Week of June 5th, 2023
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🎉 Exciting Announcement 🎉
RecOps Collective knows that RecOps pros spend a lot of time scoping tools. To make it easier, we've partnered with several vendors to highlight how they can help RecOps teams. We'll continue to update as we speak to more vendors so bookmark this page and scroll to the bottom to read on.
RecOps Graphic of the Week:
If you are a classic movie fan, you likely know that the GIF above is from the iconic ending to the movie Thelma and Louise. Why does it perfectly capture the relationship between Recruiting and RecOps? As an operations function, RecOps is often riding shotgun as Recruiting drives the car. This means that things recruiters say also have an impact on how people outside of recruiting perceive RecOps.
When people ask recruiters how they got into recruiting, the most common response is usually, "I fell into recruiting." You can fall into a lot of things: a pool, furniture, the Gap, or if you are Thelma and Louise, the Grand Canyon. However, it is fascinating because you would almost never hear a doctor, or engineer say, "Well, I fell into (insert profession here)."
The issue with this phrasing is that it gives the false impression that recruiting is easy instead of a skill that requires training and mastery. This perception carries into that RecOps, where it can actually cause more harm than good. With the number of pillars RecOps covers, professionals have exceedingly high-levels of technical depth and knowledge that you can't just "fall" into and expect to do well.
So instead of saying, "I fell into recruiting," it should switch to "I discovered recruiting" since it gives a nod to all the things we help companies and candidates discover on their journey.
Articles / Clips
Ashby's Leading Through Influence for RecOps Professionals: A Conversation with Jim Miller
RecOps Collective's RecOps Starts with Why
Adam Gordon's interview with Stacey Slater (here) and Jeremy A. Lyons (here) about recruiter enablement
Newsletters/Blog We Follow
The Recruiting Radar - Written by Jim Stroud, the market watch section is amazing for identifying trends and seeing where the money is flowing. Because this identifies growing companies, it can be excellent for job seekers or companies that will need RecOps help.
The Recruiting Life Comic - Also written by Jim Stroud just checkingThe Recruiting Life is a whimsical view of the world of work that aspires to educate and entertain.
Recruiting Brainfood - Written by Hung Lee, This newsletter likely needs no introduction as it is the most popular in the industry. While it focuses more on Recruiting than RecOps, this wouldn't be a newsletter list without it.
Greenhouse Blog - Run by Greenhouse Software, they do a great job with discussing partnerships and thought leadership
Permanent Articles
Editor Note: If you hear of any articles, feel free to share in the comments! They will be featured in the upcoming week's edition. If you would like to submit your own article, reach out to hello@recopscollective.com.
Job Board
Maravai LifeSciences - Director, Global Talent Acquisition Operations
National Grid - Director - Recruitment Operations & Analytics
Forward - Recruiting Operations
NetApp - Senior Talent Acquisition Operations Program Manager
CVS Health - Project Manager, Talent Acquisition - Hybrid
Pep Boys - Talent Operations Specialist
Merge - Recruiting Operations Specialist
Editor Note: None of these companies are sponsoring their job being posted.
Additional Resource
People Ops job postings with RecOps requirements doesn't appear to be slowing down so ChartHop's PeopleOps Job Board will be a permanent fixture. (Disclosure: ChartHop is not paying for advertising space)
iCIMS released an HR professionals job board that aggregates all the HR jobs from across their customers.
Editor Note: If you hear of any roles, feel free to share in the comments! They will be featured in the upcoming week's edition.
Boolean Strings for Specific ATS Job Search
inurl:boards.greenhouse.io ("talent acquisition operations" OR "recruiting operations" OR “ta ops” OR "RecOps" OR "Recruitment Operations" OR "Recruitment Ops" OR "Recruiting Ops") remote OR virtual OR “work from home” OR anywhere
Inurl:jobs.lever.co ("talent acquisition operations" OR "recruiting operations" OR “ta ops” OR "RecOps" OR "Recruitment Operations" OR "Recruitment Ops" OR "Recruiting Ops") remote OR virtual OR “work from home” OR anywhere
Inurl:jobs.ashbyhq.com ("talent acquisition operations" OR "recruiting operations" OR “ta ops” OR "RecOps" OR "Recruitment Operations" OR "Recruitment Ops" OR "Recruiting Ops") remote OR virtual OR “work from home” OR anywhere
#YourNextHire / People Looking In the Community
To streamline the process, we created this form. Please only submit yourself.
For a list of people previously featured and still looking, here is a Google Sheet View.
🎉 Reminder 🎉
RecOps Collective is launching a mentorship program! You can read more about it in our post and apply through the following link. We ask for grace as this is our first go around.
Until next week :)