Anybody with inside knowledge on this can chime in? Seems rather ominous one of the preeminent VC firms would axe their TA team; something their portcos presumably utilize.

Curious what everyone's heard. Bonus points if they rescheduled and actually showed up.

Posted in the Rippling subreddit but the sub is very small and I desperately need help.

We just started using Rippling as our ATS this week and I am having some struggles with it. I cannot figure out how to rate candidates with stars or a scale of 1-5 in the application review stage. I only have the option to deny or move a candidate forward to interview.

I spoke with our assigned implementation specialist and his only work around is to use tags and create 5 tags that say 1 star, 2 star, etc. but this method is not usable because you cant see the tags without clicking on each individual application you can only filter by tags, not have them as a column. I need to be able to see which applications I have viewed at a glance and what I would rate them. We have hundreds of applications in a day and I need this functionality.

Has anyone had this issue and can help?

I spoke with a headhunter about leaving my current agency to join another firm as an internal recruiter - this is another agency firm that competes within a different industry but still very much an agency.

She sold it as a corporate recruiter role but there’s a base and bonuses. Sounded more elevated than what I’m doing now but also afraid of joining another agency in the same situation I am right now, even if it were more ‘internal’. Anyone here do internal for an agency? Is it really much different than just hiring on the agency side? Should I avoid and wait out for a true corporate or TA role outside of agency?

Other options I was thinking of were HR Associates path. I’m just burnt out on the hamster wheel that is agency.

Hello all, looking for advice.

I worked a few months at an agency in executive search so I got very comfortable with screening calls and talking with high level people despite being brand new to the corporate world. I just moved in house and it’s already SUCH a better fit for me job-wise.

One thing I’d like to improve is sounding a bit more authoritative in my interviews. I’m happy to still sound nice, polite, and of course represent my company well but I think this is an even harder line to walk as a young woman tbh.

I don’t want my candidates feeling like I’m too junior or like they definitely are moving forward when my demeanor could maybe be unknowingly giving false hope? I want to be taken seriously I guess is the crux of it, but also stay true to myself and now that I’m in house, I want people to want to work at my company. So I guess keep as much of the warmth as I can while giving myself more gravitas.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

I currently am an agency recruiter of about 3.5 years, and a client of mine has asked me to join their team as an internal HR/TA leader since they’re growing quickly (I’ve brought on 4 people for them in hard to fill roles in 3 months). I think I can be successful as they’re willing to invest in some helpful tools, and really all the training needed on the HR side (it’s super light HR, they have a consultant) but am just overall anxious about making the move. It’s my dream job honestly, but of course change and unknowns are scary. And there’s prob some imposter syndrome of being younger and earlier on in my career :-)

Any advice from people who have made the shift and how to be successful internally??

Every time I log into LinkedIn there seems to be a new fully automated AI recruiting agency built by college students hitting the market. The solution to all recruiting problems seems to be building automated lists on {insert AI tool of the month} and mass spam.

Curious who is paying for services by people with no experience? How long before they realize what makes recruiting difficult is the hiring team themselves and the companies policies, not sourcing? Some of these companies are pitching exec and retained search and their employees were baristas and high school students less than a year ago.

Feels like an industry with an already low bar for entry is getting even lower.

So I'm a senior in-house recruiter at a big global tech manufacturing company in New England (yes, everything is expensive here), making $120k with a pretty small bonus. I've been here a year, I'm hitting all my KPIs, my manager is chill, and I work remotely, so on paper it's fine. But when I joined, the deal was 15 reqs per recruiter, and for the last 4 months my whole team has been sitting at 25+, and I'm now at 34 Most of them are hardware, manufacturing, and deep tech roles, and some are ridiculously niche. Leadership keeps saying "help is coming," and so far we got one backfill, which isn't actual help. Meanwhile the KPIs haven't budged, so we're expected to deliver the same quality with double the work. There's also no real promotion path and I do want to grow. I'm burnt out, and honestly for this level of complexity I feel like I should either get paid more or not be juggling 30+ roles, so I've been quietly applying to a few selective places. Am I being delusional thinking somewhere else would be better, or is this just what in-house TA looks like now? Would love to hear what your req loads are like and how you're surviving it.

For those of you using Indeed, have you noticed that ad spend seems to be going a lot less far lately? It feels like you have to allocate more budget per job just to maintain visibility and get views. Has anyone else experienced this recently, or noticed a change in performance compared to 6 months ago?

I just started a new role building a TA practice from scratch and ADP is the tool I have to work with. I'm particularly interested in connecting with anyone who has been able to build analytics dashboards for TTF, TTH, Hires, Source, Offer Acceptance, rate etc.

I thought this was pretty standard stuff until I met my new friend ADP.

Is anyone having success sourcing or posting jobs for Electrical Engineers outside of LinkedIn?

I’ve primarily been using LinkedIn, but I’ve been struggling lately to find qualified candidates with the specific experience and technical skills needed. I’d love to hear what other recruiters are using, especially for more niche engineering roles.

I know candidates have been increasingly frustrated with LinkedIn, so I’m curious if people are finding better success on other platforms.

ETA: For clarification, I realize a lot of people on this sub have been burned by recruiters and will have no sympathy for me. That is fine, I respect that. I’m only making this post vent about my experience as a recruiter. It’s for anyone who wants to hear me out. If you don’t want to hear me out and just complain about how awful I and other recruiters are, that is your prerogative, I will not stop you. I promise you there is nothing you can say that I haven’t heard before over the last 11 years of my career. I’m too jaded by this profession to give a fuck about anything disgruntled job seekers from the internet have to say about me.

Right now I work as a corporate recruiter for a startup. My company and my team are great and so is my work life balance. I get to work from home most days. Yeah I don’t have any passion or feel any value for my work at all. It doesn’t matter how competent I am or how much impact or value I bring to the company because I will be the first to go the second the company needs to trim costs.

No one cares about recruiters we are the bane of most people’s existence. We get blamed for so many things that are beyond our control. Just last week I had a candidate pass all of his interviews with flying colors and was told by the team that they wanted to extend an offer to him. I communicated this to the candidate saying that it’s likely we will give him an offer I just need to get some extra approvals and all of a sudden the team change their mind and said they wanna hold off on hiring him. The candidate was very understandably pissed off and I’m left stuck absorbing his frustration. No matter how well I manage his emotions on the phone, he will probably go to his friends and still tell them that the recruiter lied to him.

A few months ago, I had a hiring manager take three weeks to submit his feedback. I gave up reminding him because he wouldn’t submit it. When he finally did, he said the candidate did extremely well in the interview and he wanted to move forward with the process. I called the candidate to let her know and she told me that she accepted another offer. Then the hiring manager asked “why didn’t you keep the candidate warm?”.

I did keep the candidate warm you a\*\*hole. You just took too damn long to give the feedback yet I can’t say that to him because he’s a high-level executive and I’m the lowest of the low on the totem pole, easily replaceable with the millions of desperate recruiters looking for work right now.

I’ve been a recruiter for about 11 years now and started my career at a staffing agency. Ever since the beginning, I hated it. There was only one point in my career where I truly felt fulfilled by it and that was in about 2019 when I had my first big break and landed my first corporate role at Google. They doubled my salary and completely changed my life. I wasn’t a good student and never imagined that I would ever work for a company like Google. My whole family was proud of me. Friends would always ask me about work. For once in my life, my job interesting and the most rewarding part of that was being able to get people hired for Google and change their lives like mine.

Google took over my life in many ways. Everywhere I went people would ask me about work. I would be introduced to new people at parties and people would say “he works for Google”. News reporters would sometimes stand outside of the office trying to get employees to comment on something when there was a big story or new announcement from the company. It was exciting at first and I felt like a celebrity. I was used to constantly taking abuse from candidates as an agency recruiter and now candidates were extremely nice to me because they wanted to get hired at Google.

Over time I started to feel ensnared by Google. If I wanted to pick a restaurant for a date, I would use Google to find one. Needed directions to the restaurant? Google Maps. Date asks what I do for work? Google. Chill and watch some videos? YouTube. Mindlessly surf the web? Google Chrome. Need to check my email for something personal? gMail. Book a flight for a vacation? Google. I don’t think ordinary people realize how much their lives revolve around Google. Many of you are probably reading this post on an Android right now.

Plus, I was working constantly. Nights and weekends. I moved to a new city for this job and struggle to make friends because I was always working. At one point I missed a camping trip that my friends invited me on because I had to catch up on work. COVID made the isolation even worse than it was before. I got depressed then started drinking. Then I started doing drugs with my roommate because we were board and I didn’t have anyone else to hang out with. During this time I was somehow still functional and managed to excel in my job. I actually won an award for my performance towards the end of my second year. Then they let me along with dozens of other colleagues go because hiring slowed.

Went to another FAANG company for a bit and the work environment was hell so I went to Microsoft. I was doing really well at Microsoft until about a year into the role they slashed my whole team, because hiring slowed. Found contract work at a startup. Contract wasn’t renewed after a few months and I was out of work for about a year and a half. I thought having these companies on my résumé would have me set for life, but the reality was that there were tons of other recruiters with résumés that looked just like mine coming from FAANG companies all competing for the same jobs. During that time, I thought my career was over and I would never work again. Lost my home and lived out of Airbnbs until I ran out of money and lived out of my car. Went to rehab got my life together then another FAANG company came knocking on my door and dropped the best job offer I’ve ever had of my life. Nearly quadrupled my salary from when I first started my career. I relocated to another city. This time with a clean, sober mind, I decided I’m going to do this right.

Poured my soul into the company and was in the top 25% of my cohort of new hires in terms of my performance then about 8 months into the role the announced mine and my colleagues jobs were all being cut.

At this point, I’ve been burned so many times I no longer feel a sense of purpose or fulfillment in my career. Why should I care whether I could change a candidate’s life with a job offer anymore when my life could be flipped upside down at any moment? People have said for years that recruiters are going to be the first once replaced with AI. ve been talking about replacing recruiters with AI. Even though it hasn’t happened yet. It probably won’t happen because recruiting has a human element to it that can’t be replaced by AI. Yet, no one appreciates that and people remain persistent in looking for ways to get rid of recruiters.

It doesn’t matter how much value we have to a company because no one sees it. Many of the candidates who I’ve hired at these major companies, whose lives I have helped change probably don’t even remember my name. I won’t be surprised if many of them think they could’ve done it without me.

At this point in my career, I feel utterly worthless and disposable. Companies, candidates and hiring managers have proven that with their actions over the last 11 years.

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So i finally got this remote HR recruiter job in an engeniring company. They want me to do this everyday Candidate Sourcing: Minimi relevant candidates per day imum 50

Candidate Calls/Verification: Minimum 50 candidates per day

Candidate Interviews: Approximately 25-35 relevant candidate interviews per day

They gave me the WhatsApp yesterday and didn't gave me the Linkedin account yet

Today is my 5th day at work i have been using my personal linkedIn account and i haven't meet the daily goal everyday i feel lost and i really don't want to do i like it here and i feel this is a place where i want to be now at least so if anyone have advice or AI tools that will make this easier i would appreciate it. Thank you

ETA: For clarification, I realize a lot of people on this sub have been burned by recruiters and will have no sympathy for me. That is fine, I respect that. I’m only making this post vent about my experience as a recruiter. It’s for anyone who wants to hear me out. If you don’t want to hear me out and just complain about how awful I and other recruiters are, that is your prerogative, I will not stop you. I promise you there is nothing you can say that I haven’t heard before over the last 11 years of my career. I’m too jaded by this profession to give a fuck about anything disgruntled job seekers from the internet have to say about me.

Right now I work as a corporate recruiter for a startup. My company and my team are great and so is my work life balance. I get to work from home most days. Yeah I don’t have any passion or feel any value for my work at all. It doesn’t matter how competent I am or how much impact or value I bring to the company because I will be the first to go the second the company needs to trim costs.

No one cares about recruiters we are the bane of most people’s existence. We get blamed for so many things that are beyond our control. Just last week I had a candidate pass all of his interviews with flying colors and was told by the team that they wanted to extend an offer to him. I communicated this to the candidate saying that it’s likely we will give him an offer I just need to get some extra approvals and all of a sudden the team change their mind and said they wanna hold off on hiring him. The candidate was very understandably pissed off and I’m left stuck absorbing his frustration. No matter how well I manage his emotions on the phone, he will probably go to his friends and still tell them that the recruiter lied to him.

A few months ago, I had a hiring manager take three weeks to submit his feedback. I gave up reminding him because he wouldn’t submit it. When he finally did, he said the candidate did extremely well in the interview and he wanted to move forward with the process. I called the candidate to let her know and she told me that she accepted another offer. Then the hiring manager asked “why didn’t you keep the candidate warm?”.

I did keep the candidate warm you asshole. You just took too fucking long to give the feedback yet I can’t say that to him because he’s a high-level executive and I’m the lowest of the low on the totem pole, easily replaceable with the millions of desperate recruiters looking for work right now.

I’ve been a recruiter for about 11 years now and started my career at a staffing agency. Ever since the beginning, I hated it. There was only one point in my career where I truly felt fulfilled by it and that was in about 2019 when I had my first big break and landed my first corporate role at Google. They doubled my salary and completely changed my life. I wasn’t a good student and never imagined that I would ever work for a company like Google. My whole family was proud of me. Friends would always ask me about work. For once in my life, my job interesting and the most rewarding part of that was being able to get people hired for Google and change their lives like mine.

Google took over my life in many ways. Everywhere I went people would ask me about work. I would be introduced to new people at parties and people would say “he works for Google”. News reporters would sometimes stand outside of the office trying to get employees to comment on something when there was a big story or new announcement from the company. It was exciting at first and I felt like a celebrity. I was used to constantly taking abuse from candidates as an agency recruiter and now candidates were extremely nice to me because they wanted to get hired at Google.

Over time I started to feel ensnared by Google. If I wanted to pick a restaurant for a date, I would use Google to find one. Needed directions to the restaurant? Google Maps. Date asks what I do for work? Google. Chill and watch some videos? YouTube. Mindlessly surf the web? Google Chrome. Need to check my email for something personal? gMail. Book a flight for a vacation? Google. I don’t think ordinary people realize how much their lives revolve around Google. Many of you are probably reading this post on an Android right now.

Plus, I was working constantly. Nights and weekends. I moved to a new city for this job and struggle to make friends because I was always working. At one point I missed a camping trip that my friends invited me on because I had to catch up on work. COVID made the isolation even worse than it was before. I got depressed then started drinking. Then I started doing drugs with my roommate because we were board and I didn’t have anyone else to hang out with. During this time I was somehow still functional and managed to excel in my job. I actually won an award for my performance towards the end of my second year. Then they let me along with dozens of other colleagues go because hiring slowed.

Went to another FAANG company for a bit and the work environment was hell so I went to Microsoft. I was doing really well at Microsoft until about a year into the role they slashed my whole team, because hiring slowed. Found contract work at a startup. Contract wasn’t renewed after a few months and I was out of work for about a year and a half. I thought having these companies on my résumé would have me set for life, but the reality was that there were tons of other recruiters with résumés that looked just like mine coming from FAANG companies all competing for the same jobs. During that time, I thought my career was over and I would never work again. Lost my home and lived out of Airbnbs until I ran out of money and lived out of my car. Went to rehab got my life together then another FAANG company came knocking on my door and dropped the best job offer I’ve ever had of my life. Nearly quadrupled my salary from when I first started my career. I relocated to another city. This time with a clean, sober mind, I decided I’m going to do this right.

Poured my soul into the company and was in the top 25% of my cohort of new hires in terms of my performance then about 8 months into the role the announced mine and my colleagues jobs were all being cut.

At this point, I’ve been burned so many times I no longer feel a sense of purpose or fulfillment in my career. Why should I care whether I could change a candidate’s life with a job offer anymore when my life could be flipped upside down at any moment? People have said for years that recruiters are going to be the first once replaced with AI. ve been talking about replacing recruiters with AI. Even though it hasn’t happened yet. It probably won’t happen because recruiting has a human element to it that can’t be replaced by AI. Yet, no one appreciates that and people remain persistent in looking for ways to get rid of recruiters.

It doesn’t matter how much value we have to a company because no one sees it. Many of the candidates who I’ve hired at these major companies, whose lives I have helped change probably don’t even remember my name. I won’t be surprised if many of them think they could’ve done it without me.

At this point in my career, I feel utterly worthless and disposable. Companies, candidates and hiring managers have proven that with their actions over the last 11 years.

Has anyone used Chapter 2's embedded recruiter offering in lieu of a contract recruiter? Would love to hear any feedback or experiences!

We are a rapidly scaling US based industrial automation company with a need to temporarily augment our recruitment team.

Thanks!

We are a boutique permanent placement firm evaluating what we use right now compared to others and seems like there sooo many options at this point. We want something that integrates phone/email/system at least for tracking purposes.

Looking for insight from perm placement recruiters (not staffing) on what you use and what you like/don’t like.

We use Ringcentral as our phone system right now but that seems to limit our options and we’d potentially consider switching that too.

My company (F500) is currently roughly 2-3 weeks with our CFO taking the longest and I sometimes have to chase the hiring managers to follow up with their leadership

TLDR:
Trying to: Rebuild client base and restart in legal finance & FS which most of my work was before but in junior roles targeting middle positions within South England.
My tools: Linkedin recruiter , sourcewhale and indeed
Marketing support: 0
Funding and investment: 0
Working fully remotely.

Am I cooked here? My current company have no reputation in this market, and I am being tasked with financial service legal & insurance roles. Think £30-70k in east / south east of england.

It seems everyone has a need, and there is NO good candidates. I am making fills with my other clients in financial services but it feels to get on to a PSL i need a literal astronaut to even get a call back and I don’t have.

Am I cooked and how would you do this?
I built a 500k a year business support desk in 2016 but 2026 feels so weird i feel people are just depressed and disengaged from life and every candidate I seem to call can’t function a sentence?

Take a minute off LinkedIn and see how much school maths you remember :)

You need to book a one-hour interview next week. You have 40 possible slots. For each slot, the candidate has a 25% chance of being free and each interviewer has a 40% chance.

Assume everyone’s availability is independent, including across slots. Unrealistic, I know, but let’s give ourselves a chance

What are the odds of finding at least one slot for:

- A 1:1 interview
- A panel of two interviewers
- A panel of three interviewers

Have a guess before doing the maths. I underestimated how much adding one more person changes things

Vent post...

It's just so frustrating how many predatory practices in the TA Tech space.

Linkedin is well known to just totally gouge both boutique and big agencies alike.

Indeed is nearly as bad. It bothers me how that just milk small businesses for as much money as they can without adding any real value.

I had hope for some of these SaaS platforms but now that PE is involved, they're no different. Just had a big blow up with Loxo. Asked for a break in billing at the end of my contract and they deleted my account and all of my data. Only give a damn about you when you're on their reoccuring revenue model.

I find myself just ping ponging between the next 'best thing' - they woo me in with promises, take my money, extort as long as they can, and then refuse to work with me in any reasonable way.

What's an independent recruiter to do? Build your own ATS? Are there any genuine platforms out there that actually give a damn about recruiters?

Sadly it's not much different from other things I guess..... I think it just bothers me that it overall hurts the economy, and gets in the way of good recruiters helping good companies find good people.

Please recruiting universe.... help

We're a small executive search firm that has all full desk recruiters at it who take on BD, Client mgmt, recruitment, candidate mgmt, etc. We use Bullhorn for our CRM/Database but it is a bit cumbersome for our firm and we're growing more and more frustrated with it's functionality - especially it's search function which we have found to really suck without exhaustive coding of profiles.

We are considering other platforms and leaning to leaner ones and preferably agentic backed. Attio is one platform we're looking into. Would welcome any and all recommendations/thoughts on platforms that you've found to work well as well as the POV on Attio if anyone has used it.

Hi, for larger HR or TA teams using enterprise recruitment AI, where did the savings come from? Faster hiring, fewer manual tasks, lower agency spend, better routing or improved retention?

Not looking for suggestions on alternative ATS'. Just looking for any pros/cons of Fountain. Thanks

Lately I feel like I’m just spinning my wheels and just meh. I’ve made placements but searches that should be filled many times over, haven’t. Most of it is due to HMs’ unrealistic expectations. Getting wins here and there but ya know, just don’t have the same pep in my step. I’ll pull myself out of the rut. However, just curious to hear how the group handles the ebbs and flows and what you do to keep motivating to keep pushing?