Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #255

Hung Lee

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The Brainfood

The Truth Is, Sometimes Good Things Go Bad

We only ever hear about big TA / HR transformation projects when they are at the peak of the hype cycle. And yet the most common end for all such projects is that they get unwound by successors who do not share the original vision. Superb post on a challenging circumstance by brainfooder Allyn Bailey - this is what transparency - and leadership - looks like 👏

CULTURE

www.linkedin.com

Why It’s Difficult To Build Teams In High Growth Organisations

The newbies outnumber the veterans in high growth. Default culture is not what pre-exists but whatever new people bring with them.

One of several memorable lines in this somewhat thrown together yet insightful post on culture building in hyper growth business.

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

jchyip.medium.com

150+ Top Sourcing / #OSINT Tools

So brainfooder Irina Shamaeva has updated her top sourcing tools list. There’s a ton of stuff here that I bet you never heard about. Avail yourself to it, chances are you’ll stumble across a tool or technique which is going to change and improve the way you source.

SOURCING

booleanstrings.com

Prisoners To Plug Worker Shortage In Meat Industry

With Brexit induced labour shortages in logistics, food processing, agriculture, retail and other industries, it looks like UK Gov is going to try and fill the shortfall with prison labour, which will presumably also puts a future trade deal with Australia under threat. Whilst we do need to reconnect the formerly incarcerated with economic opportunity, how to do this ethically, and stay compliant with other countries trade policies? A topic for Brainfood Live I think

SOCIETY

www.bbc.com

State of the Game Industry 2021

This post is exactly what the title claims it to be - it’s a comprehensive and accessible report on the games industry - pretty much a must read for any recruiter in the game. H/T to brainfooder Alla Pavlova for the share

ECONOMY

www.dropbox.com

Nerds Don't Respond To Marketing; Try Technical Documentation Instead

Nerds definitely don’t respond to marketing - they actively disdain it. So smart thinking requires the recognition of this reality, and adapting our behaviour accordingly. Excellent read on the behaviour shift recruiters need to better engage the highly skilled, in-demand, tech worker.

RECRUITMENT MARKETING

hackernoon.com

I was Gen X, Now On Paper I’m A Millennial

Personal story illustrating the resume hacks a veteran job seeker needed to perform just to get a chance at the interview. Age discrimination is widely accepted as a problem yet precious little time / energy seems to be spent doing anything about it. We are talking about this in Brainfood Live next month - please join if this topic is important for you. H/T to brainfooder John Vlastelica for the share in the fb group

D&I

marmimaramotle.medium.com

The Future of Work Report 2021: Employee Benefits In Europe

Large scale, ‘narrow focus’ reports get a thumbs up from me. This one surveys 58,000 employees from 6 different European countries on what they think of employee benefits. Some easy ways to make yours better - mainly by making them more accessible and understandable to those employees. Also note, the value of ‘company unique’ benefits. Valuable reading - have at it here

CULTURE

www.dropbox.com

How to Deliver Constructive Feedback in Difficult Situations

How many times have you tried giving feedback, and ended up having a damaging conversation instead? We need to get better at this so the structure outlined in this how-to is timeless. H/T to brainfooder Jeroen Kneppers for the share

CULTURE

productivityhub.org

Gendered Language & Employment Websites: How Algorithms Can Cause Allocative Harm

Most Indo-European languages - apart from English - are gender inflected, meaning that there are masculine and feminine (and for our German friends, also neuter!) forms of noun words, such as job titles. What impact does this have allocating recommendations based on searching on those terms? Fascinating research from the Netherlands - read the (English language) report here.

AI

journals.uic.edu

China’s Top Court Says Grueling ‘996’ Work Schedule Illegal

Just 18 months since Jack Ma was lauding the work (very) hard culture of Chinese tech, it’s been banned. No matter what waivers have been agreed with employees, overtime must now be paid for any work over 44 hours per week. Some huge policy shifts in the world’s second largest economy this past month - state interventionism is back, and in a big way. Rui Ma twitter feed is a great English language friendly source if you want to track this yourself.

SOCIETY

www.sixthtone.com

The Chief People Officer as PM: Rethinking The Systems & Tools That Run the Company

Fascinating perspective of viewing the work of CPO as ‘product manager for people systems’. Covers compensation, rewards and recognition, performance management, and internal comms - long read, but like most things from FirstRound, 100% worth it.

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

review.firstround.com

What People See on Facebook

Are you still marketing on Facebook? In case you are, this report might give you some clues as to what kind of content works best. Clearly it is not sharing links but something like a screenshot of readable text might be the format which travels furthest through the fb network.

RECRUITMENT MARKETING

transparency.fb.com

Why A Revolving Door of Team Members Is Fuel For Success

Retention has been a major focus for TA / HR in 2021 but are we trying to do something we shouldn’t? How about we think about managing attrition and maintaining ‘knowledge flow’ through out teams? Some interesting brainfood here, with this fascinating heterodox argument of keeping things fresh, by letting team mates go.

CULTURE

www.bbc.com

Workers In The Global South Are Making A Living Playing Axie Infinity

Axie Infinity - where the gaming mechanics of Pokemon Go meets the non-fungible token. Have a read because we need to know what ‘work’ is going to look like in the next iteration of the Internet.

BLOCKCHAIN

restofworld.org

Who's Talking?

Big List of Podcasts to Listen to in 2021

This is the collection of the best recruiting / HR podcasts in our space. We’re up to 100 now - some new discoveries for me too. Check out the list here. If you want to add a podcast to this list, access the google sheet here and add to the bottom of the spreadsheet

PODCAST

www.recruitingbrainfood.com

Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective

The title and thumbnail play a huge role in a video’s success or failure.

Great how-to on why packaging is more important than content. Anybody who subscribes to my Youtube channel will know that I have no game on video so get ready for better thumbnails in 2022

CONTENT MARKETING

www.youtube.com

Moving the Needle on DEI

Great interview with Shelly McNamara, head of equality and inclusion at Procter & Gamble on why it is valuable it is to work at an inclusive company. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share

D&I

castbox.fm

End notes

I don’t really do book promotions on here, mainly because I don’t read them, but I will make an exception this week because there is a tome coming out next month which I have already pre-ordered, and will definitely read.

Exponential View by my old boss Azeem Azhar is a synthesis of his exploration of ‘exponential’ trends in technology, economics, politics and society. The OG’s here will know that EV was the direct inspiration for Recruiting Brainfood and remains one of the few other newsletters which I always make time for. Only £9.99 on Kindle, so get hold of a copy - it will almost certainly feed your brain.

DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you have any other book recommendations to make.

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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