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RecOps in Quadrimester? by Jeremy Lyons

I was catching up with a fellow RecOps professional, who pointed out that the RecOps work year doesn’t exactly work neatly in quarter frameworks. When I probed a little further, they shared that it is more like a quadrimester (four months, split into three segments).

What reason did they give as to why they thought it works better as a quadrimester?

They noted that projects generally had three distinct stages: selection, implementation, and review. According to them, they found that splitting their calendar into three parts instead of four parts helped measure project completion better and eliminated some confusion around where to slot victories or failures.

What did they put into each of those stages?

Selection: Essentially, all the upfront research and work like project scoping/prioritization, planning, getting stakeholder buy-in.
Implementation: Go time - launch the project, start building, work at a breakneck speed with a singular focus and ruthless prioritization.
Review: Conduct the retrospective within the first month and tinker with anything that needs to be changed or optimized in subsequent months.

What were your thoughts/opinions?

I thought it was an interesting idea that made some sense, but I didn’t hold a strong enough opinion to take an official position. On the one hand, I could rationalize it. Lost in the official terminologies of project planning and Scrum or desire to be data-driven and report on everything is the simple concept that all projects have a beginning, middle, and end. By splitting pieces into quadrimester, you get a beginning, middle, and end, and the extended beginning means that projects are likely more thought out and stand a less likely chance of being tossed out later because the extra months gives more time. On the other hand, though, I could see all the ways it would get pushback (e.g., what if you start a project outside of that selection window? What if priorities change? What happens when people leave? Why are you doing something outside of the normal fiscal quarters that everyone else uses?). Ultimately, it comes down to what you think works for your team and company culture.

But what are your thoughts? Leave them in the comment section.

RecOps Updates

RecOps Conference - If you haven’t picked up a ticket to the event yet, here is a 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.

RecOps—We’re going to work hard to train the prompts. 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)

Tribepad’s Data driven recruitment isn’t just for enterprises and 12 ways AI could change small business recruitment (article)
Beamery’s Better Workforce Planning? You Need A Skills-Based Talent Strategy (article)
Wall Street Journal and Ben Sesser’s The New Recruitment Challenge: Filtering AI-Crafted Résumés (article)
Manatal’s Top 6 Linkedin Content Strategy Ideas for Recruiters and Pros (blog)
Kevin Wheeler’s Rethinking Recruitment Metrics: Moving Beyond Cost, Speed, and Quality: Part I (blog)
Lever/Jobvite’s 7 Sourcing Hacks: The How-to Guide to Optimize Your Talent Search (ebook)
Shannon Ogborn’s Offer Accepted episode with Lyndsey French on Committing to Interview Excellence Through Internal Training (podcast)
Talent Collective’s HigherHer podcast (podcast)
Joseph Ifiegbu / eqtble’s Internal Mobility Rate vs Time to Promotion (post)
Findem’s 5 Myths about Copilots for Recruiting (post)
Steve Bartel’s Role and Department Passthrough Rate (post)

Industry News (sorted alphabetically with space in the RecOps community in parenthesis)

Ashby (AiO) - New Feature: Alert the interviewers of their enrollment in interviewer training
candidate.fyi (Candidate Experience/Scheduling) - New Feature: Debrief Scheduling
Gem (AiO) - Features/Updates: AI Sourcing and Scheduling UI updates
GoodTime (Scheduling) - New features: Experience+
Pinpoint (ATS) - Integration: myInterview

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

ChartHop's PeopleOps Job Board
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
Drew Callin’s list of VC and PE job boards for their portfolios (pay attention to the comments too here since there are more)
Kara Zucker's The Startup Job Board Library
Steve Levy’s tips for Google job alerts
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

Alex Cutno

Short Bio

15 years of leadership & management experience and over 10 years in operations & program

management I bring a diverse set of talents gained from a career spanning military, government, and civilian work across tech, industrial, and commerce fields. I thrive in environments where I can make data-driven decisions and provide detailed analysis on programs and trends to all levels of leadership.

List of areas you are looking for:

Recruiting Operations
Program Management
Project Management

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 September 9th

Week of September 16th

Week of September 23rd

Tribepad - Tribepad Pro and Tribepad Gro demos

October 2024

November 2024

TalentNet Media’s - TalentNet Live November 8th

🎉 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.
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Until next week, Regulators 😊

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