Week of December 9th, 2024
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Predictions in RecOps 2025
You are probably seeing three types of content at the moment: Spotify-wrapped remixes, recaps/retrospectives, and future predictions. Since we couldn’t top last year’s Spotify wrap, we focused on the future predictions this week instead. We reached out to our network for ideas, synthesized that list to five, and kept the takeaways anonymized so people could speak freely.
RecOps will take on more of a PM role.
More than one person mentioned this, and it is starting to be reflected in more recent RecOps job descriptions. Key contributing factors people cited were translating non-technical inputs into technical ones for AI, the need to facilitate at scale, and investing more time in launching projects correctly at the start rather than pivoting in the middle.
The technical requirements to do the role well will increase.
This was also talked about frequently. Lots of discussions about RecOps professionals needing to be able to connect APIs and having knowledge of a data language like SQL/R/Python. The data language piece is fascinating, given the increase in low/no code dashboards and more ATSes offering sophisticated, native dashboards (which has largely become table stakes). The APIs do make sense, though, as this will help connect different tools.
AI literacy and building agents will start to creep in as a requirement.
This is a blanket statement for most Ops roles right now. AI literacy will help evaluate new tools and enable your teams to perform better with new prompts. By the end of 2025, RecOps teams will work on agentic, specialist, and generalist agents to optimize the efficiency of their broader TA team.
RecOps teams will partner with Employer Branding/Marketing teams to figure out ways to cut the LinkedIn cord.
The newer generations want to be met differently and apply to roles differently. This might be a late 2025 development but more and more RecOps teams will figure out where the new candidate watering holes are to source from.
RecOps will build the first process where candidates don’t talk to the recruiter until after the initial interview.
That statement is bound to ruffle some feathers with a title line like that, so let’s explain what we mean. The original line we thought of was, “RecOps will build the first human-less process until the hiring manager screens.” The problem is that saying “human-less” makes it seem like we are advocating for a cold and unempathetic process, and that isn’t what we are saying. Now, a new class of tools is being built - AI interviewers (e.g., Talent Llama, Braintrust). These tools will allow candidates to interview at times that are more convenient for their schedules and, in the theme of doing more with less, companies will be able to evaluate more interviews versus just resumes. Let’s be clear: this doesn’t mean the end of the Recruiter or RC roles. It means an adaption of the role to review the outcomes before moving them onto the next step.
RecOps - The GPT
RecOps - Available in the OpenAI store and free to use.
Articles / Industry News
Articles/Graphics/Podcasts/Posts On Our Radar (sorted by type - Bolded denotes individuals)
Heather Doshay’s From A to GenZ: How to build a multi-generational company (article)
Ivan Stojanovic’s The Future of Recruitment: AI Transforming Process and Project Work (article)
Martyn Redstone’s The Balance of Power in Recruitment: Why AI Is the Game-Changer We Weren’t Ready For AND Mass AI-Apply Tools: A Threat to Recruitment Processes and Cybersecurity (article)
Growth by Design Talent’s Evolving Recruiting Coordination: Structure, Strategy, and Automation (article)
Covey’s How Machine Learning is Transforming Talent Acquisition (blog)
Kula’s The Ultimate Guide to Mastering AI in Recruiting (ebook)
SmartRecruiters’ Survey: Unlocking Profitability with AI-driven Talent Acquisition (ebook)
hireEZ’s It's the End of Recruiting as We Know It (and I Feel Fine) (ebook)
Glenn Lindley’s Update to his TA Tech image (image)
Benjamin Mena’s The Elite Recruiter Podcast episode Why RecOps is Crucial for Modern Recruiting Success (podcast)
Luke Eaton - Improving data quality (post)
Brandon Jeff’s RevolTA’s State of RecOps with Kelli Bledsoe (podcast)
HiPeople’s The State of Pre-Employment Screening 2025: Trends Shaping the Future of Talent Assessment (report)
Cronofy’s Product Update December 2024 (video)
JobSync and Justin Schmidt’s 🔄 When Marketing Ops meets RecOps (video)
Product News (sorted alphabetically)
Ashby (AiO) - Feature updates: Mobile experience
Brighthire (Interview Intelligence) - Feature: Candidate ask
candidate.fyi (Candidate Experience/Scheduling) - Announcement: New website launch
Crew (AiO) - Feature updates: Email & Phone number
Cronofy (Scheduling) - Feature: ATS Placeholders
GoodTime (Scheduling) - Announcement: Workday Innovation Partner achieved
Juicebox/PeopleGPT (Sourcing) - New Features: Smart Email Notifications, Power Filters: D1, Vets, Hackathon, Organizational Updates
Metaview (Interview Transcription) - Announcement: New users in December get the free forever promotion, Integration: SmartRecruiters
Poetry (Recruiter Enablement) - Feature Demo: Playbook creation
SmartRecruiters (ATS) - Integration: Metaview
Talent Llama (Skill-Based Conversational AI) - Announcement: Sign before January 1st and get 3 months free + 100 interviews
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/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
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Events
Week of December 16th
Two Tired Dads’ The Recruiters Online Xmas Special for SOS Children’s Villages
Greenhouse - Scaling with speed: How structured hiring drives efficiency and growth
2025
Week of January 6th
Week of June 2nd
Talent Collective’s Talentsphere Summit. Tickets are now at the pre-sale price but will change after the 1st of the year. For an additional 10% off, use the code RECOPS.
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