Week of November 6th, 2023
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Prioritizing During Reschedule/Retrospective Season by Jeremy Lyons
Earlier this week, I noted that Reschedule and Retrospective Season is upon us in the RecOps community. Because of the upcoming holidays, there will be more days off, which is great for much-needed recharging, but also means less time to still do the same amount of expected work with the cross-functional partners.
So how will you get everything you need to done? Prioritization. When it comes to prioritization, the Eisenhower Matrix provides an excellent framework not only for this time of the year but year-round. Here are a few examples (based on my personal experience) for how each role could slot specific activities into each quadrant:
Recruiting Coordinators
Do: Prioritize Scheduling, Offer, and Onboarding docs. If approvers or others need to get things over the finish line, track them down and push them so nothing is left open.
Delegate: If you are swamped with scheduling/offer letters/onboarding, reach out to your teammates and see if anyone has the capacity to take over some of the requests
Schedule: Writing your performance recap for the year
Delete: Catch up meetings
Recruiting Ops Specialists
Do: Any project with a go-live of Jan 1
Delegate: Check capacity on your team and swap projects with a team member who has the skills needed to complete the project
Schedule: Writing your performance recap for the year
Delete: Meetings you don’t need to be a part of in the next month or year (basically calendar cleanse)
RecOps Managers
Do: Finish RecOps retrospectives (the highlights/lowlights), budgets, and anything that has a go-live of Jan 1
Delegate: Yearly reporting or dashboards
Schedule: Your project backlog
Delete: Meetings you don’t need to be a part of in the next month or year (basically calendar cleanse)
Did I miss anything? What would you slot and where?
Articles / Clips
Industry News (sorted alphabetically with space in the RecOps community in parenthesis)
Ashby (ATS) - New Feature: Surface and Deliver Detailed Data in One-Click with Alert Templates
BambooHR (HRIS) - Q3 Employee Survey Report
Calendly (Scheduling) - State of Scheduling Report
Greenhouse (ATS) - The key to hiring transparency? Revamping your goal-setting strategy
PoetryHR (Enablement) - New Feature: Admins can see precisely which of the many solutions within the workspace are being used most by hashtag
SeekOut (Sourcing) - New Feature: SeekOut Assist - Generative AI tool
TeamTailor (ATS) - New Feature: Historic reports & scheduled custom reports
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 Search
Athletico - Director, Talent Acquisition Strategy & Campus Recruiting
Axion Ray - Director of Talent Acquisition
Pure Storage - Senior Talent Acquisition Operations Manager
Shipmonk - Recruiting Operations Senior Analyst
Editor Note: We are not sponsored by nor affiliated with any of the above-listed companies so we have no financial incentive to share these roles. We are sharing these opportunities for the community and only post roles from the company's website. We encourage possible candidates to research each one as their inclusion does not mean we support the companies or their values. Here is the list to previously listed jobs, which may or may not be available
Additional Resource
ATS Specific Job Boards
iCIMS's HR professionals job board aggregates all the HR jobs across their customers
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
Jobvyne - For the RecOps folks out there, here is the HR and Talent Acquisition job board
TrueUp - Has a fantastic job board filled with information others don’t like the last time the company did a layoff, application experience based on the ATS, and more.
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. None of the resources shared above are sponsoring there placement.
Boolean Strings for Specific ATS Job Search
We’ve consolidated our list of boolean search strings for RecOps professionals to make them easier for everyone to use. Check out the list here. Again, thank you to Steve Levy for contributing so many wonderful strings and Gabi Preston-Phypers for QA help. Follow both of them for excellent boolean content.
GAI Prompt for RecOps
Create a checklist of questions I should ask during the RFP process. My company tends to focus on security and ease of use features.
Upcoming Events for RecOps
ModernLoop and Brex’s Structuring your Recruiting Ops Team for Optimal Performance. They'll share insights that companies of any size can use to structure their recruiting ops team for optimal performance.
The panel will be covering topics like:
➡ The ideal recruiting coordinator to recruiter ratio based on open reqs, types of roles & more
➡ An efficient recruiting team tech stack and how to maximize performance with talent tech
➡ Recruiting team performance metrics to look at such as time to coverage & time to hire
🎉 Reminders 🎉
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