Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

Walmart and Target announce free tuition for frontline workers. https://www.diversitygator.com/pages/33815-walmart-to-pay-100-of-college-tuition-and-books-for-associates https://recruitingheadlines.com/target-launches-tuition-assistance-program-for-frontline-workers/ The benefits wars are heating up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Polywork, a new type of business social network has raised $13 million in new funding from Andreesen Hororwitz and other investors. Think of it as an alternative to LinkedIn. From the a16z blog… Polywork focuses on letting people tell their own stories and all they’re capable of, so we can meet new people, supercharge our teams, and unlock creativity. From capturing details like who you collaborated with on various projects to career highlights, to a system of community-created badges reflecting both personal and professional traits, Polywork is building a new professional network, from the ground up, that reflects how we work in 2021. As a bonus, Polywork profiles can also be hosted on any custom domain instead of Polywork as a simple way to represent your online identity. https://hrtechfeed.com/linkedin-alternative-polywork-raises-13-million/ Graphite Solutions, Inc. today announced the completion of a new $15M equity raise to scale its sales, marketing, recruitment, customer success and product development efforts. Graphite is the leading technology platform that helps Enterprise companies find, hire and manage highly skilled remote consultants on-demand. The company has raised 20 million to date. https://hrtechfeed.com/graphite-raises-15m-to-help-enterprises-build-a-remote-workforce/ Tech job postings increased 16% in the second quarter of 2021, with locations, occupations, skills and employers across the country experiencing strong quarter-over-quarter growth, according to the Q2 2021 Tech Job Report from Dice.com Job posting activity remained high for the top 50 tech employers (by posting volume) in the second quarter, with 78% increasing tech job postings quarter-over-quarter. With emerging tech hubs like Las Vegas, Sacramento and Nashvillehaving seen the strongest growth, most mature tech hubs also fared well in second quarter. https://hrtechfeed.com/dice-tech-hiring-surges-in-second-quarter/ Tech interviewers for hire are now just a few clicks away from companies that need to scale up hiring, reclaim time wasted by unqualified candidates, and hire for new roles and technologies within the business. “eTeki’s interviews marketplace is a natural evolution for how the world is hybrid eworking during and beyond the pandemic. We are seeing continued usage growth and the demand for an outsourced interviewing as-a-service marketplace – what’s needed to match recruitment growth of critical tech talent. eTeki is starting a venture backed capital raise to fuel our expansion.” says eTeki CEO Hans Bukow. Businesses in need of scalable, on-demand interviewing need to look no further than eTeki’s newest talent marketplace. Formerly only available in a managed service model, eTeki’s pay-per-interview marketplace now brings a bench of expert freelancers available to lead IT interviews for hiring teams across the globe. Hiring professionals scope the interview, add a candidate, select one of eTeki’s 6,000+ expert interviewers and confirm an interview time with a credit card. https://hrtechfeed.com/eteki-pioneers-marketplace-approach-to-remote-technical-interviews/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chloe Rada brings 20+ years of talent marketing experience and is known for driving big ideas and empowering others to make a positive change for the future of Talent Acquisition. Awarded the 2020 Recruitment Marketer of the Year by Rally™ Recruitment Marketing for making an impact on Sodexo’s recruitment marketing efforts she is currently the Director, of Global Recruitment Marketing and Branding for Syneos Health... Supporting the Commercial Solutions division and responsible for driving talent attraction and candidate engagement strategies to compete in the Life Sciences industry. I wanted to start by asking about your previous work at sodexo......you spent many years there and that company to me was one fo the first employers to embrace employer branding...i remember back in like 2008 you guys were blogging about life at the company, they were one of my clients when i was running jobs in pods...what were some of the lessons learned from your time there? -Current recruitment tech stack at Syneos Scroll stopping content? -Challenges/initiatives you face coming into the new role -Current state of EB at Syneos, what are your plans Goggle analytics? How has the pandemic affected employer branding in your opinion? -General EB tactics/advice---what do you want to try? What did you think of the TikTok resume experiment...any thoughts? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WorkJam, the Digital Workplace for organizations with frontline employees, announced $35 million in growth financing from Silver Lake Waterman. The investment is intended to support the company’s continued growth and strengthen WorkJam’s position across the over 2 billion frontline worker market — a market that has been underserved and underpenetrated with collaborative tools to orchestrate the workforce. WorkJam’s Frontline Digital Workplace enables operational efficiencies, fosters collaboration, and drives engagement and higher retention by equipping frontline workers and headquarters staff with a state-of-the-art solution to manage scheduling, training, task workflows, and real-time communications — all through a single platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/workjam-announces-35-million-in-financing-for-frontline-worker-platform/ Instawork, the digital marketplace that connects local businesses with skilled hourly professionals across the U.S., has acquired Drafted, a network recruiting platform that helps businesses hire by leveraging referrals. Drafted’s solution will enable Instawork to accelerate the growth of the company’s pool of Pros with skilled hourly professionals. As a result of the acquisition and integration, Pros can easily share Instawork job opportunities with their network, further supporting the companies’ shared mission to put Americans back to work and help businesses successfully reopen. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. https://hrtechfeed.com/instawork-acquires-referral-platform/ Deel, the market leader in the global payroll and compliance space, announced today that it had joined forces with Zeitgold to fuel international growth and enhance the depth and breadth of its product offerings. This acquisition marks a significant milestone for Deel as the company continues to scale, adding thousands of customers as working and hiring practices continue to transform rapidly. Deel is adding a full line of products through this acquisition to improve their customer experience further and provide them with the right solutions to scale internationally. https://hrtechfeed.com/deel-acquires-zeitgold-to-strengthen-payroll-ai-offerings/ Talent acquisition software platform GR8 People announced a new partnership with PandoLogic, the leader in programmatic job advertising, to connect employers more efficiently to job seekers through programmatic sourcing. Centralize job advertising spend into a single performance-based tool that optimizes and automates real-time bidding and budget allocations Expand reach to talent through an ad exchange of 1000’s of leading job sites, search engines and social networks Engage with the right candidates through precision targeting Source applicants effortlessly by eliminating manual tasks and inefficiencies with powerful automation https://hrtechfeed.com/gr8-people-partners-with-pandologic/ Talroo announces the release of Target CPA (Cost per Application), an enhancement to its Talroo Pro pay-for-performance job advertising solution. Target CPA uses job seeker conversion data to bid real-time so that recruitment marketing advertisers reach the right audiences at the right places, at the right time, and at the right price. https://hrtechfeed.com/whats-new-in-hr-tech-model-match-talroo/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Culture Amp was founded in 2009 to let companies conduct anonymous employee surveys, but since then, its focus has expanded to helping employers turn the data they collect into action. The company announced today it has raised $100 million in Series F funding, led by returning investors Sequoia Capital China and TDM Growth Partners. The round bumps Culture Amp’s valuation to $1.5 billion, more than double what it was after the company’s Series E in 2019. That makes them our industries latest unicorn. There are now 27 different companies that have ever received a single funding round of $100 million or more. https://hrtechfeed.com/culture-amp-gets-100-million-in-new-funding/ Talview, a leading provider of an end-to-end, AI-powered hiring and proctoring solution, today announced it closed $15M in Series B funding led by Silicon Valley investor Eileses Capital….The new capital further validates that their video AI platform is perfectly positioned to help organizations analyze talent interactions for more efficient and effective talent decisions in a digitized world where video plays a key role. https://hrtechfeed.com/talview-raises-15m-to-revolutionize-talent-lifecycle/ Pangea is a freelance marketplace for college age talent that has just secured a nice round of funding. They are based in Providence Rhode Island. According tot he company’s blog; In the past 12 months, students from more than 850 colleges across the US and Canada have come to Pangea to find freelance work. In that time, we’ve grown GMV nearly 400; helping Pangeans earn nearly $500,000. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2021/07/29/college-freelancer-marketplace-raises-2-million/ Leadr, Inc., a rapidly growing human resource software company, today announced closing their Series A funding with a $10M investment round led by Bedrock. The Series A raise also included funding from Leadr friends and family, including Leadr Co-founder and Executive Chairman of the board, Chris Heaslip; Chief Revenue Officer of Intuit, Bobby Morrison; and Co-founder of Pushpay, Eliot Crowther. https://hrtechfeed.com/people-development-software-leadr-inc-raises-10m-series-a-led-by-bedrock/ REBRAND…..ORLANDO — HR Payroll Systems and Applicant Tracking Systems announced today that the two websites will unite to form Matchr. Both companies are designed to connect HR professionals with HRIS/payroll systems and applicant tracking systems, respectively. Through consolidation of the two brands under Matchr, HR professionals can conveniently access a single site for all of their HR software needs. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-software-company-rebrands-as-matchr/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today i’ll be chatting with Roberto Angulo, CEO of Recruitology a Cloud-based recruitment platform that leverages artificial intelligence to connect employers with the right talent, And he is also co-founder of AfterCollege.com an entry level job site thats been around for over 20 years. TOPCS Give us a brief description of your business as it is today… Lines of business...revenue streams? How do you think job marketplaces will evolve in the next 5 years? Whats your marketing advice for a new job board owner just starting out? You wrote a book too, Getting Your First Job for Dummies...what was that experience like? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SmartRecruiters, the recruiting software that I was once a client of announced it closed a $110 million Series E round led by Silver Lake Waterman with participation from existing investors... The new capital brings the company’s total amount raised to $205 million, with a valuation of $1.5 billion. This financing round comes on the heels of strong momentum for SmartRecruiters. In the last 12 months, the company has experienced 70 percent bookings growth behind its expanding product set—with new messaging and analytics capabilities built on its modern talent acquisition platform. The new funds raised will be used to accelerate product development for SmartRecruiters’ leading talent acquisition suite in the areas of intelligence, automation and conversational interfaces. SmartRecruiters will also continue to expand go-to-market efforts across US, EMEA and APAC, and will provide on-the-ground support for its growing customer community and partner ecosystem. https://hrtechfeed.com/smartrecruiters-raises-110-million-now-valued-at-1-5-billion/ The newest player on the funding scene is a company Called CENSIA Censia, a provider of Talent Intelligence technology, announced it has raised $21M in Series A funding in a round led by Marbruck Investments. Marbruck joins other existing investors bringing the company’s total funding to over $30 million. With this funding, Censia will expand go-to-market efforts, scale their API-first offering, and continue product innovations for talent acquisition and workforce planning powering HR technologies of the future with AI. https://hrtechfeed.com/cemsia-raises-21m-in-series-a-funding-to-bring-bias-free-intelligence-to-human-capital-management/ Indeed, the world’s number one job site, announced that all jobs posted directly to its platform can add video interviewing options, for both free and sponsored jobs, for no additional charge. This new capability streamlines the hiring process, reducing the time it takes to get candidates to first interviews. All interviews take place on Indeed’s proprietary interviewing technology Indeed Interview, which has been designed specifically for interviewing. Since there is no software to download, all job seekers and employers need to do is click a unique link and start interviewing. Indeed has hosted more than half a million video interviews to date. https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-expands-free-video-interviewing-options-to-all-jobs-posted-on-site/ Greenhouse, the hiring software company, has introduced Job Ad Market, a new functionality that offers customers instant access to thousands of global job boards from within Greenhouse. For users you can Diversify your sourcing strategy by buying individual, pay-as-you-go job listings at competitive rates Receive recommendations on the highest performing job boards based on historical and industry performance, job function or region https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-launches-job-ad-marketplace-with-1000-job-boards/ Veritone, Inc. a publicly traded company and creator of the world’s first operating system for artificial intelligence, announced it signed an agreement to acquire PandoLogic, Inc, a leading provider of intelligent hiring solutions. Based in new york Total consideration of $150 million on a cash and debt free basis, payable in Veritone cash and stock, with performance earnouts through fiscal 2022. Pando’s investors sold the comapny for essentially 3X yearly revenue. The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive, with PandoLogic generating over $50 million in SaaS and related GAAP revenues and over $25 million of EBITDA on a pro forma 2021 basis. https://hrtechfeed.com/pandologic-acquired/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A deep dive into what into TikTok new recruiting experiment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

isolved has acquired predictive people analytics platform TrenData HR. The combination helps business leaders and HR professionals move from reactive to proactive human capital management (HCM) using sophisticated insights, simply delivered. The acquisition will help organizations of all sizes – to maximize business and people outcomes from their HR data. TrenData HR harnesses external data sources and aggregates them with information from internal systems, applying sophisticated predictive artificial intelligence (AI) models to produce powerful visual insights wherever and whenever they’re needed. https://hrtechfeed.com/isolved-acquires-predictive-people-analytics-provider-trendata-hr/ Remote, a leading HR tech platform and provider of global employer of record services and international contractor management, today announced it has raised a $150 million Series B round led by Accel. The shift to distributed employment created unprecedented demand for Remote’s services: since their $35 million Series A in November 2020, Remote grew its customer base by 7x and increased its users by more than 10x. Remote’s revenue has grown by 65x over the past year, and employee headcount has gone from 50 to 220 employees working remotely in 45 countries since November 2020. Remote is the only Employer of Record (EOR) that owns 100% of its global infrastructure, has legal entities in more than 50 countries with plans to have fully operational legal entities in more than 80 countries by the end of 2021, and in the rest of the world by the end of 2022. https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-raises-150-million-series-b/ WayUp, a sourcing platform for diverse candidates, announced that it is merging with Yello, a recruitment software company. The two HR tech companies will operate under Yello as a legal entity but continue to keep their independent branding with a now combined 200 employees. Students but now they brand themselves as a DE&I platform. The WayUp database will evolve to be the sourcing arm of Yello’s campus recruiting solution. It provides a diverse database of over 6 million candidates, including: Recent graduates and students from across the country who attended over 7,000 campuses 71% Black, Hispanic or female candidates as well as tens of thousands of veterans Candidate self-reported data on major, location, campus, graduation, gender, ethnicity and more “In addition to offering a powerhouse of data, recruiters will benefit from the automation opportunities of two solutions from a single company,” said Corey Ferengul, CEO, Yello. “We are beyond excited to have the WayUp team joining Yello and we believe that together we will offer unparalleled capability to match employers and candidates in the campus and early talent world.” https://hrtechfeed.com/early-career-marketplace-wayup-merging-with-yello/ Hireology, a leading recruitment CRM built for multi-location, decentralized enterprises, today announced the acquisition of employee referral technology provider, EmployUs. EmployUs is a modern employee referral software that empowers organizations to leverage their employees and their networks to help hire. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, Emplyus has 6 employees according to linkedin https://hrtechfeed.com/hireology-acquires-employee-referral-platform/ MILWAUKEE – Today, Infosoft Group, LLC, dba Circa, announced the purchase of Colorado-based LatPro, Inc., dba DiversityJobs, a leading diversity recruitment and OFCCP HR compliance technology solutions provider, which will become a subsidiary of Infosoft. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2021/07/14/circa-acquires-diversityjobs-com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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LinkUp, the leading provider of global job market data, announced their recruitment advertising and job search business has been rebranded as Getwork. Getwork will continue to be powered by LinkUp’s labor market data business and its innovative, proprietary technology that indexes millions of verified jobs every day directly from employer career sites. As a separately branded business, Getwork will be entirely focused on connecting job seekers with the companies they want to work for. Getwork will provide jobseekers with the most streamlined search of the highest quality job listings, as well as offer solutions for employers in search of top-quality talent, like pay-per-click and targeted marketing campaigns, an extensive partner network, and valuable analytics to optimize recruitment strategies. LinkUp will continue to service data clients with the most accurate, real-time, and predictive job market data. LinkUp’s dataset includes 4 million daily active job listings from 60,000 companies and contains more than 20 unique job and company-level attributes and identifiers, including job title, job URL, company name, location, occupation code, sector code, ticker, reference data, and more. https://hrtechfeed.com/linkup-launches-getwork-rebrand-of-their-recruitment-advertising-and-job-search-business/ Mave, a new software sales career platform, launched today to help software companies discover top sales talent and sales professionals filter companies and opportunities that match their sales experience. With Mave’s employer branded profiles, companies can showcase their team, perks, and company information to prospective software sales job seekers. Mave’s focus is critical to helping software sales companies keep up with the increasing demand for technology and software from consumers and businesses nationwide. To learn more about Mave, visit www.joinmave.com. https://hrtechfeed.com/software-sales-professionals-have-a-new-career-platform/ Symphony Talent, a recruitment marketing technology company that helps recruitment teams automate tasks for efficiency and empower smarter candidate interactions, announced the launch of SmashFlyX Events. This new module centralizes, manages and automates virtual and in-person recruitment events and activities from pre-registration, during event activity through post-event follow-up, and ultimately, conversion to job applicants and hires. SmashFlyX Events uniquely enables organizations to cast the widest net, advertising the events across every channel of media, leveraging existing contacts in the CRM, and tying it all together with analytics. Bringing it into one platform allows users to leverage the automation and tools available in SmashFlyX and extend their existing communication technologies to seamlessly create interactive, virtual events. https://www.rectechpr.com/press-releases/symphony-talent-launches-centralized-hybrid-event-management Censia, a leading provider of Talent Intelligence technology, has raised $21M in Series A funding in a round led by Marbruck Investments. This brings the company’s total funding to over $30 million to date. With this funding, Censia will expand go-to-market efforts, scale their API-first offering, and continue product innovations for talent acquisition and workforce planning powering HR technologies of the future with AI. https://hrtechfeed.com/bias-free-talent-intelligence-startup-raises-21m/ We're excited to launch "TikTok Resumes" as a pilot program designed to continue expanding and enhancing TikTok as a new channel for recruitment and job discovery. We're teaming up with select companies and inviting job seekers to apply for entry-level to experienced positions with some of the world's most sought-after employers, including Chipotle, Target, WWE, Alo Yoga, Shopify, Contra, Movers+Shakers, and many more, with a TikTok video resume. Interested candidates are encouraged to creatively and authentically showcase their skillsets and experiences, and use #TikTokResumes in their caption when publishing their video resume to TikTok. https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/find-a-job-with-tiktok-resumes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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ZoomInfo the go-to-market intelligence solution, today announced the general availability of the ZoomInfo Recruiter platform. ZoomInfo Recruiter is built specifically for recruiting teams to identify, target, and connect with top talent so they can fill open requisitions with the right individuals quickly and efficiently. Through the platform, staffing agencies, executive recruiters, corporate recruiters, and sourcers can uncover data such as work history, educational background, and department organizational charts to better understand candidates’ managerial, functional, and technical experience. Recruiters can apply preset filters in order to focus on specific initiatives, including diversity, equity, and inclusion. “ZoomInfo Recruiter gives recruiters an edge in identifying hard-to-find candidates,” said Henry Schuck, ZoomInfo Founder and CEO. “Recruiters can easily automate their identification of and outreach to candidates. In an increasingly competitive hiring environment, ZoomInfo Recruiter provides talent acquisition and recruiting teams with the data, insights, and technology they need to source, engage with, and hire ideal talent faster.” https://hrtechfeed.com/zoominfo-releases-zoominfo-recruiter/ ResumeSieve the resume scoring platform is on a mission to disrupt traditional recruiting practices by putting innovative tools in the hands of those who are doing the hard work of recruiting. They recently launched a crowdfunding which provides anyone to invest with as little as a $100 commitment. They are asking for your support and invite you to check out our campaign page! On wefunder.com Post on social media – Share wefunder.com/resumesieve.inc Invest – Opportunities start at just $100 and you get perks for investing more https://hrtechfeed.com/the-resume-sieve-launches-crowdfunding-campaign/ Visier, the globally recognized leader in people analytics and planning, has raised $125M in Series E funding led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs) at a valuation exceeding $1B USD. This investment signals a historic moment in the growth of the people analytics market, with Visier becoming the first independent vendor in the space to reach a $1 billion valuation. “There is unprecedented demand for companies to better understand the people within their organizations,” said Ryan Wong, CEO of Visier. “From HR leaders to people managers and executives, having insight into a workforce is critical for delivering the right outcomes for the business, the employee, the customer, and a fair and just society.” To spearhead this new era of people analytics, Visier will use the funding to extend and accelerate product development and international go to market expansion. https://hrtechfeed.com/visier-announces-125m-series-e-for-people-analytics-platform/ RepVue, the world’s leading sales organization ratings platform, has raised $1 million in a series seed funding round led by Knoll Ventures with participation from Alerion Ventures. The funding round validates and strengthens RepVue’s mission of driving transparency in sales organizations and enabling sales professionals to discover and engage with career opportunities that best fit their skills and experience. After coming out of a beta period at the beginning of 2020, RepVue has now received more than 16,500 ratings of the world’s most well known sales organizations. More than 50% of these ratings have come in 2021, further establishing RepVue as the largest and fastest growing B2B sales organization ratings platform in the world. “RepVue was born out of a specific mission to deliver transparency into what it’s really like to work inside the world’s most well known sales organizations, enabling sales professionals to navigate their careers much more efficiently and confidently.” According to Ryan Walsh, founder and CEO of RepVue. “The status quo in sales recruiting is simply not working. We’re able to harness the collective intelligence and insights of tens of thousands of b2b sales professionals to not only pull the curtains back on the true selling environment of these sales orgs, but also enable sales professionals to directly engage with career opportunities through our platform.” https://hrtechfeed.com/sales-talent-platform-raises-1-million-in-funding/ TopFunnel, an AI-powered recruiting startup that high-growth companies use to scale, has announced the acquisition of Teamable to supercharge referral-based recruiting. Teamable is the employee referral platform that transforms social networks into high-performance talent pools. Since TopFunnel was founded in 2017 to empower both recruiters and employees through the talent acquisition process, it has rapidly become the secret weapon that high-growth companies like Plaid, Rubrik, Noom, and InVision have relied on to scale their teams. TopFunnel’s AI-driven approach automates much of the recruiting process, helping to source the right candidates for the right roles — and send them the right message. Simi

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Recruiting platform dotin Inc., which improves the recruitment and retention of new and existing talent, has released of their latest service module, PerFit-Diversity and Inclusion. The new module leverage AI to gather insights related to employee makeup, helping organizations realize the gender and ethnic diversity within their workforce. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiting-platform-dotin-inc-releases-new-diversity-and-inclusion-module/ Oyster®, the company that makes hiring talented people around the world compliant, human, and delightful, has raised a $50 million Series B funding round, led by Stripes with the continued participation of some existing investors. On the heels of the announcement of Oyster’s $20M Series A just this past February, this new Series B investment allows Oyster to expand its HR platform to more countries around the world and continue to empower globally distributed companies to succeed on the world stage. The team has grown 5X and the customer base has grown 8X so far in 2021. Revenue increased by 8X since the beginning of the year, from a growing number of Distributed HR offerings, including multiple modes of employment (for both Contractors and Full-Time Employees), and an assortment of Benefits catering to the special needs of distributed teams. Oyster® has also expanded its country coverage to 91 countries which account for more than 95% of the employable knowledge workers of the world. https://hrtechfeed.com/global-hr-platform-oyster-raises-50m/ San Francisco – Pequity, the first intelligent compensation platform that helps fast-growing companies create fair and competitive compensation programs, announced today that the company has closed a Series A round of $19 million, led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from First Round Capital, Designer Fund, and Scribble Ventures. Pequity saves companies time and money and helps them attract and retain talent by automating HR workflows from offer to signing to promotion and beyond. The platform helps HR & compensation leaders centralize their comp workflows, avoid comp problems before they happen, and create competitive compensation programs based on real-world data on industry ranges, market trends, and internal peer compensation https://hrtechfeed.com/pequity-raises-19-million-to-bring-equitable-compensation-to-the-masses/ The new Questionmark white paper, “Five Ways Assessments Can Help Retain Employees”, shows that by testing the skills of workers, employers can: Make better recruitment decisions – someone who leaves within their first year is likely to have been a poor hire. Testing the skills of candidates before hiring them helps ensure new starters are a good fit for the role. Identify relevant training needs – assessments can pinpoint an employee’s immediate training need, helping demonstrate that employers are taking their career development needs seriously. Improve onboarding – around 15% of exits relate to employees leaving in the first 90 days.3 Assessments can reveal whether the onboarding process is effective and if new starters are learning what they should. Create a certification program – assessing employee progress and awarding certifications enhances an individual’s sense of career development. It also creates immediate goals to work toward. Predict employee retention – employers can track scores from relevant workplace assessments and correlate them with employee longevity. By doing so, employers can identify risk factors that require intervention to prevent employee churn. https://recruitingheadlines.com/5-ways-to-reduce-staff-turnover/ GoodTime, the leading AI-based interview scheduling and hiring experience solution, has added $9.5M million to its Series A funding, bringing the total round to $16.7 million. The new funding round was led by KTB Ventures along with participation from Smilegate and Atinum Investment. This funding will be used to accelerate innovation for hiring/candidate experience solutions and accelerate go-to-market growth in a wide range of industries with innovative clients such as Box, Shopify, and Zoom. GoodTime is a solution that can reduce time-to-hire by as much as 50% while saving as much as $500,000 per year in talent acquisition costs. https://hrtechfeed.com/interview-scheduling-tool-raises-9-5-million-series-a/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diversity technology platforms are starting to spring up and get funding. The latest entrant into this market is Canvas formerly known as Jumpstart they recently raised a $20 million dollar funding round and we’ll get into that with our guest. TOPICS I want to get into the rebranding story but First of all what is canvas…? Describe what your platform does Tell us about the origins of business Rebranding, how do you arrive at the new name? How easy was it to get the domain? DRP….Explain the product/user experience Any success stories ? Plans for the new round of funding? Tips for diversity recruiting? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The U.S. Supreme Court has given LinkedIn another chance in its legal fight to stop HR technology firm HiQ Labs from scraping LinkedIn user data against the company’s demands. The nation’s highest court this week issued a writ of certiorari, noting it may hear the case, but telling the appeals court to first redo its earlier decision in favor of HiQ. The court told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to retry the case in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling in a similar case. HiQ Labs, founded in 2012 in Silicon Valley, scrapes publicly available data, including LinkedIn member updates, and analyzes it to predict when workers are likely to quit their jobs. It then sells its conclusions to employers. https://aimgroup.com/2021/06/15/top-court-gives-linkedin-another-chance-in-hiq-scraping-case/ Beamery is the latest company to enter the HR tech arms race, the company which calls itself a “talent operating system” that helps companies attract, engage and retain top talent, has announced US$138m in Series C funding led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers’), through its Teachers’ Innovation Platform (TIP). The round follows a record year for the company, which finished with 337% annual revenue growth in Q4, and surpassed one million roles filled on its platform during 2020. This new investment will fuel extensive product development, accelerate commercial growth in existing and new geographies, double its rapidly growing employee base, and solidify Beamery’s leadership position in the talent space. https://hrtechfeed.com/beamery-raises-138m-hr-tech-arms-race-continues/ Gloat, pioneers of the Talent Marketplace platform that is reinventing work and careers in global enterprises, announced a $57M Series C funding round led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Eight Roads Ventures, Intel Capital, Magma Venture Partners, and PICO Partners. With total funding of $92M, the company will accelerate product innovation and market expansion as it aims to bring workforce agility to every enterprise and more dynamic careers to every individual. https://hrtechfeed.com/gloat-raises-57m-for-internal-mobility-platform/ Candidate.co, a new way for people to connect their personal and professional networks with great jobs while earning money launches out of beta today. For “superconnectors” — people with networks of talented friends and peers — Candidate.co offers the best way to connect them with the right job, and pays between $2,400 – $6,000 for each successful match. For employers, Candidate.co helps them build a network of referrers outside of their own employees and alumni, increasing their reach and gaining access to new pools of talent. The startup has secured $4M in seed funding from prominent investors and offers remote positions nationwide and in-office roles in Seattle, San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles https://hrtechfeed.com/referral-platform-candidate-co-raises-4-million-in-funding/ Sense, the AI-driven talent engagement and communication platform solutions for recruiting, today announced $16 million in Series C funding. Bringing the total funding amount to $40 million to date, this latest round will accelerate innovation and development of the company’s AI-powered talent communication and engagement suite. Sense offers a singular engagement platform powered by AI and machine learning. It enables personalized communication across the entire talent lifecycle at scale, and also automates manual tasks for recruiters. Through this personalized approach, Sense customers experience on average; a 263% increase in candidates screened compared to a manual approach, reduced time to fill by 30-81% and up to 800 hours of recruiter time saved. https://hrtechfeed.com/sense-secures-16-million-for-talent-engagement-platform/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While traditionally leading the recovery following recessions, experts predict five million Americans will need to find new employment coming out of the COVID recovery. But how can staffing companies put these folks back to work amid the shifts of business and services? Well, According to Aaron Elder CEO of software company Crelate, a platform for staffing and recruiting firms, you do that with what he calls ‘transferable velocity”, meaning looking for skills that are applicable and movable from industry to industry in order to bridge the divide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eightfold is at it again. After raising a $125 million dollar round round last they just announced a $220 million dollar series E round. Wow. They are now valued at 2.1 billin dollars. The funds will be used to continue the growth and development of Eightfold’s AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform and expand its growing partner ecosystem. Since the announcement of Eightfold AI’s Series D funding round in October of 2020, the valuation of the organization has more than doubled. This is a direct result of the significant momentum achieved by customers and partners in the public and private sector. The innovation delivered through a single Talent Intelligence Platform is the foundation for leading global organizations as they prepare for the acceleration of changes in jobs, demand of evolving skills demand and other post-pandemic shifts in the workforce. “Powered by AI and machine learning, Eightfold’s platform provides global enterprises with a single solution for managing the entire talent lifecycle, including hiring, retaining, and growing a diverse global workforce,” said Deep Nishar, Senior Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers. “We are pleased to partner with Ashutosh and the Eightfold team to support their ambition of transforming how enterprises manage talent and how people build their careers.” https://hrtechfeed.com/eightfold-ai-raises-220m-series-e/ Talent Inc. the company that operates TopResume and TopCV, announced the acquisition of Imkey Holding, a global subscription-based platform for online resume-building. Based in the Netherlands, Imkey helps job seekers create job-winning resumes and CVs online through their builder platform on its global property, Resume.io, as well as its 10 additional localized sites. Since launching in 2012, Imkey has helped build more than 7 million resumes and CVs in over 100 countries. “While most job seekers find tremendous success when working one-on-one with a professional resume writer, we also recognize that others may not be ready to make such an investment in their careers,” said Byron Matthews, Chief Executive Officer of Talent, which adds Resume.io to its suite of professional career-services brands that include TopResume, TopCV, and TopInterview. “By acquiring a resume-building property such as Imkey’s Resume.io, we can strategically expand our service offerings to help those job seekers who either are creating a resume for the first time or who aren’t interested in working with a professional writer right now. In addition, Imkey’s extensive international presence will allow our organization to continue expanding its global footprint and empowering more professionals to take control of their careers and land the right job, sooner.” https://hrtechfeed.com/talent-inc-acquires-another-resume-service-provider/ Loophire a startup out of nebraska has raised $300k seed round. Loophire’s technology solution combines algorithms that automate the initial match before giving each party the choice to pursue one another if the opportunity is right. For employers, Loophire goes beyond resumes to provide candidate assessments for skills, culture, and long-term fit, preliminary screening interviews, and customized services at performance-based pricing. For job applicants, Loophire provides career coaching, timeline and career growth transparency, and regular communication throughout the hiring process. The result is a high-touch, curated experience for both companies and candidates. Loophire says they address the critical gap in the hiring process — applicant experience. With more than two-thirds of job applicants reporting they have been turned off by a bad interview experience, companies cannot afford to be disengaged or unresponsive in a competitive jobs market. Loophire increases the probability of hire by 65% from “Introduction” to “Accepted Offer” through their streamlined approach. Because they deliver results at a fraction of the traditional cost, even smaller businesses and the qualified candidates they hire can access a superior hiring experience.---loophire.com https://hrtechfeed.com/silicon-prairie-startup-loophire-gets-300k-seed-round-for-assessment-tech/ Stoke, which operates in the freelance management system space, announced a $15.5 million Series A funding round. This was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from all previous investors and angels... To date, the company has raised $20 million. The investment allows Stoke to drive expansion and meet the rapidly growing demand from U.S. companies seeking to work more effectively in the changing workforce which includes both freelancers and full-time employees. Stoke was founded with the mission to help companies harness the power of the freelance revolution by simplifying the way they collaborate with the non-payroll workforce, which includes freelancers, contractors, consultants, agencies and gig workers. Features all-in-one platform that enables companies to hire top talents quickly,

Podcasts are mainstream now so when I saw the news about Spokn, a startup which helps companies create their own audio I wanted to hear about what they are up to. Spokn’s customers create podcasts for employee engagement; onboarding; diversity, initiatives; and learning & development. Joining me to discuss the company is one of their co-founders, Mariel Davis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eightfold AI, the provider of the Talent Intelligence Platform™, today announced its integration partnership with Greenhouse, the hiring software company, and availability of the Eightfold Talent Intelligence Suite for all Greenhouse customers. https://hrtechfeed.com/eightfold-talent-intelligence-suite-now-available-on-greenhouse/ Pathrise, the leading online mentorship and job placement platform for tech professionals, announced today that it has secured $9 million in Series A Funding — including $5.5 million in new equity capital and $3.5 million in venture debt. https://hrtechfeed.com/tech-job-placement-platform-lands-9m/ Another niche gig marketplace has launched….YellowBird, a nationwide gig economy marketplace that matches vetted Risk and Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Professionals with businesses on-demand, has announced its raised $1.7 million in seed capital. https://hrtechfeed.com/ehs-gig-marketplace-raises-1-7m/ Cadient Talent, a human resources software company, today revealed its latest technology, which infuses machine learning and augmented intelligence (AI) to help organizations identify and hire employees more efficiently and increase quality of hire. Cadient Decision PointTM is a recommendation engine that works with any applicant tracking system (ATS) to instantly analyze all applicants and present hiring managers with a short list of top candidates from which to choose. https://hrtechfeed.com/cadient-talent-unveils-new-machine-learning-technology-to-redefine-how-companies-find-and-hire-hourly-workers/ Hibob, the HCM platform bob, announced its acquisition of Cassiopeia, a startup that developed AI-based workplace relationship analytics technology to help teams improve communication, collaboration, and work-life balance through advanced communication pattern analysis. https://hrtechfeed.com/hibob-continues-acquires-workplace-relationships-analytics-startup-cassiopeia/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conversational Ai ---aka recruitment chatbots are being acquired at a record pace, last week Stepstone, a job board company bought Mya and PandoLogic acquired Wade&wendy. These deals make a lot of sense because each is working to drive traffic to jobs and the conversational AI helps to qualify and screen those candidates. Explain the problem you are trying to solve with this kind of acquisition? Explain what what and wendy does for a company (user experience) You ran some pilots with Wade&Wendy what were those results like? Challenges in hiring right now...What kind of application rates are you seeing on your clients jobs these days...its tough to hire right now? Will all your customer get this tech? Or will it be an Add on? Rename it? How will you be explaining what you are going forward? Are you now a “sourcing and screening” tech platform? Whats the future of programmatic and how do you see conversational AI evolving on next few years… Any new product announcements? More potential acquisitions? Making plans for hr tech this year? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congrats to Ziprecruiter is in order their stock debuted on the NYSE yesterday and closed the first day up 17%...it opened at 18 and closed at just over 21 bucks per share. The ticker symbol is ZIP in case you want to look it up. ---- Spokn, the podcasting platform for work, announced that it has closed a $4M Seed round with funding from NEA, Y Combinator, along with several other investors The financing will support further market expansion and enable Spokn to enhance the platform for content creators. Spokn was founded by Fawzy Abu Seif, Mariel Davis and Mohammed Galal and launched as an internal communications platform in November 2020. Since that time, Spokn has grown rapidly, attracting customers such as ServiceNow, Podium, Udemy, and others. Beyond internal communications, Spokn’s customers create podcasts for more effective employee engagement; onboarding; diversity, equity and inclusion; and learning & development. “Employees do their best work when they trust their leadership, are connected to their colleagues, understand their company’s direction, and feel motivated to contribute” said Fawzy Abu Seif, CEO and Co-founder of Spokn. “But existing tools weren’t designed to be the cultural connective tissue that remote or hybrid teams need. Podcasting is the perfect fit for reaching employees in the format they love – whether for messages from executives, staff spotlights, or stories on company history and values. Spokn is the only part of a company’s workstack that keeps employees connected while giving them a break from their screen.” Stay tuned to the pod because I’ll be interviewing Mariel Davis in a few weeks. As a podcaster I am very intrigued by what spokn is up to hear. https://hrtechfeed.com/podcasting-for-work-spokn-gets-4-million/ Workrise, (formely known as Rigup) the leading workforce management platform for the skilled trades, has raised a $300 million Series E round Workrise connects skilled laborers with infrastructure and energy companies looking to staff and manage projects efficiently. The company’s online platform matches workers with more than 500 companies in its network, manages payroll and benefits, and provides access to training. Founded in 2014 as a platform to match skilled laborers with companies in the oil and gas industry, Workrise has since broadened its business to serve companies and trade workers in the solar, wind, commercial construction, and defense industries. The company will use the latest investment to continue to expand into new markets served by its platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/workrise-gets-300m-series-e/ DailyPay, the on-demand pay solutions for enterprises, announced it has secured $500 million of capital. The company is announcing a $175 million Series D equity round led by Carrick Capital Partners with participation from existing investors. In addition, the company is announcing it has raised $325 million of credit capital from various sources. The Company intends to invest its newly raised capital in new market opportunities for its technology platform, in addition to extending its market leadership position in on-demand pay among the largest employers in the world. “This financing package creates a fortress balance sheet that we can deploy on behalf of employers and their employees,” said Scot Parnell, Chief Financial Officer at DailyPay. “The on-demand pay industry requires an exceptionally well-capitalized balance sheet to ensure the highest degree of service delivery, reliability and trust.” https://hrtechfeed.com/dailypay-raises-500-million-for-its-on-demand-pay-solution/ Jumpstart, a Diversity Recruitment Platform (DRP) who’s mission is to make the world more equitable, is rebranding as Canvas. The startup also announced $20 million in new funding. The company currently has 70 employees and expects to have 100 by the end of 2021. The Canvas Diversity Recruiting Platform is a fully virtual recruiting platform that is based on self-reported data. Unlike other solutions that might utilize inferred data that could be inaccurate or illegal, Canvas helps create a more accurate data set to identify diverse candidates, helping to solve the core problem of talent discovery. In fact, 56% of all hires on the Canvas platform are made from Under represented Groups (URGs), and the platform helps employers achieve a 30% reduction in time to hire. NOTE: the new name is the same as the text recruiting company acquired by Jobvite. That name appears to have been now sunsetted. The new Canvas has acquired the canvas.com domain. https://hrtechfeed.com/diversity-recruiting-platform-raises-20m/ BrightHire, the leading interview intelligence platform designed to empower companies with the unprecedented insight they need to make the best hiring decisions easily, today announced $12.5M in new funding. The raise will further the company’s investment in next-level analytics for measuring the quality, effectiveness and equity of interviews. The company also revealed t

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StepStone, one of the world’s leading online job marketplaces, has acquired the San Francisco based, Mya, a conversational AI (artificial intelligence) technology. The company will embed Mya’s technology into its online job search. StepStone says they will fundamentally change the way it engages with job seekers, nurture candidates, and match them to right job opportunities. On top of just searching for jobs, StepStone will interact with its users conversationally through new channels to discover more about job seeker preferences, skills, and interests and increase the number and quality of matching job applications. The new technology will become part of StepStone’s Autonomous Matchingtm platform. Based on machine learning, conversational AI will enable job seekers to find matching job opportunities even without actively searching for them. The technology draws conclusions from talking to the candidate and then suggests suitable jobs via text message, WhatsApp or onsite chat. StepStone customers will benefit from improved matching and higher quality of hiring. Engaging with job seekers based on conversational AI will first be integrated in StepStone’s job marketplaces in English and German language. https://hrtechfeed.com/stepstone-acquires-mya-conversational-ai-software/ ZipRecruiter®, announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2021. Quarterly revenue increased to $125 million, up 11% y/y In April, ZipRecruiter filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a direct listing of its common stock. The Company’s registration statement was declared effective on May 14th, and its Class A common stock is expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “ZIP” on May 26, 2021. “In our first public earnings report, ZipRecruiter delivered record revenue in Q1. We are issuing guidance for the year that maps to the strong signs of recovery in the U.S. hiring market. We believe that we are in the early stages of a significant resurgence of job growth during the once-in-a-lifetime reopening of the economy after the pandemic. We are well-positioned to take advantage of this moment as we continue to actively connect people to their next great opportunity.” said Ian Siegel, CEO of ZipRecruiter. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-announces-first-quarter-2021-results-and-2021-guidance/ Phenom announced the launch of Phenom Hiring Manager, a powerful set of hiring tools that redesigns hiring, management and collaboration with recruiters. Phenom Hiring Manager is enabling managers to overcome these challenges and improve collaboration with recruiters to fill roles faster. The experience is tailored to their needs, and designed to reduce feedback loops that delay hiring, create poor candidate experiences and interfere with managers’ other responsibilities. Its functionality includes Discover and review candidate profiles Progress or reject candidates and provide feedback Initiate, automate and manage interview scheduling Access and evaluate on-demand video assessments Record a personalized video to share on job description pages Leverage Phenom AI’s fit scoring, intelligent matching and insights Thats it for this week... for all these stories vist hr tech feed dot com or look for the links in our podcast notes. ----- Upwork (Nasdaq: UPWK), has announced the launch of Talent Scout™, a recruiting solution that connects companies with pre-vetted expert talent selected from the Upwork platform by specialized Upwork recruiters. Talent Scout represents an additional way to access and engage talent and is part of Upwork’s ongoing focus on offering a dynamic, one-stop online talent solution serving customers’ full spectrum of talent needs. Talent Scout is currently available for clients located in the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Israel. It will be available to additional countries soon. https://hrtechfeed.com/upwork-now-helps-you-find-pre-vetted-remote-freelancers/ Stoke Talent is launching customizable and automated Workflows for Onboarding and Offboarding non-payroll workers – such as freelancers, contractors, consultants and agencies – to make this process easier and risk-free for companies. Whenever a contractor is being onboarded to a company, they need to sign legal documents, provide payment information and tax documentation. The company should then run Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering (KYC/AML) checks before payments, document any system or data access provided to the contractor, and track hardware equipment provided, such as laptops and company badges. Today, most of these activities are done by email and tracked through spreadsheets, making this problematic and creating potential significant risks to the company. Stoke Talent’s automated Onboarding and Offboarding Workflows automates all of the above processes. It enables legal, finance, and IT teams to set up policies that are enforced throughout the entire co

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INDIANAPOLIS — An on-demand screening platform called Qualifi which allows recruiting teams to phone interview 100s of candidates in minutes, has raised a $600,000 pre-seed investment. The Qualifi platform enables recruiters to create seamless one-way interview experiences using audio and voice that candidates respond to over a standard phone call, eliminating back-and-forth scheduling, reducing communication times with candidates, and capturing better data to help recruiters scale screening efforts. Recruiters using Qualifi shave one week off their time-to-hire average. “We’ve been recruiters ourselves and we spend so much time listening to our customers to understand the challenges they face, that we know exactly what they need from us,” said Darrian Mikell, CEO and co-founder of Qualifi. “This cash injection will allow us to build functionality into the platform much faster, expanding our capabilities to meet the specific needs of our customers in verticals like healthcare, call centers, and other fast-paced industries.” Founded in 2019, Qualifi grew from the accelerator and Pitch Pardi programs from Be Nimble, a social enterprise supporting the growth of black tech ecosystems. https://hrtechfeed.com/candidate-screening-tool-launches-with-seed-investment/ Outmatch, the Hiring Experience global leader, today announced it has acquired and will be joining forces with Amsterdam-based Harver, the leading provider of volume hiring software that digitally transforms the hiring process at scale. Bolstering Outmatch’s Hiring Experience Stack™ of assessments, video interviewing, and reference checking with Harver’s one-of-a-kind platform for high-volume hiring creates an unprecedented offering that enables global enterprises to make smarter hires more efficiently. Candidates will experience a humanized, self-driven, and unbiased application process while employers capitalize on a streamlined, scalable solution that enables any high-volume hiring – from hourly to professional. “We are incredibly excited to bring Outmatch and Harver together to form a solution that disrupts the pre-hire technology industry,” said Greg Moran, CEO of Outmatch. “The high-volume hiring process continues to innovate, and technology is playing a bigger role than ever. The combination of Outmatch and Harver will make us the absolute leader in the space to navigate companies through this transition,” he added. With a combined 1,300 customers globally, the company expects to screen nearly 25 million candidates this year for some of the world’s top companies across the combined suite of solutions. Outmatch has previously acquired Checkster, Furstperson and Launchpad making the harver purchase their fourth in the past year. https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-acquire-amsterdam-based-harver/ TikTok is testing a tool for brands to recruit employees, sources tell Axios. Details: The pilot program is designed to help people find jobs on TikTok and connect with companies looking to find candidates. It's also meant to help brands use TikTok as a recruitment channel. The company is currently testing the service with a beta group of companies. Several big brands have been asked about participating, including sports leagues. The platform isn't a product that's integrated within TikTok itself, but rather a separate web page accessible via the TikTok app where brands can post jobs, primarily entry-level listings. Users can post a TikTok video resume to the site rather than a traditional resume. The idea is for users to give an elevator pitch or work experience summary via the video in a unique way. TikTok will ask candidates to post their resume videos to their TikTok profiles, if they wish, to help publicize the new service. https://www.axios.com/tiktok-job-hiring-tiktok-576f3b99-602c-46ac-afed-218ddf61a9ba.html Legion, a workforce management tool redefining how enterprise companies manage and empower their hourly workforces,announced a $50M Series C investment round. The company plans to use this newly secured financing to build on its momentum to increase hiring and accelerate product innovation. After a year of tremendous growth (391% year-over-year) driven by surging demand for Legion’s innovative workforce management platform, Legion’s Series C comes just nine months after the company secured a $22M Series B and brings the total amount of funding secured to $85.5M. “Our mission of turning hourly jobs into good jobs is even more critical now,” said Sanish Mondkar, CEO and founder of Legion Technologies. “With the challenges faced by every industry in the past year, employers need flexible, efficient ways to engage with – and retain – their hourly employees. Using Legion WFM, employers can optimize their operations while increasing employee engagement, resulting in increased productivity and commitment.” https://hrtechfeed.com/workforce-management-platform-gets-50m-in-funding/ According to TechCrunch, Blind has received a $37 million Series C funding rou

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DENVER interviewIA — a technology platform that manages all aspects of the job interview workflow to enable the coexistence of equitable and efficient hiring — has raised $2 Million in its seed round to fund strategic hires and product development as well as growth initiatives. This Series Seed round was led by The Colorado Impact Fund, with participation from several investors. interviewIA fills an urgent need to help all interviewers deliver a consistent, non-biased experience driven by structure and real-time analytics to hire a diverse, qualified workforce. interviewIA’s founding team established and validated this unique methodology while working together over the last several years on the front lines of innovative talent strategies. Three years ago they built the first version of this interview platform and began to iterate on the value that this could bring to the market. “We are excited to partner with the interviewIA team to help scale their uniquely positioned technology platform,” says Ryan Kirkpatrick, Co-Managing Partner of the Colorado Impact Fund. “As hiring accelerates through the recovery from the pandemic and considering the call to action on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion after the social movements this past summer, we believe a solution to make the interview process more efficient, structured, and unbiased is important and timely.” You can check them out at interview ia dot com https://hrtechfeed.com/interviewia-secures-2-million-seed-round/ A new real estate recruiting tool has launched. Lone Wolf Technologies has announced the launch of Recruit, real estate’s first recruiting solution that helps brokers find the best talent and who represent the best fit for their brokerage. Recruit is a new solution that leverages AI, machine-learning, and data science to identify agents who are a best fit for a brokerage. With Recruit, brokers can create custom search profiles based on the traits of their best agents. Recruit’s AI technology then crunches over 30 industry-specific metrics to calculate a ‘Fit Score’ for each agent. With this ‘Fit Score’, brokers can easily and more accurately identify and recruit the best agents—who are also a best fit—and are most likely to contribute to the brokerage’s bottom-line. “We’re thrilled to launch Recruit today,” said Jimmy Kelly, CEO and President of Lone Wolf. “This year, we’re on a mission to provide more cutting-edge technology to the real estate industry than ever before. Recruit is a unique and incredibly innovative solution that will provide brokers in the U.S. with a simple and intuitive way of finding and recruiting the best talent and fit for their brokerage.” https://hrtechfeed.com/new-real-estate-recruiting-solution-launches/ FUNDING ALERT - Wedge, the recruiting platform based on video screening announced $1.6M in additional funding with participation from new and existing investors. Wedge co-founder and CEO Matt Baxter said, “By helping meet the challenges of remote hiring, Wedge has become an essential solution for many companies. Since our initial raise, we’ve seen rapid momentum, including 600 percent growth year over year, and with this infusion, we plan to build on that, adding to our own team and introducing additional product enhancements while supporting the recruiting needs of today’s leading employers.” Since Wedge’s $1M seed funding announcement in July 2020, the company has launched a redesigned candidate experience to help prioritize transparency, communication and preparation during the screening and interviewing process. Wedge has also expanded its partner program and made several key additions to its team, including HR tech expert Theo Rokos as president, and Emma Roque, as vice president of Customer Success. Rokos was co-founder and CEO of GreenJobInterview, a video interviewing pioneer, and most recently served as Chief Revenue Officer at Job.com https://hrtechfeed.com/video-screening-tool-wedge-raises-1-6-million-in-new-funding/ Recruiting software companies Lever and Create have upgraded their product offerings. Lever, a leading Talent Acquisition Suite, has announced their spring feature release, increasing efficiency for recruiters everywhere. Screening your applicants faster at the top of the funnel: With Fast Resume Review, the screening and evaluation process of inbound applicants is expedited into one convenient view. During the review, candidates can be advanced in the pipeline, archived, or skipped for review at another time. All of the options include the ability to email and/or add a note to the opportunity to ensure an optimal candidate experience. Time-saving approvals during the job requisition process: Through the new customization within Dynamic Requisition Approver, teams can ensure that each stakeholder – finance, HR, etc. – is on board with the requisition requested by defining user picklist fields. Raising the bar for reporting with powerful data-visualization tools: Visual Insights in-app reporting br

Attracting, engaging, and hiring the right candidate starts the moment a job seeker lands on your career site. As the digital window into your company culture, employers must leverage their career site to convey a strong brand, quick and easy access to jobs, and information that helps talent make an informed decision about whether your company is right for them. Now as organizations prepare for a post-pandemic workforce and a new era of HR, delivering an incredible candidate experience is the only way to gain a competitive edge and win over talent. Phenom, provider of the Talent experience management platform recently released results from their survey titled State of the Candidate experience that details how fortune 500 companies rank when it comes to attracting, engaging and converting talent. Joining me to discuss the report is Jonathan Dale, VP of marketing at Phenom. LINK: https://www.phenom.com/state-of-candidate-experience-benchmark-report Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ceridian a global leader in human capital management (HCM) technology, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ideal, a leading talent intelligence software provider based in Toronto, Ontario. This acquisition is anticipated to optimize Ceridian’s talent management offering once Ideal’s capabilities are integrated into the Dayforce platform. The acquisition is expected to close on April 30, 2021 Ideal’s talent intelligence products enhance recruiting processes, including screening, shortlisting, and matching top candidates. Dayforce customers will also have access to Ideal’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) intelligence system, enabling employers to meet diversity head-on by ensuring that objectivity and inclusion happen up-front in the talent acquisition and management processes. https://hrtechfeed.com/ceridian-to-acquire-ideal/ CareRev, a labor marketplace platform that connects hospitals and health systems with local healthcare professionals on demand, today announced the closing of a $50 million series A financing round led by Transformation Capital, a growth equity fund solely focused on innovative healthcare IT and services companies. Los Angeles-based CareRev offers a cloud-based platform in which hospitals and other healthcare facilities post shifts when they need clinical support, and local, vetted healthcare professionals claim the shifts through their mobile app — eliminating the need for a traditional agency. Unlike other healthcare labor marketplace platforms, CareRev offers health systems the technology to create their own hybrid marketplaces in which internal employees are given the option to claim shifts before they’re broadcasted to local, external CareRev professionals. The platform helps hospitals reduce labor costs, particularly offsetting expensive travel contracts, and gives professionals a more intuitive way to pick up shifts: on their phones. https://hrtechfeed.com/healthcare-job-marketplace-lands-50m-in-funding/ Kent Plunkett, Founder & CEO of Salary.com, the compensation solution provider of the trusted data and intuitive software you need to get pay right, today announced the company has secured $67M in funding in a financing round led by Accel-KKR Credit Partners, Centre Lane, and Wells Fargo Capital Finance. The new capital will be used to accelerate innovation and expand hiring at the industry’s fastest-growing compensation management company. Managing the complexities around compensation management is a top priority for organizations facing elevated expectations around workforce transformation. Vast and diverse data sets, big data analysis, and visualizations are becoming the norm. Infrastructure for job description management and market pricing are in high demand. In building the world’s largest compensation data cloud on the industry’s most secure collaboration platform, Salary.com is redefining modern compensation analysis. “Salary.com created the compensation technology category in 1999 and continues to lead the industry in bringing innovations to the field under the steady hand of the original team, a plus in an industry that has seen much upheaval and consolidation,” said Todd Ofenloch, Managing Director in the Boston office of H.I.G. Capital. “We’re excited to support the company’s future growth and next wave of innovation.” https://hrtechfeed.com/67-million-for-salary-com/ IPO news Paycor HCM, Inc., a leading Software-as-a-Service provider of human capital management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. The offering is subject to market conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether, or when, the offering may be contemplated or as to the actual size or terms of the offering. Paycor has applied to list its common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “PYCR.” and ZipRecruiter® (www.ziprecruiter.com) today announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed public direct listing of its Class A common stock. ZipRecruiter intends to list its Class A common stock on the New York Stock Exchange. The company made over $400 million in 2020 and is currently profitable after a huge round of layoffs last year. Inside the S1 filing i saw that they think the stock is worth 25 dollars per share so we’ll see what it opens at. No timetable a=has been given for these IPO announcements. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-announces-filing-of-registration-statement-for-proposed-public-direct-listing-of-its-class-a-common-stock/ Lastly in the biggest news of rhe week Jobvite, JazzHR, and NXTThing RPO to Merge a

Last friday Ziprecruiter announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed public direct listing of its Class A common stock. ZipRecruiter intends to list its Class A common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ZIP. Here to discuss the filing with me is Peter Zollman the publisher and editor of the AIM group which covers the recruitment/classified marketplace industry. LINK: https://aimgroup.com/2021/04/25/ziprecruiter-files-for-direct-listing-on-nyse-revenue-fell-3-in-2020-but-it-was-profitable/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Helskini-based Jobilla has raised €2.16 million. Founded in 2015, Jobilla is aiming to stake its claim in a €450 billion industry, often plagued by complicated and/or not-so-user-friendly software packages. The funding round was led by Trind VC, and €700,000 of the investment arrives via loans and government grants. Jobilla is reporting that the funding will be used to further develop its recruiting software as well as drive expansion efforts into Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands, and scale up operations in the U.S. They do offer a free version which looks like it has a ton of features so check it out at jobilla.com https://hrtechfeed.com/jobilla-raises-funding/ Infinite Computer Solutions, a global technology company, has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire IBM’s Talent Acquisition Suite. Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close later this year were not disclosed. Infinite is acquiring IBM Lead Manager, BrassRing, and Onboard. BrassRing supports more than 20 languages and provides candidate lifecycle management and employee onboarding for more than 240 customers, many of whom appear on the Fortune 500. In the past 12 months, the product was used to manage more than 60 million candidate submissions with almost 50 million recruiter logins and over 4 million active users. “This strategic acquisition expands our portfolio of platforms and services with a market-leading product that accommodates the most complex recruitment and onboarding requirements,” said Sanjay Govil, founder and chairman of Infinite Computer Solutions. “With hiring set to scale up post-COVID, we saw an opportunity to provide our global client base a proven SaaS-based platform to attract and recruit candidates as well as onboard employees.” https://hrtechfeed.com/ibm-talent-acquisition-suite-to-be-sold/ Deel, the international payroll company has announced that it has raised $156 million in Series C funding led by the YC Continuity Fund and has welcomed Ali Rowghani to its board. The round was co-led by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital. Dara Khosrowshahi, Lachy Groom, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jeff Wilke, and Anthony Schiller also participated in the round, among others. With a valuation of $1.25 billion, Deel has emerged as a market leader in the global payroll and compliance space. Deel allows businesses to hire anyone, anywhere, in a compliant manner. Hiring and onboarding international employees or contractors takes under 5 minutes, with no local entity required. Paying them in 120+ currencies takes just a click. Deel was co-founded in 2018 by MIT alumni Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang. Deel was already focused on this pain point when the pandemic hit, putting the startup in a prime position to help companies adjust to the dramatic shift in working and hiring norms. The company competes with players such as Remote.com...in the last 2 weeks 3 hr tech companies have raised more than 100 million in funding. To say that investors love hr tech is an understatement. https://hrtechfeed.com/payments-platform-deel-raises-156-million-series-c/ RippleMatch, the leading early career recruiting platform, today announced it raised $23.5M in additional funding. The heavily oversubscribed round was led by Invus Opportunities with participation from Renegade Partners and Gaingels as well as existing investors G20, Work-Bench, Alleycorp, Bullpen Capital and Accomplice. In addition, the company unveiled RippleMatch CRM, the latest addition to its comprehensive platform designed to help employers hire the right early career talent virtually, build diverse, high performing teams, and improve the candidate experience. “This is a special moment in our journey to make early career recruiting more intelligent and efficient, as well as accessible for job seekers from underrepresented educational, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds,” said RippleMatch CEO Andrew Myers. “The new funding will allow us to continue building out our intelligent hiring platform, empowering companies across the country to understand their data and build a recruiting pipeline that more accurately mirrors the demographics of the broader U.S. population.” https://hrtechfeed.com/ripplematch-raises-23m-for-early-career-recruiting/ BioSpace has acquired MedReps, the leading job site for medical sales positions. The acquisition strengthens the Company’s position as the leader in online recruitment for the life sciences industry. Financial terms were not disclosed. “The acquisition of MedReps extends our capabilities and further establishes our position as a leading partner for life sciences organizations,” said Joshua Goodwin, CEO of BioSpace, Inc. “The BioSpace and MedReps services complement each other with BioSpace’s traditional strength in biotech and MedRep’s focus on the medical device and diagnostic sectors. This was also an opportunity to combine two incredible teams that share the same passion and drive to serve the life sciences commun

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Upskilling platform Degreed has raised $153 million in Series D funding. The investment, which was co-led by Sapphire Ventures and Riverwood Capital, values the company at $1.4 billion. Dan Levin, former COO of Box will succeed Chris McCarthy as CEO of Degreed. The funding will be used to accelerate product development, enhance data infrastructure, fuel global expansion, and pursue strategic acquisitions. Technology enhancements will focus on upgrading Degreed’s reporting and analytics, ensuring best in class security, and enhancing integrations that take Degreed deeper into users’ daily workflow. “Investing in skills, culture, and career growth has become a critical differentiator for employers,” said Jeff Parks, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Riverwood Capital. “Under Chris’ leadership, Degreed has transformed the learning experience and upskilling conversation. We are thrilled to build on that vision in partnership with Dan and this incredible team, and are focused on the next phase of their scalability journey and supporting their mission to equip people with the skills they need to redefine their careers, their companies, their fields, and the world.” The total funding round including equity and debt reached $183 million and included participation from current investors Signal Peak Ventures, Owl Ventures, GSV Ventures, Founders Circle, Contour Investment Partners, Section Partners, and Alliance Bernstein, as well as new investor Firework Ventures. https://hrtechfeed.com/upskilling-platform-degreed-raises-153-million-series-d/ obvite has launched Jobvite Academy, a new online learning center for talent acquisition (TA) teams to modernize their recruiting skills. Traditionally, recruiters have had to learn on the job or seek training on their own. Now, TA professionals and their teams can enhance their recruitment expertise with Jobvite Academy. Jobvite Academy is designed to upskill and broaden the knowledge of recruiting teams, resulting in better productivity and results for organizations regardless of their tech platform. Jobvite Academy features cost-effective and self-guided certification programs created and led by a faculty of experts and covers the knowledge needed for TA professionals to develop more innovative action plans informed by best practices. This includes providing vendor-agnostic training on critical recruiting skills, key competencies, and proven industry best practices. Jobvite Academy will include a range of certification options including these initial programs: Recruitment Marketing (available now), with Applicant Management and Effective TA Operations both coming soon. Each program can be completed at one’s own pace, includes seven learning modules, and qualifies for SHRM and HRCI credits. Participants will also receive two workbooks and one exam to ensure hands-on experience and course completion. https://hrtechfeed.com/jobvite-academy-launches-to-help-educate-talent-acquisition-professionals/ Hired has announced its new unified solution and rebrand following its acquisition by Vettery and The Adecco Group in November 2020. Hired has absorbed Vettery to operate as a single platform that matches a highly-curated pool of motivated candidates with fast-growing, innovative companies. The new, combined solution expands Hired’s pool of candidates beyond tech to sales roles as well. Besides continuing to offer remote roles globally, Hired is now available to candidates in four new markets – Atlanta, Dublin, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia – bringing the platform’s number of concentrated regions to 18 of the leading tech hubs in the world across the U.S., Canada, UK, and Ireland. Hired aims to demystify the opaque hiring industry by giving both candidates and employers accurate information, equal access to opportunity, and unparalleled transparency. As G2’s leading Diversity Recruiting Software, Hired’s unique offering includes customized assessments and salary bias alerts to help remove unconscious bias in the hiring process. Cangrade, a leading bias-free AI-based hiring solution that predicts job candidate success, launched its Job Description Decoder, an easy and free way for organizations to reduce bias, improve their talent pipeline, and find the right fit for their roles by identifying the soft skills their candidates need for success. Cangrade’s Job Description Decoder is a powerful, easy-to-use tool built on Cangrade’s powerful psychometric data and I/O psychology. With a short survey, the Job Description Decoder pinpoints which soft skills will lead to success in a company’s open role, how to pinpoint those soft skills in an interview, and how to advertise for those skills. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-tech-bytes-hired-cangrade/ ZipRecruiter now lets employers know when candidates are in high demand and encourages them to act fast, before it is too late Many employers lose top candidates to more agile competitors by taking too long to contact them. Now, ZipRecruiter helps empl

Angelo Pancho oversees Recruiting Tech Innovation and International Strategic Talent Sourcing for Rockwell International and today we’ll talk about the technology he uses to hire talent. Describe your current role for the audience Do you have a fav sourcing story as a recruiter? Whats the pitch to come join Rockwell? benefits? What are the recruiting tech tools in place at Rockwell? (current ATS etc) Paid ads whats working best? Are you planning new ones? If so please describe…Altru Last tool you demoed? draup.com Diversity efforts at Rockwell? Are you hiring on the talent team? How many contractors...do you foresee growing contract/freelance help? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recruiting Technology Headlines This week in Rec Tech: Phenom hits the mother load, Workshop gets funded, Talroo unifies its product suite, Dice adds features and Recruiter.com makes another acquisition. This episode is sponsored by HR Lancers, the freelance marketplace for recruiters and HR pros. Does your company need help with HR or recruiting? Post a project, or contractor role today for free and target ver 5,000 freelancers looking for work right now. HRlancers.com On to the news... Phenom, the world’s most widely used AI-powered talent experience platform, today announced a $100 million Series D round. B Capital Group led the round, among other investors….The capital will let Phenom remain focused on fulfilling its purpose — to help a billion people find the right job - the company is now valued at 1.3 billion and one of their investors was quoted saying they will go public in the near future. With new funding, Phenom continues to innovate its Talent Experience Management (TXM) platform for organizations adopting AI holistically in a post-COVID era. As a result, candidates find the right job faster; employees learn and evolve; recruiters discover best-fit talent with efficiency and scale; and managers make stronger data-driven decisions to build their future teams. “At Phenom, we’ve always been a purpose-driven company, and that will never change,” said Mahe Bayireddi, CEO and co-founder of Phenom. “Since the beginning, we have rooted our platform in intelligence versus simply adding AI as a single tool or feature. This makes our AI dramatically different, and helps us cultivate a healthy talent ecosystem. Jobs are the foundation of thriving societies around the world. They provide livelihoods and help people reach their full potential. As organizations respond to a seismic shift in how they approach and manage talent, Phenom is scaling with conviction, so everyone has the resources to succeed in times of both volatility and stability.” Congrats to the team at Phenom, they are one of only 15 companies in HR tech ever to receive a funding round of $100 million or more. https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-raises-100-million-series-d/ Dice, launched its enhanced Candidate Profile to highlight technologists’ unique skills and career accomplishments, maximizing their visibility to top recruiters and employers. The redesigned tool joins recently released Recruiter Profiles and Instant Messaging to establish an interactive and dynamic career marketplace, activating Dice’s deep tech specialization to empower recruiters, hiring organizations and technologists to build meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships that lead to career placements. As part of the launch new features include; Recruiter Profile: provides recruiters the opportunity to build trust and credibility with technologists by showing what sets them apart in their personalized profile. Instant Messaging: enables real-time, transparent conversations between employers and technologists through the Dice platform, building immediate credibility and trust on both sides of the relationship. https://hrtechfeed.com/whats-new-in-hr-tech-dice-suitisoft-kazoo/ Workshop, an employee communications platform for sharing and finding important internal data, has raised a $3.5 million seed round. The round included a group of prominent Midwest venture funds and angel investors, including Ludlow Ventures, M25, and Linseed Capital. Workshop’s seed round is almost entirely composed of local and regional investors, which continues the co-founders’ vocal support of the Midwest as a hub for great technology and startup opportunities. The startup plans to use the funds to build out a world-class team that can continue to build an amazing product, with a current focus on recruiting engineering talent. Workshop also announced the official launch of their new employee communications platform, which includes a streamlined way to share important internal updates, as well as an option for an all-company hub. Built to cut through the noise with relevant news and urgent updates, Workshop functions as a single source of truth for important internal information. For the communicator, it’s easy to create targeted, well-designed messages in minutes, and send them to a specific audience via email, text, or Slack. The startup also offers an all-company hub to centralize all of a company’s most important information. It offers common intranet features with a great user experience, including personalized updates, pinned resources, an employee directory, and global search. For more information go to useworkshop.com. https://hrtechfeed.com/employee-communications-platform-raises-3-5-million/ Recruiter.com acquired Upsider.ai, an artificial intelligence sourcing software that automates candidate identification and engagement for enabling employers to make the best hires. "Upsider.ai's AI-based scoring engine analyzes millions of data sources to identify qualified candidates faster, cuttin

Industry meeting with some industry peeps including the co-founder of Datapeople.io who just received $8 million in VC funds for its talent analytics platform. Sponsored by Brazen.com the virtual job fair platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rejobify is a service from RecTech Media, that was built to help employers add value to their rejection process….in a way that positively reinforces your company brand and gives candidates something useful to do besides deleting your rejection email. Let us help you improve the part of your candidate experience that everyone hates, the rejection email. Rejobify clients actually get thank you emails from those they reject. How many companies can say that? https://www.rejobify.com Mention this podcast and get 10% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Matt Lozar from Haley Marketing this session is all about hashtags for recruiting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Cronofy.com Meetup Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlduuuqTwjG9Ygo1L-lnJ5Er6qgMf0imuR Crosschq: https://hrtechfeed.com/crosschq-raises-13-million-for-its-human-intelligence-hiring/ Celential: https://hrtechfeed.com/virtual-recruiter-platform-celential-raises-9-5m/ Datapeople: https://hrtechfeed.com/datapeople-announces-8m-in-raised-capital-as-it-works-to-make-recruiting-more-equitable/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonathan Kidders is a Sourcer at Amazon with 10+ years of talent sourcing experience. In his spare time he writes extensively on recruiting and sourcing tools on his blog at WizardSourcer.com and today he’ll give us a rundown of the latest and great sourcing tools hitting the market. https://wizardsourcer.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is sponsored by Cronofy, the scheduling platform for business and HR professionals. Don’t let impersonal and lengthy interview scheduling stop you from acquiring top talent! https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology Headlines Fetcher, a full-service, recruiting automation platform, announced today that it has raised a $6.5M Series A investment led by G20 Ventures, with participation from KFund and existing investors Accomplice and Slow. This brings the total capital raised by Fetcher to $12M, allowing the company to double down on delivering qualified candidates faster than ever, along with providing better insights & resources to help companies create diverse candidate pipelines. In order to hire qualified, diverse talent recruiters and hiring managers often spend hours each day discovering, emailing, and nurturing prospective candidates. These monotonous, time consuming efforts often take away from time spent on the candidate experience, meaning the team has less time to engage, market, and connect with potential candidates, which could lead to fewer offers accepted or poor culture fits. Fetcher’s full-service, recruiting automation platform gives recruiters and hiring managers time back in the day. Rather than using a standard database model, Fetcher’s AI with ‘human in the loop’ sourcing model allows recruiters to spend less time in front of a computer searching for candidates and more time on the candidate experience, making real human connections, while Fetcher’s automated sourcing runs in the background. https://hrtechfeed.com/fetcher-raises-6-5-million-series-a/ Visage, a collaborative candidate sourcing platform, today announced it has raised a $7 million Series A investment led by First Analysis with participation from existing investors Urban Innovation, LLC and NewFund Capital. The investment brings the total amount raised since inception in 2016 to $10.7 million. The company plans to use the new funds to expand its AI and human-powered crowdsourcing system and to develop its new Platform solution that enables teams to increase productivity, automate candidate engagement, and integrate with existing applicant tracking systems. “We’ve reached a pivotal point in technological advancements where we no longer have to spend our time scouring the internet and sourcing candidate profiles for hours at a time,” said Joss Leufrancois, Co-Founder and CEO of Visage.” AtVisage, we intelligently train our systems to look for and find these profiles. Visage’s combination of AI and a global team of human sourcers enables recruiters to save time and money, increasing efficiency and leaving more time for the human side of recruiting.” https://hrtechfeed.com/visage-raises-7m-series-a-to-streamline-candidate-sourcing-for-enterprises/ Job site ZipRecruiter has added new matching technology to help job seekers discover jobs that they are qualified for. Under the new algorithm they get feedback about how strong a match they are for every job. The guidance is generated using artificial intelligence algorithms trained on data from billions of employer and job seeker interactions in the ZipRecruiter marketplace. How It Works For each job, ZipRecruiter now shows job seekers a match score—either Great Match, Good Match, Fair Match, or Not a Match—which provides insight into how likely they are to be received favorably by a hiring manager for that particular job. It also provides recommendations on ways job seekers can improve their odds of success, such as by updating their profiles or resumes with more relevant qualifications. On the ZipRecruiter mobile app, the feature reduced job seeker’s applications to jobs for which they were not a match by 47%, on average, while raising applications to jobs for which they were a great match by 26% and for which they were a good match by 14%. That led to better matching and higher satisfaction for both employers and job seekers. https://hrtechfeed.com/ziprecruiter-boosts-matching-tech-for-job-seekers/ ResumeSieve™ announced the launch of its innovative candidate evaluation platform, The Sieve™. In addition, the company is offering extended benefits for early adopters of the tool. “Small businesses need access to affordable, easy-to-use recruiting tools,” said Dr. Mohan Kakar, creator and founder of ResumeSieve™. “We created The Sieve™ to reduce the time spent evaluating resumes. It was our observation that fatigue, bias and errors during the evaluation process were adversely impacting the ability for organizations to recruit the right talent. We decided to use AI based automation for evaluating resumes and providing quick insights to recruiters that would otherwise take them a significant amount of time and effort.” “Our approach is to present easy-to-use, cost effect tools to the SMB market around the world,” said Michael Yinger, CEO of The Sieve™ who has spent 20 years driving improvements for the recruitment industry. “Starting with The Sieve™ we plan

My guest today wants to talk about job descriptions, specifically 5 things that are going extinct on them...Rob Kelly is the founder and CEO of OnGig a tool that helps employers create better job postings. Why are you so obsessed about job descriptions? Quick description of OnGig? Before we look at the future (and things that might go extinct in job descriptions), what's changed in the last 5 to 10 years in JDs? So you and I were chatting about how with all the changes going on, the future job description might look different. Whats #5 on your list? Whats the best job description youve ever seen? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chris Forman is the … CEO of Appcast the programmatic job advertising platform. They just released their annual report on recruitment marketing data points and we’ll dive into those numbers on today's episode. LINK: https://info.appcast.io/whitepaper/2021-recruitment-marketing-benchmark-report-website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Criteria, a market-leading SaaS people analytics platform, announced that it has acquired Australian-based Alcami Interactive, an on-demand video interviewing platform. There has been a substantial increase in demand for advanced video interviewing since the beginning of 2020, and Criteria will offer its 4000+ customers Alcami’s video interviewing service through its platform. Alcami will also offer Criteria’s portfolio of assessments to its APAC customers. Criteria plans to fully integrate the companies in 2022. “It’s no secret that the rise of remote work has created increased demand for video interviewing tools,” said Josh Millet, founder and CEO of Criteria. “Our own benchmark report identified a 159% increase in video interviewing after COVID-19 hit, and many of our customers have asked us for a video interviewing solution. After an extensive market review, we are confident that we’ve selected the best video interviewing solution in the market today. What we love about Alcami is that they built their technology with priorities that mirror ours: creating a user-friendly interface that caters to an outstanding candidate experience, and building advanced functionality around diversity and inclusion. We believe Alcami will complement our pre-hire assessment portfolio and will enable us to add even more value to our customers’ hiring process by enabling structured interviews, which research shows work much better than unstructured ones.” Alcami has a unique technology that drives an outstanding customer and candidate user experience, advanced functionality around diversity and inclusion, and the ability to cater for both pre-recorded and live structured video interviews. The company was founded on the belief that the hiring process could be made much better for both the employer and the candidate, and that smart technology could help employers make smart hiring decisions. https://hrtechfeed.com/criteria-acquires-video-interviewing-platform-alcami-interactive/ Job site Indeed announced the launch of Indeed Hiring Platform, a new solution that allows employers to manage the hiring process – from posting through interview – directly on Indeed, with no additional software. With Indeed Hiring Platform, employers can reach 80% of US job seekers through the combined networks of Indeed and its sister company Glassdoor. In one integrated experience, employers can automate the process of sourcing, screening and scheduling interviews with quality candidates into Indeed’s video interviewing technology, Indeed Interview. “At Indeed, our mission is to help people get jobs, and this past year that mission has been more vital than ever,” said Chris Hyams, CEO of Indeed. “In response to the pandemic, last year we launched Indeed Interview to make it safe and effective for job seekers to interview over video. Now we’ve connected the dots from job search directly to interview, making hiring simpler, faster, and more human. Our vision is to make getting a job as easy as pushing a button, and Indeed Hiring Platform gets us one step closer.” https://hrtechfeed.com/indeed-is-ready-to-help-companies-ramp-up-hiring-with-new-indeed-hiring-platform/ SeekOut, the AI-powered Talent 360 platform, today announced $65 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from existing investors Madrona Venture Group and Mayfield. This capital raise brings SeekOut’s total funding to $73 million and reflects 10X growth in the 21 months since the company’s Series A round, while still being profitable. This funding round values SeekOut at close to half a billion dollars. With this Series B funding, SeekOut will continue to innovate and build the team to deliver more value to our customers. SeekOut will expand its Talent 360 platform to encompass internal and external talent – helping companies better retain employees, enable development & growth through internal mobility, and improve diversity and inclusion efforts. SeekOut will also invest in sales, marketing, and customer success to reach new customers. “Talent acquisition professionals and hiring managers are looking to go beyond the outdated resume when they do a candidate search. They are seeking a deeper and broader view of skills, experiences, and diversity,” says Lisa Rowan, VP HR, talent, and learning research for IDC. “SeekOut’s Talent 360 solution offers a compelling set of capabilities that is supporting hiring organizations with a fresh, modern approach to candidate search.” https://hrtechfeed.com/seekout-raises-65-million-in-series-b-funding/ ProvenBase is a new sourcing platform built solely to address the business need for diverse talent, is announcing their launch at Sourcecon Digital 2.0 on March 9th, 2021. “ProvenBase’s unique approach ensures candidates are contacted based on their skills and experiences, which ensures under represented groups are not just part of a recruiter’s pipeline, but they are actually contacted.” said Ravi Tandra – Prov

Mike Rymkiewicz is the new VP Sales for Cronofy the business scheduling platform. Today we’ll discuss the product along with some new case study data they have released about the benefits of faster interview scheduling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices