Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

Angelo Pancho oversees Recruiting Tech Innovation and International Strategic Talent Sourcing for Rockwell International and today we’ll talk about the technology he uses to hire talent. Describe your current role for the audience Do you have a fav sourcing story as a recruiter? Whats the pitch to come join Rockwell? benefits? What are the recruiting tech tools in place at Rockwell? (current ATS etc) Paid ads whats working best? Are you planning new ones? If so please describe…Altru Last tool you demoed? draup.com Diversity efforts at Rockwell?  Are you hiring on the talent team? How many contractors...do you foresee growing contract/freelance help? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recruiting Technology Headlines This week in Rec Tech: Phenom hits the mother load, Workshop gets funded, Talroo unifies its product suite, Dice adds features and Recruiter.com makes another acquisition. This episode is sponsored by HR Lancers, the freelance marketplace for recruiters and HR pros. Does your company need help with HR or recruiting? Post a project, or contractor role today for free and target ver 5,000 freelancers looking for work right now. HRlancers.com On to the news... Phenom, the world’s most widely used AI-powered talent experience platform, today announced a $100 million Series D round. B Capital Group led the round, among other investors….The capital will let Phenom remain focused on fulfilling its purpose — to help a billion people find the right job - the company is now valued at 1.3 billion and one of their investors was quoted saying they will go public in the near future. With new funding, Phenom continues to innovate its Talent Experience Management (TXM) platform for organizations adopting AI holistically in a post-COVID era. As a result, candidates find the right job faster; employees learn and evolve; recruiters discover best-fit talent with efficiency and scale; and managers make stronger data-driven decisions to build their future teams. “At Phenom, we’ve always been a purpose-driven company, and that will never change,” said Mahe Bayireddi, CEO and co-founder of Phenom. “Since the beginning, we have rooted our platform in intelligence versus simply adding AI as a single tool or feature. This makes our AI dramatically different, and helps us cultivate a healthy talent ecosystem. Jobs are the foundation of thriving societies around the world. They provide livelihoods and help people reach their full potential. As organizations respond to a seismic shift in how they approach and manage talent, Phenom is scaling with conviction, so everyone has the resources to succeed in times of both volatility and stability.” Congrats to the team at Phenom, they are one of only 15 companies in HR tech ever to receive a funding round of $100 million or more.   https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-raises-100-million-series-d/   Dice, launched its enhanced Candidate Profile to highlight technologists’ unique skills and career accomplishments, maximizing their visibility to top recruiters and employers. The redesigned tool joins recently released Recruiter Profiles and Instant Messaging to establish an interactive and dynamic career marketplace, activating Dice’s deep tech specialization to empower recruiters, hiring organizations and technologists to build meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships that lead to career placements. As part of the launch new features include; Recruiter Profile: provides recruiters the opportunity to build trust and credibility with technologists by showing what sets them apart in their personalized profile. Instant Messaging: enables real-time, transparent conversations between employers and technologists through the Dice platform, building immediate credibility and trust on both sides of the relationship.  https://hrtechfeed.com/whats-new-in-hr-tech-dice-suitisoft-kazoo/   Workshop, an employee communications platform for sharing and finding important internal data, has raised a $3.5 million seed round. The round included a group of prominent Midwest venture funds and angel investors, including Ludlow Ventures, M25, and Linseed Capital.    Workshop’s seed round is almost entirely composed of local and regional investors, which continues the co-founders’ vocal support of the Midwest as a hub for great technology and startup opportunities.   The startup plans to use the funds to build out a world-class team that can continue to build an amazing product, with a current focus on recruiting engineering talent.  Workshop also announced the official launch of their new employee communications platform, which includes a streamlined way to share important internal updates, as well as an option for an all-company hub.  Built to cut through the noise with relevant news and urgent updates, Workshop functions as a single source of truth for important internal information. For the communicator, it’s easy to create targeted, well-designed messages in minutes, and send them to a specific audience via email, text, or Slack. The startup also offers an all-company hub to centralize all of a company’s most important information. It offers common intranet features with a great user experience, including personalized updates, pinned resources, an employee directory, and global search.  For more information go to useworkshop.com. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-communications-platform-raises-3-5-million/ Recruiter.com acquired Upsider.ai, an artificial intelligence sourcing software that automates candidate identification and engagement for enabling employers to make the best hires. "Upsider.ai's AI-based scoring engine analyzes millions of data sources to identify qualified candidates faster, cutting through the inefficiencies of the often unpredictable and traditionally expensive recruiting process," CEO Evan Sohn commented. The acquisition was closed on Mar.26 through an asset purchase agreement and was paid mainly in restricted common stock. Upsider.ai's AI-based scoring engine and platform use machine learning and data science to help hiring teams quickly identify and engage the right talent. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3679569-recruitercom-acquires-artificial-intelligence-candidate-sourcing-tool-upsiderai Talroo, annouced the release of Talroo Ad Platform (TAP), an all-in-one platform agnostic solution that brings Talroo’s existing products together in a single talent attraction gateway.  Those solutions include profile-driven programmatic job advertising product Talroo Pro, hiring events advertising product Talroo Events, and recruitment marketing analytics product Talroo Insights. This unification enables clients to view and modify campaigns in real time, activate jobs, and turn jobs into hiring events on-demand. “Talroo Ad Platform is coming to market at a critical time for employers. We’re seeing unprecedented demand for workers right now, as the economy starts to reopen and there’s light at the end of the tunnel after such disruption to the job market. Talroo Ad Platform gives clients access to their job advertising campaigns instantly and enables them to turn those jobs into hiring events quickly and easily,” said Talroo CEO Thad Price. “We’re reducing friction so employers can attract candidates at scale and use whatever talent acquisition software or strategy they are currently leveraging to make hires.”   https://hrtechfeed.com/talroo-announces-release-of-talroo-ad-platform-to-unify-talent-attraction-product-suite/ Thats it for this week... for all  these stories vist hr tech feed dot com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Industry meeting with some industry peeps including the co-founder of Datapeople.io who just received $8 million in VC funds for its talent analytics platform. Sponsored by Brazen.com the virtual job fair platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rejobify is a service from RecTech Media, that was built to help employers add value to their rejection process….in a way that positively reinforces your company brand and gives candidates something useful to do besides deleting your rejection email. Let us help you improve the part of your candidate experience that everyone hates, the rejection email. Rejobify clients actually get thank you emails from those they reject. How many companies can say that? https://www.rejobify.com Mention this podcast and get 10% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Matt Lozar from Haley Marketing this session is all about hashtags for recruiting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Cronofy.com Meetup Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlduuuqTwjG9Ygo1L-lnJ5Er6qgMf0imuR Crosschq: https://hrtechfeed.com/crosschq-raises-13-million-for-its-human-intelligence-hiring/ Celential: https://hrtechfeed.com/virtual-recruiter-platform-celential-raises-9-5m/ Datapeople: https://hrtechfeed.com/datapeople-announces-8m-in-raised-capital-as-it-works-to-make-recruiting-more-equitable/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonathan Kidders is a Sourcer at Amazon with 10+ years of talent sourcing experience. In his spare time he writes extensively on recruiting and sourcing tools on his blog at WizardSourcer.com and today he’ll give us a rundown of the latest and great sourcing tools hitting the market. https://wizardsourcer.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is sponsored by Cronofy, the scheduling platform for business and HR professionals. Don’t let impersonal and lengthy interview scheduling stop you from acquiring top talent! https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology Headlines Fetcher, a full-service, recruiting automation platform, announced today that it has raised a $6.5M Series A investment led by G20 Ventures, with participation from KFund and existing investors Accomplice and Slow. This brings the total capital raised by Fetcher to $12M, allowing the company to double down on delivering qualified candidates faster than ever, along with providing better insights & resources to help companies create diverse candidate pipelines. In order to hire qualified, diverse talent recruiters and hiring managers often spend hours each day discovering, emailing, and nurturing prospective candidates. These monotonous, time consuming efforts often take away from time spent on the candidate experience, meaning the team has less time to engage, market, and connect with potential candidates, which could lead to fewer offers accepted or poor culture fits. Fetcher’s full-service, recruiting automation platform gives recruiters and hiring managers time back in the day. Rather than using a standard database model, Fetcher’s AI with ‘human in the loop’ sourcing model allows recruiters to spend less time in front of a computer searching for candidates and more time on the candidate experience, making real human connections, while Fetcher’s automated sourcing runs in the background. https://hrtechfeed.com/fetcher-raises-6-5-million-series-a/ Visage, a collaborative candidate sourcing platform, today announced it has raised a $7 million Series A investment led by First Analysis with participation from existing investors Urban Innovation, LLC and NewFund Capital. The investment brings the total amount raised since inception in 2016 to $10.7 million. The company plans to use the new funds to expand its AI and human-powered crowdsourcing system and to develop its new Platform solution that enables teams to increase productivity, automate candidate engagement, and integrate with existing applicant tracking systems. “We’ve reached a pivotal point in technological advancements where we no longer have to spend our time scouring the internet and sourcing candidate profiles for hours at a time,” said Joss Leufrancois, Co-Founder and CEO of Visage.” AtVisage, we intelligently train our systems to look for and find these profiles. Visage’s combination of AI and a global team of human sourcers enables recruiters to save time and money, increasing efficiency and leaving more time for the human side of recruiting.” https://hrtechfeed.com/visage-raises-7m-series-a-to-streamline-candidate-sourcing-for-enterprises/   Job site ZipRecruiter has added new matching technology to help job seekers discover jobs that they are qualified for. Under the new algorithm they get  feedback about how strong a match they are for every job. The guidance is generated using artificial intelligence algorithms trained on data from billions of employer and job seeker interactions in the ZipRecruiter marketplace. How It Works For each job, ZipRecruiter now shows job seekers a match score—either Great Match, Good Match, Fair Match, or Not a Match—which provides insight into how likely they are to be received favorably by a hiring manager for that particular job. It also provides recommendations on ways job seekers can improve their odds of success, such as by updating their profiles or resumes with more relevant qualifications. On the ZipRecruiter mobile app, the feature reduced job seeker’s applications to jobs for which they were not a match by 47%, on average, while raising applications to jobs for which they were a great match by 26% and for which they were a good match by 14%. That led to better matching and higher satisfaction for both employers and job seekers. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-boosts-matching-tech-for-job-seekers/    ResumeSieve™ announced the launch of its innovative candidate evaluation platform, The Sieve™.  In addition, the company is offering extended benefits for early adopters of the tool. “Small businesses need access to affordable, easy-to-use recruiting tools,” said Dr. Mohan Kakar, creator and founder of ResumeSieve™. “We created The Sieve™ to reduce the time spent evaluating resumes.  It was our observation that fatigue, bias and errors during the evaluation process were adversely impacting the ability for organizations to recruit the right talent. We decided to use AI based automation for evaluating resumes and providing quick insights to recruiters that would otherwise take them a significant amount of time and effort.”   “Our approach is to present easy-to-use, cost effect tools to the SMB market around the world,” said Michael Yinger, CEO of The Sieve™ who has spent 20 years driving improvements for the recruitment industry. “Starting with The Sieve™ we plan to provide ongoing innovative talent evaluation solutions that are not available in the Small and Medium Business (SMB) space.” Users of the application estimate that The Sieve™ increases recruiter productivity by up to 70%, improves speed to hire by 35% and reduces hiring costs by 30%.  https://hrtechfeed.com/resumesieve-launches-its-ai-based-candidate-evaluation-platform-founders-benefits-for-early-adopters/   iHire has announced plans to acquire WorkInSports, a leading employment hub of the sports industry. WorkInSports will join iHire’s family of talent brands, becoming the 57th industry-focused community on iHire’s recruitment platform. Both companies have signed a binding letter of intent and expect the transaction to be completed in the coming weeks. “For more than two decades, iHire and WorkInSports have formed a strong relationship as two key players in the industry-specific talent acquisition market,” Steve Flook, President and CEO, iHire. “We are thrilled to finally announce our plans to merge and will soon officially welcome WorkInSports to our family of talent communities.” Steve Flook, iHire CEO Post-acquisition, WorkInSports will be fully integrated with iHire’s platform, allowing job seekers in the sports industry to take advantage of iHire’s advanced job matching technology, career resources, resume writing tools, and more. https://hrtechfeed.com/ihire-plans-to-acquire-sports-job-board/   Poach, the recruitment intelligence software that tracks employee sentiment and corporate news online, today announced a product update. The previous version of the solution allowed users to monitor one company, with limited data, at no charge. Current and new users can still track one company for free, but users can now upgrade and follow up to 25 competitors from one account. Additional updates announced include: Twice as many employee reviews from around the web Access to up to 90 days of sentiment data Daily email alerts Notable content that highlights the important data in Poach’s A.I. engine, such as layoffs Keyword context that underscores the most crucial keyphrases in Poach’s database Early bird pricing as low as $3.16 per-month, per company tracked “Users want access to more and more data,” said Poach founder Joel Cheesman. “That’s why we’ve been working overtime on this latest version to add exponentially more information to our engine so recruiters can better monitor the competition https://hrtechfeed.com/poach-ai-releases-update-early-bird-pricing/ Learn more about your ad choices. 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My guest today wants to talk about job descriptions, specifically 5 things that are going extinct on them...Rob Kelly is the founder and CEO of OnGig a tool that helps employers create better job postings. Why are you so obsessed about job descriptions? Quick description of OnGig? Before we look at the future (and things that might go extinct in job descriptions), what's changed in the last 5 to 10 years in JDs? So you and I were chatting about how with all the changes going on, the future job description might look different. Whats #5 on your list? Whats the best job description youve ever seen? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to what one talent acquisition pro did by personally rejecting 272 applicants over the course of 3 hours. An HR hero was born. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices