Week of February 5th, 2024

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

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So, without further ado, Recruiting Regulators - mount up!

Heads up

We’re going to be taking a short break from the regularly scheduled programming and release schedule to gather new ideas and thoughts for you. Don’t worry, though. The newest addition will be out on March 1st.

We’ll also be releasing more information about the RecOps event.

Upleveling Your Networking - Inspired by Tom Allegretti Jr. ’s Post

In case you missed it on Monday, Tom had a fantastic post about how to network into your next job. The original post is brilliant, so we highly recommend reading and engaging with it.

Inevitably, in networking conversations, someone will ask the question, “So, how can I help you?” When this question arises, it is usually from the person perceived to have the most power but necessarily. So as not to fumble the ask, especially if there isn’t a specific one you're targeting (e.g. like asking for a job, an assignment, etc), the advice that most people get is to ask for who you should speak to next. This is solid advice because it helps you build introductions and generally, assuming the conversation went well, most people like to make those introductions.

Tom’s advice, though, takes that to the next level and is especially important if you are in a niche type of role (most high-level RecOps roles are) or looking to grow your career. His suggestion is also to ask them if any Sourcer/Recruiter reaches out about an open job that they aren’t interested in, if they would be open to sharing your name or, even better, your resume with that Sourcer/Recruiter. This is beneficial in two ways:

1. It helps the other person focus how they can help instead of a flippant “If you here of any jobs send them my way!” It is also actionable.
2. Not everyone is looking to leave their jobs but most people want to help.

So RecOps folks, the next time you are having a conversation, especially one about your future, be sure to consider Tom’s advice.

RecOps - Your Friendly RecOps GPT

This means you can finally use the GPT we built, RecOps (we shortened the name and updated the URL) ??

Link: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-PDEG1n7fb-recops

Articles / Industry News

Articles We’re Reading

• TeamTailor’s Future of Recruitment Guide - Why? The beautful part about reports/guides like this is that there is always a new angle and new data. On the RecOps side of the fence, having this information helps shape your viewpoint and possible blind spots you might not have noticed.
• Cronofy’s How time-to-schedule is impacting your time-to-hire - Why? This gem of an article was dropped at the end of November (sorry we missed it). Lots of conversations though have been sparking up in the space about time-to-schedule impacting time-to-hire and it is a good correlation.

Things We’re Listening To:

• Aaron Kraljev’s How We Interview: Smoke, Fire, Lies episode with Jeremy Lyons
• Ashby’s Offer Accepted episode with Natalie Stones

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

• Brighthire (Talent Intelligence) - Co-Founder Benjamin Sesser’s post on candidate time and interview loops (Seriously though, he has been knocking it out of the park with data you can use to influence your teams so we recommend giving him a follow)
• Candidate.fyi - Major and exciting innovations to their scheduling tool
• Cronofy (Scheduling) - Scheduling through the Chrome Extension
• GoodTime (Scheduling) - January 2024 Product releases
• Greenhouse (ATS) - 2024 G2 Awards
• Recruit CRM (ATS/CRM) - 8 Powerful Recruit CRM analytics reports
• SmartRecruiters (ATS) - Launched their TA marketplace
• TeamOhana (Headcount Management) - Dynamic org chart release

Permanent Articles

• Recruiting Operations: Dictionary
• Recruiting Operations: Resources

Job Search

• 可口可乐公司 - Director, Talent Acquisition Operations
• 美国南加州大学 (USC) - Director of Recruiting Operations (for the sports fans)
• 万豪酒店 - Manager, TA Operations
• ABM Industries - Talent Acquisition Training, Process and Quality Control Manager

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 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
• 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.
• CollabWORK - This is less for the candidates but more for the companies. We’ve seen a lot of discussion about the rising cost of LinkedIn. CollabWORK is a community-powered hiring platform connecting companies to referral-based and targeted talent pools at scale. It integrates with 40+ different ATS and will push your jobs out to communities, some of which have talent not found on LinkedIn.

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. 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 RecOps Community

Rebecca Demarest Panzer

Short Bio

• As the recent Greenhouse Talent Partner award winner, I am looking to move into a role that will allow me to grow in my career. I have a great deal of experience in organizing and creating Learning and Development opportunities, as well as project managing things across all aspects of the People departments. I have done legal research on HR law updates to organize the whole company's social events. I am, at heart, a science fiction writer with a fascination for all things science and a long history of working with tech companies. I am passionate about supporting the scientists and programmers who make those dreams a reality. I have skills in graphic design, writing of all sorts, and event management on top of everything else!

Looking for Roles In:

• People Ops, Learning and Development, Employee Engagement

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

Events

• Ashby’s Bi-weekly demo series and Product Launch: Quality of Hire surveys

?? Reminders and Disclaimers ??

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