🎨 50 tips, many recommendations and one big scoop
The Allyance newsletter provides many useful references on recruitment, diversity and inclusion.
Good morning readers !
Last month, The Allyance took a break. During that time, I spent hours watching Les Apparences, a Twitch show hosted by Thomas Lévy-Lasne. These 60-minute-conversations between two painters are an amazing way to deepen one’s knowledge about art.
Thomas is a stunning host and one of the best living painters in France (in my humble opinion). On the 19th of September 2024, he will organize Painter’s Day at Orsay Museum. 80 contemporary painters from French art will be displaying their work and meeting visitors.
It was important for me to mention that day because Thomas made a genuine effort to invite a diverse range of painters : age, culture, gender…etc. He is doing exemplary work towards inclusivity, in a way that The Allyance strives to accomplish in the field of tech.
© Adagp, Paris, 2024 / Judith Prigent, Cyrielle Gulacsy et Thomas Lévy-Lasne
✅ The Allyance newsletter provides many useful references on recruitment, diversity and inclusion. Here are some articles about building AI teams, interviewing tech managers, coding at 50, Microsoft and DEI.
📙The Handbook of Applied AI Teams
Hiring is always a challenge. As Artificial Intelligence (AI also known as Machine Learning) is “eating the world”, AI professionals are in high demand. To help fellow managers and peers, Olivier Koch wrote and open-sourced a Handbook of Applied AI Teams. It is divided into 3 sections: “Building the team”, “Delivering the product” and “Growing people”.
Olivier and I used to work together at Criteo. He is now Onfido’s VP of Applied AI. Olivier is an excellent manager and researcher, and is always eager to hone his skills. Naturally, his handbook is filled with references and concrete examples and you’ll learn:
How to spot a great scientist in 3 minutes
The seven pillars of Applied AI
The six-week rule
Everything you want to know about AI teams without daring to ask
🤩 Hire Better Managers: 50 Interview Questions for Assessing a Candidate
When you have to hire managers, you look for solid technical skills and exceptional relational skills. I often face managers who are at loss about what to ask when meeting candidates. The First Round website assembled 50 interview questions for manager candidates. It is a gold mine. These questions happen to be those I usually share with candidates who target a management position. Coaching is also about giving pragmatic tools! Here are some examples:
Describe a time when you felt your team wasn’t shipping frequently enough. What did you do about it?
When new positions have opened up on your team, did you promote from within or hire externally? What is your philosophy on this?
💻 I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s – here’s what I discovered
I smiled when I read this article from The Guardian. Andrew Smith shares his story about how he ended working on an article about cryptocurrency and felt intrigued about coding and coders. At the age of 50, with no background in programming, he decided to learn something new. I really liked the comparison with pop culture and his moments of self-realisations. For instance:
I was surprised how much fun I had with the Pythonistas. Coding has a gender and race problem, with only about 5% of professionals identifying as women or either Black, African or Caribbean. But strenuous efforts were being made to address the problem within Python communities around the world, notably in Africa. One organisation trying to reverse this imbalance is PyLadies.
🔪 Microsoft is not cutting off its DEI team
This summer, a long article published in Business Insider stated that Microsoft had shut down its entire Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team as it was no longer “business critical”. A lot of people were outraged. A few days later, Microsoft announced that their DEI efforts were intact. They explained two roles were cut on its events team because they were duplicated on another team. Microsoft's chief diversity officer, Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, told the BBC that diversity and investment in the workforce can help fix AI's bias problems:
“As we move forward, our D&I commitments remain unchanged. Our focus on diversity and inclusion is unwavering and we are holding firm on our expectations, prioritizing accountability, and continuing to focus on this work.”
📋 Comment mettre en place l’IA chez vos recruteurs
Le blog Les Talents Narratifs publie un cas pratique de mise en place d’outils d’automatisation pour les équipes de recrutement chez SFEIR. Conformément à la volonté des dirigeants de l’entreprise, l’ensemble des équipes ont été invitées à utiliser une plateforme interne regroupant toutes les IA génératives du marché (Gemini, ChatGPT…).
Côté recrutement, les équipes ont décomposé toutes leurs tâches afin d’écrire des prompts pour les aider au quotidien. Le résultat? Trois mois après les premiers ateliers, plus de 55% des membres des équipes recrutement utilisent la plateforme GenIA interne quotidiennement. Pour les résultats quantitatifs, à suivre…
🔦 The Allyance in the spotlight
🌱 You want to change jobs and look for a more positive impact ? Eustache is a former colleague of mine. When he reached to get support on his ongoing job search, he had one objective : finding a role in the GreenTech ecosystem.
He created a list of tips, links and references which will be useful for other people. He even listed the job boards featuring roles in Climate / GreenTech companies. I am honored he agreed to feature his curated content on The Allyance blog 🌎
🤫 Backstage secrets
✨ The Allyance updated its website with lots of new content ✨
✨ Congratulations to Zoe for her Senior Backend role !
✨ Congratulations to Charles for his Lead Machine Learning Lead role !
🏆 I am coaching a Senior Front-End Engineer (she is ready to interview) and two Machine Learning Researchers.
🚨 I gave a talk at L’Ecole de Médecine entitled “AI²: Why AI Should Be All-Inclusive”
🩷Hot jobs we are working on
🫵 Senior SRE Team Lead
🫵 Senior Back-end Engineer (Python)
🫵 Senior Product Manager
🫵 Engineering Program Manager
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Caroline Therwath-Chavier, The Allyance CEO
September is always a month full of surprises : people start new jobs, some are actively looking for the next role to start the next year and our lives are busy with sports, kids, movies and exhibitions. Have an amazing month!
