Hey Everyone, So it's a pretty big week ahead for us all as US goes to the ballot box this weekend. I
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November 6 · Issue #5 · View online
It's recruiting brainfood for the week ahead
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Hey Everyone, So it’s a pretty big week ahead for us all as US goes to the ballot box this weekend. It’s incredible to see an outsider like Donald Trump in with a chance of the biggest job in the world. We all wish our friends in the US the best - may you choose wisely! It’s also been a big news week in the world of recruiting. Monster / Randstad deal finally gets done. Dice more or less puts itself up for sale. LinkedIn bangs out a new product (salary predictor) whilst quietly withdrawing another (Booleans search on Recruiter Lite) and Indeed continues its invasion into everyone’s market with a launch of another product, this time a crowdsourced referral play. All this and more in this weeks On Hiring, along with the usual content on diversity, decision making, economics and the future of work. It’s On Hiring: recruiting brainfood for the week ahead. Sharing is CaringIf you know someone who might be interested in this type of content please share. Twitter is good, Facebook is better. Thanks in advance for your support.
Jobs My buddies at Yoyo Wallet are hiring for a Head of Talent. Greenfield role for funded UK Startup, currently pulling up trees in the mobile payments space. Email me if you want an intro or if you know of anyone who might be interested: hung@workshape.io.
NB: this might be a new feature if people think it’s relevant. Ping me if you have a need to hire a recruiter or Head of Talent.
Thanks it for the long intro - enjoy the Issue No5!
Hung Lee is the founder of Workshape.io - the revolutionary recruiting platform for software engineers
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Recruiting Is Optimal Stopping
.“..the fundamental question in Recruiting is not whether you have the best possible candidate but when you should stop looking…” Truth here by John SumserEXCELLENT READ
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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
Anthropological perspective on the failure of technology to reduce human labour. Interesting and persuasive - no hope offered in this rather dystopian read.
CRITICAL ANALYSIS
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Introducing “LinkedIn Salary”
LinkedIn respond to GlassDoor’s salary benchmarking service with this new feature. Data is all through sampling though LinkedIn’s sample size is going to be large enough to matter. Could be the first global salary benchmarking service.
COOL TOOL
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The most important skills of tomorrow, according to five global leaders
Small sample but note none of them are ‘learn to code’. Human beings need to learn things that machines cannot do better than us - and most of these are related to dealing with other human beings
INTERVIEW
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Indeed Labs crowd
Indeed going for all the marbles - again. You have to admire how aggressive this company is - going after established markets, attacking entrenched incumbents, all at the same time. Nothing is a moonshot when Indeed is involved.
COOL TOOL
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Eve
Why can’t you programme in English? Every generation of programming language moves us further away from the machine and closer to how humans actually communicate. Eve, is the latest, most transparent attempt. Here’s the announcement text.
RELATED
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You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview
You have to support Aline Lerner in her project to change how we interview software engineers. Excellent as always from the engineer-turned-recruiter-turned-entrepreneur MUST READ
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Job Interviews Are Useless
Bloomberg’s counterpoint to Lerner. The data shows that interviews don’t predict success, but here’s why we can’t let them go. Overdue analysis on the last of the sacred cows in hiring. As Seth Godin once famously said, it’s a sniff test.
MUST READ
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Boolean Is Dead. On LinkedIn Only
Boolean search has developed into an industry itself, one in which skilled practitioners can retrieve significantly better results that random amateurs. Is LinkedIn trying to democratise discovery? Or is this the cash machine continuing to grind away? It’s probably a first step away from search, and towards match. Thanks Irina Shaemava - one of the world’s best sourcers - for the spot. IMPORTANT
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IBM Is Launching a Much-awaited ‘Watson’ Recruiting Tool
The big daddy of recruiting tech disruptors might finally be round the corner. Todd Raphael provides a brief summary of the key elements of IBM’s potentially game changing entry into the recruiting market MUST READ
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The Recruiter Plague: How Recruiters Have Broken Tech Hiring
It’s not unusual to see developers lambast tech recruiters. Eric Elliot’s post will feel familiar to all parties who might read it. What is lacking is a deeper understanding of what promotes ‘bad’ behaviour and what generates 'bad’ experience. Are Tech Agents the way out? Maybe for some, but it will never scale beyond the elite 1% of the market
POLEMIC
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Some Facebook employees struggle with inclusion
All kinds of wrong with this - a tired stereotype of the nerd engineer, which manages to offend the people who it does include as well as those it does not. Thanks Katrina Collier for the share DIVERSITY
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The State of the State 2016-17
Download for the full report in the link. Deloitte tries to out-McKinsey McKinsey with this breakdown of the future of work.
REPORT
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This Is Slavery
What happens when the State changes your rights and puts you to work? The US Prison system is an extreme example, but it is a pertinent reminder that we all must be vigilant in the safeguarding of our rights as citizens. Complacency is the midwife to tyranny
THOUGHT PROVOKING
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LinkedIn’s Complicated Bet on the Future of Work
Nicholas Lemann on Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn and how it reflects the ongoing expansion of entrepreneurial employment.
LONG READ
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The Shortest Distance To Your New Domain Name
Anyone planning to launch a recruiting business might be interested in this - a short cut to some highly relevant domains. Thanks to the Recruiting Animal for the spot. Make an enquiry and get bidding! RESOURCE
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I’m going to be in London for all of November, so around if you want to chat about tech hiring or the future of the planet, reach out on @HungLee, Facebook or write to me on email hung@workshape.io.
Have a great week everybody!
Hung
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