Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #309

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: Great to see a surge of jobs from Join Talent back on the board; commentary from other embedded recruiters tell me the market as turned for them too - a 4 week summer dip, coinciding with energy price inflation? Check out the full list here, and if you’re hiring for recruiters, post here.

Brainfood Live, Ep172: Making Sense of the Economy - we are talking about the economy this week, because more than a few of us have found this period confusing; what does it mean if you are heading into high inflation, economic contraction, whilst we have record job posting volume and candidates ever harder to hire. Lets talk about it - we’re on Friday 19th Sept, 2pm BST - register here

Special thanks this week to: Hannah Morgan, Stephen O'Donnell, Colin Donnery, Kevin Green, Vanessa Raath, Eugène van den Hemel, Joey NK Koksal, Neilesh Sood, Nina Schein, Margaret Buj, Kate Bischoff and Oonagh Clarke - thank you for your public support on all things brainfood last week - I very much appreciate it!

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Hung

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The Brainfood

8 Things Your Video Setup Says About You

You can care too much about video…but you can also care too little. Insightful psychology on how your ‘video body language’ might be inadvertently communicating messages you didn’t intend. One of those post’s where your awareness is suddenly and delightfully upgraded. Take the advice folks, improve your video game , it probably does matter more than that we all collectively like to think.

ENGAGEMENT

twitter.com

Energy Price Inflation Will Formalise 3-2 Hybrid Work

I’ve been a critic of the maximalist approach to hybrid working as a failure of leadership motivated primarily by conflict avoidance. Energy price inflation will end it, as it’s also the most expensive way to run a business. First essay on the Substack, take a read.

REMOTE WORKING

recruitingbrainfood.substack.com

How to Scale Your Sourcing Strategy

We know that majority of recruiters (70% in house, 44% agency) have access to LinkedIn Recruiter accounts. What we have never seen though is any kind of forensic breakdown as to how to optimally use LIR for sourcing efficiency. Brainfooder Michael Talarek, with a magnus opus on how to do it. Recommend all sourcers read this

SOURCING

www.linkedin.com

Job-Seeker Resource Guide

Superb resource put together by our friends over at Canva - a job seeker resource guide built as a template on Canva. Particularly good on PVP - ‘personal value proposition’, this can be used as an introspection project for anyone looking to regroup or as something to share to candidates you want to keep in touch with. Check it out here. H/T brainfooder Amy Schultz for the share

ENGAGEMENT

www.dropbox.com

Tech Layoff Tracker

So last week, one of the most popular posts made the very good point that you should not base your market analysis on high profile tech lay offs alone. It’s still worth keeping an eye on though, and True Up probably do as good a job as any on keeping us up to date. H/T to brainfooder Jo McCatty for the share

ECONOMY

www.trueup.io

Why is Instagram Dying? We Asked 100 Gen Z Users to Compare TikTok vs. Reels

This story is not only about Instagram vs TikTok but also about quantitative vs qualitative data. As we all rush to be ‘data driven’ we need to remember not to overbalance and lose the intuition which can often tell us things ‘the metrics’ often can’t. Some delicious speculation that one of the reasons why TikTok is destroying Instagram is Zuckerberg’s inherent lack of feel for the other. Great insight on how Gen Z is thinking / analysing / deciding also.

CONTENT MARKETING

www.surgehq.ai

Top Recruiter

Did you know that there was once a reality TV show involving some of the most well known recruiters on the planet? The entire thing was a scam which left dozens of people many thousands out of pocket. Incredible 5 part investigative story on one of the most infamous moments in industry history. We should not be amazed that very smart people fell for it - have a read. H/T to brainfooder Bill Boorman for the share in the fb group

ASSESSMENT

web.archive.org

Future of Creativity

Adobe was once synonymous with creative work, but missed at least two revolutions in the world of work. Found it curious they would produce a report one of those revolutions - on the creator economy. Like this report, especially in that expands the notion of what a creator is (hint: it’s all of us) but disappointing in that it doesn’t separate those who actually do it a living full time. Worth a read though, especially for extra intelligence on Gen Z

CREATOR ECONOMY

www.dropbox.com

Email Innovation Timeline

Did you ever think you’d want to read 134 page pdf on the history of email? Let me tempt you a little with this rather marvellous document which painstakingly outlines every technical innovation which makes email what it is today. The timeline is worth the read alone, and this whole document probably worth a share to your more technically minded contacts - your tech candidates will probably like it, for example.

ENGAGEMENT

www.dropbox.com

5 Cool Tools That Can Help You Get Your Newsletter Started

Another way to use email is the do what I’m doing here - an email newsletter. Brainfooder Mick Griffin - who I was met to meet for lunch in Gdansk today - with nice little Zapier recipe on how you get your candidate email newsletter going. Why not? Get to it folks.

CONTENT MARKETING

traffit.com

Meet The Psychological Needs of Your People—All Your People

Turns out lesser paid employees are more likely to also state that ‘their psychological needs are not being met’ compared to their better compensated colleagues. McKinsey suggests a few solutions, apart from the bleeding obvious. Rather makes me wonder how much management might really be displacement activity for inequitable pay. Brainfood on two levels, have a read…

CULTURE

www.mckinsey.com

CV Fraudster Must Repay Some Wages

Given that most of us have lied on our CV’s a least a little bit, should we be liable to return wages earned through this subterfuge? An interesting case in the UK, where a doctor was docked wages earned, after having retrospectively found to have lied about the qualifications. Might be a good Brainfood Live to do…H/T brainfooder Colin McNicol for the share in the fb group

ASSESSMENT

www.lawgazette.co.uk

The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most

Interesting chart in the middle of this HBR piece showed the changes in keywords associated with CEO of job posts, with a clear increase in the requirement for better people skills. Is automation / digitisation already taking away the information processing skills that were once core to the executive role? Or are we just ‘in a moment’ when it comes to hiring for empathy?

CULTURE

hbr.org

GitHub Candidate Search

So this looks like kind of a CSE for Github, searchable by location and language. Useful for tech sourcers. H/T to brainfooder Joey NK Koksal for the share.

SOURCING

github-source.herokuapp.com

How Young Is Too Young to Be a Police Officer?

One might have thought that lack of maturity being an issue in bad policing outcomes might be common sense, but it’s only really being had right now. Does it make a difference if the office is 18 vs 28, especially when it comes to using firearms with the authority of the state? Another dimension of difference, which segues into discrimination, which might nevertheless be morally justified. Have a read

D&I

www.lawfareblog.com

Upwork Has An Impersonation Problem

…so does all remote work - how do deal with it is another matter. Two egregious examples here, first of an upworker using someone else’s LinkedIn profile to win a bid, second the unverifiable nature of who was actually doing the work. Love to know how anyone is going to solve for this, a precursor to future all of us are going to see.

REMOTE WORKING

news.ycombinator.com

Who's Talking?

Fractional Work

What is ‘fractional work’ and why is it becoming more of a phenomena? I speculate away with brainfooders Eveliese Luiting and Kristel Moedt on their outstanding interview podcast, People Masterminds.

FUTURE OF WORK

open.spotify.com

What’s the Future of Abortion, Autonomy and Women’s Rights?

Important podcast from brainfooder Laurie Ruettimann on a topic which couldn’t be in conservation anywhere else but the USA - how the rollback of women’s rights impacts our work in HR. Necessary listen.

D&I

laurieruettimann.com

The Dark Side of Talent, Sorting and Institutions

Tyler Cowen is one of the most popular public intellectuals of the day, and he’s been on the podcast tours after publishing a book on talent. Takes too long to get to the talent bit so, skip to 50min mark and start there - Have a listen.

ASSESSMENT

cactus.substack.com

End notes

So it turns out I am ‘fit to fly’ so will be boarding a plane to Milan tomorrow for what is now sadly only a whistle stop, before spending most of the week in Madrid, where I hope there is still some residual summer to pick up the mood. See you in Madrid if you’re going to the meetup.

In the meantime, as the coronavirus melted my brain, it became the obvious thing to do to melt it further by watching Youtube videos on nuclear power. This channel caught my eye and having watched every minute of every video, I can safely say its the best channels ever. Learn about the Economics of Nuclear Reactor folks, courtesy of the Illinois Energy Prof….

So DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok….

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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