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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Virtual job training, job search engines and a new round of funding
June 17, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 3.9 MBCEIPAL, a talent acquisition platform,announced it has closed its Series B funding round, led by Camden Partners. CEIPAL secured $16.5 million in its Series B round with an additional $4.5 million in debt financing for a total of $21 million in funds. https://hrtechfeed.com/ceipal-secures-16-5-million-in-series-b-funding/ Transfr VR (Transfr), best known for pioneering the use of virtual reality to simulate on-the-job training, today announced $35 million in Series B funding as it ex...
Sense Co-founder Pankaj Jindal
June 15, 2022 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.35 MBI caught up with Pankaj Jindal the co founder of Sense and AI recruiting tool at Unleash America 2022.
Unleash Interviews - Mark Jewett, CMO SmartRecruiters
June 14, 2022 11:00 - 11 minutes - 8.37 MBI sat down with the new CMO at SmartRecruiters the talent acquisition software suite.
Are Virtual Hiring Events the Future of Talent Acquisition?
June 12, 2022 16:00 - 19 minutes - 12 MBIntro: Virtual hiring solutions, which have been around for quite some time, exploded to the forefront of the talent acquisition space due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But, are they here to stay? Anthony Gentile, a talent acquisition expert with 20+ years of experience, talks about why virtual hiring matters right now and how to use online recruitment events to attract quality candidates, engage job seekers, and fast-track your hiring process. Anthony Gentile, Managing Partner at Live Recrui...
RippleMatch, Teal, Reflex In the News
June 10, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 4.06 MBRippleMatch, a recruitment automation platform changing how Gen Z finds work, announced a $45m Series B today led by the Growth Equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs). https://hrtechfeed.com/gen-z-career-platform-ripplematch-raises-45m/ MIAMI - Teal, a company that empowers people to grow their careers on their own terms, has raised a $6.3 million seed round. Teal is building the tools for a new era of professionals who want more control over their care...
Alex Murphy, CEO of Jobsync
June 08, 2022 11:00 - 10 minutes - 8.6 MBI talked with Alex Murphy the CEO of Jobsync at Unleash 2022
Interview with Dalia - Birch Faber
June 07, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 4.9 MBI chatted up Birch Faber, VP of Marketing at Dalia - live form the show floor at Unleash 2022.
SellX is the "Upwork for Sales talent"
June 05, 2022 16:00 - 17 minutes - 11.2 MBSellX says companies are often bottlenecked by their inability to scale their sales and revenue teams fast enough. With a staggering 35% attrition rate, highest among all other industries, the average tenure of a sales rep is less than 12 months, and turnover can cost upwards of $20,000 per employee. Here to tell us how they address this problem is the CEO Dean Glas What is SellX? What does the platform/technology provide for companies? How does SellX help alleviate some of the challeng...
Upskilling, Career Sits and Skilled Trades
June 03, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 3.88 MBGuild, a Career Opportunity Platform, today announced a $175 million Series F financing round. The round will accelerate Guild’s ability to capitalize on momentum expanding into dynamic, in-demand sectors — furthering its mission of unlocking life-changing opportunities for America’s workforce. https://hrtechfeed.com/upskilling-platform-lands-175-million-in-funding/ SkillPointe, LLC, a three-sided marketplace helping to solve the country’s prevalent skilled worker shortage, today annou...
CHRO Panel Discusses Future of HR
June 01, 2022 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.9 MBAudio from the future of HR panel with three CHROs – Rhonda Spencer at Barry-Wehmiller, Rachel McCoy from Zappos, and Tyson Foods’ Johanna Söderström. Recorded live at Unleash America May 2022.
RecTech Demos
May 30, 2022 13:00 - 57 minutes - 41.1 MBAudio from our recent Demo Day. Apologies for the echo in some of the audio.
Work With What You Got to Make Your Firm Attractive to Candidates
May 29, 2022 16:00 - 57 minutes - 37.3 MBJobsync monthly rec marketing roundtable with featured speaker Carrie Darney to uncover: -How to spark interest in candidates that don’t know the benefits of working for your firm (even if you are small and competing with the big boys). -How to adjust on the fly the way you talk about your business value and perks as you learn more about your candidate. -How to recruit on a budget or with no budget – sometimes, “Just spend more” is just not an option. -How to train your team of recruit...
Assembled, Velocity, WorkReels and SmartRecruiters
May 27, 2022 11:30 - 5 minutes - 9.76 MBAssembled, the leader in workforce management for modern support teams, today announced it has closed $51 million in Series B funding, which reflects a more than 5x valuation increase in just one year. Assembled’s workforce management platform helps support teams at the world’s fastest-growing companies efficiently respond to customer demand through accurate forecasting, automated scheduling, and robust realtime and historical reporting. Says co-founder and CEO Ryan Wang: “For many of our...
Seasonal Hiring/High Volume Hiring Discussion
May 23, 2022 13:00 - 32 minutes - 26.9 MBWe teamed up with the folks at Phenom to ring you some great audio from their recent Talent Experience Live show from Linkedin.
Crosschq, Google, Fetcher and Workramp
May 20, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 3.65 MBFetcher, a full-service, recruiting automation platform, is happy to announce a $27M Series B investment led by Tola Capital… https://hrtechfeed.com/fetcher-raises-27-million-series-b/ Search engine Google has launched a BETA program to display job training information in its search results. According to the company, it appears it’s going to work in tandem with Google for Jobs. https://hrtechfeed.com/google-experimenting-with-job-training-info-in-search-results/ WorkRamp, the ...
Goodtime CEO Ahryun Moon
May 16, 2022 11:00 - 25 minutes - 16.8 MBGoodTime is used by over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, and Box, to drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, makes sure the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter……their flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster. GoodTime CEO and Co-Founder, Ahryun Moon joins me now from…San Francisco.
Mathison Gtes $25 Million for DEI Platform
May 13, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 4.05 MBMathison, a solution that provides employers with an end-to-end Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) hiring and retention platform, has announced the close of its $25 million Series A led by F-Prime Capital. https://hrtechfeed.com/mathison-raises-25-million-to-launch-the-first-dei-operating-system/ Indeed, the leading hiring platform, is proud to announce the Indeed Small Business Hiring Fund, delivering $50 million to aid hiring efforts and hasten the speed of small business recover...
How To Approach Recruitment With A Sales Mentality
May 08, 2022 16:00 - 55 minutes - 36.4 MBIn this Jobsync open forum webinar with Hayley Denker, CEO of Hayley Denker Marketing, an expert in hiring practices where hires directly equate to revenue, we are diving into the world of recruitment marketing through the lens of selling opportunities, at scale and efficiently. Gone are the days where candidates had limited choices when it comes to choosing a company to work for. We need to adjust our practices to reach candidates at scale and convert them into hires quickly to expectati...
Candidate Resentment on the Rise
May 01, 2022 16:00 - 28 minutes - 17.8 MBAccording to the Talent Board’s North America CandE Research Report — candidate resentment is again on the rise. The research found that, in North America, candidate resentment rose from 8% in 2020 to 14% in 2021—a 75% spike. That's the largest increase since Talent Board began its research a decade ago. Why does it matter? Well Candidates reporting high levels of resentment are less likely to apply with a company again or refer others. They are also more likely to sever their ...
Wisq, GoodJob, Beamery
April 29, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 3.5 MBWisq, the first platform designed for the social connection needs of employees, announced that it closed $20 million in Series A funding led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from True Ventures and Shasta Ventures. Following a seed round that closed in May 2021, Wisq has raised more than $40 million to fuel its growth and expand its platform and team. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-connections-platform-raises-40-million-to-combat-social-isolation-at-work/ Assessment platfo...
Jobsync Rec Marketing Roundtable
April 24, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 38.8 MBAudio from the latest Jobsync Recruitment Marketing Roundtable.
New Rec Tech Headlines
April 22, 2022 11:00 - 4 minutes - 3.82 MBGetting Hired, Inc., an Allegis Group company, announces the expansion of its talent engagement platform to engage and serve additional underrepresented groups in the workforce, and the launch of Diversity Talent Sourcing, a new direct sourcing offering. Both initiatives align with Getting Hired's mission of breaking down barriers within talent acquisition for job seekers and employers. https://www.diversitygator.com/pages/36057-getting-hired-expands-diversity-and-inclusion-talent-platfo...
Mike Hudy, Chief Science Offier at ModernHire
April 17, 2022 16:00 - 22 minutes - 14.3 MBMike Hudy the Chief Science Officer for screening tool Modern Hire is here to talk about AI in recruiting as well as their new AIC (automated interview creator) feature. New Rec Tech!
Acquisitions and the Employee Experience
April 15, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 3.97 MBCheckr, a leading HR technology company powering the future of work, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Inflection, whose flagship brand GoodHire is a leader in background checks for small businesses. This is Checkr’s largest acquisition to date, enhancing its leadership in the background check industry. The transaction closed in April 2022. https://hrtechfeed.com/checkr-acquires-goodhire/ Oracle has announced Oracle ME, a complete employee experience platf...
In Talent Attraction the Details Matter
April 13, 2022 16:00 - 7 minutes - 5.25 MBLast week I ran into a situation which reminded me that even the smallest details need to paid attention to when it comes to talent attraction. After sharing a new HR job on the Evil HR Facebook jobs group that a client had just posted, one of the members asked me a question about the role. You see, one of the requirements stated that a certain state license was required. But that one little requirement seemed to throw off interested applicants. It was a license that no HR person usually...
Bayard CEO Louis Naviasky
April 10, 2022 16:00 - 18 minutes - 10.7 MBBayard Advertising – is a full-service advertising agency focused on recruitment marketing. The company has seen a 59% increase in recruitment advertising since the start of the pandemic. Joining me to discuss the trend is Louis Naviasky, their CEO TOPICS What are the major trends you are seeing in the recruitment marketing / HR space? What should companies consider when thinking about ways to combat the Great Resignation? How is equity being used to attract and retain employees? W...
Talent by Blind and Remote Gets Series C
April 08, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 4.42 MBBlind, the anonymous professional social network, announced the launch of Talent by Blind. Talent by Blind connects some of the hardest-to-reach software engineers with some of the fastest-growing startups and most innovative companies in the U.S., streamlining job offers and placements for developers and other technologists. Blind sources and vets candidates from its community of more than 5 million verified professionals. visit www.talentbyblind.com. https://hrtechfeed.com/blind-laun...
Talent.com to Launch Resume Database
April 03, 2022 16:00 - 16 minutes - 10.1 MBI caught up Talent.com's Sr VP Cindy Klein to see what the global job search platform is up to. They plan on launching new features this year including a resume database.
ICIMS Big Move
April 01, 2022 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.61 MBHourWork, a SaaS recruitment and retention platform for quick-serve restaurant (QSR) franchise owners, today announced the closing of an oversubscribed $10 million Series A funding round. HourWork will use the funds to scale its customer success, sales, and marketing teams to service explosive demand for the company’s recruitment and retention solutions and execute on planned product development initiatives that will revolutionize hourly work and the gig economy for both employers and emplo...
Find Candidates Through Professional Associations
March 27, 2022 16:00 - 21 minutes - 13 MBScott Conley, is vice president of recruitment and staffing solutions for Naylor Association Solutions, a software company that powers many association websites and online career centers…Scott is responsible for establishing and leading the strategic direction of Naylor’s online recruitment business and is here to talk about how professional associations, can be a valuable tool for recruiters. PROF ASSOC LIST https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Professional_associations_based_in_the...
Workramp, Ramped and Wedge
March 25, 2022 11:00 - 3 minutes - 2.89 MBRamped, a platform for job skilling and recruitment, has closed a $3.1 million seed round of financing…They’ll use the money to focus on sales and marketing, and an expansion of the product’s capabilities. https://hrtechfeed.com/career-discovery-platform-lands-3m-in-seed-funding/ WorkRamp, the All-in-One Learning Platform helping businesses and their employees unlock their true growth potential – has raised a $40 million Series C funding round co-led by Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund ...
Building Your Personal Brand As A Recruiter
March 20, 2022 16:00 - 58 minutes - 38.3 MBCandidates and employers think that TA is full of shady people looking to make their money the easiest way possible without actually trying to help anyone. So, in a world chock full of bad actors, how do you build, maintain, and protect your personal brand? How can you amplify that you want to help candidates and companies and not just yourself? Keirsten Greggs is joining us for our next roundtable discussion so we can uncover how she has built her own brand through leaning into her tale...
Talent.com Strikes Gold
March 18, 2022 11:00 - 5 minutes - 3.96 MBRolebot, Inc. raised $4.5 million for its AI-powered job board for top-tier, passive talent —investors include Jason Calacanis, and the LAUNCH fund. https://hrtechfeed.com/rolebot-raises-4-5-million-for-its-ai-powered-job-board/ WorkHound, a platform for the employee feedback management space, announced today that it has completed a $12 million Series A fundraising round. The capital, will be used by WorkHound to add to its employee headcount, expand product offerings, and grow its pres...
HR POD SQUAD
March 13, 2022 16:00 - 57 minutes - 43.2 MBOn this panel: Joey Price (Jumpstart HR), Chris Russell (RecTech Media), Jessica Miller-Merrell (Workology), Steve Browne (Chief People Officer @ Larosa's) TOPICS: IBM age discrimination story - LINK Jobfished agency story (fake hiring) - LINK 4-day workweek to the restaurant industry? - LINK Dont use cute language in your rejection email - LINK Bank of America’s CEO gets real about the labor shortage - LINK Take two weeks off before you start that new job - LINK Recruiting o...
Instant Money and Findem Finds Funding
March 11, 2022 12:00 - 5 minutes - 3.73 MBModern Hire, the hiring platform for video interviewing and pre-hire assessments, today announced the release of Automated Interview Creator (AIC). ….AIC provides hiring and recruiting teams with the recommendations for optimal interview questions based on job requirements to identify best-fit candidates quickly and confidently. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/modern-hire-launches-ai-powered-automated-interview-creator-next-gen-structured-interviews-elevate-hiring-through-more-ef...
Qualifi Wants to Automate Your Phone Screens
March 07, 2022 12:00 - 24 minutes - 20.5 MBDarrian Mikkell is the CEO and co-founder of Qualifi…. an on-demand screening platform that recently launched. According to Darrian…“Phone interviews are one of the biggest bottlenecks in the recruiting process. Back and forth scheduling and lengthy phone screens with hundreds of candidates quickly add up and can be costly — especially amidst a talent shortage where every minute and candidate interaction matters”
2 Acquisitions in Rec Tech
March 04, 2022 12:00 - 5 minutes - 4.2 MBJobcase, a social platform for hourly workers, announced the acquisition of recruitment marketing platform Recruitology to bolster the company’s ability to proactively match workers to the jobs best suited for them. https://hrtechfeed.com/jobcase-acquires-recruitology/ In their quest to become a digital only staffing company, Job.com has acquired another provider….they announced the acquisition of QCI Healthcare, a Grand Rapids, Michigan-based recruitment company. This achievement mar...
Thad Price, CEO of Talroo
February 27, 2022 17:00 - 27 minutes - 17.2 MBThe CEO of Talroo stops by to talk about recruiting IS marketing and also gives us a peak into some cool new recruitment technology coming soon to their job advertising platform.
WorkWhile, Social Screening and Employ Inc
February 25, 2022 12:00 - 8 minutes - 6.38 MBAlcor, a cloud solutions company, announced the new release of their Applicant Tracking System, TalentRun. It is an automated, self-service enterprise applicant tracking system built on the ServiceNow® platform and helps organizations in achieving automated, centralized, and seamless management of their recruitment cycle. https://hrtechfeed.com/talentrun-is-a-new-applicant-tracking-system/ Kevala, a workforce management and engagement solution built specifically for healthcare, announce...
Training Recruiters & Hiring Managers
February 21, 2022 14:00 - 45 minutes - 32.1 MBRecruiters and hiring managers are like snowflakes. No, we don’t mean sensitive or egotistical and thinking they need a trophy just for participating. Snowflakes in the fact that no two are exactly alike. No two recruiters have the same process and no two hiring managers build their teams with the same aspirations – but there are some base level requirements they should all at least TRY to abide by. Jo Weech is our next roundtable guest and we’re going full throttle on coaching, expecta...
Alongside, Mindscope, Qualifi, and Check
February 18, 2022 12:00 - 5 minutes - 4.59 MBStaffing software company Mindscope has been acquired by the Univerus group of businesses. After several months as a Mindscope customer, Univerus identified copious synergies between the two organizations, making it clear that a valuable relationship could be established through acquisition. https://hrtechfeed.com/staffing-software-mindscope-acquired-by-univerus/ Alongside, an HR tech startup that helps create a more human connection between employers and job seekers, raised $8 Milli...
So how's your job apply process?
February 14, 2022 14:00 - 41 minutes - 32.7 MBKarl Wierzbicki the VP of Marketing for InFlight will stop by to discuss his company's recent findings around the state of the job apply flow, a critical component at the heart of the candidate experience. If you are a talent acquisition professional who needs more applies and wants to learn more about optimizing your job applications this is must see web TV!
Checkr, Enboarder & Woven
February 11, 2022 12:00 - 3 minutes - 2.82 MBLeading off the show today is Enboarder, the People Activation Platform enabling companies to transform their people programs into simple, science-based, human-centric journeys, today announced it has raised $32 million in Series B funding, bringing its total investment to $50 million. https://hrtechfeed.com/enboarder-raises-32-million-in-to-expand-people-activation-platform/ Checkr, a leading technology company powering the future of work, announced today it has acquired ModoHR Techn...
Alison Kaizer, Head of Talent at Lunchbox
February 07, 2022 12:00 - 26 minutes - 16.1 MBAlison Kaizer leads Talent at Lunchbox, one of the fastest growing foodtech start-ups in the industry. Lunchbox provides next-gen digital ordering software that helps restaurants drive better guest engagement and stronger sales. https://lunchbox.io/careers
EZ Rebrand & Multiple HR Tech Acquisitions
February 04, 2022 12:00 - 5 minutes - 4.71 MBSourcing platform Hiretual is now HireEZ and they just received a new influx of $26 million in new funding. The company which is based inMountain view California held a relaunch party this week which I attended. The funding was led by Conductive Ventures, and the new rebrand reflects their new mission: to make outbound recruiting easy. https://hrtechfeed.com/hiretual-is-now-hireez-raises-26-million/ SmartRecruiters, the Hiring Success company, today announced the acquisition of At...
Laskie's Candidate Matchmaking Platform
February 01, 2022 14:00 - 34 minutes - 25 MBLaskie is a new matching platform that leverages human sourcers and tech to match talent in remote engineering, product, design, marketing, and sales roles.
Bearclaws and Birds
January 28, 2022 12:30 - 5 minutes - 4.32 MBCrosschq, the reference chack platform has announced the launch of Crosschq Recruit, a sourcing tool built specifically to help companies source qualified talent directly from the professional networks of job applicants. https://hrtechfeed.com/crosschq-launches-sourcing-portal/ Otta a platform for matching jobs at tech companies with candidates by aggregating a lot of information about the company (founder bios, employee reviews, salaries, industry) with the roles offered. Angel inv...
Enboarder's Chief People Officer
January 24, 2022 15:00 - 20 minutes - 11.6 MBIn her new role at Enboarder, Laura Lee Gentry is responsible for leading their talent and culture functions, focusing on building and investing in employee experience, including learning & development, hiring and retention strategies, that will further accelerate the company’s rapid growth. She brings more than 20 years of operational and organizational experience and a history of building successful talent and culture programs to Enboarder. She previously served as chief people officer ...
New Investment Fund for HR tech startups
January 21, 2022 12:30 - 5 minutes - 4.3 MBHR technology veteran entrepreneurs Greg Moran and Ira Grossman announced the launch of Evergreen Mountain Founder’s Fund 1. The $20m fund will be focused on early stage investments made in companies addressing changes in the way we work globally https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-technology-veterans-launch-new-investment-fund-focused-on-future-of-work-technologies/ Lattice, the leading people management platform for businesses with people-first cultures, today announced a new valuation of $3 bi...
Jobsync Recruitment Marketing Roundtable: Heidi Pancake
January 17, 2022 15:00 - 55 minutes - 36.8 MBRecorded from Jobsync's recent zoom roundtable, this audio features an industry wide discussion about candidate and worker engagement.