Rectech: The Recruiting Technology Podcast

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

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 custom

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, inc

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 Jobcas

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 C

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,

This podcast sponsored by Hiretual.com JOBVITE GETS $200 Million https://recruitingheadlines.com/investment-firm-putting-200-million-into-jobvite-acquires-3-more-vendors/ TMP ACQUIRES CKR https://recruitingheadlines.com/tmp-to-acquire-ckr-interactive/ ICIMS DOUBLES IN SIZE https://recruitingheadlines.com/icims-surpasses-200m-in-revenue-doubles-in-size/ LINKEDIN LIVE IS COMING https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/linkedin-debuts-linkedin-live-a-new-live-video-broadcast-service/ GOOGLE HIRE NOW IN UK AND CANADA https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/hire-googles-recruiting-app-for-g-suite-launches-in-canada/108930 THANKS FOR LISTENING TO REC TECH'S RECRUITING HEADLINES RECTECHMEDIA.COM  

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

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 Clev

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 jason.rivas@firmplay.com 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 V

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 na

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 e

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/