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Complexity of the tools landscape is one of the hidden challenges for HR / Recruiter practitioners. Talent App Store promises the future with their ‘single throat to choke’ solution. It’s the inevitable future of vendor discovery. 
Issue #6 published 23 Apr 2020
Are you a lark or an owl? Research on the importance of the time of the day in how you make decisions. Critically important for hiring and totally underestimated when we think about how to do hiring better. 
Issue #6 published 23 Apr 2020
And the answer is, by hiring a great Head of Recruitment. FirstRound interviews NerdWallet’s Flo Thinh on what you should look for when looking for your recruiter
Issue #6 published 23 Apr 2020
The upcoming European General Data Protection Regulation imposes strict rules on how to handle personal data, creating a challenge for AI companies everywhere. You need to know more about this. 
Issue #48 published 23 Apr 2020
Relevant to everybody. But perhaps especially so for the readers of this newsletter. Chris Fralic tells us his 7 rules for becoming a super connector - well worth a read. 


Issue #29 published 23 Apr 2020
Comprehensive and accessible overview of where are at (and where we might be going) in algorithmic age. Not recruiting specific, but then algorithms never were and yet they are relevant to everything recruiters might do. 
Issue #24 published 23 Apr 2020
Honest account of the sacrifices made when running a successful company. A great and necessary read for anyone who cares about company and culture. 
Issue #24 published 23 Apr 2020
Dan Luu with another insightful take on tech hiring, challenging the great Joel Spolsky on whether great developers are really ‘sticky’
Issue #1 published 23 Apr 2020
“Things may change in the future, but one rule of thumb today is that almost anything that a typical person can do with less than one second of mental thought we can either now or in the very near future automate with AI.”
Issue #23 published 23 Apr 2020
Hiring / management tips from CTO’s. Great write up of First Round’s annual summit of tech leaders, with actionable tips we could implement immediately.
Issue #37 published 23 Apr 2020
You can not separate your hiring process from your team’s culture. If the values and priorities of your team can be influenced by the hiring process, your hiring practices should resemble good engineering practices. Namely: move fast, be test-driven, and communicate.
Issue #11 published 23 Apr 2020
My friend Aaron Lintz, Talent Sourcer at CommvaultLife, breaks down his contact cleaning methodology. It’s great and you should do it. And someone should productise it
Issue #4 published 23 Apr 2020
Leonardo da Vinci was credited with many inventions, perhaps the most humble of which might have been this: the first application form / cover letter / CV. Here’s the copy of the original letter, along with translation - even he had to sell himself in once upon a time.
Issue #30 published 23 Apr 2020
I agree with everything said in this post. Glen Cathey on candidate engagement may be even better than Glen Cathey on candidate sourcing. Who would’ve thought?
Issue #30 published 23 Apr 2020
Outstanding deck from our buddies at Allegis Global Solutions, HiringSolved and SmashFly. Clear outline of where we are and how we might apply Artificial Intelligence to augment and replace recruiters.  
Issue #42 published 23 Apr 2020
It’s standard feature of recruiting briefs that they will contain some mention of a) a programming language and b) number of years experience required it in. Ozan Onay tells a great story of a kid he met who *knew* every programming language there was. A great lesson on anti-tribalism, structural learning and true agnosticism. Useful for us recruiters


Issue #16 published 23 Apr 2020
Author, management guru, part time magician and former junior Olympic springboard diver, Adam Grant pens an excellent post of the need to hire the weird. 
Issue #16 published 23 Apr 2020
Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers. Do we really know what we are talking about with these job titles? This break down from O'Reilly might help. A must read if you’re hiring for any of these roles. 
Issue #38 published 23 Apr 2020
Outstanding interview with Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson. She is the woman overseeing the company’s rocket ship ascent and here she shares a list of questions that any startup can use to guide hyper-growth. 
Issue #38 published 23 Apr 2020
Superb and accessible breakdown on Google’s big move into the jobs market. If you are a recruiter, or plan to recruit, you basically need to read this post. H/T to OH subscriber Jeff Dickey-Chasin for the knowledge share
Issue #38 published 23 Apr 2020
This may be the first interactive blog post about the future of work, written in VR. We’re close to the end of the keyboard & screen. Kind of amazing. 
Issue #9 published 23 Apr 2020
Still teaching kids on how to code? May not be the best idea as the end of coding as we know it may just be around the corner. Lucas Carlson provides a brief overview of the program producing programs that are already in production, and may soon just take over. 
Issue #9 published 23 Apr 2020
Excellent post that needed to be written. So many companies struggle with recruiting the recruiter. Lem Diaz does a great job of providing an initial guideline on what to do. 
Issue #17 published 23 Apr 2020
Outstanding conjecture from Ben Taylor, Chief Data Scientist at HireVue, on the decline of expertise and knowledge work in general. Machine can already do it better - time to think of other things to do. 
Issue #12 published 23 Apr 2020
Aline Lerner has a new hiring platform focussing on how engineers are assessed. Her blogs have always been excellent - now they are backed up with a substantial data set. 
Issue #12 published 23 Apr 2020
Zach Holman has a problem with Startup interviewing. Excellent exposition on the power dynamics, conventions and biases of what remains a key part of how we hire. And to be fair to Zach, the problem extends way beyond Startup
Issue #7 published 23 Apr 2020
Last week Facebook, this week Google. The big beasts of the internet are finally paying attention to challenge of connecting people to opportunity. Google is still locked into search though, and this is step seems less ambitious than might otherwise have been. Take a look at the documentation and see for yourself. 
Issue #7 published 23 Apr 2020
More stories from hiring managers who take the bull by the horns when it comes to talent acquisition. This time it is Eric Feng, who describes his DIY framework he used to scale up 80 man departments at Hulu and Flipboard
Issue #22 published 23 Apr 2020
Analogies are critical for communicating new concepts. Dr Richard Claydon choose gardening vs engineering when he talks about organisational culture, and suddenly it all resonates. An outstanding exposition on the need for new conceptual models to better understand organisational culture. 
Issue #19 published 23 Apr 2020
Facebook are weak on professional data but know their users better than anybody on the planet. You need to know about this. 
Issue #19 published 23 Apr 2020
It’s either the corporate guardian or employee advocate - it cannot be both. Karen Wickr writes a post that needs to be read. Cross reference with the Bloomberg article below on employee’s crowdsourcing solutions instead of going to HR
Issue #33 published 23 Apr 2020
Michael Wright, Head of Talent at Grab, is currently producing some of the best original thinking in the recruitment space. This is a longer overdue critique of everyone’s favourite hiring channel - the employee referral. 
Issue #33 published 23 Apr 2020
Buster Benson categorises 175 cognitive biases found in Wikipedia and breaks down why we need them, why they’re useful and why they may be potentially dangerous. Highly relevant to anyone involved in hiring for their business
Issue #3 published 23 Apr 2020
Nice looking framework for thinking about Product Managers. One of the hardest roles for define / understand / recruit for - this is great job by Taj Moore for getting this thoughts down here. 
Issue #39 published 23 Apr 2020
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. 
Issue #21 published 23 Apr 2020
No magic bullets says Matt Charney, chief editor from RecruitingDaily.com. Great writing from one of the best, check it out
Issue #13 published 23 Apr 2020
I’ve been waiting for someone to write this post. The world has no shortage of non-tech founders searching for someone to build their dream. It’s not going to happen says Katerina Pascoulis. Superb analysis of the developer risk profile. 
Issue #13 published 23 Apr 2020
Do you know a friend who always seems to be involved in the best conversations? I know I do. Julia Evans unpacks the secret of asking great questions that promote dialogue from even the most taciturn of interlocutors. Something we all need to get better at, especially those who hire. 
Issue #13 published 23 Apr 2020
A cold email is probably still the dominant first contact method used in recruiting. Hence, you better read this post from the excellent Intercom blog on how to get opens, clicks and conversions. Designed for marketing, but hey - isn’t that what recruitment is these days?
Issue #2 published 23 Apr 2020
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
Issue #5 published 23 Apr 2020
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. 
Issue #5 published 23 Apr 2020
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
Issue #5 published 23 Apr 2020
It’s the sexiest job on the planet so it’s rather a good thing that data scientist and CTO, Jefferson Heard breaks down what it’s all about. Great learning for us all here. 
Issue #15 published 23 Apr 2020
Great post by Jack Altman on the true cost of employee churn. Complete with methods, graphics and even a damned calculator. 
 
Issue #15 published 23 Apr 2020
It is always refreshing to see recruiting commentary from hiring managers. Todd Jackon, VP of Product at Dropbox, has hired a lot of Product Managers in his time. This is his framework on how to do it. 
Issue #20 published 23 Apr 2020
airberlin ecommerce sady filed for insolvency this week. This is their awesome response to bad news. You know what to do. 
Issue #46 published 23 Apr 2020
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This is a great post by Brian Graham on the true purpose of hiring - to ensure output matches the ambition of the business. And for this, we need a team based, rather individual based mindset to hiring. Excellent start of an idea here - post needs a follow up. 
Issue #32 published 23 Apr 2020
Great method post from Yesware, who have analysed the email subject lines of 100 million emails to produce these insights. If you open one link in this newsletter, it should be this one
Issue #32 published 23 Apr 2020
Here it is folks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Google for Jobs last week - most likely the biggest news that’s going to happen in recruiting in 2017. Here’s the video of the moment it dropped - take a look. 
Issue #32 published 23 Apr 2020
Superb post from Seth Blank on scaling engineering teams. One of the few (only?) posts out there that places attention on how the maturation of the business influences the type of personas you should be targeting to hire. 
Issue #14 published 23 Apr 2020
Recruiting recruiters is a big problem. Lem Diaz puts together an excellent post on what to look out for when hiring for them. Particularly good in marrying product / hiring roadmaps. 
Issue #31 published 23 Apr 2020
Essential reading from our buddies at Hired.com. Brexit will dramatically shrink the available talent pool in an already tight labour market. UK tech companies need to invest more now in recruitment, retention and training - or you’re going to be offshoring.  
Issue #31 published 23 Apr 2020
Data seems evidential (numbers > credible than words..) and so we tend to trust it more when we see it in content. OH subscriber Stevie Buckley does us all a service in this critique of Tech City’s eco-system report on the state of the UK tech market. It’s a great read. 
Issue #31 published 23 Apr 2020