Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

Trade Hounds, is the largest professional community built exclusively for the construction industry, they recently announced the launch of their Jobs platform, which connects contractors directly with the skilled tradespeople they’re seeking to hire. Trade Hounds has built a community of more than 175,000 tradespeople that are already using the platform to showcase their work, build professional profiles and expand their networks. Peter Maglathlin is the Co-Founder & CFO at Trade Hounds.  Give us a quick history of the company when did it start and why? This had to be a mobile app experience vs a website correct?. What can seekers do on the platform? You mentioned contractors.. What does the avg recruiter need to know about recruiting in the construction space? Pricing? Was the jobs platform the first piece of revenue? Critical mass point... You picked up about 3 million in funding back in June what was that moment like for you and your team? Has the Pandemic helped or hurt your business this year? Future plans?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode you'll hear the full list of recruitment technology acquisitions that happened in 2020. https://hrtechfeed.com/acquisitions/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Cronofy.com the interview scheduling tool. Stories from HRtechfeed.com This Week; GenerationHired launches interships portal Hiretual adds diversity features Hibob lands $70 million Recruiter.com to acquire OneWire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technology has become a ubiquitous part of our hiring landscape. It makes recruiting faster and easier. But at its heart recruitment is a human activity. How do we access the benefits of technology without losing human insight? We’ll discuss that and more with Charlie Atkinson, CEO and Founder of PeopleFactors, a pre-hire candidate assessment solution that helps companies identify and hire leaders, and has more than 35 years of experience in HR and business consulting.  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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines Im chris russell here are your top 5 rec tech headlines for the week of Dec 13th Talent Inc., a recruitment services and resume-writing company based in New York, has been sold. Sources told the AIM Group that BV Investment L.P., a Boston-based investment company that focuses on business services and information technology, bought the business for a nine-figure amount. Talent Inc. was founded in 2014 as a resume writing service, and has grown to offer related services. Its brands include Top Resume, Top CV, Top Interview and ResumeRabbit. It uses a network of freelance, contract and staff writers, including a team based in South Africa, to produce resumes and CVs for job-seekers. Appcast, a global leader in programmatic recruitment advertising technology and services, today announced the public launch of Appcast Premium, a comprehensive enterprise managed service for optimizing a company’s entire digital job advertising program. Appcast Premium combines Appcast’s innovative programmatic technology with its team of experts in recruitment advertising to provide complete coverage across all leading job sites, helping companies find qualified people quickly.  Appcast Premium programmatic technology ensures that job ads are placed with the sources most likely to deliver qualified candidates and helps to fill the recruitment pipelines for every open job. It provides full visibility into how job ads are performing with customized, in-depth reporting that provides actionable insights. Reporting is available both on-demand and via monthly performance reviews. Appcast’s technology seamlessly integrates with a company’s ATS to track each applicant through the recruitment process to the point of being hired. This ensures that recruitment advertising is constantly optimized to provide the best possible candidates at the best possible cost per hire. Appcast Premium also offers the benefits of a single vendor – customers receive one bill each month for all job advertising charges across hundreds to thousands of job sites. Employers pay only when a candidate submits an application. https://hrtechfeed.com/appcast-launches-appcast-premium-a-managed-service-for-buying-job-ads/ Turing.com, an automated platform that lets companies hire Silicon Valley caliber remote developers at the touch of a button, announced today a $32-million Series B funding round led by $3.3-billion fund WestBridge Capital. The round includes a number of high-profile investors, such as Foundation Capital, which led Turing’s seed round. Altair Capital, Mindset Ventures, Frontier Ventures, and Gaingels also participated in the Series B round, which was heavily oversubscribed.  Driven by the massive global shift to remote work, Turing taps into a global pool of developers to help companies hire in markets such as the San Francisco Bay Area, aka “Silicon Valley” and New York, where it is difficult and expensive to hire and retain top software engineers. Turing rigorously vets developers for a Silicon Valley bar. Turing has accomplished dramatic growth over the past year — growing by 17X in the last 14 months, from $700K to almost $12 Million. The company has 180,000 developers signed up on the platform and counts several high-profile Silicon Valley technology companies as customers. The global pandemic has forced companies to become remote-first and remote-friendly, which has opened up gigantic global talent pools to recruit from.   https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-work-platform-turing-com-announces-32-million-in-funding/ Phenom, the global leader in Talent Experience Management (TXM), today announced its acquisition of Endouble, an Amsterdam-based company known for enhancing the candidate experience across Europe. The deal expands Phenom’s regional presence and adds technical expertise — while strengthening customer onboarding and adoption of TXM. Endouble previously operated under RGF Staffing — a leading global HR service provider. With nearly 15 years of experience working with many high-profile brands, Endouble has made it their mission to take a data-driven approach to candidate attraction and recruitment strategy. “With our second acquisition in three months, we’re growing our presence and talent across Europe,” said Mahe Bayireddi, CEO and co-founder of Phenom. “We’re excited to begin working with Endouble’s customers, as they’ve already demonstrated a commitment to candidate experience that resonates with us. Introducing AI and automation to European HR teams will quickly help them increase productivity and unlock innovative experiences for recruiters, employees, and hiring managers.” https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-acquires-amsterdam-based-endouble/ iCIMS, the Talent Cloud company for recruiting, today announced the acquisition of mobile video platform, Altru Labs. This acquisition further expands iCIMS’ market innovation and leadership with interactive employee-generated content that changes career sites from static to dynamic sources of engagement and interactivity. Now, iCIMS customers can showcase their brand identities with employee-created videos that improve candidate conversion, engage internal talent, and increase hiring ROI. “I’m excited for our customers to see firsthand how Altru’s innovative storytelling technology can transform how they engage world-class talent with compelling, user-generated video content,” said Steve Lucas, CEO of iCIMS. “Together, we’re offering a robust solution that the market has never seen before during a time that it’s needed most. We’re leaning in on technology that is critical to HR transformation and modern talent acquisition, and are thrilled to deliver the next generation of digital talent engagement.” Altru is a mobile-first video platform that empowers employee-generated storytelling to enhance the candidate, employee, and recruitment marketing experience. Based in New York, Altru delivers a mobile-first platform that enables organizations like Target, PwC, Intuit, L’Oréal, and Box to create and nurture authentic relationships with their candidates by producing content driven by audience intent.  With the acquisition of Altru, iCIMS customers will have the ability to easily capture, edit, brand, approve, and distribute employee-generated video content to use on corporate websites and social media, as well as through email and text campaigns. Similarly, Altru’s customers – enterprise companies leading the world’s digital transformation – can seamlessly plug into the Talent Cloud to more effectively attract, engage, hire, and advance world-class talent. https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-acquires-altru-labs-employee-generated-video-storytelling-platform/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Metaview is a point solution that "uplevels the most outcome-defining part of your recruitment process: your interviews."  Joining me to talk about the product is their CEO Siadhal Magos TOPCS Describe the tool and its use case for our audience What's the user experience like for the recruiter...how do they put this in action? What can a company learn by implementing this technology? What are some of the data points that are tracked? Tell me a few success stories from your client base...what did they learn/change... Pricing...integrations...whats next? 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech   Recruiting Technology headlines   Im chris russell here are your rec tech headlines for the week of Dec 7th Jobiak announced the launch of its ‘All Jobs‘ AI-based Global Jobs Distribution Platform (GJDP), a one-stop source to 100% of all jobs in real-time.  Located at alljobs.ai, its a platform that provides access to every available online job, updated in real-time and with meta-search capabilities, making it easy to find relevant jobs. Free to seeker and employers, The AllJobs Job Board allows access to all jobs obtained directly from employer career sites in one place allows job seekers to find and apply directly on employer career sites without having to sign-up, pay, login, upload a resumé, etc.   “Our immediate goal is to fast track the reduction of unemployment by making it free, easy, and convenient to both job seekers and givers.  It is truly a unique free one-stop service where the job seeker can find jobs on the AllJobs platform and apply directly on the employer career site whilst employers don’t have to pay anything to have their jobs posted... said Mallik Penamatsa, Advisory Board member. Jobiak’s first product focused on unleashing the recruiting power of Google for Jobs for businesses who were struggling to get their jobs found on Google.  With the launch of the AllJobs platform, Jobiak adds another unique product to its portfolio. With its ability to provide access to any job and fully leverage the power of Google to drive 2-20x applicants to its partners, makes it an ideal technology partner for those looking to find unique ways to grow their recruitment business. https://hrtechfeed.com/jobiak-launches-own-job-search-engine/ Fountain, the enterprise high-volume recruiting platform, today announced the initial release of its mobile app, allowing recruiters and hiring managers to source, screen, and hire on the go. Available on both iOS and Android platforms, the app provides secure, flexible handling of applicants and job openings — making sure employers don’t miss a beat when it comes to hiring the best talent. The new mobile app puts all of an employer’s locations, applicants and interviews in one place. It helps employers move talent through the pipeline quickly, by keeping them engaged through in-app text or email, thus reducing time to fill. Running late for an interview? No problem, now easily communicating that is just a text away. Need to move an applicant to the next stage or boost your funnels? Easy peasy. The app puts basic hiring needs such as these, including posting to 80+ job boards in less than two minutes, at the fingertips of the recruiter or hiring manager. “The launch of our new mobile app allows us to continue our mission, providing opportunities to the global workforce by streamlining the experience for both the recruiter and the applicant. We know life gets busy and chaotic, and being able to perform simple hiring tasks on the go helps make it a little easier for our customers,” said CEO, Sean Behr. https://hrtechfeed.com/high-volume-ats-fountain-launches-new-mobile-app/ CodeSignal, a San Francisco based technical assessment platform dedicated to helping companies #GoBeyondResumes in tech recruiting, announced $25 million in Series B funding. This round, which brings CodeSignal’s total funding to $37.5 million, was led by Menlo Ventures  Founded in 2015 CodeSignal is disrupting the traditional recruiting market, helping recruiters and hiring managers conduct unbiased pre-employment screenings for technical roles more efficiently and at scale. The company’s Coding Score™ allows companies to quickly evaluate technical qualifications at the very top of the funnel, just like Credit Score for the lending industry and SAT scores for college admissions. Fueled by 3.5X year-over-year growth, and with millions of assessments conducted on the platforms by customers including Brex, Databricks, Instacart, Robinhood, UpWork and Zoom. CodeSignal will use this round of funding to continue the rapid expansion of its go-to-market team.  The new funding will also enable CodeSignal to partner with key players in the technical hiring industry to deliver a more holistic hiring solution.  CodeSignal’s Certified Coding Assessments provide an objective measure of a candidate’s qualifications, enabling recruiters to compare several scores and strengths at once before hiring decisions are made. The platform allows companies to set their own threshold for qualifications and customize assessments with comprehensive testing options for each team and job opening and safeguards against cheating. By standardizing the technical assessment process, CodeSignal is changing hiring culture and focusing on the applicant who can do the job and do it right. https://hrtechfeed.com/codesignal-closes-25m-series-b-to-make-hiring-less-biased-and-help-the-world-go-beyond-resumes/ SYDNEY and TEL AVIV, Israel, —myInterview, a smart video interview platform prioritizing personality in the hiring process, today announced a $5 million Seed round ...The funding will be used to expand the company’s sales, product, and R&D teams as it continues to grow in the US and UK markets and around the world. myInterview had previously raised $1.6 million in pre-seed funding, which included investment from former LinkedIn executive Cliff Rosenberg. Video interviews – conspicuously absent from the standard application process in this video age – enable companies to rethink how they find their most important resources: their employees. By highlighting candidates’ personalities, soft skills, and workplace compatibility with company culture – key features missing in one-dimensional resumes – myInterview enables character to feature more prominently in the application process. The platform streamlines recruitment for businesses and applicants alike by utilizing pre-recorded (asynchronous) video interviews that allow candidates and reviewers to fit the interview into their schedules. The demand for video interview tools has climbed sharply in the wake of remote working and social distancing norms, and helped fuel myInterview’s rapid growth, including a significant rise in new users on the platform and a 500% increase in Annual Recurring Revenue since 2019. myInterview is already being used by over 2,000 companies globally including Ocado, B&M, and P&O Ferries. myInterview has also worked with Facebook Career Connections and has a strategic partnership with reed.co.uk, the UK’s #1 job site. “The way companies recruit talent is outdated and doesn’t provide the necessary level of insight into applicants required by HR professionals,” said Benjamin Gillman, CEO and Co-founder of myInterview. “A video is worth a thousand resumes. By utilizing video interviews, we help businesses prioritize personality and cultural fit, optimizing the screening and selection process by ensuring that the applicants who are the best fit are moved to the head of the line. We use video in so many facets of our lives – recruiting and hiring are finally catching up.” https://hrtechfeed.com/video-interview-platform-myinterview-raises-5-million-seed-round/ Lastly another company out of San Fran got funding last week and I think it might be one of the strangest startups to get funded in our space. This one is called CODI... Codi thinks many people find working from home a challenge due to a shortage of space, roommates, partners, children, and lack of work/life separation. In response, Codi, the first company to offer daytime workspaces in private homes, announced today that it has expanded to New York, where the company is working with employers to arrange for safe, private working spaces in employees’ own neighborhoods, enabling them to walk to work and avoid long commutes.  Codi also announced that it has raised $7M in funding from several investors ...that includes a previously announced 2018 pre-seed round of $1.65M. Codi says they are sparking a walk-to-work movement by providing people with access to workspaces right in their neighborhoods. Companies can have dedicated Codi workspaces that exclusively serve their teams – allowing single employees or small groups to work together, locally but privately. To start, Codi is offering its service in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Northern NJ. Already, Codi has lined up 100+ hosts and hundreds of members, who have access to Codi via their employers.  I dont know about you but I’m not sure why need a platform to go work at somebody else’s house...maybe it just me. https://hrtechfeed.com/codi-raises-7-million-to-offer-daytime-workspaces-in-private-homes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brianna Foulds serves as the AVP, Talent Systems, Operations & Acquisition for Cornerstone OnDemand a familiar brand if you are in the industry.... She has more than 15 years of experience in technology, hospitality, engineering and manufacturing, and retail. At Cornerstone, Brianna leads a global team and supports the product team in the ideation and advancement of Cornerstone’s software. Prior to Cornerstone, Brianna served as the Head of Talent Acquisition for Oakley and worked in recruiting at California Pizza Kitchen. TOPICS What has life been like recruiting and hiring in 2020? Most challenging part of all this from a recruiting standpoint? What's it been like to recruit/manage virtually? How do you onboard virtually? What will be the lasting effect of all this virtual recruiting...any thoughts Walk us through your recruiting tech stack. What do you have in place? We use our own Cornerstone platform with recruiting system partners Paradox, LinkedIn, Hiretual and Mathison.io.  Have you seen an increase in job apps due to the pandemic or have things been fairly steady? How do you pitch people on coming to work for CSOD? What changes to tech or branding will you make next year? 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines FA Match, the wealth management industry’s only data-driven solution for financial advisor recruiting, today announced a $1M pre-seed funding round. The round includes investments from a variety of investors. FA Match is leading a new revolution of transparent, data-driven recruitment offerings for financial advisors and firms.  The platform’s proprietary Advisor MatchTM technology enables advisors and firms to connect with one another based on a series of match criteria – including AUM, transition needs/support, location, advisor experience, firm type, and more – and ranks those matches on a 1-3-star scale. Both parties are only alerted of the most viable matches, making the entire process more streamlined, action-oriented, and cost-effective. FA Match will allocate this latest round of funding to robust marketing efforts, enabling the firm to more broadly and effectively connect with people across the entire wealth management ecosystem – including wirehouses, banks, RIA’s, RIA-hybrids, and OSJ’s. In 2021, FA Match also plans to launch more advanced industry analytic features to help advisors and firms gain access to real-time trends in compensation, M&A movement, and more. https://hrtechfeed.com/financial-advisor-recruitment-platform-lands-1-million-in-pre-seed-funding/ Welcome, the HR software that helps organizations make and close offers to new candidates, announced the close of a $6 million seed round today, led by FirstMark Capital. Participating investors include Ludlow Ventures, Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg, and Keenan Rice and Ben Porterfield (which were existing investors), as well as a wide array of angels. Welcome is also launching a new product today called Total Rewards, which helps not just new candidates but also existing employees get a complete, easy-to-understand picture of their compensation, across salary, benefits, equity, etc. Welcome was founded in 2019 by Nick Gavronsky and Rick Pereira, with a mission to help organizations close offers on candidates by providing a much clearer picture of compensation, particularly around equity. Cofounder and CEO Nick Gavronsky explained that many candidates don’t truly understand the value of the equity they’re offered, or how it works. FULL STORY VIA TECHCRUNCH - welcome.ai London – Let’s Dive a platform for remote employee engagement and building team culture has today announced it has raised US$1.7 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital India’s Surge. The funding round also saw participation from Village Global and several angel investors1. Let’s Dive will use the funding to further build experiences on the platform to help remote teams tackle isolation, distribute the product to thousands of companies around the world and build a cross-border product team. The on-going global pandemic has upended traditional ways of working, forcing businesses all around the world to set themselves up remotely. Let’s Dive’s founders, who have been building solutions for remote teams for over five years, know from experience that isolation and the lack of team bonding are the biggest obstacles to successfully sustaining a remote work culture. Let’s Dive is a platform that eliminates isolation by bringing teams together and recreating a social space where participants can connect through a range of exciting activities. This creates deeper bonds amongst remote teams who lack the advantage of personal connections. Teams can play games like poker, pictionary, icebreakers, trivias, chess, card games and organise YouTube watch parties. Let’s Dive has already attracted over 100 teams from 28 countries to its platform. Currently, Let’s Dive is an invite-only experience. Companies can apply for access on www.letsdive.io. https://hrtechfeed.com/lets-dive-lands-us1-7-million-to-make-remote-working-more-human/ Talkpush, the leader in recruitment automation, wants to work with companies that see their talent pool as their greatest competitive asset. Vervoe, the leader in skills assessments, is on a mission to reinvent the recruiting experience to make it effective, fair and enjoyable. The two companies’ complementary services help employers expand their talent pool, and build a better, more universal, and validated recruitment process. The companies are delighted to announce a partnership, supported by an integration between the two platforms, that will benefit its joint customers to help them identify the most suitable candidates faster, and give candidates more real-time visibility into the hiring process. Talkpush users can now create workflows in which shortlisted candidates automatically receive a position-specific Vervoe assessment. With both platforms completely in sync, recruiters can now view candidates progress and assessment scores in real-time. How it works Candidates can apply through their preferred channel, be it Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or job boards on the company’s career site. Once they complete their pre-screening, they automatically receive the link to the position-specific Vervoe assessment. Once the assessment is complete, Vervoe automatically adds the score to the candidate profile inside Talkpush, so that recruiters can easily see it, share it and make the right decision. https://hrtechfeed.com/talkpush-partners-with-vervoe/ Greenhouse, the hiring software company, today released a new limited series podcast, “DE&I strategies that work.” This podcast explores the challenges business leaders face in accelerating diversity within their organizations. Hosted by Daniel Chait, Greenhouse CEO and Co-founder, the series features Talent Makers™ from influential companies like JPMorgan Chase, Hubspot and X, the moonshot factory. This new series in Greenhouse’s “Hiring for what’s next” podcast delivers advice from DE&I leaders and business executives on how to make companies more inclusive and diverse. Each episode delivers actionable ideas and commentary from highly respected voices in DE&I, and includes practical tips on creating more inclusive hiring practices with Ariel Lopez, Founder and CEO of Knac. Topics covered in the series include: DE&I as a catalyst for improving performance, productivity and innovation How to avoid common challenges when gathering and analyzing diversity hiring metrics What it means to be a fair chance employer The importance of data when designing an inclusive hiring process greenhouse.io/podcast.  https://www.hrpodcasters.com/greenhouse-launches-new-diversity-podcast-series/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former head of marketing and recruiting innovation for Allegis Global Solutions and founder of his own recruiting and marketing firm TalentNet Media, Craig Fisher has recently taken on the role of CEO of Knack.io, a Dallas-based personalized job board startup created “by engineers for engineers.” He took over the position earlier this month from Knack.io Co-founder and former CEO Leroy Ware, who is now taking on the role of chief technology officer at the company Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices