Jan 14, 2018

On Hiring - it's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead - Issue #66

Hung Lee

iCIMS buys TextRecruit, Mark Zuckerberg tweaks the newsfeed algorithm and LinkedIn seeming goes crazy on a profile banning spree - it’s been a busy week in the talent industry!Good thing recruiting brainfood is here to restore order. This week, we’re talking the pointlessness of meetings, 7 stages of grief over being banned on LinkedIn, yet another great list of HR events to attend, an archive of every chrome extension ever, some intriguing primary research from TalentWorks and the last predictions post for 2018. Enjoy your brainfood folks!Special thanks this week goes to:James Peters, Stephen O'Donnell, Mark Oliver, Manjuri Sinha, David Green, Tris Revill, Robert Reed, Adriaan van de Heijden, Adam Bolton, Barbara Franca, Robin Schooling, Catarina Almeida, Pedro Oliveira, Nicolas Sulliva, Lee Hayes and Ellen Steele Kapoor for your very public support of this newsletter. It’s massively appreciated and really does help us grow - thank you!

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Hung

Hung Lee is the founder of WorkShape.io - the revolutionary recruiting platform for Software engineers

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The Brainfood

75+ Conferences On People Analytics To Attend In 2018

David Green is perhaps the leading commentator / analyst in the People Analytics space. If you’re interested in this topic, you need to check out this events schedule he’s put together - it’s great. Combine this with Recruiting Brainfood Big List of Events and I think we’ve got the event schedule covered for 2018. RESOURCE

www.linkedin.com

LinkedOut: The 7 Stages Of Grieving

Last week it seemed a lot of prolific and prominent users of LinkedIn had their accounts restricted or blocked, for reasons unknown. Brainfooder favourite Kasia Borowicz was among them - her story here tells us a great deal about power in relationships, and how tough it is to be the weaker party. Story continues here and here (PS: Kasia got her account back following a minor public outcry)NETWORKING

kmborowicz.com

The Empathy Gap In Tech

“…Every morning when I wake up I feel a heavy sense of trepidation as I contemplate the complex series of social interactions I will have to navigate in order to make it through the day at work….”. Challenging interview on aspergers, gender, tribalism, politics and the true meaning of safe places in tech.D&I

quillette.com

1-2-1 Meetings Are Underrated, Whereas Group Meetings Waste Time

Jeff Bezos famously has the ‘two pizza rule’ where no meeting should ever be large enough that 2 pizza’s can’t feed the entire room. Laurence Krubner goes further - anything beyond a one to one is a complete waste of time. He makes a persuasive argument in this excoriating post. CULTURE

www.smashcompany.com

Companies Are Using Facebook To Exclude Older Workers

“It’s blatantly unlawful,” says one employment law expert in this post from Propublica. Where then does that leave recruitment, perhaps an inherently discriminatory exercise? Goes to heart of ‘persona marketing’ and the application of general heuristics to individual cases. D&I

www.propublica.org

AnswerThePublic

Exceedingly clever tool for content marketers: find out what your customers care about by getting a free report of what they’re searching for in Google. And then write a blog post about that. Recruiters interested in in-bound / talent attraction techniques, take note. RECRUITMENT MARKETING

answerthepublic.com

The 8 Skills Salespeople Will Need To Be Successful in 2018

Excellent checklist post from Aja Frost - especially points 2, 4 and 5. Relevant to everyone reading this newsletter, whether your sales pitch is to candidates, clients or internal stakeholders - we’ve got new ways to engage and we’ve got to get better at them.ENGAGEMENT

blog.hubspot.com

Chrome Extensions Archive

100,000+ chrome extensions you can download and use, ordered according to installation popularity. It will take forever to dig through, but there’s gold in this archive for someone with unusual curiosity or patience. COOL TOOL

crx.dam.io

The Science Of The Job Search

Extremely interesting research from TalentWorks, a candidate side job application optimisation service. Timing, terminology and identity seem to be the key factors in boosting your job search. Bad news for the over 35’s also - 8% drop in hire-ability, YoY. RESEARCH

talent.works

Employee Incentives In A Tokenized World

The creation of a new asset class is perhaps an unexpected outcome of the mainstreaming of blockchain. ICO’s though, make more sense than stock options though, as Nick Neuman explains in this excellent overview of the tokenized economy. BLOCKCHAIN

tokeneconomy.co

Social & Digital Predictions For 2018

This is the last forecast post I’m going to highlight, as we’re already into week 3 and it’s now kind of cheating. This one may be interesting for us, coming as it does from outside the recruiting industry. Gary Andrews takes on text only, video, GDPR, fake news, augmented reality, blockchain and influencer metrics. He does an excellent job. ENGAGEMENT

medium.com

What's On?

Landing Festival - Future. Tech. Careers.

Last call for this event on the brainfooder discount folks. If you’re building a team dev in Berlin, you should check this out now - click here for your 15% offBERLIN, 14-15th MARCH

landingfestival.com

Who's Talking?

Ep 116: Workplace By Facebook

Is it fair to say Matt Alder gets the best guests? I think it is. Here here is with Monica Adractas, Global Director of Workplace by Facebook about the changing nature of employee engagementPODCAST

rfpodcast.com

Who's Hiring?

Internal Recruiter, The Mission, Harefield, UKTalent Acquisition Manager, Miller Electric, Appleton, USHead of Talent Acquisition (m/f), HeyJobs, Berlin, GermanySenior HR Manager (f/m), Home24, Berlin, GermanyHR Business Partner (f/m), Home24, Berlin, GermanyHR Administrator (f/m), Home24, Berlin, GermanyPersonal Assistant to Board (f/m), Home24, Berlin, GermanyRecruiter (w/m), Home24, Berlin, GermanyTalent Acquisition Manager (f/m), Home24, Berlin, GermanyWorking Student (w/m) in Recruiting, Home24, Berlin, GermanyBusiness Recruiter, Flexport, San Francisco, USARecruiting Co-ordinator, Flexport, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsRecruiting Co-ordinator, Flexport, New York, USASenior Recruiter, Flexport, Los Angeles, USASenior Talent Programs Associate, Flexport, Hong Kong, ChinaTalent Sourcer, Flexport, Shenzen, ChinaAssociate Recruiter, Flexport, Shenzen, ChinaRecruiting Partner, Flexport, Chicago, USARecruiting Partner, Flexport, Hamburg, USAHead of People (m/f), ResearchGate, Berlin, GermanyTalent Acquisition Manager (m/w), TalentWunder, Berlin, GermanyIf are a brainfood subscriber and want to post your in-house recruiting / people ops / HR jobs in next weeks newsletter, please email me at hung@recruitingbrainfood.com with job title and link so people can apply.

End notes

I’m staying in London this week, so if you want talk tech hiring or the future of the planet, reach out by email (hung@workshape.io) or twitter @HungLee.

Have a great week everybody!

Hung

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