Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

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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

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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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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

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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 GoContractor, a leader in the digitization of construction worker onboarding and compliance tracking, today announced a $5 million Series A round of funding led by Building Ventures and Ironspring in the U.S. with continued participation from existing investors. The new funding will allow GoContractor to further scale across the US and European markets, grow its sales, support and marketing teams, and increase investment in its research and development organization located in Ireland. GoContractor is the only worker and subcontractor onboarding and data management solution that exclusively focuses on training, managing, and connecting general contractors with their workers and subcontractors in the construction industry. “We are very excited to work with Building Ventures and Ironspring, they both have an excellent track record and a very solid standing in the construction industry,” said John Naughton, CEO, GoContractor. “BV and Ironspring share our passion and enthusiasm for transforming construction, and understand the importance of connecting and qualifying workers through an online platform to safely access construction sites across the globe.” https://hrtechfeed.com/onboarding-tool-gocontractor-announces-5-million-series-a/ Parabol, a leading Agile meeting platform, secured a Series A investment of $8 million led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, with continued participation from CRV, Haystack, Techstars, and others. The announcement comes on the heels of Parabol’s latest milestone of registering 100,000 users across more than 3,000 companies worldwide to help them make their meetings more efficient and effective. This includes members of the United States Airforce, which awarded Parabol a $1.47 million contract via the Defense Department’s small business innovation research program, to bring Parabol’s Agile meeting platform to the U.S. military. “We’re excited about Parabol’s dual use as an enterprise solution with extensibility into the government and defense sectors,” said Priyanka Mitra, Principal at M12. “The macro trend of distributed teams and remote work are here to stay, beyond the COVID pandemic era. Parabol puts in-person and remote participants on an equal footing, whether teams are brainstorming plans for a product launch or helping to keep the country operating.” Parabol was founded in August 2015 to help remote and hybrid teams conduct structured meetings essential to Agile teamwork, such as retrospectives and daily stand-ups. By effectively collecting input from all meeting participants regardless of their physical location, Parabol provides an experience that is superior to physical meeting rooms and collaboration with whiteboards. Parabol seamlessly integrates with widely-used applications such as Slack, Jira, and GitHub, and automatically captures and summarizes the meeting output for all participants. Parabol will use its Series A funding to meet customer demand for additional Agile meeting types and add new enterprise features, expanding Parabol’s ability to serve even more kinds of teams. https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-collaboration-platform-parabol-raises-8m-in-series-a-funding/ Payroll Merger in the news… PayScale, the industry leader in compensation data and technology, and Payfactors, a leading compensation data management company with deep industry expertise, announced that they have merged. Together, the combined company will become one of the largest providers of its kind in North America to help job seekers, employees and businesses get pay right. “Compensation and pay equity strategies are shifting even further on to the C-Suite agenda given the accelerated shift to remote and hybrid work and the overwhelming importance of the social justice movement,” said Scott Torrey, CEO, PayScale. “Together, the PayScale leadership team’s experience running SaaS businesses at scale combined with Payfactors’ deep compensation expertise creates the optimal set of capabilities to offer faster paced innovation to get pay right today and in the future for even the largest of organizations.” Both companies have built deep relationships with organizations and individuals by helping people navigate the increasingly complex compensation landscape. The addition of Payfactors will make it possible to offer customers the most comprehensive set of integrated data, software, services and support available to get compensation right under any market condition. PayScale CEO Scott Torrey will become CEO of the combined company with Payfactors CEO Jeff Laliberte taking on the role of Chief Strategy Officer and joining the PayScale board. https://hrtechfeed.com/payscale-and-payfactors-merge/ Stoke Talent, a leading freelance management system, announces tod

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Freelance workers may soon be able to find their next gigs through a new LinkedIn service that’s currently under development. LinkedIn Marketplaces will enable users on the Microsoft-owned professional social networking platform to find, connect, hire, and pay freelancers all on the platform itself. LinkedIn spokeswoman Suzi Owens was quoted as saying that the platform has noticed a rise in people searching and requesting services from others during the pandemic. “In the future we'll be building new ways to share more about the services you [could] offer directly through your LinkedIn profile,” Owens told The Information. LinkedIn’s move isn’t surprising since it is reported that Upwork and Fiverr, the two behemoths in the freelance marketplace field, together generated about $550 million in revenue last year. With over 700 million professionals already on its network, it stands to reason that LinkedIn wants to have a share of the pie as well. However, what apparently sets Marketplaces apart from the existing functionality is that it’ll be tied to the LinkedIn digital wallet that is also supposedly in the works. The wallet will enable LinkedIn to facilitate transactions between the employers and the freelancers, making the platform an attractive end-to-end solution in the gig economy. If reports are to be believed, LinkedIn has been working on the Marketplaces feature since October 2019, and it’s set to go public later this year in September. Have to ask what will happen to their current product ProFinder> That project marketplace has been out for years but never seemed to become a mainstream product fo rLI...looks like that may fade away in favor of whatever new thing they are building https://www.techradar.com/amp/news/linkedins-new-service-could-be-the-tool-to-book-your-next-freelance-gig iCIMS Adds Slew of New Features Accelerating hiring decisions: iCIMS for Microsoft Teams allows recruiters and hiring managers to provide interview feedback – during or after live video meetings – directly within Microsoft Teams to accelerate the ease and speed of hiring. Gaining more control with new, native video interview capabilities: Job advertising platform Talroo, has launched a new feature enhancement called Qualifying Questions to enable companies to hire qualified candidates while reducing wasted time and wasted recruitment marketing budget. https://hrtechfeed.com/new-features-in-hr-tech-icims-talroo-crew/ Bitwise Industries has raised $50M in series B financing led by Kapor Capital, with participation from JPMorgan Chase, Motley Fool Ventures, and ProMedica to support the actions needed to stop the widening wealth gap, end institutional discrimination, and remove the barriers for accessing high-wage, high-growth jobs. This latest round of funding will support the company’s growth into multiple new markets across the country beginning with Toledo, Ohio. Bitwise is one of the largest tech apprenticeship providers in the country. https://hrtechfeed.com/tech-apprenticeship-provider-bitwise-lands-50-million/ Phenom, the global leader in Talent Experience Management (TXM), today announced its acquisition of Talentcube, an experience-driven video technology company based in Munich, Germany. Phenom’s third acquisition in five months will accelerate the adoption of video for candidates, employees, recruiters and hiring managers, optimizing support of a post-COVID, remote workforce. The addition of Talentcube’s technology advances Phenom’s ability to provide seamless video functionality at every stage of the talent journey. https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-acquires-talentcube/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sponsored by Cronofy https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Glassdoor, has launched new product features that offer a new level of transparency into the state of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at companies. The new datasets reveal employee provided company ratings and salary reports broken out by specific demographic groups. The features now gives job seekers, employees and employers a deeper level of insight into the employee experience by displaying company ratings, CEO ratings and workplace factor ratings1 by race/ethnicity, gender identity, parental or caregiver status, disability, sexual orientation and veteran status. Salaries are broken out by gender identity and race/ethnicity.2 Recruiter.com announced the launch of its new-to-market product, Scouted by Recruiter.com, a highly specialized candidate curation tool that leverages the power of AI and talent experts to help hiring managers recruit top talent, faster. Scouted by Recruiter.com provides diverse pipelines of high-quality talent on a weekly basis, saving hiring teams tens of hours in the applicant sourcing and screening stage, streamlining processes to ensure a shorter interview-to-hire timeline. The product couples the efficiency of AI-powered tech with human-forward recruiting expertise so that rosters only include applicants who meet a team’s hiring criteria. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-tech-news-bytes-peopleready-glassdoor-recruiter-com/ Talenya, the world’s most advanced, AI-powered talent sourcing and diversity solution – released the findings from a groundbreaking study entitled Exploring The Pipeline Fallacy: Resume Skill Gaps Bury Underrepresented Minorities. Analyzing over 10 million candidate profiles, Talenya’s researchers found that minorities and females tend to share significantly less skills on their resumes when compared to their white and male counterparts. It is the first study of its kind to show that the so-called “diversity pipeline problem,” is a fallacy – in fact, there has never been a more talented, diverse population of recruitable talent across both race and gender. The problem is that tools and search processes recruiters are using are based on an antiquated technology (specifically, keyword or “Boolean” search) that is ill-equipped to find and surface these qualified, diverse candidates. To help fix this problem, Talenya is today launching its proprietary Diversity AI™ tool – built to empower recruiting teams to uncover and engage with significantly (2-3x) more qualified and diverse talent. Talenya levels the playing field for all talent regardless of race, gender, age, identity or disability – allowing them to be visible in the pipeline. https://hrtechfeed.com/talenya-introduces-diversity-ai-recruiting-technology-platform/ Eightfold AI, the provider of the Talent Intelligence Platform™, today announced the expansion of its industry-leading Talent Management solution. Central to this expansion is Career Hub, which pairs sophisticated AI-powered capabilities with a central destination for complete career development. We all need to think about our careers proactively – constantly evaluating the external circumstances and thinking about the skills we have and could have that will keep us relevant,” said Vicki Walia, Chief Talent and Capability Officer at Prudential Financial. “This is a great way to start that learning journey to hone a new skill or take on a passion project.” available in 15 languages The Eightfold Career Hub is used to help each employee: Keep employee profiles current, automatically updating them through integration with collaboration tools, task management systems, project management suites and other legacy systems. When paired with notifications and alerts, the AI platform serves relevant opportunities to each individual in the company Chart their own career path within the flow of their day-to-day work. Discover in-house opportunities to learn new skills and capabilities, creating specific growth opportunities aligned with company strategy and personal aspirations Hone new capabilities with actual projects in a talent marketplace that delivers experiential learning, versus classroom education Work directly with recommended mentors and peer programs, inspiring learning and fostering collaboration https://hrtechfeed.com/eightfold-transforms-upskilling-and-reskilling-with-career-hub/ Sh1ft, Inc. (Shift One), today announced initial seed funding of $5.2 million, led by City Light Capital Shift One was founded in 2019 by former Uber executives to address two fundamental challenges of the labor economy: the lack of a robust online marketplace for blue-collar jobs and a technology solution for companies looking to hire those workers. The company currently employs more than 25,000 workers and offers solutions in all 50 states and Latin America. Initially focusing on push-button solutions to quickly deploy entire teams of workers for last-mile logistics and delivery, e-commerce fulfillment and large-sca

Last year Alexander Mann (now known simply as AMS) Launched an end to end Hiring Platform for Hourly Workers. Its called Hourly and we’ll talk about what makes it tick with todays guest, Quincy Valencia. So Hourly is not quite a year old yet….whats this first year been like for the platform? How do you describe it? To me it seems like a job board + ATS powered by a chatbot? How does an employer use it find hourly talent? What are the challenges companies are facing in hiring hourly workers? Traitify...describe that part? Pre-screening...whats the right amount of knockout questions? Have you tweaked anything with the product over time? If so what were those tweaks Any texting built into product? Or is it web based chat? Programmatic whats working with job boards any trends or... How can companies create differentiation in crowded markets with limited talent pools? 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 NextStep, a mobile-based training and job placement company aiming to radically expand the supply of qualified Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) to address the nation’s caregiver shortage crisis, today announced a $3.6 million investment round from health and education technology-focused investors including Springrock Ventures, JAZZ Venture Partners, Learn Capital’s LearnStart fund, and the managing directors of Pioneer Square Labs. NextStep’s unique program, free to students and supported by employers, is helping to retrain workers in distressed industries as Certified Nursing Assistants, the most in-demand role in health care. Through courses delivered on mobile devices in 10-15 minute modules that can be consumed during a commute or after hours, displaced workers with experience in service and hospitality roles can retrain for jobs in the health care industry with higher earning and promotion potential. “NextStep is led by an experienced and nimble executive team that knows how to create technology-enabled solutions to meet our healthcare workforce needs,” said John Harris, managing partner at JAZZ Venture Partners. “I can’t think of any company that is better suited to having a positive impact on society and businesses in a world shaped both by the COVID crisis and an aging population.” The investment round was led by Springrock Ventures, the url is nextstep.careers https://hrtechfeed.com/skills-training-platform-raises-3-6m-to-help-workers-transition-to-health-care-roles/ Cornell Capital and Trilantic North America, two private investment firms, announced that they have acquired trustaff Management, Inc., a leading provider of travel nurse and allied healthcare staffing services, and CardioSolution, a managed services offering providing cardiologists and support personnel to hospitals. As part of this transaction, Cornell Capital and Trilantic North America they also agreed to acquire Stella.ai, Inc., a VC-backed, AI-driven online marketplace for employers and job seekers that brings cutting-edge technology expertise to the staffing sector. The combination of these companies will create a leading healthcare staffing platform with a unique technology-driven approach. In conjunction with the announcement, Adam Zoia, CEO and Co-Founder of Stella, has been named CEO of the combined company, succeeding Brent Loring, CEO of trustaff, who is retiring. STella launched as stell.ai and now operates asStella.jobs, the company pivoted at one point and appears to have given up on its current course as their platform will now pivit again to healthcare. Stella had raised $10 million back in 2017 under the guise of a shared talent network. https://hrtechfeed.com/stella-ai-acquired-by-private-equity-firms/ WizeHire, has announced the closing of $7.5 million in Series A funding co-led by Amplo and Mercury. Additional investors include existing backers Ruchit Shah and RigUp co-founder Sandeep Jain. WizeHire intends to use the funds to provide small businesses a faster, easier hiring experience previously only available to large corporations. That includes creating more personalized resources to address clients’ unique hiring needs, hiring more support staff and expanding its partner program to build a network of experts in its key industries of real estate, insurance, mortgage, legal and hospitality. “WizeHire is focused on a future where small business owners have easy access to the elevated hiring experience large corporations already have,” said Amplo’s Sam Garcia, who will join WizeHire’s board. “They’re not just creating a better alternative to current recruiting solutions; they’re giving employers more peace of mind about the hiring process so they can get back to building their business.” “We are thrilled to support WizeHire’s opportunity to define talent acquisition for small businesses,” said Heath Butler, Managing Director at Mercury, who will also join WizeHire’s board. “By systematically helping hiring managers align company values, behavioral competencies, technical skills and industry requirements to identify the best candidate, WizeHire is enabling their clients to maximize productivity, reduce turnover cost and increase customer loyalty.” Wizehire.com is the address https://hrtechfeed.com/wizehire-raises-7-5m-for-smb-hiring/ Circa (formerly known as Local job network) is launching AI Candidate Matching, to help companies accelerate their success toward building more diverse, innovative, and high-performing teams. The new product delivers a SaaS-based artificial intelligence solution guaranteeing unbiased sourcing and matching of diverse, qualified talent from a curated 160 million+ candidate database. When looking to reduce or mitigate unconscious bias, AI

AI and automation are changing the role of todays CHRO position within a new hybrid human-bot workforce... We’ll discuss that and touch on where hr tech is headed with today's guest Nancy Hauge, she is the CHRO of Automation Anywhere, one of the global leaders in robotic process automation, where she oversees all "people" functions worldwide. TOPICS Can you Define Robotic process automation...and what are some practical examples of it in use today form an HR standpoint? What are some specific ways in which RPA can assist with the recruitment process? Can bots be used to identify talent, or should it be humans making these hiring decisions? You've written a lot about helping “make HR more Human?” how do you do that today with so much hr tech in place? How have bots helped HR leaders in a largely remote era? Do you have any examples of RPA augmenting HR in the age of COVID? I saw that you have a background in standup comedy. I’m curious to know how this training has helped you as an HR leader. Any examples you could share? Went to your career site I see you have Jobvite installed as your ATS...how do you like it? What else is part of your HR tech stack? Employer brand... One tip for other hr leaders when it comes to implementing RPA in their workflow today? 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 GoodJob today announced that it has raised $3M to fuel marketing and sales efforts in major markets across the U.S. The company launched its web and mobile apps in June of 2020, primarily targeting the Birmingham, Ala. market. “Birmingham has been an ideal jumping-off point for us,” says CEO Stephen D. Johnston. “We’ve gotten great feedback from clients here that we’ve used to improve the product for a national audience.” The two most popular tools for companies have been the vetting feature, which uses GoodJob’s machine-learning AI to quickly sort and filter candidates in a company’s pipeline and spot the best matches, and the PATH Assessment™, which allows companies to “clone” their top performers. GoodJob for Candidates is available now in the App Store and Google Play. GoodJob for Employers is available online at http://goodjob.io/. https://hrtechfeed.com/goodjob-secures-3m-in-funding/ ResumeSieve, Inc. announced the dates for a public Beta testing period, to evaluate the functionality of its innovative candidate evaluation tool, The Sieve™. Testing will run from February 8th through the 19th of 2021 and is open to all who are interested in improving recruiting productivity and getting a competitive jump with leading technology in the HR tech space. Targeting small to mid-size businesses and recruiters, The Sieve™, improves the recruitment process, reducing time to fill and the cost per hire, through a compliant and repeatable scoring and ranking process. “Many jobs are filled manually, without the benefit of technology, relying on the time commitment of recruiters, HR Generalists, or even the business owners, taking away time that could be used running the business,” says Michael Yinger, CEO of the ResumeSieve. “The Sieve™ provides a fast and cost-effective way to drive new revenue and improve the recruiting experience for all parties in the process.” The company offers a candidate evaluation tool which eliminates the need for manual resume sorting and evaluation and can complement the capabilities of other tools in a company’s HR technology toolset. https://hrtechfeed.com/resumesieve-sets-dates-for-beta-testing-of-recruiting-enhancement-tool/ TPG Growth, the private equity firm which recently invested in Greenhouse Software, has announced that it acquired a majority stake in P20 Global Holdings Inc. (“People 2.0”), the leading pure play provider of outsourced global employer of record (“EOR”) and agent of record (“AOR”) services to market makers in talent. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With a presence in more than 40 countries, People 2.0 is the leading, global enabler of workforce mobility, providing market makers in talent with an EOR/AOR platform that supports the deployment of workers anywhere, on demand, for any length of time, using one global master agreement. As the EOR/AOR provider, People 2.0 assumes a wide range of responsibilities including onboarding workers, managing employment risks, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing payroll, and administering worker benefits. This marks the 2nd major investment by TPG Growth - last they also took a majority stake in Greenhouse software. https://hrtechfeed.com/tpg-makes-majority-investment-in-people-2-0/ WorkStep, the company helping large supply chain employers, source, screen, engage, and retain their frontline workforce, today announced $17 million in funding led by FirstMark Capital, with additional participation from previous investor and strategic partner, Prologis Ventures. The infusion of capital, a combination of Seed ($6.7 million) and Series A ($10.5 million) funding, will be used to grow the team and continue to improve and expand its technology. Founded in 2017, WorkStep supports supply chain companies by helping them find and retain their frontline workforce. From the industrial revolution through the COVID-19 pandemic, the supply chain workforce has been the backbone of the U.S. economy and has become increasingly critical to Americans’ daily lives – from food on a table to packages delivered on time. The pandemic made it clear supply chain labor demand will only continue to increase with the boom of ecommerce, and turnover will remain an ever-present challenge even during periods of higher unemployment. Since its inception, WorkStep has deployed their technology to serve the needs of hundreds of large employers, including 16 of the Fortune 500, and reaching over 500,000 supply chain workers in the process. https://hrtechfeed.com/workstep-raises-17-million-to-assist-supply-chain-employers/ Recruiter.com Group, Inc. the world’s largest network of recruiters, announced that it acquired Scouted.io, a venture capital-backed tech startup focused on unlocking human p

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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 TMP Worldwide, the global talent technology leader, announced that it has changed its name to Radancy. The new brand “amplifies their growing commitment to intelligently solving the most critical challenges for many of the world's largest employers and delivering results that strengthen their organizations. The name and look being introduced convey the energy, optimism and impact the company brings to every client through their innovative platform.” The company wanted to Unifying the company's global presence and advanced capabilities under one new brand... which includes past acquisitions such as the social capabilities from Carve, creative and customer service approach from CKR, technology from Maximum and programmatic AdTech from Perengo. https://hrtechfeed.com/tmp-rebrands-as-radancy/ Shamrock Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm, today announced that it has acquired Bayard Advertising, an established leader in the recruitment marketing industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Bayard serves as a trusted recruitment marketing partner for clients, offering a full suite of services including employer branding and creative, digital media strategy and campaign execution, programmatic buying, social media engagement and content management, metrics and analytics capabilities, and technology and recruitment platform consultation. Bayard works with leading enterprise clients across a diverse group of end markets, including healthcare, transportation, retail, real estate, food service, and technology. “For nearly 100 years Bayard has operated as a family-owned business,” said Louis Naviasky, Bayard CEO. “We’ve excelled by focusing on our core strengths in employer branding and talent recruitment, while at the same time continuing to innovate as the market evolves. To capitalize on the numerous opportunities ahead of us, we felt it was time to bring in an experienced investor. We are thrilled to be partnering with Shamrock Capital, given their deep expertise in media as well as their partnership and growth-oriented approach.” https://hrtechfeed.com/bayard-advertising-acquired/ C-Sweet, a women’s group focused on fostering and accelerating relationships for women in executive and leadership positions, today announced a new job board to provide women professionals with a platform to search and apply for executive jobs at institutions that value their experience and credentials. The new C-Sweet job board allows Fortune 1000 and fast growth companies across industries to post executive level and board positions, as well as search nationally for candidates in a growing proprietary database. Job board users can upload resumes and create job alerts with regular updates sent to a user’s email inbox. “It’s critical for women to build their personal network,” said Beth Hilbing, Sr. Program Manager and Principal IT Business Partner at Boeing, as well as Co-CEO of C-Sweet. “The network offers two core benefits – a reservoir of talent to bring on board to your organization and a resource during the job search if you find the only way up the corporate ladder is out of the current employer. Imagine a network of women to call on for job leads, to work with, or to find that right talent to grow your empire at your current employer.” To join C-Sweet and access the Job Board, visit https://www.csweet.org/ or https://jobs.csweet.org Multiverse, a U.K. startup that works with organizations to develop these apprenticeships, and then helps source promising, diverse candidates to fill those roles, has raised $44 million, funding that it will be using to spearhead a move into the U.S. market after picking up some 300 clients in the U.K. and thousands of apprentices. “We want to build an outstanding alternative to university and college,” he said. These typically last 1.5 years. The startup sees itself as part tech company and part education enterprise. What is an apprenticeship? A brilliant alternative to a college degree or traditional corporate training An accredited program lasting 12+ months Combines a full-time job with training Delivered in the workplace, focusing on real-world application of skills The company says it has expanded into the new york city region. Finally Workday has made a big acquisition. They have agreed to acquire Peakon ApS, an employee success platform that converts feedback into actionable insights, have signed a definitive agreement under which Workday will acquire Peakon in an all-cash transaction. With Peakon, Workday will provide organizations with a continuous listening platform, including real-time visibility into employee experience, sentiment, and productivity, to help drive employee engagement and improve organizational performance. “

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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 Managing your employer brand on Glassdoor has just gotten easier with the new Alerts feature... Alerts appear in your Employer Center dashboard, and are here to help guide you to the most important tasks and updates since your last login. You will see alerts when: New high or low ratings are posted by your employees about your company and its benefits New interview reviews are posted by your candidates It's time to feature a new review Your profile content or benefits information needs updating A competitor you are targeting has joined Glassdoor Your company page gains new followers Alerts will vary by profile, but are available with both Free and Enhanced employer pages. You may also opt to receive these Alerts via Glassdoor's employer email settings. https://www.glassdoor.com/employers/blog/introducing-alerts/ Personio — the German startup that targets small and medium-sized businesses (10-2,000 employees) with an all-in-one HR platform covering recruiting and onboarding, payroll, absence tracking and other major HR functions — has picked up $125 million in funding at a $1.7 billion post-money valuation. Personio currently counts some 3,000 SMEs in Europe as customers. In an interview, Hanno Renner, the co-founder and CEO of Personio, said that the startup would be using the funding to continue building out the product — which operates a little like Workday, but built for much smaller organizations — as well as expanding its presence in Europe. https://hrtechfeed.com/german-hr-platform-person-raises-125-million/ Learning Technologies Group plc, the provider of services and technologies for digital learning and talent management, has agreed to acquire Reflektive Inc, a leading performance management software provider. Headquartered in San Francisco, Reflektive specialises in engagement and analytics tools. It offers a collaborative goal-setting, continuous feedback, and analytics platform used by teams and individuals to provide measurable results for boosting productivity, engagement, and retention. Reflektive will join LTG’s PeopleFluent business, integrating its solution with the existing PeopleFluent talent management portfolio. Stephen Bruce, Managing Director of PeopleFluent, said: “In today’s complex world of work, it’s more important than ever for organisations to focus on developing, reskilling, and deploying existing talent to meet the changing needs of the business. To do that requires a strong focus and alignment on business goals, performance measures and, at the same time, tracking employee engagement as a vital component of the HR function and in concert with the modern talent journey. ...Reflektive’s solutions enhance performance management in a variety of exciting ways – fostering a sense of employee accountability, encouraging meaningful 1:1 conversations, measuring employee sentiment, and tracking activities in alignment with company goals. https://hrtechfeed.com/performance-management-software-reflektive-has-been-acquired/ Through its recent acquisition on Altru Labs, talent cloud company iCIMS has officially relaunched the feature inside its suite. Aptly named Video Studio, it allows employers to create relevant and engaging content throughout the candidate and employee journey. Features will include; Spotlight employees and mobilize brand ambassadors to share stories and convey company culture. Easily add employee testimonial videos to career sites, job descriptions, social media, email, text campaigns, and more, to transform traditional content to dynamic, personalized experiences. Authentically highlight diversity, equity, and inclusion programs through the faces and voices of employees. Stand out from other employers and amplify candidate reach and conversion by providing relevant, engaging talent experiences across the entire lifecycle. Embed videos into internal communications to strengthen relationships, inspire confidence, and easily engage a virtual, distributed workforce without costly video production. “Video is how we connect with people in our personal lives, and how companies must engage with talent,” said Alykhan Rehmatullah, vice president of content strategy at iCIMS and previously the co-founder & CEO of Altru Labs. “Creating video content doesn’t have to be hard, time consuming or costly. We are seeing first-hand the value of video in humanizing brands, creating digitally-scalable experiences, and authentically building relationships with talent.” https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-adds-video-storytelling-capabilities/ Seasoned, a hiring platform in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, launched across the region today. After months of testing, and with tens of thousands of users and thousands of local restaurants already on its pla

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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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines TPG Growth and The Rise Fund today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to partner with Greenhouse, the leading hiring software company used by over 4,000 businesses, as a majority investor. TPG Growth, the middle-market and growth equity platform within TPG, and The Rise Fund, the global impact investing platform managed by TPG, will jointly invest in Greenhouse to accelerate product innovation, grow into new markets, and enhance solutions aimed at accelerating diversity, equity and inclusion in hiring. The transaction, which is expected to close during the first half of 2021, is subject to customary closing conditions. Word on the street is that TPG paid $500 million for its majority stake in the company. “Winning businesses are built by talented individuals. Yet every day, organizations around the world base their hiring decisions on hunches and without data, perpetuating biases and limiting human potential. We founded Greenhouse to help companies become great at hiring and reduce bias in the hiring process,” said Daniel Chait, CEO of Greenhouse. “Through this investment from TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, we gain a partner with the resources and vision to support our growth, and who is totally aligned with our mission. The Rise Fund’s unique focus on real, measurable impact is so exciting because it supports our ability to drive positive outcomes for our customers and for society as a whole.” “Greenhouse has established itself as a best-of-breed next-generation talent acquisition software solution,” said Mike Zappert, Partner at TPG Growth. “The consistent feedback we hear in the market is that Greenhouse’s customers simply love the product. It is easy to use, intuitive, and highly configurable. At a time when an increasing number of companies view talent and recruiting as a strategic imperative, Greenhouse stands out as the go-to solution for Talent teams at companies across industries and around the world. We look forward to partnering with Daniel and the team to continue Greenhouse’s leadership in this important and growing part of the software market.” https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-software-accepts-major-investment-from-tpg-growth/ Kanarys, a Black and female-founded DEI technology company that gathers specific, actionable insights to help diagnose, prioritize, and optimize DEI efforts in the workplace, has announced the closing of its historic $3 million seed round. Led by Zeal Capital Partners’ Inclusive Investing™ fund, and several other investors. The funding comes as more companies embrace transparency, prioritize DEI, strengthen workplace culture, and use data-driven approaches. This brings the total amount raised by Kanarys co-founders, Mandy Price and Star Carter, to $4.6 million to date — a positive shift towards more equitable venture capital trends. In 2017, studies showed that 98 percent of venture capital raised in the U.S. went to men. Kanarys will use the funding to further advance product features, make key hires on the technology and business development teams, and accelerate sales and marketing efforts. “We know that a focus on DEI in business is not just the right thing to do for employees, it also makes good business sense,” said Mandy Price, CEO and co-founder of Kanarys. “Kanarys’ DEI data arms companies, for the first time, to make precise, immediate, and informed decisions using real, intersectional metrics around their diversity goals and inclusion programs that ultimately drive bottom-line business objectives. We are encouraged by the commitment of our investors and customers in our shared vision to help every person Work Where They Belong.” The company is currently measuring DEI insights on nearly 1,000 U.S. companies through verified employee reviews, company policies, and organizational data — making it the largest DEI data-driven platform of its kind in the U.S. Since launching the platform in 2019, the company has grown 2,000 percent in users on its platform, and its customers include Fortune 500 brands. In addition, the company has a job board section that enables job seekers to find employment. https://hrtechfeed.com/dei-platform-kanarys-announces-3-million-seed-round/ GigSmart, a staffing company that connects businesses with gig workers through mobile apps has announced expanded functionality to allow businesses to post and advertise their part-time and full-time positions to a user base of nearly 300,000 active job seekers. Launched in November of 2018, GigSmart’s Get Workers staffing platform has successfully connected a rapidly growing number of j

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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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines High5, has launched a new recruiter marketplace and talent community platform that aims to disrupt traditional staffing methods and transform how companies get work done. The High5 platform creates a global, digital talent supply chain by bringing together an open marketplace of talent and global networks of independent recruiters and subject matter experts who vet and submit talent to jobs on High5. A major differentiator for High5 is how trust and high-quality outcomes are delivered to all users. Each candidate, recruiter, talent supplier, customer, and job are vetted and verified before entering the supply chain. When paired with High5’s talent engagement technology and global payrolling capabilities, these talent supply innovations are capable of delivering any candidate, with any skill, on any form of work, to any employer or managed staffing program, anywhere in the world. This ALL-talent and ALL-work approach is a distinguishing characteristic of High5. From full-time to part-time, contract, contract-to-hire, SOW, on-site or remote, from gig-work to big work — it all gets done with High5. Traditional staffing services and talent platforms used to find talent globally are fragmented and limited in the breadth of services they provide,” Robert Merritt, High5’s Chief Revenue Officer, explains. “They are limited in the vetting and curation of talent they deliver employers and managed staffing programs. Traditional methods promote speed over quality at the employer’s and candidate’s expense. These methods result in poor talent quality, wasted time and money, long fill times, and a hiring manager and candidate experience that is less than desirable.” https://hrtechfeed.com/high5-launches-new-recruiter-marketplace/ Paradox, the leading conversational AI platform helping global talent acquisition teams automate recruiting tasks like screening, interview scheduling, and candidate communications, announced today the acquisition of Spetz.io, an Israeli startup helping clients like EY and Sodastream modernize candidate communications. The acquisition highlights Paradox’s strategic investment in global innovation and world-class client services, said Paradox founder and CEO Aaron Matos. But it wasn’t just about creating another R&D center. Just as important, Matos said the Spetz team’s vision, mission, and values closely aligned with Paradox. “This acquisition is all about aligning with incredibly smart people who share our passion for building products that recruiting teams love,” Matos said. “We were impressed with the Spetz team’s growth, and even more impressed with their vision for what we can build together.” Yam Dvir, Spetz’s co-founder and CEO, said the feeling was mutual. “When we met with the Paradox team we immediately saw a massive opportunity to build something bigger than ourselves,” said Dvir. “Combining our expertise with Paradox’s vision and momentum as a clear category leader is really one of those ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ opportunities. We can’t wait to get started accelerating Paradox’s vision for a future where recruiting is frictionless, elegant, and people-centric.” https://hrtechfeed.com/paradox-acquires-israeli-chatbot-spetz-io/ PAIRIN, the workforce journey company, today announced the official close of its Series A investment round, now totaling $4.36M. This round builds upon the $2.1 million raised in June. The COVID-19 pandemic has pulled back the curtain on the challenges that come with navigating and delivering services like unemployment, career planning and education, provided by states, education institutions and workforce programs. These services are often difficult to use, inflexible, not personalized for users and costly to replace. PAIRIN helps ensure end users can quickly and easily navigate access to services like career assistance and college planning through its innovative My Journey platform. “Not only are individuals struggling in the workforce because of the pandemic, but many government and workforce agencies are also facing challenges with budget cuts and consolidation,” said Michael Simpson, CEO and founder, PAIRIN. “We are very grateful to our investors for their continued support. These new funds will help ensure that we can bring the most efficient and intuitive technology to workforce and government agencies across the country… https://hrtechfeed.com/pairin-gets-4-36m-series-a-funding-to-accelerate-delivery-of-solutions-to-aid-americas-workforce/ Paycor, a provider of SaaS Payroll and Human Capital Management (HCM) software, today announced

Trade Hounds, is the largest professional community built exclusively for the construction industry, they recently announced the launch of their Jobs platform, which connects contractors directly with the skilled tradespeople they’re seeking to hire. Trade Hounds has built a community of more than 175,000 tradespeople that are already using the platform to showcase their work, build professional profiles and expand their networks. Peter Maglathlin is the Co-Founder & CFO at Trade Hounds. Give us a quick history of the company when did it start and why? This had to be a mobile app experience vs a website correct?. What can seekers do on the platform? You mentioned contractors.. What does the avg recruiter need to know about recruiting in the construction space? Pricing? Was the jobs platform the first piece of revenue? Critical mass point... You picked up about 3 million in funding back in June what was that moment like for you and your team? Has the Pandemic helped or hurt your business this year? Future plans? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode you'll hear the full list of recruitment technology acquisitions that happened in 2020. https://hrtechfeed.com/acquisitions/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Technology has become a ubiquitous part of our hiring landscape. It makes recruiting faster and easier. But at its heart recruitment is a human activity. How do we access the benefits of technology without losing human insight? We’ll discuss that and more with Charlie Atkinson, CEO and Founder of PeopleFactors, a pre-hire candidate assessment solution that helps companies identify and hire leaders, and has more than 35 years of experience in HR and business consulting. 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines Im chris russell here are your top 5 rec tech headlines for the week of Dec 13th Talent Inc., a recruitment services and resume-writing company based in New York, has been sold. Sources told the AIM Group that BV Investment L.P., a Boston-based investment company that focuses on business services and information technology, bought the business for a nine-figure amount. Talent Inc. was founded in 2014 as a resume writing service, and has grown to offer related services. Its brands include Top Resume, Top CV, Top Interview and ResumeRabbit. It uses a network of freelance, contract and staff writers, including a team based in South Africa, to produce resumes and CVs for job-seekers. Appcast, a global leader in programmatic recruitment advertising technology and services, today announced the public launch of Appcast Premium, a comprehensive enterprise managed service for optimizing a company’s entire digital job advertising program. Appcast Premium combines Appcast’s innovative programmatic technology with its team of experts in recruitment advertising to provide complete coverage across all leading job sites, helping companies find qualified people quickly. Appcast Premium programmatic technology ensures that job ads are placed with the sources most likely to deliver qualified candidates and helps to fill the recruitment pipelines for every open job. It provides full visibility into how job ads are performing with customized, in-depth reporting that provides actionable insights. Reporting is available both on-demand and via monthly performance reviews. Appcast’s technology seamlessly integrates with a company’s ATS to track each applicant through the recruitment process to the point of being hired. This ensures that recruitment advertising is constantly optimized to provide the best possible candidates at the best possible cost per hire. Appcast Premium also offers the benefits of a single vendor – customers receive one bill each month for all job advertising charges across hundreds to thousands of job sites. Employers pay only when a candidate submits an application. https://hrtechfeed.com/appcast-launches-appcast-premium-a-managed-service-for-buying-job-ads/ Turing.com, an automated platform that lets companies hire Silicon Valley caliber remote developers at the touch of a button, announced today a $32-million Series B funding round led by $3.3-billion fund WestBridge Capital. The round includes a number of high-profile investors, such as Foundation Capital, which led Turing’s seed round. Altair Capital, Mindset Ventures, Frontier Ventures, and Gaingels also participated in the Series B round, which was heavily oversubscribed. Driven by the massive global shift to remote work, Turing taps into a global pool of developers to help companies hire in markets such as the San Francisco Bay Area, aka “Silicon Valley” and New York, where it is difficult and expensive to hire and retain top software engineers. Turing rigorously vets developers for a Silicon Valley bar. Turing has accomplished dramatic growth over the past year — growing by 17X in the last 14 months, from $700K to almost $12 Million. The company has 180,000 developers signed up on the platform and counts several high-profile Silicon Valley technology companies as customers. The global pandemic has forced companies to become remote-first and remote-friendly, which has opened up gigantic global talent pools to recruit from. https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-work-platform-turing-com-announces-32-million-in-funding/ Phenom, the global leader in Talent Experience Management (TXM), today announced its acquisition of Endouble, an Amsterdam-based company known for enhancing the candidate experience across Europe. The deal expands Phenom’s regional presence and adds technical expertise — while strengthening customer onboarding and adoption of TXM. Endouble previously operated under RGF Staffing — a leading global HR service provider. With nearly 15 years of experience working with many high-profile brands, Endouble has made it their mission to take a data-driven approach to candidate attraction and recruitment strategy. “With our second acquisition in three months, we’re growing our presence and talent across Europe,” said Mahe Bayireddi, CEO and co-founder of Phenom. “We’re excited to begin working with Endouble’s customers, as they’ve already demonstrated a commitment to candidate experience that resonates with us. Introducing AI and automation to European HR teams will quickly help them increase productivity and unlock innovative experiences for recruiters, employee

Metaview is a point solution that "uplevels the most outcome-defining part of your recruitment process: your interviews." Joining me to talk about the product is their CEO Siadhal Magos TOPCS Describe the tool and its use case for our audience What's the user experience like for the recruiter...how do they put this in action? What can a company learn by implementing this technology? What are some of the data points that are tracked? Tell me a few success stories from your client base...what did they learn/change... Pricing...integrations...whats next? 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines Im chris russell here are your rec tech headlines for the week of Dec 7th Jobiak announced the launch of its ‘All Jobs‘ AI-based Global Jobs Distribution Platform (GJDP), a one-stop source to 100% of all jobs in real-time. Located at alljobs.ai, its a platform that provides access to every available online job, updated in real-time and with meta-search capabilities, making it easy to find relevant jobs. Free to seeker and employers, The AllJobs Job Board allows access to all jobs obtained directly from employer career sites in one place allows job seekers to find and apply directly on employer career sites without having to sign-up, pay, login, upload a resumé, etc. “Our immediate goal is to fast track the reduction of unemployment by making it free, easy, and convenient to both job seekers and givers. It is truly a unique free one-stop service where the job seeker can find jobs on the AllJobs platform and apply directly on the employer career site whilst employers don’t have to pay anything to have their jobs posted... said Mallik Penamatsa, Advisory Board member. Jobiak’s first product focused on unleashing the recruiting power of Google for Jobs for businesses who were struggling to get their jobs found on Google. With the launch of the AllJobs platform, Jobiak adds another unique product to its portfolio. With its ability to provide access to any job and fully leverage the power of Google to drive 2-20x applicants to its partners, makes it an ideal technology partner for those looking to find unique ways to grow their recruitment business. https://hrtechfeed.com/jobiak-launches-own-job-search-engine/ Fountain, the enterprise high-volume recruiting platform, today announced the initial release of its mobile app, allowing recruiters and hiring managers to source, screen, and hire on the go. Available on both iOS and Android platforms, the app provides secure, flexible handling of applicants and job openings — making sure employers don’t miss a beat when it comes to hiring the best talent. The new mobile app puts all of an employer’s locations, applicants and interviews in one place. It helps employers move talent through the pipeline quickly, by keeping them engaged through in-app text or email, thus reducing time to fill. Running late for an interview? No problem, now easily communicating that is just a text away. Need to move an applicant to the next stage or boost your funnels? Easy peasy. The app puts basic hiring needs such as these, including posting to 80+ job boards in less than two minutes, at the fingertips of the recruiter or hiring manager. “The launch of our new mobile app allows us to continue our mission, providing opportunities to the global workforce by streamlining the experience for both the recruiter and the applicant. We know life gets busy and chaotic, and being able to perform simple hiring tasks on the go helps make it a little easier for our customers,” said CEO, Sean Behr. https://hrtechfeed.com/high-volume-ats-fountain-launches-new-mobile-app/ CodeSignal, a San Francisco based technical assessment platform dedicated to helping companies #GoBeyondResumes in tech recruiting, announced $25 million in Series B funding. This round, which brings CodeSignal’s total funding to $37.5 million, was led by Menlo Ventures Founded in 2015 CodeSignal is disrupting the traditional recruiting market, helping recruiters and hiring managers conduct unbiased pre-employment screenings for technical roles more efficiently and at scale. The company’s Coding Score™ allows companies to quickly evaluate technical qualifications at the very top of the funnel, just like Credit Score for the lending industry and SAT scores for college admissions. Fueled by 3.5X year-over-year growth, and with millions of assessments conducted on the platforms by customers including Brex, Databricks, Instacart, Robinhood, UpWork and Zoom. CodeSignal will use this round of funding to continue the rapid expansion of its go-to-market team. The new funding will also enable CodeSignal to partner with key players in the technical hiring industry to deliver a more holistic hiring solution. CodeSignal’s Certified Coding Assessments provide an objective measure of a candidate’s qualifications, enabling recruiters to compare several scores and strengths at once before hiring decisions are made. The platform allows companies to set their own threshold for qualifications and customize assessments with comprehensive testing options for each team and job opening and safeguards against cheating. By standardizing the technical assessment process,

Brianna Foulds serves as the AVP, Talent Systems, Operations & Acquisition for Cornerstone OnDemand a familiar brand if you are in the industry.... She has more than 15 years of experience in technology, hospitality, engineering and manufacturing, and retail. At Cornerstone, Brianna leads a global team and supports the product team in the ideation and advancement of Cornerstone’s software. Prior to Cornerstone, Brianna served as the Head of Talent Acquisition for Oakley and worked in recruiting at California Pizza Kitchen. TOPICS What has life been like recruiting and hiring in 2020? Most challenging part of all this from a recruiting standpoint? What's it been like to recruit/manage virtually? How do you onboard virtually? What will be the lasting effect of all this virtual recruiting...any thoughts Walk us through your recruiting tech stack. What do you have in place? We use our own Cornerstone platform with recruiting system partners Paradox, LinkedIn, Hiretual and Mathison.io. Have you seen an increase in job apps due to the pandemic or have things been fairly steady? How do you pitch people on coming to work for CSOD? What changes to tech or branding will you make next year? 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! Transform your interview scheduling by offering slots based on real-time availability while staying in control of who can book times in your calendar. https://www.cronofy.com/rectech Recruiting Technology headlines FA Match, the wealth management industry’s only data-driven solution for financial advisor recruiting, today announced a $1M pre-seed funding round. The round includes investments from a variety of investors. FA Match is leading a new revolution of transparent, data-driven recruitment offerings for financial advisors and firms. The platform’s proprietary Advisor MatchTM technology enables advisors and firms to connect with one another based on a series of match criteria – including AUM, transition needs/support, location, advisor experience, firm type, and more – and ranks those matches on a 1-3-star scale. Both parties are only alerted of the most viable matches, making the entire process more streamlined, action-oriented, and cost-effective. FA Match will allocate this latest round of funding to robust marketing efforts, enabling the firm to more broadly and effectively connect with people across the entire wealth management ecosystem – including wirehouses, banks, RIA’s, RIA-hybrids, and OSJ’s. In 2021, FA Match also plans to launch more advanced industry analytic features to help advisors and firms gain access to real-time trends in compensation, M&A movement, and more. https://hrtechfeed.com/financial-advisor-recruitment-platform-lands-1-million-in-pre-seed-funding/ Welcome, the HR software that helps organizations make and close offers to new candidates, announced the close of a $6 million seed round today, led by FirstMark Capital. Participating investors include Ludlow Ventures, Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg, and Keenan Rice and Ben Porterfield (which were existing investors), as well as a wide array of angels. Welcome is also launching a new product today called Total Rewards, which helps not just new candidates but also existing employees get a complete, easy-to-understand picture of their compensation, across salary, benefits, equity, etc. Welcome was founded in 2019 by Nick Gavronsky and Rick Pereira, with a mission to help organizations close offers on candidates by providing a much clearer picture of compensation, particularly around equity. Cofounder and CEO Nick Gavronsky explained that many candidates don’t truly understand the value of the equity they’re offered, or how it works. FULL STORY VIA TECHCRUNCH - welcome.ai London – Let’s Dive a platform for remote employee engagement and building team culture has today announced it has raised US$1.7 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital India’s Surge. The funding round also saw participation from Village Global and several angel investors1. Let’s Dive will use the funding to further build experiences on the platform to help remote teams tackle isolation, distribute the product to thousands of companies around the world and build a cross-border product team. The on-going global pandemic has upended traditional ways of working, forcing businesses all around the world to set themselves up remotely. Let’s Dive’s founders, who have been building solutions for remote teams for over five years, know from experience that isolation and the lack of team bonding are the biggest obstacles to successfully sustaining a remote work culture. Let’s Dive is a platform that eliminates isolation by bringing teams together and recreating a social space where participants can connect through a range of exciting activities. This creates deeper bonds amongst remote teams who lack the advantage of personal connections. Teams can play games like poker, pictionary, icebreakers, trivias, chess, card games and organise YouTube watch parties. Let’s Dive has already attracted over 100 teams from 28 countries to its platform. Currently, Let’s Dive is an invite-only experience. Companies can apply for access on www.letsdive.io. https://hrtechfeed.com/lets-dive-lands-us1-7-million-to-make-remote-working-more-human/ Talkpush, the leader in recruitment automation, wants to work with companies that see their talent pool as their greatest competitive asset. Vervoe, the leader in skills assessments, is on a mission to reinvent the recruiting experience to make it effective, fair and enjoyable. The two companies’ complementary services help employers expand their talent pool, and build a better, more universal, and validated recruitment process. The companies are delighted to announce a partnership, supported by an integration between the two platforms, that will benefit its joint customers to help them identify the most suitable candidates faster, and give candidates more real-time visibility into the hiring process. Talkpush users can now create workflows in which shortlisted cand

Former head of marketing and recruiting innovation for Allegis Global Solutions and founder of his own recruiting and marketing firm TalentNet Media, Craig Fisher has recently taken on the role of CEO of Knack.io, a Dallas-based personalized job board startup created “by engineers for engineers.” He took over the position earlier this month from Knack.io Co-founder and former CEO Leroy Ware, who is now taking on the role of chief technology officer at the company Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices