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
Questions RecOps Folks Should Ask During Their ATS Scoping
An applicant tracking system (ATS) is one of the most important tools to a recruiting team, and RecOps professionals are often tasked with maintaining for finding new ones. Who better to give advice on the right questions to ask when you are evaluating a new ATS than someone who has to sell it?
Leveraging Technology, Resources, and Metrics for Effective Diversity Hiring
Curious to learn how to learn how leveraging technology, resources, and metrics make for effective diversity hiring? Dive in with this guest article from Desiree Goldey!
Why knowing what to do is not enough when it comes to Talent Acquisition dashboard creation and maintenance
TA must become agile. A great way to foster agility is evaluating and improving daily operations through analytics.
It's my vision that every team member has access to real-time and predictive analytics, in a data analytics platform (not Excel please!)
This article is for everyone who is in the journey to become data-driven and agile!
AI and the Future of Recruiting Coordination
Queue up the AC/DC because there might some Hell's Bells ringing.
Effective Headcount Management: What can you do as a RecOps Practitioner?
In this article, learn about effective headcount management and the role of a Recruiting Operations practitioner in enabling best practices. Discover three key practices for data management and hiring prioritization that can help streamline the process.
Recruiting Operations Dictionary
An ongoing glossary of terms and acronyms for the RecOps space and those interested in it.
Transparency, Honesty, Authenticity (Part 1)
The importance of understanding the differences between transparency, honesty, and authenticity in professional contexts cannot be understated. This articles explains the definitions of these terms and how they are used in job descriptions, interviews, and other situations, emphasizing the value of authenticity in building relationships and achieving success in the workplace.
The Over-Indexed Skill Problem
A detailed breakdown of what potential issues faced when you over-index on a specific skill
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.
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Metaview
Metaview automatically writes your interview notes for you so you can save time and focus on high-quality interactions with candidates.
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ModernLoop
We helps recruiting teams operate efficiently & cost effectively by automating manual recruiting operations tasks
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Reimbi
Reimbi is a software platform used to ensure job candidates are reimbursed quickly for their approved out-of-pocket interview expenses
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InterviewPlanner
We're building an interview scheduling platform that's simple to set up, customizable enough to handle any special edge cases, and actually feels good to use.
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TeamOhana
TeamOhana is an innovative platform that makes headcount management easy.
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Teamable
Teamable helps you source, nurture, & engage with great talent that will supercharge your team.
