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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Headlines: Zominfo gets into the sourcing game and more
July 02, 2021 11:00 - 6 minutes - 4.51 MBZoomInfo the go-to-market intelligence solution, today announced the general availability of the ZoomInfo Recruiter platform. ZoomInfo Recruiter is built specifically for recruiting teams to identify, target, and connect with top talent so they can fill open requisitions with the right individuals quickly and efficiently. Through the platform, staffing agencies, executive recruiters, corporate recruiters, and sourcers can uncover data such as work history, educational background, and dep...
Best Job Boards for Tech Talent
June 29, 2021 17:19 - 12 minutes - 9 MBLooking to hire tech talent? Try these 10 favorites. AuthenticJobs.com Angel.co Built In Dice.com F6S.com Hired.com Relocate.me Stack Overflow White Truffle Venture Loop
Internal Mobility Software List of Vendors
June 27, 2021 16:00 - 9 minutes - 6.82 MBStandalone solutions.... Worqdrive: We are an internal mobility solution designed to make it easy for your employees to stay. | Link Gloat: Internal Talent Marketplace helps enterprises democratize career development, unlock skills, and future-proof their workforce. | Link Fuel50: Matches your people to new opportunities, vacancies, gigs, and learning based on their talents whilst giving your organization powerful insights. | Link Anthill: Designed to reach all types of workers, from co...
Oyster gets $50 Million and good times for GoodTime
June 25, 2021 11:00 - 6 minutes - 5.03 MBRecruiting platform dotin Inc., which improves the recruitment and retention of new and existing talent, has released of their latest service module, PerFit-Diversity and Inclusion. The new module leverage AI to gather insights related to employee makeup, helping organizations realize the gender and ethnic diversity within their workforce. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiting-platform-dotin-inc-releases-new-diversity-and-inclusion-module/ Oyster®, the company that makes hiring talented ...
Canvas CEO Ben Herman
June 20, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes - 13.7 MBDiversity technology platforms are starting to spring up and get funding. The latest entrant into this market is Canvas formerly known as Jumpstart they recently raised a $20 million dollar funding round and we’ll get into that with our guest. TOPICS I want to get into the rebranding story but First of all what is canvas…? Describe what your platform does Tell us about the origins of business Rebranding, how do you arrive at the new name? How easy was it to get the domain? DRP….Ex...
Beamery Makes it Rain, Linkedin Gets Reprieve in Court
June 18, 2021 11:00 - 6 minutes - 4.82 MBThe U.S. Supreme Court has given LinkedIn another chance in its legal fight to stop HR technology firm HiQ Labs from scraping LinkedIn user data against the company’s demands. The nation’s highest court this week issued a writ of certiorari, noting it may hear the case, but telling the appeals court to first redo its earlier decision in favor of HiQ. The court told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to retry the case in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling in a similar case....
Crelate CEO Aaron Elder
June 13, 2021 13:00 - 25 minutes - 16.5 MBWhile traditionally leading the recovery following recessions, experts predict five million Americans will need to find new employment coming out of the COVID recovery. But how can staffing companies put these folks back to work amid the shifts of business and services? Well, According to Aaron Elder CEO of software company Crelate, a platform for staffing and recruiting firms, you do that with what he calls ‘transferable velocity”, meaning looking for skills that are applicable and mova...
RecTech Headlines: Eightfold, Talent Inc, Loophire, Stoke, Charthop & More
June 11, 2021 11:00 - 8 minutes - 6.09 MBEightfold is at it again. After raising a $125 million dollar round round last they just announced a $220 million dollar series E round. Wow. They are now valued at 2.1 billin dollars. The funds will be used to continue the growth and development of Eightfold’s AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform and expand its growing partner ecosystem. Since the announcement of Eightfold AI’s Series D funding round in October of 2020, the valuation of the organization has more than doubled....
Spokn offers 'Podcasts for Work' Platform
June 06, 2021 16:00 - 22 minutes - 15.1 MBPodcasts are mainstream now so when I saw the news about Spokn, a startup which helps companies create their own audio I wanted to hear about what they are up to. Spokn’s customers create podcasts for employee engagement; onboarding; diversity, initiatives; and learning & development. Joining me to discuss the company is one of their co-founders, Mariel Davis.
Headlines from YellowBird, Eightfold, Cadient, Hibob and Pathrise
June 04, 2021 11:30 - 6 minutes - 4.85 MBEightfold AI, the provider of the Talent Intelligence Platform™, today announced its integration partnership with Greenhouse, the hiring software company, and availability of the Eightfold Talent Intelligence Suite for all Greenhouse customers. https://hrtechfeed.com/eightfold-talent-intelligence-suite-now-available-on-greenhouse/ Pathrise, the leading online mentorship and job placement platform for tech professionals, announced today that it has secured $9 million in Series A Fun...
Terry Baker, CEO of PandoLogic
May 31, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes - 13.9 MBConversational Ai ---aka recruitment chatbots are being acquired at a record pace, last week Stepstone, a job board company bought Mya and PandoLogic acquired Wade&wendy. These deals make a lot of sense because each is working to drive traffic to jobs and the conversational AI helps to qualify and screen those candidates. Explain the problem you are trying to solve with this kind of acquisition? Explain what what and wendy does for a company (user experience) You ran some pilots with Wa...
Top Headlines from Spokn, Workrise, DailyPay, Canvas, BrightHire
May 27, 2021 15:11 - 6 minutes - 4.87 MBCongrats to Ziprecruiter is in order their stock debuted on the NYSE yesterday and closed the first day up 17%...it opened at 18 and closed at just over 21 bucks per share. The ticker symbol is ZIP in case you want to look it up. ---- Spokn, the podcasting platform for work, announced that it has closed a $4M Seed round with funding from NEA, Y Combinator, along with several other investors The financing will support further market expansion and enable Spokn to enhance the platform...
Jobvite's New CEO Pete Lamson
May 24, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 16.9 MBPete Lamson, former CEO of JazzHR now heads up the trio of Jobvite, JazzHR and NXTThing RPO. This merger is a big bet on the long term horizon for recruiting. Pete discusses the news in this 26 minute audio. Sponsored by Brazen.com/RT
Mergers, Profits and Feeling Stoked
May 21, 2021 11:30 - 6 minutes - 4.79 MBStepStone, one of the world’s leading online job marketplaces, has acquired the San Francisco based, Mya, a conversational AI (artificial intelligence) technology. The company will embed Mya’s technology into its online job search. StepStone says they will fundamentally change the way it engages with job seekers, nurture candidates, and match them to right job opportunities. On top of just searching for jobs, StepStone will interact with its users conversationally through new channels to d...
Creative Recruitment Marketing Strategies to Drive More Applies
May 16, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBLooking to up your recruitment marketing game in order to stand out in a crowded job market? Well this one hour webinar is here to help! Chris Russell, Jodi Brandstetter and the crowd go over nearly two dozen ways to make your job ads stand out. Audio from Webinar Replay. Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp7uZRZwdDU&t=409s
Handshake Agreement, Going Blind and Tik Tok for jobs
May 14, 2021 12:00 - 7 minutes - 5.78 MBINDIANAPOLIS — An on-demand screening platform called Qualifi which allows recruiting teams to phone interview 100s of candidates in minutes, has raised a $600,000 pre-seed investment. The Qualifi platform enables recruiters to create seamless one-way interview experiences using audio and voice that candidates respond to over a standard phone call, eliminating back-and-forth scheduling, reducing communication times with candidates, and capturing better data to help recruiters scale scr...
How Chattr Solves High Volume Hiring
May 09, 2021 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.9 MBThe CEO of chatter.ai stops by to talk about current state of retail/restaurant hiring and demo their hiring software tool.
Headlines from Wedge, Crelate, Lever, InterviewIA and Greenhouse
May 07, 2021 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.42 MBDENVER interviewIA — a technology platform that manages all aspects of the job interview workflow to enable the coexistence of equitable and efficient hiring — has raised $2 Million in its seed round to fund strategic hires and product development as well as growth initiatives. This Series Seed round was led by The Colorado Impact Fund, with participation from several investors. interviewIA fills an urgent need to help all interviewers deliver a consistent, non-biased experience driven...
Phenom's Jonathan Dale
May 02, 2021 16:00 - 33 minutes - 22.6 MBAttracting, engaging, and hiring the right candidate starts the moment a job seeker lands on your career site. As the digital window into your company culture, employers must leverage their career site to convey a strong brand, quick and easy access to jobs, and information that helps talent make an informed decision about whether your company is right for them. Now as organizations prepare for a post-pandemic workforce and a new era of HR, delivering an incredible candidate experience ...
IPO's, Merger Mania and New Funding
April 30, 2021 11:30 - 7 minutes - 5.17 MBCeridian a global leader in human capital management (HCM) technology, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ideal, a leading talent intelligence software provider based in Toronto, Ontario. This acquisition is anticipated to optimize Ceridian’s talent management offering once Ideal’s capabilities are integrated into the Dayforce platform. The acquisition is expected to close on April 30, 2021 Ideal’s talent intelligence products enhance recruiting processes, ...
Ziprecruiter IPO: Behind the Numbers
April 26, 2021 19:13 - 30 minutes - 22.5 MBLast friday Ziprecruiter announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed public direct listing of its Class A common stock. ZipRecruiter intends to list its Class A common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ZIP. Here to discuss the filing with me is Peter Zollman the publisher and editor of the AIM group which covers the recruitment/classified marketplace industry. LINK: https://a...
Headlines from medReps, Deel, RippleMatch, IBM and Jobilla
April 23, 2021 13:00 - 6 minutes - 5.12 MBHelskini-based Jobilla has raised €2.16 million. Founded in 2015, Jobilla is aiming to stake its claim in a €450 billion industry, often plagued by complicated and/or not-so-user-friendly software packages. The funding round was led by Trind VC, and €700,000 of the investment arrives via loans and government grants. Jobilla is reporting that the funding will be used to further develop its recruiting software as well as drive expansion efforts into Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands, a...
Grace Tyson Co-Founder of Luma
April 18, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes - 17.4 MBLuma is a new interview intelligence platform, which recently launched to help businesses run more intentional interviews and make better hiring decisions. Joining me to discuss the platform is their CEO Grace Tyson Lumateams.com
Headlines from Degreed, Hired, Ziprecruiter Fuel50 and More
April 16, 2021 11:00 - 6 minutes - 5.15 MBUpskilling platform Degreed has raised $153 million in Series D funding. The investment, which was co-led by Sapphire Ventures and Riverwood Capital, values the company at $1.4 billion. Dan Levin, former COO of Box will succeed Chris McCarthy as CEO of Degreed. The funding will be used to accelerate product development, enhance data infrastructure, fuel global expansion, and pursue strategic acquisitions. Technology enhancements will focus on upgrading Degreed’s reporting and analytics, e...
Angelo Pancho from Rockwell Automation Talks Recruiting Technology
April 11, 2021 16:00 - 37 minutes - 19.8 MBAngelo Pancho oversees Recruiting Tech Innovation and International Strategic Talent Sourcing for Rockwell International and today we’ll talk about the technology he uses to hire talent. Describe your current role for the audience Do you have a fav sourcing story as a recruiter? Whats the pitch to come join Rockwell? benefits? What are the recruiting tech tools in place at Rockwell? (current ATS etc) Paid ads whats working best? Are you planning new ones? If so please describe…Alt...
Headlines from Phenom, Dice, Talroo, Workshop, Recruiter
April 09, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes - 4.84 MBRecruiting Technology Headlines This week in Rec Tech: Phenom hits the mother load, Workshop gets funded, Talroo unifies its product suite, Dice adds features and Recruiter.com makes another acquisition. This episode is sponsored by HR Lancers, the freelance marketplace for recruiters and HR pros. Does your company need help with HR or recruiting? Post a project, or contractor role today for free and target ver 5,000 freelancers looking for work right now. HRlancers.com On to the new...
RecTech Meetup with Datapeople's Amit Bhatia
April 07, 2021 22:05 - 43 minutes - 28.8 MBIndustry meeting with some industry peeps including the co-founder of Datapeople.io who just received $8 million in VC funds for its talent analytics platform. Sponsored by Brazen.com the virtual job fair platform.
Rejobify.com Rejection Email Service Demo
April 04, 2021 16:00 - 14 minutes - 9.83 MBRejobify is a service from RecTech Media, that was built to help employers add value to their rejection process….in a way that positively reinforces your company brand and gives candidates something useful to do besides deleting your rejection email. Let us help you improve the part of your candidate experience that everyone hates, the rejection email. Rejobify clients actually get thank you emails from those they reject. How many companies can say that? https://www.rejobify.com Mentio...
Hashtagging for Recruiting 101
April 04, 2021 16:00 - 27 minutes - 19.8 MBWith Matt Lozar from Haley Marketing this session is all about hashtags for recruiting.
RecTech Headlines from Datapeople, Crosschq and Celential
April 02, 2021 11:30 - 8 minutes - 6.29 MBSponsored by Cronofy.com Meetup Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlduuuqTwjG9Ygo1L-lnJ5Er6qgMf0imuR Crosschq: https://hrtechfeed.com/crosschq-raises-13-million-for-its-human-intelligence-hiring/ Celential: https://hrtechfeed.com/virtual-recruiter-platform-celential-raises-9-5m/ Datapeople: https://hrtechfeed.com/datapeople-announces-8m-in-raised-capital-as-it-works-to-make-recruiting-more-equitable/
Jonathan Kidder Talks Sourcing Tools
March 28, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes - 21.5 MBJonathan Kidders is a Sourcer at Amazon with 10+ years of talent sourcing experience. In his spare time he writes extensively on recruiting and sourcing tools on his blog at WizardSourcer.com and today he’ll give us a rundown of the latest and great sourcing tools hitting the market. https://wizardsourcer.com
Headlines from Fetcher, Visage, Ziprecruiter, ResumeSieve, iHire and Poach
March 26, 2021 12:00 - 7 minutes - 5.97 MBThis episode is sponsored by Cronofy, the scheduling platform for business and HR professionals. Don’t let impersonal and lengthy interview scheduling stop you from acquiring top talent! https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology Headlines Fetcher, a full-service, recruiting automation platform, announced today that it has raised a $6.5M Series A investment led by G20 Ventures, with participation from KFund and existing investors Accomplice and Slow. This brings the total ca...
Rob Kelly, CEO of OnGig Talks 5 Things Going Extinct on Job Descriptions
March 21, 2021 16:00 - 31 minutes - 17.3 MBMy guest today wants to talk about job descriptions, specifically 5 things that are going extinct on them...Rob Kelly is the founder and CEO of OnGig a tool that helps employers create better job postings. Why are you so obsessed about job descriptions? Quick description of OnGig? Before we look at the future (and things that might go extinct in job descriptions), what's changed in the last 5 to 10 years in JDs? So you and I were chatting about how with all the changes going on, the f...
A Rejection Story
March 18, 2021 15:35 - 6 minutes - 4.77 MBListen to what one talent acquisition pro did by personally rejecting 272 applicants over the course of 3 hours. An HR hero was born.
Appcast CEO Chris Forman Talks Recruitment Marketing Benchmarks
March 14, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes - 14.2 MBChris Forman is the … CEO of Appcast the programmatic job advertising platform. They just released their annual report on recruitment marketing data points and we’ll dive into those numbers on today's episode. LINK: https://info.appcast.io/whitepaper/2021-recruitment-marketing-benchmark-report-website
Criteria Acquires alcami, Indeed Launches ATS, Seekout and Jobandtalent Get Funded
March 12, 2021 13:00 - 7 minutes - 6.1 MBCriteria, a market-leading SaaS people analytics platform, announced that it has acquired Australian-based Alcami Interactive, an on-demand video interviewing platform. There has been a substantial increase in demand for advanced video interviewing since the beginning of 2020, and Criteria will offer its 4000+ customers Alcami’s video interviewing service through its platform. Alcami will also offer Criteria’s portfolio of assessments to its APAC customers. Criteria plans to fully integra...
VP Sales for Cronofy the business scheduling platform
March 07, 2021 17:00 - 20 minutes - 14.9 MBMike Rymkiewicz is the new VP Sales for Cronofy the business scheduling platform. Today we’ll discuss the product along with some new case study data they have released about the benefits of faster interview scheduling.
Headlines from GoContractor, Parabol, Payscale, Stoke Talent
March 05, 2021 13:00 - 7 minutes - 5.69 MBThis episode is sponsored by Cronofy, the scheduling platform for business and HR professionals. Don’t let impersonal and lengthy interview scheduling stop you from acquiring top talent! https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology Headlines GoContractor, a leader in the digitization of construction worker onboarding and compliance tracking, today announced a $5 million Series A round of funding led by Building Ventures and Ironspring in the U.S. with continued participat...
Beamery CEO Abakar Saidov
February 28, 2021 14:00 - 26 minutes - 20.1 MBAbakar Saidov is the CEO of recruiting software company Beamery, which lets you Attract, engage, and retain talent, and manage the entire journey with one platform. He’s here today to give us his predictions for HR in the coming year.
Headlines from LinkedIn, iCIMS, Talroo, Bitwise, Bitwise, Phenom
February 26, 2021 14:00 - 7 minutes - 5.72 MBFreelance workers may soon be able to find their next gigs through a new LinkedIn service that’s currently under development. LinkedIn Marketplaces will enable users on the Microsoft-owned professional social networking platform to find, connect, hire, and pay freelancers all on the platform itself. LinkedIn spokeswoman Suzi Owens was quoted as saying that the platform has noticed a rise in people searching and requesting services from others during the pandemic. “In the future we'll b...
Job Description Tools Expo
February 21, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBListen as 5 cool job description platforms describe their tools. Cliquify Job Page Grader Sparc Before You Apply OnGig
Headlines from Glassdoor, Recruiter(Dotcom), Eightgold, Talenya, ShiftOne
February 19, 2021 12:30 - 6 minutes - 4.77 MBSponsored by Cronofy https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Glassdoor, has launched new product features that offer a new level of transparency into the state of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at companies. The new datasets reveal employee provided company ratings and salary reports broken out by specific demographic groups. The features now gives job seekers, employees and employers a deeper level of insight into the employee experience by displaying company ratings, CEO ratings and ...
Quincy Valencia, Hourly by AMS
February 14, 2021 14:00 - 24 minutes - 18.6 MBLast year Alexander Mann (now known simply as AMS) Launched an end to end Hiring Platform for Hourly Workers. Its called Hourly and we’ll talk about what makes it tick with todays guest, Quincy Valencia. So Hourly is not quite a year old yet….whats this first year been like for the platform? How do you describe it? To me it seems like a job board + ATS powered by a chatbot? How does an employer use it find hourly talent? What are the challenges companies are facing in hiring hourly w...
Circa, Nextstep, Stella, Wizhire and Careerist
February 12, 2021 12:30 - 7 minutes - 5.72 MBThis episode is sponsored by Cronofy, the scheduling platform for business and HR professionals. Don’t let impersonal and lengthy interview scheduling stop you from acquiring top talent! https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology Headlines NextStep, a mobile-based training and job placement company aiming to radically expand the supply of qualified Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) to address the nation’s caregiver shortage crisis, today announced a $3.6 million in...
Nancy Hauge, CHRO on Automation in HR
February 07, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 16.8 MBAI and automation are changing the role of todays CHRO position within a new hybrid human-bot workforce... We’ll discuss that and touch on where hr tech is headed with today's guest Nancy Hauge, she is the CHRO of Automation Anywhere, one of the global leaders in robotic process automation, where she oversees all "people" functions worldwide. TOPICS Can you Define Robotic process automation...and what are some practical examples of it in use today form an HR standpoint? What are some sp...
RecTech Headlines Feb 5th
February 05, 2021 13:00 - 9 minutes - 7.07 MBThis episode is sponsored by Cronofy, the scheduling platform for business and HR professionals. Don’t let impersonal and lengthy interview scheduling stop you from acquiring top talent! https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology Headlines GoodJob today announced that it has raised $3M to fuel marketing and sales efforts in major markets across the U.S. The company launched its web and mobile apps in June of 2020, primarily targeting the Birmingham, Ala. market. “Birmingh...
Jodi Brandsetter HR Consultant
January 31, 2021 17:00 - 30 minutes - 16.5 MBJodi Brandstetter, SPHR, SHRM SCP is passionate about talent acquisition and uses design thinking in creating selection and hiring processes focused on people and business. She has 20 years of talent acquisition experience and is certified through IDEO U in design thinking. Jodi is the CEO and founder of Lean Effective Talent Strategies which includes The Hiring Blueprint, talent acquisition consulting firm and Talent Acquisition Evolution, a community for recruiting professionals...
News from Workday, CSweet, TMP/Radancy, Bayard, Multiverse
January 29, 2021 13:00 - 7 minutes - 5.36 MBThis episode is sponsored by Cronofy, the scheduling platform for business and HR professionals. Don’t let impersonal and lengthy interview scheduling stop you from acquiring top talent! https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology Headlines TMP Worldwide, the global talent technology leader, announced that it has changed its name to Radancy. The new brand “amplifies their growing commitment to intelligently solving the most critical challenges for many of the world's larg...
Erin Stevens, Corporate Recruiter
January 24, 2021 15:00 - 28 minutes - 17.3 MBErin Stevens is a Corporate Recruiter with MasterBrand Cabinets based in Jasper, Indiana ...She Serves as the talent leader for sourcing and building talent pipelines and recruiting leadership positions. She recently headed up their ATS migration and we'll chat about how that went. TOPICS What do you recruit for and where Describe what recruiting was like for you in 2020? How many did MB hire? Technology---you changed your ATS last year, what did you take out and replace it with? ...
Headlines from Glassdoor, Personio, Reflektive, iCIMS, Seasonsed
January 22, 2021 12:00 - 6 minutes - 5.03 MBThis episode is sponsored by Cronofy, the scheduling platform for business and HR professionals. Don’t let impersonal and lengthy interview scheduling stop you from acquiring top talent! https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines Managing your employer brand on Glassdoor has just gotten easier with the new Alerts feature... Alerts appear in your Employer Center dashboard, and are here to help guide you to the most important tasks and updates since your last login. ...