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This Week, In Recruiting - Issue 30

Hung Lee

More signal, less noise, with Recruiting Brainfood

发布日期: 2021年10月11日

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Open Kitchen: What Do Recruiters Want?

It's occurred to me that we've never seriously asked this question.

When we talk about talent attraction, job design ("good work"), employer branding there are certain groups of people we have in mind. Software engineers, data scientists, A+ University graduates. But Recruiters? Our employers seem to have never cared overly much. Recruiters are dime a dozen, hire whenever you wanna because there's loads of us out there. Until there isn't .

It's about time we changed this, so I'm announcing the next 'brainfood brainwave' - probably the last project of the year - an industry wide survey on the motivations of new recruiters when they consider new work opportunities. I'm hoping that this will help employers better answer the question 'what makes a good job for recruiters? And provide some implications on how employers can make their organisations more attractive to the highly skilled, in-demand - which is what we are now.

As ever with Open Kitchen, this is a premature announcement so I'm going to need your help in survey design. Have a look at the following and let me know what you would add or take away....

1. Who should complete the survey?

I'm thinking the folks we would like to complete this survey should be those whose primary function - or whose job is in a company or department whose primary function - is to support the hiring of people to organisations.

We want to collect information from both third party recruiters and in-house recruiters, as well folks who are working in RPO or embedded recruiting teams. Also, there is an increasingly number of solopreneur recruiters amongst us who often float across these boundaries as they take on different roles - they also belong here and should do the survey.

Note: this includes people whose individual job role may not be directly hiring, but nevertheless work in a recruiting function - i/e recruitment operations, talent analytics, employer branding leads, candidate experience managers etc, as well as people who have now become manager / leader types who no longer operate as individual contributor.

2. What demographic information should we to collect in the survey?

I want to collect (and anonymise) demographic data from respondents - ethnicity, gender identity, nationality, age - because I hope the size of the dataset might be large enough for us to be able to identify potentially important patterns or trends in how our community thinks about job opportunities. It might also be generally useful for us to have an idea as to make up of our industry, given that we have responsibility for diversity & inclusion in our work.

However, what taxonomy do we use to collect this information? Free text input is optimal for the respondent, but a nightmare for the collector, but there are problems with every classification system I have seen. Do we go with the UK ONS classification above - or does anyone else have some other options we can consider?

3. What specific questions do you want answered in this survey?

The objective is the better understand how the community thinks about new job opportunities - what is it about a role or organisation which makes recruiters decide to take the zoom call rather than ignore. Do you have any questions which would be good to ask here? - if you do have any ideas, please add them comment below in this thread - and I'll integrate them into the survey.

What & When

I want to complete the survey design by end of the week at the latest, so I can give you all a preview and then start collecting the data asap. I've got 25,000 subs on Recruiting Brainfood, 16,000 on This Week, In Recruiting, 30,000 (mainly recruiter connections) in LinkedIn, so between all of this audience, I am hoping we will be able to collect some valuable data which will better inform employers on how to recruit recruiters. By extension, this should mean that smart employers will start shaping recruiter jobs which are more suited to the type of work we want.

Sound like a good idea? I think so

Anyways, out of the kitchen, onto the lounge ??

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What's in the News?

REC Report on Jobs - September 2021

The Recruitment & Employment Confederation jobs report is a monthly pulse survey of UK recruitment agencies - turning into an essential resource for better understanding how the economy is tracking. Placement rate declining despite record vacancy level, attributed to candidate shortage, which in turn is triggering record starting salaries as employers try and respond. Summary report here

Ireland signs up to global corporate tax deal

Complaints that big tech are 'dodging taxes's were always on weak ground when governments actively competed to attract those big tech firms by offering the lowest corporation tax rates. Pushed by the Biden presidency, 130 OECD countries - with Ireland one of the last holdouts - now agree the global tax minimum of 15%. Interesting to see what impact tax harmonisation + distribution of tech workforce via WFH will do - we should see further reversal of metropolitan agglomeration?

Brighthire raise $20.5 million Series B, just a few months after raising $12.5 million Series A round.

Interview intelligence or analytics is really a category to be excited about. No more 'replace the recruiter' nonsense, this is about using technology to improve the recruiter. Honoured to have Brighthire as one brainfood's sponsors, this year and next. Read the PR from Ben and Teddy here

iCIMS - another brainfood sponsor - announce Opportunity Marketplace , a new talent cloud product to unlock customers internal mobility programmes.

There can't be an enterprise ATS which is not building a significant internal mobility solution. Pretty soon we are going to need to a new term to describe these technology - 'applicant tracking' is already obsolete. Josh Bersin is an evangelist for this trend and been tracking / advocating for these developments harder than most. Here is his verdict

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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If you are a recruitment provider and want to be featured in next week's issue, make an offer to the community and?comment below?with the link and offer details. Don't forget to @ mention me so that I see it

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What's Going On?

H.U.G - HR Happening, Oct 12th, 6.30pm , 27 Poultry, 27 Poultry, London EC2R 8AJ

Multi-location, multi-language, multi-mode (virtual + in person) H.U.G promises to be the largest vendor hosted HR event in Europe this year. London folks - come for the in-person but in The Ned on Poultry. I'll be there, though not sure whether that will be an incentive or deterrent for you ??. This is free to attend BUT limited seats so you need to request an invitation, here

Founder's Focus - Ep11 - Up close & personal with Euan Cameron & Andrew Wood, Co-founders, Willo , Oct 13th, 12.00pm BST

Loads of cool recruiting technology emerging lately, plenty of it coming from the UK. Excited to chat with Euan Cameron and Andrew Wood , Co-founders of video interview tech startup, Willo . What is the state of video interview tech, by now a mature category in recruitment technology? What is the future of the interview? And who are these two guys, coming out of nowhere to launch a rectech startup? All this and more in Ep11 of Founder's Focus - register here

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep129 - Where does 'culture' fit in today's hiring process? , Oct 15, 2.00pm BST

Remember when 'Hiring for Culture' was the best thing you could do? It didn't last more than a few years before the argument for diversity more or less killed off the idea. And yet anyone who has ever worked in a team has got to know that there are some teams which together well and others which don't! Can we rescue the nebulous concept of culture? And where does it fit - if at all - in today's recruiting process. Deep thinking topic for this week's Brainfood Live so we're with Nims Dhawan , Organisation Design (UK Ministry of Defence), Stanislaw Wasowicz , Regional Director Alliances (SmartRecruiters), Nico Blier-Silvestre , CEO (Platypus) and other high IQ friends. Join us - register here !

Future Works Tech Conference , Oct 15-16, Lisbon + Online

Landing have for some years been holding one of the best tech career fair / tech conferences in Europe. Outstanding opportunity for tech companies to learn from each other on how to hire the highly skilled, on-demand and also a great chance for engineers to get a feel for what is happening in the market and what employers are doing to better get their attention. 2 day event, online and in-person. Register here

SourceCon Digital , Oct 19-21, Online

Is it the premier sourcing focused event in our industry? It definitely is as far as North American audience is concerned. Wonderful line up of some of the most talented people at the coal face of active sourcing - expect innovative techniques, inspiring case studies and cool new tools. You got to pay though - get your ticket 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 @ mention me so that I see it

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Who's Hiring?

New roles from the likes of Hedvig , DIGIC and Relayr - check them out here

If you're hiring for Recruiter, HR, RPO, RecTech roles - post them here . If you're keen to be updated on what is going on in the recruiter job market, configure your preferences and subscribe to the board here .

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Who's Moving?

Philip Morrissey ?joins Getir has Global Head of Talent Acquisition after nearly 2 years with Uber as Head of Talent Acquisition - EMEA. Certain companies make unique impact and subsequently provide unique experience which smart folks convert into opportunity. Congratulations Philip - look forward to seeing what you get up to with this next unicorn.

Leah Daniels joins JobSynch as Chief Commercial Officer, having previously held leadership roles with Bulhorn, Monster and Appcast. Big signing for CEO Alex Murphy!

Liwei Zhao keeps moving on up - promoted to Head of People at OptioPay. Not sure when I first connected with Liwei - maybe when she was first with the company as HR Manager, so always a pleasure to see this type of career progression!

Amrit Mann joins Tesco as Tech Recruiter, focusing on tech infrastructure hiring, after 2 years with Six Degrees Group. Lots of interesting organisational development going on in food retail - this is an exciting recruiting market to be in.

Lauren Vaughn joins HubSpot as Senior Recruiting Operations after 4 years with Dropbox. RecOps is a thing folks and smart companies, especially ones with a focus on optimisation are leading with the way with this function.

Kasia Michalak gets a promotion to Senior Business Development Manager at Bee Talents, the No1 tech recruiting agency in Poland. Great to see another long time contact continue to progress her career. Congratulations Kasia, we probably need a catch up at some point?

Tina Escobar Taft joins PeopleScout as Senior Recruiter. Another brainfooder joining PeopleScout! Seems like a a great home for folks who care about the recruiting being 'more than a job'. Good luck Tina and keep in touch

Finally, the legend that is Geoff Webb is going the other way - leaving PeopleScout to joins Organon as Talent Branding and Technology Specialist. Geoff was one of the first to really pioneer the idea of community in recruiting and his early impact on me has made a ton of difference to the what I'm doing now.

Congratulations and good luck, to all the above mentioned!

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?

Nothing much it seems - let me know what's up!

Any personal projects, initiatives, charity fundraising, cool stuff you are doing outside of recruitment, this is the space where we can share your stuff to the wider audience, so comment below if you want to be included for next week.

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

OK that's it.

Got to say, I'm quite excited by this survey, yet also quite intimidated also; it's important to get right as you don't get a do-over. Remember, if you have any questions you want to go into the survey, comment below with the full question and I'll integrate.