This Week, In Recruiting - Issue 102

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Open Kitchen:?Big Lists, Being Banned on LinkedIn

There's three things on my mind right now and I think I'm not able to choose between them in terms of what to talk about more, so I'm going to go with the first two and leave the third to next week.

Some good news really, and some bad news I think, so here we go ??

1. Big List of Places to Post Jobs (Global)

There's tons of Big Lists and I'm afraid to say that I have rather neglected most of them apart from the Big List of Events everyone should attend. Folks have been complaining, so I am reviving at least one of these - the Big List of Places to Post Jobs (Global). This has especially become pertinent given that we are now casting a global net for talent, whether that is remote or relocation or whether we make the move of shifting the location of jobs to different parts of the globe.

This is a crowdsourced spreadsheet, so some of the data will need validating, if you find any outdated websites on here, please do let me know I will clean it up. If you have or manage a job board or place to post jobs and this spreadsheet doesn't have it here, please add to the bottom of the spreadsheet and I will merge it in. Going forward, I think I will promote this list in this newsletter on a weekly basis and hopefully give more visibility to those boards which are on there. Hope this helps everybody!

2. Being Banned (on LinkedIn)

Part of the reason why I operate so inefficiently is because I prioritise resiliency.

Basically, I'm on loads of different channels because I don't want to be overly dependent on any one place which can summarily boot me off, disconnect me from the community and potentially end any business I'm doing. So far, I've not ran into any problems but the longer I'm around the social web, the more I realise that it might just be a matter of time.

De-platforming is a form of digital exile and it is a very serious sanction; in the old days, exile from community meant a de facto death sentence, as the condemned was denied protection of the group and themselves ejected from the community safe space into a hostile world where survival alone was slim. To deserve such an sentence, the crime committed must be egregious, and so far beyond any form of restitution for it to be merited.

Hence I was so disappointed to learn that one of the great contributors on this platform has recently been permanently banned from the platform, whilst another has her account temporarily suspended with a warning that a permanent ban is coming if future transgressions occur. Yet another claims that his suspension was simply unannounced and to which he claims to have no case to answer.

Where are we with this?

I think we can all agree that certain actions are beyond the pale - hostility, aggression, threats - no go on here or anywhere else. But we need to be careful not to create such a safe space that we end up muffling the engagements that are sometimes necessary to be had. Do we all just end up like characterless clones, churning out have-a-nice-day happy talk? We can all blame the platform. but we users have also got to accept some responsibility also. Of course we all deserve safe spaces, but we all also have to be prepared to experience edgier conversations, otherwise we turn every engagement into robot speak, the humanity drained out of it for fear of the mighty ban hammer.

Anyways, I'm kind of annoyed at the injustice of some of these bans (we all know of far worse users on LinkedIn!) and will be looking learn more about these individual cases and see what can be done to reverse it, if that is the right course of action to take. If anyone knows how best to go about reversing a ban, let me know

Out of the kitchen, onto the lounge ??

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What's in the News?

Plum raise $6 Million

Application of talent assessment technology from talent acquisition and external hiring to talent development and internal mobility, is one of the most important trends happening in the world of work today. I'm surprised more assessment platforms are not jumping on this trend. George Larocque as ever with the scoop.

LinkedIn Creator Tools

Loads of interesting things happening in the creator space on LinkedIn. I've endorsing the idea that all use should fire up newsletters on here and I'm glad a few of you have taken to it. Go where the platform is pushing you folks - they want to compete with SubStack and will invest in making your newsletter work. Check the new features here

If you are a recruitment service provider or technology business and have any news to share,?comment below,?this is your application to get into next week's addition of This Week, In Recruiting. Make sure to @ mention me so that I see it

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What's On Offer?

Vendors ask me to promote their stuff all the time. All I can say to you is, you can do it for free, but only if you offer the community something on your product. So come folks, this is going to go to 30,000 of your customers....!

If you are a recruitment service provider or recruitment technology vendor have any exclusive offer for the community, comment below with your offer in order to be included in next week's edition of This Week, In Recruiting. Make sure to mention me so that I see it.

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What's Going On?

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep195 - Recruiter Use Cases for ChatGPT, Ethics and Concerns , Friday 3rd March, 2pm GMT

I think all of us have had a go at ChatGPT by now. The obvious potential for recruiters to accelerate their productivity has meant that our sector has perhaps embraced it with greater enthusiasm than most. However, the contours of controversy are becoming clearer the more we use it - who owns the training data, what happens to trust, what happens to the web, what happens when it eats itself? All these questions can no longer be avoided, so time to strap in and join us for a debate on the ethics of ChatGPT. We're with Irina Shamaeva , Founder (Brain Gain), Matt Burney, VP (Indeed), Mark Deubel , Recruiter (GitLab) & Tony Fish , Lecturer AI & Ethics (London School of Economics). Can't miss this one folks - register here

Recruiters Unite , Thurs 9th March, Lagoon Beach Hotel, Cape Town

So we're about a week away from what looks to be the No1 recruiter event in South Africa this year. It's my singular honour to be tasked with giving the opening keynote and I hope that it will set the scene in the realistic, pragmatic and optimistic way. Look forward to seeing as many of you there as I can. Get a ticket here if you haven't already got one and make sure you come up and say hi on the day!

AI in Candidate Assessment , Thurs 16th March, 5pm GMT

Super excited to be launching this 4 part series with our friends from Metaview - what is the impact of AI on various aspects of recruitment. Co-hosted with Metaview CEO Siadhal Magos , first up we're talking about AI and candidate assessment, with the awesome Matthias Schmei?er , Global Director of Talent Acquisition (Emnify) and effervescent Annie Jackson , Head of Talent Acquisition (Cleo) - register here

If you have an event, webinar or podcast going on next week and want it featured on next week's newsletter,?comment below?with the link and event details. Don't forget to at mention me so that I see it

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Who's Hiring?

Healthcare Recruiter , MSG Staffing, Remote Global

(Senior) HR Manager (f/m/d) , PAIR Finance, Berlin, Germany

Recruitment/Talent Acquisition Coordinator , SYSTEMIQ, London, UK

Level II Recruiter , ADB Companies, Remote USA

HR Executive , Blenheim Chalcot, Cape Town, South Africa.

HR Executive , Blenheim Chalcot, London, UK

Recruitment Executive , Blenheim Chalcot,

Talent Acquisition Advisor Central Europe , Mondelez International, Athens, Greece.

Digital Content Recruiter , Hiire, Remote Global

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Who's Moving?

Kristina Iniguez ?joins SmartThings as Director of Marketing, having previously led the marketing efforts at SHL and Hired. Always a bittersweet moment when great talent leaves the sector but it is probably a good thing that there is more transition between sectors - we're going to learn a lot more other each if we ventured out a little further than our domain now and again. Good luck Kristina!

Monica Ibanez joins Deel as Tech Talent Acquisition Partner, having previously worked in TA at the likes of Personio and Amazon. It's been an almighty tussle in the global payroll space and I wonder whether Deel might be starting to establish a lead in the pack. The winner is genuinely going to be multi-decacorn. Exciting time to be part of the company with the potential like this!

Isabella Cross joins The Economist as Talent Acquisition Manager - Engineering, having previously worked in tech startup / scale ups such as zeroheight, Raylo as well as service providers Kin + Carta and Talentful. Expect more of this type of shift from growth orientation to digital transformation, labour force reallocation going on and mature businesses stand to benefit!

Sergio Gallo joins Pontoon Solutions as Senior Director, Channel Partnerships, having spent the past decade with Recruitics, working his way up from Marketing Coordinator in 2013 to VP Client Services in 2023. Great to see this type of career building can still happen in a single company. And now, time for something new - good luck Sergio ??

Finally, couple of promotions to celebrate - Chad Horne , who goes up to Director, Talent Sourcing EMEA/APJ at ServiceNow and Ondrej Prochazka who goes up to Global Head of Talent Sourcing at Agoda - congratulations both!

If you have made a senior exec appointment to your business,?and feel the wider community needs to know about it,?comment below?with the details and see it featured in next weeks issue.?Don't forget to @ mention me in it so that I see it

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What Are You Doing?

Ilja Mitrofanov has launched HRNuggets - a very useful looking online resource for TA / HR folks. It's a searchable website of crowdsourced 'HR Nuggets' which will help make your work more efficient and effective. Seems like something you should bookmark!

Adam Gordon - who most of you might be familiar with as the regular co-host of Brainfood Live On Air - is conducting focus groups with recruiters, recruitment technology entrepreneurs, recruitment marketing and HR folks. Great opportunity to connect with great thinkers and doers - apply here

If you are doing something new,?comment below?with what it is and share a link to where you want people to go. Don't forget to mention me in it so that I see it

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End Notes

Last day in Hong Kong, flight early tomorrow morning HKT time. Got to say, I have really enjoyed this long period over here. Been pretty chill, mainly staying in village and reconnecting with family after a long period away. Feel good that the 'brainfood rhythm' has not been massively interrupted - helped I think by the fact it has been a chill time.

Back in Blighty tomorrow, then some more traveling on the cards as South Africa next week, followed by events in Amsterdam, Riyadh, Athens maybe, Berlin and more. Need to get back in shape for this!

Hope everyone has a great week ahead

Hung

Hung Lee is the curator of?Recruiting Brainfood , and now This Week In Recruiting. Subscribe to both if you are into recruiting or HR or just interested in world of work.