Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

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

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...

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 succes...

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 p...

Recorded from Jobsync's recent zoom roundtable, this audio features an industry wide discussion about candidate and worker engagement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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...

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

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...

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

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 smal...

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

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...

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...

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/  Workda...

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

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 co...

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 worke...

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 too...

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...

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 discov...

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

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/stri...

Special episode today ...we have 2 guests for you Gina Alioto is the VP of Brand and Experience with Symphony Talent and Sherri Ratliff is a director of TA at T-mobile...both are here to walk us through their recent presentation from the HR technology conference…around the topic of HR technology adoption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

interviewIA — an interview platform that empowers interviewers to quickly build and deliver more effective interviews and more efficient hiring decisions — has launched its new free and paid team subscription model to put better interviewing in everyone’s hands. https://hrtechfeed.com/interviewia-launches-freemium-interview-software/  Hunt Club, a tech-enabled talent and recruitment company placin...

In this audio you'll hear from Doug Leonard of Clovers.ai, Eric Smith from TalentCare and Gal Amog from Talenya. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices