RecruitmentHomeTruths

A few home truths about #recruitment / #talentacquisition / #resourcing

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[RecruitmentHomeTruths @RecruitmentHT]

Two roles, same level, same salary.

Role 1, nice culture, small team, moderate growth, limited room for promotion, good work life balance

Role 2, challenging culture, 10x size team, rapid growth, good promotion opportunity in future, no work life balance.

What do you pick?

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Any thoughts on this?

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@HungLee Linkedin has limited TA development moreso than any other technology. We largely became an industry of process managers overly reliant on one source. It numbed our problem solving capabilities

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@randomrecruiter The argument is to reduce to become faster, closer to decision making and customers etc. reality is a lot of senior leaders are about to drown in operational workload whilst also not having the capacity to manage or lead their teams effectively. Lose lose situation.

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@randomrecruiter Even if you do amazing because of forced stack ranking you could still see an exit if in a small team of high performers within a broader org.

This is all to drive "performance" but all it drives is lack of security and added stress. Performance suffers.

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@HungLee Yet most TA teams barely do demand planning yet alone do workforce planning. Most Workforce planning teams don't report into TA.

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@HungLee Age discrimination is alive and kicking in most industries still. Very low on radar for every DEI initiative.

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I pity the recruiter managing this inbox. You're about to get smashed....

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If you’re a hardcore software engineer and want to build the everything app, please join us by sending your best work to [email protected].

We don’t care where you went to school or even whether you went to school or what “big name” company you worked at.

Just show us your code.

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@TimSackett Already commonplace for engineering, field engineers etc. can totally see it happening.

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@TimSackett It's because they define it as a pipeline req. Which is often called a pipeline req. Yet people seem this some kind of phishing scam job posting. It's utter scaremongering.

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@HungLee TA leaders are pushing the unique selling point that it won't be as good as a person (questionable) but they don't realise it doesn't need to be. Even if it is only average, if it's 10% of your cost then how will you justify the extra expense.

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@HungLee Yep totally agree. Either go empathetic and run the risk or automate. Human delivered with no empathy is worst of both worlds.

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@TimSackett For me these stats often mask the truth. Are 40% of roles advertised non existent, absolutely not, could 40% of companies have advertised pooling reqs for jobs that don't exist yet (and the stat can be skewed for a dramatic headline) absolutely.

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Given how many people seem to be having LinkedIn issues today it seems crazy that their status page shows everything as operational.... Unless that status page is also broken

https://t.co/kJcR0mWeva

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Every recruiter in tech with open reqs hitting up Amazon folks post 5 day RTO news.

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Welcome to the future....

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Somebody uses an AI Bot to AUTOMATICALLY apply to 1000 JOBS in 24h and get 50 INTERVIEWS! 🤯

And the Bot's code is open-sourced in GitHub. 👨‍🔧

This tool automates your LinkedIn job search and application process.

- Scans for openings matching your criteria,

- Applies to jobs using LinkedIn's "Easy Apply," and

- Generates tailored resumes.

- It uses an LLM to personalize responses for employer questions.

- Can handle bulk applications while maintaining quality control.

- Securely manages your data and integrates with OpenAI's API for AI-driven features.

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The single biggest restrictor of investment and growth in TA is the lack of commercial impact. Why has there not been more valid research on the downstream impact of bad candidate experience especially in B2C firms?

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@HungLee Interesting that none of these are questions or factors in the current Amazon recruiting process.

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@GergelyOrosz Because they know nothing valuable or tangible was produced? Cashing in and out of the hype cycle before the longer term winners survive and come through.

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@ollieglass Well it'll do average really well. But no one will bother reading them as they won't trust the information and will drown in the volume

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It's fascinating to me how many genAI recruitment platforms are springing up and none of them have anyone from recruitment as a cofounder. All are founded by engineers.... The same engineers that complain about the generic spamming by recruiters and low level of service.