Week of November 4th, 2024
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Why and How by Jeremy Lyons
Around this time two years ago, I wrote a piece called RecOps Starts with Why. At the time, this resonated with folks in the RecOps community because Why questions often guide much of our work (e.g., Why does the data show X?, Why is the process this way? Why is this workflow inefficient). Without a Why, we’ll get the work done but it might feel empty or like our best work. However, the Why questions we ask might hold some of us from the strategic and leadership conversations because Why questions can often be confused for needing direction as opposed to providing a constellation we are aiming towards.
José Cong, in his keynote at the RecOps Conference, emphasized a key element that can turn that around for RecOps professionals: the introduction of How in the partnership. How provides a strategic element to the Why by demonstrating that we have already thought through a few ways to accomplish a task and the trade-offs. So, for your next meeting, work on pairing the Why with the How and see how that helps position you for future success.
RecOps - The GPT
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)
Adam Gordon’s Recruiter Enablement: Driving New Efficiencies in Hiring (article)
Fede Grinsblat’s Rediscover Talent in Your ATS Database: Turning Past Applicants Into Top Hires (article)
Heather Lee’s 8 Generative AI Prompts Every Recruiter Should Have in Their Back Pocket (article)
Metaview’s 3 Reasons recruiters need to build AI skills now (article)
Gem’s Recruiting Email Outreach Benchmarks and Best Practices, Fall 2024 Edition (ebook)
Luke Eaton’s Why RecOps Matters (newsletter)
Steve Bartel and James Mackey’s What should AI’s role be in talent acquisition? (podcast)
Joe Atkinson’s 6 AI Prompting Techniques for Recruiters (post)
CodeSignal’s The Technical Hiring Playbook (playbook)
Employ (Jobvite/Lever)’s Empowering People-First Recruiting (Employ Recruiter Nation Report 2024) (report)
Brighthire’s Shine 2024: The Future of Jobs — Demographics, Disruption, and Where Jobs are Headed (video)
Talent Collective’s How to Not Get Overwhelmed (video)
Product News (sorted alphabetically with type parenthesis)
candidate.fyi (Candidate Experience/Scheduling) - Feature: Dynamic Interviewer Pool Selection
Gem (AiO) - New Feature Enhancement: Gem Scheduling & Reporting
SmartRecruiters (ATS) - Feature: SMS & WhatsApp functionalities
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 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
Short Bio
As a proven problem solver with bias for action I solely scaled the global recruiting ops function at a public tech company of 2000+ headcount, and strategically consolidated our tech stack resulting in cost savings of over $250,000. Most notably, I led the ATS migration from Lever to Greenhouse and pioneered our first ATS<>Workday integration in order to automate manual data entry and promote data integrity. My ability to extract actionable insights and flip them into strategic initiatives also boasted a 10% reduction in time to hire QoQ. I'm hungry to build up another recops program or find ways to optimize existing ones and drive value right back to a business!
List of roles you are looking for:
Recruiting (Ops) Program Manager
Sr/Lead Recruiting Ops Specialist
Recruiting/People Analyst
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 November 11th
TechRecruit - Silicon Valley TechRecruit Conference 2024 (There is a RecOps panel guided by Tom Allegretti and Kari Robison)
SelectSoftware Reviews - Are you ready to transform your HR operations with AI?
Talent Labs - Candidate Experience: Exceptional onboarding is the key to talent attraction and retention
Week of November 18th
Gem - WTF in Recruiting: How to Nail Your 2025 TA Plan and Actually Get It Approved with Jeremy Lyons and Nona Renfro
🎉 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 😊