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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Humanly & Pollen Funding
June 16, 2023 14:42 - 6 minutes - 4.97 MBComeet, a global leader in collaborative recruitment software, and Spark Hire, a top-rated video interview platform, have announced plans to merge. The combined company will offer the most comprehensive suite of talent acquisition products on the market, including applicant tracking, candidate management, and video interviewing. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-tech-merger-comeet-and-spark-hire/ NEW YORK — Pollen, a membership powering freelance careers, has raised $4M in funding from ANIMO VC,...
State of Candidate Experience: 2023 Benchmark report
June 12, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes - 15.7 MBPhenom recently released its State of Candidate Experience: 2023 Benchmarks Report. The report revealed that since 2020, the Fortune 500 has made significant strides to enhance the candidate experience by implementing AI technology and automation to connect job seekers — both hourly and knowledge workers — with relevant jobs faster, and creating engaging content to convey a strong employer brand in the highly competitive U.S. talent market. Here to help us dive deeper into the numbers is...
Ferretly, UKG, Fountain
June 08, 2023 16:54 - 6 minutes - 4.81 MBFerretly, an AI-powered social media screening SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $1.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Bull City Venture Partners and prior investors, including a group of industry experts led by Dave Dickerson, founder and chairman of Accurate Background. https://hrtechfeed.com/ferretly-raises-1-5m-for-its-social-media-screening-platform/ HackerRank, the developer skills company, today announced the launch of its advanced plagiarism detectio...
James Colino talks Recruiting Operations
June 04, 2023 16:00 - 20 minutes - 11.8 MBJames Colino is the author of “RecOps: Recruiting is still broken Here’s how to fix it” AND he is also Director of Talent Acquisition for Sheetz the 600+ convenience store chain based in Altoona PA. Landing page: https://www.hireconversion.com/sheetz https://recops.org/
Ziprecruiter layoffs and healthcare recruiting startups
June 02, 2023 19:12 - 6 minutes - 11.4 MBThe major job boards are laying off staff and ZipRecruiter is next on the clock. The news came via an SEC filing this week; The company announced a plan to reduce its global headcount by approximately 270 employees, which represents approximately 20% of the Company’s total number of employees prior to the reduction. This action was taken in response to current market conditions and after reducing other discretionary expenses, with a view toward driving long-term efficiency. https://hrte...
How to Succeed in Recruiting
May 28, 2023 16:00 - 57 minutes - 38.5 MBWe're going live with Dan Black and Lindsey Pollak for a one-hour peer-to-peer conversation where you get to ask your questions, share your insights and maybe even tell a few jokes. Let's talk about how to succeed in #recruiting without everyone else getting in your way.
Indeed, Instawork, Ceridian, Crosschq
May 26, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutes - 3.95 MBCrosschq, the Hiring Intelligence platform announced the expansion of Crosschq Insights™ and Crosschq Voice™ along with a new brand identity. Combining these expanded solutions provides talent leaders with a single operating platform from which to manage all aspects of Hiring Intelligence. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-crosschq-wolfe-inc/ Ceridian, a prominent player in human capital management (HCM) technology, has unveiled an innovative solution called Dayforce Career Exp...
Unleash America Interviews, Part 3
May 22, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes - 19.1 MBRecorded live on the show floor at Unleash America in Las Vegas. Interviews from; ClickBoarding CEO HireEZ's Marketing Leader RecTxt Founders Largely.com
Twitter Enters and CareerBuilder Explodes
May 18, 2023 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.64 MB“Careerbuilder laid off 60 % of their people today. My best friend was included in the count. She was a top performer for 12 years at CB. She is now looking for another gig. As I am sure you would understand , after 12 years of dedication , she is nervous,” wrote recruitment consultant Andrew Bolander in a post today. https://aimgroup.com/2023/05/17/careerbuilder-sells-international-division-lays-off-60-of-staff-names-new-ceo/ Reports surfaced this week that Twitter has acquired Laskie ...
UNLEASH Interviews Part 2
May 15, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes - 19.6 MBRecorded live at Unleash 2023 in Las Vegas. Interviews with; SmartRecruiters Snapbrillia HeyHire Divigo.ca
Modern Hire & Jopwell Acquired
May 11, 2023 13:53 - 5 minutes - 4.22 MBiCIMS unveiled the next-generation of candidate relationship management (CRM) at INSPIRE, its user conference this week. With the new iCIMS Candidate Experience Management (CXM), recruiters will be able to leverage modern marketing technology to efficiently nurture and convert candidates using a unique combination of campaign logic, engagement scoring, and candidate fit analysis – all within a unified solution. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-technology-from-icims-eightfold/ True, a globa...
Unleash America Interviews Part 1
May 07, 2023 16:00 - 17 minutes - 14 MBRecorded live at Unleash America in Las Vegas 2023. Fama, Tatio, Greetr, HR Tech Joe
Hackajob and Gigs
May 05, 2023 11:00 - 6 minutes - 4.63 MBGigs, the job platform that connects companies to job seekers looking for hourly jobs in their neighborhood, announced today the company’s official launch of its employer portal to help retailers, food and beverage, logistics, and hospitality companies with their full-time and part-time hiring needs. The news comes jointly with the company announcing $2.7 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co with additional investment from Wonder Ventures and several angel investors. h...
Jobsync April Roundtable
April 30, 2023 16:00 - 58 minutes - 39.8 MBIn our April 2023 roundtable, with William Tincup, President and Editor-at-large of Recruiting Daily, about the four areas of competing expectations that talent leadership should focus on (including your own expectations): What do candidates really expect? Is it easy applications, quick responses, transparency, one-call hiring? When was the last time you asked candidates? What do you recruiters expect from hiring managers, interview teams, technology and leadership? Are you setting them up...
Unleash Pod Squad
April 28, 2023 23:11 - 26 minutes - 48.9 MBChris Russell, Julie Calli, and Serge & Shelly from the Recruitment Flex talk all things Unleash America, live in Vegas, April 28th.
Seekout's ChatGPT for Recruiters
April 24, 2023 16:00 - 25 minutes - 14.4 MBSeekout co-founder John Tippet describes how their new ChatGPT integration works.
Zoom Enters HR Technology
April 20, 2023 16:00 - 5 minutes - 4.37 MBZoom is excited to announce the acquisition of Workvivo to extend Zoom’s platform and offer its customers new ways to keep employees informed, engaged, and connected. https://hrtechfeed.com/zoom-to-acquire-workvivo-to-bolster-the-employee-experience-offering/ Apploi, healthcare’s leading workforce management software, is growing its credentialing tools. The company is rolling out expanded credentialing services across ten different roles and multiple states. Oracle CloudWorld Tour – ...
Internal Mobility Discussion
April 19, 2023 16:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBTalent Management: You Can’t Grow What You Don’t Know with The Cigna Group, ChenMed, & Jackson Health System. What approaches are the most high-performing talent management teams taking to engage, develop, and retain employees? How can skills intelligence be applied to inform where talent needs to grow — and how can it happen in alignment with employee goals and organizational needs through career pathing, gigs, and mentoring? What is automation’s role for managers and employees? What is t...
Recruiting IS Marketing
April 18, 2023 13:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBRecorded live at IAMPHENOM. CHRO Rebecca Schoepfer to learn how TruGreen radically adjusted talent strategies to support changing, on-the-ground business conditions — and built a scalable, repeatable talent process that exceeds high-volume hiring demands.
Acquisitions & Accelerators
April 14, 2023 13:02 - 6 minutes - 5.08 MBMitratech, a leading global provider of legal, compliance, and HR software, today announces the expansion of its Human Resources portfolio of solutions through the acquisition of two technology companies: Circa, a market-leading Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) software provider; and Trakstar, a best-in-class talent acquisition, development, and performance management solution. https://hrtechfeed.com/mitratech-acquires-circa-an...
AI in HR Discussion
April 10, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBWhat are the ethical implications of using AI and Generative AI technologies like ChatGPT? Why is having a human in the loop critical? Can AI actually help improve DE&I? What are the success stories and lessons learned? How can organizations ensure they’re staying on top of emerging AI legislation and guidelines? Are “audits” and “transparency” just the newest buzzwords? Get answers to the biggest questions around AI, ethics, and legislation. Recorded live at I AM PHENOM in Philly.
ChatGPT Invades Recruiting
April 06, 2023 11:30 - 8 minutes - 6.52 MBI just got back form I AM PHENOM last week in Philadelphia so I apologize for not posting a roundup last week….and speaking of travel I will be headed to Unleash America at the end of April and I have a special discount code to save 20% on tickets. Use code: russell20att-sh LINK: https://www.unleash.ai/unleashamerica/tickets/application/?utm_source=unam23_vendors&utm_medium=vendor_referral&utm_campaign=unam23_codes&code=russell20att-sh Unleash America happens April 26-27 at Caesars F...
Conversational ATS Launched by Paradox
April 02, 2023 13:00 - 42 minutes - 26.1 MBParadox, the conversational hiring software recently announced the launch of its Conversational ATS. Designed from the ground-up to reimagine the high-volume hiring process, the product focuses on delivering the best frontline candidate and hiring manager experience in the world. Underpinned by a conversational UI that makes engagement feel simple and seamless, Paradox’s ATS automates things like screening for requirements, interview scheduling, reminders, offers, new hire onboarding, an...
Whats the State of Employer Branding
March 26, 2023 16:00 - 17 minutes - 9.78 MBAmit Parmar form Cliquify stops by to discuss his company's state of employer branding report. https://www.cliquify.me/
Layoffs Hit Job Site Indeed
March 24, 2023 12:00 - 5 minutes - 4.52 MBCiting a 33% decline in sponsored jobs Indeed.com is laying off 15% of its workforce across the globe. Company president Chris Hyams said in a company wide email this week. https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-lays-off-2200-workers-globally/ Paradox, the conversational hiring software announced the launch of its Conversational ATS. Designed from the ground-up to completely reimagine the high-volume hiring process, the product obsessively focuses on delivering the best frontline candidate and hi...
The Recruiter Experience
March 19, 2023 16:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBWith Tim Sackett and Madeline Laurano
Fountain AI and Risekit DEI Funding
March 17, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutes - 4.14 MBSEATTLE—-Karat, the interviewing company, announced the acquisition of Triplebyte’s technical assessment product and team. The acquisition adds a unique top-of-funnel, skills-based assessment to Karat’s suite of Interviewing Cloud offerings, helping organizations identify and hire the best tech talent faster, more accurately, and fairly. https://hrtechfeed.com/karat-acquires-leading-adaptive-assessment-technology-from-triplebyte/ RiseKit, a US-based startup looking to change the way ent...
2023 List Of Recruiting & HR Events
March 12, 2023 16:00 - 7 minutes - 5.4 MBPlan your calendars. https://recruitingheadlines.com/2023-recruiting-hr-events/
Wage Benchmarking Tool, Employee Experience
March 09, 2023 12:00 - 5 minutes - 4.02 MBAspen Tech Labs, a provider of recruitment technology solutions, announced that it has launched the Wage Benchmarking Tool as a part of its existing Job Market Pulse product. This new tool enables employers and researchers to compare real-time salary data pulled from the nine-million-plus real-time active job listings – as well as the historical database – that Aspen Tech Labs maintains. https://hrtechfeed.com/aspen-tech-labs-launches-wage-benchmarking-tool-to-enhance-business-intelligenc...
myInterview Video Interview Software
March 05, 2023 17:00 - 17 minutes - 10.9 MBVideo interview platform myInterview recently landed an $11 million dollar Series A investment and we’ll talk to their co-founder about it…next on the Rec Tech podcast…. myInterview uses asynchronous video and AI to encourage candidates to express their true selves and lets hiring managers identify the best hire with a focus on user experience. The platform which launched in 2016, enables team collaboration, workflow management and seamless integrations into major HR technology stacks and...
Google for Jobs Gets Interesting
March 03, 2023 12:00 - 5 minutes - 4.36 MBWorkLLama, technology provider of an AI-driven, talent marketing, relationship management, and direct sourcing suite, today announced it has secured $50 million in investments, an indication of the market’s demand for modern technology to access highly skilled, on-demand talent at scale. https://hrtechfeed.com/workllama-raises-50m/ Emissary.ai, a leading text recruiting platform, announced today a new technology partnership with UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, and workforce manag...
The Appcast Recruitment Marketing Benchmark Report
February 26, 2023 17:00 - 30 minutes - 17.3 MBAndrew Flowers is the lead labor economist at Appcast, today he’ll discuss the results from the report, the current labor market and how hiring professionals can use this report to overcome another rough year for recruiting. What are the key takeaways from this year's report? One of the key metrics Appcast analyzes, is apply rates. Apply rate is the number of people who actually complete a job application after having clicked on a job, represented as a percentage. Its inverse is the candid...
ZipRecruiters Near the One Billion Mark
February 23, 2023 16:16 - 5 minutes - 4.37 MBGoodJob, the #1 pre-hire assessment software available in the marketplace today, announced a partnership with Merge, the Unified API for B2B integrations. As a result of this partnership, GoodJob’s software now supports integrations with over 50 popular Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), including Workday, SmartRecruiters, Lever and Greenhouse. Recruiters, HR teams and business leaders can use GoodJob’s software within their current ATS, allowing them to hire confidently and retain high-perf...
Reverse Apply - Its Time Has Come
February 19, 2023 17:00 - 14 minutes - 10.9 MBTech hiring platform Laskie recently introduced a way for jobs to come to candidates in what they call "Reverse Apply". Find out how it works in this episode. Learn more: https://blog.laskie.com/blog/reverse-apply-is-here Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1PHs_rTvv4
Indeed's Rollout Issues, Upwork, HireEZ
February 17, 2023 15:04 - 8 minutes - 6.34 MBKanarys, a Dallas, TX-based diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) technology company, raised $5M in Series A funding. https://hrtechfeed.com/dei-platform-gets-5-million/ Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK), the world’s work marketplace, today announced a major expansion of its offerings, making full-time hiring available to all customers for the first time. A new end-to-end solution enables businesses of all sizes to find, vet, hire, onboard and pay highly skilled professionals for full-t...
Free Recruiting Software Tools
February 12, 2023 17:00 - 7 minutes - 5.65 MBThree years ago I began researching free recruiting software tools. I even did a webinar on it. Since then, that list has drastically changed. Most of the 20+ tools I found at that time are no longer in existence. https://www.rectechmedia.com/blog/free-recruiting-software So lets update the recruiting audience on who’s left. Here’s my top seven free recruiting software tools. Not included are any tools that have a “free trial”.
Workday Ventures Commits $250 Million
February 10, 2023 12:00 - 4 minutes - 3.39 MBWorkday, Inc. HCM software company announced a $250 million expansion of its Workday Ventures fund. The additional $250 million investment capital from Workday into Workday Ventures, the strategic capital arm of Workday Inc., builds on the company’s solid performance and is the latest step in its journey to shape the future of work. https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-commits-additional-250-million-investment-capital-to-workday-ventures/ Performica, software helping companies transform peopl...
Converting Career Site Candidates with Dalia
February 05, 2023 17:00 - 15 minutes - 9.95 MBSam Fitzroy is the co-founder and CEO of Dalia, a recruitment marketing automation tool. The company ,just announced the completion of a $5 million Series A round led by Lewis & Clark Venture. The capital will be used to expand its product suite, which maximizes career site conversion rates to make recruitment marketing budgets more efficient and invest further in sales and marketing.
Dalia, Cleary, WorkLlama
February 03, 2023 16:03 - 5 minutes - 4.34 MBCrimcheck a provider of background screening, reference checks, data checks, and drug testing & occupational health solutions announced that it completed the sale of its company to DISA Global Solutions, provider of drug testing & occupational health services. https://hrtechfeed.com/background-screening-tool-crimcheck-acquired/ Dalia, a recruitment marketing automation platform that helps employers get more qualified applicants for less, today announced the completion of a $5 million Se...
Candidate Experience: 2022 Talent Board Findings
January 29, 2023 17:00 - 58 minutes - 41.2 MBCandidate Experience: 2022 Talent Board Findings and Top CandE Large Employer Winner What are employers doing to solve for the candidate experience, and how are candidates perceptions of these efforts (or lack thereof)? Join Kevin Grossman and David Crawford to discuss the latest benchmark data reports from The Talent Board covering all things candidate experience and what the latest data is telling us. Here is what can you expect to hear about during our open forum discussion: What ...
Skillit, Deel, Clovers, Welcome to the Jungle
January 27, 2023 14:19 - 5 minutes - 3.93 MBWelcome to the Jungle, a French startup, has raised $54 million (€50 million) in Series C funding. https://hrtechfeed.com/french-job-platform-raises-54-million/ NEW YORK —- Skillit, the recruiting platform for skilled, full-time construction labor, today announced its $5.1M seed round led by Building Ventures with participation from MetaProp, HOLT Ventures, Great North Ventures, 1Sharpe Ventures and Takeoff Capital. The platform is already in the hands of select ENR contractors includi...
How Haircuttery Recruits for Commission Only Stylists
January 22, 2023 17:00 - 31 minutes - 17.9 MBGustavo Serbia is the Vice President of Human Resources for Hair Cuttery….a Retail chain in the beauty space with over 5,000+ employees across 10 states. There he leads the planning and execution for the entire employee life-cycle, including employee engagement, compensation, benefits, learning and development, employee relations, recruiting, and employment branding. BTW You can check out their career brand at… haircutterycareers.com Are you ready for a new year of recruiting? Wh...
Gigged, myInterview, ShiftKey, Fama
January 20, 2023 14:27 - 4 minutes - 3.21 MBFama Technologies, Inc., the online background screening solution, has successfully achieved SOC 2® Type 1 compliance in accordance with standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Achieving this compliance milestone demonstrates how Fama safeguards customer data and maintains controls over the completeness and accuracy of financial transactions and financial statement reporting. https://hrtechfeed.com/fama-technologies-achieves-soc-2-type-1-c...
"Greenhouse is the best ATS"
January 15, 2023 17:00 - 24 minutes - 13.5 MBJaime Engle started her career in talent acquisition on the agency side doing full desk tech recruiting at two different organizations before going in house to a Chicago startup called Uptake. She helped grow the company to over 850 employees. After that she joined a data science and SaaS consulting firm called Civis Analytics where she was promoted to a senior recruiter then recruiting manager. After contracting at Salesforce, she returned to the tech startup world at Balto, an AI call ass...
Careerlink IPO, New Recruitics CEO
January 12, 2023 16:27 - 5 minutes - 4.26 MBCareerlink Holdings, Inc. [Careerlink.com], a provider of HR recruiting, staffing and retention software and services, announced it intends to allow new public investment in the company under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Regulation A+. Careerlink.com has been a regional job board for 20 years and is under new ownership who is adding staffing and other employer services to the business model. https://hrtechfeed.com/careerlink-files-with-securities-and-exchange-commission-for...
2023 Recruiting Predictions
January 08, 2023 17:00 - 59 minutes - 38.2 MBThe time where we look back on all the predictions and trends that were made for 2022, see if they held up, and contemplate what will be coming our way in 2023. This year was the continuation of the Great Resignation, hybrid work and changing office requirements, and a lot of big players in the space making drastic changes with layoffs and maybe a bit of Great Remorse. Brian Fink will be joining us for our annual look back and leap forward. Last year, Brian predicted that a lot of recruiter...
2022 HR Tech Funding Recap
December 19, 2022 14:00 - 16 minutes - 12.3 MBA list of all the HR tech funding news from 2022. https://hrtechfeed.com/venture-capital/
Upwork & Beamery
December 14, 2022 14:57 - 3 minutes - 2.77 MBBEAMERY, announced it has closed a $50 million Series D funding round, taking the company to a valuation of over $1 billion – representing a 25% valuation uplift over their previous round in a challenging funding environment. https://hrtechfeed.com/beamery-raises-50-million-in-series-d-funding/ UPWORK the freelance marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent, released the results of “Freelance Forward: 2022,” the most comprehensive study of the U.S. independent workforc...
Recapping 2022 HR Tech Acquisitions
December 12, 2022 17:00 - 8 minutes - 6.42 MBA look back at the acquisitions from the HR tech industry. https://hrtechfeed.com/acquisitions/
Freelancing and Referrals
December 09, 2022 14:33 - 4 minutes - 3.86 MBAllWork, the end-to-end platform that helps companies more efficiently and compliantly onboard, manage and pay their freelancer and contingent workforces, today announced the completion of a $4.9 million Series A funding round. AllWork will use the funds to expand its software, payment services and team to meet the increasing need by companies and freelancers for an easier way to work together. https://hrtechfeed.com/allwork-announces-4-9-million-series-a-funding-round/ LumApps, an emp...