Week of February 24th, 2025

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Thank you everyone who continued to read the newsletter while we were taking a short break! We’re going to keep this section intentionally short because a lot happened while we were away. Don’t worry though, we’ll return with some thoughts in this area soon enough.

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Articles / Industry News

?? ?? Articles/Graphics/Podcasts/Posts On Our Radar (sorted by type)

• Martyn Redstone’s The RecOps Engineer: Taking Recruitment Operations to the Next Level (article)
• Mike Pierce’s The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Job Roles: Preparing for Workplace Transformation (article)
• Kula’s The global guide to AI recruiting regulations. Are you compliant? (article)
• Eric Guidice’s Workforce Planning vs Workforce Management vs Headcount Planning vs Headcount Management (chart)
• SmartRecruiters’ ROI of the Ultimate Talent Acquisition Platform (ebook)
• GoodTime’s Rethinking AI in HR: Balancing Innovation, Risk, and Human-Centric Solutions (guide)
• TeamOhana’s The headcount planning process guide (guide)
• Johnny Campbell’s Hiring Processes: When to Follow, When to Ignore, and When to Adapt (newsletter)
• CodeSignal and Ashby’s Playbook: Leveraging AI for a Human-Centric Hiring Process (playbook)
• Growth by Design Talent’s State of Training Survey 2025 (survey)
• Pillar with Lydia Wu’s You Like This AI Tool, Now What?: How To Introduce AI Into Your Organization (webinar)

?? Product News

• Ashby (AiO) - Integration: Ironclad, SproutsAI, HireRight. Feature improvement: Calendar context
• Brainner (Resume Screening) - Feature: AI Resume Screening Agent
• Brighthire (Interview Intelligence) - Feature Release: Topics Coverage and Candidate Summaries, Compensation Redaction
• CandorIQ (Headcount/Compensation) - Two-way sync with Ashby
• Crew (AiO) - Feature Release: Sync
• Gem (AiO) - Platform Redesign to be AI-First
• hireEZ (Sourcing/CRM) - Integration: TeamTailor
• Kula (AiO) - Passed AI Bias Audit conducted by Warden AI
• Lever (ATS) - Feature: Bulk job closure
• Metaview (Interview Transcription) - Partnership perk with Gem
• Pinpoint (ATS) - February Feature Releases
• SCALIS (ATS / Job Board) - Feature Releases: Scorecard templates, Job Ad Marketplace, Job Board Distribution, Partnership: VONQ
• Screenloop (AiO) - Bad Hire Cost Calculator
• SeekOut (Sourcing) - Service Launch: Spot
• SmartRecruiters (ATS) - Feature Releases: SmartAnalytics Guidebooks Expansion, Job Specific Screening Questions, and Scheduling automation
• Talent Llama (Conversational AI) - Product Updates: New Dashboards, Deeper Analytics, and Competency Tuning

Permanent Articles

• Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources

Events

Week of March 3rd

• HIGHER and Ashby’s Rethinking Hiring Through Transparency
• Gem’s Demo Day: Gem's AI-first all-in-one recruiting platform
• PeopleInsight by HireRoad and Greenhouse’s From ATS to Insights:

Week of March 10th

• SelectSoftware Reviews’ Mind Your AI: Expert Advice on AI Compliance for HR
• Employ (Lever/Jobvite/JazzHR)’s Crafting a People-First Employee Journey: Balancing Technology and Empathy in Today’s Workforce
• hireEZ’s Talent Pools: Build Pipelines That Deliver

Week of March 17th

• Recruitics and CollabWORK’s The Hidden Workforce Revealed: 3 Must-Know Recruitment Trends and Tactics
• TALK’s Talent Acquisition's Hidden Cost - Problematic Conflicts of Interests

Week of April 7th

• AssessFirst’s Meet VOICE – The AI-Powered recruitment revolution

Week of April 28th

• ERE’s Recruiting Innovation Summit

Week of May 12th

• Ashby’s Ashby One - This in-person conference is for ambitious Talent & RecOps Teams.

Week of June 2nd

• Talent Collective’s Talentsphere Summit. For an additional 10% off, use the code RECOPS.

Job Search

• Stripe - Head of Recruiting Operations
• AAA - Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition Operations
• Meta - Manager, Recruiting Operations Strategy
• Scale AI - Program Manager, Recruiting Operations
• Sealed Air Corporation - Talent Acquisition Operations Specialist (Contract)

Here is the list of previously listed jobs, which may or may not be available.

Additional Resource

• ChartHop's?PeopleOps Job Board
• ATS/Tool-Specific Job Boards
• 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’s job board is filled with information others don’t like, such as the last time the company did a layoff, application experience based on the ATS, and more.
• Darren Bush’s Get Hired Toolkit

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.

?? 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 ??