Live with us today at Talent Acquisition Week is Brian Fink, Talent Acquisition Partner at McAfee, to discuss how to recruit in online chat forums. We discuss why this event is not one to be missed, why Brian loves Hired and events in general, and what his presentation is about. Brian even shares with us how he "hacks Slack," how he recruits on Discord, and why you should use your personal email address when joining these communities, as well as how you can find them and what mistakes to avoid. We delve into why Brian offers practice interviews and resume reviews before discussing why conversations have to be taken offline. He also tells us what he looks for when recruiting for certain roles and shares the best career advice he has ever gotten. To hear all this and more, tune in now!

 

Key Points From This Episode:

 

• Why you don’t want to miss this event next year and what Brian likes about events.

• What Brian’s presentation is about: how to hack Slack!

• Why he loves that Hired gives him the opportunity to make credible relationships. 

• Tips for recruiting on Discord. 

• Why you can hire immediately and give feedback on a resume. 

• How to join these online communities and why you should use your personal email address. 

• Why Brian offers mock interviews to people who are sharing their resumes. 

• What he looks for when he’s looking to hire for specific roles. 

• The importance of taking conversations offline. 

• How to find these online communities. 

• How these communities protect themselves from people who handle things incorrectly.

• Brian shares the best career advice he’s ever received with us!

 

Tweetables:

 

“Your community is going to tell you what they’re interested in and how you can bring value to them.” — @thebrianfink [0:19:46]

 

“[Always] do one more [thing than the other guy is doing]. It will set you apart from a work ethic standpoint, but also from a candidate experience standpoint.” — @thebrianfink [0:21:32]

 

Longer Quotes:

 

“I like to think of recruitment as tuning into the channel, WIIFM: what’s in it for me? When you tune into WIIFM, we’re able to have a genuine conversation not built around what we’re trying to serve and the interests that we’re trying to perpetuate but instead the mission that that candidate or that individual is trying to serve.” — @thebrianfink [0:06:13]

 

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

 

Brian Fink on LinkedIn

Brian Fink on Twitter

Brian Fink on Instagram

Kubernetes Slack

Slack

Medium

Discord

Slofile

Talk Talent to Me

Hired