Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

  Psychologyjobs.com, a niche job site is seeking a new owner. Its been online for 10 years and serves mental health and behavioral health type careers. Would be a great buy for a staffing firm in this niches. Or another healthcare job business...For details visit jobboardsecrets.com and click on the For Sale category. SEATTLE, March 8, 2019 — Textio, the developer of the world’s first augmented writing platform, today announced a new partnership with the McDonald’s Corporation. Together with its Franchisees, McDonald’s receives upwards of 20 million applicants a year to support hiring nearly two million people, making them one of the most significant employers in the world. As McDonald’s is planning for their next stage of growth, they are investing in world class technologies that improve their hiring and recruiting processes at scale. Textio, a 2019 Finalist for the SxSW Innovation Awards, has been brought on board to enable McDonald’s to not only recruit and hire faster, but also to ensure they reach top-quality applicants in an inclusive manner. “At McDonald’s, our goal is to create feel good moments that ensure everyone feels welcome and included. That starts with the language we use when we reach out to you as a candidate,” said Joshua Secrest, Sr. Director of Global Talent Attraction. “Textio’s innovative augmented writing platform will give us the insights to know, in real time, whether the language we are using is attracting the most qualified and diverse candidates we can.” Textio is fueled by a massive data set of real-world hiring outcomes from hundreds of millions of job listings across industries and around the globe. Every month, this data set grows by 10 million new documents, with the latest hiring results attached to each one. The work with McDonald’s will further develop the platform’s capabilities in the hospitality and franchise industry. https://recruitingheadlines.com/mcdonalds-looks-to-innovate-recruiting-process-with-textio/ Fresh off the announcement by The Mom Project who recently raised $8 million in funding, New York City based FairyGodBoss has followed that up with a $10 Million round of their own. Funding was led by GSV Accelerate and Signal Peak Ventures. They have previously raised $3 million. The site is a self-described ‘social network for career-minded women’. It has job listings, career advice, employer profiles, and hosts a personalized daily feed in addition to a crowdsourced databases for companies’ benefits. According to the story in VentureBeat, site revenues come from writing sponsored content for clients and supplying them with competitor insights — and it has more than 3 million visitors each month. https://recruitingheadlines.com/female-focused-fairygodboss-raises-10-million/ LOS ANGELES—Cluster, the first U.S. marketplace matching Industry 4.0 skills and jobs, announced that it closed a $1.9 million seed round of financing. American industrial companies are being transformed by technology. More than 1.3 million manufacturing jobs have been added since the end of the recession. The resurgence of jobs has brought on a workforce crisis as companies struggle to fill roles. “Hiring experienced talent is the industrial sector’s most urgent priority amidst a tight labor market and a growing wave of retirements,” said CEO and Founder Kim Taylor. “We need to expand beyond the friction of resumes and job descriptions to a common language of skills.” Engineering talent is vetted to join the platform and employers pay on a subscription model to access mid-to-senior level talent looking for full-time jobs. Cluster only matches people to jobs for which they are qualified. https://recruitingheadlines.com/mark-cuban-invests-in-engineering-job-platform/ SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2019 — ZenSourcer, an all-in-one recruiting platform that provides a single source of truth for talent teams, today announces a $9M Series A funding round from Accel and the business’ rebrand to Gem. Gem is also launching a CRM (Candidate Relationship Management) platform, which helps companies track and nurture relationships with talent. “As hiring managers at Dropbox and Facebook, we connected with a lot of amazing candidates, but for many of them the timing wasn’t right,” said Steve Bartel, co-founder and CEO of Gem. “We didn’t want to give up on those conversations so we created lists of Gems and invested in long-term relationships with our ideal candidates.” “We built Gem to give recruiting professionals the candidate relationship management (CRM) tool they need to build relationships and nurture their talent pools at scale,” said Nick Bushak, co-founder and CTO of Gem. “For us it was a no brainer to deliver the marketing automation and relationship management power that sales and marketing teams have to recruiters.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/sourcing-tool-gets-9m-in-series-a-funding/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In February K1 Investment Management today announced a majority investment in Jobvite, the industry leader in best-of-breed recruiting software. K1 and Jobvite also announced three major acquisitions: Talemetry, the award-winning recruitment marketing company, RolePoint, the leader in employee referral and internal mobility, and Canvas, the industry’s only text-based conversational recruiting company. For the first time, this combination enables hiring teams to source, engage, hire, onboard, and retain top talent with one end-to-end platform – delivering a unified candidate experience. This unique set of investments, totaling more than $200 million, brings together Jobvite and three of the recruiting industry’s most innovative companies, resulting in more than 2,000 customers, including Fortune 500 enterprises such as Schneider Electric, Lenovo, Santander, PayPal, Genuine Parts, and Panasonic. This merger rapidly accelerates the companies’ product development roadmaps and the integration of their customer solutions. In addition, the combined companies will continue to meet existing client needs, including all system integrations as well as maintaining all operations globally. Matt Singer is their VP of Marketing and he joins Chris Russell to talk about the news and what lies ahead. TOPICS INCLUDE: What has life at Jobvite been like since the news? There appears to be an arms race in HRtech taking place...was the move made to keep pace? (ATS vendors making more acquisitions) All in one platform vs best of breed... What is the integration plan for integrating the new tech? (no small effort you are talking about taking 3 different HR tech platforms under one roof) Are more acquisitions possible? Missing a sourcing tool Challenges of marketing HR tech in today’s noisy world… What’s one tip you have for getting the most out of your Jobvite installation (for customers) Podcast sponsors: Workhere.com and Emissary.AI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Im chris russell, here are your fast five recruiting headlines for the week ending March 8th Its been another big week of venture capital in HRtech But first a quick reminder about the next RecTech Live webinars March 21st 1pm EST - understanding social media algorithms - get more engagement from what you post on social media April 4th - Video Enhanced job posting for global employers, sponsored by SpacrStart I’ll be joing by their founder to talk about why embedding video into your job descriptions is important. They target enterprise level employers. Register at rec tech live dot com or click https://www.crowdcast.io/rectechmedia First up in the news…. Paradox, the leading Assistive Intelligence platform for talent acquisition and talent experience, announced an aggressive business expansion plan for 2019 and beyond. They announced the continued expansion of the team with plans to double staffing again in 2019. The company’s hiring will focus primarily on product, sales and client success teams, including growing the company’s US footprint through opening the first two regional offices in Dallas and Chicago. “We’ve seen tremendous growth and client adoption these last two years,” stated Aaron Matos, Paradox Founder/CEO. “In 2018, we tripled our revenue, doubled our team, and tripled the number of clients that we serve. Our product portfolio has greatly broadened as we’ve partnered with our clients to better support their candidates throughout the hiring process and their career. We have a big vision for how we can transform recruitment and the talent experience with assistive intelligence. We’re still early on that journey.” The Paradox team also announced completion of their Series A funding totaling $13.34 million. Investors have not been disclosed, the company has been funded previously by its founder. https://recruitingheadlines.com/paradox-announces-office-expansion-new-series-a/ New York City based Wade & Wendy, an AI recruitment platform, just closed a $7.6m Series A funding. The round was led by Jazz Venture Partners, with help from current investors Randstad Innovation Fund, ff Venture Capital and Indicator Ventures. The company intends to use the funds for the continued product development. Founded in 2015 and led by Drew Austin, CEO, Wade & Wendy is a conversational AI recruiting company featuring: Wendy, an AI recruiter responsible for sourcing, screening, and recommending talent and automates repetitive, time-consuming hiring tasks, and Wade, an AI recruiter working on behalf of the talent, informing them of opportunities that are relevant based on their interests and experiences. The company recently entered into a multi-year contract with Randstad Sourceright, a global talent leader responsible for over 150,000 job placements annually, to drive the adoption of Wendy. https://recruitingheadlines.com/recruiter-chatbot-firm-wade-wendy-raises-7-6-million-in-new-funding/ NASHUA, N.H.– Claro Workforce Analytics, a platform of unique workforce insights that helps organizations improve employee engagement, reduce voluntary attrition, and discover diverse talent faster, today announces that it has raised $1.1 million in new funding led by Beta Bayview LLC, with participation from Kline Hill Partners and G-Bar Ventures. The proceeds from the financing will be used to accelerate product development and client expansion. In addition, Jim Feuille of Beta Bayview will join Claro’s Board of Directors. Claro’s unique technology platform enables organizations to combine internal and external workforce insights to fully harness the power of integrated workforce analytics, to help attract diverse talent and retain their valuable employees. According to a recent PWC survey, “63% of CEOs said availability of skills was a serious concern” while “93% of CEOs say that they recognize the need to change their strategy for attracting and retaining talent.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/workforce-analytics-firm-raises-1-1-million-in-funding/ JobDiva, the leading global Applicant Tracking System, is delighted to announce a partnership with Resume-Library, one of the fastest growing job sites in the U.S. The collaboration between these two companies will provide JobDiva’s users with instant access to millions of resumes, straight from the Resume-Library database. Going forward, organizations using JobDiva to source talent will now be able to apply JobDiva’s patented search technology against Resume-Library’s vast talent pool of available Candidates. Appealing candidates can be unlocked with a click. This means JobDiva users now can conduct searches into Resume-Library without ever leaving the JobDiva platform, saving precious time for busy hiring professionals. https://recruitingheadlines.com/jobdiva-adds-resume-access-to-resume-library/ Lastly... Ceridian , a global human capital management (HCM) cloud-based technology company, announced today its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Clearview Logix, a Richmond, Virginia-based leading decision-support analytics company, and certain intellectual property assets, including paysa.com, from Paysa, a Palo Alto, California-based AI-powered personal career advisor. Financial terms of the transactions were not disclosed. Clearview Logix builds analytics models to simplify health insurance choices for employees, employers, and their administrative partners. . Paysa.com empowers employees to explore salaries across companies, jobs, and locations. “Ceridian will fully integrate the technology of these two acquisitions within Dayforce to help our customers attract, engage and develop the very best people, while saving costs and reducing the administrative burden,” the company added. https://recruitingheadlines.com/ceridian-acquires-assets-of-clearview-logix-and-paysa/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I attended the Recruiting Trends & Talent Tech Live Conference in late February in a snowy Las Vegas. During the expo hall hours I chatted up a few industry players for your audio enjoyment; Appearing in this episode; Doug Kerken from Hireclix Marc Mapes, Avature Kevin Nelson, EmployeeReferrals.com Scot Sessions, Talvista Tom Boyle, Cornerstone The RecTech Podcast is sponsored by WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai - please check them out.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FIND THESE HEADLINES AT http://recruitingheadlines.com/category/press-releases/ And the venture capital funding keeps flowing... Jobcase.com, a boston based open-access platform dedicated to empowering people in their work-lives, has closed a $100 million in growth equity round led by Providence Strategic Growth (PSG). PSG is an affiliate of Providence Equity Partners L.L.C., a global private equity and credit investment firm with $57 billion in capital under management. The new funding will accelerate product development and services for Jobcasers (Jobcase members) via internal growth and/or strategic acquisitions. Some enhancements include, but are not limited to, sophisticated machine learning architecture that will better serve relevant content to Jobcasers, product development to increase ease of connections and community building and new integrations and APIs that enable Jobcasers to more easily promote themselves and better engage with employment opportunities. “We are proud to help expedite Jobcase’s mission to empower people in their pursuit of a happy and meaningful work-life,” says Mark Hastings, PSG CEO. “Jobcase’s unique approach that prioritizes community has catapulted the company to its position as an industry leader. The company is well positioned to fulfill the pressing need for connection in this space both domestically and abroad.” Recently ranked as the fourth largest online destination for career resources in the USA, Jobcase serves more than 100 million registered members with over 25 million unique active Jobcasers visiting the site each month. In Austin TX --TextUs, a real-time communication platform, and Herefish, an automation platform built for the staffing industry, announced a new partnership today that enables recruiting firms to combine corporate-level recruiting automation with desk-level, 1:1 communication with candidates, contractors, and clients. “This partnership expands the capabilities for Herefish customers,” says Jason Heilman, CEO & Co-founder of Herefish. “Our mutual customers can now engage with candidates who respond to automated texts sent from Herefish directly from their TextUs accounts. This allows for faster conversations with candidates and contractors.” There are two big benefits for mutual Herefish and TextUs customers: Send automated text messages from Herefish using each recruiter’s TextUs phone number to streamline communication. Automate routine text messages like interview reminders, first-day follow up, and mid-assignment surveys ZipRecruiter, a leading online employment marketplace powered by AI matching technology, announced today that it has expanded its services to actively connect Canadian companies of all sizes with job seekers nationwide. The move, which helps address pain points on both sides of the historically tight Canadian labor market, is part of ZipRecruiter’s international expansion of its marketplace. With Canada’s national unemployment rate near its forty-three year low at 5.8%, and more jobs being created than there are available workers, companies are struggling to fill open jobs, while job seekers in certain industries are facing localized shortages of job opportunities matching their skills and experience. ZipRecruiter connects millions of job seekers to highly relevant jobs through its #1 rated job search app in Canada and partnerships with popular employment sites, including Google job search, Kijiji, and over 50 of the country’s top job boards. On the employer side of the labor market, the company’s dedicated local sales team supports the specific hiring needs of Canadian businesses of all sizes. HackerRank, a platform that helps companies evaluate technical talent based on skills, today launched the machine learning-based Test Health Dashboard to give businesses the data they need to improve their skills assessments, deliver an excellent candidate experience, and effectively hire the software developers they need. For the first time, enterprises will be able to see how each of their skills assessments are performing for different roles — from a senior engineer to a DevOps intern, and everything in between. Recruiters and hiring managers can gain insight into each stage of the recruiting process to improve candidate conversion and increase the quality of hires for every role. Using the Test Health Dashboard, recruiters and hiring managers can track, analyze and adjust how they’re delivering on candidate experience, including the effectiveness of their skills tests and their correspondence throughout the hiring process. NEW YORK–Landit announced today that it closed $13 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by WeWork and backed by investors including NEA, Valo Ventures, Workday Ventures, Gingerbread Capital and current venture and seed funders. Landit is a one-size-fits-one career pathing platform that enables women and diverse groups to succeed in the workplace. Each member receives a tailored playbook that provides the tools, resources, know-how, and human connections they need to advance and navigate their career. Key features include building a personal brand, executive coaching, creating a personal board of advisors, curated skill development and mapping to career opportunities. “The future of work is focusing on unlocking the potential of each individual by investing in their personal success,” said Lisa Skeete Tatum, Landit’s Founder and CEO. “We partner with companies around the globe to offer a turnkey solution at scale that enables organizations to better democratize access and success with a clear and measurable ROI. When you have what you need when you need it, in a way that is relevant and actionable, that’s how you land it. Our members are more engaged, and as a result, companies see the increase in retention and mobility.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This podcast is sponsored by Emissary.ai and Workhere.com Deidre Diamond is the founder and CEO of CyberSN. After  21 years working in technology and staffing, and stemming from her love of people and cyber security; Deidre created the Cyber Security Network, a company transforming the way Cyber Security Professionals approach job searches. CyberSN.com aims to remove the frustration from job-hunting, and aid in interpersonal connections and education. TOPICS Current state of the cybersecurity job market What companies and what types of roles How does your company leverage technology to recruit better? Take me behind the technology that you use online----tell me about your intake process How did the cybersn.com lean job descriptions come to be Will shorter ads work for any kind of job? What other tech tools do you and your team use to find talent   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Hiretual.com Rainmakers.co, the leading technology-specific sales talent marketplace, is announcing that it is now available to employers and salespeople in the greater New York City area. Rainmakers will be introducing the platform to more than 200 sales and recruiting executives at the Modern Sales Pros Leadership event on February 20th at WeWork, Hudson Square. AllyO, the technology company renowned for its end-to-end AI recruiting solution, today announced the general availability of its Talent Pool Engagement module, designed to improve recruiting efficiency and enhance the candidate experience. Beamery, a leading talent engagement platform, today announced it has received a strategic investment from Workday Ventures and it will join the Workday Software Partner Program. In addition, Beamery also announced that the Workday Talent Acquisition team has selected Beamery products that help further its efforts to identify early-stage, passive candidates and are complementary to Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), including Beamery Talent Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Beamery Talent Marketing, and Beamery Pages. Digi-Me, a digital technology company that is revolutionizing the way employers of all sizes and across all industries are recruiting today’s top talent with 60-second compelling and engaging video job ads, has partnered with Phenom People to offer easy to implement video content recruitment tactics. Betterworks®, the leading enterprise HR software for Continuous Performance Management®, today announced the deployment of Program Insights, a suite of people analytics innovations for its award-winning solution. This expanded functionality allows forward-thinking HR leaders to rapidly access actionable insights from the mountain of rich data generated by their organization’s Continuous Performance program.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brought to you by WorkHere and Emissary.ai Employers are shifting away from traditional hiring methods and this year. 75% say technology will play a larger role in their companies hiring process in 2019, and 22% percent plan to increase their spend on AI-powered recruiting software. These findings come from the 2019 Entelo Recruiting Automation Trends Report which surveyed 625 talent acquisition professionals from around the world to identify the trends and innovations driving the recruiting and hiring industry forward. highlights of the survey include: Time spent sourcing is hindering productivity. On average, talent acquisition professionals spend an average of 15 hours a week (a 16% increase from 2018’s report) sourcing candidates for a single role, and some groups spend more. When it comes to engaging candidates, email is king. 39% of recruiters rank email as the preferred outreach method, followed by phone/text (33%), while Linkedin inMails (13%) has dropped to 3rd place GUEST: Jon Bischke, CEO, and founder of Entelo TOPICS: Comments on the recent Jobvite acquisitions - what was your reaction? Will 2019 be the year of recruiting automation? What are the 3 biggest takeaways from the recruiting automation report? Sourcing is such a time intensive activity, how will AI and automation help recruiters scale their efforts in the future? What mistakes do employers/recruiters make when it comes to implementing automation in their recruiting? Tips on outreach to break through Update on Entelo, any new features coming out in 2019? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This podcast sponsored by Hiretual.com JOBVITE GETS $200 Million https://recruitingheadlines.com/investment-firm-putting-200-million-into-jobvite-acquires-3-more-vendors/ TMP ACQUIRES CKR https://recruitingheadlines.com/tmp-to-acquire-ckr-interactive/ ICIMS DOUBLES IN SIZE https://recruitingheadlines.com/icims-surpasses-200m-in-revenue-doubles-in-size/ LINKEDIN LIVE IS COMING https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/linkedin-debuts-linkedin-live-a-new-live-video-broadcast-service/ GOOGLE HIRE NOW IN UK AND CANADA https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/hire-googles-recruiting-app-for-g-suite-launches-in-canada/108930 THANKS FOR LISTENING TO REC TECH'S RECRUITING HEADLINES RECTECHMEDIA.COM   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  about the latest and greatest tools and tactics for finding talent online, this is your show. The RecTech podcast is sponsored in part by WorkHere, the hyperlocal candidate delivery tool. WorkHere targets candidates Through their geofencing ad platform with GPS precision. …....imagine being able to target your competition directly when they pull into the parking lot...that’s the power of geofencing Workhere will advertise your jobs on the screens candidates use the most: with messaging that is delivered in the social and mobile apps they use the most often. So, head over to workhere.com and tell them you heard it on the RecTech podcast And by Emissary the text recruiting platform   They have a number of ways to embed text into your recruiting   From short code campaigns to reminders to text retargeting ….the team behind emissary.ai will let you text your candidates with ease. Your next superstar is in demand, and on the move. Emissary is the easiest way to connect with them faster, and more effectively… wherever they are. Find them on the web at emissary.ai Alright so the audio you are about to hear was extracted from my recent webinar entitled the Big list of free recruiting tools. Today i’ll tell you about free applicant tracking systems, sourcing tools, apps and more to help you find more talent. So...Thanks for listening….and remember, always be recruiting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices