Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

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 Acorns, the top saving and investing app helping more than 8.2 million Americans save and invest for the future, announced the launch of Acorns Job Finder. Acorns is connecting customers with new career opportunities, helping them earn more money, so that they can save and invest more, all from one app. Within a few taps, Acorns customers at every tier can find millions of full-time, part-time, and remote job opportunities, set job alerts, and explore custom career development content to support their financial wellness at no additional cost. By introducing Job Finder to its financial wellness system, Acorns is looking after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming and removing a main barrier to its customers achieving their money goals. Job Finder’s listings are powered by ZipRecruiter, the leading online employment marketplace, that connects 2.3 million businesses with job seekers. On average, ZipRecruiter features over 9 million active job postings. All of these opportunities will be accessible through Acorns Job Finder, from seasonal opportunities and side gigs to full-time employment. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-to-power-jobs-on-the-acorns-app/ Handshake, the number one site for early talent to find a job and get hired, announced an $80 million financing round led by GGV Capital with participation from EQT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Spark Capital and True Ventures, along with other investors. The infusion of capital will enable Handshake to serve an expanded universe of students across geographies and educational institutions, as well as building more solutions that revolutionize how employers attract and hire early talent to build a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. “Since its founding, Handshake has been laser focused on delivering on its vision to democratize job opportunity by connecting employers with job seeking students at institutions of higher education, and has built a network of 17 million job seekers, 1,000 institutions of higher learning and nearly 500,000 employers,” said Jeff Richards, Managing Partner of GGV. “We’re delighted to join forces with the Handshake team to help the company further expand its impact by delivering innovative, industry-leading recruitment solutions and expanding into new markets.” In addition to expanding its offerings in the United States, Handshake also announced that it has launched operations in the United Kingdom where it is working in partnership with higher education institutions such as the University of Cambridge, University of York and University of Liverpool. https://hrtechfeed.com/handshake-announces-80m-in-new-funding-for-college-recruiting/ EveryoneSocial, the leading SaaS company in the rapidly growing category of employee advocacy, today announced the closing of a $7.6 million Series A round of financing. The financing was led by Next Frontier Capital with additional participation from Crane Group and Epic Ventures. EveryoneSocial will be using this new funding to expand its team, further support its rapidly growing base of global clients, ship new product features and enhancements, and advance its lead within the employee advocacy category. With remote work as the new norm for tens of millions of professionals, keeping employees informed, engaged, and productive is a top challenge for all organizations and the reason why many of the world’s highest-performing companies rely on EveryoneSocial as a critical piece of their marketing, sales, comms, and HR tech stacks. “EveryoneSocial is the far and away leader in the employee advocacy space. The product is visionary and we couldn’t be more excited about the team and the tremendous value their product will continue to bring to global enterprises,” said Les Craig, Partner at Next Frontier Capital. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-advocacy-tool-raises-7-6-million/ Fountain, the enterprise high-volume hiring platform, today announced a new suite of features that attract and engage more applicants to make remote recruiting and hiring more effective. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of talent acquisition and Fountain is at the forefront. They have launched a new set of features including live and on-demand video interviews, a universal talent view, recruiting chatbot, branded career sites, advanced resume parsing and geolocation. Fountain’s new Universal Applicant View feature gives CHROs and talent acquisition teams a holistic view of all applicants across all job openings at a glance. Additionally, Fountain’s new advanced resume parsing and geolocation enhancements dramatically reduce time to hire and time to fill by saving recruiters countless hours of reviewing and comparing applications or managing applicants who applied to jobs not in their area. Another new feature, Career Sites, puts the candidate experience at the center of its architecture by helping companies enhance their application process through rich visuals and content that are an extension of their employer brand. It provides a seamless application experience for the candidate, and automatically posts new jobs as they are added within the Fountain core platform. To complement their career sites feature, Fountain has also added a recruiting chatbot that sits on a company’s career site or job directory, engaging online visitors and converting them to interested candidates. https://hrtechfeed.com/fountain-expands-high-volume-hiring-platform/ Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, today announced a significant expansion of Work.com to help companies get back to growth and thrive in the new normal. New products include an employee workspace and helpdesk to boost productivity, and communication apps that inform customers and employees about new policies and procedures to foster safer in-person experiences. New technology to increase engagement and productivity: Employee Workspace is a central digital hub for employees to access any of the tools and resources they need to work from anywhere, including productivity apps like Google Workspace, learning platforms like myTrailhead, payroll systems, and more. The workspace also provides personalized communications, embedded collaboration apps, and notifications to ensure employees can stay productive from anywhere. Employee Helpdesk allows employees to ask questions and get help quickly from wherever they are, whether they need IT support or have questions about HR policies and benefits. Einstein AI-powered chatbots provide employees access to knowledge articles and escalation paths, across any department. They also launched New communication apps for customers and employees: Queue Management helps brick-and-mortar businesses minimize physical lines by creating virtual queues to protect customers and manage onsite capacity. Customers can easily reserve their place in line from anywhere through the app and get updated on queue status via SMS to avoid waiting outside for lengthy periods of time. Broadcast Messaging allows businesses to proactively communicate updated hours of operation, changing appointment times, and health and safety reminders to customers and employees through their preferred channels such as text, WhatsApp, or Facebook Messenger.  Digital Trust Cards allow local store employees to quickly update websites and apps with safety protocols specific to that location, like social distancing guidelines and cleaning policies,... https://hrtechfeed.com/salesforce-expands-work-com-features/ ########## Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neil Shmuely runs talent acquisition for the Americas at Contino a tech consultancy based in New york with other offices across the globe. He’s also a listener of the show and we’ll get his take on how they use technology to hire talent. 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   Jobget Funding https://hrtechfeed.com/hourly-worker-app-jobget-lands-2-1-million-in-funding/   Findem funding https://hrtechfeed.com/findem-launches-from-stealth-with-people-intelligence-platform-raises-7-3-million/ Workday Talent Mobility https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-launches-talent-marketplace-for-internal-mobility/ Gartner Report https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201013005956/en/Gartner-Identifies-Dimensions-Define-New-Employer-Employee-Relationship Phenom Client https://hrtechfeed.com/major-health-system-converts-69-of-job-seekers-with-phenom/ ########## Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Looking for tools and sites to make your hiring more diverse? This is the episode for you. African Americans: BlackJobs.com, Black Tech Pipeline, BlackTechJobs, HBCU 20x20, HBCU Career Center, HBCU Connect, Mathison Criminal Histories: 70MillionJobs, 70 MillionStaffing, HonestJobs.      Disabled Persons: AbilityJobs, GettingHired Diverse Professionals (general): Americas Job Exchange, Blendoor, Circa, Diversityjobs.com, DiversityInc, EmployDiversity, Entelo Diversity, eQuest, Hiretual, HRdiversifyd, Incluzion, Jobwriter, Joonko, Jopwell, Mathison, Professional Diversity Network, Seekout, Talvista, The Diversity Dashboard, Unbias Me, WorkplaceDiversity, TapRecruit, Textio. Latin/Hispanic: LatPro, Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE) LGBT: Include.io, LGBTconnect, OutProNet. Veterans: VetJobs, RecruitMilitary, Military.com        Native Americans: NativeAmericanJobs.com Women: CareerContessa, FairyGodBoss, InHerSight, International Association for Women, The MOM Project, Women For Hire, Hire Tech Ladies, Power to Fly, Women Who Code Sponsored by Adzuna and Emissary Download the ebook of diversity hiring tools here: https://www.rectechmedia.com/ebooks/diversity-hiring-tools-spreadsheet 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 Virtual Job Fair Technology Expo https://www.crowdcast.io/e/virtual-job-fair Broadbean Enters Programmatic Space Hirevue Acquires AllyO Hackerrank New Launch Remote Study https://hrlancers.com/blog/after-covid-19-remote-work-to-become-expected-benefit/ ########## Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. If you want to know about the latest and greatest  tools and tactics for finding talent online, this is your show.  ...This podcast is sponsored in part by Adzuna, the quality-obsessed job search engine that’s taking the market by storm. Adzuna wants to help America get back to work, by allowing businesses to zero in the right candidates. Cut your cost-per-application and engage with high quality candidates with Adzuna. Visit adzuna.com/hire to get started.  And by Emissary...the text recruiting software that will supercharge your recruiting efforts. Americans spend 55 minutes a day texting on average….. That time represents an enormous window of opportunity for recruiters to get the attention of candidates that are otherwise distracted and hard to reach. Head over to emissary.ai and book a demo today to learn how their text recruiting platform with help you connect with your candidates faster and more efficiently. Interview scheduling is one of the biggest pain points in recruiting today and causes a lot of headaches in the candidate experience. According to a survey by Cronofy and Jobadder,  64% of recruiters take 2 or more days to schedule one 26% take 4 or more days to schedule an interview 90% of recruiters make 2 or more phone calls or send 2 or more emails to schedule the interview   Cronofy is a new scheduling platform that aims to solve this problem and greatly reduce the time to schedule interviews. Joining me by phone is their CEO Adam Bird. TOPICS - Give us a history of Cronofy...when did you start the company and how did you get into the recruitment space? -What have you learned about scheduling interviews using software like cronofy...are there any best practices? - What makes the Cronofy Scheduler different from other products on the market? -Explain the product to us...I have started using it and it reminds of a better version of Calendly... - What makes the Cronofy Scheduler tailored to recruitment? Are there any specific benefits? - Are there any features that are particularly suited to recruiting use cases? - you have a API can you talk about what types of recruiting software you are looking to integrate with? Have you seen an increase in usage because of covid 19? -free version of scheduler what do they get for that... - What are you working on at the moment - what's coming next? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines Phenom Acquires MyAlly https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-acquires-my-ally-a-i-talent-management-platform/ CareerBuilder Sells Textkernel https://hrtechfeed.com/careerbuilder-sells-off-textkernel/ Glassdoors D&I products https://hrtechfeed.com/glassdoor-launches-diversity-inclusion-products/ RecruitHub Launch https://hrtechfeed.com/new-launch-video-interview-platform-recruithub/ Jobsync and Workhere https://hrtechfeed.com/jobsync-partners-with-workhere/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As President of Eightfold.ai, Kamal Ahluwalia brings extensive experience in creating software categories, scaling businesses and ensuring that customer and partner success drive business success. He’s an active advocate for diversity in the workplace and leverages artificial intelligence to help companies retain top performers, upskill & reskill their workforce, recruit top talent efficiently, and reach diversity goals.  He is also the Co-Author of the book “What’s Next for You – The Eightfold Path To Transforming The Way We Hire And Manage Talent”. TOPICS What have the last 6 months been like for you at the team at Eightfold? Tell me a bit about your background. How did you get to where you are today as President of Eightfold.ai? What is Eightfold.ai and how does it work? How is Eightfold’s platform using AI to recognize and address bias in hiring? Tell me about the process of hiring for potential and why it’s so essential in order to increase diversity across the board? Tell me how Eightfold also automates parts of recruiting to help save recruiters time Whats the future of AI in recruiting...in 5 years…         Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Bryq Gets Funding https://hrtechfeed.com/bias-free-hiring-platform-bryq-raises-e1-2-million-in-seed-financing/ RiseSmart Launches Talent Directories https://hrtechfeed.com/randstad-risesmart-launches-talent-directories/ Recruiter.com Sourcing Tool https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiter-com-announces-new-artificial-sourcing-platform/ Hirevue and Microsoft https://hrtechfeed.com/hirevue-launches-hirevue-interviews-for-microsoft-teams/ Outmatch acquisition https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-acquires-recruitment-automation-platform-launchpad/ ########## Dont just reject candidates, Rejobify them. The Rejobify rejection email service will help those you cant hire. Give back to the candidates who take the time to apply with your company….book a demo today at rejobify.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Modern Hire is a virtual interviewing platform that covers the entire hiring process, from scientifically validated pre-hire assessments and virtual job simulations, all the way to providing live video interviewing technology and on-demand video, text, or phone interview solutions. Joining me to talk about the platform and whats happening in the industry is their CMO Jay Miller. TOPICS 2020 has been a challenging year for HR tech companies from a marketing perspective how have you changed the way you market how is remote work going for you and your team ?   You merged with Shaker last year and rebranded, were you part of that rebrand strategy...I’m curious if you could give us a peek inside that process?   What is the current state of video interviewing...who's using it how often?   Best practices to share for HR teams implementing a tool like this?   Describe how the MH platform works from a candidate experience and the recruiter experience? Are you doubling down on video adoption with the purchase of Sonru?    Where is video interviewing in 5 years How big of a footprint does it have now in corporate America (as far as a dedicated platform)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices