Week of July 21st, 2025
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Two Big Things Not to Sleep On
Two big items for our community dropped this week, and we wanted to call them out specifically.
Mike Joyner, the foundational RecOps leader, and Growth by Design Talent teamed up with Gem on a comprehensive recruiting trends report to surface insights on how teams, processes, and tools are evolving. These insights will help shape your TA strategies and investments as you enter Q4 and plan for the new year. Not only does this survey benefit the broader RecOps community, and you will gain access to the raw dataset later, but it also offers the opportunity to enter a raffle for a one-hour coaching session with Mike. Given Mike’s influence on this generation of RecOps leaders, that is huge. Use this link to complete the survey (It closes on Monday)
Viet Nguyen, the Head of RecOps at Vercel, is hosting a first for our space: a hackathon for RecTech. This is an opportunity to show off what you have been building. Additionally, there would be an in-person element to present. Here is the link for more details.
Weekly Survey
Last week, we asked if you had taken a vacation this year. Unfortunately, it looks like 55+% of folks who voted said no. For this week, we’re curious about the following:
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Articles / Industry News
📖 🎧 Articles/Graphics/Podcasts/Posts On Our Radar (sorted by type - Bolded denotes individuals)
Will Ducey’s Rethinking Recruiting Metrics: A Stakeholder-Centric Approach (article)
Trent Cotton’s The Age of the Recruiting Agents (article)
Recruit CRM’s How to audit your ATS for hidden bias in 30 minutes (blog)
Tribepad’s 51 questions to ask on your recruitment software demo (blog)
hireEZ’s Leading Change with Agentic AI (course)
Spicy Ones with Gem’s Steve Bartel (video)
Shiv Brodie’s playbook for AI-powered recruiting leverage with Metaview (video)
📰 Product News
Ashby (AiO) - Announcement: Series D raise Integration: Guide
CandorIQ (Headcount/Compensation) - Announcement: Seed round raise
Endorsed (Resume Review) - Product beta: Email Outreach, Product Update: Reuse the same criteria & job description, hiring success analytics
Gem (AiO) - Product Updates: July updates: Highlights - Gem Platform (Expand global outreach with WhatsApp Business integration), AI Sourcing (Streamlined search with a new consolidated experience), Gem ATS (Enhanced team controls with custom default roles and permissions), and other key updates (Across Gem ATS, CRM, and Scheduling)
GoodTime (Scheduling) - Product Update: Orchestra June 2025, July Updates
Greenhouse (ATS) - Announcement: Launching in Australia
Recruiterflow (AiO) - Product Launch: Off Limits — a compliance shield within Recruiterflow to ensure your team respects non-compete agreements, client exclusivity, and recruitment boundaries. Product Updates: Mandatory Fields on Stage Movement
SmartRecruiters (ATS) - Product Update: July 2025 Product milestone: ISO 42001 certified
Permanent Articles
Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources
Events
Week of July 28th
Calyptus’ AI in HR & Talent featuring Luke Eaton
Talent Collective, Unicorn Talent, and PURPL’s From H1 to H2: How Top Recruiting Teams Report, Forecast, and Influence Strategy
Better Thing’s Job Search Summit
iCIMS’s Designing the Future of Work with AI with Trent Cotton, Tiffany Dougherty, and Malvika Jethmalani
Week of August 4th
Vercel’s TA Hackathon - Submissions (August 4th) and SF Demo Night (August 7th)
Recruiting Brainfood’s Ep322 - RecOps & AI - How to Accelerate AI Adoption in TA with Mark Harman, Victoria Murphy, and Stephen Collopy
Martyn Redstone’s AI Masterclass: For Recruiters & TA Professionals: The AI-Powered Recruiter Workshop
Dress for Success Denver and Ashby’s Offer Accepted Live: Denver 🎙️
Week of August 11th
Week of August 25th
Martyn Redstone’s AI Masterclass: For Recruiters & TA Professionals: The AI-Powered Recruiter Workshop
Week of September 1st
Week of September 29th
Week of October 20th
Week of November 3rd
Job Search
Here is the list of previously listed jobs, which may or may not be available.
Additional Resource
We consolidated this section into job search resources on our Linktree.
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 that you are a RecOps professional.
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Until next week, Regulators 😊