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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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Thad Price, CEO of Talroo

The CEO of Talroo stops by to talk about recruiting IS marketing and also gives us a peak into some cool new recruitment technology coming soon to their job advertising platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 27, 202227 min

WorkWhile, Social Screening and Employ Inc

Alcor, a cloud solutions company, announced the new release of their Applicant Tracking System, TalentRun. It is an automated, self-service enterprise applicant tracking system built on the ServiceNow® platform and helps organizations in achieving automated, centralized, and seamless management of their recruitment cycle. https://hrtechfeed.com/talentrun-is-a-new-applicant-tracking-system/ Kevala, a workforce management and engagement solution built specifically for healthcare, announced today t...

Feb 25, 20228 min

Training Recruiters & Hiring Managers

Recruiters and hiring managers are like snowflakes. No, we don’t mean sensitive or egotistical and thinking they need a trophy just for participating. Snowflakes in the fact that no two are exactly alike. No two recruiters have the same process and no two hiring managers build their teams with the same aspirations – but there are some base level requirements they should all at least TRY to abide by. Jo Weech is our next roundtable guest and we’re going full throttle on coaching, expectations, ho...

Feb 21, 202246 min

Alongside, Mindscope, Qualifi, and Check

Staffing software company Mindscope has been acquired by the Univerus group of businesses. After several months as a Mindscope customer, Univerus identified copious synergies between the two organizations, making it clear that a valuable relationship could be established through acquisition. https://hrtechfeed.com/staffing-software-mindscope-acquired-by-univerus/ Alongside, an HR tech startup that helps create a more human connection between employers and job seekers, raised $8 Million CAD in gr...

Feb 18, 20226 min

So how's your job apply process?

Karl Wierzbicki the VP of Marketing for InFlight will stop by to discuss his company's recent findings around the state of the job apply flow, a critical component at the heart of the candidate experience. If you are a talent acquisition professional who needs more applies and wants to learn more about optimizing your job applications this is must see web TV! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Feb 14, 202242 min

Checkr, Enboarder & Woven

Leading off the show today is Enboarder , the People Activation Platform enabling companies to transform their people programs into simple, science-based, human-centric journeys, today announced it has raised $32 million in Series B funding, bringing its total investment to $50 million. https://hrtechfeed.com/enboarder-raises-32-million-in-to-expand-people-activation-platform/ Checkr, a leading technology company powering the future of work, announced today it has acquired ModoHR Technologies In...

Feb 11, 20224 min

Alison Kaizer, Head of Talent at Lunchbox

Alison Kaizer leads Talent at Lunchbox, one of the fastest growing foodtech start-ups in the industry. Lunchbox provides next-gen digital ordering software that helps restaurants drive better guest engagement and stronger sales. https://lunchbox.io/careers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 07, 202227 min

EZ Rebrand & Multiple HR Tech Acquisitions

Sourcing platform Hiretual is now HireEZ and they just received a new influx of $26 million in new funding. The company which is based inMountain view California held a relaunch party this week which I attended. The funding was led by Conductive Ventures , and the new rebrand reflects their new mission: to make outbound recruiting easy. https://hrtechfeed.com/hiretual-is-now-hireez-raises-26-million/ SmartRecruiters , the Hiring Success company, today announced the acquisition of Attrax, an indu...

Feb 04, 20226 min

Laskie's Candidate Matchmaking Platform

Laskie is a new matching platform that leverages human sourcers and tech to match talent in remote engineering, product, design, marketing, and sales roles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 01, 202234 min

Bearclaws and Birds

Crosschq , the reference chack platform has announced the launch of Crosschq Recruit, a sourcing tool built specifically to help companies source qualified talent directly from the professional networks of job applicants. https://hrtechfeed.com/crosschq-launches-sourcing-portal/ Otta a platform for matching jobs at tech companies with candidates by aggregating a lot of information about the company (founder bios, employee reviews, salaries, industry) with the roles offered. Angel investors backi...

Jan 28, 20226 min

Enboarder's Chief People Officer

In her new role at Enboarder, Laura Lee Gentry is responsible for leading their talent and culture functions, focusing on building and investing in employee experience, including learning & development, hiring and retention strategies, that will further accelerate the company’s rapid growth. She brings more than 20 years of operational and organizational experience and a history of building successful talent and culture programs to Enboarder. She previously served as chief people officer at ...

Jan 24, 202220 min

New Investment Fund for HR tech startups

HR technology veteran entrepreneurs Greg Moran and Ira Grossman announced the launch of Evergreen Mountain Founder’s Fund 1. The $20m fund will be focused on early stage investments made in companies addressing changes in the way we work globally https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-technology-veterans-launch-new-investment-fund-focused-on-future-of-work-technologies/ Lattice, the leading people management platform for businesses with people-first cultures, today announced a new valuation of $3 billion aft...

Jan 21, 20226 min

Canvas, Seekout, Vangst and More

Diversity Job Marketplace Canvas.com which rebranded itself last year from Jumpstart, was recently ordered to stop using the Canvas.com domain by a judge. Canvas is currently leasing the domain. This is according to a story by BleepingComputer. In the article, “Learning management platform Instructure claims the domain name Canvas.com and its logo contain elements that conflict with Instructure’s Canvas product and line of business.“ Canvas says they are appealing the ruling. https://hrtechfeed....

Jan 14, 20227 min

Tech Recruiting with Andela

Andela.com is a global marketplace of technical talent. CEO Jeremy Johnson stops by to tell us the origins of this recruitment platform that recently got $200 million in funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 10, 202219 min

Payfit, Snagajob, Talent Inc and Justworks

PayFit, a leading payroll and HR management solution for SMEs, today announced that it has raised €254M in a Series E funding round, a record-breaking amount for a French human resources (HR) startup. General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, led the round, with participation from existing investors Eurazeo, Bpifrance and Accel Ventures. Since its founding in 2015, PayFit has gained over 6,000 clients, and has raised €179M to date https://hrtechfeed.com/french-startup-payfit-raises-...

Jan 07, 20225 min

Dissecting the Facebook Jobs Shutdown

Facebook is shuttering its public jobs marketplace. Alex Murphy, CEO of Jobsync stops by to talk about what happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 06, 202233 min

TriNet and Paradox in the News

TriNet , a leading provider of human resources solutions for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zenefits . Details of the stock and cash transaction were not disclosed. Zenefits is a leading cloud HR platform which provides innovative and intuitive HR, benefits, payroll and employee engagement software purpose-built for small and medium-size businesses. Through the acquisition of Zenefits, TriNet diversifies its product ...

Dec 30, 20215 min

HR Pod Squad Recaps 2021

The crew wraps up the year in recruiting and HR tech. TOPICS What we'll remember about this year? Have we hit peak HR tech funding? What will hiring be like in 2022? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 14, 202152 min

GoodJob and Making Sense

Clovers a human resources technology firm leveraging interview intelligence to improve interviewing and hiring practices, today announced Zoom Video Communications, Inc. has invested in the firm via its $100 million Zoom Apps Fund. https://hrtechfeed.com/clovers-secures-investment-from-zoom-for-its-interview-platform/ HR technology company HiBob rolls out its Payroll Hub, a centralized dashboard on the Bob platform that automatically updates companies’ payroll data in real-time. Effectively mana...

Dec 10, 20215 min

MetaView, JobandTalent and More

Jobandtalent – a workforce marketplace that matches workers with temporary roles – announced it secured $500 million in equity investment from Kinnevik and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, closing out its Series E round. https://hrtechfeed.com/jobandtalent-lands-500m-to-expand-in-u-s/ Metaview the interview intelligence tool based in Londo has raised 6 million in new funding. This investment will “ help us accelerate in our mission to power People decisions with truth by enabling us to rapidly grow our p...

Dec 03, 20216 min

Workday, VideoMyJob and RNL

VideoMyJob CEO David Macciocca said on Linkedin this week that the Australian based video startup has raised $2 million in new funding. “With the new round of funding, we’ll accelerate our innovations that continue to make VideoMyJob the best video solution for Talent Acquisition, Employer Brand and Recruitment Marketing teams worldwide.” https://hrtechfeed.com/videomyjob-raises-2-million/ Workday, Inc. a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, has entered into a...

Nov 23, 20214 min

Leslie McIntyre-Tavella from Culpeo HR

Leslie McIntyre is one of my oldest friends int he HR industry, She has a new book about and a new HR consulting firm. https://culpeohr.com Buy her book: Framing Success: 20 Essential Lessons for Achieving Entrepreneurial Greatness... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C6KTJCH/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_Z7WNZ2YNK4FEB0YTJVCM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Nov 22, 202122 min

QuickHire, Crosschq, HiringSolved

Linkedin now lets users choose which type of job preferences they want to be found for. These include on-site, remote and hybrid. It’s a sign that job types have permanently changed. User can now edit these settings in their profile. https://hrtechfeed.com/linkedin-adds-remote-work-preferences/ After acquiring Harver back in May, digital hiring solutions provider Outmatch rebrands to Harver and continues to develop the world’s leading volume hiring solution for hourly and professional roles. The...

Nov 19, 20216 min

State of the Job apply

New research from InFlight Corp suggest employers still have too long of an apply process. Designing and executing a quantitative study of your company’s apply flow is a complicated undertaking. Many organizations have pieced together in-house and external systems to achieve their intended goals without considering the overall quality of the candidate experience. With so much competition for workers, organizations cannot afford to have systems that provide a candidate experience that undermines ...

Nov 15, 20217 min

Seasoned, Bullhorn and DHI Group

Seasoned announced that it has raised $18.7 million in Series A financing to help expand its hiring platform and restaurant worker network to new markets. The financing comes on the back of a $12 million seed round raised in June 2021, bringing its total raised to more than $30 million this year. In July 2020, Seasoned relaunched with a next-generation, mobile, app-based recruitment and hiring tool for restaurants that complements its employee networking platform. On the back of releasing this n...

Nov 12, 20215 min

Pillar CEO Mark Simpson

There’s a new HR tech player in town and its name is Pillar.hr….Pillar is all about the interview process and interviewer coaching which they say is key to providing better candidate experiences & increasing acceptance rates. Joining me on this episode is their CEO and Founder Mark Simpson. Pillar is offering a limited number of free trials to Rec Tech listeners. If your organization is interested, schedule a demo at pillar.hr/rectech . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

Nov 08, 202120 min

Fiverr, Fountain and Funding

Lever, a leading Talent Acquisition Suite, has completed a $50 millionSeries D funding round with the Apax Digital Fund. The funding comes as the market for talent acquisition is continuing to heat up, and companies face the most competitive market for hiring and retaining talent to date. The investment in Lever will accelerate solution development in talent analytics, top-of-funnel talent discovery, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as well as support growth in new markets, and continu...

Nov 05, 20217 min

HR Tech Pitchfest Finals

Onwards HR an employee termination platform for HR won this years pitchiest. Here is the audio from the final round of 6 startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 01, 202153 min

News from Stride, Hackerank, Upwork, Goodtime, Ladder

TWIRT this week in rec tech Stride Health, the leader in portable benefits for independent workers, announced that it has raised a $47 million Series C, bringing its total funding to $96M. The round was led by King River Capital with participation from Mastercard and Allstate along with existing investors Venrock, NEA, Fidelity’s F-Prime Capital, and Moderne Ventures. https://hrtechfeed.com/stride-raises-47m-to-provide-affordable-benefits-for-independent-workers/ Upwork has announced Virtual Tal...

Oct 29, 20217 min
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