Week of July 7th, 2025
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Editor Note: We are taking a small hiatus which is why some sections are missing. Regular scheduled programming will resume next week.
RecOps for Memes (Part II)
Continuing from last week, we crowdsourced these and decided to put these GIFs in for this week.
Kermit Freak Out
Source: The Muppets
Why? When the hits start coming and they don’t stop coming, our inner worker bee has a freakout about how we are going to get everything done. Especially if we are a team of one.
Conspiracy Web to Crazy Eyes
Source: Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Why? You’ve been handed a data set or a program that has become so convoluted that you aren’t even sure where to start when it comes to fixing it. To boot, it might be an issue that needs to be solved immediately, and you weren’t on the original project, but you are in charge now. So you start to connect all the dots. The crazy eyes come in when, after all the alarms get raised, you get told it was a simple change of a sign or subject of the report by the first person who reported it. Hours gone, but hey, hopefully we learned a thing or two along the way.
Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week To…
Source: Airplane!
Why? We kick off the week with new energy and verve, and this will be the week that we can conquer the backlog because there will be no fires or tool breaks. This is the week you quit saying Yes to everything. Then it happens… a small request spirals into a big project or an outage requires a bunch of pivots. Then, like New Year's Resolutions in February, everything starts to go downhill.
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Articles / Industry News
Permanent Articles
Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources
Events
Week of July 14th
SelectSoftware Reviews’ Hiring in the AI Era: How to Embrace and Evaluate the AI-Enabled Candidate
Beamery’s The Skills Intelligence Paradox: Turning Skills Data Into Strategic Workforce Impact
Humanly’s The Future of Hiring, Served Family Style Dinner in Dallas
Week of July 21st
Week of August 4th
Recruiting Brainfood’s Ep322 - RecOps & AI - How to Accelerate AI Adoption in TA with Mark Harman, Victoria Murphy, and Stephen Collopy
Week of August 11th
Week of September 29th
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.
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 😊