Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Hourly is a new recruiting platform for hourly workers https://hrtechfeed.com/alexander-mann-solutions-unveils-new-hourly-worker-recruiting-solution/ Glassdoor creates Cov-19 related job searches https://hrtechfeed.com/glassdoor-launches-new-covid-19-related-job-search-tools/ Oyster Gets Millions for its distributed recruiting platform https://hrtechfeed.com/oyster-an-international-hiring-startup-raises-4-2-million/ Remote.com gets $11 million for its remote recruiting platform https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-raises-an-11m-to-help-companies-to-hire-and-onboard-talent-anywhere-in-the-world/ RoiKoi Gets Acquired https://hrtechfeed.com/talent-mapping-vendor-roikoi-acquired-by-terminal/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I recently spoke with Suzanne Lucas who has written the Evil HR lady blog online since 2006. In this show you’ll hear me interview her and field questions from the HR lancers community. http://www.evilhrlady.org/ Sponsored by Emissary.ai and HR Lancers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Rejobify.com Job listings decline: STAT OF THE DAY: Compared to April of last year, job postings in the US have dropped by almost 31%, according to Indeed data. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-job-advertisements-crater-during-second-half-of-march-142615914.html Next Step Secures $3.6 Million https://hrtechfeed.com/skills-training-platform-raises-3-6m-to-help-workers-transition-to-health-care-roles/ Loxo Announces Free Contact Info Feature for Sourcers https://hrtechfeed.com/loxo-announces-free-and-unlimited-personal-contact-information/ CareerBliss to go free for 2020 https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2020/04/16/careerbliss-moves-to-free-job-postings-for-all-of-2020/ Layoffers Launches https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2020/04/14/new-job-community-that-tracks-layoffs-launches/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s episode features the audio portion of a recent HR Lancers Live event where a number of freelancers crowd sourced their favorite software tools, apps and sites that help them do their job. Chris Russell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmrussell/ GoDaddy bookkeeping: An invoicing tool used for tracking income, expenses, invoicing, mileage ,Hourly time tracking – “very simple bookkeeping app”, “like it for its simplicity overall” Cost: $110/year Ripl: Marketing Tool that allows you to create branded videos and images in minutes, then instantly post to all your social media accounts at once. - “favorite tool out of all that I am sharing today”, “will make your social media a lot better looking.  Can build it into your brand” Cost: $10/month TinyScannerPro: A little scanner app that turns android device into a portable document scanner and scan everything as images or PDFs. “take a picture with your phone in the app, it creates a pdf and can email right from your phone” Cost: $5 one time fee Dlvr.it – Auto schedule and post blogs, photos, RSS, news and videos to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,  you can use this to push out content from multiple social media accounts- “pretty powerful, can do a lot of social media marketing” Cost: Free to $24.88/month Snagit – Screenshot, screencast tool Cost: $50 Stat counter – a simple but powerful real-time web analytics service that helps you track, analyze and understand your visitors so you can make good decisions to become more successful online. “simpler version of Google Analytics” Cost: Free to $9/month Javianna Nelson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/javiannanelson/ QuickBooks self-employed: Invoicing tool Canva: The design software that makes design simple, convenient, and reliable—create what you need.  Good tool for marketing. - “my business is an employer brand business…use it to engage employees of clients on Social Media” Cost: $120/year Hello Bonsai: Project Management  contracts, e-signing, & invoices – client profile, contracts and proposals, time tracking, makes forms and keeps forms. Cost: $16/month Alissa Penny: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alissa-penney/ Venngage: Infographic creator. “I use it to do a lot of infographics for my consultation, I do strategic analysis and data analysis so it helps me show really quick charts to a lot of my clients” Cost: $19/month Slack:  Client Communication for all projects, recommended for folks who are doing remote work. “If you are more into doing video based projects, I enjoy using Discord, more for the gaming industry” Cost: Free Hootsuite: Social Media Posting Management Cost: Free Tonja LaFrenz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonjalafrenz/ Feedly: A news aggregator application for various web browsers and mobile devices running iOS and Android – “find what you are looking for, a project you are working on, it gives you articles, then you can post the article out through Hootsuite” Cost: Free ATS/CRM: Big Biller through Top Echelon “can add your candidates, can add your companies, they do training all the time, their customer service is unreal”  Cost: $70/month Fivrr: $15 for email signature, logo $10 and slogan $40 – freelancer site Wisestamp: email signature generator  Orin Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davisoc/ GetPocket.com: previously known as Read It Later, is an application and web service for managing a reading list of articles and videos from the Internet Harvest- Time tracker: Simple time tracking, fast online invoicing, and powerful reporting software. Simplify employee timesheets and billing. ScannerPro: Allows you to scan paper documents into PDFs that look clean and professional. Expensify – for tracking expenses https://www.getcroissant.com/a/orin76 - coworking space $39 for 10 hours – “giving you hourly access to co-working spaces….need a place to sit down and work, don’t want to do a coffee shop” hours rollover and accumulate.  They are a global organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Workjam raises $50 Million Series C https://hrtechfeed.com/workjam-raises-50-million-series-c-to-meet-growing-demand-for-digital-workplace-solutions/ Drafted launches Layoff network https://hrtechfeed.com/drafted-launches-layoff-network/ Jobcase virtual Events https://hrtechfeed.com/jobcase-launches-virtual-hiring-events-to-connect-hourly-workers-impacted-by-covid-19/ Hirevue Eliminates App Based Interviews https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hirevue-solutions-remove-barriers-for-video-interviews/ Bluecrew Adds Telemedicine Benefits to Hourly Workers https://gigheadlines.com/bluecrew-offers-free-telemedicine-to-hourly-workers/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily Tanner and Kat Guseva from recruitics join Chris to reveal 3 ways employers can use Google for Recruitment Marketing: Adwords, Gmail Ads, Google for Jobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Rejobify.com   Paradox Launches Virtual Recruiting Event Platform https://hrtechfeed.com/mya-systems-secures-18-75m-series-c-funding/ HireRight Partners with Social Media Screening form https://hrtechfeed.com/engagedly-to-provide-remote-work-toolkit-for-free/ Eightfold Launches Virtual Recruiting Tool https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-offering-free-video-interviewing-platform/ Appcast Ad Grants https://hrtechfeed.com/dice-launches-sourcing-feature/ Free Jobs on Linkedin https://hrtechfeed.com/the-mom-project-acquires-workplace-analytics-tool/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lianne Vineberg is the Founder and Director of Talent & recruitment at Toronto based Talent in the 6ix, an HR and recruitment consulting firm that specializes in finding talent for startups. She passed on some words of wisdom about onboarding remote employees and she joined me from her home base in Toronto to discuss. Find her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vineberg/ Article she wrote: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vineberg_remote-onboarding-ugcPost-6645678416429408256-kPiT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A number of vendors including Gr8 People, Lever, PandoLogic, Bayard, and Engagedly are stepping up to offer free tools during the virus outbreak. See the list: https://hrtechfeed.com/tag/free/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A number of reports and studies regarding the freelance world, AKA the ‘gig economy’ have been published lately so I wanted to summarize the key statistics found in the data. 50%: of the workforce will be comprised of gig workers by 2028. Source: PYMNTS.com The 57 million Americans who freelanced this year represent 35% of the U.S. workforce and an increase of 4 million freelancers since 2014. SOURCE: Upwork 16 Million: number of Americans who consider themselves self-employed as of July 2019. Source: PYMNTS.com 1 in 6 enterprise workers are actually gig workers paid as either 1099-MISC (1099-M) workers or short-term W-2 employees working one to six months. Source: ADP 56 million people are now freelancing,... an increase of 3.7 million over the past 5 years. Source: Freelance Union The freelance workforce is overall very young, with nearly 70 percent of freelancers surveyed being under the age of 35, and 21 percent are under the age of 25. SOURCE: Payoneer The worldwide average hourly rate charged by freelancers is $21, higher than the $19 average rate reported in Payoneer’s 2018 survey and significantly higher than the average salaries in many of the countries surveyed. SOURCE: Payoneer Female freelancers earn on average 84 percent of men’s earnings across all fields. SOURCE: Payoneer 43%: The total proportion of the American workforce that’s expected to move to remote- and freelance-based employment as of 2020 as reported by Innovation Enterprise Ltd. The biggest users of contingent workers are organizations operations/production/services division (37%) and the IT departments (32%) SOURCE: EY According to a study conducted by Randstad USA, 60% of the population will be freelancing within the next 10 years. For the first time, as many freelancers said they view this way of working as a long-term career choice as they do a temporary way to make money. In addition, the share of those who freelance full time increased from 17% in 2014 to 28% this year. SOURCE: Upwork Skilled services are the most common type of freelance work, with 45% of freelancers providing skills such as programming, marketing, IT and business consulting. SOURCE: Upwork  Freelancers contribute nearly $1 trillion in freelancing income to the economy, or nearly 5% of U.S. GDP. SOURCE: Upwork Nearly two-thirds of HR professionals indicate the gig economy is impacting hiring and staffing practices. A majority (64%) are experiencing some sort of change because of gig economy trends. SOURCE: HR.com There are up to 15.5 million Americans – 10 percent of the total U.S. labor force – who use contingent or alternative work as their primary source of income. SOURCE: ICIMS It’s a freelance nation, and we’re just living it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices