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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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Circa CEO Patrick Sheahan

An interview with Patrick Sheahan, CEO of Wisconsin based Circa, formerly know as LocalJobNetwork. The company operates 600 local job sites and offers OFCCP and diversity tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 01, 202026 min

Headlines from: Equest, Loxo, Incluzion, iMocha, Charthop

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com https://www.rejobify.com/ Equest to launch self serve portal https://hrtechfeed.com/equest-to-launch-self-service-job-posting-portal-for-smb/ Charthop raises $14 million https://hrtechfeed.com/charthop-raises-14-million-for-its-people-data-organizational-platform/ Interview Mocha funding https://hrtechfeed.com/interview-mocha-announces-pre-series-funding-of-600k-for-digital-skills-assessment-tool/ Loxo Release https://hrtechfeed.com/loxo-introdu...

Aug 28, 20208 min

David Secunda, CEO of WorkBright

David Secunda is the Founder and CEO of WorkBright, an HR tech startup that moves traditional employee onboarding to a 100% remote process that workers complete before they arrive. Subscribe to RecTech: https://www.rectechmedia.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 24, 202026 min

News from Hiretual, Brazen, Joblist, Cornerstone

Hiretual Funding https://hrtechfeed.com/hiretual-raises-13-million-series-b/ Joblist Launch https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2020/08/17/san-francisco-based-joblist-is-the-new-kid-on-the-block/ Brazen/WayUp https://hrtechfeed.com/brazen-wayup-partner-to-elevate-diversify-modern-campus-recruitment/ Cornerstone https://hrtechfeed.com/cornerstone-virtual-conference-set-for-sept-16-17/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Aug 21, 20207 min

Job Search Advice for the HR Crowd

I know many recruiters and HR professionals out there have lost their jobs and this episode will be focused on helping you land your next job. In conjunction with HR Lancers you will hear me interview Laura Mazzullo from East Side Staffing who places hr pros but with hiring such as it is she has been design out her own version of job search advice to help the HR folks in need. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Aug 17, 202050 min

News from JazzHR, PandoLogic, Jobvite, Go Game

his Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com JazzHR Enhancements https://www.jazzhr.com/blog/save-time-and-stay-organized-with-jazzhrs-enhanced-offers-and-esignatures/ GoGame https://hrtechfeed.com/the-go-game-launches-virtual-culture-building-platform/ Jobvite https://hrtechfeed.com/jobvite-expands-evolve-talent-acquisition-framework/ PandoLogic https://hrtechfeed.com/pandologic-announces-continued-workforce-recovery-grant-efforts/ ########## Dont just reject candidates, Rejobify them. The...

Aug 14, 20207 min

Best of: These Types of Job Descriptions Are Awesome

Originally aired on July 2017. Best of segment. Do your job descriptions suck? Are they boring candidates to sleep? If so, you need to listen to the latest episode of RecTech. We chat with Chris Mulhall a talent executive who actually commissioned a study of what works and what doesn't when it comes to promoting your jobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 10, 202024 min

News from Indeed, PCrecruiter, Spingboard & HR Tech Conference

Diversity Tech Expo https://www.crowdcast.io/e/diversity-technology Indeed/Zapinfo https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-to-acquire-zapinfo/ HR Tech Conference https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-technology-conference-exposition-reimagines-annual-event-for-2020/ Springboard https://hrtechfeed.com/springboard-secures-31m-for-studnet-employability/ PCrecruiter https://hrtechfeed.com/post-to-jobs-on-facebook/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Aug 07, 202012 min

Dan Sines, CEO of Traitify

Dan Sines is the CEO of Traitify, visual-based personality assessment platform that identifies best-fit candidates, especially in high volume and high turnover environments like the retail industry. An entrepreneur to the core, Dan has an extensive background in user experience and graphic design. In the past He’s managed design firms and previously started a social media marketing & production firm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Aug 02, 202018 min

News from tilr, ModernHire, Handshake, Zenefits, iHire

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com tilr ™, a Cincinnati, Ohio-headquartered and Toronto, Ontario-based corporation, proudly announces the launch of its new skill matching and skill mapping, patent-pending hiring platform. tilr ™‘s machine learning algorithm is based on unique ‘skills-matching’ technology that utilizes weighted skills, relevant occupations and other job preferences tailored to serve both the public and private sectors, including part-time and full-time workers, wi...

Jul 31, 20209 min

Not hiring? 10 ways recruiters can add value during a hiring freeze

So far in 2020, the trend in job postings, a real-time measure of labor market activity, was 22% lower than in 2019, as of July 17, the eleventh week of gradual improvement. (source: indeed) Hiring freezes are still in effect across many companies so what do you do as a recruiter? Optimize your recruiting tech stack Learn new skills Turn employees into brand advocates Create more content Revamp job descriptions Backfill plan Update your career site Recruitment automation Hiring manager relations...

Jul 27, 202016 min

Headlines from Gem, Jobcase, Glassdoor, Sift, Circa, Knockri

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Gem, a software platform for modern recruiting, today announced it has raised a $37 million Series B investment led by Greylock with participation from existing investor Accel, to double down on product innovation. This brings the total capital raised by Gem to $48 million. Gem is also launching Diversity Analytics, a new feature aimed at helping companies build diverse teams by giving them unparalleled visibility into the hiring funnel. Up to 8...

Jul 24, 20209 min

IKEA's U.S. Recruiting Team

Recorded at the IAMPHENOM conference in early March check out this audio with Richard Carsley and team. Richard is the Director of Talent Acquisition for the IKEA Group in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 20, 202025 min

Headlines from Lattice, Jobvite, Jumpcrew and Competitive Wedge

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Competitive Wedge, the video interviewing solution that helps recruiters make authentic connections with candidates, today announced details of its funding. The company completed the final tranche of its seed funding, bringing its total funding to $1 million raised to date. With social distancing now the norm, recruiters and candidates are unlikely to have in-person interviews anytime soon. The use of video has been ranked as one of the top work...

Jul 17, 20206 min

July Virtual Meetup Discussion

The RecTech Virtual meetup audio from July 8th. Next one will be early September. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 11, 202059 min

Best of: Dissecting a Job Description

No new audio this week because of the July 4th holiday. Instead enjoy this pod from 2017 where i dissect an effective job description. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 04, 20208 min

In the news: Candidate Labs, Humanly, Greenhouse, MOM Project

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Im chris russell here are the headlines this week in recruiting technology Reminder on July 8th at 4pm ET we will do our monthly virtual meetup for the recruiting technology space, so come network, learn about startups making headlines and more. ...to register head over to rectechmedia.com and look for the link on the home page.. On to the news. Humanly https://www.geekwire.com/2020/humanly-raises-800k-help-companies-automate-recruiting-process-...

Jul 03, 20209 min

7 Free Job Advertising Tactics

For the full transcript visit RecTechMedia.com On this episode I wanted to highlight some free ways that companies can promote their jobs online for free. By implementing the tactics you are about to hear you can reduce your spend on other channels and drive more job seeker traffic to your career site and/or job postings. So lets get right to it. Get on Google for jobs. The Facebook Job Board. Email/Newsletters. Social Media Distribution. Social Media Hashtags. Linkedin. Twitter. Learn more abou...

Jun 28, 202010 min

Steven Rothberg, Founder of CollegeRecruiter.com

On this episode you will hear from Steven Rothberg the founder of CollegeRecruiter.com a long time job search business that focuses on entry level hiring, we’ll hear about how the business started, what their clients are saying about entry level hiring and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 21, 202038 min

Headlines from Steady, Brightside, CareerBuilder, Dice

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Im chris russell here are the headlines this week in recruiting technology First up, just want to tell you about two upcoming virtual events here at RecTech media, first on July 1st at 2pm we will talk to the founders of Jobwriter an unique to that helps you write job descriptions. It looks to be a better cheaper version of Textio, I have already it and really like what i saw. Register for that event at rectechlive.com Then on July 8th at 4pm ET...

Jun 19, 20208 min

RecTech Virtual Meetup: June

On this episode you will hear from Toby Dayton as he details the upsurge in job postings they are seeing on the job aggregator linkup...we’ll also discuss in Indeed has hit their peak, some startup funding news and a wide ranging discussion about remote work with several participants include Mike Tempkin from Shaker, Adam Gordon from Candidate ID Marvin Smith from Lockheed and a host of others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Jun 14, 20201 hr 12 min

News from Greenhouse, Linkup, Coderpad, PeopleFluent, Tradehounds

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Im chris russell here are the headlines this week in recruiting technology Linkup job data is out: In May, created job listings were up 12%, while deleted listings were down 16% - a promising sign that organizations are gaining the confidence to start hiring again. While jobs overall continued to decline, they declined at a slower rate than the previous month. May's job listings were down -10% nationwide; a huge improvement from a dismal -29% in...

Jun 12, 20208 min

Pete Lamson, CEO JazzHR

On this episode we will talk to the CEO of JazzHR an SMB focused recruiting software company based in Pittsburgh and get his take on the what they’re seeing in the job market and learn about what else the company has been up to. Full transcript will be available on RecTechMedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 07, 202033 min

Headlines from Gr8 People, Bonusly, IHire, Vetty, Salary.com, PairIn

We’ll start in Denver: PAIRIN , a trusted technology partner to today’s leading workforce programs, governments and education systems, today announced the close of $2.1 million, the first tranche of its Series A investment round that will be used to support continued growth of the company and its My Journey platform. “Everyone should have the opportunity to define their own future, regardless of their background. During this period in our nation’s history, supporting the organizations and profes...

Jun 04, 20209 min

Andre Boulais from Jobvite

Listen as Chris catches up with Jobvite's Andre Boulais to hear about what the popular recruiting software company is up to. Link to Rapid Response Talent Hub for jobseekers: https://app.jobvite.com/TalentNetwork/action/campaign/w/NzI3MzE Link to Rapid Response Talent Hub for jobseekers: https://app.jobvite.com/TalentNetwork/action/campaign/w/NzI3Mjk Blog about program: https://www.jobvite.com/collaborative-hiring/jobvite-joins-indy-chamber-in-rapid-response-prgram/ Link to 2020 Job Seeker Natio...

May 31, 202027 min

Headlines from ClearCompany, Hackerrank, JazzHR, HireClix, Oyster

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com ClearCompany Adds Texting Feature https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-acquires-opening-io-launches-new-ai-solution-for-building-transformative-workforces-at-scale/ JazzHR Launches White Label Solution https://hrtechfeed.com/mhr-international-introduces-a-new-era-of-remote-work-experience-with-u-s-launch-of-people-first-connect/ Hackerrank Remote Hiring https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitology-to-launch-virtual-career-fairs/ HireClix Launches their own candi...

May 29, 20209 min

Track Worker Sentiment with Poach.ai

Poach.ai is the newest venture by Serial Entrepreneur and fellow industry podcaster Joel Cheesman. The platform aims to track worker sentiment to help companies identify when it's the right time to recruit employees away from your competitor. I've known Joel, and Joel and I go way back. Have known each other for many years in the industry. I was on his show early this year, so now it's time for me to ask the questions. Learn more: http://poach.ai/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

May 25, 202020 min

In the News: Traitify, Workvivo, iCIMS, MHR, Stories Inc, Chief

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com iCIMS Makes Acquisition https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-acquires-opening-io-launches-new-ai-solution-for-building-transformative-workforces-at-scale/ MHR Announces new Remote Collaboration Platform https://hrtechfeed.com/mhr-international-introduces-a-new-era-of-remote-work-experience-with-u-s-launch-of-people-first-connect/ Employee Communication Platform Workvivo Raises $16m https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitology-to-launch-virtual-career-fairs/ Trai...

May 22, 20209 min

Remote.com CEO and co-founder Job van der Voort

Remote, an HR technology startup enabling simplified global employment, recently announced a Seed investment of $11M. The fundraising round was led by Two Sigma Ventures, with participation from several other investors. The financing will be used to expand Remote’s onboarding platform and extend coverage to forty new markets by the end of 2020, including Canada, Germany, the United States, and France. Remote handles payroll, benefits, compliance, and taxes all in one single solution across inter...

May 17, 202023 min

Headlines from Workstream, Paradox, Recruitology, Lever, PCrecruiter

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Workstream raises $10 million https://hrtechfeed.com/hourly-hiring-platform-workstream-lands-10-million-funding-round/ Paradox Land $40 million for chatbot tech https://hrtechfeed.com/paradox-raises-40m-in-new-funding/ Recruitology unveils virtual career fairs https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitology-to-launch-virtual-career-fairs/ Lever announces news features in spring release https://hrtechfeed.com/levers-spring-release-new-automation-workflows-ad...

May 14, 20209 min
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