Hey Everyone, Welcome to another week of On Hiring! Firstly, massive thanks to you all for your suppo
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March 5 · Issue #21 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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Hey Everyone, Welcome to another week of On Hiring! Firstly, massive thanks to you all for your support for this newsletter. I heard from the Revue team last week that we’ve made the Explore section of the Revue main site, which is effectively the Recommend section of their site. This is amazing progress for a newsletter that has been going for less than half a year and it should mean more recruiters, getting recruiting brainfood! Secondly, many of you have been asking if I am willing to feature your original content on the newsletter. The answer is - of course! I am very keen to see your original content, so please do email me if you think more people should see it. Please understand that I won’t feature it if it is a) off topic b) self promotional or c) below quality threshold. Finally, sharing is caring folks, so if you are getting value from this weekly digest and think others in your team could benefit, please do recommend via email or social share. Thanks! Hung Hung Lee is the founder of WorkShape.io - the revolutionary hiring platform for Software engineers
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The Mythical 10x Programmer
I’m not sure who first came up with the 10x programmer idea, but it’s since become convention in the world of tech and beyond. This amazing post takes a decent stab at describing what this mythical beast might look like. Worth a read for anyone thinking of hiring software engineers. MUST READ
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LookSee Wellington
Who else needs to hire in difficult locations? Superb initiative here from Wellington, New Zealand, where the city, employers and tourist board have come together to make the location a strength rather than weakness. Forget employer branding, this is lifestyle branding. Something we can learn from here. TALENT ATTRACTION
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COADEC report.pdf
The Coalition for a Digital Economy is a UK initiative that seems to have widespread cross party support. Here is the report on a ‘Global Britain’. Worth a read for UK recruiters / rec tech vendors REPORT [DOWNLOAD]
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A Tough Gig?
There are two tribes in the gig economy - precarious vs privileged. Accessible report on the future of work in Britain, though relevant to all who are thinking about the future of work. Download it and read it. REPORT [DOWNLOAD]
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The HRTechBerlin #2 meetup review by Workshape.io
Everyone knows WorkShape loves Berlin! Our visit last month underlined to use how exciting the city has become for tech recruiting / recruiting tech. We were honoured to take part in the inaugural ‘Founder-to-Founder’ event at HR Tech Berlin, hosted by our friends at hub:raum. Here’s our write up! EVENT REVIEW
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The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career, Right Now…
Implications are clear for employers who do not support or allow their employees to contribute to open source work. EMPLOYER BRANDING
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How To Search the New LinkedIn Search Interface (Properly) Using Field Commands
Great how-to by the best recruiter training business around. Thumbs up to our buddies at SocialTalent for consistently providing value to the community! SOURCING
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Try 'People-to-People', people
It takes a deep thinker and a good writer to reference Donald Trump in a recruiting blog post and still hit the mark. Felix Wetzel does the job here, with a very clear understanding as to the importance of authenticity in employer branding. EMPLOYER BRANDING
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This can’t be excused and has to stop
Back in my agency days, this was called ‘reverse marketing’ a candidate into a prospective client. With a lot of research, consideration and a clear mandate from the candidate, this might just be ok. But there’s no way this approach is going to work. Doesn’t help agencies, or their reputation. Good post from blogging newbie Richard Saunders. RECRUITMENT AGENCIES
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Ep 80: An Untapped Talent Pool
If you don’t know Matt Alder you probably should. He runs a superb podcast called Recruiting Future in which he interviews innovators in recruiting. Jane Hatton, of Evenbreak is this week’s special guest - a job board for differently abled. [PODCAST]
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JPMorgan Marshals an Army of Developers to Automate High Finance
‘Professions’ will be the next to go, maybe at the same time as truck drivers. We’re going to see a squeeze on white and blue collar, at the same time. Have we got a plan? We don’t have a plan. WORKFORCE AUTOMATION
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Here's where jobs will be lost when robots drive trucks
Driving trucks is the most individually popular jobs in the majority of the States in the US. Automation is going to have huge socio-political implications, as this handy map from Axios will show WORKFORCE AUTOMATION
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How to Post a Job on Facebook
You probably haven’t done this yet, but you will at some point you will so you might find out how. Excellent post from Chris Russell explaining how to use the Facebook jobs posting feature. COOL TOOL
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Uber internal performance reviews mean that for one employee to get ahead, another must fail
Are we tired of hearing about Uber yet? Probably not, so here’s an intelligent discussion on how performance management influences culture. For Uber - and other companies that use ‘Stack Ranking’ - culture is a dark forest, where to succeed others must fail. CULTURE
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A list of the human tasks artificial intelligence has mastered.
We all know what AI is going to change the world of work. Here’s a fantastic, referenced compendium of all the tasks AI can now do better than human beings. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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Some great opportunities here, posted by the OH community. Click on the links and contact the recruiters directly. Talent Acquisition Specialist, Cloudreach, Munich, Germany Employee Engagement Specialist, Cloudreach, London, Germany Talent Acquisition Executive, Agilisys, London, United Kingdom HR Business Partner, EasyJet, Luton, United Kingdom If you are hiring for a recruiter and want to feature the job in next week’s episode, email me hung@workshape.io. Job postings are free for On Hiring subscribers!
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I’m in London for this week, so I’m always around if you want to talk tech hiring or the future of the planet. DM me on Twitter at @HungLee or email hung@workshape.io. Have a great week everybody! Hung
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