Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #249

Hung Lee

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

Bad Candidate Experience Is Expensive

Interesting writing (again) by brainfooder Jan Tegze on the cost to the business of bad candidate experience. The idea that the more candidates you attract, also means the more candidates you have to reject, leading to increased reputational risk to the business if you do it badly or not at all, is an idea I had not thought about. A good reason to moderate your candidate attraction policies for less but better. Have a read.

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

blog.jantegze.com

The State of the Octoverse 2020

The State of the Octoverse explores a year of change with new deep dives into developer productivity, security, and how we build communities on GitHub

Data up to end of 2020, on how developers are building in open source. Beautifully done, and fascinating trends, especially on productivity. H/T brainfooder Denys Dinkevych for the share

SOCIETY

octoverse.github.com

112 Employee Turnover Statistics: 2021 Causes, Cost & Prevention Data

As there are no end of reports suggesting the ‘turnover tsunami’, it might make sense to have a review of this mega list of employee turnover statistics. H/T Alexandru Gotoi for the share in the fb group

RESEARCH

financesonline.com

The Future of People Management Priorities

BCG survey and report from global sample of professionals in people management. Seems that we are not too confident in our digitisation / automation strategy, amongst other interesting insights. Download the report here

RESEARCH

www.dropbox.com

Recruiter's Commission Report

Are recruitment agencies commissions increasing? They should be if employers continue to report labour shortages; excellent report conducted by brainfooder Ez Kahn and his team at Spencer Lane. Aussie data - be cool to see recruiters from other territories do similar.

RESEARCH

www.spencerlane.com.au

Dropbox Engineering Career Framework

Brilliantly execution by Dropbox, as usual. Public facing interactive website on engineer career frameworks within the business. A good example of what such a framework looks like, and also how transparency almost always automatically converts into employer branding.

EMPLOYER BRANDING

dropbox.github.io

"Sheryl Sandberg and Jonathan Rosenberg on Facebook-Google relations August 9, 2008… "

Fascinating exchange from what is turning into one of my favourite twitter pages. Internal TechEmails publishes private email exchanges which have now been made public due to Freedom of Information Requests. There’s often a fair bit of recruiting chat there - this one between Facebook vs Google on employee poaching. H/T Simon McSorley in the fb group.

CULTURE

twitter.com

Alla Pavlova - How To Get Unstuck In Sourcing?

Great presentation by brainfooder Alla Pavlova on sourcing mindset. The best sourcers seem to say the same things - it is not about the latest cool technique, it is about the mindset & approach. 60 minutes of training for you on developing it - have a watch

SOURCING

www.youtube.com

Towards A Psychologically Safe Environment

Outstanding post on psychological safety using an adaptation of Maslow’s pyramid to illustrate the foundational layers required to create a great team culture. Skip midway straight to do the to-do list, if you’re stuck for time. For software teams, but applicable to any team really, including recruiting ones

CULTURE

medium.com

Miko on Twitter: "from Tech: Demonstrating high fidelity mocap with CodeMiko… "

Mind blowing 26 second clip of the most famous livestreamer most of us are too old to know about. I’ve posted about ‘the Technician’ before - here’s her doing a live action demo of her avatar, Miko. The future, is not going to wait for us to get comfortable with it.

AR/ VR

twitter.com

The Ultimate List of Game Company Job Boards (2021)

Speaking of video games, which I suspect are the next frontier for mass communications, a few of us might want to know what the gaming landscape looks like in terms of job boards. This, looks like it is indeed, the ultimate list.

COOL TOOL

www.gameindustrycareerguide.com

Generation Z Fears Being Left Behind By The Push To Remote Work

Remote working is for experienced employees, and the early entrant talent know it. Only 19% of college students prefer remote only work environment. We are getting close to the moment where we have to choose what kind of employers we want to be.

REMOTE WORKING

www.axios.com

Here Are Some Of The Highest-Paying Remote Work Jobs Hiring Now

Snapshot from jobs paying over $100,000 from Ladders. In line with the idea that remote working is ideally suited to experienced workers; also notable that the second most highest paying cities are also those which contain the work that most ‘remote-able’. Wish Ladders would publish the data rather than just the results, but this short post is still worth a read

REMOTE WORKING

www.theladders.com

Are You Data-driven, Data-informed or Data-inspired?

There’s a time and place to be “data-driven,” “data-informed,” and “data-inspired.” Shayna Stewart shares her expertise on when to leverage each mindset to help you get the most out of your data. H/T Bas van de Haterd for the share.

AI

amplitude.com

Leadership in the Age of Employee Activism

Here’s another way to tell a story - through sketch notes. Wonderful one page how-to for business leaders dealing with a new challenge - politically activated employees.

CULTURE

twitter.com

Systems Thinking In People Analytics – Or: Exploring The Art Of Ripening An Avocado

Systems thinking, and a lack of it, is probably the main reason behind why bad ideas end up being policy in organisations. Fantastic long read - be warned, this is 10 minutes of your time - on the application of systems thinking from the perspective of People Analytics.

PEOPLE ANALYTICS

www.linkedin.com

Who's Talking?

Why Is Everyone Quitting?

Fascinating interviews with people who have become part of the ‘turnover tsunami’. Compelling qualitative data. Decent transcript too but audio is always better.

PODCAST

www.wsj.com

Amol Rajan interviews Sundar Pichai

Rare interview with the CEO that shuns the limelight and is rarely in the news. 60 minutes with Google CEO, Sundar Pichai - excellent interview

PODCAST

www.bbc.co.uk

Want a job? The AI will see you now

The use of AI in hiring is probably at the ‘trough of disillusionment’ right now, so this podcast which interviews the CEO’s of leading AI recruiting technology companies is timely. If you have an opinion on AI in recruiting, you have to listen to this. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share.

PODCAST

www.technologyreview.com

End notes

I’m conflicted. I went to my first in-person event last week (what else but the awesome RecFest?) and had a great time - outdoors and Covid-as-safe-as-it-could-be. It was fantastic to see so many friends from the industry, most of whom - like me - had been socially isolating in large part for the past 18 months. It was an essential reminder to the habitual hermits - like me - that going out and seeing people is generally a good thing to do.

I’m still worried about Covid, because we have not got this under control. And with Boris Johnson announcing ‘freedom day’ tomorrow, it’s pretty much clear the UK government has given up on trying. So it’s back to herd immunity for us here. Message to UK folks, get vaccinated - it’s going to be the only tool we have going forward. And me? I guess I am now officially back in circulation.

DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you want to chat.

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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