Week of September 23rd, 2024

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Creative Destruction - Inspired by Mike Joyner

Have you ever heard of “creative destruction”? If you haven’t, like me, then Mike Joyner ’s post on Wednesday likely just gave a name to a process you have profoundly felt in your RecOps role. Here is a little bit of a primer and how to use it.

What is “creative destruction” and the history behind it?

Creative destruction describes a process in which new innovations replace and make obsolete older innovations. It was first coined by Joseph Schumpeter and is original a concept in economics that has made its way into other functions. If you’re curious to read more, here is a link to the Wikipedia article but also an excellent article about how it applies to the business world .

Is creative destruction similar to incremental improvements?

Nope, it is actually the opposite. Where incremental improvements highlight small adjustments, creative destruction aims for radical transformations, and using it usually coincides with introducing disruptive technologies, business models, or ideas that challenge the status quo.

What are ways we’ve seen creative destruction in the RecOps or the recruiting space at large?

• Switching from a legacy tool to a more modern one.
• Manual sourcing to AI/automation.
• Traditional job board posting to programmatic job advertising.
• Unstructured interviews to structured interviews.
• In-person interviews to video interviews.

If I decide to go the creative destruction route, does that mean I have to swing for the fence every time?

Not at all! Like any mental framework, you can use and adapt parts to meet your needs. For example, if you see your company really struggling with consistent interviewing practices, a hard pivot to structured interviews could be what is needed. One of the pieces about making a big change is that you have to build consensus and not just rush in. Remember it is creative destruction, not pure destruction and trying to cause chaos.

RecOps Updates

RecOps Conference - 4 Weeks until showtime, here is the link for a 15% discount . You will also get a digital copy to James Colino ’s book closer to the event and Luke Eaton ’s surprise gift. If you're having trouble convincing your company or manager to send you, reach out, and we’ll chat with you about it. This event is for the community, so we want to help you.

RecOps—We’re going to work hard to train the prompts. 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)

• Lever / Employ ’s Candidate Experience: A Must-Track Recruiting Metric (article)
• Brian Fink ’s Are Your Interviews "Too Safe"?
• JobSync ’s Human Capital ROI: Can You Make the Link Between Your People and Your Business Outcomes? (blog)
• Talent Collective ’s A after I: Why AI Won’t Replace Recruiters (blog)
• Talent Llama ’s Skills-based Hiring & the Rise of AI (blog)
• Jobvite / Employ ’s 2024 Recruiting Effectiveness Planning Kit (guide)
• Stan Folly ’s RecOps newsletter for French audiences (newsletter)
• Metaview ’s Data report: The impact of the AI-enabled recruiter (report)
• Manatal ’s How They Define Recruiter Enablement (podcast)
• TeamTailor ’s Aligning TA and HR for strategic success (podcast)

Product News (sorted alphabetically with type parenthesis)

• Ashby (AiO) - Enterprise Feature: Create and send newsletters , Integration: Fairgo.ai
• candidate.fyi (Candidate Experience/Scheduling) - In the Top 5 of Easiest Scheduling Tools to Use
• Cronofy (Scheduling) - Partnership with Whereby
• Gem (AiO) - Feature: Talent Community Form Template
• GoodTime (Scheduling) - September 2024 Product Rollouts
• Greenhouse (ATS) - Launches Verified Badges to Promote Trust and Transparency in Hiring
• Metaview (Interview Transcription) - Job Board Launch , Feature improvement: Metaview’s AI can create and share clips of key interview moments automatically
• Poetry (Recruiter Enablement) - Feature: Processes Solution , Updated offerings
• SmartRecruiters (ATS) - Launching SmartRecruiters 3.0 and Winston
• TeamTailor (AiO) - Latest Integrations - Summer 2024

Permanent Articles

• Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources

Job Search

• Applied Materials - Global Talent Acquisition Program Manager - (B3)
• Underdog - Manager, Talent Acquisition Operations
• Novo Nordisk - Talent Acquisition Process Excellence and Capability Building Lead

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 - 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

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 organizing whole company 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!

List of areas you are looking for:

• People Ops
• Learning and Development
• Employee Engagement

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 September 30th

• RecruiterFlow - Mastering Job Ads: Live Critique and Expert Tips with Mitch Sullivan
• Brighthire / Greenhouse - A Game-Changing Combination for Efficiency & Quality of Hire
• CoderPad ?/ AssessFirst ?/?Pipplet - Better Assessments, Happier Candidates
• Employ Connect - AI Tool Review with Kim Wilkes and Nitin Moorjani covering Zapier , Metaview , and candidate.fyi
• Calendly -Better Meeting Virtual Event

Week of October 7th

• PURPL - TALENT HACKED: Unlocking Interview Excellence

Week of October 14th

• Monoceros Initiative - ADHDvCon
• WeAreLATech - Podcast Panel and Brunch: "LA Tech Community Builders" LA #TechWeek and Female Founder Showcase LA #TechWeek (all events )
• SelectSoftware Reviews - Webinar: Strategies to Master the First 90 Days in a New HR Job
• John Hazelton and AssessFirst ’s Talent Acquisition Showdown 2024 - Where is the Data?

Week of October 21st

• RecOps Conference on October 24th and 25th in Chicago
• SeekOut ’s How Mature is Your Talent Strategy? A Step-by-Step Workshop

November 2024

• TalentNet Media ’s - TalentNet Live Conference
• TechRecruit - Silicon Valley TechRecruit Conference 2024 (There is a RecOps panel guided by Tom Allegretti and Kari Robison )

?? 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.
• 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.
• Disclaimer #2: We are sponsor-free. No company below has paid us to advertise their products or share their open jobs. If that changes, we will deliberately call out where we stand to benefit. Additionally, sharing these opportunities and information should not be read as support for these companies or their practices. Regarding jobs, we share these opportunities with 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.

Until next week, Regulators ??