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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

Recruiting Technology Panel Discussion

Listen to audio from a panel of HR influencers and analysts such as William Tincupp, Tim Sackett, George LaRocque and Madeline Laurano. Recorded at the OPEN Conference in NYC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 14, 201829 min

How Hot Topic Revamped Their Onboarding Experience

Hot Topic, has 425+ employees at their Corporate HQ in Los Angeles and with around 10,000 company-wide depending on the season. They recently initiated a new onboarding experience at their corp HQ with the intent to ramp-up speed and engagement, so that it could impact productivity and tenure. Johnny Sanchez is the Head of Recruiting at Hot Topic & BoxLunch, A retailer based in Los Angeles. QUESTIONS -Tell us first what the onboarding process was like before and why you decided to change it?...

Apr 08, 201827 min

Thoughts on Recruitment Marketing

This audio is from a recent panel at TA Tech Europe but I wanted to chat about recruitment marketing for a moment. At RecTech Media we enable companies to outsource much of these efforts from managing your job advertising to creating content for your career site and managing your social recruiting channels so you can get back to the business of ...recruiting. Right now I see too many employers trying to meld these responsibilities onto recruiting or TA managers who are still expected to source a...

Apr 01, 201841 min

What I Learned at Sourcecon

Shannon Pritchett is the editor of SourceCon. As a lifelong student in the recruitment industry, Shannon is passionate about improving it. She has a diverse background in training, sourcing, full desk recruiting, coaching, and journalism. Shannon got her start in the recruitment industry at Vanderbilt University and later worked as a Senior Recruiter for Internal Data Resources and Community Health Systems, Social Media Recruitment Ambassador for T-Mobile USA, Director of Recruiting for Moxy, Tr...

Mar 25, 201836 min

Conversations from TA Tech Europe

3 conversations with HR tech vendors recorded at TA Tech Europe held in Dublin Ireland March 13-14. Gal Among form Talenya Shane Gray from Clinch Talent Peter White from Jobboard.io/Ziprecruiter Learn more at RecTechMedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 18, 201827 min

Michael Brown on How His Company Get 50% of Hires Through Referrals

Michael Brown is the Vice President, of Talent at SHYFT Analytics based in Waltham Massachusetts, in today's show we'll find out how they generate 50% of their hires through employee referrals. TOPICS -What does SHYFT analytics do and what types of roles are you recruiting for? -How big is your recruiting team? -Your ATS is Lever, what was the previous ATS at SHYFT? -What was the switch like...how long did it take, etc? -Favorite feature of Lever? -What else is part of your HR tech stack? -Let’s...

Mar 11, 201821 min

Urie Suhr - The Recruiter that Leverages A.I.

Urie Suhr is the Director of Talent Acquisition for new york city based Collective (i), a tech company that modernizes the sales organizations of Fortune 500 clients through artificial intelligence and buyer insights. I saw her speak on a panel recently sponsored by Entelo and here's what we'll talk about today. -What types of roles are you recruiting for? -You are the only recruiter correct? Talk about the challenges of that... -Collectivei.com is a cool looking site...your job descriptions hav...

Mar 05, 201840 min

Jeanette Maister Reveals Student Recruitment Trends

Jeanette Maister is Managing Director - Americas at New York based WCN whose talent acquisition suite helps to improve the hiring process.. .Jeanette lives and breathes campus recruiting having spent almost her entire career as a practitioner...She began her journey in campus recruitment at Lehman Brothers in regional and later global leadership campus roles, where she first used WCN. She went on to work for IBM, Gartner, and finally as Global Chief Operating Officer of the Campus Recruiting fun...

Feb 25, 201836 min

Facebook News Feed Changes for Employers

Facebook is changing their news feed again, lets find out what employers can do about that...next on the RecTech podcast. This is a preview of my live event taking place on February 22nd at 1pm EST on: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/what-employers-need-to/register On Thursday Feb 22 at 1pm EST time i will be launching a new live video training show for recruiters and employers called “Recruitment Marketing Live” that will focus on helping recruitment marketers get better at attracting talent online....

Feb 17, 201819 min

Erin Stevens, Corporate Recruiter

My name is Erin Stevens, Corporate Recruiter for Masterbrand Cabinets.... And I’m next on the RecTech podcast. https://twitter.com/ErinMStevens Special thanks to our sponsors: Lever.com/rectech and Hiretual.com TOPICS -How long have you been working remotely? -Tell us about master Brand hiring needs and the Types of roles you personally recruit for? -What’s your favorite tech tool that makes your job easier working remote? -What’s your ATS? -Rest of your HR tech stack...onboarding, video , texti...

Feb 12, 201839 min

How I Recruit with Tiffany Kuehl

Tiffany Kuehl is Director of HR search for Versique, one of the largest talent acquisition firms in the midwest, specializing in both consulting and permanent placement. She spent 20 years in corporate HR before switching to the agency side about a year ago. According to her twitter account she is also a Twins fanatic, a blogger and watches the Xfiles. Connect with her on twitter: https://twitter.com/TiffanyKuehl TOPICS You are what I would call a social savvy recruiter...linkedin-twitter….how h...

Feb 05, 201831 min

Jeff Hyman Wants You to Recruit Rockstars

My guest today says quote: “90% of business problems are actually recruiting problems in disguise. If you’re filling your company’s vacant positions with B-players, you’re playing with fire. Instead, hire Rockstars (the top 5% of candidates who have the desired competencies and DNA, at the budgeted compensation level) to build an organization with limitless potential. “ Jeff Hyman is is the Chief Talent Officer for StrongSuit and author of a new book, Recruit Rockstars: The 10 Step Playbook to F...

Jan 30, 201833 min

Restaurant Recruiting and HR with Steve Browne

Steve Browe is Executive Director of HR for Cincinnati based Larosa’s a popular chain of Italian restaurants... Steve is also the author of "HR on Purpose!!" - a SHRM bestseller that gives a different view of how to practice HR and enjoy it. TOPICS How did you get so HR famous? 16,000 linkedin followers, 39,000 twitter followers. At Larosa’s how many locations and employees do you handle? Is recruiting centralized or decentralized? What’s your ATS? Any other HR tech tools you use? How do you vie...

Jan 22, 201832 min

Qualified.io Making Strides as a Software Developer Assessment Tool

Nathan Doctor and Jake Hoffner are the co-founders of Qualified.io a software developer assessment tool. TOPICS * What are your clients saying about the challenge of tech recruiting in silicon valley? * What is Qualified and give us a brief history of the company… When launched? * What makes you different from the Hackerranks of the world? * Will this tech eventually be used in other skill sets? Walk us through the user experience from the recruiter perspective * Jake (CTO) How do you spot a goo...

Jan 16, 201825 min

Year End RecTech Recap

George LaRocque, HCM analyst with HRWins…and Martin Burns from the recruitment advertising firm HireClix...join Chris Russell ...it’s time for our year-end-recap….next on the Rec Tech Podcast Happy new year everyone... it’s time once again for RECTECH….the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. I started this show last year to in order to educate recruiters and employers about how to better leverage technology to r...

Jan 08, 201854 min

Aman Brar, CEO of the text recruiting tool, Canvas

Today we’ll be talking about hot topics in text recruiting with the CEO of Canvas, based in Indianapolis. The company just launched in June 2017 and is gaining traction. Links: https://gocanvas.io/ and sponsor http://recruitingheadlines.com/ Topics include: -How did you get into the HR tech space, what’s your background? -Tell us briefly what your tool does and how it works? Im curious to hear -What a typical user experience is like... -Why is text interviewing better than a phone screen? -Worri...

Dec 18, 201724 min

Scott Sherman, Director, Talent Acquisition at Sodexo

Scott Sherman is a Director of Talent Acquisition with Sodexo a food service and facilities management company. Topics discussed include: -Whats New in TA at Sodexo -Size of recruiting team, number of hires expected in 2018 -Sodexo has been a very proactive recruitment marketer, started blogging early, etc...Quesocial -Sodexo HR tech stack, can you tell us what you us...avature, icims, entelo, hiring solved, Text Recruit, Seekout -Favorite tool or technology you guys have brought on this year -I...

Dec 11, 201737 min

Graham Pionkowski - HR Tech Enthusiast

My guest today is Graham Pionkowski, who's spent the last decade in the world of corporate recruiting, and helped a number of organizations up level their talent acquisition strategy, operations, and technologies. Most recently, he has served as the head of global talent acquisition at Bizarre Voice, a high tech company based in Austin, Texas. Over the last few years, he's been leading all things recruiting, including the TA strategy and operationalizing the day to day execution to bring top tal...

Dec 04, 201731 min

Dissecting a Job Description

Chris Russell reads a solid example of a job posting that sells the role, and company well. Listen as he reads it word for word and tells you why it works. Find the link tot he job description from Meetup at RecTechMedia.com on the blog page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 26, 20179 min

Bersin's David Mallon Talks HR Tech, LMS and ATS

As their head of research, DavidMallon sets strategy and drives innovation for Bersin's research team. He is the primary force behind their work in continuous learning, learning cultures, and learning management systems. He is also central to the Bersin thought leadership related to HR's operating models, governance, and the evolution of key roles such as the HR business partner. TOPICS DISCUSSED What were your takeaways from the HRtech conference this year…. What do you make of the recent news ...

Nov 19, 201716 min

New Study Reveals What Candidates Want from Employer Video

Ben Eubanks is the principal analyst for Lighthouse Research and Advisory, a human capital management firm that recently conducted a study on video in the candidate experience. Topics discussed: Go to HR tech this year? What did ya think What’s a typical day like for an HCM analyst? Really interested to talk about video today and when I first saw the news of the study that you did I know it would make for a great podcast, how did the study come about and who did you survey? Quote: the study shed...

Nov 13, 201719 min

Johnny Campbell Says Embrace A.I. and Be Like Super Recruiters

Johnny Campbell is the CEO & Co-Founder of SocialTalent a company that helps “Improve and Measure your Recruiter ROI”. He is here to discuss some of the findings of the 2017 Global Recruiting Survey and has some interesting things to highlight from the results. learn more at https://www.rectechmedia.com/ and https://www.socialtalent.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 07, 201723 min

Lucas Martinez, Co-founder of job aggregator Neuvoo

You already know job search engines such as Indeed, Jobs2Careers and Juju but you may not know about Montreal based Neuvoo, a global job search engine now operating in more than 60 countries...there is big change going on in the job search world so today we’ll get some perspective from an upstart player in the space, Neuvoo.com (recorded at the 2017 HR Tech conference in Las Vegas) Lucas Martinez is their cofounder. This is your first HR tech show...first impressions? Walk me through the history...

Oct 23, 201717 min

Ninh Tran from the Sourcing tool Hiretual

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

Oct 14, 201727 min

Joe Meyer, CEO of ExecThread

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 an...

Sep 24, 201726 min

Shaun Ricci from Ideal.com

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 wh...

Sep 17, 201725 min

Paul DeBettignies The Minnesota Headhunter

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, caree...

Sep 09, 201753 min

Leela Srinivasan, CMO of Lever

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 n...

Aug 28, 201730 min

Harry Joiner, Recruiter and Owner of EcommerceJobs.com

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 ...

Aug 20, 201736 min
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