Week of December 23rd, 2024

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Too-Too by Jeremy Lyons

The holiday season for the end of year is iconic. If you were a dancer, this time of year reminds you of The Nutcracker and the Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy’s jingle lives rent-free in your mind. Beyond the music, the costumes and tutus are equally iconic. So, in the spirit of The Nutcracker, why not put a new spin on the tutu and talk about the too-toos in RecOps?

Too-Too… what do you mean here beyond the wordplay?

Well, the wordplay is fun, but to get to the point - the too-too captures the feeling that many RecOps professionals experience given all the skills needed to do the role. It is the too (blank) for (action) but too (blank) for (opposite action). So, for example, too data-driven to be in recruiting but not too data-driven enough to be a data analyst.

I see what you mean. So, where does this come up the most for RecOps professionals?

Probably during the interview process. Look - hiring for a RecOps role is hard, and one of the reasons is the intersection the role sits at within the TA team. For more mature TA functions, there might be very clear skills that the candidate will need, but even those can shift throughout the interview process as more people are interviewed. So, depending on the team, you might be too operationally driven and not too strategic enough or too senior for one role but not senior enough for the following role’s leveling. It can be a very tricky dance.

And is there an impact?

I think there is because RecOps professionals thrive on feedback and understanding the Why, with the ability to separate the business from the personal. Without the feedback or the Why, the too-toos lead to over and under-corrections. For example, I was chatting with a RecOps pro the other week who was working on a business case for their promotion. As we chatted, they pointed out that they had received feedback recently that they might be “too junior” for the next level. When they had interviews with other companies at the next level of their role, they were told they were “too senior” or “too experienced”. They voiced concern about not accurately portraying themselves because they weren’t sure which way to lean (e.g., highlighting their longevity or a specific skill).

Is it possible to remove a too-too?

Absolutely! This is where mentorship can help and also building your internal executive board. Your executive board or mentor can help you identify where you might be overindexing and provide perspective about demonstrating a more balanced narrative.

RecOps - The GPT

RecOps - 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)

• John Faulkner-Willcocks / Open Org’s Everything We Built In 2024, Unwrapped! (article)
• Metaview’s The era of AI-enabled recruiting: The future is now (article)
• Tribepad’s 10 onboarding best practices for SME recruiters, 12 ways AI could change small business recruitment (article)
• SmartRecruiters’s Top 5 new posts for 2024 (post)
• Recruit CRM’s 10 tools to increase your productivity (blog)
• JobSync’s Top 5 Recruitment Roundtables of 2024: Where Innovation Meets Impact, ATS/CRM quick video (video)

Product News (sorted alphabetically)

• Ashby (AiO) - New feature: Send Alert and Scheduled Dashboard Notification Emails to Groups
• Gem (AiO) - 2025 Benchmark Report Pre-Registration
• GoodTime (Scheduling) - December Product Updates
• Manatal (AiO) - New Integration: Talent Job Seeker
• Metaview (Interview Transcription) - Trends in interviews. Promo: New users in December get the free forever deal
• Poetry (Recruiter Enablement) - Recruitment Operations Solutions
• SmartRecruiters (ATS) - Upgrades to calendar integrations
• Talent Llama (Skill-Based Conversational AI) - December Product Updates. Promo: Sign before January 1st and get 3 months free + 100 interviews

Permanent Articles

• Recruiting Operations: Dictionary & Resources

Events

2025

Week of January 6th

• Ashby’s Ashby 2024 in Review: A look at major releases from the past year and what’s coming next
• SelectSoftware Reviews’ Future-Proofing Your Workforce: HR Skills and Training Initiatives to Focus on for 2025 with Andy Storch and Terri Varnell
• HIGHER’s 2025 Talent Acquisition Hiring Predictions with Ariana Moon, Benjamin Sesser, and Chris Abbass

Week of January 20th

• hireEZ’s Accelerating hiring success with applicant match

Week of January 27th

• Kula’s How to do Recruiting Right in 2025 (Yes, it involves AI) with Lou Adler

Week of May 12th

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

Week of June 2nd

• Talent Collective’s Talentsphere Summit. Tickets are now at the pre-sale price but will change after the 1st of the year. For an additional 10% off, use the code RECOPS.

Job Search

• Racetrac - Talent Acquisition Operations Manager
• Lennar - Talent Acquisition Operations Manager
• Netflix - Program Manager, Talent Data Governance
• Microsoft - Global Talent Acquisition Technology Solution Manager

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 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.
• 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.
• 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 😊