Week of October 14th, 2024
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Special Note: Because of the RecOps Conference next week, we will be skipping a week. We look forward to reporting on everything and returning to regularly scheduled programming the week of October 28th.
Candidate Experience: Providing Questions During the Interview
Earlier this year, I partnered with the candidate.fyi on an article about why you should provide candidates with interview questions beforehand. In that article, I noted that you could send the questions ahead or drop them into a presentation deck and show them on screen during the interview (especially if it was a video interview). Both of these options, though, are labor intensive and raise questions about who owns the updates and creation (especially if you want to make sure they stay consistent and are branded correctly).
I recently chatted with another RecOps professional in the space who noted that the questions could also be dropped into the chat during the video call. This method has several benefits:
Ease of use: If your interviewers have their questions in a list (which they should), they can easily copy and paste them into the chat. This means that no additional branding work is needed and necessary.
Flexibility: To continue with #1, if the questions change or there are specific follow-ups for this candidate in the process, you have the added benefit of making specific lists or following the questions out of order.
Still benefits everyone: The candidate is still able to see the question and ensure they are staying focused in their response. The interviewer then gets the benefit of more structured answers.
RecOps Conference Next Week!
We're excited that next week, we’ll be in Chicago to kick off the RecOps Conference! If you know our commitment to the RecOps community, you've likely heard us talk about the need for this conference long before we started working together with other community leaders earlier this year to make it a reality.
While the conference officially starts Thursday, October 24th, we'll be attending other events around the city on Wednesday, October 23rd or would like to shout out. I've listed a few below:
1️⃣ Chicago Recruiter Happy Hour with Talent Collective, Metaview, and RecOps Collective (https://lu.ma/ekrw44tx)
2️⃣ Gem and Talent Collective dinner (https://lu.ma/ydhdwmd9) (we’re not attending but we know that people who are will be in for a super treat!)
3️⃣ From 7:45 PM to 9:00 PM (CT), we’ll be hanging out at Monk's Pub with some RecOps folks. It's informal, so just drop by or send Jeremy a message to let him know you are coming.
RecOps - The GPT Update
RecOps—If you haven’t used the GPT yet, it is available in the OpenAI store and free to use.
Articles / Industry News
Articles/Graphics/Podcasts/Posts On Our Radar (sorted by type - Bolded denotes individuals)
Adejoke Adekunle’s How to Keep Recruitment Human-Centric in The Age of AI (article)
Ariana Moon’s Embracing AI As an Assistant, Not a Replacement, in Hiring (article)
Fede Grinsblat’s How to Prioritize Resume Screening: The Best Starting Point (article)
Johnny Campbell’s The Secret to Internal Mobility: Performance Isn’t Everything (article)
Recruit CRM’s Getting company culture right: Why it matters before you hire (article)
Screenloop’s Embracing Transparency and Bias Mitigation in AI-Driven Recruitment and AI Saves Time—But What Will Companies Do With It? (articles)
Eric Guidice’s 6 Key Considerations When Building Your Annual Headcount Plan (blog)
Recruiterflow’s AI & Recruitment Automation Playbook (ebook)
Xaci Martinez Salcedo’s Creatively Rigorous (ebook)
TeamTailor’s Internal and external recruitment: How collaboration is the key to success (podcast)
Open to Work Pod’s "AI Won't Replace Recruiters, But It Will Shake Things Up" with Siadhal Magos and Matthew Parker (video/podcast)
Cronofy/Flexa's Insights from Flexa’s candidate data: What do job seekers want? (report)
Tech on Toast’s How to maximise the recruitment process through tech with Tom Hacquoil, CEO at Pinpoint (video)
Product News (sorted alphabetically with type parenthesis)
Ashby (AiO) - New Feature: Add notes to your follow ups. How To: Leverage the referral process
Brighthire (Interview Intelligence) - New Features: Topics Coverage and Candidate Summaries
candidate.fyi (Candidate Experience/Scheduling) - New Feature: AI Magic Availability Input
Gem (AiO) - New Feature: Checkr Integration
SmartRecruiters (ATS) - New Feature: Winston, Feature Highlight: Mobile Hiring
Permanent Articles
Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources
Job Search
Transformations Care Network - Talent Acquisition Coordinator
Fidelity Talentsource - Talent Acquisition Operations Associate
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 - 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.
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
Are you a RecOps professional looking for work? If you have 5 minutes, take the opportunity to complete this quick questionnaire. Not only will you be featured in an upcoming Roundup, it will also help us mention your name when people ask for referrals.
Here is a Google Sheet View for a list of people who were previously featured and are still looking.
Events
Week of October 21st
RecOps Conference on October 24th and 25th in Chicago
On 10/23 - Chicago Recruiter Happy Hour with Talent Collective, Metaview, and RecOps Collective
On 10/23 - Gem and Talent Collective dinner (https://lu.ma/ydhdwmd9)
On 10/23 - Informal hangout at Monk’s Pub (205 W Lake St) from 7:45 PM - 9:00 PM (CT)
GoodTime - A New Era of the Hiring Experience: Empower Talent Teams and Captivate Candidates with
SeekOut - How Mature is Your Talent Strategy? A Step-by-Step Workshop
ModernLoop and Beyond Finance - Scaling High-Volume Hiring while Elevating the Candidate Experience: Insights from Beyond Finance
SeekOut / iCIMS - New report briefing: What candidates really expect
Week of November 4th
TalentNet Media - TalentNet Live Conference
Week of November 11th
TechRecruit - Silicon Valley TechRecruit Conference 2024 (There is a RecOps panel guided by Tom Allegretti and Kari Robison)
🎉 Reminders and Disclaimers 🎉
If you’d like to contribute a job, an article (one you found or wrote), or you are a company and have a product update you want featured, contact Jeremy Lyons.
Please use this form if you or someone you know would like to be featured in our #YourNextHire section. The only condition is you are a RecOps professional.
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Until next week, Regulators 😊