Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #264

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: NEW roles this week from Blinkist, Taxfix, Kinsta, Street Group and Fonoa - recruiters looking for work, check the full list here

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Hung

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

How to Contact 250,000,000 People

…which sounds like something we recruiters might want to know. Brainfooder Jan Tegze, thinking outside of the box (as usual) with clever usage of MS Teams contact manager. If finding people and contacting them is part of your job, you need to read this.

SOURCING

blog.jantegze.com

What Do Recruiters want?

Some amazing findings already one week into the release of this survey request. 800 or so of you have completed this already, so if you have not yet contributed, pleased take a moment and do it today before your week starts - you get aggregated results upon submission - and it will be massive value for everyone if we better understood how we recruiters evaluate job opportunities, for recruiters.

COMMUNITY

docs.google.com

6 Job Quality Metrics Every Company Should Know

In line with our own survey above, the shortage of candidates has generated a widespread interest in trying to figure out what ‘quality jobs’ really are. This post zooms out to look at what metrics to use as a baseline for quality. The bar is low - a living wage - but a decent exercise for us to figure out how many of jobs at this level are created in our organisations.

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

www.brookings.edu

Swedish Armed Forces Who cares?

How do you identify hidden characteristics that you ideally want in job candidates? For the Swedish Armed Forces, selflessness was one such, and they conducted a fascinating social experiment to identify those who might qualify. Also a superb piece of employer branding. H/TJim Berrisford

ASSESSMENT

www.youtube.com

Recruitment Trends & Industry Insights

Shame on me for not knowing that our friends at Radancy produce these cool monthly summaries. Accessible, up-to-date content on things you should know - have a read here.

ECONOMY

blog.radancy.com

Employee Counter Offer Survey

Cool report which measures how accurate recruiter perceptions are on the effectiveness of counter offers. Turns out, we routinely underestimate how often employees would accept a counter offer. Have a read here

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

backofficestaffingsolutions.com

3 Years of Algo Research!

Two issues in and I’m already addicted to brainfooder Andy Foote‘s LinkedIn newsletter. It’s all meta and all great; this one tracks Richard van der Blom (another LinkedIn expert worth a follow) and his research on the mighty LinkedIn algorithm.

CONTENT MARKETING

www.linkedin.com

Jobs That Marry Together the Most

‘Recruiters’ but we were not listed (do we not get married? are we not people?), so the best thing I could was search for ‘human resource manager’ who turned out to mainly marry other human resource managers….. fun tool.

SOCIETY

flowingdata.com

Personal User Manual

Steph Smith is one of those people I think I am going to say ‘I knew before she was famous’. She is kind of already famous these days, as she is forging a path on content creation / inbound marketing / audience building with a clarity of vision very few can match. Her twitter is a must follow and her projects - such as this awesome ‘User Manual’ - are always worthwhile to explore.

This post is in brainfood because I think we should all do user manuals.

CULTURE

docs.google.com

10 Ways To Ensure You're Ready To Give Feedback

A sketch note summary of Brene Brown’s Dare to Lead best seller. What a perfect way to communicate information in a single page. I pretty sure being able to sketch note artists is a future proof, in-demand skill.

CULTURE

twitter.com

Opportunities For Startups In The Creator Economy

Eze Vidra is doing some interesting work tracking the growth of the ‘creator economy’, particularly given his work as an investor in startup. This post, where he attempts to identify potential opportunities for new startups in this new space, ends up being a pretty comprehensive overview of the whole creator economy.

CREATOR ECONOMY

www.vccafe.com

#HireMirko

That’s it, my contract ended and I am #jobless.

So starts a post by Mirko Paradiso, a freelance content creator, who announces his availability for work via a demonstration of the work he can do. As Jacob Sten Madsen said, 10/10 for the effort. H/T brainfooder Antonio Arias Lopez for the share in the fb group

CONTENT MARKETING

www.linkedin.com

What if Performance Advertising is Just an Analytics Scam?

Genius insight on why ad tracking gives you correlation but not causation. It’s got to work differently in job advertising where discovery is the main value, but perhaps not for employer branding related efforts in marketing. Worth chewing over for anyone who posts ads, has a job which drives web traffic, or wants to build brand.

RECRUITMENT ADVERTISING

sparktoro.com

Data Insights for Building an Inclusive Candidate Pipeline

Excellent research by the Ivy Research Council on how to diversify the candidate pipeline. More support for the anonymised CV / resume and diverse interview panels - we are beginning to form a consensus on what may be most effective. H/T to brainfooder Syeda Younus

D&I

view.publitas.com

My Team Is Going In Circles. Help!

“Lara, I’m a manager, and my team is kind of going in circles. We have a critical project deadline, I’m trying to keep everyone moving forward, but it’s almost like we don’t know who’s in charge of what and it’s slowing us down"

Excellent, practical advice on how to define roles and responsibilities and orientate everybody toward outcomes. Also also: somebody should do recruiting agony aunt version of this blog.

CULTURE

larahogan.me

‘Blade Runner’ Studio Has Two Employees Hired to Keep Franchise’s Timeline Organized

Two jobs at Alcon Entertainment ensure “Blade Runner” characters and plot points “have a logic within the canon.”

This is the sort of job that no one would ever think would exist, but as we increasingly spend more time in fictional worlds, we’re going to need curators for the universe.

FUTURE OF WORK

www.indiewire.com

Who's Talking?

7 Mental Shifts For Hiring Now

One of the reasons why it is fantastic to hear recruitment commentary from non-specialists, is that they are often unencumbered with groupthink. More than one interesting tip here from Papaya CEO Eynat Guez, including using hiring sprints vs always on recruiting. Excellent transcript too so if you prefer to read you can do it here, or listen to the conversation here

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

www.nfx.com

Patty McCord: 8 lessons on building a company people enjoy working for

Action packed advice from Patty McCord, who manages to deliver 8 lessons in less than 5 minutes. Great lesson also how to deliver a message - have a watch here.

CULTURE

www.ted.com

Building and Maintaining Culture While Scaling an Organization

Interview Jeri Doris, CPO at Delivery Hero on company culture when it hyper growth. Some great new concepts to learn including ‘cultural rennovation’

CULTURE

www.heidrick.com

End notes

Going to be in sunny (please be sunny..) Whitstable this week, where I’ll be attending the RL100 Summit put on by our buddies The Recruitment Events Co. It should be a great few days of intensive ‘lock in’ type conversations with some of the smartest minds in TA in the UK. Come up and say hello if you’re going!

On other matters, I think it is Halloween this week, so here are some spooky Halloween tik toks to get you in the mood. DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you got any more.

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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