Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

My guest today is...Audra Knight...She is the Manager of Recruitment Operations at the global cybersecurity company Tenable. In this role, her team creates and supports Tenable’s talent acquisition strategy including process improvement and employment brand management. She is passionate about using marketing best practices and technology to attract talent that will excel at Tenable. Her side gigs include The #SocialRecruiting Show, industry blogging, team #HROS and being in a rock band. I first met Audra at last year’s RecruitDC and consider her a rising star in the recruiting world. We reconnected last week at the most recent RecruitDC and I got the chance to invite her to the show Topics discussed: 1. Day to day...what do you do..life at tena? analytcis? 2. How many employees? How may apps y 3. Main hiring needs? 4. What has been your recruiting team’s biggest win so far this year? Sourcing? 5. Where do you see recruitment marketing going? Content? What kinds 6. Let’s talk tech...tell us what recruiting technology tools you use starting with your ATS…sourcing? Email? extensions...assessments? 7. The Clinch apply process...is it working? How does it work? 8. You got your job through twitter...tell us how? 9. Why do recruiters need to be better at personal marketing? 10. How do you suggest they start? 11. When it comes to vendors pitching you...what are they doing wrong? How should they approach people like you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to RecTech, the recruiting technology show...where we highlight interesting HR & recruitment related technologies as well as talking with recruiters on how they use it to recruit and manage their talent. Today’s show will be a vendor edition with the co-founder of CandidateID.com My name is Chris Russell, they call me the mad scientist of online recruiting, and I spend my day helping HR tech vendors on marketing, strategy and product development at RecTechMedia.com. I’ll even help HR departments with the occasional HR tech advice. This episode of RecTech is sponsored by Job Fairing, if you are hosting a hiring event, post it for free at jobfairing.com - Jobfairing helps employers and event organizers to promote their career event to local candidates...learn more at jobfairing.com My guest today is ...Adam Gordon...he is CEO and co-founder of Candidate.ID, the world's first talent pipeline platform. Previously he started the research and sourcing company Social Media Search, through a joint-venture with Norman Broadbent plc before undertaking a management buy-out in December 2016 and merging with Candidate.ID. Adam has also worked in the Human Resource Services practice at PwC and in recruitment marketing with HAVAS. He works in London and in Glasgow, Scotland, where the Candidate.ID team is based. TOPICS 1. Tell the listeners what Candidate ID is….what is a talent pipeline platform? 2. How has recruitment marketing changed? 3. The origins of the nurturing the candidate with specific content? 4. (4) stages of candidate decisions...explain...what content goes with what stage? 4a. How do you create that content? Any tips? 5. Who are some of your customers and what have they learned so far using your platform? 6. When did the company start and how big is your team? 7. Cost to use the platform? 8. What have you learned so far about how to market your product to employers...any tips you can share with other vendors in our space? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you asking the right question in your interviews? Are you a new recruiter who wants to learn from seasoned HR pros? Then tune into this talk from Mike Brown who spoke at the recent Maine HR conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A panel of 4 HR pros spoke to the TAtech audience about their use of job boards and other HR technology, moderated by Tony Lee and Ethan Bloomfield handled the Q&A. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Founder of Smart Job Board (smartjobboard.com) stops by RecTech to chat about his platform, upcoming enhancements and his advice for new job board owners in this in person interview from #TAtechChicago 2017 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the latest clients at Rec Tech Media is John Hoskins of Sales Genomix. John has had a long career in sales industry... first with Xerox Learning Systems, where he rose from account manager to regional sales manager, general sales manager and ultimately Director of U.S. Sales Operations. Since then he has held other high profile positions in sales leadership at various firms and today he is Co-Founder of SalesGenomix specializing in sales talent assessment. He’s recently written a white paper on attracting sales talent called 7 Habits of Highly Effective Sales Recruiters...and I thought it make make for some good conversation for the recruiters out there. John joins me now on the phone from Phoenix Arizona Introduce us to SalesGenomix what is and how did it start? Common pitfalls that Sales Orgs make when it comes to recruiting? Habit ABR: How important is engaging the frontline sales hiring mgr in the process...there are things he can do to help. What methods did you always find to be the best source of sales candidates? How often should you review your sales talent pipeline with your manager to measure progress? Sales mgr should be prospecting for candidates every day... Is asking for w2 still a best practice? 40 ways to recruit sales people… Any good stories about recruiting a sales person that stand out to you over the years? Prediction for 2017 when it comes to sales recruiting...poaching...small pool John thanks for joining me...the website is http://www.salesgenomix.com/ and for those of you who want access to the wheite paper you can check out the link from our blog on rectechmedia.com or go to their landing page @ http://salesgenomix.ontrapages.com That will do it for this edition of the RecTech podcast. Thanks again to our sponsor and remember to check out Beyond.com/rectech for that special offer of 10% to their text to hire service… Follow me on twitter @chrisrussell or visit rec tech media.com, you can find the audio and links for this show on our blog...itunes and google play and soundcloud Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What employers need to know about Glassdoor... next on the RecTech Podcast Welcome to RecTech, the recruiting technology show...where we highlight interesting HR & recruitment technologies as well as talking with recruiters on how they use it to recruit and manage their talent. Today’s show will be a recruiter edition. My name is Chris Russell, they call me the mad scientist of online recruiting, and today my job is consult with HR tech vendors on marketing strategy and product development at RecTechMedia.com. I also help HR departments with the occasional HR tech advice. The RecTech Podcast is sponsored by Beyond.com and their popular Text2Hire text messaging service. Text2Hire is a text recruitment solution that gives you instant mobile access to the candidates you want to reach for high-quality, one-on-one conversations. We’re all on our phones constantly, so if you have that one tough position you need to fill or just want to break through the clutter and connect with candidates in a unique way, why not reach them on the device that’s already right in their hands? Right now, Beyond is offering our listeners 10% off your first Text2Hire campaign. Just go to Beyond.com/RecTech to learn more and find out how many people you could reach. Christopher Kurtz is the Founder and Managing Director of PeerThru. PeerThru is an independent advisory founded by Christopher Kurtz that specializes in the four pillars of Employer Branding, Employee Assessments, and Leadership Development. He’s also a former employee of Glassdoor, the subject of today’s show. Chris welcome to the show. Glassdoor appears to have become a right of passage for many job seekers while doing their research...your perspective...what kind of impact does Glassdoor have on today’s recruiting efforts. What is a common misperception(s) about Glassdoor? When you work with a client, where do you begin? Or, where would you recommend a TA / HR leader begin? Who should own the Glassdoor relationship? What are some of the pitfalls that you see with TA / HR managers with regard to Glassdoor? What is one of the questions you are most commonly asked in regard to Glassdoor and how do you respond? What tip would you provide recruiters or hiring managers with regard to Glassdoor? What is one of your favorite stories that came as a result of a Glassdoor review? While at Glassdoor you worked primarily with large, well-known brands. What is one tip or trick that you learned that you share with clients today? Are proactive employers telling their employees to go leave reviews? What is your parting thought? www.peerthru.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Februay 7th in New York City, Hiring Solved will be putting on its first ever conference for recruiters and talent acquisition professionals, and here to give us a preview of the days events is their VP of Customer Experience, Jeremy Roberts Before we get to the event I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about your move to Hiring Solved...for those if you who don’t know Jeremy used to be the Editor at Sourcecon before making the transition to a vendor in our space. TOPICS -What’s it been like transitioning from news outlet to vendor marketing? -What have you learned so far about marketing to HR pros now that you are with a vendor? -Biggest challenge in reaching recruiters about your product? -Any new features or news from HS you want to mention? -Tell us about the conference...who what where? -What will people learn? -Agenda for the day? -Sponsors in attendance? -What are you most looking forward to at the event? -How to register? Discount code? -I see a lot of vendors starting their own conferences...think that will be a continuing trend? https://hireconf.ticketleap.com/hireconf/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Stubblebine is the VP of Talent Solutions for Beyond.com a large player in the online recruitment space. Today he discusses recruiting by text...and details how their innovative new Text2Hire messaging service works. Get 10% off that service by going to beyond.com/rectech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A rep from the ATS comapny Lever describes the CRM portion of the tool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices