Rectech: The Recruiting Technology Podcast

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

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?

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 te

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 site

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 i

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. Bot

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

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 possib

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

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 hu

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 “Sp

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