FastTalent maximizes talent acquisition efficiency with automated job distribution and targeted ads, leveraging real-time market intelligence and transparent ROI tracking. https://www.fasttalent.com/

This episode is sponsored in part by Dalia.co and FastTalent.com Bullhorn Ventures has invested in Staffing Referrals, the leading automated referral management (ARM) platform. This partnership will help staffing agencies source higher-quality talent by digitizing and scaling their existing referral programs. https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-ventures-invests-in-staffing-referrals-to-automate-and-scale-agencies-referral-programs/ Bullhorn, the global leader in software for the staffing and recruitment industry, today announced it now offers enterprise-level staffing firms a fully configurable, end-to-end solution designed to increase operational efficiency and decrease overhead.  The solution combines Bullhorn for Salesforce Application Tracking System (ATS) with Bullhorn Middle Office, which supports staffing firms and recruitment agencies with innovative tools from talent sourcing to client billing and beyond. https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-partners-with-eliassen-group-to-deliver-an-advanced-front-to-back-solution/ SmartRecruiters has unveiled “Winston”, their new AI-powered recruiting companion. Winston doesn’t just reduce administrative tasks — he eliminates them entirely.  From screening candidates and scheduling interviews to sending follow-up notes, Winston frees hiring teams to focus on the most human part of the process — the interview. This launch marks a step forward in SmartRecruiters’ vision of “SmartRecruiters 3.0”, signaling the end of the traditional ATS and the beginning of an AI-driven era where hiring teams can achieve superhuman results. https://hrtechfeed.com/smartrecruiters-unveils-ao-copilot-named-winston/ Upwork , the world’s work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent across the globe, this week released a collection of new products, features and partnerships to transform how businesses and professionals find each other, hire, collaborate, manage and pay for work. https://hrtechfeed.com/upwork-expands-ai-innovation-and-unveils-new-solutions-for-better-work-outcomes-with-upwork-updates-fall-2024-release/ ADP® announced that it has acquired WorkForce Software, a premier workforce management solutions provider that specializes in supporting large, global enterprises. This acquisition will expand ADP’s global offering of workforce management solutions and enable future innovation in the space. https://hrtechfeed.com/adp-acquires-workforce-software/  

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Glassdoor announced it is introducing “Worklife Pros“, in the form of relevant rich content into its community experience, providing more opportunities for users to engage in real-time conversations with access to both career experts and other like-minded professionals. https://hrtechfeed.com/glassdoor-doubles-down-on-content-experts/ Rival introduced Rival Workflow, a automated platform that empowers businesses to manage the employee experience – from onboarding to offboarding – in one seamless, integrated experience. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-rival-successfinder/ SAN FRANCISCO —- Zeal, the modern payroll platform announced the successful close of a $15 million Series B funding round. This latest investment, led by Portage with continued support from existing investors Spark Capital and Commerce Ventures, marks a significant milestone in Zeal’s mission to redefine payroll for innovative staffing companies, gig-work platforms, and HR service providers, including industry leaders like Wonolo, Qwick, Lawtrades, Band of Hands, and WorkGenius. https://hrtechfeed.com/zeal-secures-15m-series-b-funding-for-payroll-platform/ Sapia.ai, a leader in AI-driven recruitment, announced the launch of Live Interview™, a tool designed to simplify interview scheduling for hourly hiring. With a focus on ease of use, Live Interview™ makes scheduling as intuitive as booking a restaurant – especially benefiting store managers overseeing hourly workers. https://hrtechfeed.com/sapia-ai-unveils-live-interview-for-high-volume-hiring/ DENVER —- Guild, an education and skilling solution for building talent, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nomadic Learning, a leading capability academy company. The company also announced the introduction of Guild Talent Advantage, which pairs education and skilling experiences—across multiple learning modalities—with actionable talent insights. In addition, through Guild Talent Advantage, employees receive career resources and coaching to ensure they don’t just know more, but they perform better and drive businesses forward. https://hrtechfeed.com/guild-announces-acquisition-of-nomadic/  

Novo Constare is the current Chief Executive and Co-Founder of Indeed Flex. Novo is also the General Manager & Vice President of Staffing Solutions at the organization. Novo co-founded Syft in 2015 in London. Four years later, in the summer of 2019, Syft was acquired by Indeed and rebranded as Indeed Flex.  TOPICS For those that dont know…. Explain what Indeed Flex is? Explain the user experience for the employer? How do they go about finding temporary work on the platform? Why should an employer use this over just posting on Indeed? Whats the typical cost to the employer? Is there a difference between temp staffing in the UK vs the U.S. You started as Syft back in 2015 take me back to those days why did you start it ? What was the biggest challenge you faced in the early days of Syft and how did you overcome that challenge? Same day hiring? What was it like when Indeed came calling and said we want to buy your business? Building a marketplace advice? Whats the future for Indeed Flex?  

ZipRecruiter®, launched the next generation of its Resume Database, a proactive sourcing tool for employers to find qualified candidates in minutes. The new Resume Database gives employers, instant access to candidate contact info, and fresh workflow management tools. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-improves-its-resume-database/ Harver, the hiring solution helping organizations optimize their talent decisions, today announced the availability of Job Fit Finder. Designed to help talent leaders identify and hire the best candidates efficiently, Job Fit Finder utilizes Harver’s behavioral assessment technology to match candidates within their talent pool to other open roles, based on fit. Workstream, the modern payroll, HR, and hiring platform designed for the hourly business, launched a series of new payroll, time clock, and shift scheduling products today to further expand the capabilities of its integrated all-in-one platform. These products provide much-needed functionality to QSR franchisees, restaurants, and other businesses that employ hourly workers. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-harver-workstream/ Symphony Talent, a global leader in talent acquisition solutions, announces the launch of Interview Genius, a new feature within its SFX On-Demand Interview (ODI) platform. This AI-powered tool will change how organizations conduct interviews by automating the creation of structured, fair, and science-backed interview questions tailored to each role. https://hrtechfeed.com/symphony-talent-unveils-interview-genius/ Indeed Flex, the temporary staffing platform has partnered with workforce payments platform Branch to offer Same Day Pay. This tool enables Flexers to access up to 50% of their earnings within an hour after completing a shift.  https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-flex-partners-with-branch-to-deliver-same-day-pay-for-flex-workers/  

In today's podcast I am joined by the founder of CVwallet and his new firm C Squared, Richard Collins. C Squared’s technology infrastructure is enabling the next evolution of recruitment advertising, moving it closer to the hire and making it fit for the age of AI. Our groundbreaking Exchange Traded Feeds (ETFs) enable Ad Agencies, Programmatics and Publishers to deliver more qualified applicants to their clients whilst maximizing their revenue. https://www.csquaredtechnology.com/

Mercor is an AI hiring platform that enables top tech companies and leading AI labs to hire experts at tech companies across software engineering, law, chemistry, finance, and many other professions. VC’s just gave them $30 million to grow the business. https://hrtechfeed.com/ai-job-marketplace-lands-30-million/ DailyPay a United States-based worktech company and provider of earned wage access (EWA), is expanding globally. Beginning this fall, DailyPay, an award-winning provider of EWA services, will have an EWA offering available in the United Kingdom, marking the company’s first foray outside the U.S. https://hrtechfeed.com/dailypay-announces-international-expansion-into-the-united-kingdom/ San Francisco, California – Kula’s latest launch is an all-in-one hiring platform that leverages generative AI to assist recruiters in sourcing, screening, scheduling, and capturing interview feedback with prospective hires, complete with an AI-powered analytics dashboard. This marks Kula’s evolution from a point-solution tool for sourcing candidates to a full platform alleviating all of the pain points recruiters have faced over the decades. https://hrtechfeed.com/kula-debuts-the-first-complete-hiring-platform-with-purpose-built-ai-for-recruiting/ LEBANON, N.H.– Appcast announced that Matt Molinari, currently the chief operating officer, will become the chief executive officer on January 1, 2025. Molinari succeeds Chris Forman, founder and CEO, who will retire after more than a decade of building and growing the company. https://hrtechfeed.com/appcast-ceo-to-retire-new-leadership-coming/ Recruitment software provider Greenhouse, has introduced a new system called Greenhouse Verified.  This system aims to give job seekers more confidence in the companies they apply to. To earn the Verified badge, companies must demonstrate a commitment to fair hiring practices, respect for candidates, and open communication. Greenhouse hopes that this will encourage more companies to create positive hiring experiences. https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-launches-verified-badges-for-employersto-promote-trust-and-transparency-in-hiring/  

I travelled to Nashville for RecFest USA and hit up some industry folks while walking the grounds. In this episode you'll hear from; Mark Anderson form Advantage.ai Dan Sapir from JobGet Jake Morse from Pillar.hr Stephen McGrath from Poetry Gina Aliot from Shaker Steve Levy from DHI Group Krista Tan from Talent Collective Enjoy the audio!

Employ Inc., parent company of JazzHR, Lever, Jobvite and NXTThing RPO, today announced the opening of a new office space in Denver, Colo. this “Center of Excellence” will serve as a vital hub for strategic initiatives and operations in Denver, enabling Employ with a more collaborative environment to foster innovation and growth. https://hrtechfeed.com/employ-inc-opens-colorado-office/ SAN FRANCISCO — Censia, a leader in AI-driven talent intelligence solutions, announces a strategic investment from Workday Ventures. This investment underscores Censia’s innovative capabilities and positions it as a leading player in revolutionizing talent management through responsible artificial intelligence. https://hrtechfeed.com/censia-announces-investment-from-workday-ventures/ CareerBUilder & monster the completion of all customary regulatory approvals,for their recent merger. As previously announced, the combination of CareerBuilder and Monster brings together two complementary brands to create a job board with greater scale and reach. https://hrtechfeed.com/careerbuilder-and-monster-finalize-merger-name-new-execs/ Engine Capital, which owns approximately 3.5% of the outstanding shares of freelancer platform Upwork (Nasdaq: UPWK) recently announced it sent a letter to the Company’s Board of Directors regarding “actionable opportunities for enhancing shareholder value.” https://hrtechfeed.com/upwork-investor-calls-out-company-leadership-says-changes-needed/ Nexxt.com, the job advertising platform… announced two new organic offerings. The first offering, Nexxt Organic, will enable companies to attract quality candidate traffic to their jobs for free, either directly through Nexxt apply or through integrated Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).   https://hrtechfeed.com/nexxt-introduces-organic-traffic-options-to-help-companies-source-talent-for-free/ New launch: Sync2Hire launched this week which enhances a company’s existing ATS functionality by taking the data from the ATS and organizing it into a centralized hub for all things post-application communications, offering a cohesive structure that ensures teams are always on the same page. https://hrtechfeed.com/sync2hire-lanuches-post-application-comms-platform/  

The Muse, a leading career platform serving millions of next-generation job seekers and fast growing companies, today announced the launch of Muse Productions, a dedicated content creation studio that helps companies activate their employer brands and build their teams. From expertly crafted articles to dynamic videos, Muse Productions offers solutions that seamlessly integrate with a client’s employer brand to attract, recruit, and retain top talent. https://hrtechfeed.com/the-muse-launches-a-dedicated-content-creation-studio-for-employer-branding/  Vangst, the cannabis industry’s leading hiring platform, today announced its acquisition of GreenForce, a cannabis temporary staffing agency operating in Oregon & Arizona. GreenForce Founder & CEO Ryan Rosenfeld will join Vangst as the Chief Business Officer, focused on further regional and national expansion, effective immediately. The acquisition marks Vangst’s second acquisition of 2024. https://hrtechfeed.com/vangst-acquires-greenforce/ Workday just published its semi-annual Global Workforce Report, which found that it’s an employers’ market, with the number of job applications growing four times faster than job openings. Despite these odds, top performing employees are quitting their jobs to look for better opportunities elsewhere. At the same time, organizations are turning to AI to transform how they find and keep their best people. https://recruitingheadlines.com/job-market-tightens-as-ai-reshapes-hiring-processes/ File this under new recruiting ideas. Staffing firm Manpower says they will be using Walmart Stores to recruit! Manpower will offer one-stop convenience to local job seekers. The new Manpower job hubs are designed with “efficiency and accessibility in mind and are welcoming to active job seekers or casual shoppers who may want to explore employment options in their area.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/manpower-to-open-job-hubs-inside-walmart-stores/  

Startup TalentWell has announced the launch of its next-generation talent sourcing platform, featuring the latest in generative AI technology. TalentWell enables hiring managers and recruiters to discover top talent and then connect in a way that truly resonates. Unlike other solutions that rely on generic, forgettable messaging, TalentWell generates personalized emails and videos that get candidates’ attention and boost response rates, helping companies build their dream teams faster than ever. https://hrtechfeed.com/talentwell-launches-ai-generated-recruiter-outreach-videos/ Job board solution provider Smart Job Board, one of my top recommendations, has launched new AI matching features into its platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/job-board-software-provider-adds-ai-functionality-for-publishers/ Following a successful beta program, ZipRecruiter®, a leading online employment marketplace, today fully launched ZipIntro, a new solution that accelerates face-to-face connections for a faster and more personal hiring experience. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-launches-video-interviewing-functionality/ Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY), the  payroll software solutions platform , announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Airbase Inc., a modern finance and spend management software solution that combines bill pay / accounts payable automation, expense management, corporate cards and procurement capabilities. The acquisition of Airbase represents an expansion of Paylocity’s suite and will deliver incremental integrated value to HR and finance leaders in managing all of their spend on a single platform – expanding the Paylocity total addressable market beyond HCM and further into the Office of the CFO. https://hrtechfeed.com/paylocity-announces-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-airbase-inc-a-leading-spend-management-software-solution-provider/ Oyster®, the global employment solution to employ, pay, and care for distributed teams, raised $59M in Series D funding, led by Silver Lake Waterman, with participation from existing investors,.... The investment will enable Oyster to accelerate its platform roadmap, scale its impact, improve its customers’ compliance posture, and enhance its customers’ ability to attract and retain top talent. Over 40% of Team Members employed on the Oyster platform are in emerging markets and Oyster remitted hundreds of millions to emerging markets in 2023. This fundraise values the company at $1.2B and brings its total funding to $286M. https://hrtechfeed.com/oyster-raises-59m-series-d/  

INDIANAPOLIS—-DirectEmployers Association, the leading provider of OFCCP compliance solutions, today announced the acquisition of EqualityMagazines.com and its network of diversity-focused job boards, including BlackPerspective.com, Hispanic-Today.com, VeteransEnterprise.com, and WIB-I.com. https://hrtechfeed.com/directemployers-acquires-multiple-diversity-job-boards/ SAN FRANCISCO — SmartRecruiters, a leader in enterprise talent acquisition software, today announced the appointment of Rebecca Carr, an established product leader and HR technology executive, as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Rebecca also joins the company’s Board of Directors. https://hrtechfeed.com/smartrecruiters-has-a-new-ceo/ Tilt, a platform for leave management solutions, has announced the successful completion of its $15 million Series B funding round. This round was led by Bramalea Partners, with additional participation from HearstLab and continued support from Firework Ventures, Origin Ventures, and Techstars. https://hrtechfeed.com/tilt-secures-series-b-funding-to-expand-hr-technology-footprint/ Lattice, the leading people management software company, today announced that its highly anticipated Human Resources Information System (HRIS) will officially launch on October 8th. The full functionality of Lattice HRIS will be showcased at Lattice’s annual conference, Lattiverse. https://hrtechfeed.com/lattice-to-release-hris-october-8th/ CHICAGO– Professional Diversity Network, Inc. (NASDAQ: IPDN) a leader in developing and operating online and in-person networks that offer access to networking, training, educational, and employment opportunities for diverse individuals, is pleased to announce the rebranding of its job board operations to TalentAlly. TalentAlly LLC will now operate as a standalone subsidiary of Professional Diversity Network, Inc. https://hrtechfeed.com/professional-diversity-network-rebrands-job-board-operation-as-talentally/  

Are you looking to make a difference while supporting our veterans? Watch our engaging roundtable discussion as we dive into the essential strategies for creating a top-tier veteran hiring program. Our esteemed speakers, Veterans Chris Miles from Sonepar and Steven Janke from Semper Forward, will share their invaluable insights garnered from years of experience in military relations and talent pipeline development. Roundtable Takeaways: Mission-Driven Solutions: Witness how military hiring programs provide better customer solutions through veterans’ problem-solving skills. Best Practices in Talent Acquisition: Learn how to attract, engage, and retain talented veterans and military spouses. Creating Inclusive Work Environments: Gain insights on fostering supportive and inclusive workplaces for military-affiliated employees. Supporting Military Transition: Learn strategies for facilitating smooth transitions for active-duty military personnel, spouses, and veterans while bridging the gap between them and career opportunities. Chris and Steven have both built top programs that are more than lip service. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain actionable insights and network with industry leaders committed to shaping a more inclusive workforce for our veterans. Secure your spot at this insightful roundtable discussion!

Sense, a market leader in AI-driven talent engagement solutions for enterprise recruiting, announced the launch of its new Career Sites solution. This innovative product empowers companies to seamlessly build and launch a career site with brand consistency, an intuitive design, and robust recruiting features. https://hrtechfeed.com/sense-launches-career-site-solution/ Job search engine DirectlyApply, has announced the release of a new search experience that matches job seekers with opportunities based on the unique details of their resumes. https://hrtechfeed.com/directlyapply-redefines-job-search-with-resume-powered-matching-technology/ Fama Technologies, the social media screening platform announced their newest feature: Instagram Reels as a Source! With this release, Fama is taking a large step forward in helping its clients identify signals of workplace misconduct that may only appear in video format.  https://hrtechfeed.com/fama-announces-new-instagram-reels-as-a-source-feature/ The HR Technology Conference & Exposition® today announced the participants of its 2024 Pitchfest.  This year will see 31 companies compete against one another in three preliminary rounds. Each participant will have three minutes to present their concept, followed by two minutes to answer questions from the judges. Scores will be determined through a combination of audience voting (30 percent) and the judging panel (70 percent). The total score earned in the preliminary rounds will determine which six companies will advance to the Pitchfest final. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-technology-conference-exposition-announces-2024-pitchfest-participants/  Phenom is hosting its annual AI Day 2024 on Spet 12th, which focuses on how Generative AI and AI agents empower organizations to hire faster, develop better and retain longer through augmented work — while ensuring responsible AI adoption and utilization. To register go to ai.phenom.com  

Fiverr is enhancing its freelancer for hire features introducing professions as well as hourly rates for users on the platform. I am joined by head of HR Orin Burg and Laura Podesta form their PR team to hear more. “Major shifts in the workplace, including heightened focus around skills and upskilling, diverse new roles from seasoned fractional executives to first-time side hustlers, and the introduction of new technologies, demands new solutions,” said Micha Kaufman, founder and CEO of Fiverr. “Today’s new releases are providing an expanded breadth of options for businesses of all sizes to recruit skilled talent and integrate freelancers into their workforce. By elevating how freelancers are featured to include their full set of skills and providing flexible options for working hourly, hiring managers and businesses can better recruit the talent they need.”

Raleigh, NC – CloudPay, a leading independent provider of global payroll and payment solutions, today announces the closing of a $120 million funding round led by Blue Owl Capital with the participation of existing shareholders Rho Capital Partners, The Olayan Group and Hollyport Capital. The funding further strengthens CloudPay’s capital base and provides flexibility for future growth opportunities. https://hrtechfeed.com/payroll-provider-secures-120-million-in-funding/ Tezi, an AI-powered recruiting startup based in Menlo Park, California, has secured $9 million in seed funding led by 8VC and Audacious Ventures. The company plans to utilize the investment to accelerate product development and expand operations ahead of its anticipated launch in Fall 2024. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-virtual-recruiter-platform-raises-9m/ CHICAGO — When, the AI-powered offboarding solution designed to help employees navigate post-employment transitions and maintain access to healthcare by offering more affordable alternatives to COBRA, today announced it has closed its latest Seed funding round of $4.6 million led by B Capital  https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-offboarding-tool-gets-4-6m/ ZipRecruiter® (NYSE: ZIP) announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2024. Quarterly revenue of $123.7 million Quarterly net income of $7.0 million, or net income margin of 6% https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-earns-124m-in-q2/  ZipRecruiter®, also announced that it has acquired Breakroom, a UK-based employer review platform focused on frontline industries such as retail and hospitality. In line with its mission to actively connect job seekers with their next great opportunity, ZipRecruiter plans to launch Breakroom in the United States to empower workers with the job insights they need to apply with confidence. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-acquires-employer-review-platform/  

– Topic: Ford’s TA Process: A Case Study using Kaizen for Data Driving Continuous Improvement – Speakers: Melissa Thompson, Global Head of Talent Acquisition of Ford Motor Company, Leah Daniels, Alex Murphy Watch our insightful discussion on how Ford leverages the Kaizen approach in talent acquisition process improvement. Learn from industry expert Melissa Thompson, Ford’s Global Talent Leader, as she dissects Ford’s successful turnaround on college hiring, and improvements in Ford’s overall hiring optimization, offering practical insights and strategies for your own recruitment journey.

TalentXi, a provider of recruitment programmatic marketing, has announced the launch of its new AI beta program. The beta program now offers companies access to our technology, which is already licensed by several other organizations. TalentXi’s innovative employment branding programmatic advertising platform leverages advanced programmatic advertising algorithms to streamline passive candidate talent acquisition while enhancing recruiter productivity and reducing cost. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-form-talentxi-peopleperhour/ TalentDesk Group’s flagship marketplace for freelancers – PeoplePerHour.com, which originally launched in 2007 and grew into one of the foremost platforms of its kind – is now reinvented with AI-powered Phoenix driving the experience, negating the need for time-consuming database searches and filtering.  https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-form-talentxi-peopleperhour/ Cangrade today announced that it has launched two new products: Candidate Matching and Internal Talent Marketplace. Created to drive hiring efficiency and quality, these revolutionary new products arm HR teams with the data-driven tools to meet evolving workforce demands and prepare for the future of hiring and talent management.  https://hrtechfeed.com/cangrade-launches-matching-internal-talent-features/ Cnect, a leading provider of recruiting software solutions, has announced the appointment of Craig Fisher as its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Fisher, a seasoned marketing and recruiting technology expert, joins Cnect with a vision to revolutionize campus recruiting and hourly hiring. https://hrtechfeed.com/cnect-appoints-craig-fisher-as-chief-marketing-officer-to-drive-innovation-and-growth/ CHARLESTON, S.C. — Gigpro, a leading on-demand labor marketplace for the hospitality industry, announced today that it has closed a $16 million Series A funding round led by Foundry, with participation from Stage 1 Ventures and existing investors Stage 2 Capital and Detroit Venture Partners. This milestone marks a significant step forward in Gigpro’s mission to revolutionize the gig economy by connecting businesses with skilled independent professionals efficiently and seamlessly. https://hrtechfeed.com/gigpro-secures-16m-to-transform-hospitality-labor-market/  

If you want to hear what the future of recruiting will sound like check out this audio from my conversation with Max Armbruster the CEO at Talkpush.

  Apploi, a leading provider of workforce solutions for the healthcare industry, announced that Will Plourde has joined the team as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Plourde comes with 20+ years of experience in both the healthcare and human capital management space. https://hrtechfeed.com/apploi-announces-will-plourde-as-new-cto/ Hiring platform Greenhouse,announced its Summer 2024 product releases, including a variety of powerful tools that help companies reduce bias and streamline the hiring process so that they can find great talent even faster. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-greenhouse-agilehro/ The upcoming HR Technology Conference & Exposition® announced that disruptive leadership expert and New York Times bestselling author Charlene Li will present this year’s opening keynote. The annual event will take place at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, September 24 – 26, 2024. Li is scheduled to speak on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at 3:45 p.m. PT. https://hrtechfeed.com/leadership-expert-charlene-li-to-headline-hr-technology-conference-exposition-2024/ Fiverr, launched its new summer product release, commencing its expansion from a services marketplace to a hiring platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/fiverr-transforming-from-a-services-marketplace-to-hiring-platform-with-its-latest-release/  

An insightful discussion featuring the founding father of Recruiting Operations, author and industry expert James Colino, and Hiring Operations & DEI thought leader and strategist Nona Renfro, on securing funding and hiring your first recruiting operations expert. James leads Recruitment Operations for Sheetz and literally wrote the book on RecOps. Nona has been an executive advisor for critical talent transformation initiatives, adding Recruiting Operations at companies like Amazon and Google Fiber and working with clients like Revolut (Fintech), Rackspace (Tech), Ericsson (Telco), Verifone (Banking), and L3 (Defense). James and Nona joined the JobSync Recruitment Roundtable to discuss proven strategies to secure initial funding to build a Recruiting Operations function and help us all understand the key factors in making a successful first Rec Ops hire.

Leading U.S., U.K., and India tech hiring platform hackajob has introduced hackajob intelligence, an end-to-end hiring platform designed to transform the way tech teams are built and managed. The new feature aims to streamline the entire hiring process from a single prompt. https://hrtechfeed.com/hackajob-launches-end-to-end-ai-assisted-platform-for-tech-hiring/ iCIMS announced availability of its summer release …This release is designed to help organizations worldwide build stronger candidate connections and faster recruiting workflows with AI-powered products and capabilities.  Sense announced the launch of its Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) platform. This comprehensive solution streamlines the entire talent acquisition process by centralizing candidate data, communications, and engagement in a single, user-friendly platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-icims-and-sense/ CHICAGO – RiseKit, a purpose-built software platform that enables economic mobility by connecting underrepresented talent with employers seeking to fill critical roles,announced a $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The financial support will help RiseKit expand into new markets and improve economic outcomes for local community organizations and job seekers on the RiseKit platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/risekit-receives-1-5-million-grant-to-advance-opportunity-for-underserved-populations/ LOS ANGELES — Making Space, a B2B SaaS talent acquisition and learning platform for companies to train, access, and retain pre-qualified Disabled talent, is thrilled to announce the successful close of an oversubscribed $2 million pre-seed funding round. Led by Beta Boom, with participation from JFFVentures, FullCircle, American Student Assistance (ASA), ECMC Foundation, SmartJob, Mindshift Capital, Techstars and other notable investors. https://hrtechfeed.com/making-space-raises-2m-to-scale-talent-acquisition-learning-platform-for-disabled-workers/    

In the last of my SHRM 24 conversations I chatted up Mike Stafiej the CEO of employee referral tool ERIN. Travel sponsored by Jobcase.com

In my latest SHRM 24 conversation we’ll talk to Jenifer Dulski the founder of team performance software Rising Team. The company recently raised 8 million in funding and we’ll find out more about this new hr tech startup. Rec Tech Media travel to SHRM is sponsored by Jobcase.com  

Recorded live at SHRM24 in Chicago, Kahina Ouerdane, Chief People Officer of Workleap. Kahina has been mastering the art of managing people for more than a decade, previously at PwC as a consultant, and now at Workleap. RecTech Media travel sponsored by our friends at Jobcase.com  

At the SHRM 24 expo in Chicago I sat down with Yutaka Takagi, Principal Product Evangelist at isolved along with one of their customers to get her feedback with the HCM platform. RecTech travel sponsored by Jobcase.com

Adam Posner, founder of managing director of NHP Talent Group, a boutique NYC based ING agency with expertise in marketing, media and advertising. He's also also the Pause where he interviews top experts, entrepreneurs and thought leaders from the world of entrepreneurship, TA and personal growth and other world-class, amazing humans on their insights into their own career journey. RecTech Media Travel sponsore by Jobcase.com

Randstad NV, the world’s leading talent company, has reached an agreement to form a joint venture combining its job board business, Monster, with CareerBuilder, a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo. https://recruitingheadlines.com/monster-careerbuilder-joining-forces/ PHILADELPHIA —- Phenom today announced its acquisition of Tydy, a human resources technology company focused on delivering phenomenal preboarding and onboarding experiences for employees – from hire to retire. The fifth acquisition and addition to the Intelligent Talent Experience platform portfolio fortifies Phenom’s vision to shorten time to productivity for employees, while creating efficient experiences for HR practitioners, all from one platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-acquires-onboarding-platform/ Greenhouse, the leading hiring platform, announced it has been recognized as a leader in 66 of the 2024 G2 Summer reports and has ranked #1 in 29 of them, including Best Applicant Tracking System, Best Enterprise Applicant Tracking Systems, Best Mid-Market Applicant Tracking System and Europe Regional Grid Report for Applicant Tracking Systems. https://hrtechfeed.com/g2-says-greenhouse-is-the-best-ats/ KKR, a leading global investment firm, announced the signing of definitive agreements under which KKR and other investors  will jointly lead a US$140 million Series E fundraise of SmartHR, a leading cloud-native human resources management platform in Japan, with participation from existing shareholders. https://hrtechfeed.com/japan-based-smarthr-gets-140m-series-e/  

Jocelyn King, SHRM-SCP is the CEO and Founder of VirgilHR, a SaaS solution that empowers HR professionals to make smart, compliant employment and labor law decisions in real-time. We discussed a lot around compliance particularly as it pertains to recruiting. HR has been the passion and focus of Jocelyn’s entire career as she’s supported high-growth technology start-ups and public companies throughout her tenure. She defines herself as a true HR generalist and has touched on all aspects of HR in her more senior roles. Jocelyn has strong expertise in creating and executing HR strategy, managing employee relations for multi-state and global organizations, developing a diverse and high-performing work culture, owning organization development and change management, and crafting the total reward, talent development, and talent acquisition strategies. Recorded live from SHRM 24 in Chicago. RecTech Medi aTravel sponsored by Jobcase

Laura Maffucci is G-P’s Head of HR, and she leads the company’s global workforce, talent, and employee experience. She operates from a people-first mindset and strongly believes that diversity of thought is paramount for a healthy workspace.  Laura previously held leadership positions in the Global Total Rewards team at G-P, from Sr. Director to VP. Before this, she led Total Rewards & HRIS at Progress, a tech company focused on products to develop, deploy and manage high-impact applications. Prior to Progress, she held roles of increasing responsibility with Ocean Spray Cranberries, where she was awarded HR Award for Innovation and Creativity (2016). Her tenure at Ocean Spray Cranberries was preceded by roles with an emphasis on compensation and HR practices. In her 20+ year career in HR, Laura has spoken on global and national platforms about compensation, employee well-being and mental health. She’s a staunch advocate for the employee experience and creating a culture of inclusivity. Laura is passionate about the future of work, normalizing the value of work everywhere, and enabling employees across the globe to be their best selves and add value wherever they go and whatever they do. Recorded live from the G-P booth in Chicago at SHRM24

Top stories for This week in RecTech: SAN FRANCISCO — KarmaCheck, a technology-based solution for background checks, credentialing, and compliance, announced today that it has raised $45 million in a Series B funding round led by Parameter Ventures… The company will leverage the funding to accelerate development of its proprietary technology platform, scale its exceptional service levels to more customers and candidates, and expand into new industry verticals. https://hrtechfeed.com/karmacheck-raises-45-million-series-b-to-modernize-background-checks/ Belgium-based AI-powered skills platform TechWolf, just closed a $42.7 million Series B round. TechWolf was founded out of Ghent University and Cambridge University in 2018. In 2022, it raised a €10M Series A, and two years later, it has seen 12x revenue growth.They use AI to help automate skills matching internally though your existing HRIS systems. https://hrtechfeed.com/belgian-based-techwolf-lands-43m-coming-to-the-u-s/ QUEBEC CITY, Qc. — freelance.ca, the emerging leading online marketplace for professional freelancers in Canada, announces the successful acquisition of Workhoppers, a renowned Canadian freelancer platform. This strategic acquisition strengthens freelance.ca’s position in the Canadian market and expands its portfolio of services for freelancers and businesses nationwide. https://hrtechfeed.com/canadian-freelance-marketplace-makes-acquisition/ REMOTE FIRST COMPANY – G-P (Globalization Partners), a leader in the global employment market and standard bearer for industry compliance, announced AI-powered global onboarding in G-P’s employer of record products. The new experience is designed to help businesses quickly and compliantly manage the hiring and onboarding experience from generating the offer to signing the employment agreement to managing all of the onboarding and benefits set up.  https://hrtechfeed.com/g-p-introduces-ai-powered-global-hiring-onboarding-for-hr-teams/ NEW YORK– Wilya, formerly known as Gig and Take, a B2B SaaS company transforming traditional HR practices in the manufacturing and supply chain sectors, announced today the successful close of a $4 million seed funding round.  https://hrtechfeed.com/manufacturing-workforce-tool-lands-4m/

Legal.io, a Silicon Valley-based hiring platform for flexible, in-house legal talent, has announced that its membership has surpassed 50,000 legal professionals. https://hrtechfeed.com/legal-talent-network-reaches-50k-members/ candidate.fyi, a candidate experience tool, announced that Colin Day, the founder of iCIMS, has joined the company as an advisor. As a pioneer in HR Tech, Colin’s extensive experience and visionary leadership will be instrumental in guiding candidate.fyi’s strategic direction and growth. https://hrtechfeed.com/candidate-fyi-welcomes-colin-day-founder-of-icims-as-new-advisor/ Bullhorn has acquired Textkernel, an industry leader in Sourcing AI solutions. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Textkernel powers over 2,000 customers globally, including eight of the top 10 staffing agencies worldwide and Fortune 500 companies.  https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-acquires-textkernel/ Findem launched a new copilot focused on helping customers more efficiently use its platform for sourcing. Fully integrated into the company’s Talent Data Cloud, Copilot for Sourcing can create active talent pipelines from all hiring channels, allowing recruiting teams to cut time to hire and increase their flexibility. https://hrtechfeed.com/findem-integrates-copilot-for-sourcing-into-talent-data-cloud/ Talroo has announced the release of its innovative new Smart Drive Time feature. It addresses the growing need for location-based work demonstrated by the Talroo Frontline Worker Index, which confirms that the amount of work-from-home positions has decreased by 60% compared to the 2022 baseline  https://hrtechfeed.com/talroo-adds-smart-drive-time-feature-to-help-candidates-commute-easier/  

Hackajob, the reverse tech hiring platform recently launched a new on demand hiring solution for tech workers…joining meon this episodeto talk about it is their Head of Growth, Luke Coleman. LINK: https://www.rectechpr.com/press-releases/leading-tech-talent-marketplace-hackajob-reacts-to-changing-tech-landscape-with-contract-based-hiring-solution

NEW YORK – Greenhouse, the leading hiring platform, today announced it has hired Samir Joglekar as its new Chief Revenue Officer. https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-hires-new-chief-revenue-officer/ BOSTON — JobGet, the fastest-growing app-first hiring platform connecting over 70 million Everyday Workers with the nation’s most recognized brands, today announced the acquisition of Wirkn, a leading ATS in the frontline recruitment market for malls and retail. This move to partner with shopping centers and malls allows JobGet to offer a tailored frontline solution to even more employers and job seekers. https://hrtechfeed.com/jobget-acquires-wirkn/ ClearCompany, a provider of human capital management software, announced it has acquired Brainier Solutions Inc., a leading provider of innovative learning management software. Financial terms were not disclosed. https://hrtechfeed.com/clearcompany-acquires-learning-management-tool/ Hiring software Wizehire, announced its Candidate Texting feature. This new functionality enables organizations to instantly build stronger relationships with top talent, increase engagement, and streamline the hiring process. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-wizehire-talroo/ Talroo, a leading provider of technology to power the recruitment of frontline and essential workers, is pleased to announce the release of SmartScreen, the new AI-assisted Chat-to-Apply Screening tool. This elegant new screening chatbot solves a common problem for both job seekers and employers. Approximately 7 out of 10 employers (Zippia Recruitment Statistics, 2023) find it difficult to hire skilled candidates. SmartScreen automatically extracts and surfaces job requirements using AI in a custom chatbot. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-wizehire-talroo/  

Welcome to a new monthly series on the podcast. I am teaming up with the team at Qualifi, a hiring platform that helps recruiters screen, score, schedule, and interview talent before they go cold. Each month they pick a recruiter of the month and for June that recruiter is… Kathleen Armbruster  Currently serving as the Director of Talent Acquisition at consulting firm called Studio Science, Kathleen has significantly contributed to the evolution of recruiting practices within the company. Her innovative recruitment strategies have notably included the integration of all functional groups to foster a culture of accountability and efficiency, which has significantly sped up the hiring process.  Do you know great talent acquisition pro? Nominate them here.

SEATTLE, WA – Chronus, an employee-driven development platform providing mentorship and ERG management, today announces the acquisition of Imperative an employee engagement platform that leverages the power of meaningful 1:1 conversations to help employees own their career through the lens of purpose.  https://hrtechfeed.com/chronus-announces-acquisition-of-employee-engagement-platform-imperative/ BambooHR a leading cloud-based human resource platform, announced Jonathan Leaf as its new chief revenue officer. Leaf will oversee all revenue-generating functions, and be responsible for upleveling their integration and alignment.  https://hrtechfeed.com/bamboohr-appoints-jonathan-leaf-as-new-chief-revenue-officer/ Ashby, a recruiting platform that efficiently scales hiring from startup through enterprise, has raised an additional $30 million in equity financing. This round of funding comes with a vote of confidence from existing investors following a 6X growth in revenue. To date, the company has raised roughly $70M. https://hrtechfeed.com/ai-recruiting-startup-ashby-raises-30-million/ Amsterdam based Carv, announced it secured $10M in seed funding, following the launch of its recruitment platform in March and the significant traction the company has experienced since. With the funding, Carv aims to accelerate its growth and expand the capabilities of its platform into different domains of the recruitment life cycle. https://hrtechfeed.com/ai-recruiting-startup-ashby-raises-30-million/ Rising Team, a team performance platform, announced the completion of its Series A funding of $8 million. The round was led by Zeal Capital Partners and others. This investment allows Rising Team to enhance its team performance platform with AI, hire new team members, and expand its market presence. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-coaching-platform-rising-team-raises-8-million-series-a/  

Madeline Laurano founder of Aptitude Research recently partnered with HireRoad (a people analytics platform) for the latest insights on the state of people analytics and what it means for your business…she joins me now on the show to discuss. What prompted this study between Aptitude Research and HireRoad? What was the knowledge gap in the industry that you wanted to uncover? Talk me through your survey process — format, audiences surveyed, titles, and number of respondents. What, in your opinion, were the biggest takeaways from this study? What surprised you the most in terms of respondent feedback? The study revealed that only 1 in 3 companies are using people data in their recruitment process. What’s their reasoning? What are the consequences of not using people data in recruitment? Of those companies that are leveraging people analytics in their hiring process, how exactly are they using it? What’s the ROI for companies using people analytics in recruitment, versus those who aren’t? How is HireRoad making it easier for hiring teams to leverage people analytics? The survey revealed that many companies think people analytics are only for enterprise-level companies with big teams and big budgets. How is HireRoad making this data feasible for smaller companies? What’s your advice to companies not yet leaning into people analytics as part of their recruitment process? Link: https://hireroad.com/resources/the-future-of-people-analytics

Sam Fitzroy is the CEO and co-founder of Dalia, a candidate conversion platform that activates hidden talent pools and proactively builds interest through personalized touchpoints, automatically. He joins me on today’s podcast to discuss their latest platform release. TOPICS Just remind the audience what you guys do first What’s new at Dalia? Why should recruiting teams care about conversions? Are you seeing an increase in applications across your clients generally? How easy is it for recruiting teams to measure conversion rates that matter? What’s the impact of improving conversion rates? Can you share how a customer or job seeker has benefited from Dalia? Biggest challenge for youguys right now? Job search experience RecTech is sponsored by https://hrtechjob.com/  

HCM platform Dayforce, Inc. (NYSE: DAY); announced the award-winning Dayforce® Flex Work is available to organizations in the United States. Flex Work is an on-demand marketplace that helps organizations augment their workforce with flexible talent – quickly, simply, and compliantly – to address fluctuating labor demands. https://hrtechfeed.com/dayforce-launches-on-demand-flex-work-marketplace/ Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., a leader in Workforce Agility solutions, today announced the acquisition of workforce skills intelligence capabilities and a team of highly specialized domain experts from SkyHive Technologies Holdings Inc.. SkyHive’s AI-powered skills intelligence platform and services help customers build skills-based organizations, providing visibility into the capabilities of employees and enabling organizations in their transformation efforts. https://hrtechfeed.com/cornerstone-acquires-skyhive/ hireEZ, the only sourcing and candidate relationship management (CRM) platform built for recruiters by recruiters, today announced new partnerships with job boards Monster, Resume-Library, and CV-Library and the release of a new platform feature, Sourcing Hub. https://hrtechfeed.com/hireez-partners-with-leading-job-boards-to-source-their-databases/ PowerToFly, a leader in connecting diverse professionals with jobs since 2014, just acquired Skillcrush, an online platform that teaches tech skills to underrepresented groups. This merger gives both job seekers and employers new ways to build modern workforces. https://hrtechfeed.com/powertofly-acquires-upskilling-platform-skillcrush/ SeekOut, an eight-year-old recruiting startup that uses AI to find candidates, cut about 30% of its workforce this past Thursday, TechCrunch has learned. https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/20/seekout-layoffs-30percent-talent-search-tigerglobal/  

Today you will hear from Blue Saturn, HiringBranch, Sense, Brightmine, Flockity, Nexxt, Nestor. Travel sponsored by Pillar.hr

At Unleash America we sat in on he discussion of how 7 Eleven upped its hiring game thanks to paradox.ai. Audio sponsored by Pillar.hr

Upwork just released new research from The Upwork Research Institute revealing the ongoing growth of freelancing among Gen Z professionals along with their shifting priorities, expectations, and motivations for work. https://recruitingheadlines.com/upwork-says-gen-z-is-abandoning-conventional-9-to-5-corporate-jobs-for-freelancing-gigs/ Word just broke that Indeed is laying off 1,000 workers mainly in its U. S. operations. https://hrtechfeed.com/another-massive-layoff-indeed/ Eightfold AI, the leader in AI-powered talent intelligence, today announced the availability of Eightfold Talent Tracking. This innovative applicant tracking system is the first AI-native, end-to-end talent acquisition experience. https://hrtechfeed.com/eightfold-launches-new-ats/ San Francisco (US) and Lugano (Switzerland) – Talent shortage and skills development are among the top two priorities businesses are struggling to get to grips with today, according to Gartner. Helping them take control of the situation, startup Anthropos has raised $2.7M to create a new way for companies to help employees evolve their skill sets in accordance with business needs while improving retention.  https://hrtechfeed.com/upskilling-platform-anthropos-raises-2-7m/ Sense just unveiled Sense Conversational Voice AI. TThe product integrates Voice AI technology into the Sense platform to automate tasks including candidate outreach, screening, and scheduling. https://hrtechfeed.com/sense-announces-conversational-voice-ai-for-recruiting/  

A live interview Donald Knight, Chief People officer at Greenhouse from Unleash America in Las Vegas, next…. RecTech Media travel to Unleash is sponsored by Pillar… Great teams start with great interviews. Modernize your interview process with AI-powered interview intelligence. Book a demo today at Pillar.hr  

IAMPHENOM coverage from Philly: How are DHL Group and Thales leveraging AI and automation technology to meet critical needs, enhance candidate engagement, and streamline the hiring process to stay competitive in 2024? Gain insights into best practices for attracting skilled, adaptable workers in a competitive market and learn how to foster a culture that supports innovation, skills, and retention.

IAMPHENOM Coverage from Philly: Leave the lag behind and meet the new way to fast forward candidate screening with the power of One-Way Interviews. Learn how United Airlines is crafting the right questions and leveraging technology to qualify candidates faster, empower hiring teams to reliably assess talent at scale, save significant time in the screening process, and keep candidate quality high.

Listen to this CHRO-led panel as they discuss how work is drastically changing as a result of economic constraints and rapid technology innovation. Featuring Margaret Dinneny, CHRO of Empire Today, Melanie M. Kennedy, CHRO of American Water, and Steve Widdoss, CHRO of Freedom Mortgage, and Lothar Harings, former CHRO of Kuehne+Nagel.

Employ Inc., the parent company of JazzHR, Lever, Jobvite and NXTThing RPO, announced the appointment of Dara Brenner as Chief Product Officer (CPO)  https://hrtechfeed.com/employ-announces-new-chief-product-officer/ During its IAMPHENOM 2024 Product Innovation Keynote, Phenom announced a several new innovations — including Talent Experience Engine, X+ Agents, Talent Marketer Experience and Talent Leader Experience. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-phenom-release-talent-experience-engine-next-genai-agents-new-platform-experiences-and-updates-for-talent-acquisition-and-talent-management/ Upwork the freelance marketplace, unveiled a collection of products, features and partnerships to transform how businesses and professionals hire and work, as part of Upwork’s new semi-annual product showcase. https://hrtechfeed.com/upwork-announces-updates-for-ai-innovations-and-other-solutions/ NEW YORK, N.Y. — Leading U.S., U.K., and India tech talent marketplace hackajob has announced a new hiring option to support changing dynamics within the tech industry — a fast, flexible, and compliant solution for contract-based tech hiring. Aptly named hackajob on-demand, this new service provides tech employers across sectors with a seamless way to hire top-tier freelancers and contract talent for business-critical projects. https://hrtechfeed.com/leading-tech-talent-marketplace-hackajob-reacts-to-changing-tech-landscape-with-contract-based-hiring-solution/  

Join the Jobsync team for their Recruitment Roundtable featuring Bill Musman of AmeriHealth Caritas where we will be discussing how to align a mission-driven recruitment strategy with business goals.

SmartRecruiters, announced its latest product release, packed with new features designed to streamline the recruitment process and empower hiring teams. This April, users can explore new functionalities within the SmartRecruiters’ platform, including advanced AI capabilities, improved integration options, and significant user interface enhancements. The highlights include: https://hrtechfeed.com/smartrecruiters-announces-new-release/ ShiftMed, a leader in On-Demand workforce technology, announced today its acquisition of CareerStaff Unlimited from Genesis HealthCare (Genesis), a national post-acute care provider. CareerStaff is one of the healthcare industry’s leading per diem and contract managed service providers (MSP). ShiftMed, in combination with CareerStaff, will provide services to Genesis at over 200 skilled nursing and 1,200 Powerback Rehabilitation locations, under a seven-year exclusive agreement. https://hrtechfeed.com/shiftmed-acquires-msp-to-expand-its-on-demand-nursing-platform/  Daxtra, the resume parsing software platform, has acquired PivotCX, a technology-based talent acquisition and HR communications hub. Based in Indianapolis, PivotCX has become part of the Daxtra Group, and its products will be rolled into the Daxtra suite of solutions. The combined solution will deliver a powerful platform for talent acquisition teams, providing customers the opportunity to direct high-conversion candidate engagement more easily. https://hrtechfeed.com/daxtra-acquires-pivotcx/ Crosschq, the world’s first Hiring Intelligence platform purpose-built to increase Quality of Hire, today announced the availability of Crosschq Insights, a first-of-its-kind recruiting analytics and Quality of Hire engine. Insights empowers recruiting teams by allowing them to pull data from multiple sources into a single dashboard, offering a more comprehensive and controlled look at the hiring process. https://hrtechfeed.com/crosschq-launches-recruiting-analytics-and-quality-of-hire-engine/ HCM platform Rippling has raised $200mm in new financing, and signed agreements with investors to repurchase up to $590mm of equity from current employees, former employees, and early investors. The financing was led by Coatue with participation from Founders Fund, Greenoaks, and other existing investors. Dragoneer is joining the round as a new investor. https://hrtechfeed.com/rippling-raises-200-million-series-f/

Al Smith, is the chief technology officer for new jersey based ICIMS….iCIMS is a leading provider of talent acquisition technology that enables organizations everywhere to build winning workforces.  TOPICS Whas a day in the life like for the CTO of a hiring software company? Whats the biggest challenge in your job? Icims is 20 years old now…you've been here about 10….what is the biggest thing you have learned about fostering this kind of software? Winter release, lets talk about it. How many releases do you have each year?  

This Week in RecTech; LinkUp, the provider of global job market data, announced the release of Compass—an intuitive digital toolset for analyzing labor demand in real time and living color. https://hrtechfeed.com/linkup-launches-compass-a-visual-job-market-insight-tool/ XpertHR today announced it has rebranded to Brightmine™, marking a strategic change for the company to further support HR leaders through today’s increasingly complex workforce conditions and global economic uncertainty.  https://hrtechfeed.com/xperthr-cnages-name-to-brightmine/ Upwork announced Upwork Partners, a new program for companies to establish partnerships with Upwork that highlight skilled independent professionals on Upwork to serve their customers’ most pressing business needs, as well as connect freelancers with industry-leading tools that supercharge productivity and improve work quality. Initially, Upwork Partners encompasses three main partnership models: https://hrtechfeed.com/upwork-premieres-new-partner-program-to-expand-ecosystem-of-companies-transforming-how-we-work/ Greenhouse, the leading hiring platform, today announced its strategic partnership with Atlanta-based Grayscale, a leading enterprise-focused texting and automation platform that supports frictionless high-volume hiring. Greenhouse customers can now add Grayscale’s texting and automation solutions directly through the product offering: Texting, powered by Grayscale. https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-launches-texting-powered-by-grayscale/ HiBob has announced Bob Hiring, a fully integrated Applicant Tracking System (ATS) that connects candidate, employee, and business data for better decision-making. Bob Hiring links Bob Workforce Planning with the recruitment process, aligning hiring plans to dynamic business goals for an optimized process using a powerful, all-in-one HCM platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/hibob-launches-applicant-tracking-system/  

Matt Plummer is the Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Enterprise Solutions for Ziprecruiter one of the worlds largest job marketplaces. Founded in 2010, the Santa Monica-based company has over 1000 employees in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Israel.  TOPICS 1. What's new at the company? (icims partnership) 2. Numbers: what are the latest traffic numbers for Ziprecruiter.com? How many seekers do you have in your resume database? 3. It's been a tough 12-18 months for the job board world with ad spend down, how are you viewing 2024? 4. Hows Phil….talk about that user experience….pre-screening new visitors… 5. I heard you raised prices recently (or are about to) why the increase? 6. Will Zip ever look at acquiring other job boards? 7. Podcast advertising….must be working for you guys can you talk about that strategy a bit 8. How is Zip leveraging AI in the job search?  

Techcrunch is reporting that Checkr, a 10-year-old employee background check company  which was last valued at $5 billion has laid off 382 employees as companies are not significantly hiring talent. https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/checkr-layoffs/ Tech company Multiverse has acquired Searchlight, a talent intelligence and skills assessment platform that uses AI to help companies close their skills gaps. https://hrtechfeed.com/multiverse-acquires-ai-talent-software-company-searchlight/ NEW YORK – Cadient, a leading provider of talent acquisition solutions in the hourly hiring sector, has been acquired by Basis Vectors Capital, a private equity and technology investment firm that focuses on the B2B sass space https://hrtechfeed.com/cadient-ats-acquired-by-private-equity-firm/ SeekOut, the Talent Intelligence Platform, announced the release of conversational search as part of its SeekOut Assist generative AI product portfolio. The new feature expands the capabilities of SeekOut Assist, enabling recruiters to use their own language in sourcing. This makes powerful AI-assisted searches accessible to all recruiters, allowing for simple descriptions instead of complex Boolean queries. https://hrtechfeed.com/seekout-adds-conversational-search-to-its-platform/ ReadySetHire, powered by Talroo, is a new recruiting platform built from the ground-up exclusively for small businesses that lack the tools and insight needed to follow recruiting best practices to attract new hires.  https://hrtechfeed.com/talroo-launches-readysethire/  

JOBSYNC ROUNDTABLE:  “I’ve got a feeling” can no longer be the deciding factor of Talent Acquisition decision-making. TA Operations provides structure and rigor to a classically EQ area of the business. But where do you start, what makes the cut, and how do you define success?  This insightful panel webinar featuring Talent Operations experts discussing the intricacies of building a TA Operations function. Scope: Understand the objectives of integrating a TA Operations function and managing scope creep Impact: Assess the outcomes (both positive and negative) such as efficiency, candidate experience, change management, and compliance Budget: Consider expenses and trade-offs such as technology, training, and resources (and how to get buy-in from leadership)

Remote, the leader in building, managing, and supporting globally distributed workforces, has completed the acquisition of Easop, a compliance solution for businesses with international talent to grant and manage equity to their teams across 70+ countries.  https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-com-acquires-equity-compensation-tool/ ClearanceJobs, the leading online community for security-cleared professionals, has launched the ability to stream live videos to its platform with the introduction of ClearanceJobs Live. https://hrtechfeed.com/clearancejobs-adds-live-streaming-for-employers/ Employ Inc., the parent company of JazzHR, Lever, Jobvite and NXTThing RPO, announced the appointment of Steve Cox as CEO, effective April 1, 2024. Cox succeeds former CEO, Pete Lamson.- who decided to step down,  the company told me. https://hrtechfeed.com/employ-inc-has-new-ceo/ SAN MATEO, Calif.,— Modal, a leading skills development platform for data and analytics professionals, today announced a $25 million Series A. The round is led by Left Lane Capital and Ensemble VC with participation from leading investment firms Signalfire and Learn Capital.  https://hrtechfeed.com/modal-announces-25-million-series-a-to-upskill-employees-in-ai/ Indeed, the world’s #1 job site1 and a global job matching and hiring platform, today introduces Smart Sourcing, a new AI-powered suite of products to make the hiring process faster, simpler and more efficient for both employers and job seekers. https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-launches-ai-powered-smart-sourcing/ https://youtu.be/pduqHwS_J58?si=V9GzlMv16YHjjf4A

Andre Boulais is a veteran of the HR Tech space with past stints at vendors like Jobvite, Entelo and Silk Road, today he is the new chief revenue officer at Cnect a new hiring software platform How did you end up a Cnect? Whats the platform all about? Target customer? Coolest part of the platform? Free offer for candidates  cnected.com

DENVER— Guild, the leader in opportunity creation for America’s workforce, today announced its newest product capability, Career Pathways, a career planning solution that empowers employees to pursue learning programs tied to in-demand career tracks at their employer, while also empowering employers to curate their education benefits to activate their frontline workforce and support business strategy. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-guild-career-pathways/ SAN JOSE, Calif. — Job Mobz, a leading provider of innovative recruitment solutions, is excited to announce the acquisition of Before You Apply (http://beforeyouapply.com), a pioneering platform in the passive candidate sourcing, corporate transparency and employment branding sectors. https://hrtechfeed.com/job-mobz-acquires-before-you-apply/ BALTIMORE — Workforce solutions company CareerCircle LLC, an Allegis Group brand, announced today that it has completed the transition of the Getting Hired platform. With this realignment, both companies will operate under the CareerCircle identity, share a leadership team and expand their service offerings. https://hrtechfeed.com/diversity-job-site-acquired/ LOS ANGELES — Professional storytelling evolves today with the launch of McCoy, , iOS app and career platform set to “disrupt the networking and hiring landscape”. A video-first format, McCoy gives professionals the power to visually speak to their unique career paths and more effectively showcase their passions and personality. https://hrtechfeed.com/professional-networking-app-launches/  

Handshake is the leading network for early career talent. Their mission is to democratize access to opportunity by enabling students and alumni to establish meaningful relationships--no connections, experience, or luck required.  Joining me now is their CEO/founder Garret Lord - Give us a quick history of Handshake what drove you to build it? -App first experience? - The company is hitting a decade this spring and you've made some recent product updates, can you tell us about those?  - What's an example of a success story with a student or employer using the platform?  -What products and services do you sell to employers? -What can job seekers do on the platform? - How do you see the recruiting landscape changing over the coming years with new technologies fueled by AI?  - Day in the life? Are you guys hiring?  

Users of Glassdoor, the site that touted anonymous employee reviews of companies, are reporting that their names and job titles are being added to their accounts without their consent. https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/glassdoor-requires-users-to-add-real-names  Culture Amp, the world’s leading employee experience platform, announced today that it intends to acquire people analytics company, Orgnostic. https://hrtechfeed.com/culture-amp-is-acquiring-people-analytics-platform-orgnostic/  WorkLLama, technology provider of an AI-driven, talent marketing, relationship management, and direct sourcing platform, announced the launch of its latest innovation: an integrated Applicant Tracking System that promises to transform the recruitment landscape. This cutting-edge enhancement is designed to provide WorkLLama customers with a fully integrated technology solution, ensuring best-in-class customer and candidate experiences.  https://hrtechfeed.com/workllama-unveils-its-own-ats/ After a two year hiatus, HR Lancers has been reborn as a simple, easy to use directory for HR freelancers across North America. The original site launched by my company RecTech Media had been a full blown marketplace but the pandemic stunted its growth. This time the site lives on as directory where freelancers can promote themselves. HR Lancers has 12+ categories covering all the top aspects of HR consulting. Add your listing for free or feature it for $49 per year.; https://hrtechfeed.com/new-directory-for-hr-freelancers-launches/ Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., announced the acquisition of the extended reality capabilities Talespin, a spatial learning company focused on workforce skills development. Talespin’s extended reality (XR) learning technology adds to Cornerstone’s content subscriptions, curation, creation, and insights technology to create an end-to-end learning content solution powering the future of work. https://hrtechfeed.com/cornerstone-acquires-extended-reality-xr-learning-technology-platform/  

Talent acquisition directly impacts revenue. Full stop. But making the case isn’t always easy. Join us with Brigitte Orrick, Director of Talent Development, as she walks through how she built a recruiting engine that solved a sales and delivery problem. Watch our one-hour peer-to-peer discussion where we will dive into the significance of recruiting beyond just a function – but as a core driver of business outcomes.

Bullhorn, the staffing software platform, announced the launch of its new AI solution, Bullhorn Copilot. Bullhorn Copilot will span the entire Bullhorn platform, beginning with Copilot Starter, a set of generative AI capabilities embedded directly in recruiters’ ATS/CRM. Copilot Starter debuted at the Bullhorn Engage event in Sydney ahead of an April product release.  https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-copilot-launches-with-ai-tools-tailored-to-the-staffing-industry/ Led by a new generative AI recruiting copilot, iCIMS’ latest winter release delivers improved decision-making abilities and better hiring efficiency to millions of users globally. “iCIMS Copilot gives talent acquisition teams a competitive hiring advantage and unparalleled productivity across the talent lifecycle,” said Al Smith, chief technology officer at iCIMS. “We’re harnessing the power of generative AI and delivering new capabilities and experiences in our latest product release to help companies transform how they find, hire and mobilize the best talent.” https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-launches-new-genai-powered-recruiting-assistant/ ChartHop, the dynamic People Operations Platform, announced the launch of its HRIS, a human resources information system that seamlessly works in concert with ChartHop’s People Operations Platform, empowering HR teams and employees with a unified source of truth for people data, enhancing decision making with powerful AI insights, and streamlining how companies manage their workforces. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-first-advantage-charthop/ Coming off the strongest quarter in company history and 1,000%+ growth since 2020, the builders of award-winning Conversational AI technology for HR and recruiting (Paradox) announced that founder Aaron Matos is promoting Adam Godson to Chief Executive Officer, with Matos now serving as Executive Chairman https://hrtechfeed.com/paradox-names-adam-godson-as-ceo/ Jobiqo GmbH, announced the relaunch of TheJobNetwork™ that campaigns jobs over a vast network of job sites as the largest recruitment ad network in North America. Effective April 1, 2024, TheJobNetwork job board, will be hosted by Jobiqo and supported by Veritone’s AI-enabled programmatic technology, to help media brands connect their audience and tap into hidden advertising revenue potential. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2024/03/11/job-board-news-afterthebadge-seojobs-jobiqo/

Bas van de Haterd is a professional speaker, consultant and trainer with a particular focus on using technology to improve recruitment. Based in Soest, The Netherlands, he has more than 20 years' experience and his consulting clients include Dutch Rail, Dutch Post and Twente University. His new book, co-authored with Kevin Wheeler is out. Entitled Talent Acquisition Excellence - Using Digital Capabilities and Analytics to Improve Recruitment. https://www.koganpage.com/hr-learning-development/talent-acquisition-technologies-9781398614161 Use code koganpage20 to get 20% off Also available on Amazon  

San Francisco, March 6, 2024 – Remofirst, the most affordable HR solution for employing talent worldwide, today announced that it has raised $25 million in a Series A funding, in a round led by Octopus Ventures, with participation by existing investors https://hrtechfeed.com/remofirst-raises-25-million-series-a-to-make-it-easy-to-employ-global-remote-teams/ First Advantage Corporation (NASDAQ: FA), a leading provider of employment background screening, identity, and verification solutions, today announced financial results for the full year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2023. https://hrtechfeed.com/first-advantage-reports-full-year-4th-quarter-results/ XpertHR will be adding “AI Assist” so HR leaders can get the critical, trusted insights they need more rapidly. https://hrtechfeed.com/xperthr-introduces-gen-ai-capabilities/ On the heels of its acquisition of Zavvy last week, global HR company Deel ($12B valuation; 20k+ customers in 150+ countries) announced that it has acquired payroll giant PaySpace and achieved $500M in annual recurring revenue.     

A new tech job platform offering tech professionals a complete, autonomous solution to finding their next career move has launched. Called Headhuntable, the site leverages virtual assistants to aid job seekers in their search. Headhuntable.io provides a lifeline for skilled individuals seeking stable employment. The platform combines three crucial elements: an intimate knowledge of the technical marketplace and its hiring practices, Virtual Assistants (VAs) who serve as agents to market your talent to prospective employers, and Mentors/Coaches to help you develop your professional skills and navigate the hiring process in the best light possible. The highly trained VAs are dedicated job search experts who take the burden off job searchers’ shoulders by actively finding and applying to relevant positions, handling communication with recruiters, and providing interview preparation and career development support. The VAs are “tireless advocates, ensuring clients are seen and heard amidst the noise of hundreds of other applicants.”

ZipRecruiter® (NYSE: ZIP) a leading online employment marketplace, today announced financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023.  Full-year revenue of $645.7 million Full-year net income of $49.1 million, or net income margin of 8% https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-announces-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2023-results/ Resume and recruitment platform Hellohive seeks to help eliminate hiring bias by creating a virtual community that includes employers and those looking for a new role. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitment-platform-hellohive-gets-3-4m/ Workday, Inc.  which trades on the (NASDAQ:WDAY), has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire HiredScore, a leading provider of AI-powered talent orchestration solutions, which enable companies to use data-driven insights to improve recruiting and talent mobility processes. https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-intends-to-acquire-hiredscore/ https://hrtechfeed.com/hiredscore-and-workday-a-lightning-rod-moment-for-talent-technology/ Global payroll & HR company Deel announced today that it has acquired German-based people enablement platform Zavvy. All of Zavvy’s team members are joining Deel. https://hrtechfeed.com/deel-acquires-people-development-platform-zavvy/ First Advantage Corporation (NASDAQ:FA), a leading provider of employment background screening, identity, and verification solutions, announced today that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Sterling Check Corp. (NASDAQ:STER), a provider of background screening and identity services. First Advantage will issue a combination of cash and stock valuing Sterling at approximately $2.2 billion, including Sterling’s outstanding debt. https://hrtechfeed.com/first-advantage-to-acquire-background-check-company-sterling-for-2-2-billion-in-cash-and-stock/  

The efficiency and effectiveness of your hiring processes directly correlate to the bottom line of your company - especially when you’re hiring at scale, on a deadline, and for a boat. During our first live peer-to-peer roundtable conversation of 2024, Jim D'Amico, Director of Shoreside Talent Acquisition at Holland America Group (a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation) discussed how TA can add demonstrable value to the business.

Betterleap, an AI-powered outbound recruiting platform, announced new natural language search (NLS) capabilities for recruiters. With Betterleap NLS, recruiters can describe their hiring goals in their own words, such as “I need a software engineer who has at least eight years of experience, knows Python, and works within 40 minutes of the Google HQ campus” and let Betterleap automatically create a search. Recruiters can then expand or narrow down search results using filters to find new candidates that might otherwise be overlooked. https://hrtechfeed.com/betterleap-unveils-ai-powered-search-to-help-recruiters-source-talent/ Spark Hire, a frontrunner in video interviewing solutions for over a decade, and Comeet, its advanced Applicant Tracking System (ATS), have announced an important new feature within the ATS as an advancement of their comprehensive Talent Acquisition Suite. This exciting rollout introduces Spark Hire’s one-way video interviewing feature directly into its ATS platform marking a significant stride toward better hiring for everyone. https://hrtechfeed.com/comeet-launches-one-way-video-interviewing-within-ats-workflow/ ADP Marketplace, boasting the title of the world’s largest digital HR storefront with over 800 partner solutions, is introducing AI-powered integrations, ADP Marketplace empowers clients to confidently discover and implement the most suitable solutions for their specific needs. This commitment extends to responsible AI practices, ensuring all partner solutions adhere to established ethical guidelines. https://hrtechfeed.com/adp-adds-ai-enabled-partner-solutions-to-marketplace/ NEW YORK – PowerToFly, a diversity talent acquisition and engagement platform connecting underrepresented talent to great careers, today announced that the number of candidate profiles in its diversity recruiting software, PowerPro, has expanded to over 17 million.  https://hrtechfeed.com/17-million-and-counting-powertofly-unlocks-massive-diverse-talent-pool-with-new-ai-matching/ AUSTIN, Texas and LOS ANGELES — Podium Education (Podium), the nation’s fastest-growing experiential education company for universities, has acquired Untapped, the all-in-one early career talent platform that connects students with top companies. https://hrtechfeed.com/early-career-talent-platform-gets-acquired/ UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture solutions for all people, has been named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Large Employers in 2024.  https://hrtechfeed.com/ukg-is-one-of-americas-best-large-employers/  

Alex Fourlis is the General Manager at  Veritone, the parent owner of Pandologic and Broadbean the job distribution platform and he’s here today to talk about AI in the hiring lifecycle.

BambooHR®, the popular human resource platform where everything works together, announced the first of several planned AI-powered product features: AI Topic Summaries for Employee Satisfaction with eNPS®*, which offers conveniently distilled AI analysis of all employee open response feedback into an impactful report. https://hrtechfeed.com/bamboohr-adds-ai-powered-employee-sentiment-analysis/ According to Market.us, The Online Recruitment Market is projected to witness a compound annual growth rate of 6.4%, thereby reaching a market size of USD 58.0 Billion by 2032, from USD 34.0 million in 2023. https://hrtechfeed.com/online-recruitment-market-size/ Upwork Inc. (Nasdaq: UPWK), the world’s largest work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent from across the globe, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2023 https://hrtechfeed.com/upwork-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2023-financial-results/ Los Angeles–Fama Technologies,the candidate screening platform ,announced the upcoming launch of a new feature: TikTok as a Source. This addition will empower organizations to extend their screening capabilities to one of the world’s most popular social media platforms, TikTok. https://hrtechfeed.com/fama-technologies-adds-tiktok-screening-feature-to-its-modern-candidate-screening-solution/ HiBob, a provider of modern HR software for mid-sized companies, has announced its acquisition of Pento, a UK-based platform for automated payroll. This move follows the launch of HiBob’s Payroll Hub in 2021 and signifies the company’s commitment to offering a comprehensive “all-in-one” HR experience for UK businesses, streamlining payroll complexities and boosting efficiency. https://hrtechfeed.com/hibob-makes-acquisition/

Darrian Mikell is the founder of Qualifi, the platform that helps companies streamline their screening, scheduling, and video interviews.

SmartRecruiters unveiled its revitalized SmartRecruiters Marketplace this week—a “next-generation hub” tailored for employers to build their essential recruitment ecosystem. https://hrtechfeed.com/smartrecruiters-relaunches-their-marketplace/ AUSTIN, TX: The team behind Energy Freelance, the hiring platform streamlining contractor work in the energy sector, has announced the launch of Energy Hire. This revolutionary new platform specifically targets full-time employment and career development within the energy industry, empowering both employers and professionals with a dynamic suite of industry-specific machine learning (AI) tools. https://hrtechfeed.com/energy-sector-job-market-launches/ hireEZ announced today the launch of hireEZ 2, the only candidate relationship management (CRM) platform built for recruiters by recruiters with industry-leading sourcing, analytics, and automation functionality. https://hrtechfeed.com/hireez-launches-crm-platform/ Recruit Holdings, parent company of Indeed and Glassdoor announce earnings for For FY2023 and its Q3…, the Company expects consolidated revenue to decrease 0.9% year over year.  For the 3 months ending Dec 31st 2023 revenues at Indeed/GD for the US came in around 167 million, thats down 17% YOY. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruit-holdings-announcesconsolidated-financial-guidance-for-fy2023-newsroom-recruit-holdings/ Workforce payments platform Papaya Global will have a super bowl ad this Sunday.They appear tobe the only company in our space with one, if you remember Workday and Upwork had one last year https://hrtechjob.com/blog/papaya-global-s-super-bowl-ad

Director, Technology @ Humareso. Jamie Aquila is an award-winning technologist, designer, architect, and 4x tech startup CTO. His projects have been named a LinkedIn Top 50 Startup in 2018 and a Startup Of The Year “Top 100 Startups” in 2020. Jamie jumps back into the HR space after evolving the NYC restaurant job board Harri.com into a global HRIS for the service industry. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamieaquila/

ADP®, announced the availability of ADP Assist, a cross-platform solution powered by generative AI (GenAI). ADP Assist enhances HR productivity, aids decision-making with data-driven insights, and streamlines day-to-day tasks for practitioners, managers, employees and executives with simple, human-like conversations.  https://hrtechfeed.com/adp-launches-generative-ai-assistant/ Hiring and onboarding platform provider Fountain announced the launch of two new products, Fountain Onboard and Fountain Compliance. Aimed at the frontline workforce, these technology-based solutions aim to improve the new-hire experience and streamline compliance management for businesses. https://hrtechfeed.com/fountain-adds-onboarding-compliance-tools/ Acadian Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, today announced the successful close on an oversubscribed $30 million in capital commitments for its second fund. The new fund is anchored by ServiceNow Ventures and Connecticut Innovations with additional participation from venture capital firms, family offices, high-net individuals, many of the firm’s founders, and a majority of limited partners from our first fund. Acadian Ventures Fund II is almost triple the size of its inaugural first fund and the firm has already made 12 investments out of the second fund. https://hrtechfeed.com/acadian-ventures-closes-30-million-fund-to-invest-in-the-next-generation-of-work-technologies/ A new tech job platform offering tech professionals a complete, autonomous solution to finding their next career move has launched. Called Headhuntable, the site leverages virtual assistants to aid job seekers in their search. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-tech-job-search-platform-launches/ Fiverr, the gig marketplace announced its Winter Product Release, the first of two transformative upgrades in 2024. The new features,include a Consulting Category for expert guidance, Fiverr Agencies for seamless team collaboration, and an enhanced rating system. Fiverr keeps evolving, empowering its community and solidifying its position as the go-to partner for any digital need. https://hrtechfeed.com/fiverrs-winter-product-release/ Compa, a leading offers-based compensation market data provider, announced that it has raised a $10M Series A to bring real-time market intelligence to compensation decisions for the world’s largest and fastest-growing companies.  https://hrtechfeed.com/compensation-tool-lands-10-million-series-a/

Recruitics CEO joins to talk about their new analytics AI and more. Learn more https://www.rectechmedia.com/

Ceridian HCM Holding Inc. a global leader in human capital management (HCM) technology, today announced its ticker symbol will change to DAY on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange, effective February 1, 2024.  https://hrtechfeed.com/ceridian-getting-a-new-ticker-symbol/ Flockity, the groundbreaking platform where Influencer Marketing meets Recruitment Marketing, proudly announces its exit from stealth mode and is now ready for general release. With a mission to democratize job distribution, Flockity empowers individual influencers to become job distributors, this connects employers with a vast pool of talent through the network effect. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-concept-in-job-distribution-flockity-exits-stealth-mode/   Skillit, the data-driven recruitment platform for skilled, full-time construction labor, today announced the launch of the first cost calculator designed specifically for skilled labor recruitment. The Skillit Cost Calculator analyzes and combines information including unique respondent inputs, proprietary labor market data from its talent sourcing and intelligence platform and construction industry norms. Standardizing the cost-per-hire evaluation for construction staffing brings the clarity of a single unifying set of numbers to a construction industry fighting to combat a severe shortage of skilled labor. https://hrtechfeed.com/skillit-launches-cost-calculator-for-construction-staffing/ Remote, the leader in building, managing, and supporting globally distributed workforces, today announced Contractor Management Plus. As companies of all sizes increasingly rely on contractors and freelancers, Contractor Management Plus equips Remote’s customers with advanced safeguards against misclassification risk, including built-in global compliance and indemnity coverage of up to $1 million. https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-adds-new-tools-for-contractor-management/ Flexjobs.com the B2C remote job board community founded by Sara Sutton back in 2006 has been acquired by career company BOLD, which owns a number of brands including Live Career and MyPerfect Resume. https://hrtechfeed.com/bold-acquires-flexjobs/  

A few months ago a new AI startup picked up $4.5 million in funding from investors such as Andreesen Horowitz and Abstract Ventures in an effort to help job seekers optimize their search….that startup is called EarnBetter.com With the site People can upload an existing resume to the platform, and EarnBetter will deliver a professionally rewritten and reformatted resume in minutes. It can also customize resumes and cover letters for each job in seconds…  Their founder & CEO Tuck Hauptfuhrer joins the podcast.

PerformYard raised a whopping $95 million according to TechCrunch. They compete with platforms like Lattice. They are headquartered in Arilngton, VA. https://hrtechfeed.com/performance-review-platform-lands-95m/ Indeed, introduced Specialist Media Networks to help employers hire for competitive and hard-to-fill roles. With talent shortages across several sectors, including technology and healthcare, these new industry-specific networks enable employers to reach more people with specific, in-demand skills.  https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-introduces-specialist-media-networks/ TORONTO and MINNEAPOLIS — Ceridian (NYSE: CDAY; TSX: CDAY), a global leader in human capital management (HCM) technology, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire eloomi, a leading learning experience platform software provider based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Orlando, Florida. The acquisition is expected to close in Q1 2024 and will be funded with existing balance sheet cash. https://hrtechfeed.com/ceridian-to-acquire-a-learning-and-development-platform/ Ziprecruiter launched ZipRecruiter’s 2024 Labor Market Outlook. The report leverages data and insights from the ZipRecruiter marketplace to empower hiring managers and business leaders to make informed decisions in 2024, with an inside look into trends across 10 key industries and perspectives on how those will impact the workforce in the coming year. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiters-2024-labor-market-outlook-report/ Greenhouse, the hiring software for people-first companies, today announced it has been recognized as the #1 leader in 25 categories in the 2024 Winter Report including  Best Applicant Tracking System, Best Enterprise Applicant Tracking Systems and Best Mid-Market Applicant Tracking System. https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-named-best-ats-for-mid-market-enterprise/

Predictions, opportunities, dilemmas, hopes, wishes, I’m not sure what we should call this, but I’ve got some ideas floating around about what happens next in our little recruiting world. Most predictions are worthless. I love to consider myself a futurist in our industry, but after doing this for so many years, I don’t think I’ve ever had one prediction actually come true! https://timsackett.com/2023/12/13/what-are-my-2024-predictions-for-talent-acquisition/  

Jitjatjo, a New York city based gig marketplace through which businesses can book workers with as little as an hour’s notice, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Morningside Technology Ventures. https://hrtechfeed.com/gig-marketplace-lands-30-million/  Textio, the AI platform purpose-built to help companies hire and develop remarkable teams,announced Kieran Snyder has stepped down as CEO. Jensen Harris, co-founder and CXO, has been unanimously appointed as CEO by the board, effective immediately. Kieran will take the role of Chief Scientist Emeritus and retain her board seat. Jensen’s former role as Chief Experience Officer will be retired. https://hrtechfeed.com/textio-announces-leadership-transition/ SAN FRANCISCO — Censia, the Talent Intelligence, platform unveiled the latest innovative AI-powered products: Generative AI Talent Search, Automatic Candidate Screening and Sourcing, and Targeted Search. Censia is revolutionizing the automated talent landscape with state-of-the-art AI technology, creating a positive disruption in the industry. https://hrtechfeed.com/censias-newest-release-includes-generative-ai-talent-search/ Bullhorn®, the global leader in software for the staffing and recruitment industry, today announced its acquisition of Mployee, a provider of Salesforce-based solutions for recruitment agencies, which is headquartered in the Netherlands. Mployee’s technology will accelerate Bullhorn’s vision to deliver a full, end-to-end, enterprise solution for Bullhorn customers using the Salesforce platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-acquires-mployee-to-help-recruitment-agencies-accelerate-their-digital-transformation-journey/  

Mary Kay Ziniewicz is the founder and CEO of Bus Stop Mamas a tech platform that instantly introduces employers to off market talent -moms.  https://www.busstopmamas.com/

Tech job board  Dice.com has introduced two new features. Company Profile and Discover Companies to help companies attract in-demand skilled technology professionals. https://hrtechfeed.com/dice-launches-discover-companies-feature/  SAP introduced a new, modern and state-of-the-art Career Site Job Search together with Job-Layout-related and Administration-related updates for SuccessFactors Recruiting Career Site Builder (CSB). https://hrtechfeed.com/successfactors-recruiting-new-career-site-job-search-and-job-layout/  shiftNOW, the hospitality industry’s trusted on-demand workforce, now serves Atlanta, Georgia. https://hrtechfeed.com/on-demand-hourly-workforce-platform-shiftnow-expands-to-atlanta/ Sterling Check Corp. a global provider of background screening and identity services, today announced that it has acquired Vault Workforce Screening a leading U.S. clinic management platform. The acquisition brings a network of 17,000 clinics and a flexible service model to enhance Sterling’s existing drug and health services. https://hrtechfeed.com/sterling-acquires-another-screening-provider/

A look at what's coming to the pod and help for HR tech job seekers in the form of a new job community. https://hrtechjob.com/

One-hour peer-to-peer recruitment roundtable featuring Heidi Gerhard, VP of Global Talent Acquisition Strategy & Operations at Mastercard, as our featured speaker! By the end of this session, you'll be armed with fresh strategies to seamlessly harmonize recruitment operations in your organization. Heidi will share invaluable insights on discovering the ideal talent, optimizing processes, and building teams that stand the test of time.

Cliquify 2024 Employer Brand Priorities Report is out and CEO Amit Parmar joins the pod to discuss their findings. Free Download: https://www.cliquify.me/resources/2024-employer-branding-priorities-and-budget?utm_campaign=RecTechMedia

In a stunning reversal, Indeed.com will end its pay per application business model only a year after launching it.

Fama Technologies, Inc., a leader in candidate screening that makes hiring great people easy, has been recognized as a “Hot Companies to Watch in 2024” by Nucleus Research, one of the world’s top HCM industry analyst firms.  https://hrtechfeed.com/fama-technologies-inc-announced-as-a-hot-company-to-watch-in-2024-by-nucleus-research/ Workleap, a leading software company behind products that improve the employee experience for 20,000 companies in more than 100 countries, has acquired Pingboard, a US-based HR tech SaaS company. https://hrtechfeed.com/workleap-acquires-us-based-pingboard/ Phenom is hosting the industry’s first Skills Day, providing HR with a practical approach to improve the process of hiring, developing and retaining talent using skills.  https://skills.phenom.com/ The Predictive Index, the leading talent optimization platform, announced its acquisition of Charma (formerly known as WorkPatterns), the performance management tool that simplifies people and team management. https://hrtechfeed.com/the-predictive-index-acquires-performance-management-platform-charma/ Inclusively, the workforce inclusion platform, today announces that it has closed a $13 million Series A round to accelerate enterprise access of their new workplace personalization product, Retain. The round was led by Firework Ventures, with participation from existing investors.

HOUSTON—-Kahuna Workforce Solutions, a pioneer in operational skills and competency management software, has announced a $21 million Series B funding round led by Resolve Growth Partners.  https://hrtechfeed.com/skills-management-software-platform-raises-21-million/  Workday, (NASDAQ: WDAY), announced results for the fiscal 2024 third quarter ended October 31, 2023. Fiscal Third Quarter Total Revenues of $1.87 Billion, Up 16.7% Year Over Year Subscription Revenues of $1.69 Billion, Up 18.1% Year Over Year 12-Month Subscription Revenue Backlog of $6.05 Billion, Up 21.9% Year Over Year https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-subscription-revenues-up-18-1-year-over-year/ SAN FRANCISCO — Every.io (dba Every), the all-in-one back office stack for startups, today announced its coming out of stealth alongside $9.5 million in seed funding.  Every provides bank accounts, corporate cards, bill payments, corporate treasury, HR, payroll, benefits, accounting, and taxes all in one platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/every-io-raises-9-5m-in-seed-funding-for-all-in-one-hr-finance-suite/ TEMECULA, Calif. – Happy Companies officially announces Happy, its proprietary people and coaching platform for accelerating organizational performance and enhancing management and leadership effectiveness.  https://hrtechfeed.com/new-employee-communication-platform-announces-launch/ There is already a vendor named Plum. plum.io the assessments tool....But Someone didnt do their research. ... Plumm, a London, UK-based B2B business software platform providing employers with an innovative software platform to deliver mental health support to their employees, received a £2.2M investment from IW Capital The company intends to use the funds to grow its partnerships, sales and marketing teams, and expanding operations within the UK and internationally in the EU, Middle East and US.  

Speculation around Google for Jobs continues but no one is quite sure what the paid version will look like nor how it will be implemented. I brought in the founder of JobAdX Amit Chauhan to discuss.

Cielo is introducing a series of intelligence tools that leverage automation and AI to help companies optimize the hiring experience for all:they are calling it Digital Accelerators™. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-cielo/ Remote, a leader in building, managing, and supporting globally distributed workforces, today launched a marketplace for employers and job seekers. Fully integrated with Remote’s global HR platform, Remote Talent provides companies and their future teams around the world an easy way to connect. https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-launches-global-talent-marketplace/ Human capital advisory firm, The Josh Bersin Company, announced the availability of a new generative AI expert assistant and problem-solving tool for HR leaders and their teams. https://hrtechfeed.com/the-josh-bersin-company-launches-ai-hr-assistant/ EarnBetter is announcing the public launch of its free AI job search assistant and a $4.5 million seed round investment led by Andreessen Horowitz and Abstract Ventures. EarnBetter’s platform utilizes generative AI to reformat and rewrite resumes in minutes, draft cover letters in seconds, and scan through millions of jobs to provide personalized matches to job seekers.  https://hrtechfeed.com/a-i-resume-tool-job-board-lands-4-5-million/ Twitters job search tool is live though they havent announced it yet. https://twitter.com/jobs/

The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades): Integrating Talent Intelligence for Long-Term Talent Acquisition Success In today's rapidly evolving recruitment landscape, Talent Intelligence has emerged as a key component of your talent strategy. While adding this to the growing list of responsibilities for talent leaders, leading companies not only need Talent Intelligence; they also require a dedicated team to distill the data and operate as a key advisor to the business. As you look toward 2024, how can you incorporate this capability into your team? We were joined by special guest Toby Culshaw, who has built the Talent Intelligence function at Amazon Worldwide Stores and previously at Philips. For over 15 years, Toby has been educating organizations on reconfiguring and enhancing their comprehension of talent intelligence and analytics.

Chicago — Rival, formerly SilkRoad Technology, today announced a relaunch of its recruiting product, Rival Recruit, which is now available. The new url is https://rival-hr.com/ https://hrtechfeed.com/silkroad-changes-name-to-rival/ Engagedly, the cloud-based talent management software for Performance, Learning & Development, and Employee Engagement solutions, in its pursuit to improve employee engagement, performance, and experience, has acquired theEMPLOYEEapp, an employee communication platform for deskless employees. https://hrtechfeed.com/engagedly-acquires-theemployeeapp/ Phenom announced registration is now open for its fifth annual IAMPHENOM conference on April 23-25 in Philadelphia. The premier Intelligent Talent Experience conference will bring together 1,800+ professionals across talent acquisition, talent management, HR, HRIS, and the c-suite to learn innovative ways to accelerate hiring, improve recruiter inefficiencies, boost employee evolution and retention, transform workforce planning, and much more by leveraging AI and automation. Register by the December 31, 2023 earliest bird deadline to save more than 50% off the 2-day conference ticket price. Complete details are on iamphenom.com.

Started by clinicians for clinicians in 2015, Nomad Health became a pioneer for digital temporary healthcare staffing providing clinicians with a degree of transparency, control and efficiency that traditional healthcare staffing companies don’t deliver. Nomad clinicians have cared for millions of patients at over one thousand healthcare facilities across all 50 states. Justin Lambert, COO joins the podcast.

UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions for all people, today introduced its second cohort of early-stage companies — from four different countries — as part of its fast-growing, in-house global startup ecosystem and virtual laboratory, UKG Labs. This newest class includes:  Bites, based in Israel, which is on a mission to enable every organization to train, onboard, and engage with their frontline employees successfully and effectively; Denim, based in the U.S., with solutions to help employers improve performance while retaining talent and ensuring the deskless workforce feels valued, rewarded, and heard; Hop In Technologies, based in Canada, which works to address transportation and mobility barriers for organizations and their employees; and Mo, based in the U.K., which makes it easier for busy managers to meaningfully recognize and engage their employees. https://hrtechfeed.com/ukg-labs-adds-4-startups-to-program/ MilitaryConnected.org out of maryland announced it has raised nearly half-a-million dollars and is growing its team as it transforms how hiring managers in corporate America attract, support, and engage military-connected talent. https://hrtechfeed.com/military-job-board-raises-nearly-half-a-million-dollars/ Charlotte, North Carolina based Accounting Sprout announced the launch of their job board and solution for accountants across the United States. Accounting Sprout was founded by a longtime HR and recruitment veteran, and they aim to fill the talent gap in the industry. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2023/10/30/job-board-news-bytes-roaddogjobs-accountingsprout/  Espresa, a personal benefits platform designed for global enterprises, announced the completion of its Series A funding round totaling $23 million led by Clear Ventures. All existing investors participated, including Crosslink Capital, New Era Capital Partners, Moneta Venture Capital, Ridge Ventures and Westwave Capital.  https://hrtechfeed.com/workplace-benefits-platform-raises-23-million-series-a/ DHI Group which is a public company (NYSE: DHX) that owns two niche job boards, Dice.com and ClearanceJobs.com has announced its latest earnings. Once again ClearanceJobs outperformed its bigger brother. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2023/11/02/dice-clearance-jobs-report-earnings/

Jobsync's conversation with Gerry Crispin kicked off with defining what recruiting really is, what recruiters really do, and how not all things recruiting are learned in school.

SmartRecruiters, announced the latest expansion of talent acquisition updates designed to broaden global reach and productivity. The new release includes over 27 product enhancements and 15 new partner integrations offering smarter workflows, seamless integrations and bulk actions that empower global talent leaders to achieve more with less. https://hrtechfeed.com/smartrecruiters-latest-q3-feature-release/ Rally®, the leading platform for learning best-practice recruitment marketing and employer branding strategies, today introduced Rally® AI™, a revolutionary AI recruitment marketing assistant that guides recruiting professionals through every step of creating a highly effective talent attraction strategy so they can gain a competitive edge in recruiting top candidates using modern social and digital marketing strategies. https://hrtechfeed.com/rally-introduces-rally-ai-recruitment-marketing-assistant/ Radancy, the global leader in talent acquisition software, announced today that it has acquired Brazen, expanding the Radancy Talent Acquisition Cloud through advanced hiring event technology. Brazen adds a best-in-class solution for managing both virtual and in-person recruiting events, enhancing Radancy’s SaaS platform focused on helping enterprises find the talent they need to strengthen their business. https://hrtechfeed.com/radancy-acquires-virtual-job-fair-platform-brazen/  

In the final round of interviews from the expo floor at HR Tech 2023 you'll hear from Phenom, Plum, Veritone, Refer, and Workbuzz.

TrackFive is a recruitment marketing agency based in Central Pennsylvania. Founded in 2007, their vision is To fill every open job with a qualified candidate. https://trackfive.com/  

LinkedIn is laying off more than 660 workers across its engineering, product, talent and finance teams, the employment-focused social media site announced Monday. https://www.wtnh.com/news/national/linkedin-laying-off-more-than-660-workers/ micro1, an AI-driven platform for sourcing top engineering talent has announced an oversubscribed $1.3 million investment. This funding, coupled with the initial $2 million pre-seed investment, has propelled the company’s valuation to an impressive $30 million.  https://hrtechfeed.com/engineering-talent-recruitment-tool-lands-3-3m/ The Mom Project, a leading digital talent marketplace and community platform serving more than 1.5 million moms and 3,000+ companies, today announced the launch of SelfMade, a professional platform focused on helping moms create their personal brand and start their business. https://hrtechfeed.com/the-mom-project-launches-program-to-help-moms-start-businesses/ MINNEAPOLIS — Yardstik, a Trust & Safety Platform built to help high-volume hiring businesses safely hire, verify, and onboard workers at scale, has raised an additional $12 million in its most recent round of funding. https://hrtechfeed.com/screening-tool-for-trust-safety-gets-12-million/ New research from iCIMS has found that hires and openings in retail have decreased by 12% and 25%, respectively, from this time last year, while the transportation sector saw declines of 22% and 2%. https://recruitingheadlines.com/latest-hiring-trends/  

In the latest episode from HR Tech Las Vegas you'll hear from Greenhouse, Hopward and Lumina. Sponsored by Plum.io

HR tech interviews from the expo floor at the 2023 event.  COLLABWORK, CROSSCHQ, FIRST30 Sponsored by Plum https://www.plum.io/

At the recent RecFest event in Nashville I caught some of the panel on high volume hiring.

A panel of job seekers talk about what they hate about applying for jobs online. 

Cangrade, an AI-based predictor of job candidate success and retention,has announced its new patent 11734566 which predicts a job candidate’s fit for multiple positions using one assessment. This innovative technology redefines the way organizations source talent, allowing companies to leverage Cangrade’s Pre-Hire Assessment to effortlessly boost recruiting and sourcing efficiency, enhance the candidate’s experience, and build talent pools and internal mobility. https://hrtechfeed.com/cangrade-gets-patent-that-predicts-a-job-candidates-fit/ Succeedsmart has a new job description tool… https://hrtechfeed.com/succeedsmart-unveils-generative-ai-tool-for-crafting-unbiased-accomplishment-based-job-descriptions-within-minutes/ Montreal, QC, Canada – HiringBranch announced that it has secured $2.5 million in non-dilutive funds from BDC Capital’s Growth & Transition Capital division. BDC, Canada’s bank for entrepreneurs, is investing in HiringBranch’s mission to modernize legacy hiring processes with soft skill AI assessments that can replace interviews at scale. https://hrtechfeed.com/hiringbranch-secures-2-5m-to-modernize-legacy-hiring-processes/ Findem is giving talent teams the competitive edge with the launch of its Talent Data Cloud, the only AI talent acquisition and management solution that consolidates the entire talent lifecycle and is powered by unique 3D data. Findem’s Talent Data Cloud elevates talent teams by equipping them with the transformational talent intelligence, consolidated workflows and AI-based automation they need to operate with the highest levels of efficiency and effectiveness. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-findem-clearlyrated/ Linkedin adds AI to LI recruiter https://joshbersin.com/2023/10/linkedin-launches-exciting-gen-ai-features-in-recruiter-and-learning/  

Celinda Appleby who manages talent attraction at Visa gave a presentation at RecFest Nashville on her recruitment marketing tips and tricks.

Oyster: https://hrtechfeed.com/oyster-launches-talent-network/ Erudit: https://hrtechfeed.com/erudit-raises-10m-series-a-to-transform-the-employee-experience/

My guest today is MaryAnn Pelland, Head of TA for Citizens Bank….Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Citizens is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial institutions, with more than 17,000 colleagues nationwide. You can check out their career site at jobs.citizensbank.com TOPICS 1. Give the audience a sense for How many people do you hire every year? Whats the size of the TA team at citizens…? 2. How does Citizens use hr technology to facilitate hiring…(walk us thru your HR tech stack) 3. Any cool recruiting tech you are thinking about installing in 2024? 4. What are the biggest hiring challenges for Citizens right now? Job ghosting? 5. How are you trying to make the candidate experience better? Are you guys very active on social media…can you tell us how you leverage channels for recruiting? 6. Talk to me about your DEI recruiting strategy  

SparcStart, a leader in recruitment marketing innovation, has unveiled its latest product, Empower, the recruitment marketing portal that transforms how companies manage, measure, and share their employer brand and recruitment marketing assets.  https://hrtechfeed.com/sparcstart-empower-revolutionizing-recruitment-marketing-asset-management/ HireClix, a leading recruitment marketing services company, today launched the Employer Brand Network (EBN) to help enterprise-level organizations activate, scale, and optimize employer branding campaigns and provide them with a competitive advantage in a quickly evolving recruiting landscape.  https://hrtechfeed.com/hireclix-launches-employer-brand-network/ Lattice, the people management software company , today announced Lattice HRIS, a human resources information system that will manage the employee record and integrate directly with Lattice’s existing talent suite of products — allowing customers to report on metrics, uncover critical insights about their employees and teams, prove the success of their HR programs, and automate change management processes across their workforce. https://hrtechfeed.com/lattice-launches-an-hris/ Remote, the leader in building, managing, and supporting globally distributed workforces, today announced its new platform enhancements. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-mangoapps-remote/ HiBob, the company behind ‘Bob’, the HR platform transforming how organizations operate in the modern world of work, today announced it has secured $150M in new funding in a round that was led by Farallon Capital and included Alpha Wave Global and existing investors. https://hrtechfeed.com/building-the-exceptional-hibob-raises-150m-in-new-funding-round/  

Just a quick episode with my thoughts on RecFest held in Nashville last week with a couple of interviews with IQtalent and Plum.

Terry Terhark, CEO of NXTThing RPO, an Employ Inc. brand, is here to talk  about opportunities for AI and automation in recruitment. There’s growing demand for recruitment technologies that streamline hiring and make recruiting more scalable …  In fact a recent study indicated that 47% of companies plan to increase spending on automated recruiting and intelligent sourcing technologies this year, so talent acquisition teams need a roadmap to better understand the tech they’ll work with.  

Allyn Bailey is a talent futurist and currently heads up Hiring Success Services at SmartRecruiters the San Francisco based hiring software company. She is here to share some interesting thoughts on AI and the recruiting process. Whats new at SmartRecruiters? You've had a lot of leadership changes in the past year or so… Has Smart released any generative AI features yet? What has been your experience to-date with AI in the talent acquisition and recruitment space?  Have we been using AI for a while in the TA and recruitment industry? If so, how?  Blockchain, will it ever fnd a way into TA…why? What about the candidate experience? Can AI help to reduce bias in recruitment? If so, how?  How should hiring managers be approaching AI? Should they be cautious?  How can hiring managers use generative AI to streamline recruiting?  How will AI change the recruitment industry in the years to come? (What will a future TA team look like in 5 years) Will you be at RecFest next month? Whats your podcast? Tell people where to connect…

After making pay per resumes live last week CareerBuilder says they are now offering pay for performance job ads… It appears to be an option as regular duration based job ads are still available to buy. https://hrtechfeed.com/careerbuilder-to-add-pay-for-performance-job-ads/ Culinary Agents has enhanced its hospitality industry-leading hiring platform with existing partner Indeed, for more seamless job application submissions.  https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/culinary-agents-provides-more-seamless-job-application-process-through-key-partner-integration-with-indeed-301918764.html PowerToFly, a diversity talent acquisition platform connecting underrepresented talent to great careers, today announced a new feature available within the PowerPro product, Candidate Search. The new feature is set to transform talent acquisition by providing companies with a powerful tool to identify and recruit candidates from underrepresented backgrounds, bringing a new level of inclusivity and effectiveness to the hiring process. https://hrtechfeed.com/hrtech-bytes-seatmatch-powertofly/ Save your spot now to join me at #HRTechConf 2023 in Las Vegas. Register now for  the October 10-13 event using code HT23MA57 and get an extra $300 off!   http://ow.ly/TGXy50JGGC0 #HRTech

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑷𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆, 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔, & 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 Join us on August 17th as we welcome John Higgins to the JobSync Recruitment Marketing Roundtable. We'll be talking about: • How to analyze your process, people, and technology (and existing commitments) to understand where your opportunities lie. • How to look at your entire process through the lens of candidate experience and use that to drive total process and technology improvement. • How to get success out of out-of-the-box thinking and recruiting. • How to hire at scale while prioritizing people (candidates, hiring managers, and recruiters) first.

Confirm, a platform that uses Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) to improve performance reviews, has raised $6.2 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Spero Ventures with participation from SHRMLabs, Elefund, Gaingels, Black Angel Group and several existing customers. https://hrtechfeed.com/performance-reviews-software-lands-6-2m-funding-round/ Oyster®, the employment platform to hire, pay, and care for global teams, today launched Pearl, an AI-powered chatbot that can answer questions about global hiring and remote work regulations. Leveraging Oyster’s wealth of knowledge and ability to help anyone, anywhere hire quickly and compliantly in over 180 countries, Pearl revolutionizes how companies gather information, enabling them to make informed decisions that remove traditional barriers to global employment.  https://hrtechfeed.com/oyster-unveils-pearl-an-ai-powered-chatbot/  Ceipal, the staffing software company has integrated ChatGPT — a form of generative AI technology — into its applicant tracking system (ATS).  https://hrtechfeed.com/ceipal-continues-to-lead-ai-driven-recruitment-with-new-chatgpt-integration/ Workstream, a leading HR platform for the hourly workforce, launched a new suite of team management products today to support growing businesses in the quick-service restaurant industry and other hourly industries as they scale operations, helping to provide more efficient and engaging workplace environments.  https://hrtechfeed.com/workstream-launches-hr-management-platform-for-the-hourly-workforce/ Chipotle, the popular restaurant chain is launching a new employer brand campaign to attract talent. It will feature employee testimonials and opportunities for growth highlighted in latest advertising campaign for a nationwide hiring push. https://recruitingheadlines.com/chipotle-launching-new-employer-brand-campaign/  

Stephane Rivard is the CEO at HiringBranch a Montreal based talent assessment software company.  TOPICS What makes a good assessment tool? Could you share with our listeners the inspiration behind developing HiringBranch?  How long does your assessment take and is it taken pre-apply or post apply? Is it targeted toward certain skill sets or…? What impact have you seen on the recruitment process and candidate selection since its implementation? Candidate Experience: Many candidates might find voice assessments a new and potentially intimidating approach. How do you ensure that your technology creates a fair and comfortable experience for all candidates? Customization and Job Fit: you guys use real-life job-specific questions. How does your technology ensure that these questions accurately represent the requirements and ….how do you strike a balance between standardization and customization? Future of HR and Recruitment: Many industry experts speculate about the possibility of a 'recruiter-less' future, where advanced AI technologies handle the entire candidate selection process. How do you envision the role of AI evolving in this context, and what challenges and opportunities do you foresee for organizations?  Interview-Less Future: As we consider a 'recruiter-less' future, can you also see an 'interview-less' future, where AI-driven assessments like HiringBranch become more prevalent. ……………….How do you envision this shift reshaping the way candidates and employers perceive the hiring process?   Final Thoughts: Before I let you go. Is there anything else you'd like to share? Any events that you'll be attending in the coming month? Where can people find you?  

The U.S. saw 21.74 million new job postings during the first half of 2023, down just 8% from the previous six-month period, according to a new report from staffing giant PeopleReady. https://hrtechfeed.com/job-postings-steady-in-first-half-of-2023/ Phenom is hosting AI Day — setting the HR industry’s direction for AI’s role in empowering organizations to hire faster, develop better and retain longer, while reaching new levels of efficiency. Domain experts will dive deep into the types of AI, including generative AI, the data models that power AI for HR, and its impact on candidates, employees, recruiters, managers, HR and HRIS teams. Go to ai.phenom.com to register https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-is-hosting-an-ai-day/ Job site CareerBuilder has announced the launch of Pay Per Resume, a new offering to provide an affordable and flexible alternative to traditional recruitment fees. https://hrtechfeed.com/careerbuilder-launches-pay-per-resume/ PHOENIX — Toothio has revealed securing a $4 million seed funding round, with Craft Ventures at the helm and contributions from Burst Capital, Moving Capital, Revere Partners, and Rho Capital Partners. The funds are earmarked to expedite Toothio’s expansion, improving its technology, venturing into vital US markets, augmenting its pool of dental professionals, and fortifying its sales team. https://hrtechfeed.com/dental-staffing-platform-lands-4-million/ AUSTIN, Texas – Howdy.com, a talent sourcing and management provider that connects U.S. companies with Latin American (LATAM) tech workers, today announced the acquisition of GeekHunter, one of the largest and most reputable talent marketplaces for companies to hire developers from Brazil. https://hrtechfeed.com/howdy-com-acquires-brazilian-talent-marketplace-geekhunter/  

Recorded from a live LinkedIn event hosted by Qualifi. Listen for a lively discussion about AI in recruiting.

According to Abode an early career onboarding platform. Early-career reneges and turnover don't just affect your bottom line; they also take a toll on morale and productivity, making them incredibly costly for your organization. Joining me to discuss is Ben Siegel the Co-founder & CEO Learn more at abodehr.com

One Model, a people analytics software company, announced the successful completion of its growth funding round, securing a $41 million investment led by Riverwood Capital, a leading global investor in high-growth technology companies. https://hrtechfeed.com/people-analytics-software-raises-41-million/ SeekOut, the Talent Intelligence Platform, announced two new innovations to help recruiters achieve better results. First, the company made SeekOut Assist, GPT-powered recruiting, publicly available to customers following a brief early access period. SeekOut Assist is a new generative AI technology that enables recruiters to go from a job description to initial contact with qualified candidates in a matter of moments. https://hrtechfeed.com/seekout-announces-general-availability-of-gpt-powered-assist/ Ziprecruiter and indeed both reported earnings, lets start with Zip Ziprecruiter... Quarterly revenue $170.4 million, down 29% y/y Net income of $14.4 million, or net income margin of 8% Adjusted EBITDA of $43.3 million, or Adjusted EBITDA margin of 25% https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-revenue-down-29-yoy/ Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. today reported the first quarter financial results for FY2023. This includes the HR Tech Segment comprised of Indeed and Glassdoor. Revenue for Q1 FY2023 decreased 9.1%. On a US dollar basis, revenue decreased 14.2%. The supply and demand mismatch between job seekers and employers continued to ease, with global labor markets normalizing, particularly in the US. https://hrtechfeed.com/q1-fy2023-financial-results-newsroom-recruit-holdings/  

RecruitBot recently raised $8.2 million in additional seed funding to fuel growth of its AI-powered hiring software. RecruitBot is a sourcing tool that lets you find, contact, and hire talent – all in one top-of-funnel solution. They claim a database of more than 600 million candidates. Joining me today is their CEO & Founder Jeremy Schiff Congrats on the funding round, what is the origin story behind RecruitBot Explain the user experience of the tool for the avg recruiter. There are lot of sourcing tools out there…What would you say differentiates RecruitBot from your competition  What impact is artificial intelligence having on recruiting / hiring? Please share some examples of how employers are using the technology  What are some of the pitfalls and challenges employers should be aware of in using AI in their recruiting program?   How can employers incorporate AI while not losing the high-touch approaches new employees seek?  What tips, strategies, and/or best practices can you share with employers for using AI in the recruiting / hiring? Will you guys be exhibiting at any conferences this fall? To learn more about recruitbot go where?  

Rippling the payroll and benefits software has announced the launch of Rippling Recruiting, a new applicant tracking system. With Rippling Recruiting, clients can approve new headcount, post requisitions to over 25,000 job boards, schedule interviews, and go straight from offer letter to onboarding in 90 seconds, all in a single system. https://hrtechfeed.com/rippling-launches-ats/ Perceptyx, the leading employee listening and manager effectiveness platform, has acquired Humu, a technology company that uses science-based ‘nudges’ to influence positive behavior change and improve business performance. https://hrtechfeed.com/perceptyx-acquires-humu/  Yello, the largest end-to-end DEI and Early Talent Recruitment platform provider, and Abode, the leading early-career engagement and retention platform, today announce an innovative partnership bringing together two best-in-class technology solutions that have been proven to drive better results in early talent hiring. This strategic alliance delivers unparalleled capabilities for campus recruiting teams, introducing one solution that does everything they need, from sourcing to onboarding and everything in between. https://hrtechfeed.com/yello-and-abodehr-com-join-forces-to-launch-the-first-end-to-end-solution-for-early-career-teams/ Shares of Upwork Inc. UPWK, +32.40% rallied nearly 20% in the aftermarket Wednesday after the platform for freelancers narrowed its quarterly loss, swinging to an adjusted profit, and reported revenue above Wall Street expectations.  https://hrtechfeed.com/upwork-reports-second-quarter-2023-financial-results/

Data in the middle but you got much bot. 🎶 Yep, we're going there. It's time to talk about all things #AI, #machinelearning, and #dataanalytics. Grace E. Niwa from Vertex Pharmaceuticals is joining us to discuss: 👩‍💻 How to combine new school and old school data to solve in-the-moment problems with practical solutions 🤖 How to slice your hiring data from different angles to reveal insights that may have been overlooked before in your processes 👀 How to see opportunities for step-up improvement and how to get started

Freelancer.com, the world’s largest freelancing marketplace, recently released new figures revealing a surge in freelance creative writing jobs, growth in business marketing activities, and an increase in on-site photography and videography gigs. Creative Writing – up 58% (from 1,868 to 2,961 jobs) User Interface Design – up 52% (from 2,017 to 3,075 jobs) Twitter Marketing – up 41% from (1,650 to 2,334 jobs) Photography – up 40% from (2,101 to 2,945 jobs) Writing (Microsoft Word) – up 38% (from 3,175 to 4,401 jobs) https://recruitingheadlines.com/fastest-growing-freelance-jobs/ NEW YORK—-Skillit, the data-driven recruiting platform for skilled, full-time construction labor, today announced $8.5M in additional funding co-led by MetaProp and Bow Capital with participation from existing investor Building Ventures. Skillit taxonomizes and assesses everything from skills and experience to professional goals and preferences in order to generate data-rich worker profiles that make it easy to identify, hire and retain the best talent. https://hrtechfeed.com/skillit-secures-8-5m-in-additional-funding-to-solve-todays-skilled-labor-shortage/ SAN FRANCISCO – Findem, the AI talent acquisition solution is giving talent teams a competitive edge with new generative AI capabilities integrated throughout its platform. Built on a foundation of three-dimensional people and company data that is time ordered, Findem’s Talent Data Cloud is uniquely positioned to provide ChatGPT-enabled insights to talent teams across the entire talent lifecycle that cannot be found any other way. https://hrtechfeed.com/findem-integrates-generative-ai-into-its-talent-data-cloud/ Recruitics, a leading provider of data-driven recruitment marketing solutions, is proud to introduce Vision analytics, the first AI-powered recruitment data analytics platform. Vision offers unrivaled accuracy and speed while delivering the most comprehensive recruitment analytics solution in the industry. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-recruitics-imocha/ Prompt Your Job https://promptyourjob.com/

In the 2nd part of my interview on Shawn Days Hire Lead Chill podcast we talk about all things Google for Jobs.

San Francisco, CA  — RecruitBot, the powerful hiring platform that transforms the entire recruiting experience, has raised $8.2 million in additional seed funding to fuel growth of its AI-powered software. The investment was led by Slow Ventures with participation from other investors https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitbot-lands-additional-8-2-million-investment/ Appcast, the global leader in programmatic recruitment advertising technology and services,  announced today its acquisition of recruitment marketing pioneer, Bayard Advertising. This strategic acquisition combines Appcast’s award-winning programmatic technology with  Bayard’s full-service recruitment marketing capabilities, significantly expanding Appcast’s  offerings to optimize companies’ entire recruitment marketing processes.  https://hrtechfeed.com/appcast-acquires-bayard-advertising-2/ Twitter’s new job listings are slowly being rolled out to Verified Organizations in the app, with some businesses now able to post job openings direct to their Twitter profile. This is according to an article from Social media today.com https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/twitters-new-job-listings-option-looks-close-to-launch/686108/

I was a gust on Shawn Day's Facebook live show for his group called Hire Lead & Chill where we talked about a variety of topics in online recruiting. Part 2 will be out next week talking more about Google for Jobs.

Daniel Chait CEO of hiring software Greenhouse.io joins the show to talk about the state of HR Tech, AI, remote work and more.

Accord to a story on calcallisttech.com Israeli startup Joonko, which has developed an automated sourcing platform focused solely on underrepresented candidates, is on the verge of a closure. An investigation conducted by the company's board of directors and investors revealed that the number of its real customers differed significantly from the number reported by its managers to the investors. In those reports, the company stated that it has 150 customers, when in practice the number was significantly smaller. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/skf0iabdh?fbclid=IwAR0-Va0Uk4M1gJ5SbWiW_5W5N1SIf2-X6pD5hMGz5t8SYMPGd3DtqhsU4rE Nexxt, a leading talent solutions technology company, is launching its Hiring Events offering to help companies of every size invite the best talent to their hiring events. Hiring events can be a very effective strategy to support high volume hiring needs, but often there isn’t an option where both the software and the audience needed to successfully execute an event exist in a single, simple solution.  https://hrtechfeed.com/nexxt-adds-hiring-events-to-its-recruitment-marketing-platform/ NEW YORK — Datapeople, the SaaS recruiting predictability platform, today announced the completion of an oversubscribed $13 million Series A funding round. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiting-intelligence-tool-raises-13-million-series-a/ Bountiful, a new HR technology company, has unveiled its “Referral-as-a-Service” platform, designed to transform traditional hiring networks and streamline the recruitment process. The revolutionary platform aims to tap into the power of employee referrals, harnessing the potential of existing networks to find top talent more efficiently and effectively. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-employee-referral-software-launches/  Joveo, the global leader in AI-powered job advertising, announces the release of Interactive Insights – the industry’s first interactive talent sourcing and recruitment advertising benchmark reports, covering eleven of the most popular occupations in the United States. https://hrtechfeed.com/joveo-introduces-the-industrys-first-interactive-reports-on-the-state-of-talent-sourcing-recruitment-advertising-across-key-occupations/  

In the coming years, artificial intelligence (AI) will play a major role in the job search process. Much has been written about how AI will affect recruiting but I’d like to explore it from the other side of the table. https://www.rectechmedia.com/blog/ai-job-search

The Josh Bersin Company will preview its new AI system, The Josh Bersin Company HR Copilot at their upcoming Global HR Leadership conference, Irresistible. https://hrtechfeed.com/josh-bersin-company-to-unveil-ai-based-hr-copilot/ VidCruiter, Inc.—a leading interviewing platform used by Fortune 500 companies, national governments, and international organizations— has acquired AI-startup Ingage Solutions. The acquisition increases VidCruiter’s interview intelligence technologies by expanding its video interviewing platform’s real-time intelligence engine. Ingage’s ethical AI technology will improve interview performance, reduce the impact of bias, and contribute to more equitable hiring practices ensuring leading firms can better identify top talent faster. https://hrtechfeed.com/vidcruiter-acquires-ai-interview-intelligence-technology/ A new report from Hireology, the leading all-in-one recruiting and hiring platform, reveals the results of a survey of more than 4,400 job seekers in skilled trade industries like automotive, healthcare, and hospitality, detailing what it takes for employers to recruit and retain today’s most in-demand workers. https://recruitingheadlines.com/attracting-hourly-workers/ LinkedIn has been developing a new option that would enable you to generate AI posts according to the website Social Media Today. https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-launches-live-test-of-generative-ai-posts/653748/  

We dive into all of the recent changes on the major job boards and discuss how to navigate them so that you can turn your ROE into ROI (recruiting operational efficiency). Leah Daniels and Alex Murphy will be joined by a mystery guest to help you level up your #recruiting and make the most of the ever-changing job board landscape.

Comeet, a global leader in collaborative recruitment software, and Spark Hire, a top-rated video interview platform, have announced plans to merge. The combined company will offer the most comprehensive suite of talent acquisition products on the market, including applicant tracking, candidate management, and video interviewing. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-tech-merger-comeet-and-spark-hire/ NEW YORK — Pollen, a membership powering freelance careers, has raised $4M in funding from ANIMO VC, Founder Collective, XYZ Venture Capital, Precursor Ventures, and an esteemed group of angels. https://hrtechfeed.com/freelance-membership-platform-raises-4-million/  Workato, the Enterprise Automation platform, announced AI@Work which includes significant product updates that enable enterprises to adopt AI for automations to drive business efficiency. The new capabilities are seamlessly integrated into the Workato platform and leverage OpenAI technologies. https://hrtechfeed.com/workato-introducing-workato-copilot-generative-ai-functionality/ Seattle startup Humanly which helps companies automate their recruiting functions, raised $12 million to help fuel growth of its AI-powered software, Geekwire is reporting. https://hrtechfeed.com/ai-recruiting-chatbot-humanly-raises-12-million/ AMS the RPO provider announced the launch of AMS One, its proprietary RPO Operating system. https://hrtechfeed.com/ams-launches-ams-one-the-rpo-operating-system/  

Phenom recently released its State of Candidate Experience: 2023 Benchmarks Report. The report revealed that since 2020, the Fortune 500 has made significant strides to enhance the candidate experience by implementing AI technology and automation to connect job seekers — both hourly and knowledge workers — with relevant jobs faster, and creating engaging content to convey a strong employer brand in the highly competitive U.S. talent market. Here to help us dive deeper into the numbers is Cliff Jurkiewicz, VP of Global Strategy at Phenom.

Ferretly, an AI-powered social media screening SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $1.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Bull City Venture Partners and prior investors, including a group of industry experts led by Dave Dickerson, founder and chairman of Accurate Background. https://hrtechfeed.com/ferretly-raises-1-5m-for-its-social-media-screening-platform/ HackerRank, the developer skills company, today announced the launch of its advanced plagiarism detection system, fueled by AI. By leveraging dozens of signals, including the use of external tools and certain typing patterns like copy and paste, HackerRank’s AI-powered solution safeguards assessment integrity while providing developers with a fair and level playing field to showcase their skills. https://hrtechfeed.com/hackerrank-launches-ai-powered-plagiarism-detection-system-for-developer-hiring/ Clevy, a Paris headquartered international provider of AI conversational technologies for businesses, has been acquired by Fountain, the San Francisco headquartered leading high volume ATS provider for the hourly workforce.  https://hrtechfeed.com/fountain-acquires-clevy-to-further-advance-ai-for-hourly-hiring/  Sense, the AI-driven talent engagement solution for enterprise recruiting, announced the availability of several new generative artificial intelligence solutions. Built using a combination of its in-house models trained on hundreds of millions of candidate interactions, along with some of the most trusted partner Large Language Models (LLMs), Sense’s Generative AI solutions help global talent acquisition teams further accelerate hiring. https://hrtechfeed.com/sense-unveils-new-generative-ai-for-talent-engagement/ To transform multi-country payroll with the HCM industry’s most adaptable, intelligent experience for multinational businesses, UKG Inc., a leading provider of HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions for all people, has reached an agreement to acquire Immedis, a leading global payroll provider with technology and services supporting over 160 countries.  https://hrtechfeed.com/ukg-acquires-a-payroll-provider/

James Colino is the author of “RecOps: Recruiting is still broken Here’s how to fix it” AND he is also Director of Talent Acquisition for Sheetz the 600+ convenience store chain based in Altoona PA. Landing page: https://www.hireconversion.com/sheetz https://recops.org/  

The major job boards are laying off staff and ZipRecruiter is next on the clock. The news came via an SEC filing this week; The company announced a plan to reduce its global headcount by approximately 270 employees, which represents approximately 20% of the Company’s total number of employees prior to the reduction. This action was taken in response to current market conditions and after reducing other discretionary expenses, with a view toward driving long-term efficiency.  https://hrtechfeed.com/layoffs-hit-ziprecruiter/ LOS ANGELES — Dropstat, an AI-powered workforce automation platform helping healthcare organizations combat clinical staffing shortages, has successfully closed a $5.5M seed funding round. Panoramic Ventures, an Atlanta-based firm that invests in category-leading technology companies, led the investment. …., Dropstat will use the funding to expand its services across the US, helping more healthcare facilities better manage staffing needs. https://hrtechfeed.com/healthcare-workforce-automation-platform-lands-5-5m-seed-round/ A healthcare staffing startup has raised funds. According to Axios; Stepful offers programs that leverage a mobile-first approach involving short videos, group projects, simulations, and community learning modules targeted at people in underserved communities—the company partners with health systems to help them fill critical roles. Most programs are a fraction of the cost of traditional in-person educational offerings and lead to an average income boost of 25%. https://hrtechfeed.com/healthcare-worker-platform-raises-7-5-million/ CLEVELAND — UnifyWork, the workforce intelligence platform powering equitable regional talent networks, today announces an additional $3 million in funding, bringing its total funding to date to $7.5 million. https://hrtechfeed.com/unifywork-raises-an-additional-3-million-in-capital-for-its-cleveland-talent-network/ Veritone, Inc. a leader in enterprise AI software and services, today announced its agreement to acquire Broadbean, a global leader of software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology that makes talent acquisition and engagement easier, faster and more efficient, from CareerBuilder. https://hrtechfeed.com/veritone-to-acquire-broadbean/  

We're going live with Dan Black and Lindsey Pollak for a one-hour peer-to-peer conversation where you get to ask your questions, share your insights and maybe even tell a few jokes. Let's talk about how to succeed in #recruiting without everyone else getting in your way.

Crosschq, the Hiring Intelligence platform announced the expansion of Crosschq Insights™ and Crosschq Voice™ along with a new brand identity. Combining these expanded solutions provides talent leaders with a single operating platform from which to manage all aspects of Hiring Intelligence. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-crosschq-wolfe-inc/   Ceridian, a prominent player in human capital management (HCM) technology, has unveiled an innovative solution called Dayforce Career Explorer. This AI-powered tool aims to enhance engagement and retention rates by empowering employees to take control of their career journeys. https://hrtechfeed.com/ceridian-launches-ai-driven-dayforce-career-explorer/   Indeed, a leading hiring platform, launched Skill Connect, a new product to help job seekers without college degrees better promote their skills and completed training programs to potential employers. https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-launches-new-resume-tool-for-those-without-college-degree/ San Francisco based Instawork, the leading platform for connecting businesses with skilled hourly workers, has announced that it has raised $60 million in a Series D funding round led by TCV. The round also included participation from new investors 9Yards Capital and Larry Fitzgerald Jr., as well as existing investors Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, and Greylock. https://hrtechfeed.com/instawork-raises-60m-to-invest-in-artificial-intelligence-for-skilled-hourly-workers/  

Recorded live on the show floor at Unleash America in Las Vegas. Interviews from; ClickBoarding CEO HireEZ's Marketing Leader RecTxt Founders Largely.com

“Careerbuilder laid off 60 % of their people today. My best friend was included in the count. She was a top performer for 12 years at CB. She is now looking for another gig. As I am sure you would understand , after 12 years of dedication , she is nervous,” wrote recruitment consultant Andrew Bolander in a post today. https://aimgroup.com/2023/05/17/careerbuilder-sells-international-division-lays-off-60-of-staff-names-new-ceo/ Reports surfaced this week that Twitter has acquired Laskie a tech recruiting startup that I have featured before on the RecTech podcast. https://hrtechfeed.com/twitter-buys-recruiting-startup/ Qualifi, the enterprise solution for high-volume hiring, today announced it has raised $4.5M in funding to accelerate the company’s growth and mission to transform the way companies hire.   https://hrtechfeed.com/qualifi-raises-4-5m/  Withe, the on-demand video interview and virtual hiring event platform that aims to solve volume hiring challenges for enterprise hospitality staffing and recruiting teams, announced the close of its $1.1M USD pre-seed round, led by San Francisco-based Focal. https://hrtechfeed.com/video-interview-and-hiring-event-platform-raises-1-1m-seed-round/ Recruitics, whose agency./platform of data-powered programmatic advertising, engagement, and analytics for recruitment, has acquired Jamyr – a video recruitment platform. Jamyr delivers employee generated video content at scale … https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitics-acquires-video-recruiting-platform/

Recorded live at Unleash 2023 in Las Vegas. Interviews with; SmartRecruiters Snapbrillia HeyHire Divigo.ca

iCIMS unveiled the next-generation of candidate relationship management (CRM) at INSPIRE, its user conference this week. With the new iCIMS Candidate Experience Management (CXM), recruiters will be able to leverage modern marketing technology to efficiently nurture and convert candidates using a unique combination of campaign logic, engagement scoring, and candidate fit analysis – all within a unified solution. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-technology-from-icims-eightfold/ True, a global platform of talent management products and services, announced last week it is acquiring Jopwell, a hiring platform focused on advancing the careers of Black, Latinx and Native American students and early-to-mid-career professionals. https://hrtechfeed.com/dei-platform-jopwell-acquired/  HireVue, the global leader in video interviewing, assessments, and text-enabled recruiting solutions, today announced it has acquired Modern Hire, the intelligent hiring platform. The acquisition marks a “new era” in hiring, providing organizations with an easier way to realize the full benefits of the most comprehensive and innovative platform for assessment, interviewing and end-to-end hiring automation.  https://hrtechfeed.com/hirevue-acquires-modern-hire/

Recorded live at Unleash America in Las Vegas 2023. Fama, Tatio, Greetr, HR Tech Joe

Gigs, the job platform that connects companies to job seekers looking for hourly jobs in their neighborhood, announced today the company’s official launch of its employer portal to help retailers, food and beverage, logistics, and hospitality companies with their full-time and part-time hiring needs. The news comes jointly with the company announcing $2.7 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co with additional investment from Wonder Ventures and several angel investors. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hourly-marketplacelands-2-7m-seed-round/ Modern Hire, the enterprise hiring platform that uses advanced selection science to reduce bias and predict candidate fit, today announced the launch of Virtual Job Tryout® (VJT) for Flight Attendants, a preconfigured assessment tool geared toward candidates across the globe seeking employment as a flight attendant.  Fiverr International is introducing Fiverr Enterprise, formerly Stoke Talent. This announcement comes as Stoke Talent is being integrated into Fiverr, and as the company continues to expand its solutions upmarket and aims to bring larger brands into the Fiverr suite of products as well as offer its existing customers additional capabilities.  https://hrtechfeed.com/fiverr-launches-fiverr-enterprise-to-simplify-freelance-management/ Simpplr, anAI-powered employee experience platform, announced it has secured $70M Series D funding. The investment was led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from existing investor Norwest Venture Partners.  https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-experience-platform-lands-70m/ hackajob, the full stack technical hiring platform, announces a $25m Series B funding round led by Boston-based growth equity firm, Volition Capital, with participation from existing investors AXA Venture Partners and Foresight.  https://hrtechfeed.com/hackajob-announces-a-25m-series-b-funding-round/  

In our April 2023 roundtable, with William Tincup, President and Editor-at-large of Recruiting Daily, about the four areas of competing expectations that talent leadership should focus on (including your own expectations): What do candidates really expect? Is it easy applications, quick responses, transparency, one-call hiring? When was the last time you asked candidates? What do you recruiters expect from hiring managers, interview teams, technology and leadership? Are you setting them up to meet candidate expectations?  What do your hiring managers expect from your recruiters and the candidate market? Do they understand what else is competing for recruiter’s time and candidate’s attention?  What are leadership's expectations and understanding of recruiting challenges? Does your c-suite understand what it takes for your organization to hire top talent? Do they understand the recruiting reality on ground or are they being influenced by headlines? 

Chris Russell, Julie Calli, and Serge & Shelly from the Recruitment Flex talk all things Unleash America, live in Vegas, April 28th.

Seekout co-founder John Tippet describes how their new ChatGPT integration works.

Zoom is excited to announce the acquisition of Workvivo to extend Zoom’s platform and offer its customers new ways to keep employees informed, engaged, and connected. https://hrtechfeed.com/zoom-to-acquire-workvivo-to-bolster-the-employee-experience-offering/ Apploi, healthcare’s leading workforce management software, is growing its credentialing tools. The company is rolling out expanded credentialing services across ten different roles and multiple states. Oracle CloudWorld Tour – To help HR leaders better support employee development, potential, and agility, Oracle today announced updates to Oracle ME, the employee experience platform within Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM). The latest updates include Oracle Grow, a new AI-powered solution that connects learning, skills growth, and career mobility in one personalized experience to deliver self-directed learning, visibility into career growth opportunities, and skills development aligned with business goals. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-apploi-oracle-hcm/ SmartRecruiters, Next-Generation Technology for Hiring Without Boundaries™, announced today that Michael DeSimone has been appointed as the company’s new CEO. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-tech-executive-appointments-from-nexxt-smartrecruiters/ Indeed, officially announced its Pay for Results pricing, which includes pay per application (PPA) and pay per started application (PPSA). This pricing offering aims to help employers hire faster and easier. https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-ppa-announcement/

Talent Management: You Can’t Grow What You Don’t Know with The Cigna Group, ChenMed, & Jackson Health System. What approaches are the most high-performing talent management teams taking to engage, develop, and retain employees? How can skills intelligence be applied to inform where talent needs to grow — and how can it happen in alignment with employee goals and organizational needs through career pathing, gigs, and mentoring? What is automation’s role for managers and employees? What is the overlapping tech that can be used by both TM and TA teams? Get answers to the biggest questions facing talent management today. Recorded live at IAMPHENOM

Recorded live at IAMPHENOM. CHRO Rebecca Schoepfer to learn how TruGreen radically adjusted talent strategies to support changing, on-the-ground business conditions — and built a scalable, repeatable talent process that exceeds high-volume hiring demands.

Mitratech, a leading global provider of legal, compliance, and HR software, today announces the expansion of its Human Resources portfolio of solutions through the acquisition of two technology companies: Circa, a market-leading Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) software provider; and Trakstar, a best-in-class talent acquisition, development, and performance management solution. https://hrtechfeed.com/mitratech-acquires-circa-and-trakstar/ ClearCompany, the talent management platform announced a strategic investment in Growmotely, the only global marketplace for professional talent seeking longer-term, remote opportunities.  https://hrtechfeed.com/clear-company-invests-in-talent-marketplace/ GoodJob, the pre-hire assessment software, has been selected for the 2023 Society of HR Managers (SHRM) WorkplaceTech Accelerator Program Cohort. This program allows early-stage companies to accelerate their growth and develop innovative solutions that will modernize HR processes around the globe. https://hrtechfeed.com/goodjob-selected-for-the-shrm-2023-workplacetech-accelerator-program/ Branch, the workforce payments platform, and Marqeta recently announced findings from the third annual Branch x Marqeta Gig Payments Report, a joint study on the work and payments preferences of gig workers. https://recruitingheadlines.com/gig-work-becoming-primary-source-of-income-for-many-workers/

What are the ethical implications of using AI and Generative AI technologies like ChatGPT? Why is having a human in the loop critical? Can AI actually help improve DE&I? What are the success stories and lessons learned? How can organizations ensure they’re staying on top of emerging AI legislation and guidelines? Are “audits” and “transparency” just the newest buzzwords?  Get answers to the biggest questions around AI, ethics, and legislation. Recorded live at I AM PHENOM in Philly.

I just got back form I AM PHENOM last week in Philadelphia so I apologize for not posting a roundup last week….and speaking of travel I will be headed to Unleash America at the end of April and I have a special discount code to save 20% on tickets.  Use code: russell20att-sh LINK: https://www.unleash.ai/unleashamerica/tickets/application/?utm_source=unam23_vendors&utm_medium=vendor_referral&utm_campaign=unam23_codes&code=russell20att-sh Unleash America happens April 26-27 at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas Lets start the news with some ChatGPT announcements Phenom X+ is designed to dynamically support an organization’s specific hiring, retention and growth needs by leveraging an ensemble of AI models that consists of: a Foundation Model (any Natural Language Understanding [NLU], DeepLearning, or Large Language Model [LLM] such as GPT, Bard, or Cohere), Specialized Model, and Contextual Model.  https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-unveils-generative-ai-for-human-resources-and-18-new-innovations-at-iamphenom/ Beamery, announced the launch of TalentGPT,  a generative AI for HR technology, which delivers personalized experiences for managers, recruiters, candidates and employees. With TalentGPT, Beamery will transform every talent acquisition and talent management experience with generative AI. https://hrtechfeed.com/beamery-announces-talentgpt/ Eightfold AI, the leader in AI-powered talent intelligence, announced today it is integrating recent advances in generative AI large language models to create two role-specific Talent Intelligence Copilots. In addition https://hrtechfeed.com/eightfold-ai-announces-talent-intelligence-copilots/ Recruiter.com is pleased to announce the launch of the Recruiter Marketplace, a pioneering platform to transform the talent acquisition landscape. The platform connects employers with vetted freelance talent acquisition professionals by leveraging automation, offering unmatched flexibility, cost savings, and access to a global talent network. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiter-com-launches-freelance-recruiter-marketplace/ Radancy, the leader in global talent acquisition software, announced today that it has acquired Ascendify, adding value to the Radancy Talent Acquisition Cloud through advanced candidate relationship management (CRM) capabilities. This acquisition enhances Radancy’s suite of solutions focused on helping enterprises find the talent they need to strengthen their business.  https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-breezyhr-eightfold-radancy/ In layoff news Talent.com the international job aggregator laid off 80 workers and also Workhuman the employee experience platform had a 10% RIF

Paradox, the conversational hiring software recently announced the launch of its Conversational ATS. Designed from the ground-up to reimagine the high-volume hiring process, the product focuses on delivering the best frontline candidate and hiring manager experience in the world.  Underpinned by a conversational UI that makes engagement feel simple and seamless, Paradox’s ATS automates things like screening for requirements, interview scheduling, reminders, offers, new hire onboarding, and more.  GUEST: Cory Smith, Sr Product Director at Paradox  

Amit Parmar form Cliquify stops by to discuss his company's state of employer branding report. https://www.cliquify.me/

Citing a 33% decline in sponsored jobs Indeed.com is laying off 15% of its workforce across the globe. Company president Chris Hyams said in a company wide email this week. https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-lays-off-2200-workers-globally/ Paradox, the conversational hiring software announced the launch of its Conversational ATS. Designed from the ground-up to completely reimagine the high-volume hiring process, the product obsessively focuses on delivering the best frontline candidate and hiring manager experience in the world.  https://hrtechfeed.com/paradox-launches-industry-first-conversational-ats-for-high-volume-hiring/ PALO ALTO, Calif. — Workera, an industry-leading skills intelligence platform, announced today that it has closed a $23.5m Series B financing led by Jump Capital https://hrtechfeed.com/skills-platform-workera-closes-23-5m-series-b/ NEW YORK—-Wingspan, a payroll platform purpose-built for flexible workforces, today announced it has raised a $14 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total capital raised to $23.5 million. https://hrtechfeed.com/payroll-platform-wingspan-lands-14m-series-a/ HRtech startup ZingHR has made a strategic investment in Silicon Valley-based SaaS startup LokiBots. https://hrtechfeed.com/zinghr-invests-in-saas-startup-lokibots/

With Tim Sackett and Madeline Laurano

SEATTLE—-Karat, the interviewing company, announced the acquisition of Triplebyte’s technical assessment product and team. The acquisition adds a unique top-of-funnel, skills-based assessment to Karat’s suite of Interviewing Cloud offerings, helping organizations identify and hire the best tech talent faster, more accurately, and fairly. https://hrtechfeed.com/karat-acquires-leading-adaptive-assessment-technology-from-triplebyte/ RiseKit, a US-based startup looking to change the way enterprises source diverse talent from community organizations, recently raised $4.75 million in funding to support DEI initiatives. https://hrtechfeed.com/risekit-raises-4-75m-for-recruiting-diverse-talent/ In a move to further provide its customers with efficient and robust hourly hiring processes, Fountain, the world’s leading applicant tracking system (ATS) for high volume hiring, today announces the launch of Fountain AI to its suite of hiring solutions. https://hrtechfeed.com/fountain-launches-a-new-conversational-ai-feature/ HeadRace, a recruiting platform, announced today that it raised $6M in seed funding from Greylock, Susa Ventures, and Breyer Capital with Packy McCormick, Kindergarten Ventures, and Blue Lion Global participating in the round. The company also announced that its technology platform is now available to any recruiter or employer who wants to use it. https://hrtechfeed.com/headrace-lands-6m-to-democratize-the-recruiting-industry/ Barley, a compensation management platform that makes it easy for companies to structure, analyze and manage pay, launched last week with $4 million in seed funding led by Golden Ventures. https://hrtechfeed.com/barley-launches-with-4m-in-seed-funding-to-make-compensation-more-structured-transparent-and-fair/

Plan your calendars. https://recruitingheadlines.com/2023-recruiting-hr-events/

Aspen Tech Labs, a provider of recruitment technology solutions, announced that it has launched the Wage Benchmarking Tool as a part of its existing Job Market Pulse product. This new tool enables employers and researchers to compare real-time salary data pulled from the nine-million-plus real-time active job listings – as well as the historical database – that Aspen Tech Labs maintains. https://hrtechfeed.com/aspen-tech-labs-launches-wage-benchmarking-tool-to-enhance-business-intelligence-and-salary-research-efforts/ FOUNT Global, Inc. (https://fount-ex.com) announced it has secured $8M in funding to help organizations identify what’s at the root of employee dissatisfaction and productivity, and prioritize what to fix in their work environment. The Series A round was led by Lavrock Ventures with participation from existing investors Osage Venture Partners and Grotech Ventures.  https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-experience-tool-lands-8m/ CUPERTINO, Calif.– Glider AI, a Skill Intelligence Platform, closed a total of $10M in Series A funding from Primera Capital and other industry leaders…the company will use the funds to continue its expansion in contingent programs and permanent hiring, furthering the development of proprietary technology, and growing its global team. https://hrtechfeed.com/glider-ai-10m-series-a-to-help-enterprises-shift-to-skills-based-hiring/  Lattice, the leading provider of people success software that empowers business leaders to build thriving companies and high-performing teams, today announced the official launch of Lattice’s People Strategy Group, a consulting collective designed to help senior leaders build effective people programs with confidence, improve employee engagement, maximize team performance, and drive superior business results. The group is an evolution of Lattice’s Advisory Services with an emphasis on preparing companies for the ever-evolving world of work. https://hrtechfeed.com/lattice-launches-people-strategy-group/

Video interview platform myInterview recently landed an $11 million dollar Series A investment and we’ll talk to their co-founder about it…next on the Rec Tech podcast…. myInterview uses asynchronous video and AI to encourage candidates to express their true selves and lets hiring managers identify the best hire with a focus on user experience. The platform which launched in 2016,  enables team collaboration, workflow management and seamless integrations into major HR technology stacks and is in use by 10,000+ companies.  co-founder, Benjy Gillman helps set the strategic direction for the company and manages its success. And he joins me now via zoom 1. Hows the current state of the hiring market? 2 You guys launched in 2016 so what have you learned about video interviewing since that point…any lessons along the way? 3. There's been a lot of talk about hiring Gen Z candidates, both challenges and opportunities - what's your take on it? 4. Is the current recruitment technology stack out there fit for Gen Zs? 5. If an organization doubles down on trying to attract Gen Z candidates, do you think that will alienate other candidates who don't fall in that bracket? 6. Describe how it works from a job seeker point of view?

WorkLLama, technology provider of an AI-driven, talent marketing, relationship management, and direct sourcing suite, today announced it has secured $50 million in investments, an indication of the market’s demand for modern technology to access highly skilled, on-demand talent at scale. https://hrtechfeed.com/workllama-raises-50m/ Emissary.ai, a leading text recruiting platform, announced today a new technology partnership with UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions for all people. With more than 315 technology services partners, UKG provides one of the largest and most collaborative partner ecosystems in the HCM industry focused on creating better employee experiences to improve business outcomes.  https://hrtechfeed.com/emissary-announces-technology-services-partnership-with-ukg/ Bonusly, an engaging recognition and rewards platform that connects teams and enriches company culture, today announced it has received $18.9 million in Series B funding led by Ankona Capital.  https://hrtechfeed.com/recognition-and-rewards-platform-raises-18-million/ Well with advertising spending on the downturn Google may be changing its mind on letting you sponsor jobs inside the Google for Jobs interface. Hat tip to Tom Chevalier from Appcast who first spotted this on mobile. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2023/03/01/google-for-jobs-testing-sponsored

Andrew Flowers is the lead labor economist at Appcast, today he’ll discuss the results from the report, the current labor market and how hiring professionals can use this report to overcome another rough year for recruiting. What are the key takeaways from this year's report? One of the key metrics Appcast analyzes, is apply rates. Apply rate is the number of people who actually complete a job application after having clicked on a job, represented as a percentage. Its inverse is the candidate drop-off rate. Overall, the median apply rate increased to 4.34%, from 4.05% the previous year, which – while welcome news – means that almost 96 % (95.66%) still do not finish their online job applications.  We finally see at least a slight uptick in the number…Im guess due to more candidates in the market? insightful strategies, to stay ahead in the labor market, such as: Catch the eye of more potential candidates with short job titles and concise job descriptions.  It pays to be transparent: job ads without pay information in the job title cost employers on average $2.30 cost-per-click (CPC), while job ads that included pay information in the job title resulted in a lower CPC, just $1.49.---so companies should put salary in job title, give me an example…? Pay attention to the device habits of your job seeking audience and – especially for job functions with the heaviest volumes of mobile applications – develop a mobile application process that is just as efficient and friction-free as it would be on a desktop computer. Timing is everything: Tuesday and Wednesday are the new frontrunners for the highest volume of job applications. In the past, this was Monday. Which jobs are still the most expensive to recruit for? Looks like the state of Georgia had the highest apply rate at 4.47% New hampshire has the highest CPA rate at $33.58 https://info.appcast.io/whitepaper/2023-recruitment-marketing-benchmark-report

GoodJob, the #1 pre-hire assessment software available in the marketplace today, announced a partnership with Merge, the Unified API for B2B integrations. As a result of this partnership, GoodJob’s software now supports integrations with over 50 popular Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), including Workday, SmartRecruiters, Lever and Greenhouse.  Recruiters, HR teams and business leaders can use GoodJob’s software within their current ATS, allowing them to hire confidently and retain high-performing candidates. https://hrtechfeed.com/goodjob-partners-with-merge-to-integrate-with-over-50-applicant-tracking-systems-ats/ DALLAS — HireLogic, an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled hiring interview intelligence solution, today announced a $6M series A funding round led by Joseph P. Landy, former Partner and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Warburg Pincus. Existing investors from HireLogic’s seed round also participated, bringing total funding raised to over $10M. This investment will be used to advance the capabilities of HireLogic’s conversational analytics platform, expand go to market activities, and meet the demands of the firm’s growing customer base. https://hrtechfeed.com/hirelogic-secures-6m-series-a-funding/ ATLANTA — LaborWorx, a tech-enabled staffing startup that helps construction and manufacturing companies connect with on-demand workers, has raised $4.2 million to continue its mission of solving the skilled worker shortage. https://hrtechfeed.com/laborworx-raises-4-2-million-for-skilled-worker-recruiting-platform/ CANADA - talent assessment platform Plum today announced details of its $6 million USD round of growth funding. Led by Pearson Ventures, other new investors include JFF Ventures and Strada Education Network. Existing investors Export Development Canada (EDC), Real Ventures, BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund, EduLab Capital Partners, and Impact Engine also participated. https://hrtechfeed.com/plum-raises-6-million-for-talent-assessment-platform/ ZipRecruiter® announced financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022. Quarterly revenue $210.5 million, down 4% y/y Full-year revenue $904.6 million, up 22% y/y – fast approaching the billion dollar mark https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2023/02/22/ziprecruiter-announces-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2022-results/

Tech hiring platform Laskie recently introduced a way for jobs to come to candidates in what they call "Reverse Apply". Find out how it works in this episode. Learn more: https://blog.laskie.com/blog/reverse-apply-is-here Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1PHs_rTvv4

Kanarys, a Dallas, TX-based diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) technology company, raised $5M in Series A funding. https://hrtechfeed.com/dei-platform-gets-5-million/ Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK), the world’s work marketplace, today announced a major expansion of its offerings, making full-time hiring available to all customers for the first time. A new end-to-end solution enables businesses of all sizes to find, vet, hire, onboard and pay highly skilled professionals for full-time work arrangements, without the complexity commonly associated with global hiring. https://hrtechfeed.com/upwork-expands-to-support-full-time-hiring/ hireEZ, the end-to-end outbound recruiting platform, today announced it will offer generative AI functionality in a product release slated for March 9. The update will leverage the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) model and hireEZ’s machine learning data to help recruiters compose and send email messages to job candidates faster than with traditional tools. https://hrtechfeed.com/hireez-announces-gpt3-feature-for-candidate-outreach/ Phenom, announced that Josh Bersin, analyst, author, educator and thought leader focusing on the global HR market, will be a keynote speaker at IAMPHENOM — the human resources conference for hiring, developing and retaining talent taking place March 28-30 in Philadelphia https://hrtechfeed.com/josh-bersin-joins-iamphenom-keynote-lineup/ Finally lets talk about indeed, i wrote a post this week on jobboardsecrets.com that talked about the problems they are having with their new PPA rollout, a loot of small biz customers are getting slammed with higher prices for resumes they dont want. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2023/02/14/indeeds-new-challenges/  

Three years ago I began researching free recruiting software tools. I even did a webinar on it. Since then, that list has drastically changed. Most of the 20+ tools I found at that time are no longer in existence. https://www.rectechmedia.com/blog/free-recruiting-software So lets update the recruiting audience on who’s left. Here’s my top seven free recruiting software tools. Not included are any tools that have a “free trial”.

Workday, Inc. HCM software company announced a $250 million expansion of its Workday Ventures fund. The additional $250 million investment capital from Workday into Workday Ventures, the strategic capital arm of Workday Inc., builds on the company’s solid performance and is the latest step in its journey to shape the future of work. https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-commits-additional-250-million-investment-capital-to-workday-ventures/ Performica, software helping companies transform people risk into their superpower, announced that it has raised $3 million in its seed round of funding. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-tech-spinout-performica-closes-on-its-seed-round/ ShiftMed, one of the largest W-2 healthcare workforce management marketplaces, has raised $200 million led by healthcare investors, Panoramic Ventures with participation from Blue Heron Capital and Audacious Capital. Funds will be used to expand ShiftMed’s national footprint across all segments of the healthcare market. https://hrtechfeed.com/healthcare-workforce-management-platform-raises-200-million/

Sam Fitzroy is the co-founder and CEO of Dalia, a recruitment marketing automation tool. The company ,just announced the completion of a $5 million Series A round led by Lewis & Clark Venture. The capital will be used to expand its product suite, which maximizes career site conversion rates to make recruitment marketing budgets more efficient and invest further in sales and marketing.

Crimcheck a provider of background screening, reference checks, data checks, and drug testing & occupational health solutions announced that it completed the sale of its company to DISA Global Solutions, provider of drug testing & occupational health services. https://hrtechfeed.com/background-screening-tool-crimcheck-acquired/ Dalia, a recruitment marketing automation platform that helps employers get more qualified applicants for less, today announced the completion of a $5 million Series A round.  https://hrtechfeed.com/dalia-raises-5m-in-series-a-funding-to-help-employers-get-more-qualified-applicants-for-less/ SilkRoad Technology, the world-class talent acquisition leader, announced the completion of a two-way integration between its candidate sourcing solution, Search, and its applicant tracking system, Recruiting.  https://hrtechfeed.com/silkroad-technology-announces-first-true-end-to-end-talent-acquisition-solution/ Cleary, the digital employee experience platform for distributed teams, has closed a $4.5m seed funding round led by Moonshots Capital, with participation from Liberty City Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Seachange Fund, and Quiet Capital, among others. This seed round follows an initial capital raise of $3m as part of Cleary’s pre-seed fundraise. https://hrtechfeed.com/cleary-announces-7-5m-in-funding-for-their-employee-experience-platform/ WorkLLama, technology provider of an AI-driven, talent marketing, relationship management, and direct sourcing suite, today announced several game-changing features to its platform, highlighting its commitment to investment in its technology.  https://hrtechfeed.com/new-features-from-workllama/

Candidate Experience: 2022 Talent Board Findings and Top CandE Large Employer Winner What are employers doing to solve for the candidate experience, and how are candidates perceptions of these efforts (or lack thereof)? Join Kevin Grossman and David Crawford to discuss the latest benchmark data reports from The Talent Board covering all things candidate experience and what the latest data is telling us. Here is what can you expect to hear about during our open forum discussion: What candidates expect the most Reasons candidates will bail during your hiring process What is candidate resentment and how do you get access to the calculator to measure it We will also be highlighting some of the major takeaways from the report such as:  Recruiting technologies drive communication and engagement - a higher level of positive, perceived fairness - are those video interviews helping or hindering you? Onboarding activities can improve early retention

Welcome to the Jungle, a French startup, has raised $54 million (€50 million) in Series C funding. https://hrtechfeed.com/french-job-platform-raises-54-million/ NEW YORK —- Skillit, the recruiting platform for skilled, full-time construction labor, today announced its $5.1M seed round led by Building Ventures with participation from MetaProp, HOLT Ventures, Great North Ventures, 1Sharpe Ventures and Takeoff Capital. The platform is already in the hands of select ENR contractors including industry leader Messer Construction. https://hrtechfeed.com/construction-recruiting-startup-gets-5-1-million/ Deel, the global HR company, recently announced the launch of Deel HR, US Payroll, and Deel Engage, making it possible, for the first time, to hire, manage, and pay global teams compliantly on one platform. This news comes as Deel hits $295 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) at a $12 billion valuation – up from just $57 million ARR a year ago. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-deel-skillcycle/  Clovers has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TalVista. https://hrtechfeed.com/clovers-acquires-talvista/

Gustavo Serbia is the Vice President of Human Resources for Hair Cuttery….a Retail chain in the beauty space with over 5,000+ employees across 10 states. There he leads the planning and execution for the entire employee life-cycle, including employee engagement, compensation, benefits, learning and development, employee relations, recruiting, and employment branding. BTW You can check out their career brand at… haircutterycareers.com   Are you ready for a new year of recruiting?    What will you be focusing on this year as far as refining your TA strategy? Give us a sense of your hiring needs on a yearly basis, can you break down some of the numbers for the audience? As well as types of positions? Size of your recruiting team? Do you do sourcing in house for certain roles? What is in your recruiting technology stack?  How effective is paradox/chat bot for recruiting?  You have the task of recruiting for commission only roles… describe that challenge? How do you recruit for a commission only role…what's the most important thing to do for this type of recruiting? What do you look for in a recruiter?

Fama Technologies, Inc., the online background screening solution, has successfully achieved SOC 2® Type 1 compliance in accordance with standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Achieving this compliance milestone demonstrates how Fama safeguards customer data and maintains controls over the completeness and accuracy of financial transactions and financial statement reporting.  https://hrtechfeed.com/fama-technologies-achieves-soc-2-type-1-compliance/ ShiftKey, a Dallas-based technology company transforming the future of work by empowering licensed professionals to connect directly with healthcare facilities with open workforce needs, announced today that it has closed on a funding round sponsored by majority investor Lorient Capital, valuing the company in excess of $2 billion. https://hrtechfeed.com/healthcare-recruiting-platform-lands-huge-investment/ Video interview platform myInterview has landed a Series A investment round led by the company’s existing investors Aleph and Entrée Capital and new investor Jesselson Capital, and included participation from SeedIL Ventures, Digital Horizon and Ocean Azul Partners.   https://hrtechfeed.com/myinterview-lands-11-million-series-a/ Gigged.AI is set to scale its HR tech as companies address hiring freezes and staff retention. The company has secured its latest investment, a £1.6m seed round led by Par Equity alongside existing investor Techstart Ventures, and Nile HQ. Glasgow-headquartered startup Gigged.AI deploys AI-matching algorithms to help businesses source and onboard on-demand tech talent. https://hrtechfeed.com/on-demand-tech-talent-platform-lands-funding/

Jaime Engle  started her career in talent acquisition on the agency side doing full desk tech recruiting at two different organizations before going in house to a Chicago startup called Uptake. She helped grow the company to over 850 employees. After that she joined a data science and SaaS consulting firm called Civis Analytics where she was promoted to a senior recruiter then recruiting manager. After contracting at Salesforce, she returned to the tech startup world at Balto, an AI call assist software company based in St. Louis where she helped grow and scale the business as the Director of Talent.   Its not everyday you see recruiters praising their ATS on linkedin but thats what you did and thats why I reached out to you… LET ME READ WHAT YOU WROTE FOR THE LISTENING AUDIENCE Greenhouse is the best ATS. Lever is second to Greenhouse. Workday is the worst. I said it. I stand by it. Fetcher and Gem are game changing sourcing tools, the dashboarding/data viz capabilities Gem has to communicate pipeline to leadership is simply, *chef's kiss*. Not all companies need these tools right away but as you look to scale next year, the investment is worth the conversation. Weigh the cost of these tools (and their competitors!) against an added headcount. Feel free to disagree with me but I will die on the Greenhouse hill, just sayin'.

Careerlink Holdings, Inc. [Careerlink.com], a provider of HR recruiting, staffing and retention software and services, announced it intends to allow new public investment in the company under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Regulation A+.  Careerlink.com has been a regional job board for 20 years and is under new ownership who is adding staffing and other employer services to the business model. https://hrtechfeed.com/careerlink-files-with-securities-and-exchange-commission-for-public-offering/ Austin, TX: gigaroo was founded in 2022 by CEO, Adir Oren, and CRO, Yair Almagor and was built to transform the service industry employment market by enabling employers to find and retain staff on an ongoing basis. In addition to giving Gen-Z jobseekers control over their schedules and wages, employers can benefit from loyal employees by changing their mindsets to be more open to flexible hours. https://hrtechfeed.com/service-industry-gig-app-launches-with-funding/ Freelance management platform Workgenius has announced the acquisition of Agency WorX, a staffing firm based in New York. https://hrtechfeed.com/workgenius-freelance-platform-acquires-us-based-staffing-agency/ HireBasis, a remote job site, has recently gone live after several months of development, and currently boasts over two thousand users from around the world, and hundreds of new jobseekers joining the site every week. The site also curates hundreds of remote jobs every month while also allowing employers to post jobs for free. https://hrtechfeed.com/hirebasis-launches-free-remote-job-site/ Recruitics, an award-winning, data-powered recruitment marketing firm, announced today that Adam Stafford has been named as its new Chief Executive Officer. Prior to his promotion, Stafford served as Chief Operating Officer of Recruitics. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitics-names-adam-stafford-as-chief-executive-officer/

The time where we look back on all the predictions and trends that were made for 2022, see if they held up, and contemplate what will be coming our way in 2023. This year was the continuation of the Great Resignation, hybrid work and changing office requirements, and a lot of big players in the space making drastic changes with layoffs and maybe a bit of Great Remorse. Brian Fink will be joining us for our annual look back and leap forward. Last year, Brian predicted that a lot of recruiters were going to start to understand what a bad candidate experience really felt like - and wow, was he ever right. And as we look at the rapidly changing landscape, are we in for recession, are there clear skies ahead? How do we have massive layoffs and yet a talent shortage all at the same time - how did we get here and is there a clear path into next year? How do you adjust your strategy to manage the uncertain landscape ahead? Does candidate experience matter anymore? Who are the winners and losers in this current market? How do you manage your recruiting teams through this market?

A list of all the HR tech funding news from 2022. https://hrtechfeed.com/venture-capital/

BEAMERY, announced it has closed a $50 million Series D funding round, taking the company to a valuation of over $1 billion – representing a 25% valuation uplift over their previous round in a challenging funding environment. https://hrtechfeed.com/beamery-raises-50-million-in-series-d-funding/ UPWORK the freelance marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent, released the results of “Freelance Forward: 2022,” the most comprehensive study of the U.S. independent workforce, which found that 60 million Americans performed freelance work in the past 12 months, representing 39% of the entire U.S. workforce. https://hrtechfeed.com/39-of-the-entire-u-s-workforce-is-freelancing/  

A look back at the acquisitions from the HR tech industry.  https://hrtechfeed.com/acquisitions/

AllWork, the end-to-end platform that helps companies more efficiently and compliantly onboard, manage and pay their freelancer and contingent workforces, today announced the completion of a $4.9 million Series A funding round. AllWork will use the funds to expand its software, payment services and team to meet the increasing need by companies and freelancers for an easier way to work together. https://hrtechfeed.com/allwork-announces-4-9-million-series-a-funding-round/ LumApps, an employee experience platform, has acquired Vizir, an innovative no-code digital assistant technology (“predictive chatbots”) that human resources, and information technology, communications departments can use to automate mundane tasks and improve employee access to knowledge, resources, and third-party applications at lower costs.     https://hrtechfeed.com/lumapps-acquires-vizir/ Hunt Club , a recruiting startup that leverages the power of relationships and technology to help companies find top talent, announces their $40 million Series B round co-led by WestCap and Sator Grove.  https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiting-startup-hunt-club-raises-40-million/ Fountain, the applicant tracking system (ATS) for high-volume hiring, recently announced new recruiter tools that support seamless scheduling and interviewing. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-fountain-healthgigjobs/

Greetr.io is a new candidate experice software that will be launching in 2023. I caught up with CEO Bill Fanning to learn more.

Talroo, 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 find, hire, and pay remote workers around the globe. Distro makes it easy to scale your team in today’s uncertain labor market. Creating an alternative to hiring software development services companies, customers can find and hire people on their own. https://hrtechfeed.com/pay-per-hire-tech-job-marketplace-launches/ Job.com, the AI-enabled technology recruitment platform, has secured an undisclosed investment from two New York and California-based financial institutions, Serengeti Asset Management and Ghost Tree Partners. The investment will accelerate the delivery and development of Job.com’s technology and fund further acquisitions in the recruitment and staffing sector. https://hrtechfeed.com/job-com-secures-ip-backed-growth-financing/ Workday, Inc. a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced that its Board of Directors approved a new share repurchase program with authorization to purchase up to $500 million of shares of its Class A common stock. The stock WDAY is currently trading around $166 https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-announces-share-repurchase-program-financial-results/

Spot 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 for your candidates. Think of it as the General Contractor coordinating all your trades when building your recruitment house.

Building 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 platform provides a library of tech job templates and smart data tools to optimize postings for skills, qualifications and inclusivity oriented to the U.S. labor market. https://hrtechfeed.com/comptia-launches-tech-job-posting-optimizer-to-help-employers-hire-better/ NEW YORK — Fearless+ today announced $1MM raised for their pre-seed funding round. Fearless+ reimagines career development for Gens Z and Alpha with college and career opportunities, elite mentors, and workshops to learn real-world skills outside the classroom.  https://hrtechfeed.com/career-prep-platform-raises-1m-in-pre-seed-round/ iCIMS‘ has added some new features to its platform incuding: A new framework for creating, distributing and collecting job applications. A powerful, 360-degree view of candidates and jobs. Greenhouse, the hiring software company, today announced Greenhouse Goals, a new feature that gives recruiters and hiring teams a structured way to set, track and measure against hiring goals. Available to all Greenhouse customers, Goals enables talent acquisition (TA) teams to set goals at an individual or company-wide level, offering greater transparency into their performance and visibility into areas of improvement. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-icims-greenhouse/

We'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.

After 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 shift management solution that focuses on scheduling and staff management amidst the ongoing hiring crunch. https://hrtechfeed.com/apploi-acquires-oncall-to-help-healthcare-employers-manage-shifts/ Namely, the HR platform for mid-sized companies, has enhanced its onboarding functionality. https://hrtechfeed.com/namely-deepens-its-onboarding-features/ Modern Hire, the enterprise hiring platform announced the launch of the Virtual Job Tryout (VJT) for Drivers, a preconfigured pre-hire assessment for candidates seeking employment as a commercial driver. The VJT for Drivers is the latest offering in Modern Hire’s growing portfolio of job simulation and text-based assessments that measure key skills and abilities critical to success in the role and that provide candidates with a realistic preview of a typical day on the job.    https://hrtechfeed.com/modern-hire-rolls-out-virtual-job-tryout-for-commercial-drivers/ HR Acuity, the only human resources SaaS solution for employee relations case management and investigations, announced today it has acquired Speakfully, the safe, private, and secure platform for employees to voice workplace concerns. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-acuity-acquires-anonymous-workplace-reporting-platform/

Finding 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 then match those skills to the employer’s needs, bringing together candidates and job openings that belong together. This process removes the need for a traditional resume which is a major barrier for many entering the job market or shifting careers.  What are The pitfalls of the post-military job search   Why skills-based hiring is the right way to do hiring, and how it benefits everyone  Origins of your business and How CATE is career matching at a 95% success rate    Walk us through how it works from a seeker perspective and then how the employer uses it. Cost?   Why the lean economy makes it more important than ever for organizations to rethink their hiring practices  Other hiring tips for hiring former service members? Whats the marketing plan? How will you attract veterans Target customer? Success story?

 RecruiterSpot, 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. This funding investment comes as October employment numbers show people are leaving their careers faster than new hires are coming in the door. https://hrtechfeed.com/worktorch-announces-2-2m-in-additional-funding-and-rebrand-from-quickhire/ ZipRecruiter®, a leading online employment marketplace, today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2022.  Quarterly revenue $227.0 million, up 7% y/y Company raises revenue guidance to $897M – $903M, or 21% YoY Growth Company raises Adjusted EBITDA guidance to $173M – $179M, or 20% margin https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-announces-third-quarter-2022-results/

I spoke with Prelude CEO about the acquisition by Calendly and got a demo of their interview scheduling tool.

A 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 skills verification and digital reference checking that helps more than 2,300 companies make the best possible talent decisions. https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-acquires-skillsurvey/ Qwick, the leading on-demand staffing platform for hospitality businesses and professionals, has closed its $40 million Series B investment.  https://hrtechfeed.com/on-demand-staffing-platform-raises-40-million/ Gloat, a provider of Workforce Agility tools announced the introduction of Gloat Hiring, a signature expansion to the Workforce Agility Platform that enables businesses to integrate internal mobility models with talent acquisition campaigns. https://hrtechfeed.com/gloat-launches-hiring-tools/

This 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: Finding harmony between your employer brand and your employees Finding balance between personal and professional posts on social media (when your content is consistently good it won’t throw your audience off when you insert posts that talk about how great working for your employer is) Putting your brand in the spotlight without putting your brand onto your employees

Jeanniey Walden is the Chief innovation and marketing officer for DailyPay, the financial solutions company and a recognized- leader in the on-demand pay industry.

In 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 unidentified clicks, but in the long run, pay-per-application will save employers money, as recruiters can zero in on more quality candidates faster, Hulce said. https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-to-move-to-ppa-revenue-model-in-2023/ Beeline, a technology solution provider for managing the global extended workforce, today announced it has agreed to acquire Utmost, a next-generation extended workforce solutions company.  https://hrtechfeed.com/beeline-to-acquire-utmost-talent-intelligence-solution/  Paycor HCM, Inc. (“Paycor”) (Nasdaq: PYCR), a leading provider of human capital management (HCM) software, today announced the acquisition of Talenya, an AI-driven recruiting platform that automatically sources quality talent faster and at a significantly lower cost. Paycor expects to begin offering an integrated solution in the first quarter of 2023. https://hrtechfeed.com/paycor-acquires-talenya/ The Home Depot® launched a new jobseeker marketplace created to connect skilled tradespeople to hiring trades professionals in the construction and home improvement industries. Visit PathtoPro.com to learn more.

The team at Pillar.hr an interview intelligence platform hosted me recently on a webinar to talk about this years HR tech trends. 

Dandi 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 company that uses AI to help companies fill open positions with qualified workers, today announced the completion of a $5.3 million seed round led by Mensch Capital Partners and Cresson Management, with participation from Cerca Discovery, Tau Ventures Ltd., Techstars, and GoodCompany. TaTiO sources and vets job seekers with their AI work experience simulations and provides employers with pre-qualified candidates to interview. https://hrtechfeed.com/tatio-raises-5-3m-to-help-understaffed-companies-access-americas-untapped-workforce-with-ai/ Fresh off a round of funding, The Muse a job site/employer branding company, has acquired the largest career community for women, FairyGodBoss. This acquisition combines the largest online career community for Gen Z and millennial candidates with the largest online career community for women, to create a new “powerhouse in the next-gen hiring space” according to the company. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2022/10/12/the-muse-begins-job-board-acquisition-spree/ CareerBeacon, the leading online recruitment and talent acquisition site in Atlantic Canada, announced today its acquisition of the employer branding platform, Ruutly.  https://hrtechfeed.com/careerbeacon-acquires-employer-brand-tool/

I sat down with Goodtime.io CEO to find out whats new with the hiring and scheduling platform.

ERIN, 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-referral-platform-lands-5-million/ NEW YORK — Revelio Labs, the workforce intelligence company, today announced its Series A capital raise of $15 million. The capital will be used to expand Revelio Labs’ offerings for corporate HR and strategy, and comes less than a year after the company raised $4.5 million in seed funding. Since then, Revelio Labs has tripled in size, with over 150 clients ranging from investors to corporate strategists and HR teams, as well as governments. https://hrtechfeed.com/workforce-intelligence-tool-gets-15-million/ JobSync, creators of the first-ever Talent Acquisition Automation Platform (TAAP), and Talent Board, a nonprofit candidate experience benchmark research organization, today released their joint research report, Are Recruiting Technologies Delivering on Their Promise and Potential? Based on a global survey of nearly 250 recruiters and Talent Acquisition (TA) and Human Resources (HR) professionals, the report reveals that the various technologies participants rely on to source, recruit, and hire new talent—technologies that have, in many cases, been in use for more than a decade—still don’t integrate particularly well and often require creative workarounds or the use of manual processes. https://hrtechfeed.com/press-release-new-research-from-jobsync-and-talent-board/

Ed 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 tech for many years what do you get from shows like this? HR tech market has exploded in the last few years, thoughts on that and where we are headed? What makes a good event? Where are virtual hiring events in 5 yrs?

Jonathan 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 IAMPHENOM conf in 2023?

Calendly, 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 an additional close of $60 million, bringing the total Series B financing to $108 million. More than two dozen investors are participating in the oversubscribed extension round, including both institutional funds and angel investors. https://hrtechfeed.com/workstream-lands-another-60-million/ CoRise officially launched its live online upskilling platform to help businesses and individuals acquire the cutting-edge technical skills necessary to remain competitive in today’s market. The CoRise platform features live online courses from top industry experts, a rich community of peers, and leverages technology to deliver high-quality education with real career outcomes at scale. They also secured an 8.5 million seed round of funding.   https://hrtechfeed.com/new-upskilling-platform-for-tech-skills-launches/ Employee Cycle, the leading HR analytics dashboard for small and medium-sized businesses, has closed a $2.5 million seed round of financing, led by Impellent Ventures.  https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-cycle-closes-2-5m-seed-round-to-automate-hr-reporting-process/

I 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? Anything new coming out?

I 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.

Amy 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 followers. What’s the secret sauce? https://www.jobsync.com/post/making-your-own-success-in-recruiting

The 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 truth” for people analytics, today announced its $36M Series B. https://hrtechfeed.com/knoetic-raises-36m-series-b-empowering-chief-people-officers-to-make-better-data-driven-decisions/ SilkRoad Technology, the world-class talent acquisition leader, announced today the addition of person-to-person texting and SMS notifications in its RedCarpet Onboarding solution and On-demand Talent Campaigns (OTC) at its annual user conference, Connections. These powerful capabilities will enable organizations to source, attract, convert, engage and retain talent amidst the most dynamic talent economy in recent memory. https://hrtechfeed.com/silkroad-technology-announces-texting-features-for-onboarding/ Polywork, the professional network, just announced $28 million in Series B funding. The round was co-led by Nat Friedman (former GitHub CEO) and Caffeinated Capital with participation from existing and new investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Baron Davis, Bungalow Capital, Daniel Gross, Elad Gil, Fidji Simo, Maverick Carter and the founders of Stripe, Lyft, Clubhouse, Instacart, Lattice, Minted, and Divvy Homes. https://hrtechfeed.com/professional-network-platform-gets-28m-in-funding/ Sourcing platform Findem has raised $30 million in Series B financing. This round brings their total funding to $37.3 million. Four Rivers and Quarry Ventures led the round, with participation from our existing investor Wing Venture Capital. https://hrtechfeed.com/findem-lands-30m-investment/

I 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.

Spotlyfe led the way by winning the 2022 HR Tech conference pitchfest.

Joonko, 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 mission of Better work, better world through product enhancements to the world’s only global talent optimization platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/assessment-platform-predictive-index-lands-new-funding/  Ashby, the all-in-one recruiting platform for high-growth startups and enterprise companies launches publicly today with over 500 paying customers and $21.5 million in Series B funding. The round was led by F-Prime Capital with participation from Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, Semper Virens, Base Case Capital, Gaingels, as well as over a 100 customers, partners, and operators. The new injection of capital will be used to scale operations, engineering, and go-to-market teams. https://hrtechfeed.com/a-new-ats-enters-the-fray/ Indeed Flex, the online marketplace for flexible and temporary workers is expanding into California.   The tech-first staffing platform, which was acquired by Indeed in 2019, is now available to job seekers and employers in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Bernardino County, with further expansion across the state planned in the coming months.

Skyhive.ai has a new job description generator tool. I talked with CEO Sean Hinton and product person Chris Toplack about how it works.

Sense, 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, the leading HR platform for mid-sized companies, today confirmed it has merged with the organization recently created by the combination of Vensure Employer Services and PrismHR. https://hrtechfeed.com/namely-merges-with-vensure-employer-services-prismhr/  SkyHive®, the first company to map and sequence the global labor market in real-time, provide workforce intelligence, and guide the rapid reskilling of workers and communities around the world, today announced the launch of SkyHive Answers™, a cloud-based application that empowers leaders and business users with immediate, accurate, and specific answers to their most pressing human capital strategy questions. https://hrtechfeed.com/skyhive-launches-search-engine-for-workforce-talent-strategies/

Donald 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.

Cliquify 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, 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 decisions. https://hrtechfeed.com/hireroad-acquires-peopleinsight/ Crosschq, pioneers of the Talent Intelligence Cloud™, which is powering a revolution in data-driven hiring and people analytics, today announced the first of many new features coming to its talent pipeline visualization product – The Wall. This is the only self-service Talent Intelligence product on the market that makes collaborating and strategizing on key roles across the entire hiring team easy with plug-and-play modules. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-crosschq-turn/ Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK), the world’s work marketplace, today released its seventh annual “Future Workforce Report.” Reflecting survey data from over 1,000 U.S. hiring managers, the 2022 report finds that businesses are reevaluating longstanding notions around how to access talent as well as resource, construct and scale teams. https://hrtechfeed.com/upworks-future-workforce-report/ The HR tech conference is coming up which I’ll be attending. I have a special code for listeners who want to attend HR tech, use code: HT22MA18 to save $300 off your ticket and I’ll see you in Vegas! Once again that code is HT22MA18

This 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 video to attract and communicate with candidates [make yourself stand out and see who else does the same in return] How to target individual candidates beyond automation [and get it right] - notice the two emojis after Vanessa’s name on social media? There’s a reason for that! https://www.jobsync.com/post/beyond-the-template-beyond-the-resume

Incredible 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 surging patient care demand.  https://hrtechfeed.com/career-marketplace-for-nurses-raises-80-million/ LEHI, Utah — IsoTalent announces closing a $5 million seed round to launch its global, on-demand hiring marketplace. The investment round was co-led by Crocker Ventures and Ad Ventures, and included Sweater Ventures and several high-profile angel investors. https://hrtechfeed.com/on-demand-recruiting-marketplace-lands-5-million/ HiBob, the company behind Bob, the HR platform transforming how organizations operate in the modern world of work, today announced it has raised an additional $150M in growth funding, just ten months after raising a $150M Series C in October 2021. The latest round is underpinned by HiBob’s sixth consecutive year of triple digit revenue growth. https://hrtechfeed.com/hibob-raises-150m-series-d/ Out of New york…GrowthSpace, the world’s first outcome-focused talent development platform, today announced $25 million in Series B funding led by Zeev Ventures. Existing investors M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund) and Vertex Ventures participated in this round, which brings the total amount raised to $44 million. https://hrtechfeed.com/talent-development-platform-gets-25-million-in-funding/ Lateral Hub is proud to announce the launch of its innovative job board for top-tier law firms and lawyers, providing a new, efficient way for lawyers to find lateral job opportunities.  https://hrtechfeed.com/new-job-board-for-lawyers/ The HR tech conference is coming up which I’ll be attending. I have a special code for listeners who want to attend HR tech, use code: HT22MA18 to save $300 off your ticket and I’ll see you in Vegas! Once again that code is HT22MA18

The 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 have had a lasting impact on the future of work. It’s imperative that HR leaders evaluate the immediate and longer-term impact of these trends and the degree to which they will change strategic goals and plans. READ https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/9-future-of-work-trends-post-covid-19

The 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 suite, is joining Employ in another merger of ATS vendors.  https://hrtechfeed.com/ats-merger-employ-to-acquire-lever/ Workday, Inc. announced the return of Workday Rising, the company’s flagship customer conference. The conference is being held virtually and in-person from Sept. 12-15, 2022, in Orlando, Fla.  https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-announces-the-return-of-workday-rising-the-same-week-of-hr-tech/ Workday Rising is the same week as the annual HR tech conference which I’ll be attending. I have a special code for listeners who want to attend HR tech, use code: HT22MA18 to save $300 off your ticket and I’ll see you in Vegas!

As 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 respond.  Email is still their preferred method of communication, and 58% of candidates receive no response at all when they are screened out of the process. DOWNLOAD THE REPORT

INTERNMATCH 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 continuation of Job.com’s strategic plan to develop revenue and reach by acquiring successful businesses and supporting intelligent growth with the application of Job.com’s proprietary technology.  https://hrtechfeed.com/job-com-acquires-another-recruiting-firm/ SAN FRANCISCO — Kona, the employee experience platform for remote teams, today announced it has closed a $4 million seed funding round led by Unusual Ventures with participation from Evolutionary Ventures, the venture arm of Silicon Valley executive coaching company Evolution, 2.12 Angels, Louis Beryl, David Carrico, James Beshara, Amazon exec Jeff Wilke, and more. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-experience-platform-for-remote-teams-raises-4-million/ Lastly an onboarding tool gets funded… allwhere is a people-first company that empowers teams to stay productive and engaged — wherever they may be. This includes working with companies to implement holistic remote work solutions, manage the full lifecycle of equipment from procurement to storage and disposal, and provide world-class onboarding, engagement, retention, and wellness programs while lowering costs by leveraging allwhere’s economies of scale. https://hrtechfeed.com/allwhere-gets-9-5-million-for-its-onboarding-and-engagement-service/

In the last demo day for the summer you'll hear from 3 vendors as they show off their features in rapid fire fashion.

TOPICS 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 client you talked to who made a hire through your site…what kind of job?

15Five, 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 equity funding just 9 months after its initial $2.8m seed round.   https://hrtechfeed.com/pre-employment-screening-platform-lands-8-5-million/ HireArt, which TechCrunch previously described as a “resume-killing” jobs marketplace, today announced that it raised $26.25 million in a Series B financing round led by Three Fish Capital with participation from over a “half dozen” angel investors. CEO Nick Sedlet said that the cash will be put toward product development and more than doubling HireArt’s 82-person headcount within the next year. https://hrtechfeed.com/w2-contractor-platform-lands-26-million/ ResumeSieve™ announced the completion of a 2-way integration between The Sieve™ and the iCIMS applicant tracking system. https://hrtechfeed.com/resumesieve-announces-icims-2-way-integration-launch/ Bullhorn®, the cloud computing company that helps staffing and recruiting organizations transform their businesses, today announced that it has acquired SourceBreaker, a successful Bullhorn Marketplace partner and fast-growing provider of market-leading search and match solutions. https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-acquires-sourcebreaker/

In 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, parents, houses, life things. Life doesn’t get put on hold so people can take time to make their next career move. Let’s take a step back, remember that candidates are people - and make sure that they can thrive. Our goal as employers is to help them be successful - so they can thrive in their new role and be passionate about working for and with us.

At 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 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/

We 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?

CareerArc 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/

I caught up with Rick Osmer from the hiring platform Gem.com at Unleash in Las Vegas

Its 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 is a full featured applicant tracking system. 3. FloCareer’s flexible IaaS (Interview-as-a-Service) technical interview platform (via our 3000+ industry experts), leads to reduced time to hire, better candidates and improved client productivity.  4. Joveo: programmatic job advertising platform.

Erin App is an employee referral tool. I caught up with Raul Aquino their new director of global sales at Unleash 2022.

Cliquify.me is a unique recruitment marketing utility tool.

Adzuna, 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, creating a better option for jobseekers globally. 

CEIPAL, 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 expands into regions and industries most heavily impacted by skills gaps and unemployment. https://hrtechfeed.com/virtual-reality-job-training-tool-lands-35m/ Job search engine Adzuna,, announced the acquisition of job search engine Getwork. (formerly known as Linkup) https://hrtechfeed.com/adzuna-acquires-job-search-engine-getwork/ Fountain, the applicant tracking system (ATS) for high volume hiring, today announced an extension of its November 2021 Series C round by $100M, bringing the total to $185M.  https://hrtechfeed.com/ats-fountain-raises-an-additional-100m/ After decades of investment, Skillsoft decided to give up on the LMS market and sell SumTotal Systems to Cornerstone for $200 Million. This according to a report by analyst Josh Bersin https://joshbersin.com/2022/06/cornerstone-acquires-sumtotal-for-200-million/

I caught up with Pankaj Jindal the co founder of Sense and AI recruiting tool at Unleash America 2022.

I sat down with the new CMO at SmartRecruiters the talent acquisition software suite.

Intro: 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 Recruit, has 20+ years of experience in recruitment and event marketing. Anthony has worked with some of the largest health systems and brands in the country, helping them attract top talent and hire candidates faster.   Questions: Why is virtual hiring so important right now? How do you know if virtual hiring events are right for your organization?  How do virtual hiring events impact the candidate experience? What about employer brand? Where should virtual hiring events fit into your talent acquisition strategy as a whole? What should your key considerations be when choosing a virtual hiring technology? When do you start promoting it? Who should join your virtual hiring event? Should you have hiring managers, or just recruiters and sourcers? Should you use video chat? What are best practices to consider when hosting a virtual hiring event? How many candidates will attend? What will candidates want to chat about? What should your expectations be for a virtual hiring event?

RippleMatch, 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 career growth. https://hrtechfeed.com/job-search-tool-raises-6-3-million/ Phenom announced Phenom High-Volume Hiring — for organizations that need to hire large numbers of workers quickly and efficiently, while providing an exceptional experience for candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers.  https://hrtechfeed.com/introducing-phenom-high-volume-hiring/ GR8 People, the only talent acquisition platform announced the unveiling of their new brand identity and market positioning. https://hrtechfeed.com/gr8-people-rebrands-as-the-everyone-platform/ AUSTIN — Reflex, the online marketplace that helps brands find and connect with retail superheroes on-demand, today emerged from stealth and announced its $4.5 million oversubscribed seed funding round. Indicator Ventures led the round, with additional investment from Sugar Capital and Red Swan Ventures. https://hrtechfeed.com/retail-employment-marketplace-gets-4-5m-seed-funding/

I talked with Alex Murphy the CEO of Jobsync at Unleash 2022

I chatted up Birch Faber, VP of Marketing at Dalia - live form the show floor at Unleash 2022.

SellX 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 challenges with recruiting and retaining when it comes to sales (SDR) positions? So is this like upwork for sales talent?  How do you train people to sell something if they are not employed by that company? How many reps do you have and how do you attract them? Vetting process…. How does an employer engage with the service? Job openings hit a record-high 11.5 million in March, what are some trends you are seeing coming out of the Great Resignation?  (among sales people) Every industry seems like its going to have a freelance on demand marketplace eventually….how do you see this trend shaking out? What are some ways companies are using your platform to fill key talent gaps? (success story) How was the idea born…take me ack to the idea concept up to your first customer You have a couple million in funding i think, whats the go to market plan at this point?

Guild, 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 announced the closing of a $2.25 million Series B-3 financing round. The Presidio Group LLC (“Presidio”), the leading investment bank to the automotive retail and consumer mobility sectors, served as exclusive financial advisor to SkillPointe. https://hrtechfeed.com/skillpointe-secures-2-25-million-in-series-b-funding/ Hourly.io — which has built an app that tracks working hours, generates payroll, and then calculates and assigns workers compensation insurance to individuals based on that — has closed in on $27 million in funding. https://hrtechfeed.com/hourly-io-gets-27-million/  HourWork, a SaaS recruitment and retention platform for quick-serve restaurant (QSR) franchise owners, today announced the closing of $2.5 million in additional Series A funding led by MassMutual’s MM Catalyst Fund (MMCF), which joins a noteworthy list of investors including Morgan Stanley’s Next Level Fund, Positive Sum Ventures, and RelishWorks.  https://hrtechfeed.com/hourwork-gets-another-2-5-million-in-series-a-funding/ Global Employer Brand Agency, Ph.Creative, has launched an new recruitment technology company featuring a flagship enterprise-level careers website SaaS platform.  ‘Happy Dance‘ is its name and was originally built by Ph.Creative for its own use. “We’d perfected the system to the point where it was so intuitive, so easy to use, launching as a standalone just made sense. The existing options all come from big, back-end technology operators: they’re systems designed in the dark. By contrast, we’re from an agency world that’s purpose built to be responsive and accommodating. It’s what we do for a living, after all.” https://hrtechfeed.com/careers-website-platform-launches/

Audio 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.

Audio from our recent Demo Day. Apologies for the echo in some of the audio.

Jobsync 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 recruiters to be as creative and nimble as you are.

Assembled, 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 users, support is the biggest roadblock between mission and reality. Why is support so hard to get right? We believe it’s because operational issues and people issues rhyme, and that’s what we’re out to solve.”  https://hrtechfeed.com/workforce-management-tool-gets-51-million/ RepVue, the world’s largest and fastest-growing sales organization ratings platform, today announced that it has secured $5 million in seed financing led by S3 Ventures with significant participation from TDF Ventures and existing investors, including Knoll Ventures and Alerion Ventures. In addition, RepVue added new investors GTMfund and Triangle Tweener Fund.  Industry leaders such as Kyle Porter, (Salesloft CEO), Alex Estevez (former CFO, Atlassian), and Matt Green (CRO, Sales Assembly) also joined the round. Only two years after coming out of beta, RepVue users have contributed over 60,000 ratings of 11,000 sales organizations globally.  These ratings include data-points on quota attainment, culture, lead flow, compensation, product-market fit and more – making RepVue the most trusted resource for sales professionals seeking up-to-date, detailed insights into prospective employers. “Over my 20 years as both a sales professional and leader of large sales organizations, I’ve recognized an acute need for more balanced information in the hiring process, as well as more data-driven decisions by hiring teams. This funding helps realize RepVue’s mission to drive transparency into sales organizations and enable sales professionals to discover career opportunities that best fit their skills and experience,” according to Ryan Walsh, founder and CEO of RepVue. “RepVue will use the funding to extend its leadership and accelerate growth by hiring additional top talent and expanding its dataset.” https://hrtechfeed.com/repvue-gets-5-million-in-new-funding-to-transform-how-sales-professionals-make-career-decisions/ Velocity Global, the leading provider of global talent solutions, announced today that it raised $400 million in its Series B funding round, increasing the company’s valuation seven-fold since the same time last year. The platform offers a full suite of talent solutions, including global Employer of Record (EoR) and Contractor Management, to help thousands of companies compliantly onboard, manage, and pay full-time and part-time talent, contractors, and freelancers in more than 185 countries and all 50 United States. https://hrtechfeed.com/velocity-globals-gets-400-million/ ​​WorkReels has launched the world’s first video storytelling platform built specifically for recruitment and employer branding teams. WorkReels enables talent acquisition professionals to easily make and share high-quality, affordable social media videos for recruiting for about 1/20 the price of video production. WorkReels enables talent acquisition professionals to attract and engage with both passive and active job seekers by reaching them where they spend the most time–viewing videos on social media. WorkReels is a solution for how hiring takes place today, which is more like digital marketing–attracting candidates through interesting video content and engaging with them over social media. How WorkReels works Using WorkReels requires no special video filming experience. It uses smartphone cameras and as little as 20 minutes of employee’s time: Recruiters select from a library of customizable templates called Storylines to film scenes for the video story they want to tell, including “meet the team” and “a day in the life” videos that help illustrate their employee experience. Recording WorkReels videos is quick and easy with any smartphone and can be completed in as little as 20 minutes with participants filming separately or together, whenever it’s convenient for them. WorkReels professional editors transform approved recordings into high-quality videos optimized for social media, a jobs page or any location frequented by a company’s likely job seekers. The WorkReels branded player makes sharing and embedding videos easy across LinkedIn, Youtube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook.   SmartRecruiters announced the launch of SmartOnboard, a native solution that delivers a seamless onboarding experience for new hires. The new solution allows HR teams to get new employees up and running through a simple, tailored, and engaging onboarding experience that can be managed at scale. With SmartOnboard new hires can easily find and complete their onboarding tasks, be introduced to their team, and familiarize themselves with their employer’s brand and culture, all through a new hire portal. At the same time, automated onboarding activities free up onboarding teams from managing paperwork, allowing them to focus on getting new hires set up for success, all while easily controlling their data on one system. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-tech-news-workreels-smartrecruiters/

We teamed up with the folks at Phenom to ring you some great audio from their recent Talent Experience Live show from Linkedin.

Fetcher, 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 All-in-One Learning Platform helping businesses and their employees unlock their true growth potential – today has announced it has acquired The Enablement Squad, one of the largest online open communities of enablement professionals whose mission is to engage, educate, and empower enablement leaders across the globe. https://hrtechfeed.com/workramp-acquires-the-enablement-squad/ Crosschq, pioneers of the Talent Intelligence Cloud™ that is powering a revolution in data-driven hiring and people analytics, announced today it has acquired TalentWall, creators of the popular recruiting analytics platform that enables talent acquisition teams to hire more efficiently and collaboratively through the use of data. An essential tool for recruiting leaders and hiring managers alike, TalentWall serves as the central source of truth for their hiring team’s most meaningful analytics and insights. https://hrtechfeed.com/crosschq-acquires-recruiting-analytics-software/

GoodTime 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, 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 recovery..  https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-to-offer-up-to-500-in-sponsored-job-credits-for-small-businesses/ Certn, leader in background screening solutions, today announced that it has secured USD $50 million in Series B funding, led by B Capital. This comes on the heels of last year’s $34.1 million funding raise. With this latest round, Certn will further advance its mission of building trust in people – and invest in new markets worldwide.  https://hrtechfeed.com/certn-raises-50-million-for-background-checks/ HOUSTON — WizeHire, a leading hiring platform helping Main Street businesses grow with a better way to find and hire skilled workers, has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global with participation from prior investors Amplo and Mercury. This round brings WizeHire’s total funding to $37.5 million and its valuation to $250 million, to carry out its vision of a world where every business on Main Street succeeds. https://hrtechfeed.com/smb-recruiting-tool-wizehire-lands-30m/ DALLAS — HireLogic (www.hirelogic.com), an artificial intelligence (AI) powered human resources technology software firm that improves interview processes, has raised $4M in seed funding.  https://hrtechfeed.com/hirelogic-raises-4m-seed-funding-to-modernize-interview-processes/

In 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 expectations and understand that providing a best in class experience during the hiring process is what will help us to build great teams.  What you’ll learn: Why a sales mentality in your recruiting strategy is a game changer Why recruitment marketing MUST be a part of your strategy Why revenue is directly tied to serving your clients What you’ll be able to action: How to measure your successes at making hiring choices  How to measure if you are increasing engagement with your recruiting efforts  How to change hiring managers’ thinking that candidates only have one choice

According 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 relationship with that company altogether. 

Wisq, 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 platform GoodJob® announced that it has raised $5.75M to fuel its next stage of growth initiatives. GoodJob uses its proprietary tool called the PATH Assessment® to identify a person’s work traits and behaviors and then match those to people who are most successful in the job.  https://hrtechfeed.com/goodjob-secures-5-75m-in-funding/ Moveworks, an AI platform that powers the best places to work, has introduced Moveworks for HR: a sophisticated artificial intelligence solution built for human resources. The platform now automatically resolves employees’ HR requests, including benefits inquiries, PTO applications, payroll questions, and more. https://hrtechfeed.com/moveworks-is-a-new-hr-support-platform/ Bearmery has made an acquisition…accordign to analyst Josh bersin: Beamery just acquired an exciting company called Flux which has been building a groundbreaking new talent mobility system. https://hrtechfeed.com/beamery-acquires-flux-a-new-type-of-talent-marketplace/

Audio from the latest Jobsync Recruitment Marketing Roundtable.

Getting 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-platform SellX, a smart sales platform and talent marketplace connecting companies with an elite remote sales force to drive revenue, launched today. Built for companies looking to scale faster and more efficiently, SellX provides access to premium, on-demand sales talent who are empowered to work with anyone, anywhere. https://hrtechfeed.com/sellx-is-a-new-sales-talent-marketplace/ Aspecta.ai, a Yale Student founded startup with an ambition to build the next-generation talent engine, incubated at (Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale), has raised about 2 million USD in its latest fundraising round.  https://hrtechfeed.com/talent-software-startup-from-yale-raises-2-million/ Oyster®, the company that delivers exceptional team member experiences for global teams with its fast, compliant and robust global employment platform, today announced that it has raised $150 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion-plus valuation. https://hrtechfeed.com/global-payroll-platform-oyster-raises-150m-in-series-c-funding/

Mike 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!

Checkr, 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 platform to help organizations increase employee engagement and ensure employee success. Part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), Oracle ME enables HR and business leaders to streamline communications across the organization, increase productivity by guiding employees through complex tasks, and improve talent retention by developing a more supportive and trusted environment at work. https://hrtechfeed.com/oracle-enters-the-employee-experience/  Handshake, the largest early talent network, announced it has acquired Talentspace, the leading virtual and hybrid recruiting event platform in Europe. Designed to power recruiting events for universities and global employers like Amazon and Porsche, Talentspace will strengthen Handshake’s suite of events products while accelerating the company’s expansion into Europe, where education-to-employment resources and career services offices are limited. https://hrtechfeed.com/handshake-acquires-european-based-talentspace/ Hireology, the leading all-in-one hiring and HR platform for decentralized businesses, announced today that it will acquire the customer base of franchise-focused applicant tracking platform, Hyrell. Hyrell’s more than 1,200 franchisee customers will transition to Hireology for their hiring needs, gaining access to the platform’s suite of pre- and post-hire tools. https://hrtechfeed.com/hireology-acquires-customer-base-of-applicant-tracking-system-hyrell/

Last 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 has. Therefore the candidate didn't think she could apply for the job. Continue reading: https://www.rectechmedia.com/blog/2022/3/12/in-talent-attraction-the-little-details-matter

Bayard 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? Why are companies doubling down on recruitment advertising? Have job related keywords gotten more expensive What are some of the creative tactics companies are employing to attract candidates? Tell me a recent success story about what Bayard did for one of your clients to help bring inmore applicants?

Blind, 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-launches-talent-by-blind-to-help-employers-recruit-hard-to-reach-engineers/  GR8 People, a leading talent acquisition software innovator, announced a new integration with LinkedIn Recruiter System Connect to streamline the source-to-hire workflow and improve the recruiting process for its users. https://hrtechfeed.com/gr8-people-integrates-with-linkedin-recruiter/ Remote, a leader in building, managing and supporting global, distributed workforces, today announced a $300 million Series C financing round, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from existing investors. https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-secures-300-million-series-c/ Kazoo, the employee experience platform, today announced the acquisition of WorkTango, the Toronto-based employee experience survey and people analytics company that gives employees a voice and leaders actionable insights to create a more engaged workforce.  https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-experience-platform-kazoo-acquires-worktango/ Hirewell has acquired Rainmakers to continue its mission to create a tech-enabled talent ecosystem, following last year’s $21M investment from Prytek. https://hrtechfeed.com/hirewell-acquires-rainmakers-a-recruiting-platform-for-tech-sales-talent/

I 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.

HourWork, 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 employees across all industries. https://hrtechfeed.com/restaurant-recruitment-tool-raises-10-million/ Accurate Background, a leading provider of compliant, automated workforce screening solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CareerBuilder Employment Screening (CBES) from CareerBuilder. The combined entity will operate under the Accurate Background brand and creates a uniquely positioned company focused on technology innovation, customer service, candidate experience, and delivery at scale. Through a strategic partnership agreement, CareerBuilder will continue to offer Accurate’s employment screening services to clients.   https://hrtechfeed.com/accurate-background-to-acquire-careerbuilder-employment-screening/ Sprockets announced the closing of a $10 million Series A financing round, which enables the company to accelerate the transformation of a hiring process that’s fundamentally failing the nation’s hourly workforce. The round was led by Forte Ventures. https://hrtechfeed.com/sprockets-raises-10-million-for-hiring-software/ HackerRank, the developer skills company, today announced $60 million in Series D funding led by Susquehanna Growth Equity. To date, HackerRank has raised more than $115 million in total funding. https://hrtechfeed.com/hackerrank-raises-60-million-series-d/ Talroo, the leading provider of technology to power the recruitment of essential workers, has released its latest innovation to connect job seekers with opportunities. With Smart Job Titles, employers within the Talroo ecosystem are able to differentiate their jobs beyond typical, often uninspired, titles. With enhanced and more varied verbiage, employers — with no effort — are able to present ads that stand out from their competitors. https://hrtechfeed.com/talroo-launches-smart-job-titles/  iCIMS, the talent cloud company, announced the acquisition of Candidate.ID, the marketing automation software built for talent acquisition. Candidate.ID enables recruiting teams to hyper-target best fit, most engaged candidates with unique lead scoring and automated marketing campaigns. Together, iCIMS and Candidate.ID are redefining recruitment marketing. https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-acquires-candidate-id/

Scott 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_United_States

Ramped, 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 and Susa Ventures.  https://hrtechfeed.com/workramp-raises-40-million/  Wedge, the recruiting platform turning video screening into a competitive advantage, today announced the raise of $2 million in funding, which includes participation from Michigan Capital Network, Michigan Rise and Northgate Holdings amongst others.  https://hrtechfeed.com/video-screening-platform-wedge-secures-additional-2m-in-funding/ HR TECH JOB ALERT Lensa.com one of the biggest recruitment and career platforms on the United States market, with 18 million registered users is looking for a partnerships/affiliate manager. Our global headquarters located near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Tech and Business Ops Hub in Europe. Click the link in the show notes to learn more and apply. https://hrtechfeed.com/lensa-is-looking-to-hire-a-new-partnerships-affiliate-manager/

Candidates 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 talents and interests:  Your brand is a reflection of your whole self, and what that means in your day-to-day as a Recruiter. Why TA is more than JUST recruiting and filling jobs How recruiters can do their jobs better and help companies and candidates feel better (and say happy things). Why having the newest tech doesn’t matter if your processes don’t support them. As always it’s an open forum discussion. Come with your cameras on and your questions and insights at the ready.

Rolebot, 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 presence in trucking and additional supply chain verticals. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-feedback-tool-raises-12-million/ Bambee, the company that lets small to medium-sized businesses outsource the human respources, announced a $30 million dollar Series C round, bringing its total funding to $65 million. The investments will be deployed across four areas: Bambee Guided Payroll and HR Autopilot products, adding new customer benefits, expanding customer and HR manager teams to deliver world class service, and growing engineering teams. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-outsourcing-company-bambee-raises-30m-series-c/ Stand Together Ventures Lab (STVL3, LLC) announced an investment in Honest Jobs, a leading national job platform focusing on fair chance employment which launched back in 2019. The investment amounts to $1.5M seed financing round. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2022/03/14/fair-chance-hiring-platform-lands-funding/   Job search platform Talent.com, announced a $120 million US Series B funding round led by Inovia Capital, ..This brings total recent investments to $150 million US, including $30 million US in new debt financing from the Technology & Innovation Banking Group at BMO Financial Group.  https://hrtechfeed.com/talent-com-raises-120-million-us-series-b/

On 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 on TV working for some - LINK

Modern 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-efficient-and-ethical-selection-301497764.html Creatively, a jobs platform that allows creatives to showcase their portfolios digitally and offers collaboration tools, has raised $8 million in new funding, the company announced on Wednesday. https://hrtechfeed.com/creative-job-platform-raises-8-million/ Instant Teams, the remote talent marketplace platform that builds and manages remote teams from 26,000+ database of military-connected, remote-certified workers, has today announced it raised a Series A funding round led by Tiger Global.  https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-talent-marketplace-instant-teams-raises-13-million/  Findem, a people intelligence company applying AI to fuel the next phase of talent acquisition, has secured $30 million in Series B financing. Four Rivers and Quarry Capital Management led the round, with participation from existing investor Wing Venture Capital. The round brings Findem’s total funding to date to $37.3 million.  Learn more at findem.ai

Darrian 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”

Jobcase, 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 marks the fourth successful staffing agency acquisition by Job.com, which is strategically continuing to build its position leading the digital transformation of the industry. https://hrtechfeed.com/job-com-acquires-healthcare-recruitment-firm/  ZipRecruiter®, a leading online employment marketplace, today announced financial results for the quarter and 2021 Quarterly revenue increased to $220 million, up 93% y/y Full year revenue increased to $741 million, up 77% y/y https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-made-741-million-in-2021/ Crelate, the recruitment platform for the talent industry, today announced a strategic investment from Five Elms Capital. The continued partnership with Five Elms Capital will fuel the accelerated expansion of Crelate’s product and customer base, delivering new capabilities and opportunities to their nearly 2,000 recruiting, staffing, and consulting customers. https://hrtechfeed.com/crelate-secures-new-strategic-growth-investment/ And lastly some news from Rec Tech media We announced changes to our job marketplace HR Lancers. The talent community which launched more than 2 years ago as a freelance site for Human Resources is changing its name and expanding its mission. The new entity will now be known as “Evil HR Jobs” (evilhrjobs.com).  https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-lancers-to-rebrand-and-expand-mission-partners-with-evil-hr-lady/

The 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.

Alcor, 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, announced today that it raised $12.1 million in Series A funding to modernize the healthcare industry through innovative scheduling and compliance software. Kevala spun out of Pioneer Square Labs in April 2020. https://hrtechfeed.com/kevala-raises-12-1-million-series-a-to-modernize-healthcare-staffing/ Fama, the world’s largest social media screening company and a leader in applying AI to background screening services, announced its Series B investment this week. The company allows HR departments to leverage insights from the public web and bring them into their talent screening process. More than 1,500 businesses in 32 countries turn to Fama to help protect their brand and ensure a safe and welcoming workplace culture. https://hrtechfeed.com/social-media-talent-screening-tool-gets-10-million/ Epoch, an employee experience platform, announced the close of $3.6 million in seed funding. Rally Ventures led the seed round, with participation from Precursor Ventures, and a number of angel investors with deep operational and industry expertise. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-experience-platform-gets-3-6-million/ Emi, the conversational AI recruiting platform for frontline workers, has secured $11 million in Series A funding, led by Merus Capital and Khosla Ventures. David Rangel, General Partner at Merus Capital and former COO of Iterable, has joined as a Board member. https://hrtechfeed.com/emi-raises-11m-to-help-enterprises-hire-better-frontline-worker/ WorkWhile announced it has raised a $13M Series A finding round , led by Reach Capital The company currently has a presence in 13 major markets across the US, and plans to use the funds to drive growth and hiring, doubling market footprint in 2022. https://hrtechfeed.com/hourly-worker-platform-raises-13-million/ Finally Jobvite, the end-to-end talent acquisition solution provider, today announced the launch of a newly-formed parent company, Employ Inc. The new corporate identity reflects the significant business transformation the Company has undergone since joining forces with JazzHR and NXTThing RPO to create the market leader in talent acquisition solutions. https://hrtechfeed.com/employ-inc-is-the-new-brand-for-jobvite-trio/

Recruiters 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, expectations, how candidates prep for interviews, and more!

Staffing 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 Million CAD in growth financing. Part of the funding was used to strategically acquire one of Canada’s leading job boards, CareerBeacon. Now, the Alongside team is using the funding to modernize, differentiate, and innovate its product to guide and support job seekers through every step of their career journey. This includes finding their first job, levelling up their career, and creating a career path they are excited about. https://hrtechfeed.com/canadian-job-board-careerbeacon-owner-alongside-gets-infusion-of-funding/  Qualifi, an on-demand screening platform allowing recruiting teams to phone interview hundreds of candidates in minutes, today announced that it raised $2.5 million in Series Seed financing. Rally Ventures led the round with participation from repeat investors Techstars, Sixty8 Capital, Elevate Ventures, Debut Capital, and Flywheel Fund, as well as newcomers Northwestern Mutual Black Founder Accelerator powered by gener8tor, Converge, Service Provider Capital, and multiple strategic angels. https://hrtechfeed.com/phone-screening-platform-qualifi-raises-2-5m/ A new company called Check, a payroll infrastructure company that lets platforms embed payroll into their products, today announced it has raised a $75 million Series C led by Stripe, with participation from existing investors Bedrock, Thrive and Index. The company will use the funding to continue to make Check the easiest and most robust platform to build, launch, and scale new payroll businesses. https://hrtechfeed.com/payroll-infrastructure-startup-check-announces-75-million/

Karl 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!

Leading 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 Technologies Inc., a Canadian-based background check company. https://hrtechfeed.com/checkr-acquires-modohr/ Woven, a tech interview platform for hiring engineers at software companies, announced that it’s launching “Woven Match” amidst a new round of 8 million in funding. The new service pairs hiring managers with experienced developers based on their Woven assessment results, which gives technical talent a leg up on their job search.  https://hrtechfeed.com/tech-interview-platform-woven-lands-8-million/

Alison 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

Sourcing 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 Attrax, an industry-leading provider of career site software that lets companies build engaging, personalized career sites. The acquisition will result in an integrated offering, SmartRecruiters Attrax, designed to help customers build data-powered, curated career sites that enhance the candidate experience and improve hiring outcomes. SmartRecruiters Attrax is available immediately for SmartRecruiters customers. https://hrtechfeed.com/smartrecruiters-acquires-career-site-company/ LumApps, a leading Employee Experience Platform, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire HeyAxel, a powerful no-code HR automation and employee onboarding solution. The acquisition builds upon LumApps’ continued growth and promises to accelerate the delivery of LumApps’ unique vision: an entirely personalized experience for each employee. https://hrtechfeed.com/lumapps-to-expand-its-employee-experience-platform-with-acquisition/  Phenom today announced its acquisition of Tandemploy, a Berlin-based HR tech company focused on solving key problems associated with employee experiences. This addition enhances the capabilities of Phenom’s AI-powered Talent Experience Management (TXM) platform and grows the company’s presence in Europe. https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-acquires-employee-experience-company-in-berlin/ Bullhorn®, the cloud computing company that helps staffing and recruiting organizations transform their businesses, today announced the launch of Bullhorn Ventures, a dedicated corporate venture capital resource that will invest in and partner with high-potential, early-stage companies focused on helping staffing and recruiting firms improve operational efficiency and boost top-line growth. Bullhorn Ventures will launch initially with $20 million allocated for investments. https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-ventures-launches-to-fund-staffing-startups/

Laskie is a new matching platform that leverages human sourcers and tech to match talent in remote engineering, product, design, marketing, and sales roles.

Crosschq, 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 investors backing Otta include industry vets such as Indeed’s Paul Forster, Alex Bouaziz of Deel, Ben Herman of Canvas.com, Abakar Saidov of Beamery. https://hrtechfeed.com/tech-jobs-startup-gets-20-million/ Radancy, the global talent technology leader, is pleased to announce its plans to acquire Firstbird, a global leader in SaaS based employee referral programs. Based in Vienna, Austria, Firstbird offers a comprehensive software solution to digitize and streamline the employee referral process. The acquisition of Firstbird is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including certain regulatory approvals. https://hrtechfeed.com/radancy-acquires-firstbird-employee-referrals/ We haven’t seen many new ATS vendors lately but 2022 brings us, Bear Claw. It’s not your father ATS name. The Bear Claw platform caters to small and large businesses and provides a streamlined approach to talent acquisition, automating time-consuming sourcing, data entry, and task management done by recruiters. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-applicant-tracking-system-launches/

In 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 at Applied Systems and senior vice president of employee experience for Ultimate Software. Laura, welcome to the podcast. Tell us first about Enboarder what does your software do? I see you guys use SmartRecruiters as your ATS, how do you like them…what other recruiting tech/HR software do you have in place? What do you make of the current hiring climate...Quit rates are up, companies cant hire fast enough...we seem to be in a fundamental shift for how and why people work... What initiatives are you going to focus on in your new role at Enboarder? What do organizations often get wrong when attempting to engage and connect with their employees? How can they improve this process? What has your previous experience building talent and culture programs taught you, and what learnings do you want to bring to Enboarder?   As we’ve moved to more hybrid and remote work since the start of the pandemic, how has companies’ focus on building employee culture changed? As many industries are still feeling the effects of the Great Resignation, how can companies balance the focus of attracting top talent, while also making sure current employees have all the tools they need to succeed? How did you get your job….Are you hiring for your team?

HR 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 billion after closing a $175 million round of funding from Thrive Capital, Elad Gil, Tiger Global, and Dragoneer. https://hrtechfeed.com/lattice-raises-175m-now-valued-at-3-billion/ Handshake, the largest early career network, today announced a Series F round of $200 million at a valuation of $3.5 billion—more than double its valuation in 2021. The round, led by Coatue Management and Valiant Peregrine Fund with participation from Base10’s Advancement Initiative, among other investors, reflects unprecedented demand amidst a generational shift in the way people start, jump start, or restart their careers. https://hrtechfeed.com/handshake-raises-200m-to-help-gen-z-launch-careers/ Kula, the world’s first recruitment automation platform built to enable hyper-growth companies to build massive talent pipelines on autopilot, today announced $2.7 million funding from Venture Highway, Together Fund, and Global Founders Capital. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitment-automation-platform-raises-2-7m-in-pre-seed-funding/  HR Technology Conference & Exposition® today announced the return of its popular virtual event from March 1-4, 2022. Presented by HR Tech, free virtual event will feature keynotes from workplace thought leaders, including Josh Bersin, George LaRocque, Stacia Sherman Garr, Mark Stelzner and others. To register, visit www.hrtechnologyconference.com/virtual.

Recorded from Jobsync's recent zoom roundtable, this audio features an industry wide discussion about candidate and worker engagement.

Diversity 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://hrtechfeed.com/canvas-com-facing-legal-dispute-over-domain-name-trademark/ SeekOut, the AI-powered Talent 360 platform, has just raised a $115 million Series C investment round led by Tiger Global Management. The round values the company at more than $1.2 billion in just four years, reflecting a 2.6x increase in valuation since its Series B in March 2021. The news comes on the heels of the business increasing ARR by more than 3x in the past year. https://hrtechfeed.com/seekout-raises-115-million/ HealthGigJobs Services, Inc., announces the launch of HealthGigJobs Marketplace which matches verified healthcare businesses with verified and licensed healthcare professionals for on-demand gigs. HealthGigJobs has launched the first order-driven exchange where businesses can simultaneously negotiate prices and terms with multiple matched healthcare professionals, while healthcare professionals can at the same time bid and negotiate on multiple engagements. Professionals are engaged as independent contractors working for themselves, and have the ability to utilize the platform to scale their own businesses. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-healthcare-gigs-marketplace-launches/ Vangst, the cannabis industry’s leading hiring platform, announced the completion of its $19 million Series B financing.  Vangst’s latest round of financing highlights the company’s growth over the last three years alongside the maturing cannabis industry. In the past 12 months, the sector reported a 25% increase in full-time employees and currently employs over 400,000 individuals. https://hrtechfeed.com/vangst-talent-platform-gets-19-million-for-cannabis-hiring/ Bullhorn® has acquired Able, a longstanding Bullhorn Marketplace partner and the provider of market-leading candidate engagement and onboarding solutions. This acquisition is the latest major investment by Bullhorn in helping staffing agencies around the world to transform their businesses in an era of continued digitization. The combination of Able’s candidate engagement and onboarding solutions with Bullhorn enables agencies to efficiently meet complex onboarding requirements, reduce candidate drop-out, and get candidates on assignment faster, all while delivering an incredible candidate onboarding experience. https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-acquires-onboarding-solution/

Andela.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, 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-payfit-raises-e254m-for-its-payroll-hr-software/ Runway Growth Capital, a provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, today announced the close of a senior secured term loan commitment of $65 million to Snagajob.com, the marketplace for hourly jobs and shifts. The Snagajob deal marks another investment for the expanding Runway venture debt portfolio, which seeks to capitalize on a growing market opportunity in which larger, more established businesses are seeking debt financing in order to avoid dilution and additional equity rounds. The loan enables Snagajob to continue investing in its next-generation technology and drive growth on the tailwinds of an evolving hourly jobs market. https://hrtechfeed.com/snagajob-takes-out-65-million-dollar-loan/ Talent Inc., the leading digital resource and trusted advisor to job seekers worldwide, today announced its acquisition of Interview School, an innovative mock-interview software company that provides job seekers with up-to-date interview questions and AI-assisted feedback. As part of its global expansion strategy, this is Talent’s third transaction in the past eight months, since acquiring FlashRecruit in May 2021, and Imkey Holding B.V. (“Imkey”) and its global property Resume.io, a global subscription-based platform for online resume-building with 13 million customers, in June 2021. Launched in 2018, Interview School offers a suite of tools ranging from mock interviews with AI feedback, live interview coaching, and job tracking, including AI Coach, Live Coach, Performance Analysis, and Job Tracker. https://hrtechfeed.com/talent-inc-acquires-interview-school-to-empower-job-seekers-to-accelerate-their-careers-through-expanded-services/ Justworks expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to buy an additional 1,050,000 shares of its Class A common stock at the initial public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The initial public offering price is currently expected to be between $29.00 and $32.00 per share. Justworks intends to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “JW.” https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-software-platform-justworks-files-for-ipo/

Facebook is shuttering its public jobs marketplace. Alex Murphy, CEO of Jobsync stops by to talk about what happened.

TriNet, 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 product offering to include an Administrative Services Organization (ASO), enabling TriNet to dynamically service SMBs throughout their lifecycle.  Upon deal close, Zenefits will become a wholly owned subsidiary of TriNet and Francisco Partners will become a TriNet stockholder. TriNet is also expected to become a preferred supplier of PEO and HRIS services to Francisco Partners portfolio companies across the country after closing. The acquisition is expected to close in the coming months, subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals. https://hrtechfeed.com/trinet-to-acquire-zenefits/ Company Now Valued at $1.5 Billion Paradox, the conversational recruiting platform built to give every recruiter, hiring manager, and talent professional an assistant to get work done, today announced a $200M Series C investment. The round was led by Stripes, Sapphire, and Thoma Bravo, and included participation from Workday Ventures, Indeed, Willoughby Capital, Twilio Ventures, Blue Cloud Ventures, Geodesic, Principia Growth, DLA Piper Venture Fund and current investor Brighton Park Capital.  Paradox’s vision is embodied by Olivia — the conversational AI assistant helping companies like Unilever, Nestle, McDonald’s, CVS Health, and General Motors automate tasks like candidate screening, interview scheduling, onboarding, and more through smart, simple, mobile-first experiences. In just five years, Olivia has helped 500+ global clients save millions of hours of manual work — freeing their teams up to spend time with people, not software.  https://hrtechfeed.com/paradox-raises-200m-series-c/

The 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?

Clovers 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. Effectively managing payroll is one of the biggest pain points for HR teams and has become increasingly complex as workforces have become geographically dispersed and increasingly dynamic with a mix of both full-time and contract workers. The tool addresses this challenge directly with a user-friendly design and capabilities that allow companies to serve all workers – whether they are full-time, freelance, or in another country.  https://hrtechfeed.com/hibob-launches-a-payroll-hub/ GoodJob Software LLC announced that it has been named Company of the Year by HR Tech Outlook. The magazine publishes an annual list of the top ten human resources tech startups, and GoodJob came in at number one. https://hrtechfeed.com/goodjob-named-company-of-the-year/ SkillCat, a free training & jobs platform for skilled trade workers, today announced a $3.3 million seed round led by Omar Hamoui at Mucker Capital.  The investment brings SkillCat closer to its vision of placing one million blue collar workers into high-paying skilled trade jobs.  The investment brings SkillCat closer to solving two of the world’s biggest problems: 1) blue collar workers can’t find good jobs and 2) there is a massive skilled trade worker shortage. https://hrtechfeed.com/skilled-trade-worker-app-gets-3-3-million/ Sense, a market leader in AI-driven talent engagement and communication platform solutions for recruiting, today announced $50 million in Series D funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.  “Sense’s founding mission to equip companies to engage with best-fit talent both quickly and effectively is more important than ever. Our work with hundreds of companies in the past year alone has enabled them to build great teams and compete for talent amid the pandemic,” said Anil Dharni, CEO of Sense.  https://hrtechfeed.com/sense-raises-50-million-in-investment-from-softbank/

Jobandtalent – 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 grow our phenomenal team. We're hiring builders on all fronts: engineering, design, sales, marketing, customer success, and operations.” https://hrtechfeed.com/weve-raised-a-6m-seed-to-power-people-decisions-with-truth/ Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK), the world’s work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent, today announced the launch of its “The Perfect Fit” brand campaign. The campaign showcases how businesses can gain a competitive advantage and solve talent gaps exacerbated by the Great Resignation by tapping into Upwork’s network of high-skilled freelancers from around the world. https://hrtechfeed.com/upwork-launches-new-ad-campaign/ Glassdoor has announced three new executive appointments: Andy Chen as chief product officer, Rodrigo Oliveira as chief technology officer and Owen Humphries as chief financial officer. All appointments are effective immediately.  https://hrtechfeed.com/glassdoor-appoints-3-new-c-suite-execs/ iHire announces the launch of its Job Ad Builder, an intuitive, step-by-step tool that allows users to create modern job postings in less than five minutes – helping them attract top talent faster. Now available to registered employers, iHire’s Job Ad Builder is ideal for small and mid-sized businesses and busy recruiters with minimal time and resources for writing a compelling job posting. https://hrtechfeed.com/ihire-introduces-job-ad-builder/

VideoMyJob 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 entered into a definitive agreement to acquire VNDLY, an industry leader in cloud-based external workforce and vendor management technology.  With VNDLY, Workday will provide organizations with a unified workforce optimization solution that will help organizations manage all types of workers—salaried, hourly, contingent, and outsourced—and support a holistic talent strategy, including insight into costs, workforce planning needs, and compliance. https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-to-acquire-vndly/ Jobvite has announced the speaker lineup for its free 2021 Recruiter Nation Live (RNL) event taking place on Tuesday, Dec. 7. Now in its 13th year, the event gives recruiters, talent acquisition (TA) leaders, and practitioners a half day of virtual education including best practices on candidate experience, recruitment automation, TA metrics, and other important strategies for successful recruiting in the new year.  Register at jobvite.com https://hrtechfeed.com/jobvite-announces-speaker-lineup-for-recruiter-nation-live/

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Linkedin 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 roles. The unified Harver platform will combine the capabilities of both Outmatch and Harver, creating one powerful solution purpose-built to solve the complex volume hiring challenges organizations are facing today. “Outmatch’s extensive science and product capabilities, combined with Harver’s dedicated volume hiring solutions, have already proven to be a truly winning combination” said Jim Trimarco, Chief Revenue Officer of Harver. “We’ll move forward under the Harver brand, and together we can now provide a full-service solution that helps organizations not only overcome the challenges they face today, but also thrive in the years to come.” https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-rebrands-as-harver/ HiringSolved, the leader in AI-powered recruiting and talent acquisition solutions, today shared details of its newest product release designed specifically for staffing firms. Recognizing the need to make placements faster and keep talent engaged, HiringSolved expanded its solution’s search and match capabilities while adding features that help staffing teams grow their business. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-features-from-hiringsolved/  QuickHire, a career discovery platform working with service workers to find job and advancement opportunities, announces an oversubscribed $1.41 million financing round, led by MATH Venture Partners. Currently, QuickHire targets workers and businesses in the metro areas of Wichita and Kansas City. The company plans to expand across the Midwest and add skilled-labor verticals in 2022.  https://hrtechfeed.com/service-industry-career-platform-quickhire-raises-1-4m-to-tackle-great-resignation/  Crosschq, maker of the Talent Intelligence Cloud™ powering data-driven hiring and people analytics, announced a strategic investment from Okta Ventures and leading HR talent executives as part of its Series A extension. The investment comes on the heels of the company’s $30Mfinancing led by Tiger Global in September. https://hrtechfeed.com/crosschq-attracts-new-strategic-investment-from-okta-ventures/

New 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 undermines their talent attraction goals.” InFlight’s research report is complimentary. To download the report, please visit: https://www.inflightintegration.com/apply

Seasoned 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 this next generation hiring product in Dallas, Seasoned has partnered with more than 300 national and local restaurant brands that own and operate more than 100,000 locations across the country, and has added Houston, Austin, Orlando, and Miami to its platform. The proceeds from the financing will be used to support Seasoned’s expansion into new markets and continued enhancements to its products. Learn more at seasoned.co https://hrtechfeed.com/restaurant-hiring-platform-raises-nearly-19-million-in-funding/ Bullhorn®, the cloud computing company that helps staffing and recruiting organizations transform their businesses, today announced that it has acquired cube19, a longstanding Bullhorn Marketplace partner and the provider of analytics and reporting solutions for the Bullhorn platform.  cube19’s suite of solutions are designed to provide dynamic, activity-level metrics to manage at any level of the organization: recruiter, team, office or region. cube19’s interface makes reporting easy to generate for non-technical users, which results in better performance on the front lines while also providing macro-level insight that helps leaders make better business decisions. Ultimately, by enabling staffing companies to grow their revenue quickly while growing their costs more slowly, cube19 facilitates highly scalable growth. https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-acquires-analytics-platform/ DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021. The stock is up about 10% on the news. During the second quarter 2021, the Company completed the spinoff of its eFinancialCareers (“eFC”) business to the eFC management team. The results of the eFC business are reported as discontinued operations for all periods presented in this release.  Third Quarter 2021 Financial Highlights Total revenue was $30.8 million, up 7% sequentially and 13% year over year.  Total bookings1 were $30.8 million, up 40% year over year.  Loss from continuing operations was $2.4 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, compared to a loss of $27.0 million, or $0.56 per diluted share in the year ago quarter.  Cash flow from operations was $6.3 million, compared to $4.4 million in the year-ago quarter.  https://hrtechfeed.com/dhi-group-earnings-up-13/

There’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.

Lever, 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 continued product innovation. https://hrtechfeed.com/lever-raises-50-million/ Fountain, the world’s leading all-in-one applicant tracking system for high volume hiring, today announced $85 million in Series C financing, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2* with participation from B Capital Group and Mirae Asset Venture Investment, and existing investors DCM, Origin Ventures, Commerce Ventures, SemperVirens Venture Capital and Uncork Capital.  This new round follows strong company momentum in 2021 as revenue grew 220% year-over-year. Fountain now has more than 250 customers including Chipotle Mexican Grill, John Lewis & Partners and Just Eat Takeaway. With the Series C, Fountain has now raised $119 million to date. Fountain will use the new funding to continue to invest in innovation of its hiring platform, as well as to grow its sales and engineering teams and its operations and presence in EMEA and APAC regions.  https://hrtechfeed.com/fountain-raises-85-million-to-help-companies-hire-hourly-workers/  Contra, a professional community that empowers anyone to work independently, today announced the launch of commission-free payments and $30M in Series B funding to help Contra on its journey to revolutionizing the way independents work.The funds will be used for internal hiring and further product innovation as Contra scales to meet the needs of the millions of independent workers that value the freedom, autonomy and financial benefits of the freelance lifestyle. Contra has combined every aspect of the independent journey into one platform and gives independents all the tools they need to build their professional identities and work the way they want.  https://hrtechfeed.com/independent-worker-community-lands-30-million-in-funding/ Fiverr announced the acquisition of Stoke Talent, an intuitive all-in-one solution to help companies manage their work with freelance talent, for $95 million.  This includes tools to onboard, pay, track budgets and more. With Stoke’s product suite, Fiverr is looking to add more value to larger businesses and integrate with existing corporate workflows. https://hrtechfeed.com/fiverr-acquires-stoke-talent-freelance-management-platform/  When I Work, a leading SaaS employee scheduling, time-tracking and team messaging platform, today announced it has secured a $200 million growth investment. Founded in Minneapolis and now operating as a remote-first company, When I Work is a leading provider of shift-based workforce management software that delivers a powerful, employee-first experience to streamline scheduling, enhance internal communication and more efficiently track time. Since its founding in 2010, more than 10 million hourly employees have used the frictionless platform to easily view and swap shifts, clock in, view hours worked, request time off and seamlessly communicate with their managers and co-workers.    https://hrtechfeed.com/hourly-worker-scheduling-app-raises-200-million/

Onwards HR an employee termination platform for HR won this years pitchiest. Here is the audio from the final round of 6 startups.

TWIRT 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 announced Virtual Talent Bench, a series of features that makes relationship building central to the customer experience on Upwork by empowering clients to discover, organize, revisit and hire the independent talent they trust, collaborated with to drive successful outcomes or want to work with in the future.  Virtual Talent Bench features enable clients to establish a network of top independent professionals they can work with time and time again on their most critical projects or to complement skill sets on their full-time teams. https://hrtechfeed.com/upwork-introduces-virtual-talent-bench/ GoodTime, the leading AI-based hiring experience solution, with clients such as Box, Shopify, and Zoom, has added enhanced interviewer training functionality to its features set to remove bottlenecks, reduce time-to-hire, and ensure a great candidate experience, no matter who conducts the interview. https://hrtechfeed.com/goodtime-adds-enhanced-interviewer-training-functionality/ HackerRank, the developer skills company, today announced a record-breaking quarter fueled by increasing demand to recruit and hire tech talent virtually. The company reported its highest-ever level of new and expansion bookings — seeing a 100% increase in expansion revenue alone over the past year — as companies accelerate their remote hiring efforts due to broader shifts in the labor market. https://hrtechfeed.com/hackertanks-says-remote-tech-hiring-still-surging/  Ladder, the next-gen professional community platform, announced the launch of its new mobile app and raise of $3.7 million in funding from Forerunner Ventures,  On Ladder, members can join professional communities, consume high-quality career content, engage in fun discussions, land their dream job, and form meaningful relationships with peers and mentors. The platform aims to become the go-to professional social network for Gen Z. Ladder was founded in 2020, during the height of COVID-19, when millions of college students across the country were sent home with no job lined up, no idea what remote work meant, and no sense of community.  https://hrtechfeed.com/professional-community-platform-ladder-announces-3-7-million-in-funding/

Special 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.

interviewIA — 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 $10M Series A from Teamworthy Ventures to further the development of their Talent Expert Network, candidate referral technology, and their growing high-performance recruiting team. In a few short years, Hunt Club’s Talent Expert Network has grown to over 12,000 experts, connecting 6 Million quality candidates through people and technology. With Hunt Club, a search for talent is focused on quality – not quantity. https://hrtechfeed.com/hunt-club-raises-10m-to-help-high-growth-companies-hire-faster-with-candidate-referrals/ Deel, the remote hiring company shattering job barriers worldwide, announced today that it has raised $425 million in Series D funding, taking the total amount raised by the company to over $630 million. The latest funding round values the company at $5.5 billion. Deel has become the highest valued company in the global hiring, payments, and compliance space with this investment. https://hrtechfeed.com/deel-strikes-gold-with-425-million-funding-round/ interviewing.io, the technical interview practice platform that is reinventing how software engineers get hired, today announced it has raised a $10 million series A led by M13. On the interviewing.io platform, software engineers can book mock interviews with the interviewing.io roster of hiring managers from companies such as (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google interviewing.io’s says their approach saves companies 220 hours of valuable recruiter and hiring manager time per hire and gets them what they need: a steady stream of strong, senior engineers who are looking for a new role. Forty percent of the hires made through the interviewing.io platform come from non-traditional backgrounds (lesser-known schools or past employers, no degree, etc.).  https://hrtechfeed.com/interviewing-io-raises-10-million-series-a/  Wonolo, the leading online platform disrupting the temporary staffing industry, today announced the raise of a $138 million growth round, led by Leeds Illuminate with strong participation from 137 Ventures and G2 Venture Partners. Franklin Templeton also came in on the round. This latest round brings Wonolo’s total venture funding to over $200 million.  The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s continued growth and mobile-first tech innovations. The company will also continue to expand in markets across the United States – and deepen its market share in top markets including: Newark, Dallas, Atlanta, New York City, Chicago, Phoenix, Nashville, Tampa, San Antonio, Miami, Columbus, Austin, Houston, Raleigh, Indianapolis, Denver, Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Philadelphia. https://hrtechfeed.com/temp-staffing-platform-wonolo-secures-138-million

In this audio you'll hear from Doug Leonard of Clovers.ai, Eric Smith from TalentCare and Gal Amog from Talenya.

Pillar, 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-help-companies-grow-better-with-every-hire/  Hirect, an AI-driven mobile hiring app that recently launched a $1 millionStartup Program to help fellow startups earn exposure and fill high priority positions with motivated, qualified candidates – for free. Chosen startups receive free marketing on various social channels with the goal of reaching a million impressions across platforms. Selected CEOs and founders are invited to participate in virtual hiring events hosted by Hirect and its partners. The Program is open to startups nationwide, with 10 participating in the campaign to date and more in the pipeline. https://hrtechfeed.com/next-generation-hiring-app-pledges-1-million-in-support-of-fellow-startups/  Hibob – the company behind ‘bob’, the HR platform that is changing the work experience for fast-growing, mid-sized businesses and their employees – today announced $150 million in Series C funding.  https://hrtechfeed.com/hibob-secures-150m-series-c/ SparkPlug is an employee rewards and campaign management platform built specifically to increase revenues, retention rates, and marketing ROI for brick-and-mortar restaurants, retailers and the consumer goods companies they work with has announced they have received 2.5 million in new funding.... Companies that use SparkPlug can incentivize frontline workers and in-store sales staff to influence purchasing outcomes by launching sales-based commission and reward campaigns.  https://hrtechfeed.com/sparkplug-gets-3-5m-to-improve-life-for-frontline-workers/ Eightfold’s Talent Intelligence Platform now features: A consumer-grade user experience which increases internal development, paired with intelligent onboarding. The result is a highly personalized experience that benefits the organization and employee alike.  Real-time deep analytics on skills that allows the organization to view detailed insights on the skill strengths and gaps across all employees and hiring prospects.  Customizable dashboards that facilitate a deeper and more relevant understanding of the organization.  An easily navigated Career Hub that matches employees to internal roles, projects, mentors, and learning courses aligned with their desired career path.  Automated and tailored career pathing, which predicts future role fits based on inferred and adjacent skills, and surfaces best-fit growth opportunities to employees, including lateral and non-traditional career moves. https://hrtechfeed.com/the-ai-powered-employee-experience-arrives-as-eightfold-ai-rolls-out-self-service-capabilities-and-new-reporting-dashboards/

Here'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.

Smart 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-process/ HireQuest, a national franchisor of on-demand, temporary, and commercial staffing services, today announced that it has acquired Recruit Media, Inc., an HR tech start-up with a next-gen SaaS recruitment platform.  HireQuest will integrate the Recruit Media platform with its existing technology suite used by its franchisees to run their day-to-day business. Recruit Media’s technology will streamline workforce communications and allow franchisees to better serve their customers. In addition, the public facing web domain, www.Recruit.com, along with its respective iOS and Android apps, gives HireQuest a fully functional online job ad and recruitment platform that could become an additional business line, or stand-alone company, in the future. https://hrtechfeed.com/hirequest-acquires-recruit-com/ Recruiting operations platform ModernLoop lands $3.3M to create better technical hiring experiences Recruiters have traditionally kept track of the hiring process manually with spreadsheets, but ModernLoop automates many of the repetitive tasks while also scheduling and balancing the interviewing workload so that not only are the right people involved, but also a diverse mix of interviewers. ModernLoop was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2021 cohort https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiting-operations-platform-modernloop-lands-3-3m-to-create-better-technical-hiring-experiences/ Culture Amp, the world’s leading employee experience platform, announced today that it has acquired cultural values recognition company, Disco. Disco helps companies recognize and celebrate values-driven work, foster team appreciation and improve company culture across distributed teams.  Together the two companies will accelerate their shared vision of creating a better world of work by helping people feel more connected, valued, and engaged at a critical time for organizations.  https://hrtechfeed.com/culture-amp-acquires-remote-culture-platform-disco/ Finally the wall street journal broke the news that The Mom Project Inc., a recruitment platform focused on mothers, raised $80 million in new capital at what may be a pivotal moment for working women and the companies that want to hire them. The Mom Project has more than 500,000 job seekers on its platform, most of whom are college-educated. https://hrtechfeed.com/the-mom-project-raises-80-million/

TEAM 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 can and does come from anywhere and everywhere," says Hillary Werronen, SVP US Operations of TEAM LEWIS. "We're looking for passion, curiosity and the desire to push boundaries and rail against the status quo. Our TEAM can teach the skills to some of the best and brightest minds in the industry. Together, we'll build the future of marketing."   TEAM LEWIS, the global marketing agency, today announced that it is retiring the resume. Tweet this Seasoned and aspiring marketers alike will be able to visit teamlewis.com/ER and in one word describe who they want to be.

Come 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.

CodeSignal, 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 be able to interact with code, files, a terminal, and a preview of their application in a persistent, fully configurable environment. This means candidates will have a similar experience to coding on a local machine, and the assessment  provides a more powerful and familiar environment for them to solve tasks just as they would actually do on the job, showcasing their full range of skills.  https://hrtechfeed.com/codesignal-announces-new-advanced-assessment-capabilities-fueled-by-a-50m-series-c-funding/  Talenya, the provider of the world’s most advanced, AI-powered talent sourcing and diversity solutions, today announced the release of Engagement AI™: a first-of-its-kind, fully automated talent sourcing solution.  As recruiters and HR teams struggle to find talent in an increasingly competitive market, Engagement AI™ saves hours of work by automatically sourcing and contacting potential candidates, allowing more time for interviews and connection. Talenya’s data scientists spent four years developing the GDPR-compliant technology to enable talent acquisition teams to fully automate talent sourcing, with a focus on diverse talent.  https://hrtechfeed.com/talenya-launches-automated-talent-sourcing-tool/ WurkNow.com, a fully-integrated, digital staffing and workforce management platform for hourly work, today announced the closing of a $10 million Series A funding round, led by Newport Beach, CA-based Newport Hayseed Group. This funding will be used to further optimize WurkNow’s user base and product offering, including investments in new product development, staff growth and scaling the company’s brand and market presence. WurkNow’s capital raise comes after a year of immense growth, brought on by the digital acceleration the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to many businesses. Demand for WurkNow’s fully-integrated staffing and workforce management platform has surged within its client base of staffing and recruiting firms and employers that manage large, hourly workforces. Currently there are over 125,000 active employees using the platform; a year-over-year increase of 400%. https://hrtechfeed.com/wurknow-gets-10-million-series-a/ Clovers (www.clovers.ai), a human resources technology firm leveraging conversational intelligence to improve interviewing and hiring practices, today announced it has raised $15 million in seed funding.  The company was co-founded in December 2020 by HR tech pioneers Adam Miller, Founder & former CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand, and Jason Nazar, Co-Founder & CEO of Comparably, along with Doug Leonard and Cihan Ucar. Clovers is jointly headquartered in Los Angeles and Nashville. https://hrtechfeed.com/clovers-raises-15-million-to-revolutionize-interviewing-for-the-modern-workforce/ Nomad Health, the leading digital marketplace for temporary healthcare jobs, today announced the completion of $63 million in new equity and debt financing. Adams Street Partners led, and all existing investors participated, including Icon Ventures, Polaris Partners, RRE Ventures, .406 Ventures, First Round Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank.  With this financing, the business has raised over $100 million since the company’s inception in 2015. The funding will be used to support Nomad Health’s explosive growth, allowing the company to double down on efforts to hire, invest in the technology platform, and grow its national footprint. https://hrtechfeed.com/nomad-health-raises-63-million-to-address-healthcare-staffing-shortages/

Kathleen 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 right now from your standpoint...whats it like out there? Any cautionary tales come to mind...lost a candidate recently or... our marketing machine/lead generation approach using tons of social platforms, channels and approaches Tiktok resume thing...opinion? LinkedIn and how we tried circumvent this platform with other tools and it just isn’t’ as effective  recruiting ATS and how it’s critical to segment them by persona’s and update the information as it becomes outdated the day after it’s placed in the system.   Looks like you guys use CATS software as your ats...how has that software worked out for you/...any other rec tech in place? Any tech you are potentially looking at using? Fav sourcing story…

Humanly.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 belonging) in hiring, Humanly.io uses innovation to empower both hiring authorities and job applicants. https://hrtechfeed.com/humanly-io-announces-4-2m-in-funding/ Avionté, a leader in enterprise staffing and recruiting software, has acquired mobile on-demand staffing platform WorkN. This strategic move firmly positions Avionté as a leader in end-to-end and online mobile talent enablement.  With the addition of WorkN mobile solutions to its portfolio, Avionté can further empower clients to compete for talent by helping them design compelling candidate experiences. WorkN, operating as a division of Avionté, will continue to serve large enterprise staffing companies and employers, a market in which WorkN already has penetration and momentum. At the same time, WorkN will gain access to Avionté’s customer base of more than 1,000 staffing companies. https://hrtechfeed.com/avionte-acquires-mobile-online-staffing-platform-workn/ Papaya Global, the industry-leading workforce management platform transforming global employment, announced today that it has raised $250 million in Series D funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $3.7 billion and Papaya’s total funding to date to $440 million. Papaya’s valuation has increased tenfold since September 2020.  Funding will be used to continue Papaya’s rapid expansion and accelerate the recruitment of rapidly growing companies (pre/post IPO) and Fortune 5000 clients. https://hrtechfeed.com/workforce-management-platform-papaya-global-raises-250-million/  Canvas, the world’s first Diversity Recruitment Platform™, announced today a Series C round of $50 million led by Owl Ventures, with participation from Sequoia, and numerous other investors... Coupled with the Series C is the launch of a new product, Canvas Diversity Analytics & Benchmarking ™, which will set the industry standard for increasing diversity in Corporate America.  Already adopted by prominent companies including Airbnb, Bloomberg, Lyft, Pinterest, Roblox, and more, Canvas offers a differentiated approach for understanding, benchmarking and evolving diversity in the workplace through access to the largest ever pool of self-reported candidate diversity data.   Valued at $400M, Canvas says they are  trailblazing a new industry category in recruiting that helps companies take action on their diversity goals by utilizing candidates’ self-reported data to identify talent, rather than inferred data that might be inaccurate or illegal.  https://hrtechfeed.com/canvas-funding/  Glassdoor, the worldwide leader on insights about jobs and companies, today announced that through its parent company it has completed the acquisition of Fishbowl.  Fishbowl is a fast-growing social network used by more than one million professionals1 engaging in candid conversations about anything career, industry and workplace-related. Financial terms are not being disclosed.   Launched in 2016 by co-founders Matt Sunbulli and Loren Appin, Fishbowl has more than 18 million conversations, comments and direct messages in thousands of bowls4 where professionals can discuss career, industry and workplace-related topics. Before posting or commenting on Fishbowl, people have the option to choose how to represent themselves – by job title only, by the company they work for, or with their full name, title and company. Starting today, employees and job seekers on Glassdoor will see relevant Fishbowl conversations from people working in related companies and industries. Job seekers and employees can experience more by clicking on these Fishbowl conversations and visiting Fishbowl to see full conversations and explore company feeds, industry and special interest bowls. Viewing these conversations will require a Fishbowl account. https://hrtechfeed.com/glassdoor-acquires-social-network-app

Listen 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, 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 Operations and Human Resources Officer Linda Shaffer. “As we grow we need more employees to join our team of engineers, developers, customer service representatives, and support staff to fulfill our mission at Checkr to build a fairer future by designing technology to create opportunities for all. We look forward to hiring a diverse group of candidates in Orlando, including fair chance hires, and have already started recruiting.” “We look forward to hiring a diverse group of candidates in Orlando,” Checkr COO Linda Schaffer said.Tweet this Checkr, a privately held company that just last week announced it has raised $250 million in a Series E round valuing the company at $4.6 billion, has dual headquarters in San Francisco and Denver, and adds Orlando as the company’s third headquarters.  https://hrtechfeed.com/checkr-will-bring-600-jobs-to-new-orlando-regional-headquarters/ YouCruit raises $11.5M USD to further fuel the growth of Lanefinder, it’s Vertical Labor Marketplace for the US Trucking Industry. Lanefinder provides a job search and matching platform completely tailored to the wants and needs of truck drivers who have historically had to rely on word of mouth referrals and general job sites to find work.  “With Lanefinder, a driver can find exactly what he or she is looking for in a matter of seconds instead of spending days plowing through job sites, taking 30-40 recruiter calls or chatting up other drivers at truck stops. We believe all skilled labor markets will expect and demand this type of job search efficiency in the future and Lanefinder is now leading the way in arguably the most important industry in the US.” Says Patrick Gilmore, Co-Founder and CTO. As opposed to the typical Pay Up Front advertising models job sites offer trucking companies today, Lanefinder does not charge anything for having their jobs searchable on the platform. Lanefinder instead offers a Pay Per Hire, performance based model for companies who need to recruit at greater speed.  https://hrtechfeed.com/youcruit-raises-11-5m-usd-for-trucking-job-search-platform/ In a surprising move the owner of Dice has invested in employer branding platform, The Muse. The partnership will sell ‘corporate branding and values-based hiring solutions to give employers a competitive edge amidst tight recruitment market‘. Could this move lead to an eventual merger? Was this a life line for The Muse or simply a smart pairing of complimentary services? – Chris Russell      CENTENNIAL, Colo., Sept. 8, 2021 — DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) the leading provider of AI-powered technology-focused career marketplaces, today announced a $3 million investment in The Muse,  a values-based career destination for the next gen workforce to search for jobs and research companies & careers.  The investment will be used to support the expansion of The Muse’s product development and sales efforts to meet the increasing market demand for its unique values based employer discovery offerings.  Terms of the planned transaction are not being disclosed at this time. In addition to the investment, the two companies will work together to develop joint sales, thought leadership and product solutions to better serve their respective stakeholders https://hrtechfeed.com/dhi-group-to-invest-3-million-in-the-muse/ FlexJobs, a premium online job service for professionals seeking remote and flexible work, announced the acquisition of Job-Hunt.org, an award-winning career website offering expert resources and guides to improving one’s job search. This strategic move will equip job seekers with valuable, insightful, and up-to-date career advice to help them navigate job searching in today’s market. “I have been a long-time fan of Job-Hunt’s dedication to high-quality content around the many varied and sometimes quite challenging aspects of job searching,” said Sara Sutton, founder and CEO of FlexJobs. “Bringing Job-Hunt under the FlexJobs umbrella is a natural extension of FlexJobs’ mission to help job seekers be successful in their job search and career, and we are excited to connect even more people to the incredible wealth of resources that Job-Hunt.org offers,” Sutton concluded.  With more than 1,000 articles by job search and career experts, Job-Hunt provides information to help job seekers better understand today’s job search. Job-Hunt’s guides cover more than fifty topics by renowned career experts.  “For over 20 years, I saw a desperate need for people to understand online job search, and my goal for Job-Hunt was to help people smartly, safely, and efficiently find their new jobs,” said Susan Joyce, Job-Hunt’s chief writer, editor, and publisher since 1998. “FlexJobs was founded under a very similar premise, with a specific focus on safe job searching for flexible jobs. Both companies have made helping the job seeker their number one priority from the beginning, and I know that this acquisition will strengthen that mission and help even more job seekers be successful in their job searches,” Joyce concluded. https://hrtechfeed.com/flexjobs-announces-acquisition-of-the-popular-job-hunt-blog/ QJumpers, an innovative sourcing and recruitment software provider, today announced its newest product, AI Talent Sourcing. The tool scours publicly available information and uses artificial intelligence to find, rank and engage highly qualified, passive job candidates that previously could not be found through traditional sourcing and advertising methods. AI Talent Sourcing is an offshoot of another product launched two years ago which was embedded into the QJumpers Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Due to client demand, QJumpers has released a new and improved version that can be used independently of the ATS. Recruiters can either paste a job description into the tool and let the AI generate its own candidate search specification, or they can create their own. AI Talent Sourcing then presents a list of candidates ranked by how well they match this search criteria. Candidate profiles are created by combining pieces of information from publicly available data, such as networking sites, social media, company websites and blogs. The results can be refined further by specifying preferences such as location, skills, education, and years’ experience. It can also be used for diversity hiring. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-tech-bytes-driverreach-qjumpers/

Tim 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 Brazen, and others like them, are more event and campus management, than a database of students. READ MORE: https://timsackett.com/2021/08/03/college-recruiting-for-candidates-is-still-a-mess/

Jobsync recently held an excellent discussion that employers need to hear about upcoming changes to Google for Jobs. 

Job.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 businesses add more than $50 million of annual revenue to Job.com. The acquisitions are part of Job.com’s strategic plan to develop its revenue and reach by acquiring businesses that are already successful and profitable but have the potential to grow quickly and more intelligently through the application of Job.com’s proprietary technology. https://hrtechfeed.com/job-com-acquires-two-staffing-firms/ In a possible sign of things to come for many HR tech vendors, iCIMS, the talent cloud company, has announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock.  The number of shares of common stock to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. iCIMS intends to list its common stock on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol “TLNT”. The proposed offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the preliminary prospectus relating to this offering, when available, may be obtained from: Morgan Stanley---no word on a date yet for the stock launch. https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-files-for-ipo/ Paradox, the conversational recruiting software helping global brands like Unilever and McDonald’s simplify hiring through automation with a human touch, announced today the acquisition of Traitify — the world’s fastest, mobile-first assessment platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Unlike traditional assessment technology, Traitify was built to be fast, visual, and mobile-first — increasing assessment completion rates to more than 96%. On average, candidates can finish Traitify’s visual-based assessment in less than two minutes, generating insight on their own personality and helping employers better predict the candidate’s suitability for the role.  https://hrtechfeed.com/paradox-acquires-traitify/ Knoetic, a startup “built with Chief People Officers, for Chief People Officers,” emerged from stealth today, announcing an $18M Series A round of funding led by Accel. Over 100 angel investors also participated in this round... Chief People Officers use Knoetic to build their board decks, present data to their CEOs, solve challenges with peers, and improve their employee retention, compensation, and hiring.  https://hrtechfeed.com/knoetic-secures-18m-series-a-for-people-analytics-platform/  Workstream, a hiring platform and mobile app that streamlines the sourcing and onboarding of hourly workers, today announced it has raised $48 million in Series B funding. This announcement comes on the heels of the company filling more than 18,700 jobs, which represents more than 2.5% of total private jobs added, in July 2021.  Workstream was founded in late 2017 to give the deskless workforce a better hiring experience. Its text recruiting platform automates how local businesses source, screen and onboard candidates, saving hiring managers 70% of time on hiring. https://hrtechfeed.com/workstream-raises-48-million-series-b-for-hourly-worker-platform/

A recent Facebook thread showed some new ways to source talent.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/secret.sourcing/posts/2982596321989376

A 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 work by helping organizations upskill, retrain and place professionals in new roles faster and more accurately than ever before, announces today the close of a $9M Series A led by international fund Square Peg, following their $4M Seed Round in September 2020, led by Hetz Ventures, with TechAviv and .406 Ventures participating. Alongside the funding, the company announces a notable first deal with the Israeli Department of Labor which will be using retrain.ai to help flatten the national unemployment curve. https://hrtechfeed.com/upskilling-platform-retrain-ai-closes-13m-in-funding/ SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it has acquired intellectual property of SwoopTalent, a leader in talent data intelligence, in an asset acquisition. Embedding SwoopTalent’s data and machine learning technology across SAP SuccessFactors solutions will further SAP’s vision of human experience management (HXM), which prioritizes individualized employee experiences and dynamic opportunities that boost engagement, improve organizational agility and ultimately fuel business transformation. Founded in 2012, SwoopTalent developed an AI-powered platform that combines, analyzes and trains data from disparate HR systems and workflows. SAP plans to use SwoopTalent’s technology to strengthen its AI capabilities and provide customers with a holistic and continuously updated view of their people — from skills and capabilities to interests and learning preferences — so they can match employees to internal jobs, projects, learning courses, mentors and more. Several SwoopTalent engineering employees will also join the SAP SuccessFactors team. https://hrtechfeed.com/sap-acquires-swooptalent/ PRO Unlimited, a leading modern workforce management platform provider, today announced that, through an agreement with EQT Private Equity, it will acquire Workforce Logiq from funds managed by Carlyle later this year, subject to customary regulatory approvals. This transaction will combine two leading-edge companies that share a common strategic approach in solving its diversified clients’ contingent workforce management needs through the power of a holistic platform. This combination will expand PRO’s position as a preferred provider to the Global 2000, enabling organizations to achieve their strategic talent acquisition and cost reduction objectives. Through these transactions, PRO will add Workforce Logiq’s proven and strong track record of innovation and growth, including 16 patented and patent-pending solutions, dedicated data science and development teams, and an award-winning Total Talent Intelligence® technology platform to its portfolio. Additionally, Workforce Logiq’s strong presence in EMEA, specifically in the Nordics, expands PRO’s already impressive global reach. As a result, PRO will enhance the scale and breadth of operations to enable the continued global expansion of its large and mid-market client base worldwide.  https://hrtechfeed.com/new-acquisition-among-workforce-management-platforms/ Workrise, the leading workforce management platform for the skilled trades, announces new initiatives in Northern Ireland that will create 153 jobs locally and support the company’s continued growth.  Workrise is establishing a technology engineering center in Belfast. The jobs will be added over the next four years with an initial focus on establishing the engineering team.  https://hrtechfeed.com/workrise-establishing-tech-center-in-ireland-creating-150-jobs/

Walmart 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, 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 reflecting both personal and professional traits, Polywork is building a new professional network, from the ground up, that reflects how we work in 2021. As a bonus, Polywork profiles can also be hosted on any custom domain instead of Polywork as a simple way to represent your online identity.   https://hrtechfeed.com/linkedin-alternative-polywork-raises-13-million/   Graphite Solutions, Inc. today announced the completion of a new $15M equity raise to scale its sales, marketing, recruitment, customer success and product development efforts.  Graphite is the leading technology platform that helps Enterprise companies find, hire and manage highly skilled remote consultants on-demand. The company has raised 20 million to date.   https://hrtechfeed.com/graphite-raises-15m-to-help-enterprises-build-a-remote-workforce/   Tech job postings increased 16% in the second quarter of 2021, with locations, occupations, skills and employers across the country experiencing strong quarter-over-quarter growth, according to the Q2 2021 Tech Job Report from Dice.com   Job posting activity remained high for the top 50 tech employers (by posting volume) in the second quarter, with 78% increasing tech job postings quarter-over-quarter. With emerging tech hubs like Las Vegas, Sacramento and Nashvillehaving seen the strongest growth, most mature tech hubs also fared well in second quarter.   https://hrtechfeed.com/dice-tech-hiring-surges-in-second-quarter/   Tech interviewers for hire are now just a few clicks away from companies that need to scale up hiring, reclaim time wasted by unqualified candidates, and hire for new roles and technologies within the business. “eTeki’s interviews marketplace is a natural evolution for how the world is hybrid eworking during and beyond the pandemic. We are seeing continued usage growth and the demand for an outsourced interviewing as-a-service marketplace – what’s needed to match recruitment growth of critical tech talent.  eTeki is starting a venture backed capital raise to fuel our expansion.” says eTeki CEO Hans Bukow. Businesses in need of scalable, on-demand interviewing need to look no further than eTeki’s newest talent marketplace. Formerly only available in a managed service model, eTeki’s pay-per-interview marketplace now brings a bench of expert freelancers available to lead IT interviews for hiring teams across the globe. Hiring professionals scope the interview, add a candidate, select one of eTeki’s 6,000+ expert interviewers and confirm an interview time with a credit card. https://hrtechfeed.com/eteki-pioneers-marketplace-approach-to-remote-technical-interviews/

Chloe 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 driving talent attraction and candidate engagement strategies to compete in the Life Sciences industry. I wanted to start by asking about your previous work at sodexo......you spent many years there and that company to me was one fo the first employers to embrace employer branding...i remember back in like 2008 you guys were blogging about life at the company, they were one of my clients when i was running jobs in pods...what were some of the lessons learned from your time there? -Current recruitment tech stack at Syneos Scroll stopping content? -Challenges/initiatives you face coming into the new role -Current state of EB at Syneos, what are your plans Goggle analytics?  How has the pandemic affected employer branding in your opinion? -General EB tactics/advice---what do you want to try? What did you think of the TikTok resume experiment...any thoughts?

WorkJam, 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 collaboration, and drives engagement and higher retention by equipping frontline workers and headquarters staff with a state-of-the-art solution to manage scheduling, training, task workflows, and real-time communications — all through a single platform.  https://hrtechfeed.com/workjam-announces-35-million-in-financing-for-frontline-worker-platform/ Instawork, the digital marketplace that connects  local businesses with skilled hourly professionals across the U.S., has acquired Drafted, a network recruiting platform that helps businesses hire by leveraging referrals.  Drafted’s solution will enable Instawork to accelerate the growth of the company’s pool of Pros with skilled hourly professionals. As a result of the acquisition and integration, Pros can easily share Instawork job opportunities with their network, further supporting the companies’ shared mission to put Americans back to work and help businesses successfully reopen. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. https://hrtechfeed.com/instawork-acquires-referral-platform/ Deel, the market leader in the global payroll and compliance space, announced today that it had joined forces with Zeitgold to fuel international growth and enhance the depth and breadth of its product offerings.  This acquisition marks a significant milestone for Deel as the company continues to scale, adding thousands of customers as working and hiring practices continue to transform rapidly. Deel is adding a full line of products through this acquisition to improve their customer experience further and provide them with the right solutions to scale internationally. https://hrtechfeed.com/deel-acquires-zeitgold-to-strengthen-payroll-ai-offerings/ Talent acquisition software platform GR8 People announced a new partnership with PandoLogic, the leader in programmatic job advertising, to connect employers more efficiently to job seekers through programmatic sourcing. Centralize job advertising spend into a single performance-based tool that optimizes and automates real-time bidding and budget allocations Expand reach to talent through an ad exchange of 1000’s of leading job sites, search engines and social networks Engage with the right candidates through precision targeting Source applicants effortlessly by eliminating manual tasks and inefficiencies with powerful automation https://hrtechfeed.com/gr8-people-partners-with-pandologic/ Talroo announces the release of Target CPA (Cost per Application), an enhancement to its Talroo Pro pay-for-performance job advertising solution. Target CPA uses job seeker conversion data to bid real-time so that recruitment marketing advertisers reach the right audiences at the right places, at the right time, and at the right price.  https://hrtechfeed.com/whats-new-in-hr-tech-model-match-talroo/

Recruiter.com has been making acquisitions and going public on the Nasdaq. We'll catch up with their CEO Evan Sohn.

Culture 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 latest unicorn. There are now 27 different companies that have ever received a single funding round of $100 million or more. https://hrtechfeed.com/culture-amp-gets-100-million-in-new-funding/ Talview, a leading provider of an end-to-end, AI-powered hiring and proctoring solution, today announced it closed $15M in Series B funding led by Silicon Valley investor Eileses Capital….The new capital further validates that their video AI platform is perfectly positioned to help organizations analyze talent interactions for more efficient and effective talent decisions in a digitized world where video plays a key role.  https://hrtechfeed.com/talview-raises-15m-to-revolutionize-talent-lifecycle/ Pangea is a freelance marketplace for college age talent that has just secured a nice round of funding. They are based in Providence Rhode Island. According tot he company’s blog; In the past 12 months, students from more than 850 colleges across the US and Canada have come to Pangea to find freelance work.  In that time, we’ve grown GMV nearly 400; helping Pangeans earn nearly $500,000. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2021/07/29/college-freelancer-marketplace-raises-2-million/ Leadr, Inc., a rapidly growing human resource software company, today announced closing their Series A funding with a $10M investment round led by Bedrock. The Series A raise also included funding from Leadr friends and family, including Leadr Co-founder and Executive Chairman of the board, Chris Heaslip; Chief Revenue Officer of Intuit, Bobby Morrison; and Co-founder of Pushpay, Eliot Crowther. https://hrtechfeed.com/people-development-software-leadr-inc-raises-10m-series-a-led-by-bedrock/ REBRAND…..ORLANDO — HR Payroll Systems and Applicant Tracking Systems announced today that the two websites will unite to form Matchr. Both companies are designed to connect HR professionals with HRIS/payroll systems and applicant tracking systems, respectively. Through consolidation of the two brands under Matchr, HR professionals can conveniently access a single site for all of their HR software needs. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-software-company-rebrands-as-matchr/

Today 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 for a new job board owner just starting out? You wrote a book too, Getting Your First Job for Dummies...what was that experience like?

SmartRecruiters, 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—with new messaging and analytics capabilities built on its modern talent acquisition platform.  The new funds raised will be used to accelerate product development for SmartRecruiters’ leading talent acquisition suite in the areas of intelligence, automation and conversational interfaces. SmartRecruiters will also continue to expand go-to-market efforts across US, EMEA and APAC, and will provide on-the-ground support for its growing customer community and partner ecosystem. https://hrtechfeed.com/smartrecruiters-raises-110-million-now-valued-at-1-5-billion/   The newest player on the funding scene is a company Called CENSIA    Censia, a provider of Talent Intelligence technology, announced it has raised $21M in Series A funding in a round led by Marbruck Investments. Marbruck joins other existing investors bringing the company’s total funding to over $30 million.  With this funding, Censia will expand go-to-market efforts, scale their API-first offering, and continue product innovations for talent acquisition and workforce planning powering HR technologies of the future with AI.  https://hrtechfeed.com/cemsia-raises-21m-in-series-a-funding-to-bring-bias-free-intelligence-to-human-capital-management/    Indeed, the world’s number one job site, announced that all jobs posted directly to its platform can add video interviewing options, for both free and sponsored jobs, for no additional charge. This new capability streamlines the hiring process, reducing the time it takes to get candidates to first interviews. All interviews take place on Indeed’s proprietary interviewing technology Indeed Interview, which has been designed specifically for interviewing. Since there is no software to download, all job seekers and employers need to do is click a unique link and start interviewing. Indeed has hosted more than half a million video interviews to date.  https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-expands-free-video-interviewing-options-to-all-jobs-posted-on-site/   Greenhouse, the hiring software company, has introduced Job Ad Market, a new functionality that offers customers instant access to thousands of global job boards from within Greenhouse.  For users you can  Diversify your sourcing strategy by buying individual, pay-as-you-go job listings at competitive rates  Receive recommendations on the highest performing job boards based on historical and industry performance, job function or region https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-launches-job-ad-marketplace-with-1000-job-boards/   Veritone, Inc. a publicly traded company and creator of the world’s first operating system for artificial intelligence, announced it signed an agreement to acquire PandoLogic, Inc, a leading provider of intelligent hiring solutions. Based in new york Total consideration of $150 million on a cash and debt free basis, payable in Veritone cash and stock, with performance earnouts through fiscal 2022. Pando’s investors sold the comapny for essentially 3X yearly revenue. The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive, with PandoLogic generating over $50 million in SaaS and related GAAP revenues and over $25 million of EBITDA on a pro forma 2021 basis. https://hrtechfeed.com/pandologic-acquired/

A deep dive into what into TikTok new recruiting experiment.

 isolved 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 predictive artificial intelligence (AI) models to produce powerful visual insights wherever and whenever they’re needed.  https://hrtechfeed.com/isolved-acquires-predictive-people-analytics-provider-trendata-hr/ Remote, a leading HR tech platform and provider of global employer of record services and international contractor management, today announced it has raised a $150 million Series B round led by Accel. The shift to distributed employment created unprecedented demand for Remote’s services: since their $35 million Series A in November 2020, Remote grew its customer base by 7x and increased its users by more than 10x. Remote’s revenue has grown by 65x over the past year, and employee headcount has gone from 50 to 220 employees working remotely in 45 countries since November 2020.  Remote is the only Employer of Record (EOR) that owns 100% of its global infrastructure, has legal entities in more than 50 countries with plans to have fully operational legal entities in more than 80 countries by the end of 2021, and in the rest of the world by the end of 2022. https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-raises-150-million-series-b/ WayUp, a sourcing platform for diverse candidates, announced that it is merging with Yello, a recruitment software company. The two HR tech companies will operate under Yello as a legal entity but continue to keep their independent branding with a now combined 200 employees. Students but now they brand themselves as a DE&I platform.  The WayUp database will evolve to be the sourcing arm of Yello’s campus recruiting solution. It provides a diverse database of over 6 million candidates, including:  Recent graduates and students from across the country who attended over 7,000 campuses 71% Black, Hispanic or female candidates as well as tens of thousands of veterans Candidate self-reported data on major, location, campus, graduation, gender, ethnicity and more “In addition to offering a powerhouse of data, recruiters will benefit from the automation opportunities of two solutions from a single company,” said Corey Ferengul, CEO, Yello. “We are beyond excited to have the WayUp team joining Yello and we believe that together we will offer unparalleled capability to match employers and candidates in the campus and early talent world.” https://hrtechfeed.com/early-career-marketplace-wayup-merging-with-yello/ Hireology, a leading recruitment CRM built for multi-location, decentralized enterprises, today announced the acquisition of employee referral technology provider, EmployUs.  EmployUs is a modern employee referral software that empowers organizations to leverage their employees and their networks to help hire. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, Emplyus has 6 employees according to linkedin https://hrtechfeed.com/hireology-acquires-employee-referral-platform/ MILWAUKEE – Today, Infosoft Group, LLC, dba Circa, announced the purchase of Colorado-based LatPro, Inc., dba DiversityJobs, a leading diversity recruitment and OFCCP HR compliance technology solutions provider, which will become a subsidiary of Infosoft. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2021/07/14/circa-acquires-diversityjobs-com/

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LinkUp, 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. Getwork will provide jobseekers with the most streamlined search of the highest quality job listings, as well as offer solutions for employers in search of top-quality talent, like pay-per-click and targeted marketing campaigns, an extensive partner network, and valuable analytics to optimize recruitment strategies. LinkUp will continue to service data clients with the most accurate, real-time, and predictive job market data. LinkUp’s dataset includes 4 million daily active job listings from 60,000 companies and contains more than 20 unique job and company-level attributes and identifiers, including job title, job URL, company name, location, occupation code, sector code, ticker, reference data, and more. https://hrtechfeed.com/linkup-launches-getwork-rebrand-of-their-recruitment-advertising-and-job-search-business/ Mave, a new software sales career platform, launched today to help software companies discover top sales talent and sales professionals filter companies and opportunities that match their sales experience.  With Mave’s employer branded profiles, companies can showcase their team, perks, and company information to prospective software sales job seekers. Mave’s focus is critical to helping software sales companies keep up with the increasing demand for technology and software from consumers and businesses nationwide.  To learn more about Mave, visit www.joinmave.com. https://hrtechfeed.com/software-sales-professionals-have-a-new-career-platform/ Symphony Talent, a recruitment marketing technology company that helps recruitment teams automate tasks for efficiency and empower smarter candidate interactions, announced the launch of SmashFlyX Events. This new module centralizes, manages and automates virtual and in-person recruitment events and activities from pre-registration, during event activity through post-event follow-up, and ultimately, conversion to job applicants and hires. SmashFlyX Events uniquely enables organizations to cast the widest net, advertising the events across every channel of media, leveraging existing contacts in the CRM, and tying it all together with analytics. Bringing it into one platform allows users to leverage the automation and tools available in SmashFlyX and extend their existing communication technologies to seamlessly create interactive, virtual events. https://www.rectechpr.com/press-releases/symphony-talent-launches-centralized-hybrid-event-management Censia, a leading provider of Talent Intelligence technology, has raised $21M in Series A funding in a round led by Marbruck Investments. This brings the company’s total funding to over $30 million to date.  With this funding, Censia will expand go-to-market efforts, scale their API-first offering, and continue product innovations for talent acquisition and workforce planning powering HR technologies of the future with AI. https://hrtechfeed.com/bias-free-talent-intelligence-startup-raises-21m/ We're excited to launch "TikTok Resumes" as a pilot program designed to continue expanding and enhancing TikTok as a new channel for recruitment and job discovery. We're teaming up with select companies and inviting job seekers to apply for entry-level to experienced positions with some of the world's most sought-after employers, including Chipotle, Target, WWE, Alo Yoga, Shopify, Contra, Movers+Shakers, and many more, with a TikTok video resume. Interested candidates are encouraged to creatively and authentically showcase their skillsets and experiences, and use #TikTokResumes in their caption when publishing their video resume to TikTok. https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/find-a-job-with-tiktok-resumes  

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ZoomInfo 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 department organizational charts to better understand candidates’ managerial, functional, and technical experience. Recruiters can apply preset filters in order to focus on specific initiatives, including diversity, equity, and inclusion. “ZoomInfo Recruiter gives recruiters an edge in identifying hard-to-find candidates,” said Henry Schuck, ZoomInfo Founder and CEO. “Recruiters can easily automate their identification of and outreach to candidates. In an increasingly competitive hiring environment, ZoomInfo Recruiter provides talent acquisition and recruiting teams with the data, insights, and technology they need to source, engage with, and hire ideal talent faster.” https://hrtechfeed.com/zoominfo-releases-zoominfo-recruiter/ ResumeSieve the resume scoring platform is on a mission to disrupt traditional recruiting practices by putting innovative tools in the hands of those who are doing the hard work of recruiting. They recently  launched a crowdfunding which provides anyone to invest with as little as a $100 commitment. They are asking for your support and invite you to check out our campaign page! On wefunder.com Post on social media – Share wefunder.com/resumesieve.inc  Invest – Opportunities start at just $100 and you get perks for investing more https://hrtechfeed.com/the-resume-sieve-launches-crowdfunding-campaign/ Visier, the globally recognized leader in people analytics and planning, has raised $125M in Series E funding led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs) at a valuation exceeding $1B USD.  This investment signals a historic moment in the growth of the people analytics market, with Visier becoming the first independent vendor in the space to reach a $1 billion valuation.   “There is unprecedented demand for companies to better understand the people within their organizations,” said Ryan Wong, CEO of Visier. “From HR leaders to people managers and executives, having insight into a workforce is critical for delivering the right outcomes for the business, the employee, the customer, and a fair and just society.”  To spearhead this new era of people analytics, Visier will use the funding to extend and accelerate product development and international go to market expansion.  https://hrtechfeed.com/visier-announces-125m-series-e-for-people-analytics-platform/ RepVue, the world’s leading sales organization ratings platform, has raised $1 million in a series seed funding round led by Knoll Ventures with participation from Alerion Ventures. The funding round validates and strengthens RepVue’s mission of driving transparency in sales organizations and enabling sales professionals to discover and engage with career opportunities that best fit their skills and experience. After coming out of a beta period at the beginning of 2020, RepVue has now received more than 16,500 ratings of the world’s most well known sales organizations. More than 50% of these ratings have come in 2021, further establishing RepVue as the largest and fastest growing B2B sales organization ratings platform in the world. “RepVue was born out of a specific mission to deliver transparency into what it’s really like to work inside the world’s most well known sales organizations, enabling sales professionals to navigate their careers much more efficiently and confidently.” According to Ryan Walsh, founder and CEO of RepVue. “The status quo in sales recruiting is simply not working. We’re able to harness the collective intelligence and insights of tens of thousands of b2b sales professionals to not only pull the curtains back on the true selling environment of these sales orgs, but also enable sales professionals to directly engage with career opportunities through our platform.” https://hrtechfeed.com/sales-talent-platform-raises-1-million-in-funding/ TopFunnel, an AI-powered recruiting startup that high-growth companies use to scale, has announced the acquisition of Teamable to supercharge referral-based recruiting.  Teamable is the employee referral platform that transforms social networks into high-performance talent pools. Since TopFunnel was founded in 2017 to empower both recruiters and employees through the talent acquisition process, it has rapidly become the secret weapon that high-growth companies like Plaid, Rubrik, Noom, and InVision have relied on to scale their teams. TopFunnel’s AI-driven approach automates much of the recruiting process, helping to source the right candidates for the right roles — and send them the right message.  Similarly, Teamable’s referral software aggregates employees’ contacts from their social and professional networks to provide recruiters with a more focused group of potential candidates. The combined platform will help deliver even better recruiting recommendations, and each product will also continue to be available on a standalone basis.  https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiting-startup-topfunnel-acquires-referral-platform/

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Standalone 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 corporate to retail and manufacturing, Anthill’s software engages with employees via mobile app.  | Link Feature inside HCM suite… Phenom https://www.phenom.com/internal-mobility Eightfold https://eightfold.ai/products/talent-management/ Workday | Recently Launched Workplace Talent Marketplace | Link SmartRecruiters https://www.smartrecruiters.com/recruiting-software/smartmobility/ PaddleHR https://www.paddlehr.com/internal-mobility Avature https://www.avature.net/internal-mobility Jobvite https://www.jobvite.com/products/internal-mobility/

Recruiting 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 people around the world compliant, human, and delightful, has raised a $50 million Series B funding round, led by Stripes with the continued participation of some existing investors. On the heels of the announcement of Oyster’s $20M Series A just this past February, this new Series B investment allows Oyster to expand its HR platform to more countries around the world and continue to empower globally distributed companies to succeed on the world stage. The team has grown 5X and the customer base has grown 8X so far in 2021. Revenue increased by 8X since the beginning of the year, from a growing number of Distributed HR offerings, including multiple modes of employment (for both Contractors and Full-Time Employees), and an assortment of Benefits catering to the special needs of distributed teams. Oyster® has also expanded its country coverage to 91 countries which account for more than 95% of the employable knowledge workers of the world. https://hrtechfeed.com/global-hr-platform-oyster-raises-50m/ San Francisco – Pequity, the first intelligent compensation platform that helps fast-growing companies create fair and competitive compensation programs, announced today that the company has closed a Series A round of $19 million, led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from First Round Capital, Designer Fund, and Scribble Ventures.  Pequity saves companies time and money and helps them attract and retain talent by automating HR workflows from offer to signing to promotion and beyond. The platform helps HR & compensation leaders centralize their comp workflows, avoid comp problems before they happen, and create competitive compensation programs based on real-world data on industry ranges, market trends, and internal peer compensation  https://hrtechfeed.com/pequity-raises-19-million-to-bring-equitable-compensation-to-the-masses/ The new Questionmark white paper, “Five Ways Assessments Can Help Retain Employees”, shows that by testing the skills of workers, employers can: Make better recruitment decisions – someone who leaves within their first year is likely to have been a poor hire. Testing the skills of candidates before hiring them helps ensure new starters are a good fit for the role. Identify relevant training needs – assessments can pinpoint an employee’s immediate training need, helping demonstrate that employers are taking their career development needs seriously. Improve onboarding – around 15% of exits relate to employees leaving in the first 90 days.3 Assessments can reveal whether the onboarding process is effective and if new starters are learning what they should. Create a certification program – assessing employee progress and awarding certifications enhances an individual’s sense of career development. It also creates immediate goals to work toward. Predict employee retention – employers can track scores from relevant workplace assessments and correlate them with employee longevity. By doing so, employers can identify risk factors that require intervention to prevent employee churn. https://recruitingheadlines.com/5-ways-to-reduce-staff-turnover/ GoodTime, the leading AI-based interview scheduling and hiring experience solution, has added $9.5M million to its Series A funding, bringing the total round to $16.7 million. The new funding round was led by KTB Ventures along with participation from Smilegate and Atinum Investment.  This funding will be used to accelerate innovation for hiring/candidate experience solutions and accelerate go-to-market growth in a wide range of industries with innovative clients such as Box, Shopify, and Zoom. GoodTime is a solution that can reduce time-to-hire by as much as 50% while saving as much as $500,000 per year in talent acquisition costs.  https://hrtechfeed.com/interview-scheduling-tool-raises-9-5-million-series-a/

Diversity 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….Explain the product/user experience Any success stories ? Plans for the new round of funding? Tips for diversity recruiting?

The 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. HiQ Labs, founded in 2012 in Silicon Valley, scrapes publicly available data, including LinkedIn member updates, and analyzes it to predict when workers are likely to quit their jobs. It then sells its conclusions to employers.  https://aimgroup.com/2021/06/15/top-court-gives-linkedin-another-chance-in-hiq-scraping-case/  Beamery is the latest company to enter the HR tech arms race, the company which calls itself a “talent operating system” that helps companies attract, engage and retain top talent, has announced US$138m in Series C funding led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers’), through its Teachers’ Innovation Platform (TIP).  The round follows a record year for the company, which finished with 337% annual revenue growth in Q4, and surpassed one million roles filled on its platform during 2020.  This new investment will fuel extensive product development, accelerate commercial growth in existing and new geographies, double its rapidly growing employee base, and solidify Beamery’s leadership position in the talent space. https://hrtechfeed.com/beamery-raises-138m-hr-tech-arms-race-continues/ Gloat, pioneers of the Talent Marketplace platform that is reinventing work and careers in global enterprises, announced a $57M Series C funding round led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Eight Roads Ventures, Intel Capital, Magma Venture Partners, and PICO Partners.  With total funding of $92M, the company will accelerate product innovation and market expansion as it aims to bring workforce agility to every enterprise and more dynamic careers to every individual. https://hrtechfeed.com/gloat-raises-57m-for-internal-mobility-platform/ Candidate.co, a new way for people to connect their personal and professional networks with great jobs while earning money launches out of beta today. For “superconnectors” — people with networks of talented friends and peers — Candidate.co offers the best way to connect them with the right job, and pays between $2,400 – $6,000 for each successful match. For employers, Candidate.co helps them build a network of referrers outside of their own employees and alumni, increasing their reach and gaining access to new pools of talent.  The startup has secured $4M in seed funding from prominent investors and offers remote positions nationwide and in-office roles in Seattle, San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles https://hrtechfeed.com/referral-platform-candidate-co-raises-4-million-in-funding/  Sense, the AI-driven talent engagement and communication platform solutions for recruiting, today announced $16 million in Series C funding. Bringing the total funding amount to $40 million to date, this latest round will accelerate innovation and development of the company’s AI-powered talent communication and engagement suite.  Sense offers a singular engagement platform powered by AI and machine learning. It enables personalized communication across the entire talent lifecycle at scale, and also automates manual tasks for recruiters. Through this personalized approach, Sense customers experience on average; a 263% increase in candidates screened compared to a manual approach, reduced time to fill by 30-81% and up to 800 hours of recruiter time saved. https://hrtechfeed.com/sense-secures-16-million-for-talent-engagement-platform/

While 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 movable from industry to industry in order to bridge the divide.

Eightfold 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. This is a direct result of the significant momentum achieved by customers and partners in the public and private sector. The innovation delivered through a single Talent Intelligence Platform is the foundation for leading global organizations as they prepare for the acceleration of changes in jobs, demand of evolving skills demand and other post-pandemic shifts in the workforce.  “Powered by AI and machine learning, Eightfold’s platform provides global enterprises with a single solution for managing the entire talent lifecycle, including hiring, retaining, and growing a diverse global workforce,” said Deep Nishar, Senior Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers. “We are pleased to partner with Ashutosh and the Eightfold team to support their ambition of transforming how enterprises manage talent and how people build their careers.”  https://hrtechfeed.com/eightfold-ai-raises-220m-series-e/   Talent Inc. the company that operates TopResume and TopCV, announced the acquisition of Imkey Holding, a global subscription-based platform for online resume-building. Based in the Netherlands, Imkey helps job seekers create job-winning resumes and CVs online through their builder platform on its global property, Resume.io, as well as its 10 additional localized sites. Since launching in 2012, Imkey has helped build more than 7 million resumes and CVs in over 100 countries.  “While most job seekers find tremendous success when working one-on-one with a professional resume writer, we also recognize that others may not be ready to make such an investment in their careers,” said Byron Matthews, Chief Executive Officer of Talent, which adds Resume.io to its suite of professional career-services brands that include TopResume, TopCV, and TopInterview.  “By acquiring a resume-building property such as Imkey’s Resume.io, we can strategically expand our service offerings to help those job seekers who either are creating a resume for the first time or who aren’t interested in working with a professional writer right now. In addition, Imkey’s extensive international presence will allow our organization to continue expanding its global footprint and empowering more professionals to take control of their careers and land the right job, sooner.”  https://hrtechfeed.com/talent-inc-acquires-another-resume-service-provider/   Loophire a startup out of nebraska has raised $300k seed round. Loophire’s technology solution combines algorithms that automate the initial match before giving each party the choice to pursue one another if the opportunity is right. For employers, Loophire goes beyond resumes to provide candidate assessments for skills, culture, and long-term fit, preliminary screening interviews, and customized services at performance-based pricing.  For job applicants, Loophire provides career coaching, timeline and career growth transparency, and regular communication throughout the hiring process. The result is a high-touch, curated experience for both companies and candidates.   Loophire says they address the critical gap in the hiring process — applicant experience. With more than two-thirds of job applicants reporting they have been turned off by a bad interview experience, companies cannot afford to be disengaged or unresponsive in a competitive jobs market. Loophire increases the probability of hire by 65% from “Introduction” to “Accepted Offer” through their streamlined approach. Because they deliver results at a fraction of the traditional cost, even smaller businesses and the qualified candidates they hire can access a superior hiring experience.---loophire.com https://hrtechfeed.com/silicon-prairie-startup-loophire-gets-300k-seed-round-for-assessment-tech/ Stoke, which operates in the freelance management system space, announced a $15.5 million Series A funding round. This was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from all previous investors and angels... To date, the company has raised $20 million. The investment allows Stoke to drive expansion and meet the rapidly growing demand from U.S. companies seeking to work more effectively in the changing workforce which includes both freelancers and full-time employees. Stoke was founded with the mission to help companies harness the power of the freelance revolution by simplifying the way they collaborate with the non-payroll workforce, which includes freelancers, contractors, consultants, agencies and gig workers.  Features all-in-one platform that enables companies to hire top talents quickly, set up automated onboarding workflows aligned with government guidelines, pay multiple invoices across 190 countries, all while ensuring management, finance and human resources teams have full visibility and control over budgets, in addition to automatic legal and tax compliance. https://hrtechfeed.com/freelance-management-system-stoke-raises-15-5-million/   ChartHop, the people analytics platform, has raised $35 million in Series B financing led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and other investors. The company previously raised $14 million in summer 2020.  ChartHop has seen exponential growth since 2019, going from a one-person company to a team of 75. During the same time period, ChartHop built a customer base of over 130 corporate customers and increased month-over-month revenue by 17% for the past 12 months. “ChartHop’s visual approach to people analytics allows leaders to make organizational planning and strategy decisions with confidence,” said Ulevitch. “We’re thrilled to lead ChartHop’s Series B because of their impressive growth, the company’s vision, and the terrific, mission-oriented team they’ve assembled.”   https://hrtechfeed.com/charthop-announces-35m-series-b-funding/   Theres a new tech talent platform….Commit announces its emergence from private-beta with an oversubscribed funding round to future-proof the careers of Canada’s best Startup Engineers. This first-of-its-kind professional network is designed to support developers who are passionate about building early-stage software, but who have been constrained by geography.  The platform uniquely provides peer-to-peer support and career development resources, and erases the friction between talent and opportunity by hiring engineers and then matching them with world-changing startups, regardless of location. The launch is fueled by an over-subscribed $6M seed round which was uniquely preempted by Commit’s own customers–the majority of whom are Canadian technical founders. The company already boasts a roster of 50+ high-profile startups that want to work with Commit Engineers. The funds will be used to 10x the number of Engineers on the platform in the next 12 months, and continue to build and invest in the programs that reach and support the best talent in this space. Interested Engineers can join the waitlist at Commit.dev today. The company is based in canada. https://hrtechfeed.com/commit-raises-6-million-for-canadian-software-engineer-community/

Podcasts 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.

Eightfold 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 Funding — including $5.5 million in new equity capital and $3.5 million in venture debt. https://hrtechfeed.com/tech-job-placement-platform-lands-9m/ Another niche gig marketplace has launched….YellowBird, a nationwide gig economy marketplace that matches vetted Risk and Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Professionals with businesses on-demand, has announced its raised $1.7 million in seed capital.  https://hrtechfeed.com/ehs-gig-marketplace-raises-1-7m/ Cadient Talent, a human resources software company, today revealed its latest technology, which infuses machine learning and augmented intelligence (AI) to help organizations identify and hire employees more efficiently and increase quality of hire. Cadient Decision PointTM is a recommendation engine that works with any applicant tracking system (ATS) to instantly analyze all applicants and present hiring managers with a short list of top candidates from which to choose.  https://hrtechfeed.com/cadient-talent-unveils-new-machine-learning-technology-to-redefine-how-companies-find-and-hire-hourly-workers/ Hibob, the HCM platform bob, announced its acquisition of Cassiopeia, a startup that developed AI-based workplace relationship analytics technology to help teams improve communication, collaboration, and work-life balance through advanced communication pattern analysis.  https://hrtechfeed.com/hibob-continues-acquires-workplace-relationships-analytics-startup-cassiopeia/

Conversational 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 Wade&Wendy what were those results like? Challenges in hiring right now...What kind of application rates are you seeing on your clients jobs these days...its tough to hire right now? Will all your customer get this tech? Or will it be an Add on? Rename it? How will you be explaining what you are going forward? Are you now a “sourcing and screening” tech platform? Whats the future of programmatic and how do you see conversational AI evolving on next few years… Any new product announcements? More potential acquisitions? Making plans for hr tech this year?

Congrats 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 for content creators. Spokn was founded by Fawzy Abu Seif, Mariel Davis and Mohammed Galal and launched as an internal communications platform in November 2020. Since that time, Spokn has grown rapidly, attracting customers such as ServiceNow, Podium, Udemy, and others. Beyond internal communications, Spokn’s customers create podcasts for more effective employee engagement; onboarding; diversity, equity and inclusion; and learning & development. “Employees do their best work when they trust their leadership, are connected to their colleagues, understand their company’s direction, and feel motivated to contribute” said Fawzy Abu Seif, CEO and Co-founder of Spokn. “But existing tools weren’t designed to be the cultural connective tissue that remote or hybrid teams need. Podcasting is the perfect fit for reaching employees in the format they love – whether for messages from executives, staff spotlights, or stories on company history and values. Spokn is the only part of a company’s workstack that keeps employees connected while giving them a break from their screen.”   Stay tuned to the pod because I’ll be interviewing Mariel Davis in a few weeks. As a podcaster I am very intrigued by what spokn is up to hear. https://hrtechfeed.com/podcasting-for-work-spokn-gets-4-million/ Workrise, (formely known as Rigup)  the leading workforce management platform for the skilled trades, has raised a $300 million Series E round  Workrise connects skilled laborers with infrastructure and energy companies looking to staff and manage projects efficiently. The company’s online platform matches workers with more than 500 companies in its network, manages payroll and benefits, and provides access to training. Founded in 2014 as a platform to match skilled laborers with companies in the oil and gas industry, Workrise has since broadened its business to serve companies and trade workers in the solar, wind, commercial construction, and defense industries. The company will use the latest investment to continue to expand into new markets served by its platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/workrise-gets-300m-series-e/ DailyPay, the on-demand pay solutions for enterprises, announced it has secured $500 million of capital. The company is announcing a $175 million Series D equity round led by Carrick Capital Partners with participation from existing investors. In addition, the company is announcing it has raised $325 million of credit capital from various sources.  The Company intends to invest its newly raised capital in new market opportunities for its technology platform, in addition to extending its market leadership position in on-demand pay among the largest employers in the world. “This financing package creates a fortress balance sheet that we can deploy on behalf of employers and their employees,” said Scot Parnell, Chief Financial Officer at DailyPay. “The on-demand pay industry requires an exceptionally well-capitalized balance sheet to ensure the highest degree of service delivery, reliability and trust.” https://hrtechfeed.com/dailypay-raises-500-million-for-its-on-demand-pay-solution/ Jumpstart, a Diversity Recruitment Platform (DRP) who’s mission is to make the world more equitable, is rebranding as Canvas. The startup also announced $20 million in new funding. The company currently has 70 employees and expects to have 100 by the end of 2021.  The Canvas Diversity Recruiting Platform is a fully virtual recruiting platform that is based on self-reported data. Unlike other solutions that might utilize inferred data that could be inaccurate or illegal, Canvas helps create a more accurate data set to identify diverse candidates, helping to solve the core problem of talent discovery. In fact, 56% of all hires on the Canvas platform are made from Under represented Groups (URGs), and the platform helps employers achieve a 30% reduction in time to hire.  NOTE: the new name is the same as the text recruiting company acquired by Jobvite. That name appears to have been now sunsetted. The new Canvas has acquired the canvas.com domain.  https://hrtechfeed.com/diversity-recruiting-platform-raises-20m/ BrightHire, the leading interview intelligence platform designed to empower companies with the unprecedented insight they need to make the best hiring decisions easily, today announced $12.5M in new funding. The raise will further the company’s investment in next-level analytics for measuring the quality, effectiveness and equity of interviews. The company also revealed the results of a new research study that shines light on bias in the interview process and demonstrates the power of analytics for improving the way companies hire. Built with seamless integrations into Zoom and leading Applicant Tracking Systems, BrightHire helps teams run a consistent and evidence-based hiring process. The platform guides, captures and analyzes and easily shares interviews equipping hiring managers to make fair and fully informed hiring decisions. The demand for BrightHire’s new approach and shift to remote-first hiring have fueled the company’s 70x year-over-year revenue growth. https://hrtechfeed.com/interview-intelligence-platform-brighthire-raises-12-5m/

Pete 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

StepStone, 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 discover more about job seeker preferences, skills, and interests and increase the number and quality of matching job applications. The new technology will become part of StepStone’s Autonomous Matchingtm platform. Based on machine learning, conversational AI will enable job seekers to find matching job opportunities even without actively searching for them. The technology draws conclusions from talking to the candidate and then suggests suitable jobs via text message, WhatsApp or onsite chat. StepStone customers will benefit from improved matching and higher quality of hiring. Engaging with job seekers based on conversational AI will first be integrated in StepStone’s job marketplaces in English and German language. https://hrtechfeed.com/stepstone-acquires-mya-conversational-ai-software/ ZipRecruiter®, announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2021. Quarterly revenue increased to $125 million, up 11% y/y In April, ZipRecruiter filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a direct listing of its common stock. The Company’s registration statement was declared effective on May 14th, and its Class A common stock is expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “ZIP” on May 26, 2021. “In our first public earnings report, ZipRecruiter delivered record revenue in Q1. We are issuing guidance for the year that maps to the strong signs of recovery in the U.S. hiring market. We believe that we are in the early stages of a significant resurgence of job growth during the once-in-a-lifetime reopening of the economy after the pandemic. We are well-positioned to take advantage of this moment as we continue to actively connect people to their next great opportunity.” said Ian Siegel, CEO of ZipRecruiter. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-announces-first-quarter-2021-results-and-2021-guidance/ Phenom announced the launch of Phenom Hiring Manager, a powerful set of hiring tools that redesigns hiring, management and collaboration with recruiters.  Phenom Hiring Manager is enabling managers to overcome these challenges and improve collaboration with recruiters to fill roles faster. The experience is tailored to their needs, and designed to reduce feedback loops that delay hiring, create poor candidate experiences and interfere with managers’ other responsibilities.  Its functionality includes Discover and review candidate profiles Progress or reject candidates and provide feedback Initiate, automate and manage interview scheduling Access and evaluate on-demand video assessments Record a personalized video to share on job description pages Leverage Phenom AI’s fit scoring, intelligent matching and insights Thats it for this week... for all  these stories vist hr tech feed dot com or look for the links in our podcast notes. -----   Upwork (Nasdaq: UPWK), has announced the launch of Talent Scout™, a recruiting solution that connects companies with pre-vetted expert talent selected from the Upwork platform by specialized Upwork recruiters.  Talent Scout represents an additional way to access and engage talent and is part of Upwork’s ongoing focus on offering a dynamic, one-stop online talent solution serving customers’ full spectrum of talent needs. Talent Scout is currently available for clients located in the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Israel. It will be available to additional countries soon. https://hrtechfeed.com/upwork-now-helps-you-find-pre-vetted-remote-freelancers/ Stoke Talent is launching customizable and automated Workflows for Onboarding and Offboarding non-payroll workers – such as freelancers, contractors, consultants and agencies – to make this process easier and risk-free for companies. Whenever a contractor is being onboarded to a company, they need to sign legal documents, provide payment information and tax documentation. The company should then run Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering (KYC/AML) checks before payments, document any system or data access provided to the contractor, and track hardware equipment provided, such as laptops and company badges. Today, most of these activities are done by email and tracked through spreadsheets, making this problematic and creating potential significant risks to the company. Stoke Talent’s automated Onboarding and Offboarding Workflows automates all of the above processes. It enables legal, finance, and IT teams to set up policies that are enforced throughout the entire company. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-stoke-adds-onboarding-tools-for-freelancers/ PandoLogic has acquired conversational chatbot Wade&Wendy to help their customers convert more applicants to the traffic they are buying.  From their announcement… Over the last two years, PandoLogic has been growing significantly in the Programmatic Job Advertising space. One common barrier to continued market adoption, however, is an assumption that Programmatic delivers large volumes of candidates but at low quality.  Coupling Wade & Wendy’s uniquely engaging and personal conversational AI technology with Programmatic will help increase conversion rates while reducing the strain on recruiters by doing the first level qualification screening.

Looking 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

INDIANAPOLIS — 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 screening efforts. Recruiters using Qualifi shave one week off their time-to-hire average.  “We’ve been recruiters ourselves and we spend so much time listening to our customers to understand the challenges they face, that we know exactly what they need from us,” said Darrian Mikell, CEO and co-founder of Qualifi. “This cash injection will allow us to build functionality into the platform much faster, expanding our capabilities to meet the specific needs of our customers in verticals like healthcare, call centers, and other fast-paced industries.” Founded in 2019, Qualifi grew from the accelerator and Pitch Pardi programs from Be Nimble, a social enterprise supporting the growth of black tech ecosystems.  https://hrtechfeed.com/candidate-screening-tool-launches-with-seed-investment/   Outmatch, the Hiring Experience global leader, today announced it has acquired and will be joining forces with Amsterdam-based Harver, the leading provider of volume hiring software that digitally transforms the hiring process at scale. Bolstering Outmatch’s Hiring Experience Stack™ of assessments, video interviewing, and reference checking with Harver’s one-of-a-kind platform for high-volume hiring creates an unprecedented offering that enables global enterprises to make smarter hires more efficiently. Candidates will experience a humanized, self-driven, and unbiased application process while employers capitalize on a streamlined, scalable solution that enables any high-volume hiring – from hourly to professional. “We are incredibly excited to bring Outmatch and Harver together to form a solution that disrupts the pre-hire technology industry,” said Greg Moran, CEO of Outmatch. “The high-volume hiring process continues to innovate, and technology is playing a bigger role than ever. The combination of Outmatch and Harver will make us the absolute leader in the space to navigate companies through this transition,” he added. With a combined 1,300 customers globally, the company expects to screen nearly 25 million candidates this year for some of the world’s top companies across the combined suite of solutions.  Outmatch has previously acquired Checkster, Furstperson and Launchpad making the harver purchase their fourth in the past year. https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-acquire-amsterdam-based-harver/ TikTok is testing a tool for brands to recruit employees, sources tell Axios.  Details: The pilot program is designed to help people find jobs on TikTok and connect with companies looking to find candidates. It's also meant to help brands use TikTok as a recruitment channel. The company is currently testing the service with a beta group of companies. Several big brands have been asked about participating, including sports leagues.  The platform isn't a product that's integrated within TikTok itself, but rather a separate web page accessible via the TikTok app where brands can post jobs, primarily entry-level listings. Users can post a TikTok video resume to the site rather than a traditional resume. The idea is for users to give an elevator pitch or work experience summary via the video in a unique way.  TikTok will ask candidates to post their resume videos to their TikTok profiles, if they wish, to help publicize the new service. https://www.axios.com/tiktok-job-hiring-tiktok-576f3b99-602c-46ac-afed-218ddf61a9ba.html Legion, a workforce management tool redefining how enterprise companies manage and empower their hourly workforces,announced a $50M Series C investment round. The company plans to use this newly secured financing to build on its momentum to increase hiring and accelerate product innovation. After a year of tremendous growth (391% year-over-year) driven by surging demand for Legion’s innovative workforce management platform, Legion’s Series C comes just nine months after the company secured a $22M Series B and brings the total amount of funding secured to $85.5M. “Our mission of turning hourly jobs into good jobs is even more critical now,” said Sanish Mondkar, CEO and founder of Legion Technologies. “With the challenges faced by every industry in the past year, employers need flexible, efficient ways to engage with – and retain – their hourly employees. Using Legion WFM, employers can optimize their operations while increasing employee engagement, resulting in increased productivity and commitment.” https://hrtechfeed.com/workforce-management-platform-gets-50m-in-funding/ According to TechCrunch, Blind has received a $37 million Series C funding round led by South Korean venture firm Mainstreet Investment along with Cisco Investments and Pavilion Capital, a subsidiary of Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek. The company had filed a Form D in late March for roughly $20.5 million, and the $37 million represents the final total fundraised. Blind is building what it calls “Talent by Blind,” a platform for capturing this hiring intentionality and selling it to recruiters. The goal is to transfer people whose intentions might be, say, L5 engineer at a big tech company in Seattle to a separate platform that can be used as a top-of-funnel for company recruitment efforts. https://hrtechfeed.com/anonymous-employee-app-blind-raises-37-million/ Handshake, the largest early career network helping millions of students from all backgrounds get hired and launch their careers, today announced its second $80 million round of venture financing within the past year, increasing Handshake’s investment total to $235.5 million and the company’s valuation to more than $1.5 billion. The company has more than doubled its revenue every year for the past three years, and is nearing $100 million in annual recurring revenue.  “Since leading Handshake’s Series B in 2016, we’ve been thrilled to watch the company become the clear number one way for students to find internships and jobs, and there is still so much opportunity ahead,” said Will Reed, General Partner at Spark Capital.Over the past seven years, Handshake has built a strong three-sided marketplace that focuses uniquely on the early talent sector, which includes students and other young professionals who are starting their careers and looking for an internship or their first few jobs.  Knowing that most students don’t start out with a professional network or experience-filled resume, Handshake differentiates itself from other career sites by helping all students build the relationships and skills they need to stand out, get hired and launch their careers, in-person or virtually, with no connections, experience, or luck required. Handshake brings together a network of 18 million students and young alumni …..On the employer side, there are now 550,000 companies using Handshake including 100% of the Fortune 500 https://hrtechfeed.com/handshake-lands-another-80m-in-funding/

The CEO of chatter.ai stops by to talk about current state of retail/restaurant hiring and demo their hiring software tool.

DENVER 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 by structure and real-time analytics to hire a diverse, qualified workforce. interviewIA’s founding team established and validated this unique methodology while working together over the last several years on the front lines of innovative talent strategies. Three years ago they built the first version of this interview platform and began to iterate on the value that this could bring to the market.   “We are excited to partner with the interviewIA team to help scale their uniquely positioned technology platform,” says Ryan Kirkpatrick, Co-Managing Partner of the Colorado Impact Fund. “As hiring accelerates through the recovery from the pandemic and considering the call to action on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion after the social movements this past summer, we believe a solution to make the interview process more efficient, structured, and unbiased is important and timely.”   You can check them out at interview ia dot com https://hrtechfeed.com/interviewia-secures-2-million-seed-round/ A new real estate recruiting tool has launched. Lone Wolf Technologies has announced the launch of Recruit, real estate’s first recruiting solution that helps brokers find the best talent and who represent the best fit for their brokerage.  Recruit is a new solution that leverages AI, machine-learning, and data science to identify agents who are a best fit for a brokerage. With Recruit, brokers can create custom search profiles based on the traits of their best agents. Recruit’s AI technology then crunches over 30 industry-specific metrics to calculate a ‘Fit Score’ for each agent. With this ‘Fit Score’, brokers can easily and more accurately identify and recruit the best agents—who are also a best fit—and are most likely to contribute to the brokerage’s bottom-line.  “We’re thrilled to launch Recruit today,” said Jimmy Kelly, CEO and President of Lone Wolf. “This year, we’re on a mission to provide more cutting-edge technology to the real estate industry than ever before. Recruit is a unique and incredibly innovative solution that will provide brokers in the U.S. with a simple and intuitive way of finding and recruiting the best talent and fit for their brokerage.” https://hrtechfeed.com/new-real-estate-recruiting-solution-launches/ FUNDING ALERT - Wedge, the recruiting platform based on video screening announced $1.6M in additional funding with participation from new and existing investors. Wedge co-founder and CEO Matt Baxter said, “By helping meet the challenges of remote hiring, Wedge has become an essential solution for many companies. Since our initial raise, we’ve seen rapid momentum, including 600 percent growth year over year, and with this infusion, we plan to build on that, adding to our own team and introducing additional product enhancements while supporting the recruiting needs of today’s leading employers.” Since Wedge’s $1M seed funding announcement in July 2020, the company has launched a redesigned candidate experience to help prioritize transparency, communication and preparation during the screening and interviewing process. Wedge has also expanded its partner program and made several key additions to its team, including HR tech expert Theo Rokos as president, and Emma Roque, as vice president of Customer Success. Rokos was co-founder and CEO of GreenJobInterview, a video interviewing pioneer, and most recently served as Chief Revenue Officer at Job.com https://hrtechfeed.com/video-screening-tool-wedge-raises-1-6-million-in-new-funding/ Recruiting software companies Lever and Create have upgraded their product offerings. Lever, a leading Talent Acquisition Suite, has announced their spring feature release, increasing efficiency for recruiters everywhere.  Screening your applicants faster at the top of the funnel: With Fast Resume Review, the screening and evaluation process of inbound applicants is expedited into one convenient view. During the review, candidates can be advanced in the pipeline, archived, or skipped for review at another time. All of the options include the ability to email and/or add a note to the opportunity to ensure an optimal candidate experience.  Time-saving approvals during the job requisition process: Through the new customization within Dynamic Requisition Approver, teams can ensure that each stakeholder – finance, HR, etc. – is on board with the requisition requested by defining user picklist fields.  Raising the bar for reporting with powerful data-visualization tools: Visual Insights in-app reporting brings an entirely redesigned experience to data-visualization with new Bookmarks and Exports features.   Crelate, makers of a leading, flexible recruitment platform for modern talent-focused businesses, today announced the expansion of their suite of industry-recognized products called Crelate Omni™. The integrated software platform includes advanced middle and back-office offerings, Crelate Hire and Crelate Deliver, which join Crelate Recruit, the company’s flagship applicant tracking and Recruiting CRM solution. Crelate Hire for example provides flexible and intuitive tools that streamline hiring through process automation, centralized client feedback, and integrated compliance through credential management.  https://hrtechfeed.com/lever-crelate-update-offerings/ Greenhouse, the hiring software company, today launched Welcome, a new platform to create thoughtful, curated onboarding experiences for new hires that extends beyond paperwork and logistics. Created to offer a seamless and unified onboarding experience for all new hires regardless of location, Welcome enables organization to:  Design a personalized welcome flow for each role or department  Create a resource hub with customizable pages to highlight their unique brand  Introduce new hires to team members through a dedicated portal  Empower new hires with key information and visibility on expectations  Set automated tasks and reminders to ensure individuals have a clear understanding of their role and responsibilities “Investing in our company’s future also means investing in our employees by setting them up for success from the beginning,” said Dom Merritt, Chief People Officer, Buildout. “Onboarding is an important part of our strategy to give new hires confidence that we’re committed to their growth and building an inclusive culture that they’ll want to be a part of long-term.” https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-releases-new-onboarding-tool/

Attracting, 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 is the only way to gain a competitive edge and win over talent. Phenom, provider of the Talent experience management platform recently released results from their survey titled State of the Candidate experience that details how fortune 500 companies rank when it comes to attracting, engaging and converting talent. Joining me to discuss the report is Jonathan Dale, VP of marketing at Phenom. LINK: https://www.phenom.com/state-of-candidate-experience-benchmark-report

Ceridian 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, including screening, shortlisting, and matching top candidates. Dayforce customers will also have access to Ideal’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) intelligence system, enabling employers to meet diversity head-on by ensuring that objectivity and inclusion happen up-front in the talent acquisition and management processes. https://hrtechfeed.com/ceridian-to-acquire-ideal/ CareRev, a labor marketplace platform that connects hospitals and health systems with local healthcare professionals on demand, today announced the closing of a $50 million series A financing round led by Transformation Capital, a growth equity fund solely focused on innovative healthcare IT and services companies.  Los Angeles-based CareRev offers a cloud-based platform in which hospitals and other healthcare facilities post shifts when they need clinical support, and local, vetted healthcare professionals claim the shifts through their mobile app — eliminating the need for a traditional agency.  Unlike other healthcare labor marketplace platforms, CareRev offers health systems the technology to create their own hybrid marketplaces in which internal employees are given the option to claim shifts before they’re broadcasted to local, external CareRev professionals. The platform helps hospitals reduce labor costs, particularly offsetting expensive travel contracts, and gives professionals a more intuitive way to pick up shifts: on their phones. https://hrtechfeed.com/healthcare-job-marketplace-lands-50m-in-funding/ Kent Plunkett, Founder & CEO of Salary.com, the compensation solution provider of the trusted data and intuitive software you need to get pay right, today announced the company has secured $67M in funding in a financing round led by  Accel-KKR Credit Partners, Centre Lane, and Wells Fargo Capital Finance.  The new capital will be used to accelerate innovation and expand hiring at the industry’s fastest-growing compensation management company.  Managing the complexities around compensation management is a top priority for organizations facing elevated expectations around workforce transformation. Vast and diverse data sets, big data analysis, and visualizations are becoming the norm. Infrastructure for job description management and market pricing are in high demand. In building the world’s largest compensation data cloud on the industry’s most secure collaboration platform, Salary.com is redefining modern compensation analysis. “Salary.com created the compensation technology category in 1999 and continues to lead the industry in bringing innovations to the field under the steady hand of the original team, a plus in an industry that has seen much upheaval and consolidation,” said Todd Ofenloch, Managing Director in the Boston office of H.I.G. Capital. “We’re excited to support the company’s future growth and next wave of innovation.” https://hrtechfeed.com/67-million-for-salary-com/ IPO news Paycor HCM, Inc., a leading Software-as-a-Service provider of human capital management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock.  The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. The offering is subject to market conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether, or when, the offering may be contemplated or as to the actual size or terms of the offering. Paycor has applied to list its common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “PYCR.” and ZipRecruiter® (www.ziprecruiter.com) today 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. The company made over $400 million in 2020 and is currently profitable after a huge round of layoffs last year. Inside the S1 filing i saw that they think the stock is worth 25 dollars per share so we’ll see what it opens at. No timetable a=has been given for these IPO announcements. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-announces-filing-of-registration-statement-for-proposed-public-direct-listing-of-its-class-a-common-stock/ Lastly in the biggest news of rhe week   Jobvite, JazzHR, and NXTThing RPO to Merge and Form Super Vendor Jobvite, the leading end-to-end talent acquisition solution provider, today announced it is joining forces with JazzHR, the leading recruiting software provider for small and medium-sized businesses, and NXTThing RPO, a high-growth recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) company. Backed by K1 Investment Management, the transaction combines three complementary companies to form the most comprehensive provider of talent acquisition and recruiting solutions for organizations of all sizes, spanning from SMBs to global enterprises. JazzHR’s Pete Lamson will serve as CEO and will lead the next phase of growth for the company. Aman Brar will continue to provide strategic direction to the organization by joining the Board of Directors. “Through our combined businesses, we are unparalleled in markets we cover, with purpose-built and data-driven solutions ranging from SMB to enterprise. We are the only talent acquisition provider to offer discrete SMB and enterprise grade technology solutions, and couple both with industry-leading recruitment services,” said Lamson. “Whatever the customer size, budget, technology, or service level required, Jobvite, JazzHR, and NXTThing RPO have the solutions our markets need.” Jobvite is like those NBA superteams acquired all start talent and trying to win a championship...thats a lot of moving parts to integrate...I’ll be chatting with Pete lamson in an upcoming podcast... https://hrtechfeed.com/jobvite-jazzhr-and-nxtthing-rpo-to-merge-and-form-super-vendor/

Last 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://aimgroup.com/2021/04/25/ziprecruiter-files-for-direct-listing-on-nyse-revenue-fell-3-in-2020-but-it-was-profitable/

Helskini-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, and scale up operations in the U.S. They do offer a free version which looks like it has a ton of features so check it out at jobilla.com https://hrtechfeed.com/jobilla-raises-funding/   Infinite Computer Solutions, a global technology company, has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire IBM’s Talent Acquisition Suite. Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close later this year were not disclosed.  Infinite is acquiring IBM Lead Manager, BrassRing, and Onboard. BrassRing supports more than 20 languages and provides candidate lifecycle management and employee onboarding for more than 240 customers, many of whom appear on the Fortune 500. In the past 12 months, the product was used to manage more than 60 million candidate submissions with almost 50 million recruiter logins and over 4 million active users.  “This strategic acquisition expands our portfolio of platforms and services with a market-leading product that accommodates the most complex recruitment and onboarding requirements,” said Sanjay Govil, founder and chairman of Infinite Computer Solutions. “With hiring set to scale up post-COVID, we saw an opportunity to provide our global client base a proven SaaS-based platform to attract and recruit candidates as well as onboard employees.”  https://hrtechfeed.com/ibm-talent-acquisition-suite-to-be-sold/   Deel, the international payroll company has announced that it has raised $156 million in Series C funding led by the YC Continuity Fund and has welcomed Ali Rowghani to its board.  The round was co-led by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital. Dara Khosrowshahi, Lachy Groom, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jeff Wilke, and Anthony Schiller also participated in the round, among others. With a valuation of $1.25 billion, Deel has emerged as a market leader in the global payroll and compliance space. Deel allows businesses to hire anyone, anywhere, in a compliant manner. Hiring and onboarding international employees or contractors takes under 5 minutes, with no local entity required. Paying them in 120+ currencies takes just a click. Deel was co-founded in 2018 by MIT alumni Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang. Deel was already focused on this pain point when the pandemic hit, putting the startup in a prime position to help companies adjust to the dramatic shift in working and hiring norms. The company competes with players such as Remote.com...in the last 2 weeks 3 hr tech companies have raised more than 100 million in funding. To say that investors love hr tech is an understatement.   https://hrtechfeed.com/payments-platform-deel-raises-156-million-series-c/   RippleMatch, the leading early career recruiting platform, today announced it raised $23.5M in additional funding. The heavily oversubscribed round was led by Invus Opportunities with participation from Renegade Partners and Gaingels as well as existing investors G20, Work-Bench, Alleycorp, Bullpen Capital and Accomplice. In addition, the company unveiled RippleMatch CRM, the latest addition to its comprehensive platform designed to help employers hire the right early career talent virtually, build diverse, high performing teams, and improve the candidate experience.  “This is a special moment in our journey to make early career recruiting more intelligent and efficient, as well as accessible for job seekers from underrepresented educational, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds,” said RippleMatch CEO Andrew Myers. “The new funding will allow us to continue building out our intelligent hiring platform, empowering companies across the country to understand their data and build a recruiting pipeline that more accurately mirrors the demographics of the broader U.S. population.” https://hrtechfeed.com/ripplematch-raises-23m-for-early-career-recruiting/   BioSpace has acquired MedReps, the leading job site for medical sales positions. The acquisition strengthens the Company’s position as the leader in online recruitment for the life sciences industry. Financial terms were not disclosed. “The acquisition of MedReps extends our capabilities and further establishes our position as a leading partner for life sciences organizations,” said Joshua Goodwin, CEO of BioSpace, Inc. “The BioSpace and MedReps services complement each other with BioSpace’s traditional strength in biotech and MedRep’s focus on the medical device and diagnostic sectors. This was also an opportunity to combine two incredible teams that share the same passion and drive to serve the life sciences community at a time when we are experiencing incredible growth. MedReps was founded in 2000 and is a popular job site inside the pharma and medical sales community. Over the past 20 years, MedReps has built a valuable community of over 300,000 members that utilize the platform for medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotech sales jobs and career resources.  https://hrtechfeed.com/medical-sales-job-site-acquired/

Luma 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

Upskilling 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, ensuring best in class security, and enhancing integrations that take Degreed deeper into users’ daily workflow. “Investing in skills, culture, and career growth has become a critical differentiator for employers,” said Jeff Parks, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Riverwood Capital. “Under Chris’ leadership, Degreed has transformed the learning experience and upskilling conversation. We are thrilled to build on that vision in partnership with Dan and this incredible team, and are focused on the next phase of their scalability journey and supporting their mission to equip people with the skills they need to redefine their careers, their companies, their fields, and the world.” The total funding round including equity and debt reached $183 million and included participation from current investors Signal Peak Ventures, Owl Ventures, GSV Ventures, Founders Circle, Contour Investment Partners, Section Partners, and Alliance Bernstein, as well as new investor Firework Ventures. https://hrtechfeed.com/upskilling-platform-degreed-raises-153-million-series-d/ obvite has launched Jobvite Academy, a new online learning center for talent acquisition (TA) teams to modernize their recruiting skills. Traditionally, recruiters have had to learn on the job or seek training on their own. Now, TA professionals and their teams can enhance their recruitment expertise with Jobvite Academy. Jobvite Academy is designed to upskill and broaden the knowledge of recruiting teams, resulting in better productivity and results for organizations regardless of their tech platform. Jobvite Academy features cost-effective and self-guided certification programs created and led by a faculty of experts and covers the knowledge needed for TA professionals to develop more innovative action plans informed by best practices. This includes providing vendor-agnostic training on critical recruiting skills, key competencies, and proven industry best practices. Jobvite Academy will include a range of certification options including these initial programs: Recruitment Marketing (available now), with Applicant Management and Effective TA Operations both coming soon. Each program can be completed at one’s own pace, includes seven learning modules, and qualifies for SHRM and HRCI credits. Participants will also receive two workbooks and one exam to ensure hands-on experience and course completion. https://hrtechfeed.com/jobvite-academy-launches-to-help-educate-talent-acquisition-professionals/  Hired has announced its new unified solution and rebrand following its acquisition by Vettery and The Adecco Group in November 2020. Hired has absorbed Vettery to operate as a single platform that matches a highly-curated pool of motivated candidates with fast-growing, innovative companies.   The new, combined solution expands Hired’s pool of candidates beyond tech to sales roles as well.  Besides continuing to offer remote roles globally, Hired is now available to candidates in four new markets – Atlanta, Dublin, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia – bringing the platform’s number of concentrated regions to 18 of the leading tech hubs in the world across the U.S., Canada, UK, and Ireland.  Hired aims to demystify the opaque hiring industry by giving both candidates and employers accurate information, equal access to opportunity, and unparalleled transparency. As G2’s leading Diversity Recruiting Software, Hired’s unique offering includes customized assessments and salary bias alerts to help remove unconscious bias in the hiring process. Cangrade, a leading bias-free AI-based hiring solution that predicts job candidate success, launched its Job Description Decoder, an easy and free way for organizations to reduce bias, improve their talent pipeline, and find the right fit for their roles by identifying the soft skills their candidates need for success. Cangrade’s Job Description Decoder is a powerful, easy-to-use tool built on Cangrade’s powerful psychometric data and I/O psychology. With a short survey, the Job Description Decoder pinpoints which soft skills will lead to success in a company’s open role, how to pinpoint those soft skills in an interview, and how to advertise for those skills. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-tech-bytes-hired-cangrade/ ZipRecruiter now lets employers know when candidates are in high demand and encourages them to act fast, before it is too late Many employers lose top candidates to more agile competitors by taking too long to contact them. Now, ZipRecruiter helps employers avoid this costly mistake by giving them valuable information about the status and availability of applicants they are considering. When employers browse through applicants, an “Act Fast!” label notifies them if candidates are being actively recruited by other employers and encourages them to reach out quickly. The label indicates that the candidate has received a signal of intent from multiple other employers in recent days. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiters-new-act-fast-alert-helps-businesses-secure-top-candidates/ Fuel50, creator of a talent marketplace platform, today announced it has raised $15.5M (USD) in Series B funding, led by PeakSpan Capital and Shearwater Capital. With deep AI personalization and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, Fuel50 mobilizes talent through an AI-powered opportunity marketplace that delivers internal talent agility and workforce reskilling. With the new funds in place, Fuel50 will be increasing its presence across the US, EMEA, and Australasia, while accelerating product innovation to include deep analytics and talent intelligence. To date, Fuel50 has raised approximately $28.2 million. Fuel50 is an award-winning talent marketplace platform that delivers career path transparency, mobilizes talent, and evolves an organization’s workforce for the future. Featuring AI-driven talent and skills forecasting from the world’s fastest-growing talent experience platform,  https://hrtechfeed.com/talent-marketplace-fuel50-raises-15-5-million-in-series-b/

Angelo 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…Altru Last tool you demoed? draup.com Diversity efforts at Rockwell?  Are you hiring on the talent team? How many contractors...do you foresee growing contract/freelance help?

Recruiting 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 news... Phenom, the world’s most widely used AI-powered talent experience platform, today announced a $100 million Series D round. B Capital Group led the round, among other investors….The capital will let Phenom remain focused on fulfilling its purpose — to help a billion people find the right job - the company is now valued at 1.3 billion and one of their investors was quoted saying they will go public in the near future. With new funding, Phenom continues to innovate its Talent Experience Management (TXM) platform for organizations adopting AI holistically in a post-COVID era. As a result, candidates find the right job faster; employees learn and evolve; recruiters discover best-fit talent with efficiency and scale; and managers make stronger data-driven decisions to build their future teams. “At Phenom, we’ve always been a purpose-driven company, and that will never change,” said Mahe Bayireddi, CEO and co-founder of Phenom. “Since the beginning, we have rooted our platform in intelligence versus simply adding AI as a single tool or feature. This makes our AI dramatically different, and helps us cultivate a healthy talent ecosystem. Jobs are the foundation of thriving societies around the world. They provide livelihoods and help people reach their full potential. As organizations respond to a seismic shift in how they approach and manage talent, Phenom is scaling with conviction, so everyone has the resources to succeed in times of both volatility and stability.” Congrats to the team at Phenom, they are one of only 15 companies in HR tech ever to receive a funding round of $100 million or more.   https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-raises-100-million-series-d/   Dice, launched its enhanced Candidate Profile to highlight technologists’ unique skills and career accomplishments, maximizing their visibility to top recruiters and employers. The redesigned tool joins recently released Recruiter Profiles and Instant Messaging to establish an interactive and dynamic career marketplace, activating Dice’s deep tech specialization to empower recruiters, hiring organizations and technologists to build meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships that lead to career placements. As part of the launch new features include; Recruiter Profile: provides recruiters the opportunity to build trust and credibility with technologists by showing what sets them apart in their personalized profile. Instant Messaging: enables real-time, transparent conversations between employers and technologists through the Dice platform, building immediate credibility and trust on both sides of the relationship.  https://hrtechfeed.com/whats-new-in-hr-tech-dice-suitisoft-kazoo/   Workshop, an employee communications platform for sharing and finding important internal data, has raised a $3.5 million seed round. The round included a group of prominent Midwest venture funds and angel investors, including Ludlow Ventures, M25, and Linseed Capital.    Workshop’s seed round is almost entirely composed of local and regional investors, which continues the co-founders’ vocal support of the Midwest as a hub for great technology and startup opportunities.   The startup plans to use the funds to build out a world-class team that can continue to build an amazing product, with a current focus on recruiting engineering talent.  Workshop also announced the official launch of their new employee communications platform, which includes a streamlined way to share important internal updates, as well as an option for an all-company hub.  Built to cut through the noise with relevant news and urgent updates, Workshop functions as a single source of truth for important internal information. For the communicator, it’s easy to create targeted, well-designed messages in minutes, and send them to a specific audience via email, text, or Slack. The startup also offers an all-company hub to centralize all of a company’s most important information. It offers common intranet features with a great user experience, including personalized updates, pinned resources, an employee directory, and global search.  For more information go to useworkshop.com. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-communications-platform-raises-3-5-million/ Recruiter.com acquired Upsider.ai, an artificial intelligence sourcing software that automates candidate identification and engagement for enabling employers to make the best hires. "Upsider.ai's AI-based scoring engine analyzes millions of data sources to identify qualified candidates faster, cutting through the inefficiencies of the often unpredictable and traditionally expensive recruiting process," CEO Evan Sohn commented. The acquisition was closed on Mar.26 through an asset purchase agreement and was paid mainly in restricted common stock. Upsider.ai's AI-based scoring engine and platform use machine learning and data science to help hiring teams quickly identify and engage the right talent. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3679569-recruitercom-acquires-artificial-intelligence-candidate-sourcing-tool-upsiderai Talroo, annouced the release of Talroo Ad Platform (TAP), an all-in-one platform agnostic solution that brings Talroo’s existing products together in a single talent attraction gateway.  Those solutions include profile-driven programmatic job advertising product Talroo Pro, hiring events advertising product Talroo Events, and recruitment marketing analytics product Talroo Insights. This unification enables clients to view and modify campaigns in real time, activate jobs, and turn jobs into hiring events on-demand. “Talroo Ad Platform is coming to market at a critical time for employers. We’re seeing unprecedented demand for workers right now, as the economy starts to reopen and there’s light at the end of the tunnel after such disruption to the job market. Talroo Ad Platform gives clients access to their job advertising campaigns instantly and enables them to turn those jobs into hiring events quickly and easily,” said Talroo CEO Thad Price. “We’re reducing friction so employers can attract candidates at scale and use whatever talent acquisition software or strategy they are currently leveraging to make hires.”   https://hrtechfeed.com/talroo-announces-release-of-talroo-ad-platform-to-unify-talent-attraction-product-suite/ Thats it for this week... for all  these stories vist hr tech feed dot com

Industry 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.

With Matt Lozar from Haley Marketing this session is all about hashtags for recruiting.

Rejobify 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 Mention this podcast and get 10% off.

Sponsored 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 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

This 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 capital raised by Fetcher to $12M, allowing the company to double down on delivering qualified candidates faster than ever, along with providing better insights & resources to help companies create diverse candidate pipelines. In order to hire qualified, diverse talent recruiters and hiring managers often spend hours each day discovering, emailing, and nurturing prospective candidates. These monotonous, time consuming efforts often take away from time spent on the candidate experience, meaning the team has less time to engage, market, and connect with potential candidates, which could lead to fewer offers accepted or poor culture fits. Fetcher’s full-service, recruiting automation platform gives recruiters and hiring managers time back in the day. Rather than using a standard database model, Fetcher’s AI with ‘human in the loop’ sourcing model allows recruiters to spend less time in front of a computer searching for candidates and more time on the candidate experience, making real human connections, while Fetcher’s automated sourcing runs in the background. https://hrtechfeed.com/fetcher-raises-6-5-million-series-a/ Visage, a collaborative candidate sourcing platform, today announced it has raised a $7 million Series A investment led by First Analysis with participation from existing investors Urban Innovation, LLC and NewFund Capital. The investment brings the total amount raised since inception in 2016 to $10.7 million. The company plans to use the new funds to expand its AI and human-powered crowdsourcing system and to develop its new Platform solution that enables teams to increase productivity, automate candidate engagement, and integrate with existing applicant tracking systems. “We’ve reached a pivotal point in technological advancements where we no longer have to spend our time scouring the internet and sourcing candidate profiles for hours at a time,” said Joss Leufrancois, Co-Founder and CEO of Visage.” AtVisage, we intelligently train our systems to look for and find these profiles. Visage’s combination of AI and a global team of human sourcers enables recruiters to save time and money, increasing efficiency and leaving more time for the human side of recruiting.” https://hrtechfeed.com/visage-raises-7m-series-a-to-streamline-candidate-sourcing-for-enterprises/   Job site ZipRecruiter has added new matching technology to help job seekers discover jobs that they are qualified for. Under the new algorithm they get  feedback about how strong a match they are for every job. The guidance is generated using artificial intelligence algorithms trained on data from billions of employer and job seeker interactions in the ZipRecruiter marketplace. How It Works For each job, ZipRecruiter now shows job seekers a match score—either Great Match, Good Match, Fair Match, or Not a Match—which provides insight into how likely they are to be received favorably by a hiring manager for that particular job. It also provides recommendations on ways job seekers can improve their odds of success, such as by updating their profiles or resumes with more relevant qualifications. On the ZipRecruiter mobile app, the feature reduced job seeker’s applications to jobs for which they were not a match by 47%, on average, while raising applications to jobs for which they were a great match by 26% and for which they were a good match by 14%. That led to better matching and higher satisfaction for both employers and job seekers. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-boosts-matching-tech-for-job-seekers/    ResumeSieve™ announced the launch of its innovative candidate evaluation platform, The Sieve™.  In addition, the company is offering extended benefits for early adopters of the tool. “Small businesses need access to affordable, easy-to-use recruiting tools,” said Dr. Mohan Kakar, creator and founder of ResumeSieve™. “We created The Sieve™ to reduce the time spent evaluating resumes.  It was our observation that fatigue, bias and errors during the evaluation process were adversely impacting the ability for organizations to recruit the right talent. We decided to use AI based automation for evaluating resumes and providing quick insights to recruiters that would otherwise take them a significant amount of time and effort.”   “Our approach is to present easy-to-use, cost effect tools to the SMB market around the world,” said Michael Yinger, CEO of The Sieve™ who has spent 20 years driving improvements for the recruitment industry. “Starting with The Sieve™ we plan to provide ongoing innovative talent evaluation solutions that are not available in the Small and Medium Business (SMB) space.” Users of the application estimate that The Sieve™ increases recruiter productivity by up to 70%, improves speed to hire by 35% and reduces hiring costs by 30%.  https://hrtechfeed.com/resumesieve-launches-its-ai-based-candidate-evaluation-platform-founders-benefits-for-early-adopters/   iHire has announced plans to acquire WorkInSports, a leading employment hub of the sports industry. WorkInSports will join iHire’s family of talent brands, becoming the 57th industry-focused community on iHire’s recruitment platform. Both companies have signed a binding letter of intent and expect the transaction to be completed in the coming weeks. “For more than two decades, iHire and WorkInSports have formed a strong relationship as two key players in the industry-specific talent acquisition market,” Steve Flook, President and CEO, iHire. “We are thrilled to finally announce our plans to merge and will soon officially welcome WorkInSports to our family of talent communities.” Steve Flook, iHire CEO Post-acquisition, WorkInSports will be fully integrated with iHire’s platform, allowing job seekers in the sports industry to take advantage of iHire’s advanced job matching technology, career resources, resume writing tools, and more. https://hrtechfeed.com/ihire-plans-to-acquire-sports-job-board/   Poach, the recruitment intelligence software that tracks employee sentiment and corporate news online, today announced a product update. The previous version of the solution allowed users to monitor one company, with limited data, at no charge. Current and new users can still track one company for free, but users can now upgrade and follow up to 25 competitors from one account. Additional updates announced include: Twice as many employee reviews from around the web Access to up to 90 days of sentiment data Daily email alerts Notable content that highlights the important data in Poach’s A.I. engine, such as layoffs Keyword context that underscores the most crucial keyphrases in Poach’s database Early bird pricing as low as $3.16 per-month, per company tracked “Users want access to more and more data,” said Poach founder Joel Cheesman. “That’s why we’ve been working overtime on this latest version to add exponentially more information to our engine so recruiters can better monitor the competition https://hrtechfeed.com/poach-ai-releases-update-early-bird-pricing/

My 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 future job description might look different. Whats #5 on your list? Whats the best job description youve ever seen?

Listen to what one talent acquisition pro did by personally rejecting 272 applicants over the course of 3 hours. An HR hero was born.

Chris 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, 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 integrate the companies in 2022. “It’s no secret that the rise of remote work has created increased demand for video interviewing tools,” said Josh Millet, founder and CEO of Criteria. “Our own benchmark report identified a 159% increase in video interviewing after COVID-19 hit, and many of our customers have asked us for a video interviewing solution. After an extensive market review, we are confident that we’ve selected the best video interviewing solution in the market today. What we love about Alcami is that they built their technology with priorities that mirror ours: creating a user-friendly interface that caters to an outstanding candidate experience, and building advanced functionality around diversity and inclusion. We believe Alcami will complement our pre-hire assessment portfolio and will enable us to add even more value to our customers’ hiring process by enabling structured interviews, which research shows work much better than unstructured ones.” Alcami has a unique technology that drives an outstanding customer and candidate user experience, advanced functionality around diversity and inclusion, and the ability to cater for both pre-recorded and live structured video interviews. The company was founded on the belief that the hiring process could be made much better for both the employer and the candidate, and that smart technology could help employers make smart hiring decisions. https://hrtechfeed.com/criteria-acquires-video-interviewing-platform-alcami-interactive/   Job site Indeed announced the launch of Indeed Hiring Platform, a new solution that allows employers to manage the hiring process – from posting through interview – directly on Indeed, with no additional software.    With Indeed Hiring Platform, employers can reach 80% of US job seekers through the combined networks of Indeed and its sister company Glassdoor. In one integrated experience, employers can automate the process of sourcing, screening and scheduling interviews with quality candidates into Indeed’s video interviewing technology, Indeed Interview.   “At Indeed, our mission is to help people get jobs, and this past year that mission has been more vital than ever,” said Chris Hyams, CEO of Indeed. “In response to the pandemic, last year we launched Indeed Interview to make it safe and effective for job seekers to interview over video. Now we’ve connected the dots from job search directly to interview, making hiring simpler, faster, and more human. Our vision is to make getting a job as easy as pushing a button, and Indeed Hiring Platform gets us one step closer.”   https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-is-ready-to-help-companies-ramp-up-hiring-with-new-indeed-hiring-platform/   SeekOut, the AI-powered Talent 360 platform, today announced $65 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from existing investors Madrona Venture Group and Mayfield. This capital raise brings SeekOut’s total funding to $73 million and reflects 10X growth in the 21 months since the company’s Series A round, while still being profitable. This funding round values SeekOut at close to half a billion dollars. With this Series B funding, SeekOut will continue to innovate and build the team to deliver more value to our customers. SeekOut will expand its Talent 360 platform to encompass internal and external talent – helping companies better retain employees, enable development & growth through internal mobility, and improve diversity and inclusion efforts. SeekOut will also invest in sales, marketing, and customer success to reach new customers. “Talent acquisition professionals and hiring managers are looking to go beyond the outdated resume when they do a candidate search. They are seeking a deeper and broader view of skills, experiences, and diversity,” says Lisa Rowan, VP HR, talent, and learning research for IDC. “SeekOut’s Talent 360 solution offers a compelling set of capabilities that is supporting hiring organizations with a fresh, modern approach to candidate search.” https://hrtechfeed.com/seekout-raises-65-million-in-series-b-funding/   ProvenBase is a new sourcing platform built solely to address the business need for diverse talent, is announcing their launch at Sourcecon Digital 2.0 on March 9th, 2021.  “ProvenBase’s unique approach ensures candidates are contacted based on their skills and experiences, which ensures under represented groups are not just part of a recruiter’s pipeline, but they are actually contacted.” said Ravi Tandra – ProvenBase Founder & CEO. “Our templates have been created by experts leveraging powerful analytics around diversity and candidate communication so users can see what their talent pool is comprised of and what messages and mediums are most effective.” Learn more about ProvenBase’s Sourcing Technology at https://www.provenbase.com/ Jobandtalent – a workforce marketplace that matches workers with temporary roles – announced it secured a €100 million investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2[1] via its Series D round. In addition, the company has secured €83 million in debt financing from BlackRock. This comes after Jobandtalent closed a successful €88 million round in December. The funding will accelerate Jobandtalent’s expansion into new markets, including the US, and the consolidation of its leadership position in existing territories. Jobandtalent has developed technology to provide tailored matches between workers and companies in a range of sectors including logistics, e-commerce, warehousing, and manufacturing. As the marketplace grows, the technology is able to learn and make even better matches – meaning more workers in good jobs, and happy companies. The goal is to make it easy for people to find regular, dependable work and have the security and perks typically associated with full time employment – including pensions, sick and holiday pay, health insurance in some markets, and training courses. Workers can apply for roles, submit paperwork, and sign contracts entirely within the Jobandtalent app. In the past year alone, more than 80,000 workers have used Jobandtalent to find temporary roles.  More than 850 companies – including XPO, Ceva Logistics, eBay, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Bayer, and Santander – use the Jobandtalent platform to easily and efficiently match temporary roles with the right workers. Jobandtalent employs the workers directly and manages all of the back-end administrative processes including payroll, timesheets, and legal compliance. Through the platform, companies can monitor worker satisfaction, which helps reduce attrition, and follow metrics like absences or late arrivals.  https://hrtechfeed.com/madrid-based-jobandtalent-secures-e100m-for-expansion/

Mike 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.

This 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 participation from existing investors.  The new funding will allow GoContractor to further scale across the US and European markets, grow its sales, support and marketing teams, and increase investment in its research and development organization located in Ireland. GoContractor is the only worker and subcontractor onboarding and data management solution that exclusively focuses on training, managing, and connecting general contractors with their workers and subcontractors in the construction industry.  “We are very excited to work with Building Ventures and Ironspring, they both have an excellent track record and a very solid standing in the construction industry,” said John Naughton, CEO, GoContractor. “BV and Ironspring share our passion and enthusiasm for transforming construction, and understand the importance of connecting and qualifying workers through an online platform to safely access construction sites across the globe.” https://hrtechfeed.com/onboarding-tool-gocontractor-announces-5-million-series-a/    Parabol, a leading Agile meeting platform, secured a Series A investment of $8 million led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, with continued participation from CRV, Haystack, Techstars, and others. The announcement comes on the heels of Parabol’s latest milestone of registering 100,000 users across more than 3,000 companies worldwide to help them make their meetings more efficient and effective. This includes members of the United States Airforce, which awarded Parabol a $1.47 million contract via the Defense Department’s small business innovation research program, to bring Parabol’s Agile meeting platform to  the U.S. military. “We’re excited about Parabol’s dual use as an enterprise solution with extensibility into the government and defense sectors,” said Priyanka Mitra, Principal at M12. “The macro trend of distributed teams and remote work are here to stay, beyond the COVID pandemic era. Parabol puts in-person and remote participants on an equal footing, whether teams are brainstorming plans for a product launch or helping to keep the country operating.” Parabol was founded in August 2015 to help remote and hybrid teams conduct structured meetings essential to Agile teamwork, such as retrospectives and daily stand-ups. By effectively collecting input from all meeting participants regardless of their physical location, Parabol provides an experience that is superior to physical meeting rooms and collaboration with whiteboards. Parabol seamlessly integrates with widely-used applications such as Slack, Jira, and GitHub, and automatically captures and summarizes the meeting output for all participants. Parabol will use its Series A funding to meet customer demand for additional Agile meeting types and add new enterprise features, expanding Parabol’s ability to serve even more kinds of teams. https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-collaboration-platform-parabol-raises-8m-in-series-a-funding/   Payroll Merger in the news…   PayScale, the industry leader in compensation data and technology, and Payfactors, a leading compensation data management company with deep industry expertise, announced that they have merged. Together, the combined company will become one of the largest providers of its kind in North America to help job seekers, employees and businesses get pay right. “Compensation and pay equity strategies are shifting even further on to the C-Suite agenda given the accelerated shift to remote and hybrid work and the overwhelming importance of the social justice movement,” said Scott Torrey, CEO, PayScale. “Together, the PayScale leadership team’s experience running SaaS businesses at scale combined with Payfactors’ deep compensation expertise creates the optimal set of capabilities to offer faster paced innovation to get pay right today and in the future for even the largest of organizations.” Both companies have built deep relationships with organizations and individuals by helping people navigate the increasingly complex compensation landscape. The addition of Payfactors will make it possible to offer customers the most comprehensive set of integrated data, software, services and support available to get compensation right under any market condition. PayScale CEO Scott Torrey will become CEO of the combined company with Payfactors CEO Jeff Laliberte taking on the role of Chief Strategy Officer and joining the PayScale board. https://hrtechfeed.com/payscale-and-payfactors-merge/   Stoke Talent, a leading freelance management system, announces today the release of its Worker Classification Engine. This artificial intelligence algorithmic screening solution is able to offer early detection of high-risk independent contractor (IC) and/or freelancer relationships, which may lead to costly misclassification penalties and possible lawsuits if left undetected.  This is the first product of its kind built to provide companies with a continuous, automated solution that monitors and tracks each individual relationship for full compliance with all workforce classification laws. The booming freelance economy has commanded the attention of the legal system. The federal government, state governments, and government agencies have begun to develop legislation that would ensure companies are unable to falsely classify their employees as contractors and, by doing so, prevent them from associated social benefits and tax contributions. Threats of penalties from the U.S. The Department of Labor (DOL), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and other agencies – not to mention class-action lawsuits and failed audits – have also added a sense of urgency to the issue.  Moreover, each involved government agency applies its own logic to the determination of workforce classification, creating a lack of uniformity and costly room for error. Classification tests depend on very specific and individualized details that hiring managers may not be aware play a role and legal teams have no visibility into. Before Stoke Talent, a business looking to be able to guarantee proper workforce classification was required to take on these extensive legal intricacies and consistent manual monitoring undertakings on its own. https://hrtechfeed.com/stoke-talent-launches-worker-classification-engine-for-identifying-compliance-risks/    

Abakar 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.

Freelance 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 be building new ways to share more about the services you [could] offer directly through your LinkedIn profile,” Owens told The Information.  LinkedIn’s move isn’t surprising since it is reported that Upwork and Fiverr, the two behemoths in the freelance marketplace field, together generated about $550 million in revenue last year. With over 700 million professionals already on its network, it stands to reason that LinkedIn wants to have a share of the pie as well.  However, what apparently sets Marketplaces apart from the existing functionality is that it’ll be tied to the LinkedIn digital wallet that is also supposedly in the works. The wallet will enable LinkedIn to facilitate transactions between the employers and the freelancers, making the platform an attractive end-to-end solution in the gig economy. If reports are to be believed, LinkedIn has been working on the Marketplaces feature since October 2019, and it’s set to go public later this year in September. Have to ask what will happen to their current product ProFinder> That project marketplace has been out for years but never seemed to become a mainstream product fo rLI...looks like that may fade away in favor of whatever new thing they are building https://www.techradar.com/amp/news/linkedins-new-service-could-be-the-tool-to-book-your-next-freelance-gig iCIMS Adds Slew of New Features Accelerating hiring decisions: iCIMS for Microsoft Teams allows recruiters and hiring managers to provide interview feedback – during or after live video meetings – directly within Microsoft Teams to accelerate the ease and speed of hiring.  Gaining more control with new, native video interview capabilities: Job advertising platform Talroo, has launched a new feature enhancement called Qualifying Questions to enable companies to hire qualified candidates while reducing wasted time and wasted recruitment marketing budget.  https://hrtechfeed.com/new-features-in-hr-tech-icims-talroo-crew/ Bitwise Industries has raised $50M in series B financing led by Kapor Capital, with participation from JPMorgan Chase, Motley Fool Ventures, and ProMedica to support the actions needed to stop the widening wealth gap, end institutional discrimination, and remove the barriers for accessing high-wage, high-growth jobs.  This latest round of funding will support the company’s growth into multiple new markets across the country beginning with Toledo, Ohio.  Bitwise is one of the largest tech apprenticeship providers in the country. https://hrtechfeed.com/tech-apprenticeship-provider-bitwise-lands-50-million/ Phenom, the global leader in Talent Experience Management (TXM), today announced its acquisition of Talentcube, an experience-driven video technology company based in Munich, Germany. Phenom’s third acquisition in five months will accelerate the adoption of video for candidates, employees, recruiters and hiring managers, optimizing support of a post-COVID, remote workforce. The addition of Talentcube’s technology advances Phenom’s ability to provide seamless video functionality at every stage of the talent journey. https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-acquires-talentcube/

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Sponsored 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 workplace factor ratings1 by race/ethnicity, gender identity, parental or caregiver status, disability, sexual orientation and veteran status. Salaries are broken out by gender identity and race/ethnicity.2      Recruiter.com announced the launch of its new-to-market product, Scouted by Recruiter.com, a highly specialized candidate curation tool that leverages the power of AI and talent experts to help hiring managers recruit top talent, faster. Scouted by Recruiter.com provides diverse pipelines of high-quality talent on a weekly basis, saving hiring teams tens of hours in the applicant sourcing and screening stage, streamlining processes to ensure a shorter interview-to-hire timeline. The product couples the efficiency of AI-powered tech with human-forward recruiting expertise so that rosters only include applicants who meet a team’s hiring criteria. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-tech-news-bytes-peopleready-glassdoor-recruiter-com/ Talenya,  the world’s most advanced, AI-powered talent sourcing and diversity solution – released the findings from a groundbreaking study entitled Exploring The Pipeline Fallacy: Resume Skill Gaps Bury Underrepresented Minorities. Analyzing over 10 million candidate profiles, Talenya’s researchers found that minorities and females tend to share significantly less skills on their resumes when compared to their white and male counterparts. It is the first study of its kind to show that the so-called “diversity pipeline problem,” is a fallacy – in fact, there has never been a more talented, diverse population of recruitable talent across both race and gender.  The problem is that tools and search processes recruiters are using are based on an antiquated technology (specifically, keyword or “Boolean” search) that is ill-equipped to find and surface these qualified, diverse candidates. To help fix this problem, Talenya is today launching its proprietary Diversity AI™ tool – built to empower recruiting teams to uncover and engage with significantly (2-3x) more qualified and diverse talent. Talenya levels the playing field for all talent regardless of race, gender, age, identity or disability – allowing them to be visible in the pipeline.  https://hrtechfeed.com/talenya-introduces-diversity-ai-recruiting-technology-platform/ Eightfold AI, the provider of the Talent Intelligence Platform™, today announced the expansion of its industry-leading Talent Management solution. Central to this expansion is Career Hub, which pairs sophisticated AI-powered capabilities with a central destination for complete career development. We all need to think about our careers proactively – constantly evaluating the external circumstances and thinking about the skills we have and could have that will keep us relevant,” said Vicki Walia, Chief Talent and Capability Officer at Prudential Financial. “This is a great way to start that learning journey to hone a new skill or take on a passion project.”  available in 15 languages The Eightfold Career Hub is used to help each employee: Keep employee profiles current, automatically updating them through integration with collaboration tools, task management systems, project management suites and other legacy systems. When paired with notifications and alerts, the AI platform serves relevant opportunities to each individual in the company Chart their own career path within the flow of their day-to-day work. Discover in-house opportunities to learn new skills and capabilities, creating specific growth opportunities aligned with company strategy and personal aspirations Hone new capabilities with actual projects in a talent marketplace that delivers experiential learning, versus classroom education Work directly with recommended mentors and peer programs, inspiring learning and fostering collaboration https://hrtechfeed.com/eightfold-transforms-upskilling-and-reskilling-with-career-hub/ Sh1ft, Inc. (Shift One), today announced initial seed funding of $5.2 million, led by City Light Capital Shift One was founded in 2019 by former Uber executives to address two fundamental challenges of the labor economy: the lack of a robust online marketplace for blue-collar jobs and a technology solution for companies looking to hire those workers. The company currently employs more than 25,000 workers and offers solutions in all 50 states and Latin America.  Initially focusing on push-button solutions to quickly deploy entire teams of workers for last-mile logistics and delivery, e-commerce fulfillment and large-scale event management...Shift One provides a suite of productivity solutions — time, taxes, attendance, productivity and work-order management — so that companies can focus on their customers. “The labor market today is broken. The working class is hard pressed to find their next steady job at a fair rate, and supply chains struggle to source the right workers to fulfill demand, especially in the last mile,” said Founder and CEO Jason Radisson. “Shift One is a new model that efficiently connects workers with rich employment opportunities, while providing companies with ready-to-work teams without the traditional overhead. Our cutting-edge approach is a competitive advantage for companies and furthers our long-term goal of becoming the largest ethical source of labor and employment in the world.”  https://hrtechfeed.com/shift-one-closes-seed-funding-for-its-logistics-job-marketplace/

Last 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 workers?  Traitify...describe that part? Pre-screening...whats the right amount of knockout questions? Have you tweaked anything with the product over time? If so what were those tweaks Any texting built into product? Or is it web based chat? Programmatic whats working with job boards any trends or... How can companies create differentiation in crowded markets with limited talent pools?

This 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 investment round from health and education technology-focused investors including Springrock Ventures, JAZZ Venture Partners, Learn Capital’s LearnStart fund, and the managing directors of Pioneer Square Labs.   NextStep’s unique program, free to students and supported by employers, is helping to retrain workers in distressed industries as Certified Nursing Assistants, the most in-demand role in health care. Through courses delivered on mobile devices in 10-15 minute modules that can be consumed during a commute or after hours, displaced workers with experience in service and hospitality roles can retrain for jobs in the health care industry with higher earning and promotion potential.   “NextStep is led by an experienced and nimble executive team that knows how to create technology-enabled solutions to meet our healthcare workforce needs,” said John Harris, managing partner at JAZZ Venture Partners. “I can’t think of any company that is better suited to having a positive impact on society and businesses in a world shaped both by the COVID crisis and an aging population.” The investment round was led by Springrock Ventures, the url is nextstep.careers https://hrtechfeed.com/skills-training-platform-raises-3-6m-to-help-workers-transition-to-health-care-roles/ Cornell Capital and Trilantic North America, two private investment firms, announced that they have acquired trustaff Management, Inc., a leading provider of travel nurse and allied healthcare staffing services, and CardioSolution, a managed services offering providing cardiologists and support personnel to hospitals.  As part of this transaction, Cornell Capital and Trilantic North America they also agreed to acquire Stella.ai, Inc., a VC-backed, AI-driven online marketplace for employers and job seekers that brings cutting-edge technology expertise to the staffing sector. The combination of these companies will create a leading healthcare staffing platform with a unique technology-driven approach.  In conjunction with the announcement, Adam Zoia, CEO and Co-Founder of Stella, has been named CEO of the combined company, succeeding Brent Loring, CEO of trustaff, who is retiring. STella launched as stell.ai and now operates asStella.jobs, the company pivoted at one point and appears to have given up on its current course as their platform will now pivit again to healthcare. Stella had raised $10 million back in 2017 under the guise of a shared talent network. https://hrtechfeed.com/stella-ai-acquired-by-private-equity-firms/ WizeHire, has announced the closing of $7.5 million in Series A funding co-led by Amplo and Mercury. Additional investors include existing backers Ruchit Shah and RigUp co-founder Sandeep Jain. WizeHire intends to use the funds to provide small businesses a faster, easier hiring experience previously only available to large corporations. That includes creating more personalized resources to address clients’ unique hiring needs, hiring more support staff and expanding its partner program to build a network of experts in its key industries of real estate, insurance, mortgage, legal and hospitality. “WizeHire is focused on a future where small business owners have easy access to the elevated hiring experience large corporations already have,” said Amplo’s Sam Garcia, who will join WizeHire’s board. “They’re not just creating a better alternative to current recruiting solutions; they’re giving employers more peace of mind about the hiring process so they can get back to building their business.” “We are thrilled to support WizeHire’s opportunity to define talent acquisition for small businesses,” said Heath Butler, Managing Director at Mercury, who will also join WizeHire’s board. “By systematically helping hiring managers align company values, behavioral competencies, technical skills and industry requirements to identify the best candidate, WizeHire is enabling their clients to maximize productivity, reduce turnover cost and increase customer loyalty.” Wizehire.com is the address https://hrtechfeed.com/wizehire-raises-7-5m-for-smb-hiring/ Circa (formerly known as Local job network)  is launching AI Candidate Matching, to help companies accelerate their success toward building more diverse, innovative, and high-performing teams. The new product delivers a SaaS-based artificial intelligence solution guaranteeing unbiased sourcing and matching of diverse, qualified talent from a curated 160 million+ candidate database. When looking to reduce or mitigate unconscious bias, AI Candidate Matching redacts ethnic, gender, age, LGBTQIA+, veteran status, community, culture, and disability to present candidates based on their skill sets to be evaluated in fair, equal and consistent manners. This includes automatically reviewing job postings and optimizing them to make it as engageable as possible for a diverse community while removing biases within the description.  AI Candidate Matching focuses on candidate sourcing and matching that reaches both active and passive candidates. The active and passive candidates are sourced from 3,500 different online organizations from community groups to service organizations that provide more than 160 million diverse candidates. The diverse candidate database network reaches 13 million veterans with approximately four million having security clearances.   https://hrtechfeed.com/circa-announces-ai-candidate-matching-product/ Careerist raised a $1.25 million Seed round of VC for its marketplace that provides training for software training and QA roles, career coaching, and job board in exchange for a percentage of the salary of any jobs found via the service.   Analyst george larouqe says...Merging education with jobs and career services isn’t a new model, neither is charging placed candidates a percentage of salary. The amount being charged and the placement success rate make this model either a vehicle/accelerant to a tech career for those who need it or something more predatory.---careerist.com   https://hrtechfeed.com/careerist-raises-1-25m-for-tech-education-career-coaching-job-board-for-a-percentage-of-salary/  

AI 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 specific ways in which RPA can assist with the recruitment process? Can bots be used to identify talent, or should it be humans making these hiring decisions? You've written a lot about helping “make HR more Human?” how do you do that today with so much hr tech in place? How have bots helped HR leaders in a largely remote era? Do you have any examples of RPA augmenting HR in the age of COVID?  I saw that you have a background in standup comedy. I’m curious to know how this training has helped you as an HR leader. Any examples you could share?  Went to your career site I see you have Jobvite installed as your ATS...how do you like it? What else is part of your HR tech stack? Employer brand... One tip for other hr leaders when it comes to implementing RPA in their workflow today?

This 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. “Birmingham has been an ideal jumping-off point for us,” says CEO Stephen D. Johnston. “We’ve gotten great feedback from clients here that we’ve used to improve the product for a national audience.” The two most popular tools for companies have been the vetting feature, which uses GoodJob’s machine-learning AI to quickly sort and filter candidates in a company’s pipeline and spot the best matches, and the PATH Assessment™, which allows companies to “clone” their top performers. GoodJob for Candidates is available now in the App Store and Google Play. GoodJob for Employers is available online at http://goodjob.io/.  https://hrtechfeed.com/goodjob-secures-3m-in-funding/   ResumeSieve, Inc. announced the dates for a public Beta testing period, to evaluate the functionality of its innovative candidate evaluation tool, The Sieve™.  Testing will run from February 8th through the 19th of 2021 and is open to all who are interested in improving recruiting productivity and getting a competitive jump with leading technology in the HR tech space.   Targeting small to mid-size businesses and recruiters, The Sieve™, improves the recruitment process, reducing time to fill and the cost per hire, through a compliant and repeatable scoring and ranking process.  “Many jobs are filled manually, without the benefit of technology, relying on the time commitment of recruiters, HR Generalists, or even the business owners, taking away time that could be used running the business,” says Michael Yinger, CEO of the ResumeSieve.   “The Sieve™ provides a fast and cost-effective way to drive new revenue and improve the recruiting experience for all parties in the process.” The company offers a candidate evaluation tool which eliminates the need for manual resume sorting and evaluation and can complement the capabilities of other tools in a company’s HR technology toolset.    https://hrtechfeed.com/resumesieve-sets-dates-for-beta-testing-of-recruiting-enhancement-tool/   TPG Growth, the private equity firm which recently invested in Greenhouse Software, has announced that it acquired a majority stake in P20 Global Holdings Inc. (“People 2.0”), the leading pure play provider of outsourced global employer of record (“EOR”) and agent of record (“AOR”) services to market makers in talent. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With a presence in more than 40 countries, People 2.0 is the leading, global enabler of workforce mobility, providing market makers in talent with an EOR/AOR platform that supports the deployment of workers anywhere, on demand, for any length of time, using one global master agreement. As the EOR/AOR provider, People 2.0 assumes a wide range of responsibilities including onboarding workers, managing employment risks, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing payroll, and administering worker benefits.  This marks the 2nd major investment by TPG Growth - last they also took a majority stake in Greenhouse software.   https://hrtechfeed.com/tpg-makes-majority-investment-in-people-2-0/   WorkStep, the company helping large supply chain employers, source, screen, engage, and retain their frontline workforce, today announced $17 million in funding led by FirstMark Capital, with additional participation from previous investor and strategic partner, Prologis Ventures. The infusion of capital, a combination of Seed ($6.7 million) and Series A ($10.5 million) funding, will be used to grow the team and continue to improve and expand its technology. Founded in 2017, WorkStep supports supply chain companies by helping them find and retain their frontline workforce. From the industrial revolution through the COVID-19 pandemic, the supply chain workforce has been the backbone of the U.S. economy and has become increasingly critical to Americans’ daily lives – from food on a table to packages delivered on time. The pandemic made it clear supply chain labor demand will only continue to increase with the boom of ecommerce, and turnover will remain an ever-present challenge even during periods of higher unemployment. Since its inception, WorkStep has deployed their technology to serve the needs of hundreds of large employers, including 16 of the Fortune 500, and reaching over 500,000 supply chain workers in the process.   https://hrtechfeed.com/workstep-raises-17-million-to-assist-supply-chain-employers/   Recruiter.com Group, Inc. the world’s largest network of recruiters, announced that it acquired Scouted.io, a venture capital-backed tech startup focused on unlocking human potential by developing deep insights into candidates using video screening and AI-based scoring algorithms. Recruiter.com’s purchase of Scouted was successfully closed on 1/31/21 through an asset purchase agreement. Recruiter.com paid for the acquisition primarily in restricted common stock. Scouted.io and its innovative predictive-matching algorithm are critical components of Recruiter.com’s growth plan. The acquisition unlocks a prestigious client roster — spanning top global hedge funds, venture capital firms, and tech giants — to accelerate revenue opportunities. Further, Scouted pairs an engaged user base of early- and mid-career professionals with a powerful data set of proprietary metrics and analytics. Scouted’s specialized database contains hundreds of thousands of talented professionals….These candidates rely on Scouted’s virtual interview platform to go beyond their resumes and present their stories’ full breadth. Scouted’s CEO and Cofounder, Jacqueline Loeb, will join Recruiter.com as Senior Vice President. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiter-com-acquires-scouted-io-a-video-based-candidate-insight-platform/ Jobvite has launched its new Job Description Grader, a complimentary, online analytic tool used to review job descriptions and highlight areas that can be improved to create more inclusive job postings. Jobvite’s new Job Description Grader helps TA professionals target the areas where bias appears in job postings, allowing them to adjust and present more inclusive descriptions. The powerful tool uses AI, data analytics, and benchmarks combined with current D&I best practices to analyze job descriptions and identify requirements, experiences, and language that may restrict an applicant pool during screening and evaluation. Unlike other tools, Jobvite does not stop at gender bias, but also considers racial bias, insensitive word use, readability, and sentiment. Job Description Grader by Jobvite leverages multiple deep learning models to detect if and where a job description may favor, or bias against, a gender or race. As a result, organizations are able to improve the effectiveness and inclusiveness of the job descriptions to help increase applicant volume, increase diversity, and reduce time-to-hire. https://hrtechfeed.com/job-description-grader-is-a-new-optimization-tool-from-jobvite/   RigUp, a workforce management solution for the skilled trades, is rebranding under a new name — Workrise — and corporate identity as part of the company’s rebranding efforts.  The term ‘Workrise‘ reflects the company’s evolution and growth both geographically and across industries, and more closely aligns with its core mission: to empower the people who get hard work done. Xuan Yong, co-founder, and CEO said of the move. “Today, Workrise reflects our aim to bridge the skilled labor gap across industries, to leverage technology and data to empower skilled workers — and, in turn, the economy at large — so  the U.S. can prepare for an infrastructure renaissance.” Rigup got a ton of funding something like $450 million --- this move signals a change to broaden its scope in terms of the job market it service...no longer can they rely on the oil and gas economy to grow.   https://hrtechfeed.com/rigid-rebrand-workrise/    Indeed, the world’s number one job site, announced today that it will be airing its first-ever Super Bowl ad, which will highlight the emotional journey of job seekers at a time when many people are facing economic distress. As millions of Americans have lost jobs, this spot looks to provide hope by showcasing real people looking for a job and their challenges and triumphs along the way. The ad will air during the first quarter of Super Bowl LV.  “After nearly a year of uncertainty and high unemployment, Indeed wants to use this opportunity to remind Americans that there is hope in the job search process,” said Indeed CEO Chris Hyams. “While the pandemic continues to impact jobs and the economy, there are still companies hiring. Indeed is here to help all job seekers, no matter their background or experience, get jobs that align with their skills, passions and strength of character.”  This ad marks the launch of the company’s new brand campaign that will reflect its mission of helping people get jobs in today’s challenging job market. It will also demonstrate how Indeed is a full service online platform that can help all people through the process of finding a job, from resume creation, applying for jobs and interviewing, until they get hired. During and beyond the game, Indeed will take to social media with #NowHiring to point out industries, regions and companies with open roles, and will invite people to join the conversation.   https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-offers-hope-to-job-seekers-with-companys-first-super-bowl-spot/

Jodi 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 to connect, learn, and work together. Her first book Hire By Design, launched September 2020 and hit best seller in 7 Amazon Categories.

This 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 largest employers and delivering results that strengthen their organizations. The name and look being introduced convey the energy, optimism and impact the company brings to every client through their innovative platform.”   The company wanted to Unifying the company's global presence and advanced capabilities under one new brand... which includes past acquisitions such as the social capabilities from Carve, creative and customer service approach from CKR, technology from Maximum and programmatic AdTech from Perengo.   https://hrtechfeed.com/tmp-rebrands-as-radancy/   Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm, today announced that it has acquired Bayard Advertising, an established leader in the recruitment marketing industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.   Bayard serves as a trusted recruitment marketing partner for clients, offering a full suite of services including employer branding and creative, digital media strategy and campaign execution, programmatic buying, social media engagement and content management, metrics and analytics capabilities, and technology and recruitment platform consultation. Bayard works with leading enterprise clients across a diverse group of end markets, including healthcare, transportation, retail, real estate, food service, and technology.   “For nearly 100 years Bayard has operated as a family-owned business,” said Louis Naviasky, Bayard CEO. “We’ve excelled by focusing on our core strengths in employer branding and talent recruitment, while at the same time continuing to innovate as the market evolves. To capitalize on the numerous opportunities ahead of us, we felt it was time to bring in an experienced investor. We are thrilled to be partnering with Shamrock Capital, given their deep expertise in media as well as their partnership and growth-oriented approach.”   https://hrtechfeed.com/bayard-advertising-acquired/   C-Sweet, a women’s group focused on fostering and accelerating relationships for women in executive and leadership positions, today announced a new job board to provide women professionals with a platform to search and apply for executive jobs at institutions that value their experience and credentials.   The new C-Sweet job board allows Fortune 1000 and fast growth companies across industries to post executive level and board positions, as well as search nationally for candidates in a growing proprietary database. Job board users can upload resumes and create job alerts with regular updates sent to a user’s email inbox.   “It’s critical for women to build their personal network,” said Beth Hilbing, Sr. Program Manager and Principal IT Business Partner at Boeing, as well as Co-CEO of C-Sweet. “The network offers two core benefits – a reservoir of talent to bring on board to your organization and a resource during the job search if you find the only way up the corporate ladder is out of the current employer. Imagine a network of women to call on for job leads, to work with, or to find that right talent to grow your empire at your current employer.”   To join C-Sweet and access the Job Board, visit https://www.csweet.org/ or https://jobs.csweet.org   Multiverse, a U.K. startup that works with organizations to develop these apprenticeships, and then helps source promising, diverse candidates to fill those roles, has raised $44 million, funding that it will be using to spearhead a move into the U.S. market after picking up some 300 clients in the U.K. and thousands of apprentices.   “We want to build an outstanding alternative to university and college,” he said. These typically last 1.5 years. The startup sees itself as part tech company and part education enterprise. What is an apprenticeship? A brilliant alternative to a college degree or traditional corporate training An accredited program lasting 12+ months Combines a full-time job with training Delivered in the workplace, focusing on real-world application of skills   The company says it has expanded into the new york city region.   Finally Workday has made a big acquisition.   They have agreed to acquire Peakon ApS, an employee success platform that converts feedback into actionable insights, have signed a definitive agreement under which Workday will acquire Peakon in an all-cash transaction. With Peakon, Workday will provide organizations with a continuous listening platform, including real-time visibility into employee experience, sentiment, and productivity, to help drive employee engagement and improve organizational performance. “Peakon is on the cutting edge of helping organizations turn employee insights into more connected teams and stronger organizations,” said Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and co-CEO, Workday. “Bringing Peakon into the Workday family will be very compelling to our customers – especially following an extraordinary past year that has magnified the importance of having a constant pulse on employee sentiment in order to keep people engaged and productive.”   “By joining forces with Workday, we’re able to accelerate our mission to help every employee drive the change they want to see,” said Phil Chambers, co-founder and CEO, Peakon. “We share Workday’s passion for putting people at the center of technology, and together, we’ll be able to provide customers with the employee insights they need to support rapid change and growth.” The purchase price is a reported $700 million dollars https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-announces-intent-to-acquire-peakon/  

Erin 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? Which Other ATS were you looking at and why go with SmartRecruiters? Whats one thing people should know about picking a new ATS? What did you learn about installing a new piece of HR tech like that? Resume import? How many resumes Easy apply

This 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. You will see alerts when: New high or low ratings are posted by your employees about your company and its benefits New interview reviews are posted by your candidates It's time to feature a new review Your profile content or benefits information needs updating A competitor you are targeting has joined Glassdoor Your company page gains new followers Alerts will vary by profile, but are available with both Free and Enhanced employer pages. You may also opt to receive these Alerts via Glassdoor's employer email settings.    https://www.glassdoor.com/employers/blog/introducing-alerts/   Personio — the German startup that targets small and medium-sized businesses (10-2,000 employees) with an all-in-one HR platform covering recruiting and onboarding, payroll, absence tracking and other major HR functions — has picked up $125 million in funding at a $1.7 billion post-money valuation.   Personio currently counts some 3,000 SMEs in Europe as customers. In an interview, Hanno Renner, the co-founder and CEO of Personio, said that the startup would be using the funding to continue building out the product — which operates a little like Workday, but built for much smaller organizations — as well as expanding its presence in Europe. https://hrtechfeed.com/german-hr-platform-person-raises-125-million/   Learning Technologies Group plc, the provider of services and technologies for digital learning and talent management, has agreed to acquire Reflektive Inc, a leading performance management software provider. Headquartered in San Francisco, Reflektive specialises in engagement and analytics tools. It offers a collaborative goal-setting, continuous feedback, and analytics platform used by teams and individuals to provide measurable results for boosting productivity, engagement, and retention. Reflektive will join LTG’s PeopleFluent business, integrating its solution with the existing PeopleFluent talent management portfolio. Stephen Bruce, Managing Director of PeopleFluent, said: “In today’s complex world of work, it’s more important than ever for organisations to focus on developing, reskilling, and deploying existing talent to meet the changing needs of the business. To do that requires a strong focus and alignment on business goals, performance measures and, at the same time, tracking employee engagement as a vital component of the HR function and in concert with the modern talent journey. ...Reflektive’s solutions enhance performance management in a variety of exciting ways – fostering a sense of employee accountability, encouraging meaningful 1:1 conversations, measuring employee sentiment, and tracking activities in alignment with company goals. https://hrtechfeed.com/performance-management-software-reflektive-has-been-acquired/   Through its recent acquisition on Altru Labs, talent cloud company iCIMS has officially relaunched the feature inside its suite. Aptly named Video Studio, it allows employers to create relevant and engaging content throughout the candidate and employee journey. Features will include; Spotlight employees and mobilize brand ambassadors to share stories and convey company culture.  Easily add employee testimonial videos to career sites, job descriptions, social media, email, text campaigns, and more, to transform traditional content to dynamic, personalized experiences.  Authentically highlight diversity, equity, and inclusion programs through the faces and voices of employees.  Stand out from other employers and amplify candidate reach and conversion by providing relevant, engaging talent experiences across the entire lifecycle.  Embed videos into internal communications to strengthen relationships, inspire confidence, and easily engage a virtual, distributed workforce without costly video production. “Video is how we connect with people in our personal lives, and how companies must engage with talent,” said Alykhan Rehmatullah, vice president of content strategy at iCIMS and previously the co-founder & CEO of Altru Labs. “Creating video content doesn’t have to be hard, time consuming or costly. We are seeing first-hand the value of video in humanizing brands, creating digitally-scalable experiences, and authentically building relationships with talent.” https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-adds-video-storytelling-capabilities/   Seasoned, a hiring platform in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, launched across the region today. After months of testing, and with tens of thousands of users and thousands of local restaurants already on its platform, Seasoned’s low-cost, frictionless hiring tools and user network are now available to any restaurant operator and job seeker in the region. Seasoned provides an easy to use platform for restaurants to find applicants, schedule interviews, and hire people in as little as 24 hours, and at 60-70% lower costs. Seasoned also provides a community for industry employees to review openings, quickly schedule interviews with multiple operators, and connect with their peers for advice and guidance – creating a bespoke social network that brings the connections built during industry nights and events online.  “Our goal at Seasoned is to make life easier for people across the restaurant industry – owners, operators, and employees,” said Ware Sykes, Seasoned’s CEO. “Getting people into jobs quickly, filling open roles fast, and doing it all at a lower cost help is crucial to operating a successful business and supporting robust job growth, and Dallas is going to be a key market for Seasoned as the industry recovers and continues to grow.” Learn more at seasoned.co https://hrtechfeed.com/seasoned-launches-new-restaurant-hiring-tools-for-dallas-region/

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This 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines TPG Growth and The Rise Fund today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to partner with Greenhouse, the leading hiring software company used by over 4,000 businesses, as a majority investor. TPG Growth, the middle-market and growth equity platform within TPG, and The Rise Fund, the global impact investing platform managed by TPG, will jointly invest in Greenhouse to accelerate product innovation, grow into new markets, and enhance solutions aimed at accelerating diversity, equity and inclusion in hiring.  The transaction, which is expected to close during the first half of 2021, is subject to customary closing conditions. Word on the street is that TPG paid $500 million for its majority stake in the company. “Winning businesses are built by talented individuals. Yet every day, organizations around the world base their hiring decisions on hunches and without data, perpetuating biases and limiting human potential. We founded Greenhouse to help companies become great at hiring and reduce bias in the hiring process,” said Daniel Chait, CEO of Greenhouse. “Through this investment from TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, we gain a partner with the resources and vision to support our growth, and who is totally aligned with our mission. The Rise Fund’s unique focus on real, measurable impact is so exciting because it supports our ability to drive positive outcomes for our customers and for society as a whole.” “Greenhouse has established itself as a best-of-breed next-generation talent acquisition software solution,” said Mike Zappert, Partner at TPG Growth. “The consistent feedback we hear in the market is that Greenhouse’s customers simply love the product. It is easy to use, intuitive, and highly configurable. At a time when an increasing number of companies view talent and recruiting as a strategic imperative, Greenhouse stands out as the go-to solution for Talent teams at companies across industries and around the world. We look forward to partnering with Daniel and the team to continue Greenhouse’s leadership in this important and growing part of the software market.” https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-software-accepts-major-investment-from-tpg-growth/ Kanarys, a Black and female-founded DEI technology company that gathers specific, actionable insights to help diagnose, prioritize, and optimize DEI efforts in the workplace, has announced the closing of its historic $3 million seed round. Led by Zeal Capital Partners’ Inclusive Investing™ fund, and several other investors. The funding comes as more companies embrace transparency, prioritize DEI, strengthen workplace culture, and use data-driven approaches. This brings the total amount raised by Kanarys co-founders, Mandy Price and Star Carter, to $4.6 million to date — a positive shift towards more equitable venture capital trends. In 2017, studies showed that 98 percent of venture capital raised in the U.S. went to men. Kanarys will use the funding to further advance product features, make key hires on the technology and business development teams, and accelerate sales and marketing efforts.  “We know that a focus on DEI in business is not just the right thing to do for employees, it also makes good business sense,” said Mandy Price, CEO and co-founder of Kanarys. “Kanarys’ DEI data arms companies, for the first time, to make precise, immediate, and informed decisions using real, intersectional metrics around their diversity goals and inclusion programs that ultimately drive bottom-line business objectives. We are encouraged by the commitment of our investors and customers in our shared vision to help every person Work Where They Belong.” The company is currently measuring DEI insights on nearly 1,000 U.S. companies through verified employee reviews, company policies, and organizational data — making it the largest DEI data-driven platform of its kind in the U.S. Since launching the platform in 2019, the company has grown 2,000 percent in users on its platform, and its customers include Fortune 500 brands. In addition, the company has a job board section that enables job seekers to find employment. https://hrtechfeed.com/dei-platform-kanarys-announces-3-million-seed-round/ GigSmart, a staffing company that connects businesses with gig workers through mobile apps has announced expanded functionality to allow businesses to post and advertise their part-time and full-time positions to a user base of nearly 300,000 active job seekers. Launched in November of 2018, GigSmart’s Get Workers staffing platform has successfully connected a rapidly growing number of job seekers to temporary opportunities at businesses operating in all industries. As more organizations used Get Workers to convert their temporary hires to permanent employees, the need for adding support for permanent hires within the Get Workers platform became evident. Now, in addition to sourcing workers for hourly Shift Gigs, business users can post Full/Part-Time Positions on the GigSmart Job Board. GigSmart launched the Job Board to help businesses combat labor shortages and to aid workers on their paths to connect to local work opportunities. With the Job Board, GigSmart’s ability to connect job seekers with their next role and employers with qualified candidates to power their workforces will grow exponentially as the gig economy continues to grow. https://hrtechfeed.com/gigsmart-adds-more-hiring-options-to-its-platform-for-gig-workers/ ARLINGTON, VA – CareerGig announced the acquisition of Moonlighting, a SaaS platform that empowers individuals to build their own freelancer profiles, and allows businesses to hire talented professionals quickly and affordably.  CareerGig is a SaaS technology platform that matches freelance and contract workers to top employers while offering a marketplace with independent access to guaranteed issue health, life, and disability insurance, education and training opportunities, and other financial services and benefits. Both companies utilize blockchain and artificial intelligence and this new agreement will create a combined platform with more robust and sophisticated capabilities. The acquisition is effective today, and the companies will combine business operations within the next few months under the name CareerGig, forming one of the world’s largest freelancer platforms. Founded in 2014 by Jeff Tennery, Ritesh Johar, and Roy Slater, Moonlighting brings a powerful network of over 850,000 freelancers and small businesses that will continue to build the CareerGig community. With extensive listings for contract gigs, part-time jobs, and internship positions, freelancers fulfilling those roles will have access to CareerGig’s benefits offerings.  Commenting on the merger, CEO Jeff. Tennery said, “CareerGig is the ideal partner for Moonlighting to take this next step in supporting freelancers around the world. Their team shares our same passion and vision to deliver the best marketplace platform for the gig economy.” https://hrtechfeed.com/freelancer-platform-moonlighting-acquired-by-careergig/ Recruiter.com Group, Inc. (OTCQB: RCRT), a leading AI-powered hiring platform with the world’s largest recruiter network, unveiled a new on-demand virtual training program to help career changers break into the world of virtual recruiting. “Recruiter.com has already helped thousands of people learn to recruit with its self-paced Recruiter Certification Program,” said Evan Sohn, CEO of Recruiter.com. “Given the strong trends towards the on-demand, gig economy and the unprecedented hiring that will be taking place after the pandemic, we launched Recruiter.com Academy to capitalize on this opportunity fully. Furthermore, as Experian cites that 50% of all millennials have a side gig, we look forward to positioning recruiting as an exciting and lucrative part-time opportunity.” The Recruiter.com Academy is suitable for people changing careers and established recruiters looking to further their credentials. Participants will learn how to find jobs, earn, and outperform in the exciting career of professional recruiting. Graduates will receive one-on-one career assistance, including resume and social media profile support, live mock interview training, and may access paid recruiting assignments and earning opportunities through the Recruiter.com On Demand platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiter-com-launches-on-demand-recruiter-academy/

If remote work ever needed a spokesman my vote is for my next guest. Chris Herd is the founder and CEO of New York based FirstBase (firstbaseHQ.com)….which helps companies go “office-less instantly”. Their company will supply, finance, and manage all the physical equipment remote workers need to be as safe, comfortable, and productive at home as in an office. We chatted about the future of remote work.

This 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines High5, has launched a new recruiter marketplace and talent community platform that aims to disrupt traditional staffing methods and transform how companies get work done.   The High5 platform creates a global, digital talent supply chain by bringing together an open marketplace of talent and global networks of independent recruiters and subject matter experts who vet and submit talent to jobs on High5. A major differentiator for High5 is how trust and high-quality outcomes are delivered to all users. Each candidate, recruiter, talent supplier, customer, and job are vetted and verified before entering the supply chain.    When paired with High5’s talent engagement technology and global payrolling capabilities, these talent supply innovations are capable of delivering any candidate, with any skill, on any form of work,  to any employer or managed staffing program, anywhere in the world. This ALL-talent and ALL-work approach is a distinguishing characteristic of High5. From full-time to part-time, contract, contract-to-hire, SOW, on-site or remote, from gig-work to big work — it all gets done with High5.   Traditional staffing services and talent platforms used to find talent globally are fragmented and limited in the breadth of services they provide,” Robert Merritt, High5’s Chief Revenue Officer, explains. “They are limited in the vetting and curation of talent they deliver employers and managed staffing programs. Traditional methods promote speed over quality at the employer’s and candidate’s expense. These methods result in poor talent quality, wasted time and money, long fill times, and a hiring manager and candidate experience that is less than desirable.”   https://hrtechfeed.com/high5-launches-new-recruiter-marketplace/   Paradox, the leading conversational AI platform helping global talent acquisition teams automate recruiting tasks like screening, interview scheduling, and candidate communications, announced today the acquisition of Spetz.io, an Israeli startup helping clients like EY and Sodastream modernize candidate communications. The acquisition highlights Paradox’s strategic investment in global innovation and world-class client services, said Paradox founder and CEO Aaron Matos. But it wasn’t just about creating another R&D center. Just as important, Matos said the Spetz team’s vision, mission, and values closely aligned with Paradox. “This acquisition is all about aligning with incredibly smart people who share our passion for building products that recruiting teams love,” Matos said. “We were impressed with the Spetz team’s growth, and even more impressed with their vision for what we can build together.” Yam Dvir, Spetz’s co-founder and CEO, said the feeling was mutual. “When we met with the Paradox team we immediately saw a massive opportunity to build something bigger than ourselves,” said Dvir. “Combining our expertise with Paradox’s vision and momentum as a clear category leader is really one of those ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ opportunities. We can’t wait to get started accelerating Paradox’s vision for a future where recruiting is frictionless, elegant, and people-centric.” https://hrtechfeed.com/paradox-acquires-israeli-chatbot-spetz-io/   PAIRIN, the workforce journey company, today announced the official close of its Series A investment round, now totaling $4.36M. This round builds upon the $2.1 million raised in June.   The COVID-19 pandemic has pulled back the curtain on the challenges that come with navigating and delivering services like unemployment, career planning and education, provided by states, education institutions and workforce programs. These services are often difficult to use, inflexible, not personalized for users and costly to replace. PAIRIN helps ensure end users can quickly and easily navigate access to services like career assistance and college planning through its innovative My Journey platform. “Not only are individuals struggling in the workforce because of the pandemic, but many government and workforce agencies are also facing challenges with budget cuts and consolidation,” said Michael Simpson, CEO and founder, PAIRIN. “We are very grateful to our investors for their continued support. These new funds will help ensure that we can bring the most efficient and intuitive technology to workforce and government agencies across the country…   https://hrtechfeed.com/pairin-gets-4-36m-series-a-funding-to-accelerate-delivery-of-solutions-to-aid-americas-workforce/   Paycor, a provider of SaaS Payroll and Human Capital Management (HCM) software, today announced that it has received commitments for $270 million in new investment co-led by Neuberger Berman, on behalf of several other investors. Paycor is partner to more than 40,000 medium and small-sized businesses. Known for delivering modern, intuitive recruiting, HR and payroll solutions, Paycor partners with businesses to optimize the management of their most valuable asset — their people. Jason Wright, Partner at Apax Partners, said, “Cloud HCM / Payroll is a large, growing market with evolving customer needs. Paycor’s next-generation, integrated suite of solutions is at the forefront of this evolution. In the last three years, Paycor has undergone a substantial transformation, investing in its product, go-to-market strategy, and management team, while continuing to scale the business.    https://hrtechfeed.com/paycor-received-commitments-for-270m-in-new-investment-led-by-neuberger-berman-and-qia-and-accompanied-by-other-new-investors/   EVENT ALERT Job board owners and entrepreneurs will gather March 2nd in the first ever “Job Board Con” virtual event. Hosted bymyself, the half day event will feature 6 sessions covering the job board industry and a virtual happy hour.  Anyone who is currently running an online job site or thinking about starting one is who the event was created for. Topics will include job board software, content creation hacks, sales strategies and more. Ticket prices are $59 and you can register by going to JobBoardCon.com.

Trade Hounds, is the largest professional community built exclusively for the construction industry, they recently announced the launch of their Jobs platform, which connects contractors directly with the skilled tradespeople they’re seeking to hire. Trade Hounds has built a community of more than 175,000 tradespeople that are already using the platform to showcase their work, build professional profiles and expand their networks. Peter Maglathlin is the Co-Founder & CFO at Trade Hounds.  Give us a quick history of the company when did it start and why? This had to be a mobile app experience vs a website correct?. What can seekers do on the platform? You mentioned contractors.. What does the avg recruiter need to know about recruiting in the construction space? Pricing? Was the jobs platform the first piece of revenue? Critical mass point... You picked up about 3 million in funding back in June what was that moment like for you and your team? Has the Pandemic helped or hurt your business this year? Future plans? 

In this episode you'll hear the full list of recruitment technology acquisitions that happened in 2020. https://hrtechfeed.com/acquisitions/

Sponsored by Cronofy.com the interview scheduling tool. Stories from HRtechfeed.com This Week; GenerationHired launches interships portal Hiretual adds diversity features Hibob lands $70 million Recruiter.com to acquire OneWire

Technology has become a ubiquitous part of our hiring landscape. It makes recruiting faster and easier. But at its heart recruitment is a human activity. How do we access the benefits of technology without losing human insight? We’ll discuss that and more with Charlie Atkinson, CEO and Founder of PeopleFactors, a pre-hire candidate assessment solution that helps companies identify and hire leaders, and has more than 35 years of experience in HR and business consulting. 

This 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines Im chris russell here are your top 5 rec tech headlines for the week of Dec 13th Talent Inc., a recruitment services and resume-writing company based in New York, has been sold. Sources told the AIM Group that BV Investment L.P., a Boston-based investment company that focuses on business services and information technology, bought the business for a nine-figure amount. Talent Inc. was founded in 2014 as a resume writing service, and has grown to offer related services. Its brands include Top Resume, Top CV, Top Interview and ResumeRabbit. It uses a network of freelance, contract and staff writers, including a team based in South Africa, to produce resumes and CVs for job-seekers. Appcast, a global leader in programmatic recruitment advertising technology and services, today announced the public launch of Appcast Premium, a comprehensive enterprise managed service for optimizing a company’s entire digital job advertising program. Appcast Premium combines Appcast’s innovative programmatic technology with its team of experts in recruitment advertising to provide complete coverage across all leading job sites, helping companies find qualified people quickly.  Appcast Premium programmatic technology ensures that job ads are placed with the sources most likely to deliver qualified candidates and helps to fill the recruitment pipelines for every open job. It provides full visibility into how job ads are performing with customized, in-depth reporting that provides actionable insights. Reporting is available both on-demand and via monthly performance reviews. Appcast’s technology seamlessly integrates with a company’s ATS to track each applicant through the recruitment process to the point of being hired. This ensures that recruitment advertising is constantly optimized to provide the best possible candidates at the best possible cost per hire. Appcast Premium also offers the benefits of a single vendor – customers receive one bill each month for all job advertising charges across hundreds to thousands of job sites. Employers pay only when a candidate submits an application. https://hrtechfeed.com/appcast-launches-appcast-premium-a-managed-service-for-buying-job-ads/ Turing.com, an automated platform that lets companies hire Silicon Valley caliber remote developers at the touch of a button, announced today a $32-million Series B funding round led by $3.3-billion fund WestBridge Capital. The round includes a number of high-profile investors, such as Foundation Capital, which led Turing’s seed round. Altair Capital, Mindset Ventures, Frontier Ventures, and Gaingels also participated in the Series B round, which was heavily oversubscribed.  Driven by the massive global shift to remote work, Turing taps into a global pool of developers to help companies hire in markets such as the San Francisco Bay Area, aka “Silicon Valley” and New York, where it is difficult and expensive to hire and retain top software engineers. Turing rigorously vets developers for a Silicon Valley bar. Turing has accomplished dramatic growth over the past year — growing by 17X in the last 14 months, from $700K to almost $12 Million. The company has 180,000 developers signed up on the platform and counts several high-profile Silicon Valley technology companies as customers. The global pandemic has forced companies to become remote-first and remote-friendly, which has opened up gigantic global talent pools to recruit from.   https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-work-platform-turing-com-announces-32-million-in-funding/ Phenom, the global leader in Talent Experience Management (TXM), today announced its acquisition of Endouble, an Amsterdam-based company known for enhancing the candidate experience across Europe. The deal expands Phenom’s regional presence and adds technical expertise — while strengthening customer onboarding and adoption of TXM. Endouble previously operated under RGF Staffing — a leading global HR service provider. With nearly 15 years of experience working with many high-profile brands, Endouble has made it their mission to take a data-driven approach to candidate attraction and recruitment strategy. “With our second acquisition in three months, we’re growing our presence and talent across Europe,” said Mahe Bayireddi, CEO and co-founder of Phenom. “We’re excited to begin working with Endouble’s customers, as they’ve already demonstrated a commitment to candidate experience that resonates with us. Introducing AI and automation to European HR teams will quickly help them increase productivity and unlock innovative experiences for recruiters, employees, and hiring managers.” https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-acquires-amsterdam-based-endouble/ iCIMS, the Talent Cloud company for recruiting, today announced the acquisition of mobile video platform, Altru Labs. This acquisition further expands iCIMS’ market innovation and leadership with interactive employee-generated content that changes career sites from static to dynamic sources of engagement and interactivity. Now, iCIMS customers can showcase their brand identities with employee-created videos that improve candidate conversion, engage internal talent, and increase hiring ROI. “I’m excited for our customers to see firsthand how Altru’s innovative storytelling technology can transform how they engage world-class talent with compelling, user-generated video content,” said Steve Lucas, CEO of iCIMS. “Together, we’re offering a robust solution that the market has never seen before during a time that it’s needed most. We’re leaning in on technology that is critical to HR transformation and modern talent acquisition, and are thrilled to deliver the next generation of digital talent engagement.” Altru is a mobile-first video platform that empowers employee-generated storytelling to enhance the candidate, employee, and recruitment marketing experience. Based in New York, Altru delivers a mobile-first platform that enables organizations like Target, PwC, Intuit, L’Oréal, and Box to create and nurture authentic relationships with their candidates by producing content driven by audience intent.  With the acquisition of Altru, iCIMS customers will have the ability to easily capture, edit, brand, approve, and distribute employee-generated video content to use on corporate websites and social media, as well as through email and text campaigns. Similarly, Altru’s customers – enterprise companies leading the world’s digital transformation – can seamlessly plug into the Talent Cloud to more effectively attract, engage, hire, and advance world-class talent. https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-acquires-altru-labs-employee-generated-video-storytelling-platform/

Metaview is a point solution that "uplevels the most outcome-defining part of your recruitment process: your interviews."  Joining me to talk about the product is their CEO Siadhal Magos TOPCS Describe the tool and its use case for our audience What's the user experience like for the recruiter...how do they put this in action? What can a company learn by implementing this technology? What are some of the data points that are tracked? Tell me a few success stories from your client base...what did they learn/change... Pricing...integrations...whats next?

This 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech   Recruiting Technology headlines   Im chris russell here are your rec tech headlines for the week of Dec 7th Jobiak announced the launch of its ‘All Jobs‘ AI-based Global Jobs Distribution Platform (GJDP), a one-stop source to 100% of all jobs in real-time.  Located at alljobs.ai, its a platform that provides access to every available online job, updated in real-time and with meta-search capabilities, making it easy to find relevant jobs. Free to seeker and employers, The AllJobs Job Board allows access to all jobs obtained directly from employer career sites in one place allows job seekers to find and apply directly on employer career sites without having to sign-up, pay, login, upload a resumé, etc.   “Our immediate goal is to fast track the reduction of unemployment by making it free, easy, and convenient to both job seekers and givers.  It is truly a unique free one-stop service where the job seeker can find jobs on the AllJobs platform and apply directly on the employer career site whilst employers don’t have to pay anything to have their jobs posted... said Mallik Penamatsa, Advisory Board member. Jobiak’s first product focused on unleashing the recruiting power of Google for Jobs for businesses who were struggling to get their jobs found on Google.  With the launch of the AllJobs platform, Jobiak adds another unique product to its portfolio. With its ability to provide access to any job and fully leverage the power of Google to drive 2-20x applicants to its partners, makes it an ideal technology partner for those looking to find unique ways to grow their recruitment business. https://hrtechfeed.com/jobiak-launches-own-job-search-engine/ Fountain, the enterprise high-volume recruiting platform, today announced the initial release of its mobile app, allowing recruiters and hiring managers to source, screen, and hire on the go. Available on both iOS and Android platforms, the app provides secure, flexible handling of applicants and job openings — making sure employers don’t miss a beat when it comes to hiring the best talent. The new mobile app puts all of an employer’s locations, applicants and interviews in one place. It helps employers move talent through the pipeline quickly, by keeping them engaged through in-app text or email, thus reducing time to fill. Running late for an interview? No problem, now easily communicating that is just a text away. Need to move an applicant to the next stage or boost your funnels? Easy peasy. The app puts basic hiring needs such as these, including posting to 80+ job boards in less than two minutes, at the fingertips of the recruiter or hiring manager. “The launch of our new mobile app allows us to continue our mission, providing opportunities to the global workforce by streamlining the experience for both the recruiter and the applicant. We know life gets busy and chaotic, and being able to perform simple hiring tasks on the go helps make it a little easier for our customers,” said CEO, Sean Behr. https://hrtechfeed.com/high-volume-ats-fountain-launches-new-mobile-app/ CodeSignal, a San Francisco based technical assessment platform dedicated to helping companies #GoBeyondResumes in tech recruiting, announced $25 million in Series B funding. This round, which brings CodeSignal’s total funding to $37.5 million, was led by Menlo Ventures  Founded in 2015 CodeSignal is disrupting the traditional recruiting market, helping recruiters and hiring managers conduct unbiased pre-employment screenings for technical roles more efficiently and at scale. The company’s Coding Score™ allows companies to quickly evaluate technical qualifications at the very top of the funnel, just like Credit Score for the lending industry and SAT scores for college admissions. Fueled by 3.5X year-over-year growth, and with millions of assessments conducted on the platforms by customers including Brex, Databricks, Instacart, Robinhood, UpWork and Zoom. CodeSignal will use this round of funding to continue the rapid expansion of its go-to-market team.  The new funding will also enable CodeSignal to partner with key players in the technical hiring industry to deliver a more holistic hiring solution.  CodeSignal’s Certified Coding Assessments provide an objective measure of a candidate’s qualifications, enabling recruiters to compare several scores and strengths at once before hiring decisions are made. The platform allows companies to set their own threshold for qualifications and customize assessments with comprehensive testing options for each team and job opening and safeguards against cheating. By standardizing the technical assessment process, CodeSignal is changing hiring culture and focusing on the applicant who can do the job and do it right. https://hrtechfeed.com/codesignal-closes-25m-series-b-to-make-hiring-less-biased-and-help-the-world-go-beyond-resumes/ SYDNEY and TEL AVIV, Israel, —myInterview, a smart video interview platform prioritizing personality in the hiring process, today announced a $5 million Seed round ...The funding will be used to expand the company’s sales, product, and R&D teams as it continues to grow in the US and UK markets and around the world. myInterview had previously raised $1.6 million in pre-seed funding, which included investment from former LinkedIn executive Cliff Rosenberg. Video interviews – conspicuously absent from the standard application process in this video age – enable companies to rethink how they find their most important resources: their employees. By highlighting candidates’ personalities, soft skills, and workplace compatibility with company culture – key features missing in one-dimensional resumes – myInterview enables character to feature more prominently in the application process. The platform streamlines recruitment for businesses and applicants alike by utilizing pre-recorded (asynchronous) video interviews that allow candidates and reviewers to fit the interview into their schedules. The demand for video interview tools has climbed sharply in the wake of remote working and social distancing norms, and helped fuel myInterview’s rapid growth, including a significant rise in new users on the platform and a 500% increase in Annual Recurring Revenue since 2019. myInterview is already being used by over 2,000 companies globally including Ocado, B&M, and P&O Ferries. myInterview has also worked with Facebook Career Connections and has a strategic partnership with reed.co.uk, the UK’s #1 job site. “The way companies recruit talent is outdated and doesn’t provide the necessary level of insight into applicants required by HR professionals,” said Benjamin Gillman, CEO and Co-founder of myInterview. “A video is worth a thousand resumes. By utilizing video interviews, we help businesses prioritize personality and cultural fit, optimizing the screening and selection process by ensuring that the applicants who are the best fit are moved to the head of the line. We use video in so many facets of our lives – recruiting and hiring are finally catching up.” https://hrtechfeed.com/video-interview-platform-myinterview-raises-5-million-seed-round/ Lastly another company out of San Fran got funding last week and I think it might be one of the strangest startups to get funded in our space. This one is called CODI... Codi thinks many people find working from home a challenge due to a shortage of space, roommates, partners, children, and lack of work/life separation. In response, Codi, the first company to offer daytime workspaces in private homes, announced today that it has expanded to New York, where the company is working with employers to arrange for safe, private working spaces in employees’ own neighborhoods, enabling them to walk to work and avoid long commutes.  Codi also announced that it has raised $7M in funding from several investors ...that includes a previously announced 2018 pre-seed round of $1.65M. Codi says they are sparking a walk-to-work movement by providing people with access to workspaces right in their neighborhoods. Companies can have dedicated Codi workspaces that exclusively serve their teams – allowing single employees or small groups to work together, locally but privately. To start, Codi is offering its service in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Northern NJ. Already, Codi has lined up 100+ hosts and hundreds of members, who have access to Codi via their employers.  I dont know about you but I’m not sure why need a platform to go work at somebody else’s house...maybe it just me. https://hrtechfeed.com/codi-raises-7-million-to-offer-daytime-workspaces-in-private-homes/

Brianna Foulds serves as the AVP, Talent Systems, Operations & Acquisition for Cornerstone OnDemand a familiar brand if you are in the industry.... She has more than 15 years of experience in technology, hospitality, engineering and manufacturing, and retail. At Cornerstone, Brianna leads a global team and supports the product team in the ideation and advancement of Cornerstone’s software. Prior to Cornerstone, Brianna served as the Head of Talent Acquisition for Oakley and worked in recruiting at California Pizza Kitchen. TOPICS What has life been like recruiting and hiring in 2020? Most challenging part of all this from a recruiting standpoint? What's it been like to recruit/manage virtually? How do you onboard virtually? What will be the lasting effect of all this virtual recruiting...any thoughts Walk us through your recruiting tech stack. What do you have in place? We use our own Cornerstone platform with recruiting system partners Paradox, LinkedIn, Hiretual and Mathison.io.  Have you seen an increase in job apps due to the pandemic or have things been fairly steady? How do you pitch people on coming to work for CSOD? What changes to tech or branding will you make next year?

This 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines FA Match, the wealth management industry’s only data-driven solution for financial advisor recruiting, today announced a $1M pre-seed funding round. The round includes investments from a variety of investors. FA Match is leading a new revolution of transparent, data-driven recruitment offerings for financial advisors and firms.  The platform’s proprietary Advisor MatchTM technology enables advisors and firms to connect with one another based on a series of match criteria – including AUM, transition needs/support, location, advisor experience, firm type, and more – and ranks those matches on a 1-3-star scale. Both parties are only alerted of the most viable matches, making the entire process more streamlined, action-oriented, and cost-effective. FA Match will allocate this latest round of funding to robust marketing efforts, enabling the firm to more broadly and effectively connect with people across the entire wealth management ecosystem – including wirehouses, banks, RIA’s, RIA-hybrids, and OSJ’s. In 2021, FA Match also plans to launch more advanced industry analytic features to help advisors and firms gain access to real-time trends in compensation, M&A movement, and more. https://hrtechfeed.com/financial-advisor-recruitment-platform-lands-1-million-in-pre-seed-funding/ Welcome, the HR software that helps organizations make and close offers to new candidates, announced the close of a $6 million seed round today, led by FirstMark Capital. Participating investors include Ludlow Ventures, Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg, and Keenan Rice and Ben Porterfield (which were existing investors), as well as a wide array of angels. Welcome is also launching a new product today called Total Rewards, which helps not just new candidates but also existing employees get a complete, easy-to-understand picture of their compensation, across salary, benefits, equity, etc. Welcome was founded in 2019 by Nick Gavronsky and Rick Pereira, with a mission to help organizations close offers on candidates by providing a much clearer picture of compensation, particularly around equity. Cofounder and CEO Nick Gavronsky explained that many candidates don’t truly understand the value of the equity they’re offered, or how it works. FULL STORY VIA TECHCRUNCH - welcome.ai London – Let’s Dive a platform for remote employee engagement and building team culture has today announced it has raised US$1.7 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital India’s Surge. The funding round also saw participation from Village Global and several angel investors1. Let’s Dive will use the funding to further build experiences on the platform to help remote teams tackle isolation, distribute the product to thousands of companies around the world and build a cross-border product team. The on-going global pandemic has upended traditional ways of working, forcing businesses all around the world to set themselves up remotely. Let’s Dive’s founders, who have been building solutions for remote teams for over five years, know from experience that isolation and the lack of team bonding are the biggest obstacles to successfully sustaining a remote work culture. Let’s Dive is a platform that eliminates isolation by bringing teams together and recreating a social space where participants can connect through a range of exciting activities. This creates deeper bonds amongst remote teams who lack the advantage of personal connections. Teams can play games like poker, pictionary, icebreakers, trivias, chess, card games and organise YouTube watch parties. Let’s Dive has already attracted over 100 teams from 28 countries to its platform. Currently, Let’s Dive is an invite-only experience. Companies can apply for access on www.letsdive.io. https://hrtechfeed.com/lets-dive-lands-us1-7-million-to-make-remote-working-more-human/ Talkpush, the leader in recruitment automation, wants to work with companies that see their talent pool as their greatest competitive asset. Vervoe, the leader in skills assessments, is on a mission to reinvent the recruiting experience to make it effective, fair and enjoyable. The two companies’ complementary services help employers expand their talent pool, and build a better, more universal, and validated recruitment process. The companies are delighted to announce a partnership, supported by an integration between the two platforms, that will benefit its joint customers to help them identify the most suitable candidates faster, and give candidates more real-time visibility into the hiring process. Talkpush users can now create workflows in which shortlisted candidates automatically receive a position-specific Vervoe assessment. With both platforms completely in sync, recruiters can now view candidates progress and assessment scores in real-time. How it works Candidates can apply through their preferred channel, be it Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or job boards on the company’s career site. Once they complete their pre-screening, they automatically receive the link to the position-specific Vervoe assessment. Once the assessment is complete, Vervoe automatically adds the score to the candidate profile inside Talkpush, so that recruiters can easily see it, share it and make the right decision. https://hrtechfeed.com/talkpush-partners-with-vervoe/ Greenhouse, the hiring software company, today released a new limited series podcast, “DE&I strategies that work.” This podcast explores the challenges business leaders face in accelerating diversity within their organizations. Hosted by Daniel Chait, Greenhouse CEO and Co-founder, the series features Talent Makers™ from influential companies like JPMorgan Chase, Hubspot and X, the moonshot factory. This new series in Greenhouse’s “Hiring for what’s next” podcast delivers advice from DE&I leaders and business executives on how to make companies more inclusive and diverse. Each episode delivers actionable ideas and commentary from highly respected voices in DE&I, and includes practical tips on creating more inclusive hiring practices with Ariel Lopez, Founder and CEO of Knac. Topics covered in the series include: DE&I as a catalyst for improving performance, productivity and innovation How to avoid common challenges when gathering and analyzing diversity hiring metrics What it means to be a fair chance employer The importance of data when designing an inclusive hiring process greenhouse.io/podcast.  https://www.hrpodcasters.com/greenhouse-launches-new-diversity-podcast-series/

Former head of marketing and recruiting innovation for Allegis Global Solutions and founder of his own recruiting and marketing firm TalentNet Media, Craig Fisher has recently taken on the role of CEO of Knack.io, a Dallas-based personalized job board startup created “by engineers for engineers.” He took over the position earlier this month from Knack.io Co-founder and former CEO Leroy Ware, who is now taking on the role of chief technology officer at the company

This 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech   Recruiting Technology headlines   Vettery, the AI-driven talent marketplace that matches highly-qualified and individually-vetted candidates with top companies, today announced that it has acquired Hired, the leading marketplace for technology talent. The companies will combine to create the largest and most comprehensive talent marketplace for technology, marketing, sales, and finance hires. ‍Hired uses AI-powered intelligent job matching to help tech talent find a job they love at the world’s most innovative companies including Box, Dropbox, Postmates and Twitch. It rigorously vets every candidate before they are accepted to the platform, resulting in a marketplace of high-intent candidates with a 90 percent response rate and 60 percent of candidates accepting an interview, thus saving employers an average of 45 sourcing hours per role filled. Vettery was launched on the premise of creating a more innovative and transparent hiring process, using its proprietary AI algorithms and analytics to quickly and successfully match employers to candidates in high-demand roles in technology, sales, and finance. Vettery partners with over 15,000 companies from innovative startups to established Fortune 500 companies to help them build world-class teams. In 2018, Vettery was acquired by global HR solutions company Adecco Group and the acquisition of Hired will continue Adecco Group’s commitment to data-driven recruitment technology. https://hrtechfeed.com/hired-com-acquired-by-vettery/ Trade Hounds, the largest professional community built exclusively for the construction industry, today announced the launch of its Jobs platform, which connects contractors directly with the skilled tradespeople they’re seeking to hire. Unlike other job boards serving the industry, Trade Hounds has built a vast community of 175,000 tradespeople that are already using the platform to showcase their work, build professional profiles and expand their networks. https://hrtechfeed.com/trade-hounds-launches-national-construction-jobs-platform/ Pre-employment testing software company TestGorilla announced today that it raised US$1.2 million in pre-series A funding from CapitalT and a group of international angel investors. The announcement comes as TestGorilla reports receiving 150 free-trial sign-ups a day from companies around the world. Founded by serial entrepreneur Wouter Durville and former Bain & Company partner Otto Verhage, TestGorilla is an online skills assessment platform that launched this summer. The company aims to make hiring more efficient and less biased by allowing organizations to use skills assessments at the top of the hiring funnel. https://hrtechfeed.com/pre-employment-testing-software-company-testgorilla-raises-1-2-million/ Technology professional career hub Dice announced the launch of Instant Messaging, enabling direct, transparent conversations between employers and technologists through the Dice platform. In addition to serving a valuable function for users, Instant Messaging is an important next step in the evolution of Dice, building to a comprehensive and flexible platform through which recruiters and candidates can rapidly and confidently search, match and communicate in real-time. Earlier this year, Dice launched Recruiter Profile, a tool enabling recruiters to create an enhanced personalized profile, highlighting company brand and values, upcoming virtual events and other relevant insights, helping hiring organizations more effectively represent themselves to in-demand candidates alongside their posted jobs. https://hrtechfeed.com/dice-launches-instant-messaging/

My next guest is the founder and CEO of a pretty cool piece of recruiting technology that is helping to solve a big problem in the apply process. If you are having trouble at the top of your recruiting funnel you're gonna want to hear this. TOPICS Give us a quick bio of yourself and your history in the rec tech space? Learned a lot what are the keys to getting ppl to apply? Tell the audience what Jobsync.io does and why it exists? Describe the user experience for a seeker? You've been expanding your job board network...which sites do you currently integrate with? Numbers: what are the conversion rates you are seeing? Other metrics you would like to share? (case study?) What's next for the product?

This 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech   Recruiting Technology headlines Modern Hire, the all-in-one hiring platform announced the release of Text-Based Assessments, a new offering that embeds their science nucleus, CognitIOn by Modern Hire, into the hiring process to better predict turnover. Consisting of a short 1-2 minute assessment that integrates seamlessly into the On-Demand Text interaction stage of the hiring workflow, Modern Hire’s Text-Based Assessments leverage job-relevant content and questions that measure candidates’ risk for turnover. The tool allows recruiters to apply powerful science and predictive analytics to the hiring process where it was previously not possible –– in text-based interview interactions –– to predict which candidates are at risk for turnover before they’re even hired. Text-Based Assessments also provide candidates with a quick, engaging experience that can be accessed on any device. The customized blueprint workflow consists of three phases: an On-Demand Text Interview screening to establish career stability and minimum qualifications, followed by a Realistic Job Preview and the pre-configured Virtual Job Tryout assessment designed specifically for telehealth. The final phase is an On-Demand video interview, where candidates can respond to scenarios they may encounter on the job, including difficult patient interactions, technical issues that may arise during virtual patient visits or follow-up questions about their qualifications.  https://hrtechfeed.com/modern-hire-launches-text-based-assessments/ iCIMS, the Talent Cloud company that recently underwent a rebrand, has announced the acquisition of EASYRECRUE, the European leader in video interviewing and digital assessment capability. EASYRECRUE delivers a Talent Experience platform to optimize the candidate and employee experience, from recruitment to internal mobility. This acquisition triples iCIMS’ global footprint, now with more than 100 employees in EMEA, and extends the capabilities of the Talent Cloud, providing its user community of more than 330 million candidates and hiring professionals with an opportunity to leverage cutting-edge video interviewing technology and assessment capabilities. This supports the critical need for customers to globally interview and assess candidates digitally, through video.    “EASYRECRUE’s innovative AI technology and support for virtual interviewing, talent assessments, and internal talent mobility solutions coupled with the iCIMS Talent Cloud will empower our customers to better identify, recruit, and invest in top talent,” said Steve Lucas, CEO of iCIMS. “We are thrilled to welcome Mickaël, the entire EASYRERECRUE team, and its community of nearly 400 customers as we expand iCIMS’ presence in Europe.”   With the acquisition of EASYRECRUE, iCIMS’ customers will have the ability to integrate new live and on-demand video interviewing functionalities, scheduling capabilities, and customizable assessments in their use of the Talent Cloud. Similarly, EASYRECRUE’s customers will have the opportunity to seamlessly plug their solutions into the Talent Cloud, further supporting their ability to attract, engage, hire, and advance world-class talent. https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-acquires-video-interview-platform-easyrecrue/ OutMatch, a provider of digital hiring technologies, announced the acquisition of Checkster, a global provider of pre-hire and post-hire talent insights solutions. The acquisition of Checkster integrates best-in-class automated reference checking offering and post-hire insights into OutMatch’s Talent Decision Platform, which brings unique talent insights derived from the combination of assessments, job simulations, and video interviews. OutMatch empowers organizations’ talent decisions while delivering a candidate-driven recruiting experience. “The future of recruitment will leverage technology to drive efficiency for both recruiters and applicants alike,” says OutMatch CEO, Greg Moran. “Bringing the market-leading reference checking solution to the platform addresses a critical inefficiency in the hiring process by automating the time-intensive process of collecting candidate references. Integrating Checkster’s technology into our Talent Decision Platform will eliminate logjams in the recruiting process that frustrate both recruiters and candidates, while infusing more data for recruiters to identify the best talent.” Checkster’s post-hire tools bridge the gap between talent selection and job performance. Linking the pre- and post-hire talent analytics within OutMatch’s Talent Decision Platform will create a newfound ability to rigorously measure quality of hire, drive increased agility throughout the talent selection process, and create higher-performing teams with improved retention. https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-acquires-checkster/ Phenom, the global leader in Talent Experience Management (TXM), has announced its new collaboration with Microsoft Teams, simplifying how recruiters and hiring managers coordinate during the talent acquisition process. Employees and candidates also benefit from a fluid front-end experience in Teams, which facilitates internal mobility and application monitoring. By integrating TXM with Teams, Phenom reduces collaborative friction within the most widely used communication channel by many small- and large-scale enterprises. As a result of Phenom TXM’s integration with Teams, recruiters and managers can quickly exchange important information during the hiring process. The Phenom platform tracks every interaction so no detail falls through. Several new in-app features are now available, with capabilities and functions such as Seamless collaboration with hiring managers. Video interview scheduling.  Capture of real-time interview feedback. https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-now-integrates-with-microsoft-teams/ AI technology leader, Talview, also announced the latest release of its app for Microsoft Teams enhanced with Interview Intelligence — a next generation breakthrough in remote hiring. Founded out of the Microsoft for Startups incubator, Talview has had a strong relationship with Microsoft since its inception in 2017. Since then, Talview has worked to achieve its mission of Instahiring — creating the fastest way to a happy hire. Getting one step closer to achieving that mission and expanding access to great jobs, Talview announced an app for Microsoft Teams earlier this year. The app, available in the Teams app store, is designed to increase collaboration among hiring teams through improved scheduling and selection processes. Now the Talview app for Teams enables interviewers to access all the relevant information for a high-quality interview within the meeting itself rather than having to go back and forth between apps. With this new and improved integration, interviewers will be able to: Access candidate information and details within Teams with just the click of a button Receive interview guidance, and provide interview feedback directly within a Teams meeting interface Send and collect candidate interview feedback directly in Teams Enhance hiring team collaboration via chat to discuss a candidate before, during, and after an interview Schedule and reschedule interviews from within Teams or Talview All information will flow back and forth from Teams to Talview (and vice versa) with ease.  https://hrtechfeed.com/talview-announces-the-latest-release-of-its-app-for-microsoft-teams/

My next guest is a seasoned talent acquisition, human resources and marketing executive. She has developed and successfully executed talent acquisition, human capital and organizational developments strategies, marketing plans, and budgets for operations in North America, Europe, APAC, and Latin America and currently heads up talent acquisition marketing for TTEC. TOPICS Tell everyone what TTEC does and what you typically hire for? How many people will you hire in the 4th quarter for this year? Recruiting machine... Going remote: you moved 39,000 ppl from the office to remote work...what was that like? How do you hire that many people? (give high level overview of your rec mktg strategy) million plus applicants, b2c marketing tactics Social media - you told me you get 30% of your applicants from sites like Facebook...can you break down how you do that? cadence Do you know what your conversion rate is for clicks to apply? Tech stack: Taleo is your ATS, Ascendify is your career site and you also use Jobsync, can you just touch on each of these in terms of how you use them? TTEC has been partnering with LivePerson to support contact tracing for organizations and companies And how we are releasing a module on our own AI driven training product called RealPlay to support our employees on having difficult conversation about diversity and inclusion. Where can people go to learn more about careers at TTEC and see your careers website?

This 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech   Recruiting Technology headlines   Reminder the Virtual Job fair technology expo happens on Wednesday nov 18th at 2pm ---compare and contract 6 different job fair platforms including Brazen, ecareerfairs, Xor, Recruitology, Premier Virtual and RecruitVirtual.   Register for free at rectechlive.com https://www.crowdcast.io/e/virtual-job-fair SmartRecruiters announced the acquisition of Berlin based jobpal, an enterprise-grade chatbot technology, to take recruitment efficiency to the next level. The move enters SmartRecruiters into the rapidly growing recruitment process automation (RPA) market, where the future of recruiting prioritizes human interactions and automates repetitive, time consuming tasks. In a world where TA leaders receive 4X the candidate volume but have half the resources on their team, automation is the only way to keep up and continue to offer great experiences to everyone. As the leading talent acquisition suite, automation will be deeply embedded into every step of SmartRecruiters’ recruiting workflow engine to unlock massive efficiencies for hiring teams.  The feature will be rebranded as “SmartPal”   “jobpal is where automation meets individualization,” shares Florian Schrodt, Head of Employer Branding at Zurich Public Transport. “The technology helps us improve thousands of candidate communications every month. With nearly 80% automated answers, our hiring teams are saving hundreds of hours that we can now dedicate to the most important task: relationship building and adding value to our candidates.” The companies’ existing partnership and integrated technologies means new products are available now. SmartRecruiters is excited to introduce SmartPal, a family of recruiting chatbots that put repetitive interactions on autopilot and drive meaningful candidate conversations throughout the entire recruitment lifecycle to accelerate Hiring Success. By embedding a conversational layer on top of SmartRecruiters’ core workflow engine, SmartPal converts candidates 3x better, saves time, and enables recruiters to focus on more strategic tasks. https://hrtechfeed.com/smartrecruiters-acquires-jobpal-chatbot/   Metaview, the Interview Intelligence Platform, today announced the launch of Interview Metrics, a new product that focuses on accessing data on job interviews to make them fairer and more effective. By recording and automatically analysing interviews, Metaview’s Interview Metrics enables organizations to access empirical data on how consistent and rigorous their hiring processes are for the first time. This launch is a major step for Metaview on their mission to reimagine how exceptional organizations build teams. Metaview was founded by team-builders from Palantir and Uber after they observed first-hand that interviews are the most outcome-defining step in any recruitment process. Despite commonly being cited as subjective and bias-prone, they determine who joins a team, and who doesn’t. Additionally, growing organizations spend thousands of people hours per year on conducting interviews. Metaview has recorded, transcribed, and analyzed over ten thousand hours of interviews in the last 18 months since raising a round of funding from Fly Ventures in Berlin, Seedcamp in London, and Village Global and Garuda Ventures in San Francisco. They count high-growth companies such as Bulb, AngelList, Careem, Wave, and Stedi among their customers. “Metaview was already the most effective tool for improving individual interviewers at Bulb. Now, Interview Metrics tells me more about the health of the interview process at large than it was ever possible to know previously. With this, I can ensure hiring managers and interviewers are getting the support they need to conduct great interviews, and candidates get the high-quality, fair interview process they deserve,” says Michael Laws, Head of Recruitment at Bulb. https://hrtechfeed.com/introducing-interview-metrics-measuring-what-matters-for-growing-organizations/   Remote, an HR technology platform for international payroll, benefits and compliance, today announced that it has secured $35 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures and joined by Sequoia Capital, with additional participation from angel investors including Aaron Levie, Zach Weinberg, and Kevin and Julia Hartz. Previous investors General Catalyst and Two Sigma Ventures are also participating.This funding empowers Remote to further its position as the industry’s most compliant and competitive solution helping companies of all sizes employ global teams. Remote has raised $46 million to date. Since its public launch earlier this year and its $11 million seed funding round in April, Remote has been approached by thousands of companies seeking to take advantage of its unique employment model and global network of legal entities, including customers GitLab, Loom, Cargo One, Whereby and Phaidra. Remote has doubled its customer base every month since the start of the year. Remote is the only global employment provider with its own legal infrastructure in every country where it operates. This provides customers with absolute security for IP and invention rights, guarantees international compliance, and enables Remote to offer the industry’s most competitive and flexible pricing. With millions of companies worldwide shifting to remote work and adapting to evolving visa requirements, Remote has become the new standard solution for organizations looking to hire and retain the best global talent. Remote’s platform includes its global employer of record services, covering international payroll, benefits, taxes, and visa and immigration services, as well as a free platform for global contractor management and payments. https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-com-secures-35-million-in-series-a-funding/   Top Echelon Software, the leading provider of recruiting software for people who build teams, is pleased to announce its acquisition of CATS Software, a leading applicant tracking system (ATS) designed specifically for professional recruiters who help companies from all over the world fill their hiring needs. This acquisition combines two best-of-breed ATS companies to address the complex and evolving challenges in the war for talent. CATS serves more than 1,800, predominantly mid-sized professional recruiting and operating companies, including tools for resume import and parse, job application collection, resume search, comprehensive reports, job board publication, and analytics. The acquisition expands Top Echelon’s customer and revenue base and strengthens its software offering. Top Echelon will continue to support new and existing CATS customers, as well as expand its market reach to mid-sized businesses both domestically and globally. According to Top Echelon Software CEO Mark Demaree, this merger represents the opportunity to combine the resources and experience of both companies to become the leading provider of applicant tracking and CRM software to serve and support their customers at an unparalleled level. “We are constantly seeking ways to improve,” said Demaree. “We look forward to the opportunity that this merger offers to provide even more value to our customers in the form of additional features and enhanced functionality.” https://hrtechfeed.com/top-echelon-acquires-cats-software/   Drafted, the network recruiting startup out of Boston, announced a new app called Scouted to add a layer of network intelligence to applicant screening. Scouted automatically parses applicant resumes and uses artificial intelligence to find current employees who can add context about the applicant’s work experience. Here’s how it works..., if an applicant worked in marketing at Pinterest and applied to work at Etsy, Scouted finds current relevant employees at Etsy who previously worked in marketing at Pinterest and collects their input. Engaging employees early in the hiring process is known to be beneficial for hiring quality, speed, and diversity. More data leads to better outcomes and faster hires. “Scouted can help you speed up your candidate screening process while improving the quality of your applicants,” says Vinayak Ranade, CEO at Drafted. “There’s a current employee somewhere in your org, who has overlapping experience with the applicant, who can give you incredibly valuable data to inform screening decisions. It’s almost like a post-application referral.” Scouted integrates with Greenhouse ATS and Slack. The company is offering free access to any Greenhouse ATS customers until Dec 31, 2020. Those interested can sign up at scouted.to. https://hrtechfeed.com/scouted-launches-to-find-missed-connections-between-employees-and-applicants/ ##########

My next guest has spent nearly 14 years in various HR roles for Kansas based Garmin International, the maker of all things GPS, where she helps to support recruitment and associate relations for the company. This is her second appearance on RecTech so lets give her a warm welcome back to the show! I like your little tagline on your Linkedin profile---You almost need a GPS to find a new position...let Garmin guide you into a new career! What has life been like recruiting and hiring in 2020? From an HR standpoint whats been the hardest thing about keeping your employees engaged during the pandemic? Attracting talent to Garmin, has that been easier or harder during Covid? Video interviews? platform? College? 4500 new followers on LInkedin...how often do you post? Whats your onboarding process like? Hows the Phenom platform going? Are you looking to implement any new recruitment tech or employer brand strategies going into 2021? Where can people go to learn more about careers at Garmin?

This 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines Popular online form builder JotForm announced Tables, a revolutionary way for HR teams to collect, organize and manage data in an all-in-one workspace.  JotForm Tables looks like a spreadsheet but acts like a database. This tool works by organizing form submission data, imported data and manually entered data into one feature-rich interface. It’s powered by a sophisticated forms engine, making data collection streamlined and simple. JotForm Tables lets HR teams: * Collect and organize applications * Manage PTO requests * Evaluate interviewees as a team * Create a checklist for new hires * And much more “Spreadsheets are great for working with data, but they have significant limitations and don’t work for HR teams looking to collaborate in a single workspace,” said Aytekin Tank, founder and CEO of JotForm. “So, we built something better – a tool that looks like a spreadsheet, but is much more powerful since it’s supported by a sophisticated online forms product.” https://hrtechfeed.com/jotform-tables-launches-as-a-new-way-to-manage-tedious-hr-tasks/ ADP®, a leading global provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions, is deepening its integration with ZipRecruiter®, the fastest-growing online employment marketplace2 and #1-rated job search app.3 ADP is the first HCM provider to make ZipRecruiter available directly to customers through its online platform. ZipRecruiter is now seamlessly embedded within ADP Workforce Now Recruitment, giving recruiters access to more qualified candidates and to intelligent tools that identify the best candidates for their roles.  The integration includes several key features: Tools to help businesses find quality candidates faster: Businesses will be able to distribute their jobs across 100+ job sites and reach over 30 million job seekers a month via mobile and web.1 Businesses will be able to use ZipRecruiter’s sponsored job posts to receive ten times more applicants, on average, than organic job posts typically do.4 Four out of five employers who post on ZipRecruiter receive a quality candidate within the first day. ZipRecruiter’s industry-leading, smart-matching technology actively identifies qualified candidates and invites them to apply. Ease and flexibility:  Job slots are flexible, allowing employers to easily swap a new job into a job slot or pause a search and activate it later. If employers need to sponsor more jobs, they will be able to purchase additional sponsored job slots through the ADP Workforce Now Recruitment Module in 2021. Employers who want to boost visibility of their jobs can purchase Traffic Boost within the Recruitment Module to drive additional applications in 2021. Seamless integration with ADP Workforce Now: Employers receive applications from candidates in real-time and view them directly in the ADP Workforce Now Recruitment module, eliminating complicated workflows, implementation time, and budget management. One-Click apply ensures companies don’t miss out on top talent due to lengthy applications. With ZipApply, candidates can apply to jobs with just one click. “ZipRecruiter is excited to provide a strong, reliable and streamlined solution for ADP’s customers at an especially challenging time in the economy,” said Ian Siegel, Co-Founder & CEO at ZipRecruiter. “ZipRecruiter’s tools are flexible, efficient, and easy, and free up time so that businesses can focus on adapting to changing business needs, innovating, and achieving their goals.” https://hrtechfeed.com/adp-deepens-partnership-with-ziprecruiter/ Juggle. Originally designed as a marketplace to allow executive-level women to re-enter the world of work in a flexible manner after having a family, it later expanded into a wider market for anyone wanting to work flexibly and for employers who need that kind of workforce. But with the world of work totally upended by the pandemic, “flexibility” is literally now the name of the game. Juggle has now disclosed its funding of $2.1 million from investors in the U.K. and the U.S. Investors include a number of the U.K.’s leading angels... With many businesses moving to flexible working arrangements, whether that means remote work, part-time, or shared roles, Juggle connects them with professionals that aren’t the typical “9-to-5” type people. Professionals sign up for the service, and recruitment tools allow them to schedule and keep track of job applications; coaching and support are available. Juggle also provides “smart matching” and the necessary paperwork to allow for these flexible roles. Businesses using Juggle to find the right candidate are vetted in advance to ensure that they embrace flexibility, so both employers and employees know what they are getting.   Founded by former headhunter Romanie Thomas, a core mission for Juggle, she said, is to see women in 50% of business leadership roles by 2027. Since launching in 2017, Thomas said 62% of all placements made by Juggle have been female. https://hrtechfeed.com/juggle-secures-2-1m-to-expand-its-flexible-work-saas-marketplace-for-senior-execs/ eQuest today announced that it will transform the way people post Internet jobs. Beginning Monday, November 16, 2020, customers with Amazon Echo or Alexa Built-in devices will be able to say, “Alexa, open job posting”. This key command will automatically connect the voice-user to eQuest – which holds the entire catalog of jobs for that customer to access for job posting. The user can then say, “post a job” or “check activity”. Gartner predicts that, by 2023, 25 percent of employee interactions with applications will be via voice, up from under 3 percent in 2019. Voice interfaces free digital workers from having to use a mouse and keyboard when interacting with business applications. This freedom can benefit workers greatly. eQuest announced earlier this year that much of its strategy for 2020 and 2021 will be focused on automating the greater percentage of its products. The voice activated release is one many planned for release in the next 18 months. “We are very excited to bring new technologies to the Human Resources community,” said Bob Jaworski, in charge of eQuest’s ATS and CRM alliances. “Our goal is to automate much of the job posting process. Simplicity is the name of the game.” https://hrtechfeed.com/equest-to-release-voice-activated-job-posting/

A reader wrote to me about the following problem she was encountering with scraped jobs off her company website; Do you have any tips on getting old, filled job posts off the internet?  Job Boards scrape jobs  and it’s frustrating when you get a phone call or resume from someone who saw a job that’s been filled for months on a job board. I reached out to a couple of popular job aggregators to get their thought on this vexing issue many employers face. Adzuna and Talent.com offered some advice. FULL STORY: https://www.rectechmedia.com/blog/job-scraping-problems

This 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech   Recruiting Technology headlines   RICHMOND, VA. – Inclusively, a human-first employment platform built by the disability community to connect candidates with disabilities to inclusive companies and careers, is excited to announce its recent launch. Inclusively’s proprietary job matching technology gives candidates with disabilities the power to customize their job search utilizing ‘Success Enablers’ (also known as workplace accommodations). Examples include assistive technologies (vision and hearing), telework/remote work, worksite accessibility, service/emotional support animals, modified methods, assistive services, modified work schedules, and job restructuring. In addition to the job platform, Inclusively provides a customer success team that guides candidates and employers through the hiring process and employer training to ensure the success of the placements being made.   Co-Founder of Inclusively, Charlotte Dales, was inspired to create this platform by her cousin, who became the first licensed aesthetician in Florida with Down syndrome.    https://hrtechfeed.com/new-job-matching-platform-launches-for-people-with-disabilities/   DALLAS, — OutMatch, a leader in digital hiring, today made three industry-changing announcements to further their goal of helping companies make data-driven talent decisions. The acquisition of talent assessment company, FurstPerson: Specializing in pre-hire simulation assessments, FurstPerson offers hiring managers and job candidates the critical information needed to make the smartest hiring decisions. FurstPerson’s simulation tools are a perfect complement to OutMatch’s video interview offerings, as well as the broader suite of OutMatch assessments, which measures communication skills, motivation, and other key traits. A new gamified culture assessment for OutMatch Assess. Companies can now be more intentional with how they are shaping their organization’s culture. In just five minutes, candidates can now complete two engaging culture assessments.  A new comprehensive talent decision management platform: The new platform ties candidate screening, assessments, video interviewing, and artificial intelligence into a single integrated, automated experience – driving speed, efficiency and engagement, while removing bias and improving hiring decisions for both the candidate and recruiter. On the heels of last month’s acquisition of Launchpad, these investments further OutMatch’s position as a global leader in the digital hiring space and strengthen its commitment to providing customers with simple, smart, and human hiring solutions. https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-announces-new-product-releases-and-acquisition-of-furstperson/ MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., — Eightfold AI today announced that it has raised a $125M Series D funding round. The funds will be used to expand and scale Eightfold’s leading AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform, a single solution for managing the entire talent lifecycle. Using a single platform to address this critical area stands in direct contrast to the disjointed point solutions commonly found in the talent management space. As a direct result of Eightfold’s innovative vision and dedication, the company is now valued at $1 billion and works with customers across 110 countries, 17 industries and 13 languages. Total funding raised to date by Eightfold AI is more than $180 million. Eightfold has more than quadrupled its sales since the last round of equity funding in April 2019. Eightfold AI’s customers, leading companies embracing this global talent transformation, include AirAsia, Bayer, Capital One and Micron. “Our mission is to leverage our expertise in AI to provide the right career for everyone in the world,” said Ashutosh Garg, Founder & CEO at Eightfold. “The Eightfold team has spent the last four years developing a single platform servicing all talent lifecycle needs, bypassing single point solutions entirely. This is the future of our industry, and has already made Eightfold the go-to provider for industry leaders in every sector. We are grateful to our investors, customers and partners for sharing in our vision, especially at a time when the immediate focus is on the well-being of the global workforce.” https://hrtechfeed.com/eightfold-ai-raises-massive-125m-series-d-funding-round/ NEW YORK — Symphony Talent, a global company that helps organizations transform their recruitment processes and talent experience, just released SmashFlyX On-demand Interviewing as part of its recruitment marketing platform. The new module automates one-way video and audio screening and empowers recruiters and hiring managers to “meet” more talent in less time, better evaluating fit and skills. Most virtual interviewing tools in the market are point solutions, providing third-party CRM integrations at best. With SmashFlyX, teams can now automate CRM workflows to prompt on-demand interview screening at critical times, like after a virtual event or to a specific pipeline if a related job opens. Recruiters can then access the recorded video and audio interviews right within the CRM talent profile. “While this module enhances the screening experience for recruiters, it also drastically improves the candidate’s experience with a conversational interface,” said Lisa Bordinat, Symphony Talent’s senior vice president of assessments and customer care. “Video interviewing is new for a lot of people in our current environment, and if we can make it more approachable and less stressful, it’s a win.” https://hrtechfeed.com/symphony-talent-releases-on-demand-interviewing-feature/ DENVER-TalentReef, a provider of talent management solutions, announced their integration with Jobs on Facebook today. This integration enables TalentReef customers’ eligible open positions to be visible and accessible to candidates on Facebook. This integration enables businesses that are reemerging from the pandemic or businesses that are facing unprecedented high-volume hiring to reach Facebook’s 2.7 billion monthly users to hire the right applicants and scale their businesses quickly. This also makes job searching extremely convenient for candidates and provides a quick and simple application process. The TalentReef platform now has the capability to push new eligible new job postings to Jobs on Facebook News Feed, Notifications and Facebook pages. Once potential candidates find and select the job posting, they will be taken directly to the employer’s career page to easily submit their application. TalentReef’s platform also tracks the number of applicants generated from Jobs on Facebook, as well as the outcomes (hired, not hired, etc.), arming employers with the data and analytics they need to make informed decisions based off applicant flow and candidate quality. https://hrtechfeed.com/talentreef-integrates-with-jobs-on-facebook/ LOS ANGELES - MarketerHire, the talent marketplace and hiring platform that pairs the world’s top remote marketing talent with companies of all sizes, today announced it has raised $3 million in funding with strategic participation from the founders and senior executives at several leading digital brands, including Zillow, Thrive Market, FabFitFun, Seamless, Notion and others. This recent round brings MarketerHire’s total financing to $4 million. MarketerHire also announced today the launch of its MarketerMatch™ technology, a new data-driven algorithmic solution that based on millions of potential combinations intelligently narrows down potential freelancing talent to the most qualified marketing experts for every job. “Today’s startup economy depends on the expertise of industry specialists as much or more than full-time generalists,” said Nick Green, co-founder and CEO Thrive Market, MarketerHire customer and investor. “For a lot of high-growth companies, it no longer makes sense to build a big in-house team; better to leverage the best specialists to get the job done, and MarketerHire enables that talent to be easily found and matched — and all remote.” “Our goal is to make the very best minds in marketing accessible to all, delivering the right amount of the right marketer, right now,” said Chris Toy, co-founder and CEO, MarketerHire. “The MarketerHire platform does just that – while simultaneously creating unprecedented career mobility and optionality for the best marketers in the world.” https://hrtechfeed.com/marketing-job-platform-secures-3m-in-funding/     ##########

What's life been like marketing jobs in the age of coronavirus? Seeing any uptick in applications? Great point about the 10 years ago thing…remote tech was not as good...what would we do? Session to focus on Employer Branding and Recruiting Technology. Some talking points:   Recruitment marketing Tech Stack We leverage: Phenom People for: our careers website, Content Management System (CMS), Candidate Relationship Management (CRM), Chatbot, and Talent Analytics  For our blog, we utilize it as a gateway for storytelling on LinkedIn - we keep our copy/stories short on LinkedIn, and usually provide a link to a blog post on our careers site to tell the full story, which gets users in our "ecosystem" - i.e. closer to applying. We also feature blog content in certain places across our careers site. For example, we have a Sales Development Associate program - we uploaded an "FAQ" blog for the role, and link to the article on the Sales Development Associate job posting page. LinkedIn for: employer brand awareness, as well as analytics and competitive insights into our performance against competitors Adobe Spark for: easy graphic design for employer branding content Phenom stats...     Empl experience...Employer Branding in times of COVID-19 Keeping new hires engaged whilst we’re not in the office is a challenge many organizations are facing. We were particularly concerned about our interns – who were all coming into our internship program entirely remote. This summer was the inaugural launch of our formalized internship program, so it was critical that we not only educate about our business, but also embody our ‘at your side’ philosophy wherever possible. So leading up to the interns’ first day, we sent them a series of emails. Each email introduced the intern to a new person: the head of recruiting, the hiring manager, two generalists, and our company President. Each email had the person’s headshot, a personal message, information about our business and culture, and a personal, favorite “Brother” moment from the sender. Example: Finding ways to make your brand more human can help your company stand out in the competitive talent space. We have a chatbot on our careers site named Ays (short for At your side), and depending on the questions you ask, you may get a cheeky response. If you ask “Are you a human?” the chatbot will say it doesn’t like labels except if they are coming from a Brother P-Touch labelmaker, or if you ask a question it does not understand it will say “I seem to have run out of ink on this one – try rephrasing your question” Optimizing social media content to get important messages across Example: Our Black Lives Matter post, which took advantage of LinkedIn’s new swiping graphic capabilities with PDF documents. The post generated a 23% engagement rate, and received special recognition. How often do you post on social media? The value of Job Board Programmatic Advertising In the past, we would drop a lump sum of money to sponsor on a per job, per job board basis. Now, we strategically sponsor our jobs across a variety of job board networks, boosting spend to jobs that are performing well, and reducing spend to jobs that are performing poorly. Within just under a month of launch, the paid traffic from programmatic was 69% vs. 31% for organic. Years ago, we abolished Ziprecruiter as a job board channel, and now it is our #1 job board channel. Leveraging employee networks to amplify your talent brand and encourage referrals Example: Most promotions at Brother happen in July, and for the past 3 years we have provided custom graphics to people managers with promoted employees, encouraging them to share with their LinkedIn networks. This year, nearly half of eligible people managers participated, driving a 400+% increase in reactions and a 1,000+% increase in comments. July became our 2nd best month in the rolling calendar year for LinkedIn home page views, and our best month for unique visitors to our About and People pages as a result. Example: We all know referrals are great sources of hire for various reasons (low cost, and usually high performers) and user time on social platforms, particularly LinkedIn, has increased significantly amidst the pandemic. In competing for eyeballs, you want to stand out as much as you can. We recently created a social graphic and messaging that hiring managers and other employees can use to promote open roles to their networks. The image can be set as the OG image on our job posting pages, so that the link preview on social platforms will be hyper-customized. We also took advantage of utilizing emojis and Unicode text to further emphasize and stand-out. What’s in the pipeline/what are you working on that you are excited for? An article from our VP of HR about Brother’s incredible transformation over the years and support of employees, customers, and communities (both pre and post-pandemic) A corporate video highlighting all our products and services and brand philosophy   Where can people go to see your career site? careers.brother-usa.com

This 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines Acorns, the top saving and investing app helping more than 8.2 million Americans save and invest for the future, announced the launch of Acorns Job Finder. Acorns is connecting customers with new career opportunities, helping them earn more money, so that they can save and invest more, all from one app. Within a few taps, Acorns customers at every tier can find millions of full-time, part-time, and remote job opportunities, set job alerts, and explore custom career development content to support their financial wellness at no additional cost. By introducing Job Finder to its financial wellness system, Acorns is looking after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming and removing a main barrier to its customers achieving their money goals. Job Finder’s listings are powered by ZipRecruiter, the leading online employment marketplace, that connects 2.3 million businesses with job seekers. On average, ZipRecruiter features over 9 million active job postings. All of these opportunities will be accessible through Acorns Job Finder, from seasonal opportunities and side gigs to full-time employment. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-to-power-jobs-on-the-acorns-app/ Handshake, the number one site for early talent to find a job and get hired, announced an $80 million financing round led by GGV Capital with participation from EQT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Spark Capital and True Ventures, along with other investors. The infusion of capital will enable Handshake to serve an expanded universe of students across geographies and educational institutions, as well as building more solutions that revolutionize how employers attract and hire early talent to build a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. “Since its founding, Handshake has been laser focused on delivering on its vision to democratize job opportunity by connecting employers with job seeking students at institutions of higher education, and has built a network of 17 million job seekers, 1,000 institutions of higher learning and nearly 500,000 employers,” said Jeff Richards, Managing Partner of GGV. “We’re delighted to join forces with the Handshake team to help the company further expand its impact by delivering innovative, industry-leading recruitment solutions and expanding into new markets.” In addition to expanding its offerings in the United States, Handshake also announced that it has launched operations in the United Kingdom where it is working in partnership with higher education institutions such as the University of Cambridge, University of York and University of Liverpool. https://hrtechfeed.com/handshake-announces-80m-in-new-funding-for-college-recruiting/ EveryoneSocial, the leading SaaS company in the rapidly growing category of employee advocacy, today announced the closing of a $7.6 million Series A round of financing. The financing was led by Next Frontier Capital with additional participation from Crane Group and Epic Ventures. EveryoneSocial will be using this new funding to expand its team, further support its rapidly growing base of global clients, ship new product features and enhancements, and advance its lead within the employee advocacy category. With remote work as the new norm for tens of millions of professionals, keeping employees informed, engaged, and productive is a top challenge for all organizations and the reason why many of the world’s highest-performing companies rely on EveryoneSocial as a critical piece of their marketing, sales, comms, and HR tech stacks. “EveryoneSocial is the far and away leader in the employee advocacy space. The product is visionary and we couldn’t be more excited about the team and the tremendous value their product will continue to bring to global enterprises,” said Les Craig, Partner at Next Frontier Capital. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-advocacy-tool-raises-7-6-million/ Fountain, the enterprise high-volume hiring platform, today announced a new suite of features that attract and engage more applicants to make remote recruiting and hiring more effective. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of talent acquisition and Fountain is at the forefront. They have launched a new set of features including live and on-demand video interviews, a universal talent view, recruiting chatbot, branded career sites, advanced resume parsing and geolocation. Fountain’s new Universal Applicant View feature gives CHROs and talent acquisition teams a holistic view of all applicants across all job openings at a glance. Additionally, Fountain’s new advanced resume parsing and geolocation enhancements dramatically reduce time to hire and time to fill by saving recruiters countless hours of reviewing and comparing applications or managing applicants who applied to jobs not in their area. Another new feature, Career Sites, puts the candidate experience at the center of its architecture by helping companies enhance their application process through rich visuals and content that are an extension of their employer brand. It provides a seamless application experience for the candidate, and automatically posts new jobs as they are added within the Fountain core platform. To complement their career sites feature, Fountain has also added a recruiting chatbot that sits on a company’s career site or job directory, engaging online visitors and converting them to interested candidates. https://hrtechfeed.com/fountain-expands-high-volume-hiring-platform/ Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, today announced a significant expansion of Work.com to help companies get back to growth and thrive in the new normal. New products include an employee workspace and helpdesk to boost productivity, and communication apps that inform customers and employees about new policies and procedures to foster safer in-person experiences. New technology to increase engagement and productivity: Employee Workspace is a central digital hub for employees to access any of the tools and resources they need to work from anywhere, including productivity apps like Google Workspace, learning platforms like myTrailhead, payroll systems, and more. The workspace also provides personalized communications, embedded collaboration apps, and notifications to ensure employees can stay productive from anywhere. Employee Helpdesk allows employees to ask questions and get help quickly from wherever they are, whether they need IT support or have questions about HR policies and benefits. Einstein AI-powered chatbots provide employees access to knowledge articles and escalation paths, across any department. They also launched New communication apps for customers and employees: Queue Management helps brick-and-mortar businesses minimize physical lines by creating virtual queues to protect customers and manage onsite capacity. Customers can easily reserve their place in line from anywhere through the app and get updated on queue status via SMS to avoid waiting outside for lengthy periods of time. Broadcast Messaging allows businesses to proactively communicate updated hours of operation, changing appointment times, and health and safety reminders to customers and employees through their preferred channels such as text, WhatsApp, or Facebook Messenger.  Digital Trust Cards allow local store employees to quickly update websites and apps with safety protocols specific to that location, like social distancing guidelines and cleaning policies,... https://hrtechfeed.com/salesforce-expands-work-com-features/ ##########

Neil Shmuely runs talent acquisition for the Americas at Contino a tech consultancy based in New york with other offices across the globe. He’s also a listener of the show and we’ll get his take on how they use technology to hire talent.

This 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines   Jobget Funding https://hrtechfeed.com/hourly-worker-app-jobget-lands-2-1-million-in-funding/   Findem funding https://hrtechfeed.com/findem-launches-from-stealth-with-people-intelligence-platform-raises-7-3-million/ Workday Talent Mobility https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-launches-talent-marketplace-for-internal-mobility/ Gartner Report https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201013005956/en/Gartner-Identifies-Dimensions-Define-New-Employer-Employee-Relationship Phenom Client https://hrtechfeed.com/major-health-system-converts-69-of-job-seekers-with-phenom/ ##########

Looking for tools and sites to make your hiring more diverse? This is the episode for you. African Americans: BlackJobs.com, Black Tech Pipeline, BlackTechJobs, HBCU 20x20, HBCU Career Center, HBCU Connect, Mathison Criminal Histories: 70MillionJobs, 70 MillionStaffing, HonestJobs.      Disabled Persons: AbilityJobs, GettingHired Diverse Professionals (general): Americas Job Exchange, Blendoor, Circa, Diversityjobs.com, DiversityInc, EmployDiversity, Entelo Diversity, eQuest, Hiretual, HRdiversifyd, Incluzion, Jobwriter, Joonko, Jopwell, Mathison, Professional Diversity Network, Seekout, Talvista, The Diversity Dashboard, Unbias Me, WorkplaceDiversity, TapRecruit, Textio. Latin/Hispanic: LatPro, Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE) LGBT: Include.io, LGBTconnect, OutProNet. Veterans: VetJobs, RecruitMilitary, Military.com        Native Americans: NativeAmericanJobs.com Women: CareerContessa, FairyGodBoss, InHerSight, International Association for Women, The MOM Project, Women For Hire, Hire Tech Ladies, Power to Fly, Women Who Code Sponsored by Adzuna and Emissary Download the ebook of diversity hiring tools here: https://www.rectechmedia.com/ebooks/diversity-hiring-tools-spreadsheet

This 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines Virtual Job Fair Technology Expo https://www.crowdcast.io/e/virtual-job-fair Broadbean Enters Programmatic Space Hirevue Acquires AllyO Hackerrank New Launch Remote Study https://hrlancers.com/blog/after-covid-19-remote-work-to-become-expected-benefit/ ##########

Welcome to the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. If you want to know about the latest and greatest  tools and tactics for finding talent online, this is your show.  ...This podcast is sponsored in part by Adzuna, the quality-obsessed job search engine that’s taking the market by storm. Adzuna wants to help America get back to work, by allowing businesses to zero in the right candidates. Cut your cost-per-application and engage with high quality candidates with Adzuna. Visit adzuna.com/hire to get started.  And by Emissary...the text recruiting software that will supercharge your recruiting efforts. Americans spend 55 minutes a day texting on average….. That time represents an enormous window of opportunity for recruiters to get the attention of candidates that are otherwise distracted and hard to reach. Head over to emissary.ai and book a demo today to learn how their text recruiting platform with help you connect with your candidates faster and more efficiently. Interview scheduling is one of the biggest pain points in recruiting today and causes a lot of headaches in the candidate experience. According to a survey by Cronofy and Jobadder,  64% of recruiters take 2 or more days to schedule one 26% take 4 or more days to schedule an interview 90% of recruiters make 2 or more phone calls or send 2 or more emails to schedule the interview   Cronofy is a new scheduling platform that aims to solve this problem and greatly reduce the time to schedule interviews. Joining me by phone is their CEO Adam Bird. TOPICS - Give us a history of Cronofy...when did you start the company and how did you get into the recruitment space? -What have you learned about scheduling interviews using software like cronofy...are there any best practices? - What makes the Cronofy Scheduler different from other products on the market? -Explain the product to us...I have started using it and it reminds of a better version of Calendly... - What makes the Cronofy Scheduler tailored to recruitment? Are there any specific benefits? - Are there any features that are particularly suited to recruiting use cases? - you have a API can you talk about what types of recruiting software you are looking to integrate with? Have you seen an increase in usage because of covid 19? -free version of scheduler what do they get for that... - What are you working on at the moment - what's coming next?

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines Phenom Acquires MyAlly https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-acquires-my-ally-a-i-talent-management-platform/ CareerBuilder Sells Textkernel https://hrtechfeed.com/careerbuilder-sells-off-textkernel/ Glassdoors D&I products https://hrtechfeed.com/glassdoor-launches-diversity-inclusion-products/ RecruitHub Launch https://hrtechfeed.com/new-launch-video-interview-platform-recruithub/ Jobsync and Workhere https://hrtechfeed.com/jobsync-partners-with-workhere/

As President of Eightfold.ai, Kamal Ahluwalia brings extensive experience in creating software categories, scaling businesses and ensuring that customer and partner success drive business success. He’s an active advocate for diversity in the workplace and leverages artificial intelligence to help companies retain top performers, upskill & reskill their workforce, recruit top talent efficiently, and reach diversity goals.  He is also the Co-Author of the book “What’s Next for You – The Eightfold Path To Transforming The Way We Hire And Manage Talent”. TOPICS What have the last 6 months been like for you at the team at Eightfold? Tell me a bit about your background. How did you get to where you are today as President of Eightfold.ai? What is Eightfold.ai and how does it work? How is Eightfold’s platform using AI to recognize and address bias in hiring? Tell me about the process of hiring for potential and why it’s so essential in order to increase diversity across the board? Tell me how Eightfold also automates parts of recruiting to help save recruiters time Whats the future of AI in recruiting...in 5 years…        

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Bryq Gets Funding https://hrtechfeed.com/bias-free-hiring-platform-bryq-raises-e1-2-million-in-seed-financing/ RiseSmart Launches Talent Directories https://hrtechfeed.com/randstad-risesmart-launches-talent-directories/ Recruiter.com Sourcing Tool https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiter-com-announces-new-artificial-sourcing-platform/ Hirevue and Microsoft https://hrtechfeed.com/hirevue-launches-hirevue-interviews-for-microsoft-teams/ Outmatch acquisition https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-acquires-recruitment-automation-platform-launchpad/ ########## Dont just reject candidates, Rejobify them. The Rejobify rejection email service will help those you cant hire. Give back to the candidates who take the time to apply with your company….book a demo today at rejobify.com

Modern Hire is a virtual interviewing platform that covers the entire hiring process, from scientifically validated pre-hire assessments and virtual job simulations, all the way to providing live video interviewing technology and on-demand video, text, or phone interview solutions. Joining me to talk about the platform and whats happening in the industry is their CMO Jay Miller. TOPICS 2020 has been a challenging year for HR tech companies from a marketing perspective how have you changed the way you market how is remote work going for you and your team ?   You merged with Shaker last year and rebranded, were you part of that rebrand strategy...I’m curious if you could give us a peek inside that process?   What is the current state of video interviewing...who's using it how often?   Best practices to share for HR teams implementing a tool like this?   Describe how the MH platform works from a candidate experience and the recruiter experience? Are you doubling down on video adoption with the purchase of Sonru?    Where is video interviewing in 5 years How big of a footprint does it have now in corporate America (as far as a dedicated platform)  

IQtalent xchange launches sourcing database https://hrtechfeed.com/iqtalent-partners-launches-iqtalent-xchange-a-talent-matching-platform-focused-on-passive-candidates/ Yello https://hrtechfeed.com/yello-launches-sourcing-marketplace-to-connect-employers-with-early-talent-candidates/ CareerBuilder https://hrtechfeed.com/careerbuilder-says-they-will-invest-300-million-into-research-and-new-product-development/ Talroo https://hrtechfeed.com/talroo-launches-talroo-pro-for-more-efficient-volume-hiring/ Brighthire https://hrtechfeed.com/brighthire-raises-3-million-for-interview-platform/ Black Tech Pipeline https://hrtechfeed.com/new-startup-black-tech-pipeline/ ########## Dont just reject candidates, Rejobify them. The Rejobify rejection email service will help those you cant hire. Give back to the candidates who take the time to apply with your company….book a demo today at rejobify.com

Most employers don’t give a second thought to how it’s crafted. Yet a few forward thinking companies have figured out that even the lowly rejection email is your final chance to make a good “last impression” during the candidate experience. Case in point is Rejobify client BURNCO, based in Canada. They have had our rejection email service in place for more than a year now and regularly get responses from grateful job seekers who take the time to send their thanks for helping them move on with their job search. Here’s a sample of what they said. These are direct quotes sent to us by their Talent Acquisition Manager; “I am so impressed with this kind reply and the community spirit these words reflect.  I'll be sure to investigate the link you have taken the time to share.”   “Thank you. I appreciate what you have done to make my search easier.”  “I appreciate the response. Thank you for being so kind and offering the help that you have.”  “Thank you for your response.  It makes such a difference as an applicant.” Aren’t these replies refreshing to read? By simply providing some job search resources and free advice to the ones you can’t hire, any employer can turn a negative experience into a positive one. Full Story link: https://www.rejobify.com/blog/2020/9/1/how-to-get-candidates-to-thank-you-for-rejecting-them J&J story: https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/candidate-experience/2020/the-one-thing-you-should-do-for-every-single-job-applicant

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Im chris russell here are the headlines this week in recruiting technology Mathison Diversity Network https://hrtechfeed.com/diversity-talent-network-gets-2-million-in-funding/ Jobvite Acquires Talentegy https://hrtechfeed.com/jobvite-acquires-talentegy-talent-analytics-platform/ Bullhorns New Investor https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-announces-new-strategic-investment-partner/ Grata https://hrtechfeed.com/grata-is-new-first-social-media-platform-for-frontline-employees/ Bolster for Execs https://hrtechfeed.com/bolster-is-a-new-executive-talent-marketplace/ Deel for International Payroll https://hrtechfeed.com/deel-a-payroll-and-compliance-platform-for-international-teams-has-raised-30-million/ ########## Dont just reject candidates, Rejobify them. The Rejobify rejection email service will help those you cant hire. Give back to the candidates who take the time to apply with your company….book a demo today at rejobify.com

RecTech Industry Meetup Topics/news stories New Tool of the Month: Job Title Tracker: https://jobtitle.io/ (Get real time notifications when your contacts change jobs. Don't let a job change impact your existing accounts, starts at $25 a month.) Acquisitions: Indeed buys Zapinfo, Circa buys Americas Job Exchange, ModernHire acquires Sonru https://hrtechfeed.com/acquisitions/ Layoffs at Linkedin and HiringSolved https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/22/linkedin-microsoft-msft-job-cuts/ SmartRecruiters and Beamery both said they had strong quarters Google People Cards in India https://india.googleblog.com/2020/08/introducing-people-cards-virtual.html Funding news https://hrtechfeed.com/venture-capital/

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Turing.com gets $14million https://hrtechfeed.com/turing-com-announces-14-million-seed-funding-for-software-engineer-hiring/ UKG Rebrand https://hrtechfeed.com/kronos-and-ultimate-software-to-rebrand-as-ukg/ EmployStream Now Able https://hrtechfeed.com/employstream-rebrands-as-able/ ModernHire launches Cognition https://hrtechfeed.com/cognition-by-modern-hire-launches-to-highlight-need-for-ethical-transparent-hiring-approach/ ########## Dont just reject candidates, Rejobify them. The Rejobify rejection email service will help those you cant hire. Give back to the candidates who take the time to apply with your company….book a demo today at rejobify.com

An interview with Patrick Sheahan, CEO of Wisconsin based Circa, formerly know as LocalJobNetwork. The company operates 600 local job sites and offers OFCCP and diversity tools.

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com https://www.rejobify.com/ Equest to launch self serve portal https://hrtechfeed.com/equest-to-launch-self-service-job-posting-portal-for-smb/ Charthop raises $14 million https://hrtechfeed.com/charthop-raises-14-million-for-its-people-data-organizational-platform/ Interview Mocha funding https://hrtechfeed.com/interview-mocha-announces-pre-series-funding-of-600k-for-digital-skills-assessment-tool/ Loxo Release https://hrtechfeed.com/loxo-introduces-state-of-the-art-recruiting-crm/ Inclusion https://hrtechfeed.com/incluzion-launches-remote-jobs-and-learning-platform-for-black-latinix-communities/ ########## Dont just reject candidates, Rejobify them. The Rejobify rejection email service will help those you cant hire. Give back to the candidates who take the time to apply with your company….book a demo today at rejobify.com

David Secunda is the Founder and CEO of WorkBright, an HR tech startup that moves traditional employee onboarding to a 100% remote process that workers complete before they arrive. Subscribe to RecTech: https://www.rectechmedia.com/podcast

Hiretual Funding https://hrtechfeed.com/hiretual-raises-13-million-series-b/ Joblist Launch https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2020/08/17/san-francisco-based-joblist-is-the-new-kid-on-the-block/ Brazen/WayUp https://hrtechfeed.com/brazen-wayup-partner-to-elevate-diversify-modern-campus-recruitment/ Cornerstone https://hrtechfeed.com/cornerstone-virtual-conference-set-for-sept-16-17/

I know many recruiters and HR professionals out there have lost their jobs and this episode will be focused on helping you land your next job. In conjunction with HR Lancers you will hear me interview Laura Mazzullo from East Side Staffing who places hr pros but with hiring such as it is she has been design out her own version of job search advice to help the HR folks in need.

his Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com  JazzHR Enhancements https://www.jazzhr.com/blog/save-time-and-stay-organized-with-jazzhrs-enhanced-offers-and-esignatures/ GoGame https://hrtechfeed.com/the-go-game-launches-virtual-culture-building-platform/ Jobvite https://hrtechfeed.com/jobvite-expands-evolve-talent-acquisition-framework/ PandoLogic https://hrtechfeed.com/pandologic-announces-continued-workforce-recovery-grant-efforts/ ########## Dont just reject candidates, Rejobify them. The Rejobify rejection email service will help those you cant hire. Give back to the candidates who take the time to apply with your company….book a demo today at rejobify.com

Originally aired on July 2017. Best of segment. Do your job descriptions suck? Are they boring candidates to sleep? If so, you need to listen to the latest episode of RecTech. We chat with Chris Mulhall a talent executive who actually commissioned a study of what works and what doesn't when it comes to promoting your jobs. 

Diversity Tech Expo https://www.crowdcast.io/e/diversity-technology Indeed/Zapinfo https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-to-acquire-zapinfo/ HR Tech Conference https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-technology-conference-exposition-reimagines-annual-event-for-2020/ Springboard https://hrtechfeed.com/springboard-secures-31m-for-studnet-employability/ PCrecruiter https://hrtechfeed.com/post-to-jobs-on-facebook/

Dan Sines is the CEO of Traitify, visual-based personality assessment platform that identifies best-fit candidates, especially in high volume and high turnover environments like the retail industry.  An entrepreneur to the core, Dan has an extensive background in user experience and graphic design. In the past He’s managed design firms and previously started a social media marketing & production firm.

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com tilr ™, a Cincinnati, Ohio-headquartered and Toronto, Ontario-based corporation, proudly announces the launch of its new skill matching and skill mapping, patent-pending hiring platform.  tilr ™‘s machine learning algorithm is based on unique ‘skills-matching’ technology that utilizes weighted skills, relevant occupations and other job preferences tailored to serve both the public and private sectors, including part-time and full-time workers, with a web application (‘App’) readily available for companies and governments, and a mobile application for job-seekers. This new version of tilr ™, combined with years of inputs from past matches, enables the technology to learn intuitively in order to ensure the best possible job match.  Companies will be able to choose from a labor marketplace of readily available workers and identify where skills lie ‘in-house’, saving in both human resources time and costs, while eliminating bias in the onboarding process.  Job-seekers can input their skills through tilr’s intuitive application or by using tilr’s resume-to-skill mapping technology. They will be able to then match their skill-sets with the positions best suited in real-time and further, find opportunities conveniently located near them and accommodating to their schedules. tilr ™ Co-Founder and CEO, Stephen Shefsky, stated that, “We are pleased to announce the launch of tilr ™‘s new skill-matching and skill-mapping technology. tilr ™ provides a fast, efficient and user friendly alternative to antiquated key word searches on job boards. This is the culmination of our Team’s investment in and dedication to continued technological originality, differentiating ourselves in automating and innovating the onboarding experience, one in my view that was previously inefficient in bringing jobs and job seekers together.  https://hrtechfeed.com/tilr-launches-new-app-matching-job-seeker-skills-to-employment-opportunities/ Modern Hire, the all-in-one enterprise hiring platform that enables organizations to continuously improve hiring experiences and outcomes with trusted science and technology, announced its acquisition of Sonru, an Ireland-based provider of automated video interviewing technology. The combined organization offers the most comprehensive enterprise hiring technology product suite in the global marketplace, extending Modern Hire’s team, reach and expertise, and providing enhanced value to Sonru’s clients. Over the past decade, Sonru has established itself as a talent acquisition technology leader within the EMEA and APAC regions. Its video interviewing solution maximizes the candidate experience and enables recruiters to replicate a live interview by replacing early-stage phone, Skype or face-to-face interviews. Sonru’s technology reduces recruitment lifecycle time and costs by 50 percent. Its customers come from a wide variety of industry, including several Fortune Global 500 companies such as DHL, Nestlé, Qatar Airways, Rolls-Royce, UBS and Westpac. Incorporating Sonru into the Modern Hire brand expands Modern Hire’s client-facing presence to include offices and staff in Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, enabling Modern Hire to serve most major regions and time zones around the world. “The Sonru and Modern Hire union brings together two companies focused on innovation with emphasis on the candidate experience,” said Ed Hendrick, founder and CEO, Sonru. “Our strategic decision to combine with Modern Hire allows us reinforce our clients’ leadership in enhancing the candidate experience with Modern Hire’s expanded suite of solutions. We look forward to contributing further to our clients’ success with the most comprehensive enterprise hiring platform globally, empowering them to use science and data to attract and engage the right talent.” https://hrtechfeed.com/modern-hire-acquires-another-video-interview-platform/ Handshake, the number one site for college students to find jobs and get hired, today announced the availability of an end-to-end virtual job search and recruiting solution. With this new offering, colleges and universities can host virtual career fairs, employers can leverage the first seamless solution to manage all virtual recruiting for early talent, and college students can participate in virtual fairs and events to get on the fast track to get hired. This virtual solution includes a purpose-built mobile and web video experience, enabling authentic personal engagement through the recruiting process. Handshake’s comprehensive virtual recruiting solution allows employers to:Receive up-to-date candidate recommendations based on network activity and their specific hiring criteria from the nationwide Handshake school network that includes over 1,000 colleges and universities.Spend more time engaging with students, building meaningful personal connections through video, audio, and chat directly within Handshake’s website and mobile app.Build their brand by allowing employee ‘Ambassadors’ to engage in online dialogue with students from their alma maters. Handshake’s technology for virtual career fairs and events provides students a more curated, efficient experience, eliminating many of the pitfalls of in-person job fairs. Instead of plotting out a map of booths and waiting in lines, students can now browse employers ahead of time and schedule all of their sessions in advance—or, they can click the link on the day of the fair and join sessions that day. In addition, students can attend one-on-one video sessions with employers, and get an inside look into company culture, internships, and jobs during virtual sessions. Handshake’s virtual offering also provides comprehensive promotional, administrative, and reporting tools to help higher education career centers ensure they can continue to provide their students with access to a wide range of internships and job opportunities. https://hrtechfeed.com/handshake-unveils-new-virtual-recruiting-solutions/   Zenefits, the HR, benefits and payroll platform, today announced additions to its product suite with the launch of People Hub and Employee Engagement Surveys. These powerful people enablement tools offer enterprise-grade HR technology solutions built for small and mid-sized businesses. The world —and the world of work— has changed drastically since March. Changes have put a spotlight on a company’s ability to understand the sentiment of its workforce and to effectively communicate with them. Under normal circumstances, employee engagement and workforce communication are tough challenges for small and medium businesses. But effectively addressing these issues when employees are working from home and adhering to social distancing recommendations is seemingly impossible. It’s no surprise that a June 2020 Gallup poll showed the largest decline in U.S. employee engagement in the 20 years they have been tracking the metric. Part of Zenefits’ all-in-one “people platform,” the new tools help businesses centralize communications with a distributed workforce, easily gather and analyze employee sentiment, and support employee well-being. With this rollout, Zenefits is continuing to help level the playing field for small businesses via tools that were previously only available to large companies. The two new offerings complement the company’s popular Employee Well-being, Performance Management, and Compensation Management apps as additional tools to help Zenefits’ customers increase workforce productivity and engagement. https://hrtechfeed.com/zenefits-introduces-new-tools-to-bridge-the-engagement-gap-to-an-increasingly-remote-workforce/   iHire, the online recruitment company, has published its second annual State of Online Recruiting Report, highlighting the results of a survey of 3,184 U.S. employers and job seekers across 56 industries. Survey responses suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the struggle to find qualified talent and heightened candidate frustration with a lack of employer communication. Key findings detailed in iHire’s State of Online Recruiting 2020 Report include the following: The majority of employers (77.1%) struggle to find qualified talent: 39.0% of employers said “receiving unqualified/irrelevant applicants” was their No. 1 challenge when recruiting through an online job board, website, or community, while 38.1% said “finding qualified candidates in my area” was their main concern. Finding qualified, relevant talent was also the most common employer challenge cited in 2019’s survey. Job seekers crave stronger employer communication: 18.8% of candidates were most frustrated by not hearing back from employers after applying and/or interviewing (versus 26.4% in 2019). When asked which trend would most impact online recruiting in the coming year, 35.2% of employers cited “limitations on hiring in general due to economic downturn.” However, businesses appear to be on the upswing, as 72.8% of employers said they were actively hiring. A total of 3,184 U.S. job seekers (2,841) and employers (343) responded to iHire’s State of Online Recruiting Survey in May and June 2020. ########## Dont just reject candidates, Rejobify them. The Rejobify rejection email service will help those you cant hire. Give back to the candidates who take the time to apply with your company….book a demo today at rejobify.com

So far in 2020, the trend in job postings, a real-time measure of labor market activity, was 22% lower than in 2019, as of July 17, the eleventh week of gradual improvement. (source: indeed) Hiring freezes are still in effect across many companies so what do you do as a recruiter? Optimize your recruiting tech stack Learn new skills Turn employees into brand advocates Create more content Revamp job descriptions Backfill plan Update your career site Recruitment automation Hiring manager relationships Streamline application process

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Gem, a software platform for modern recruiting, today announced it has raised a $37 million Series B investment led by Greylock with participation from existing investor Accel, to double down on product innovation. This brings the total capital raised by Gem to $48 million. Gem is also launching Diversity Analytics, a new feature aimed at helping companies build diverse teams by giving them unparalleled visibility into the hiring funnel.  Up to 80% of recruiting happens prior to a candidate applying for a role, meaning that recruiters and hiring managers are spending the majority of their time finding, nurturing and gaining the confidence of prospective candidates. Despite this effort, there’s been no way for teams to track and manage all their work before Gem’s all-in-one recruiting platform.  “With Gem, our customers can build relationships with talent, ultimately filling open roles faster. The strong word-of-mouth growth among recruiters helped contribute to 4X revenue growth in 2019, and our best quarter yet in 2020,” said Steve Bartel, Co-Founder and CEO of Gem. “With this latest investment, we’re thrilled to continue expanding Gem’s product to help our customers meet their hiring goals, including through our newest feature, Diversity Analytics.”  Gem’s platform integrates with LinkedIn, email, and customers’ Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). Its Chrome extension allows recruiters to source, get visibility into the entire history of a prospect’s interactions with team members, personalize messages, and schedule automated follow-ups—all without ever leaving a LinkedIn profile. Gem’s CRM gives talent acquisition leaders data about their teams’ performance, allowing them to better plan for, and achieve, their hiring objectives. With Pipeline Analytics, teams can measure things like time-to-hire for a particular role in a specific geography, or understand how many candidates they need in every stage of the funnel in order to meet their hiring goals. ## Jobcase, Inc., provider of a social platform dedicated to empowering and advocating for workers, has announced a significant new capital investment, with Providence Strategic Growth (PSG) acquiring a majority stake and Workday Ventures participating as a strategic investment partner.  The investment includes $30 million of primary capital to accelerate Jobcase’s product development, member services, and employer partnerships. In addition, Jobcase is joining the Workday Software Partner Program. Jobcase is currently the third largest online destination for career services in the U.S. (as rated by Comscore), with more than 110 million registered members and 20 million monthly active unique users. As a community of “people helping people,” Jobcase seeks to provide the critical support that America’s workers need today to face unprecedented challenges. This investment and these partnerships will further support innovation like Jobcase’s recently released features – including virtual hiring events and an onsite unemployment resource center – to help workers and employers navigate their way through both existing work-life challenges and those that the COVID-19 pandemic has created. The funding will also transition controlling ownership of the company to PSG, Workday Ventures, and existing investor Savano Capital Partners, and exit long-time shareholder Link Ventures. ## Glassdoor - is partnering with their sister company, Indeed - the world's #1 job site, to provide new offerings to help employers attract, recruit and hire quality talent more efficiently. The two companies, while remaining separate with distinct brands and operations, became sister companies when Recruit Holdings, parent company of Indeed, acquired Glassdoor in 2018. We know that companies who tell their story well turn relevant candidates into hires. Employers will now have the opportunity to reach an unmatched audience of over 80% of U.S. online job seekers*, across industries, education levels, and years of experience. This partnership also allows Glassdoor to focus on our strength - workplace transparency - in order to help both job seekers and employers make more informed decisions. "We are excited to partner with Indeed to further improve the talent attraction and hiring process for employers," said Glassdoor CEO, Christian Sutherland-Wong. "The combined strength of our two brands will help employers tell their story and hire quality candidates at scale easier." Greater Hiring Efficiency and Streamlined Experience New offerings available immediately include: Job Postings: Employers will now be able to reach job seekers on both Glassdoor and Indeed through Indeed job advertising products. Select Branding Bundle: This co-branded sales bundle of employer branding products includes Glassdoor's Employer Profile offering and Indeed Company Pages Premium and enables employers to tell their authentic company story across both platforms in order to attract and hire relevant talent. Both companies will work closely together within the areas of sales and customer support to streamline the employer customer experience, while leveraging the unique strengths of each platform. Beginning this fall, employers will be able to access reviews and ratings from both Glassdoor and Indeed within the Glassdoor Employer Center. ## Sift, the modern people directory on a mission to make work more human, today announced the successful completion of a $3 million Series A round of financing. The investment is led by Detroit-based Rock Holdings and will be used to expand Sift’s sales and marketing teams as they respond to rising demand from a marketplace hungry for digital workplace solutions in the wake of COVID-19. Sift is also announcing that Mike Malloy, Chief Amazement Officer at Rock Central and Jared Stasik, Partner at Detroit Venture Partners will be joining Sift Board of Directors. “Sift is an excellent tool that is uniquely suited to meet this moment of digital-first workspaces,” says Jay Farner, CEO of Rock Holdings. “More than ever, organizations across all sectors need user-friendly technology that allows people to navigate their enterprise. Sift makes it simple to find and understand the roles, responsibilities and personalities of colleagues so they can work better together. We are delighted to help propel Sift into their next chapter.”  Sift integrates with existing HR data systems, collects additional information from team members and LinkedIn, and works as a stand-alone solution or embeds seamlessly into your intranet. learn more, justsift.com ## LocalJobNetwork™, a company which operates 600+ local job boards has announced a rebrand as Circa. The company’s research shows that employers are shifting from diversity as a program to diversity as a business strategy. This repositioning better aligns its products and solutions to a core underlying diversity mission.  For organizations, especially OFCCP federal contractors, diversity is no longer about checking a box. It’s about generating results. Circa’s diversity recruiting technology and outreach management platform focus on job seekers from racial, ethnic, minority, veteran and disabled groups, giving companies solutions to find, hire and manage diverse workers.  As part of the rebrand announcement, Circa is also launching product enhancements the week of July 27, 2020. 1)  PoweredBy 2.0 with a new modern look to seamlessly integrate a career page into a company’s website. Improved job seeker experience from searching open positions to the application process. 2)  Outreach Management Dashboard – an interactive dashboard visually showing the results of employer-initiated outreach. Includes results from jobs sent through the system linkage agents and VetConnect™. Provides contact information for the outreach partner. Circaworks.com ## In toronto, Knockri, a leading developer of artificial intelligence video-based soft-skill assessment and talent mobility solutions, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed seed round of $2.15 Million USD led by Differential Ventures with participation from Bertelsmann Investments, Grand Ventures, and others to transform talent acquisition and increase diverse hiring. Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Knockri has enabled Fortune 500 customers in technology, consulting and pharma to assess thousands of candidates worldwide, reduce hiring bias and eliminate unsuccessful interviews Knockri’s hiring solution assesses skills of candidates by merging industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology and artificial intelligence to better quantify key performing skills for a job role. The company was founded in 2016 ########## Dont just reject candidates, Rejobify them. The Rejobify rejection email service will help those you cant hire. 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Recorded at the IAMPHENOM conference in early March check out this audio with Richard Carsley and team. Richard is the Director of Talent Acquisition for the IKEA Group in the U.S. 

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Competitive Wedge, the video interviewing solution that helps recruiters make authentic connections with candidates, today announced details of its funding. The company completed the final tranche of its seed funding, bringing its total funding to $1 million raised to date. With social distancing now the norm, recruiters and candidates are unlikely to have in-person interviews anytime soon. The use of video has been ranked as one of the top work communications tools that are helping businesses thrive during the pandemic. Since resumes were never adequate to convey a job candidate’s true capabilities – especially in the hourly workforce – Competitive Wedge enables them to share their enthusiasm, skills and know-how through its one-way video interviewing platform. Wedge CEO, Matt Baxter, commented, “Wedge was designed with both the recruiter and candidate at the core. For recruiters, we streamline processes and reduce screening times. For candidates, they gain an anytime, any device job interviewing platform that enables them to use the communications medium they’re already familiar with – video – to express their interest in the open requisition and company.” Founded in 2015 by serial entrepreneur Matt Baxter, Competitive Wedge’s primary solution is Wedge, the one-way recorded video assessment that enables candidates to show their true selves. For more information, visit https://competitivewedge.com/   https://hrtechfeed.com/video-interviewing-solution-raises-1-million/ NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ –JumpCrew, the leading B2B outsourced sales and marketing solutions provider has launched salesabroad.com. This initiative will provide jobs for sales professionals who want to embrace the remote lifestyle. JumpCrew has become the leading outsourced sales partner for venture-backed B2B startups and established brands. Their Satellite Sales offering is a turnkey, outsourced sales solution. Their clients get a dedicated team of sales reps, marketers, client success specialists, and operations support; focused on quickly generating revenue at scale. “Building a platform to support a global remote workforce, of extremely talented salespeople, who suddenly have no job is a no brainer. JumpCrew is still agile enough to see this opportunity and launch a vehicle to leverage it,” says Lavall Chichester, CMO of JumpCrew. “Salesabroad.com supports the increased global demand for outsourcing sales and allows us to help salespeople support their families.” https://hrtechfeed.com/jumpcrew-launches-salesabroad-com-to-build-a-global-remote-workforce/ INDIANAPOLIS, IN, (July 13, 2020) – Jobvite, the leading end-to-end talent acquisition suite, today announced that it has acquired the artificial intelligence (AI) and data science team at Predictive Partner. Morgan Llewellyn, CEO of Predictive Partner, will serve as Jobvite’s Chief Data Scientist and oversee a team leveraging AI through automation, predictive analytics, data science, machine learning, natural language processing, and optical character recognition. “As the first provider to introduce both machine vision to generate ‘Magic Resumes’ and candidate de-identification technology to reduce screening bias in chat transcripts, we understand the potential AI holds for talent acquisition professionals,” said Aman Brar, CEO of Jobvite. “The addition of Morgan and the Predictive Partner team to our ranks will help our customers derive even more value from the Jobvite Talent Acquisition Suite. By weaving native AI into all aspects of our software, we will deliver more than mere features—we will deliver the future of smart automation, intelligent messaging, candidate matching, and data-driven hiring decisions for talent organizations of all sizes.” Coinciding with the acquisition, Jobvite has also announced the launch of enhanced candidate engagement scoring and intelligent candidate matching capabilities. Enhanced candidate engagement scoring will help talent acquisition teams better gauge candidate interest through at-a-glance engagement metrics for every candidate. Intelligent candidate matching will enable recruiters to scale their efforts by reducing the time it takes to identify a qualified candidate from a large volume of candidates. https://hrtechfeed.com/jobvite-acquires-predictive-partner-team-to-accelerate-ai-innovation/ SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Lattice, the leading people management platform for businesses with people-first cultures, today announced that it has raised a $45 million Series D growth round of funding led by Tiger Global with participation from Frontline Ventures, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital Partners, Fuel Capital, and Y Combinator. The new round of funding will accelerate Lattice’s focus on expanding offerings to better serve its global clients and continuing to scale its team to meet ambitious product goals. Lattice launched in 2016 to enable people leaders to unlock insight into company culture through goal and OKR management. Since then, the company has built a suite of performance management products and engagement solutions that offer customers powerful, real-time analytics leading to actionable insights.  “2020 has been a year that’s proven how important it is to invest in your culture,” said Jack Altman, co-founder and CEO of Lattice. “We’re building Lattice to be a holistic people management platform that helps keep your employees engaged, growing, and highly effective. Company culture is forged during difficult times and we’ve seen an increase in companies turning to solutions to sustain and increase the employee experience in our new remote world.” https://hrtechfeed.com/lattice-raises-45m-in-series-d-round/   ########## Dont just reject candidates, Rejobify them. The Rejobify rejection email service will help those you cant hire. Give back to the candidates who take the time to apply with your company….book a demo today at rejobify.com

The RecTech Virtual meetup audio from July 8th. Next one will be early September.

No new audio this week because of the July 4th holiday. Instead enjoy this pod from 2017 where i dissect an effective job description.

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Im chris russell here are the headlines this week in recruiting technology Reminder on July 8th at 4pm ET we will do our monthly virtual meetup for the recruiting technology space, so come network, learn about startups making headlines and more. ...to register head over to rectechmedia.com and look for the link on the home page.. On to the news. Humanly https://www.geekwire.com/2020/humanly-raises-800k-help-companies-automate-recruiting-process-amid-economic-crisis/ The Mom Project https://hrtechfeed.com/the-mom-project-lands-25m-in-series-b-funding/ Candidate Labs https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/25/candidate-labs-wants-to-be-modern-talent-agency-for-techies/ Greenhouse/Zoom https://www.greenhouse.io/blog/stay-agile-distributed-world-greenhouse-zoom-integration Candidly https://hrtechfeed.com/candidly-launches-skills-based-job-matching-platform-for-tech-talent/ ########## Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today

For the full transcript visit RecTechMedia.com On this episode I wanted to highlight some free ways that companies can promote their jobs online for free. By implementing the tactics you are about to hear you can reduce your spend on other channels and drive more job seeker traffic to your career site and/or job postings.  So lets get right to it. Get on Google for jobs.  The Facebook Job Board.  Email/Newsletters.  Social Media Distribution.  Social Media Hashtags. Linkedin.  Twitter. 

On this episode you will hear from Steven Rothberg the founder of CollegeRecruiter.com a long time job search business that focuses on entry level hiring, we’ll hear about how the business started, what their clients are saying about entry level hiring and more.

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com   Im chris russell here are the headlines this week in recruiting technology   First up, just want to tell you about two upcoming virtual events here at RecTech media, first on July 1st at 2pm we will talk to the founders of Jobwriter an unique to that helps you write job descriptions. It looks to be a better cheaper version of Textio, I have already it and really like what i saw. Register for that event at rectechlive.com Then on July 8th at 4pm ET we will do our monthly virtual meetup for the recruiting technology space, so come network, learn about startups making headlines and more. ...to register head over to rectechmedia.com and look for the link on the home page.. On to the news. Steady, a platform solely focused on advising and advocating for freelancers seeking stable income in the US, announced it has raised an additional $15 million in Series B funding led by Recruit Strategic Partners, a venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings Co., (yes the same company that owns Indeed.com)   Funds from this round will be used to fund accelerated growth to support America’s workforce and grow its U.S. based data, product and technical operations.   The COVID-19 pandemic accelerates Steady’s mission, which is to improve the increasingly challenging lives of American hourly and gig workers. Workers using the Steady platform can track their income, receive personalized income insights, receive guidance on relevant work opportunities, get paid to improve their financial health and receive access to benefits relevant to hourly and gig workers, such as Steady’s new telemedicine support.   Launched in 2018, the Steady app has been downloaded more than 2.7 million times. and can be downloaded for free from the App Store and Google Play.   https://hrtechfeed.com/financial-well-being-app-for-freelancers-lands-16-million-in-funding/ SAN FRANCISCO, June 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Brightside, the leading financial care platform for employers, today announced that it raised $35.1 million in Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from existing investors Comcast Ventures and Trinity Ventures, the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund, and others. This funding will be used to bring Brightside to more employers and families at a time when they need it most, and improve its financial health offering.   Employee financial stress costs employers nearly $4,000 per employee per year under normal circumstances, according to recent estimates.1,2 Millions of working Americans facing the loss or reduction of income in at least one family member will exacerbate this impact. Financial stress reduces productivity and retention, drives up healthcare costs, and poses a major challenge to any employer with diversity and inclusion goals. Brightside helps employers improve the financial health of their workforce by providing a single destination for employees to address any personal finance need. Brightside combines a human-approach to financial health via dedicated Financial Assistants, available to all employee families with advanced rules engines and unique products linked to paychecks in a way that provides real solutions to employees’ financial stress. On average, Brightside puts over $1,200 back in the pockets of the families they serve.   For more information, please visit: https://www.gobrightside.com. https://hrtechfeed.com/financial-wellness-platform-for-employees-gets-big-round-of-funding/ CareerBuilder today unveils innovative updates to its comprehensive Talent Acquisition Suite, helping businesses reach and convert qualified candidates faster. With a suite of services that impact the entire recruitment process, the updates provide clients with easier access to data and information, facilitate improved communication with candidates and provide an enhanced candidate and client experience. The streamlined end-to-end technology solution enables clients to make smarter, faster and more impactful decisions while cutting costs up to 50 percent and delivering a significant return on their investment.   “From our enhanced career sites, improved data and reporting tools, mobile app updates and new employee engagement offerings, the latest updates to our TA Suite were built with market data and  client feedback in mind,” added Humair Ghauri, Chief Product & Technology Officer, CareerBuilder. “Our team continues to be a leader in the HR Tech industry, driving innovation and offering a comprehensive solution built on AI and machine learning technology. Our team thrives on seeing our products deliver more qualified candidates for our end-users, helping them covert them quickly and providing a seamless experience across our client and job seeker audiences.”   Updates being released include: Delivering a seamless client experience and launching a new career site built on the power of CareerBuilder.com platform. CareerBuilder’s Talent Network now allows clients to easily manage their talent network and career site through our robust recruitment platform.             CareerBuilder is also introducing a new self-service career site that enables clients to create and edit their career sites themselves in real-time.                                 Updates to Talent Discovery Platform improve search, messaging and mobile app features. New filter and search functionality will provide recruiters with quick and easy access to data, information and insights on candidates they find most helpful.                                  CareerBuilder Applicant Tracking (CBAT) has been redesigned, ….New dashboard, requisition, candidate and reporting widgets bring critical information clearly to the forefront, helping recruiters respond quickly to activities within their network. Click Boarding integration allows clients to initiate onboarding from a configured workflow stage, monitor progress at a glance and synchronize data between CBAT and Click Boarding.                                   CareerBuilder’s SocialReferral tool has been updated to include a calendar tool to allow admins the ability to schedule and plan posts and competitions in advance. Clients can now embed their timelines from SocialReferral into their career sites, giving candidates insight into the day-to-day of an organization. https://hrtechfeed.com/careerbuilder-announces-updates-to-talent-acquisition-suite/ DHI Group, Inc. announced today that Dice, its leading career hub for technology professionals, has released Dice Recruiter Profile, bringing transparency to the career management process while enabling recruiters to stand out from the crowd with enriched profiles. Recruiter Profile is the first launch toward realizing Dice’s longer-term vision of a space where recruiters and technologists can connect more directly and transparently.   Dice Recruiter Profile allows employers and recruiters to create an enhanced profile and link it to their posted jobs, building trust and long-term relationships with technologists who are eager to learn more about the employers and individuals contacting them for open positions. Recruiters can showcase their areas of strength and expertise, add a profile photo and highlight their tech focus by promoting their latest news, future hiring needs, and upcoming events.   Dice Recruiter Profile will provide recruiters and hiring managers with: Recruiter branding. By personalizing a recruiter profile and linking it to posted jobs, more candidates will see the person behind the recruiter role and the employer behind the brand, opening two-way dialogue between recruiters and technologists, leading to the best matches for tech roles. Opportunities to build candidate trust. By customizing a recruiter profile with insightful and engaging information about the recruiter and hiring company, candidates will feel more informed, helping to drive transparency between recruiters and technologists, encouraging longer-term relationships and a steady talent pipeline. Attention to tech specialization. When employers share their latest wins, future hiring needs and upcoming events on their Dice Recruiter profile, candidates will see the tech specialties of focus for each employer and role, which will quickly lead specialized technologists to where they’re needed most. https://hrtechfeed.com/dice-launches-recruiter-profiles/ ########## Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today

On this episode you will hear from Toby Dayton as he details the upsurge in job postings they are seeing on the job aggregator linkup...we’ll also discuss in Indeed has hit their peak, some startup funding news and a wide ranging discussion about remote work with several participants include Mike Tempkin from Shaker, Adam Gordon from Candidate ID Marvin Smith from Lockheed and a host of others.

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Im chris russell here are the headlines this week in recruiting technology Linkup job data is out: In May, created job listings were up 12%, while deleted listings were down 16% - a promising sign that organizations are gaining the confidence to start hiring again. While jobs overall continued to decline, they declined at a slower rate than the previous month. May's job listings were down -10% nationwide; a huge improvement from a dismal -29% in April. April showed jobs down in 100% of industries, occupations and states, May shows slight improvement in two of the three (industries and states). In this climate, we’ll take that as a win!    BOSTON–Trade Hounds, the largest professional community built exclusively for the construction industry, today announced the closing of its $3.2 million seed funding round. The round was led by prominent seed-stage venture capital firms Corigin Ventures and Brick and Mortar Ventures, both of which have significant experience investing in construction technology startups. Investors in the round include Suffolk Construction, one of the nation’s top construction companies, and CCS Construction Staffing, a premier construction staffing firm, reflecting the important role Trade Hounds plays in connecting participants across the construction ecosystem. In conjunction with the funding, Trade Hounds announced plans to launch a Jobs platform this summer that links qualified tradespeople with construction companies and staffing firms, enabling fast, seamless communication. Construction companies and the staffing firms that support them stand to benefit from immediate access to a larger pool of qualified candidates, including the passive job seekers who post about their work on Trade Hounds but may not be actively searching for work on job boards. Skilled tradespeople benefit from a community of like-minded professionals where they can showcase their skills and find new career opportunities. David Broomhead, Co-Founder and CEO of Trade Hounds, said: “It’s always bothered me that tradespeople – the skilled workers who build our hospitals, schools and infrastructure – don’t have access to a technology platform that meets their professional needs. We’ve set out to change this with Trade Hounds. We are proud to be the largest digital platform that aims to unite and empower the millions of proud, hard-hat-wearing workers who are building the world around us.” https://hrtechfeed.com/trade-hounds-raises-3-2m-for-construction-industry-network/ RALEIGH --PeopleFluent, a leading provider of cloud-based talent acquisition, talent management and learning solutions for large and mid-sized enterprises, today announced the availability of its next-generation enterprise recruiting solution. Designed for enterprise organizations of all sizes, PeopleFluent Recruiting makes it faster and easier for global organizations to recruit and hire the best possible talent from both internal and external candidates. PeopleFluent Recruiting provides multiple talent acquisition capabilities into one solution designed to improve internal and external hiring, process efficiency within the hiring teams, and candidate experience. “In 2020, the war for talent has been totally transformed,” said Tom Sykes, Director of Product Management at PeopleFluent. “Recruiting teams are currently under enormous pressure due to increased role complexity, fluid hiring volumes, and requirements to leverage internal resources. When making technology investments, organizations often focus just on external candidate experience but there’s now an even greater need for leaders to invest in tools that optimize candidate pools and improve efficiency and quality of hire. PeopleFluent Recruiting addresses that need, providing an end-to-end candidate experience with the needs of today’s busy recruiters and hiring managers top of mind.” https://hrtechfeed.com/peoplefluent-launches-new-recruiting-platform/ Summit Partners announced that it has closed on a growth funding round in CoderPad, a leading platform for assessing technical skills. The new growth funding will help fuel hiring and continued expansion for the already-profitable company as CoderPad scales to meet increasing demand for remote technical interview solutions. Built by engineers, for engineers, CoderPad is on a mission to fix the technical interviewing process. The company offers a collaborative programming environment that helps hiring organizations efficiently and accurately assess technical skills of candidates. CoderPad launched in 2013. The company has been profitable since its start and has grown revenues 50% over the past year. The company serves over 1,700 customers, from startup organizations to some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated technology employers, including Dropbox, Lyft, Spotify and Quora. Customers have conducted more than 2.5 million technical interviews on the CoderPad platform. CoderPad creates a realistic software development environment that is designed to allow the interviewer to collaborate, in real time, with the code being written by a candidate and view the results when the code is executed. With built-in video conferencing, the interview session is recorded for review by other hiring managers. CoderPad supports more than 30 programming languages for use during the interview process. https://hrtechfeed.com/coderpad-raises-growth-capital-for-its-technical-assessment-platform/ NEW YORK--Greenhouse, the hiring software company, today launched its interactive Hiring Maturity assessment to help companies improve their hiring performance. Hiring Maturity is the Greenhouse methodology for how companies can assess the effectiveness of their recruitment strategy so that they can work to improve their hiring performance and identify areas of opportunities, even when they’re not actively hiring. Guidance from the assessment results empower talent acquisition (TA) teams and business leaders to transform their hiring strategy, and in turn elevate their company’s culture and productivity. By taking the 12-question assessment, companies will receive personalized results with actionable ideas to immediately make a difference in their recruiting efforts. Greenhouse’s Hiring Maturity assessment draws on closed-loop, anonymized reporting data from thousands of companies which has helped them understand the challenges TA teams face when developing a successful hiring process. The ability to benchmark against industry peers and Talent MakersTM provides companies with insights about their own hiring and recruiting workflows and how they can be improved. By recognizing patterns and parallels, teams can identify behaviors to transform recruiting into their competitive advantage. “There are so many teams in the weeds doing the tactical work of making today’s hires. But true, transformational success only comes when you take the time to step back and figure out how to build new, lasting capabilities,” said Jon Stross, president and co-founder, Greenhouse. “We’re using Hiring Maturity as a model to help people understand where they currently are and what they need to do to get better. To establish an efficient and high-performing hiring practice, companies must make intentional changes in every part of the process. Hiring isn’t just a series of one-off tasks the recruiters do. It’s a company-wide competency that directly impacts how your business performs overall.” There are four stages of Hiring Maturity, and the assessment provides insights and feedback in all the critical areas of hiring based on the company’s hiring practices. https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-adds-hiring-maturity-assessment/ ########## Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today

On this episode we will talk to the CEO of JazzHR an SMB focused recruiting software company based in Pittsburgh and get his take on the what they’re seeing in the job market and learn about what else the company has been up to. Full transcript will be available on RecTechMedia.com

We’ll start in Denver: PAIRIN, a trusted technology partner to today’s leading workforce programs, governments and education systems, today announced the close of $2.1 million, the first tranche of its Series A investment round that will be used to support continued growth of the company and its My Journey platform.    “Everyone should have the opportunity to define their own future, regardless of their background. During this period in our nation’s history, supporting the organizations and professionals helping people along their career journey is more important than ever,” stated Michael Simpson, CEO and co-founder of PAIRIN. “We’ve worked tirelessly alongside our partners in government and education to simplify the processes by which Americans enter and excel in the workforce. This funding will allow us to accelerate rollouts and key features that help connect people to critical resources, education and career assistance in an increasingly volatile job market. The enthusiasm and support we’ve received from investors are indicative of the widespread need for this technology.”   The Series A funding will help support the company’s rapid growth and hiring initiatives. PAIRIN plans to grow its workforce by 33 percent in the next year with new hires in engineering, design and project management roles, among others. At this rate, the company expects to be cash-flow positive and double its current number of employees by the end of 2021.    PAIRIN is a social enterprise company with a mission to make education relevant and hiring equitable. My Journey is a workforce process management platform that personalizes career exploration, job matching and skill development for education, workforce programs and governments.    https://hrtechfeed.com/pairin-raises-2-1-million-series-a-funding-to-aid-american-workforce/   Salary.com, this week released Job Architect, a powerful job description management tool to keep job descriptions accurate and up-to-date — adding velocity to hiring the right people at the right pay. Job Architect can be used as a stand-alone product or as an integrated part of Salary.com’s leading CompAnalyst® platform. Job descriptions are often created and stored in silos throughout an organization, creating challenges to hiring velocity and the overall strategy of talent management that often leads to the inaccurate pricing of jobs. Worse yet, over time, poor job descriptions make it difficult to retain valuable talent because compensation structures and skills sets are misaligned with the organization’s needs or expectations of employees. “We’re seeing unprecedented upheaval in how companies are defining jobs and managing the work that people do,” said Kent Plunkett, founder and CEO of Salary.com. “Job Architect helps companies manage their job content library to get job descriptions right and optimize the performance of their people.”   https://hrtechfeed.com/salary-com-releases-job-architect-a-powerful-job-description-management-tool/   Vetty, a fast growing provider of an AI-based employee verification platform for gig-economy marketplaces and enterprises announced it is raising a Pre-Series A round of $4M USD.   The Pre-Series A financing builds on a successful year for Vetty which saw a rapidly growing roster of clients seeking a frictionless background screening option for verifying potential employees. Vetty is primed to capture market share in its fast growing industry sector by using these funds to grow sales and accelerate development of the platform. Vetty’s customers include industry leading companies such as Wag!, Bellhop and MASTERCLASS.   “As an industry, we’re just scratching the surface of the background verification market,” Subrat Nayak, Founder and CEO of Vetty said. “We are working hard to truly dominate this fast-growing market and 3Lines has been more than an investor for us. They have created tremendous value by bringing in their expertise in the AI-enabled tech startup world and guiding us to steer clear of the pitfalls, and working with us on formulating key business strategies. We are confident, with their expert guidance, that we will continue to find success.” Vetty describes itself (https://vetty.co), as a fast-growing early stage company in the highly-fragmented background verification market with an AI-based employee verification platform for gig-economy marketplaces and enterprises to proactively manage hiring risks and enforce regulatory compliance.   https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-verification-platform-raises-4-million/ iHire announces the general availability of its Virtual Outplacement Services. The recruiting technology provider’s Virtual Outplacement Services help companies assist laid-off and transitioning employees – including those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic – with finding new jobs.   Drawing from more than 20 years of experience connecting candidates with the right jobs in 56 industries, iHire has combined personalized job seeker support with its best-in-class career management platform to add outplacement services to its solution suite. For employers, iHire offers affordable outplacement services to bring a unique, compassionate approach to handling layoffs as well as business closures, mergers, acquisitions, downsizing initiatives, and other situations that displace employees. All outplacement packages provide transitioning employees with one-on-one virtual coaching sessions with a certified career coach, a new resume written by a certified resume writer, unlimited access to iHire’s platform with advanced job matching technology, and a personalized job search plan covering goals, assessments, interviewing, networking, and more. https://hrtechfeed.com/ihire-announces-virtual-outplacement-services/   Bonusly, an engaging recognition and rewards platform that connects teams and enriches company culture, today announced it has received $9 million in Series A funding led by Access Venture Partners, joined by Next Frontier Capital, Operator Partners, and existing investor FirstMark Capital. Bonusly’s recognition and rewards bolster morale and motivation, foster collaboration, and build social links and a greater sense of purpose for teams — all outcomes desperately needed now.  “When everyone in an organization participates in recognition and rewards, people feel a sense of purpose and see that their contributions are valued by their bosses, peers, and others on their teams,” said Raphael Crawford-Marks, co-founder and CEO of Bonusly. “Employee engagement and morale are more important than ever, and this round of investment validates the value of our solution in meeting the pressing people challenges of the current environment and into the future.”   The Bonusly solution connects people to their work and each other in meaningful ways. Founded in 2013, Bonusly provides a fun and easy way to help people feel a greater sense of alignment and purpose, understand what it means to embody a company’s core values, and see how contributions of all kinds support an organization’s mission.   https://hrtechfeed.com/bonusly-gets-9-million-for-employee-recognition-platform/   And finally…   GR8 People, a breakthrough One-Experience Talent Platform for the enterprise, announces the company’s Virtual Recruiting Event Solution is now free for the first 60 days for all new users. “As the coronavirus outbreak became a global pandemic, GR8 People immediately provided talent acquisition with virtual recruiting event software at no cost as a way to support the profession during an extremely difficult time,” states CEO Diane Smith. “Initially, the program was to end in June, but given extremely high demand for the solution alongside continued economic uncertainty due to COVID-19, we are extending our support by giving customers their first 60 days free.” The solution is ideal because it pairs with an organization’s existing web or video conferencing platform, which avoids having to invest in a tool they already have in place, and enables talent acquisition teams to seamlessly market and manage their virtual recruiting initiatives and ensure successful hiring outcomes in today’s unique recruiting environment. Recruiters can automate registrations and reminders, pre-screen and invite priority candidates to self-schedule, engage top talent with post-event communications, and measure their recruitment marketing tactics and event performance—all in one spot. https://hrtechfeed.com/responding-to-market-demand-gr8-people-extends-free-virtual-recruiting-event-solution/ ########## Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today

Listen as Chris catches up with Jobvite's Andre Boulais to hear about what the popular recruiting software company is up to. Link to Rapid Response Talent Hub for jobseekers:  https://app.jobvite.com/TalentNetwork/action/campaign/w/NzI3MzE Link to Rapid Response Talent Hub for jobseekers:  https://app.jobvite.com/TalentNetwork/action/campaign/w/NzI3Mjk Blog about program: https://www.jobvite.com/collaborative-hiring/jobvite-joins-indy-chamber-in-rapid-response-prgram/ Link to 2020 Job Seeker Nation Report: https://www.jobvite.com/lp/2020-job-seeker-nation-report/

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com ClearCompany Adds Texting Feature https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-acquires-opening-io-launches-new-ai-solution-for-building-transformative-workforces-at-scale/   JazzHR Launches White Label Solution https://hrtechfeed.com/mhr-international-introduces-a-new-era-of-remote-work-experience-with-u-s-launch-of-people-first-connect/ Hackerrank Remote Hiring  https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitology-to-launch-virtual-career-fairs/ HireClix Launches their own candidate experience lab https://hrtechfeed.com/hireclix-launches-candidate-experience-lab/ OysterHR acquires Carrom https://hrtechfeed.com/oyster-acquires-carrom-to-accelerate-global-employment-platform/ Finally...Salary.com has released new survey data that shows 66% of employers either reduced their workforce or negatively impacted employee pay in response to COVID-19, though just 10% of survey respondents expect the layoffs to be permanent. The survey revealed that 32% of employers laid off people (temporary or permanent), 10% saw a reduction in base pay, and 21% reduced variable pay (including bonuses and commissions). In addition to the expectation that 90% of layoffs may be temporary, 65% of employers reported that base pay remained unchanged and 45% say they are leaving merit raises in place in 2020.  Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today

Poach.ai is the newest venture by Serial Entrepreneur and fellow industry podcaster Joel Cheesman. The platform aims to track worker sentiment to help companies identify when it's the right time to recruit employees away from your competitor. I've known Joel, and Joel and I go way back. Have known each other for many years in the industry. I was on his show early this year, so now it's time for me to ask the questions. Learn more: http://poach.ai/

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com iCIMS Makes Acquisition https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-acquires-opening-io-launches-new-ai-solution-for-building-transformative-workforces-at-scale/ MHR Announces new Remote Collaboration Platform https://hrtechfeed.com/mhr-international-introduces-a-new-era-of-remote-work-experience-with-u-s-launch-of-people-first-connect/ Employee Communication Platform Workvivo Raises $16m https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitology-to-launch-virtual-career-fairs/ Traitify Gets Funding https://hrtechfeed.com/traitify-raises-12m-for-its-visual-based-personality-assessment-platform/ Chief Lands $15 Million https://hrtechfeed.com/private-network-for-women-lands-15-million-in-funding/ Stories Inc Launched Virtual Stories https://hrtechfeed.com/stories-incorporated-launches-virtual-story-sessions/ Finally a couple other news stories that caught my eye: Uber is shuttering its Uber Works project after going through a massive layoff this week. I had high hopes that they were going to be a player in the temp staffing world but because of the pandemic it will no longer happen. Good news for the existing platforms like Wonolo, Shift and others. Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today

Remote, an HR technology startup enabling simplified global employment, recently announced a Seed investment of $11M. The fundraising round was led by Two Sigma Ventures, with participation from several other investors. The financing will be used to expand Remote’s onboarding platform and extend coverage to forty new markets by the end of 2020, including Canada, Germany, the United States, and France. Remote handles payroll, benefits, compliance, and taxes all in one single solution across international markets. With remote work only increasing, hiring a contractor or a full-time employee in another country is simplified with Remote’s platform. Joining me today to discuss the new world of remote hiring is CEO and co-founder Job van der Voort. Questions Great name by the way...are you dutch? @jobvo on twitter by the way for the listeners. Remote work is having a moment…can you give us a quick history of the company and talk about the pain point for what you are trying to solve? Is Remote for companies who have already found a person they want to hire or do you actually help find the  person first...how it works…? What countries currently supported? You have a remote job board…how has adding that helped your core business? Can anyone post a job? When did you acquire the domain…? You are a fully distributed company with employees based in several different countries.  Can you describe how you onboard a new employee remotely and talk about managing a distributed team? Are you hiring?

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Workstream raises $10 million https://hrtechfeed.com/hourly-hiring-platform-workstream-lands-10-million-funding-round/ Paradox Land $40 million for chatbot tech https://hrtechfeed.com/paradox-raises-40m-in-new-funding/ Recruitology unveils virtual career fairs https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitology-to-launch-virtual-career-fairs/ Lever announces news features in spring release https://hrtechfeed.com/levers-spring-release-new-automation-workflows-advanced-analytics-candidate-surveys-and-more/ PC Recruiter pushes out an update https://hrtechfeed.com/pcrecruiter-9-7-37-presentations-themes-updates/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today

Chris Russell gives you some tips for how to hold virtual hiring events and you'll hear from Eightfold as they describe how their platform works to hold an online career fair.

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com TechStars to start workforce accelerator in Denver https://hrtechfeed.com/techstars-to-create-workforce-startup-accelerator/ Emtrain Raises 8 million for workplace culture https://hrtechfeed.com/emtrain-raises-8m-for-workplace-culture-platform/ Appcast Launches Next Generation Programmatic Job Ad Exchange https://hrtechfeed.com/appcast-launches-next-generation-programmatic-job-ad-exchange/ CareerArc launches video assessment tool for seekers https://hrtechfeed.com/careerarc-launches-ai-powered-video-assessment-tool-for-seekers/ Survey: software developers hate meetings https://recruitingheadlines.com/software-developers-hate-meetings/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today

In this episode Chris Russell shares his thoughts on why the rejection process for applicants is broken and how to fix it.  Why You Should Care About Rejection 5 tactics to implement Companies doing it right Rejobify (better way to reject) https://www.rejobify.com/

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com HelpOneBillion Lanuches for Covid 19 jobs https://recruitingheadlines.com/phenom-launches-helponebillion-to-give-hope-and-jobs-to-covid-19-unemployed/   Linkedin to launch video intros https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/product-updates/2020/linkedin-video-intro Alexander mann launches Virtual Internship Platform https://hrtechfeed.com/alexander-mann-solutions-launches-virtual-internships-platform/ Powderkeg MAtching Tech Tool https://hrtechfeed.com/powderkeg-provides-early-access-to-job-matching-tool-matches/ Topia Raises $15 million https://hrtechfeed.com/topia-raises-15-million-for-talent-mobility-platform/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today  

DIY TOOLS Zoom.us Crowdcast.io DEDICATED In my research I found at least eight vendors whose sole purpose is to host online job events. Pricing varies https://www.brazen.com/ https://easyvirtualfair.com/ https://www.hexafair.com/virtual-job-fair/ https://www.vfairs.com/ https://www.careereco.com/ https://www.6connex.com/virtual-job-fair-hosting/ https://info.workcast.com/ https://www.virtualjobfairhosting.com/ OTHER https://www.xor.ai/virtual-career-fairs https://www.paradox.ai/virtual-hiring-events https://eightfold.ai/capabilities/virtual-event-recruiting/

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Hourly is a new recruiting platform for hourly workers https://hrtechfeed.com/alexander-mann-solutions-unveils-new-hourly-worker-recruiting-solution/ Glassdoor creates Cov-19 related job searches https://hrtechfeed.com/glassdoor-launches-new-covid-19-related-job-search-tools/ Oyster Gets Millions for its distributed recruiting platform https://hrtechfeed.com/oyster-an-international-hiring-startup-raises-4-2-million/ Remote.com gets $11 million for its remote recruiting platform https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-raises-an-11m-to-help-companies-to-hire-and-onboard-talent-anywhere-in-the-world/ RoiKoi Gets Acquired https://hrtechfeed.com/talent-mapping-vendor-roikoi-acquired-by-terminal/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today

I recently spoke with Suzanne Lucas who has written the Evil HR lady blog online since 2006. In this show you’ll hear me interview her and field questions from the HR lancers community. http://www.evilhrlady.org/ Sponsored by Emissary.ai and HR Lancers

Sponsored by Rejobify.com Job listings decline: STAT OF THE DAY: Compared to April of last year, job postings in the US have dropped by almost 31%, according to Indeed data. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-job-advertisements-crater-during-second-half-of-march-142615914.html Next Step Secures $3.6 Million https://hrtechfeed.com/skills-training-platform-raises-3-6m-to-help-workers-transition-to-health-care-roles/ Loxo Announces Free Contact Info Feature for Sourcers https://hrtechfeed.com/loxo-announces-free-and-unlimited-personal-contact-information/ CareerBliss to go free for 2020 https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2020/04/16/careerbliss-moves-to-free-job-postings-for-all-of-2020/ Layoffers Launches https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2020/04/14/new-job-community-that-tracks-layoffs-launches/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/

Today’s episode features the audio portion of a recent HR Lancers Live event where a number of freelancers crowd sourced their favorite software tools, apps and sites that help them do their job. Chris Russell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmrussell/ GoDaddy bookkeeping: An invoicing tool used for tracking income, expenses, invoicing, mileage ,Hourly time tracking – “very simple bookkeeping app”, “like it for its simplicity overall” Cost: $110/year Ripl: Marketing Tool that allows you to create branded videos and images in minutes, then instantly post to all your social media accounts at once. - “favorite tool out of all that I am sharing today”, “will make your social media a lot better looking.  Can build it into your brand” Cost: $10/month TinyScannerPro: A little scanner app that turns android device into a portable document scanner and scan everything as images or PDFs. “take a picture with your phone in the app, it creates a pdf and can email right from your phone” Cost: $5 one time fee Dlvr.it – Auto schedule and post blogs, photos, RSS, news and videos to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,  you can use this to push out content from multiple social media accounts- “pretty powerful, can do a lot of social media marketing” Cost: Free to $24.88/month Snagit – Screenshot, screencast tool Cost: $50 Stat counter – a simple but powerful real-time web analytics service that helps you track, analyze and understand your visitors so you can make good decisions to become more successful online. “simpler version of Google Analytics” Cost: Free to $9/month Javianna Nelson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/javiannanelson/ QuickBooks self-employed: Invoicing tool Canva: The design software that makes design simple, convenient, and reliable—create what you need.  Good tool for marketing. - “my business is an employer brand business…use it to engage employees of clients on Social Media” Cost: $120/year Hello Bonsai: Project Management  contracts, e-signing, & invoices – client profile, contracts and proposals, time tracking, makes forms and keeps forms. Cost: $16/month Alissa Penny: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alissa-penney/ Venngage: Infographic creator. “I use it to do a lot of infographics for my consultation, I do strategic analysis and data analysis so it helps me show really quick charts to a lot of my clients” Cost: $19/month Slack:  Client Communication for all projects, recommended for folks who are doing remote work. “If you are more into doing video based projects, I enjoy using Discord, more for the gaming industry” Cost: Free Hootsuite: Social Media Posting Management Cost: Free Tonja LaFrenz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonjalafrenz/ Feedly: A news aggregator application for various web browsers and mobile devices running iOS and Android – “find what you are looking for, a project you are working on, it gives you articles, then you can post the article out through Hootsuite” Cost: Free ATS/CRM: Big Biller through Top Echelon “can add your candidates, can add your companies, they do training all the time, their customer service is unreal”  Cost: $70/month Fivrr: $15 for email signature, logo $10 and slogan $40 – freelancer site Wisestamp: email signature generator  Orin Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davisoc/ GetPocket.com: previously known as Read It Later, is an application and web service for managing a reading list of articles and videos from the Internet Harvest- Time tracker: Simple time tracking, fast online invoicing, and powerful reporting software. Simplify employee timesheets and billing. ScannerPro: Allows you to scan paper documents into PDFs that look clean and professional. Expensify – for tracking expenses https://www.getcroissant.com/a/orin76 - coworking space $39 for 10 hours – “giving you hourly access to co-working spaces….need a place to sit down and work, don’t want to do a coffee shop” hours rollover and accumulate.  They are a global organization.

Workjam raises $50 Million Series C https://hrtechfeed.com/workjam-raises-50-million-series-c-to-meet-growing-demand-for-digital-workplace-solutions/ Drafted launches Layoff network https://hrtechfeed.com/drafted-launches-layoff-network/ Jobcase virtual Events https://hrtechfeed.com/jobcase-launches-virtual-hiring-events-to-connect-hourly-workers-impacted-by-covid-19/ Hirevue Eliminates App Based Interviews https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hirevue-solutions-remove-barriers-for-video-interviews/ Bluecrew Adds Telemedicine Benefits to Hourly Workers https://gigheadlines.com/bluecrew-offers-free-telemedicine-to-hourly-workers/

Emily Tanner and Kat Guseva from recruitics join Chris to reveal 3 ways employers can use Google for Recruitment Marketing: Adwords, Gmail Ads, Google for Jobs.

Sponsored by Rejobify.com   Paradox Launches Virtual Recruiting Event Platform https://hrtechfeed.com/mya-systems-secures-18-75m-series-c-funding/ HireRight Partners with Social Media Screening form https://hrtechfeed.com/engagedly-to-provide-remote-work-toolkit-for-free/ Eightfold Launches Virtual Recruiting Tool https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-offering-free-video-interviewing-platform/ Appcast Ad Grants https://hrtechfeed.com/dice-launches-sourcing-feature/ Free Jobs on Linkedin https://hrtechfeed.com/the-mom-project-acquires-workplace-analytics-tool/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/

Lianne Vineberg is the Founder and Director of Talent & recruitment at Toronto based Talent in the 6ix, an HR and recruitment consulting firm that specializes in finding talent for startups. She passed on some words of wisdom about onboarding remote employees and she joined me from her home base in Toronto to discuss. Find her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vineberg/ Article she wrote: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vineberg_remote-onboarding-ugcPost-6645678416429408256-kPiT

A number of vendors including Gr8 People, Lever, PandoLogic, Bayard, and Engagedly are stepping up to offer free tools during the virus outbreak. See the list: https://hrtechfeed.com/tag/free/

A number of reports and studies regarding the freelance world, AKA the ‘gig economy’ have been published lately so I wanted to summarize the key statistics found in the data. 50%: of the workforce will be comprised of gig workers by 2028. Source: PYMNTS.com The 57 million Americans who freelanced this year represent 35% of the U.S. workforce and an increase of 4 million freelancers since 2014. SOURCE: Upwork 16 Million: number of Americans who consider themselves self-employed as of July 2019. Source: PYMNTS.com 1 in 6 enterprise workers are actually gig workers paid as either 1099-MISC (1099-M) workers or short-term W-2 employees working one to six months. Source: ADP 56 million people are now freelancing,... an increase of 3.7 million over the past 5 years. Source: Freelance Union The freelance workforce is overall very young, with nearly 70 percent of freelancers surveyed being under the age of 35, and 21 percent are under the age of 25. SOURCE: Payoneer The worldwide average hourly rate charged by freelancers is $21, higher than the $19 average rate reported in Payoneer’s 2018 survey and significantly higher than the average salaries in many of the countries surveyed. SOURCE: Payoneer Female freelancers earn on average 84 percent of men’s earnings across all fields. SOURCE: Payoneer 43%: The total proportion of the American workforce that’s expected to move to remote- and freelance-based employment as of 2020 as reported by Innovation Enterprise Ltd. The biggest users of contingent workers are organizations operations/production/services division (37%) and the IT departments (32%) SOURCE: EY According to a study conducted by Randstad USA, 60% of the population will be freelancing within the next 10 years. For the first time, as many freelancers said they view this way of working as a long-term career choice as they do a temporary way to make money. In addition, the share of those who freelance full time increased from 17% in 2014 to 28% this year. SOURCE: Upwork Skilled services are the most common type of freelance work, with 45% of freelancers providing skills such as programming, marketing, IT and business consulting. SOURCE: Upwork  Freelancers contribute nearly $1 trillion in freelancing income to the economy, or nearly 5% of U.S. GDP. SOURCE: Upwork Nearly two-thirds of HR professionals indicate the gig economy is impacting hiring and staffing practices. A majority (64%) are experiencing some sort of change because of gig economy trends. SOURCE: HR.com There are up to 15.5 million Americans – 10 percent of the total U.S. labor force – who use contingent or alternative work as their primary source of income. SOURCE: ICIMS It’s a freelance nation, and we’re just living it!

Sponsored by Rejobify.com Mya Systems Gets $18 million in funding https://hrtechfeed.com/mya-systems-secures-18-75m-series-c-funding/ Engagedly to Provide Remote Work Toolkit for Free https://hrtechfeed.com/engagedly-to-provide-remote-work-toolkit-for-free/   Outmatch Offering Free Video Interviewing Platform https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-offering-free-video-interviewing-platform/ Dice Launches Sourcing Feature https://hrtechfeed.com/dice-launches-sourcing-feature/ The Mom Project Acquires Workplace Analytics Tool https://hrtechfeed.com/the-mom-project-acquires-workplace-analytics-tool/   Hourly, an employee management platform, has raised $7.15 million in seed funding https://larocqueinc.com/hourly-raises-7-15-million-seed-round-for-its-time-and-attendance-app/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/

Listen to what recruiters are saying about whats happening with the hiring market in the Coronavirus crisis.   @StacyZapar....Recruiters, how has your job changed in the last week (since the quarantine)? Still sourcing or holding off for now? What will the hiring market look like in upcoming months? Will people even be open to changing jobs or likely hunker down till the storm has passed? 

Remote work is having its day in the sun due to the coronavirus outbreak...seminal moment... and my guest today just wrote an article on his new remote experience managing a team of people remotely.  We ‘ll talk with him in a minute but i posed this question on my facebook group, RecTechies and wanted to read you some of the replies. Working remotely is more popular than ever before. One Gallup survey found that 43% of Americans work from home occasionally. That's up from 39% of those who did in 2012. And according to Quartz, U.S. Census data indicates that 5.2% of U.S. workers completely worked at home in 2017 — that's about 8 million people. Joining me now is Chad Fife is the VP of marketing at AI recruitment startup Talview. Here's the link to his article on LinkedIN.

Sponsored by Rejobify.com 3 Ways to Use Google for Recruitment Marketing https://www.crowdcast.io/e/3-ways-to-use-google-for WorkN closes on Funding Round https://hrtechfeed.com/workn-closes-series-a-funding/ Emissary Adds ATS Partners for Text Recruiting https://hrtechfeed.com/text-recruiting-platform-emissary-adds-ats-partners/ WorkLlama Launches Chatbot https://hrtechfeed.com/workllama-launches-recruitment-chatbot/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/

Today you will hear 3 pieces of audio recorded at I AM PHENOM in Philadelphia...first up will be HR tech analyst John Bersin I record a small portion of his keynote where he talks about how “out of control” the HR tech market is right now and what the big vendors are doing, then you will get an update from Zapinfo the super utility recruiter tool followed by a conversation with two executives from recruiting assessment platform Talview.

Fresh off the IAMPHENOM conference I had the opportunity to hang out with and interview Phenom's Keca Ward, Sr Director of Talent Experience. She runs the team that keeps the hires coming at the HR tech vendor now simply known as Phenom.

Sponsored by Textrecruit alternatives Outmatch takes on Private equity. https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-announces-private-equity-investment/ Phenoms Chatbot Case Study https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-study-recruitment-chatbots-double-candidate-leads/ Phenom New Products https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-launches-four-new-product-innovations/ NAS Acquired https://hrtechfeed.com/nas-recruitment-acquired/ Landing.jobs gets funding  https://blog.landing.jobs/making-2m-work-for-you-our-tech-community-4f5bf79267f Smashfly Rec Marketing report https://hrtechfeed.com/smashfly-recruitment-marketing-research-spotlights-talent-attraction-trends/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/

In todays audio you will Aaron Kraljev, head of Talent & Employer Brand for Fisher Investments discuss how he measures the effectiveness of their recruiting efforts. Recorded live at TA Week in San Francisco.

According to her Linkedin profile Rachel Duran creates unique and industry leading strategies for social media, events, print, email and web to support talent acquisition efforts at top brands. As a passionate learner, she is never shy to pick up any new skills and techniques needed to build newer and better user experiences and interfaces with each new campaign effort. She’s held TA roles at Allegis, CA Technologies, Alexander Mann and her current employer Cloudera Twitter: @TheRachelDuran Instagram: @TheRachelDuran https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelduran/

Sponsored by Rejobify.com THE ORG GETS FUNDED https://medium.com/the-org/the-org-raises-8-5-million-in-series-a-funding-from-founders-fund-sequoia-and-balderton-4d1f2766fc9b WORKGENIUS https://hrtechfeed.com/freelance-platform-workgenius-raises-another-7-million/ CORNERSTONE TO ACQUIRE SABA https://hrtechfeed.com/breaking-cornerstone-to-acquire-saba/ JOB DIVA ANNOUNCES CONFERENCE https://hrtechfeed.com/jobdiva-announces-jduc-2020-new-staffing-conference/ GREENHOUSE UP TO 3700 CUSTOMERS https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-now-has-3700-customers/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/

This audio, recorded at TA Week in San Francisco was my favorite of the event. It features Tracy Parsons from Parsons Strategic Consulting on how you can fix your candidate experience with some simple hacks. Special thanks to PhenomPeople for their travel sponsorship.

Today we are going to talk about the 2020 Recruitment Benchmarking Report just released by the folks at Appcast and joining me today is their SVP of Strategy, Leah Daniels LINK: https://info.appcast.io/whitepaper/2020-recruitment-marketing-benchmark-report-website Give us a quick description of Appcast for those that dont know the company Hows life under Stepstone? In the grand scheme of ‘recruitonomics’, we see that at the same time demand for candidates is increasing, the supply of candidates has dropped, meaning it is more difficult to acquire candidates. If you want to change the outcome of your recruitment advertising, you either need to bid more (than your competitors) or look at how to impact apply rates in order to 'get more bang for your buck'.  Whats in this report? The clicks where... The new apply rate numbers? 5.6% in 2018 now down to 5.0 in 2019, why is that going down? You have 3 options…are these all job board applies you are tracking or employer ATS ? Google for Jobs Percentage of mobile applies by industries Apply rate by industry Special thanks to Emissary.ai and Workhere.com for their continued sponsorship.

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Exclusively Sponsored by Phenom People - the Talent Experience Management Platform. Recorded live at TA Week in San Fransisco this panel is moderated by Craig Fisher, featuring Sourcing experts David Nicola (DGK Search), Amy Miller (Amazon Labs) and Salifu Abdulai (Github). They'll discuss how to engage passive candidates and personalize your efforts.

Will Naso is the CEO and co-founder of Biteline, a hiring platform that connects dental professionals with open opportunities. After three years of hard work, Biteline officially launched to its Charlotte market in July 2019. In less than two months, the app gained 300+ users that represented 65 unique offices and 195 jobs posted. During the summer of 2016, Will had the opportunity to work on three start-ups, ranging from concept stage, to pre-launching a B2B SaaS product in Atlanta. It was during this summer that he met Barclay McFadden and together, they created Biteline. Biteline.net

Sponsored by Rejobify.com JOB BOARDS CLOSELY WATCHING GOOGLE EU CASE THIS WEEK https://www2.staffingindustry.com/site/Editorial/Daily-News/Job-boards-closely-watching-Google-EU-case-this-week-52780 Death of a Job Board https://hrtechfeed.com/death-of-a-job-board/ OnShift Acquires Avesta https://hrtechfeed.com/onshift-acquires-talent-acquisition-software-provider-avesta-systems/ Onboarding Software Platform Raises $7 million https://hrtechfeed.com/onboarding-software-platform-raises-7-million-in-funding/ SmartRecruiters Will Add to the recruiter Experience https://hrtechfeed.com/smartrecruiters-will-take-on-the-recruiter-experience/ Instant Teams raises $1.5 Million https://larocqueinc.com/instant-teams-raises-1-5m-for-its-job-board-marketplace-focused-on-certified-remote-military-spouses/ Dont forget about Iamphenom coming up in Phily March 3-5 use code RUSSELL for 25% off tix Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee manuals to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on HRlancers.com Follow HR Tech Feed on social media: @hrtechfeed on Twitter Linkedin https://www.facebook.com/hrtechfeed/

Special thanks to Phenom People for their travel sponsorship. In this audio you will hear Sarah Erickson from Minnesota based Ecolabs. She details their new employer brand makeover with the help of Symphony Talent. Recorded live at TA Week in San Francisco.

A conversation with Jerome Ternynck, the CEO of applicant tracking tool SmartRecruiters. Sponsored by Emissary.ai and Workhere.com FULL TRANSCRIPT Chris Russell: The RecTech Podcast is sponsored in part by our friends at Emissary.ai, the text recruiting platform. Your next superstar is in demand and on the move. Emissary is the easiest way to connect with them faster and more effectively wherever they are. So if you haven't embedded texting into your recruiting process yet, what are you waiting for? It's definitely something that's as a channel, today's employers need to communicate more effectively with there candidates and prospects. Go to emissary.ai and schedule a demo today. Chris Russell: We're also sponsored by our friends at WorkHere.com, the hyper-local candidate delivery tool through geo-fencing app platform. You can reach more people through their online ads with pinpoint precision where they live, work and shop. WorkHere will advertise your jobs on the screens candidates use the most, their mobile phone. And messaging is then delivered into the social mobile apps they use most often. Head over to WorkHere.com and be sure to tell them heard it the RecTech podcast. Chris Russell: All right, so today's audio is an interview with Jerome Ternyck, CEO of SmartRecruiters, one of my favorite ATS's out there. The first one I ever used actually as a recruiter. I sat down for him at their San Francisco offices for a 30 minute conversation, and I think you're really going to enjoy this one. He was very open and honest and authentic as he always is and enjoy the audio. Chris Russell: Okay. I'm here with Jerome Ternyck, CEO of SmartRecruiters in their San Francisco offices on Bush Street and had a chance to come down here after the TA week events and come see Jerome. He's always been inviting me out here and finally got a chance to make it to San Fran and SmartRecruiter. So Jerome, first of all, it's great to see you again and how's life today? Jerome Ternyck: Likewise. Thanks for having me on the show. And yeah, life is good. Life is good. You're actually catching me today on January the 30th which is exactly 24 hours before the end of our fiscal year so we're busy signing deals left and right, rushing into the end of the year preparing budgets. And I think on Friday evening everybody will be resting for weekend. But just for the weekend, because we have our Hiring Success conference coming up in two weeks on Feb 11 and 12. When we'll have a thousand people coming here and so we're excited. It's busy time here. Chris Russell: Yeah, definitely. Quick history lesson for people who know me. SmartRecruiters was the very first ATS I ever used as it recruited back in 2014-ish around there. I picked them because they seemed to be a modern platform back then, and they still are. They had an app and things like that at the time, which were pretty new. I've always kind of admired SmartRecruiters from afar anyway, and also as a user in that time. But just give the audience a sense of where you guys are now in terms of customer base and employee-wise and things like that. Just give us a quick overview. Jerome Ternyck: Yeah. So we started the company in 2011. We spent four years in R&D and really what we were building, what we aimed [inaudible 00:00:03:36]. Okay, what is a generational successor to applicant tracking systems? Applicant tracking systems were born out of we need to automate the file cabinet. Resumes were paper based; the internet arrived. Oh my God, candidates can fill in forms, and I can track them in a system. But this whole idea that people are actually tracked as applicants in a system like even the name is wrong. Applicant tracking system doesn't say hire amazing people system. Jerome Ternyck: And having build myself an ATS between 2000 and 2010 when I started SmartRecruiters, I was like, okay, really getting ready. Take a blank sheet of paper and what do we want to get out here? And so we landed on three core things that are talent acquisition suite should do. One, it should help me attract candidates. That speaks to marketing and how you attract candidates and advertising and referrals and good website and good candidate experience. And there's a whole lot of things that need to be done in the area of CRM and marketing and so on. Jerome Ternyck: Second, we said managers have to use it and we have to double down on collaboration because recruiters cannot be successful if the managers aren't playing with them in their system. And so we focused on collaboration, hiring manager engagement, scorecard scheduling, making more that process like super smooth and efficient. And third, it's about recruiter and recruiter productivity. And recruiters nowadays, they're being asked to move mountains, but they have tools and technologies from decades ago. Chris Russell: They're being held back. Jerome Ternyck: And they're completely held back, absolutely. So giving recruiters all of their data processes and suppliers in one system where they can be in control and compliance. And so those three things, recruiter productivity, hiring manager engagement, and candidate experience is what we designed to spend ... we spent almost four and a half years just developing the product. We launched it in 2015 so that's five years ago now. And we've now since then signed just shy of a thousand enterprise customers. We have several thousand smaller companies using our platform on various capacity, but really the enterprise segment a thousand customers, this is where we actually make our money. Our revenue are made there. Jerome Ternyck: Some big names, we have companies like Visa, Bosch, which has like 400,000 employees. Even LinkedIn uses us now as their [inaudible 00:05:56] as they're implementing Twitter. So really large progressive companies that are using SmartRecruiters. We have 300 employees worldwide. We raised $100 million of equity money from various investors, Salesforce being one of our investors. So we're really looking at hey, recruiting is not this administrative automated function as we thought in the past. It's actually a fairly sales and marketing oriented function. It's a competitive advantage to companies would do it well. What's the platform that does that? And this is what we deliver. Chris Russell: Excellent. What do you think of the overall activity happening in the market itself as far as HR tech goes, all the mergers and acquisitions you're seeing bigger players group up smaller players to be an all encompassing platform. What's your overall sense of where we are now in HR tech? Jerome Ternyck: I think we're in a very, very exciting time of HR tech. And that is on two counts. On the core HR, there's a replacement cycle happening with enormous efficiency gains and automation opportunities and that charge is led by Workday in core HR and there's much more happening there. And I think there we're really seeing a very classic replacement cycle of old school HR systems. Jerome Ternyck: On the recruiting side, we're actually seeing a real shift of market because we are going away from, Hey you apply, you are screened and then maybe you get the job. We're going into this is a full scale sales and marketing function and TA leaders are becoming marketers, marketers in campaigns, in nurturing, in sourcing, in referrals, in how they organize it. It's more collaborative. So there's a whole set of a new generation of TA leaders that are actually emerging. Jerome Ternyck: And it's interesting because in HR tech, the world here divides between two types of tier leaders. Those who are going to be swallowed inside the HR system. And it's basically oh you use Taleo, I know this recruiting system from work there. SAP is not better, but you've been on Taleo for ages. Just shut up and keep, keep your life. And that's basically saying recruiting is an admin process. I don't care about winning the best talent, I'm just processing resume here and filling seats. Jerome Ternyck: The other generation of tier leaders are like, no actually guys, if you invest in recruiting, I can deliver better candidates and if you have better people than your competitor, we're going to win as a company. And so how do we actually take recruiting and make this a competitive advantage, which then justifies a proper talent acquisition suite that focuses on how you attract, select, and hire amazing talent at scale. And when you go to the CEO and you say, would you like to have hiring success? Would you like to be able to hire amazing talent on demand? Like you see the eyes are becoming really excited here because yes, every CEO in the world would like to be able to hire amazing talent on demand. They just don't know how to do it. And when it gets gobbled into HR and into processes and back office functions, it's a race to the bottom. It's faster, cheaper. Chris Russell: I can't tell you how many TA leaders I've met who say I'm just stuck with this ATS, usually it's Taleo, let's be honest. And they're paralyzed. They're afraid of that change, and many times they just don't want to do it. They don't want to make that plunge. And those are the ones who are going to get swallowed, right? Jerome Ternyck: Yeah. They definitely are getting swallowed, but it's worse fighting for it because well, I had the example this morning actually. I was on a phone with a TA leader of a 95,000 employee company. And they've been on Taleo forever. A company, very decentralized, not a lot of power in corporate HR, and this one person went on a war to say, I want to replace Taleo and I actually want to put a proper system. The CIO started by saying, over my dead body. We're on [inaudible 00:10:19] shop. We're staying there over my dead body. He got the CHR to approve the project. The CEO said fine. The CIO went behind to the CEO and canceled the project. Chris Russell: Oh my gosh. Jerome Ternyck: This went on for several months. Finally they got the green light, and they started the project six months ago, and they are now live in 17 countries. And this morning I was on the phone to him and he said Jerome, you know what happened this morning? I'm like no, what? He said, I was in a meeting and the CIO publicly praised me in front of the CEO and said, "You know what? I realized I was wrong to push on that because the system's really good and at least now I'm getting my resources." Because the CIO is actually often one of the managers that's suffering the most from recruiting. So I think it's worth the fight because you aren't going to come out of that as a hiring success hero, right? Because the managers need the resources. And if you can give them good candidates, they're going to love you regardless of how hard you were fighting for that system. So it's worth picking the battle. Chris Russell: Yeah, I love that story, Jerome. That's awesome. That's awesome. It's good to hear that. All right. Chris Russell: I've done a lot of work lately on the user experience of the candidate experience, especially around mobile apply and how a lot of systems out there are broken. A lot of these older ATS's come from a desktop era where they force you to log into apply, which is a barrier number one. And you have to put in your password twice. And you have to have all these special characters and it's like all the job seeker wants to do at that point is upload a resume. Why is it so hard for other companies to fix this problem right now? It seems like even some of the newer platforms I've seen don't do a great job at the overall apply process. Any thoughts around how to fix some of that stuff? Jerome Ternyck: I mean one main [inaudible 00:12:15] is that our click to apply ratio across all customers is 37%. Chris Russell: 37%. Okay. So break that down for us. Jerome Ternyck: We converge out of a hundred people who click on apply, 37 actually end up applying. Wow. That same ratio at Taleo is five. Let me translate that in dollars, that means for the same amount of candidates you're going to have to buy seven times more traffic if you're on Taleo so that alone would actually justify a change of system. So there is a large, large number or large gains that can be made in the apply. And if you think of recruiting as marketing, and I'm the CEO and I come to you as the TA leader and I go, so hold on, you're spending our money to advertise job to drive traffic on a page that has a 5% conversion rate. You should not be in your work, right? Like you should not be in this position. Jerome Ternyck: If a CMO would do that, they get fired, right? And so I would really encourage TA leaders to leverage that argument. Wait, wait, this doesn't make any sense. Plus the ones who abandon first aren't the worst ones. They are the best one. The ones that are busy, the ones that are on defense, the one that had a bad day. These are the gains. So not only are you actually reducing your ROI, but you're losing the best candidate. So it's worse optimizing. Jerome Ternyck: I think what's difficult here is the concept of identity management. How you identify users is at the heart of your software. And once you've designed a software to work in a certain way, it's actually hard to change. It's like you build a hotel and reception is this, on the corner of those two streets. And maybe it would make sense that reception is somewhere else, but everything is linked to that. So I think for legacy software it's very, very hard to change their principle. And we do it at SmartRecruiters, you just drop your resume. We actually even expose and apply API so you can drop your resume directly from LinkedIn in one take without ever to have to touch anything or from Indeed or from Seek. We actually just released the Seek apply. So we're actually facilitating the entrance. Jerome Ternyck: And then once you have applied, once you've expressed interest, okay, now let's talk. And if you would like to- Chris Russell: Yeah didn't you have an 'I'm interested' button at one point on the platform? Jerome Ternyck: Yeah. Chris Russell: It's still there isn't it? Jerome Ternyck: It is still here. Yeah, we were the first one to convert or to change the apply now into I'm interested. Chris Russell: Right. Jerome Ternyck: Because this is what you do as a candidate. You're not saying I'm applying. Right. And you're saying, Hey, let's talk. I'm interested, and that alone actually increased our conversion rates by a few percentage point. Chris Russell: I would say too, at some point for some positions you don't even need a resume, you know if you're a janitor or a truck driver. If you just get their name, phone number, email address just to capture that information, then you can contact them afterwards. Do you see that as a trend that's going to happen in the next few years? As far as the way some of these systems do apply's? Jerome Ternyck: I think we're going to see the emergence of a central identity management and a few platforms are at it. Facebook actually manages your identity for a lot of set situation. Google does the same. There's some initiatives now where- Chris Russell: There's a Blockchain I think just came out. Jerome Ternyck: Yeah, Blockchain that just came out led by Yvette Cameron, which we looked at. I think it's a good idea. Generally the fact that I carry my credential, my career- Chris Russell: With you. Jerome Ternyck: With me, it actually makes a lot of sense. Just think about it, you apply to 10 companies. All 10 companies are going to ask you to do a background check. For God's sake, why don't you do the background check before you apply and then you do it once? Rather than 10 times. There's a lot of things like this that makes no sense. Or take the example of a background check but I can say validated skills. I apply and I validated my skills as a Java developer. Like why do you care if I did Stanford, Harvard, or I was self-educated on YouTube. If I can actually be an amazing programmer on Java, you don't need my resume. Chris Russell: Exactly, exactly. Jerome Ternyck: So I think we're going to see a lot more of that happening. Synergization of skills and of resumes. Chris Russell: Excellent. What's new in the platform? I saw you came out with a self scheduling feature, but tell us what else is new with the product. Jerome Ternyck: Yeah, so we actually just wrapped up a good year of innovation and by the latest count, we shipped 200 features this year. Chris Russell: 200 features, wow. Jerome Ternyck: 200 features. And we ship quarterly. So this quarter we done a couple of good things. So sales scheduling en masse. So if you want to schedule certain interviews in 30 seconds, that's your feature. Just select the candidates, click, and watch everybody being scheduled. And schedule in the right way with the right score card, the right indication, the followup in the morning, the followup to the interviewer to filling the scorecard, the reminders to the candidate, the whole infrastructure behind. It's not just schedule and interview. It's like everything that happens before and after. And so it's really nice. Jerome Ternyck: We released [drip 00:17:23] campaigns, which is part of our CRM. So you nurture candidates, which frankly if you actually do a good job at acquiring leads and nurturing them into becoming candidates. Well we actually have a case study where one junior marketeer outperformed 10 professional sourcers. Because what we've said here is okay, advertising doesn't work, which is not true by the way. Advertising still works. Advertising doesn't work. Let's hire sourcers and give them a database, LinkedIn. And then pick up the phone, smile while you dial in, hope your emails are okay. This is exactly as if we'd say to salespeople "Hey, you get no marketing and here's a phone book." This is how sales was done 40 years ago. The reality is you actually can collect new marketing, collect leads and get people in, nurture them, bring them as prospect, which makes a lot more sense. So nurture campaigns is another one. Jerome Ternyck: We released an automated job distribution. So early on I made the decision not to rely on [inaudible 00:18:27] distribution systems but to actually control the job advertising from within SmartRecruiters which is really nice because we now distribute to thousands of job boards, and we're the only one that has a proper click to hire tracking. So we know exactly the cost of a candidate, the cost of an interviewed candidate, the cost of a hire, the quality ratio, how many like, and so- Chris Russell: You had that back in the beginning too, I remember. Jerome Ternyck: Exactly. And so now we created a feature to actually centrally automate all of that, and so you set up roles that the sales job go to this job board, the marketing job go to this one. You actually have rules that are based on dynamic pipelines. So if I receive less than 10 candidates after one week, then up my bid or increase or post to LinkedIn. So this allows for teams to control and to optimize their advertising budget. Jerome Ternyck: We have our programmatic advertising that actually is expanding globally. So we announced a few more markets. This is where we actually programmatically optimize the budget of our customers based on real- Chris Russell: So you're doing some programmatic now? Jerome Ternyck: Yeah, we do. And unlike any other programmatic offering, we know what's happening, like we know that last week you interviewed two candidates that got rated high and one of them moved to offer. And so the last thing you need is to spend more money to actually get more new candidates on this job because you don't need more candidates. Indeed doesn't know this. TMP doesn't know this. Recruiters don't react to it so for the first time you have a programmatic engine that's plugged onto your pipeline and actually dynamically optimize not only where you spend money but on which job and how much you spend. So the savings here are really, really interesting. Jerome Ternyck: And then we extended our SmartAssistance. So we have AI based matching, which is very, very nice. We expanded languages. So we released French and German as additional languages- Chris Russell: So the matchings are when a candidate comes in, you score them, and surface the top candidates? Jerome Ternyck: Yeah, we use this machine learning for two things. One is all resumes come in, we read the resumes, we analyze the resumes, we enhance the resumes, and we apply the scoring. And we apply the scoring independent of any bias such as your name, your address or where you may be from, how old you are and so on. So we actually by that remove all the prescreening bias, which is massive in most organization to this day. There is actually a survey that come out by the BBC recently where a hundred resumes, same resume got sent to companies. It was in the UK, Adam got 10 interviews, Mohammed got four. Same resume right? Now that, the AI doesn't care if you're called Adam or Mohammed. And so the same scoring and if you have the same scoring becomes really hard to justify that Adam and Mohammed are not getting both interview. So we are removing this bias and of course accelerating the resume screening because you get your scores and you can react on it. You can automate. Jerome Ternyck: And the second thing is we use this to discover candidates. When you open a job, we go back to all your candidates and your employees, and we actually surface matching ones so that when you say to a candidate, "Sorry it didn't work out, but if we ever have a job that matches your skill we'll contact you." Well actually that's exactly what the IS is, it actually surfaces the candidates that you've talked to in the past and brings them forward. So that SmartAssistant as we call it, has been a massive time saver, sourcing saver, reduction of bias actually for everybody. Chris Russell: I hear a lot of TA leaders talk about automation and trying to make things more efficient, save time for the recruiters. And it sounds like you're really pushing a lot of those types of features, the product just to save time and automate as much as possible while still being candidate friendly. Right? Jerome Ternyck: Yeah we want to leverage automation to give time back to the recruiters to make it more human, more collaborative and to a certain extent automation is your friend here. Because the two hours are saved scheduling interviews is two hours I could spend following up with people who were interviewed yesterday and are keenly waiting to hear what has happened. Just as simple as that. The automation is, Hey actually those 17 candidates are still in stage new, they've been there for five days. Duh. What are you doing? Right? So that's also automation. I can reject them all if you want, but you can also look at them. Jerome Ternyck: Just helping recruiters deal with the volumes so that actually they can do what they want, which is offer candidates an amazing experience. I don't think any recruiter in the world gets into their job thinking my job in life is to offer a shitty candidate experience. It's just the consequences of them being overwhelmed by lack of technology and just too many things happening. Chris Russell: Yeah, definitely. I want to ask about Google for a minute. Couple fronts there. Google for jobs. Were you an early adopter of that in terms of pushing your clients' jobs to that? And secondly, what kind of traffic are you seeing from that particular platform itself? Jerome Ternyck: So yes, we were an early adopter, part of the initial launch actually working with Google on that in proximity. I mean they are a few miles from here, so that's good. I think Google needs, and this feedback we have given them, they still need to identify properly who is the ATS. For now they are applying a Google methodology, which is I want to buy a flight from Paris to San Francisco. Then they just tell me yeah, you can do this one and then I have Expedia and this and this and that. But the problem here is that this is not about booking a flight. Ultimately if you're looking for a job and you find something at Visa, they're going to send you to SmartRecruiters, ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor, Indeed, LinkedIn ... But the truth is wherever you go, you actually are going to end up at SmartRecruiter because that's how you apply to a job at Visa. Jerome Ternyck: And so I think this is one optimization that Google, and I know they've been working on it and it's not an easy problem to solve. They have to make the life of candidates easier and instead of "selling" sending traffic to intermediaries here to actually allow candidates to go straight to the source. And if they do that, they'll get corporate recruiters way more interested. Because today most of my Google for jobs traffic is hidden behind LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Indeed, and the others because they are the ones receiving traffic. Chris Russell: Yeah. Do you think Google will ever try to monetize Google for jobs? There's speculation out there that they will. I don't think they will but what's your take? Jerome Ternyck: Oh yeah, I think they will. Chris Russell: You think they will. Jerome Ternyck: Yeah. I think they will. Funny enough is actually just talking to someone there, and we were talking about our programmatic advertising solution there. Oh, this is really interesting. Where do you get traffic from? I said we get at this... and then I added "We're waiting for you guys to open pay per click on Google for jobs." And I had a big smile on the face of that Google employee because yeah, of course ... I think they're going to do it. But to do that they have to be able to know who are they selling to. Are they going to sell traffic to third parties or are they going to sell traffic to employers? And I think that that debate maybe has been decided at Google but hasn't been announced. I don't think it's clear yet. Chris Russell: Yeah, yeah. Were you surprised about the Google for Hire shutdown? Jerome Ternyck: I was and I wasn't. Chris Russell: Because that kind of seems like ... They just didn't really get that market maybe in terms of selling into, I don't know. Jerome Ternyck: So Google Hire started out of an attempt to increase retention and add more value for the Google customers, and meant to be as one of many apps that they would actually build. An easy use case if you have collaboration. I don't think that was ever a real push to say we're going to be the hiring platform that's going to win. And so I did not see the corporate commitment behind that initiative. That would really- Chris Russell: Right. Just not their heart into it. Jerome Ternyck: Yeah. I don't think so. And so resources were reallocated, product doesn't get supported, and they shut it down. I think it's one of the qualities of Google actually. They know when to say stop, and I see that's paying off. Now will Google keep adding more tools to their business customer? I hope so. I'm a big Google user and big Google fan. We use the whole G Suite here at SmartRecruiters and it's great. Do they get into advanced business application like recruiting? That's a step. Chris Russell: How about Facebook? I don't know, they came out with their Facebook job board. They're starting to work on some ATS's now. I'm not sure if you're a part of that at all. But tell me more about your relationship with Facebook Jobs itself. Jerome Ternyck: Yeah, so again, we were part of that initial integration, initial launch. So all the jobs are pushed to Facebook Jobs. We actually did quite some work on our end to identify and to allow customers to point the right jobs to the right pages. Because it's very nice if you are SmartRecruiters then your jobs go to your SmartRecruiters page. You are a small company, you will recruit 100 people a year. That's all cute and cool. Jerome Ternyck: But if you're Bosch, and you have 900 legal entities around the world, then chances are you have more than one Facebook page and now actually discerning from a central ATS, which job's go to which parts of your Facebook pages is an interesting question. So we actually built a Facebook Jobs management module that really directs the right jobs to the right Facebook pages and the right brands. Chris Russell: Does the user have to authenticate their page with you guys? Jerome Ternyck: Yeah. So they actually do authenticate as the administrator, admin of that page on Facebook and then it's synchronized. So that's nice. Facebook on their end did some work on 'Apply with Facebook'. So you can apply directly from Facebook to SmartRecruiters and enhancing this. We actually have some more initiative going on at the Hiring Success conference in two weeks. We have a hackathon. So we have 20 teams competing in the hackathon. And- Chris Russell: Are these your developers? Jerome Ternyck: Yeah, so we have some of our developers. We have customers bringing developers. So Square was bringing in developers. There's discussion about Facebook actually bringing in people and others that will be soon announced, but some big brands. LinkedIn of course who are scaling at LinkedIn or deploying at LinkedIn. And they're connecting SmartRecruiters deeply into their system. So one of our core principle has been API first. So we have a very powerful development environment, which allows more sophisticated customers to build custom integrations, custom experiences for their users or in the case of LinkedIn to actually merge what they get from an ATS where they're from their own system to actually optimize their own recruiting process. Chris Russell: Yeah. You're such a energetic, passionate supporter of hiring in general. Where does this come from, Jerome? Where's the early seed of helping people get jobs, and helping companies recruit better come from? Jerome Ternyck: It's interesting because I truly think that was my calling in life. It's really very interesting, and it was my first job. My very, very first job. I wanted to create a company. I went to Prague in the Czech Republic. I'm from France. And at the time Czech Republic, like the rest of the former Soviet block was expanding, and it was lots of opportunities. I got to Prague, and I started to ask people, what can you do here? What are some good business ideas? And everybody had one similar talk track, which was, Oh, you can do anything but gee, it's hard to hire good people. So I didn't have any money. And so I said, well maybe I could start a recruitment agency. Jerome Ternyck: And there I was 23 year old, I didn't speak a word of Czech. And I started- Chris Russell: You were 23 in Prague. You started your own recruiting agency? Jerome Ternyck: Yeah, and I started placing people. What's really interesting at that time is that all of the candidates had zero experience education in any field relevant to the market economy that my customers were looking for. So you had L'Oreal coming and say, I need a marketing manager with at least five years experience and a degree in marketing and speaking good English. And I would say, well nobody has five years experience in marketing in this country because five years ago there was no marketing. Oh shit, okay, you're right. Nobody has a degree in marketing because there is no marketing degrees in any Czech university at the time. I might be able to find you someone that speaks English is creative and we think could be a good marketer. Jerome Ternyck: And those roots of actually being in a position to figure out what could a person be good at independent of anything they had done before is what gave me the passion for recruiting. And to this day, I will fight. In scorecard for example, when you evaluate candidates, don't evaluate candidates on the must haves, evaluate them on must achieves. Back to my example, if I can code in Java like a God, do you care if I went to Stanford or I learned it on YouTube? You don't. So don't make a scorecard that says degree from a great university, five years experience, this is irrelevant. Make a scorecard that says amazing Java coder, good team player. Create. Okay great. So now you can evaluate me on scenes that I can achieve. And that has stayed with me. Jerome Ternyck: To this day I look at recruiting, I just want to match people to jobs at [inaudible 00:32:39]. I think it's a technology problem and I think it's a problem that can and will be solved by a technology player. And I'd like for SmartRecruiters to be that player. Chris Russell: Awesome. And last question for you, Jerome. What would the Jerome of today tell the Jerome of 2011 when you first started around this, about what you've learned along this journey? Jerome Ternyck: So if the Jerome of today, professionally, I would say get in tech faster. I spent the first 10 years doing a recruitment agency. I had good success. We ended up with like 300 people in the company and it was all nice. But in the end we were just helping one person at a time. And I think I would have loved to get into tech a bit earlier. On my management and my own personal leadership, I come from a place of vulnerability and authenticity these days that I did not have the courage, the experience to have back when I was 25. When you're 25 you want to conquer the world and you're protecting yourself. You are not self-confident. And I realized over the years that vulnerability and authenticity are just really core leadership skills. I'm here and with the team. I really love my Smartians, the whole reason why we are here. So I'm driven by purpose and leading by authenticity and vulnerability. So that's one thing I would advise myself.

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Serge Boudreau is the Manager of Talent Acquisition at Calgary based BURNCO Rock Products. With his job board background he is revamping their recruitment process from a marketer's perspective. LI: post mentioned: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6620785258625409024 Serge Boudreau: This is Serge Boudreau, manager of talent acquisition at BURNCO Rock Products, and I'm next on the RecTech podcast. Speaker 2: Welcome to RecTech, the podcast where recruiting and technology intersect. Each month, you'll hear from vendors shaping the recruiting world along with recruiters who will tell you how they use technology to hire talent. Now, here's your host, the mad scientist of online recruiting, Chris Russell. Chris Russell: All right. You're listening to the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology-inspired conversations. We're all about the new tools and tactics to land more talent. Today's episode is a practitioner edition. RecTech Podcast sponsored in part at our friends at Emissary.ai, the text recruiting platform. You want to get superstars in demand and on the move, Emissary is the easiest way to connect with them faster and more effectively wherever they are. Each recruiter seat you get on Emissary gets their own phone number to use as their primary phone number for candidate conversations. All those conversations are stored in the text inbox on Emissary. You choose the area code, so each of your recruiters will get a 10-digit the candidate sees when they receive the message. They can have the option for call forwarding to their cell or office line. Go to Emisarry.ai, self-schedule a demo, let them know you heard it on the RecTech Podcast. Chris Russell: He's at the top. Serge Boudreau runs talent acquisition for BURNCO Rock Products out of Calgary, Alberta. He's also a listener of the show, so I'm extremely glad he's about to make is RecTech debut. Serge, welcome. Serge Boudreau: Thank you, Chris. I'm very excited to be here or talking to you. Definitely, I've been listening to your podcast almost since the inception, so for you to ask me to come onboard was very exciting on my end. Chris Russell: Awesome. I always love it when I get a listener on the show itself. So appreciate that volunteering there. I was looking at your LinkedIn profile before we get started today. You got an interesting background overall. I want to start there, I think. You've worked time at Kelly Services. You worked at Indeed Canada and also Workopolis. I'm assuming you were there at Workopolis when the takeover happened by Indeed. Would that be a correct assumption? Serge Boudreau: Actually, no. Chris Russell: Oh. Serge Boudreau: I was at Indeed when Indeed purchased Workopolis, which was very interesting. Chris Russell: Okay. So the reverse, okay. Serge Boudreau: Yeah, I actually had joined Indeed already. It was interesting. Like you said, my background is quite varied. I actually started my career in talent acquisition as a recruiter. Then got promoted in through a different recruitment manager roles. Then decide to really go on the vendor side and go at Workopolis. During that time, Workopolis was very dominant here in Canada as far as the job site of choice. I think it was really Workopolis and Monster had quite a bit of market share here as well. I had the pleasure of being in charge of sales and operation for Western Canada and Quebec for a while. I do speak French as well, but spent quite a bit of time there. Unfortunately, when Indeed came into the market or fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, it really took a lot of market share and really hurt Workopolis. Serge Boudreau: Eventually, pretty much led to Indeed acquiring in that point, but a couple factors that happened is here in Western Canada, especially in Calgary, it's very oil and gas focused, the industry. So in 2014 when oil and gas just crashed, also did the recruitment aspects of it. It really put Workopolis in strain in Western Canada, hence I moved to Kelly Services, which was actually my first foray in a staffing firm. I learned a lot, both on the permanent placement, but mostly, we did a lot of contract for contract workers for large oil and gas. A lot of the workforce became a contract workforce as they were hiring just based on the economy. Serge Boudreau: Then had the pleasure to do a very similar role at Indeed where I basically led the Western sales team here in Canada. I did Quebec for a while as well there, so it was kind of going back to my old days at Workopolis. Then one day, we acquired Workopolis, and it felt like the old Godfather line, "When you think you're out, they pull you back in." It's how I felt. I have so many great memories and everything at Workopolis, but, obviously, Indeed in the Canadian marketplace and also in the US has been very dominant. Chris Russell: Yeah. Rumor has it that ZipRecruiter was also trying to bid for Workopolis. Do you know if that's true or not? Serge Boudreau: I've heard similar rumors. Yeah, there's a couple of other. The other rumors I've heard, there was also other Canadian players that were looking to basically going around Workopolis. In Canada, just to give you a landscape, there was Workopolis. Obviously, the normal American job board, so CareerBuilder, Monster, but there's a Quebec job board that's making a lot of inroads in Canada was Jobillico. There was rumors they were potentially trying to acquire Workopolis. Obviously, Nubo or now Talent.com, there's rumors they were in the picture, but I don't exactly what happened in the end of the day, but I'd be shocked if ZipRecruiter was not part of that conversation for sure just because Workopolis brand was so strong in Canada. Chris Russell: Yeah, totally. Okay, cool. Well, thanks for that history lesson there, Serge. Tell me about more about what you guys hire for there at BURNCO and I'm curious to talk to me a little bit the size of your recruiting team there, and how many people they are, and how many recs you guys are looking to fill this year, and things like that. Serge Boudreau: Yeah. No. BURNCO Rock Products is an interesting business. We basically take big rocks and make them into small rocks to really simplify what we do, but a lot of people. We operate in Canada and the US. In Canada, concrete. So you've seen those concrete mixer trucks. We do asphalt aggregate, which is basically the foundation of construction for highways, anything like that. We also run supply, basically landscape supply, landscape, hardscape supplies to retail stores for contractors and for basically the weekend landscape person that's coming in to get a bag of rocks or get some landscape stones or whatever the case is. In the US, we're heavily focused on concrete and aggregate. We have operations in Texas and in Colorado. Serge Boudreau: The great majority of what we hire and the biggest challenge, as you're probably well aware of, is drivers. Our drivers in Texas and Colorado, it's a massive challenge as everyone is seeing in the industry of all type of driving jobs. In Canada, very similar, but we also hire in Canada anything from head office. We do from IT roles to anything across the board. Our structure is a little bit different as far as how much we recruit. In total, we hire around 550 people a year. Very small team. When it comes to recruitment, it's a little bit of a structure. How my role falls into play is basically I'm responsible for the creation and the governance of our whole talent acquisition strategy. The great majority of the actual execution is done by our HR business partners that's responsible for each business division. I do have a team of coordinators and also recruiters to assist, but the lead on the intake on the role from the hiring manager is done by the HR business partner or the HR manager in that particular location comes to us. Serge Boudreau: The biggest part of my job is more in the recruitment marketing side to make sure that we are doing everything out there, especially in the recruitment market to get enough candidates and enough qualified candidates so we can actually fill those roles. I'm going to brag a little bit, but hiring 500 roles and really having a tiny recruitment team is something I'm really proud of. A lot of that, coming in is I had the opportunity to create a really robust team, but I decided to look at how we can be efficient. We really automated a lot of our processes, a lot of how we're going out to the market from... Basically, if we can automate it, we're automating it. I really want the recruitment and the HR business partner focus 100% on relationships. I really do strongly believe in the candidate experience and our hiring manager experience is the two things I really care about. Serge Boudreau: When I first started, to give you an idea, we were still accepting resumes. We didn't have an ATS. We had zero technology. Basically, I was guided to a filing cabinet with all the resumes we'd received over the last 10 years, which I was kind of shocked to see. Chris Russell: Filing cabinet, huh? Serge Boudreau: Yeah, exactly. And just the word fax. I'm not that young. I'm not that old, but in reality, I didn't know fax machines still existed in the corporate world, especially coming from pretty innovative companies like Indeed. So we completely revamped what we did. I feel today, in our market, in our industry, we're definitely highly innovative in what we do, and how we go to the market, and how we actually get our employees. So quite a big of changes, but it's been lots of fun in the past year. We've accomplished a lot. Chris Russell: Yeah, it sounds like it. We're going to dive into that. I'm going to give you some props first though because as a recruiting marketer, I like to see people like yourself out there doing unique things that are unique in terms of social media stuff. You posted something yesterday which I called out and threw it up on my LinkedIn recruiting marketing group, which is basically just a job post. Now, when I typically see job posts on LinkedIn, it's all same thing. It's all we're hiring, right? With a simple link and maybe a small- Serge Boudreau: I hate we're hiring, by the way, not to cut you off. Chris Russell: So do I. Serge Boudreau: But I just hate that phrase. Anytime I see it, it's a massive turnoff. Sorry. Go ahead. Chris Russell: Everyone's hiring. Who cares what the- Serge Boudreau: Yeah, exactly. Chris Russell: What the job seeker wants to know is why should they come work there or something unique about that employer itself. Let me just read for the audience what you wrote here, and I'll put a link to it in the show notes as well. It says... Well, let me describe it first. It was a picture of a bunch of trucks lined up. It looks like it's at a rock quarry, but it's from 1950s, it looks like. There's a bunch of old trucks sitting there. Serge Boudreau: Yeah. Chris Russell: Looks like old cement mixers. Are those cement mixers? Serge Boudreau: They are, yeah. That's 1940. Chris Russell: 1940, okay. So I go back even further. You've got the BURNCO logo in red there right on top, so it stands out pretty well. First of all, I think the black and white photo is unique too for one thing. That's going to catch my eye, number one, and your logo there is right there on top in red. You can't miss this thing. Audience, it says, "Judging by the picture, we need to hire someone to do some better financial planning so we can update our equipment. I'm kidding, but we are hiring a finance planning and analyst profession for our Texas office. Click on the picture to find out if this opportunity, an iconic 107-year-old family business, is the right place for you." I love that, Serge. That's a great example of how to use social media right when it comes to promoting a job. So kudos to you and great job there. Serge Boudreau: Thank you. What's interesting in looking at what our value proposition as an employer is and looking at how we're going to go to the market, I think there's a couple things that I looked at is we're 107 years old. We're a fourth-generation family business. In an economy, especially in the Calgary market, where I wouldn't say it's doing really well just based still on oil and gas and the Canadian market, people are looking for a little bit stability, companies that have been a long time. I do a mixture of either people that are genuine people that work within the company and are still here, and they're happy. The other is when I'm doing equipment or anything like that, I love the vintage stuff. I think it stands out. I think it's our unique proposition to the market that we've been around forever. We have a lot of history. That picture is from 1940. I have pictures actually from our inception, which was in 1912. Our CEO is... Like I said, he's a fourth-generation Burns, so it's been in the family. It's a unique proposition. Serge Boudreau: I leverage social media quite a bit. We have our own social media site that's just dedicated towards the employee side of it, what it is. It's also my recruitment marketing launchpad, but I'm trying a lot of different things to see what resonates better in the market. Some of it generic, just like, "Here's my job. Here is the 100 list of things that I need you to be able to do to hire here," just it doesn't attract. I know it from working plenty of years at a job board, and understanding what works, what doesn't. So I'm always testing from witty to straight up. Serge Boudreau: I try to stay away from the faux employer brand. What I mean by that is try to be authentic with what you're doing. I get caught in it sometimes, and I put buzzwords or things that really are too corporate-y. Our employees that we're hiring are true, what I call, salt of the earth type people, hard workers, and they don't want the corporate BS that a lot of job postings are out there or how we're targeting it especially. I do a lot of Facebook targeted ads. I try to do the same thing there because it's really hitting the demographic of the people I'm trying to start- Chris Russell: How are those working for you, Serge, because they changed their ad restrictions there? Were you affected by that? Because it seems like now it's a much broader set of people you can target with that ad, and it's going to lessen, I think, the overall quality of click-through rates in some of these ads there. Tell me what you're seeing from your standpoint. Serge Boudreau: Yeah. I hate it, first of all, because I was able to target. I think it's doing exactly the opposite of what they were trying to do. I get it. I get the reasoning, but I get the challenge because, in certain cases, it really has affected the way I can target from... To give you an idea of that is I was able to target specifically ads in either a different language or specific demographic or even in some cases, I am actually physically targeting a minority group because I want to hire them. Now, I'm caught in the situation that it's a lot tougher to do. Serge Boudreau: So right now, I can't be as targeted. I really have to spread it out to everyone, which is fine. I have actually had success in some ways because I'm hitting the husbands of people that could work for us or the wives, and they're sharing it to their network, which if I was really specific on my targeting, I maybe not would have hit them as much. So I'm not totally pissed off, but it's made my job a little bit harder in how I approach Facebook ads because I think they're a great tool for recruitment. I think especially I'm hiring a demographic that spends a lot of time on Facebook, so I need to be there more than I need to be on any other tools out there. Chris Russell: Are you- Serge Boudreau: Yeah, it hasn't been great. Chris Russell: For your ads on Facebook, are you doing legion ads where you just capture the contact info or are you actually redirecting them back to your job somewhere? Serge Boudreau: I leverage ViziRecruiter. I don't know if you've ever heard of Vizi, which it's basically how it's leading to my... Basically, I take the Vizi ad, and then it's basically driving it to apply directly to my career site, but there's not many clicks. It's they see the job description. They click on the ad. They see the Vizi, which, in my opinion, it's really cool. It's probably the thing I get the most complement- Chris Russell: Yeah. Describe ViziRecruiter for the audience, if you could. Tell them what it is. I love the product as well. Serge Boudreau: Yeah. So- Chris Russell: I remember when it came out a few years ago and I was like, "Wow. This is what every career site should look like basically." Serge Boudreau: I agree. I think the biggest challenge that I have I'm a horrible copywriter. I try to do my best, and when I looked at my job ad coming in, there's a big difference between a job description and a job ad. So I was able to really focus my job ad, but Vizi just brought it to the next level where it basically takes your job ad. It creates it in a really nice-looking format that's easily digestible with nice pictures. The key highlights are really easy to read as they're kind of in a... not in a bullet point, but I don't know what the exact word is. It's basically laid out in very visual way. Serge Boudreau: Instead of creating an ad for every time that I'm doing any type of social media campaign on my own, I'm just taking the link from Vizi. It's already done. Vizi is something that I've had a lot of compliments from job seekers, from my counterparts in the industry as how cool it looks because it does look... Not to advertise anyone. They're not paying me, but I definitely recommend if there's any practitioners out there to take a look at Vizi because it's made a big difference in the look of my ads. Chris Russell: Yeah. Listeners, go out there, search BURNCO careers. You can see some of their jobs there. It's a very visual. It's basically a visually-stunning job description overall. I like how I click on the Texas drivers here and the shot of the cement mixer pans in on itself. It's very colorful and definitely eye-catching overall. There's no paragraphs of texts. It's just blocks of images or, sorry, blocks of elements here with some icons, things like that. So I do love the overall visual-ness of the job. I think every job ad should look like this overall, but I shall there... so you mean- Serge Boudreau: It does make it stand out. You described it way better than I did, so thanks, Chris, but it does make it stand out. It really differentiates. It helps you, like what we talked about, as far as what your actual imagery is going to look out there. I'm always a believer that the most important thing in a job description is the physical content of what the job is. Chris Russell: Will Vizi... Will it suck in your ATS jobs and then kind of- Serge Boudreau: Yeah. Chris Russell: ... create the ad automatically? How's it work? Serge Boudreau: So they scrape my jobs from my ATS. They basically automatically update on their backend as far as what it looks... They create each one individually, but they scrape my job so any updates that I do, usually, the new Vizi, I call it, is updated in the next day. So around half a day turnaround, so it's fairly quick. Chris Russell: Nice, nice. Did you see a jump in applications or conversions when you switched to Vizi? Serge Boudreau: Yeah. We actually did quite a bit of research to see how much it would affect it. You got to put in perspective, my number one source of candidates right now is still Indeed, and my jobs are flowing automatically to Indeed as the quick apply in the background. But my jobs in Indeed are not being converted into Vizi just because of how their format runs, but all the other sources of social media and looking at what the conversion was before and after, we saw almost a 25% up-lick on our conversion. With the amount of volume that we do, which is not large... Obviously, we're not an international or a national business, but for our volume, that's a huge uplift. What I noticed too, I found a little bit deeper, we actually hired more from the Vizi than we did from any other sources outside of Indeed, which was definitely interesting. What that tells me is the quality that we're getting is higher with Vizi than it was before. Chris Russell: Interesting. Very interesting. Okay. Your ATS there is Workable, it looks like, which you- Serge Boudreau: It is. Chris Russell: ... which you put in last year at some point. Just in the initial thoughts on Workable as an ATS, how do you like it? Serge Boudreau: I really like Workable. When I looked at different ATS, there's so many different alternatives and I went through... I'll give you an idea of where I got to. I shortlisted to three ATS. Those were Jobvite, SmartRecruiters, and Workable. Jobvite and SmartRecruiters are amazing ATS in the context, but our hiring managers are quite involved in the hiring process overall. And what I want to make sure is it's very easy for them to use. I found with functionality as far as the intuitiveness of Workable was impressive to me and what it could do. I felt that it wouldn't take me really long or anyone in my team to be able to train the hiring manager on how to access Workable. It's basically a five-minute conversation. It's done. They get it. That's a challenge with most ATS. Imagine trying to train hiring managers that's never used any software used in the field on Taleo. Not to bash Taleo, but that would be really difficult. Serge Boudreau: The other aspect that I found really key with Workable, and most ATS now, I'm seeing that change, is how easy it is for applicants to apply. Workable has a mobile-first platform, extremely easy to apply. So that's critical to me. I've heard on your show many times, I think you're a big proponent. Actually, your last one, your idea is we should have one quick apply for every ATS and every ATS should get onboard. I'm 100% behind it. Chris Russell: Thank you, Serge. Serge Boudreau: I do believe though, not to sound... It's a little bit of a pipe dream in some ways, so- Chris Russell: Yeah, I know. Serge Boudreau: ... I don't think they'll coordinate- Chris Russell: A man can dream, can't he? Serge Boudreau: Exactly. I think you're 100% accurate, but, hey, I got to take care of my own and I got to work with what I can control. And Workable definitely has that aspect where it's easy to apply. It's quick. It's a mobile type of platform. I don't even have to ask for resume. To give you an idea, in certain markets we're in, really tough to get drivers. I want to remove any friction if possible. So I'll ask them, "What's your name? What's your email address? What's your phone number? Write in one sentence why you're a driver." That way, I'll call them then get the... or someone will call them and get all the information. So anything that can remove friction from the system in applying is great. I also like they integrate with a lot of tools that I was planning to use anyway. Serge Boudreau: The one complaint, and I've told this to Workable many times, is their hesitance to work with programmatic advertising. I've had quite a bit of challenge getting Appcast or any other programmatic players integrated with Workable. They put a lot of roadblocks behind it. As you know, right now, programmatic is probably the hottest thing in HR tech. If you haven't looked at leveraging programmatic as an HR or as a talent acquisition practitioner, you're behind the curve because it definitely is a true course of candidates. What I'm trying to do is really go away from my reliance on Indeed like more practitioners in Canda just because of their dominance here. I have nothing against Indeed, but it's never a good business decision to have a reliance. So I'm really looking at programmatic to get the next level. We have to figure it out workarounds with Appcast and with other providers. Chris Russell: Could you give Appcast your feed or something like that and have them push out the jobs? Is that- Serge Boudreau: Yeah, yeah. We've created a backend solution, but it's not ideal because sometimes, I need to go to directly to the Appcast feed to get the candidates. And anytime you're adding layers in a really, pretty tight, efficient team, any more steps can cause a little bit of growing pain. That's the only complaint. So Workable, if you're out there, you've heard me. You need to do this. You need to work with programmatic. Chris Russell: There you go. All right. What else is on your HR tech deck, Serge? It looks like you got some referral stuff here. I guess that's also Workable. Serge Boudreau: Yeah, I'm actually using Workable's referral tool, which has worked really well. We had a very, very decentralized type of how we handled referrals. So we had spreadsheets, which ended up, we forgot to pay most of the people because spreadsheet wasn't updated. We had a different program in Texas, Colorado, and then in different business divisions in Canada. So it wasn't standardized. It was really tough to follow. It was tough to get our people paid on time. So Workable referral is actually really good on that end. They basically centralize everything for me. Serge Boudreau: Really, my long-term plan with Workable or any type of referral programs that I want to run, I eventually want to get away from paying any referral bonus. I think if you're a really good company to work for, people will actively go out and refer people. But in the meantime in going away, because we've always had a referral program. It's always been somewhat lucrative. Just dropping the ball initially and saying, "Hey, we're not going to do referral bonus anymore," could have had a negative effect. So I think the program and how we handle it right now will never change, but how we pay, that might change dramatically in the future as well. Chris Russell: Gotcha. Let's take a quick break, listeners, so I can talk about our other sponsor, of course, our friends over at WorkHere, WorkHere.com, the geofencing ad platform. They help employers reach people through online ads with pinpoint precision where they live, work, and shop. WorkHere is going to advertise your jobs on the screens that candidates use the most, of course, their mobile phones. Messaging is then delivered in the social mobile apps they use more often. From them, a chat team will qualify and engage them, send them back to ATS via SMS, email or redirect. So head over to WorkHere.com and tell them you heard it on the RecTech Podcast. Serge, on your social media profiles, how often are you posting? Just give me a general sense of the types of content you're posting up there as well. Serge Boudreau: Yeah. We're not posting enough. That's something that working really lean and having a lot of recs has been a... I'm a believer you need to be putting out like 10 to 15 pieces of content almost a day to really keep the candidates engaged, but what we've created is basically what we call Inside BURNCO. The purpose of it behind it is to really give... WE obviously have our BURNCO consumer, social media accounts out there, but Inside BURNCO was really created for two things. It was, one, a place to launch all our social media recruitment campaigns. So like the ad you started at the end, that's some of the type of contents we'll reach out. The other is just to give a little bit of an insight of what it is to work inside BURNCO. We'll profile different employees, if we have events. That's one of the places that we put it on social media. Serge Boudreau: I'm looking going in 2020... A lot of it was controlled by me initially as a new concept, as far as I was the physical poster, but also with the limitation of time, it's been a challenge. So I really want to focus in 2020 putting a lot of content and looking how we can accomplish that. There's obviously a couple different ways and how we schedule with different tools out there. So I'm looking at that now, but I want it to feel authentic. I want it to feel real. I believe in automation, but I also believe in having a real clear message that's authentic and it feels like it's a real person in the back actually creating those posts. And it is, so it's just how we schedule and how we can make sure that we have enough content that is interesting and people want to follow because I see it as a way to keep expanding our talent community. When I say talent community, it's... Drivers is a perfect example. I always want to be nurturing a new pool of candidates, so when we need them, they're ready to go. One of those aspects is keeping them engaged through our social media channels. Chris Russell: Yeah. Very cool. You're also one of our Rejobify clients, so I want to thank you again for signing up for that service, so you can Rejobify your rejected candidates. I'm just curious from your perspective, Serge, why do you think that's such an important thing to do in terms of the candidate experience for every candidate that comes to your company and tries to apply? Serge Boudreau: I am a big believer that candidate experience is critical. That's from the minute they see their job ad to them not getting the job. Let's put in perspective is most people don't get the job. We get over 30,000 candidates a year, and we hire 500, so in reality, the great majority doesn't get a job. I heard somewhere actually in the last couple days, and I thought it was brilliant, is we're in the business of goodbyes. We're kind of breaking- Chris Russell: Rejection, yeah. Serge Boudreau: Yeah, rejection. We're kind of rejecting- Chris Russell: We're in the rejection business, yeah. Serge Boudreau: We are in the rejection business. It's kind of breaking up with a lot of people. In a lot of ways, it's telling them that it's us, not them sometimes because there's so many great candidates, but we can only hire so much. I have been blown away, and I'm not just telling you this but, obviously, you being involved in this service. This has been a fantastic tool for us. It's been something that has... Because I've been trying to figure out how can we help our job seekers in any way. A couple of ideas I come up before this tool was, well, maybe... We run landscape, our retail stores here in some parts of Canada. I'm like, "Well, maybe we give them a discount on the product as a thank you." And something that, obviously, I think for a lot of consumer brands that are everywhere, I think you should look at that and I think it's something that probably could be integrated with Rejobify, but when- Chris Russell: Yeah. We have a retail client, in fact, that gives a discount as well as part of their page to their eye care centers. They can take advantage of that in addition to the stuff on Rejobify, so it's a great idea. Serge Boudreau: Yeah. I think it's a brilliant idea for companies that are doing it. I decided, because we're not at where... and the type of roles that it's something that we will be potentially doing, but this is really if one person gets a job from the advice or the tools that Rejobify is giving them, it's a big win for us. It's interesting because you shared on LinkedIn yesterday one of the rejection emails. I loved it. I was actually going to comment, but then I got busy. Do you have any clue of what the candidate did? Did candidate respond to that? I'd be curious to see what the candidate said actually. That- Chris Russell: I don't know. Again, I found it online somewhere. I printed it out, and it was sitting in my stack of papers. When I was doing some cleaning over the holidays, I discovered it again. I was like, "I got to blog about this," so it was printed out in tiny, little text. I had to sit there for a good 20 minutes and type it out, but, yeah, I'm not sure what the candidate thought of it or not. But to me, if I'm- Serge Boudreau: Well, it gives you- Chris Russell: ... reading that, I'm smiling at the end of that thing. It's a kind of a neat way to- Serge Boudreau: 100%. Chris Russell: ... let down. Serge Boudreau: Well, it's interesting because 99% of the responses I get from candidates by... because I try to customize messaging in a very non-corporate talk. Obviously, it's customized, but not customized because I'll be sending out the message to say 300 people at once, but where ATS, obviously, their name and my name is stated, but I try to put it in real talk. I put the Rejobify offer as part of that. I would say 99% of the time, the feedback is amazing. Chris Russell: Have you gotten- Serge Boudreau: There is always that- Chris Russell: Have you gotten candidates that replied back and said, "Hey, thank you for this?" Serge Boudreau: Yes. Chris Russell: Awesome. Serge Boudreau: Plenty of examples. Chris Russell: Awesome. Serge Boudreau: I've also had candidates or very few. I had one yesterday that was insulted that they needed help as a job seeker. This was the second portion of the email because the first part is, "I'm fully qualified. I can't believe you're rejecting me." I get that. It's really frustrating. You look at a job. You think you're qualified, and you get a rejection email. It does hurt the ego in some ways. If I'm getting 200, there's chances are I'm going to be rejecting people that are qualified for the job. But they did it in a very, I would say, rude way and basically called our company unethical because she deserves an interview, which I'm like, "Well, maybe you should look at self-awareness." Chris Russell: Okay, yeah. Probably not the right candidate for BURNCO then. Serge Boudreau: Exactly, your entitlement. So I responded nicely to be like... Then she responded back. She's like, "On top of that, you think I'm not a good job seeker, so you're giving me these tools to help me look for a job." I'm like, "Yeah, you probably need it," but aside from that, the feedback has been great. You see the numbers of people that I send. It's a 30% conversion rate that they sign up, which is fantastic. I've really enjoyed it. It's something that's going to be part of my, I guess, tech stack for as long as I do because it's really cheap too. Chris Russell: Yeah. I guess that's a win-win for both. Serge Boudreau: Cheap is not the right word. Very inexpensive. Chris Russell: Cost-effective. Serge Boudreau: Yes, exactly. Chris Russell: There you go. Awesome. Well, Serge, we certainly appreciate your time today. I guess my last question for you as we end up today's podcast is what are you dying to try as far any kind of new HR tech or some other kind of marketing tactic for 2020 here? Serge Boudreau: Well, part of my 2020 was getting really hardcore metrics for a company that had no metrics. So we launch all our metrics through a partner, webTactics, here in Canada for... Everything is to Power BI, so everything that was spreadsheet is now automatically sent to Power BI. So everyone has access too, every executive. We are just launching Click Boarding here for our onboarding, which directly integrates with our ATS. So I'm very excited about getting that onboard because we don't have a great onboarding experience right now. I was not a believer in video interviewing. When I say video interviewing, it's the normal interview tools. I've been converted and- Chris Russell: You have. Wow. Serge Boudreau: Yeah, I have. I have because I think if you do it in a particular way, if someone just applies to your job, and you just send them a video, and there's no personality to it, it's like applying to a job and getting a assessment tool that basically takes 45 minutes to do. That's just a bad experience, but if someone on my team calls you, does a basic screening, be like, "Hey. We're going to send you a video interview to go through a little bit more detail," not too lengthy, it's actually cut our screening time dramatically. I also include a very personalized message from either the hiring manager or myself in that video. I let them do retakes, at least a couple of retakes. I think that's the biggest challenge sometimes is you get one shot. It is awkward. Video interviewing is awkward, but the flip side to it is on my... where I run a really efficient and small team for what we hire, it's a tool that's actually from what I've seen... I've just launched in the last couple weeks, has saved me a lot of time because I've been able to do that screening that would take me quite a long time over the phone. It's helped me shorten that period. Chris Russell: Nice. It just struck me too as we're talking is you're probably the one company that could use the company rockstar in their job ads. Serge Boudreau from- Serge Boudreau: We haven't. Okay? We had that internal discussion, and I decided not to because... I still go back to it. I'm like, "We should use rockstar." Chris Russell: There's probably a funny way of doing it somehow. Serge Boudreau: We should use it, but I just hate those titles like ninja, rockstar, all of them. But I could use it. You're right. You know what? If I do- Chris Russell: Yeah. I say it jokingly, but yeah. Serge Boudreau: If I do end up using it, I'm going to put it on you say, "From this podcast that you're giving me justification to do it." Chris Russell: There you go. The one company that can use it is BURNCO. There you go. Serge Boudreau: Exactly. Chris Russell: Awesome. Well, Serge, thanks again for joining me today. Tell people where to connect with you and BURNCO. Serge Boudreau: You can find me on LinkedIn, Serge Boudreau. I'm pretty easy to find even though it's a French name. For BURNCO, please check out our social media site so at Inside BURNCO on Facebook, Instagram, potentially TikTok coming. I'm pushing hard on that. Also, BURNCO.com/careers. You can see all our jobs. You can see everything we're doing with Vizi. Come check us out. Chris Russell: Awesome. I could talk to you all day, Serge. Again, thanks for your time. Serge Boudreau: Thank you. Chris Russell: That will do for this edition of the RecTech Podcast. Thanks again to my sponsors, WorkHere and Emissary. Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcast. If you're an iTunes subscriber, leave a review, and I'll be sure to thank you on air. Thanks for listening, everyone, and remember always be recruiting. Speaker 2: Another episode of RecTech is in the books. Follow Chris on Twitter @ChrisRussel or visit RecTechMedia.com where you can find the audio and links for this show on our blog. RecTech Media helps keep employers and recruiters up to date through our podcast, webinars, and articles. So be sure to check out our other sites, Recruiting Headlines and HR Podcasters to stay on top of recruiting industry trends. Thanks for listening, and we'll see you soon on the next episode of RecTech, the recruiting technology podcast.

Sponsored by Rejobify.com Apploi Gets $5.2 Million https://hrtechfeed.com/nyc-based-apploi-gets-5-2m-to-simplify-service-industry-hiring/ Indeed Launches its own Job Market https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-launches-new-experience-to-support-career-journey/ LumApps Intranet Platform Raises $70 Million https://hrtechfeed.com/intranet-platform-raises-70-million-series-c/ Xoogler Lets You Hire Ex Google Employees https://hrtechfeed.com/alumni-community-site-lets-you-hire-ex-google-workers/ Ubeya Workforce Management Tool https://hrtechfeed.com/ubeya-aworkforce-management-platform-raises-3-5m/ 3DIQ and Bullhorn https://hrtechfeed.com/3diq-launches-new-staffing-technology-solution-integrated-with-bullhorn/ Follow HR Tech Feed on social media: @hrtechfeed on Twitter Linkedin

Matthew Gilbert is the Creative Director at New York City based Bayard Advertising….where he directs their strategy, creative, content and web development teams spanning all areas of EVP and Employer Brand (EB) development and activation. Recently Matthew wrote an article on linkedin that caught my eye.../it was titled  Do Employer Brands Need A Tagline, Or Just Really Good UX? I think it’s time to reinvent, dare I say do away with, the notion that an Employer Brand needs a tagline. I can almost hear the shouts of “Nooooooo” echo across the EB landscape. Allow me to try and explain. Article Link

Sponsored by Rejobify.com MyWorkChoice Raises $3 Million for Flexible Work Platform https://www.americaninno.com/charlotte/news-charlotte/flexible-shift-scheduling-company-myworkchoice-raises-3m-round/ Phenom People Raises Massive $30 Million Dollar Round https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-people-raises-30-million-in-series-c-proving-the-hr-shift-towards-ai-powered-talent-experiences/ Hiretual Launches Healthcare Specific Sourcing Feature https://hrtechfeed.com/hiretual-launches-healthcare-sourcing-tool/ Bartender On Demand Platform Raises Seed Round https://hrtechfeed.com/bartender-on-demand-job-site-raises-seed-round/ ModerHEALTH Raises $30 million https://recruitingheadlines.com/mental-health-benefits-platform-for-employers-gets-31-million-in-funding/ Follow HR Tech Feed on social media: @hrtechfeed on Twitter Linkedin

HR Lancers a new Marketplace for Freelance Recruiters and Human Resources Consultants Thats right HR is going gig! Employers and freelancers can now create profiles, post gigs and be found in the first and only niche gig platform dedicated to HR. “There are thousands of freelance HR consultants and recruiters and now they have a place to call home, HR Lancers was born out of my own frustration with established gig platforms who charge exorbitant fees and lack relevant HR gigs.” Members can create a profile for free and be matched to available gigs from categories such as Benefits, Compensation, Payroll, Training, Sourcing, Recruiting and more.  The new site which can be found online at hrlancers.com allows industry freelancers to post profiles, search for work, setup email job alerts at no cost to them. Members only pay if they choose to feature themselves in the freelancer directory. Popular freelancers such as Katrina Kibben, Keirsten Greggs and Jim Stroud have already created profiles on the platform. Recruiting expert Jim Stroud says HR Lancers is a much needed resource. “Specialists are affordable and amateurs are expensive, when you consider the time and money wasted because of inexperience.  This is why HR Lancers is a premiere worth noting. With the gig economy booming and HR challenges abounding, it only makes sense to have a platform that provides the worker flexibility so many in the labor force are demanding. In light of that, a niche site for the HR industry is all the more logical.” HR Lancers allows employers to post projects and gigs that are contract only positions. They can also seamlessly browse the open freelancer directory and connect directly with freelancers through keyword and category search.  Current pricing for employers is as follows: 10 Day Gigs are free for a limited time, $29 for a 30 Day Featured Gig or $19 per month for an unlimited subscription.  Follow HR Lancers on social media via Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. https://www.facebook.com/HRlancerspro/ https://twitter.com/hrlancers https://www.linkedin.com/company/hr-lancers/ So spread the word far and wide that HR lancers is here and ready to power the HR gig economy. https://hrlancers.com/

Special thanks to WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai for their sponsorship. TRENDS: sourcing chatbots, text recruiting, automated pre-screening, resume scoring, automated hiring, digital onboarding, nurturing candidates and flexible work arrangements.  Cool tool alert - Typorama lets you create amazing visuals by "automagically" transforming your text and photos into beautiful typographic designs. No design skills needed! Just choose a background, type in your words and your creative typography is ready! Typorama saves you tons of work by automatically creating complex text layouts with different fonts and typefaces. By just a few taps, you instantly get your text beautifully laid out on a background of your choice. This would take hours if you were using Photoshop or a similar photo editor. (The text designs are not templates and they are generated randomly as you choose different styles). The app is free in the app stores. Apple | Google

Sponsored by Rejobify.com SuccessFinder Gets Funding Canada-based SuccessFinder has raised USD $2.23 million to join a crowded field of North America-based assessment providers. Positioning for recruitment, talent management, and analytics and stressing the validity of their psychometric science, Source: BDC Capital Invests $1.5M in SuccessFinder  https://hrtechfeed.com/canada-based-successfinder-raises-usd-2-23-million-for-its-psychometric-assessments/ Bullhorn Acquires Automated Solutions Provider Herefish https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-acquires-automated-solutions-provider-herefish/ ERIN Employee Referral Software Releases Text Message Referrals https://hrtechfeed.com/erin-employee-referral-software-releases-text-message-referrals/ vFairs Launches Feature-Rich JOB BOARD https://hrtechfeed.com/vfairs-launches-feature-rich-job-board/ New announcement coming Tuesday Jan 14th. If you are an HR freelancer or a company that hires them RecTech Media is launching a new resource around that niche. Look for the special episode and and press release that day. Follow HR Tech Feed on social media: @hrtechfeed on Twitter Linkedin

Happy new year everyone this is the first episode of the new year and I have a special opinion episode to start us off. But let me start with some housekeeping items namely events I need to tell you about. I’ve got some discounts for you. Talent Acquisition Week is coming up at the end of January 28-30 in san francisco and you can use the code RECTECH to save 15% off a ticket...its 3 conferences in one week SOCIAL RECRUITING STRATEGIES CONFERENCE, EMPLOYER BRANDING STRATEGIES CONFERENCE and TALENT SOURCING STRATEGIES SUMMIT - learn more at talentacquisitionweek.com IAMPHENOM - the Phenom People conference will be held in Philadelphia on March 3-5 so if you want to save 25% use code RUSSELL - register at iamphenom.com I will be attending both events and conducting a number of interviews while attending RecTech Live Webinars Jan 16th at 1pm come see a demo of CandidateID a talent nurturing tool that also offers a free recruitment crm. CEO Adam Gordon will give us a preview of their software suite Jan 23rdt at 1pm come see a demo of Talenya - sourcing chatbot...very cool tool for employers...CEO Gal Amog will demo, they are targeting corporate TA professionals so if that you then tune in Register at rectechlive.com Cool tool alert - Tiny Scanner Plus is a 5 dollar app that will make your life easier if you do a lot of scanning. Your smartphone is an extension of your office. One of the most useful apps we found recently is Tiny Scanner Plus. Take a picture os a document and convert an image to a PDF that you can email or export. Contracts, agendas, letters, mark-ups, articles, receipts, kids' schedules or tournament brackets—scan it and send it in a snap. Name, organize and search your scans on the go from your phone. The app costs $4.99 in the app stores. Apple | Google Before we get started let me mention my other sponsor...WorkHere, the hyperlocal candidate delivery tool. Through their geofencing ad platform ….They help employers reach people through online ads with pinpoint precision where they live, work, and shop. Workhere will advertise your jobs on the screens candidates use the most: their mobile phone. That messaging is then delivered into the social and mobile apps they use the most often. From there, a human chat team will then qualify and engage those folks and send them back to your ATS via sms, email or redirect. So, head over to workhere.com and tell them you heard it on the RecTech podcast ------------------------------------------ ONE ATS APPLY TO RULE THEM ALL Now that 2020 is here and the candidate experience is top of mind for many talent acquisition teams, lets talk about the ATS experience for job seekers. To get more specific, lets focus on the apply experience. For too long, the average job seeker has had to navigate a myriad of logins from disparate systems of record, forced to create and remember passwords and usernames in order to apply. But jumping through these hoops has made job search a painful one for candidates. It's time to start reversing that trend. The 'login to apply' feature prominent on most applicant tracking software is an element of days gone by. It is a relic of software past, and if I had a choice I would ban this barrier to apply. The modern job seeker has zero interest in creating another user account to apply to your company. They simply want to upload their resume quickly and move on. Appcast, the programmatic ad platform says that only about 6.6% of candidate traffic converts into an actual apply on desktop. And its even lower on mobile at 4.7%. Though there are a variety of factors as to why someone doesn't apply, making them login is certainly a big reason they don't. There is a use case for having to create a login. But only if its a seamless process. The ideal solution would require adopting an industry wide single sign-on process shared by all recruiting software vendors. Indeed has their apply button, so does LinkedIn. Why don't ATS vendors band together and create one of their own? Imagine a world where each ATS could have their own version of Easy Apply! Two things would happen in my opinion. Job seekers would rejoice. Applications would rise. There are hundreds of ATS platforms in the market so this idea presents quite a challenge. For it to gain traction it would have to start with the bigger players like WorkDay, Brassring and Taleo's of the world to lead the way. The rest of the industry would be sure to follow if they saw the major recruiting software companies sponsor such an open source initiative. If I were the CEO of companies like iCIMS, Greenhouse and others, I would take this suggestion seriously. Job seekers have the RIGHT to an efficient and speedy apply process. A single shared apply account could make that a reality. Pipe dream? Probably. But its worth throwing the idea out there for the powers that be to contemplate. Recruiting software companies must adapt to the times or risk becoming extinct in this new world of experienced based software. That will do it for this edition of the RecTech podcast.....Thanks again to our sponsors Workhere and Emissary. Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts…….if you are an iTunes subscriber leave a review and I’ll thank you on air. Thanks for listening….and remember, always be recruiting.

Yves Lermusi is CEO & co-founder of Checkster.Checkster is based in the San Francisco Bay Area….The software company aims to improve the world's productivity and harmony by increasing job fit and work achievement, as well as personal career satisfaction and fulfillment. Today Yves and Chris will talk about A.I. in the recruitment process. https://www.checkster.com/ Special thanks to Emissary.ai and WorkHere for their continued podcast support.

This episode is sponsored by Emissary.ai the text recruiting platform and Workhere.com the geofencing ad platform. Rebecca Carr, VP of Success at SmartRecruiters stops by to chat about their recently published content called the Definitive Guide to Hiring Success.  Read the guide here.

Sponsored by Rejobify.com VNDLY Raises $35 million https://hrtechfeed.com/work-management-system-vndly-raises-35-million-series-b/ Death of Traditional Paycheck https://hrtechfeed.com/the-death-of-the-traditional-pay-check-u-s-workers-want-faster-access-to-wages-finds-workforce-institute-at-kronos-survey/ HackerRank Acquires Mimir https://hrtechfeed.com/hackerrank-acquires-mimir-to-help-student-developers-learn/ Jumpstart Job Board https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/18/jumpstart-nabs-8-5m-led-by-sequoia-for-a-recruitment-platform-that-aims-to-increase-diversity/ Gloat raises $25 million https://hrtechfeed.com/gloat-secures-25-million-for-career-development-platform/   Uber Works https://hrtechfeed.com/uber-works-set-to-expand/ Phenom People Conference https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-people-announces-third-annual-talent-experience-conference-iamphenom/ Follow HR Tech Feed on social media: @hrtechfeed on Twitter Linkedin

Sponsored by Workhere.com and Emissary.ai Hi, this is Kerry Noone, director of Employer Branding for CVS Health, and I'm next on the Rec Tech Podcast. Announcer: Welcome to Rec Tech, the Podcast where recruiting and technology intersect. Each month you'll hear from vendors shaping the recruiting world, along with recruiters who'll tell you how they use technology to hire talent. Now here's your host, the mad scientist of online recruiting, Chris Russell. Chris Russell: Yes, indeed. You're listening to the only Podcast that helps recruiters and employers connect with more [inaudible 00:00:32] technology, inspire conversations. We're all about the new tools and tactics to landmark talent. Today's show is a practitioner edition. The Rec Tech Podcast is sponsored in part by our friends at Emissary.ai the Text Recruiting Platform, your next superstars in demand and on the move, and so the easiest way to connect with them faster and more effectively wherever they are. Use their tool such as a one-to-one text campaigns, group campaigns, share by text, apply reminders, all of which allow you to capture more applicants at that point to apply, and get them into your system, go to Emissary.ai, self schedule a demo, and let them know you heard it on the Rec Tech Podcast. Chris Russell: All right. Kerry Noone is a recruiting marketing and employer branding professional with more than 25 years of experience in developing and delivering knowledge based solutions through digital marketing. Kerry has been instrumental in launching successful media... social media programs that empower employees to share their personal and professional stories as corporate brand ambassadors. She currently manages the CVS health recruit marketing and advertising, and is transforming the CVS Health Candidate experience, though the robust content strategy, recruitment marketing guidelines, mobile apply in a fun, emotional and a purpose-driven recruitment value proposition campaign. I've known Kerry for a number of years going back to her days at Amtrak, and I'm finally glad she's on the show. So Kerry, welcome to Rec Tech. Kerry Noone: Thank you. I'm excited to be here as well. Chris Russell: Definitely. I was looking forward to the conversation, and I'm glad they reached out and pitched me you, to talk to you, because you're definitely someone I want to... I've admired over the years going back to your time at Antrak there. And you've always been a really good recruiting marketing person overall. And so I think you have a wealth of knowledge, and looking forward to hearing what you have to say today. So I guess let's set the scene first. If you could just start out by telling us a little bit about CVS Health's hiring goals for next year, and what you guys are up to lately. Kerry Noone: Sure. So we... about a year ago we integrated with Aetna to become one company. So our goal for 2020... it has been for 2019 and continues to be for 2020, is to integrate the two brands. So not only go down to one system, we'll have one career site as opposed to the two career sites that we currently have. Chris Russell: Oh yeah. Kerry Noone: But then also from a brand perspective, it's making sure that our candidates understand that we're one company, and that we're working towards common goals. So I think that that's probably an opportunity and a challenge for us for 2020. Chris Russell: And tell me about your team there at CVS Health, as far as your employer branding goes, how big is it? And maybe kind of define the roles if you could. Kerry Noone: Sure. So I've actually... I'm very fortunate. I think one of the things that I'm most proud about is the team that we have. When I first started in 2016 we... I was a team of two, it was me and one other person. And over the past three-and-a-half years or so we've continued to take on more work at the organization within talent acquisition as well as outside of talent acquisition. And along with that... those new responsibilities came a larger team. Kerry Noone: So currently I am at a team... or a total team of six, and we are all very hands on, we've created a process. So we have a lot of requests that come in every single day, and we created a process to help streamline that and monitor the workload. Selfishly, I enjoy having work life balance. So of course I want to make sure that my team is equally as balanced as I am. Kerry Noone: So those... we have a primary secondary contact for everything that we do. The team is made up of, as I said, six people. So we have two people who focused on... one person who focuses on high volume hiring campaigns. The other person focuses on more longterm campaigns, and when I say focuses on campaigns, they manage the budgets end, and applicant flow and conversions, monitoring and reporting back to the teams that are providing the budget for those campaigns. Kerry Noone: I also have someone who focuses on just the Aetna side of the business, as well as one person who combined part of her... and when I say Aetna side of the business, I mean the campaigns that come in from the Aetna side of the business. And then I have one person who focuses on... part of her time is on a very specific campaign for our longterm care. Kerry Noone: And then the other part of her time is focused on technology. So making sure that our recruitment marketing tool is syncing with our ATS, making sure that the candidate experience is optimized, any kind of tech issues that come up, she is our go to person. And then very, very fortunate to have hired a creative person on the team about two years ago... a year-and-a-half ago or so. She focuses on all of the creative requests that anything from social media content, to a flyer, to a print ad, to radio slots, to targeted ads on job boards. She manages all of the creative that's needed to support our hiring campaigns. Chris Russell: Very cool. Do you guys have a lot of autonomy as far as the creative marketing and messaging that goes out? I mean, how often do you have to interface with your general marketing team overall? Kerry Noone: We're constantly reviewing and working closely with the enterprise brand and communications team, just to make sure that we are... we're compliant. So the person on the team, Amy went through all of the training that's required, and then she works closely if anything needs to be reviewed. We also have an opportunity because we've built that strong relationship with the enterprise brand and marketing and communications team. Kerry Noone: We also have lots of opportunities to participate in wider [inaudible 00:06:47] wider programs within the organization. For example, we just last week, I wasn't able to attend because it was snowy, but we had an employee photo shoot. That's about the third one that we have done since I joined in 2016, and then we also have a brand story. So not only do we try to tell the stories on our career site, we also work very closely with internal communications to tell that those stories, so when they have a day in the life, for example, that they highlight on our internal communication tools, we work closely with them to make sure that it is compliant and able to share externally as well. Chris Russell: Yeah. How... storytelling, you mentioned that phrase, I think more companies need to do that, but what... give me your take on why that's so important for an employer to tell those stories internally? Kerry Noone: So I think that the job descriptions... we try our best to make the job descriptions the marketing tool that it's intended to be. But I also think that it's very hard to communicate exactly what it's going to be like working on that team. When you can say in a job description you're going to report to the Chief Human Resource Officer, and you're going to have a team of six. But really seeing what that team looks like, helps to get over a barrier of if someone is choosing to work for the organization, or as we hear often, if they're choosing not to work. So opting out, choosing to opt out. We use the storytelling tools, we have a automated process when someone joins the organization, or when we are working on a campaign. We have a... an intake form to try and understand how the team works together and the team dynamics. Kerry Noone: And so we collect those, that information via form, so it's an online form that they complete, and we develop personas based on the information that comes in from either the leaders on the team, or the team itself. We also use a tool called AlTru to have those written stories communicated into short snippets of videos. And if we create a landing page, for example, those videos will sit, or those Q & A's will sit on those landing pages so that people can see who they're going to be working with. Kerry Noone: The frequently asked questions are not just a written answer. They are... sometimes they are communicated via the video tool. We're also able to put those video tools like maybe a message from the hiring leader, or a message from your teammates on the job description. And we're hoping that those... that this is something new that we in the last six months have implemented. So we're hoping that we'll see a better conversion rate of people who are clicking on the application and reading the job description to converting to a hire... or an applicant, and then a hirer, and then a successful candidate, or a successful employee. Chris Russell: Yep. Yeah. I'm on your listings now, and I see it looks like pretty much all of them have a video on there. Is that correct? Kerry Noone: They all have a video. Not all of them have the specific video that we do from the team. Chris Russell: Right. Kerry Noone: So our Health Hub Hiring is our first... well actually we did this for our interns, to welcome our interns, to get to know our interns. And then those interns will then help welcome the new interns from next year. So people who've converted from an intern to an actual hire at the organization. Chris Russell: Yeah. Kerry, I don't know if you know these numbers, but how many hires do you make in a year, and how many applications do you get in a year? Kerry Noone: We get about 2 million applications [crosstalk 00:10:31] per year, and we hire anywhere between 130 with the current CVS Health Organization. And then that will go up to maybe 150, so it's... it ranges year-by-year. I was just looking at 2019 numbers last week for a report that I was doing. And [inaudible 00:10:52] sorry Chris. Chris Russell: That's okay. Kerry Noone: That's the challenge of working from home. Right? [crosstalk 00:10:57]. Chris Russell: What's the dog's name? Kerry Noone: The dog is Cocoa Bean. Chris Russell: Cocoa Bean. Kerry Noone: She is on Instagram if you would like to follow her on Instagram. Chris Russell: All right. Put that in the show minutes. Kerry Noone: Yeah. Chris Russell: Awesome. Kerry Noone: So yes, I was going to go back and just say, we were looking at 2019 numbers, and the numbers are slightly different from 2018 numbers, but on par with about 130 thousand. Chris Russell: So 2 million applications per year. Is that... that's a pretty daunting number I would imagine to look at. Kerry Noone: Yes. Chris Russell: Do you... there's nothing whole [inaudible 00:11:36] black hole out there. Is there a... any kind of a process in place where you make sure you'd see... at least touch all those applications in some form, so they get to the jobs... or get some kind of notification whether it's a rejection notice, or moving forward? Kerry Noone: We do. We have an automated process in place, so our application experience doesn't end... or the candidate experience doesn't end at the application, for some of our roles. Some of our roles, they are required to take a virtual job tryout assessment. So once they complete the application, they'll get an email that says, "Your application is completed, and an on file, next steps." Kerry Noone: Not all of our jobs require that virtual job assessment. So in those cases they will receive a confirmation that the email, or the application is completed and submitted successfully. And then there are steps in the process that they'll also either receive an automation or a direct contact from a recruiter. We also have a Dynamic FAQ page. So we have the FAQ, the frequently asked questions to try and... to help the candidate along in their process. But then we also have a form, so if they're not seeing what they're looking for, they can send us an email. And we get [inaudible 00:12:59] we get several emails per day, and we answer every single email, it's a combination of someone on my team, depending on whoever's monitoring the asked questions each day. And that's a question that we get often. What is the status of my application? I haven't... I received an email, but I haven't heard from anyone. Chris Russell: Right. Kerry Noone: And then we connect them with the candidate zone so they can log in to see where they are in the process, or we connect them with someone on the recruiting team who can actually reach out and connect with them. Chris Russell: Very cool. Kerry Noone: So that's part of that process [inaudible 00:13:37] To make sure that they... if they are curious that they can at least get the answer that they're looking for. We also, by the way, turns [inaudible 00:13:46] that candidate zone page, because it is the most second most frequented page on our career site. Chris Russell: Oh yeah. Kerry Noone: We turned that into a hot jobs directory zone. So if they get to that page and they find out that they're not selected, or they're still in the process, but they also see other hot jobs that we're hiring for, they're able to directly get to that information from that page. Chris Russell: Yeah. Kerry, you came to the roll in, I think you said 2016 correct? Kerry Noone: Correct. May of 2016. Chris Russell: Okay. What's a... what are one of the first challenges you kind of came across, and how did you kind of overcome that challenge in this... going to such a large organization like CVS Health? Kerry Noone: Yep. So, when I started I... we did not have any career specific social spaces. Every... all of the social content would have to go through our corporate communications spaces. So, that's one thing that we opened up. We created the career social spaces on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and then expanded the content strategy on LinkedIn. We also... based on some feedback that we had from candidate experience, the Candies awards, the survey from there. Kerry Noone: We realized that people were sort of ending up in a black hole, not necessarily the huge black hole, but still curious about their status, and opportunities and how to apply. So we put into place a... an infographic on how to apply just this level, set the expectations and then the FAQ page, the dynamic FAQ page that I mentioned, to give people another outlet to ask us questions and connect with people. Chris Russell: Yeah, I think helping to... helping your Cans, help them to understand the process they'll be going through is a great piece of content every company should put out there, I think. Right. I'm sure you agree. Kerry Noone: Yeah, absolutely. I think just level setting too. We do receive a large number of applicants each year. For most of them we do hire a considerable retail. So that's an ever changing challenge and opportunity for us. But we just want to at least help people along in the process as much as we possibly can. Chris Russell: I know you use... you guys use the CareerArc platform there at CVS Health. Tell me what you use them for, and what kind of results you've seen from that particular platform? Kerry Noone: Yes, I love CareerArc, it's probably my favorite tool. We use CareerArc for a number of... in a number of ways. So not only to promote jobs on our social spaces, so Twitter being a big area of opportunity, but then also on LinkedIn and Facebook. But then we also... and by the way, it is our number one source for social, so applicants coming in from CareerArc. It's also our lowest cost per application, and lowest cost per hire, which for me, I'm always looking for ways to either make the process easier, or [inaudible 00:17:02] not only on my team, but also for candidates. So for me, I like to call it one of our easy buttons. It's just something that's a no brainer for us. It just helps us to extend the reach. Kerry Noone: But we also have started to use CareerArc to extend the brand, so not just about jobs, and we're hiring for XYZ job in Annapolis, Maryland or wherever it might be. We're also using it to extend our brand, the brands and messages that we have. So on LinkedIn for example, we do less jobs, we do a hot job per day, and we're actually scaling that back to three to four times a week, and using the CareerArc tool to promote the brand, as opposed to just jobs. Because we have our jobs fed to LinkedIn anyway. Chris Russell: Right. So just go... just to go back for a second, you said... I think you said that social media is your biggest source of hire. Is that correct? Kerry Noone: No. CareerArc is our... in the social world, CareerArc is our number one source. So we do organic, and we do paid sponsor on LinkedIn and Instagram. A little bit on Twitter and a little bit on LinkedIn, but CareerArc, because the volume and the ability to extend the reach so broadly, is our number one source for bringing people in through social spaces. Chris Russell: Got you. You mentioned paid there too. What's... what do you think is, from a retail standpoint, retail hiring standpoint. What channel works the best do you think? Kerry Noone: We see a lot of engagement on Facebook, so we've started to use the Facebook jobs. We see a lot of interaction there and... but one of the things that we also notice that unlike LinkedIn where people do keep their resume and their information up to date, I just don't think that people on Facebook are thinking of it as a job tool. So their information where they've worked and the experience that they've had at each of these different organizations, is not necessarily up to date. Kerry Noone: So we're using the platform itself to guide people through that process. So what... we'll make an observation and say, "Oh, did you know that you can search for a job on here on Facebook in our job section, or by searching. And oh by the way to help get noticed, make sure that your information, your background, and your experience is up to date in your profile on Facebook." Chris Russell: I have one more question about social media. What's one post that you guys have put out there, could be a picture or video, anything that really... that became your best sort of engaging post out there, does one come to mind? And could you describe that post? Kerry Noone: I can. I can. We have quite a few that are out there that I could probably review, but one that comes to mind that's most recent. October was individuals with disabilities awareness month. And so we interviewed someone who had, not a visible disability, but an experience that created a disability for herself that she... we had a Q & A, and we... she talked through her experience, that [inaudible 00:20:12] or that post in itself, received quite a bit of feedback from people who were reading it, not just on Facebook, but also on Twitter and on LinkedIn. It was a nice awareness that we as a company are... we make an effort to hire people with individuals first of all, but that a disability doesn't necessarily have to be one that's a visible, you don't have to be in a wheelchair to have a disability. And that awareness in general I think is important to communicate. Chris Russell: Yeah, okay. You mentioned AlTru career work of course, while other tools are part of your HR tech stack today? Kerry Noone: Yeah, we use a couple of different tools. We use Surveil to constantly monitor how we're doing and what the candidates are thinking of their experience with us, so that's always on. We also use Brazen Technology for virtual hiring events. We use HireVue for interviews that we are... video interviews. Chris Russell: Okay. Kerry Noone: And then our AI chatbot is Paradox. Chris Russell: Okay. Kerry Noone: So we use Paradox on the rep level, and on our landing page. And we're getting ready to launch a job search, an AI job search tool. Chris Russell: Okay. And what's your ATS there? Kerry Noone: We have Brazen, I'm sorry. Not Brazen. We have connect the Brassring. Chris Russell: Connects. Okay. The Brassring. Very good. Okay. The... I did see on your [inaudible 00:21:48] I got a pop up asking my feedback on the Can experience. So you said Surveil runs that. Well what do you learn through those surveys, that feedback you're getting from these candidates about your connect experience? Kerry Noone: So we [inaudible 00:22:01] we have two different surveys. We have one in the job seeker experience, are they finding what they're looking for? Do they have recommendations? Are they willing to be followed up and do a follow up survey? And then we have a survey that is on the thank you page. So once someone completes the application, what did they find? Did they find that it was a good experience for them? Did they find that it was a challenging experience? And we always ask for recommendations. And then we take those, we monitor it regularly, we report on it regularly. So we report on the NPS score of the candidate experience satisfaction. Right. And we also take a look at the information that we're gathering. Kerry Noone: We... another tool that I forgot to mention is Your Next Step, which is also part of CareerArc. And that is a link that we have on our dispositions, people who aren't selected for a position. There's a link that says we care about basically the messages. We care about your job seeking experience. Here's a link, and it takes the candidate over to Your Next Step with CareerArc, which offers job search tools, resume tools, interviewing experience, other jobs, similar jobs. We just want to make sure that we're providing as much care for our candidates as we possibly can. Chris Russell: No, that's very cool. I think you just care about all the candidates who apply to your company, not just the ones you hire. Right? Kerry Noone: Absolutely. Yep. Chris Russell: Awesome. Kerry Noone: And we know that we can't accommodate when we get that many applicants per year. We know that there will be people that just aren't going to be selected, and we don't want to just say "Thanks, but no thanks." We want to make sure that they have some tools to help them find a position, whether it's at CVS Health, or at some other organization. Chris Russell: Yeah. I want to ask you about Google for jobs. Are you getting... how's your traffic coming in from that particular source? Kerry Noone: Yes, that's something that we launched within the last six months. Another tech tool that I completely forgot to mention is SmashFly. That's our recruitment marketing tool. Chris Russell: Oh, okay. Kerry Noone: And yes. And so we've been able... and our CRM, so we've been able to partner with SmashFly to put the Google for jobs out there, the search functionality. It's... I think that it's intuitive, it's more... it functions more like a Google search, which we know that most of our traffic from a Google search engine comes from Google, and [crosstalk 00:24:37]. Chris Russell: Have you seen any increase in traffic from it? I did a story a few weeks ago about the traffic from [inaudible 00:24:45] seems to have flattened for many with job boards and employers out there. I'm just curious if you've seen any kind of a trend there? Kerry Noone: Yeah, we are actually in the process of doing an analysis to take a look at previous... the previous search function compared to the Google search functionality, but I don't have those results just yet. We... actually I might even have those tomorrow if we want to follow back up. Chris Russell: Oh cool. Yeah, we certainly [inaudible 00:25:08] put that in the show notes, maybe. I want to ask you about your Talent Community. What do those candidates get when they join that? Kerry Noone: We... that's also something new for 2019, so we... I have some stats, we actually sent five all database CRM emails, and we reached just over 12 million people, so obviously not unique visits, obviously people who have been part of our database. And from those emails we have about 4,800 applications, and now that's obviously what's in it for us. What's in it for them from a Talent Community, we have a CRM responsibility model set up, so each of the different groups are... they'll be sending quarterly newsletters. Kerry Noone: Some of the groups have already... like our Health Hub Hiring, our Minute Clinic Hiring. They're already sending emails. Our pharmacist team, they are already sending those emails. So they're getting unique content that is customized and tailored to what they're interested in. So it's not just... we do the all database emails, and part of that all database emails to make sure that your profile's up to date, so that we can send them the information that they're looking for, and it's very targeted to them. Chris Russell: Nice. Let's take a quick break listeners. [inaudible 00:26:31] talking with Kerry Noone from CVS Health. I want to mention my other sponsor today, which of course is WorkHere, the hyper-local candidate delivery tool through their geo-fencing app platform. They help employers reach more people through their ads with pinpoint precision, where they live, work and shop. WorkHere will advertise your jobs on this [inaudible 00:26:49] use the most, their mobile phone. And that messaging is then delivered into these social mobile apps that they use most often. From their [inaudible 00:26:56] chat team will qualify and engage those folks. Send them back to your ATS via SMS, email or redirect. So head over to WorkHere.com, and be sure to tell them you heard it on our Rec Tech Podcast. Chris Russell: All right, Kerry, I want to ask you about your apply process. I did go on my phone and kind of check it out. I'm a big believer in a... a big critic of many employers, because they have a poor mobile apply process. You don't seem to have that, it seems to be pretty good. When you start the application process with a simple form, it looks like by capturing their name, email and phone number, which is also an option for redirecting to your ATS. So how has that been helpful in converting more applicants to your system overall do you think? Kerry Noone: And that's been great for us. So we... what we do is we start the application experience with, as you said, name and email, and we added phone number so we can communicate via text with them. If they don't complete the application, they receive at 72 hours, they receive a... an email to remind them with a link to take them directly back to the application to complete it. They're also added into an opportunity to keep their information updated, as I mentioned in that all database email. So that in itself we see regular people coming in, as we're monitoring the Health of a Wreck, we see people coming in through that tool. Kerry Noone: We... I would say our mobile experience, application experience is enabled, but there's always ways to improve it, so that's one thing that for 2020 is going to be a huge opportunity for us. We're looking at an overlay with SmashFly to make that [inaudible 00:28:39] more user friendly, mobile user friendly. We're also working with Paradox to create a text opportunity for them, so they can complete their application, ideally this is our goal for 2020. They can complete their application via text messaging, and then Paradox will complete the application in our ATS. That's how we complete it. Kerry Noone: So that's on the horizon. The things that we are able to do right now is to eliminate some of the redundant questions, and then also make some of the questions optional that have traditionally been required in the past. I don't think that we need to know the address of your college campus. So those are the things that we take a look at, and we're always... those surveys that we do, and the Candy experience surveys that we participate in. Those are some insights that we're able to gather from that. Chris Russell: Well you seem to have a lot of moving parts and technologies there, Kerry. [inaudible 00:29:41] as my last question is, just talk about how you manage all of that, and maybe give the listeners some tips out there for how to keep all these new platforms sync together and working properly. Kerry Noone: Well that's always a challenge of course. We want to make sure that we're not just using a technology and it's sitting in its own little silos. So always looking for ways to integrate is top of priority for us. We also have started to look at the communication process, and this came from a conference that we attended, and I can't remember now, I think it was March. But looking at it, less of a funnel, so less of that top of the funnel down to a higher, but more of an infinity loop. And that I'm proudly borrowing from Intel's... no... yeah, Intel's infinity loop. Kerry Noone: I don't know if you've seen that or not, but it's a constant opportunity to continue to communicate with, not just job seekers, but also candidates. And then once they become candidates, how do we tie it all together? How do we tie the continued information that we can provide to them, so that they can not only look at a career, their current career with CVS, but then what's in their future, and how do they grow with the organization? So that's something that we use, that model often is the infinity loop, and how each of them tie together. And where they... where each of our texts fits in this process. Chris Russell: Well, Kerry, I appreciate the info today. I learned a lot, and I'm sure the audience did as well. Is... I guess it's jobs.cvshealth.com, is that the main URL for yours? Kerry Noone: That's correct, yes. Chris Russell: Awesome. Again, I appreciate your time again Kerry, and have a great holiday. Kerry Noone: Great. Thank you Chris. I appreciate the time. Chris Russell: Awesome. That will do for this edition of the Rec Tech Podcast. Thanks again to our sponsors, work here in Emissary. 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Abby Cheesman from Skill Scout discusses tips and tactics for creating video that attracts the talent you seek. Transcript Chris Russell: Leveraging video to attract talent. That's next, on the RecTech Podcast. Speaker 2: Welcome to RecTech, the podcast where recruiting and technology intersect. Each month you'll hear from vendors shaping the recruiting world along with recruiters who will tell you how they use technology to hire talent. Now here's your host, the mad scientist of online recruiting, Chris Russell. Chris Russell: Hey everyone. Welcome to the only podcast at the intersection of recruiting and technology. I'm your host, Chris Russell. Our show of course is sponsored by our friends at emissary.ai, the text recruiting platform. Head over to emissary.ai. Click on the Book a Demo and self schedule yourself a quick 30 minute demo with the team. Matt, Brendan, and Euan. And learn more about how text recruiting can really speed up and make your recruiting process much more efficient overall. So it's really great technology, overlays onto your ATS, and lets you do one-on-one campaigns. Lets you do group campaigns out there. Short codes for events. A lot of great stuff there around text recruiting. And if you're not texting and recruiting today, then you're not basically becoming a modern recruiter overall. Chris Russell: And of course we're sponsored also by workhere.com, the hyper-local [inaudible 00:01:20] delivery tool. WorkHere's geofencing ad platform will help you pinpoint your best to match talent. They attract passive [inaudible 00:01:29] with enticing targeted mobile ads where they live, work, and shop. So head over to workhere.com. Be sure to tell them you heard it on the podcast, and get a demo from them as well. Really good job advertising technology that you really probably haven't tried yet. So we'll give them a shot. People like FedEx use them, Uber, Great Clips. Carvana uses them. So check them out at workhere.com. Chris Russell: All right, quick shout out to one of my listeners, [Norm Fleming 00:01:59] messaged me on LinkedIn this week. He's an IT recruiter out there in Waukee, Iowa. So hello Norm, thanks for listening. And glad you're on board. Tell your friends to check out the show as well. Chris Russell: All right, so today you're going to hear Abby Cheesman from my friends over at Skill Scout, the video job company. They'll come to your place of work. They'll interview your employees and create great two minute videos out there for your employer rank purposes. Anyway, she's going to talk today about how to leverage video properly. And this was audio from I took out of the recent webinar they did or rectechlive.com if you want to go see that. I extracted the audio, cleaned it up a bit, and put it into the podcast here. So she's got a lot of great tips and tactics around how to make your video stand out overall. So really good stuff here, lot of good takeaways. So hope you enjoy the audio, and I'll see you next time. Chris Russell: All right, good afternoon everyone. How's everyone doing today? You got a last show of the year for RecTech Live, and I got my pal Abby Cheesman here from Skill Scout in Chicago. Say hello Abby. Abby Cheesman: Hey guys. Chris Russell: All right, we're going to talk about using video to attract talent today, and she's got some great slides to show us. I've seen this presentation earlier this year and thought it was great. So I wanted to have her on and talk about video. We haven't really done that yet much on the show overall. So you are the co-founder or CFO of Skill Scout, a company based in Chicago, which does employer videos. Give us a quick history of the company and a little bit more about what you guys do. Abby Cheesman: Yeah. So maybe about six years ago, Elena, my co-founder and I, we were working at a consulting firm. And we got put on a project of how do we more meaningfully connect people to employment. So we talked to a bunch of job seekers, bunch of companies, and we heard something over and over. It's really hard to know what a job is all about until you've done it before. Abby Cheesman: So long story short, we started filming behind the scenes. What is it like to be a welder? What is it like to be a nurse? And from there, we really just got started with Skill Scout. Abby Cheesman: So we take a research approach to filming. So typically if you're going to film something, you come as a script. And this is what we're going to talk about. With Skill Scout, we treat it like discoveries. So I want to learn as I'm filming with you. I want to hear from the people in the position to know what it's all about filming. So we come in, we have a discussion guide. Film days are usually super fun. So we go in, we learn about a workplace from the people that are in the jobs. So we know what we might capture, but typically we open it up for discovery. Chris Russell: Let's get to the slides and tell everyone about what we're going to learn about today. Abby Cheesman: So today I'm going to walk you through some tips and tricks, with the idea being that you could go back to your workplace on Monday and/or tomorrow if you're a real go getter. And start filming your jobs. You don't need a huge budget. You don't need a film crew. You can start filming with your phone. So I'm going to share some examples. I'm going to share some real tactical ways that you can get started. Chris Russell: Fire up your slides and we'll get rolling here. If the [inaudible 00:05:31] has questions, just throw them in the chat there and I'll stop Abby and ask her. And Abby over to you. Abby Cheesman: Sassy title, your job post is as boring as this webinar. I'm only kidding. This webinar's not going to be boring. So Chris gave me a great introduction. My name is Abby. I'm a job nerd. I get to film jobs for a living, so I get to see what it's like to be a flight attendant, to work on planes, to be a nurse, to work at the department of corrections. Abby Cheesman: I have an awesome team based in Chicago. We have a real intentional strategy to provide opportunities for women in the filmmaking industry. Particularly women of color. And one of the things that Elena, my co-founder, she's the one on the end there. We've been really intentional about women of color because our industry is typically super male and super white. And we believe that if you change the story by changing the storyteller. So you're able to share a little bit more diversity in the stories that you tell if you have a diverse team that's working with it. Chris Russell: I love the job nerd title, by the way. Abby Cheesman: I wish I could put that in business cards. I love it. So we've been able to tell stories for some of the biggest brands. I never thought I'd be filming with Unilever, and Nike, and McDonald's. And one of the things that our clients have in common is that it's really hard to tell people what your jobs are all about, and give an authentic preview. Abby Cheesman: So I want to pause and give a moment of reflection for all of you guys who are watching. When was the moment that you knew you were in the right place for your job? Chris, you and I talked about this very briefly before we began about being an entrepreneur, working for yourself. But reflect on this question and we're going to come back to this. When was the moment that you knew you were in the right place? Chris Russell: Probably I got some kind of thank you from a client or a listener of my podcast maybe. And that feedback really meant a lot to me. Abby Cheesman: Yeah. Mine was when I was standing in that jet engine at American Airlines filming what it's like to maintain and keep those aircraft safe. Just the surreality of being able to show jobs that nobody else has access to. That was my moment. Abby Cheesman: But let's talk a little bit about the hiring process. So the hiring process is a little bit like packing one more bullet point on that job post. Fitting into skinny jeans, this candidate's a great fit. Or your Facebook profile. Job looks great. Here's what it is. But this is what it looks like for most people. Right? This is an astounding data point. This is 2019. Only 1% of job posts have visuals. This is still a true statistic. Chris Russell: Yeah. I've been after employers to at least add a picture in there of something, of a person doing the job or some kind of visual image. Because it's a visual web, and people want to see rather than read. Abby Cheesman: Yeah. And that's including pictures, which is the crazy part. Because pictures cost nearly nothing to produce. And along all of this, we have about the attention span of a goldfish. This is true for any adult with a fully developed cognitive brain. You have about eight seconds to capture our attention, the same as a goldfish. Abby Cheesman: So if we think about trying to attract talent to our brand, these are the people, the go getters, the activists that we want. Eight seconds is not very long. Abby Cheesman: I want to talk a little bit about the laws of attraction. So I have a psychology background. Brain science is fascinating to me. So this is a couple of studies that Elena and I have looked into. So just get an understanding of what the next generation of talent, Gen Z that's coming into the workforce now looks like. And I think if we design solutions that appeal to the modern job seeker, even if we're focusing on Gen Z, these are going to be human centered principles that any job seeker can appreciate. Abby Cheesman: So a couple of things that we know. 98% own smart phones. 85% report that they learn about new products and services on social media. This one is crazy, and I can attest to it just on an anecdotal level. 71% are watching more than three hours of video every day. So I have a seven year old and a four year old, and YouTube is life man. Just anything that you could explore is on YouTube. Abby Cheesman: But three hours a day, that's taking out of TV time. 50% are part of a minority ethnicity by 2020. So diversity stories and representation matter to the youngest job seekers. But everybody in the workforce. So just keep these laws of attraction in mind as we start talking about video. Abby Cheesman: Social platforms, we're spending a lot of time on our phone. We talked about three hours of video a day. 70% of that is happening on YouTube. So people report YouTube as the app of the generation. We're receiving about 3,000 text messages a month. Most people prefer prefer Instagram and Snapchat over Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. So this stat is always super interesting as we think about marketing spends. I would say as a business owner, Facebook is one of the first places that I think about advertising. And when it comes to talent, LinkedIn is another that comes to mind. But when we talk to younger job seekers, Instagram and Snapchat is where it's at. Tick tock, keep your eye on that one. That one's up and coming. And I think while it might not have ties to recruiting right now, I think that's going to be a medium that's more and more popular where job seekers are. Abby Cheesman: So there are some rules to being a good participant on social media. Keep your content short and sweet. Spice it up with visuals. Video is even better than photos, but any kind of visual. Highlight global locales and background. So representation of the different people that make up your workforce. Showcase how you impact the world. So what are you doing as a company and what is your spot in the world, and who do you impact? That's a really important story. Abby Cheesman: And then leverage the right social media and communication platform for your business. So we work with companies that are hiring welders. That might not be on LinkedIn, but they certainly are on Snapchat, and Instagram, and Facebook. So knowing enough about your industry, you guys probably know the channels to reach your people. Abby Cheesman: So remember when I asked this question? We talked a little bit about remembering the moment. You guys have stories, each one of the stories that you would tell yourself in your head, that has heart. Those are the kinds of things that job seekers are interested in hearing. And, those stories translate very beautifully to recruiting on video. Abby Cheesman: So a little data about job videos. A job posting with a video is viewed three times longer than a posting without. We use about 85% of our brain power to process visuals. So that's not text on page. That is a visual that is lighting up different parts of your brain than when you're reading. And, you get about 46% more views with a posting that has a video. And as I mentioned, psychology background. So this data point always sticks with me. We recall about 65% of what we see in here and only 15% of what we read. So if the only way that a job is interacting with your post is by reading bullet points, no matter how well written, they're still only going to remember about 15%. Abby Cheesman: So video over streaming webinars is notoriously sketchy. So, I shared a couple of links in the chat. But I want to tell you a little story about SAC Wireless. So this is a company that came to us in partnership with Shaker Recruitment Marketing. They were working on a challenge. They're hiring tower climbers. So these are the people that are building the infrastructure of 5G in our country. And they can't build towers fast enough to launch 5G. So this is an in demand kind of position. SAC was spending millions of dollars on agency recruiters, and they weren't getting the talent that would stay. And they discovered as part of their exit interviews, is that people didn't understand until they got to a tower how high up it is. So a very simple and very low hanging fruit piece of content for them was a video that shows people climbing the towers. Abby Cheesman: So we produced this video, and you guys can go check it out after the webinar. But it's a one and a half minute piece of people who work on a tower climbing team, talking about what it was like looking up at that tower. The safety and training that's required. What it feels like to work with a crew and travel with them, and ride in the same truck. Abby Cheesman: So they launched this video on Facebook. So this was a native post, which is what I recommend doing with posts on Facebook. So instead of linking to Vimeo or YouTube, upload it directly to Facebook, which is what they did. And they got this incredible response that they never expected. People started sharing the crap out of this video. So they had over 100,000 views in the first couple of weeks, and what they noticed was that their team was sharing it out. Wives were sharing, "Hey, check out what my husband does." And it became this organic piece of content that people were excited to show others. And it was one of their best performing pieces of content to get people into the funnel, applying for the job, and hired. Abby Cheesman: So this one video translated to the savings of millions of dollars for SAC Wireless, and it was part of a larger campaign. But this piece of content really jump-started employee referrals, advertising. And, it solved the problem of people not knowing that towers were 1,200 feet tall until they got to the job. Chris Russell: 1,200 feet? Abby Cheesman: Yes. When I watched that video, I still get heart palpitations. I was there when we filmed it. I would make a terrible tower climber. But for the right person, they see that and they're like, "Yep, I can build that." Chris Russell: Yep. Was this [inaudible 00:16:32] the candidates coming in from the video? Talk a little about how they might've- Abby Cheesman: Yes, they had some infrastructure behind that Facebook post. So they did do some lightweight tracking, and the Facebook post was their best channel that led to actual hires. And I think there were a few reasons for this. One, the video is just great. It's shared by people in the industry. And tower climbers tend to all work in pods, and so a lot of them know each other. It's kind of a small world. So that was a place that got eyeballs on content, maybe better than on LinkedIn or other channels. So that was part of it. Abby Cheesman: And then they linked directly to the application. So there wasn't like a link to a careers page and then I have to go find the job, and this and that. You could go directly from seeing this video to going into the application. So I think that was a win. But there's certainly more data. And Crystal Stanfield, she's since moved on from SAC, but she speaks at a lot of events. I would encourage you to go see her. She breaks down exactly how much money they saved, and how they did it and the rest of the ecosystem. Which included things like micro sites and using content and other channels. Chris Russell: I looked, and the video's about two minutes, 20 seconds. Correct? Abby Cheesman: Two minutes, 20 seconds. Yeah. And that's a little long, and I think the content is interesting and so it lends itself to be a couple seconds longer than I'd recommend. But typically we're looking to one to two minutes. Chris Russell: Yep. Abby Cheesman: So how'd they do it? This is what it could like to film a job video, right? You got 12 people on set, you got a grip. It could also look like this. For SAC, we did film a cameras and flew a drone just to get to the height and safely capture the position. But this is also what it can look like to film a job video. A cell phone, a tripod, a microphone, and two people talking. Abby Cheesman: So every single one of us has a cell phone. Every single one of our cell phones, if purchased in the last five to seven years, has a powerful camera on it. There are a few things that you need to make your camera even more powerful. So we package this up, but I can also share a link after this session to exactly what you need. Abby Cheesman: One is a tripod to keep your phone stable while you're filming. The second is a microphone. So phones are set up to capture audio as you're holding it up to your head. So capturing across the room can be tricky. And with a microphone, you can capture beautiful audio. And it's less than $25. And then a handheld tripod so that you can take nice, smooth pans. And with these three core things, you can really take your footage from being amateur quality to pretty high quality. Abby Cheesman: But let's start at the beginning. So one of the things that we found as we've talked to companies is that you have to be in the right moment to be sharing video. You can't put lipstick on a pig. What you are is what is going to appear on video. So I think most companies probably are ready for video, but we put together a little quiz so that you could do a little self reflection of is this a place that you really feel passionate about recruiting people for? And what are some of the stories that compel people to want to work with you? So it's just a self-reflection to see if video is a tool that you're ready for in your toolkit. Abby Cheesman: So if you take that quiz, you feel good, you would recommend it as a place to work. Here's some of the ingredients for a great job video. Be specific. So for the tower climber, we picked a specific role. SAC was hiring many roles, but that role was specific enough that we needed to go film it separately. Keep it real. We talked about the fear of heights. We talked about how hard the position is, that you're working in weather conditions. Two minutes tops. As Chris pointed out, we broke that rule. But two minutes is typically the sweet spot of how long candidates are going to give you. And show, don't tell. So while we might conduct the interviews in a quiet spot with good audio and good lighting, we want to see more than we want to see a talking head. So we want to go and see the work environment. Abby Cheesman: A little bit more about being specific. One video that I recommend to people is creating a realistic job preview. There's all kinds of content that you can create about your company. If you've not done video before, realistic job preview's a great place to start. So you can start thinking about one job that might be high volume or high turnover, an area of concentration for you. Talk to one to two people who are in the job, who are actually working in that role. Abby Cheesman: And then keep it real. So as I mentioned at the beginning, we take an ethnographic research mindset. So come in as a researcher. You might think you know what the job is on paper, but be prepared to discover and be open to what you see. You want to capture productivity. Don't stop it. Don't use a script. Use an interview guide. And remember that employees are the expert of their experience. So again, there's always the job description and then there's the, "Okay hey, this is how it really works." Those are the things that you're looking for. Abby Cheesman: Most importantly, show the stuff that makes people quit. This view here is why I would quit on my first day as a tower climber. You want to show people that. If there are things about your work environment. We have one client that it's an armored car service that all of the employees are armed. And for some people, that would be a deal breaker. And you don't want them to discover that deal breaker in their training or their first 90 days. That should come this early in the process as possible so people can self select in or self select out. Abby Cheesman: Two minutes tops. I checked our data today. We have a whole bunch of job videos that are live through our accounts. And I think the stat today was one minute and 49 seconds on average that people will watch. But it's less than two minutes. So giving people the top two to three things that are most important to share about the job, and spending about 30 seconds on each one of those is a good framework. Chris Russell: Excellent. Abby Cheesman: Show, don't tell. So you want to minimize talking heads, you want to show the work environment. One question I get a lot is, "What if we're in a boring office?" That's a great question. You're in a boring office, show the boring office, but also show the impact of your work. So if you're working in banking, you should certainly show inside of the branch of what are your banks. But maybe also go out to the community and showcase some of the things that you're doing in the community. Whether that's financial literacy training or other impact that you have. Abby Cheesman: Another example of this is in manufacturing. So while we might capture footage inside of the plant, we also want to go see what those products do in people's lives because that's important to candidates. So if you're building a medical device that helps give people allergy medicine faster and saves lives, that's an important part of the story to tell visually. So there are ways that you can depict the boring office. You should be realistic about that. If they're going to work in a boring office, show it. But also show the impact and how people stay committed to the work. Chris Russell: I'll also say too, you can show your employees in action outside the office too. Maybe if you're having a dinner or happy hour or something like that. Abby Cheesman: Oh absolutely. Events, anything that the team members are getting together after work. Anything that you can show to give people a flavor of what the experience is like working with you. That's the stuff you want to film. Chris Russell: Yup. Abby Cheesman: Teamwork makes the dream work. So, I've got a couple of clips and they're of course not going to play nicely over the stream. But, using employee generated clips is one of the easiest ways that you can capture content. Giving people a quick direction of, "Hey, can you take some footage across your work environment this morning?" And give them some ideas of what they could shoot. You will quickly get tons of different perspectives of your workplace from the eyes of the people who work in the jobs. Abby Cheesman: So employee generated content. Opening filming up to anybody who is willing to contribute is a really easy, fast way to get video. So this is one that we did in that armored car company. Here's another one. This job is a raw video clip of transportation assistance. No, what it really is, is driving really expensive custom order cars off of the boat at the Port of Baltimore. And this is a really different kind of job than what you would think on paper. So just getting a couple of employee generated clips showing the car, hearing the sound of the engine rev. Gives people a much more tangible feel for the job. Abby Cheesman: So we didn't watch the videos, but I do like to pose the questions, what did you notice about any of the visuals that we showed about that work environment? It was real. Yeah. And you can see that working with that armored car service is very different than the transportation assistant, is very different than the tower climber. Just the quick visual. You will remember that better, 65% more. And you'll be able to relate back to it, to that visual experience of watching that video. When you go to get the recruiter phone call or apply for the position. Chris Russell: Abby, question. When you go to your clients and you first talk to them, do you kind of look and see if their employees are already sharing stuff on social media they might not know about? Abby Cheesman: That is a great question. Yes. A lot of our clients actually have hashtags or employee generated groups. So Nike for example, has swoosh life. And that's customers and employees sharing experience alike. So sourcing stuff that people are already sharing about your brand is a great way to just kind of do an analysis of what's out there about us. And oftentimes, it's a great way to identify people who are already filming stuff and would be more than happy to be an ambassador or contribute their footage to your project. But that's a wonderful question. Abby Cheesman: And if you don't have that yet, you will also notice the people who are super active on social media. Those are the people that are top of my list for the people that I want to enlist in filming. If somebody is super comfortable sharing cat videos or kid videos, those are the people that are going to be excited about filming their workplace. Abby Cheesman: So we talked a little bit about what you need. Tripod, microphone, handheld tripod, and a lens cleaner. Phones are filthy. Cleaning them off makes the video much crispier. Abby Cheesman: Capturing quality video, audio is unforgivable. So earlier when we first started the echo, I was speaking super slowly because I was listening to myself. Audio can be super distracting, right? So you can forgive bad video to some extent. You cannot forgive bad audio. It's extremely distracting to the brain if there's something crackly or something that you can't quite hear the person speaking. So audio first, always use a microphone. Abby Cheesman: Second is lighting. The sun is your friend. Camera phones are super sensitive to light, and they're trying and trying to get better. But the more that you can utilize natural outdoor lighting, so sitting by a window. Or generate your own lighting. Get a halo light that cost 40 bucks on Amazon. Lighting is going to take your quality from super amateur to much more professional lifting. And it'll actually capture the 1080 or 4K level of quality. Without good lighting, your phone can't capture that resolution. Abby Cheesman: Film horizontally. This is always controversial and I'm constantly reevaluating this. But for now, phones capture higher resolution if you hold them horizontally. We see more mediums come up like Instagram, Snapchat, where vertical is how people are capturing and sharing. So I think we need to keep an eye on this. But the most important thing is keeping it consistent. So if you're going to edit clips together, you want them either to all be horizontal or all be vertical. Abby Cheesman: And lastly, heart. So letting people show who they really are. Not being too corporatey or too prescriptive. And show the nerdiness. Like I'm a job nerd. I'm happy saying that. You have nerds at your company too, and you want to show that flare. So if you've got engineers that geek out about something, capture the heart and the spirit of why they're excited to work with you and that will be super attractive to other people who nerd out in that way. Abby Cheesman: We've got a ton of tutorials on our site that just show you how to set up your audio. Some of the technical mistakes we made early in the first couple of years filming on phones. We've made a tutorial for everything so that you can capture the best quality possible in your phone. Lighting. How to film B-roll. So let's talk a little B-roll. Chris Russell: Yeah, explain B-roll to the audience. Abby Cheesman: Yeah. So when we think about the ingredients of a job video, the first is an interview. You want to talk to somebody on camera about their experience working. The second piece is all the visual footage. So we said minimize talking heads. The interview is a talking head. You want to go out and capture a visual B-roll of everything that they talked about. So if a nurse is talking about checking vitals. In your mind, you should be making a note of take some B-roll of checking vitals, take some B-roll of filling out patient paperwork. The B-roll is all of the beautiful video footage that goes on top of the interview so that we can see what the person is talking about. Abby Cheesman: I also shared in the chat an example of a recruiting video we did recently for Wendy's. And you can see how we used their values on top of what people were saying to really tie their story together. Abby Cheesman: So here's how we captured that video. We used this exact list of questions. "Tell me who you are, where we're at today. What do you do here? Walk me through a typical day." And when people walk you through a typical day, they gloss over and they move quickly because they assume you know what they're talking about. So sometimes I say, "Be detailed. Pretend I'm your 12 year old niece and I have no idea what you do." And usually when people speak with that filter, that brings them to a level that's tangible and shareable outside of your organization. But all of us do this when we're talking about our work. We might get super technical, jargony. So just encourage them to talk to you as if this is the first time you're hearing about this. Abby Cheesman: What surprised you when you started this job? What's challenging? Being real about that? What's the best part about working here? What's your favorite memory from working here? And what advice would you have for somebody that is just joining your team? Abby Cheesman: I would add that question from the beginning when we talked about Abby Cheesman: This is some ideas for B-roll. So hands working, work in action, the work environment, conference rooms, common areas. Two to three main tasks of the position. Team interaction. And for those boring officey jobs, impact. What's happening outside of the office as a result of the work that you're doing inside of the office? All right, a moment to reflect. Anybody has any questions so far? Chris Russell: Nothing yet in the chat. But if you do, feel free to throw them in there. And I'll ask Abby. Abby, question for you is, what's been the in terms of your client base, what's been the most interesting piece of feedback you've gotten from after doing a video like this? What stands out to you? Abby Cheesman: That's a great question. So often we get this feedback, and I always love hearing it. Is that recruiters who've been recruiting for this role for years learn something new about the experience of working in that job. So you can recruit for a warehouse position in a refrigerated facility. But until you've put your coat on and gone 40 degrees below zero, it's really hard to have empathy in a tangible way for what that is like. And a lot of recruiters go back to their work with that experience. So filming is this discovery for them, and this opportunity to engage with the job in a way that they don't normally get. Abby Cheesman: So people often really enjoy filming. It might seem stressful for the first time that you do it. But the feedback overwhelmingly that I love getting that we get a lot. "I didn't know how much fun it was going to be. I didn't realize how much I was going to learn about this job. I've been recruiting for it for 20 years." Right? We went through burning questions. I'm going to share some questions I get a lot. Abby Cheesman: Oh no, our trade secrets. Right? We work in a proprietary industry, right? I work in space and engineering a product that's top secret. That's okay. It's not just about what you make. It's about why it matters. It's your passion, projects, celebrations and your team coming together, training. So you don't focus on proprietary processes. Obviously you don't want to sell out your secrets and tank the business. But you do want to show what the employee experience is based on that position. Abby Cheesman: So avoid things as you're filming, like specs on a drawing. Any kind of measurements. In manufacturing, any kind of specific code or processes. You don't want to capture that stuff. Abby Cheesman: Privacy. This might look familiar to you, Chris. What about privacy? So we filmed in one of the more challenging work environments that we've filmed in a couple of weeks ago. We were in Connecticut. We were filming with the department of corrections who they're working on recruiting physicians to work in facilities. So there's two challenges to work through. One is HIPAA, right? We can't share patients on camera. And the second is we can't show inmates on camera. So a really easy workaround that have worked with our corrections positions in other states and areas, and our healthcare. Has been using stand-ins. So if you have someone else on the team that will play the role of patient or play the role of customer. Or any other sensitive role in your video, that will allow you to capture it. You'll get them to sign a media release and you'll have permission to share their footage. But you're not releasing anything about your customers, or your patients, or people that are of a sensitive. Abby Cheesman: And stand-ins allow you to still show bits of the job that are important. So showing the exam, taking vitals. That's a huge part of this role. So to remove it from the video altogether wouldn't have done it justice. So stand-ins on a volunteer basis is something that we've had a ton of success with. Chris Russell: Okay, great. Abby Cheesman: Another question, compliance is life. We work in the aviation industry, so we have filmed a ton of compliant driven and union driven work environments. And my advice for that is to have somebody who is a union steward. If you're a union shop or a union environment. And, a safety and compliance person film with you. So you have them right alongside for the journey. They can tell you what is and is not shareable on camera. Abby Cheesman: So while you probably all have compliant workplaces, there are times when things are done that are maybe questionable and not exactly up to policy, but a workaround. And just having those people in field with you as you're capturing content gets them on your side. They're part of the process, they're an engaged stakeholder. And, it prevents you from capturing anything that's not showing you in your best light. So getting them involved early and planning, and come along for filming. That's been successful also. Abby Cheesman: I'm broke baby. I ain't got no money. This is another question I get. You don't need $100,000 or even $1,000 to make your first video. You can do this for free. Abby Cheesman: So to do this for free, let's talk a little bit about editing. This is one of the biggest questions people have. There are a few options. You can do it in one take. I filmed a video earlier this morning for an internal team thing. I did it in one take, no editing required. Abby Cheesman: iMovie, Windows Movie Maker. Those are both low cost or free depending on your computer. And easy editing programs that you can pull in the interview, the B-roll, and some music to go along with that. Abby Cheesman: FiLMiC pro is an app on, it's available for iPhone and I believe Android. It's about 20 bucks. And you can actually edit video on your phone. I'll mention that iMovie is also available on iPhone and- Chris Russell: I use that one. Abby Cheesman: You use that one? Yeah. What's your experience been? Chris Russell: It's okay. You can just trim the clip, you can add some overlays of text on there and stuff like that. Abby Cheesman: Yeah, I find my phone to be a little small to edit on. So I'm a huge fan of popping everything over to my laptop and throw it in iMovie. But my daughter will edit in iMovie on her iPad. So depending on how big your fingers are, I guess. Mine are too fat for the phone, but FiLMiC pro is an awesome app. Abby Cheesman: And then are editing services. So this is something full disclosure that Skill Scout does. But there are other options or interns you can come and get to come in and help film, and edit your video. We see a lot of our companies engaging interns in this process. Not just because of digital natives and awesome at it, but also they have a fresh perspective of your company. So having them film, you often get things that you might not, or things that you didn't think about filming that's been interesting. Abby Cheesman: This is how you put it together. It's like a cake. Layer one is the interview. Layer two is the music. Layer three is the B-roll. So I just took a screenshot of what it looks like in iMovie. So you can see the green thing at the bottom. That's my music track. There are lots of libraries. You have to be careful when you're adding a music track that you own license. So if it's creative commons, that's something that can be shared anywhere as long as you credit that person. There are other libraries where you can purchase a song. Don't use a song off the radio or off of a pop singer. Don't use a recognizable track, because that will quickly get flagged on social media. And you don't have permission to use it, unless you pay us thousands of dollars to whoever made it. Abby Cheesman: So find a royalty free or creative commons music track. And then this middle piece is my main content. So this would be my interview. And then the little piece on top is B-roll. So you can add clips at different moments in your interview to depict what the person is saying. Abby Cheesman: So once you've edited, how do you use this? One very easy place is on the job posting itself. So on our job post, we have a video about what it's like to be an editor at Skill Scout. And then we ask them what stands out in the video. So not only do we know that they've watched the video, but they can talk about things that are the same or different from their other work experience. And we get really rich data about the candidates in that question. On the job post is a really great way to use it. Chris Russell: That should be the top of the job post too, right? Abby Cheesman: It should be at the very top. Yeah. Or depending on how your micro site is laid out, if you have a specific page for a job, it could be one of a couple of pieces of content. But yes, prominently featured. So if they're going to watch one thing, it's that. Chris Russell: Right. Abby Cheesman: Employee referrals. This is way better than sending out an email saying, "Hey, we're hiring." Giving people a piece of content that they can send to their friends to get a much richer information about the job. That's a great way to use video. You saw this with SAC Wireless, putting it on Facebook. Abby Cheesman: We see a lot of companies using video to onboard people into their hiring process. So as you can imagine, getting hired as a flight attendant, it's a process. So we just did a series with American Airlines giving people an idea of what this process looks like. And it gives candidates more human centered experience as they're going through what can be a difficult to understand and kind of long process. So using videos at different moments in your hiring process to be more human, to connect with them on a more human level. We see a lot of companies doing this. Abby Cheesman: In your recruiting outreach. So maybe somebody's applied, and you want to send them a little video with a little bit more information. Or you want to send them a video of the person that's going to be interviewing them to prepare them for the interview. There are lots of ways that you can use video in your email communications. Abby Cheesman: One tool that I find super helpful is called Loom. Use loom.com. And it basically allows you to film, you have to use a Chrome browser. But it allows you to film and then embed that video into an email. And the video comes across as a gif. So as somebody opens the email, this picture starts moving and they can see immediately that it's a video. They click on it, and they can watch it right in the email. It doesn't pop them out to another site. It just is right inside the email. And that's a free tool that's super helpful. Chris Russell: It's free? Abby Cheesman: It's free. There might be a cap on how many you can send. But I send a whole lot of them and I haven't paid for yet. Don't tell them. They might start charging me now. It's called useloom.com. L-O-O-M. Chris Russell: Throw it in the chat there. Thanks Abby. Abby Cheesman: Yeah, thanks. A word about audio. Silent is the new black. Data coming back day to day. It's getting more and more dire that people are not listening to the videos. 70% of mobile traffic is video, and 85% of that is viewed with no sound. I am guilty, right? We watch video in places that we're on the train. We're commuting, we're at home, we're cooking dinner. And we don't necessarily want to listen to it, but we do want to watch. Abby Cheesman: So how can we design around a good user experience? The easiest way is captions. Captions aren't just great because it makes it better for the person watching, but also it generates text-based information about that video that's used in SEO. So if you have a caption file in with your video, that content will help you appear higher in the algorithm. So captions are great. You can auto-generate them in YouTube to mixed success. I've also used this service that I absolutely love called Rev. Rev is a paid service that you can share video, either upload or through YouTube or Vimeo. And it will generate captions. It's a real person typing it. So it's way more accurate than the YouTube captions. Abby Cheesman: You can also translate. So we do this with a lot of our clients that have international offices. Where we might film in English, but it's helpful to be able to share it in Chinese or in Spanish, or another language. Rev has translations available, which has been really helpful. Chris Russell: I have an app Abby called, it's called Clipomatic. You do your video, it records the audio, it transcribes the audio within the app. And then you can go back and you actually, it'll show you the transcript of it. You can go back, correct certain words that didn't quite pick up on. You can publish it as a single file out there with the subtitles. Abby Cheesman: That's awesome. And subtitles are not just important for posting on video sites, but also social media. So being able to generate that SRT. I have a whole blog post about much to do about captions, because it's gotten complicated. And it's much better from a user standpoint, but the infrastructure of how do you that has gotten a little bit trickier. But that's awesome. I'm going to have to check that out. Abby Cheesman: Texts call outs. I'm sure you guys have seen these videos before. Recipes where they label each piece. I actually didn't know until I started doing research that there was sound to these videos. There's actually a dude talking as this is going on. But you don't need it because they've labeled with text. This can be done in iMovie. It can be done in other editing programs that you just put labels on things. I could see you doing this with uniforms where there's pieces of a uniform for the flight attendants if they're getting new uniforms or something's happening with uniform, that's important to communicate. You can use a call out of just somebody standing there in uniform and talk about PPE, protective clothing, steel toe boots, different parts of the uniform that are important. Call outs are cool. We're going to see more of them. Abby Cheesman: And lastly, text narration. This is a beautiful video put out by the National Park Service. It's simple B-roll of a national park, and then they share messages just through text. And you can see a little green bar at the bottom of the screen. It also tells you how long the video is, which I thought was just a beautiful user experience. I'm super impatient, so knowing that I only have a little bit of that bar left, I watched the whole thing. So text on top of B-roll. That's a really easy thing to do in iMovie or other simple editing programs. And the footage that you have to capture for it is just B-roll. There's no audio, there's no people talking on camera. It's just footage of your workplace. All right, that wraps this up to final questions. Chris Russell: Yeah, we do have one more [inaudible 00:47:00] to get chance before. But Jasmine's asking, "How often should we update videos for the same position?" Abby Cheesman: That's a great question. So we see our companies updating them about every year, depending on the position. So it's going to be really dependent on how evergreen the tasks of the role are. So for example, nursing. That job is going to be relatively the same across a two to three years span. So that's a little bit more evergreen. Tech positions, their shelf life is just shorter if you go into the details of the actual tech stack that people are working with and that kind of thing. So if you want a video like that to last longer, talk a little bit less about the technology of today's moment. And talk a little bit more about the greater context of that job. Abby Cheesman: But I would say we encourage companies to put as much video out as possible. Even if that means Instagram stories, stuff that goes away really quickly. Just getting in the habit of sharing on video will make each video faster and easier to produce. So if your first video you keep for a year and then you update it and you get more and more comfortable with the filming process, we have some companies that weekly are putting out videos. Not all job videos, but certainly content that engages their job seeker audience. Abby Cheesman: And then of course if you're going through any kind of change in that role, video is a great opportunity to communicate that internally and externally. So we have a company that's going through a massive uniform change, and it impacts their employees. So they're making video pieces about the change, why the change is coming. Some of those are internal facing, and some of those are external facing. Chris Russell: You have a super fan in the chat there. Mary says after listening to your presentation at our HR meetings in Iowa, we bought the equipment and use it all the time. Appreciate the- Abby Cheesman: Yay. I remember you. That's awesome. That makes my day. Video does not have to be expensive. It does not have to be out of reach. I actually taught my college roommate how to make a video. She and her sister own a daycare, and I taught her how to film, how to do interviews, and she produced her own video too. So I think small and midsize businesses, this is perfect to get started. And as you grow and see more opportunity, you see a lot of companies getting the bug for video and then start to do onboarding, or training, or other ways to communicate through video. Yay Mary, good job. Chris Russell: Awesome. Well Abby, thank you very much for this very informative, and a lot of good stuff in this video. I'll have to go watch it again. Abby Cheesman: Yes. Thank you so much for having me. Chris Russell: Tell them where to connect with you and then Skill Scout. Abby Cheesman: Yeah. So as a participant in this webinar, I nerd out on this stuff. I'd be happy to do a free 20 minute video story boarding session. If you have any kind of questions about how video could work for you, I'm happy to chat with you. My email is [email protected]. You can get me on Twitter. I'm pretty easy to find. So get in contact. I love doing brainstorming sessions because there's probably not a challenge that we have not seen with one of our clients. So happy to chat through any questions you have. Speaker 2: Another episode of RecTech is in the books. Follow Chris on twitter @ChrisRussell, or visit rectechmedia.com. Where you can find the audio and links for this show on our blog. RecTech media helps keep employers and recruiters up to date through our podcasts, webinars, and articles. So be sure to check out our other sites, Recruiting Headlines and HR Podcasters to stay on top of recruiting industry trends. Thanks for listening, and we'll see you soon on the next episode of RecTech, the recruiting technology podcast.

Zoho Recruit adds Slack Integration Clinch acquired by PageUp Jobcase could be valued at 1 billion Seek invests in JobandTalent Sponsored by Hiretual.com

In today's audio you will hear pitches and Q&A from my two favorite startups that pitched at the recent HR Tech Tank demo day in New York City. Sam Fitzroy's Maia Labs helps companies to reuse those applicants which come to your site but don't apply. While Gal Amog's Talenya chatbot actively sources and engages potential candidate. Sponsored by Emisary.ai (text recruiting) and WorkHere (geofencing job advertising)

Placement wants to be a talent agent and charge seekers 10% of salary https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/placement/ https://larocqueinc.com/placement-raises-3-million-for-its-marketplace-job-board-plans-to-disrupt-staffing-firms-by-charging-placed-candidates-for-18-to-36-months/ Indeed Testing a Gig Job Site https://hrtechfeed.com/breaking-indeed-testing-a-gig-job-site/ iCIMS Launches LinkedIn Connector to Streamline Source-to-Hire Workflow https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-launches-linkedin-connector-to-streamline-source-to-hire-workflow/ Diversity & Inclusion Platform Raises $1.5 Million https://hrtechfeed.com/diversity-inclusion-platform-raises-1-5-million/ Five Job Trends to Watch in 2020 https://hrtechfeed.com/five-job-trends-to-watch-in-2020/ Join the RecTech Media Insider Program! https://www.rectechmedia.com/insider Follow HR Tech Feed on social media: @hrtechfeed on Twitter Linkedin

Keith Ryu is quietly fueling the future of work. As CEO of Fountain,a recruiting platform for hourly workers, Under Keith’s leadership, Fountain processes over 1 million applicants each month for companies like Caviar, and Safeway, who make over 130,000 hires/onboards every month The company recently announced the closing of a $23 million Series B funding round which brings the company’s total fundraising efforts to $34 million.  Today we’ll learn more about the platform and talk about ....Empowering Employees Through Technology

Cultivate Raises 8 Million https://hrtechfeed.com/real-time-digital-coaching-platform-raises-8-million/ MainStreet Paying Workers to Leave Bay Area https://hrtechfeed.com/this-startup-is-paying-people-to-leave-the-bay-area-for-remote-work/ Jobbiak Raises $2.3 Million Seed Round https://hrtechfeed.com/jobiak-raises-2-3m-for-its-ai-based-recruitment-optimization-technology/ Hcareers Adds Fit Score Matching Tech https://hrtechfeed.com/hcareers-adds-ai-fit-score-and-matching-features/ Join the RecTech Media Insider Program! https://www.rectechmedia.com/insider Follow HR Tech Feed on social media: @hrtechfeed on Twitter Linkedin  

The organizer of the HR Tech Tank event series where startups, investors and HR pros gather revealed some interesting research he and his team have conducted around the problems certain HR tech startups face when entering the market. Recorded live in New York City.

Special thanks to Workhere.com and Emissary.ai for their continued sponsorship. Listen as Allison Daley describes the basics for getting up to speed as a new technical recruiter. #HIREconf New York City.

Sponsored by Hiretual.com Symphony Talent Acquires SmashFly https://recruitingheadlines.com/symphony-talent-acquires-smashfly/ Professional Network for Women in Tech Raises $1.1. Million https://recruitingheadlines.com/professional-network-for-women-in-tech-raises-1-1-million/ CareerBuilder to sponsor WWE Wrestling https://recruitingheadlines.com/careerbuilder-to-sponsor-wwe-wrestling/ Greenhouse Launches Customer-Preferred Partner Program https://recruitingheadlines.com/greenhouse-launches-customer-preferred-partner-program/ Latest Workplace Happiness Index is Out https://recruitingheadlines.com/latest-workplace-happiness-index-is-out/ Join the RecTech Media Insider Program! https://www.rectechmedia.com/insider Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Coral Zelachowski from Sodexo, Talks About The Challenges of Technology Adoption in HR including negotiating and training. Recorded live at HIREconf NYC 2019. Sponsored by Workhere.com and Emissary.ai

Sponsored by Emissary.ai and Workhere.com Listen as Craig Fisher from Allegis Global unveils a very cool SEO hack for your jobs using Eventbrite, the event search site. Recorded live at HIREconf NYC, an event hosted by HiringSolved.

Gig and Hourly Recruiting Platform Fountain Raises $23 Million https://recruitingheadlines.com/gig-and-hourly-recruiting-platform-fountain-raises-23-million/ Engage Talent Acquired by Workforce Logiq https://recruitingheadlines.com/engage-talent-acquired-by-workforce-logiq/  Jobility Announces New Gig Worker App https://recruitingheadlines.com/jobility-announces-new-gig-worker-app/ SmashFly and Altru Labs Announce Integration to for Employee-Generated Video Distribution https://recruitingheadlines.com/smashfly-and-altru-labs-announce-integration-to-for-employee-generated-video-distribution/   French Recruitment Startup ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ Raises $22 Million https://recruitingheadlines.com/french-recruitment-startup-welcome-to-the-jungle-raises-22-million/ Join the RecTech Media Insider Program! https://www.rectechmedia.com/insider   Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Miki Johnson is a cofounder of Job Portraits, a San Francisco-based creative studio that works with startups to create compelling content—photos, videos, blog posts, etc.—about their teams to help them market their job opportunities. On today's show….5 things candidates want that companies aren't giving them. Listeners can email [email protected]—for a copy of the Candidate Experience Scorecard she mentioned.

Lever Launches Zoom Integration https://recruitingheadlines.com/lever-launches-video-interviewing-capability/ Linkedin launches Events https://recruitingheadlines.com/linkedin-launching-new-events-feature/ Hirevue Launches Game Assessments https://recruitingheadlines.com/hirevue-launches-game-based-assessments/ SHL Acquires Aspiring Minds https://recruitingheadlines.com/shl-agrees-to-acquire-aspiring-minds-assessment-platform/ QJumpers New Onboarding Tool https://recruitingheadlines.com/qjumpers-launches-job-offer-onboarding-tool/ Join the RecTech Media Insider Program! https://www.rectechmedia.com/insider Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

In our final interviews from HR Tech Las Vegas I chatted with Jonathan Dale and Parker Bettis of Phenom People about their web site accessibility initiatives, got an update from our sponsor WorkHere and met a new blue collar recruiting app called AppyHere. Sponsored by WorkHere and Emissary.ai the text recruitment platform.

In part 3 of my 4 part series this episode features interviews with Paradox/Olivia CEO Aaron Matos and Amit Chauhan of programmatic job player JobAdx. Recorded live at HR Tech Las Vegas. Special thanks to WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai for their generous sponsorship.

RigUp Gets $300 Million https://recruitingheadlines.com/energy-job-market-rigup-raises-300-million-series-c/ Lattice Raises $25m Series C https://recruitingheadlines.com/lattice-raises-25m-series-c/ TMP Worldwide Acquires Social Media Firm https://recruitingheadlines.com/tmp-worldwide-acquires-social-media-firm/ Talroo Launches Talroo Events™ to Drive Attendance to In-Person Hiring Events https://blog.talroo.com/talroo-launches-events Xor raises $8.4 million for AI-powered job candidate recruitment and screening https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/11/xor-raises-8-4-million-for-ai-powered-job-candidate-recruitment-and-screening/ Join the RecTech Media Insider Program! https://www.rectechmedia.com/insider Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

In our continuing coverage of the 2019 HR tech conference you will hear from Salary.com's CEO Kent Plunkett and the founder and CEO of a startup called PaddleHR. Special thanks to Workhere.com and Emissary.ai for their support of this podcast.

CuriousThing is an AI based digital interview tool that represents the future of HR Tech. I spoke with Zubin Fitter, head of Partnerships for this Australian based company and got his take on the tool and why its cool.  Recorded live at the HR Tech Expo Hall in Las Vegas.

Employee Engagement Tool Emplify Receives Big Investment https://recruitingheadlines.com/employee-engagement-tool-emplify-receives-big-investment/ Utmost, an HR app for Gig Economy Raises $11.2 Million https://recruitingheadlines.com/utmost-an-hr-app-for-gig-econonmy-raises-11-2-million/ Talenya – The AI Technology Recruitment Company, Completes $6.5 Million Funding Round https://recruitingheadlines.com/talenya-the-ai-technology-recruitment-company-completes-6-5-million-funding-round/ Skills Assessment API Platform Interview Mocha Launches LogicBox https://recruitingheadlines.com/skills-assessment-api-platform-interview-mocha-launches-logicbox/ iCiMS: Employers hired only 60% of their required tech talent in the U.S. over the last 3 years https://recruitingheadlines.com/icims-employers-hired-only-60-of-their-required-tech-talent-in-the-u-s-over-the-last-3-years/ Join the RecTech Media Insider Program! https://www.rectechmedia.com/insider Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

I met today’s guest at the Social Recruiting Strategies Conference in Philadelphia this summer. In her role at Siemens Eleni Efstratiades helps propose solutions that enhance candidate experience through marketing and technology innovations. I asked her to come on and talk about her efforts around brand and marketing Siemens jobs. TOPICS INCLUDE Whats the Siemens EVP...how do you pitch potential candidates on your career site and other channels? Examples for being authentic What’s your recruiting tech stack like...ATS, CRM...etc… How do you view technology when it comes to creating a good candidate experience?  You are a client of VideoMyJob, what has that experience been like? What results have you seen as a result of video on your jobs? What tips on video creation do you have? What kind of metrics do you track as part of your job?

Uber has Announced Uber Works a new job placement app https://www.npr.org/2019/10/03/766861700/uber-launches-an-app-to-connect-job-seekers-with-gig-work 7shifts Raises Additional $6 Million Funding for Its Restaurant Labor Platform https://recruitingheadlines.com/7shifts-raises-additional-6-million-funding-for-its-restaurant-labor-platform/ Bullhorn Acquires Erecruit https://recruitingheadlines.com/bullhorn-acquires-erecruit/ TMP Worldwide Acquires Maximum; A Netherlands-Based Recruitment Marketing Tech Firm https://recruitingheadlines.com/tmp-worldwide-acquires-maximum-a-netherlands-based-recruitment-marketing-tech-firm/ Montage and Shaker International Rebrand as Modern Hire https://recruitingheadlines.com/montage-and-shaker-international-rebrand-as-modern-hire/ Join the RecTech Media Insider Program! https://www.rectechmedia.com/insider Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Ken Lazarus is CEO of Scout Exchange. Having co-founded, led and advised over a dozen technology-based startups, he has over twenty-five years of experience growing innovative companies. Ken is passionately focused on using the power of data, marketplace dynamics, and technologies such as machine learning to disrupt and improve how companies find and hire the best talent. Prior to joining Scout in 2013, he served as CEO of Lilliputian Systems, where he led the development of Lilliputian’s portable power product platform, secured international aircraft regulatory approval, raised significant capital from blue chip investors and signed important strategic distribution and manufacturing agreements, including a landmark partnership with Intel Corporation (NASD: INTL). 1. As a company, how do you recognize where in your process an AI recruiting solution would be beneficial?  2. How does AI in recruiting affect the candidate experience?  3. It’s important that humans still drive the process of attracting passive candidates. Is there a way that AI can in fact assist recruiters with the challenge?  4. There are quite a few ways that AI can assist in screening; how can you effectively measure if these are working? For example, how do you know if a chat bot is providing helpful (and specific enough) answers?  5. Human interaction has always been key to forming relationships between third party recruiters and hiring companies. The idea of a recruitment marketplace somewhat removes this interaction. How can both parties ensure the right candidates are sourced and submitted without this? 6. With some recruiters worried that AI is coming for their jobs, how do you suggest getting a team or search firm to embrace AI tools? 7. What do you see as the biggest benefits of using AI in the recruiting process? 8. Do you see AI assisting with eliminating bias in recruitment?

McDonalds Adds Voice Apply Thru Alexa Integration https://recruitingheadlines.com/need-to-find-a-job-at-mcdonalds-just-ask-alexa/ Terminal Raises $17M to Connect Remote Tech Talent to Companies https://recruitingheadlines.com/terminal-raises-17m-to-connect-remote-tech-talent-to-companies/ FirmPlay Launches New Employee Referral Platform https://recruitingheadlines.com/firmplay-launches-new-employee-referral-platform/ Vimeo Launches Platform To Find And Hire Video Pros https://recruitingheadlines.com/vimeo-launches-platform-to-find-and-hire-video-pros/ 80+ New Products to Debut at HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas https://recruitingheadlines.com/80-new-products-to-debut-at-hr-tech-conference-in-las-vegas/ Join the RecTech Media Insider Program! https://www.rectechmedia.com/insider Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

An investment group in Canada, recently announced an equity investment of $53 million canadian dollars in Montreal based, neuvoo, one of the fastest growing employment websites in the world. Neuvoo just ranked 14th in Canadian Business magazine’s 2019 Growth Businesses which lists Canada’s fastest growing companies. This investment will enable neuvoo to continue its expansion into new markets, and allow it to further optimize its platform. The company says It expects to reach over 100 million visitors by January 2020.   Joining me to discuss the new investment and future plans is their US VP of operations Michael O’Dell.

Special thanks to Hiretual.com Job Site neuvoo Receives $53 Million Dollar Investment https://recruitingheadlines.com/job-site-neuvoo-receives-53-million-dollar-investment/ Checkr Fuels Platform Development with $160 Million in New Funding https://recruitingheadlines.com/checkr-fuels-platform-development-with-160-million-in-new-funding/ D&I Platform Joonko Raises $2.4 Million https://recruitingheadlines.com/di-platform-joonko-raises-2-4-million/ Incredible Health’s hiring platform for nurses gets $15M led by Andreessen Horowitz https://recruitingheadlines.com/incredible-healths-hiring-platform-for-nurses-gets-15m-led-by-andreessen-horowitz/ ENGAGE Talent Debuts New Alumni Engagement Tool https://recruitingheadlines.com/engage-talent-debuts-new-alumni-engagement-tool/ MarketerHire Announces $1 Million Seed Round https://recruitingheadlines.com/marketerhire-announces-1-million-seed-round/ Phenom People Now Integrates with SmartRecruiters https://recruitingheadlines.com/phenom-people-now-integrates-with-smartrecruiters/ Wethos Gets $3 Million to Match Marketing Pros to Non-profits https://recruitingheadlines.com/wethos-gets-3-million-to-match-marketing-pros-to-non-profits/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin  

Looking to hire more women into your organization? You are in luck. There are actually 11 different sites now online that allow you to post jobs and recruit female candidates. For the full list of links click here: https://recruitingheadlines.com/6-job-sites-to-recruit-women/ Special thanks to Emissary.ai and Workhere.com for their podcast sponsorship.

Linkedin lawsuit https://www.tlnt.com/appeals-court-says-federal-law-does-not-prevent-web-scrapping/ PeopleScout New RPO Platform https://recruitingheadlines.com/peoplescout-launches-its-beyond-the-expected-managed-service-provider-service-approach/ Smashflys New Apply https://recruitingheadlines.com/smashfly-releases-apply-overlay-to-simplify-apply-process/ Joveo Goes Global https://recruitingheadlines.com/joveo-goes-international/ Beamery Launches its own TOS https://recruitingheadlines.com/beamery-launches-talent-operating-system/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Brad Kielinski is the founder of IT Pros Philly….which provides access to proven technology talent in the Philadelphia region and beyond. He’s also someone I follow on Twitter for great recruiting tweets and its a pleasure to have him on the show. In this episode we'll talk about the technology he uses to hire and store candidates as well as commentary from his tweet stream.

Special thanks to Hiretual.com First Up CultureAmp Receives $82 million in funding https://recruitingheadlines.com/culture-amp-raises-82m-to-double-down-on-the-people-culture-space/ HireVue to get New Investor https://recruitingheadlines.com/hirevue-receives-another-investment/ JazzHR launches HR marketplace https://recruitingheadlines.com/jazzhr-launches-marketplace-to-expand-customers-hr-capabilities/ Stoke raises $4.5 million https://recruitingheadlines.com/stoke-raises-4-5-million-to-help-companies-tap-into-the-growing-freelance-workforce/ TripleByte expands blind recruitment tool https://recruitingheadlines.com/triplebyte-expands-its-background-blind-recruiting-platform-to-take-on-linkedin-in-hiring-technical-talent/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Steve Lowisz is a recruiting industry veteran and talent optimization guru with more than two decades of experience helping companies find and unlock the performance of their teams. He is an expert on talent acquisition, talent assessment, talent engagement, diversity and inclusion, and business performance, which has allowed him to serve hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals across the globe. As the CEO and founder of the Qualigence Group of Companies, Steve regularly contributes to publications such as Fortune magazine, CNN Money, the Detroit Free Press, and Bloomberg Radio.  In his latest book...Recruiting Sucks...But It Doesn’t Have To, Steve shares a new approach to attracting, developing, and retaining an accomplished and vibrant workforce. Dispelling six recruiting myths that most HR departments believe, Steve will show you how to prioritize behavior over skills, look beyond LinkedIn, be a marketer, find real ways to inspire employees, take responsibility, avoid reliance on technology, embrace diversity, and more.

Entelo and Convey IQ Merger https://recruitingheadlines.com/entelo-acquires-conveyiq/ Jane.ai Rebrands https://recruitingheadlines.com/hr-chatbot-jane-ai-changes-name-rebrands-to-knowledge-sharing-platform-raises-13-million/ HackerRank for Data Science https://recruitingheadlines.com/hackerrank-launches-data-scientist-hiring-tool/ ZapInfo Funding https://recruitingheadlines.com/zapinfo-raises-1-75m-series-seed-2-funding/ Hire by Google Shutdown https://recruitingheadlines.com/google-gives-up-on-ats-ambitions/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

In a past life, I was a corporate recruiter for a few different global organizations. My team was housed under Human Resources, and I recruited for a variety of roles from administrative to senior line professionals in multiple functions. Like most corporate recruiters, I was assigned more job requisitions to fill than was humanly possible, wasn’t well-versed in what to look for in potential candidates other than key words, and relied on an applicant tracking system (ATS) to do the heavy lifting of feeding me the most "qualified" applicants. Hiring managers were usually too busy to meet with me, even when stellar applicants were waiting to hear back and we risked losing them. Candidate inquiries went unanswered, and they accepted jobs with competitors, while I was criticized for not doing better. Read the full post on Forbes; https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawngraham/2019/08/22/confessions-of-a-former-corporate-recruiter/#5bc6267361cf Add Rejobify.com to your rejection email templates and tell candidates you care.

In today's audio you will hear execs from Itsy, Netflix and Sodexo compare notes and discuss how to recruit from a small vs large company perspective. Hosted by Jessical Miller Merrell from Workology. Special thanks to show sponsors WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai

HackerRank adds new features https://recruitingheadlines.com/hackerrank-adds-new-features/ Recruitology to power BH Media jobs https://recruitingheadlines.com/recruitology-inks-agreement-with-bh-media-group/ Nursefly acquired https://recruitingheadlines.com/travel-nursing-job-market-acquired-by-iac/ Handshake opens nationwide to all students https://recruitingheadlines.com/handshake-opens-platform-to-students-nationwide/ Employer Brand Study https://recruitingheadlines.com/4-in-10-companies-do-not-have-an-employer-branding-strategy-new-survey/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Anil Dharni is the co-founder and CEO of Sense. He founded the company to help fix temporary employment for the 42 percent of the U.S. workforce that are contingent workers.  Before founding Sense, Anil received his MBA from MIT and was co-founder and COO at Funzio, which was acquired by GREE in 2012, where Anil continued his work as COO. Anil led Funzio’s seed round, raised $20 million in Series A funding, and arranged the sale to GREE.   Sense helps staffing agencies create a better work experience for independent contractors. https://www.sensehq.com/

Is Google for Jobs a monopoly? https://recruitingheadlines.com/eu-getting-antitrust-complaints-from-job-boards-about-google-for-jobs/ Betts Recruiting Launches its own job board https://recruitingheadlines.com/betts-recruiting-launches-own-job-market-for-sales-marketing-ops-roles/ Upward.net Acquires SMB recruiting platform Proven.com https://recruitingheadlines.com/upward-net-acquires-proven-com-expands-into-smb-market/ Rimeto gets $10 million for its employee directory platform https://recruitingheadlines.com/rimeto-raises-10m-to-modernize-the-enterprise-directory/ Nomad Health raises another 34 million for its Healthcare Job Board https://recruitingheadlines.com/nomad-healths-job-platform-raises-34-million/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

I sat down with VideoMyJob co-founder Kristen Graham to get an update on what this Australian born DIY video provider has been up to lately. We talk video recruiting, their Monster partnership along with recent product releases. Recorded live at Social Recruiting Strategies in Philly #SRSC

At the recent Social Recruiting Strategies Conference #SRSC I caught up with Josh Gampel from Recruitics who gave some insight into their recent purchase of KRT Marketing. You'll also hear his opinion on the recent acquisitions int he programmatic space.

Job seekers looking to leave https://recruitingheadlines.com/43-of-workers-to-look-for-new-job-in-next-12-months/ NextStep Interactive Raises Funding for Healthcare Jobs https://recruitingheadlines.com/health-care-job-startup-raises-3-million/ Humanity launches shift scheduling tool https://recruitingheadlines.com/humanity-launches-new-ai-powered-shift-scheduling-tool/ VidCruiter partners with icims https://recruitingheadlines.com/vidcruiter-partners-with-icims-to-streamline-video-interviewing/ Crosschq raises funding for background checks https://recruitingheadlines.com/crosschq-the-platform-for-human-intelligence-hiring-announces-funding/ Nexxt enhances text2Hire https://recruitingheadlines.com/nexxt-announces-enhanced-text2hire-conversation-product/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

On July 30th I travelled to NYC to attend a special panel discussion hosted by ConveyIQ and RussellTobin. They put out a great spread of drinks and apps and of course a lively discussion about the candidate experience with 4 practitioners from area companies. Tune in to hear some real world stories from the world of HR tech. This episode is sponsored by https://workhere.com/ and https://www.emissary.ai/

Recruitics acquires KRT Marketing https://recruitingheadlines.com/krt-marketing-acquired-by-recruitics/ Harver Lands $15 million https://recruitingheadlines.com/harver-raises-15m-in-series-b-financing/ Monday.com gets $150 million https://recruitingheadlines.com/work-management-platform-raises-150-million/ TalentGuard gets $4 million to stop turnover https://recruitingheadlines.com/talentguard-raises-4m-to-accelerate-employee-retention/ Jobble gets $11 million for gig economy marketplace https://recruitingheadlines.com/on-demand-marketplace-jobble-raises-11-million/ Beamery launches new career site features https://recruitingheadlines.com/beamery-launches-new-career-site-tools/ Talroo and Brazen https://recruitingheadlines.com/talroo-and-brazen-join-forces-to-help-reduce-hiring-friction/ Fuel50 Gets $14 million https://recruitingheadlines.com/fuel50-raises-14-million-series-b-to-transform-the-future-of-work/ Lever ads enhancements https://recruitingheadlines.com/lever-debuts-new-enhancements-in-summer-2019-product-release/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Special thanks to my sponsors: Workhere.com and Emissary.ai Your Mobile Apply is killing your candidate experience. Learn about those implications and how to fix it.  To read about it go here; https://www.rectechmedia.com/blog/2019/7/23/whats-wrong-with-mobile-apply-and-how-to-fix-it

Special thanks to our sponsor, Hiretual.com Jobsoid released a new job description library  https://recruitingheadlines.com/jobsoid-releases-a-free-job-description-builder/ Jobsoid, an award-winning applicant tracking software, focused on simplifying recruitment, recently released a Job Description Builder with an online library of customizable job description templates, available for free on their website at https://resources.jobsoid.com/job-descriptions. With the Free Job Description Builder, hiring managers will now be able to quickly draft that perfect job description with minimal effort. They can choose a template from the online library of over 500 ready to use job descriptions, customize it and kick start their recruitment in a matter of minutes. The library is meticulously crafted by HR experts from the industry and contains templates which are clear, concise and cover the precise points necessary to attract the right talent for the job. The Free Job Description Builder by Jobsoid will help hiring teams to: Choose an existing job description template and customize it to suit their own requirements Choose points from multiple templates to write a better job description Draft desired job descriptions and post them on multiple channels in one click Post various job descriptions for different industries on job boards directly, using Jobsoid Download the customized job description in PDF format and save it for recruitment records Gusto Raises $200 Million for its SMB HR software platform https://recruitingheadlines.com/gusto-raises-200-million-for-its-smb-hr-software-platform/ SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Gusto, the people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams, today announced that it has raised $200 million in Series D funding. Leading late-stage investor Fidelity Management & Research Company, and the dedicated sustainable investor Generation Investment Management, joined existing Gusto investors Dragoneer Investment Group, General Catalyst, and those advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. in the round. “As Gusto continues to scale, we’ve been intentional about choosing investors that optimize for the long term. We’ll be building Gusto for decades, and our goal is to be a durable and sustainable business,” said Josh Reeves, Gusto CEO and co-founder. “Fidelity and Generation share our belief that the best business model is to align the success of your customers with your own success.  Currently, only 50 percent of small businesses in America make it past year five. This is unacceptable, and we’re here to change that. Gusto is committed to increasing the durability of small businesses everywhere by helping them build great places to work where their employees thrive.” The investment will be used to double down on research and development as Gusto continues the expansion of the company’s people platform, enabling small business owners and operators to onboard their employees, pay them, provide health insurance, and support their teams all in one integrated solution. Gusto will also continue growing its team in Denver, San Francisco, and New York.   Toast acquires restaurant HR software platform https://recruitingheadlines.com/toast-acquires-stratex-to-simplify-hr-for-restaurants/ Toast, the fastest-growing restaurant management platform in the U.S., today announced it acquired StratEx, a leading provider of HR and payroll software for restaurants. StratEx’s HR software and consulting services help restaurants automate applicant tracking, scheduling, payroll, benefits, and labor law compliance. “At Toast, we know that for a restaurant to be successful it often starts with recruiting and retaining a great team, yet many restaurants wrestle with employee turnover that can exceed 70 percent,” said Chris Comparato, CEO of Toast. “By adding StratEx to the Toast Platform, we can better support restaurants of all sizes in simplifying HR, payroll, and talent management on a platform that works seamlessly with Toast and our technology partner ecosystem.” As a result of the acquisition, the former StratEx product is now part of Toast Payroll & Team Management, an all-in-one HR solution built specifically for the restaurant industry. Designed to seamlessly work with Toast Point of Sale, the solution automates employee onboarding, accurately tracks hours across locations, streamlines payroll, and simplifies compliance for restaurants of all sizes. “We’re passionate about the restaurant industry and helping our community of restaurateurs succeed in today’s dynamic – and often challenging – labor market,” said Adam Ochstein, CEO of StratEx. “In Toast we discovered a partner that is equally as passionate about the restaurant community. Joining forces allows us to accelerate investments in our platform and build new employee-facing products that will allow restaurants running on Toast to attract, hire, and retain great teams.”   Staffing software tool Top Echelon has been acquired Top Echelon Network, LLC, a leading provider of applicant tracking system (ATS) and split-placement network software, today announced that it has been acquired by SageLink Capital, a leading investment firm focused on enterprise software and technology-enabled businesses. Following the acquisition, the Company has been rebranded “Top Echelon Software, LLC.” “We’re thrilled to partner with SageLink Capital and look forward to the number of ways that they will help us better serve the needs of our customers, grow our company, and expand our team,” said Top Echelon CEO, Mark Demaree. “This signifies the next chapter in Top Echelon’s mission to become the leading mid-market ATS provider.” Top Echelon’s flagship ATS product, Big Biller, provides recruiters a software-as-a-service (SaaS) workflow management system for the talent acquisition process, including tools for resume import and parse, job application collection, resume search, comprehensive reports, job board publication, job websites, analytics, and workflow customization. The Company’s split-placement offering is a network platform where recruiters share candidate and job order information online where one recruiter provides the candidate for another recruiter’s job order. Top Echelon serves more than 1,700 customers across North America.   RChilli Launches New Deep Learning Parsing Module SAN RAMON, CALIF. (PRWEB) JULY 24, 2019 RChilli believes in the continuous development of its products to provide world-class technology solutions to its customers. After years of research in AI, NLP, and machine learning, RChilli is proud to announce the launch of its new deep learning parsing module. The users will witness better search results with an improved extraction and smarter identification of resume data. Also, there is a remarkable improvement across the data fields and a significant decrease in error rates. Adopting deep learning technology also builds a path for faster release of languages. The dream of providing advanced parsing with deep learning technology comes true with this new achievement. Deep learning is a game-changer in the HR tech industry. It processes a large amount of text data through algorithms. With the capability of self-learning, it automatically learns the representation of similar words. Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

In this bonus audio recorded at Unleash Las Vegas you will from from Kevin Blair of IBM. They are reshaping the way they recruit and the technology they use to do it.  The RecTech Podcast is sponsored in part by WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai

Special thanks to Hiretual.com our sponsor! TMP acquires Perengo https://recruitingheadlines.com/tmp-worldwide-acquires-programmatic-platform-perengo/ BuiltIn gets $22 million https://recruitingheadlines.com/tech-network-built-in-gets-22-million-in-funding/ AlloyO teams up with ICIMS https://recruitingheadlines.com/allyo-partners-with-icims/ HiringSolved releases Prophet II and Prophet Pro https://recruitingheadlines.com/hiringsolved-modernizes-candidate-sourcing-with-prophet-ii-prophet-pro/ LoopFlow’s private text messaging app https://recruitingheadlines.com/loop-flow-is-new-private-text-messaging-platform-for-the-recruitment-process/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin  

Today my guest is Dan Caporale he is the founder of the veteran job site Hire Our Heroes dot com and the founder and chairman of the non-profit by the same name. HireOurHeroes is a volunteer organization that leads efforts for today's transitioning Veterans and their Spouses. It was founded by Veterans for Veterans. The mission of Hire Our Heroes (HOH) is to empower veterans and employers with the knowledge, skills, and innovative tools necessary to optimize a strategic workforce by providing free training and education. TOPICS  Let’s start with July 25th because that day is fast approaching with special significance for veterans...tell the audience what day that is and why it’s so important to you? Where did the idea come from? You were in the Marines, what was transitioning like for yourself when you left the service? Is that typical for what veterans face when they enter civillian life? What else does your non profit do for veterans? How can employers get involved wit the non profit Success story? What do employer tell you about why they love to hire vets Tell us about the job board...when did it start and what can employers do on it.. Pricing? Are their certain types of jobs that veterans are attracted to? More blue collar than white collar? What’s your message to employers about why they need to hire more veterans https://hireourheroes.com/ https://hireourheroes.org/

The StepStone group acquired 85 percent of the US-American company Appcast for about EUR 70 million. Appcast is the leading technology provider for programmatic job advertising in the US. With the acquisition, Axel Springer continues its growth strategy and further expands the StepStone group’s portfolio of intelligent recruiting and matching tools. Appcast specializes in displaying job ads online precisely where suitable candidates find them. Appcast’s clients include well-known US brands as well as hundreds of other companies from all industries. Appcast was founded by CEO Chris Forman in 2014. He will continue to lead the company after the takeover of the majority stake by the StepStone Group. Today, the company headquartered in Lebanon, New Hampshire, already employs about 100 people. https://recruitingheadlines.com/appcast-acquired-by-stepstone/   PITTSBURGH, July 10, 2019 — JazzHR, the leading recruiting software provider for small and medium-sized businesses, today announced an integrated partnership with candidate-assessment provider Wonderlic to enable companies make more informed hiring decisions. JazzHR users can now view results from Wonderlic’s scientifically backed “Wonscore®” tests right from JazzHR – empowering them to compare candidates, predict engagement and accelerate time-to-hire. Wonscore assessments are designed by industrial-organizational psychologists to evaluate candidates for cognitive ability, motivation and personality. Seeing how candidates scored in each of these areas without leaving JazzHR saves time and gives hiring teams a competitive edge in making the right hire, faster. “We’re so excited to combine JazzHR’s easy-to-use recruiting solution with the power of Wonderlic’s pre-employment testing,” said JazzHR’s VP of Strategic Alliances, Amanda Friedl. “Users can now move candidates through their recruiting stages with confidence reinforced by each candidate’s Wonscore.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/jazzhr-partners-with-wonderlic-pre-employment-testing-provider/ 15Five, the pioneer in continuous performance management, today announced the close of a $30.7 million Series B round led by Next47, a global venture firm created by Siemens, with participation from Matrix Partners, PointNine Capital, Jason Calacanis’s LAUNCH Fund, Newground Ventures, Bling Capital, Chaifetz Group, and Chicago and Salt Lake City-based Origin Ventures, which led the startup’s Series A funding round. This latest round of financing brings 15Five’s total capital raised to $42.6 million. 15Five will use the Series B funding to further accelerate growth, scale sales and marketing, and continue to invest heavily in their innovative product that delivers on the promise of their unique Best-Self Management methodology. 15Five’s further investment in talent, will more than double its 2018 headcount by the end of 2019 to a total of 190 employees. “This latest round of funding signifies a paradigm shift in organizations’ people management practices, driven by a new generation of employees,” said David Hassell, co-founder and CEO of 15Five. “Millennials perform at their peak when given regular feedback, flexibility in how they work, and growth opportunities. Now as managers, directors and even founders, they see the value of investing in technologies that enable thriving workplaces. We believe that the market has arrived and demand for talent management software like 15Five will continue.” 15Five differentiates itself by basing its product and Best-Self Management approach on the latest research in organizational development and positive psychology. This new approach posits that when leaders build cultures and institute practices that support people in being and becoming their Best Selves, then high performance and uncommon loyalty are the result. Best-Self Management begins with a “Best-Self Discovery” process—setting at least one Personal Development Objective along with other quarterly OKRs—and leverages other key 15Five features like the Weekly Check-in and 1-on-1s. https://recruitingheadlines.com/15five-raises-over-30-million-for-its-performance-management-software/ Every day, hundreds of our military personnel leave the service in search of civilian employment. On July 25th, employers across the country are reminded to consider these servicemen and women as highly trained, qualified individuals to fill open positions in their ranks during National Hire a Veteran Day. While legislation is in place protecting separating servicemen and women as they enter the nonmilitary workforce, the best way a potential employer can honor a veteran is to hire one! Around the world, our military personnel serves to protect our freedom. While they are doing so, provide their returning brothers and sisters with the opportunities to pursue a career in the civilian world. Find qualified candidates for a range of fields from Information Technology, Engineering, and Cyber Security, to Sales, Marketing, Management, Finance, Healthcare, Skilled Trades, and so many more! HOW TO OBSERVE “Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill” and do it with a Veteran! Starting in July and throughout Veterans Day you can post your current job openings to Hire Our Heroes Veteran Job Board by visiting www.hireourheroes.com for a 50% discount on 1 year of unlimited job postings by entering the code “Hire a Vet”. For year-round partnerships, employers and veterans can find more assistance and free training resources at www.hireourheroes.com and search for the latest job opportunities.  Please take a moment to Honor our men and women of Armed Forces by offering them your time and consideration in the civilian workforce and use #HireAVeteranDay to share on social media. https://recruitingheadlines.com/national-hire-a-veteran-day-set-for-july-25th/ Amazon has pledged to upskill 100,000 of its employees across the United States, dedicating over $700 million to provide people across its corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores, and transportation network with access to training programs that will help them move into more highly skilled roles within or outside of Amazon. Amazon’s Upskilling 2025 pledge invests in a range of new upskilling programs to serve employees from all backgrounds and Amazon locations. Programs include Amazon Technical Academy, which equips non-technical Amazon employees with the essential skills to transition into, and thrive in, software engineering careers;  Associate2Tech, which trains fulfillment center associates to move into technical roles regardless of their previous IT experience;  Machine Learning University, offering employees with technical backgrounds the opportunity to access machine learning skills via an on-site training program;    Amazon Career Choice, a pre-paid tuition program designed to train fulfillment center associates in high-demand occupations of their choice;  Amazon Apprenticeship, a Department of Labor certified program that offers paid intensive classroom training and on-the-job apprenticeships with Amazon; and  AWS Training and Certification,which provide employees with courses to build practical AWS Cloud knowledge that is essential to operating in a technical field. https://recruitingheadlines.com/amazon-launches-initiative-to-upskill-100000-u-s-employees/   Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Max Rocha is the Executive Director for Global Talent Attraction and Employment Branding at CSG, where he leads global recruiting initiatives for the company. With over 15 years of experience, Max brings a wealth of knowledge in human resources principles, policies, and best in class practices to his recruiting function. On today’s show we’ll get a sense of how Max and his team recruit and talk about his recent case study in conjunction with Phenom People on how they used the Phenom Talent Experience Management (TXM) platform to convert more candidates.

Sponsors: Workhere.com and Emissary.ai Zach Linder has led analytics and automation initiatives at several high-growth companies, most recently including his role as vice president and head of US operations at Virtusa, Currently he oversees machine learning and analytics functions at Canvas the text interview company that was recently acquired by Jobvite… Your background and what you do at Canvas...VP of Machine Learning & Analytics, Talk a little bit about the recent acquisition with Jobvite...how’s that going? ...reaction? What new features have rolled out in the last six months?...whats next ? What do the analytics say about texting and recruiting? Give us some insights...Do you have any stats you can share? How can companies use Canvas to better their recruiting processes? (use cases) AI/ML/ natural language-based analytics are popular right now. How should the average recruiter approach technologies like these when it comes to understanding how to leverage them?  Why are they such a great thing in recruiting today and the future? How Canvas is working to create the connection between human and bot recruiting process? What does a company need to do to make a bot installation successful?

Special thanks to our sponsor Hiretual.com   CodeVue Offers New Anti-Cheating Capability in Coding Assessment Tests https://recruitingheadlines.com/codevue-offers-new-anti-cheating-capability-in-coding-assessment-tests/ Digi-Me Releases New Self-Recording Video Feature with Teleprompter https://recruitingheadlines.com/digi-me-releases-new-self-recording-video-feature-with-teleprompter/ ExecThread Unveils Executive-level Candidate Sourcing Platform https://recruitingheadlines.com/execthread-unveils-executive-level-candidate-sourcing-platform/ Eightfold’s New API Connect to Any Existing Talent Management System https://recruitingheadlines.com/eightfolds-new-api-connect-to-any-existing-talent-management-system/ Alexander Mann Solutions Acquires AI Innovator Karen HR https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/alexander-mann-solutions-acquires-ai-innovator-to-accelerate-the-launch-of-exciting-new-digital-products-300876099.html Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Sponsored by Workhere.com and Emissary.ai I attened the Greenhouse user conference in NYC last week and was able to record a few sessions. Today you will hear my favorite session from that event a conversation about employer branding between the Claude Silver from Vayner Media and Maria Katsis CEO of BuiltIn the recruiting site. Its a frank discussion about being transparent and authentic and one of the better talks on EB i have witnessed...also at the end of the talk there was time for one audience question so be sure to listen to the end to hear what he has to ask.

Special thanks to our sponsor Hiretual.com The big news of the week, ATS platform ICIMS acquires crm/career site provider Jibe https://recruitingheadlines.com/hrtech-acquisition-icims-buys-jibe/ Workhound Raises $1. 5 Million https://recruitingheadlines.com/workhound-secures-seed-round-of-funding/ Enboarder Raises $8 million https://recruitingheadlines.com/enboarder-raises-8-million-series-a-to-fuel-the-shift-to-experience-driven-employee-onboarding/ PredictiveHR gets $1million in Funding https://recruitingheadlines.com/predictivehr-raises-1-million-to-provide-workforce-analytics-to-human-resource-c-suite/ The Workies Awards https://recruitingheadlines.com/disrupthr-nyc-launches-awards-program-called-the-workies/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

I met today’s guest while attending the Phenom People user conference in Philadelphia recently. She runs HR for Kansas based, Garmin International. You probably know Garmin as the company that produces activity trackers and sports watches, and GPS devices. In this interview we'll discuss her HR tech stack, recruiting channels and more. What have you been up to you since you got back from the conference? Can you describe your current hiring needs for 2019? How many open reqs, how many hires will be made in 2019? How big is your recruiting team? Which HR technologies are currently part of your HR tech stack? Taleo, oracle/fusion/kronos/learn.com/handshake/simplicity Any sourcing tools? What tech is on your radar? Sourcing stories? What’s your pitch to potential candidates about coming to work for Garmin? Fav Garmin device?

Sponsored by Hiretual.com BetterUp receives $103 million for its employee coaching app https://recruitingheadlines.com/betterup-raises-103-million-for-its-employee-coaching-tool/ PhenomPeople and ZapInfo Team Up https://recruitingheadlines.com/phenom-people-and-zapinfo-launch-integration-to-reduce-recruiter-sourcing-time/ Onboarding tool Workramp Gets $8 million https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/06/workramp-raises-8-million-to-simplify-employee-onboarding/ New AI recruitment tool is set to help recruiters save 80% time spent in initial interviews https://recruitingheadlines.com/new-ai-recruitment-tool-is-set-to-help-recruiters-save-80-time-spent-in-initial-interviews/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

At the recent CITRIX Synergy Conference in Atlanta I sat down with their Chief People Officer, Donna Kimmel. We spoke about the company’s new shift into the employee experience and a range of other topics from employer brand to the remote workforce. This episode sponsored by WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai

Special thanks to our sponsor Hiretual.com THE NEWS   AllyO has raised $45 for their AI based recruiting platform https://recruitingheadlines.com/allyo-raises-45m-series-b-funding-in-largest-ai-recruiting-round-ever/ ZipRecruiter Adds New Matching Feature for Job Seekers https://recruitingheadlines.com/ziprecruiter-adds-new-job-matching-feature-for-seekers/ Rectxt launches affordable text recruiting platform to the SMB market https://recruitingheadlines.com/rectxt-launches-affordable-text-recruiting-platform-to-the-smb-market/ Walmart targeting High Schoolers https://www.hrmorning.com/news/walmart-college-tuition/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

At the recent Unleash Las Vegas conference I travelled the expo hall conducting interviews with some cool Recruiting Technology vendors. Today you will hear from: Bennet Sung of AllyO Patrick Rooney from Click Boarding Brad Windsor from SplashBI Vin from PocketRecruiter This podcast is sponsored by Emissary.ai and Workhere.com

At the recent Unleash Las Vegas conference I travelled the expo hall conducting interviews with some cool Recruiting Technology vendors. Today you will hear from: David Karandish of Jane.ai Prachi Gore from SmartRecruiters Joel Passen from Beamery Laurent from Wonderkind This podcast is sponsored by Emissary.ai and Workhere.com Follow me on twitter at https://twitter.com/chrisrussell

more funding for Smartians, a new acquisition for Indeed and a CareerBuilder rumor in the news. Special thanks to our sponsor Hiretual.com Recruit Holdings Co., parent company of Indeed.com has announced that its HR Technology SBU (Strategic Business Unit) has signed an agreement to acquire Syft Online Limited (“Syft”) through Indeed Ireland Operations Limited. Syft is a leading recruiting platform for the hospitality, events and industrial industries in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2015, Syft’s proprietary technology provides a simple, effective recruitment solution and shift management tool for part-time and flexible work, connecting and matching qualified and vetted jobseekers with available shifts through its desktop and mobile app. Chris Hyams, CEO at Indeed, commented: “At Indeed our mission is to help people get jobs. Syft’s simple and transparent approach to shift work hiring is an innovative solution to the growing demand for part-time and flexible work. We look forward to supporting the Syft team as they continue to improve the hiring experience.”   So here’s my take: indeed wants in on one of the hottest segments of online hiring today. They are currently way behind an an already crowded field that includes players like Wonolo and Shiftgig. With Google encroaching on their turf and facing increased compeition from Linked and Facebook they are broadening their offerings. Will have to wait and see if they can make it successful. I am curious if they are bringing it to the usa https://recruitingheadlines.com/recruit-holdings-announces-acquisition-of-recruiting-platform-syft/ EW YORK, May 29, 2019 — Careerlist Inc., a recruiting technology company, today announced the completion of a $3.7 million round of seed funding. Launched one year ago, Careerlist is changing the recruiting industry by combining the world’s best recruiters with the greatest minds in technology to transform how companies access and hire the most remarkable talent. Careerlist corporate customers include WeWork, Yext, AB InBev and more than 100 others. Investors in this round of funding included BreakawayGrowth, Grid Ventures, Garage Capital and a number of notable individual investors. Funds raised in this round will be used to accelerate the attraction of recruiters, unique talent and employers as well as to advance technology investments. “Careerlist is building the infrastructure, data and tools that will power the next generation of recruitment and job search,” said Michael Scissons, Chairman and CEO of Careerlist. “This new funding is only the beginning of a massive expansion in technology that will attract the world’s best recruiters to amplify their businesses with us. Our mission is to open doors for the world’s most remarkable talent.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/new-york-based-careerlist-raises-3-7-million/   For Recruiters A better financial model through increased opportunity, efficiency and talent representation. For Talent An alternative to the traditional job search process allowing easy, confidential exposure to opportunities and self-marketing tools. DHI Group, Inc….announced today that Dice, the career site for technology professionals, has launched their latest innovation, Candidate Match™, a powerful tool that uses intelligent automation and machine learning to surface the most qualified candidates for tech jobs. “Our Candidate Match solution is tailor-made for tech, using our robust understanding of the technology marketplace and the needs of both professionals and recruiters,” said Art Zeile, President and CEO of DHI Group, Inc., parent company of Dice. “Our proprietary skills data model and taxonomy, Knowledge Graph™, uses sophisticated algorithms to uncover interrelationships among skills to provide the most relevant recommendations to employers hiring tech talent. It’s another step demonstrating Dice’s commitment to developing best-in-class matching algorithms to make recruiting top candidates easier.” Candidate Match… Goes beyond traditional keyword matching by looking at job and candidate data to provide the best match. Allows recruiters to sort applicants by match within five classification levels, while many competitive services offer only one or two levels of classification. Learns by leveraging the input and expertise of tech recruiters, HR professionals, tech professionals, and tech hiring managers to continuously improve the outcomes of its machine learning algorithm. Intelligent automation results in better matches and removes unconscious bias Candidate Match assigns a match level to each applicant, which helps recruiters quickly assess an applicant’s fit to a job posting, allowing recruiters to focus on engaging the most qualified candidates first. https://recruitingheadlines.com/dice-launches-new-candidate-matching-tool/ Recruiting platform SmartRecruiters, announced it has raised a $50M Series D round, led by repeat investor Insight Partners and joined by long-time investors Mayfield Fund and Rembrandt Venture Partners. The round follows a year marked by strong performance, including 100 percent year-over-year enterprise growth and the launch of SmartAssistant, the first native AI product ever offered within a talent acquisition product suite. SmartRecruiters will invest the funds into accelerating its product roadmap, including deepening the abilities of SmartAssistant through AI and machine learning; geographic expansion in Europe and Asia Pacific, to include hiring 100 people; and broadening the components of SmartRecruiters’ Hiring Success methodology, specifically process optimization, strategy and customer workshops. “Fortune 500 companies don’t have the luxury of letting critical positions go unfilled – they need to maintain their competitive advantage through effective sourcing of quality talent,” said Jerome Ternynck, CEO and Founder of SmartRecruiters. “With this funding in place, we see an accelerated product development trajectory, allowing us to build on our record of delivering what we call Hiring Success: better hires, better hiring velocity, better candidate quality, and enhanced candidate experience for enterprise customers.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/smartrecruiters-raises-50-million-in-new-funding/ Congrats to my friends at SmartReceuiters - i used to be a client of theirs back in 2015 and it’s great to see them doing so well Finally for whats its worth...Just heard Careerbuilder is coming out end of June with an entirely new platform. Contact info on Linkedin, facebook and google. Supply and Demand portal, job postings under $50, recruitment edge and other features. They are changing the focus from the old standard job board. Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Elliott Garms is the co-founder and CEO of humanpredictions.io, a data science company whose recruiting software helps companies find tech talent and who recently received a 1 million dollar investment. Elliott has devoted his entire career to tech recruiting. He ran his own tech recruiting business for many years, led tech recruiting at Groupon, and co-founded Dev Bootcamp Chicago, which was acquired by Kaplan. Growing up in a family of recruiters, he started working in the industry when he was 16 years old. In his work, Elliott is guided by his firm belief that computers can never replace people in a human-centric business, but that they can help when used to solve the right problems. TOPICS   What was it like growing up in a family of recruiters? Congrats on the recent funding round tell the audience what you guys do at HumanPredictions? Quick history... says it has a database of more than 44 million profiles of tech workers around the world. Where did you get those 44 million tech profiles? Types of tech talent you focus on? Good tech talent is notoriously hard to contact and engage... Feature set...what can a recruiter do on your platform. There’s a lot of discussion about automation and recruiting.  How do you see this playing out in the next 5 years? Tell me a few success stories about clients that have successfully ;leveraged your platform? What’s the pricing structure? Any plans for exhibiting at some of the recruiting conferences this year? Special Thanks to Emissary.ai and Workhere.com Follow Chris Russell; @chrisrussell on Twitter or Linkedin

Special thanks to Hiretual.com our sponsor. Shaker International, a leading provider of predictive talent intelligence and assessment solutions, has merged with Montage, the single solution to engage, interview and hire better candidates, faster. The companies are based in Cleveland and Wisconsin respectively. The new company will help its combined client base, which includes hundreds of leading global brands and 47 of the Fortune 100, transform talent acquisition by embedding predictive intelligence into automated hiring workflows that enable better candidate experiences and smarter hiring decisions for 100% of an organization’s hires. The company will be led by Kurt Heikkinen from Montage as CEO and Brian Stern from Shaker International as President, and a leadership team comprising of executives from both companies. All employees and offices of the two companies are being retained, and the combined company will be co-headquartered in Cleveland, OH and Delafield, WI. “Montage and Shaker International share a common vision and heritage for creating candidate-centric and outcome-driven solutions,” said Shakers Brian Stern. “By joining teams, we’re bringing together world-class expertise in SaaS, AI and predictive analytics to help clients transform talent acquisition operations to more effectively and efficiently meet the needs of their internal business stakeholders.” To learn more about the merger of Shaker International and Montage, please visit: shakermontagemerger.com. -- Bangalore based Instawork has secured $18 million in new funding from new investors, Spark Capital, GV, and Burst Capital, with participation from existing investors Benchmark, Y Combinator, Tuesday Capital, and SV Angel. The new funding will be used to accelerate expansion across the United States. The company is also announcing an expansion into Greater Phoenix. Instawork is now available to all Professionals and Partners across Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, and surrounding areas. Further, they are opening a second U.S. office in Scottsdale with plans to hire dozens of full time employees who will be based out of Scottsdale. The company helps connect hospitality workers to restaurants and hotels. https://recruitingheadlines.com/hospitality-job-market-app-instawork-secures-18-million-in-funding/ SALT LAKE CITY, — HireVue, provider of the most comprehensive AI-driven talent assessment suite and video interviewing solutions, today announced it has delivered more than ten million video interviews to date for our customers. This important milestone in HireVue’s growth comes just 18 months after the company recorded its five millionth interview as an increasing number of companies worldwide seek to hire a diverse pool of the best candidates and to do so objectively and efficiently. Today, HireVue’s more than 700 customers — including Hilton, AdventHealth, Unilever, Under Armour, Delta and JP Morgan Chase — interview approximately 1 million job candidates every 90 days in over 180 countries and in 32 languages. Nearly 40 percent of all HireVue interviews were conducted on mobile devices and nearly 80 percent were completed by candidates outside of regular business hours. “Great talent exists everywhere, but there are often significant barriers standing between potential candidates and employers,” said CEO kevin Parker. “On-demand video interviewing delivers a more dynamic view of the candidate and enables companies to significantly expand the number of candidates considered. This gives more skilled candidates a chance at being discovered and interviewed, as well.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/hirevue-surpasses-ten-million-video-interviews/ WESTON, Mass., May 21, 2019 — Monster, a leader in connecting people and jobs, announced the global launch of its latest innovative solution geared towards allowing candidates and recruiters to see each other more clearly so that they can make better matches—Monster Studios. Monster Studios is a native app that enables talent acquisition, recruitment and HR teams to record, edit and publish video job descriptions from their smartphone in minutes. The addition of video to job postings enables recruiters and hiring managers to powerfully convey the benefits of a job opening, the employer’s personality, and the work environment. For candidates, it provides valuable insight into the role, work environment and business culture. “Video job descriptions bring the workplace culture to life,” said Scott Gutz, Chief Executive Officer, Monster. “We know that candidates, especially on their mobile phones, don’t want to consume information by reading the large blocks of text that make up a traditional job description.  Video allows a company to create a more complete view into a job which drives better connections and fit throughout the process. Monster Studios is an important step in transforming the way both sides interact with each other. Creating more honest and transparent conversations and interactions between employers and candidates is critical to making every workplace happier and more productive.” Monster first announced Monster Studios in late 2018. In early 2019, 100 customers in the U.S. and more than 200 customers across Europe participated in a beta program. https://recruitingheadlines.com/monster-announces-global-launch-of-monster-studios/   INDIANAPOLIS—Today, DirectEmployers Association announced its newest professional development and eLearning platform, DE Academy. Recently revealed to Association members at its 2019 Annual Meeting & Conference (DEAM19) in Naples, Florida, DE Academy seeks to elevate professional development for human resources professionals with courses tailored to provide content and top-notch instruction with the flexibility desired by today’s busy practitioners. Courses are available for both Members of the Association and non-members, allowing for expanded eLearning opportunities for all. “DE Academy meets the learner where they are, on their time. We want to promote professional development that improves the learning experience and outcome for all, resulting in real ROI through instruction and application,” commented Jen Bernhardt, VP of Member Engagement. Currently lessons range from Affirmative Action Planning 101 to Disability Etiquette...For more information on DE Academy or to get started on a new learning path, visit https://directemployers.org/academy. Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin

Adam Godson, SVP of Technology Solutions, Cielo here to discuss the latest trends + topics in the recruiting ecosystem TOPICS Introductory question – tell us about yourself and your role, etc. In your role as you described it, you get to see a lot of recruiting technology ecosystems.  What do you see companies doing well today as they think about their recruiting technology? What role does an RPO play in the future of recruiting technology?  Is the onrush of recruiting technology good for RPO or a threat to the industry? You talk a lot about outcomes related to technology – why is focusing on outcomes so important from your perspective? There’s a lot of discussion about the tension between automation and candidate experience.  How do you see this playing out in the next several years? What are some trends you see happening in the recruiting technology space that aren’t getting enough attention? Content mktg There are so many point solutions in recruiting technology and in HR tech in general. How are you helping clients navigate which tools to use and when to use them? Are there opportunities to consolidate their HR tech stack? Special thanks to sponsors Workhere.com and Emissary.ai

CHICAGO—humanpredictions.io, a machine learning technology company whose product helps recruiting companies and enterprises identify and build relationships with tech talent, today announced a $1.16 million funding round led by Network Ventures with additional investment from Hyde Park Angels, SaaS Ventures, and M25. This capital will help humanpredictions further grow and invest in its team of engineers and data scientists. The firm says it has a database of more than 44 million profiles of tech workers around the world. Recruiting for tech roles can be difficult. Because of the competitive nature of tech, it is often challenging for recruiters to find people who both have the right skills the company needs and are ready to pursue a new job opportunity. Once they have identified people of interest, recruiters may struggle to start the conversation in terms that prospects will respond to.   To address those problems, humanpredictions provides organized data-search tools and gathers public data to create profiles of people in the tech industry, specifically Technology Leaders, Software Engineers, DevOps, Data Science, Product, iOS/Android, Designers/UI/UX, and QA. The platform then uses machine learning to predict which individuals are more likely to leave their current roles. In addition, humanpredictions facilitates the conversation with people by indicating when and how to reach out. By accessing these insights, recruiters can better target their outreach, find the right matches more easily, and improve the flow of the interviewing process. https://recruitingheadlines.com/tech-recruiting-database-secures-1-million-in-funding/ CHARLESTON, S.C.– MAY 15, 2019 — ENGAGE Talent has raised $3.5 million to accelerate the innovation and scaling of its groundbreaking AI Talent Intelligence technology that powers both the recruitment and retention of key talent.   High Alpha Capital and Grand Ventures led the raise, with participation from other existing investors, new strategic investor Engage venture fund, and Silicon Valley Bank. The funds come from a mix of equity and debt. With this recent raise, the total investment in the company has reached $10M.   “We’re thrilled to support ENGAGE Talent’s continued growth and innovation,” High Alpha partner Eric Tobias said. “Employers everywhere know that their ability to recruit and retain talent in today’s extraordinarily competitive labor market directly impacts their ability to be successful as businesses.”   ENGAGE Talent listens to more than 30,000 data sources and processes more than a billion data points monthly to map and predict people movement–empowering it to provide unrivaled talent acquisition and retention insights and recommendations. Customers like Allstate, Dell, Transamerica, and Harris Healthcare experience quantifiable improvements, such as 200 to 700 percent increases in candidate engagement rates. https://recruitingheadlines.com/engage-talent-raises-3-5m/ SEATTLE, May 15, 2019 — Karat, the leader in conducting technical interviews on behalf of companies, today announced that it has raised $28 million in funding led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners and 8VC. Karat will deploy the Series “B” financing to globally to scale its category-defining solution and its community of Interview Engineers. The company will also invest in R&D to leverage its robust body of structured-interview intelligence to continuously improve its highly predictive and fair technical interviews for hiring software engineers. “Tiger’s investment in Karat is a watershed moment for the profession and science of Interview Engineering,” said Mohit Bhende, co-founder of Karat. “Just like Back-End engineers do Back-End work and Front-End engineers do Front-End work, companies need Interview Engineers who focus on interviewing with consistency, rigor, and empathy.   As every company becomes software-driven, we are seeing the demand for Interview Engineering grow exponentially. Karat is uniquely positioned to address this universal trend and set the gold standard for technical interviewing. In 2019 alone, Karat’s clients will gain over one million engineering hours by accelerating hiring and unlocking developer productivity.”   https://recruitingheadlines.com/technical-interview-platforms-nabs-28-million/ SEATTLE—SeekOut today announced Series A funding of $6 million led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from existing investor Mayfield. As the world becomes increasingly digital, companies in every industry have an urgent need to find tech talent to thrive. SeekOut offers companies a competitive edge in hiring tech talent and to support their diversity goals. Launched in early 2018, the company has quickly gained ground with more than 75 enterprise customers spanning multiple industries, including technology, defense, finance, pharma, consumer packaged goods, food & beverage. Tech talent is hard to find because developers, engineers, and scientists don’t bother to keep an updated profile on sites like LinkedIn. Even worse, these sites provide a very narrow view of a candidate’s skills and abilities. Recruiters who limit themselves to traditional talent pools miss out on millions of quality, untapped candidates. SeekOut significantly expands the talent pool available by scouring public data and using natural-language (NLP) and machine-learning (ML) technologies to understand the expertise of each candidate and build a complete 360-degree view of each potential employee. SeekOut’s AI-powered search engine gives recruiters the tools to find the best fit matches in the talent pool. By automating the candidate search and understanding past hiring patterns, SeekOut makes every recruiter a search expert and simplifies the task of zeroing in on the right candidate. https://recruitingheadlines.com/seekout-gets-6-million-for-its-sourcing-platform/   Upwork ($UPWK), the largest freelancing website, today released its newest quarterly index of the hottest skills in the U.S. freelance job market. The Upwork Skills Index ranks the site’s 20 fastest-growing skills in a quarterly series. It sheds light on new and emerging skills and provides real-time validation of current trends in the labor market and tech industry. The top 20 fastest-growing skills, Q1 2019: U.S. Taxation Hadoop Robotic process automation Explainer videos Computer aided manufacturing Financial planning Urban design Software documentation Salesforce Commerce Cloud Geospatial Julia development Kubernetes Magento Employee training Shopify templates Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Vue.js framework Leadership development Architectural rendering Podcasting https://recruitingheadlines.com/upwork-names-the-20-fastest-growing-skills-for-freelancers/  

Recently I attended Tech Day New York, a one day event held at the Javits Center in New York City where over 300 tech startups had booths. As I roamed the aisles I found 9 recruiting technology related firms and asked them each to describe what they do and how they do it. In this audio you will hear from Goldi, Distantjob, TapRecruit, Pinched, Scouted, Upstack, Planted, CloserIQ and Vettery. A lot of these companies were focused on job matching algorithms and some like Vettery were kind of hybrid platforms/staffing agency. Visit the rectechmedia.com blog for links to each vendor. Enjoy the audio... Special thanks to our sponsors WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai

Yello, a leading talent acquisition software provider, today debuted the findings from its fourth annual Yello Recruiting Study at STRIVE 2019, the company’s talent acquisition conference. According to the Pew Research Center, the oldest members of Generation Z are turning 22-years-old this year and many will be entering the workforce as they prepare to graduate college. Top themes and findings from The 2019 Yello Recruiting Study include: Gen Z is confident in the current job market and their job prospects post-graduation. Likely thanks to today’s tight labor market, about two-thirds of Gen Z students are confident they’ll receive a job offer – and 35% expect to receive more than one offer. Similarly, members of Gen Z are clearly setting themselves up to succeed in the candidate-driven environment by starting the job search early. Gen Z still values face-to-face communication ... Fifty-one percent of Gen Z respondents said they prefer to communicate in-person, while a quarter said they prefer to communicate digitally. Unlike millennials, Gen Z says working with recruiters that are “trusted advisors” is crucial. Recruiters should know that their approach can have a significant impact on Gen Z’s decision to accept a job – 44% of this group said the recruiter they spoke with has the biggest impact on their decision to accept a job while only 29% of millennials agreed. Recruiters should also be sure to treat Gen Z fairly during the hiring process as three-quarters of this group cite being treated unfairly as the top cause of a negative experience while only half of millennials said the same. Employers shouldn’t forget about HR tech to create a seamless, quick experience for Gen Z and other generations. Though Gen Z places emphasis on in-person communication, they still expect their employers to use technology – especially when it comes to making the application mobile-friendly. 26% of Gen Z candidates say that a lack of technology throughout the hiring process would prevent them from accepting a job with the company. This is notable considering only 15% of employed millennials and 13% of Gen X candidates cited this sentiment. https://recruitingheadlines.com/yello-gen-z-recruiting-study/ PHILADELPHIA – MAY 02, 2019 ISABLED, an online recruiting platform connects workers that identify as having a disability, with recruiters from leading companies who value inclusion and diversity in their workforce. The ISABLED platform allows job seekers and recruiters to connect and chat in real-time, from anywhere, and from the comfort and convenience of their home or office. ” The ISABLED Virtual Career Fairs are a fun and easy way to connect recruiters and job seekers with disabilities. Instead of asking both sides to attend a job fair at a physical location, we bring the career fair to them. The ISABLED platform allows our employer partners to recruit nationwide in just a few hours, and job seekers have instant access to the very recruiters who are seeking to fill the open positions” Stated Kevin O’Brien, Managing Partner, ISABLED. The ISABLED website will include content to connect workers with disabilities to job opportunities from a wide range of companies and industries. The website will include a job board and a virtual career fair platform. ISABLED will host 4 virtual career fairs each year, and companies can host standalone virtual career fairs for their company as often as they like. The first ISABLED.com virtual career fair is set for July 25, 2019, and open now for registration.   https://recruitingheadlines.com/online-recruitment-platform-to-connect-workers-with-disabilities-to-employers/ Skill Based Recruiting Platform Gets Seed Round The startup has closed on $650K in pre-seed funding led by Atlanta-area investor Jon Hallett, a previous backer of Nexza’s co-founder, Rob Patten. Nexza is entirely free for both employers and candidates to create and host their profile. The employer simply enters their description and company-wide benefits. Then, each individual team — software development, QA, product managers, etc. — can create their own profile specifying their tech stack, individual details and more.   On the candidate side, the individual inputs education, citizenship status, tech and non-tech skills, LinkedIn, Github or personal website. They also clarify what they might be looking for: preferred geography (or remote work), whether they’d like to work from home at all, their ideal company size and role. Learn more at https://www.nexza.com/   https://recruitingheadlines.com/skill-based-recruiting-platform-gets-seed-round/ SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Trusted Health, the career platform for modern nurses to work, connect and grow, today announced that it has closed $20 million in Series A funding, led by Craft Ventures and joined by previous investors Felicis Ventures and Founder Collective. The company also has officially launched support for flexible nursing opportunities nationwide and added permanent staff openings for nurses seeking more traditional employment. Nurses can receive support from Trusted Health’s nurse advocates during their employment journey and take advantage of full W2 benefits. Trusted Health combines a state-of-the-art digital employment platform, personalized support and a unique hiring structure that eliminates the hassles and controversy of 1099 contracting, by offering W2 employment, as well as perks similar to those available in the high-tech industry. With Trusted Health, nurses now have a single, go-to resource where they can grow professionally, explore new opportunities and find answers to their questions.   Through its marketplace, Trusted Health operates as a fully automated online employment agency, simplifying job searches by providing candidates visibility into the latest openings. The platform also streamlines the application process by digitizing, saving and managing resumes, credentials, certifications and other key employee information. An advanced, automated matching system alerts nurses in real-time of new opportunities that correspond with their credentials, experience and preferences, and provides all job and compensation details upfront so candidates can make informed decisions. https://recruitingheadlines.com/nursing-careers-platform-secures-20-million-in-funding/   PHILADELPHIA, May 06, 2019 — GR8 People, architects of a breakthrough one-experience talent platform for the enterprise, announced today the release of EUREKA!™, the industry’s first Autonomous Talent Delivery (ATD) component native to its platform. Native to GR8 People, EUREKA!™ was built to identify, match, screen, supply and engage talent at an unprecedented degree of precision and speed for better, faster hires. The new built-in component enables recruiters to eliminate time-consuming tasks associated with candidate sourcing, assessment and communications, while delivering a continuous pipeline of qualified, interested and available talent. As soon as a job is created, AI and machine learning technology automatically produce matched and scored candidates. Personalized communications are immediately activated through automation to start the recruiting process and continuously engage candidates. Recruiters instantly rediscover candidates and colleagues they already have, and talent pipelines are kept fresh and full. Time and focus are (finally) given back to talent acquisition to hire the best talent faster than humanly possible. https://recruitingheadlines.com/gr8-people-launches-ai-powered-autonomous-talent-delivery-component/

In this particular audio you will hear from Sarah Smart who leads the recruitment function for Hilton Worldwide, she’ll talk about their employer brand, their recruiter experience and more. Recorded live at IAMPHENOM in Philadelphia. Podcast sponsored by WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai

Recorded at the recent IAMPHENOM event in Philadelphia...in this particular audio the Director of talent acquisition at Southwest airlines (Greg Muccio) talks about how they implemented the Phenom People platform and other aspects of how he runs his team and how they use HR tech. I found his talk full of little details that really gave a good glimpse at how they approach recruiting.

Since its launch more than a year ago the Facebook job board has been missing jobs from one key segment: corporate employers. They simply did not have an easy way to share their jobs to the Facebook audience other than their own business page. But good news has arrived... Facebook will be partnering with ATS vendors to include their clients jobs into the Facebook job board automatically. This move will certainly add a huge number of credible, professional listings to the social network alongside the thousands of small business jobs already being posted. I was able to reach Facebook for comment and uncovered some additional details about which vendors have signed on so far. We currently work with a number of partners including SAP SuccessFactors, Workable, JazzHR, and Talentify. We’re looking to grow these partnerships as we know many businesses are already working with HR solution providers to manage their hiring needs and we want to make it easier for businesses to tap onto the tools they already use, and help more people find jobs.   We have a Jobs XML Feed, which enables partners to publis job posts on behalf of employers directly on Facebook. Job seekers are redirected to the employer’s career site, and can apply to the role on the employer’s career site. Employers can also create jobs in their Applicant Tracking System, and automatically publish that job to Facebook.   https://recruitingheadlines.com/facebook-job-board-opens-up-to-employers-through-ats-partnerships/ BALTIMORE – StafQuik, a contingent staffing technology company, is introducing a faster, more efficient way for staffing agencies to connect their workforce to job opportunities. Using StafQuik’s platform, an agency can stay engaged with their highly mobile talent pool no matter where they are, independent of their devices or phone numbers, with significant improvement to the bottom line. StafQuik’s easy to use platform gives recruiters the ability to instantly connect the right workers to the right positions. Workers are notified of opportunities in less than one minute, and recruiters receive responses in minutes rather than hours, while getting insight into workers’ progress to job sites. Clients get all positions filled without any “no-shows,” resulting in more billable hours and time savings for recruiters. StafQuik is designed to work well with temporary staffing agencies’ back-of-house systems, such as payroll, applicant tracking and billing. StafQuik can demonstrate potential savings of $100,000 per year or more, while also providing best-in-class service to corporate clients. More information is available on the company’s website, http://www.stafquik.com.   https://recruitingheadlines.com/stafquik-gets-500k-for-its-job-push-notifications/   SparcStart has created Amplify VMS (Video Management System) for creating, sharing, approving, cataloguing and editing recruitment videos.  One central platform that every recruiter can access for brand-appropriate and brand-approved videos will simplify the management, and amplify the visibility, of candidate focused content. Whether videos were created by Corporate Marketing, SparcStart, Skill Scout, VideoMyJob, Stories Incorporated, AltruLabs or in-house on phones or webcams, the Video Management Center will make them readily available to the entire Talent Acquisition team. Amplify VMS also facilitates the creation of employee generated content with templated requests for Employee Testimonials, Q&A videos, Day in the Life videos, and special event or project videos. https://recruitingheadlines.com/sparcstart-launches-video-management-system-for-employers/   NEW YORK, April 30, 2019 –Namely, a leading HR platform for mid-sized companies, today announced a new integration with Hire by Google, a recruiting app built for organizations using G Suite. Available to shared clients today, this solution helps companies connect their HR and applicant tracking systems in order to minimize time-consuming data entry and speed new hire onboarding. “Our deep integration with Hire by Google helps joint clients streamline the earliest interactions between an employee and their company,” said Graham Younger, president and chief revenue officer, Namely. “By using Google’s robust architecture to instantly create a new employee record in Namely each time an applicant is hired, we’re speeding the onboarding process for HR, reducing even more burden for HR administrators, and creating a better employee experience from the initial interview to the first day on the job.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/namely-integrates-with-hire-by-google-for-onboarding/   And speakign of Google ….For enterprises, tracking down the right approvers for new job requisitions and offers can take time away from critical tasks like finding and interviewing great talent. To optimize Hire for these businesses, we enhanced the requisition and offer approval flows to automatically suggest approvers for new job requisitions or offers. This makes it easy for large organizations to establish consistent global approval processes, while empowering recruiters to move faster. We also introduced a referral portal to encourage every employee to source top talent, which can mean thousands of referrals for a large organization, and released a set of interactive reports to empower more informed decision making, so enterprises can make the most of all their data and optimize complex hiring processes. Lastly, we expanded our connection to the larger HR technology ecosystem through APIs and pre-built integrations with Namely, Sapling, AppogeeHR, and Zenefits, so customers can easily manage the entire employee lifecycle and improve the experience for new hires. https://recruitingheadlines.com/hire-by-google-is-now-optimized-for-the-enterprise/

Jason Crowell  leads the Brady Trucking People Process managing recruitment marketing, talent acquisition, engagement, and - employee retention. * in 2018 he Led turnover reduction of 31% during explosive headcount growth of 40% * also responsible for Producing Bradys online presence: newsletter, ads & social content using employee stories and employee generated content, and even 60 second EB videos I first met Jason while doing a demo of Rejobify for  him and realized he has a lot to say about recruiting so I figured why not get him on the pod. TOPICS What’s it like these days in the truck driver recruiting world? What do truckers want? Describe the scope of your hiring needs...how many jobs, where, etc. When you first joined Brady what did you do to change the recruiting function? Any interesting recruiting stories about  driver you hired? What tech do you use to recruit. (name of ATS, etc) Employer Brand Initiatives Advice for other truck driver recruiters Sponsored by WorkHere and Emissary.ai

BROUGHT TO YOU BY HIRETUAL! Phenom People has a released a major enhancement to it product suite this week; Theyre calling it the Talent Experience Management (TXM) ...a methodology and platform that unifies technology and experience design to enhance the talent journey, turning interested candidates to thriving employees to enthusiastic brand advocates, while helping recruiters and management boost productivity and communicate seamlessly. Talent Experience Management connects the four key experiences of Candidates, Recruiters, Employees, and Management. TXM helps:  Candidates find the right job, where they will succeed for a long time Recruiters be more productive, finding more quality candidates Employees evolve into the best talent, enabling their careers to flourish Management get the insights they need, allowing them to make smarter business decisions I attended their analyst day and user conference in Philly this week and will be publishing some news and podcasts very soon. -------- Eightfold.ai, the creator of the first Talent Intelligence Platform, announced it has added IVP to its growing list of investors in raising $28 million in a Series C financing. The round, joined by Foundation Capital and Lightspeed Ventures who led previous funding rounds, brings Eightfold.ai’s total funding to $55 million, making it one of the most well-capitalized AI solutions for talent management. Built by co-founders Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia, distinguished engineers out of Google and Facebook, Eightfold.ai’s Talent Intelligence Platform empowers enterprises to solve the number one challenge facing chief executives and chief human resource officers today – hiring and retaining top talent. This new funding follows significant interest in Eightfold.ai’s patented artificial intelligence–based platform which has secured numerous new customers in four continents around the world since emerging from stealth mode one year ago. From Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing technology companies, current customers include Conagra, AdRoll Group, Tata Communications and DigitalOcean. The Talent Intelligence Platform from Eightfold.ai is also available via a growing set of channel partners, including the SAP App Center, and integrates with major human resource information systems (HRIS) and applicant tracking systems (ATS). https://recruitingheadlines.com/eightfold-ai-secures-28-million-in-series-c-funding-for-its-talent-intelligence-platform/ Last week a relatively unknown recruitment technology player called Zippia announced a significant round of funding that will help it continue to build a tool for job seekers in their quest for the ideal career pathway. The San Mateo based company raised a Series A investment of $8.5 million led by e.ventures, with participation from existing shareholders including MHS Capital, NextView Ventures, and Correlation Ventures. This brings the startup’s total capital raised to $12 million since its founding in early 2015. Zippia, uses machine learning and data aggregation to create its ‘career map’, which helps job seekers understand career pathways like never before. Zippia’s tools provide job seekers unique resources, creating a more complete understanding of job titles and career options. Read my Q&a with them on the Recruiting Headlines blog. https://recruitingheadlines.com/zippia-gets-8-million-to-help-people-plan-their-careers/ MINNEAPOLIS –CATS Software, a leading provider of recruiting software, has released the fifth major update to their applicant tracking system. This release focuses on improving recruiter productivity and enhancing communication with candidates and clients. The CATS 5.0 rollout includes numerous features, like a meeting scheduler, SMS texting capabilities, and a new version of the sourcing browser extension, but the anchor point for CATS 5.0 is the complete UI overhaul. “This is a major change in the UI. Most of our past updates have been a continuation of the same thematic elements. This is the first time in a decade where we are fundamentally reshaping, rebranding and recreating CATS from the ground up. That work and passion has culminated in this update—codenamed ‘Nala’—which is the leading edge of user interaction design.” – CATS President Tony Sternberg Key Highlights: Connect with candidates through SMS/marketing text messages Seamlessly schedule meetings by sharing your calendar with candidates Enable candidates to apply faster with a more efficient career portal Increase your productivity in CATS with the sleek, modern UI   https://recruitingheadlines.com/cats-recruiting-software-releases-new-version/ announcing new partnerships with enterprise HR companies such as SAP SuccessFactors which will combine the ease and convenience of hiring tools with the expansive reach of Jobs on Facebook. Now, employers can easily create job posts and manage applications through these applicant tracking systems. This lets businesses continue using the hiring tools they already use, and also access the expansive talent pool on Facebook. And applications from job seekers on Facebook will be sent directly to a partner's tool for a seamless review experience. https://www.facebook.com/business/news/helping-businesses-hire-through-jobs-on-facebook

Excerpts from a recent RecTech LIVE webinar with Maury Hanigan, the CEO of SparcStart a recruitment video platform. Lean about her background, hear her thoughts on recruitment marketing and more. Episode sponsored by WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai

Hireology, the leading recruitment CRM for multi-location, decentralized enterprises, today announced it has closed $27 million in Series D financing led by Blue Cloud Ventures, with full participation from current investors Bain Capital Ventures and Baird Venture Partners, as well as Silicon Valley Bank. This latest round of investment brings its total capital raised to $60.5 million and underscores Hireology’s momentum and position of strength in the market. Funds will be used to accelerate the company’s growth in new market verticals and to create features that further differentiate its product offering. “Hireology’s world class product and razor sharp focus on its customers’ success in attracting, recruiting and onboarding talent has positioned the company as the go-to recruitment management platform for the automotive and healthcare sectors,” said Mir Arif, Managing Partner of Blue Cloud Ventures. “We are excited to partner with Adam and the Hireology team on the next phase of their growth.” Hireology has experienced sustained, rapid growth, recently surpassing 6,500 customers and 200 employees. New recruitment marketing and candidate CRM solutions have transformed how customers attract, hire and integrate talent in today’s competitive hiring market. This spring further saw the release of new functionality including enhanced SEO capabilities, text-to-recruit options and passive sourcing solutions. https://recruitingheadlines.com/hireology-closes-27-million-in-funding/ Spur, a new and innovative employment platform that redefines the relationship between hourly workers and employers who depend on them, announced today that it raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by Third Prime with participation from Mark Bezos and John Griffin, founder of Blue Ridge Capital. Spur also appointed Bezos to its Board of Directors. This investment marks one of the largest venture rounds ever raised by an Alabama-based company. Spur is addressing a significant market opportunity in the hourly worker economy, which is comprised of approximately 78 million workers or nearly 60 percent of all American jobs.  Spur’s platform offers workplaces such as hotels, restaurants, and other businesses with hourly workforces a managed solution for all their employment needs that saves them time and money, while also improving the benefits and services available to the workforce. “We started Spur with a mission to provide workers greater access to opportunity and ultimately improve their quality of life. We’re doing that by partnering with businesses and other organizations to take on all the responsibilities associated with managing HR and payroll for their hourly workforces and then ensuring those workers are well taken care of over the course of their employment,” said Glenn Clayton, founder and chief executive officer, Spur.  “We believe most businesses want to treat their workers well – we’re just making it easier and more cost effective than ever before to deliver on that goal.” Spur’s platform combines innovative employment technology with a focus on managing hourly workforces.  Spur becomes the official employer of record of a business’s hourly workforce thereby helping them reduce costs and save time by eliminating all HR and payroll functions. Businesses using the platform simply schedule their employees and approve their time through Spur’s app, and then Spur’s platform takes care of everything else. https://recruitingheadlines.com/hourly-workforce-management-tool-gets-8-million-series-a-funding/ San Francisco startup TripleByte which uses coding quizzes and machine learning to match would-be employees with open jobs has raised $35 million in a Series B financing round led by YC Continuity, Y Combinator’s investment fund. After a year in which revenue grew three times (over $1 million monthly) and headcount doubled from 20 to 40, it’s attracted funding from a raft of investors including Y Combinator. Harj Taggar, CEO and cofounder said that the fresh funds will enable Triplebyte to expand beyond silicon valley into Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and Boston later in the year. https://recruitingheadlines.com/tech-recruiting-platform-gets-35-million/ Uncubed, a leading online talent acquisition and recruitment marketing platform, has announced the acquisition of New York-based Mediabistro, the premier careers site for the media sector and other digital professionals. Following the acquisition, Uncubed will provide new services and an expanded offering to the Mediabistro customer base, including employer branding video services, customized recruiting services, candidate experience technology, and events. Mediabistro members and jobseekers will get access to additional content and job opportunities. “Mediabistro has been the dominant careers site in the media sector for years,” said Chris Johnson, CEO of Uncubed. “We’re excited to bring our offering, technology, and events to Mediabistro customers – and to help them attract candidates with other skillsets. Similarly, we can now deliver a lot more value to Uncubed customers through the Mediabistro platform.” Mediabistro will bring complementary jobseeker talent to the Uncubed network, which has traditionally been weighted towards software developers, data scientists, product managers, and others. With the Mediabistro community comprised largely of content creators, designers, and marketers, Uncubed will be able to provide a complete array of skillsets to customers. Uncubed intends to operate the Mediabistro site independently, yet members of both communities will benefit from increased access to editorial and skill-building content, a wider set of job opportunities, and the candidate matching technology that Uncubed continues to develop. https://recruitingheadlines.com/uncubed-acquires-career-site-mediabistro/ London based Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG), a provider of integrated talent management and learning technologies software and services, has announced the acquisition of Breezy HR in Jacksonville, Florida. Breezy HR provides small to medium businesses (SMBs) with feature-rich, intuitive and user-friendly recruitment software in order to optimize their processes and maximize productivity. The acquisition brings a range of benefits to LTG and Breezy HR itself. The addition of Breezy HR to LTG’s best-of-breed talent and learning businesses is expected to further consolidate the Group’s position in the talent acquisition marketplace, extending its existing enterprise client base to include a new small to medium businesses audience. This move builds on LTG’s acquisition of PeopleFluent in 2018, which introduced transformational talent management capability into the Group. Integration activity is expected to leverage components of Breezy HR’s software to support swifter and richer feature releases to PeopleFluent’s enterprise product customers. LTG Chief Executive, Jonathan Satchell, commented, “I am delighted to welcome our colleagues from Breezy HR into the Group. We are incredibly excited by Breezy HR’s exceptional talent acquisition software. Breezy HR has enjoyed strong organic growth and has excellent future potential, which we feel can be enhanced with support from LTG as part of our suite of integrated talent solutions. https://recruitingheadlines.com/recruiting-software-platform-breezy-hr-acquired/

If you ever been to a recruiting conference chances are you know the name Gerry Crispin. He is the principal and co founder of CareerXroads a community of talent acquisition professionals whose aim is to move the profession forward. Today we will discuss the state of the Candidate Experience. TOPICS INCLUDE: 1)  Are employers getting the message about the candidate experience...whats the current state of it? 2) how do you see technology playing a part in crafting the right CE? 3) tell us a few companies that have a great CE and one/two examples of what they do to accomplish that? 4) What are the common questions you get form TA leaders about the CX process? This podcast sponsored by; https://workhere.com/ https://www.emissary.ai/

iHire Releases State of Online Recruiting Report Inaugural report addresses challenges and opportunities for bridging the gap between employers and qualified talent iHire announces its inaugural State of Online Recruiting report, highlighting the results of a survey of more than 1,650 U.S. employers and job seekers across more than 50 industries. As employers and job seekers struggle to find the right talent and the right careers, respectively, this report identifies the challenges and opportunities for bridging the gap between these two groups. The top survey findings detailed in iHire’s State of Online Recruiting 2019 report include:      The quest for qualified talent is heating up: 53.5% of employers are not receiving applicants who meet their needs. When asked to cite their No. 1 challenge when recruiting through an online job board, website, or community, employers’ top two responses included: “I receive too many irrelevant applicants” (30.9%) and “I receive too many underqualified applicants” (22.6%).        Stronger two-way communication is needed between employers and candidates: 26.4% of job seekers said their top online job search challenge was not hearing back from employers after applying and/or interviewing. However, this ghosting in the hiring process goes both ways: 5.8% of employers surveyed said “being ghosted by candidates” was their top challenge, while 4.6% cited “reaching out to applicants and not hearing back.”        Job seekers and employers aren’t aligned on the importance of company culture: 62.6% of job seekers said they are more likely to apply to an ad if it includes company culture information, yet less than half of employers (46.1%) said they include this information in their ads.   For more insights search the keyword ihire on recruitingheadlines.com to read more https://recruitingheadlines.com/ihire-releases-state-of-online-recruiting-report/ Zoho, a global, privately held company that offers the most comprehensive suite of business software applications in the industry, announced its forward momentum with more than 45 million users across 180 countries, at a revenue growth rate of 39 percent year-over-year. This global upswing includes the addition of offices in Singapore, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, Australia and the Netherlands. The company also announced plans for a new 375-acre campus in Austin, which entails aggressive hiring plans and the expansion of Zoho University, a Zoho-funded technology school for high school graduates based in India, to the United States. “As a private company that’s been in operation for more than 22 years, we are invested in long term growth and crafting the very best business solutions for our customers,” said Sridhar Vembu, CEO and Founder of Zoho. “Without the pressures of shareholders, we can grow with purpose. It is our imperative to invest in our employees and the communities we are in, while making sure our software remains accessible to every type of business, from small to large, whether they exist in yet-to-be-developed, emerging or fully developed markets.” Zoho’s Global Growth Continues: Zoho has more than 45 million users located in more than 180 countries around the world. The company has experienced a revenue growth rate of 39 percent year-over-year. In Creating a New U.S. Campus: Zoho has purchased 375 acres of land in south-east Austin to build a 100,000 square foot campus. Zoho plans to hire hundreds of employees in the Austin area in the years to come, with a focus on finding and training local talent. It will not require its employees to have a four-year degree, due to its in-house technology program, Zoho University. https://recruitingheadlines.com/zoho-now-has-45-million-users-expanding-in-austin/ Loxo, a leader in the emerging web 3.0 era, today introduced a stunning new version of their artificial intelligence recruiting platform while also announcing a completely free plan. Loxo is a best-in-class enterprise recruiting SaaS company that specializes in using AI and machine learning to help drive better recruiting decisions. The Loxo platform also creates a unified and seamless experience by combining the features that recruiters need on a daily basis such as: ATS, CRM, email automation, SMS texting, VoIP calling, personal contact information and candidate sourcing automation. “If Salesforce, IBM Watson, SalesLoft/Outreach.io, and the world’s most comprehensive professional directories were to combine forces and launch a recruiting technology company in 2020, the end result would be Loxo,” said Matt Chambers, Founder and CEO of Loxo. “The modern recruiting organization requires a much more sophisticated technology stack to stay competitive, however technology’s only job is to increase productivity. We are obsessed with solving our customers problems in the most efficient and simple way possible.” Among its many features are; AI Enhancements: Users can adjust the criteria in their own private database and receive recommendations for the best candidates. The AI can be custom tailored for each organization on the Enterprise plan. Email Automation: Drip marketing campaigns to nurture talent communities, engage passive talent, manage recruitment marketing, or generate new business development and top of funnel sales pipeline. SMS Text Messaging: Send SMS text messages directly from the platform as standalone messages, as part of integrated text and email campaigns, or both. https://recruitingheadlines.com/loxo-launing-free-version-of-its-ai-recruiting-platform/ Bay Area-based Mom Relaunch is announcing a partnership with Boston-area firm TechScreen to help experienced mothers return to the workforce in IT and HR/Recruiting roles. Diversity and Inclusion programs have become major initiatives for so many tech companies, so this partnership will help accelerate what many firms are already doing. The two firms have highly complementary capabilities that would help increase the chances of enabling more moms to return to work. Mom Relaunch offers a comprehensive program to ensure that tech companies are getting talent that are ready and relevant. They provide a thorough career assessment to returners and partner with training companies to help women get reacquainted with the skills they used in their previous professional capacities or expose them to new technologies to pick up new talents. Mom Relaunch also provides the opportunity for women to gain hands-on experience with their LaunchPad program that has women working in teams on projects to further fine-tune their technical skills before being placed in jobs. “Our mission is to help as many moms as we can to return to the workforce so that they may gain financial independence. Our partnership with TechScreen empowers our mission as it gives us the ideal tools to select the most suitable candidates for each role. Companies can also be assured that each candidate is thoroughly vetted to ensure that their skillset best matches the requirements of the role. With our team of skilled moms, we will be able to help tech companies bridge the diversity gap” said Reena Gupta, Founder and CEO of Mom Relaunch. https://recruitingheadlines.com/mom-relaunch-and-techscreen-partner-to-help-moms-go-back-to-work/ TMP Worldwide, a global leader in talent acquisition technologies, today announced the release of Priority Score – a proprietary machine learning model for predicting and acting upon job performance. The new technology quickly identifies openings that are lacking necessary or receiving an inordinate amount of candidate flow and automates alerts and actions across the TalentBrew platform and into search, social and programmatic media channels. Built on top of TMP’s job classification engine, Priority Score leverages hundreds of millions of interactions to forecast an expected performance for individual and groups of openings by using information from similar jobs in the same market. Signals are then utilized to automate steps aimed at boosting traffic for jobs at risk of underperformance and reallocating funds and effort for those jobs that are over performing. “Incorporating predictive AI into process automation carries risks that can only be mitigated if the dataset is both extensive and carefully governed. Due to the depth and quality of our data, we’re excited to release another industry leading feature available exclusively to users of TMP’s TalentBrew platform,” explains Todd Maycunich, Vice President, Product Innovation. “Automating actions designed to drive candidate flow to jobs that need it takes pressure off sourcers and recruiters and can help save money and reframe how talent acquisition teams spend their time.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/tmp-worldwide-launches-priority-score-feature-for-its-talentbrew-platform/

Sponsors: Emissary.ai & WorkHere.com Jim Stroud has been observing the changing landscape of work; most notably how automation is affecting the recruitment industry. A general consensus purports that robots will ultimately replace recruiters. Jim has an alternative view.  The Unique Challenges of the Shifting Labor Market  Tony Stark as the Model for the Modern Recruiter The Future of Sourcing is Programmatic The Future of Recruitment is Employment Brand Jim is now Brand Evangelist for ClickIQ.us

Podcast sponsored by Hiretual - the recruiters best friend. Xing, the business networking platform that has been described as Germany’s answer to LinkedIn, has made an acquisition to beef up its recruitment business ahead of a rebrand of the business as “New Work.” The company has acquired Honeypot, a German startup that has built a job-hunting platform for tech people, for up to €57 million ($64 million). Xing tells us that Honeypot  is its biggest acquisition to date. The figure includes the acquisition (€22 million) plus a potential earn-out of up to €35 million if certain targets are met in the next three years. Xing said that it plans to rebrand as New Work in the second half of 2019, bringing together a number of other assets it has acquired and built over the years. “This acquisition is an excellent addition to our New Work portfolio,” Thomas Vollmoeller, CEO at Xing, said in a statement. “Honeypot focuses on candidates by helping them to find a job matching their individual preferences… With subsidiaries and brands such as kununu and HalloFreelancer, Xing is far more than just a single network. New Work is the umbrella spanning all our business activities.” Xing said that all the smaller companies will keep their branding. https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/01/german-linkedin-rival-xing-is-rebranding-as-new-work-acquires-recruitment-platform-honeypot-for-up-to-64m/ Glassdoor, one of the world’s largest job and recruiting sites, today announced it has expanded its product and software engineering operations into Chicago, which will bring dozens of new technology jobs to the company’s office in the desirable and developing Fulton Market District.   “Chicago is an important growth city for Glassdoor,” said Glassdoor President & Chief Operating Officer Christian Sutherland-Wong. “In less than three years, this office has grown into one of Glassdoor’s largest employee centers, in large part due to the city’s incredible talent pool. We look forward to building a stellar product and engineering group here.”   The Chicago-based product and software engineering team will be the first of Glassdoor’s U.S. engineering teams based outside of its San Francisco Bay Area offices. The team will focus on recruiting innovation, including building Glassdoor recruiting products that help employers from large enterprises to small businesses hire and recruit quality talent more effectively.   In addition to hiring for front-end, back-end, machine learning and test engineers, as well as engineering leaders, in the Chicago office, Glassdoor will also hire for other technical roles, including data scientists, product managers, and designers. Currently, the company is hiring for several newly created technical and product jobs with plans to add dozens more in the near future. Located at 1330 W Fulton Street, the office is currently home to more than 250 Glassdoor employees   https://recruitingheadlines.com/glassdoor-expands-operations-to-chicago/   Following the success of last year’s event, HR Technology Conference & Exposition® today shared details of its second annual “Pitchfest.” From the producers of the world’s leading global HR technology events, the 2019 Pitchfest will take place during the HR Technology Conference & Exposition® happening October 1 – 4, 2019 at The Venetian Las Vegas.   Of those that apply, 30 HR technology startups will have the opportunity to present their solution at this year’s conference. In the three preliminary rounds, ten companies will have three minutes to pitch the panel, with an additional two minutes to answer the judges’ follow up questions. Two companies from each round will advance to the Pitchfest final, where the top six will go head to head. Once selected, the overall winner will participate in the conference’s popular “Discovering the Next Great HR Technology Company” session, in addition to taking home a monetary prize from the Randstad Innovation Fund and exhibit space for the 2020 HR Technology Conference & Exposition®.   Conference Co-chair Steve Boese commented, “The HR technology sector continues to evolve and expand, and with that, we see increased innovation from startups actively rethinking the future of work. Pitchfest gives these companies the platform to share their products and solutions with the world’s largest HR technology audience, including the top industry influencers, analysts, HR leaders, angel investors and VCs. We’re looking forward to seeing what the 2019 Pitchfest participants bring to the table.”   https://recruitingheadlines.com/pitchfest-returning-to-2019-hr-technology-conference/   Indeed announces Featured Employer on search results If you’ve ever sponsored a job on Indeed, then you know that this is a way to make your open roles stand out from others by having them appear prominently in the search results (e.g., in key locations at the top and bottom of the results page). By Becoming an Indeed Featured Employer you can= take this even further by providing additional benefits to promote your company while also supplying you with access to actionable labor market insights that will help you find and attract quality candidates. When it comes to additional promotion, it works like this: job seekers will see your company highlighted on the right side of the page, next to relevant search results. We’ll display your company logo and in addition provide a link to your Indeed Company Page, making it easy for job seekers to go straight from the search results to a resource where they can learn more about your company and its culture. Job seekers can read a mix of curated content from you and employee reviews that will provide insight into your workplace — and the better informed the candidate is, the greater the chances are of your making a match that’s right for them and your company. There are two levels of Featured Employer, Basic and Preferred, which you can qualify for based on your monthly spend on Sponsored Jobs. Spending at either Featured Employer level will earn your company increased visibility for your jobs and company, access to additional labor market insights (with Hiring Insights) and Resume Rewards. http://blog.indeed.com/2019/04/04/featured-employer/

Podcast sponsored by WorkHere and Emissary.ai Today we are going to talk about social recruiting with a couple of peeps from WorkScene a new social media platform joining me on the phone Mike Webb CEO and Cyndy Trivella, Vice President, Strategic Relations --What do you mean when you say social media has failed recruiting because I kind of view as the opposite that recruiters have failed at social media… --Why does the current state of social media not working as effectively as it should for recruiters, sourcers and job seekers? --Why is having an Inbound recruiting strategy better in the long-run? Dont you need both? --What is Workscene, and why did you build it? (mike background as recruiter) Are their any companies that do social well in your opinion? --Where and why do job postings fall short when attracting talent to an organization? --What is the value in building Talent Communities? (most companies suck at maintaining these) --When and why should companies showcase their culture to job prospects? --There are still a good number of job seekers who don't use social media in their search strategy. Why do you think this is?

Sponsored by Hiretual.com H & M, Hennes and Mauritz Inc., one of the world’s largest fashion retailers famous for offering fashion and quality at the best price in a sustainable way, is happy to announce the launch of its latest Place of Possible (P.O.P) campaign; H&M’s employer branding campaign aimed at attracting the best in retail talent. The campaign aims to show people looking for a great place to start a career that H&M is truly the place of possible, the place to be! Featuring the brand’s own employees from H&M locations around the country, this year’s campaign builds on the intrinsic H&M value of “we are one team” and takes a deeper dive into the idea of community at H&M as represented by the phrase “me, us, we and you”.   Several key changes will be made to the part time employee benefit program beginning this year, offering opportunities for H&M employees that will put a focus on both their professional and personal needs. One of the most exciting changes is a weekly schedule commitment with options ranging up to 12 minimum hours guaranteed for part time employees from March through December.  This year, employees will also be able to use a new scheduling mobile application which will allow more flexibility and an easier process to pick up hours and swap shifts. In addition, H&M is proud to offer six weeks of paid parental leave to eligible part time employees. https://recruitingheadlines.com/hm-launches-new-employer-branding-campaign/ CHICAGO, March 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — BlueCrew, an on-demand platform for flexible W-2 work that connects motivated workers with sustainable employment, announced plans for its platform to be live across 30 markets nationwide this year, with expansion to Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, and Phoenix among others. The company’s market expansion follows a year that saw revenue triple thanks to accelerated adoption from employers. On the heels of this growth, BlueCrew has appointed IAC executive Adam Roston as CEO, while founder Gino Rooney will resume his prior role as CTO overseeing all product and technology for the company. Today also marks the opening of BlueCrew’s new headquarters in downtown Chicago’s theMART (formerly Merchandise Mart), which will house more than 100 new hires across engineering, product, sales, and operations. BlueCrew is disrupting traditional staffing – a total addressable market worth more than $130 billion in the U.S. and $400 billion globally – with a platform that instantly connects quality workers with open jobs using proprietary data and algorithms to identify the best matches in real time. BlueCrew’s platform fills over 90 percent of employer jobs, many times within minutes, compared to traditional staffing agencies that fill 60-70 percent over several weeks. Unlike gig economy apps that are heavily fueled by contractor workforces, BlueCrew’s platform exclusively features W-2 jobs. https://recruitingheadlines.com/bluecrew-will-expand-to-30-markets-by-end-of-2019/ CLEVELAND, March 27, 2019 — EmployStream, the leading provider for onboarding automation to the staffing industry, today announced it has closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round led by JumpStart Inc., with support from several key investors including Ohio Innovation Fund, North Coast Angel Fund and Rev1 Ventures. EmployStream will use the capital to expand its product development, marketing and sales efforts in order to increase its footprint in the staffing industry. The funding will accelerate the company’s growth in the staffing industry, with a plan to expand to other industries with high-volume hiring needs and high turnover challenges. “This round of investment allows us to add the resources and capabilities we need to meet the rapidly growing demand from the customers and markets we currently serve, as well as bring our offerings to other market segments with similar needs,” said Gerald Hetrick, Chief Executive Officer of EmployStream. “The continued support of the local community, as well as the addition of the Ohio Innovation Fund, are all great accelerators that will set EmployStream on a path to success for the foreseeable future.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/onboarding-automation-tool-lands-3-5-million-in-funding/   Capterra, the leading online resource for business software buyers, released findings from its latest survey of small and mid-size business leaders across vertical markets to understand how SMBs are choosing talent management solutions and their implications on businesses. Capterra’s Talent Management Industry User Research Report revealed that price heavily impacts talent management solution decisions, surpassing ease of use as a key factor across SMBs. This focus on price creates a disconnect for small business leaders trying to choose the “right” software for their organization, as they’re using low price as the main driver when buying software. “Understanding how buyers successfully leverage talent management solutions can help small business leaders make wise decisions based on their company’s size, resources, and software needs,” said Brian Westfall, principal analyst at Capterra and the survey’s lead analyst. “While low cost may seem like the most important aspect of software, choosing a solution solely based on price can create more issues than most SMBs are prepared to handle.” Key findings include: Importance of price: Price has surpassed ease of use as the second most important factor behind functionality in talent management software purchase decisions for all SMBs and is the primary factor for the smallest SMBs. Software search expectation vs. reality: 45% of users took 10 months or more to research and choose their talent management software, despite only 18% expecting the search to take that long. https://recruitingheadlines.com/talent-management-software-buyers-are-choosing-cost-over-experience/ LinkedIn Targets SMBs With ‘Help Wanted’ Sign Download Option As first reported on ERE, In a move to engage small businesses, LinkedIn announced the ability for brick-and-mortar businesses to print out a Help Wanted sign to place in a storefront window or put on a tabletop promotion. Think of it as a traditional Help Wanted sign with more engagement and a bridge to the digital world. For brick-and-mortar business owners, the signage allows candidates passing by to apply for a job by scanning a QR code or going to the short link on the sign. LinkedIn says this solves the age-old challenge of managing two streams of applicants — those walking directly into the store and those applying online.

RecTech is brought to you by WorkHere and Emissary.ai Ever wondered how the LinkedIn news feed serves you content? In this special episode of RecTech, Chris Russell takes you behind the scene of their content algorithm so you can understand how when and why content gets seen.

This episode is brought to you by Hiretual. First up in the news…. According to the Wall Street Journal Facebook agreed to overhaul its lucrative targeted advertising system to settle accusations that landlords, lenders and employers use the platform to discriminate. The far-reaching settlement compels Facebook to withhold a wide array of detailed demographic information — including Zip codes, gender and age — from advertisers when they market housing, credit and job opportunities.   Facebook said the new platform will also prevent advertisers from discriminating based on sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, and other characteristics covered by state and local civil rights laws. Upwork, the largest freelancing website, recently announced Upwork Plus, its first packaged service offering tailored for small businesses. To help growing businesses connect with and secure top-tier freelance talent, Upwork Plus features on-demand support, greater visibility for job posts, dedicated dashboards for collaboration, and access to an exclusive community board devoted to Upwork Plus customers. Feature include On-Demand Support from Account ManagersPlus provides clients with access to 24/7 customer support and additional on-demand support from account managers to help users post their first job or scale their hiring. Customers can also opt-in for talent specialist services that can assist in sourcing and highlighting top freelancers. Greater Visibility through Promoted Job Posts and Client BadgeUpwork Plus customers will receive a monthly Featured Job, which flags a post as a top job in search results and includes the post in a digest that is sent to Top Rated freelancers. Plus clients will also receive a client badge on the freelancer’s search results page to help attract talent. Collaboration Across an OrganizationWith a dedicated dashboard, Plus customers can track program efforts across an organization all in one place. It also enables customers to invite colleagues onto a shared account and access collaboration and project status tracking tools. Plus Community BoardPlus customers will also have access to an exclusive community board with guides and resources to help them find success with Upwork. Learning tools and forums will allow new clients to ask questions and share tips with other customers. https://recruitingheadlines.com/upwork-debuts-new-solution-to-help-small-businesses-attract-freelancers/ NEW YORK, March 21, 2019 — Fetcher, the outbound recruiting platform that combines AI with human expertise to recruit top talent for high-growth companies, is excited to announce its latest round of funding as well as several key executive hires. In late 2018, Fetcher raised $5.4MM in an oversubscribed seed round led by Accomplice and Slow Ventures, with full participation by existing investors, Picus and Revel Partners, as well as angel investors which include Paul English(founder of Kayak), Amol Sarva (founder of Knotel) and James Joaquin (co-founder of Obvious Ventures). They’ve also brought into the organization several industry leaders to help scale their business. “With our latest round of funding, we were able to hire several outstanding executives and industry luminaries to lead our Sales, Customer Success and Operations teams,” says co-founder and CEO, Andres Blank.  “We’re also focused on using our funding to scale our Data Science and Engineering teams to ensure amazing product innovations for our customers.” Fetcher reimagines recruiting by utilizing AI to automate the recruiting process for large and small companies alike. There are currently 7MM open jobs in the US and Fetcher’s success rate in recruiting  top-tier, diverse candidates for those openings is garnering the attention of high-growth organizations like Peloton, Paperless Post, Equinox, AppNexus, Bridgestone and DigitalOcean, which rely on Fetcher to help grow their teams. https://recruitingheadlines.com/outbound-recruiting-platform-fetcher-raises-5-4-million/ MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and SEATTLE, March 20, 2019 — SOURCECON — Hiretual, the leading provider of AI-powered enterprise software for passive candidate sourcing and recruiting, today announced the launch of Intelligent Talent Pipeline™, a consolidated  talent pipeline for the enterprise – a market first. Hiretual’s Intelligent Talent Pipeline consolidates and fuses all talent pools – combining data from a company’s internal systems with passive candidate sourcing data from the open web – to automatically deliver the best fit candidates to a company’s hiring pipeline. “Talent acquisition to date has been very transactional, with candidates going from job posting to hire. The Hiretual Intelligent Talent Pipeline creates an intelligent, closed loop system that continuously learns and gets better, constantly rediscovers, and actively integrates with all other enterprise functions within HR,” said Steven Jiang, CEO and co-founder of Hiretual. “The launch of Intelligent Talent Pipeline delivers the ‘Holy Grail’ in recruiting technology for HR teams, transforming talent acquisition from data-driven to intelligence-driven.” How Intelligent Talent Pipeline works Company X posts a job they want to fill on their career site via their ATS (i.e. Taleo, Jobvite, ADP, Workday, etc.), which posts the job to places like LinkedIn, Indeed and Monster. Company X is then awash in applications – even more so if they are a well-known brand. Many of these applicants are high quality, but unfortunately not currently qualified for the position. Hiretual’s AI-matching engine automatically screens the incoming stream of applicants in real-time, and delivers the best fitting applicants for the role to Company X’s ATS (Applicant Tracking System) – while automatically screening out and delivering applicants who are not qualified for the current role to a passive talent pool. This automation saves significant time and increases the quality of the applicant pipeline in Company X’s ATS by ten-fold. AUSTIN, Texas—Indeed, the world’s #1 job site, announced today that job seekers can now proactively take skills-based assessments and add the results directly to their Indeed Resume. This new feature helps job seekers stand out by highlighting their qualifications to employers, allowing hiring managers to more easily identify candidates who have the right skills for their open roles. “Assessments allow job seekers to show employers they have the skills a job requires in a way that their work history or educational background may not,” said Raj Mukherjee, SVP of Product at Indeed. “We believe this is an important step to providing a more holistic view of a job seeker’s capabilities and to help to reduce bias in hiring and to focus on what matters most – skills.” Resumes alone do not offer the full breadth of a candidate’s capabilities. Assessments help employers find and evaluate candidates based on their skills and abilities while also giving job seekers a way to demonstrate their qualifications when applying for jobs. https://recruitingheadlines.com/indeed-adds-assessment-results-to-online-resumes/ HiringSolved will be launching and showcasing the public beta release of the highly anticipated PROPHET II sourcing tool to sourcers and recruiters at SourceCon in Seattle. PROPHET II is an exciting update to the original PROPHET, combining millions of records and billions of data points with HiringSolved’s award-winning AI-based search, matching and collaboration features to make it easier for recruiters to find talent from the open web. PROPHET II features include: Open Web Data: Instantly search across millions of people with billions of data points including social data, contact information, web sites and more. Predictive search: Automatic title and skill expansion with autocomplete search suggestions. Resume match: Users can upload a resume and PROPHET II will automatically build a list of potential candidates with qualifications similar to that resume. This instant matching feature uses HiringSolved’s advanced candidate-to-candidate matching models to perform a pattern based search with no other user input. RAI: Access to HiringSolved’s Recruiter AI, the powerful voice assistant that can be used to conduct searches and boost diversity. HiringSolved’s Diversity Search technology: Diversity of people leads to diversity of ideas, which fosters innovation, creativity, and success. PROPHET II provides insights into the diversity of a current search result or candidate list, helping organizations find the best and most diverse talent with advanced automation. https://recruitingheadlines.com/hiringsolved-set-to-release-prophet-ii-sourcing-tool/

The RecTech Podcast is sponsored by WorkHere and Emissary. https://workhere.com/ https://www.emissary.ai/ Today's episode features a panel discussion on recruitment marketing and healthcare recruiting. The panelists divulge some interesting stats around job seekers and recruiting. 

  Psychologyjobs.com, a niche job site is seeking a new owner. Its been online for 10 years and serves mental health and behavioral health type careers. Would be a great buy for a staffing firm in this niches. Or another healthcare job business...For details visit jobboardsecrets.com and click on the For Sale category. SEATTLE, March 8, 2019 — Textio, the developer of the world’s first augmented writing platform, today announced a new partnership with the McDonald’s Corporation. Together with its Franchisees, McDonald’s receives upwards of 20 million applicants a year to support hiring nearly two million people, making them one of the most significant employers in the world. As McDonald’s is planning for their next stage of growth, they are investing in world class technologies that improve their hiring and recruiting processes at scale. Textio, a 2019 Finalist for the SxSW Innovation Awards, has been brought on board to enable McDonald’s to not only recruit and hire faster, but also to ensure they reach top-quality applicants in an inclusive manner. “At McDonald’s, our goal is to create feel good moments that ensure everyone feels welcome and included. That starts with the language we use when we reach out to you as a candidate,” said Joshua Secrest, Sr. Director of Global Talent Attraction. “Textio’s innovative augmented writing platform will give us the insights to know, in real time, whether the language we are using is attracting the most qualified and diverse candidates we can.” Textio is fueled by a massive data set of real-world hiring outcomes from hundreds of millions of job listings across industries and around the globe. Every month, this data set grows by 10 million new documents, with the latest hiring results attached to each one. The work with McDonald’s will further develop the platform’s capabilities in the hospitality and franchise industry. https://recruitingheadlines.com/mcdonalds-looks-to-innovate-recruiting-process-with-textio/ Fresh off the announcement by The Mom Project who recently raised $8 million in funding, New York City based FairyGodBoss has followed that up with a $10 Million round of their own. Funding was led by GSV Accelerate and Signal Peak Ventures. They have previously raised $3 million. The site is a self-described ‘social network for career-minded women’. It has job listings, career advice, employer profiles, and hosts a personalized daily feed in addition to a crowdsourced databases for companies’ benefits. According to the story in VentureBeat, site revenues come from writing sponsored content for clients and supplying them with competitor insights — and it has more than 3 million visitors each month. https://recruitingheadlines.com/female-focused-fairygodboss-raises-10-million/ LOS ANGELES—Cluster, the first U.S. marketplace matching Industry 4.0 skills and jobs, announced that it closed a $1.9 million seed round of financing. American industrial companies are being transformed by technology. More than 1.3 million manufacturing jobs have been added since the end of the recession. The resurgence of jobs has brought on a workforce crisis as companies struggle to fill roles. “Hiring experienced talent is the industrial sector’s most urgent priority amidst a tight labor market and a growing wave of retirements,” said CEO and Founder Kim Taylor. “We need to expand beyond the friction of resumes and job descriptions to a common language of skills.” Engineering talent is vetted to join the platform and employers pay on a subscription model to access mid-to-senior level talent looking for full-time jobs. Cluster only matches people to jobs for which they are qualified. https://recruitingheadlines.com/mark-cuban-invests-in-engineering-job-platform/ SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2019 — ZenSourcer, an all-in-one recruiting platform that provides a single source of truth for talent teams, today announces a $9M Series A funding round from Accel and the business’ rebrand to Gem. Gem is also launching a CRM (Candidate Relationship Management) platform, which helps companies track and nurture relationships with talent. “As hiring managers at Dropbox and Facebook, we connected with a lot of amazing candidates, but for many of them the timing wasn’t right,” said Steve Bartel, co-founder and CEO of Gem. “We didn’t want to give up on those conversations so we created lists of Gems and invested in long-term relationships with our ideal candidates.” “We built Gem to give recruiting professionals the candidate relationship management (CRM) tool they need to build relationships and nurture their talent pools at scale,” said Nick Bushak, co-founder and CTO of Gem. “For us it was a no brainer to deliver the marketing automation and relationship management power that sales and marketing teams have to recruiters.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/sourcing-tool-gets-9m-in-series-a-funding/

In February K1 Investment Management today announced a majority investment in Jobvite, the industry leader in best-of-breed recruiting software. K1 and Jobvite also announced three major acquisitions: Talemetry, the award-winning recruitment marketing company, RolePoint, the leader in employee referral and internal mobility, and Canvas, the industry’s only text-based conversational recruiting company. For the first time, this combination enables hiring teams to source, engage, hire, onboard, and retain top talent with one end-to-end platform – delivering a unified candidate experience. This unique set of investments, totaling more than $200 million, brings together Jobvite and three of the recruiting industry’s most innovative companies, resulting in more than 2,000 customers, including Fortune 500 enterprises such as Schneider Electric, Lenovo, Santander, PayPal, Genuine Parts, and Panasonic. This merger rapidly accelerates the companies’ product development roadmaps and the integration of their customer solutions. In addition, the combined companies will continue to meet existing client needs, including all system integrations as well as maintaining all operations globally. Matt Singer is their VP of Marketing and he joins Chris Russell to talk about the news and what lies ahead. TOPICS INCLUDE: What has life at Jobvite been like since the news? There appears to be an arms race in HRtech taking place...was the move made to keep pace? (ATS vendors making more acquisitions) All in one platform vs best of breed... What is the integration plan for integrating the new tech? (no small effort you are talking about taking 3 different HR tech platforms under one roof) Are more acquisitions possible? Missing a sourcing tool Challenges of marketing HR tech in today’s noisy world… What’s one tip you have for getting the most out of your Jobvite installation (for customers) Podcast sponsors: Workhere.com and Emissary.AI

Im chris russell, here are your fast five recruiting headlines for the week ending March 8th Its been another big week of venture capital in HRtech But first a quick reminder about the next RecTech Live webinars March 21st 1pm EST - understanding social media algorithms - get more engagement from what you post on social media April 4th - Video Enhanced job posting for global employers, sponsored by SpacrStart I’ll be joing by their founder to talk about why embedding video into your job descriptions is important. They target enterprise level employers. Register at rec tech live dot com or click https://www.crowdcast.io/rectechmedia First up in the news…. Paradox, the leading Assistive Intelligence platform for talent acquisition and talent experience, announced an aggressive business expansion plan for 2019 and beyond. They announced the continued expansion of the team with plans to double staffing again in 2019. The company’s hiring will focus primarily on product, sales and client success teams, including growing the company’s US footprint through opening the first two regional offices in Dallas and Chicago. “We’ve seen tremendous growth and client adoption these last two years,” stated Aaron Matos, Paradox Founder/CEO. “In 2018, we tripled our revenue, doubled our team, and tripled the number of clients that we serve. Our product portfolio has greatly broadened as we’ve partnered with our clients to better support their candidates throughout the hiring process and their career. We have a big vision for how we can transform recruitment and the talent experience with assistive intelligence. We’re still early on that journey.” The Paradox team also announced completion of their Series A funding totaling $13.34 million. Investors have not been disclosed, the company has been funded previously by its founder. https://recruitingheadlines.com/paradox-announces-office-expansion-new-series-a/ New York City based Wade & Wendy, an AI recruitment platform, just closed a $7.6m Series A funding. The round was led by Jazz Venture Partners, with help from current investors Randstad Innovation Fund, ff Venture Capital and Indicator Ventures. The company intends to use the funds for the continued product development. Founded in 2015 and led by Drew Austin, CEO, Wade & Wendy is a conversational AI recruiting company featuring: Wendy, an AI recruiter responsible for sourcing, screening, and recommending talent and automates repetitive, time-consuming hiring tasks, and Wade, an AI recruiter working on behalf of the talent, informing them of opportunities that are relevant based on their interests and experiences. The company recently entered into a multi-year contract with Randstad Sourceright, a global talent leader responsible for over 150,000 job placements annually, to drive the adoption of Wendy. https://recruitingheadlines.com/recruiter-chatbot-firm-wade-wendy-raises-7-6-million-in-new-funding/ NASHUA, N.H.– Claro Workforce Analytics, a platform of unique workforce insights that helps organizations improve employee engagement, reduce voluntary attrition, and discover diverse talent faster, today announces that it has raised $1.1 million in new funding led by Beta Bayview LLC, with participation from Kline Hill Partners and G-Bar Ventures. The proceeds from the financing will be used to accelerate product development and client expansion. In addition, Jim Feuille of Beta Bayview will join Claro’s Board of Directors. Claro’s unique technology platform enables organizations to combine internal and external workforce insights to fully harness the power of integrated workforce analytics, to help attract diverse talent and retain their valuable employees. According to a recent PWC survey, “63% of CEOs said availability of skills was a serious concern” while “93% of CEOs say that they recognize the need to change their strategy for attracting and retaining talent.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/workforce-analytics-firm-raises-1-1-million-in-funding/ JobDiva, the leading global Applicant Tracking System, is delighted to announce a partnership with Resume-Library, one of the fastest growing job sites in the U.S. The collaboration between these two companies will provide JobDiva’s users with instant access to millions of resumes, straight from the Resume-Library database. Going forward, organizations using JobDiva to source talent will now be able to apply JobDiva’s patented search technology against Resume-Library’s vast talent pool of available Candidates. Appealing candidates can be unlocked with a click. This means JobDiva users now can conduct searches into Resume-Library without ever leaving the JobDiva platform, saving precious time for busy hiring professionals. https://recruitingheadlines.com/jobdiva-adds-resume-access-to-resume-library/ Lastly... Ceridian , a global human capital management (HCM) cloud-based technology company, announced today its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Clearview Logix, a Richmond, Virginia-based leading decision-support analytics company, and certain intellectual property assets, including paysa.com, from Paysa, a Palo Alto, California-based AI-powered personal career advisor. Financial terms of the transactions were not disclosed. Clearview Logix builds analytics models to simplify health insurance choices for employees, employers, and their administrative partners. . Paysa.com empowers employees to explore salaries across companies, jobs, and locations. “Ceridian will fully integrate the technology of these two acquisitions within Dayforce to help our customers attract, engage and develop the very best people, while saving costs and reducing the administrative burden,” the company added. https://recruitingheadlines.com/ceridian-acquires-assets-of-clearview-logix-and-paysa/

I attended the Recruiting Trends & Talent Tech Live Conference in late February in a snowy Las Vegas. During the expo hall hours I chatted up a few industry players for your audio enjoyment; Appearing in this episode; Doug Kerken from Hireclix Marc Mapes, Avature Kevin Nelson, EmployeeReferrals.com Scot Sessions, Talvista Tom Boyle, Cornerstone The RecTech Podcast is sponsored by WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai - please check them out.  

FIND THESE HEADLINES AT http://recruitingheadlines.com/category/press-releases/ And the venture capital funding keeps flowing... Jobcase.com, a boston based open-access platform dedicated to empowering people in their work-lives, has closed a $100 million in growth equity round led by Providence Strategic Growth (PSG). PSG is an affiliate of Providence Equity Partners L.L.C., a global private equity and credit investment firm with $57 billion in capital under management. The new funding will accelerate product development and services for Jobcasers (Jobcase members) via internal growth and/or strategic acquisitions. Some enhancements include, but are not limited to, sophisticated machine learning architecture that will better serve relevant content to Jobcasers, product development to increase ease of connections and community building and new integrations and APIs that enable Jobcasers to more easily promote themselves and better engage with employment opportunities. “We are proud to help expedite Jobcase’s mission to empower people in their pursuit of a happy and meaningful work-life,” says Mark Hastings, PSG CEO. “Jobcase’s unique approach that prioritizes community has catapulted the company to its position as an industry leader. The company is well positioned to fulfill the pressing need for connection in this space both domestically and abroad.” Recently ranked as the fourth largest online destination for career resources in the USA, Jobcase serves more than 100 million registered members with over 25 million unique active Jobcasers visiting the site each month. In Austin TX --TextUs, a real-time communication platform, and Herefish, an automation platform built for the staffing industry, announced a new partnership today that enables recruiting firms to combine corporate-level recruiting automation with desk-level, 1:1 communication with candidates, contractors, and clients. “This partnership expands the capabilities for Herefish customers,” says Jason Heilman, CEO & Co-founder of Herefish. “Our mutual customers can now engage with candidates who respond to automated texts sent from Herefish directly from their TextUs accounts. This allows for faster conversations with candidates and contractors.” There are two big benefits for mutual Herefish and TextUs customers: Send automated text messages from Herefish using each recruiter’s TextUs phone number to streamline communication. Automate routine text messages like interview reminders, first-day follow up, and mid-assignment surveys ZipRecruiter, a leading online employment marketplace powered by AI matching technology, announced today that it has expanded its services to actively connect Canadian companies of all sizes with job seekers nationwide. The move, which helps address pain points on both sides of the historically tight Canadian labor market, is part of ZipRecruiter’s international expansion of its marketplace. With Canada’s national unemployment rate near its forty-three year low at 5.8%, and more jobs being created than there are available workers, companies are struggling to fill open jobs, while job seekers in certain industries are facing localized shortages of job opportunities matching their skills and experience. ZipRecruiter connects millions of job seekers to highly relevant jobs through its #1 rated job search app in Canada and partnerships with popular employment sites, including Google job search, Kijiji, and over 50 of the country’s top job boards. On the employer side of the labor market, the company’s dedicated local sales team supports the specific hiring needs of Canadian businesses of all sizes. HackerRank, a platform that helps companies evaluate technical talent based on skills, today launched the machine learning-based Test Health Dashboard to give businesses the data they need to improve their skills assessments, deliver an excellent candidate experience, and effectively hire the software developers they need. For the first time, enterprises will be able to see how each of their skills assessments are performing for different roles — from a senior engineer to a DevOps intern, and everything in between. Recruiters and hiring managers can gain insight into each stage of the recruiting process to improve candidate conversion and increase the quality of hires for every role. Using the Test Health Dashboard, recruiters and hiring managers can track, analyze and adjust how they’re delivering on candidate experience, including the effectiveness of their skills tests and their correspondence throughout the hiring process. NEW YORK–Landit announced today that it closed $13 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by WeWork and backed by investors including NEA, Valo Ventures, Workday Ventures, Gingerbread Capital and current venture and seed funders. Landit is a one-size-fits-one career pathing platform that enables women and diverse groups to succeed in the workplace. Each member receives a tailored playbook that provides the tools, resources, know-how, and human connections they need to advance and navigate their career. Key features include building a personal brand, executive coaching, creating a personal board of advisors, curated skill development and mapping to career opportunities. “The future of work is focusing on unlocking the potential of each individual by investing in their personal success,” said Lisa Skeete Tatum, Landit’s Founder and CEO. “We partner with companies around the globe to offer a turnkey solution at scale that enables organizations to better democratize access and success with a clear and measurable ROI. When you have what you need when you need it, in a way that is relevant and actionable, that’s how you land it. Our members are more engaged, and as a result, companies see the increase in retention and mobility.”

This podcast is sponsored by Emissary.ai and Workhere.com Deidre Diamond is the founder and CEO of CyberSN. After  21 years working in technology and staffing, and stemming from her love of people and cyber security; Deidre created the Cyber Security Network, a company transforming the way Cyber Security Professionals approach job searches. CyberSN.com aims to remove the frustration from job-hunting, and aid in interpersonal connections and education. TOPICS Current state of the cybersecurity job market What companies and what types of roles How does your company leverage technology to recruit better? Take me behind the technology that you use online----tell me about your intake process How did the cybersn.com lean job descriptions come to be Will shorter ads work for any kind of job? What other tech tools do you and your team use to find talent  

Sponsored by Hiretual.com Rainmakers.co, the leading technology-specific sales talent marketplace, is announcing that it is now available to employers and salespeople in the greater New York City area. Rainmakers will be introducing the platform to more than 200 sales and recruiting executives at the Modern Sales Pros Leadership event on February 20th at WeWork, Hudson Square. AllyO, the technology company renowned for its end-to-end AI recruiting solution, today announced the general availability of its Talent Pool Engagement module, designed to improve recruiting efficiency and enhance the candidate experience. Beamery, a leading talent engagement platform, today announced it has received a strategic investment from Workday Ventures and it will join the Workday Software Partner Program. In addition, Beamery also announced that the Workday Talent Acquisition team has selected Beamery products that help further its efforts to identify early-stage, passive candidates and are complementary to Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), including Beamery Talent Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Beamery Talent Marketing, and Beamery Pages. Digi-Me, a digital technology company that is revolutionizing the way employers of all sizes and across all industries are recruiting today’s top talent with 60-second compelling and engaging video job ads, has partnered with Phenom People to offer easy to implement video content recruitment tactics. Betterworks®, the leading enterprise HR software for Continuous Performance Management®, today announced the deployment of Program Insights, a suite of people analytics innovations for its award-winning solution. This expanded functionality allows forward-thinking HR leaders to rapidly access actionable insights from the mountain of rich data generated by their organization’s Continuous Performance program.  

Brought to you by WorkHere and Emissary.ai Employers are shifting away from traditional hiring methods and this year. 75% say technology will play a larger role in their companies hiring process in 2019, and 22% percent plan to increase their spend on AI-powered recruiting software. These findings come from the 2019 Entelo Recruiting Automation Trends Report which surveyed 625 talent acquisition professionals from around the world to identify the trends and innovations driving the recruiting and hiring industry forward. highlights of the survey include: Time spent sourcing is hindering productivity. On average, talent acquisition professionals spend an average of 15 hours a week (a 16% increase from 2018’s report) sourcing candidates for a single role, and some groups spend more. When it comes to engaging candidates, email is king. 39% of recruiters rank email as the preferred outreach method, followed by phone/text (33%), while Linkedin inMails (13%) has dropped to 3rd place GUEST: Jon Bischke, CEO, and founder of Entelo TOPICS: Comments on the recent Jobvite acquisitions - what was your reaction? Will 2019 be the year of recruiting automation? What are the 3 biggest takeaways from the recruiting automation report? Sourcing is such a time intensive activity, how will AI and automation help recruiters scale their efforts in the future? What mistakes do employers/recruiters make when it comes to implementing automation in their recruiting? Tips on outreach to break through Update on Entelo, any new features coming out in 2019?

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Welcome to the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. If you want to know about the  about the latest and greatest tools and tactics for finding talent online, this is your show. The RecTech podcast is sponsored in part by WorkHere, the hyperlocal candidate delivery tool. WorkHere targets candidates Through their geofencing ad platform with GPS precision. …....imagine being able to target your competition directly when they pull into the parking lot...that’s the power of geofencing Workhere will advertise your jobs on the screens candidates use the most: with messaging that is delivered in the social and mobile apps they use the most often. So, head over to workhere.com and tell them you heard it on the RecTech podcast And by Emissary the text recruiting platform   They have a number of ways to embed text into your recruiting   From short code campaigns to reminders to text retargeting ….the team behind emissary.ai will let you text your candidates with ease. Your next superstar is in demand, and on the move. Emissary is the easiest way to connect with them faster, and more effectively… wherever they are. Find them on the web at emissary.ai Alright so the audio you are about to hear was extracted from my recent webinar entitled the Big list of free recruiting tools. Today i’ll tell you about free applicant tracking systems, sourcing tools, apps and more to help you find more talent. So...Thanks for listening….and remember, always be recruiting.

Podcast sponsored by Hiretual.com IN THIS EPISODE RigUp Raises $60 million https://recruitingheadlines.com/rigup-raises-60-million-in-funding-for-energy-industry-job-market/ Hirevue forms AI Advisory Board https://recruitingheadlines.com/hirevue-is-first-hr-tech-company-to-form-advisory-board-for-ethical-ai-development/ Best Ever Entry Level Job Market https://recruitingheadlines.com/its-the-best-entry-level-job-market-of-all-time-says-collegegrad-com/ ShiftGig Launches New Tool for Staffing Firms https://recruitingheadlines.com/shiftgig-announces-new-software-platform-for-staffing-firms/ DHI Group Earnings. https://recruitingheadlines.com/dhi-group-inc-reports-latest-earnings-down-4/ Thanks for listening!

This podcast is sponsored by; https://www.emissary.ai/ https://workhere.com/ Alright...today is a solo show with yours truly Before I start I have to give a stout to my buddy Tim Sackett. I was checking twitter this monrning when I saw something that made me fall on the floor lauging…..tims been on fire lately with lots of funny tweets and I just had to read you his latest one…   Have you seen that documentary yet about that Fyre Festival that happenedin in the Bahamas? If you havent it is a story of how some rich kid form Mew york ity duped investors into giving him millions of dollars to throw a very exclusive, very expensive music festival for other rich kids. Only problem was he didnt know how to actually plan and run an event of this nature...its on Netflix and i highly recommend seeing it,   Anyway here was Tim tweet that imagined a Fyre HR fest…   Tim Sackett SCP,SPHR‏ @TimSackett   Hey Peeps! So excited to announce that Registration is opened up for the- Fyre HR Festival in beautiful Cleveland! Paypal me - $10k - all the HR super stars are going to be there! And back by popular demand - The Monster Trumpasaurus stuffed animals!   Laugh, got to love the wittiness of tim sackett...follow him on @timsackett if you dont yet… So lets talk about rejection. Recruiters hate sending rejection emails and candidates hate getting them. It’s no wonder then that most companies don’t pay much attention to this important recruiting chore. But with a little thought and effort your company can easily improve the rejection process in order to change that dynamic. By implementing a more refined workflow you can actually help turn those you can’t hire into allies while letting them down gently. The last thing you’ll want is for them to head to Glassdoor and leave a rant after you say No. Those candidates could actually become a candidate in the future and/or a customer, therefore how you reject them matters if you want to keep them coming back. So here’s my five rules to add value to the dreaded rejection email process. Ignore them at your peril. 1 Time It Right 2 Be Honest, But Not Too Honest   3 Have Multiple Email Templates   4 Add Value to the Rejection try Rejobify's free email templates: https://www.rejobify.com/ 5 Get Their Feedback  

This episode sponsored by Hiretual.com BOSTON FirmPlay (firmplay.com) is launching a new employee referrals solution that instantly sources top talent from 100% of your employees’ networks, instead of the 3% that your employees can remember when making a referral. As a result, cut time-to-hire in half and grow referrals to over 50% of hires, all while boosting diversity and retention. How does it work? In just a few minutes, your employees upload their contacts to FirmPlay, which then does the heavy lifting of sourcing referrals by matching those contacts to your open jobs. FirmPlay even gets your recruiters a warm intro to matches from the employees who know them the best. FirmPlay is currently in beta and working with forward-thinking TA teams – to inquire about joining their beta, send a note to [email protected] SAN FRAN Jyve, the leading platform for in-store flexible and skilled labor, today announces it has raised $35 million in aggregate funding from SignalFire, Crosscut Ventures, Ridge Ventures, and New Enterprise Associates. By offering a Skills-as-a-Service platform, Jyve intelligently matches the needs of enterprises with the right skilled labor at scale, at the right time. After three years in stealth, the company has reached $400 million in bookings from top grocers, brands and retailers; to meet growing demand the company is welcoming Anu Gupta, formerly Target’s Senior Vice President of Strategy Execution and Operational Excellence, as Chief Operating Officer and Ralph Leung, a former Morgan Stanley senior investment banker, as Chief Financial Officer. Jyve’s proprietary Skills-as-a-Service platform uses machine learning to source and identify certified, skilled talent (Jyvers) based on the merchandising and digital shopping needs of retailers and brands. By offering enterprises quality talent, Jyvers accomplish a variety of in-store jobs (Jyves) including merchandising, stocking, ordering, display building, e-commerce fulfillment, brand ambassadorship, shelf auditing, and more. As Jyves are completed, companies, for the first time, gain real-time insight into on-the-ground demand and performance. HOUSTON GoCo the easiest to use all-in-one HR and benefits platform, announced a $7 million Series A funding round led by ATX Seed Ventures alongside the investment arm of UpCurve, Inc. (“UpCurve”), the small and medium-sized business (SMB) solutions provider, among other strategic investors. The new capital will be allocated to hiring across all departments, further platform development to extend the breadth of offerings and to broadly expand the company’s customer base. Over the past two years, GoCo has grown its customer base of employers into the thousands, increasing the number of individual GoCo users by 10x. Customers of all sizes and verticals have adopted the platform, including retail and gym franchises, school districts, technology companies, real estate brokerages, healthcare hospitality organizations and more. To support this rapid growth, GoCo plans to quadruple its number of employees in 2019. This Series A round brings GoCo’s total funding to $12.5 million. GoCo is backed by additional investments from Salesforce Ventures, Corp Strategics, GIS Strategic Ventures, the venture arm of Guardian Life Insurance, and Digital Insurance, the largest employee benefits-only company in the US. ATX Seed Ventures is investing for the second time. PENNSYLVANNIA AMBLER, Pa., Jan. 30, 2019 — Phenom People, the global leader in Talent Relationship Marketing (TRM), today announced Phenom Bot and Phenom Bot Plus, enabling real-time candidate messaging to engage with active and passive job seekers. Powered by conversational AI and available on Phenom Career Sites, talent acquisition teams can now use bot technology to provide increased personalization, while automating the qualification process, interview scheduling and answering candidates’ most frequently asked questions. This automation enables TA teams to spend quality time with candidates and less time in the crux of administrative tasks. Phenom Bot and Phenom Bot Plus are available now. “Conversational bots are leaving their mark on all aspects of life — talent acquisition and talent management are no exceptions,” said Mahe Bayireddi, CEO and co-founder of Phenom People. “For our industry, conversational bots are having the highest impact by enabling recruiters to automate the most time-consuming tasks. This allows for more meaningful, personal connections that candidates desire. The byproduct is stronger candidate experiences with personalization and immediate job search and apply functionality.” Phhenom Bot includes: Sourcing to fuel the talent funnel with quality candidates. Phenom Bot greets candidates on the career site with automated messages, asks candidate questions to learn more about their needs and personalizes the entire conversation based on the responses. Also included screening, scheduling and candidate FAQ   https://recruitingheadlines.com/firmplay-seeking-beta-testers-for-new-employee-referral-platform/ https://recruitingheadlines.com/jyve-raises-35m-to-offer-grocers-and-retailers-a-better-way-to-staff-up/   https://recruitingheadlines.com/hr-benefits-platform-goco-raises-7-million-in-funding/   https://recruitingheadlines.com/phenom-people-launches-bot-for-automating-the-recruitment-process/   https://recruitingheadlines.com/mya-automates-recruitment-for-60-retailers-during-2018-holiday-season/  

The MOM Project is a niche job community that helps moms re-enter the workforce. The company recently received $8 million in new funding to expand their footprint and get more moms back to work. Joining Chris on the podcast is Colleen Curtis, Head of Marketing and Community. She and I talk about the challenges moms face, how it got started and what they plan for the future. This episode of RecTech is sponsored by Workhere.com the geofencing recruitment company and Emissary.ai the text recruiting platform.

This episode is sponsored by Hiretual.com CRAIGSLIST CRACKS 1 BILLION https://recruitingheadlines.com/craigslist-cracks-1-billion-in-annual-revenue-says-aim-group/ CAREERBUILDER ACQUIRES ALL OF TEXTKERNEL https://recruitingheadlines.com/careerbuilder-acquires-textkernel/ GREENHOUSE HITS 3000 CLIENTS https://recruitingheadlines.com/greenhouse-approaches-3000-customers/ HOTTEL TONIGHT FOR JOBS? https://fistfuloftalent.com/2019/01/hoteltonight-look-like-jobs.html GLASSDOOR ARTICLE https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/22/companies-gaming-glassdoor-reviews-to-look-better-investigation-finds/

This podcast is sponsored by WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai Aley Brown is the VP of marketing for outplacement services firm CareerMinds...As a marketing leader in the human resources space, her expertise includes SEO, content marketing, social media, lead nurturing, demand generation, account-based marketing, and buyer persona and journey development, all within the human resources field.  Aley joined Careerminds as an intern in 2011 and has held various marketing roles since then. She has also worked in marketing at PayPal and eBay. In each of these roles, she has been a top performer, improving lead generation and deal opportunities several times over. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from The University of Kansas with a degree in Management and Human Resources TOPICS 1) What is SEO and Why should HR care about it? 2) How do marketing professionals use SEO? 3) How can HR professionals use SEO to gather data about their HR strategies? What the career page ranks for What keywords contain their company name Search volume and cyclical trends 4) Content marketing and other tips

This podcast is sponsored by Hiretual.com the recruiters best friend. CAREERARC RAISES 30 MILLION https://recruitingheadlines.com/careerarc-raises-30-million/ GLASSDOOR EXPANDS https://recruitingheadlines.com/glassdoor-expands-to-singapore-hong-kong-and-new-zealand/ TOPRESUME TEAMS UP WITH AARP https://recruitingheadlines.com/topresume-and-aarp-team-up-on-resume-advisor-service/ TALKPUSH LAUNCHES MOBILE RECRUITING APP https://recruitingheadlines.com/talkpush-puts-recruiters-in-charge-of-chatbots-with-new-crm-and-mobile-app/ JOB DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM UP FOR SALE https://recruitingheadlines.com/buyer-sought-for-job-distribution-company/ Los Angeles CareerArc, a global leader in HR technology, today announced it raised a $30 million growth equity round led by PeakEquity Partners (“PeakEquity”). As the only company offering both social recruiting and virtual outplacement solutions to the multi-billion dollar HR software market, CareerArc helps organizations manage the two critical touchpoints in employment where an employer brand is tested and scrutinized – hiring new talent and transitioning employees out of the organization. “This investment and the support of the team at PeakEquity Partners should allow us to accelerate our growth, expand product offerings, and strengthen our market position,” said Robin D. Richards, CareerArc CEO and Co-Founder. “PeakEquity has a broad set of strategic and operational experience that will be valuable as we continue to execute on our vision and take CareerArc to the next level.” CareerArc provides a state-of-the-art HR software platform that enables enterprises to recruit talent, transition their workforce, and manage their employer brand more effectively. The company, founded in 2009, will use the investment to fund an aggressive expansion plan to support product innovation and accelerate sales and marketing efforts. Also in California Glassdoor, one of the world’s largest job and recruiting sites, today announced its entry into Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand. Glassdoor aims to give job seekers a competitive search advantage through access to all the latest job listings alongside reviews and insights shared by those who know hiring companies best:  their employees. Glassdoor now attracts approximately 62 million1 unique monthly visitors worldwide and has 18 localized sites around the world. When job seekers are more informed about a job and company, we know it leads to a better match with the employer,”  said John Lamphiere, Vice President and Managing Director of Glassdoor International. “Glassdoor has always appealed to a wide global audience and with increased focus on Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand, we are looking to make the Glassdoor experience for people and businesses in these locations even more valuable.”   In San Franciso Rich with new features, the new app and CRM will allow recruiters to manage all their leads & conversations, whether on the SMS, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or Email from a single solution. Talkpush is turning recruitment conversational, steering away from forms and uploaded resumes and using technology to establish authentic connections between employers and candidates. When competing for talent, the ability to create personal connections with candidates faster is a huge advantage. The Talkpush CRM connects with conversational agents (aka chatbots) that automate the top of the recruitment funnel, freeing up recruiters to do more meaningful work. Features include; WhatsApp integration that lets you connect your WhatsApp Business account with your digital recruitment assistant, A.K.A chatbot. Custom workflows to accompany the candidate through their entire journey, from click to hire. Tagging colleagues, because recruitment is a team sport Auto complete to avoid spelling mistakes. Smart notification system to alert the hiring manager when a key development takes place in their talent pool. Multi-media capabilities allowing companies to collect video, voice, images and any document needed to move the candidate down the recruitment funnel. Emoji-enabled because emojis have become an integral part of the way people communicate today. Sure, some (old people emoji) roll their (eye emoji) a little, but for the rest of the population they are just a fun way to create connections (heart emoji).   WASHINGTON, DC–AARP has teamed up with TopResume, they are launching a new resume advice and professional writing service tailored to help older workers who are looking for new jobs or switching positions. “Resume writing is crucial as more and more older workers stay in the workforce, often looking for new jobs, or even new careers,” said Susan Weinstock, AARP Vice President for Financial Resilience Programs. “This exciting new service is a big step forward for those making a job change.  Older workers can face unique challenges in the employment market, and part of our mission is to help them successfully navigate those obstacles and find rewarding work.” The service, AARP Resume Advisor℠, is powered by TopResume, the largest resume-writing service in the world. It is available here and offers a free expert resume review. Job seekers will receive objective feedback on how effectively their resume communicates their skills and expertise, and personalized recommendations to make it stand out from the competition. Finally… stable, profitable online job distribution/ATS company based on the west coast is seeking a buyer. JobBoardSecrets.com has been engaged to spread the news to the recruiting industry. The name of the business is not publicly known but here are some of the facts to pique your interest. It has been online for 10 years It enjoys some of the best SEO I have ever seen It enjoys profit margins around 50% It enjoys year over year traffic growth of 30% It enjoys organic traffic of 63k/mo It’s main client base centers around restaurant, retail and hospitality This stable business has sales of nearly $900k per year and according to owner all of that revenue is driven by the organic SEO. The business is a combination small business ATS and job distribution platform with a proprietary job board in place. Serious buyers should contact [email protected] for further information to be vetted.

This podcast is sponsored by Emissary.ai the text recruiting platform. https://www.emissary.ai/ In todays episode Mike Seidle from WorkHere.com explains how they leverage geofencing technology to help companies recruiting local talent on a pinpoint scale.  Geofencing allows employers to advertise down to a specific location with targeted ads on a users phone.  Audio extracted from a previous webinar which you can view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO4VwKjRmOk&t=605s

This episode sponsored by Hiretual.com OUTMATCH ACQUIRES WEPOW https://recruitingheadlines.com/outmatch-acquires-wepow/ TALENTSOFT GETS $50 MILLION https://recruitingheadlines.com/talentsoft-completes-50-million-funding-round/ OPUSAI IS A NEW BLIND RECRUITING TOOL https://recruitingheadlines.com/new-ai-powered-blind-screening-tool-to-eliminate-bias-in-hiring-launches/ IKIKO IS A NEW RECRUITING SITE https://recruitingheadlines.com/new-recruitment-site-set-to-launch/ TEXTUS IN USE BY 700 STAFFING FIRMS https://recruitingheadlines.com/700-staffing-firms-now-use-textus/

This episode of RecTech is sponsored by WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai - please support our sponsors. Welcome to the first episode of RecTech for 2019, todays show is just a solo episode to kick off the year and get you ready for what lies ahead. It is the first monday in january and so I am proud to announce that the 2019 recruiting season is officially open for business! For many of you 2018 was a daunting year to recruit and this year is shaping up to be just as challenging. So i will give you some thoughts on how to handle the new recruiting season and also how me and my RecTech Media team can help. Show notes: In the coming weeks you’ll hear interviews with Aley Brown from outplacement firm CareerMinds on SEO for HR as well as an interview with The Mom Project, a job site for moms returning to the workforce. One thing I want listeners to know is that when it comes to sponsors I only seek to promote companies that I know and trust. When i look at a sponsor i only take on ones that are useful to my audience and also have a track record of success and people that I know. That’s important to me to have trusted vetted HR tech companies---I would never promote something just because they paid me ...my reputation is important.   Alright, as you start your recruiting plans this year here are some things to keep in mind; Candidate experience...speed of apply...speed on interviewing...automation....communications even rejection process are all important. From the Recruitee blog...“I just wish more companies would make the experience less painful for candidates. I am sure there will be software that comes out to do that. But the more companies can be real and human and upfront the better. I hear from friends searching that companies still interview them 5 times, lead them on and then send a templated email rejecting them. Brand is everything these days. The minute your company gets a bad rep the best talent leaves. Facebook is going through this right now. These bad experiences while talented leaders are trying to join leaves a bad taste, and talented people hang out with other really talented people. Word of mouth travels [quickly], and soon you’ve turned an entire community sour to your opportunities. Next thing you know the best in the industry [are] joining your competitor and helping them scale. Just be real and honest and human as much as possible. You can’t hire everyone but work on scaling the unscalable as much as possible.” – Kameron Kales Recruitment marketing...fb and google, geofencing, billboards, open houses….“I believe video will become an even more important component of recruitment marketing.  Telling your company’s story through your employees is incredibly powerful and can be very compelling. Video content must be a part of your strategy in 2019”----see JobStories.com Your messaging and content...EVP, job descriptions... Talent to manage it all...HRIT----“There has never been more technology than today. So 2019 will be another year of struggle for HR departments especially when it comes to implementing HR technology to recruit or engage. The smart companies would be wise to hire more technologists to help implement new software. The profession now requires a digitally savvy worker, so be prepared for what’s to come.” HR technology continues at a frenetic pace...expect to see a lot of mergers, acquisitions…and some companies going into the deadpool too. Things I’m looking forward to: Facebook job board changes, Uber staffing, more gig economy news, will indeed get back to innovating or just acquiring? Less hr tech, So how can RecTech Media help you with all this?  As we enter our fourth year of operations I want to first tell you about all the no cost ways you can leverage our tools and information...the following are all free ways that we can make you and your team better at recruiting. RecTechLive.com - get your webinar learning on! Recruitingheadlines.com - stay up to date on all the recruiting news. Jobfairing.com - promote your hiring open house. Rejobify.com - improve your rejection process. HRpodcasters.com - learn the latest podcasts making waves. When it companies to our paid services and tools I’ll just mention a few of those that I am excited about for the coming year. Jobstories.com - webinars for jobs, $895 per event EVP consulting, starting at $5k - https://www.rectechmedia.com/employer-value-propositions/

Talent Tech Labs is an incubator in the heart of New York City. Located at 38th/8th they have space to rent to HR tech startups and also offer advisory services to employers and startups. I sat down with their president Brian Della Donne and Operations Manager Rory O'Doherty for a chat. I also talked with 3 startups while there: SparcStart, Alyss Analytics and Vervoe. This episode sponsored by WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai

This episode sponsored by Hiretual.com TALENT42 CONFERENCE ACQUIRED BY ERE MEDIA https://www.ere.net/tech-recruiting-event-talent42-joins-ere-media-family/ INDEED EXPANDING TO SEATTLE https://recruitingheadlines.com/indeed-adding-1000-jobs-in-seattle-expansion/ CAPP AND CO ACQUIRES KORU PREDICTIVE https://recruitingheadlines.com/assessment-firm-acquires-koru-predictive-hiring/ THE MOM PROJECT RAISES 8 MILLION https://recruitingheadlines.com/the-mom-project-raises-8m-for-its-mom-job-market/ FACTORYFIX GETS $1.5 MILLION https://recruitingheadlines.com/manufacturing-job-marketplace-for-midwest-lands-1-5-million-in-funding/

The RecTech podcast is sponsored by Workhere.com and Emissary.ai According to research conducted by Accenture earlier in the year, enterprises are primed to shift HR out from the back office to deliver strategic value to their businesses. The problem is making that shift. HR departments lack the necessary AI tools, analytics, and digital skills to do “strategic HR.” Here to talk about  addressing this challenge and how to overcome it. Jill K. Goldstein, Talent & HR Business Process Service Lead at Accenture Allan Racey, Global Talent and HR Capability Lead Jill and Allan, Welcome to RecTech….  What is Accenture Operations and what do you offer HR professionals? Let’s get into the report….”Although gaps remain between the expectations of the business and HR’s contribution, HR is clearly on a transformation journey. It is shifting focus from enabling back-office efficiency and effectiveness to becoming a strategic business partner.” Define what you mean by strategic?  How is this now different from what HR did before? Why is HR perceived as slow to change with the times? How will strategic HR impact recruitment? Should they recruit or reskill existing talent? What data-related skills do HR professionals need? How do you see AI and analytics benefiting HR? What HR responsibilities and processes should be automated? What tips do you recommend for implementing strategic HR? Which is the biggest enabler of strategic HR – talent or technology? any other interesting reports coming out? Whats the future----How long do you think it will take before a significant number of companies employ HR strategically?

This episode of RecTech's Recruiting Headlines is brought to you by Hiretual.com the recruiters best friend. In the News... 15 FASTEST GROWING JOBS https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/trends-and-research/2018/linkedin-emerging-jobs-report-2018 VANGST GIGS https://recruitingheadlines.com/cannabis-recruiting-site-adds-gig-worker-temp-option/ RANDSTAD TAI AWARDS https://recruitingheadlines.com/randstad-announces-awards-initaitive-for-in-house-talent-acquisition-teams/ WONOLO AND WAZE HOOKUP https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/13/staffing-app-wonolo-partners-with-waze-carpool-to-help-gig-workers-get-to-jobs/ 2019 RECRUITING EVENT CALENDAR https://recruitingheadlines.com/2019-hr-and-recruiting-events/ Headlines powered by https://recruitingheadlines.com/

Dawn Burke’s HR and leadership career has spanned the last 20 years, most recently serving as VP of People for Birmingham, AL, award-winning technology company, Daxko. Before that she spent 10 years at one of the nation's largest direct mail organizations, MSpark, serving in a variety of HR leadership roles including Director of Recruiting and Director of HR. ​ Throughout her HR leadership career she have led recruiting, training and development, benefits, and employee relations functions.  In addition, as a member of an executive leadership team, she participated in making company-wide operations decisions, merger and acquisitions strategies and, naturally, corporate People Strategies. PODCAST SPONSORS: Workhere.com and Emissary.ai TOPICS: Whats new in your world of HR consulting? What are some projects that you typcially work on? Retention strategies...empl exp Can technology end recruiting bias? Do you worry that HR becoming too inhuman? Article about HR Departments Among Least Digitally Advanced Says New Study Have any of your clients have implemented text recruiting?....there were a lot of HR chatbots at HRtech this year... Any employee engagement tools that caught your eye at HR tech? The HR pro of the future...describe that person in 5 years Connect with Dawn on Twitter, Linkedin or her website. https://twitter.com/DawnHBurke https://www.dawnburkehr.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnhrdlica/      

This episode of RecTech's Recruiting Headlines is brought to you by the recruiters best friend: Hiretual.com INDEED TO ADD 500 JOBS https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/business/article/Indeed-to-add-hundreds-of-Stamford-jobs-13439604.php WORKING INTENT TO STAY DECLINES https://recruitingheadlines.com/worker-intent-to-stay-keeps-declining-says-gartner-report/ ARE YOUR JOBS ON GOOGLE? https://recruitingheadlines.com/are-your-jobs-on-google-new-tool-launches/ 15FIVE RAISES 8 MILLION https://recruitingheadlines.com/15five-raises-8-2-million-for-its-performance-management-software/ INTELLIGO CONTACT BACKGROUND CHECKS https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/05/intelligo-does-constant-background-checks-on-your-trusted-employees/

In today’s episode you will hear Katrina Kibben from Three Ears Media give her take on recruitment marketing tactics...enjoy the audio. Recorded at #HIREconf NYC November 7-8. Podcast sponsored by Workhere.com and Emissary.ai