Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

Special thanks to our sponsor Hiretual.com The big news of the week, ATS platform ICIMS acquires crm/career site provider Jibe https://recruitingheadlines.com/hrtech-acquisition-icims-buys-jibe/ Workhound Raises $1. 5 Million https://recruitingheadlines.com/workhound-secures-seed-round-of-funding/ Enboarder Raises $8 million https://recruitingheadlines.com/enboarder-raises-8-million-series-a-to-fuel-the-shift-to-experience-driven-employee-onboarding/ PredictiveHR gets $1million in Funding https://recruitingheadlines.com/predictivehr-raises-1-million-to-provide-workforce-analytics-to-human-resource-c-suite/ The Workies Awards https://recruitingheadlines.com/disrupthr-nyc-launches-awards-program-called-the-workies/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I met today’s guest while attending the Phenom People user conference in Philadelphia recently. She runs HR for Kansas based, Garmin International. You probably know Garmin as the company that produces activity trackers and sports watches, and GPS devices. In this interview we'll discuss her HR tech stack, recruiting channels and more. What have you been up to you since you got back from the conference? Can you describe your current hiring needs for 2019? How many open reqs, how many hires will be made in 2019? How big is your recruiting team? Which HR technologies are currently part of your HR tech stack? Taleo, oracle/fusion/kronos/learn.com/handshake/simplicity Any sourcing tools? What tech is on your radar? Sourcing stories? What’s your pitch to potential candidates about coming to work for Garmin? Fav Garmin device? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Hiretual.com BetterUp receives $103 million for its employee coaching app https://recruitingheadlines.com/betterup-raises-103-million-for-its-employee-coaching-tool/ PhenomPeople and ZapInfo Team Up https://recruitingheadlines.com/phenom-people-and-zapinfo-launch-integration-to-reduce-recruiter-sourcing-time/ Onboarding tool Workramp Gets $8 million https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/06/workramp-raises-8-million-to-simplify-employee-onboarding/ New AI recruitment tool is set to help recruiters save 80% time spent in initial interviews https://recruitingheadlines.com/new-ai-recruitment-tool-is-set-to-help-recruiters-save-80-time-spent-in-initial-interviews/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the recent CITRIX Synergy Conference in Atlanta I sat down with their Chief People Officer, Donna Kimmel. We spoke about the company’s new shift into the employee experience and a range of other topics from employer brand to the remote workforce. This episode sponsored by WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special thanks to our sponsor Hiretual.com THE NEWS   AllyO has raised $45 for their AI based recruiting platform https://recruitingheadlines.com/allyo-raises-45m-series-b-funding-in-largest-ai-recruiting-round-ever/ ZipRecruiter Adds New Matching Feature for Job Seekers https://recruitingheadlines.com/ziprecruiter-adds-new-job-matching-feature-for-seekers/ Rectxt launches affordable text recruiting platform to the SMB market https://recruitingheadlines.com/rectxt-launches-affordable-text-recruiting-platform-to-the-smb-market/ Walmart targeting High Schoolers https://www.hrmorning.com/news/walmart-college-tuition/ Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the recent Unleash Las Vegas conference I travelled the expo hall conducting interviews with some cool Recruiting Technology vendors. Today you will hear from: Bennet Sung of AllyO Patrick Rooney from Click Boarding Brad Windsor from SplashBI Vin from PocketRecruiter This podcast is sponsored by Emissary.ai and Workhere.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the recent Unleash Las Vegas conference I travelled the expo hall conducting interviews with some cool Recruiting Technology vendors. Today you will hear from: David Karandish of Jane.ai Prachi Gore from SmartRecruiters Joel Passen from Beamery Laurent from Wonderkind This podcast is sponsored by Emissary.ai and Workhere.com Follow me on twitter at https://twitter.com/chrisrussell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

more funding for Smartians, a new acquisition for Indeed and a CareerBuilder rumor in the news. Special thanks to our sponsor Hiretual.com Recruit Holdings Co., parent company of Indeed.com has announced that its HR Technology SBU (Strategic Business Unit) has signed an agreement to acquire Syft Online Limited (“Syft”) through Indeed Ireland Operations Limited. Syft is a leading recruiting platform for the hospitality, events and industrial industries in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2015, Syft’s proprietary technology provides a simple, effective recruitment solution and shift management tool for part-time and flexible work, connecting and matching qualified and vetted jobseekers with available shifts through its desktop and mobile app. Chris Hyams, CEO at Indeed, commented: “At Indeed our mission is to help people get jobs. Syft’s simple and transparent approach to shift work hiring is an innovative solution to the growing demand for part-time and flexible work. We look forward to supporting the Syft team as they continue to improve the hiring experience.”   So here’s my take: indeed wants in on one of the hottest segments of online hiring today. They are currently way behind an an already crowded field that includes players like Wonolo and Shiftgig. With Google encroaching on their turf and facing increased compeition from Linked and Facebook they are broadening their offerings. Will have to wait and see if they can make it successful. I am curious if they are bringing it to the usa https://recruitingheadlines.com/recruit-holdings-announces-acquisition-of-recruiting-platform-syft/ EW YORK, May 29, 2019 — Careerlist Inc., a recruiting technology company, today announced the completion of a $3.7 million round of seed funding. Launched one year ago, Careerlist is changing the recruiting industry by combining the world’s best recruiters with the greatest minds in technology to transform how companies access and hire the most remarkable talent. Careerlist corporate customers include WeWork, Yext, AB InBev and more than 100 others. Investors in this round of funding included BreakawayGrowth, Grid Ventures, Garage Capital and a number of notable individual investors. Funds raised in this round will be used to accelerate the attraction of recruiters, unique talent and employers as well as to advance technology investments. “Careerlist is building the infrastructure, data and tools that will power the next generation of recruitment and job search,” said Michael Scissons, Chairman and CEO of Careerlist. “This new funding is only the beginning of a massive expansion in technology that will attract the world’s best recruiters to amplify their businesses with us. Our mission is to open doors for the world’s most remarkable talent.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/new-york-based-careerlist-raises-3-7-million/   For Recruiters A better financial model through increased opportunity, efficiency and talent representation. For Talent An alternative to the traditional job search process allowing easy, confidential exposure to opportunities and self-marketing tools. DHI Group, Inc….announced today that Dice, the career site for technology professionals, has launched their latest innovation, Candidate Match™, a powerful tool that uses intelligent automation and machine learning to surface the most qualified candidates for tech jobs. “Our Candidate Match solution is tailor-made for tech, using our robust understanding of the technology marketplace and the needs of both professionals and recruiters,” said Art Zeile, President and CEO of DHI Group, Inc., parent company of Dice. “Our proprietary skills data model and taxonomy, Knowledge Graph™, uses sophisticated algorithms to uncover interrelationships among skills to provide the most relevant recommendations to employers hiring tech talent. It’s another step demonstrating Dice’s commitment to developing best-in-class matching algorithms to make recruiting top candidates easier.” Candidate Match… Goes beyond traditional keyword matching by looking at job and candidate data to provide the best match. Allows recruiters to sort applicants by match within five classification levels, while many competitive services offer only one or two levels of classification. Learns by leveraging the input and expertise of tech recruiters, HR professionals, tech professionals, and tech hiring managers to continuously improve the outcomes of its machine learning algorithm. Intelligent automation results in better matches and removes unconscious bias Candidate Match assigns a match level to each applicant, which helps recruiters quickly assess an applicant’s fit to a job posting, allowing recruiters to focus on engaging the most qualified candidates first. https://recruitingheadlines.com/dice-launches-new-candidate-matching-tool/ Recruiting platform SmartRecruiters, announced it has raised a $50M Series D round, led by repeat investor Insight Partners and joined by long-time investors Mayfield Fund and Rembrandt Venture Partners. The round follows a year marked by strong performance, including 100 percent year-over-year enterprise growth and the launch of SmartAssistant, the first native AI product ever offered within a talent acquisition product suite. SmartRecruiters will invest the funds into accelerating its product roadmap, including deepening the abilities of SmartAssistant through AI and machine learning; geographic expansion in Europe and Asia Pacific, to include hiring 100 people; and broadening the components of SmartRecruiters’ Hiring Success methodology, specifically process optimization, strategy and customer workshops. “Fortune 500 companies don’t have the luxury of letting critical positions go unfilled – they need to maintain their competitive advantage through effective sourcing of quality talent,” said Jerome Ternynck, CEO and Founder of SmartRecruiters. “With this funding in place, we see an accelerated product development trajectory, allowing us to build on our record of delivering what we call Hiring Success: better hires, better hiring velocity, better candidate quality, and enhanced candidate experience for enterprise customers.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/smartrecruiters-raises-50-million-in-new-funding/ Congrats to my friends at SmartReceuiters - i used to be a client of theirs back in 2015 and it’s great to see them doing so well Finally for whats its worth...Just heard Careerbuilder is coming out end of June with an entirely new platform. Contact info on Linkedin, facebook and google. Supply and Demand portal, job postings under $50, recruitment edge and other features. They are changing the focus from the old standard job board. Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elliott Garms is the co-founder and CEO of humanpredictions.io, a data science company whose recruiting software helps companies find tech talent and who recently received a 1 million dollar investment. Elliott has devoted his entire career to tech recruiting. He ran his own tech recruiting business for many years, led tech recruiting at Groupon, and co-founded Dev Bootcamp Chicago, which was acquired by Kaplan. Growing up in a family of recruiters, he started working in the industry when he was 16 years old. In his work, Elliott is guided by his firm belief that computers can never replace people in a human-centric business, but that they can help when used to solve the right problems. TOPICS   What was it like growing up in a family of recruiters? Congrats on the recent funding round tell the audience what you guys do at HumanPredictions? Quick history... says it has a database of more than 44 million profiles of tech workers around the world. Where did you get those 44 million tech profiles? Types of tech talent you focus on? Good tech talent is notoriously hard to contact and engage... Feature set...what can a recruiter do on your platform. There’s a lot of discussion about automation and recruiting.  How do you see this playing out in the next 5 years? Tell me a few success stories about clients that have successfully ;leveraged your platform? What’s the pricing structure? Any plans for exhibiting at some of the recruiting conferences this year? Special Thanks to Emissary.ai and Workhere.com Follow Chris Russell; @chrisrussell on Twitter or Linkedin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special thanks to Hiretual.com our sponsor. Shaker International, a leading provider of predictive talent intelligence and assessment solutions, has merged with Montage, the single solution to engage, interview and hire better candidates, faster. The companies are based in Cleveland and Wisconsin respectively. The new company will help its combined client base, which includes hundreds of leading global brands and 47 of the Fortune 100, transform talent acquisition by embedding predictive intelligence into automated hiring workflows that enable better candidate experiences and smarter hiring decisions for 100% of an organization’s hires. The company will be led by Kurt Heikkinen from Montage as CEO and Brian Stern from Shaker International as President, and a leadership team comprising of executives from both companies. All employees and offices of the two companies are being retained, and the combined company will be co-headquartered in Cleveland, OH and Delafield, WI. “Montage and Shaker International share a common vision and heritage for creating candidate-centric and outcome-driven solutions,” said Shakers Brian Stern. “By joining teams, we’re bringing together world-class expertise in SaaS, AI and predictive analytics to help clients transform talent acquisition operations to more effectively and efficiently meet the needs of their internal business stakeholders.” To learn more about the merger of Shaker International and Montage, please visit: shakermontagemerger.com. -- Bangalore based Instawork has secured $18 million in new funding from new investors, Spark Capital, GV, and Burst Capital, with participation from existing investors Benchmark, Y Combinator, Tuesday Capital, and SV Angel. The new funding will be used to accelerate expansion across the United States. The company is also announcing an expansion into Greater Phoenix. Instawork is now available to all Professionals and Partners across Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, and surrounding areas. Further, they are opening a second U.S. office in Scottsdale with plans to hire dozens of full time employees who will be based out of Scottsdale. The company helps connect hospitality workers to restaurants and hotels. https://recruitingheadlines.com/hospitality-job-market-app-instawork-secures-18-million-in-funding/ SALT LAKE CITY, — HireVue, provider of the most comprehensive AI-driven talent assessment suite and video interviewing solutions, today announced it has delivered more than ten million video interviews to date for our customers. This important milestone in HireVue’s growth comes just 18 months after the company recorded its five millionth interview as an increasing number of companies worldwide seek to hire a diverse pool of the best candidates and to do so objectively and efficiently. Today, HireVue’s more than 700 customers — including Hilton, AdventHealth, Unilever, Under Armour, Delta and JP Morgan Chase — interview approximately 1 million job candidates every 90 days in over 180 countries and in 32 languages. Nearly 40 percent of all HireVue interviews were conducted on mobile devices and nearly 80 percent were completed by candidates outside of regular business hours. “Great talent exists everywhere, but there are often significant barriers standing between potential candidates and employers,” said CEO kevin Parker. “On-demand video interviewing delivers a more dynamic view of the candidate and enables companies to significantly expand the number of candidates considered. This gives more skilled candidates a chance at being discovered and interviewed, as well.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/hirevue-surpasses-ten-million-video-interviews/ WESTON, Mass., May 21, 2019 — Monster, a leader in connecting people and jobs, announced the global launch of its latest innovative solution geared towards allowing candidates and recruiters to see each other more clearly so that they can make better matches—Monster Studios. Monster Studios is a native app that enables talent acquisition, recruitment and HR teams to record, edit and publish video job descriptions from their smartphone in minutes. The addition of video to job postings enables recruiters and hiring managers to powerfully convey the benefits of a job opening, the employer’s personality, and the work environment. For candidates, it provides valuable insight into the role, work environment and business culture. “Video job descriptions bring the workplace culture to life,” said Scott Gutz, Chief Executive Officer, Monster. “We know that candidates, especially on their mobile phones, don’t want to consume information by reading the large blocks of text that make up a traditional job description.  Video allows a company to create a more complete view into a job which drives better connections and fit throughout the process. Monster Studios is an important step in transforming the way both sides interact with each other. Creating more honest and transparent conversations and interactions between employers and candidates is critical to making every workplace happier and more productive.” Monster first announced Monster Studios in late 2018. In early 2019, 100 customers in the U.S. and more than 200 customers across Europe participated in a beta program. https://recruitingheadlines.com/monster-announces-global-launch-of-monster-studios/   INDIANAPOLIS—Today, DirectEmployers Association announced its newest professional development and eLearning platform, DE Academy. Recently revealed to Association members at its 2019 Annual Meeting & Conference (DEAM19) in Naples, Florida, DE Academy seeks to elevate professional development for human resources professionals with courses tailored to provide content and top-notch instruction with the flexibility desired by today’s busy practitioners. Courses are available for both Members of the Association and non-members, allowing for expanded eLearning opportunities for all. “DE Academy meets the learner where they are, on their time. We want to promote professional development that improves the learning experience and outcome for all, resulting in real ROI through instruction and application,” commented Jen Bernhardt, VP of Member Engagement. Currently lessons range from Affirmative Action Planning 101 to Disability Etiquette...For more information on DE Academy or to get started on a new learning path, visit https://directemployers.org/academy. Follow Recruiting Headlines on social media: @recheadlines on Twitter Facebook Linkedin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices