Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast
683 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★ - 22 ratingsHosted by Chris Russell, online recruiting's mad scientist, the RecTech podcast covers all aspects of recruiting technology and recruitment marketing including interesting new tools & vendors. You'll also hear how recruiters leverage technology to find talent. A great listen for HR tech vendors, HR professionals and recruiters everywhere.
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Joe Meyer, CEO of ExecThread
September 24, 2017 23:40 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBJoe Meyer: This is Joe Meyer, Founder and CEO of ExecThread. And I'm next on the RecTech podcast. Welcome to RecTech. The podcast where recruiting and technology intersect. Each month you'll hear from vendors shaping the recruting world. Along with recruiters who will tell you how they use technology to hire talent. Now, here is your host. The mad scientist of online recruiting, Chris Russell. Chris Russell: That's right. It's time for RecTech, the only podcast [00:00:30] that helps employers...
Shaun Ricci from Ideal.com
September 17, 2017 21:06 - 24 minutes - 18.8 MBI first learned of Ideal.com at last year’s HR tech conference and after recently hearing the news of the new 3 million round of funding invited their cofounder to the show to talk about their technology and how they help employers find talent...according to their homepage...Ideal automates tedious and time-consuming tasks including manual resume screening and candidate sourcing. TOPIS TODAY: Tell us what Ideal does? Congrats on the new round of funding can you tell us how that came about and...
Paul DeBettignies The Minnesota Headhunter
September 09, 2017 18:18 - 52 minutes - 37.9 MBThats right its time for RECTECH….the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. If you listen you’ll hear both recruiters and HR tech vendors talk about about how they use tech to find talent. If you listen, I promise you’ll get better at recruiting. Paul DeBettignies is the Principal of Minnesota Headhunter, LLC a Minneapolis IT search firm and a frequent local and national speaker and writer on recruiting, HR, ca...
Leela Srinivasan, CMO of Lever
August 28, 2017 01:53 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBLever is part of a new crop of applicant tracking systems that are really turning heads and making the hiring process better for companies.... They are also doing a great job at marketing themselves and I wanted to tap into that with their CMO, Leela Srinivassan. In this podcast we'll chat about: You have a quite a career path...I didn’t realize you used to work at LinkedIn...what was that like and what did you learn there about selling and marketing to HR people? How big a team is Lever righ...
Harry Joiner, Recruiter and Owner of EcommerceJobs.com
August 20, 2017 13:44 - 36 minutes - 33 MBHarry Joiner is a third party recruiter who specializes in placing ecommerce executives. I invited him on the show because he does a great job of branding himself in the recruiting world via his website at ecommercejobs.com. EPISODE SPONSOR: https://www.jobsintheus.com TOPICS: Take me back to when you started in recruiting….when did you first get the idea to buy your domains? Describe ecommerce jobs and how you use it? What has it done for you in terms of generating placements...the impact? Y...
Ken Forrester Describes How He Uses Marketing Automation and Not an ATS to Collect Candidates
August 13, 2017 18:03 - 33 minutes - 31 MBKen Forrester is President and Founder of A.W. Forrester Co. ...A.W. Forrester Co. is a niche agency recruitment firm that focuses in the commercial health insurance Industry. He started his recruitment career in 1990 as an agency recruiter – he’s received rookie of the year honors, top recruiter and highest placement fee awards. Ken believes His key to success is being able to incorporate non-recruitment solutions with traditional recruitment tactics. He is inbound certified through Hub Spot...
First Year Recruiter Michael McDonnell from GRN Columbia
July 29, 2017 14:43 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBFirst year recruiter and former vet, Michael McDonnell talks about opening his own recruiting shop and what he's learned in his first year of recruiting as well as the tech tools that are part of his everyday job. For the transcript and show notes please go to https://www.rectechmedia.com/
Chris Mulhall on Revamping Your Job Descriptions
July 16, 2017 17:48 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBChris Mulhall, a VP of Talent Acquisition for a Canadian software complay explains how and why they revamped their job descriptions to engage candidates. Full transcript can be found at RecTechMedia.com
I work from home
July 10, 2017 12:45 - 8 minutes - 7.93 MBIf you work from home you need to listen to this special episode of RecTech. A recital of this article: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-work-from-home
Dean Da Costa Discusses LinkedIn User Agreement Changes and Favorite Tools
July 05, 2017 19:20 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBToday’s guest is ...Dean Da Costa...Dean is a Strategic Sourcing and Research Technologist at a Fortune 100 company in the Seattle area. A decorated veteran and recognized sourcing expert with more than 20 years of experience, he currently writes The Search Authority, one of the most influential blogs in the business. A frequent speaker on the recruiting conference circuit, His insight and knowledge (particularly of technology) has made Dean one of the top sourcers and full cycle recruiters i...
Audra Knight - Manager of Recruitment Operations
June 09, 2017 17:15 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBMy guest today is...Audra Knight...She is the Manager of Recruitment Operations at the global cybersecurity company Tenable. In this role, her team creates and supports Tenable’s talent acquisition strategy including process improvement and employment brand management. She is passionate about using marketing best practices and technology to attract talent that will excel at Tenable. Her side gigs include The #SocialRecruiting Show, industry blogging, team #HROS and being in a rock band. I fir...
Content Nurturing for Candidates
May 22, 2017 18:07 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBWelcome to RecTech, the recruiting technology show...where we highlight interesting HR & recruitment related technologies as well as talking with recruiters on how they use it to recruit and manage their talent. Today’s show will be a vendor edition with the co-founder of CandidateID.com My name is Chris Russell, they call me the mad scientist of online recruiting, and I spend my day helping HR tech vendors on marketing, strategy and product development at RecTechMedia.com. I’ll even help HR ...
25 Year HR Pro Shares His Favorite Interview Questions
May 12, 2017 19:39 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBAre you asking the right question in your interviews? Are you a new recruiter who wants to learn from seasoned HR pros? Then tune into this talk from Mike Brown who spoke at the recent Maine HR conference.
TAtech HR panel discussion Q&A
April 24, 2017 20:52 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBA panel of 4 HR pros spoke to the TAtech audience about their use of job boards and other HR technology, moderated by Tony Lee and Ethan Bloomfield handled the Q&A.
Rodion Telpizov from Smart Job Board
April 24, 2017 20:01 - 9 minutes - 8.88 MBThe Founder of Smart Job Board (smartjobboard.com) stops by RecTech to chat about his platform, upcoming enhancements and his advice for new job board owners in this in person interview from #TAtechChicago 2017
Best Practices for Attracting Sales Talent
January 30, 2017 17:59 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBOne of the latest clients at Rec Tech Media is John Hoskins of Sales Genomix. John has had a long career in sales industry... first with Xerox Learning Systems, where he rose from account manager to regional sales manager, general sales manager and ultimately Director of U.S. Sales Operations. Since then he has held other high profile positions in sales leadership at various firms and today he is Co-Founder of SalesGenomix specializing in sales talent assessment. He’s recently written a white...
Chris Kurtz from Peer Thru Discusses Glassdoor
January 20, 2017 21:28 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBWhat employers need to know about Glassdoor... next on the RecTech Podcast Welcome to RecTech, the recruiting technology show...where we highlight interesting HR & recruitment technologies as well as talking with recruiters on how they use it to recruit and manage their talent. Today’s show will be a recruiter edition. My name is Chris Russell, they call me the mad scientist of online recruiting, and today my job is consult with HR tech vendors on marketing strategy and product development at...
Jeremy Roberts from Hiring Solved Previews HireCONF
January 13, 2017 18:24 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBOn Februay 7th in New York City, Hiring Solved will be putting on its first ever conference for recruiters and talent acquisition professionals, and here to give us a preview of the days events is their VP of Customer Experience, Jeremy Roberts Before we get to the event I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about your move to Hiring Solved...for those if you who don’t know Jeremy used to be the Editor at Sourcecon before making the transition to a vendor in our space. TOPICS -What’s it b...
Joe Stubblebine from Beyond Discusses Text2Hire Messaging Campaigns
December 15, 2016 15:06 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBJoe Stubblebine is the VP of Talent Solutions for Beyond.com a large player in the online recruitment space. Today he discusses recruiting by text...and details how their innovative new Text2Hire messaging service works. Get 10% off that service by going to beyond.com/rectech
Lever the ATS is 'serious' about CRM
December 09, 2016 22:01 - 4 minutes - 4.15 MBA rep from the ATS comapny Lever describes the CRM portion of the tool.
How I Recruit on Facebook
December 09, 2016 21:36 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBThird party recruiter Esra Oziskender who runs HR Link Consulting in NYC talks about how she sources and places candidates on the Facebook social network.
Ray Tenenbaum from GreatHires
December 01, 2016 15:51 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBRay Tenenbaum is the founder of Great Hires, a recruiting technology startup offering a mobile-first Candidate Interviewing Experience platform for both candidates and hiring teams. Great Hires was named Top HR Product of 2016 by Human Resource Executive Magazine and ranked #2 in Business Tools in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Brilliant Companies of 2016. SHOW TOPICS One of the more practical new tools i have see in hr tech lately...what was the impetus for creating the app ...tell us more about it...
Steven Mostyn - Recruiting 101
November 14, 2016 14:29 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBRecruiter and author Steven Mostyn joins Chris Russell to talk about his new book and describes how he recruits.
How I Recruit: Laura Frances Merin
November 07, 2016 18:12 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBLaura Frances Merin is a talent acquisition and people operations professional specializing in high-growth startups. She launched her recruitment career with Robert Half and recently served as the Head of Talent for Cue Connect, and these days serves as a People Operations and Recruitment consultant for startups in New York City and Boston. Laura is passionate about identifying, developing, and coaching sparks of talent, and loves nothing more than helping people map out their next career ste...
Portfolium's Jim Milton Talks About their Student Career Site
October 31, 2016 22:00 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBJim Milton is the VP of Customer Development at San Diego based Portfolium...a site that allows students to showcase themselves to potential employers. He joins me for a twenty minute conversation to detail the platform and talk about how students view the job search process.
Jennifer Schultz - RecruitmentQueen.com
October 28, 2016 23:38 - 10 minutes - 9.52 MBI spoke with job board owner Jennifer Schultz who runs the local recruiting site, RecruitmentQueen.com - a local job board for Bucks County, PA. Jennifer runs several job fairs and exvents to support her job board. Listen in as she details parts of the business.
How I Recruit: Ben White from Titus Talent
September 29, 2016 17:45 - 23 minutes - 21 MBBen White has seven years’ experience in talent acquisition. He has worked as a headhunter and a corporate recruiter for two fortune 500 companies. Today he is part of the recruitment process insourcing team at Titus Talent, a talent strategies firm with several offices throughout the midwest, New York and the UK. http://www.titustalent.com/ Topics discussed in this episode: -What is recruitment process insourcing? -Typical day like? -Lets talk tech...you dont use an ATS? How do you keep trac...
Mike Seidle from WorkHere
August 03, 2016 16:09 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBMike Seidle is the Cofounder and COO of WorkHere a new mobile job search company based in Indiana. Mike is Past Director of Development at DirectEmployers and a former board member on the HR Open Standards Consortium. Today he talks about the new mobile job search app currently operating in the Indiana job market. Learn about how they built it, why and what's next.
Thad Price from Jobs2Careers Debuts Their New Mobile App ipply
July 12, 2016 20:35 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBOn this podcast, Thad Price, VP of Product & Engineering at Jobs2Careers, stops by to talk about their new app called ipply which is designed for Craigslist users who want more of an ATS like functionality.
MattLucas Founder of JobMonkey the site for "Cool Jobs"
June 09, 2016 14:09 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBMatt Lucas is the co-founder and President of JobMonkey.com. The website was launched in 1999 and has become the premier website for people looking for "Cool Jobs" in the United States or Abroad. Lucas is also an active member of the Seattle startup community and has invested in and / or mentored over 30 Pacific Northwest startup companies. We'll talk about his entrepreneurial journey and get his take on running a job board among other topics.
David Bernstein, VP of Big Data at Equest
April 28, 2016 19:50 - 28 minutes - 26 MBDavid Bernstein directs eQuest’s Big Data for HR/Predictive Analytics Division, which enables organizations to make better-informed decisions about their recruiting and hiring strategy. His background includes pioneering HR technology roles at PeopleSoft, start-up company HR solutions, and building HR technology platforms for global, Fortune 1000 companies such as Solectron and Hitachi.
FirmPlay's New Take on Employer Branding
April 11, 2016 23:10 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBWelcome to RecTech, the recruiting technology podcast. I’m your host Chris Russell, for those you who don’t know me I’m a consultant who helps job boards and hr tech startups with marketing and promotion. FirmPlay's software makes it easy for talent acquisition professionals to build an authentic employer brand that attracts top talent. Crowdsource the employee experience, by turning their stories into powerful branding content. Then promote your brand by embedding content on your careers pag...
RecTech - Clinch.io Wants to Change Recruitment Marketing
January 30, 2016 16:55 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBI got a demo of Clinch recently. Clinch is a new recruitment marketing tool for employers and today I'll be speaking with Shane Gray, their VP of Sales & Marketing based in Dublin where the firm is headquartered.