Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #261

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: Recruiters, HR, RPO, RecTec - if you’re hiring for any of the above, brainfood jobs is dedicated to roles like these. Relayr, Hedvig, DIGIC, Join Talent amongst the employers this week - check them out here

Brainfood Live, Ep129: Where does ‘culture’ fit in today’s hiring process? How do we account for real preferences and behavioural differences between potential new hires and existing team members - is there a role at all for culture in hiring, and if so, how do this fairly. Another deep thinking conversation this week folks - Friday 15th October - register here

Special thanks this week to: Kevin Green, Vanessa Raath, Martyn Redstone, Andrea Kirby, Eugène van den Hemel, Tony Restell, Luca Cicatelli, Alia Khattab, Colin Donnery, Andrew Spence, Steve Jacobs, Sophie Power, James Martin, Christian Madsen, Toby Heales, Zsuzsa Urbanovici, Donja Huidar, Bas van de Haterd, Joey NK Koksal, Alla Pavlova, Mark Edwards, Tim Sanchez, Bobby Leonard, Steven Davis, Oonagh Clarke, Pedro Oliveira, Stephen O'Donnell, Mark Deubel, Shireen DuPreez, Manjuri Sinha, Vanessa Raath, Richard Morton, Tess Clare Marshall, Katie Parker, Jane Moors, William Geldart, Tamara Schenk, David Green, Jana Staníková, Richard Wylde, Eva Zils, Matthias Eisterer, Jessie Caudron, Daniel Dackombe and Garry Turner for your public support last week - important to keep the community growing!

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Cheers!

Hung

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

State of Work 2021

Excellent presentation from Acadian ventures, which synthesises of a number of key work trends that we’ve all borne witness to - shift to remote, candidate shortage, K-shaped recovery. If you needed one, accessible document to summarise where we are at in the world of work, this would not be a bad option. The summary article here, and you can download the pdf here. H/T to brainfooder Bill Boorman for the share in the fb group

ECONOMY

www.dropbox.com

Why We Should Not Focus on 'A' Players

The reason, says Brainfooder Kevin Wheeler, is that we are cannot reliably identify them from the outside. Compelling argument using sports analogies on the requirement to ‘develop your own’. Great thinking as usual from Kevin - make sure to catch him on Brainfood Live later this month, when we talk ‘Future Fit TA’. Register here

ASSESSMENT

fotnews.futureoftalent.org

Julie Zhuo on Twitter: "Collecting remote team traditions—what are some things your remote team does that you love?"

Simple question which turned in a viral thread as contributors answered with their ‘remote team traditions’. Some are bad, some are good - take some time to browse through, there will be something here that you will be able to use.

REMOTE WORKING

twitter.com

Career Change Tracker

Interesting tool from TotalJobs - tracking the career moves of 4.2 million candidates. The industry view tab is probably most useful - a decent way to see which industries retain their talent or whether those skills don’t tend to transfer out. Have a play on this, here. H/T to brainfooder Ryan Grogan for the share

COOL TOOL

www.totaljobs.com

Do You Discriminate Against Boring People?

Classic sh1t stirring from brainfooder Tim Sackett, who is always asking questions others might be afraid to pose - is hiring inherently an act of discrimination? And if so, why are certain categories of discrimination more acceptable than others? Maybe a future topic for a Brainfood Live. Have a read of his post here - and love to hear thoughts on this ;-)

D&I

timsackett.com

Dataset Search

A search engine for datasets. Not 100% sure what the sourcing use case is for this, but it seems that there must be one? Also good for sourcing citations when you are building a presentation of some sort. Take a look

SOURCING

datasetsearch.research.google.com

The Productivity Illusion - Office or Home, Which Place is More Productive?

Superb essay on the need to reframe the conversation on office vs remote, which starts by challenging the basis of the argument for remote (how do we measure ‘productivity’ anyway?) before moving onto a reconsideration of how to measure knowledge work. Must read

REMOTE WORKING

www.linkedin.com

LinkedIn Profile SEO: How to Be Found

Thing I’ve found with posts from brainfooder Irina Shamaeva is that I inevitably - and immediately - change my behaviour after having read it. This one, a kind of reverse engineering from how recruiters source, turns out to be genius personal / employer branding.

EMPLOYER BRANDING

booleanstrings.com

The 'Over Employed' Workers Juggling Remote Jobs

A scare story by the ‘return to the office’ brigade or a legitimate concern for employers who fear losing staff hours to other companies? Either way, we can accept that remote working has at least made it easier for for people to secretly work for more than one employer, and no doubt this will be an increasingly challenging problem for business going forward. Have a read

REMOTE WORKING

www.bbc.com

Inside United Airlines’ Decision to Mandate Coronavirus Vaccines

Politically charged, ethically contentious, practically challenging - how do you decide and how do you successfully implement mandatory employee vaccination policy? Excellent report on how United Airlines have done it, which might be useful might be useful if find yourself in a similar situation. Have a read

CULTURE

archive.is

How Much Data Is Generated Every Minute?

Can you believe it is the 9th anniversary of Data Never Sleeps, the classic infographic by DOMO on the size of the user generated internet based on the amount of data being produced / consumed by us users. You’ll probably use this in a slide deck somewhere.

SOCIETY

www.domo.com

Is there a recruiter email blocklist somewhere?

…..asked this commentator on Hacker News, which triggered some interesting responses from other commentators on ‘how to decide which recruiters to block’. A pretty good reveal on how highly skilled, in-demand workers think - useful for recruiters who care about candidate experience.

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

news.ycombinator.com

Why Is Everything So Hard In A Large Organization?

Accurate and succinct explainer post on the challenges of working in complex, multi-participant situations. You’ve got get past the idiosyncratic UI, but once you do, you get a short essay with references to the Prisoners Dilemma, Brooks Law and others - as well some practical mitigation strategies you can use to get stuff done.

CULTURE

graphthinking.blogspot.com

LazyWeb

The need for us recruiters to learning boolean is evidence that search engines don’t work as we would want them to. Can the next generation of search tools do better? Maybe LazyWeb - a conversational search engine that understands plain English can tell us.

COOL TOOL

lazyweb.ai

Working From Orbit. VR Productivity in (or Above) a WFA…

So Immersed are an AR / VR software app and their developers have to ‘eat their own dog food’ by coding entirely in Virtual Reality. It’s a longer-than-it-needed-to-be read yet nevertheless an interesting experiment on what the near future work environment is going to look like. Are we all going to end up ‘strapping in’? I can see it.

AR / VR

blog.immersed.team

Employment and Wellbeing Don't Correlate in India, Ethiopia, Vietnam & Peru

Working for oneself or another individual or a household is associated with lower wellbeing than working for a private company, a cooperative or a public sector/government organisation.

As the workers in the more privileged parts of the globe, set up shop as solopreneurs, freelancers and creators, those who are less privileged, have different needs from work. Full report here, summary here.

SOCIETY

www.birmingham.ac.uk

Who's Talking?

Best 60 Recruitment and Staffing Podcasts in 2021

Change of pace for us this week, as a decent list of recruiting podcasts has come out. I’m going to re-do the Big List for 2022 so stand ready to receive an email from me shortly on this. In the meantime, this list is a very decent stop gap - have a look.

RESOURCE

blog.feedspot.com

End notes

I’m still in London folks, though it looks like I’m going to be out and about this week, with Personio H.U.G in London on the 12th. Let me know if you’re going to this, might be a good excuse to meet up (DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok)

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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