Week of January 22nd, 2024
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So, without further ado, Recruiting Regulators - mount up!
TA/Recruiting Operations Maturity Curve by Jeremy Lyons
Last week, I was chatting with Leah Daniels about the world of RecOps, and we got on the topic of what people should call the space. I didn’t mind if it was RecOps or TA Ops until I read James Colino’s book, and since then, I’ve committed to calling it purely RecOps to keep things focused, only using TA Ops or Recruitment Ops for SEO purposes. Leah, on the other hand, likes to use TA Ops because it makes her think of Tao and the peacefulness that comes with it. This got me thinking… what-if this is part of the maturity model for the space and led to this chart, which plays with alliteration:
Stage 1: You’re in Wreck Ops. You are constructing or deconstructing the entire recruiting backend. You need to build systems, reports, processes, and so much more. Some people love this phase because it is fast, exciting, and gets the heart pumping.
Stage 2: You’re in Rec Cops. Woop-woop - That’s the sound of da police. Thanks KRS-One for the intro. Everything is built, but you need to lay down the law now in order to keep everything running in an orderly fashion. You do this by ensuring everyone is following the rules.
Stage 3: You're in Rahps (for those who call the space ROps). This stage is filled with more ah-ha moments as the function starts to shift from the go-go-go aspects to being more strategic and focused. The projects are bigger as is the seat at the table (even if you never sit at the corporate high table).
Stage 4: You’re in Tao Ops. You have achieved TA/Recruiting Operations Nirvana. The team is well-integrated into the broader corporate teams, properly sourced/focused, and nothing knocks you off your path.
But what are your thoughts?
RecOps - Your Friendly RecOps GPT
This means you can finally use the GPT we built, RecOps (we shortened the name and updated the URL) 😊
Link: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-PDEG1n7fb-recops
Articles / Industry News
Articles We’re Reading
Eqtble and Samantha Feldman’s Compa-Ratio: Navigating Salary Bands for Fair Compensation
Why? As a RecOps person, you might be asked to build a compa-ratio calculator for your recruiting team so they know what they can offer a candidate. This article does a marvelous job of breaking everything down in an easy and understandable way. Good one to bookmark.
Harvard Business Review’s Assess Your Life Portfolio
Why? Jay-Z once said, “I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man” and people often get told “you are the CEO of your career.” This series by HBR is focused on helping you think about your life as in corporate terms.
Added to our reading list: Erica Keswin’s The Retention Revolution and Brian Fink’s The Main Thing is the Main Thing
Things We’re Listening To:
Ashby’s Offer Accepted: Episode 18: Internal Mobility's Positive Impact on Employee Experience with Dr. Kalifa Oliver at Ford
Recruit CRM’s Are you adopting AI in recruitment effectively? A look into the future of staffing with The Millionaire Recruiter on-demand webinar
Industry News (sorted alphabetically with space in the RecOps community in parenthesis)
Ashby (AiO - All in One) - What should you ask candidates in a survey?
Brighthire (Talent Intelligence) - The Interview Maturity Model
Cronofy (Scheduling) - HIPAA secure, How Time-to-Schedule Impacts Time-to Hire
iCIMS (ATS) - Feature: Nudging candidates with incomplete applications
Pinpoint (ATS) - Launches Dear Recruiter: their newsletter
Recruit CRM (ATS/CRM) - 10 awesome Recruit CRM features that our customers love | Recruitment made easy
SmartRecruiters (ATS) - 6 Hiring Capabilities You Can’t Live Without in 2024
Tribepad (AiO) - Employer branding on a budget: 5 tips from the experts
Permanent Articles
Job Search
AB InBev - Recruiting Operations Analyst
Klaviyo - Candidate Experience Specialist
Frank, Rimerman and Co LLP - Recruiting Operations Coordinator
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
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 easier for everyone. Check out the list here. Again, thank you to Steve Levy for contributing so many wonderful 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
Here is a Google Sheet View for a list of people previously featured and still looking.
Events
We’ve got an exciting announcement coming up so keep an eye on Jeremy and RecOps Collective's profiles
Poetry - the Recruiter Enablement Workspace has different sessions around the tool and GenAI (one featuring the legend Martyn Redstone). Check out Adam Gordon’s post for more details
Ashby’s Bi-weekly demo series and Product Launch: Quality of Hire surveys
🎉 Reminders and Disclaimers 🎉
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Until next week, Regulators 😊