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Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #252

Hung Lee
Hung Lee
@hunglee
Brainfood Live, Ep122: Gen Z & The New World of Work
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Hung
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The Brainfood
LinkedIn Instant Video
LinkedIn Instant Video
Significant upgrade quietly rolled out by big blue last week to its messenger product - the ability to do synchronous video calls, in-app. I recorded a 60 second demo for you to show you how it works - thanks to brainfooder Jana Stanikova for being a great muse 🤣.
Also read this article here by Richard van der Blom for a more thorough breakdown. H/T to brainfooder Richard Bradley for the share in the fb group for the latter. What do you think - will you be using LinkedIn instant video?
COOL TOOL
www.loom.com
Google Strings vs. Boolean Strings
Google Strings vs. Boolean Strings
Classic stuff from brainfooder Irina Shamaeva, whose straightforward posts always offer new angles on venerable topics. Did you know that Google search is no longer really ‘boolean’ search? I didn’t. Have a read, being good at google is like being good at SEO - you constantly have to keep pace with changes Google makes.
SOURCING
booleanstrings.com
2020 Population and Housing State Data
2020 Population and Housing State Data
Once-a-decade release of US census data shows a changing and diversifying population. Relevant for DEIB initiatives, as well as for talent mapping in order to reach diversity targets. H/T for brainfooder Martyn Redstone for the share in the fb group
SOCIETY
www.census.gov
Hide Names & Photo's on LinkedIn
Hide Names & Photo's on LinkedIn
More feature roll out from LinkedIn - this time enabling the ability to ‘hide names and photo’s’ in LinkedIn Recruiter. Permissions are set at admin level, so expect this feature to be rolled down from corp - have this conversation internally now if you have a problem with it. The release highlights an interesting conundrum on how to de-bias sourcing - do we actively use less information (pretty much the French approach) or do we use more, in order to actively target under represented groups (aside from this example, the US approach)? Topic for a Brainfood Live I think.
D&I
www.linkedin.com
Big List of Diversity Resources for Everyone
Big List of Diversity Resources for Everyone
Speaking of diversity, this startme page by Bret Feig looks like pretty awesome collection of resources. H/T to brainfooder Charlotte Johns for the share
D&I
start.me
Vaccines In the Workplace: Mandate or No Mandate?
Vaccines In the Workplace: Mandate or No Mandate?
Many of us live in cultures where our individuals rights trump obligations to our community. So when those rights (the right of employees to choose to not vaccinate) come into conflict with others (the right of employees to a safe workplace) - we don’t have any good answers. It’s Scylla and Charybdis for employers, who must be looking again - hard - at the viability of full remote…
CULTURE
qz.com
X : Have you seen the culture map? Me: Which one? X : This one. Me : Ah ...… "
X : Have you seen the culture map? Me: Which one? X : This one. Me : Ah ...… "
Simon Wardley is an interesting character whose tweeting style takes the form of fictional conversations with himself, which he uses as a mechanism of explaining an idea. Massively egotistical but usually good fun, and - sometimes - relevant to us. This one on culture, draws on Erin Meyers ideas on Culture Mapping. It’s a fun thread and a useful visual.
ENGAGEMENT
twitter.com
The Economics of OnlyFans
The Economics of OnlyFans
This post is interesting for so many reasons; it’s about OnlyFans for a start, perhaps the first significant exemplar of a platform for the creator economy; it conducts relevant research on the potential earnings creators can expect to make (a figure platforms are incentivised to inflate) and also includes some interesting methodology on web scraping techniques at the end which may be of interest to our more technically minded readers. The phrase ‘uberisation of w8nking’? That’s a bonus
FUTURE OF WORK
xsrus.com
Code Switching in the Workplace
Code Switching in the Workplace
Interesting expansion of a concept from linguistics to the realm of identity by brainfooder Dorothy Dalton. How much productivity and performance is lost by employees who are not able to be their true selves? Have a read here
D&I
3plusinternational.com
NASA is Recruiting for Yearlong Simulated Mars Mission
NASA is Recruiting for Yearlong Simulated Mars Mission
NASA is looking for healthy, motivated U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are non-smokers, age 30 to 55 years old, and proficient in English for effective communication between crew and mission control. Crew selection will follow standard NASA criteria for astronaut candidate applicants.
Well brainfooders, what are you waiting for? Read more here, apply here
RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING
www.nasa.gov
Operations Manager Job in Ballarat & Central Highlands
Operations Manager Job in Ballarat & Central Highlands
Is this the most Australian job ad ever? Self deprecation is hard to communicate, but our friends down under seemed to have mastered it (see New Zealand police for another example). Simple, low cost, super powered employer branding. H/T brainfooder Hassanah Rudd for the share.
RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING
www.seek.com.au
Public Engagement Assistant, US Embassy, Kabul
Public Engagement Assistant, US Embassy, Kabul
Perils of auto-renew / auto-posting job ads. A sad digital monument to more than one broken system.
RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING
www.daybook.com
State of the Global Workplace 2021
State of the Global Workplace 2021
Interesting research from Gallup; headline figures are that 50% of the US employees are thinking about a new job; more interestingly is what it takes to move them - 20% compensation uplift if they like their manager, and next to nothing if they don’t. Managers, are key. Full report, but digestible enough.
SOCIETY
www.dropbox.com
The NeuroScience of Selling with Video Email
The NeuroScience of Selling with Video Email
More on video, this report details another technique of the medium - sending ‘video notes’ - asynch video messages within the body of email and the neuroscience behind why it is effective. Must read for any recruiter who wants to amp up their outreach. H/T to brainfooder Stephen O'Donnell for the share in the fb group
ENGAGEMENT
www.dropbox.com
Xsolla Founder On Mass Layoffs and AI-based Employee Appraisal System:
Xsolla Founder On Mass Layoffs and AI-based Employee Appraisal System:
“Stories of fear sell better than those of hope” 
Aleksandr Agapitov, CEO of Xsolla, responds to accusations of mass lay offs via algorithm, as detailed in last week’s brainfood. To his credit he makes a credible case of media narrative manipulation, whilst not refuting the accusation but rather presenting it in new light. It begs the question: what is problematic about this?
PEOPLE ANALYTICS
gameworldobserver.com
Who's Hiring?
Brainfood Jobs
Brainfood Jobs
Talent Acquisition Manager, We Are Move
Talent Acquisition Manager, Personio
And new jobs from the likes of Built In, BASF, Superscript, Crunchbase, EY, Oliver Agency, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, WeTransfer and many more. Check out all live jobs here
pallet.xyz
If you’re hiring for recruiters, HR, RPO, recruitment tech roles, click on this link to access and post to the Brainfood Job Board
Who's Talking?
Understanding AI Systems For A Better AI Policy
Understanding AI Systems For A Better AI Policy
CogX is the premier community for all things AI and a great deal of their talks are available on Youtube. This one, on the challenges of crafting policy for ethical AI, is excellent. Have a watch / listen
AI
www.youtube.com
Netflix’s Reed Hastings: Why Culture Matters
Netflix’s Reed Hastings: Why Culture Matters
So Reid Hoffman has a podcast where he interviews other famous tech people. This one is with another Reed (what is with this name, somebody give the me etymology) - Hastings of Netflix. It’s a great interview on culture first. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share.
CULTURE
podcasts.google.com
Why Don’t Men Read Books Written by Women?
Why Don’t Men Read Books Written by Women?
Fascinating premise, though the data includes reference to Danielle Steele and so I have to be skeptical of the methodology. Nevertheless, the premise, if true, does this have implications for who we pay attention to online - on LinkedIn, on twitter, ….via newsletters? Brainfood for sure - have a listen
D&I
www.bbc.co.uk
End notes
I’m still in London folks, and generally going to be staying here for the rest of 2021. There are finally a few events happening - TruLondon on the 25th August, Inhouse Recruitment on 14th September followed by RecFest proper on the 17th September. I’ll talk in more detail about all of these in This Week, In Recruiting tomorrow.
In the meantime, you really need to take a look at this gif of Anolis aquaticus, the scuba diving lizard.
DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you have any more amazing animal videos to share.
Have a great week everybody. 
Hung
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