Recruiting Brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #285

Hung Lee

Brainfood Jobs: new roles from Causal, Masabi, Singular Talent, Solutions Driven and many more. Check out the full list here. Hiring for recruiter / TA / HR? Post jobs here

Brainfood Live, Ep149: How to Build Social Capital in a Remote First World

Been thinking about this one for a while - are our personal & professional networks shrinking due to WFH? And if so, what remote techniques do we have which can compensate in some way? Critically important one for all of us I think, we’re on Friday 1st April, 2pm GMT - register here

Special thanks this week to: Kevin Green, John Bersentes, Oonagh Clarke, Dave Hazlehurst, Colin Donnery, Dorothy Dalton, Joey NK Koksal, Clair Mohamed, Yulia Barre, Christian Madsen, Eugène van den Hemel, Ross Clennett, Alison Birch, Tomas Kalina, Laura Murphy, Elizabeth Murphy, Hannah Morgan, Matthias Schmeißer, Oliver Perry, Mary Kay Baldino, Paul Church, Andreea Lungulescu, Juliette Rouquet, David Green and Jat Bansal - your support for all things brainfood earns you points in the Brainfood Hall of Fame😉! Thank you.

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Cheers!

Hung

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The Brainfood

How To Use LinkedIn Events For Lead Generation

Here’s a clever way to think about candidate / lead generation. LinkedIn events will inevitably become an increasingly prominent player in the event management scene and they naturally pre-select for interest. So, can attending as a guest give you a chance to find some new candidates or leads? Pretty much - yes!

SOURCING

skylead.io

Dear Recruiters, Don't Ghost Me

The internet does not lack for blog posts of candidates complaining about recruiters, but few are as philosophical as this. OP has a great candidate experience….but ends up thinking that the recruiter relationship meant something other rather than transaction that was it….one for the ethicists of CX - are we unintentionally misleading candidates by adopting friendship patterns of communication? It’s definitely brainfood.

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

idiallo.com

Thousands of Icebreaker Questions for Agile Team Building

Thought this was a super cool tool - a simple question generator which enables conversations to start in interesting and unconventional places. Useful I think for team building but why not also for interviewing candidates? Have a play, let me know what you think (and what question you got one first go ;-)

ENGAGEMENT

icebreaker.goretro.ai

EU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech giants

‘The Digital Markets Act puts an end to the ever-increasing dominance of Big Tech companies,’ says lead MEP.

Also looks like aggregating social profile data will become unlawful. Given that ‘sourcing’ as a discipline really emerged through the mining of unstructured data voluntarily publicised by users, this EU ruling has huge ramifications for how a lot of candidate sourcing work can be done. Summary post here, HN have some illuminating discussions here. Full text here

SOURCING

www.politico.eu

Key Decisions About the Future of WFH

Pretty much the best slide deck on the decisions facing employers right now about working mode. Perfect level of information density + concision. You are going to need to download this. H/T to brainfooder Colin Donnery for the share in the fb group

REMOTE WORKING

www.dropbox.com

Common Performance Review Biases: How to Spot and Counter Them

‘Consistently excellent’ is hard to do but Gergely Orosz is doing it week in, week out with these deep dive perspectives on all aspects of tech hiring and management. This one of performance review is typical - must read folks.

ASSESSMENT

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Availability Heuristic

There can never be enough content on cognitive bias - it is not something we can defeat but it is something we need to be conscious of. This beautiful website does a great job on describing some of the most common, more than a few of them directly relevant to us in the recruiting business. H/T brainfooder Simon McSorley for the share in the fb group

ASSESSMENT

thedecisionlab.com

Everything InfoSec / Cyber Security

Anyone here hiring for InfoSec? Unquestionably one of the growth sectors in the global economy as the combination of digitisation of the workplace + rise in geopolitical conflict creates the ideal conditions for the proliferation of cybersecurity risk. Nice aggregator here on all the sources of InfoSec news you could care to know - check it out here.

COOL TOOL

allinfosecnews.com

AI-Synthesized Faces Are Indistinguishable from Real Faces... and More Trustworthy

The first issue - the advancement of AI generated fakes is likely to have all sorts of implications when tied to the second issue - that we seem to prefer certain facial types over others. We’ve criticised phrenology as quackery but we instinctively go back to it nonetheless. Lots to ponder here, how to assess faces we subconsciously (and erroneously) trust less?

ASSESSMENT

www.pnas.org

Employees Are Sick of Being Asked to Make Moral Compromises

A new HR term to learn - ‘moral injury’ - something that people suffer when they are pressured to make decisions which contravenes their ethics. Another management dilemma to wrestle with especially as society becomes ethically ever more divergent, important read for those who care about a healthy company culture.

CULTURE

archive.ph

The Global Hiring Handbook

So this was like the ‘how to hire’ project, which in the end managed to only cover 3 countries (if you’re interested, these are Sweden, Czechia and Poland). It’s much better than my effort though, as it covers many more countries on stuff you need to know if you’re hiring there - statutory holidays, visa requirements, unique laws etc, beautifully presented in travel book style. One for the international recruiters amongst us - grab it here. H/T brainfooder Ivan Harrison for the share

EMPLOYER BRANDING

www.dropbox.com

AI is Not Coming for Analyst Jobs Anytime Soon

Optimistic (or it is pessimistic?) take on the threat AI presents to data analysis work. Particularly good in outlining the places where AI currently fails and why. Excellent, accessible resource for recruiters + HR people to learn about artificial intelligence in a digestible way.

AI

prakasha.substack.com

Bitter Recruiters, Hire Miserable Employees!

Do we care enough about recruiter experience? Trust brainfooder Tim Sackett to constantly come up with smart, unconventional questions, which usually make a serious point. Miserable recruiters, will generate poor candidate experience and make poor recommendations. Something to monitor folks, as our recruiters are overstretched and over stressed.

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

timsackett.com

What Makes Developers Happy at Work

Speaking about happiness, here is a short post from Stack Overflow on what makes developers happy at work. You will not be surprised it is basically what makes most people happy at work - autonomy, not too much work, good team mates. Question is, how to engineer this?

CULTURE

stackoverflow.blog

A Two-Year, 50-Million-Person Experiment in Changing How We Work

“Studies of 10,000 office workers conducted last year by Future Forum, a research group backed by Slack, suggest that women and people of color were more likely to see working remotely as beneficial than their white male colleagues”

Was the office always optimised for a certain type of worker? You know it was. Nice read, some ammo for those who want to resist to return to the office.

REMOTE WORKING

archive.ph

Digital Kinship: How the Internet Is Reacting to the Loneliness Epidemic

This post is now one year old but I’ve only just come across it now and found it as fresh and relevant as if it were published yesterday. Particularly like the intriguing idea that the economy is becoming communal - perhaps it was ever thus, and the individual gratification era was always a poor substitute for human connection?

SOCIETY

digitalnative.substack.com

Stripe: Equity for Employees

Internal guide for Stripe employees, which is open to the public. Useful for anyone working in a business in which equity is part of the comp, especially those in startup. It’s also pretty good EB.

EMPLOYER BRANDING

stripe.com

Who's Talking?

Success Metrics for Planning and Execution

Marcus Edwardes - the most melodious voice in recruitment - on mindset and methodology around metrics and KPIs. It’s a monologue - the toughest type of podcast to do - and Marcus executes it superbly well. Have a listen here

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS

open.spotify.com

Ignoring Blind Candidates

The world - especially the online world - is built for the perfectly sighted. Even our design choices are often uninformed by accessibility concerns for those with less than perfect vision. Important chat from Chad and Cheese, with accessibility expert Matt Stubbs.

D&I

www.chadcheese.com

When Does a Dress Code become Sexist?

Pretty much all the time I suspect. Focusing on leisure / entertainment industries but I suspect the lessons might well apply to other spaces where dress code applies. Has Covid finished this anachronism for good? An interesting listen, for sure.

D&I

www.bbc.co.uk

End notes

I’m off to Crewe later this evening to join the good folks at Join Talent on Monday, then back down to London for few more days before going Australia to visit the brainfooders Down Under. I’ll be there for around 3 weeks, so if you’re in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane, make yourself known.

DM me on twitter or Instagram or TikTok if you got any ideas on what I should be doing down there…

Have a great week everybody.

Hung

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