Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #279

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: told you we’ll get new jobs every day - more from McKinsey & Co, a big load from Cielo Talent and individual postings from companies like Oda, Shopify, Kinsta, Habito, Horton International and more. Configure your interests and subscribe for alerts. Hiring for recruiters? Post here

Brainfood Live, Ep143: Should TA (re) integrate with HR?

I’m inclined to say that we must, but I understand that this is a minority view. Let’s talk about the positioning of the function, and why this is relevant to the work we do. Friday 18th Feb, 2pm GMT - register here

Special thanks this week to: Stephen O'Donnell, Eugène van den Hemel, Mark Edwards, Dorothy Dalton, Christian Madsen, Vanessa Raath, Kevin Green, Katrin Homer, Manjuri Sinha, Jon Hull, Joey NK Koksal, Clair Mohamed, Oonagh Clarke, Carrie Corcoran, Ross Clennett, Megan Petty, Alison Birch, Janine Owen, Geraldine Butler-Wright, William Geldart, Juliette Rouquet, Steve Jacobs, Simon McSorley, Jolien Feenstra, Lewis Matthews, Michael Blakley, Helen Murdoch, Ivan Harrison, Matthias Eisterer, Elizabeth Lembke, James Cook and Jordi Arcas - your public endorsement of all things brainfood makes a huge difference - thank you!

Now check out your scores on the Brainfood Hall of Fame😉

Can you help? Simply share this link recruitingbrainfood.com on a LinkedIn status update and recommend it to your network - it’s the best way to keep the growing the brainfood community.

Cheers!

Hung

Sponsors

SparcStart

This week’s brainfood is supported by our buddies, SparcStart.

Can your hiring managers engage candidates and persuade them to apply? What if 20 seconds of the hiring manager’s time could be leveraged to create a connection with every potential candidate? Would your funnel look a lot different?

Sparc automates the creation, approval and sharing of hiring manager video at scale so every candidate gets to “meet your boss” at the very beginning of the process. When candidates get to see and hear from the hiring manager, the job becomes unique and special. See how easy it is to attract the right candidates. Schedule a demo today.

SPONSORS

www.sparcstart.com

The Brainfood

How Much Do Recruiters Make?

Great post from brainfooder Jason Liu, who dives into levels.fyi to pull compensation data for recruiters. Some eye popping figures here, though the sample is likely from the highest, generally tech, payers in the US. Still, with the advert of shift to remote and ‘hire-from-anywhere’ mentality, opportunities for recruiters to up their compensation is right here, right now. H/T to brainfooder Sue Viswanatha for the share.

ECONOMY

www.linkedin.com

Managing People

Your job is not to manage people, but to manage processes…

One of the many succinct insights in this outstanding post on how to be a better manager. Written from a practitioners perspective (OP is the CTO at On Deck), this is refreshingly free of HR speak, direct to-the-point in style and, occasionally, genuinely profound. It’s a must read folks.

CULTURE

klinger.io

How I Went from Zero to 1 Million Views

There are few things more demoralising than spending hours writing an article only to have it crash to insignificant numbers of views. I suspect a great many of us never start producing content for this reason alone. Great post here from one of our own brainfooder Jan Tegze on the key question you need to write a viral post.

CONTENT MARKETING

blog.jantegze.com

Developer Nation Pulse Report

No huge surprises on the data points - 80% male dominated profession, JavaScript / Python battling it out as most popular language etc - but always good to get a temperature check on where things are. Well presented interactive and maybe a useful thing to send to your tech candidates for relationship nurture.

ENGAGEMENT

www.developernation.net

Accused of Being a Bully: "I Meant'" vs "They Heard"

Brainfooder Dorothy Dalton has a long history of consistently finding novel angles on otherwise mundane HR topics. This challenging post is takes the perspective of those being accused of misbehaviour, and raises a lot of necessary questions on adjudication, due process and the need for neutral reporting. What happens when you become accused of bullying behaviour? Might the accusation itself be a form of bullying? Original post was from 2014 but perhaps more pertinent today than ever before - have a read.

CULTURE

dorothydalton.com

The State Of Business Communication

Does the elevation of writing over speaking as the primary method of business communication reduce the likelihood of bullying? I think…maybe it does, though we can expect new forms of misbehaviour to emerge. This report from Grammarly is a useful document to benchmark how we are changing the way in which we communicate, relevant to the post above, but also valuable as a standalone. H/T to brainfooder Denys Dinkevych for the share.

CULTURE

www.dropbox.com

FilePhish

If you’ve ever used the filetype operator in Google, then this is a pretty cool tool to try.

SOURCING

cartographia.github.io

How To Reach A 100% Offer Acceptance Rate (According To An Expert)

Great interview and case study with Sebastian Schötz, on how he managed to achieve a 100% offer acceptance rate. Now a great deal of this must be attributed to accurate assessment at the top-of-the-funnel, but the steps & mentality expressed after the candidate has been engaged is excellent. Have a read.

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

www.personio.com

Why I’m Leaving TLNT: A Tale of Grief and Salvation

Really important post by brainbfooder Vadim Liberman who wrote this post explaining why he was leaving as editor of TLNT. We don’t talk enough - we are barely talk at all - about the responsibilities and pressures of being the primary caregiver. This is not just parents, but children who now need to look after parents. Must read folks.

D&I

www.tlnt.com

Candidate Experience Benchmark Report 2021

How did the peak of the pandemic impact candidate experience? Pretty badly as you might imagine, as this research from our buddies Starred shows. Decent report, especially if you wanted evidence of the importance of candidate progress for the NPS.

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

www.dropbox.com

Handy Statistical Lexicon

There is no greater rhetorical flex these days than invoking statistical lexicon. How many times have you heard that some claim ‘is not statistically significant’ as if merely invoking this is the end of all discussion on the matter 🤣? This website is no replacement for a formal education on stats but it is certainly handy.

PEOPLE ANALYTICS

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

Your 30 Second Pitch Shouldn’t Be About You

The ‘30 second pitch’ archetype is usually a startup founder on the hunt for some funding, but the advice here applies equally well to candidate / client communications recruiters routinely undertake. We would get better open rate if we wrote email following the method outline here.

ENGAGEMENT

invertedpassion.com

How Office Design Can Promote Inclusion

Got a sinking feeling that most of us are going to miss this opportunity; how many of us are actually going to end up in exactly the same office environment that we left in 2019? If we are going to retain and go back to the office, there are plenty of reasons to radically redesign how we use the space.

D&I

archive.is

Strategies for Engaging Passive Candidates

Excellent slide deck on the mindset and motivation of passive job candidates, and what techniques might activate them to become active candidates in pipeline. From the Ivy Research Council, now known as Veris Insights. H/T to brainfooder Syeda Younus for the share.

SOURCING

view.publitas.com

Dancing with the Stars: Benefits of a Star Employee's Temporary Absence for Organizational Performance

Fascinating premise: Star performers are great but they can suppress the performers of team mates if they are always present (i.e. Colin is here and he will take care of it!). Team mates performance increases when the star performer is temporarily taken out of the team - everyone over performs in order to compensate for Colin not being there. Should we not intentionally and irregularly rotate star performers then? Seems like we should.

CULTURE

www.dropbox.com

The Dirty Work of Cleaning Online Reputations

There are no end of scandals these days, and for anyone caught in the eye of the storm of public outrage, there are legitimate concerns as to the damage to your future employability. In the free market economy, this is of course, a business opportunity.

OBSCURA

thewalrus.ca

Who's Talking?

Why Does the Most Monotonous Job in the World Pay $1 Million?

It’s Super Bowl Sunday so what else should we do other than listen to Freakonomics podcast on the economics of the Long Snapper? There is not much sense to it actually, as it’s no doubt a critical yet disrespected role. Fun listen, and brainfood in the sense that value and visibility aren’t always the same thing.

ECONOMY

open.spotify.com

Sacked in the Morning

More sports I am afraid, so apologies in advance for anyone who hates it 😀. I had to include this one was it featured Phil Brown local hero to the North East, and, famously, the football manager who once held a half time team talk on national TV in the middle of the pitch whilst the fans all watched. Good management / bad PR? Probably yes is the only possible answer.

CULTURE

www.bbc.co.uk

The Current State of Innovation in Talent Selection

Two of the good guys in recruiting, it’s brainfooders William Tincup and Bas van de Haterd talking about the current state of innovation and talent selection in assessment technology. Cool stories, cool case studies.

ASSESSMENT

recruitingdaily.com

End notes

I’m in London still but - what do you know - it looks like I will be on the move again over the next few months - Berlin, Madrid / Barcelona, Sydney / Melbourne, Crewe…

Of course the pandemic is not over, but UKGov’s attempt to control it certainly are, so I guess we are where we are going to be with this thing. I hope to be able to see you in these places when I visit, keep an eye on This Week, In Recruiting, I will report schedule more easily there.

DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you’re in those places, let me know what I should see.

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

Did you enjoy this issue? Yes No

Hung Lee @hunglee

It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead

In order to unsubscribe, click here.

If you were forwarded this newsletter and you like it, you can subscribe here.

Created with Revue by Twitter.

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #279

Older messages

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #278

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #277

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #276

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #275

Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #274

You Might Also Like

‘We found the thing that gives us joy’: Microchild on the microverse, music, and shared language

🦅 Reminder: Masterclass with Jesse Pujji

[Webinar tomorrow] Canadian? How to Grow Your Amazon FBA Business as a Canuck

The state of ad serving for brands and agencies

♟️ OpenAI's smart chess move!

March Madness is here: Tap into the hype with these marketing plays

ET: March 11th 2025

If SEO is dead…

Niche = $$$

The Founder Institute targets first VC fund