Week of August 26th, 2024
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Never Saying No Will Destroy You by Brandon Wadley
Editor Note: We saw this post from Brandon and are printing it with his consent and support. It is an excellent topic for all of us in RecOps. To comment and contribute on the original post, here is the link.
Never saying "no" will eventually destroy you. 🛑
Many recruiting teams have been thinned out to the bare minimum, and if you're lucky, you're starting to slowly build back up. But that means you're expected to wear all the hats 🎩, take on the extra workload, and despite working 50+ hours a week, you're reluctant to push back out of fear of being replaced.
If you're not honest with yourself and the business, you're setting both up for failure.
It might feel uncomfortable at first, and you may feel like you’re failing because you can’t "do it all" 🌀. But trust me, you'll be better off, and the business will respect you for it. 💪
When you're too afraid to say "no," you keep piling it on because you think you're supposed to be able to handle it. You take on the excess req load because it’s deemed P0 priority 🚨 (due to their poor planning), and your recruiters are already overburdened.
Your calendar is gridlocked, you can’t afford time away from your desk for lunch, things start to slip, hiring managers get frustrated 😤, and you’re playing defense for yourself and your team. You know you're one bus-throwing Slack message away from being found out.
Let me let you in on a secret: It’s okay to say "no." In fact, it’s your responsibility to do so.
As a Talent Leader, it’s your duty to educate, set realistic expectations, and establish boundaries. If you let others dictate how recruiting is run, they’ll run all over you and wonder why you failed.
Do yourself a favor: take stock of everything on your plate, determine what’s reasonable/essential to achieve within 40-50 hours a week, and identify what needs a "no" (or "not right now"). The next step would be advocating for proper resourcing, tools, or automation but that will only come if you've first set your and your team's boundaries.
The good news is, you don’t need to be superhuman to succeed as a Talent Leader 🦸♂️. You need to be honest with your limits and avoid burnout. Your team, your business, and your future self will thank you. 🙏
You don’t need to do it alone. We’ve been in your shoes and understand the challenges of running a TA function. That’s exactly why we went into the business of Talent Operations consulting: to set TA leaders and teams up for success by building or reinforcing the foundation, tools, and recruiting culture needed to go from chaos to control. 🔧✨
Tip: Saying no doesn't even have to contain the word no. Here are a few alternates:
"Yes, we can do that...but it will have to be next month."
"We're happy to help... we'll need to push back another project/pause another role."
"Absolutely, we're at max capacity right now so we'll need additional resources to make it work."
I'd love to hear from you! How do you handle the pressure to say "yes" when you know it's time to say "no"? Share your experiences and strategies in the comments (Link)
RecOps - GPT Update
RecOps Conference - If you haven’t picked up a ticket to the event yet, here is a link for a 15% discount. Exciting news as well - you will also get a digital copy to James Colino’s book closer to the event and rumor has it that Luke Eaton might have a surprise gift as well. If you're having trouble convincing your company or manager to send you, reach out, and we’ll chat with you about it. This event is for the community, so we want to help you.
RecOps - We’re going to working hard to make sure we train the prompts. If you haven’t used the GPT yet, it is available in the OpenAI store and free to use.
Articles / Industry News
Articles/Graphics/Podcasts/Posts On Our Radar
Cronofy‘s Is It Time to Change Your Recruitment Game Plan? (blog)
Findem’s An AI maturity model for recruiting and talent leaders (blog)
Recruit CRM and Rhona Barnett-Pierce’s How can you leverage ATS data for effective candidate sourcing? (blog)
Jobvite’s The Strategic Guide to Modern Talent Acquisition Technology (ebook)
Screenloop’s Master the ATS Switch (playbook)
Adam Gordon and Poetry’s 36 recruitment processes mapped to tech (post)
Benjamin Sesser and Brighthire’s How many interviews deliver a truly A+ candidate experience? (post)
iCIMS’s GenAI Prompting Best Practices (post)
Joseph Ifiegbu of eqtble’s Candidate Source by 90-Day Performance Review Scores (post)
Rebecca Carr of SmartRecruiters and Matt Alder’s Recruiting Future Podcast episode on Reinventing The ATS For A New Era (podcast)
Industry News (sorted alphabetically with space in the RecOps community in parenthesis)
Ashby (AiO) - Integration Partner: Dado and Boon, New Feature: Hiring Manager Experience
Brighthire (Interview Intelligence) - New/Updated Feature: Voice of Candidate Insights, Employer Brand in Action
Dover (ATS/Screening) - New/updated features: Merge candidate profiles, Cancel queued emails to candidates, Customize candidate information
Gem (AiO) - Bulk Upload to Greenhouse from Gem Projects & Prospect Search
Manatal (AiO) - New Feature: Custom Resume Features
Metaview (Interview Transcription) - Pulling out themes
Pinpoint (ATS) - New/updated features: Workflow Stage Groups, Rejecting from Emails, Rich text JDs
Poetry (Recruiter Enablement) - New feature: Enhanced Research Solution
Praisidio (Analytics) - New Feature: Custom Reporting and dashboards for ADP Workforce Now
Profile.com (AI Co-Pilot) - 4 Slots left for the September Pilot
Permanent Articles
Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources
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
Drew Callin’s list of VC and PE job boards for their portfolios (pay attention to the comments too here since there are more)
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 more accessible 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 beautiful 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
Unfortunately, I had to leave my RecOps role at Snap Inc. in June due to the rollout of RTO policies. I am based in Portland, OR, and looking for program manager, RecOps, and talent acquisition specialist roles based in Portland. I wore many hats at Snap over the last few years, but I am most proud of our Contingent Workforce Program Revamp project. My team partnered with the Workday engineering team and Snap HR Technology team to build a self-service onboarding portal in Workday for managers to hire their Contingent Workers, saving 1000+ hours of manual data entry.
List of roles you are looking for:
Recruiting Operations Specialist
Recruiting Program Manager
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Are you a RecOps professional looking for work? If you have 5 minutes, take the opportunity to complete this quick questionnaire. Not only will you be featured in an upcoming Roundup, it will also help us mention your name when people ask for referrals.
Here is a Google Sheet View for a list of people who were previously featured and are still looking.
Events
Week of September 2nd
Association of Talent Acquisition Professionals (ATAP) - Global TA Day (We’re presenting at 11:45 AM (ET) / 8:45 AM (PT))
ModernLoop - Unlock Efficiency with ModernLoop’s New Sourcing Links
Brighthire - Brainfood Live On Air - Ep271 - Hiring Insights from 1 Million Job Interviews
Week of September 9th
SelectSoftware Reviews - Rethinking Your HR Tech Strategy: Where to Invest, Upgrade, or Cut Back in Q4 and Beyond with Phil Strazzulla, Jackson Lynch, and Jeremy Lyons
AssessFirst - The Future of Recruitment: Challenging Mainstream Practices
Eploy - Harnessing the power of video to enhance your candidate experience
Pinpoint - Breakfast Event: From Buzzwords to Boardroom: Mastering HR Messaging for C-Suite Impact
GoodTime - GoodTime Unveiled: In-Depth Product Overview & Essential Features
RecruiterFlow - How to Build a Winning Sales Playbook for Your Recruitment Business
Week of September 16th
SelectSoftware Reviews - Justifying an HR Tech Purchase: Robust cost-benefit analysis, ROI projections, and presenting your findings to leadership.
JobSync - Building a Recruiting First Culture - a CEO's Perspective with Gary Noke
October 2024
WeAreLATech - Podcast Panel and Brunch: "LA Tech Community Builders" LA #TechWeek and Female Founder Showcase LA #TechWeek
🎉 Reminders and Disclaimers 🎉
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Until next week, Regulators 😊