Rectech: The Recruiting Technology Podcast

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, e

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

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 tha

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-

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 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 li

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 Evol

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?

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

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