Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

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 f...

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...

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 jo...

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...

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

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 unlikel...

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

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

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. H...

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. ...

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

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 alre...

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. Le...

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 pr...

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

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...

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/c...

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...

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...

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 Pl...

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 Fra...

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...

Chris Russell gives you some tips for how to hold virtual hiring events and you'll hear from Eightfold as they describe how their platform works to hold an online career fair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com TechStars to start workforce accelerator in Denver https://hrtechfeed.com/techstars-to-create-workforce-startup-accelerator/ Emtrain Raises 8 million for workplace culture https://hrtechfeed.com/emtrain-raises-8m-for-workplace-culture-platform/ Appcast Launches Next Generation Programmatic Job Ad Exchange https://hrtechfeed.com/appcast-launches-ne...

In this episode Chris Russell shares his thoughts on why the rejection process for applicants is broken and how to fix it.  Why You Should Care About Rejection 5 tactics to implement Companies doing it right Rejobify (better way to reject) https://www.rejobify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices