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Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #246

Hung Lee
Hung Lee
@hunglee
Brainfood Live Ep115: HeadCount Planning For HyperGrowth
What actually happens when you raise a mega round of investment? Pressure to ‘scale’ for TA must be immense and it’s a recruiting challenge that we need to know more about. In conversation with TA leaders working for companies who now need to ‘hyperscale’
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Hung
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The Brainfood
"How To Hire More Women Into Engineering?"
"How To Hire More Women Into Engineering?"
20 crowdsourced ideas on how to hire more women into tech. I’m going to do one of these threads per week, collecting together community knowledge from conversations had in Brainfood Lives, so follow the account here to get the document. Free, as usual
D&I
twitter.com
The Power of Automation 2.0: Zapier and Integromat
The Power of Automation 2.0: Zapier and Integromat
We all need to get better at automation - there is no greater joy than getting rid of repetitive tasks which soak of up too much time. This post from MatchHR on how to use Zapier and Integromat to increase your operating efficiency might give you some inspiration. Must read folks
H/T to brainfooder Michiel Wiersema for the share
RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS
www.matchr.io
The Work-From-Home Future Is Destroying Bosses' Brains
The Work-From-Home Future Is Destroying Bosses' Brains
‘Full time employment’ is an agreement you sign so that your employer can monopolise your time. You are not just working for your employer, but you are actively prevented from working for any other employer. That remote working erodes management surveillance on whether you are breaking this agreement is a primary motivation for the call to ‘return to the office’……
Overly cynical take? Perhaps. Have a read
REMOTE WORKING
ez.substack.com
Major Companies Ask Colorado Residents NOT To Apply For Remote Positions
Major Companies Ask Colorado Residents NOT To Apply For Remote Positions
The unfolding complexity of hiring a world of remote - a new state law in Colorado requires businesses to disclose the expected salary or pay range for remote positions - and so companies are discouraging applicants from that state. Don’t hate the player, hate the game….
H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share
REMOTE WORKING
www.axios.com
Data Science Interview Questions Part-1-8
Data Science Interview Questions Part-1-8
Avinash Navlani has written an 8 part series on how to hire for data science candidates. Incredibly, only 77 people follow this guy on Medium - I hope at least some of them are DS recruiters. Outstanding resource, really deserves more eyeballs on it.
ASSESSMENT
avinashnavlani.medium.com
Google Contacts Updated
Google Contacts Updated
Did you know that Google has a CRM? Like a lot of G-apps, the Google Contacts feature has been woefully neglected over the years and well overdue an update. Considering that it is natively integrated with Gmail, Google Meet and the rest, it has huge potential to be a default CRM which most of us would be happy to use. Last week’s updates look encouraging, especially conversation tracker. Anyone on Google Apps, take note
ENGAGEMENT
workspaceupdates.googleblog.com
Stripe: Thinking Like a Civilization
Stripe: Thinking Like a Civilization
Astonishing essay on the company everyone loves to love - Stripe, the payments behemoth, which ‘thinks like a civilisation’. Long read so if you don’t want to commit to all of it, do at least make sure you read the middle portions on culture, leadership and vision - fascinating insights on how the Collison brothers operate.
CULTURE
www.readthegeneralist.com
Internal Tech Emails on Twitter: "Steve Jobs emails Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen May 26, 2005… "
Internal Tech Emails on Twitter: "Steve Jobs emails Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen May 26, 2005… "
TechEmails has turned into one of my favourite twitter accounts - sharing previously private, now public emails between figures in tech. This one is with Steve Jobs vs Bruce Chizen is about recruiting, specifically, the practice of targeting competitors. Short, brusque exchange, but fascinating insight on an aspect of hiring few ever get to see.
OBSCURA
twitter.com
Anywhere Jobs: Reshaping the Geography of Work
Anywhere Jobs: Reshaping the Geography of Work
Excellent report on the ‘war for talent 2.0’ - the global competition for job relocation in the era of the ‘anywhere jobs’. Digestible 47 pager, particularly relevant to the UK given the high percentage of jobs which could be done from anywhere.
REMOTE WORKING
www.dropbox.com
How Many People Use LinkedIn in Europe?
How Many People Use LinkedIn in Europe?
Fascinating research by brainfooder Jan Tegze, using publicly available LinkedIn data to surface up some interesting insights - the degree of market penetration of LinkedIn per country and the interest in remote working opportunities as declared by those LinkedIn users.
RESEARCH
evry1.us
tusk (thought you should know)
tusk (thought you should know)
tusk (“thought you should know”) is a simple, convenient way for people to give and receive anonymous feedback.
Might be useful tool in this day and age of both radical candour + inevitable public doxxing sometime-in-the-near-future. PS: feel free to try it with brainfood btw, I’d be interested to see the UX from the recipients side
COOL TOOL
tusk.page
Amazon's Talent Evaluation Packet
Amazon's Talent Evaluation Packet
Getting rid of poor performing employees - what do we think of this? Amazon calls this “unregretted attrition.”, whereas critics say the system resembles the “stack ranking” popularised, then later disavowed, by Jack Welch. Includes a leak of the internal documentation - so worth a look if you too are a stack ranker.
www.seattletimes.com
The Rise of Japan’s Loyalty Point Influencers
The Rise of Japan’s Loyalty Point Influencers
Human ingenuity often occurs on edges of legality. The popularity of ‘loyalty point’ influencers in Japan shows that a great many of us would join the exploitation of systems of reward that have poorly designed rules. That these influencers can further convert their popularity into cash via sponsorships and donations is just is a new form of economics.
FUTURE OF WORK
restofworld.org
Who's Talking?
Corporate Courage
Corporate Courage
Basecamp CEO Jason Fried pretty much did get fried, losing a third of his employees and gaining a whole load of social opprobrium for the roll out of a ‘no politics’ rule on company communication channels. Sam Harris with the 1-2-1 interview here. If you had an opinion on this topic before, I recommend you have listen to this conversation now. H/T brainfooder Graham Thornton for the share in the fb group.
PODCAST
samharris.org
Hired by An Algorithm
Hired by An Algorithm
Promising first episode of a 4 part series in the role of AI in recruiting. If you enjoyed the Brainfood Live last Friday on this topic, you will equally enjoy this series. With the CEOs of ZipRecruiter and CareerBuilder. H/T brainfooder Donna Svei for the share
www.technologyreview.com
Scaling Up Recruiting
Scaling Up Recruiting
Another interview with another business leader in a controversial brand. Matt Alder with Richard Cho, Head of Recruiting at Robinhood, the fintech platform democratising stock investments for the masses. Have a listen here
PODCAST
recruitingfuture.com
End notes
So new design on this email - rolled by our Revue, with some clear notice that the previous design is going to be deprecated. It’s a cleaner interface to write in but also seems weightier in terms of file size so chances are, you’ve had to ‘view entire message’ on this email….
Anyways, if that is the case, please let me know and I’ll figure out a way to chop this down further, or split again if required.
DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you have any opinions on that.
Have a great week everybody. 
Hung
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