Week of December 30th, 2024
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The 2025 RecOps Journey
Day 2 of 2025. If you had time off over the holiday season, you are likely shaking off the dust that might have accumulated a little on your RecOps shoes. Here are a few quick reminders for the year ahead:
You don’t have to change everything Week 1. The new year's excitement can make you want to do everything all at once. Here is the thing: You don’t have to. If you didn’t, pause to map everything on your roadmap to the TA team and the company’s goals. If you don’t have either roadmap, then take the opportunity to establish a Scrum model for your projects and setup sprints.
Invest time in learning. Towards the end of last year, we discussed how learning APIs and product management are among the top things to invest your precious time in, but there are plenty more, like prompt engineering and agent building. It might seem like a lot at first, but if you set aside 30 minutes for learning every day, over the course of the year, that is 182 hours (~7.5 days) of learning. That investment in yourself will never be a poor one.
Think like a Product Manager. In recent job descriptions, product management-esque skills are popping up more and more. Take the time to learn more about how they operate and think of ways to incorporate their ideas. We’ll also be doing our best to bring you information and insights from that world into our 2025 writings.
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Articles / Industry News
Articles/Graphics/Podcasts/Posts On Our Radar (sorted by type - Bolded denotes individuals)
Nischal Chadaga and HackerEarth’s How Skills-Based Hiring Lays the Foundation for Inclusive Recruitment Practices? (article)
Recruit CRM’s Top 10 actionable AI recruiting tools you MUST invest in 2025
David Green’s The best HR & People Analytics articles of December 2024 (newsletter)
Colin Matthew’s Technical jargon for PMs and Your Roadmap to Becoming More Technical (newsletter)
Revol-TA Podcast’s How to Market a Job with Katrina Kibben and Brandon Jeffs (podcast)
JobSync’s Technology enablement vs recruiter enablement (video)
Product News (sorted alphabetically)
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Permanent Articles
Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources
Events
2025
Week of January 6th
Ashby’s Ashby 2024 in Review: A look at major releases from the past year and what’s coming next
SelectSoftware Reviews’ Future-Proofing Your Workforce: HR Skills and Training Initiatives to Focus on for 2025 with Andy Storch and Terri Varnell
HIGHER’s 2025 Talent Acquisition Hiring Predictions with Ariana Moon, Benjamin Sesser, and Chris Abbass
Week of January 13th
Week of January 20th
Week of January 27th
Week of February 3rd
Aylin Abdullah, Glenn Martin & Katrina Collier’s BRAINCAMP: The cognitive HIIT for People & Talent Leaders
Week of May 12th
Ashby’s Ashby One - This in-person conference is for the conference for ambitious Talent & RecOps Teams.
Week of June 2nd
Talent Collective’s Talentsphere Summit. For an additional 10% off, use the code RECOPS.
Job Search
Here is the list of previously listed jobs, which may or may not be available.
Additional Resource
ATS/Tool-Specific Job Boards
iCIMS's HR professionals job board aggregates all the HR jobs across their customers
Metaview’s job board highlights companies in their portfolio that use their product
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’s 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 and Gabi Preston-Phypers for QA help. Follow both of them for excellent boolean and sourcing content.
#YourNextHire / People Looking In the RecOps Community
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.
🎉 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 😊