Last week I shared a story about a really stressed out, overwhelmed recruiting leader.

I also hinted at a framework that could help her get out of that mess.

But I didn’t share much about that framework. Today, I will...

THE FRAMEWORK FOR ELIMINATING OVERWHELM

If you’re a recruiting leader and you want to quiet the chaos in your busy TA function, I’d like to share a simple, easy-to-understand framework I’ve been using for years.

👉🏽 I call it “The RecOps Framework".

Here’s how it works…

Begin by thinking about your recruiting function as a “system” with the ultimate goal of producing “hires”.

When you think of your function as a system designed to produce one single thing (HIRES), it does two things for you…

#1 - Gets you focused on the one and only thing that matters → producing a hire.

And…

#2 - It sets the stage for optimizing that one thing. Not a thousand things.

Got it?

So, moving forward, you’re no longer going to think about your recruiting operation as a bunch of messy, tangled, random fire drills -- even though it probably looks and feels that way.

Those days are gone for you!

Now, begin thinking about your function as a "system" or a machine whose primary objective is to just do one thing – make hires.

Ideally, better hires, faster, at a lower cost, with a better experience.

WHY THIS FRAMEWORK…WORKS

For years and years, I used to run a reactive recruiting function. Putting out fires and reacting to whichever manager was screaming the loudest. I chased shiny new technologies, failed to create clarity for my team, and worked 80 hour weeks.

It was all so chaotic.

To get out of that mess, I needed a way to make sense of it all. A way to segment my work so I could focus on the drivers of my recruiting function (strategy & operations). I also needed a way to diagnose problems (via insights) and fix them in a continuous manner (RecOps).

So…after much reflection, discussion, trial and error…I landed on "The RecOps Framework".

This is what she looks like:

Can you see the difference? Doesn't it feel more organized? And more manageable?

Doesn't it sort of look like a system?

That's because it is!

I’d love to tell you more about the framework, but I’m going to stop here for today.

In the next several newsletters, I’m going to go deep -- pillar-by-pillar -- and explain how you can leverage the framework to run your recruiting function in a more controlled, less chaotic way with fewer moments of feeling overwhelmed.