizens perhaps permanently leaving the workforce due to inability to work. Goes some way to explain the candidate shortage we touched up earlier, especially in key worker industries.

ECONOMY

www.brookings.edu

The Complete Guide to Interview Training

Vendors are producing some high value content lately; this guide to interview training is not only beautifully designed, but also contains some real insight on how to upgrade your organisations ‘interview capacity’. I was delighted to find myself in it, though crikey do I need a new profile picture

ASSESSMENT

brighthire.ai

Joe Rogan Has a Werewolf

It’s the most popular podcast on the planet and this account from a guest on the show tells it’s own story as to how great conversational content is made. It’s not about the prep, it’s about the trust. Must read for anyone doing a podcast.

CONTENT MARKETING

lulu.substack.com

The Six Recruiting Skills You Must Have

Brainfooder Kevin Wheeler is always worth a read (subscribe to his newsletter if you don’t already) and his speculations on the future of recruiting might occasionally feel dystopic, they are nevertheless a reminder to keep our skills future aligned if want to avoid obsolescence. Great visual too, worth the open alone. H/T to brainfooder Clair Bush for the share.

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

fotnews.futureoftalent.org

Google’s Complicity in Israeli Apartheid: How Google Weaponizes “Diversity” to Silence Palestinians and Palestinian Human Rights Supporters

The contradictions and challenges of D&I are laid bare in this story of internecine strife between rival groups of Jewish employees at Google. Reading through all of it, it is hard to escape Brian Armstrong’s conclusion that a business should be ‘mission focused’ might be the ocnly path an employer can conscientiously take.

D&I

medium.com

I Listed Sex Work on My LinkedIn Profile. Here’s What Happened Next

Sex work is the oldest profession in history. If we’re talking about LinkedIn as a professional platform, sex work has the foundational place in it.

I….think I agree. What do you think? Authors LinkedIn post on it here, obviously also read the comment thread. Vice article here

D&I

www.vice.com

Correlates of Programmer Efficacy and Their Link to Experience

Fascinating twitter thread of a piece of research which tried to measure how good programmers were by tracking their eye movements and monitoring their brainwaves. The finding that experience (years of) did not correlate to programming efficacy is only one of the thing we have to think about here, including should we actually wire people up when assessing them? And if not, why not? Thread here (accessible), pre print here (slightly less so). H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share

ASSESSMENT

twitter.com

Dehumanization Is a Feature of Gig Work, Not a Bug

Some sociology here, with the idea that gig economy platforms a designed for efficiency and so there is no scope of personalisation of the service, which is the dehumanising factor that the author uses in the title. No solutions here, other than a warning that the people delivering our conveniences might just be the canaries to a future we all might share. Brainfood is not all easy reading you know.

GIG ECONOMY

hbr.org

'Making it Go Viral' is Now a Career, as Creator Jobs Boom in These 10 fields

The more you think about it, the more obvious the creator economy is the worker response to the prospect of dehumanising gig working - it’s the hyper humanising opposite. Going to do more on creator economy as it’s obviously and ironically an increasingly valued skill for employers, as this post from LinkedIn shows. Make sure to bookmark the creator economy page on the larder also, lot more will be going in on that.

CREATOR ECONOMY

www.linkedin.com

Who's Talking?

Learn, Earn or Quit

So it turns out that Garry Tan has a Youtube channel, and it’s pretty good. The newly installed President of Y Combinator, he does a direct to-the-camera monologue style which is really hard to do but, he does it pretty well. Have a watch of Learning vs Earning here

RECRUITMENT MARKETING

www.youtube.com

The HR Tech Market Is Going Crazy: What To Look For In 2023

Bersin is going to be the headliner in HR Tech in Vegas and his talks are always superbly delivered. If you can’t make it, this monologue is a decent summary of the scene and what Josh is going to cover.

ECONOMY

joshbersin.com

Adam Gordon: A Startup Founder's Story

I talked about rejection, low self esteem, bad decisions, toxic competition, idiocy, displacement and ignorance

It’s a great conversation with brainfooder Adam Gordon, have a listen.

CULTURE

cascadingleadership.buzzsprout.com

End notes

Fingers crossed, I will be in Gothenburg later this week, courtesy of our buddies at Adway. I’ll be doing a talk on Global Talent Acquisition Trends, and maybe some more studio stuff on the Thurgsday. On Friday, I’ll be livestreaming the Brainfood Live and Champions of Talent, before boarding a flight to Gdansk, where I really hope Kasia will have sorted out a some sort of accommodation….

…anyways, if you’re in those two cities this week, DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok and lets see if we can meet up.

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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