This Week, In Recruiting - Issue 81

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Open Kitchen (We're Back!) - In the Spirit of Making U-Turns...

A month ago, I decided to make a few changes on how I was putting together the elements of this newsletter. Open Kitchen had got too long (I felt), distracted everyone from the rest of the community led content and was at constant risk of crashing out due to LinkedIn's horrendously buggy article composer. Today, I'm rolling it back.

The truth is I've found it really hard to get a decent cadence going on Substack, the then new home for Open Kitchen. In the four weeks since I started, I've only managed to get one essay out - Energy Price Inflation Will Formalise 3-2 Hybrid Work - which I thought was pretty good, but it kind of set a standard which I have been unable to reach since. I've since realised something which I should have known already - the style of writing is different, despite the writer being the same, because the medium will always affect the content . On LinkedIn, I can just freestyle this out in one take, whereas on Substack, I found myself doing deeper research, developing narratives and finding evidence to justify the argument. I think I'm keen to do this style, but I'm also keen to freestyle, so Open Kitchen is moving back to this slot, to fulfil its original purpose, which was to literally share with you what I was thinking, as I was thinking it. The Substack I'm going to keep - and probably rename - and do either one of three things with it:

1. Narratives on Recruitment - my thoughts on what is going on 'out there'. This will basically follow the style set out in the first essay, looking at recruitment phenomena, expounding on a thesis on it and projecting forward what I think might happen, and therefore what we recruiters should be doing about it.
2. Show Notes from Brainfood Live - probably with the assistance of the transcription service + an AI assistant like Jasper.ai. I need to find a way to crystallise the enormous value shared by our panelists into document form which community members can have access to. How great would it be to have the 5 main points on 'Where Are All The Missing Workers concisely noted down as a takeaway?
3. Report Summaries - been doing these on as LinkedIn posts and seemingly each time they have gone viral, last two both going over 100,000+ views each. I'm thinking it might be cool to get all the relevant reports we see published about our industry, crunch them down into 'key insights' and blast it out once-per-week on the Substack. Seems do-able and over the course of a year, we might see 52 reports in one place, maybe a useful resource?

Let me know in comments below folks, which one of these 3 do you think would be most valuable, or indeed which combo of them!

So, thanks for sticking around with me on these experiments. I get as much wrong as I get right, and I hope by showing you all that this is the case, that it can lessen the pressure on all of us in some way.

Anyways, enough of this - out of the kitchen, onto the lounge! ??

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What's in the News?

Prelude Acquired by Calendly

For many recruiters Calendly was already part of the recruitment stack; very glad to see them upgrade by making a rare acquisition - buying up SF startup Prelude. I had the pleasure of speaking with Prelude CEO Will Laufer on Founders Focus earlier this year - have a watch of this if you want to get a flavour as to what Calendly are buying here. Going to be great to see Prelude tech used by a lot more recruiters worldwide. Read about from Prelude side here, and Calendly here

Moberries Launch Affiliate Program

So this is interesting from Germany based Talent Marketplace Moberries. Affiliates can get a unique referral link, and up 50% of the placement fee if the referred candidate gets hired through the Moberries platform. Something to know about how Moberries works is that they provide multiple opportunities for silver medalists so the chances of getting referral hired here is likely to be better than most. No brainer, I'd say, so apply here

VideoMyJob Launches Story Feed

Vendor videos are really hard to get right, especially if the vendor is itself a video tech provider. I think our buddies at VideoMyJob have done an amazing job with theirs - introducing their new Story Feed with this humorous explainer. Actually would be a great clip to send your hiring managers regardless of whether you use any product - tells the story about why you need to tell stories to candidates. Worth 84 seconds of your time.

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?

Equitas are offering temporary FREE use of the interview intelligence platform, for the any user signs up quoting TWIR/Hung Lee on sign up

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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 Baked Fresh - Ep4 - Issue 312 in Review, 3 Oct, 12.30pm

We're back for our regular Monday slot, reviewing Recruiting Brainfood Issue 312. Packed again with amazing stories from recruitment, including the LinkedIn's extraordinary 5 year experiment on the value of weak network ties, candidate fraud in remote working, the power law of the creator economy, the Figures Levelling Framework and a cool list of resources for tracking layoffs. If you've read the newsletter and want to talk about it, join us here in 30 minutes!

Do Candidates Still Want To Be Interviewed In-Person?, 4 Oct, 12pm

Interesting premise huh? Intrigued by this discussion, particularly as I don't know the answer at all. My intuition tells me that the assessment procedure should match the working mode as closely as possible, so in-person interview if in-person work environment. But who knows? Maybe Akbar Karenga, Head of Talent (Metafy), Christine Ng, Head of Talent & Communication (Quantum Motion), Steve Jacobs, Talent Acquisition Director (KBRW) and Jayson Darby, Director of Science (Thomas) will be able to tell us! Register here

Tips & Tricks for Sourcing Non-traditional, Diverse Candidates, 5 Oct, 11.00am EDT / 4pm BST

Alright folks, already 358 registered for this sourcing how-to. If you're interested in diversifying your talent pipeline you have to go to where the talent is - Gita Selli-Cellei, Talent Acquisition Manager (Loadsmart), Mark Tortorici, Sourcing Manager (Meta), Brittany King, Senior Manager Talent Acquisition (The Kraft Company) and Emmy de la Cruz, Director of Talent (NEWCO) are going to help show you how. Register here

Champions of Talent, Empowering Recruiters & Elevating Recruiter Experience, 6 Oct, 10.30am CT / 4.30pm BST

Episode 2 of our series showcasing the Recruiters and why a great recruiter experience is essential for creating a great recruitment process. I'm with Michael Ferranti, Chief People Officer of Regis Corporation, who is going to share his thoughts on how we can build a environment where recruiters can do their best work, consistently. Register here

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep175 - BlockChain, Web3 and the Future of Work, 7 Oct, 2pm BST

I'll be in Lisbon, doing this from the floor of Future.Works event so expect that there may be some background noise to this one ??. Lisbon has become the centre of Web3 in Europe with progressive tax laws, clear policy direction and super generous immigration legislation. Can Web3 bust out of the cryptocurrency and into the work of HR? We're going to find out with Pedro Oliveira, Founder, (Talent Protocol), Andy Spence, Founder, (WorkForce Futurist) & Fem Markslag, Head of Talent & People Operations (Cryptio). Register here

Future Works, 7-8 October, Lisbon, Portugal

So this is the event. I'm doing a small part in this, a fireside chat at 5.00pm, just before the beers I suspect. Going to be interesting to attend this event - friends from recruiting and friends from crypto - what could go wrong?? 150 speakers, speakers from all corners of the world, all corners of the web. Get your tickets here

How to Detect Candidate Fraud in Remote Interviewing, 17th Oct, 2pm

Didn't expect this webinar title did you? I've been collecting cases of candidate fraud ever since the remote working revolution took off, because it seems to me that this is one of the under discussed implications of a physically dispersed workforce. My friends at FloCareer say that as high as 10% of all interviews conducted on their platform are flagged as potentially fraudulent, an extraordinary number and perhaps the first time anyone has been able to collect any data on it. I'm with CEO Mehul Bhatt to figure out how recruiters can detect fraud. Register here

Hacking EU & UK Tech Hiring: Challenges and Opportunities, 18 Oct, 5pm CET

I do love talking tech hiring - having entered the industry in the first era of the web, hiring developers and 'new media producers' to the nascent online industry. Join me, my buddy Ilya Brotzky, CEO (VanHack) and Kevin De Pauw, CEO (Summ.link) as we discuss what tech hiring looks like in Europe, especially as the world has globalised and de-globalised seemingly at the same time....register here

In-House Recruitment Live, 19th Oct, Business Design Centre, Islington, London, UK

Look at this line up here. We've had to reschedule this due to planned industrial action but if anything the line up looks even better now than it did before. FREE to attend for an in-house recruiter, this event is entirely sponsor supported, so a fantastic opportunity to network and learn from some of the best in the business. I'm moderating one of the stages, so come up and say hello if you're about. Register here

The Importance of DEI in Volume Recruitment, 25th Oct, 12pm

Loving this series with our buddies Crooton - it's familiar recruiting issues, viewed through the high volume lens. And it's always interesting to hear stories from recruiters of unique organisations, which the City of London Police certainly is. Me, Daniel Sandhu and others in this conversation on DEI - don't miss this one folks - 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 @ mention me so that I see it

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Who's Hiring?

Talent Acquisition Transformation Director, Join Talent, Remote Global

Business Development Lead (Europe), Join Talent, Remote EU

Business Development Lead (North America), Join Talent, Remote USA

Business Development Lead (Dubai), Join Talent, Remote Global

Client Success Manager (Fully Remote), Join Talent, Remote Global

Brand Activation & Marketing Manager, Join Talent, Remote Global

Principal Consultant, Logistics - SE Asia, Horton International, Remote APAC

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

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Who's Moving?

Amybeth Quinn joins Electronic Arts as Director, Global Recruiting - Strategic Sourcing, after spending the past 3 years building the sourcing capacity of ServiceNow. It's been a great pleasure getting to know Amybeth - she was one of the first to do the Brainfood Tribune, a story which you can still read here. Needless to say, great hire by EA!

Nico Blier-Silvestre joins DreamCraft Ventures as Head of People & Culture. For those of you who have been following Nico's recent challenges this year (and if not, I highly recommend you do so, particularly if you work in tech startup) will be aware of just how amazingly well he has handled this incredible pressure, not only with great fortitude and no small degree of good humour. Great to see him stay in startup, and now lending his skills on the portfolio side. Well done Nico and lets catch up soon!

Dominic Ludin joins carbonfuture as Chief Growth Officer. It has been a while since Dominic left the recruiting industry but so gr??eat to see him operate at exec level across different types of industry sector. This is the sort of CV I am kind of envious of a little - I love recruitment but it is all I know! Congrats Dom and good luck in green tech

Julia Rutkowska goes up to Leading Recruiter - Developer Platform?at Miro, Louis Eliades goes up to Senior Supervisor Talent Acquisition at Bazaarvoice. Adam Legge promoted to People Services Manager at Checkout.com, Rebeca Bongers promoted to Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition at Amazon, Erik Richard promoted to Principal Technical Recruiter at Agero, Ryan Watson promoted to People Lead at BJSS and finally Nicoletta Tillyrou?promoted to EMEA Talent Acquisition Manager at Amdocs - 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?

I think mainly looking at our energy bills and wondering what bad news we are going to receive next. Been a tough year!

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

Off to the sunny Lisbon this week, and despite my grumblings, am looking forward to visiting one of my favourite cities. Let me know if you're in town or fancy a catch up - I'm based just near Ponte 25 de Abril, and likely will have some time especially on the 6th.

Cheers!

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.