Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

Michael Brown is the Vice President, of Talent at SHYFT Analytics based in Waltham Massachusetts, in today's show we'll find out how they generate 50% of their hires through employee referrals. TOPICS -What does SHYFT analytics do and what types of roles are you recruiting for? -How big is your recruiting team? -Your ATS is Lever, what was the previous ATS at SHYFT? -What was the switch like...how long did it take, etc? -Favorite feature of Lever? -What else is part of your HR tech stack? -Let’s talk about your referral program…describe its structure and how you make payouts...”Before rolling it out, our referral rate was around 30 percent, and we wanted to get to 40. I never imagined we’d make it to 50 percent.” -Explain how it works and tell us why Lever enabled to get you to 50%? -Tell us your best sourcing story about how you got creative in finding someone that you eventually hired? -How do you prefer vendors approach you about pitching their products? -Last words of advice do you have for other employers who want to boost their referral program? Show notes will be available at www.rectechmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Urie Suhr is the Director of Talent Acquisition for new york city based Collective (i), a tech company that modernizes the sales organizations of Fortune 500 clients through artificial intelligence and buyer insights. I saw her speak on a panel recently sponsored by Entelo and here's what we'll talk about today. -What types of roles are you recruiting for? -You are the only recruiter correct? Talk about the challenges of that... -Collectivei.com is a cool looking site...your job descriptions have the apply form right at the bottom...was that intentional? Is there an ATS behind it? -Lets talk rec tech (recruiting technology)….what tools are part of your daily routine? Greenhouse, vettetry, workey, angelist, shapr networking app, entelo, glider.ai -Whats your go to subject line when trying to contact candidates? -Tell us your best sourcing story about how you got creative in finding someone that you eventually hired? -How do you prefer vendors approach you about pitching their products? -What advice do you have a new recruiter if they want to find tech talent? Full transcript available at RecTechMedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanette Maister is Managing Director - Americas at New York based WCN whose talent acquisition suite helps to improve the hiring process.. .Jeanette lives and breathes campus recruiting having spent almost her entire career as a practitioner...She began her journey in campus recruitment at Lehman Brothers in regional and later global leadership campus roles, where she first used WCN. She went on to work for IBM, Gartner, and finally as Global Chief Operating Officer of the Campus Recruiting function at Credit Suisse. In todays show she will talk about the new study in cooperation with Universum about trends in student recruiting. bit.ly/2018StudentTrends https://twitter.com/jeanettemaister https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanettemaister/ SPONSORED BY Lever.co/RecTech and Hiretual.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Facebook is changing their news feed again, lets find out what employers can do about that...next on the RecTech podcast. This is a preview of my live event taking place on February 22nd at 1pm EST on: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/what-employers-need-to/register On Thursday Feb 22 at 1pm EST time i will be launching a new live video training show for recruiters and employers called “Recruitment Marketing Live” that will focus on helping recruitment marketers get better at attracting talent online. If there is one thing I have learned about working in this industry first as a job board owner and as a recruiter...its that companies still dont know how to market themselves to candidates. So, I am going to start teaching them how to do it. We’ll cover topics ranging from social media to career sites to job descriptions and even sourcing. Shows will be generally be held weekly on thursdays at 1 (except on weeks that I am travelling-holidays) and feature training classes as well as vendor demos to teach you best practices and help you keep up with the new tools being created. Most of the training classes will be paid events however. But Pricing will be very affordable to anyone who wants to participate. Students will be able to interact with me live, ask questions and get a take home cheatsheet with the main tactics discussed each class. The shows will be broadcast from a platform called Crowdcast but you can just type in rec-marketing-live.com to be forwarded directly to my show page. This week I am kicking off the series with a free event. It will cover WHat employers can do about the new facebook news feed changes. If you are an employer that uses Facebook to attract candidates I think it will be a must attend event. In this episode I want to go over what I’ll be talking about and give you a preview with some interesting takeaways. There will not be any slides for the event insead I will share my screen and show you exactly how certain tactics can help you maximize your content on the platform. So what is Facebook doing? Listen up. One of the first things you can do is to tell your page fans how to prioritize your content. You can actually manually adjust the news feed to show your pages first. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My name is Erin Stevens, Corporate Recruiter for Masterbrand Cabinets.... And I’m next on the RecTech podcast. https://twitter.com/ErinMStevens Special thanks to our sponsors: Lever.com/rectech and Hiretual.com TOPICS -How long have you been working remotely? -Tell us about master Brand hiring needs and the Types of roles you personally recruit for? -What’s your favorite tech tool that makes your job easier working remote? -What’s your ATS? -Rest of your HR tech stack...onboarding, video , texting, sourcing? -Name all the ATS you used in corporate recruiting? -What methods do you use to identify and source candidates? Email subject lines, messaging, inmail rates... -Do HR tech vendors ever try and pitch you? -What new HR technology are you excited to try but haven’t yet? -What conferences are you going to this year -Last question---what have you learned about recruiting that you wish you knew when you frst started? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tiffany Kuehl is Director of HR search for Versique, one of the largest talent acquisition firms in the midwest, specializing in both consulting and permanent placement. She spent 20 years in corporate HR before switching to the agency side about a year ago. According to her twitter account she is also a Twins fanatic, a blogger and watches the Xfiles. Connect with her on twitter: https://twitter.com/TiffanyKuehl TOPICS You are what I would call a social savvy recruiter...linkedin-twitter….how has social media helped you recruit better? Ever place anyone that you found on facebook or twitter or read your blog? What’s your ATS? Any other HR tech tools you use? Name all the ATS you used in corporate recruiting...which one did you like/hate? What methods do you use to identify and source candidates? What new HR technology are you excited to try but haven’t yet? Talk about going from corp to agency --- why did you switch and what’s it been like so far? Whats your advice to 3rd party agenices What conferences are you going to this year Last question---what advice would you tell a your graduate who wants to work in HR or recruiting? Sponsored by https://www.lever.co/rectech AND now also Hiretual: https://hiretual.com/?utm_source=RecTech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest today says quote: “90% of business problems are actually recruiting problems in disguise. If you’re filling your company’s vacant positions with B-players, you’re playing with fire. Instead, hire Rockstars (the top 5% of candidates who have the desired competencies and DNA, at the budgeted compensation level) to build an organization with limitless potential. “ Jeff Hyman is is the Chief Talent Officer for StrongSuit and author of a new book, Recruit Rockstars: The 10 Step Playbook to Find the Winners and Ignite Your Business Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Browe is Executive Director of HR for Cincinnati based Larosa’s a popular chain of Italian restaurants... Steve is also the author of "HR on Purpose!!" - a SHRM bestseller that gives a different view of how to practice HR and enjoy it. TOPICS How did you get so HR famous? 16,000 linkedin followers, 39,000 twitter followers. At Larosa’s how many locations and employees do you handle? Is recruiting centralized or decentralized? What’s your ATS? Any other HR tech tools you use? How do you view candidates for the restaurant industry? How can people view candidates as talent vs. people just filling holes? What methods do you use to identify and source candidates? How does HR Tech help/hinder how you find people?...best source of hire? You have multiple locations at LaRosa's, Inc. How to you ensure consistently in recruiting/interviewing/hiring/on-boarding across all of your locations? Changes in retail operations...will you guys be automated tasks that will help you reduce your workforce at all? You recently wrote a book that looks at HR from a more human-centric viewpoint. How is that being received? What conferences are you going to this year? What things do you see coming in regards to HR Tech/AI, etc. in the recruiting space? What conferences are you going to this year? Show Notes will be available at: https://www.rectechmedia.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nathan Doctor and Jake Hoffner are the co-founders of Qualified.io a software developer assessment tool. TOPICS * What are your clients saying about the challenge of tech recruiting in silicon valley? * What is Qualified and give us a brief history of the company… When launched? * What makes you different from the Hackerranks of the world? * Will this tech eventually be used in other skill sets? Walk us through the user experience from the recruiter perspective * Jake (CTO) How do you spot a good developer vs a bad one? (traits to look for etc) * What have you learned about the recruiting process since you started Qualified? Any tips to share… * Any specific tips to recruiter developer better? What advice do you have… * What advice do you have for other HR tech startups out there? Learn more at https://www.qualified.io/ Show Notes: https://www.rectechmedia.com/ Sponsored by: https://www.lever.co/rectech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George LaRocque, HCM analyst with HRWins…and Martin Burns from the recruitment advertising firm HireClix...join Chris Russell ...it’s time for our year-end-recap….next on the Rec Tech Podcast Happy new year everyone... it’s time once again for RECTECH….the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. I started this show last year to in order to educate recruiters and employers about how to better leverage technology to recruit. This profession is becoming much more technically challenging to many of you out there, there are of new tools and techniques you need to master... so that’s the mission to make you better recruiters overall so thanks for all the downloads in 2017. SPONSORED BY Today's episode of RecTech is sponsored by the team at Lever, providing a modern take on the applicant tracking system. Lever combines ATS and CRM functionality in a single powerful platform to help you source, nurture, and manage your candidates, all in one place. Lever offers a branded job site, custom sourcing tools, great metrics, email and calendar integration along with a host of other benefits that your recruiting team will love to use. Best of all, Lever’s deceptively simple interface means that hiring managers and applicants will love it too. To find out how Lever can help you both accelerate and humanize hiring, visit www.lever.co/rectech Lever: is where ATS meets CRM. SHOW TOPICS Entrance of Google and Facebook into the marketplace...discuss---implications for indeed....Google jobs...what are your clients saying Lots of new HR tech---is there a bubble? ...George how much got invested in 2017? Trends for 2018----on the enterprise side...does'nt HR tech have a login problem? AI in recruiting...what will it look like from a practical standpoint...will we move beyond just chat bots? Because the impact of technology on hiring has been far too many false positive and false negative hiring decisions, and because the cost of a bad hire is high — according to one expert, as high as $240,000 — I have predicted that we’ll soon see online competency marketplaces. Competency marketplaces will help candidates understand the jobs and careers they’re most likely to match, and help employers identify candidates who are on track (or on a trajectory to match in the future) and manage long talent funnels in an automated way. Recruitment marketing is going to become extremely important….tight labor market...Martin what are you seeing with clients about their plans for next year? Companies will be dragged kicking and screaming into greater transparency in 2017, partially by younger generations demanding it, and increasingly because transparent companies show no ill effects from their openness. In addition, our proprietary data from the executive teams at 50 companies shows that executives (not necessarily HR) support a talent philosophy of near total transparency in communicating performance and potential. That same data shows that today most companies are moderately transparent at best. https://www.tlnt.com/5-trends-that-will-change-hr/ Last Question If you were building a piece of HR technology that doesn’t exist what problem would you choose to fix? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices