Send us a textIn this episode, Marcus Edwardes speaks with Hung Lee, who built the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter from scratch into a thriving community of over 25,000 adoring fans, with a potent and fascinating curation of content aimed to satisfy, inform, and entertain recruiting and growth professionals all over the globe.Aside from Recruiting Brainfood, Hung is the co-founder of tech recruitment company Workshape.io and the tech startup 300 Notes.Listen in as Hung shares the limitations of an algorithmic newsfeed like that of LinkedIn, a key strategy to getting engagement for your content on LinkedIn in spite of the algorithm, where you should put your focus if you want to build a big email list, the importance of being relentlessly consistent to build (and keep) a large audience, and the pros and cons of the hybrid workplace.What You’ll Learn in This Episode:●      [02:30] What is Recruiting Brainfood?●      [04:32] Recruiting Brainfood’s reader avatar●      [06:15] How Recruiting Brainfood differs from the LinkedIn newsfeed●      [10:36] Getting your content out there even if the algorithm is “against” you●      [13:31] Building your own custom audience with an email list●      [18:00] Why you need to stay consistent with your content●      [20:34] How Recruiting Brainfood makes money●      [22:52] What Hung would change if he could start the business again●      [27:22] How Recruiting Brainfood filters its article submissions●      [30:14] Trends that emerged out of the pandemic in the recruiting industry●      [32:36] Why a hybrid working environment may not work in the long run●      [41:12] The slippery slope of measuring productivity in recruitment●      [45:45] How entry-level positions fit into a work-from-home environment●      [50:58] The future of designing workplace culture●      [52:03] Hung’s plans for Recruiting Brainfood in 2021Key quotes:●      “Recruiting Brainfood was created to reduce the size of the internet to make it more relevant to people who are in the recruiting and HR profession.”●      “What gets interactions is not necessarily great content. It’s usually outrageous, emotive content that generates that kind of engagement.”●      “Yes, you should experiment in your business, but you shouldn’t experiment irresponsibly with your people’s attention.”Resources Mentioned:●      Recruiting BrainfoodConnect with Marcus https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusedwardes/

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