Week of January 22nd, 2024

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

TA/Recruiting Operations Maturity Curve by Jeremy Lyons

Last week, I was chatting with Leah Daniels about the world of RecOps, and we got on the topic of what people should call the space. I didn’t mind if it was RecOps or TA Ops until I read James Colino’s book, and since then, I’ve committed to calling it purely RecOps to keep things focused, only using TA Ops or Recruitment Ops for SEO purposes. Leah, on the other hand, likes to use TA Ops because it makes her think of Tao and the peacefulness that comes with it. This got me thinking… what-if this is part of the maturity model for the space and led to this chart, which plays with alliteration:

Stage 1: You’re in Wreck Ops. You are constructing or deconstructing the entire recruiting backend. You need to build systems, reports, processes, and so much more. Some people love this phase because it is fast, exciting, and gets the heart pumping.

Stage 2: You’re in Rec Cops. Woop-woop - That’s the sound of da police. Thanks KRS-One for the intro. Everything is built, but you need to lay down the law now in order to keep everything running in an orderly fashion. You do this by ensuring everyone is following the rules.

Stage 3: You're in Rahps (for those who call the space ROps). This stage is filled with more ah-ha moments as the function starts to shift from the go-go-go aspects to being more strategic and focused. The projects are bigger as is the seat at the table (even if you never sit at the corporate high table).

Stage 4: You’re in Tao Ops. You have achieved TA/Recruiting Operations Nirvana. The team is well-integrated into the broader corporate teams, properly sourced/focused, and nothing knocks you off your path.

But what do you think?

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

• eqtble (Acquired by Paradox) and Samantha Feldman’s Compa-Ratio: Navigating Salary Bands for Fair CompensationWhy? As a RecOps person, you might be asked to build a compa-ratio calculator for your recruiting team so they know what they can offer a candidate. This article does a marvelous job of breaking everything down in an easy and understandable way. Good one to bookmark.
• Harvard Business Review ’s Assess Your Life PortfolioWhy? Jay-Z once said, “I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man” and people often get told “you are the CEO of your career.” This series by HBR is focused on helping you think about your life as in corporate terms.
• Added to our reading list: Erica Keswin’s The Retention Revolution and Brian Fink ’s The Main Thing is the Main Thing

Things We’re Listening To:

• Ashby ’s Offer Accepted: Episode 18: Internal Mobility's Positive Impact on Employee Experience with Dr. Kalifa Oliver at Ford
• Recruit CRM 's Are you adopting AI in recruitment effectively? A look into the future of staffing with The Millionaire Recruiter on-demand webinar

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

• Ashby (AiO - All in One) - What should you ask candidates in a survey?
• Brighthire (Talent Intelligence) - The Interview Maturity Model
• Cronofy (Scheduling) - HIPAA secure, How Time-to-Schedule Impacts Time-to Hire
• iCIMS (ATS) - Feature: Nudging candidates with incomplete applications
• Pinpoint (ATS) - Launches Dear Recruiter: their newsletter
• Recruit CRM (ATS/CRM) - 10 awesome Recruit CRM features that our customers love | Recruitment made easy
• Screenloop (AiO) - On Why You Should Consolidate Tech
• SmartRecruiters (ATS) - 6 Hiring Capabilities You Can’t Live Without in 2024
• TeamTailor (ATS) - Historic Custom Reports Recap
• Tribepad (AiO) - Employer branding on a budget: 5 tips from the experts

Permanent Articles

• Recruiting Operations: Dictionary
• Recruiting Operations: Resources

Job Search

• Helion - Talent Acquisition Operations Manager
• AMD - Talent Acquisition Operations Specialist (Contract)
• AB InBev - Recruiting Operations Analyst
• Klaviyo - Candidate Experience Specialist
• Frank, Rimerman + Co. LLP - Recruiting Operations Coordinator

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

Additional Resource

• ChartHop's?PeopleOps Job Board
• 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
• 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 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

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

Events

• We’ve got an exciting announcement coming up so keep an eye on Jeremy and our RecOps Collective 's profiles
• Poetry - the Recruiter Enablement Workspace has different sessions around the tool and GenAI (one featuring the legend Martyn Redstone). Check out Adam Gordon’s post for more details
• Ashby’s Bi-weekly demo series and Product Launch: Quality of Hire surveys
• Metaview ’s Recruiter Series

?? 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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Until next week, Regulators ??