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SPONSORS

Natasha Ouslis is an organisational psychologist who has summarised the findings of a 2016 research paper on the efficacy of various types of job assessment. Turns out, we need to look mainly for GMA - General Mental Ability, ahead of work experience, job knowledge, peer ratings, reference checks or interviews. 
ASSESSMENT

Superb analysis of the hiring drought at CTO level by my buddy and long time brainfooder, Dmitri Grabov. Compensation disparity, set in part by internal politics in permanent hires plus lack of commitment in developing younger talent, creates the drought.
CULTURE

Jonathan Kidder is one of our favourites in brainfood - he consistently produces top quality content with ready-to-use sourcing tips like this. Supercharge your efficiency with IFTTT. Read this, and follow him. 
SOURCING

Turns out the Big Five Personality Test - one of the world’s most widely accepted - spits out different scores according to your gender. It’s a sort of scandal, until you realise the scoring is based in gender aggregates. As ever, presentation of the report is a problem. Could be solved with a website that users can segment on their own.
D&I

Superb visualisation from our buddies at FlowingData. Based on the American Time Use Survey in 2014, toggle this tool to ‘fast’ mode and watch those bubbles fly. There’s probably some sort of ‘optimal time for outreaching to candidates’ angle here, but really, just enjoy it.
COOL TOOL

There’s a kind of evolutionary arms race going on between developers vs tech recruiters. Here’s a cool resource from the developer side by Yang Shun - an interview handbook for front-end interviewing. Useful for tech recruiters also
ASSESSMENT

Fascinating breakdown of documentary maker Louis Theroux’s unique interviewing style. How exactly does he get neo Nazi’s to open up to him, on-the-record? Recruiting tips, from the unusual places in this entertaining and educational fan video.
INTERVIEWING

Still urging your kids to learn to code? You might be prepping them for a career that might soon no longer exist. Bubble is a point-and-click, drag and drop app builder, entirely without code. Code connoisseurs are going to scoff, but the future is pretty clear
COOL TOOL

Ageing population, rise of robots and the loss of jobs, will lead to ‘the Great Transformation’ says this report from Bain & Company. It’s way too long to read through properly, but worth browsing through for the charts and main argument; it’s going to get crazy
FUTURE OF WORK

$5,000 and you can leave - counter intuitive nudging from the company which may know it’s workers better than any other. Fascinating post on how this strategy may actually be a way to keep staff for longer. 
CULTURE

…the key to which, is actually to get rid of the company as the unit of organising labour. We’re getting close to being able to say this secular heresy, as brainfooder Andrew Spence outlines 4 ways in which blockchain might align with our moral imperative for good work. 
BLOCKCHAIN

Amazing list on Wikipedia of the oldest companies in the world. The Japanese got into the hotel business early, whilst no one can be surprised that Ireland’s first business was a pub - Sean’s Bar - which is apparently still running. 
OBSCURA

Fascinating interview with Matthew Walker on the impact of sleep deprivation and why we desperately need a sleep revolution. 
PODCAST

Early bird pricing on for this fantastic looking event put on by Barcelona Recruitment People. Organised by recruiters, for recruiters, this is a not-for-profit conference featuring some top class speaker line up if you’re into technical sourcing. €199.99 for a two day pass - ridiculously good pricing - click here and grab one before they go. And..did I mention it’s in Barcelona?
May 31st - Jun 1st, Media TIC, Carrer de Roc Boronat, 117, 08018 Barcelona

1200 in-house recruiters / HR / People Ops folks in a multi-stage, open air event - it can only be RecFest 2018! This event is one of THE highlights of conference calendar. Early bird pricing is now on - I strongly recommend you get your tickets now. Click here and grab one before they go. NB: promo code “BRAINFOOD” for an additional discount. 
5 July 2018, Hawker House, Canada St, London SE16 7PJ