Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #310

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: Great conversation on state of the economy last week, though mixed signals are likely to remain the case for a complex, multi-regional, multi-sector phenomena. Recruiters jobs still going on the board - subscribe here to keep up to date and post here if you hiring for your TA team.

Brainfood Live, Ep173: How to Source on Slack - we’ve been waiting for this one folks! The ‘How to Source On’ series has been super popular on Brainfood Live. We’ve done Reddit, now we’re going to examine Slack. Super smart sourcing tips for the best in the business. We’re on Friday 23rd Sept, 2pm BST - there will probably be a seat limit, so register here now!

Special thanks this week to: Eugène van den Hemel, Colin Donnery, Dave Hazlehurst, Joey NK Koksal, Kevin Green, Bas van de Haterd, Andrew McFetrich, Patricia Chmielowiec, Lu Wie Hu-Peijster, Angela S. Diapari, Iain Everett, Alison Birch, Camille Haddjeri, Chris Haslam, David Oliver, Jacquie Baillie, Paul Church, Steve Jacobs for your public support of all things brainfood. Especial shout out to all the wonderful crew at Circular and Personio and all the cool cats in Madrid, who have spent the last week making me feel super welcome - you know who you are Cristina, Jeanette and Maria 😉.

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The Brainfood

Guide to Navigating Organizational Uncertainty

Culture Amp do an amazing job with online communication, and the design quality of this website is a superb example. Some great insight on the impact of high attrition to employee experience, as well as a cool tool to model which stage or type of business you are currently in. Excellent, high quality recruitment content. Must read folks. H/T to brainfooder Ivan Harrison for the share

CULTURE

www.cultureamp.com

25+ Crucial Average Cost Per Hire Facts [2022]: All Cost Of Hiring Statistics

You have to respect the boldness of this post, which is prepared benchmark recruitment KPI’s against clear dollar amounts. By all means dive deeper into the methodology but we have to be brave enough to say things without the constant caveats and appeals for context. H/T brainfooder Ivan Harrison for the share

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

www.zippia.com

Hostile De-globalisation

Fascinating thread from the essential Gergely Orosz (follow on Twitter) who reports on the impact of hostile de-globalisation on hiring decisions made by companies who might have previously fancied themselves as ‘hire from anywhere’ businesses. Future of remote will be WFH in-country, not work-from-anywhere. Going to write about this in the Substack essay this week - subscribe here

REMOTE WORKING

twitter.com

Build Your Career on Dirty Work

The Dirty Work Theory: The lamentable work that many people avoid are great places to look for high impact, low hanging fruit.

Interesting angles, from the always interesting Stay Saasy blog.

CULTURE

staysaasy.com

The Recruiter Texting Rules!

Great writing, great observations, mainly great advice from brainfooder Tim Sackett on his must read daily blog. SMS is widely used in the US, and here are some tips on how to do it for recruiting. Applicable to IM in general I think. Have a read here.

ENGAGEMENT

timsackett.com

The Whisper Networks Helping Workers Get Jobs

Are you part of an industry online community? Trick question as if you’re reading this newsletter, I would consider you very much part of the brainfood community! However, I have never heard of this type of grouping referred to as a ‘whisper network’ - and I kind of like the phrasing - they are places where high value information is shared in-group. We should join and set up more of them.

COMMUNITY

www.bbc.com

5 Billion People Use the Internet. Less than 1% Understand It

Amazing twitter thread which will educate and delight in equal measure. We do all indeed use the Internet, as recruiters maybe we are more dependent users on it than most, and we could certainly do with a better understanding of how it actually operates.

ENGAGEMENT

twitter.com

Ethereum Merge and What it Means for the Crypto Industry

Accessible explainer from the WEF on the major event in the crypto world last week - the close to flawless transition from ‘Proof of Work’ to ‘Proof of Stake’ on Ethereum. Might also be proof that for some forms of projects, new organisational structures might be more suitable than the ones we currently hold as sacrosanct. Nice way to learn about Blockchain in any case, and to speculate on the nature of effective human collaboration.

BLOCKCHAIN

www.weforum.org

Tech Community Slacks

Seeing as we’re going to be talking about ‘how to source on Slack’, this mega list of tech community slacks might be a good companion asset to have to hand. Watch the show before you pile in….

SOURCING

github.com

Quiet Quitting: The Workplace Trend Taking Over TikTok

We’ve already hit the backlash against the concept of ‘quiet quitting’ with even the FT now proclaiming that it’s ok for workers to simply do their job and nothing more. I get the feeling that there may be more to the phenomenon though, it’s a kind of middle class fatalism brought about escalating cost of living crisis which perhaps the working class had always known about…..another topic for an Open Kitchen essay I suspect….

SOCIETY

www.bbc.co.uk

Australian Signals Directorate Releases Coin with Secret Code to Mark Cyber-Spy Agency's 75th Anniversary

Spooks have long used cyphers to surface up potential recruits. Australian Signals Directorate channels its roots to the GCHQ with a commemorative coin which includes a code to break, very much leaning into the departments EB. H/T to brainfooder Colin McNicol for the share in the fb group

ASSESSMENT

www.abc.net.au

r/Overemployed

Fascinating thread on a fascinating subreddit community dedicated to becoming fraudulently ‘overemployed’ - taking on multiple full time jobs whilst pretending to the full time on only one. Maybe a form of social protest against ‘the man’, a response to the cost-of-living crisis, inevitable exploitation of the weak spots in a remote working world, or just clever outsourcing. After all, if we are really committed to ‘results driven management’, why should we care if the work just gets done?

REMOTE WORKING

twitter.com

Why Employees Want to Work in Vilified Industries

Workers for demonised firms are often proud to be on the payroll - why is this? Interesting and necessary post from the Economist on how motivations vary and maybe that is ok? Love to try and re-run the ‘EB for Vilified’ Brainfood Live, which sadly could not secure enough guests to be held.

EMPLOYER BRANDING

archive.ph

Long Covid and the Labour Market

The latter day ‘let it rip’ approach to pandemic management might have long term consequences to the labour force participation - simply because hundreds of thousands of people may be long term incapacitated. Concerning report from IFS, correlates with studies in the US and elsewhere where the question the ‘missing millions’ has been raised. Talking about this on Brainfood Live later this month btw, join us here.

www.dropbox.com

Prison Money Diaries: What People Really Make (and Spend) Behind Bars

With the welcome news last week that the EU has moved to ban products made from forced labour, it is worth having a look at why forced labour happens at all. Unsurprisingly, its usually labour exploitation for profit maximisation. Some sobering figures here with cameo portraits of prisoners earning a pittance for themselves, whilst the fruits of labour hit the free market. Have a read of the Prison Money Diaries.

SOCIETY

www.themarshallproject.org

Who's Talking?

Recruitment: An Art & a Science

This is actually an interview with me as the subject, which is usually not a mega interesting story, but might be useful to those who are interested in entrepreneurship, business failure, revenue generation as a solo operator and the link. Enjoyed the chat - have a listen here

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

www.emearecruitment.com

Start-Up Recruitment is Changing from a Growth to Process mindset

So congratulations for brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for hitting 40 episodes of his still new podcast series, Talent Savvy. These are smart conversations with smart people, as evidenced by this chat on the shift of recruitment mindset from growth to process.

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

anchor.fm

Recruiting, Assessing, On Boarding & Training In The Metaverse

Very decent demo of the applicable use cases of AR / VR in recruitment. The question is how do we distribute equal access to the Metaverse when the headsets remain luxury items available only for the rich. Hard to see them as ever ubiquitous as the mobile phone, but I guess once upon a time we might have thought of that device as a luxury item before it become obvious that everyone needed one. Must watch folks.

AR/ VR

www.linkedin.com

End notes

So I’m back in London after spending a fabulous week in Madrid. I didn’t know the city much at all before I arrived and I feel I know it a little better now having drank a few beers and had a few laughs there. Need to travel more I think, but perhaps do longer stints rather ‘rolling stone’ type adventures. Anyways, this cool website on what the locals call their neighbourhoods is quite fun and I suspect might even be useful if you wanted a quick vibe check of the area you’re planning to stay around.

Anyways, back for the HRH Queen Elizabeth II funeral tomorrow. It’s been a week of mourning for all my buddies in the UK and I am glad to be back to pay my respects to person who I think was fundamentally decent in the person she was. Hence, no Brainfood Baked Fresh tomorrow.

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

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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