Recapping 2022 HR Tech Acquisitions
A look back at the acquisitions from the HR tech industry. https://hrtechfeed.com/acquisitions/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 12, 2022•9 min
Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast
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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Freelancing and Referrals
AllWork , the end-to-end platform that helps companies more efficiently and compliantly onboard, manage and pay their freelancer and contingent workforces, today announced the completion of a $4.9 million Series A funding round. AllWork will use the funds to expand its software, payment services and team to meet the increasing need by companies and freelancers for an easier way to work together. https://hrtechfeed.com/allwork-announces-4-9-million-series-a-funding-round/ LumApps , an employee ex...
Dec 09, 2022•5 min
New Candidate Experience Platform Coming in 2023
Greetr.io is a new candidate experice software that will be launching in 2023. I caught up with CEO Bill Fanning to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 05, 2022•22 min
Talroo, WDAY, Job.com
Talroo , the recruitment technology company announced the availability of its Publisher Optimization Platform (POP). The new feature empowers community news sites, career sites, blogs, and job sites with the ability to integrate machine learning driven job search services within site experiences, articles, content, job listings and job alerts. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-talroo-helios-consulting/ Distro releases an updated version of their web-based marketplace to help businesses find, hi...
Dec 01, 2022•4 min
Guest Appearance on the Disrupting Recruitment Podcast
Spot Cohost appearance: Chris Russell sat in this week for JAMES WHITELOCK to talk about Rec Tech In The News. Chris and I had the chance to talk about: - Indeed's switch to PPA - Recent mergers and acquisitions (including one from my backyard with CareerBeacon ) and new technology. - PivotCX.io as a fantastic platform for texting and candidate communications. - How @CandidateHub is the Candidate Experience Platform that will pull your RecTech together to create a single point of truth for your ...
Nov 28, 2022•22 min
Funding, Features and Tech Job Postings
Building on the success of its AI solution in delivering diversity and inclusion in hiring, Sapia.ai today announced a $17 million Series A raise led by Macquarie Capital and Woolworths Group’s W23 venture capital arm. https://hrtechfeed.com/asynchronous-chat-interview-tools-lands-17-million/ To help employers expand their pipelines and unlock the potential of overlooked or untapped talent CompTIA developed the Tech Job Posting Optimizer ( optimize.comptia.org ). This free web-based platform pro...
Nov 25, 2022•5 min
Connecting Compensation to Unbiased Job Requirements
We're talking all things job postings, salary, and removing bias. 🧐 How to drive your hiring managers toward better intake to remove bias from job posts 💰 How to align compensation with the requirements ✔️ How to define mandatory requirements, so you are not chasing a wish list 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 2 min
ModernHire, Apploi, Wellfound
After a decade building under the AngelList umbrella, AngelList Talent the startup job community is officially branching out on its own, under a new name. While you can still access angel.co until March 2023, check out wellfound.com to learn more about what’s ahead for the site. AngelList Venture will continue on as AngelList. https://angel.co/blog/angellist-talent-is-now-wellfound A pploi , the leading platform for healthcare hiring, announced it has acquired OnCall , a healthcare shift managem...
Nov 17, 2022•5 min
Helping Vets Get Hired Through Skills Matching
Finding a job after their military service affects nearly 200,000 veterans every year, and only one in four veterans have a job lined up after leaving the armed forces, according to the Pew Research Center. Navy veteran Robyn J. Grable knows this reality all too well which guided her to founding Veterans ASCEND , an AI-powered talent sourcing platform. The company’s Career AI Talent Equalizer (CATE) uses proprietary algorithms to translate a candidate’s experience into skills and then match thos...
Nov 13, 2022•19 min
WorkTorch, ZipRecruiter, RecruiterSpot
RecruiterSpot , a directory and marketing platform for recruitment agencies, staffers, and headhunters, opens its doors for agencies to list a featured profile at no cost for a limited period of time. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiterspot-launches-recruitment-directory-with-automated-job-listing-invites-agencies-to-list-for-free/ WICHITA, Kan. — WorkTorch , a fast-growing service industry career platform, announces a $2.2 million seed round, led by Tenzing Capital out of Wichita, Kansas. This fun...
Nov 10, 2022•4 min
Calendly Acquires Prelude
I spoke with Prelude CEO about the acquisition by Calendly and got a demo of their interview scheduling tool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 06, 2022•33 min
That was Qwick!
A company named Pod today announced the closure of a $2.5M funding round for its AtlasJobs HR-Tech SaaS platform. AtlasJobs, launched in Q2 2022, was developed alongside corporations who are focused on building sustainable talent pathways and serves as a white-label talent engagement and management platform. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2022/11/01/atlasjobs-gets-2-5m-seed-funding/ Last week iCIMS , the talent cloud company, announced the acquisition of SkillSurvey , a pioneer in skills verifi...
Nov 04, 2022•4 min
Getting to the Root of Your Employer Branding and Culture
This installment of our roundtable features Joel Lalgee , Lead Recruiter at Hirewell. Joel has amassed over 100,000 LinkedIn followers and has helped increase “foot“ traffic to his employer through his online presence. Joel has found that by staying true to who you are as an individual you can maintain a steady pace of online branding that not just reflects you as a person, but who you are as an employee, which resonates when you’re trying to recruit people. In this roundtable we cover: Finding ...
Oct 30, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Recruiting thru DailyPay
Jeanniey Walden is the Chief innovation and marketing officer for DailyPay, the financial solutions company and a recognized- leader in the on-demand pay industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 23, 2022•24 min
Indeed's New Pay Per Application Model
In 2023, employers using global jobs site Indeed will pay only when a candidate starts or submits an application, rather than when they click on a job ad, as is currently the case. The migration from a pay-per-click pricing plan to a pay-per-application model has already begun with smaller employers and is expected to be completely rolled out sometime next year. Employers will pay more for this upgraded experience, as the value of a legitimate candidate is higher than that of lots of unidentifie...
Oct 21, 2022•6 min
Top 5 HR Tech Conf Trends
The team at Pillar.hr an interview intelligence platform hosted me recently on a webinar to talk about this years HR tech trends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 16, 2022•57 min
Fundings and Acquisitions
Dandi Technologies , an analytics platform for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, emerged from stealth today. The company unveiled a first-of-its-kind DEI analytics solution used by people leaders to pinpoint equity gaps in the employee journey and implement data-driven solutions to workforce diversity challenges. They also announced $3.7M in seed funding. https://hrtechfeed.com/dei-analytics-platform-announces-seed-funding/ TaTiO, a future of work company that us...
Oct 14, 2022•6 min
Goodtime.io Product Update
I sat down with Goodtime.io CEO to find out whats new with the hiring and scheduling platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 10, 2022•7 min
Employee Referral Tool Gets Funding
ERIN, a leading employee referral platform, today announced the closing of a $5 million financing round led by Reformation Partners.“Growth over the last year has been incredible. ERIN is now the employee referral platform for over 1.5 million employees in 100 countries” said Mike Stafiej, CEO. “This round of funding will allow us to keep up with market demand, drive innovative new features, and continue to provide world-class support to our customers”. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-referral-p...
Oct 07, 2022•4 min
Brazen CEO
Ed Barrientos, CEO, Brazen Virtual hiring events, virtual career fairs, video interviewing, live webinars, live chat, recruiting chatbots, interactive networking events, and so much more. Brazen’s software is the perfect solution for companies, universities, associations, workforce development organizations, and more! Whats new at brazen with the product? Is there a particular feature that your clients love to use? How many virtual events do you host each week Youve exhibited at HR tech for many...
Oct 04, 2022•13 min
Phenom's Intelligent Talent Experience Platform
Jonathan Dale VP of Marketing Kumar Ananth, Exec Director Product Management Good to see you….whats new at Phenom since we met last year? New features: New AI-driven Experiences Provide Enterprises with Deeper Intelligence to Solve Hiring, Development and Retention Challenges ANY INTERESTING CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES RECENTLY THAT YOU WANT TO MENTION? Hows the hiring market from your standpoint you power hundreds of employers sites…how is their hiring pace? Are we going to have an IAMPHENOM conf ...
Oct 03, 2022•12 min
Calendly buys Prelude
Calendly , the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals, today announced the acquisition of Prelude , a fast-growing recruiting operations platform designed to build an efficient and delightful hiring process. https://hrtechfeed.com/calendly-acquires-prelude-to-modernize-the-recruitment-scheduling-experience/ Workstream , the mobile-first hiring and onboarding platform for the deskless workforce, today announced it has extended its Series B funding round with an addit...
Sep 30, 2022•4 min
Workhuman & Employee Experience
I sat down with Nate Barad, VP Product Marketing at the recent HR Technology Conference to hear about his new experience ad what Workhuman is up to. The employee experience seems to be one of the bigger trends this year talk about how WorkHuman helps to create a better experience for employees Can you walk me through the features of your product? Any anecdotal customer stories you've overheard recently about how they use the platform? Whats the one or 2 most used features of WorkHuman? Anything ...
Sep 28, 2022•13 min
HR Tech Coverage: Zoominfo
I sat down with the product team (Darrel Grissen & Lauren Hogan) from Zoominfo at the recent HR Technology Conference to hear about the new TalentOS data product they sell to recruiting teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 27, 2022•14 min
Making Your Own Success in Recruiting
Amy Miller, Owner of Recruiting in Yoga Pants and former recruiter at Google and Microsoft leads our next roundtable to share her process to sit in the driver’s seat to create recruiting opportunities. Amy knew that attracting candidates had to consist of more than just scouring LinkedIn and sending emails with witty subject lines. She took candidate attraction into her own hands and has created an online community of over 6k YouTube subscribers, 60k LinkedIn followers, and 12k Twitter followers...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Several New HR Tech Funding Announcements
The Muse, a values-based job search and career development platform used by 75 million people annually, is proud to announce $8 million in new investment led by MBM Capital, founded and run by managing partners Lauren Bonner and Arun Mittal. The investment is a result of The Muse’s progressive vision to bring together key players in the future-of-work arena. https://hrtechfeed.com/the-muse-gets-more-funding/ Knoetic , the #1 Chief People Officer (CPO) platform and “single source of truth” for pe...
Sep 22, 2022•6 min
Indeed's EVP Maggie Hulce
I sat down with Indeed EVP Maggie Hulce to find out what new at the job search giant. Recorded live from HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 21, 2022•15 min
HR Tech Pitchfest Finals
Spotlyfe led the way by winning the 2022 HR Tech conference pitchfest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 20, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Indeed Flex, Joonko and PI Funding
Joonko , the only automated sourcing platform focused solely on underrepresented candidates, today announced $25M in Series B funding led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from Target Global and existing investors Kapor Capital and Vertex Ventures Israel. https://hrtechfeed.com/diversity-recruiting-platform-raises-25-million/ The Predictive Index (PI) announced today a $30 million minority investment from JM Family Enterprises, Inc. (JMFE) to accelerate its mission...
Sep 16, 2022•6 min
Skyhive's New Job Description Generator
Skyhive.ai has a new job description generator tool. I talked with CEO Sean Hinton and product person Chris Toplack about how it works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 12, 2022•32 min
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