Week of February 3rd, 2025
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Next Two Weeks
Hey everyone 👋
First month of the year in the books. Weird to think we are a little over 20% done with February now too. Time… such a tricky devil isn’t it?
Anywho, to the important stuff - last year we took a two week hiatus from publishing as a way to refresh, research, and retool. We decided to do the same thing again this year. Have no fear though because here is what is going to happen:
We’re going to send out the newsletter on the same weekly cadence. While it might not contain this thoughts section, industry updates, or new roles, it will still serve as a reminder if you need help with job searching or you want to contribute answers to the survey. This will only be available to those subscribed on Substack.
If you need your RecOps content fix, we can highly recommend checking out Luke Eaton’s The Data-Driven Recruiter and Andrew Lewis’ Talent Operator newsletters.
We’ll continue to be thinking about fun new ways to bring you the content.
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)
Will Ducey’s Hiring Readiness Index (article)
candidate.fyi’s 12 Key Metrics to Track Interview Coordination Efficiency (article)
TeamTailor’s How to Measure Your Employer Brand (article)
Greenhouse’s Guidelines for using AI in our interviewing process AND 5 Questions Talent Pros Should Ask to Evaluate AI-Driven Tech (blog)
SmartRecruiters’ 11 AI Terms in Recruiting You Need to Know Now (blog)
Product News (sorted alphabetically)
Brighthire (Interview Intelligence) - New Feature: CSV Export
Crew (AiO) - New Feature: Crew badges
Dover (ATS/Screening) - New Features: Schedule in-person and weekend interviews, Better agency and referral tracking
Greenhouse (ATS) - New Features: Talent Filtering and Talent Rediscovery
Juicebox/PeopleGPT (AI-Powered Search) - New Features: LinkedIn Steps in Sequences, Improved Notes and Mentions, Advanced Search Filters, Bulk PDF Exports, “Last Contacted” in Search View
Kula (AiO) - New Feature: Conversational Analytics
Metaview (Interview Transcription) - New Feature: AI Job Posts
Paradox (Conversational Recruiting AI) - Acquires eqtble to improve data analytic capabilities
Pillar (Interview Intelligence) - Interview Guide Library
Talentful (RPO) - TA Capacity Calculator V1
Permanent Articles
Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources
Events
Week of February 10th
HIGHER and Talentful’s Unlocking Efficiency: How AI is Revolutionizing Talent Acquisition with Alan Price and Siadhal Magos
CoderPad’s How to Shift Your Tech Hiring Process in the Age of GenAI
ModernLoop and Brighthire - How Top Talent Teams Are Raising the Bar on Candidate Experience in 2025
Cronofy’s Beat the competition: Maximize interviewer availability for hiring
AssessFirst and Eli Onboarding’s Skills-based hiring: The key to candidate experience
Pinpoint’s Stress Less, Lead More: Mindfulness for HR Leaders Workshop
Week of February 17th
Talent Collective and Unicorn Talent’s Navigating Recruiting Capacity: Best Practices for Headcount in 2025
SelectSoftware Reviews and Humanly’s AI’s Place in TA: Building the Recruiting Team of the Future
TeamOhana and Luke Eaton’s Workshop: Workforce Planning for Modern TA Teams
Week of February 24th
JobSync’s Roundtable: What Matters & What Doesn't for Candidate Experience in 2025
Findem’s Leveraging Technology for Better Recruiting Outcomes
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 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 😊