This Week, In Recruiting - Issue No20

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Open Kitchen: Brainfood Jobs Job Board

Most of you will have seen me talking in recent weeks about how hot the market is for recruiters right now. We've all seen direct evidence of this in the sheer volume of requests to feature recruiter jobs in this newsletter - 50, 100 new roles every week. Happy times for recruiters but a problem for the community because I have become the bottleneck.

This has been compounded by my failed attempts to 'get out of the way' by centralising requests to public comments - a lot of you are doing this (thanks!) but most are still directly message me asking for help ??

I'm not annoyed because I don't mind (really Alexey!!) but it is a problem for the community because it means my inbox management is a mess and I end up missing a great deal of these requests. Believe it or not, the jobs you see in 'Who's Hiring' represent only a percentage of those which should be in there if I was able to deliver on the requests more effectively.

Additional problems have become obvious too - no single place to post jobs in your own time, no easy way to find the jobs list if you miss the newsletter, no easy way to retrieve jobs you were interested in but were not able to action upon discovery.

So, we're changing it ??

1. Introducing Brainfood Jobs

I applied for an account with Pallet, a job board software provider which looks to have a cool model, great interface and community / curated ethic. Thanks to Julia Rutzen for the acceptance of the request, demo, hand holding and responsiveness to dumb questions to which I should've known the answers to. Great reminder to me that rectec providers still (and always will) need to 'white glove it' with new customers regardless of how self serve the product is. Customers are not dumb but are reluctant (even hostile) to spending any cognitive effort on learning new stuff.

2. How to Post Jobs

Straight forward - hit the Brainfood Jobs link and 'post job'. You may need to set up a Pallet account if you haven't already or use social sign in (google, facebook, linkedin etc).

Thereafter standard job posting flow, though with some integrations to ATS's like Greenhouse, Lever and I think Workable which pre-populates a lot of the fields. The most fiddly part is if your company is not listed in the db - you're going to need to manually create it or link it with your Crunchbase profile. Not a big deal but an additional step that smaller companies might need to do.

3. Free to Post, Pay to Boost

Posting jobs will always be free, and I'll be pointing candidates to Brainfood Jobs job board every week in this newsletter, rather than listing the jobs individually. If you want jobs boosted, then you have two options - Listed which means your job will also be individually listed into both This Week, In Recruiting and Recruiting Brainfood newsletters, in additional to being featured top-of-the-feed in Brainfood Jobs for 30 days. I would recommend this option for jobs that are really quite important hires for your business.

Or, if you want mega promo, go big for Promoted option: everything in Listed as well as the job being featured as 'Job of the Week' in both newsletters also, as well as being promoted on Brainfood Live. It will basically have it's own segment in each newsletter so visibility will be high, and I'm toying with the idea of recording a video with me interviewing the hiring manager and them why they need this hire and why should someone really want to do it. Choose this if the job really is a business critical hire or a new function you want to promote.

4. What Jobs Can Be Posted?

Human curation is key to maintaining reasonable signal to noise, especially on services which are going to be free. So there is a review and curation process on every free job - they will be manually reviewed and accepted / rejected by me. I am generally permissive on this because there is a good job for every candidate, but there are some guidelines which are pretty much hard rules - check out the above table, if in doubt.

5. Subscribe As A Job Candidate

No one expects to experience the horrendous economic crash of 2020 again so soon, but we should not forget those moments when so many of us in the industry were suddenly out of work, highly stressed and scrambling around. One of the best features of Pallet is the ability to configure your interests on Brainfood Jobs and subscribe to be notified when a new job is posted which matches those interests. Combined with the human curation element, this should mean that quality of jobs should be high.

6. What To Do Next?

Well if you are an employer and need to hire recruiters, post a job. There are tons of services out there but in this community I think we have both demand and supply in the same place - we just needed the right interface to bring them together. I think maybe that could be Brainfood Jobs.

Please note Theresa Heggenstaller, Val Cowan, Caitlin Timmings, Yasar Ahmad - all jobs requests in the past two weeks are in queue and will be uploaded by the team Pallet to Brainfood Jobs in the two days - so no need for you to post ;-)

Anyways, enough of the kitchen, into the lounge ??

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What's In The News?

Google and Facebook both institute vaccine mandates for staff returning to the office this week. The requirement (and legal obligation?) to provide safe office environments is a non-trivial challenge for employers who continue to provide office facilities.

A week of contrasting policies by Big Tech in the US, LinkedIn announce the 'Hybrid Max' option, with office facilities available but no expectation for employees to use them - and interestingly, up to individual managers to negotiate mode of work with their respective teams. This may end up as 'Functional Split'

Culture Amp raise $100 million Series F, with a valuation of $1.5 billion

Few companies are better positioned for this moment than Culture Amp, whose employee engagement platform and - perhaps more importantly - employee engagement ethos - has customers lining up for their support as the relationship between companies and workers gets remade. Techcrunch has the report here

Gem acquire Resources, who now becomes Guide - the candidate engagement platform

Surprised and delighted to see these two companies come together this past week. Both Gem and Resources have been sponsors of This Week, In Recruiting in 2021, great to see them combine forces to build better products with candidates and recruiters alike. Congratulations especially to Troy Sultan who must be in need of a rest some point soon ??. PR from Guide here, and from Gem here.

Finally, Amazon published its Q2 2021 financial results, which revealed a line item which no one knew about - a record $887 million fine by the EU for data privacy violations, surely the largest levied under GDPR.

You got to wonder whether Amazon's army of lawyers might have thought they were compliant - but weren't.

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?

Brainfood Live On Air - Ep120 - Remaking Candidate Experience, Post Pandemic, August 6th, 2pm BST

Engagement rates down, drop out rates up, in-demand candidates with elevated expectations of both the candidate and employee experience. How do employers differentiate? We're with Jana Staníková (Autodesk), James Ellis (Roku), Christina Robinson (Green Umbrella), Carolina Guillen Alpizar, Global Employer Branding (BayWa) and Steve Usher (5ive Studios) - register here

Joy of Sourcing, Aug 3-25th, 6pm CET onward

Hard to believe that it's been 10 years since the first Sourcing Summit. For my money, the single best sourcing conference around, regularly featuring the best specialist speakers as well as a superb community atmosphere. The 'SOSU' events has been sorely missed during pandemic, so get your fix with this virtual series starting tomorrow with the world famous Sourcing Summit Hackathon - great fun to test yourself against the best sourcers on the planet. Free to attend so register for the individual event here (PS: this is a great way to network with industry celebs, so get on it ;-)

Smart Summer Recruiting Academy Online (German language), 23rd - 26th August.

The legendary Wolfgang Brickwedde is leading a 4 day online bootcamp covering almost every aspect of recruiting you need to learn about. Ideal for specialists who want to deep dive, or for generalists who want an overview. Over 900 registered so far - check out the schedule here and make yourself one of them. Tickets are now paid, but first 10 can claim on first come, first serve basis. Message Wolfgang on LinkedIn above and say you saw this deal. Please note, sessions are in German.

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?

Technical Recruiter, Technical Recruiter Training Program, Stripe, Chicago, IL, USA

Technical Recruiter, Technical Recruiter Training Program, Stripe, New York City, NY/NJ, USA

Technical Recruiter, Technical Recruiter Training Program, Stripe, Remote USA

Technical Recruiter, Technical Recruiter Training Program, Stripe, Seattle, WA, USA

Talent Acquisition Specialist - German Speaking (m/f/x), Tipico, Vjal Portomaso, St Julian's, Malta or Karlsruhe, Germany

Senior Recruiter / Senior Specialist Talent Acquisition (m/f/d), Sharpist, Berlin, Germany

Global Head of People Operations, Moove, Remote Anywhere

Compensation and Benefits Specialist, Moove, Remote Anywhere

Talent Acquisition Manager, Moove, Remote Anywhere

Tech Talent Acquisition Manager, Moove, Remote Anywhere

Demand Generation Marketing Intern – Northern Europe, iCIMS, London, UK

Client Success Manager - In-House, JOIN Talent, Remote UK

Lead or Senior Tech Recruiter - In-House, JOIN Talent, Remote UK

Sourcing Specialist -Tech - In-House, JOIN Talent, Remote UK

Tech Recruiter - In-House, JOIN Talent, Remote UK

Training Content & Delivery Lead, JOIN Talent, Remote UK

Tech Recruiter -In-House, JOIN Talent, Remote South Africa

Sourcing Specialist - Tech - In-House, JOIN Talent, Remote UK

Head of Global Campus Recruiting, MongoDB, New York, NY/NJ/ USA

Talent Sourcer, AddedValue, Remote Anywhere

Recruitment Marketing Manager x 3, PeopleScout, Bristol, UK

HR Startup Business Partner, Saas.group, Remote Europe

Talent Partner, Tech - Fintech scaleup, Talentful, London, UK

Senior Talent Partner, Tech - Fintech scaleup, Talentful, London, UK

Senior Recruiter, Tech - Interim, Talentful, Stockholm, Sweden

Senior Talent Partner, Tech - VC Backed StartUp, Talentful, Remote UK

Senior Talent Partner, Talentful, Remote UK

Talent Partner, Talentful, London, UK

?Technology Recruiter - Data Management Platform, Talentful, London, UK

Senior Technical Recruiter -Tech Start Up, Talentful, Remote UK

Senior Technical Recruiter, Talentful, San Francisco, CA, USA

Technical Recruiter, Talentful, San Francisco, CA, USA

Senior Technical Recruiter, Talentful, Boston, MA, USA

Senior Technical Recruiter, Talentful, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Technical Recruiter, Talentful, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Talent Acquisition Manager - Business (m/f/d) (German speaking), Personio, Munich, Germany

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager (m/f/d) (German speaking), Personio, Munich, Germany

Talent Sourcer (m/f/d) (German speaking), Personio, Munich or Remote Germany

Talent Acquisition Manager - Product & Analytics (m/f/d), Personio, Munich or Remote Germany

Talent Acquisition Manager Engineering (m/f/d), Personio - Munich or Remote Germany

Sr. Product Marketing Manager, TripleByte, Remote USA

If you want your job freely promoted in this newsletter next week,?comment below?with the link to the job. No third party jobs or links to third party sites. Don't forget to @ mention me so that I see it

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Who's Moving?

Glenn Gutmacher joins Huron Consulting Group as Director of Talent Sourcing, after nearly 6 years with State Street building the centralised sourcing function there. Anyone who knows Glenn knows Huron have got themselves a great hire!

Dipti Soni and Dan Lewis make the move in-house, joining Cake DeFi and Kantar respectively, whilst Daniel Tongo joins IQ-EQ as Talent Acquisition Manager and Liz Afolabi joins TotallyMoney as People Director.

Loads of promotions happened last week - congrats to Ilja Mitrofanov, Charlotte Paget, Kelsey Foote, Sam Janssen, Anna Zouvelou and Nathan Walker for their well deserved promotions! Special shout out to Christian Madsen who moves up to Global Talent Acquisition at Chr. Hansen, a great contributor to the community here.

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?

Having the summer entirely off it is seems ??

This space is here for you, so if you have any news personal or professional, let me know in a comment below.

If you are doing something new that you want the community to know more about,?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 for another week.

Hope you enjoyed this issue. Changes are inevitable and when you feel under consistent pressure it is usually a good sign that some things need to shift. I'm hoping the Brainfood Job Board will be as useful a resource to you as other products that Brainfood has chucked out over in recent years.

Might do a session for employers on this - AMA on how to post, what you get on the paid tiers and what the wider vision is. Let me know in comment below if you think this might be useful.

Cheers

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.