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Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #268

Hung Lee
Hung Lee
@hunglee
Brainfood Jobs: new recruiter roles from Zinc, SellerX, Orbital Witness, Futurepath and EVBox, amongst others. Remember, complete the What Do Recruiters Want Survey, to get the 100% discount for job posts - guide on how to do this on the thank you page on submission!
Brainfood Live, Ep136: Employer Branding for Controversial Brands
How do you recruit for a company where people might already have prejudgements? We’re speaking with recruiters and EB professionals who have had to differentiate EB from consumer brand and conduct turnaround brand perception projects. Friday 3rd December, 2pm GMT - register here
Special thanks this week to: Jon Hull, Kevin Green, Vanessa Raath, Sally Tattersfield, Cornel Müller, Joey NK Koksal, Dave Hazlehurst, James Osborne, Christine Ng, Paul Moir and Jane Moors for your public support of the brainfood last week - vital stuff - thank you!
Now check out your scores on the Brainfood Hall of Fame😉
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Cheers!
Hung

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SPONSORS
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The Brainfood
Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Incident Database
Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Incident Database
Cool database collecting together the problematic outcomes of the implementations of AI. As an AI optimist, I feel we are often overly skeptical on artificial intelligence but this database does remind even us advocates that concerns about AI are not without merit. Fun, educational, probably useful - check it out here
AI
incidentdatabase.ai
11 HR Trends for 2022: Driving Change and Adding Business Value
11 HR Trends for 2022: Driving Change and Adding Business Value
Very decent summary of the key trends which present both risk and opportunity for HR. In TA, there has been a movement to row away from HR and become a distinct function ‘at the top table’, but in light of these trends, I rather think movement in the opposite direction is the wiser move. Worth a read
FUTURE OF WORK
www.aihr.com
Workers Suffer The Headaches of Hybrid
Workers Suffer The Headaches of Hybrid
Has the Hybrid Hype cycle has already peaked? When collections like this appear on LinkedIn, it’s a decent sign that it has and we’re on our way to the trough of disillusionment. Hybrid was always going to be the most difficult of configurations to make work. Some of us are going to make it work though, so good news that this post contains a few handy tips how-to
REMOTE WORKING
www.linkedin.com
Exceptional Off-Cycle Compensation Adjustments for Software Engineers in 2021
Exceptional Off-Cycle Compensation Adjustments for Software Engineers in 2021
Gergely Orosz is staking a decent claim to be the guru in tech hiring, with regular, insightful posts like this. Whilst the research is pretty much him speaking with engineering managers, the collation here chimes with reality - 2021 has been a year of ad hoc yet significant comp adjustments for the highly skilled in demand. Have a read here. H/T brainfooder Matthew Hill for the share
ECONOMY
blog.pragmaticengineer.com
Individuals Matter
Individuals Matter
Fine essay from one of the most insightful commentators on work today, on the essential ‘non-fungibility’ of human beings. Our problem, says Dan Luu, is that we treat humans as if they were interchangeable units….
CULTURE
danluu.com
What is a Job Family?
What is a Job Family?
Pretty decent question, one of those which is not often asked ‘because we should know already’. Bravo to Ongig for deciding to tell us anyway and for providing great examples, as well as a downloadable ‘Job Family Matrix’
RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS
blog.ongig.com
Bitcoin Animated White Paper
Bitcoin Animated White Paper
This is the paper which launched the idea of blockchain into the public consciousness, and I’m sharing it here for two reasons - No1, we need to become Web3 literate and No2, this is an interesting way to communicating potentially dense textual information in a more accessible way. Pretty cool huh?
BLOCKCHAIN
textframe.app
'Sorry, You Haven't Got The Job - You're Too Fat!'
'Sorry, You Haven't Got The Job - You're Too Fat!'
A criticism of remote is that it is no substitute for really being with other people’. But what if people are 8rseholes? The beauty bias might well be one of the things we can ameliorate by shifting to a mode of work where human bias can at least be moderated by a computer screen. There is more to debate here, especially on whether recruiters ‘inherit’ bias from hiring managers (we do). A brainfood live I think, for the future.
H/T brainfooder Colin McNicol for the share in the fb group
D&I
www.linkedin.com
Companies Ranked by Market Cap
Companies Ranked by Market Cap
5696 companies ranked by market capitalisation, headcount, revenue, market cap gain, market cap losses. Not sure what we can do with this, but good to navigate around your industry and get a look at where the big fish swim.
COOL TOOL
companiesmarketcap.com
The Name-Pronunciation Effect- Why people like Mr. Smith more than Mr. Colquhoun
The Name-Pronunciation Effect- Why people like Mr. Smith more than Mr. Colquhoun
More fascinating studies on the significance of familiarity as a signal of in-group membership, and therefore, subsequent positive ratings we give people who share membership of that group. Relevant to all of us recruiters who have an opinion on whether should use ‘blind resumes’. Accessible read
D&I
www.dropbox.com
Your Board of Directors is Probably Going to Fire You
Your Board of Directors is Probably Going to Fire You
Following on from last week’s popular post on ‘what makes a great board’, this week we’re going to post this warning sign on boards in general - they are there to help the shareholders and that may not be you. Particularly pertinent for founders, but a good read for anyone who wants to better understand how incentives drive behaviour.
CULTURE
reactionwheel.net
The Digital Dilemma
The Digital Dilemma
Outstanding report on the correlations between ‘high risk’ social media postings from job candidates and their subsequent performance has hired employees. It might not be cool to say it, but it appears that risky social media behaviour is something employers should indeed screen for. South Africa data sample, nearly 10,000 employees screened. It’s fascinating research
ASSESSMENT
www.dropbox.com
Melding Flexibility and Connectivity in the Workplace
Melding Flexibility and Connectivity in the Workplace
We often talk about creating an ‘agile workforce’ without understanding the implications of an organisation which can scale up / down resources according to demand. It means less full time employees, less talent ‘acquisition’, greater diversification of employment types and more ‘talent access’. Great analysis from Lynda Gratton.
FUTURE OF WORK
sloanreview.mit.edu
"Things Can Only Get Better"
"Things Can Only Get Better"
A confessional from long time brainfooder James Ellis, who appears to be on the market and looking for a new role. Observations of an employer branding guru on today’s candidate experience is worth making notes on.
CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE
www.getrevue.co
How to Succeed Quickly in a New Role
How to Succeed Quickly in a New Role
Also titled: ‘Five ways to build a strategic network’ and what do you know, this post actually does deliver five practical techniques. This topic is often viewed from the POV of the individual whereupon it becomes a personal branding exercise, but this view from the organisation POV converts it into network analysis. Must read for everybody
PERSONAL BRANDING
hbr.org
CEO Secrets: Don't Fire Staff for Making Mistakes
CEO Secrets: Don't Fire Staff for Making Mistakes
Some decent cultural innovation here, with the ‘blameless post mortem’, presumably taking off disciplinary action off the table before conducting a review on why a negative outcome occurred. Would love to know the process of how to do this - anyone know anyone at Twilio who knows, let me know…
CULTURE
www.bbc.co.uk
Who's Talking?
Google's CEO on the Future of Work
Google's CEO on the Future of Work
Always great to hear from Google CEO’s Sundar Pichai on the future of his 144,000-person workforce and how to build in flexibility for a company of this size. 1-2-1 interview, 15 minutes, here - it’s excellent stuff. H/T to brainfooder Bas van de Haterd for the share.
FUTURE OF WORK
castbox.fm
Scaling Hiring At Speed
Scaling Hiring At Speed
Always enjoy hearing about the how to maintain culture when hyper scaling. This week, it’s Katie Morrow, VP of People Operations at Podium with the one and only Matt Alder. Have a listen here.
RECRUITING OPERATIONS
recruitingfuture.com
Human Centered Recruiting: Tech Is Not As Important As You Think
Human Centered Recruiting: Tech Is Not As Important As You Think
Josh Bersin in a one person monologue (perhaps the most difficult form of podcasting), but he nails it as it’s really just him giving one of this signature presentation deliveries. It’s an optimistic appraisal of the future role of the recruiter - have a listen here
RECRUITING OPERATIONS
joshbersin.com
End notes
I’m still in London folks, and as Omicron is here, we had better get busy looking at the Internet some more. If you need a recommendation, check out Netflix’s Arcane - a superb animated series telling the story of Vi and Jinx as sisters who end up on opposite sides of a class and culture war. Trust me on this one folks - it’s a triumph.
DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you have any more series for binge watch, I think I’m likely to have some time….
Have a great week everybody. 
Hung
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