Week of December 4th, 2023

This community newsletter will share articles, images, graphics, and job openings/searchers in the RecOps space.

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Disclaimer:?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.

Topics Going Into 2024 by Jeremy Lyons

Right now, every company and expert seems to be rushing to/releasing their 2024 predictions. I’m no exception to this as I’m featured in some of these articles and thinking about the future is fun. But for this community and newsletter, I wanted to take a different angle and instead capture one theme for each of RecOps five pillars and offer up background as to why:

Data/Analytics - What metrics are actually needed?

People are obsessed with measurements and benchmarking. If you follow sports like baseball, which is in free agency right now, you are seeing it with things like Wins Above Replacement (WAR). But just because we can measure everything, does it mean we should and if we do, do we have enough data literacy to understand what the data is showing us? This is important to consider in 2024 with your teams and report requests.

Programs/Initiatives - How are we training and developing our internal TA team with AI on the horizon?

2023 has been the year of AI. It is everywhere and it isn’t going away. Instead of fighting it, it is time to start considering incorporating it. So what resources, how much time, and how will the response be for your team?

Employer Branding - Is internal mobility the biggest selling point our company can offer?

2021 and 2022 where about remote culture and pitching how candidates could work from anywhere. With the market shifting and companies contracting headcount, what are the top selling points for candidates going to be? It is starting to look like that is landing and expanding, but is your company ready for that and whose going to own it?

Strategy - How do we help remove ego from the interview process?

There is a fantastic dialogue happening now around skill-based hiring (follow Matthias Schmeisser if you want to learn more). It is likely the future of hiring, especially with how GAI is changing the landscape. So what happens when an interviewer speaks with a candidate and can’t separate their ego from the candidate’s potential? This will have to be accounted for across the board and will likely be an issue that Recruiting teams will need to address.

Operations - How can we do more with less?

This is a different question going into 2024 than in years past. The tools, the training, and everything is a little different (which could be said every year but this is different). So how RecOps team ruthlessly prioritize will be key.

RecOpsGPT Update

Thank you to the people who have already started using RecOpsGPT!

Currently it is only available if you have a paid OpenAI account until OpenAI launches their app store (which is supposedly early next year).

We apologize that this is the case for the moment.

Articles / Industry News

Articles We’re Reading:

• Nitin Moorjani’s Discovering RecOps
• SmartRecruiters’ 6 Key Responsibilities of a Talent Acquisition Operations Manager
• Sana Ross’ Neuroscience-Based Strategies for Effective New Year PlanningWhy this article? RecOps is about planning and execution so having tips for how to do that effectively are important.
• Brian Ferguson’s Achieving Success in Hiring: The Critical Role of Alignment and TransparencyWhy this article? RecOps work can often be less about the thing being built or reported on and more about the how so getting the alignment and transparency are clutch.
• Asana’s 12 tips to communicate more effectively at work and Four communication styles every leader should knowWhy these articles? Effective and succinct communication are important in RecOps so that there is clarity.
• Havard Business Reviews’ Develop Your Strategic-Thinking MuscleWhy this article? Because many think Ops roles are all just focused on execution, the strategy piece can often be overlooked. By developing strategic-thinking skills, it will not only help you grow your career but get you that seat at the table

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

• Ashby (ATS/Recruiting Analytics) - New Interviewer Briefing design experience
• Crosschq (Reference Checks) - Executive Insights Roundtable: 2024 Recruitment Predictions (Part I) and Recruitment Recommendations (Part II)
• Dover (ATS) - AI-powered applicant sorting
• eqtble (Acquired by Paradox) (Analytics) - Advice About Talent Analytics
• Greenhouse Software (ATS) - 5 Steps to Making Skills-First Hiring Practices More Equitable
• iCIMS (ATS) - 5 Trends to Define The Future of Hiring
• Lever (ATS) - 10 Expert Recruiting Tips for SMB Talent Teams, Fall 2023 Updates
• Pinpoint Applicant Tracking System (ATS) - Appcast integration, how to get buy-in for a new reporting system

Podcast

• Reimbi and Aaron' Kraljev’s How We Interview episode with Jeremy Lyons

Permanent Articles

• Recruiting Operations: Dictionary
• Recruiting Operations: Resources

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 [email protected].

Upcoming Industry Events

• Friday, December 8th, 12:00pm (ET) / 9:00 AM (PT) - Adam Gordon will be doing a live demo of PoetryHR for the RecOps community
• Thursday, December 15th 11:00 AM (ET) / 8:00 AM (PT) - Ashby’s Hiring Excellence Webinar with Shannon Ogborn and Jim Miller

Editor Note: If you have an upcoming event you would like to share, send it to [email protected].

Job Search

• Publicis Sapient - Operations Manager, Talent Acquisition
• Point72 - Recruitment Operations & Systems Manager
• Roblox - Sr. Program Manager, Recruiting Programs
• Niantic, Inc. - Lead Recruiting Coordinator
• Crisp - Recruitment Operations Internship

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

• ChartHop's?PeopleOps Job Board
• ATS Specific Job BoardsiCIMS's?HR professionals job board?aggregates all the HR jobs across their customersWorkable’s job board aggregates all jobs for companies that use WorkableSmartRecruiters’ 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 and sourcing content.

#YourNextHire?/ People Looking In the Community

Here is a?Google Sheet View?for a list of people previously featured and still looking.

If you, or someone you know, is interested in being featured, use?this form and only submit for yourself.

?? Reminders ??

• We accept community contributions. If you have anything to share or would like to write an article, contact Jeremy Lyons.
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