Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

Careerlink Holdings, Inc. [Careerlink.com], a provider of HR recruiting, staffing and retention software and services, announced it intends to allow new public investment in the company under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Regulation A+.  Careerlink.com has been a regional job board for 20 years and is under new ownership who is adding staffing and other employer services to the business model. https://hrtechfeed.com/careerlink-files-with-securities-and-exchange-commission-for-public-offering/ Austin, TX: gigaroo was founded in 2022 by CEO, Adir Oren, and CRO, Yair Almagor and was built to transform the service industry employment market by enabling employers to find and retain staff on an ongoing basis. In addition to giving Gen-Z jobseekers control over their schedules and wages, employers can benefit from loyal employees by changing their mindsets to be more open to flexible hours. https://hrtechfeed.com/service-industry-gig-app-launches-with-funding/ Freelance management platform Workgenius has announced the acquisition of Agency WorX, a staffing firm based in New York. https://hrtechfeed.com/workgenius-freelance-platform-acquires-us-based-staffing-agency/ HireBasis, a remote job site, has recently gone live after several months of development, and currently boasts over two thousand users from around the world, and hundreds of new jobseekers joining the site every week. The site also curates hundreds of remote jobs every month while also allowing employers to post jobs for free. https://hrtechfeed.com/hirebasis-launches-free-remote-job-site/ Recruitics, an award-winning, data-powered recruitment marketing firm, announced today that Adam Stafford has been named as its new Chief Executive Officer. Prior to his promotion, Stafford served as Chief Operating Officer of Recruitics. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitics-names-adam-stafford-as-chief-executive-officer/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The time where we look back on all the predictions and trends that were made for 2022, see if they held up, and contemplate what will be coming our way in 2023. This year was the continuation of the Great Resignation, hybrid work and changing office requirements, and a lot of big players in the space making drastic changes with layoffs and maybe a bit of Great Remorse. Brian Fink will be joining us for our annual look back and leap forward. Last year, Brian predicted that a lot of recruiters were going to start to understand what a bad candidate experience really felt like - and wow, was he ever right. And as we look at the rapidly changing landscape, are we in for recession, are there clear skies ahead? How do we have massive layoffs and yet a talent shortage all at the same time - how did we get here and is there a clear path into next year? How do you adjust your strategy to manage the uncertain landscape ahead? Does candidate experience matter anymore? Who are the winners and losers in this current market? How do you manage your recruiting teams through this market? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A list of all the HR tech funding news from 2022. https://hrtechfeed.com/venture-capital/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BEAMERY, announced it has closed a $50 million Series D funding round, taking the company to a valuation of over $1 billion – representing a 25% valuation uplift over their previous round in a challenging funding environment. https://hrtechfeed.com/beamery-raises-50-million-in-series-d-funding/ UPWORK the freelance marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent, released the results of “Freelance Forward: 2022,” the most comprehensive study of the U.S. independent workforce, which found that 60 million Americans performed freelance work in the past 12 months, representing 39% of the entire U.S. workforce. https://hrtechfeed.com/39-of-the-entire-u-s-workforce-is-freelancing/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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 experience platform, has acquired Vizir, an innovative no-code digital assistant technology (“predictive chatbots”) that human resources, and information technology, communications departments can use to automate mundane tasks and improve employee access to knowledge, resources, and third-party applications at lower costs.     https://hrtechfeed.com/lumapps-acquires-vizir/ Hunt Club , a recruiting startup that leverages the power of relationships and technology to help companies find top talent, announces their $40 million Series B round co-led by WestCap and Sator Grove.  https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiting-startup-hunt-club-raises-40-million/ Fountain, the applicant tracking system (ATS) for high-volume hiring, recently announced new recruiter tools that support seamless scheduling and interviewing. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-fountain-healthgigjobs/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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, hire, and pay remote workers around the globe. Distro makes it easy to scale your team in today’s uncertain labor market. Creating an alternative to hiring software development services companies, customers can find and hire people on their own. https://hrtechfeed.com/pay-per-hire-tech-job-marketplace-launches/ Job.com, the AI-enabled technology recruitment platform, has secured an undisclosed investment from two New York and California-based financial institutions, Serengeti Asset Management and Ghost Tree Partners. The investment will accelerate the delivery and development of Job.com’s technology and fund further acquisitions in the recruitment and staffing sector. https://hrtechfeed.com/job-com-secures-ip-backed-growth-financing/ Workday, Inc. a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced that its Board of Directors approved a new share repurchase program with authorization to purchase up to $500 million of shares of its Class A common stock. The stock WDAY is currently trading around $166 https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-announces-share-repurchase-program-financial-results/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 candidates. Think of it as the General Contractor coordinating all your trades when building your recruitment house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 provides a library of tech job templates and smart data tools to optimize postings for skills, qualifications and inclusivity oriented to the U.S. labor market. https://hrtechfeed.com/comptia-launches-tech-job-posting-optimizer-to-help-employers-hire-better/ NEW YORK — Fearless+ today announced $1MM raised for their pre-seed funding round. Fearless+ reimagines career development for Gens Z and Alpha with college and career opportunities, elite mentors, and workshops to learn real-world skills outside the classroom.  https://hrtechfeed.com/career-prep-platform-raises-1m-in-pre-seed-round/ iCIMS‘ has added some new features to its platform incuding: A new framework for creating, distributing and collecting job applications. A powerful, 360-degree view of candidates and jobs. Greenhouse, the hiring software company, today announced Greenhouse Goals, a new feature that gives recruiters and hiring teams a structured way to set, track and measure against hiring goals. Available to all Greenhouse customers, Goals enables talent acquisition (TA) teams to set goals at an individual or company-wide level, offering greater transparency into their performance and visibility into areas of improvement. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hr-tech-from-icims-greenhouse/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices