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Structured hiring 101: Your blueprint for success

Learn how structured hiring helps you make consistent, defensible hiring decisions – and build the foundation for using AI in hiring the right way.

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How Kaizen Gaming cut time-to-hire by 33%

In this live session, Georgia Panomitrou, TA Team Lead at Kaizen Gaming, shares how her team rebuilt their approach, cut time-to-hire by 33% and created a hiring process that scales – plus a look at the Greenhouse tools that helped make it happen.

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Beyond AI hype: A framework for evaluating AI in a hiring platform

In this session, our speakers talk about how to evaluate AI in a hiring platform, including the questions that quickly separate real product from marketing language and what experienced TA leaders are pushing back on when they sit through a vendor demo today.

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Open for Ops NYC 2026 Session: The state of recruiting: What the data says about the future of the function

In this session, Madeline Laurano (Aptitude Research) shares new findings from the State of Recruiter Experience report and talks with a panel of experienced TA and RecOps leaders.

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Open for Ops NYC 2026 Session: From dashboards to decisions: TA Ops as an insight partner

This session explores how TA Ops can turn existing data into scenarios and trade‑offs that actually shape headcount, hiring plans and investments.

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Open for Ops NYC 2026 Session: Audit‑ready by design: Making AI in hiring defensible

This session focuses on adding AI‑enabled functionality and building hiring workflows that you’d feel comfortable explaining to a regulator – or in court.

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Open for Ops NYC 2026 Session: AI that actually works: Real experiments, real trade‑offs

This session focuses on specific, real‑world AI experiments RecOps teams have run, where they saw impact, and how they chose a few high‑leverage bets instead of chasing every new AI feature.

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Open for Ops NYC 2026 Session: Built to flex: Designing and running a TA Ops function for any hiring environment

This session combines org design with operational discipline to show how to build a RecOps function that scales and stays efficient in low-hiring periods.

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