The Collective
When we started RecOps Collective, we knew our community needed more than one voice or opinion.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t a single place for RecOps professionals to go to find guides/frameworks, thought pieces, and humor specific to our space.
SO WE CREATED ONE
This space is for RecOps to share those ideas and also see their work up in a public space.
If you want to submit an article, don't hesitate to contact hello@recopscollective.com for guidelines and submission.
Legal Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in these articles are those of the writers. 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 human beings, views are always subject to change, revision, and rethinking at any time. They are not to be held in perpetuity.
Original RecOps Collective Material
Discovering RecOps - How Experience in Other Careers Gives Perspective in RecOps by Ashley Wines
Recruiting Operations (RecOps) is a location everyone gets to differently. In this article, Ashley Wines shows why experiences in other careers make better RecOps.
Parallels between RecOps and Other Fields/Ideas
Recruiting Operations (aka RecOps) is a multi-disciplinary field with practitioners skilled in pulling from everywhere. This ongoing articles recounts some of those parallels.
Discovering RecOps: From Skeptic to Full-Believer by Mark Jenkins
Recruiting Operations (RecOps) is a location everyone gets to differently. In this series, we highlight how Mark Jenkins discovered it moving from skeptic to full believer.
AI and the Future of Recruiting Coordination
Queue up the AC/DC because there might some Hell's Bells ringing.
Recruiting Operations Dictionary
An ongoing glossary of terms and acronyms for the RecOps space and those interested in it.
The Different Generations of Recruiting Operations
A brief history of the different generations of Recruiting Operations. A reflection on where RecOps pros came from, where they are now, and where they are going.
Documentation/Knowledge Management in TA/RecOps
An often overlooked element in TA/Recruiting Ops is our commitment and dedication to documentation and knowledge management. This article is less a think piece and more a framework guide to help those in the Talent Acquisition and Recruiting Operations Space.
Recruiting Operations Org Structure
What is Recruiting Operations? How do people grow in RecOps?
Framework for a TA/Recruiting Operations Manager Interview
Recruiting for a Recruiting Operations Manager is a challenging process given the range of candidates. This article digs in deep for how to go about setting up an interview plan for finding your next ROM.
How to Explain TA/RecOps to Different Crowds
When your job is to do everything it can be hard to summarize it quick enough to everyone before their eyes glaze over. Here are a few handy one-sentence explanations that appeal to different audiences.
RecOps Starts With Why
There are many question words out there but Recruiting Operations starts with Why. This article dives in deeper about why Why is so important to everything we do.
Check out others in the Space
We know we aren’t the only ones in the space putting out content and information that helps our community. We’ve organized it here and are always looking to add more.
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Yello’s Blog
Growth by Design Talent
Recruiting Brainfood - This is more heavily focused on Recruiting, but there might be some good articles that Ops people can use.
RecOps.org
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We recommend joining the following communities:
Ashby
TA Innovation Hive
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Talent Acquisition Trends & Strategy by James Mackey
Talent Ops Anonymous by Beamery
A-Players Podcast: Introduction to Recruitment Operations
Ashby’s Offer Accepted
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Ben Collins - YouTube / Website
Prolific Oaktree - YouTube / Website
Sheets Help
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RecOps: Recruiting is (Still) Broken. Here’s How to Fix It by James Colino
How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information by Alberto Cairo
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Effective Data Storytelling: How to Drive Change with Data, Narrative and Visuals by Brent Dykes
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart and Randy Street
Here Be Dragons: How to Win Deals and Influence Ideas by Mastering the Eloquent Art of Storytelling by Richard Mulholland
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Calendly - 14 recruiting software tools to automate and streamline your hiring process
Crosschq - 2023 Recruiting Benchmarks and Metrics Report
Interviewing.io - How to Design an Interviewing Rating System
Luke Eaton - Recruitment Operations 101 - This is a data-heavy take on RecOps
Vendor Interviews:
A huge part of RecOps is the technology. So we’ve interviewed the following companies to give you a head start.