Chris Russell

Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

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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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Chris Russell

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www.rectechmedia.com

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

Veronika Henderson on How to Be a One Person Recruiting Team (via RecruitDC) 28.05.2018

Recorded at http://www.recruitdc.org/ How To Be An Effective, One Person Recruiting Team Veronika Henderson | Recruiter | American College of Radiology Let’s get down to the bottom of recruiting, the really exciting part that goes beyond just order taking and sourcing. My session would cover smart recruiting approach to data and communication. Learning Objectives: 1. Setting expectations with both...

RecruitDC with Ninh Tran and Chad Norman 28.05.2018

In the first of two recorded sessions from the recent RecruitDC event held in Falls Church, Virginia. http://www.recruitdc.org/ In this episode you'll hear a quick update from Ninh Tran on the Hiretual sourcing tool. Then get ready for Chad Norman's session called "Employer Brand IS Your Brand". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Susanna Frazier two-time SourceCon Hackathon Champ 21.05.2018

Susanna Frazier is an innovative Talent Acquisition Leader that’s “Fluent in Business, Talent, & Technology.” She’s an International Speaker, HR Tech Advisor, Founder of Sourcers Who Code… & the first ever two-time SourceCon Hackathon Champ! Susanna has an IT Staffing Recruitment foundation and focused experience in cutting-industries like digital media, entertainment, & technology. She’s carved o...

Social Media for Recruiting with Lindsay Parks 14.05.2018

Lindsay Parks is a Talent acquisition Social Media Specialist at a major insurance company in the Northeast. She is a Multi-faceted Employer Branding professional with a versatile background in the areas of Recruitment Marketing, Career Placement, Talent Acquisition, Client Relations and Marketing Support. She’s passionate about creating cohesive and lasting relationships while striving to connect...

Angie Verros from Vaia Talent 06.05.2018

Creating Compelling Candidate Communications to Double Your Candidate Email Response Rates With Angie Verros, Vaia Talent Have you ever wondered why candidates ignore your emails? Why you send out over 100 emails a day to potential candidates only to get responses like, “Not interested” or “Take me off your list.” And, that’s not including the 95 (or so) percent of recipients who delete without re...

Wonolo Gets $13 Million to Expand its On Demand Labor Marketplace 29.04.2018

Wonolo – which stands for Work. Now. Locally….has raised a Series B funding round of $13 million dollars which brings it total funding to $25 million. The company’s technology connects employers with vetted workers “within moments”. The new funding comes from Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. AJ Brustein is one of the co founders and he joins me on the phone from San Francisco. We chat about t...

Tangie Pettis Talks Recruiting 22.04.2018

As an award-winning and innovative thought leader in the talent-acquisition field, Tangie Pettis has spent over 19 years as a strategic recruitment business partner within some of the most well-known companies and organizations across the nation including Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Home Depot (RPO), DaVita, Charlotte Russe, Aeropostale, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She has a dynamic appro...

Recruiting Technology Panel Discussion 14.04.2018

Listen to audio from a panel of HR influencers and analysts such as William Tincupp, Tim Sackett, George LaRocque and Madeline Laurano. Recorded at the OPEN Conference in NYC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Hot Topic Revamped Their Onboarding Experience 08.04.2018

Hot Topic, has 425+ employees at their Corporate HQ in Los Angeles and with around 10,000 company-wide depending on the season. They recently initiated a new onboarding experience at their corp HQ with the intent to ramp-up speed and engagement, so that it could impact productivity and tenure. Johnny Sanchez is the Head of Recruiting at Hot Topic & BoxLunch, A retailer based in Los Angeles. QUESTI...

Thoughts on Recruitment Marketing 01.04.2018

This audio is from a recent panel at TA Tech Europe but I wanted to chat about recruitment marketing for a moment. At RecTech Media we enable companies to outsource much of these efforts from managing your job advertising to creating content for your career site and managing your social recruiting channels so you can get back to the business of ...recruiting. Right now I see too many employers try...

What I Learned at Sourcecon 25.03.2018

Shannon Pritchett is the editor of SourceCon. As a lifelong student in the recruitment industry, Shannon is passionate about improving it. She has a diverse background in training, sourcing, full desk recruiting, coaching, and journalism. Shannon got her start in the recruitment industry at Vanderbilt University and later worked as a Senior Recruiter for Internal Data Resources and Community Healt...

Conversations from TA Tech Europe 18.03.2018

3 conversations with HR tech vendors recorded at TA Tech Europe held in Dublin Ireland March 13-14. Gal Among form Talenya Shane Gray from Clinch Talent Peter White from Jobboard.io/Ziprecruiter Learn more at RecTechMedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Brown on How His Company Get 50% of Hires Through Referrals 11.03.2018

Michael Brown is the Vice President, of Talent at SHYFT Analytics based in Waltham Massachusetts, in today's show we'll find out how they generate 50% of their hires through employee referrals. TOPICS -What does SHYFT analytics do and what types of roles are you recruiting for? -How big is your recruiting team? -Your ATS is Lever, what was the previous ATS at SHYFT? -What was the switch like...how...

Urie Suhr - The Recruiter that Leverages A.I. 05.03.2018

Urie Suhr is the Director of Talent Acquisition for new york city based Collective (i), a tech company that modernizes the sales organizations of Fortune 500 clients through artificial intelligence and buyer insights. I saw her speak on a panel recently sponsored by Entelo and here's what we'll talk about today. -What types of roles are you recruiting for? -You are the only recruiter correct? Talk...

Jeanette Maister Reveals Student Recruitment Trends 25.02.2018

Jeanette Maister is Managing Director - Americas at New York based WCN whose talent acquisition suite helps to improve the hiring process.. .Jeanette lives and breathes campus recruiting having spent almost her entire career as a practitioner...She began her journey in campus recruitment at Lehman Brothers in regional and later global leadership campus roles, where she first used WCN. She went on...

Facebook News Feed Changes for Employers 17.02.2018

Facebook is changing their news feed again, lets find out what employers can do about that...next on the RecTech podcast. This is a preview of my live event taking place on February 22nd at 1pm EST on: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/what-employers-need-to/register On Thursday Feb 22 at 1pm EST time i will be launching a new live video training show for recruiters and employers called “Recruitment Mark...

Erin Stevens, Corporate Recruiter 12.02.2018

My name is Erin Stevens, Corporate Recruiter for Masterbrand Cabinets.... And I’m next on the RecTech podcast. https://twitter.com/ErinMStevens Special thanks to our sponsors: Lever.com/rectech and Hiretual.com TOPICS -How long have you been working remotely? -Tell us about master Brand hiring needs and the Types of roles you personally recruit for? -What’s your favorite tech tool that makes your...

How I Recruit with Tiffany Kuehl 05.02.2018

Tiffany Kuehl is Director of HR search for Versique, one of the largest talent acquisition firms in the midwest, specializing in both consulting and permanent placement. She spent 20 years in corporate HR before switching to the agency side about a year ago. According to her twitter account she is also a Twins fanatic, a blogger and watches the Xfiles. Connect with her on twitter: https://twitter....

Jeff Hyman Wants You to Recruit Rockstars 30.01.2018

My guest today says quote: “90% of business problems are actually recruiting problems in disguise. If you’re filling your company’s vacant positions with B-players, you’re playing with fire. Instead, hire Rockstars (the top 5% of candidates who have the desired competencies and DNA, at the budgeted compensation level) to build an organization with limitless potential. “ Jeff Hyman is is the Chief...

Restaurant Recruiting and HR with Steve Browne 22.01.2018

Steve Browe is Executive Director of HR for Cincinnati based Larosa’s a popular chain of Italian restaurants... Steve is also the author of "HR on Purpose!!" - a SHRM bestseller that gives a different view of how to practice HR and enjoy it. TOPICS How did you get so HR famous? 16,000 linkedin followers, 39,000 twitter followers. At Larosa’s how many locations and employees do you handle? Is recru...

Qualified.io Making Strides as a Software Developer Assessment Tool 16.01.2018

Nathan Doctor and Jake Hoffner are the co-founders of Qualified.io a software developer assessment tool. TOPICS * What are your clients saying about the challenge of tech recruiting in silicon valley? * What is Qualified and give us a brief history of the company… When launched? * What makes you different from the Hackerranks of the world? * Will this tech eventually be used in other skill sets? W...

Year End RecTech Recap 08.01.2018

George LaRocque, HCM analyst with HRWins…and Martin Burns from the recruitment advertising firm HireClix...join Chris Russell ...it’s time for our year-end-recap….next on the Rec Tech Podcast Happy new year everyone... it’s time once again for RECTECH….the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. I started this show la...

Aman Brar, CEO of the text recruiting tool, Canvas 18.12.2017

Today we’ll be talking about hot topics in text recruiting with the CEO of Canvas, based in Indianapolis. The company just launched in June 2017 and is gaining traction. Links: https://gocanvas.io/ and sponsor http://recruitingheadlines.com/ Topics include: -How did you get into the HR tech space, what’s your background? -Tell us briefly what your tool does and how it works? Im curious to hear -Wh...

Scott Sherman, Director, Talent Acquisition at Sodexo 11.12.2017

Scott Sherman is a Director of Talent Acquisition with Sodexo a food service and facilities management company. Topics discussed include: -Whats New in TA at Sodexo -Size of recruiting team, number of hires expected in 2018 -Sodexo has been a very proactive recruitment marketer, started blogging early, etc...Quesocial -Sodexo HR tech stack, can you tell us what you us...avature, icims, entelo, hir...

Graham Pionkowski - HR Tech Enthusiast 04.12.2017

My guest today is Graham Pionkowski, who's spent the last decade in the world of corporate recruiting, and helped a number of organizations up level their talent acquisition strategy, operations, and technologies. Most recently, he has served as the head of global talent acquisition at Bizarre Voice, a high tech company based in Austin, Texas. Over the last few years, he's been leading all things...

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