Week of May 26th, 2025
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A Process for Testing AI-Human Work
People in the TA/RecOps community are trying to address the question of, “How do I know where the AI work begins and the Human work starts when doing technical assessments?” A few months ago, we proposed an idea to give the candidate a start and end point, then allow them the freedom to solve the problem as they see fit (e.g., prompt to their heart’s delight, or combine it with some of their own edits).
Some people reached and said, “Hey look this great but we want to know if they are just amazing at prompting or if they have skills.” Here is a more refined suggestion.
The Suggestion
During the live interview, do the following:
Discuss with the candidate the goal of the assessment and what you are looking to accomplish with it.
Inform the candidate that they are allowed a single prompt (note the caveat: everyone is prone to hitting Enter at exactly the worst time. If you can tell it's a mistake, be lenient). They can use this at any point during the assessment process. Why at any point? Because some people’s skills are in creation and ideation, and others’ skills are in iteration and optimization. By allowing the candidate to choose, some will use the prompt at the beginning, whereas others will use it to check their work and explore edge cases at the end. This will give you an idea of their working style.
Assess the process and the outputs.
Positives to This Method
You can assess both the human skills and AI-aided ones.
You get to see how someone solves a problem.
Allows for a more dynamic interview.
Low lift - more impact.
Editor's Note: We don’t want to take any original credit for the above if someone else has shared the same tip. We wrote this as a tip and might have missed that one. If someone else has proposed this suggestion out there in the LinkedInverse or elsewhere, we invite you to share your name in the comments and link to where you did so that others can see it as well.
Weekly Survey
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Articles / Industry News
📖 🎧 Articles/Graphics/Podcasts/Posts On Our Radar (sorted by type - Bolded denotes individuals)
Lydia Wu’s When Technology Makes Us More Human (articles)
Johnny Campbell’s AI Candidate Cheating Isn’t the Problem. Your Interviews Are (article)
Marina Farthouat’s Our Experience Migrating to Ashby (article)
Growth by Design Talent’s Execs Say "Buy AI"—Now What? (article)
Recruit CRM’s Neurodiversity hiring: Recruiter’s blueprint to attracting and retaining divergent minds (article)
Gem’s The dividing line: How AI-first recruiting will define 2025 (blog)
Jeremy Elice’s TV Life Lesson: The Wire - Nobody Remembers a 40-Degree Day (blog)
Luke Eaton’s Advice at Growth Stages Series: Headcount 0-50, Headcount 50-250 (Part 1 and Part 2) (posts)
Gabe Horwitz’s When Did Talent Analytics Stop Being People Analytics? (post)
SignalFire’s State of Tech Talent Report (report)
📰 Product News
Ashby (AiO) - New Feature: Saved Dashboard Views
Attesto (Candidate Evaluation) - Now integrated with Lever
Brainner (Resume Screening) - New Feature: Automation rules
Greenhouse (ATS) - New Feature: Job post description suggestions, My Greenhouse Upgrade - Keyword Job Alerts
JazzHR (ATS) - Officially released an AI feature called Talent Fit
Permanent Articles
Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources
Events
Week of June 2nd
Talent Collective’s Talentsphere Summit. For an additional 10% off, use the code RECOPS.
Greenhouse’s Open for Ops (SF)
Growth by Design Talent’s Becoming a Trusted Advisor Training
SmartRecruiters’ The new era of high-volume hiring ‘speed, scale, and stickiness
Employ’s Dinner Series Silicon Valley and San Francisco
Verified Perspectives: Cronofy, TeamTailor & Glyde on Recruiters as Customers: Designing Tech-Driven Workflows That Empower Hiring Teams
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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.
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