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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New Candidate Experience Platform Coming in 2023
December 05, 2022 17:00 - 21 minutes - 11.6 MBGreetr.io is a new candidate experice software that will be launching in 2023. I caught up with CEO Bill Fanning to learn more.
Talroo, WDAY, Job.com
December 01, 2022 14:47 - 4 minutes - 3.25 MBTalroo, the recruitment technology company announced the availability of its Publisher Optimization Platform (POP). The new feature empowers community news sites, career sites, blogs, and job sites with the ability to integrate machine learning driven job search services within site experiences, articles, content, job listings and job alerts. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-talroo-helios-consulting/ Distro releases an updated version of their web-based marketplace to help businesses...
Guest Appearance on the Disrupting Recruitment Podcast
November 28, 2022 20:13 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBSpot Cohost appearance: Chris Russell sat in this week for JAMES WHITELOCK to talk about Rec Tech In The News. Chris and I had the chance to talk about: - Indeed's switch to PPA - Recent mergers and acquisitions (including one from my backyard with CareerBeacon) and new technology. - PivotCX.io as a fantastic platform for texting and candidate communications. - How @CandidateHub is the Candidate Experience Platform that will pull your RecTech together to create a single point of truth...
Funding, Features and Tech Job Postings
November 25, 2022 14:35 - 4 minutes - 3.45 MBBuilding on the success of its AI solution in delivering diversity and inclusion in hiring, Sapia.ai today announced a $17 million Series A raise led by Macquarie Capital and Woolworths Group’s W23 venture capital arm. https://hrtechfeed.com/asynchronous-chat-interview-tools-lands-17-million/ To help employers expand their pipelines and unlock the potential of overlooked or untapped talent CompTIA developed the Tech Job Posting Optimizer (optimize.comptia.org). This free web-based platf...
Connecting Compensation to Unbiased Job Requirements
November 21, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBWe're talking all things job postings, salary, and removing bias. 🧐 How to drive your hiring managers toward better intake to remove bias from job posts 💰 How to align compensation with the requirements ✔️ How to define mandatory requirements, so you are not chasing a wish list 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹.
ModernHire, Apploi, Wellfound
November 17, 2022 15:51 - 5 minutes - 4.08 MBAfter a decade building under the AngelList umbrella, AngelList Talent the startup job community is officially branching out on its own, under a new name. While you can still access angel.co until March 2023, check out wellfound.com to learn more about what’s ahead for the site. AngelList Venture will continue on as AngelList. https://angel.co/blog/angellist-talent-is-now-wellfound Apploi, the leading platform for healthcare hiring, announced it has acquired OnCall, a healthcare s...
Helping Vets Get Hired Through Skills Matching
November 13, 2022 17:00 - 18 minutes - 11.7 MBFinding a job after their military service affects nearly 200,000 veterans every year, and only one in four veterans have a job lined up after leaving the armed forces, according to the Pew Research Center. Navy veteran Robyn J. Grable knows this reality all too well which guided her to founding Veterans ASCEND, an AI-powered talent sourcing platform. The company’s Career AI Talent Equalizer (CATE) uses proprietary algorithms to translate a candidate’s experience into skills and th...
WorkTorch, ZipRecruiter, RecruiterSpot
November 10, 2022 15:48 - 4 minutes - 3.32 MBRecruiterSpot, a directory and marketing platform for recruitment agencies, staffers, and headhunters, opens its doors for agencies to list a featured profile at no cost for a limited period of time. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiterspot-launches-recruitment-directory-with-automated-job-listing-invites-agencies-to-list-for-free/ WICHITA, Kan. — WorkTorch, a fast-growing service industry career platform, announces a $2.2 million seed round, led by Tenzing Capital out of Wichita, Kansas....
Calendly Acquires Prelude
November 06, 2022 17:00 - 32 minutes - 19 MBI spoke with Prelude CEO about the acquisition by Calendly and got a demo of their interview scheduling tool.
That was Qwick!
November 04, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 3.38 MBA company named Pod today announced the closure of a $2.5M funding round for its AtlasJobs HR-Tech SaaS platform. AtlasJobs, launched in Q2 2022, was developed alongside corporations who are focused on building sustainable talent pathways and serves as a white-label talent engagement and management platform. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2022/11/01/atlasjobs-gets-2-5m-seed-funding/ Last week iCIMS, the talent cloud company, announced the acquisition of SkillSurvey, a pioneer in ski...
Getting to the Root of Your Employer Branding and Culture
October 30, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBThis installment of our roundtable features Joel Lalgee, Lead Recruiter at Hirewell. Joel has amassed over 100,000 LinkedIn followers and has helped increase “foot“ traffic to his employer through his online presence. Joel has found that by staying true to who you are as an individual you can maintain a steady pace of online branding that not just reflects you as a person, but who you are as an employee, which resonates when you’re trying to recruit people. In this roundtable we cover: Fin...
Recruiting thru DailyPay
October 23, 2022 13:00 - 24 minutes - 14.4 MBJeanniey Walden is the Chief innovation and marketing officer for DailyPay, the financial solutions company and a recognized- leader in the on-demand pay industry.
Indeed's New Pay Per Application Model
October 21, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 4.34 MBIn 2023, employers using global jobs site Indeed will pay only when a candidate starts or submits an application, rather than when they click on a job ad, as is currently the case. The migration from a pay-per-click pricing plan to a pay-per-application model has already begun with smaller employers and is expected to be completely rolled out sometime next year. Employers will pay more for this upgraded experience, as the value of a legitimate candidate is higher than that of lots of un...
Top 5 HR Tech Conf Trends
October 16, 2022 13:00 - 57 minutes - 44.7 MBThe team at Pillar.hr an interview intelligence platform hosted me recently on a webinar to talk about this years HR tech trends.
Fundings and Acquisitions
October 14, 2022 11:00 - 6 minutes - 4.68 MBDandi Technologies, an analytics platform for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, emerged from stealth today. The company unveiled a first-of-its-kind DEI analytics solution used by people leaders to pinpoint equity gaps in the employee journey and implement data-driven solutions to workforce diversity challenges. They also announced $3.7M in seed funding. https://hrtechfeed.com/dei-analytics-platform-announces-seed-funding/ TaTiO, a future of work com...
Goodtime.io Product Update
October 10, 2022 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.72 MBI sat down with Goodtime.io CEO to find out whats new with the hiring and scheduling platform.
Employee Referral Tool Gets Funding
October 07, 2022 11:00 - 3 minutes - 3.17 MBERIN, a leading employee referral platform, today announced the closing of a $5 million financing round led by Reformation Partners.“Growth over the last year has been incredible. ERIN is now the employee referral platform for over 1.5 million employees in 100 countries” said Mike Stafiej, CEO. “This round of funding will allow us to keep up with market demand, drive innovative new features, and continue to provide world-class support to our customers”. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-ref...
Brazen CEO
October 04, 2022 11:00 - 12 minutes - 9.74 MBEd Barrientos, CEO, Brazen Virtual hiring events, virtual career fairs, video interviewing, live webinars, live chat, recruiting chatbots, interactive networking events, and so much more. Brazen’s software is the perfect solution for companies, universities, associations, workforce development organizations, and more! Whats new at brazen with the product? Is there a particular feature that your clients love to use? How many virtual events do you host each week Youve exhibited at HR ...
Phenom's Intelligent Talent Experience Platform
October 03, 2022 11:00 - 12 minutes - 22.6 MBJonathan Dale VP of Marketing Kumar Ananth, Exec Director Product Management Good to see you….whats new at Phenom since we met last year? New features: New AI-driven Experiences Provide Enterprises with Deeper Intelligence to Solve Hiring, Development and Retention Challenges ANY INTERESTING CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES RECENTLY THAT YOU WANT TO MENTION? Hows the hiring market from your standpoint you power hundreds of employers sites…how is their hiring pace? Are we going to have an ...
Calendly buys Prelude
September 30, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 3.3 MBCalendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals, today announced the acquisition of Prelude, a fast-growing recruiting operations platform designed to build an efficient and delightful hiring process. https://hrtechfeed.com/calendly-acquires-prelude-to-modernize-the-recruitment-scheduling-experience/ Workstream, the mobile-first hiring and onboarding platform for the deskless workforce, today announced it has extended its Series B funding round with...
Workhuman & Employee Experience
September 28, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 10.9 MBI sat down with Nate Barad, VP Product Marketing at the recent HR Technology Conference to hear about his new experience ad what Workhuman is up to. The employee experience seems to be one of the bigger trends this year talk about how WorkHuman helps to create a better experience for employees Can you walk me through the features of your product? Any anecdotal customer stories you've overheard recently about how they use the platform? Whats the one or 2 most used features of WorkHuman? ...
HR Tech Coverage: Zoominfo
September 27, 2022 12:47 - 13 minutes - 11 MBI sat down with the product team (Darrel Grissen & Lauren Hogan) from Zoominfo at the recent HR Technology Conference to hear about the new TalentOS data product they sell to recruiting teams.
Making Your Own Success in Recruiting
September 26, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBAmy Miller, Owner of Recruiting in Yoga Pants and former recruiter at Google and Microsoft leads our next roundtable to share her process to sit in the driver’s seat to create recruiting opportunities. Amy knew that attracting candidates had to consist of more than just scouring LinkedIn and sending emails with witty subject lines. She took candidate attraction into her own hands and has created an online community of over 6k YouTube subscribers, 60k LinkedIn followers, and 12k Twitter follo...
Several New HR Tech Funding Announcements
September 22, 2022 15:25 - 5 minutes - 4.23 MBThe Muse, a values-based job search and career development platform used by 75 million people annually, is proud to announce $8 million in new investment led by MBM Capital, founded and run by managing partners Lauren Bonner and Arun Mittal. The investment is a result of The Muse’s progressive vision to bring together key players in the future-of-work arena. https://hrtechfeed.com/the-muse-gets-more-funding/ Knoetic, the #1 Chief People Officer (CPO) platform and “single source of tru...
Indeed's EVP Maggie Hulce
September 21, 2022 11:00 - 15 minutes - 11.2 MBI sat down with Indeed EVP Maggie Hulce to find out what new at the job search giant. Recorded live from HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas.
Indeed Flex, Joonko and PI Funding
September 16, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 4.15 MBJoonko, the only automated sourcing platform focused solely on underrepresented candidates, today announced $25M in Series B funding led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from Target Global and existing investors Kapor Capital and Vertex Ventures Israel. https://hrtechfeed.com/diversity-recruiting-platform-raises-25-million/ The Predictive Index (PI) announced today a $30 million minority investment from JM Family Enterprises, Inc. (JMFE) to accelerate its...
Skyhive's New Job Description Generator
September 12, 2022 13:00 - 32 minutes - 20.8 MBSkyhive.ai has a new job description generator tool. I talked with CEO Sean Hinton and product person Chris Toplack about how it works.
Sense Acquisition, Namely Merger
September 09, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 4.36 MBSense, the market leader in AI-driven talent engagement solutions for recruiting, announced its acquisition of Skillate, an AI recruitment platform incubated within SAP Startup Studio. The addition of Skillate’s technology enhances Sense’s ability to provide AI-powered hiring including candidate matching, job distribution, job description assistant, and talent relationship management. https://hrtechfeed.com/sense-expands-ai-talent-engagement-platform-with-skillate-acquisition/ Namely, t...
Donald Knight, CPO of Greenhouse Software
September 06, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes - 15.9 MBDonald knight is the Chief People Officer for hiring software leader Greenhouse. Donald leads with a people-first mentality, hoping to unlock the potential of Greenhouse talent globally. Prior to Greenhouse, Donald served as Senior Vice President of Global Talent for Edelman and helped shape the HR brand as a proactive, insightful, and collaborative solution provider. In todays episode we get his take on the ATS landscape, diversity, employee engagement and more.
Demo and Q&A with Cliquify
August 28, 2022 16:00 - 44 minutes - 30.1 MBCliquify is an employer branding platform for recruiters and hiring managers to showcase your culture and create buzz across social media. Activate your brand to get future candidates to connect with your values and generate excitement among your employees. https://www.cliquify.me/
HireRoad Makes an Acquisition
August 26, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 3.95 MBHireRoad, the end-to-end talent management and insight software, announced the acquisition of PeopleInsight, a provider of workforce analytics software. PeopleInsight’s technology seamlessly ingests, normalizes, and correlates data from any HR system, making it easy for customers to analyze data across all their HR systems in one place. By unifying data across numerous systems, users are able to uncover previously hidden insights that their companies can use to make timely and informed dec...
Beyond the Resume
August 22, 2022 11:00 - 58 minutes - 37.7 MBThis roundtable features Vanessa Raath - The Talent Hunter. We’re going to talk about how to get creative with candidates in both your outreach and your expectations of their response to you - with a big focus on the use of video. A lot of us have gotten used to video communication over the last two years so we should definitely be using it more. Here a few more things we covered: How to stand out as a company at scale while still conveying your personality as a brand How to use vid...
Big Funding for Hibob and Lawyer Jobs
August 18, 2022 14:03 - 6 minutes - 4.47 MBIncredible Health, the fastest-growing career marketplace for permanent healthcare workers, today announced it has secured $80 million in Series B funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $1.65 billion. Now the highest valued tech-enabled career marketplace in healthcare, Incredible Health has radically transformed not only how nurses are hired but the experience of nursing itself. This new funding will support the company’s initiatives to help health systems and their employees manage s...
Gartners Future Workplace trends
August 17, 2022 14:46 - 9 minutes - 6.81 MBThe employee value proposition (EVP) must change for hybrid work and respond to shifts in employee expectations. In short: Ongoing changes in the way people work have permanently transformed employees’ relationship with and expectations of work. Hybrid work could be a great opportunity or a great risk, particularly for diverse talent. These nine high-impact trends create an exciting opportunity for organizations to differentiate themselves as employers of choice. The last two years h...
Bacon, Lever and Workday Rising
August 05, 2022 11:00 - 3 minutes - 2.68 MBThe Bacon (www.bacon.work) an on-demand workforce app has received $8 million in Series A-1 funding from some of the nation’s premier investment firms—as well as a former gig worker who is now investing in the company he credits for his comeback. The “temp agency in an app” will use the latest funding to hire key team members and expand to 40 more markets in the next 18-24 months. https://hrtechfeed.com/gig-app-bacon-work-secures-8-million-funding/ Lever, a leading talent acquisition su...
The Rise of Text Recruiting
August 01, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 22 MBAs companies look to improve communication, Text Recruiting is becoming a strategic priority. Forty percent (40%) of companies have increased their use of text in talent acquisition this year, according to new research conducted by Aptitude Research in conjunction with Emissary.ai the text recruiting platform… Entitled “The Rise of Text Recruiting & The Business Impact“, the report states that although text is widely adopted in other areas of business, talent acquisition has been slow to r...
Kona, InternMatch & More
July 29, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 3.07 MBINTERNMATCH HAS RAISED $10 MILLION IN A SERIES A AS IT LOOKS TO GO GLOBAL The cash will support InternMatch’s expansion into Canada, the United States and the UK. https://hrtechfeed.com/internmatch-raises-series-a/ Job.com, the data-driven, AI-powered recruitment platform, announced today the acquisition of PrincetonOne, a New Jersey-based talent solutions provider with an emphasis on Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and permanent recruitment services. The acquisition is a contin...
Demo Day Audio
July 24, 2022 16:00 - 49 minutes - 35.5 MBIn the last demo day for the summer you'll hear from 3 vendors as they show off their features in rapid fire fashion.
Steven Rothberg from CollegeRecruiter.com
July 24, 2022 16:00 - 27 minutes - 16.9 MBTOPICS Whats new in the world of college recruiting? (any slowdown?) Any trends you are seeing in terms of types of jobs, etc Is gig work the new entry level job? Whats your pricing model and what kind of traffic volume do you offer employers? What mistakes do employers make when it comes to recruiting students and grads. If you were starting college recruitment function inside of a large employer how would you set that up and tell me about the strategy you’d implement? Last cli...
Hireart is Alive, Bullhorn & More
July 22, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 3.31 MB15Five, the continuous performance management platform, has raised $52M in funding to accelerate growth and continued innovation. Led by Quad Partners the Series C round validates 15Five’s proven approach to human-centered talent management and its mission-critical role in achieving a company’s business outcomes. https://hrtechfeed.com/15five-raises-52-million-series-c/ Veremark, a global pre-employment screening and verified career credentials firm, has raised a further $8.5m in equi...
Equitable Interviewing with Jackye Clayton from Textio
July 17, 2022 16:00 - 58 minutes - 36.3 MBIn our next installment of the roundtable we’re tackling this topic and welcoming Jackye Clayton, VP of Talent Acquisition and DEI at Textio to lead the conversation. Jacyke isn’t just passionate about this topic, she’s living it by implementing strategies that work: Prepping candidates Providing questions early Ensuring accommodations aren’t creating bias But it’s more than that; before, during, and after interviews life is happening to all candidates. Future employees have kids, p...
Sourcing Panel Discussion
July 10, 2022 16:00 - 34 minutes - 22.8 MBAt RecruitDC a few weeks ago I recorded the panel on sourcing. Enjoy the audio. Recap: https://www.rectechmedia.com/blog/2022/6/22/recruitdc-recap
CareerEco and Workvivo
July 08, 2022 11:00 - 3 minutes - 3.04 MBCareerEco gets acquired. https://hrtechfeed.com/virtual-hiring-event-platform-acquired/ Workvivo lands Tiger Global Investment https://hrtechfeed.com/workvivo-raises-22m-series-b-as-employee-experience-market-booms/
Jobsync Roundtable
July 03, 2022 16:00 - 59 minutes - 39.8 MBWe are being joined by the brain behind Recruiting Brainfood, Hung Lee, for our upcoming roundtable and we’re going to address some hard hitting questions. How do you deal with a divided office? How do different opinions on hot topics affect your recruiters and how you hire? What are some of the unintended consequences of the decisions your employees make when it comes to things they ‘shouldn’t’ speak about at work?
Magic Posts, New Partner Network and Some Healthcare Funding
July 01, 2022 13:25 - 6 minutes - 4.93 MBCareerArc Launches Magic Posts https://hrtechfeed.com/careerarc-magic-posts-for-employer-brand/ HackerRank Partner Network https://hrtechfeed.com/hackerrank-launches-new-partner-network/ Nomad health Raises $105 Million https://hrtechfeed.com/nomad-health-raises-105-million-for-healthcare-staffing/ TaskHuman lands $20 Million in Funding https://hrtechfeed.com/taskuman-raises-9-5-million-for-digital-coaching-platform/
Gem.com's Rick Osmer
June 28, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 3.74 MBI caught up with Rick Osmer from the hiring platform Gem.com at Unleash in Las Vegas
RecTech Demo Day Audio
June 27, 2022 11:00 - 59 minutes - 38.1 MBIts time for another Rec Tech Demo Day. Come see 4 different recruiting technology vendors show off their platforms in rapid fine 10 minute demo slots. Learn what's new to help you recruit faster and more effectively! 1. Goodseeker makes it easy to collect employee stories and job testimonials to reinforce EVP, promote work experiences, and prove culture claims. Combine stories with related jobs to give recruiters and advocates personalized content for talent attraction. 2. Talentcare...
Employee Referral tool Erin App
June 21, 2022 11:00 - 6 minutes - 4.87 MBErin App is an employee referral tool. I caught up with Raul Aquino their new director of global sales at Unleash 2022.
Amit Parmar from Cliquify
June 21, 2022 11:00 - 6 minutes - 5.56 MBCliquify.me is a unique recruitment marketing utility tool.
Adzuna CEO Talks About Getwork Acquisition
June 19, 2022 16:00 - 17 minutes - 11.2 MBAdzuna, the smarter job search engine, is pleased to announce the acquisition of leading US enterprise job search engine Getwork. The Getwork team, led by President Brad Squibb, will work alongside the 100-person strong Adzuna business, bringing together decades of job search expertise and accelerating Adzuna’s growth in North America. The acquisition will combine the quality reputation and enterprise-focus of Getwork with the international reach and programmatic/tech expertise of Adzuna,...