The Breakthrough Hiring Show: Modern Recruiting, AI, and Talent Strategy
Aug 18, 2026 · 39 min · 17 segments
In this episode, host James Mackey talks with Jeremy Lyons, Co-Founder of RecOps Collective, about what…
Jeremy LyonsGuestJames MackeyHost[laughs] Hey, so you're also pretty big into creating content, right, if I'm not mistaken?
Yeah, so the Rec Ops Roundup started out as a very big passion project for me because as a rec ops professional, most of the information that I'm getting is sourced from all over the web.
You've got data folks talking about data pieces that you might not see if you don't know the right people to follow, anything like that.
You've got tool updates that you have to be maintaining in your brain, and you're not sure where those things are.
And so really it started out as a digest of, hey, here are jobs that are open.
Historically, the recruiting operations, TA operations world, we've been lock- we were very heads down internally in our own company, so we don't necessarily know what's going on outside of it.
And part of what I do with it is becau- is make sure that people also have bite-sized advice for how to be better at the work that they're doing every day.
Some people might call that stupid, but the reason for that is it's a neutral, it's a neutral resource for everybody to use.
That'd be cool though if you helped the... 'Cause those things, it gets, it's pretty expensive to produce, right? You put so much time into these types of things.
[laughs] Hey, so you're also pretty big into creating content, right, if I'm not mistaken?
Yeah, so the Rec Ops Roundup started out as a very big passion project for me because as a rec ops professional, most of the information that I'm getting is sourced from all over the web.
You've got data folks talking about data pieces that you might not see if you don't know the right people to follow, anything like that.
You've got tool updates that you have to be maintaining in your brain, and you're not sure where those things are.
And so really it started out as a digest of, hey, here are jobs that are open.
Historically, the recruiting operations, TA operations world, we've been lock- we were very heads down internally in our own company, so we don't necessarily know what's going on outside of it.
And part of what I do with it is becau- is make sure that people also have bite-sized advice for how to be better at the work that they're doing every day.
Some people might call that stupid, but the reason for that is it's a neutral, it's a neutral resource for everybody to use.
That'd be cool though if you helped the... 'Cause those things, it gets, it's pretty expensive to produce, right? You put so much time into these types of things.
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