Week of April 29th, 2024
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Always Be a Candidate by Jeremy Lyons
The acronym ABC might be one of the most common in the English-speaking world. The most popular is likely Always Be Closing due to the Alec Baldwin scene in Glengarry Glen Ross (Strong language warning). But in the world of RecOps, one to think about is always be a candidate.
Why Always Be a Candidate?
Two reasons: creativity and empathy.
Creativity and Empathy?
Yes. The empathy piece comes from thinking through your processes, your job descriptions, and your candidate experience and asking yourself the question, “If I were a candidate, what would I want to see or experience here?” The creativity comes in because once you have identified every element, it becomes how you make the needed and necessary changes.
Does that mean that we should also always be interviewing?
That’s a fair question and my answer might be a spicy take: yes, you should. One important but often overlooked aspect of RecOps is its ability to operate as an intelligence function. By interviewing with other companies, you will see what they are doing in action and likely discover new tools (e.g., do they have a candidate management tool like candidate.fyi or something homegrown?). This type of research ensures you aren’t stagnant in your processes and thinking.
Candidate Experience
RecOps - Your Friendly RecOps GPT Update
RecOps has handled thousands of prompts from folks. Thank you to all those who are using it and helping it learn.
Link: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-PDEG1n7fb-recops
Articles / Industry News
Articles We’re Reading/Podcasts We’re Listening To
Ashby’s most recent episode of Offer Accepted with Jeremy Lyons. Why? The content discusses international influences on your hiring strategy, influencing programmatics and enablement.
Andrew Lewis’ Demystifying RecOps with Jeremy Lyons. Why? Andrew is a fantastic host that asks enlightening questions so this is a good listen.
John Vlastelica’s Breaking Down Silos: Why Companies Are Taking a More Holistic Approach to Talent Acquisition Leadership - Why? This is an excellent rundown of the future of hiring and shifts in TA mindset. If what John talks about in the article interests you, I’d also recommend following Matthias Schmeisser.
Luke Eaton’s The Data Driven Recruiter - Why? Luke is known in our space for being hyper data drive but extremely good at making it easy to understand. His weekly newsletter is filled with the right amount of knowledge and humor.
Adriano Herdman’s Interviewer’s Cheat Sheet - Why? This is an excellent visual, as Adriano is becoming famous for.
Growth By Design Talent’s Preparing Your Recruiting Team for an IPO - Why? Preparing for an IPO as a talent team is about as wild a ride as you can go on and there isn’t like a manual someone puts in front of you while you are doing it… until now. This is a fantastic read.
Industry News (sorted alphabetically with space in the RecOps community in parenthesis)
Ashby (AiO) - Hidden Gems: Calculated Fields
Brighthire (Interview Intelligence) - Feature releases
candidate.fyi (Candidate Experience) - Listed as a startup reinventing work in 2024, Prelude Customer Portal
Dover (ATS) - Product Updats: Share email templates across roles, star your top candidates, pin candidate notes, and company/account settings in one place
Jobsync (Hiring Operations Platform) - It's All About Storytelling: How Mission Driven Organizations Hire and Keep Great Talent
Lattice (People Platform) - 30+ Cutting-Edge AI Tools for HR Teams
Poetry (Recruiter Enablement) - Talent Acquisition: The Optimal Structure for 'Kick-Off Meetings'
Pinpoint (ATS) - Product Updates: Applications: Export to PDF, Interviews: Mark “no-show” status, Offers: Send updated offers faster
Recruiterflow (AiO) - April Updates
SeekOut (Sourcing) - Whitepaper: Future of Skills
SmartRecruiters (ATS) - Myths Surrounding AI in the Recruitment Industry Busted
Tribepad (AiO) - Bias Infographic
Permanent Articles
Job Search
Here is the list of previously listed jobs, which may or may not be available.
Additional Resource
ATS Specific Job Boards
iCIMS's HR professionals job board aggregates all the HR jobs across their customers
Workable’s job board aggregates all jobs for companies that use Workable
SmartRecruiters’ job board aggregates all jobs for companies that use SR
Denys Dinkevych's remote job board, which aggregates jobs from all the major ATS
TrueUp - Has a fantastic job board filled with information others don’t like the last time the company did a layoff, application experience based on the ATS, and more.
Boolean Strings for Specific ATS Job Search
We’ve consolidated our list of boolean search strings for RecOps professionals to make them easier for everyone. Check out the list here. Kaitlyn Elting also built a generator for you if you are worried about your attention to detail.
Thank you to Steve Levy for contributing so many wonderful strings and Gabi Preston-Phypers for QA help. Follow both of them for excellent boolean and sourcing content.
#YourNextHire / People Looking In the RecOps Community
Short Bio
With over 10 years of experience in human resources and talent acquisition, I am passionate about creating efficient, effective, and enjoyable recruiting processes that attract the best talent, and make things easier and more efficient for HR/Recruiting teams.
I have worked across various industries, from small gaming startups to architectural firms and large international financial institutions, and understand the nuance in each company's needs for their recruitment teams.
Whether designing scalable recruitment workflows or managing internship programs, I look forward to my next opportunity to create systems and processes that decrease redundancy and manual administration for internal users and improve the experience for candidates.
List of roles you are looking for:
Recruiting Operations Manager, Campus Recruiting Program Manager, Recruiting/HR Lead (Small Business/Startup)
Here is a Google Sheet View for a list of people who were previously featured and are still looking.
Events
candidate.fyi (with Nitin Moorjani, Amy Wood, and Pam Kocke) - How Automattic transformed their candidate experience with candidate.fyi
🎉 Reminders and Disclaimers 🎉
If you’d like to contribute a job, an article (one you found or wrote), or you are a company and have a product update you want featured, contact Jeremy Lyons.
Please use this form if you or someone you know would like to be featured in our #YourNextHire section. The only condition is you are a RecOps professional.
Disclaimer #1: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author, and they do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company. Assumptions made in the analysis do not reflect the position of any entity other than the author. As critically thinking professionals, these views are always subject to change, revision, and rethinking at any time. They are not to be held in perpetuity.
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Until next week, Regulators 😊