Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #267

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: new from Digiterre, Cielo, Netlify, Rasa Technologies, Single Earth, eAgronom, Hellobetter and more. Check out the full list here. Remember folks, if you complete the What Do Recruiters Want? survey, get a 100% discount code on the standard tier posting. Check out the full list here.

Brainfood Live, Ep136: Fast Tracking the Switch of Industry Verticals. Have you ever thought about switching from retail recruitment to hiring for tech? Moving industry verticals is something most recruiters have had some experience with, but we likely have not found a way to fast track our learning of a new industry sector. This Friday, we’re going to be speaking with recruiters who are in the middle of this move and learn from them on what to do to make the transition faster.

Friday 26th November, 2pm GMT - register here

Special thanks this week to: Alla Pavlova, Joey NK Koksal, Onweni Princess, Ross Clennett, Bob Lehto, Dave Hazlehurst, Neil Carberry, Kevin Green, Bas van de Haterd, Patricia Chmielowiec, Inna Skochko, Simona Bobock, Alistair Fraser and all those who have helped distribute the survey this week - massive support - thank you!

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Hung

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SPONSORS

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The Brainfood

History of Recruiting, 1900-present day

This is a really worthy project by recruitment legend and ultra brainfooder Gerry Crispin - a timeline of the seminal moments in the history of recruitment. Did you know that psychometric assessment was invented by the US Army in 1918 in response to then new phenomenon of shell shock experienced by troops in the front line? This document is full of tidbits like this. Get to know your industry folks - have a look here

RESOURCE

www.dropbox.com

The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload

We all likely have too many meetings so this excellent post from HBR breaks down 6 psychological reasons why it happens. ‘Meeting Amnesia’ is my favourite, also can confirm recent experience with ‘Pluralistic Ignorance’. Fun and likely very useful post - have a read

PRODUCTIVITY

archive.md

My CTO Job Description

Refreshing take on a job description, mainly because it was an exercise of introspection on how the job holder needed to get better at their job. Imagine how powerful this would be if your hiring manager produced a document like this?

EMPLOYER BRANDING

stanete.com

Reid’s Rituals of Great Boards: 8 Strategic Tools Used by Top Companies

Talking about meetings, how about an analysis of 1,000 board meetings from the likes of Microsoft, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, Coda and Zynga, by none other than Reid Hoffman? Must read folks, stuff here applies to any meeting as much as those with the board. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share.

CULTURE

coda.io

Visper

How long before artificial composites become standard way to presenting human forms in digital spaces? This cool tool overlays an animated composite to a screenshot to deliver a message. Pretty compelling, I think, with some obvious applications to us in the recruiting business. H/T to brainfooder Oleg Pozdeev for the share.

COOL TOOL

visper.tech

Everything Marketers Should Know About the Fastest-Growing Audience Demographic on LinkedIn

Some cool stats on this, particularly on the size of the demographic, the speed at which this group will become the dominant cohort in the workplace and on what they really care about most - digital skills acquisition. Easy read, must read

RECRUITMENT MARKETING

www.linkedin.com

Software Developers Available!

Periodically, brainfooder Andrew Stetsenko produces lists of software engineers (with emails!) who actively want to relocate to specific countries. It’s a free list of available software engineers who want to hear from recruiters. This is a gimme, so have at it here

SOURCING

relocate.me

Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation

There are a ton of great concepts in this interview between techno-pessimists Laetitia Vitaud and Kevin Roose. One thing we can be sure of, is that technological innovation cannot be frustrated and will always outpace cultural values. The only responsible thing to do is not be an ‘end point’.

FUTURE OF WORK

www.welcometothejungle.com

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

“Created a fake LI profile to use as an example for my next youtube video. Added NOT REAL to my headline, added This is NOT a real profile disclaimer all over. It’s been less than 1 hour & I already have recruiters reaching out with jobs… WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

"you people” - that somewhat triggering term - means us recruiters of course. An interesting example of the over-use of mass messaging techniques by recruiters in a candidate short market. Problem is, negative backlash to a single actors behaviour is diffused across the entire industry….

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

twitter.com

Exposure To Foreign Accents Increases Trust In What Nonnative Speakers Say

As we increasingly work in multi-national, multi-ethnic, multi-timezone teams, I wonder whether we need to know more about accents. Get watching foreign (to you) language movies folks, because according to this fascinating research, it’s going to help build trust between teams that include non-native speakers.

D&I

www.dropbox.com

2021 Totaljobs Employers Guide to Social Mobility

Social mobility - or lack thereof - might in the end be the single most important factor that produces unequal outcomes. What can employers do about this? Worthy research by Totaljobs on the UK market, followed with a decent how-to checklist at the end.

SOCIETY

www.dropbox.com

New York City Passed a Bill Requiring 'Bias Audits' of AI Hiring Tech

If signed into law, it will require providers of automated employment decision tools to have those systems evaluated each year by an audit service and provide the results to companies using those systems.

Remember when every HR tech vendor put ‘AI’ into their marketing lit? Pretty much every vendor will be doing the opposite now, as the legislative environment pivots on the axis of bias reduction rather than recruiting efficiency. PS: if you want to talk about this some more, join the conversation in the fb group.

AI

www.protocol.com

My Experience in Building a People Analytics Function

Exceptional post on how to build a department from scratch. Can be read as an intro to People Analytics, an example of a maturity model of People Analytics or as a how-to on building capacity where before there was none. Must read folks.

PEOPLE ANALYTICS

www.linkedin.com

2.1 Million Less US Workers Than There Should Be

Fascinating graphic purloined from US Census Bureau data on the size of the US working population. Trump+Covid has killed the era of easy immigration. What that means for economies who built their strength on it is uncertain.

ECONOMY

twitter.com

When You Monetize Your Hobby, It Looks A Lot Like A Job

The creator economy is one of the most exciting avenues for people who have a passion and some method of converting that into revenue. But what happens to the passion when you succeed? Fascinating reflections on a future a few of us are likely to pursue.

CREATOR ECONOMY

www.vox.com

Who's Talking?

It's Mr. ATS

Cool to hear a couple of well seasoned industry pro’s speak about artificial intelligence in HR Tech. Brainfooder Peter Gold in the house, taking the skeptics view. Worthy compliment to the New York City post earlier in this newsletter. It’s Chad and Cheese so of course it is unfiltered but always great

AI

open.spotify.com

‎Ideas of India: Ashish Sedai on Water, Electricity and Female Labor Force Participation

Fascinating conversation between development economists Shruti Rajagopalan and Ashish Sedai on the gendered responsibilities within the Indian household and its downstream impact on labour force participation. My mother too had to carry water for the household - essential time consuming labour with often decisive opportunity cost. Must listen folks.

D&I

podcasts.apple.com

Integrating Inclusion: Creating Light, Not Heat

How do you ‘do’ DEIB in a massive, old school corporation, like JP Morgan Chase? You use a scalpel not a sledgehammer says Chief Learning Officer Jesse Jackson. Great nuggets of value here

D&I

redthreadresearch.com

End notes

I’m in London folks, and thinking a lot of about the year just gone and the year that we have ahead. I am going to try and find the time to summarise some of the things we’ve seen in our industry in 2021 and see how that sets us up for a ‘no doubt, no less’ tumultuous 2022.

It’s going to be a big job so you so always the time to get some distraction, so such as this Map of Mathematics which I recommend you check out. DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you have any other valuable distractions for me to check out.

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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