Week of March 3rd, 2025
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A Priori versus A Posteriori in the Hiring Process by Jeremy Lyons
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called "theory of knowledge," it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowledge in the form of skills, and knowledge by acquaintance as a familiarity through experience. Whether you know it or not, in the Rec/Talent Ops space, we lean on epistemology to get our work done. It enables us to look at problems and know the correct data to use to determine solutions.
Oh boi we’re going down another one of these trains again. Get it out of your system - why is this important?
I’ve said it time and time again that in Rec/Talent Ops that we are building the hiring house for the company. To do this we use a priori and a posteriori knowledge. Often we get frustrated at candidates, hiring managers, and interviewers alike when we feel like they should know something that is obvious to us. But we have to remind ourselves, they are guests in this house and we can’t expect them to know where we’ve put everything.
What does a priori and a posteriori mean?
A priori: Knowledge independent of experience. Example: If it looks like a duck and sounds like it a duck, it is a duck.
A posteriori: Knowledge that is derived from or dependent on empirical evidence or experience. Example: You know that the duck is a mallard because you saw a sign that labeled that told you.
How do these play out?
When interacting with all these groups, you have to handle elements of both, some of which could be biased. For example, everyone knows interviewing is tough (a priori) but not everyone knows why it could be tough at your specific company. Therefore, if you provide training materials or custom-built GPTs to help both candidates and interviewers practice, you will be able to provide them with a way to train and be better (a posteriori). Flipping it around, let’s say a candidate had interviewed with your company before so they have an understanding of your interviewing culture (a posteriori) and they apply to a new role, they might be able to infer what their interview process could be.
Why are these important?
Knowledge grows but the information could be wrong. So, when working with each group, be sure to be as clear as possible to ensure that people have correct and thorough information, even if it means explaining the obvious.
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Articles / Industry News
📖 🎧 Articles/Graphics/Podcasts/Posts On Our Radar (sorted by type - Bolded denotes individuals)
Chris Hoyt’s Strategic Workforce Planning: Aligning Talent Strategy with Business Goals for Long-Term Success (article)
John Hazelton’s The Science of Hiring: Part 5 of 7 (article)
Hung Lee’s WHAT’S HAPPENING NEXT 4 WEEKS (post)
📰 Product News
Ashby (AiO) - Enhancements: Dashboards and filters. Ashby One Speaker Announcement
Atlas Technologies (Recruitment Platform) - New Feature: WhatsApp Connector, Magic Messages
candidate.fyi (Candidate Experience/Scheduling) - Now approved for Microsoft GCC High
CandorIQ (Headcount/Compensation) - Integration: Job Openings with Ashby
Cronofy (Scheduling) - Product Roundup: Maximizing Interviewer Availability for Competitive Hiring
Dover (ATS/Screening) - New Features: Already reviewed application alert, granular calendar visibility access controls, add candidates to sourcing platform without PDF, agency portal improvements, filter by sourcer, and daily summary application email improvements
Gem (AiO) - Enhancement: AI Talent Rediscovery
Greenhouse (ATS) - New Feature: Job Board Design Studio
Manatal (AiO) - Enhancements: Workflow Automation
Pinpoint (ATS) - New Features: Automatic Interview Invites and Marketing Emails
Poetry (Recruiter Enablement) - Enhancements: Hiring Manager Collaboration. New Feature: Related Branded Assets, Auto-Populate your Poetry Workspace. Feature Announcement: Chrome Extension coming soon
Workday (HCM) - New Feature: Agentic AI
Permanent Articles
Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources
Events
Week of March 10th
SelectSoftware Reviews’ Mind Your AI: Expert Advice on AI Compliance for HR
Employ (Lever/Jobvite/JazzHR)’s Crafting a People-First Employee Journey: Balancing Technology and Empathy in Today’s Workforce
Metaview’s How the Best Teams Run Hiring Intakes - Insights from Automattic & Miro
Recruiting Brainfood’s Brainfood Live On Air - Ep296 - Ideal Structure of AI-enabled TA
Week of March 17th
Recruitics and CollabWORK’s The Hidden Workforce Revealed: 3 Must-Know Recruitment Trends and Tactics
TALK’s Talent Acquisition's Hidden Cost - Problematic Conflicts of Interests
Week of March 26th
JobSync’s Roundtable: Everything You Wanted to Know About AI in Talent Acquisition but Were Afraid to Ask
Week of April 7th
Week of April 28th
Week of May 12th
Week of May 19th
Week of June 2nd
Talent Collective’s Talentsphere Summit. For an additional 10% off, use the code RECOPS.
Job Search
Amgen - Talent Acquisition Operations & Technology Manager (India)
Twilio - Sr. Program Manager - TA Optimization and Experience (Canada)
Samsara - Senior Program Manager, Recruiting Strategy and Technology
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 job board is filled with information others don’t like, such as 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
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Until next week, Regulators 😊