Week of February 24th, 2025
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Thank you everyone who continued to read the newsletter while we were taking a short break! We’re going to keep this section intentionally short because a lot happened while we were away. Don’t worry though, we’ll return with some thoughts in this area soon enough.
Weekly Survey
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)
Martyn Redstone’s The RecOps Engineer: Taking Recruitment Operations to the Next Level (article)
Mike Pierce’s The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Job Roles: Preparing for Workplace Transformation (article)
Kula’s The global guide to AI recruiting regulations. Are you compliant? (article)
Eric Guidice’s Workforce Planning vs Workforce Management vs Headcount Planning vs Headcount Management (chart)
SmartRecruiters’ ROI of the Ultimate Talent Acquisition Platform (ebook)
GoodTime’s Rethinking AI in HR: Balancing Innovation, Risk, and Human-Centric Solutions (guide)
Johnny Campbell’s Hiring Processes: When to Follow, When to Ignore, and When to Adapt (newsletter)
CodeSignal and Ashby’s Playbook: Leveraging AI for a Human-Centric Hiring Process (playbook)
Growth by Design Talent’s State of Training Survey 2025 (survey)
Pillar with Lydia Wu’s You Like This AI Tool, Now What?: How To Introduce AI Into Your Organization (webinar)
📰 Product News
Ashby (AiO) - Integration: Ironclad, SproutsAI, HireRight. Feature improvement: Calendar context
Brainner (Resume Screening) - Feature: AI Resume Screening Agent
Brighthire (Interview Intelligence) - Feature Release: Topics Coverage and Candidate Summaries, Compensation Redaction
CandorIQ (Headcount/Compensation) - Two-way sync with Ashby
Gem (AiO) - Platform Redesign to be AI-First
hireEZ (Sourcing/CRM) - Integration: TeamTailor
Lever (ATS) - Feature: Bulk job closure
Metaview (Interview Transcription) - Partnership perk with Gem
Pinpoint (ATS) - February Feature Releases
SCALIS (ATS / Job Board) - Feature Releases: Scorecard templates, Job Ad Marketplace, Job Board Distribution, Partnership: VONQ
Screenloop (AiO) - Bad Hire Cost Calculator
SmartRecruiters (ATS) - Feature Releases: SmartAnalytics Guidebooks Expansion, Job Specific Screening Questions, and Scheduling automation
Talent Llama (Conversational AI) - Product Updates: New Dashboards, Deeper Analytics, and Competency Tuning
Permanent Articles
Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources
Events
Week of March 3rd
Gem’s Demo Day: Gem's AI-first all-in-one recruiting platform
PeopleInsight by HireRoad and Greenhouse’s From ATS to Insights:
How Top Teams are Harnessing Greenhouse Data with People Analytics
Week of March 10th
SelectSoftware Reviews’ Mind Your AI: Expert Advice on AI Compliance for HR
Employ (Lever/Jobvite/JazzHR)’s Crafting a People-First Employee Journey: Balancing Technology and Empathy in Today’s Workforce
Week of March 17th
Recruitics and CollabWORK’s The Hidden Workforce Revealed: 3 Must-Know Recruitment Trends and Tactics
TALK’s Talent Acquisition's Hidden Cost - Problematic Conflicts of Interests
Week of April 7th
Week of April 28th
Week of May 12th
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 job board is filled with information others don’t like, such as 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.
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Until next week, Regulators 😊