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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Canvas, Seekout, Vangst and More
January 14, 2022 12:00 - 6 minutes - 5.24 MBDiversity Job Marketplace Canvas.com which rebranded itself last year from Jumpstart, was recently ordered to stop using the Canvas.com domain by a judge. Canvas is currently leasing the domain. This is according to a story by BleepingComputer. In the article, “Learning management platform Instructure claims the domain name Canvas.com and its logo contain elements that conflict with Instructure’s Canvas product and line of business.“ Canvas says they are appealing the ruling. https:/...
Tech Recruiting with Andela
January 10, 2022 16:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBAndela.com is a global marketplace of technical talent. CEO Jeremy Johnson stops by to tell us the origins of this recruitment platform that recently got $200 million in funding.
Payfit, Snagajob, Talent Inc and Justworks
January 07, 2022 12:00 - 5 minutes - 3.89 MBPayFit, a leading payroll and HR management solution for SMEs, today announced that it has raised €254M in a Series E funding round, a record-breaking amount for a French human resources (HR) startup. General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, led the round, with participation from existing investors Eurazeo, Bpifrance and Accel Ventures. Since its founding in 2015, PayFit has gained over 6,000 clients, and has raised €179M to date https://hrtechfeed.com/french-startup-payf...
Dissecting the Facebook Jobs Shutdown
January 06, 2022 14:46 - 32 minutes - 21.2 MBFacebook is shuttering its public jobs marketplace. Alex Murphy, CEO of Jobsync stops by to talk about what happened.
TriNet and Paradox in the News
December 30, 2021 17:25 - 4 minutes - 3.54 MBTriNet, a leading provider of human resources solutions for small and medium-size businesses(SMBs), today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zenefits. Details of the stock and cash transaction were not disclosed. Zenefits is a leading cloud HR platform which provides innovative and intuitive HR, benefits, payroll and employee engagement software purpose-built for small and medium-size businesses. Through the acquisition of Zenefits, TriNet diversifies its...
HR Pod Squad Recaps 2021
December 14, 2021 15:34 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBThe crew wraps up the year in recruiting and HR tech. TOPICS What we'll remember about this year? Have we hit peak HR tech funding? What will hiring be like in 2022?
GoodJob and Making Sense
December 10, 2021 12:00 - 5 minutes - 4.12 MBClovers a human resources technology firm leveraging interview intelligence to improve interviewing and hiring practices, today announced Zoom Video Communications, Inc. has invested in the firm via its $100 million Zoom Apps Fund. https://hrtechfeed.com/clovers-secures-investment-from-zoom-for-its-interview-platform/ HR technology company HiBob rolls out its Payroll Hub, a centralized dashboard on the Bob platform that automatically updates companies’ payroll data in real-time. Effec...
MetaView, JobandTalent and More
December 03, 2021 12:00 - 5 minutes - 4.41 MBJobandtalent – a workforce marketplace that matches workers with temporary roles – announced it secured $500 million in equity investment from Kinnevik and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, closing out its Series E round. https://hrtechfeed.com/jobandtalent-lands-500m-to-expand-in-u-s/ Metaview the interview intelligence tool based in Londo has raised 6 million in new funding. This investment will “help us accelerate in our mission to power People decisions with truth by enabling us to rapidly gr...
Workday, VideoMyJob and RNL
November 23, 2021 18:55 - 3 minutes - 2.75 MBVideoMyJob CEO David Macciocca said on Linkedin this week that the Australian based video startup has raised $2 million in new funding. “With the new round of funding, we’ll accelerate our innovations that continue to make VideoMyJob the best video solution for Talent Acquisition, Employer Brand and Recruitment Marketing teams worldwide.” https://hrtechfeed.com/videomyjob-raises-2-million/ Workday, Inc. a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, has ent...
Leslie McIntyre-Tavella from Culpeop HR
November 22, 2021 15:00 - 22 minutes - 14.7 MBLeslie McIntyre is one of my oldest friends int he HR industry, She has a new book about and a new HR consulting firm. https://culpeohr.com Buy her book: Framing Success: 20 Essential Lessons for Achieving Entrepreneurial Greatness... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C6KTJCH/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_Z7WNZ2YNK4FEB0YTJVCM
Leslie McIntyre-Tavella from Culpeo HR
November 22, 2021 15:00 - 22 minutes - 14.7 MBLeslie McIntyre is one of my oldest friends int he HR industry, She has a new book about and a new HR consulting firm. https://culpeohr.com Buy her book: Framing Success: 20 Essential Lessons for Achieving Entrepreneurial Greatness... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C6KTJCH/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_Z7WNZ2YNK4FEB0YTJVCM
QuickHire, Crosschq, HiringSolved
November 19, 2021 14:00 - 5 minutes - 4.36 MBLinkedin now lets users choose which type of job preferences they want to be found for. These include on-site, remote and hybrid. It’s a sign that job types have permanently changed. User can now edit these settings in their profile. https://hrtechfeed.com/linkedin-adds-remote-work-preferences/ After acquiring Harver back in May, digital hiring solutions provider Outmatch rebrands to Harver and continues to develop the world’s leading volume hiring solution for hourly and professional r...
State of the Job apply
November 15, 2021 17:00 - 6 minutes - 4.93 MBNew research from InFlight Corp suggest employers still have too long of an apply process. Designing and executing a quantitative study of your company’s apply flow is a complicated undertaking. Many organizations have pieced together in-house and external systems to achieve their intended goals without considering the overall quality of the candidate experience. With so much competition for workers, organizations cannot afford to have systems that provide a candidate experience that under...
Seasoned, Bullhorn and DHI Group
November 12, 2021 13:00 - 5 minutes - 4.23 MBSeasoned announced that it has raised $18.7 million in Series A financing to help expand its hiring platform and restaurant worker network to new markets. The financing comes on the back of a $12 million seed round raised in June 2021, bringing its total raised to more than $30 million this year. In July 2020, Seasoned relaunched with a next-generation, mobile, app-based recruitment and hiring tool for restaurants that complements its employee networking platform. On the back of releasing ...
Pillar CEO Mark Simpson
November 08, 2021 15:00 - 20 minutes - 13.6 MBThere’s a new HR tech player in town and its name is Pillar.hr….Pillar is all about the interview process and interviewer coaching which they say is key to providing better candidate experiences & increasing acceptance rates. Joining me on this episode is their CEO and Founder Mark Simpson. Pillar is offering a limited number of free trials to Rec Tech listeners. If your organization is interested, schedule a demo at pillar.hr/rectech.
Fiverr, Fountain and Funding
November 05, 2021 12:00 - 7 minutes - 5.38 MBLever, a leading Talent Acquisition Suite, has completed a $50 millionSeries D funding round with the Apax Digital Fund. The funding comes as the market for talent acquisition is continuing to heat up, and companies face the most competitive market for hiring and retaining talent to date. The investment in Lever will accelerate solution development in talent analytics, top-of-funnel talent discovery, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as well as support growth in new markets, and ...
HR Tech Pitchiest Finals
November 01, 2021 16:00 - 53 minutes - 30.6 MBOnwards HR an employee termination platform for HR won this years pitchiest. Here is the audio from the final round of 6 startups.
HR Tech Pitchfest Finals
November 01, 2021 16:00 - 53 minutes - 30.6 MBOnwards HR an employee termination platform for HR won this years pitchiest. Here is the audio from the final round of 6 startups.
News from Stride, Hackerank, Upwork, Goodtime, Ladder
October 29, 2021 16:00 - 6 minutes - 5.27 MBTWIRT this week in rec tech Stride Health, the leader in portable benefits for independent workers, announced that it has raised a $47 million Series C, bringing its total funding to $96M. The round was led by King River Capital with participation from Mastercard and Allstate along with existing investors Venrock, NEA, Fidelity’s F-Prime Capital, and Moderne Ventures. https://hrtechfeed.com/stride-raises-47m-to-provide-affordable-benefits-for-independent-workers/ Upwork has announ...
HR Tech Adoption
October 24, 2021 16:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBSpecial episode today ...we have 2 guests for you Gina Alioto is the VP of Brand and Experience with Symphony Talent and Sherri Ratliff is a director of TA at T-mobile...both are here to walk us through their recent presentation from the HR technology conference…around the topic of HR technology adoption.
Deel Says Lets Make a Deal
October 22, 2021 12:00 - 7 minutes - 5.66 MBinterviewIA — an interview platform that empowers interviewers to quickly build and deliver more effective interviews and more efficient hiring decisions — has launched its new free and paid team subscription model to put better interviewing in everyone’s hands. https://hrtechfeed.com/interviewia-launches-freemium-interview-software/ Hunt Club, a tech-enabled talent and recruitment company placing leadership roles across the fastest growing companies in the tech sector, has raised a $...
HR Tech Interviews: Clovers, TalentCare, Talenya
October 17, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes - 17.7 MBIn this audio you'll hear from Doug Leonard of Clovers.ai, Eric Smith from TalentCare and Gal Amog from Talenya.
HiBob says hello to millions
October 15, 2021 11:30 - 7 minutes - 5.56 MBPillar, an interview intelligence platform, is announcing its launch today. The platform leverages AI and in-interview coaching to provide companies with a more reliable way to assess a candidate’s fit for a role during the interview process With the launch, Pillar adopts and expands upon the initial vision and product built by Luma, an AI-based interview tool that launched out of High Alpha earlier this year. https://hrtechfeed.com/pillar-launches-interview-intelligence-platform-to-hel...
Recapping HR Tech Conference
October 09, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 33.5 MBHere's a quick recap of my trip to the HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas. You'll also hear a chunk of what Josh Bersin had to say on the state of HR tech.
BrightHire, The Mom Project Get Big Funding
October 08, 2021 11:00 - 6 minutes - 4.69 MBSmart interview platform BrightHire has secured a $20.5M Series B to further accelerate the growth of their more equitable, faster approach to hiring. The Series B funding is led by 01A with participation from Index Ventures and Zoom Apps Fund and follows a recent $12.5M Series A led by Index Ventures a few months prior, in May 2021. It’s also supported by Ground Up Ventures, Haystack, and J Ventures. https://hrtechfeed.com/brighthire-secures-20-5m-series-b-to-transform-the-interview-...
Employer decides to ditch the resume!
October 03, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes - 13.4 MBTEAM LEWIS, the global marketing agency, today announced that it is retiring the resume. The initiative is one of many aimed at opening doors to career changers and non-degree holders. It will offer job seekers the opportunity to choose a career based on what they want to be and how they want to change the world. "In a world that is relentlessly digital, video-first and unbound from convention, we have to recognize that the unique combination of talent and aspiration we're looking for ca...
You're Invited! Diversity Hiring Tech Expo
September 27, 2021 16:00 - 4 minutes - 3.38 MBCome to the the Diversity Tech Expo on October 7th at 2pm ET. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/diversity-tech-expo-2021 or use diversitytechexpo.com as the shortcut. A replay will be available.
Code Smoke Signals and Nomad Health Funding
September 24, 2021 13:00 - 7 minutes - 5.66 MBCodeSignal, a technical assessment platform dedicated to helping companies, including Facebook, Roblox, Zoom, Robinhood, and others, make data-driven hiring decisions in tech recruiting, announced $50M in Series C funding and the launch of CodeSignal’s new advanced Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that unlocks highly relevant assessment experiences. This round, which brings CodeSignal’s total funding to $87.5M, With Codesignal’s newly launched advanced IDE, candidates will now ...
Kathleen Steffey, CEO of Naviga Recruiting
September 19, 2021 16:00 - 22 minutes - 14.8 MBKathleen Steffey is the CEO and Founder of Naviga Recruiting & Executive Search. For 19 years, Naviga has been helping domestic and global business leaders achieve revenue growth by recruiting top-performing sales and marketing professionals. Her background has given her unique insight into the corporate talent acquisition world, agency recruiting and what it takes to manage and lead a team of marketers and recruiters in the digital landscape. TOPICS Describe the state of recruiting ...
Glassdoor goes Fishing, Humanly Raises VC
September 17, 2021 12:00 - 8 minutes - 6.39 MBHumanly.io announces a successful momentum raise to continue company growth and product development. Better pre-hire conversations result in better hires for companies seeking quality and diverse employees. Launched in July of 2019, Humanly.io has spent the last two years perfecting conversational AI to speed the hiring process, allowing humans to remain at the heart of recruiting. Utilizing linguistic theory and maintaining a primary focus on DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belo...
HR Pod Squad: Cheesman, Gadomski, Laurano, Russell
September 12, 2021 16:00 - 59 minutes - 42.9 MBListen in as four industry pundits and personalities talk shop. Joel Cheesman Andrew Gadomski Madeline Laurano Chris Russell Topic: HR tech conference, IPOS, valuations, and more HR technology banter.
Checkr Hiring, New Sourcing Tool, DHI bought who?
September 10, 2021 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.98 MBCheckr, a leading HR technology company powering the future of work, will open its third headquarters in Orlando, creating more than 600 new jobs in the next three years. The company, which leverages AI to make background checks faster, easier, and more compliant, will invest $2.7 million in the region. “We would like to thank the leaders of the City of Orlando, Orange County, and the state of Florida for their assistance in finding our new company home in the region,” said Checkr’s Chief...
Tim Sackett on College Recruiting
September 05, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutes - 14.7 MBTim Sackett says college recruiting is a mess. Her wrote: If you want to hire an upcoming college grad for a job you have, it’s a freaking nightmare, mostly. First off, you have to find out from each college/university who they actually work with and to which platform are they sending their kids. Handshake is the big one, but not everyone works with them, and as an employer, they are kind of difficult to work with (I’ll explain later). LinkedIn is the easiest to work with. Yello and Braze...
Jobsync's Google for Jobs Discussion
August 29, 2021 16:00 - 59 minutes - 37.6 MBJobsync recently held an excellent discussion that employers need to hear about upcoming changes to Google for Jobs.
Workstream, Knoetic Get Funding
August 27, 2021 11:00 - 6 minutes - 5.02 MBJob.com, the data-driven, AI-powered recruitment platform, announced today the acquisition of two established staffing firms: Fortus Healthcare Resources, which specializes in the direct and travel placement of healthcare professionals with an emphasis on nursing, and Endevis, which offers permanent recruitment services, contract staffing, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) to clients in the automotive, commercial, and manufacturing sectors, among others. Together, the two business...
Creative Sourcing Ideas
August 22, 2021 16:00 - 11 minutes - 8.46 MBA recent Facebook thread showed some new ways to source talent. https://www.facebook.com/groups/secret.sourcing/posts/2982596321989376
RecTech news from SAP, Workrise and More
August 20, 2021 11:30 - 6 minutes - 4.95 MBA new resume platform called Hiration, which makes it easy for qualified candidates to create the perfect resumes and find their dream role, announced it has raised $3M in seed funding from Prime Venture Partners, Venture Highway and Y Combinator, among others, to support further hiring and growth. https://hrtechfeed.com/resume-building-platform-nets-3-million-in-funding/ NY - retrain.ai, the Talent Intelligence Platform that uses AI and Machine Learning to redefine the future of wor...
Are Big Benefits the New Recruiting Tool?
August 15, 2021 16:00 - 8 minutes - 6.46 MBWalmart and Target announce free tuition for frontline workers. https://www.diversitygator.com/pages/33815-walmart-to-pay-100-of-college-tuition-and-books-for-associates https://recruitingheadlines.com/target-launches-tuition-assistance-program-for-frontline-workers/ The benefits wars are heating up.
Polywork Aims for LinkedIn
August 13, 2021 11:00 - 6 minutes - 4.83 MBPolywork, a new type of business social network has raised $13 million in new funding from Andreesen Hororwitz and other investors. Think of it as an alternative to LinkedIn. From the a16z blog… Polywork focuses on letting people tell their own stories and all they’re capable of, so we can meet new people, supercharge our teams, and unlock creativity. From capturing details like who you collaborated with on various projects to career highlights, to a system of community-created badges re...
Chloe Rada Talks Employer Branding
August 08, 2021 16:00 - 34 minutes - 23.1 MBChloe Rada brings 20+ years of talent marketing experience and is known for driving big ideas and empowering others to make a positive change for the future of Talent Acquisition. Awarded the 2020 Recruitment Marketer of the Year by Rally™ Recruitment Marketing for making an impact on Sodexo’s recruitment marketing efforts she is currently the Director, of Global Recruitment Marketing and Branding for Syneos Health... Supporting the Commercial Solutions division and responsible for dri...
WorkJam, Deel, Instawork in the News
August 06, 2021 11:00 - 6 minutes - 4.76 MBWorkJam, the Digital Workplace for organizations with frontline employees, announced $35 million in growth financing from Silver Lake Waterman. The investment is intended to support the company’s continued growth and strengthen WorkJam’s position across the over 2 billion frontline worker market — a market that has been underserved and underpenetrated with collaborative tools to orchestrate the workforce. WorkJam’s Frontline Digital Workplace enables operational efficiencies, fosters colla...
Evan Sohn, CEO Recruiter.com
August 01, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes - 13.9 MBRecruiter.com has been making acquisitions and going public on the Nasdaq. We'll catch up with their CEO Evan Sohn.
Another Unicorn in HR Tech
July 30, 2021 11:00 - 6 minutes - 5.12 MBCulture Amp was founded in 2009 to let companies conduct anonymous employee surveys, but since then, its focus has expanded to helping employers turn the data they collect into action. The company announced today it has raised $100 million in Series F funding, led by returning investors Sequoia Capital China and TDM Growth Partners. The round bumps Culture Amp’s valuation to $1.5 billion, more than double what it was after the company’s Series E in 2019. That makes them our industries lat...
CEO of Recruitology
July 25, 2021 15:37 - 30 minutes - 21.5 MBToday i’ll be chatting with Roberto Angulo, CEO of Recruitology a Cloud-based recruitment platform that leverages artificial intelligence to connect employers with the right talent, And he is also co-founder of AfterCollege.com an entry level job site thats been around for over 20 years. TOPCS Give us a brief description of your business as it is today… Lines of business...revenue streams? How do you think job marketplaces will evolve in the next 5 years? Whats your marketing advice...
Smart Recruiters is the Newest Unicorn
July 23, 2021 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.93 MBSmartRecruiters, the recruiting software that I was once a client of announced it closed a $110 million Series E round led by Silver Lake Waterman with participation from existing investors... The new capital brings the company’s total amount raised to $205 million, with a valuation of $1.5 billion. This financing round comes on the heels of strong momentum for SmartRecruiters. In the last 12 months, the company has experienced 70 percent bookings growth behind its expanding product set—wi...
TikTok Launches Pilot Program for Video Resumes
July 18, 2021 16:00 - 11 minutes - 8.16 MBA deep dive into what into TikTok new recruiting experiment.
Diversity Merger Mania
July 16, 2021 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.92 MBisolved has acquired predictive people analytics platform TrenData HR. The combination helps business leaders and HR professionals move from reactive to proactive human capital management (HCM) using sophisticated insights, simply delivered. The acquisition will help organizations of all sizes – to maximize business and people outcomes from their HR data. TrenData HR harnesses external data sources and aggregates them with information from internal systems, applying sophisticated predic...
The Great Resignation _ Shane Metcalf from 15five
July 11, 2021 15:21 - 32 minutes - 21.4 MBShane Metcalf is the Chief Culture Officer at 15five. We talked about how the great resignation now underway in the labor market is affecting companies ability to attract and retain workers as well as what you can do about it for your organization.
A Rebrand and TikTok Video Resumes
July 09, 2021 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.88 MBLinkUp, the leading provider of global job market data, announced their recruitment advertising and job search business has been rebranded as Getwork. Getwork will continue to be powered by LinkUp’s labor market data business and its innovative, proprietary technology that indexes millions of verified jobs every day directly from employer career sites. As a separately branded business, Getwork will be entirely focused on connecting job seekers with the companies they want to work for. Getw...
6 Out of the Box Onboarding Ideas
July 05, 2021 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.72 MBI found six unique onboarding ideas that you can use to make your new hires feel welcome.