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I'm Stevie. Developer turned hiring/people specialist.
Formerly VP People & Talent @ Permutive (YC S14)
I created Talent Stuff to help startups reduce the complexity, time, and costs of hiring impactful leaders: https://www.talentstuff.com/
Host & organiser of HN London
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- Like it or not, LinkedIn is still by far the most used platform by recruiters (agency and internal) looking to hire. I despise the platform but it's undeniably valuable as your career progresses and the probability of being approached by a recruiter increases.
Ultimately, if you're not looking for work, there's zero value in LinkedIn. Realistically, most people choose or need to look for a new job eventually and in that scenario, LinkedIn is by far the most effective platform to increase your odds on finding a new job.
- >The main thing missing from this IMO is an element of chance or randomness, the ability to incorporate “unknown unknowns” into your life.
100% this. When I started working in recruitment, it was literally intended to be a temporary means to an end. I stumbled across Hacker News back in 2010 and accidentally uncovered a niche (tech startups) that has resulted in a career where over the past 15 years has evolved into holding VP level roles at YC startups to now running my own successful recruitment and HR advisory business for startups. I can legitimately attribute that entire path and growth to accidentally stumbling across this website and couldn't possibly have guessed the impact it would ultimately have on my career.
- When there are entire multi-billion dollar industries built on trying to solve the problem you are facing, you can safely assume that the solution is likely more complex than you or I are capable of figuring out effectively. If you're spending +$10k a year on ads, then it might be worth investing a portion of that into a consultation with a small, independent performance marketing agency.
- >Some industries are correcting after the hiring boom of the pandemic
The main correction is the staggering reduction in job vacancies. There's no world where I can be convinced that the surging number of redundancies can be explained away as a post-COVID course correction.
If this was just the market correcting itself, we would have the same level of unemployment today as what we had pre-COVID.
About me: I do People & Talent stuff. Currently run my own reasonably successful business, miss being part of a bigger team working on a mission-driven product. 16 years of experience, previously worked with YC scale-ups. Hosted and organised Hacker News London (Europe's largest tech meetup) for 7 years. Global experience, mostly London & NYC but have People & Talent experience across 12 different countries.Location: London, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Not an engineer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Résumé/CV: https://www.talentstuff.com/about-us Email: in my HN bio (sorry bots)Looking for: Leadership roles in recruitment and/or HR in startups/scaleups working on AI, Education, Healthcare, or Child Safety. Head of Talent/People, Chief People Officer, etc.
Not expecting anything to come of this post but 15 years of interacting with HN has taught me that stranger things have happened so why not give it a go!
- Obligatory xkcd (from 2010!) - https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
- >And it’s decimated other professions like manual agriculture, assembly line jobs, etc.
When Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line, production went from hundreds of cars to thousands. It had a profoundly positive impact on the secondary market, leading to an overall increase in job creation.
I've yet to see any "AI is gonna take your job" articles that even attempt to consider the impact on the secondary market. It seems their argument is that it'll be AI all the way down which is utter nonsense.
- I'm really struggling with Amodei's position because it feels like he (and lots of others) are essentially saying that either AI won't create more job opportunities OR that AI will automatically replace the roles it displaces.
I find both of those positions to be pretty naive which instinctively makes me feel like I'm missing something people way smarter than me (like Amodei) can see but yet never seems to be articulated in these articles.
- Aline is a bit of a Hacker News legend. She's been active here for longer than most people have been working and when you see how she's built her product, it's plainly obvious that she legitimately understands and sides with the HN community.
I bet the genuine answer to your question is that she knows it's a resource that could help tons of people (at a time when tons of people need that help) and paywalling it means that it won't serve that same purpose.
- Create a stock response for candidates that are coming to you via their platform that explains they do not represent your company and that you will not review any applications that come via their platform. Include a link to your own careers page and encourage candidates to reapply there if they are genuinely interested in working for your company.
Have you tried contacting the company directly and asking them to remove your company details from their platform?
- Glassdoor isn't gospel but it is a useful data point.
>How do you realistically tell from outside if a company does treat their people well, or has a difficult culture?
The challenge there is that everyone has different interpretations of 'a difficult culture'. What's important (albeit difficult) is establishing an understanding of the type of environment you thrive in and the types of environments you struggle in. With that understanding, it's important to spend time during an interview process asking open-ended questions that might reveal the aspects you love/hate.
- I hadn't considered the idea that my motivation for writing this might be interpreted as a ploy to generate more business. :)
Most of my perspective comes from working for and with startups. There's nothing wrong with a bit of mutual trust and loyalty. I'm simply warning that too much of either can be detrimental.
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- >In order for that to happen we need to have stable Gaelic communities to sing the ballads and tell the stories, with formal and informal education that invites new generations into the tradition.
Whilst this has been true for centuries, you can actually see it happening right now in real time with Kneecap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneecap_(band)) and the incredible impact they are having on popularising the Irish language.
- >the candidate did not speak any Polish, but was based there and graduated from Warsaw University of Technology. He spoke in broken English, and with a very strong accent that sounded Asian, but these weren’t warning big red flags, and the candidate sounded motivated.
This is ridiculous. According to their resume they lived, studied, and worked in Poland for over 10 years and don't speak Polish? This isn't considered a red flag? This was a screening call and the head of operations categorically failed.
>Communication was a bit choppy, and the candidate did not speak Serbian, despite graduating from the University of Kragujevac, in Serbia. Once again, they sounded motivated, so proceeded to the next round.
So no actual lessons learned from the last time.
- >If anything, we should be proud of britain’s response, especially knowing that it would never get aby kind of gratitude for it.
Some examples of Britain's response:
* Establishing soup kitchens for the starving, where, to acquire food one must renounce your religion, anglicise your name, and abandon your native tongue.
* Provide maize for the starving and destitute but not for free for fear it would generate a sense of self-importance amongst the millions who are dying of hunger
* Maintaining the exportation vast amounts of food to Britain throughout the Great Hunger
* Requiring the starving who couldn't afford to buy food from the British to build pointless walls in order to earn that food
* Forcibly evicting the starving and dying from their homes because they couldn't pay their rent for some reason
* Denying aid to anyone who owned more than a quarter-acre of land, forcing starving farmers to give up their land and become destitute in order to qualify for relief
So, on behalf of all those before me in Ireland; go raibh maith agat.
- Extensive experience with both. These days I default to Deel for no reason other than I find them more flexible with obscure requests and niche questions. They are both competitive in terms of price and both have a solid UI (more important than you'd think).
They also love to compete with each other so make sure to share the quotes with both sides and let them bid for your business.
- I feel like the answers to this will be heavily skewed by the jurisdiction you live under.
Here in the UK, I had an airline hold a substantial amount of my money hostage and they refused to engage in a discussion to allow me to get my money back. I spent ~30mins filling out a small claims court application, paid the obligatory £115 fee, and a few weeks later the airlines lawyers contacted me offering me my money back along with a decent amount of compensation.
Equally, I've witnessed people pursue employment tribunal claims against their employer here in the UK, only for the process to take years, the preparatory effort being enormous, and the outcome being a positive judgement in their favour along with an insultingly meagre financial award. For some, that's still worth it purely for the vindication and validation.
- They already have: https://www.gmb.org.uk/campaigns/deliveroo/
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This is addressed in OPs post. The vast majority of the 'negativity' I encounter on HN is technical critique rather than criticism or toxicity. I've found HN to arguably be one of the least toxic communities.