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Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

Chris Russellwww.rectechmedia.com
Hosted by Chris Russell, online recruiting's mad scientist, the RecTech podcast covers all aspects of recruiting technology and recruitment marketing including interesting new tools & vendors. You'll also hear how recruiters leverage technology to find talent. A great listen for HR tech vendors, HR professionals and recruiters everywhere. CONTACT: chris@rectechmedia.com
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Episodes

Update from VideoMyJob's Kristen Graham

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 13, 201911 min

Recruitics CEO on the Acquisition of KRT Marketing

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 12, 201910 min

Recruiting News from NextStep, Humanity, VidCruiter, Crosschq and Nexxt

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/ ...

Aug 09, 201913 min

Candidate Experience Stories

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Aug 05, 201949 min

Recruiting News from Recruitics, Harver, Monday.com, TalentGuard, Jobble, Beamery and more

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:/...

Aug 02, 201915 min

The Problem with Mobile Apply

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Jul 29, 201927 min

Recruiting Vendor News from Jobsoid, Gusto, Toast, Rchilli and Top Echelon

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, ...

Jul 26, 20198 min

8 Ways IBM is Changing Their Recruiting Game

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 22, 201935 min

Recruiting Headlines from TMP, Built In, AllyO, HiringSolved, Loop

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/ Loo...

Jul 19, 20199 min

Hire Our Heroes' Dan Caporale

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 fr...

Jul 15, 201922 min

Recruiting Headlines from Amazon, 15five, JazzHR, Hire Our Heroes and Appcast

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 we...

Jul 12, 20198 min

How CSG boosted completed applications by 377%

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 Exper...

Jul 07, 201929 min

Zach Linder from Canvas

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 Jobvit...

Jul 01, 201922 min

Recruiting Headlines from Hirevue, Digi-Me, ExecThread, Eightfold, Karen HR

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...

Jun 28, 20199 min

An Authentic Employer Brand Discussion

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 audi...

Jun 23, 201934 min

Recruiting Headlines from iCIMS, Jibe, PredictiveHR, WorkHound, Enboarder

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:...

Jun 21, 20198 min

Jennifer Pozzuolo, HR Manager for Garmin International

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 ...

Jun 17, 201926 min

Recruiting Headlines from BetterUp, Phenom, ZapInfo, WorkRamp, Newton

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 re...

Jun 14, 20199 min

Employee Experience with Donna Kimmel, Chief People Officer at Citrix

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 10, 201920 min

Recruiting Headlines from AllyO, ZipRecruiter and Rectxt

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-recruiti...

Jun 07, 20198 min

Unleash Interviews Part 2

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Jun 04, 201933 min

Unleash Interviews Part 1

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Jun 03, 201931 min

Recruiting News from Indeed, SmartRecruiters, Careerlist, CareerBuilder and More

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...

May 31, 201910 min

Tracking Tech Talent with Elliott Garms of HumanPredictions.io

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...

May 26, 201929 min

Recruiting Headlines from Monster, Shaker/Montage, Hirevue, Instawork, Direct Employers

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 intelli...

May 24, 20197 min

Adam Godson from Cielo Talks Rec Tech

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...

May 20, 201932 min

Recruiting Headlines from HumanPredictions, EngageTalent, SeekOut, Karat and Upwork

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 tec...

May 17, 20197 min

Interviews from TechDay New York

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 hybri...

May 13, 201928 min

Recruiting Headlines from Yello, Gr8 People, Trusted health, Nexza and ISABLED

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 j...

May 10, 20197 min

How Hilton Brings their Talent value proposition to life

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 06, 201931 min
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