Week of October 7th, 2024
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Well Wishes for Planning Season
We know that October and November are the busiest months for RecOps professionals. Before you dive into the critical cutting, reframing, and reviewing, we encourage you to take a moment to reflect on your achievements this year. It's been a challenging year, but you've made it this far. Here are a few tips to help you along:
Clean your data - Bad data in means bad decisions out. Take the time to review, correct, and understand any abnormalities.
Take time for the Retro - Retrospectives, especially when aided by data (both structured and unstructured), can help you identify areas for improvement in the next year. This will help you understand if some of the errors require a bit more training/enablement or if other avenues need to be pursued.
KISS it - In our space, we can often look to overengineer a process and add layers of unnecessary complexity. This is your reminder that the most straight line or simple solution should not be overlooked.
RecOps Updates
RecOps Conference - 2 weeks until showtime, here is the link for a 15% discount. You will also get a digital copy to James Colino’s book closer to the event and Luke Eaton’s surprise gift. If you're having trouble convincing your company or manager to send you, reach out, and we’ll chat with you about it. This event is for the community, so we want to help you.
Several other events are happening in Chicago around this time, like this great happy hour, so it is a great opportunity to meet others who might be attending.
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)
Eric Guidice’s Headcount Magic for Recruiting Operations: Every Manual Workflow Eliminated (article)
Katrina Collier’s Anti Sh*t Tech (article)
Federico Grinsblat’s How to Implement AI in Talent Acquisition Teams (article)
CandorIQ’s What Does OpenAI’s $6.6B Fundraise Mean For Their Employees’ Compensation? (article)
Cronofy’s Automate and Optimize: Best Practices for Managing Large Interviewer Pools
Praisidio’s 🔍 People-Powered Analytics: Overlooking Outliers in Aggregate Metrics (article)
Tribepad’s 31 Practical Ways to Improve Quality of Hire (article)
SKOR’s Unlocking ROI: How HR Can Transform your organization? (blog)
Ashby’s RC usage by org (graphic)
Jobvite’s 5 Reasons to Optimize Your Talent Acquisition Tech Stack (graphic)
Springworks and Shannon Ogborn’s Data-Driven Recruitment 101: Using Analytics to Make Better Hiring Decisions (interview)
ERE Interview Podcast with Steve Bartel (podcast)
Offer Accepted’s Episode 33 with Fueling Recruiter Potential Through Enablement with Stephanie Baysinger and Shannon Ogborn (podcast)
Product News (sorted alphabetically with type parenthesis)
AssessFirst (Assessment) - New Feature: Optimizing Skill Development
Brighthire (Interview Intelligence Platform) - Enabling skill-based hiring (post)
candidate.fyi (Candidate Experience/Scheduling) - New Feature: Preferred Interviewer
Dover (ATS/Screening) - New/Improved Features: Share jobs on social media, new Sourcing page, improved discoverability/timezone selector, enhanced JD writing, schedule send emails, streamlined UI for interview feedback, AI-enhanced interview notes, prevention for selecting deactivated users.
Gem (AiO) - Feature: Filter faster and view Hired People in Prospect Search
GoodTime (Scheduling) - Feature Update: Upgrades to AI
Lattice (People Platform) - Product Launch: Lattice HRIS
Pinpoint (ATS) - Product Updates: LinkedIn RSC Integration, Structured Sections for Job Applications, Workflow Approvals, new languages, application deadlines, visibility.
Permanent Articles
Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources
Job Search
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 which 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 14th
WeAreLATech - Podcast Panel and Brunch: "LA Tech Community Builders" LA #TechWeek and Female Founder Showcase LA #TechWeek (all events)
SelectSoftware Reviews - Webinar: Strategies to Master the First 90 Days in a New HR Job
John Hazelton and AssessFirst - Talent Acquisition Showdown 2024 - Where is the Data?
Pinpoint and Cintra HR & Payroll Services - What proposed employment laws mean for recruiters (UK)
The Muse and FairyGodBoss - The Next Era of Employer Branding: Taking Candidates from “Blank Space” to “You Belong with Me”
Bot Jobs and Dashbot - Fireside chat: Chatbot Intelligence Maturity Curve with Martyn Redstone
Cnect’s Engage Smarter: Elevating Talent & Customer Experience Using AI with Craig Fisher, Andre Boulais, and Daniella M Sardi
Week of October 21st
Chicago Recruiter Happy Hour with Talent Collective, Metaview, and RecOps Collective
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
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.
Disclaimer #1: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author, and they do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company. Assumptions made in the analysis do not reflect the position of any entity other than the author. As critically thinking professionals, these views are always subject to change, revision, and rethinking at any time. They are not to be held in perpetuity.
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Until next week, Regulators 😊