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July 23 · Issue #41 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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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 subscribers
Charu 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!
Can you help?
Share this link: recruitingbrainfood.com on a LinkedIn status update and recommend to your network to subscribe. Thank you! Hung Hung Lee is the founder of WorkShape.io - the revolutionary recruiting platform for Software engineers
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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
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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
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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]
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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
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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(?)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 progress
CULTURE
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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
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HR Administrator, Deliveroo, London, United Kingdom Tech Recruiter, GlobalWebIndex, London, United Kingdom Talent Acquisition Specialist, King, San Francisco, United States Senior HR Associate, Wayfair, Berlin, Germany Talent Manager, Founders Factory, London, United Kingdom Recruitment Lead, Schibsted, London, United Kingdom Technical Recruiter, Beamery, London, United Kingdom Technical Recruiter, YouViewTV, London, United Kingdom Poki, Recruiter, Amsterdam, Netherlands HR Administration Manager, Babbel, Berlin, Germany Junior Recruiter, GetYourGuide, Berlin, Germany Senior Technical Recruiter, GetYourGuide, Berlin, Germany If 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.
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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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