This Week, In Recruiting - Issue 53

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Open Kitchen:?I'm OverScheduled

Most of you know that I'm about to go on trip to Australia in a couple weeks. I will be for most of April, followed then by traveling to Germany and Spain in May and June respectively. Pre-Covid these would be routine journeys for me to make, but it's clear that in the intervening two years since pandemic, that I have reconfigured my life entirely around the base case of always being at home - and this is now causing problems.

Reflecting on this, I thought it would be fun to share with you what my routine looks like on a day to day basis throughout a normal week, so that you can help spot where the problem lies when traveling starts to happen again ??

Monday - Write Open Kitchen

This essay genuinely is written in-the-moment, on the day. I do think it about it over the weekend, but generally don't write a word until Monday morning. The rationale is so that whatever is written in this segment is a genuine view as to what I'm thinking / doing as close to real time as possible. If you spend too much time over drafting, you will be spending too much time over thinking and likely, end up washing out the nutrients from of your content. All things here are meant to be brainfood after all.

The corollary to this is that there is some pressure, and not a great deal of flexibility. I need to be at home, at desk and focused on Monday AM.

Tuesday - this is new Weekend + CRM stuff

Have you ever ran or worked in a restaurant? If you have you know that Tuesday is usually the day off. It's too early in the week for folks to go out and celebrate anything and it's not Monday, where you have to go and get ready for the rest of the week. Same with Brainfood - Tuesday is the emptiest today in terms of hard commitments and I strive to keep in free so I'm able to do something other than synthesising recruitment. If I have to work extra hours for whatever reason, Tuesday is the day where I'm going to have most flex.

I do however, spend some time on Tuesday doing some CRM type stuff - sending a check up email to the subscribers to subscribed a week ago, a follow up for the folks who signed up a month ago and an introduction to the Brainfood Larder to the folks who signed up 2 months ago etc.

As any newsletter writer or audience builder will tell you, it is important to talk with your community outside of the main channel itself. This is especially if that channel is predominantly a one way street. It is only through this dialogue are you going to get the community feedback you need to improve the offering. Talking to people is also a great way of generating new ideas (who knew), so essential for creativity, new initiatives and to discover early resonance for future problems in industry.

Wednesday - Founder's Focus + Brainfood Live Analytics Mailer

Two things happen on Wednesday - new(ish) show called 'Founder's Focus', where I spend time interviewing recruitment technology founders and leaders on what they have learned on their journey in building a disruptive business in today's market. There's actually a double header this week, as this is one of the shows where I want to flexible to timezone with folks who are likely to be most busy in their work.

Wednesday is also the day when I send the Analytics mailer to the people who registered on last Friday's Brainfood Live. This is a follow up email in which I thank the viewers for attending, share the bio's and links of the guests and share the analytics of the show in an earlier manifestation of the whole 'Open Kitchen' philosophy.

Thursday - Start Building Sunday RBF, Phase 1

I am constantly collating information throughout the week, sourced from being in the centre of where information flows thickest. You can call this is a rabbit-hole, but I prefer the metaphor of a Grizzly Bear in salmon season finding a good spot on a flowing river - not actively doing much, just ready to pounce when a nice fish swims on by. This is the reason why I use Revue as the newsletter builder, as it is optimised for curation not creation.

So I am collecting stuff throughout the week, but I am not deciding what goes into Sunday until Thursday - enough of the week has gone by for topical content to go in, and there will be enough collated so that a newsletter can be built. This is the day where most of the reading will take place, and the vast majority of the pieces will either not make the cut or be returned to queue, usually for reasons of balance across topics. e.g. you don't want to do an entire newsletter on DEIB, you break up the great pieces and spread them out of consecutive weeks.

Friday - Brainfood Live + Post Prod The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast

Friday mornings I basically clean my apartment. I have 11 x aquariums which need minimal maintenance but they does require some, especially if you want to keep them looking aesthetically ok. Once I have done this (takes about 2 hours), you need to clean the apartment, because guess what animals don't cooperate and mess gets everywhere (takes another 1 hour). I'm pretty much at lunch at this point so I'll be prepping that, eating it and then setting things up in order be on air by 2pm.

Broadcast usually takes 1 hour, post production of the audio to convert into The Recruiting Brainfood Podcast takes maybe another 1 hour. At this point, it is end of the week for most people, and so I go and have beer in the bath.

Saturday - Complete Building Sunday RBF, Phase 2

Saturday is a good day because it is basically writing the Sunday newsletter. If I've done Thursday properly, the raw material in the form of 20 or so content pieces will already in there, what I've got to do now is re-read them, make observations and commentary, and link it up to either the authors of the piece or the brainfooders who had shared the piece with me. This shouldn't take that long to do, maybe a couple hours Saturday morning.

I am also beginning the process of building the second half of this newsletter - This Week, In Recruiting. Notice all the community news stuff that happens about Open Kitchen? Its a lot of stuff, and whilst most of it doesn't not require huge cognitive load - I'm basically sharing news, updates, events, jobs etc - it does take some time. So maybe the rest of the afternoon.

Sunday - Send completed RBF + Think about Open Kitchen

RBF goes out 7.30am every Sunday. It's not really 'job done' at this point because guess what? When you send email to tens of thousands of people, you get a fair amount of replies ??. This is welcome and much encouraged as feedback and interaction is critical in informing how the newsletter can improve and what areas of support are needed next. Additionally, there is a lot of community support for the newsletter via sharing it or the articles found in it on social networks online. The least I can do here is recognise and support this amplification. Finally, there is a ton of stuff to do on the technical side of email - monitoring spam reports, removing subscribers who are on redundant emails and so on.

This basically takes it up to lunch and I don't spend too much time rest-of-the-day on anything else bar chill-out. I do try and keep mind clear so I can create space for self reflection on Open Kitchen next day.

What does this mean?

1. Can't really get drunk on weekends. This is not a bad thing, as getting drunk is usually a bad thing, but it does mean that subconsciously I have been reluctant to go out for social interaction at the times when everyone else is doing so. This dissonance has been disguised by pandemic, but since we are now all going about our business, it will become increasingly apparent that I am 'out-of-synch' with everyone else. I have no idea how much of a problem this might or might not be.
2. Interrupts have significant cascade effects. Anything unscheduled can be hugely disruptive to this Monday-to-Monday system. I personally love spontaneity but professionally I hate it because it means hard-to-estimate degree of disruption to the above process. As we've learnt through pandemic induced supply chain logistics, even a small interrupt can have large effects downstream. And there is always the threat of a massive interrupt causing a backlog which gets exponentially worse the longer it stays uncleared.
3. Traveling & In-person events create a dilemma. Do I try and maintain this 'information' supply chain or redesign it to cater for the post pandemic era? Paradoxically, the pandemic / lockdown phase increased predictability (as I was always home, not interacting with people) and capacity (haven't we all claimed to be more productive in WFH?) and hence was able to roll out and maintain this system. However, with the world moving towards in-person meetings again, the above routine is going to be super difficult to maintain.

Rather unwittingly, in the past two years, I have allowed rigidity to replace agility, which, for a one person outfit, is something of an achievement. Anyways, I hope to figure this out in the next couple weeks. You'll probably find out at the same time as I do whether I have managed it or not ??

Out of the kitchen, into the lounge ??

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What's in the News?

Montreal based Talent.com raise $120 MM Series B

"We’re thrilled to have reached this exciting milestone in the life of our company. With this new investment, we look forward to further strengthening our position as a leading global next-generation job search platform by hiring top talent and increasing our investment in product and R&D.” - Co-f0under Maxime Droux

Job matching on a pay-per-click model is pretty much the way it needs to be done for the modern job board play. The aggressive investment is evidence enough that the market has declared the winning model. Need to get myself to Montreal - heard some great things about the place. Read about it here

Madrid based tech marketplace Circular enter the UK market

And are celebrating that entry in the proper way - with a launch party in conjunction with the awesome DBR community. If you're in town in the 7th April, make sure you get yourself down to the Ned for the London Launch Party - free but you got to register.

Meaningful Gigs raises $6 million Seed Round to connect African talent with US employers

Remote working will do more for reduce global inequality than the sum of the all charitable efforts. Are we ready for a world where the global North will suffer a relative reduction of wealth? We had better be. Techcrunch with the article here.

Multiplier raise $60 MM Series B round

Geopolitical risk might be the only force that might disrupt the accelerating globalisation of the workforce. Payroll and compliance are getting out of the way, as VC money pours into single platform providers enable hire-from-anywhere solutions to employers who don't need to have the headache of local compliance. Multiplier in the mix with this raise, read about it 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?

REC are offering 20% off BOTH Recruitment Mastery Academy and REC Management Academy courses

The most important asset to any recruitment business is its people. In an increasingly competitive market – now is the time to develop talent and retain top quality recruitment consultants and managers.??

Our all-new suite of REC Academy training courses, delivered by expert trainers, are designed to help recruitment leaders to nurture talent and deliver success. Sign up to our Academy courses to gain specialist training for your team support with professional development and delivering success.?

There’s 20% discount for REC members and a sliding scale discount for members that enrol more than 1 learner from your organisation on the course.

• REC Recruitment Mastery Academy- 1st March and 1st April
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Sign-ups are being managed by our sales team directly or can be made through the website. rec.uk.com/recacademies

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?

Founders Focus - Ep21 - Up close and personal with Mark Chaffey, CEO hackajob, Wed 23rd March, 12pm GMT

One of the real pleasure of floating about the ecosystem is seeing folks you met ages ago go on to really progress their businesses. Looking forward to catching up with Mark Chaffey this week, in another Founder's Focus double header on Wednesday. What has Mark learned about CEO-ing in that time? Lets find out - register here

Global Mobility, Weds 23 March, 3-4pm CET

Friends from Localyze, Contentful, Forto, Trade Republic, & Diconium on stage to talk about the global mobility in the wake of remote working, de-globalisation, forced migration and the persistent candidate shortage. Time to update our mindset on immigration folks - register here and join the conversation.

Founders Focus - Ep22 - Up close and personal with Ammon Bartram, CEO Triplebyte, Wed 23 March, 10am PDT / 6pm GMT

Second part of our double header this Wednesday, it's Ammon Bartram CEO of Triplebyte. It's fascinating to talk to business leaders who have come from different departments and disciplines to take on the top job. From software engineer with one of the original internet underdog stories, Justin.tv to CEO of one of the top tech sourcing and assessment platforms, this promises to be a fascinating conversation. Register here

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep147 - Data Driven Recruitment: A Brainfood How-to Guide, Friday 25th Mar, 2pm GMT

I suspect 2022 is going to be the year of 'data driven recruitment'. What do we mean by this, why is it good and how do we get there? With the amazing Andrew Gadomski, Managing Director (Aspen Analytics), Yves Greijn, Leadership Hiring (Miro), Chris Brady, North America Talent Acquisition Leader (Sage) & Mary Kay Baldino, Head of Talent Acquisition at R1 RCM. Don't miss this one folks - register here

Getting Employees Comfortable On Camera, Tues 29th March, 11.00am ET

This is the show I want to do! It's Sparcstart CEO Maury Hanigan with director, documentarian, and actor Nat Swyer on how to get comfortable in front of camera. Get expert insight on the small changes you can make that will make all the difference on how you look and sound on screen. Essential viewing folks - register here

SUB1000, 30-31 March, 10am - 4pm both days, Online

Interesting pitch to conference - focusing on organisations of less than 1000 employees. Sometimes the case studies from the name brands don't make sense for the vast majority of employers out there. Some great names in the line up here, so get involved in the learning 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?

Talent Partner, Solutions Driven, Remote Global

Human Resources Business Partner, Brad's Deals, Remote USA

Recruitment / Talent Specialist, TransFICC, London, UK

Recruiter (Contract), JLL, Remote USA

Head of People & Culture (m/f/d), Alasco, Munich, Germany

Talent Acquisition Sourcer - Technology, JLL Technologies, Remote USA

Recruiter, JLL, Dallas, TX, USA

Senior Executive Recruiter, JLL, Remote USA

GTM TA Manager (Remote UK, EMEA or South Africa), Join Talent, Remote Global

GTM Talent Partner (Remote UK, EMEA, South Africa), Join Talent, Remote Global

GTM Talent Search Partner (Remote UK, EMEA, South Africa), Join Talent, Remote Global

Tech TA Manager (Remote UK, EMEA or South Africa), Join Talent, Remote Global

Tech Talent Partner (Remote UK/EMEA/South Africa), Join Talent, Remote Global

Tech Talent Search Partner (Remote UK/EMEA/South Africa), Join Talent, Remote Global

Senior Recruitment Partner - Uswitch & Money.co.uk, RVU, London, UK

Network & Engagement Manager, Join Talent, Remote EU / UK

US Internal Talent Acquisition Partner, Join Talent, Remote Global

Head of Talent Acquisition, HomeToGo, Berlin, Germany

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, HomeToGo, Berlin, Germany

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, Lenus eHealth, New York City, NY/NJ, USA

Talent Acquisition Partner, Lenus eHealth, New York City, NY/NJ, USA

Technology Sales Recruiter, JLL Technologies, Remote USA

Recruitment Manager, JLL Technologies, Remote USA

Senior Recruiter, JLL Technologies, Montreal, Canada

Talent Acquisition Manager, Candyspace, London, UK

Manager - Recruiting Operations, McKinsey & Co, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Startup Talent Sourcer, KANDIDATE, Remote Global

Recruitment Consultant, Horton International, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Senior Business Development Manager, Horton International, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Talent Acquisition Coordinator, Cielo Talent, Manchester, UK

Talent Acquisition Coordinator, Cielo Talent, Budapest, Hungary

Partner - Life Sciences, SE Asia, Horton International, Remote Global

If you want to get your job featured, post jobs on the Brainfood Jobs Job Board?here

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Who's Moving?

Julie Griggs joins NanoSUN has HR Director. Julie brings 20 years experience in HR leadership from sectors as divergent as consultancy, public health, academia, IT and media. And now, into Greentech. Good luck Julie - look forward to seeing your success here!

Dov Zavadskis joins Dept Agency as Talent Sourcer. Great to see one of the good guys back into the sourcing world. Tons of great experience already with employers such as Expedia and adidas. Catch up soon hombre ??

Paul Gulino joins Spotify as Team Lead Talent Acquisition, after spending time in senior IC roles with fellow A-List startups, Electric and DoorDash. One of the great misses of my career was not ever working for a true unicorn - great to see others forge such fantastic careers as the experience compounds.

Zara Mc Brien?joins Zendesk as Technical Talent Partner, after spending time in IC roles with Pandora, Zalando and Accenture.

James Langham joins ASOS.com as Senior Talent Partner after spending time with Three and Cisco Meraki

Koos Wurzer moves up to the top job as Danone, now Global Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding Director, Rebecca Warren moves up to Customer Success Director at eightfold.ai, Nathalie Zebidi?moves up to Manager, Talent Acquisition (Sales & Marketing BeNeNord, France & Southern Europe) with Stryker and Olga Barrett promoted to Senior Manager Talent Acquisition @ EPAM Systems, APAC. Congratulations all!

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?

Kevin Grossman and Adela Schoolderman have a new book out, Candidate Experience. If you know these two you will know that they are two of the foremost experts in the CX field. This book, which I had the pleasure of reviewing, is an outstanding tome on the topic. Kogan Page now, you should have this one for your team.

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

I was very glad to catch some #tru action last week - we've missed this type of 'recruiting unconference', especially in the digital space where peer-to-peer interaction is the core of the experience, rather than watching someone's screen as they present a slide deck.

If I manage to create more space in my diary, I wonder whether you lot would be interested in doing something like this - a regular, virtual meet up, using a tool like remo.co. I was thinking Twitter Spaces too but I am not sure if enough of us are on it there.

Let me know what you think, comment below, let me know

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.