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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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Ken Forrester Describes How He Uses Marketing Automation and Not an ATS to Collect Candidates

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 an...

Aug 13, 201734 min

First Year Recruiter Michael McDonnell from GRN Columbia

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

Jul 29, 201728 min

Chris Mulhall on Revamping Your Job Descriptions

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

Jul 16, 201724 min

I work from home

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

Jul 10, 20179 min

Dean Da Costa Discusses LinkedIn User Agreement Changes and Favorite Tools

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 t...

Jul 05, 201741 min

Audra Knight - Manager of Recruitment Operations

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 ...

Jun 09, 201726 min

Content Nurturing for Candidates

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...

May 22, 201740 min

25 Year HR Pro Shares His Favorite Interview Questions

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

May 12, 201721 min

TAtech HR panel discussion Q&A

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

Apr 24, 201729 min

Rodion Telpizov from Smart Job Board

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

Apr 24, 201710 min

Best Practices for Attracting Sales Talent

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 pa...

Jan 30, 201723 min

Chris Kurtz from Peer Thru Discusses Glassdoor

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 a...

Jan 20, 201728 min

Jeremy Roberts from Hiring Solved Previews HireCONF

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...

Jan 13, 201722 min

Joe Stubblebine from Beyond Discusses Text2Hire Messaging Campaigns

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

Dec 15, 201622 min

Lever the ATS is 'serious' about CRM

A rep from the ATS comapny Lever describes the CRM portion of the tool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 09, 20165 min

How I Recruit on Facebook

Third party recruiter Esra Oziskender who runs HR Link Consulting in NYC talks about how she sources and places candidates on the Facebook social network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 09, 201621 min

Ray Tenenbaum from GreatHires

Ray Tenenbaum is the founder of Great Hires, a recruiting technology startup offering a mobile-first Candidate Interviewing Experience platform for both candidates and hiring teams. Great Hires was named Top HR Product of 2016 by Human Resource Executive Magazine and ranked #2 in Business Tools in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Brilliant Companies of 2016. SHOW TOPICS One of the more practical new tools i have see in hr tech lately...what was the impetus for creating the app ...tell us more about its o...

Dec 01, 201615 min

Steven Mostyn - Recruiting 101

Recruiter and author Steven Mostyn joins Chris Russell to talk about his new book and describes how he recruits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 14, 201624 min

How I Recruit: Laura Frances Merin

Laura Frances Merin is a talent acquisition and people operations professional specializing in high-growth startups. She launched her recruitment career with Robert Half and recently served as the Head of Talent for Cue Connect, and these days serves as a People Operations and Recruitment consultant for startups in New York City and Boston. Laura is passionate about identifying, developing, and coaching sparks of talent, and loves nothing more than helping people map out their next career steps....

Nov 07, 201627 min

Portfolium's Jim Milton Talks About their Student Career Site

Jim Milton is the VP of Customer Development at San Diego based Portfolium...a site that allows students to showcase themselves to potential employers. He joins me for a twenty minute conversation to detail the platform and talk about how students view the job search process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 31, 201624 min

Jennifer Schultz - RecruitmentQueen.com

I spoke with job board owner Jennifer Schultz who runs the local recruiting site, RecruitmentQueen.com - a local job board for Bucks County, PA. Jennifer runs several job fairs and exvents to support her job board. Listen in as she details parts of the business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 28, 201610 min

How I Recruit: Ben White from Titus Talent

Ben White has seven years’ experience in talent acquisition. He has worked as a headhunter and a corporate recruiter for two fortune 500 companies. Today he is part of the recruitment process insourcing team at Titus Talent, a talent strategies firm with several offices throughout the midwest, New York and the UK. http://www.titustalent.com/ Topics discussed in this episode: -What is recruitment process insourcing? -Typical day like? -Lets talk tech...you dont use an ATS? How do you keep track o...

Sep 29, 201623 min

Mike Seidle from WorkHere

Mike Seidle is the Cofounder and COO of WorkHere a new mobile job search company based in Indiana. Mike is Past Director of Development at DirectEmployers and a former board member on the HR Open Standards Consortium. Today he talks about the new mobile job search app currently operating in the Indiana job market. Learn about how they built it, why and what's next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 03, 201621 min

Thad Price from Jobs2Careers Debuts Their New Mobile App ipply

On this podcast, Thad Price, VP of Product & Engineering at Jobs2Careers, stops by to talk about their new app called ipply which is designed for Craigslist users who want more of an ATS like functionality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 12, 201616 min

MattLucas Founder of JobMonkey the site for "Cool Jobs"

Matt Lucas is the co-founder and President of JobMonkey.com. The website was launched in 1999 and has become the premier website for people looking for "Cool Jobs" in the United States or Abroad. Lucas is also an active member of the Seattle startup community and has invested in and / or mentored over 30 Pacific Northwest startup companies. We'll talk about his entrepreneurial journey and get his take on running a job board among other topics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

Jun 09, 201634 min

David Bernstein, VP of Big Data at Equest

David Bernstein directs eQuest’s Big Data for HR/Predictive Analytics Division, which enables organizations to make better-informed decisions about their recruiting and hiring strategy. His background includes pioneering HR technology roles at PeopleSoft, start-up company HR solutions, and building HR technology platforms for global, Fortune 1000 companies such as Solectron and Hitachi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Apr 28, 201628 min

FirmPlay's New Take on Employer Branding

Welcome to RecTech, the recruiting technology podcast. I’m your host Chris Russell, for those you who don’t know me I’m a consultant who helps job boards and hr tech startups with marketing and promotion. FirmPlay's software makes it easy for talent acquisition professionals to build an authentic employer brand that attracts top talent. Crowdsource the employee experience, by turning their stories into powerful branding content. Then promote your brand by embedding content on your careers page, ...

Apr 11, 201629 min

RecTech - Clinch.io Wants to Change Recruitment Marketing

I got a demo of Clinch recently. Clinch is a new recruitment marketing tool for employers and today I'll be speaking with Shane Gray, their VP of Sales & Marketing based in Dublin where the firm is headquartered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 30, 201617 min
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