What A Director Of Recruitment And Operations At Galileo Learning Wishes They Had Known Before Entering The Education Industry
Shayne, a Director of Recruitment and Operations, advises aspiring professionals to be open to experimenting with different software solutions, stating, "try every software, figure out what's gonna make your life easier," because a willingness to "fail and make mistakes" ultimately leads to improvements, as seen with their team's successful adoption of Asana for recruitment despite initial challenges.
Project Management, Technology, Problem-Solving, Adaptability, Software
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Shayne Walton
Director of Recruitment and Operations
Galileo Learning
UCLA
Relay Graduate School of Education - MA, Teaching, UCLA Anderson - MBA
Political Science, American Studies
Education
Human Resources (HR)
Worked 20+ Hours in School, Greek Life Member
Video Highlights
1. Experiment with different software and systems to find what works best for your team and processes. Don't be afraid to try new things, even if it means making mistakes.
2. Be open to change and encourage others to be open to change as well. The best processes and systems are constantly evolving.
3. It's okay to fail. Learning from mistakes is crucial to improving efficiency and effectiveness in recruitment and operations.
Transcript
What have you learned about this role that you wish someone would have told you before you entered the industry?
That's a good one. I wish I had been told to try every software and figure out what's going to make my life easier.
Just because something is structured a certain way, or we use a specific applicant tracking system for a particular reason, doesn't mean it's the best one or the one you should be using. It also doesn't mean it's the most cost-effective. You don't know why a decision might have been made by a company three to five years ago.
You need to be open to change and encourage others to be open to change. Test things out. The biggest thing is being willing to fail and make mistakes.
For example, I'm going to try Asana as a new project management system because there are too many moving pieces. There was no way for myself as a manager, or my VP, to actually see everything that was going on. So, we tried Asana, which is what we did after months of struggling with it.
It didn't work for certain teams and it didn't work for everyone, but it made the recruitment teams' lives easier. It didn't quite make the Ops teams' lives easier because that was a funkier system, but it made it work better for Recruitment. That was one fix.
So, be willing to try things. Experiment. Bring your team in. Accept calls; you're going to get LinkedIn messages from different companies trying to sell you their product. You have no idea that product could revolutionize the work you're doing. Thirty minutes isn't going to hurt.
Try every software, do every free trial, and play around with things. Even if it's not going to be perfect, you're going to learn something from it.
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