A weekly curated roundup of recruiting and talent acquisition content drawn from non-mainstream sources, with a personal editor's note, reader poll results and sponsor messages. Readers get a filtered view of industry news, events and commentary on hiring and HR.
Website: https://recruitingbrainfood.substack.com
Alexander Chukovski writes about how Google changes affect job boards and recruiting sites, backed by his own testing and client data. Recent issues cover Indexing API changes, Google Jobs outages and a 600-query study of AI Overviews on job searches.
Zach Perret, a Plaid co-founder, shares practical hiring and startup management lessons drawn from his experience building the company. Issues cover outbound engineering sourcing channels, a no-titles organisational policy, and the reverse-sell candidate closing technique.
A senior executive search practitioner explains how headhunters build candidate lists from LinkedIn and screen them, and how executives can align their profiles with the roles they want. The issues also cover using AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT for trigger-event research before job postings appear.
Recruiting advice from a veteran recruiter on AI agents, hiring-manager judgment and how the recruiting role is splitting into advisory and engineering paths. Each issue pairs a clear argument with concrete examples or research, such as a study on how much rating variance comes from raters.
One short email a week with hand-picked newsletters from the index. Free, no spam, unsubscribe anytime.
