Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #316

Hung Lee

Brainfood Baked Fresh - Ep7 - Issue 316 in Review - join us tomorrow as we discuss the content in this very newsletter. If you read something today that you want to talk about, come on screen and say your piece! Monday 31st October, 12.30pm - register here

Brainfood Jobs - if you’re hiring for recruiters & HR folks, post here. If the market has indeed turned completely cold, I’m tempted to activate the Talent Collective feature here, basically a way in which job seekers in the community can be more readily seen. Worth me turning this one?

Brainfood Live, Ep179: Employer Branding in a Recession Economy - I think we can agree that we are heading towards it folks, especially as the tech winter starts to bite. Can we still do EB during times like this? How do we moderate the language to be context appropriate and still be an attractive employer for the roles we are still hiring for? We’re on Friday 4th November, 2pm - register here folks

Special thanks this week to: Garry Turner, Gautam Ghosh, Bas van de Haterd, Eugène van den Hemel, Rob McInness, Kevin Green, Hannah Morgan, Anastasiia Holub, Oonagh Clarke, Dorothy Dalton, Colin Donnery, Richard Bradley, Janna Biagio, Julia Reiss, Lars Roschmann, Joey NK Koksal, Gordon Dudley, Laura Romero Frías and Anessa Fike your public endorsements keep this show on the road - thank you!

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The Brainfood

Open Letter to Elon Musk

Elon Musk close his overpriced acquisition of Twitter last week, immediately firing the CEO, CFO and Head of Safety, to signal a clear change in direction. The employees of course, have already voiced their opinion, making a list of demands via on Open Letter, copy of which I pasted into a doc. Twitter - appropriately enough - is alive with criticism, support and debate. Prominent public example of boss vs worker conflict, one of the recurring motifs of the world of work in the pandemic era.

SOCIETY

www.dropbox.com

Global Talent Trends: Data-Driven Insights into the Changing World of Work

Latest insights report from LinkedIn, well worth a review. Key points - economic slowdown as traced by job posting decline, drop on candidate confidence (especially see UK), persistent demand for remote work, whilst not compromising on compensation expectations. Pretty decent state-of-the-world - must read.

ECONOMY

business.linkedin.com

The Big Tech Hiring Slowdown Is Here and It Will Hurt

Gergely Orosz, is rapidly becoming the one of the must follow commentators on the world of tech. His focus is skewed toward big tech, but as he implies in this post, what happens to the big beasts will reverberate through the tech labour market. And what’s happening, is generally not good news.

ECONOMY

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Who Needs LinkedIn Recruiter? X-Ray vs. LinkedIn Search Comparison Chart

This is the sort of post only brainfooder Irina Shamaeva can come up with - a one page comparison chart on how various ways to source actually compares. It’s just brilliant stuff, and might just save your TA department some serious $$$.

Incidentally, Irina has also been talking to Google’s product team on search and will updating us on whether Boolean Sourcing is Broken on Brainfood Live later this month. What can I say, other that save your seat.

SOURCING

booleanstrings.com

Hiring Pulse Report for October 2022

Every month our friends at Workable pulse out this report - trailing three month averages on three key recruitment metrics - Time to Fill, Total Job Postings and Candidates Per Hire. Obviously a single vendors perspective, but the trends over time are strong signals of what is going on in the market. Must read.

ECONOMY

resources.workable.com

When Is Short Tenure a Red Flag?

It has become fashionable to disclaim short tenure as a problem, but there is reason to investigate further when short tenure becomes a consistent pattern. Fair treatment of the issues in this well balanced post.

ASSESSMENT

jacobian.org

October 2022 US Labor Market Update: Job Posting Declines Are Sharpest Among Pandemic-Era Leaders

Confirms Gergely’s intuition earlier - tech hiring slowdown is the largest component of job posting declines - but may be generally isolated to tech. Lay offs are high profile but not indicative of general trend outside of tech. Lots of interesting insight on this, another great monthly blog to follow for economic news.

ECONOMY

www.hiringlab.org

DALL·E 2 vs $10 Fiverr Commissions

Is ‘AI coming for creativity’? This interesting experiment puts it to the test by commissioning both a human gig worker and AI generator on a basic design job. Some hope for us humans, as the gig worker on Fiverr comprehensively trounced the AI competition.

AI

simonberens.me

New LinkedIn Profile Features Help Verify Identity, Detect and Remove Fake Accounts, Boost Authenticity

Candidate fraud is becoming a mainstream conversation and it’s great to see LinkedIn taking measures to help recruiters ID fake and malignant accounts. Interesting that using AI countermeasures against AI generated profile photos is more efficient than doing ID verification.

Reminder Ep2 of Candidate Fraud webinar series with FloCareer happening Nov 7th, 2.30pm - see the behind-the-scenes on how candidate fraud is detected.

ASSESSMENT

blog.linkedin.com

Deloitte 2022 Gen Z Millennial Survey

Cost of living crisis + rise of the creator and gig economies is going to fundamentally change the relationship the next generation of workers have their ‘employers’. Smart companies are going to be ones who will be able to not only accommodate but actively facilitate revenue generating side hustles for their nominal employees. Lots to think about, in this Deloitte survey.

SOCIETY

www.dropbox.com

Training Emotional Intelligence

Google wanted to train their engineers to be more emotionally intelligent, and brought in psychologists, neuroscientists and linguists to develop a course. This twitter thread is the concise version of it.

CULTURE

twitter.com

Viral Post Generator

This AI copy generator pokes fun at ‘life lessons’ LinkedIn content so well worth a laugh but you know what……I think some of the output would actually still perform well as a viral post. Maybe all life is parody.

CONTENT MARKETING

viralpostgenerator.com

The Consulting Business Model

Brilliant essay on what makes a certain type of business a ‘professional services’ consultancy. We need more content like this, clear and concise categorisation of business according to type. It’s not what the company does, but how its structured that determines the culture. Relevant for all job seekers, including recruiters on the market considering options.

CULTURE

commoncog.com

Korean Auto Giant Hyundai Investigating Child Labor in its U.S. Supply Chain

De-globalisation can be understood as the politically popular repatriation of manufacturing, but it cannot ignore the iron law of the market which encouraged it leave in the first place - that the costs of production have to be low enough so that end products can be competitive to be sold. Re-shoring manufacturing may well mean re-shoring human rights violations in the effort to get there.

ECONOMY

www.reuters.com

Availability of Employment

YovGov have got something of a strange website, the country filters send you off into clearly independently built web properties, so you can sometimes miss gems such as this - sentiment data on US job seekers over time. Fun tool to play with, didn’t have the time to check the data source, so bear that in mind before hot takes. H/T to brainfooder Sarah Ali for the share

ECONOMY

today.yougov.com

Van Life is Just ‘Glorified Homelessness'

Natasha Scott embarked on van life as a digital nomad, but her experience was nothing like social media told her it would be.

I’ve heard good stories and bad stories about van life. I’ve also not heard anything at all from some who have gone on the road and entirely disappeared off grid. Love to hear from recruiters who have genuinely gone digital nomad - how was it for you? Hopefully better than Natasha’s story.

REMOTE WORKING

fortune.com

Who's Talking?

People First and Mission Always With NASA Chief Human Capital Officer Jane Datta

Few podcasters have the capability to attract a guest quality like brainfooder Lars Schmidt. Here he is with NASA Chief Human Capital Officer Jane Datta - talk about a mission focused organisation. Must listen folks.

CULTURE

amplifytalent.com

This Is How We Work Now

Gig economy or Recruitment Advertising, this short movie sells the story of Upwork pretty well I think: don’t be so past it that you’re actually a corpse. H/T to brainfood Jacob Sten Madsen for the share in the fb group

GIG ECONOMY

www.youtube.com

The Unintended Consequences of Working from Home

I think one of those podcasts in which we can all resonate in some part with. Includes the example from Trip.com, one of the largest experiments conducted on remote vs hybrid, previously featured in Brainfood. Have a listen here. H/T to Bas van de Haterd for the share.

REMOTE WORKING

freakonomics.com

End notes

So Elon Musk taking over Twitter has some consequences for Recruiting Brainfood, as Revue, the software that I use to write this newsletter, is fully owned by Twitter. I suspect it might be one of those which Musk might decide to either invest in or cut off entirely, so we’ve got to think of a hedge. I’ll be in touch with each of you shortly with a recommendation!

In the meantime, take a look at this tree of life visualisation. It’s pretty cool huh? DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you have any other internet for me to check out.

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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