So this may be a test post to see the whether it is worthwhile for me to spend a day or two writing an annual review for Recruiting Brainfood. I guess I should insert a cover image of some sort this is a test post

We know we have a Problem with Job Titles. In our previous blog post of this series, we looked at users on our platform who self-identified as ‘Software Engineers’ and compared how they interpreted their jobs based on the key question we ask on our matching service — how do…

One of the challenges of making a really simple product is finding out a suitable way to describe it. For all the elevator pitches and slide decks around, we’ve found that nothing explains what we do better than seeing the product at work itself. We’ve made a 60 second video…

The hidden costs in recruitment is just how long everything takes. This is true even at the beginning of the process where the drafting of job descriptions seems hard work that we don’t often get right. The task is to create artefacts which transport job information from the owner of…

DigitalOcean — a cloud hosting service its founders say was built for developers in mind. Overview DigitalOcean is a SSD-powered cloud hosting platform. It is an incredibly user friendly service that takes Developer Experience to a whole new level when building and deploying web servers. The young hosting service prides itself…

The artefacts traditionally used to describe work — CV’s/Resumes, job descriptions and job adverts — are text based documents which need to be read and interpreted before they can be understood. It’s hard work that we often get wrong. In this blog post, we are going to examine a common…

Hey Everybody, Welcome to our new UI. It’s always nerve racking stepping out with a new look, but as soon as we saw the initial designs, we just knew we had to ship. We’re confident you’re going to love the changes we’ve made to Workshape.io . In this post, I…

Hey Everybody, Welcome to the Workshape.io blog! We’re going to be using this channel for the usual stuff like company news, product announcements and mea culpas for the fumbles that we’re inevitably going to make along the way. This is also the place where we are going to give our…

A few weeks ago I was asked by a CEO friend of mine whether I knew anybody who might make a decent recruiter for an in-house position in his Startup. I said I didn’t, but I’d take a look because if they are any good they’ll have a digital footprint…