Week of November 10th, 2025
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Industry Shifting Moves
When we started out today, we were planning on writing about how you still use things you learned in school, like the Scientific Method and Order of Operations/PEMDAS and then, within hours of each other:
So instead of getting elementary with it, we’re going to take a moment to break these down and the positives we see.
Zoom Acquiring Brighthire
On paper, this one just makes sense. Zoom gets a fantastic team and a thoroughly upgraded product line. Now all the Zoom licenses will make more sense for recruiting teams and the tech will be even more seamless. Additionally, this type of M&A involving these types of products has been discussed, especially following Workday's acquisition of Paradox and SAP's acquisition of SmartRecruiters. We think we’ll likely see another of these moves in the next 6 months (possibly a conversational AI acquisition by an ATS).
We’ve seen acquisitions where things make sense (a la Calendly-Prelude) that haven’t worked out in the past. BUT we see this as being thoroughly different from a timing and execution standpoint. Business needs are different and newer notetaker players (like Fireflies with their new Recruiting agent) might not deliver in the same way.
Cursor acquiring GBD
This one was definitely not on our bingo card for the year. GBD has been a bedrock for RecOps consulting, walking (and running) so that many of us had a role model to look up to. They’ve launched the careers of countless RecOps people, educated a ton more. Cursor is getting some truly phenomenal people are and we won’t be surprised if a year from now, they are the model everyone is using when laying out their Ops functions.
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Articles / Industry News
📖 🎧 Articles/Graphics/Podcasts/Posts On Our Radar (sorted by type - Bolded denotes individuals)
Katie Wagner’s AI Won’t Replace Recruiters — It’ll Expose Them (article)
Luke Eaton’s Issue 55 - Change, and Why Communication Matters (article)
Johnny Campbell’s The Ultimate Guide to which LLM to use - for Recruiters (article)
Tribepad’s Crafting talent acquisition strategies for modern hiring teams (article)
CodeSignal’s Highlights from Beyond 2025: Building the super skills of the AI era (blog)
candidate.fyi/Chris Connors’ Is Calendly a Good Enterprise Interview Scheduling Tool? (Here’s Why the Answer Is No) (report)
Crosschq’s Quality of Hire Index (report)
Ashby’s Recruiter Capacity Mini Trend Report (report)
iCIMS’s Insights November Workforce Report (report)
Jason Buss and Stephanie Luu Andre’s Product-Led Framework for a RecOps Transformation (video)
📰 Product News (sorted alphabetically)
Ashby (AiO) - Product Updates: October 2025
Cronofy (Scheduling) - Feature Release: Calendar Access Modes
Endorsed (Resume Review) - Product Launch: FraudShield Chrome Extension
Gem (AiO) - Product Updates: October 2025
GoodTime (Scheduling) - Product Updates: Updates to Orchestra
hireEZ (Sourcing/CRM) - Product Launch: ResumeSense
Juicebox (Sourcing/CRM) - Product Updates: New Sequence Builder, Job Title and Autopilot Presets, Instant Export to ATS, Excluding ATS Profiles from Agents
Metaview (AI Recruitment Platform) - Product Updates: Deep Research, Voice Input, Candidate Packs
TeamTailor (AiO) - Product Updates: Ask Copilot for Insights
Permanent Articles
Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources
Events
Week of November 17th
Greenhouse and Poetry’s Discover: The ultimate in TA automation
SSR’s HR’s Role in M&A Diligence, and the Technology to Support Them
Week of December 1st
Kyle Lagunas, Allyn Bailey, Sarah Smart’s AI Momentum Is the New Maturity
Recruit CRM’s Getting ready for 2026: The new rules of recruitment
Lattice’s From Hire to Inspire: Building a Talent Journey that Last with Nicole Hirsch and Sarah Harnett
Week of December 8th
Recruiting Brainfood’s Review of the Year 2025 - Sourcing, Employer Branding & RecOps (We’re speaking here!)
Week of February 2nd
Job Search
Axion - Director, Talent Acquisition & Recruiting Operations
TriNet - Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition Operations & Enablement
Adobe - Sr. Program Manager, Global Talent Acquisition Operations
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
Short Bio
I’m a senior Talent Acquisition Operations and Systems Strategist with nearly a decade of experience in high-growth, global companies. I specialise in optimising recruiting tech stacks, designing scalable workflows, enabling operational excellence, elevating candidate experience and helping teams make smart, data-informed decisions at every stage of hiring.
I’m available onsite in Berlin or remote, also open to relocation with the EU/UK.
What I’m Looking For
Freelance RecOps Consultant or Fractional RecOps Lead
Head of Talent Acquisition Operations & Enablement
Candidate Experience Manager
Talent Acquisition Systems Manager
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Until next week, Regulators 😊