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Organisational Dysfunction of the Day

Hired from above

Context: The team is behind. The deadline is real and the backlog is not shrinking fast enough. Management wants to help. A decision is made to bring in a consultant, someone experienced, available quickly, and with the right skills on paper. The team hears about it when the contract is already signed. The new person joins on Monday. The team now has to onboard them, explain the codebase, the context, the decisions made six months ago and why, the unwritten rules, the ongoing tensions. The work does not stop while this happens. Two weeks in, the team is further behind than before. Management considers hiring another consultant.

OST explains: Who is in a group is the most fundamental design decision a group can make. In DP2, self-managing groups control their own composition, who joins, when, at what pace, and how new members are integrated. It is a prerequisite for the group to function as a coherent unit, not a privilege. In DP1, hiring is a management function located above the team. The team is a set of roles to be filled, and filling them is somebody else's job. The consultant dropped in under deadline pressure is the extreme version of this. Brooks' Law, adding manpower to a late software project makes it later, is one of the best-known observations in software development. It is broken routinely, by well-meaning people, for structural reasons OST can name. The same dynamic operates in every organisation where teams have no meaningful say in who works alongside them. At best they get to interview candidates and offer an opinion. The decision is made elsewhere. In OST terms, the group that cannot design its own membership cannot fully own its own work. The onboarding cost that Brooks identified is primarily a social system problem, not a knowledge transfer problem. A new person disrupts the group's established patterns of coordination and trust. Those patterns take time to rebuild, and they cannot be rebuilt on demand or to somebody else's schedule. The consultant who eventually left had never really joined.

#OpenSystemsTheory #SocioTechnical #OrgDesign #recruitment

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The series has become a book, available now on Leanpub.
http://www.organisationaldysfunctions.com

US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-gamer-air-traffic-controllers-faa-recruitment-sean-duffy/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265879

#HackerNews #US #air #traffic #controllers #video #gamers #recruitment #FAA #gamers

Today I logged into #LinkedIn for the first time in months, and my goodness, I really haven't missed it at all.

It’s still the same old bragging about the most trivial achievements, and truly awful AI slop (and I say that as a PhD candidate in AI). Who on earth likes that?

Unfortunately, when it comes to #recruitment, there's still no getting round LinkedIn … or is there anyone here in my bubble who knows of any good, noteworthy alternative platforms?

#Hiring

Intellectual Property For Sale – August 2026

I am putting some items of my intellectual property library up for sale.

I have the following items for sale:

• Intellectual property, blueprints, software and marketing planning relating to the travel industry.
• Intellectual property, business plans, software and marketing plans relating to the executive search sector.
• Intellectual property, blueprints, marketing plans and software code for the property sector.
• Intellectual property, blueprints, software, and marketing plans for the deal making sector
• Intellectual property and software for the micro private equity and private equity sector including effort equity swap management
• Intellectual property for IT recruitment (contract) sector.

I own all the rights to these items.

All discussions will need to be subject to NDA

I may be selling more items from my library shortly.

I can sell these items as a whole or in lots.

I am open to serious offers.

I am open to all discussions and any interested parties should contact me using the form below.

A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/economy/data-center-electricians-training.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098198

#HackerNews #AI #Recruitment #Electricians #Carpenters #Workforce #Development

Monday, July 27, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/monday-july-27-2026/

Sunday, July 26, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/sunday-july-26-2026/

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PlanBEE Rail apprentices celebrate landmark graduation at National Railway Museum http://dlvr.it/TTZhz9 #IndustryNews #RailNews #recruitment #TrainOperatingCompanies

PlanBEE Rail apprentices celebrate landmark graduation at National Railway Museum http://dlvr.it/TTZg2C #IndustryNews #RailNews #recruitment #TrainOperatingCompanies

Gee, if only there was a way of preventing us wasting both our time to begin with. A mystery that will clearly never be solved. 🤔🫠

"substantial mismatch" is going on my personal website though.

#hiring #recruitment

Is Palantir among the most evil companies in the world? Answers on a postcard!

“Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed”

by Nafeez Ahmed, Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu in The Byline Times on Substack

@uk_politics
@thegreenparty
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@palantirwatch
@hopenothate

“The world-renowned university has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at Cambridge. Why?”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/palantir-co-founder-peter-thiel-and

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Thiel #Palantir #CambridgeUniversity #FacultyOfDivinity #Recruitment #Orr #FarRight #ReformUK #Farage #ConservativeKibbutz #RightWingMecca #Vance #Mandelson #Epstein #Crypto

Intellectual Property For Sale – July 2026

I am putting some items of my intellectual property library up for sale.

I have the following items for sale:

• Intellectual property, blueprints, software and marketing planning relating to the travel industry.
• Intellectual property, business plans, software and marketing plans relating to the executive search sector.
• Intellectual property, blueprints, marketing plans and software code for the property sector.
• Intellectual property, blueprints, software, and marketing plans for the deal making sector
• Intellectual property and software for the micro private equity and private equity sector including effort equity swap management
• Intellectual property for IT recruitment (contract) sector.

I own all the rights to these items.

All discussions will need to be subject to NDA

I may be selling more items from my library shortly.

I can sell these items as a whole or in lots.

I am open to serious offers.

I am open to all discussions and any interested parties should contact me using the form below.

Kremlin Expands Recruitment, Targeting Debtors and Ex-Prisoners Amid Raids

In brief: According to Atesh and Russian local reporting, authorities in Russia’s regions have intensified street raids to identify and pressure vulnerable men into signing military contracts. The campaign reportedly targets debtors and former prisoners as the Kremlin struggles to replace mounting battlefield losses. These claims align with earlier reporting on forced mobilization in the Penza region.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/78698

#WarOfAggression #Ukraine #Recruitment #Debtors #ExPrisoners #Atesh #Crimea #occupied #Penza #mobilization #warfare #army #war #Russia #DeepStrike #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers
#перемогаYкраїни

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Northern named the highest-ranking rail operator in nationwide apprenticeship rankings http://dlvr.it/TT4lJb #RailNews #recruitment #TrainOperatingCompanies #training

Northern named the highest-ranking rail operator in nationwide apprenticeship rankings http://dlvr.it/TT4kmc #RailNews #recruitment #TrainOperatingCompanies #training

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Top 10 Tech Recruitment Agencies for SaaS & WordPress Companies in 2026 https://visualmodo.com/top-10-tech-recruitment-agencies-for-saas-wordpress-companies/ 🔌🌐💡 #Recruitment #Tech #Agencies #SaaS #WordPress

Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

https://algorithmichiring.github.io/

#HackerNews #AlgorithmicMonocultures #Hiring #Diversity #TechEthics #Recruitment #AI

jobkey- Allahabad High Court Research Associates Recruitment 2026 Online Form.

#jobkey #AllahabadHighCourt #research #researchassociate #Jobs #jobsearch #jobsnearme #JobSeekers #jobshiring #jobsearching #jobvacancy #jobinterview #JobOpportunity #job #SarkariNaukri #sarkari #exam #naukari #recruitment #govtjobs

Anthropic's culture interview has become a bottleneck that coaching services struggle to address. Recruiters cite pre-packaged storytelling scripts as the top failure mode, even among candidates who cleared every technical hurdle. The result: weeks of team-matching limbo with no feedback. https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-candidates-spend-4-600-coaching-for-a-no-code-interview/ #AI #Hiring #Recruitment

Intellectual Property For Sale – June 2026

I am putting some items of my intellectual property library up for sale.

I have the following items for sale:

• Intellectual property, blueprints, software and marketing planning relating to the travel industry.
• Intellectual property, business plans, software and marketing plans relating to the executive search sector.
• Intellectual property, blueprints, marketing plans and software code for the property sector.
• Intellectual property, blueprints, software, and marketing plans for the deal making sector
• Intellectual property and software for the micro private equity and private equity sector including effort equity swap management
• Intellectual property for IT recruitment (contract) sector.

I own all the rights to these items.

All discussions will need to be subject to NDA

I may be selling more items from my library shortly.

I can sell these items as a whole or in lots.

I am open to serious offers.

I am open to all discussions and any interested parties should contact me using the form below.

Seen in a job spec:-
"Full learning & development support (incl. LinkedIn Learning)"

Why do HR think that online-only prerecorded training is such a good thing for technical staff that they advertise it? To be fair, my employer recently moved from LinkedIn Learning to one of the other cheap academy sites.

I have to pay myself if I want a course with a live tutor.

#technology #HR #training #Linkedin #recruitment

Exes or alumni

I’ve seen a few posts on LinkedIn recently about both the mass layoffs done in the worst way and also posts about people wanting a second chance after leaving or turning down a job offer. And I doubt many of the former companies are having those latter conversations.

So how do you treat your former employees and employers? What culture are you showing to your clients, your contractors, your colleagues, and your candidates?

When the relationship ends, do you seek to cut yourself off, like a betrayal, or continue to foster a relationship, even slight, so that collaborations in the future are possible? Are there people and places you’d be happy to return to in the right circumstances, and the ones that got away that you still pine for?

Thinking back on my career, I definitely have a mix, but very heavily weighted towards finding paths back. Indeed, at least 3 roles, and a few interviews on top, have been due to reconnecting with people I’d previously worked with, and rekindling opportunities.

I never want to leave a relationship sour, even when there are cultural differences that mean I wouldn’t want to work somewhere again, there are always people and projects that I’ll keep an interest in.

So, for all those you no longer work with, or never got the chance to work with, are you testing them with bitterness, like the ex you blame for everything that went wrong when you were with them? Or do you feel like an alumnus, a community that grew with a shared goal, and still keeps in touch because your past will always impact your future?

Leave the Door Open for Employees to Return to Your Organization