Recruiting Brainfood

By Hung Lee

On Hiring - it's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #41

#41・ Jul 23, 2017

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Hi Everyone, Welcome to Issue No41!It’s all about Google Hire this week - we have app launch, full 1 hour product demo video, commentary from ATS competitors and two excellent opinion pieces from Matt Charney and Joel Cheeseman. We have even have pricing info - which appears to be extremely competitive - so make sure you take a deep dive into the collection here folks. Thanks to OH subscribersCharu Malhotra, John Rose, Sophie Power, Farah Kanji, James Lesner, Willem Wijnans and Iker Jursue for your amazing support last week - it makes a huge difference to see the word getting around in the recruitment community about this weekly digest - thank you!

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Google Hire

Google for Jobs was yesterday’s news. We now we need return to pay attention to Google’s other major product in the recruiting world - Google Hire. An ATS / scheduler / messenger tool, integrated with Gmail / GSuite. Direct link to the app above (available only in the US); please also check out Matt Charney’s op-ed and Joel Cheeseman’s collection of quotes from the rest of the ATS market NEWS

hire.google.com

Google Hire Product Demo

Bogomil Balkansky is the VP at Google in charge of building Google Hire. Here he is giving a 1 hour product demo, showcasing features, usage and pricing. Check it out folks. VIDEO

www.youtube.com

Shift: The Commission on Work, Workers & Technology 2017

A work futurology report that is worth reading. Sober and accessible review of the trends and theories which will shape the coming world of work. This is a must read folks. H/T the inestimable John Sumser for the share. REPORT [DOWNLOAD]

www.dropbox.com

Build a Team, Do the Job, Say Goodbye

Is the end of the company nigh? Flash organisations are on-demand teams assembled for single purpose then disbanded when no longer needed. This, of course, requires gig workers, something governments need to understand, not legislate against FUTURE OF WORK

www.nytimes.com

Indeed has auto-interview questions on apply

Intriguing new feature from Indeed - the insertion of asynchronous phone screening questions on job ads. No doubt a value-added option to be sold to original job posters. Responses can’t be easily consumed though, which makes this a good business / bad recruiting idea. COOL TOOL(?)

interviewpool.indeed.com

Find out the gender pay gap for your job

Governments have the data, but need to do a much better of job of making it accessible to the public. Something like this from Office of National Statistics is along the right lines - gender pay disparity interactive. Thanks to OH subscriber Tris Revill for the share. COOL TOOL

visual.ons.gov.uk

Google for Jobs - How to get your Jobs Listed

And here’s yesterday’s news, which you still probably need to read. especially if you run jobs on your employer page or otherwise want your jobs listings correctly indexed by Google for Jobs. Check out the technical guidelines on data structure here or forward to your engineering team and get them to do it. JOBS ADVERTISING

developers.google.com

When and Why To Start a People Team

Culture is more than just words, but the words do matter. Some great insight from Buffer on the how’s and why’s to set up a People Ops team, care of Buffer’s Inclusivity Catalyst Courtney SeiterCULTURE

open.buffer.com

LinkedIn InMails That Get Highest Response Rates

InMails aren’t emails, though some of the content concepts are undoubtedly the same. Good post here from Linkedin’s own Neha Mandhani on how to improve the all important open rate. ENGAGEMENT

www.fastcompany.com

Data Science Workflow: Overview and Challenges

An oldie but a goodie. Philip Cuo puts numbers into pictures and makes it easy for us to understand a Data Scientists workflow. Worth a look folks, we’re hiring for these skills sooner or later. RESOURCE

cacm.acm.org

Bullshit detection for non-technical managers

Can’t agree with every point Mike Acton makes here, but full credit for understanding the value of challenging tech jargon. Obsfucation is often used to mask a lack of knowledge or thinking. This guide is useful for tech recruiters, as well as non-tech managers.TECH ASSESSMENT

itsyourturnblog.com

Republican Party wins when robots take your job

Interesting trends analysis by Ilia Blinderman, who correlates jobs at risk of automation, white / non-white ethnic status and political sentiment. Superbly presented, with the insight and conclusions left for the reader to decide. TECH UNEMPLOYMENT

pudding.cool

Why Your Company Culture Should Match Your Brand

“How you operate is linked to how you’re perceived: says Denise Lee Yohn. We need more of this thinking, though I think we have succeeded in retiring nerf gun / foosball tables from the debate, which is progressCULTURE

hbr.org

The Top Programming Languages 2017

Ranking the popularity of programming languages. Interesting to see the persistence of older languages like FORTRAN in the top 50. Worth a play around, check methodology also. COOL TOOL

spectrum.ieee.org

Who's Hiring?

HR Administrator, Deliveroo, London, United KingdomTech Recruiter, GlobalWebIndex, London, United KingdomTalent Acquisition Specialist, King, San Francisco, United StatesSenior HR Associate, Wayfair, Berlin, GermanyTalent Manager, Founders Factory, London, United KingdomRecruitment Lead, Schibsted, London, United KingdomTechnical Recruiter, Beamery, London, United KingdomTechnical Recruiter, YouViewTV, London, United KingdomPoki, Recruiter, Amsterdam, NetherlandsHR Administration Manager, Babbel, Berlin, GermanyJunior Recruiter, GetYourGuide, Berlin, GermanySenior Technical Recruiter, GetYourGuide, Berlin, GermanyIf are an On Hiring subscriber and want to post your recruiting / people ops / HR jobs in next weeks newsletter, please email me at hung@workshape.io with job title and link so people can apply.

End Notes

I’m in London for the next week, so if you want to talk tech hiring or the future of the planet catch up me there. Otherwise, ping me on Twitter @HungLee or email hung@workshape.io

Enjoy the week everybody!

Hung

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