Rectech: The Recruiting Technology Podcast

Ninh Tran is the COO and cofounder of Hiretual, one of the most popular sourcing tools on the planet. We chatted about the company at the recent HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas.

Joe Meyer: This is Joe Meyer, Founder and CEO of ExecThread. And I'm next on the RecTech podcast. Welcome to RecTech. The podcast where recruiting and technology intersect. Each month you'll hear from vendors shaping the recruting world. Along with recruiters who will tell you how they use technology to hire talent. Now, here is your host. The mad scientist of online recruiting, Chris Russell. Chris Russell: That's right. It's time for RecTech, the only podcast [00:00:30] that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. If you listen you'll hear both recruiters and HR Tech vendors talking about having used Tech to find talent. Today's show is a vendor edition. RecTech podcast is sponsored by our friends at Jobs In The US. If your company needs to hire more local talent JobsInTheUS.Com let's you post for free on their national job search engine. They also operate 51 local state sites for every state in the country, including Washington DC. [00:01:00] T

I first learned of Ideal.com at last year’s HR tech conference and after recently hearing the news of the new 3 million round of funding invited their cofounder to the show to talk about their technology and how they help employers find talent...according to their homepage...Ideal automates tedious and time-consuming tasks including manual resume screening and candidate sourcing. TOPIS TODAY: Tell us what Ideal does? Congrats on the new round of funding can you tell us how that came about and what your plans are for the capital? Tell us the story of the domain name and how you came to acquire it? Your technology is A.I. based so describe that part of the technology? How does it integrate with your ATS? Whats the deliverable? What are some results your customers have seen by using Ideal? How are people using AI in recruiting now? Will artificial intelligence tools such as Ideal take jobs away from recruiters? What are your predictions for recruiting and AI's role in the future? Learn mor eat https://www.rectec

Thats right its time for RECTECH….the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. If you listen you’ll hear both recruiters and HR tech vendors talk about about how they use tech to find talent. If you listen, I promise you’ll get better at recruiting. Paul DeBettignies is the Principal of Minnesota Headhunter, LLC a Minneapolis IT search firm and a frequent local and national speaker and writer on recruiting, HR, career, networking and social media topics. And like me he’s an avid fisherman….we follow each other catches on Instagram. TOPICS DISCUSSED How’s business and tell me a bit about the minnesota tech scene? What recruiting or HRtech companies are located up there? I heard that some Minnestota employers making big push to recruit outside of minneapolis? Are companies there more willing to relocate? When did you get the idea to brand yourself as the Minnesota Headhunter? What tech tools do you use to recruit...let’s start with

Lever is part of a new crop of applicant tracking systems that are really turning heads and making the hiring process better for companies.... They are also doing a great job at marketing themselves and I wanted to tap into that with their CMO, Leela Srinivassan. In this podcast we'll chat about: You have a quite a career path...I didn’t realize you used to work at LinkedIn...what was that like and what did you learn there about selling and marketing to HR people? How big a team is Lever right now…? How did you get the job? Why is Lever different? As you pitch Lever today what are the main challenges in selling to HR? Basic price point of the product? What type of companies do you target? Talk about your content marketing efforts and how that helps you create a funnel for sales? Just started a conference? I see a lot of vendors hosting their own now… Advice for HR tech startups...what should they be doing to gain traction/get their first clients?

Harry Joiner is a third party recruiter who specializes in placing ecommerce executives. I invited him on the show because he does a great job of branding himself in the recruiting world via his website at ecommercejobs.com. EPISODE SPONSOR: https://www.jobsintheus.com TOPICS: Take me back to when you started in recruiting….when did you first get the idea to buy your domains? Describe ecommerce jobs and how you use it? What has it done for you in terms of generating placements...the impact? You are known for creating really deep, detailed job descriptions...explain why? These jobs are like job stories...how do you get all this info…? What ATS do you use? What tech tools are part of your everyday recruiting activities…? Advice for those recruiters who want to do a better job at branding themselves and/or their business? SITE: http://ecommercejobs.com/

Ken Forrester is President and Founder of A.W. Forrester Co. ...A.W. Forrester Co. is a niche agency recruitment firm that focuses in the commercial health insurance Industry. He started his recruitment career in 1990 as an agency recruiter – he’s received rookie of the year honors, top recruiter and highest placement fee awards. Ken believes His key to success is being able to incorporate non-recruitment solutions with traditional recruitment tactics. He is inbound certified through Hub Spot and an avid user of Mautic, a marketing automation platform – where he has developed a strategy for sourcing and nurturing prospective candidates. He also serves in an Advisory role to TerraTal, a start-up data science driven recruitment platform that implements machine learning technology into the recruiting and hiring process. His objective is to consult with employers on best practice strategies for optimizing the hiring process. TOPICS - full show notes available at RecTechMedia.com How’s business in the commercial h

First year recruiter and former vet, Michael McDonnell talks about opening his own recruiting shop and what he's learned in his first year of recruiting as well as the tech tools that are part of his everyday job. For the transcript and show notes please go to https://www.rectechmedia.com/

Chris Mulhall, a VP of Talent Acquisition for a Canadian software complay explains how and why they revamped their job descriptions to engage candidates. Full transcript can be found at RecTechMedia.com

If you work from home you need to listen to this special episode of RecTech. A recital of this article: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-work-from-home

Today’s guest is ...Dean Da Costa...Dean is a Strategic Sourcing and Research Technologist at a Fortune 100 company in the Seattle area. A decorated veteran and recognized sourcing expert with more than 20 years of experience, he currently writes The Search Authority, one of the most influential blogs in the business. A frequent speaker on the recruiting conference circuit, His insight and knowledge (particularly of technology) has made Dean one of the top sourcers and full cycle recruiters in the business today. TOPICS Let’s start with the recent Linked User Agreement changes which is causing a lot of uproar among your fellow recruiters...can you explain what it says and what that means for recruiters? REFERENCE: https://www.eremedia.com/sourcecon/stop-the-madness/ Does it affect every extension on the market that uses LI in some way? You say InMails are a waste of time...why? What’s your open rate? What tools are part of your everyday souring toolbox…..elucify.com What ATS do you currently use? Luxo, Taleo,

My guest today is...Audra Knight...She is the Manager of Recruitment Operations at the global cybersecurity company Tenable. In this role, her team creates and supports Tenable’s talent acquisition strategy including process improvement and employment brand management. She is passionate about using marketing best practices and technology to attract talent that will excel at Tenable. Her side gigs include The #SocialRecruiting Show, industry blogging, team #HROS and being in a rock band. I first met Audra at last year’s RecruitDC and consider her a rising star in the recruiting world. We reconnected last week at the most recent RecruitDC and I got the chance to invite her to the show Topics discussed: 1. Day to day...what do you do..life at tena? analytcis? 2. How many employees? How may apps y 3. Main hiring needs? 4. What has been your recruiting team’s biggest win so far this year? Sourcing? 5. Where do you see recruitment marketing going? Content? What kinds 6. Let’s talk tech...tell us what recruiting tec

Welcome to RecTech, the recruiting technology show...where we highlight interesting HR & recruitment related technologies as well as talking with recruiters on how they use it to recruit and manage their talent. Today’s show will be a vendor edition with the co-founder of CandidateID.com My name is Chris Russell, they call me the mad scientist of online recruiting, and I spend my day helping HR tech vendors on marketing, strategy and product development at RecTechMedia.com. I’ll even help HR departments with the occasional HR tech advice. This episode of RecTech is sponsored by Job Fairing, if you are hosting a hiring event, post it for free at jobfairing.com - Jobfairing helps employers and event organizers to promote their career event to local candidates...learn more at jobfairing.com My guest today is ...Adam Gordon...he is CEO and co-founder of Candidate.ID, the world's first talent pipeline platform. Previously he started the research and sourcing company Social Media Search, through a joint-venture wit

Are you asking the right question in your interviews? Are you a new recruiter who wants to learn from seasoned HR pros? Then tune into this talk from Mike Brown who spoke at the recent Maine HR conference.

A panel of 4 HR pros spoke to the TAtech audience about their use of job boards and other HR technology, moderated by Tony Lee and Ethan Bloomfield handled the Q&A.

The Founder of Smart Job Board (smartjobboard.com) stops by RecTech to chat about his platform, upcoming enhancements and his advice for new job board owners in this in person interview from #TAtechChicago 2017

One of the latest clients at Rec Tech Media is John Hoskins of Sales Genomix. John has had a long career in sales industry... first with Xerox Learning Systems, where he rose from account manager to regional sales manager, general sales manager and ultimately Director of U.S. Sales Operations. Since then he has held other high profile positions in sales leadership at various firms and today he is Co-Founder of SalesGenomix specializing in sales talent assessment. He’s recently written a white paper on attracting sales talent called 7 Habits of Highly Effective Sales Recruiters...and I thought it make make for some good conversation for the recruiters out there. John joins me now on the phone from Phoenix Arizona Introduce us to SalesGenomix what is and how did it start? Common pitfalls that Sales Orgs make when it comes to recruiting? Habit ABR: How important is engaging the frontline sales hiring mgr in the process...there are things he can do to help. What methods did you always find to be the best source o

What employers need to know about Glassdoor... next on the RecTech Podcast Welcome to RecTech, the recruiting technology show...where we highlight interesting HR & recruitment technologies as well as talking with recruiters on how they use it to recruit and manage their talent. Today’s show will be a recruiter edition. My name is Chris Russell, they call me the mad scientist of online recruiting, and today my job is consult with HR tech vendors on marketing strategy and product development at RecTechMedia.com. I also help HR departments with the occasional HR tech advice. The RecTech Podcast is sponsored by Beyond.com and their popular Text2Hire text messaging service. Text2Hire is a text recruitment solution that gives you instant mobile access to the candidates you want to reach for high-quality, one-on-one conversations. We’re all on our phones constantly, so if you have that one tough position you need to fill or just want to break through the clutter and connect with candidates in a unique way, why not r

On Februay 7th in New York City, Hiring Solved will be putting on its first ever conference for recruiters and talent acquisition professionals, and here to give us a preview of the days events is their VP of Customer Experience, Jeremy Roberts Before we get to the event I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about your move to Hiring Solved...for those if you who don’t know Jeremy used to be the Editor at Sourcecon before making the transition to a vendor in our space. TOPICS -What’s it been like transitioning from news outlet to vendor marketing? -What have you learned so far about marketing to HR pros now that you are with a vendor? -Biggest challenge in reaching recruiters about your product? -Any new features or news from HS you want to mention? -Tell us about the conference...who what where? -What will people learn? -Agenda for the day? -Sponsors in attendance? -What are you most looking forward to at the event? -How to register? Discount code? -I see a lot of vendors starting their own conferences..

Joe Stubblebine is the VP of Talent Solutions for Beyond.com a large player in the online recruitment space. Today he discusses recruiting by text...and details how their innovative new Text2Hire messaging service works. Get 10% off that service by going to beyond.com/rectech