Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com ClearCompany Adds Texting Feature https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-acquires-opening-io-launches-new-ai-solution-for-building-transformative-workforces-at-scale/ JazzHR Launches White Label Solution https://hrtechfeed.com/mhr-international-introduces-a-new-era-of-remote-work-experience-with-u-s-launch-of-people-first-connect/ Hackerrank Remote Hiring https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitology-to-launch-virtual-career-fairs/ HireClix Launches their own candidate experience lab https://hrtechfeed.com/hireclix-launches-candidate-experience-lab/ OysterHR acquires Carrom https://hrtechfeed.com/oyster-acquires-carrom-to-accelerate-global-employment-platform/ Finally...Salary.com has released new survey data that shows 66% of employers either reduced their workforce or negatively impacted employee pay in response to COVID-19, though just 10% of survey respondents expect the layoffs to be permanent. The survey revealed that 32% of employers laid off people (temporary or permanent), 10% saw a reduction in base pay, and 21% reduced variable pay (including bonuses and commissions). In addition to the expectation that 90% of layoffs may be temporary, 65% of employers reported that base pay remained unchanged and 45% say they are leaving merit raises in place in 2020. Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poach.ai is the newest venture by Serial Entrepreneur and fellow industry podcaster Joel Cheesman. The platform aims to track worker sentiment to help companies identify when it's the right time to recruit employees away from your competitor. I've known Joel, and Joel and I go way back. Have known each other for many years in the industry. I was on his show early this year, so now it's time for me to ask the questions. Learn more: http://poach.ai/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com iCIMS Makes Acquisition https://hrtechfeed.com/icims-acquires-opening-io-launches-new-ai-solution-for-building-transformative-workforces-at-scale/ MHR Announces new Remote Collaboration Platform https://hrtechfeed.com/mhr-international-introduces-a-new-era-of-remote-work-experience-with-u-s-launch-of-people-first-connect/ Employee Communication Platform Workvivo Raises $16m https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitology-to-launch-virtual-career-fairs/ Traitify Gets Funding https://hrtechfeed.com/traitify-raises-12m-for-its-visual-based-personality-assessment-platform/ Chief Lands $15 Million https://hrtechfeed.com/private-network-for-women-lands-15-million-in-funding/ Stories Inc Launched Virtual Stories https://hrtechfeed.com/stories-incorporated-launches-virtual-story-sessions/ Finally a couple other news stories that caught my eye: Uber is shuttering its Uber Works project after going through a massive layoff this week. I had high hopes that they were going to be a player in the temp staffing world but because of the pandemic it will no longer happen. Good news for the existing platforms like Wonolo, Shift and others. Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remote, an HR technology startup enabling simplified global employment, recently announced a Seed investment of $11M. The fundraising round was led by Two Sigma Ventures, with participation from several other investors. The financing will be used to expand Remote’s onboarding platform and extend coverage to forty new markets by the end of 2020, including Canada, Germany, the United States, and France. Remote handles payroll, benefits, compliance, and taxes all in one single solution across international markets. With remote work only increasing, hiring a contractor or a full-time employee in another country is simplified with Remote’s platform. Joining me today to discuss the new world of remote hiring is CEO and co-founder Job van der Voort. Questions Great name by the way...are you dutch? @jobvo on twitter by the way for the listeners. Remote work is having a moment…can you give us a quick history of the company and talk about the pain point for what you are trying to solve? Is Remote for companies who have already found a person they want to hire or do you actually help find the person first...how it works…? What countries currently supported? You have a remote job board…how has adding that helped your core business? Can anyone post a job? When did you acquire the domain…? You are a fully distributed company with employees based in several different countries. Can you describe how you onboard a new employee remotely and talk about managing a distributed team? Are you hiring? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Workstream raises $10 million https://hrtechfeed.com/hourly-hiring-platform-workstream-lands-10-million-funding-round/ Paradox Land $40 million for chatbot tech https://hrtechfeed.com/paradox-raises-40m-in-new-funding/ Recruitology unveils virtual career fairs https://hrtechfeed.com/recruitology-to-launch-virtual-career-fairs/ Lever announces news features in spring release https://hrtechfeed.com/levers-spring-release-new-automation-workflows-advanced-analytics-candidate-surveys-and-more/ PC Recruiter pushes out an update https://hrtechfeed.com/pcrecruiter-9-7-37-presentations-themes-updates/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Russell gives you some tips for how to hold virtual hiring events and you'll hear from Eightfold as they describe how their platform works to hold an online career fair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com TechStars to start workforce accelerator in Denver https://hrtechfeed.com/techstars-to-create-workforce-startup-accelerator/ Emtrain Raises 8 million for workplace culture https://hrtechfeed.com/emtrain-raises-8m-for-workplace-culture-platform/ Appcast Launches Next Generation Programmatic Job Ad Exchange https://hrtechfeed.com/appcast-launches-next-generation-programmatic-job-ad-exchange/ CareerArc launches video assessment tool for seekers https://hrtechfeed.com/careerarc-launches-ai-powered-video-assessment-tool-for-seekers/ Survey: software developers hate meetings https://recruitingheadlines.com/software-developers-hate-meetings/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Chris Russell shares his thoughts on why the rejection process for applicants is broken and how to fix it. Why You Should Care About Rejection 5 tactics to implement Companies doing it right Rejobify (better way to reject) https://www.rejobify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com HelpOneBillion Lanuches for Covid 19 jobs https://recruitingheadlines.com/phenom-launches-helponebillion-to-give-hope-and-jobs-to-covid-19-unemployed/ Linkedin to launch video intros https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/product-updates/2020/linkedin-video-intro Alexander mann launches Virtual Internship Platform https://hrtechfeed.com/alexander-mann-solutions-launches-virtual-internships-platform/ Powderkeg MAtching Tech Tool https://hrtechfeed.com/powderkeg-provides-early-access-to-job-matching-tool-matches/ Topia Raises $15 million https://hrtechfeed.com/topia-raises-15-million-for-talent-mobility-platform/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DIY TOOLS Zoom.us Crowdcast.io DEDICATED In my research I found at least eight vendors whose sole purpose is to host online job events. Pricing varies https://www.brazen.com/ https://easyvirtualfair.com/ https://www.hexafair.com/virtual-job-fair/ https://www.vfairs.com/ https://www.careereco.com/ https://www.6connex.com/virtual-job-fair-hosting/ https://info.workcast.com/ https://www.virtualjobfairhosting.com/ OTHER https://www.xor.ai/virtual-career-fairs https://www.paradox.ai/virtual-hiring-events https://eightfold.ai/capabilities/virtual-event-recruiting/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Week in Rec Tech is Sponsored by Rejobify.com Hourly is a new recruiting platform for hourly workers https://hrtechfeed.com/alexander-mann-solutions-unveils-new-hourly-worker-recruiting-solution/ Glassdoor creates Cov-19 related job searches https://hrtechfeed.com/glassdoor-launches-new-covid-19-related-job-search-tools/ Oyster Gets Millions for its distributed recruiting platform https://hrtechfeed.com/oyster-an-international-hiring-startup-raises-4-2-million/ Remote.com gets $11 million for its remote recruiting platform https://hrtechfeed.com/remote-raises-an-11m-to-help-companies-to-hire-and-onboard-talent-anywhere-in-the-world/ RoiKoi Gets Acquired https://hrtechfeed.com/talent-mapping-vendor-roikoi-acquired-by-terminal/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ - browse more than 500 freelancer profiles today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I recently spoke with Suzanne Lucas who has written the Evil HR lady blog online since 2006. In this show you’ll hear me interview her and field questions from the HR lancers community. http://www.evilhrlady.org/ Sponsored by Emissary.ai and HR Lancers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Rejobify.com Job listings decline: STAT OF THE DAY: Compared to April of last year, job postings in the US have dropped by almost 31%, according to Indeed data. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-job-advertisements-crater-during-second-half-of-march-142615914.html Next Step Secures $3.6 Million https://hrtechfeed.com/skills-training-platform-raises-3-6m-to-help-workers-transition-to-health-care-roles/ Loxo Announces Free Contact Info Feature for Sourcers https://hrtechfeed.com/loxo-announces-free-and-unlimited-personal-contact-information/ CareerBliss to go free for 2020 https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2020/04/16/careerbliss-moves-to-free-job-postings-for-all-of-2020/ Layoffers Launches https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/2020/04/14/new-job-community-that-tracks-layoffs-launches/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s episode features the audio portion of a recent HR Lancers Live event where a number of freelancers crowd sourced their favorite software tools, apps and sites that help them do their job. Chris Russell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmrussell/ GoDaddy bookkeeping: An invoicing tool used for tracking income, expenses, invoicing, mileage ,Hourly time tracking – “very simple bookkeeping app”, “like it for its simplicity overall” Cost: $110/year Ripl: Marketing Tool that allows you to create branded videos and images in minutes, then instantly post to all your social media accounts at once. - “favorite tool out of all that I am sharing today”, “will make your social media a lot better looking. Can build it into your brand” Cost: $10/month TinyScannerPro: A little scanner app that turns android device into a portable document scanner and scan everything as images or PDFs. “take a picture with your phone in the app, it creates a pdf and can email right from your phone” Cost: $5 one time fee Dlvr.it – Auto schedule and post blogs, photos, RSS, news and videos to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, you can use this to push out content from multiple social media accounts- “pretty powerful, can do a lot of social media marketing” Cost: Free to $24.88/month Snagit – Screenshot, screencast tool Cost: $50 Stat counter – a simple but powerful real-time web analytics service that helps you track, analyze and understand your visitors so you can make good decisions to become more successful online. “simpler version of Google Analytics” Cost: Free to $9/month Javianna Nelson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/javiannanelson/ QuickBooks self-employed: Invoicing tool Canva: The design software that makes design simple, convenient, and reliable—create what you need. Good tool for marketing. - “my business is an employer brand business…use it to engage employees of clients on Social Media” Cost: $120/year Hello Bonsai: Project Management contracts, e-signing, & invoices – client profile, contracts and proposals, time tracking, makes forms and keeps forms. Cost: $16/month Alissa Penny: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alissa-penney/ Venngage: Infographic creator. “I use it to do a lot of infographics for my consultation, I do strategic analysis and data analysis so it helps me show really quick charts to a lot of my clients” Cost: $19/month Slack: Client Communication for all projects, recommended for folks who are doing remote work. “If you are more into doing video based projects, I enjoy using Discord, more for the gaming industry” Cost: Free Hootsuite: Social Media Posting Management Cost: Free Tonja LaFrenz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonjalafrenz/ Feedly: A news aggregator application for various web browsers and mobile devices running iOS and Android – “find what you are looking for, a project you are working on, it gives you articles, then you can post the article out through Hootsuite” Cost: Free ATS/CRM: Big Biller through Top Echelon “can add your candidates, can add your companies, they do training all the time, their customer service is unreal” Cost: $70/month Fivrr: $15 for email signature, logo $10 and slogan $40 – freelancer site Wisestamp: email signature generator Orin Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davisoc/ GetPocket.com: previously known as Read It Later, is an application and web service for managing a reading list of articles and videos from the Internet Harvest- Time tracker: Simple time tracking, fast online invoicing, and powerful reporting software. Simplify employee timesheets and billing. ScannerPro: Allows you to scan paper documents into PDFs that look clean and professional. Expensify – for tracking expenses https://www.getcroissant.com/a/orin76 - coworking space $39 for 10 hours – “giving you hourly access to co-working spaces….need a place to sit down and work, don’t want to do a coffee shop” hours rollover and accumulate. They are a global organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Workjam raises $50 Million Series C https://hrtechfeed.com/workjam-raises-50-million-series-c-to-meet-growing-demand-for-digital-workplace-solutions/ Drafted launches Layoff network https://hrtechfeed.com/drafted-launches-layoff-network/ Jobcase virtual Events https://hrtechfeed.com/jobcase-launches-virtual-hiring-events-to-connect-hourly-workers-impacted-by-covid-19/ Hirevue Eliminates App Based Interviews https://hrtechfeed.com/new-hirevue-solutions-remove-barriers-for-video-interviews/ Bluecrew Adds Telemedicine Benefits to Hourly Workers https://gigheadlines.com/bluecrew-offers-free-telemedicine-to-hourly-workers/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily Tanner and Kat Guseva from recruitics join Chris to reveal 3 ways employers can use Google for Recruitment Marketing: Adwords, Gmail Ads, Google for Jobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Rejobify.com Paradox Launches Virtual Recruiting Event Platform https://hrtechfeed.com/mya-systems-secures-18-75m-series-c-funding/ HireRight Partners with Social Media Screening form https://hrtechfeed.com/engagedly-to-provide-remote-work-toolkit-for-free/ Eightfold Launches Virtual Recruiting Tool https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-offering-free-video-interviewing-platform/ Appcast Ad Grants https://hrtechfeed.com/dice-launches-sourcing-feature/ Free Jobs on Linkedin https://hrtechfeed.com/the-mom-project-acquires-workplace-analytics-tool/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lianne Vineberg is the Founder and Director of Talent & recruitment at Toronto based Talent in the 6ix, an HR and recruitment consulting firm that specializes in finding talent for startups. She passed on some words of wisdom about onboarding remote employees and she joined me from her home base in Toronto to discuss. Find her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vineberg/ Article she wrote: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vineberg_remote-onboarding-ugcPost-6645678416429408256-kPiT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A number of vendors including Gr8 People, Lever, PandoLogic, Bayard, and Engagedly are stepping up to offer free tools during the virus outbreak. See the list: https://hrtechfeed.com/tag/free/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A number of reports and studies regarding the freelance world, AKA the ‘gig economy’ have been published lately so I wanted to summarize the key statistics found in the data. 50%: of the workforce will be comprised of gig workers by 2028. Source: PYMNTS.com The 57 million Americans who freelanced this year represent 35% of the U.S. workforce and an increase of 4 million freelancers since 2014. SOURCE: Upwork 16 Million: number of Americans who consider themselves self-employed as of July 2019. Source: PYMNTS.com 1 in 6 enterprise workers are actually gig workers paid as either 1099-MISC (1099-M) workers or short-term W-2 employees working one to six months. Source: ADP 56 million people are now freelancing,... an increase of 3.7 million over the past 5 years. Source: Freelance Union The freelance workforce is overall very young, with nearly 70 percent of freelancers surveyed being under the age of 35, and 21 percent are under the age of 25. SOURCE: Payoneer The worldwide average hourly rate charged by freelancers is $21, higher than the $19 average rate reported in Payoneer’s 2018 survey and significantly higher than the average salaries in many of the countries surveyed. SOURCE: Payoneer Female freelancers earn on average 84 percent of men’s earnings across all fields. SOURCE: Payoneer 43%: The total proportion of the American workforce that’s expected to move to remote- and freelance-based employment as of 2020 as reported by Innovation Enterprise Ltd. The biggest users of contingent workers are organizations operations/production/services division (37%) and the IT departments (32%) SOURCE: EY According to a study conducted by Randstad USA, 60% of the population will be freelancing within the next 10 years. For the first time, as many freelancers said they view this way of working as a long-term career choice as they do a temporary way to make money. In addition, the share of those who freelance full time increased from 17% in 2014 to 28% this year. SOURCE: Upwork Skilled services are the most common type of freelance work, with 45% of freelancers providing skills such as programming, marketing, IT and business consulting. SOURCE: Upwork Freelancers contribute nearly $1 trillion in freelancing income to the economy, or nearly 5% of U.S. GDP. SOURCE: Upwork Nearly two-thirds of HR professionals indicate the gig economy is impacting hiring and staffing practices. A majority (64%) are experiencing some sort of change because of gig economy trends. SOURCE: HR.com There are up to 15.5 million Americans – 10 percent of the total U.S. labor force – who use contingent or alternative work as their primary source of income. SOURCE: ICIMS It’s a freelance nation, and we’re just living it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Rejobify.com Mya Systems Gets $18 million in funding https://hrtechfeed.com/mya-systems-secures-18-75m-series-c-funding/ Engagedly to Provide Remote Work Toolkit for Free https://hrtechfeed.com/engagedly-to-provide-remote-work-toolkit-for-free/ Outmatch Offering Free Video Interviewing Platform https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-offering-free-video-interviewing-platform/ Dice Launches Sourcing Feature https://hrtechfeed.com/dice-launches-sourcing-feature/ The Mom Project Acquires Workplace Analytics Tool https://hrtechfeed.com/the-mom-project-acquires-workplace-analytics-tool/ Hourly, an employee management platform, has raised $7.15 million in seed funding https://larocqueinc.com/hourly-raises-7-15-million-seed-round-for-its-time-and-attendance-app/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to what recruiters are saying about whats happening with the hiring market in the Coronavirus crisis. @StacyZapar....Recruiters, how has your job changed in the last week (since the quarantine)? Still sourcing or holding off for now? What will the hiring market look like in upcoming months? Will people even be open to changing jobs or likely hunker down till the storm has passed? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remote work is having its day in the sun due to the coronavirus outbreak...seminal moment... and my guest today just wrote an article on his new remote experience managing a team of people remotely. We ‘ll talk with him in a minute but i posed this question on my facebook group, RecTechies and wanted to read you some of the replies. Working remotely is more popular than ever before. One Gallup survey found that 43% of Americans work from home occasionally. That's up from 39% of those who did in 2012. And according to Quartz, U.S. Census data indicates that 5.2% of U.S. workers completely worked at home in 2017 — that's about 8 million people. Joining me now is Chad Fife is the VP of marketing at AI recruitment startup Talview. Here's the link to his article on LinkedIN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Rejobify.com 3 Ways to Use Google for Recruitment Marketing https://www.crowdcast.io/e/3-ways-to-use-google-for WorkN closes on Funding Round https://hrtechfeed.com/workn-closes-series-a-funding/ Emissary Adds ATS Partners for Text Recruiting https://hrtechfeed.com/text-recruiting-platform-emissary-adds-ats-partners/ WorkLlama Launches Chatbot https://hrtechfeed.com/workllama-launches-recruitment-chatbot/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today you will hear 3 pieces of audio recorded at I AM PHENOM in Philadelphia...first up will be HR tech analyst John Bersin I record a small portion of his keynote where he talks about how “out of control” the HR tech market is right now and what the big vendors are doing, then you will get an update from Zapinfo the super utility recruiter tool followed by a conversation with two executives from recruiting assessment platform Talview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fresh off the IAMPHENOM conference I had the opportunity to hang out with and interview Phenom's Keca Ward, Sr Director of Talent Experience. She runs the team that keeps the hires coming at the HR tech vendor now simply known as Phenom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Textrecruit alternatives Outmatch takes on Private equity. https://hrtechfeed.com/outmatch-announces-private-equity-investment/ Phenoms Chatbot Case Study https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-study-recruitment-chatbots-double-candidate-leads/ Phenom New Products https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-launches-four-new-product-innovations/ NAS Acquired https://hrtechfeed.com/nas-recruitment-acquired/ Landing.jobs gets funding https://blog.landing.jobs/making-2m-work-for-you-our-tech-community-4f5bf79267f Smashfly Rec Marketing report https://hrtechfeed.com/smashfly-recruitment-marketing-research-spotlights-talent-attraction-trends/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In todays audio you will Aaron Kraljev, head of Talent & Employer Brand for Fisher Investments discuss how he measures the effectiveness of their recruiting efforts. Recorded live at TA Week in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

According to her Linkedin profile Rachel Duran creates unique and industry leading strategies for social media, events, print, email and web to support talent acquisition efforts at top brands. As a passionate learner, she is never shy to pick up any new skills and techniques needed to build newer and better user experiences and interfaces with each new campaign effort. She’s held TA roles at Allegis, CA Technologies, Alexander Mann and her current employer Cloudera Twitter: @TheRachelDuran Instagram: @TheRachelDuran https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelduran/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Rejobify.com THE ORG GETS FUNDED https://medium.com/the-org/the-org-raises-8-5-million-in-series-a-funding-from-founders-fund-sequoia-and-balderton-4d1f2766fc9b WORKGENIUS https://hrtechfeed.com/freelance-platform-workgenius-raises-another-7-million/ CORNERSTONE TO ACQUIRE SABA https://hrtechfeed.com/breaking-cornerstone-to-acquire-saba/ JOB DIVA ANNOUNCES CONFERENCE https://hrtechfeed.com/jobdiva-announces-jduc-2020-new-staffing-conference/ GREENHOUSE UP TO 3700 CUSTOMERS https://hrtechfeed.com/greenhouse-now-has-3700-customers/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee handbook to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on https://hrlancers.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This audio, recorded at TA Week in San Francisco was my favorite of the event. It features Tracy Parsons from Parsons Strategic Consulting on how you can fix your candidate experience with some simple hacks. Special thanks to PhenomPeople for their travel sponsorship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are going to talk about the 2020 Recruitment Benchmarking Report just released by the folks at Appcast and joining me today is their SVP of Strategy, Leah Daniels LINK: https://info.appcast.io/whitepaper/2020-recruitment-marketing-benchmark-report-website Give us a quick description of Appcast for those that dont know the company Hows life under Stepstone? In the grand scheme of ‘recruitonomics’, we see that at the same time demand for candidates is increasing, the supply of candidates has dropped, meaning it is more difficult to acquire candidates. If you want to change the outcome of your recruitment advertising, you either need to bid more (than your competitors) or look at how to impact apply rates in order to 'get more bang for your buck'. Whats in this report? The clicks where... The new apply rate numbers? 5.6% in 2018 now down to 5.0 in 2019, why is that going down? You have 3 options…are these all job board applies you are tracking or employer ATS ? Google for Jobs Percentage of mobile applies by industries Apply rate by industry Special thanks to Emissary.ai and Workhere.com for their continued sponsorship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Textrecruit alternatives KRONOS AND ULTIMATE SOFTWARE MERGER https://hrtechfeed.com/kronos-and-ultimate-software-enter-definitive-merger-agreement-creating-company-valued-at-22-billion/ RECRUITERS ON DEMAND FROM RECRUITER.COM https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiter-com-launches-recruiters-on-demand-solution-for-employers/ CAREERBUILDER LAUNCHES SOCIAL REFERRAL https://hrtechfeed.com/careerbuilder-launches-socialreferral/ BLUE COLLAR LABOR SHORTAGES TO CONTINUE THRU 2030 https://hrtechfeed.com/blue-collar-labor-shortages-to-continue-through-2030/ BODY SHOPS OPEN HIRING INITIATIVE https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/02/12/the-body-shops-new-hiring-approach-three-questions-no-background-drug-or-criminal-check-required/ Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee manuals to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on HRlancers.com Follow HR Tech Feed on social media: @hrtechfeed on Twitter Linkedin https://www.facebook.com/hrtechfeed/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Exclusively Sponsored by Phenom People - the Talent Experience Management Platform. Recorded live at TA Week in San Fransisco this panel is moderated by Craig Fisher, featuring Sourcing experts David Nicola (DGK Search), Amy Miller (Amazon Labs) and Salifu Abdulai (Github). They'll discuss how to engage passive candidates and personalize your efforts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will Naso is the CEO and co-founder of Biteline, a hiring platform that connects dental professionals with open opportunities. After three years of hard work, Biteline officially launched to its Charlotte market in July 2019. In less than two months, the app gained 300+ users that represented 65 unique offices and 195 jobs posted. During the summer of 2016, Will had the opportunity to work on three start-ups, ranging from concept stage, to pre-launching a B2B SaaS product in Atlanta. It was during this summer that he met Barclay McFadden and together, they created Biteline. Biteline.net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Rejobify.com JOB BOARDS CLOSELY WATCHING GOOGLE EU CASE THIS WEEK https://www2.staffingindustry.com/site/Editorial/Daily-News/Job-boards-closely-watching-Google-EU-case-this-week-52780 Death of a Job Board https://hrtechfeed.com/death-of-a-job-board/ OnShift Acquires Avesta https://hrtechfeed.com/onshift-acquires-talent-acquisition-software-provider-avesta-systems/ Onboarding Software Platform Raises $7 million https://hrtechfeed.com/onboarding-software-platform-raises-7-million-in-funding/ SmartRecruiters Will Add to the recruiter Experience https://hrtechfeed.com/smartrecruiters-will-take-on-the-recruiter-experience/ Instant Teams raises $1.5 Million https://larocqueinc.com/instant-teams-raises-1-5m-for-its-job-board-marketplace-focused-on-certified-remote-military-spouses/ Dont forget about Iamphenom coming up in Phily March 3-5 use code RUSSELL for 25% off tix Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee manuals to freelance sourcers to HR bloggers you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on HRlancers.com Follow HR Tech Feed on social media: @hrtechfeed on Twitter Linkedin https://www.facebook.com/hrtechfeed/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special thanks to Phenom People for their travel sponsorship. In this audio you will hear Sarah Erickson from Minnesota based Ecolabs. She details their new employer brand makeover with the help of Symphony Talent. Recorded live at TA Week in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A conversation with Jerome Ternynck, the CEO of applicant tracking tool SmartRecruiters. Sponsored by Emissary.ai and Workhere.com FULL TRANSCRIPT Chris Russell: The RecTech Podcast is sponsored in part by our friends at Emissary.ai, the text recruiting platform. Your next superstar is in demand and on the move. Emissary is the easiest way to connect with them faster and more effectively wherever they are. So if you haven't embedded texting into your recruiting process yet, what are you waiting for? It's definitely something that's as a channel, today's employers need to communicate more effectively with there candidates and prospects. Go to emissary.ai and schedule a demo today. Chris Russell: We're also sponsored by our friends at WorkHere.com, the hyper-local candidate delivery tool through geo-fencing app platform. You can reach more people through their online ads with pinpoint precision where they live, work and shop. WorkHere will advertise your jobs on the screens candidates use the most, their mobile phone. And messaging is then delivered into the social mobile apps they use most often. Head over to WorkHere.com and be sure to tell them heard it the RecTech podcast. Chris Russell: All right, so today's audio is an interview with Jerome Ternyck, CEO of SmartRecruiters, one of my favorite ATS's out there. The first one I ever used actually as a recruiter. I sat down for him at their San Francisco offices for a 30 minute conversation, and I think you're really going to enjoy this one. He was very open and honest and authentic as he always is and enjoy the audio. Chris Russell: Okay. I'm here with Jerome Ternyck, CEO of SmartRecruiters in their San Francisco offices on Bush Street and had a chance to come down here after the TA week events and come see Jerome. He's always been inviting me out here and finally got a chance to make it to San Fran and SmartRecruiter. So Jerome, first of all, it's great to see you again and how's life today? Jerome Ternyck: Likewise. Thanks for having me on the show. And yeah, life is good. Life is good. You're actually catching me today on January the 30th which is exactly 24 hours before the end of our fiscal year so we're busy signing deals left and right, rushing into the end of the year preparing budgets. And I think on Friday evening everybody will be resting for weekend. But just for the weekend, because we have our Hiring Success conference coming up in two weeks on Feb 11 and 12. When we'll have a thousand people coming here and so we're excited. It's busy time here. Chris Russell: Yeah, definitely. Quick history lesson for people who know me. SmartRecruiters was the very first ATS I ever used as it recruited back in 2014-ish around there. I picked them because they seemed to be a modern platform back then, and they still are. They had an app and things like that at the time, which were pretty new. I've always kind of admired SmartRecruiters from afar anyway, and also as a user in that time. But just give the audience a sense of where you guys are now in terms of customer base and employee-wise and things like that. Just give us a quick overview. Jerome Ternyck: Yeah. So we started the company in 2011. We spent four years in R&D and really what we were building, what we aimed [inaudible 00:00:03:36]. Okay, what is a generational successor to applicant tracking systems? Applicant tracking systems were born out of we need to automate the file cabinet. Resumes were paper based; the internet arrived. Oh my God, candidates can fill in forms, and I can track them in a system. But this whole idea that people are actually tracked as applicants in a system like even the name is wrong. Applicant tracking system doesn't say hire amazing people system. Jerome Ternyck: And having build myself an ATS between 2000 and 2010 when I started SmartRecruiters, I was like, okay, really getting ready. Take a blank sheet of paper and what do we want to get out here? And so we landed on three core things that are talent acquisition suite should do. One, it should help me attract candidates. That speaks to marketing and how you attract candidates and advertising and referrals and good website and good candidate experience. And there's a whole lot of things that need to be done in the area of CRM and marketing and so on. Jerome Ternyck: Second, we said managers have to use it and we have to double down on collaboration because recruiters cannot be successful if the managers aren't playing with them in their system. And so we focused on collaboration, hiring manager engagement, scorecard scheduling, making more that process like super smooth and efficient. And third, it's about recruiter and recruiter productivity. And recruiters nowadays, they're being asked to move mountains, but they have tools and technologies from decades ago. Chris Russell: They're being held back. Jerome Ternyck: And they're completely held back, absolutely. So giving recruiters all of their data processes and sup

Sponsored by Rejobify.com Accurate Background to Acquire CareerBuilder Employment Screening https://hrtechfeed.com/accurate-background-to-acquire-careerbuilder-employment-screening/ Hireology Launches Mobile App https://hrtechfeed.com/hireology-launches-mobile-app/ GR8people Launches New Features https://hrtechfeed.com/gr8-people-releases-new-features/ Talkpush Releases Messaging Enabled Career Sites https://hrtechfeed.com/feature-announcement-talkpush-releases-first-messaging-enabled-career-website/ Transform Announcement https://hrtechfeed.com/transform-recruitment-marketing-event-set-for-boston-in-june/ Dont forget about Iamphenom coming up in Phily March 3-5 use code RUSSELL for 25% off tix Got a project that an HR freelancer can handle? From writing an employee manual to freelance sourcers to HR blogegrs you can find the right freelancer to handle your HR or recruiting needs right now on HRlancers.com Follow HR Tech Feed on social media: @hrtechfeed on Twitter Linkedin https://www.facebook.com/hrtechfeed/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While at TA Week in San Francisco I stopped by a few vendor booths that caught my eye. Of these 3 I thought PathMotion was the most interesting product which helps employers surface unique content from their employees. MAIA: https://www.maialabs.com/ PATHMOTION: https://www.pathmotion.co/ ERIN: https://erinapp.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the first of several recordings from the TA Week event in San Francisco we hear from Jonathan Dale, VP of Marketing at PhenomPeople and colleague talk about the importance of the talent experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While at TA Week in San Francisco I got the chance to speak with Symphony Talent's Head of Marketing, Gina Alioto and Head of Product Sean Quigley from the show floor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Rejobify.com Catalant Raises $35 Million for Consulting Marketplace https://hrtechfeed.com/consultant-marketplace-catalant-technologies-raises-35-million/ 1huddle Gets $5 Million https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-tech-gamification-company-gets-5-million/ LaborChart Raises Series A https://hrtechfeed.com/construction-workforce-management-platform-gets-series-a-funding/ Codility Raises Big Round for Developer Hiring Platform https://hrtechfeed.com/codility-raises-22m-for-its-tech-recruiting-platform/ PEO JustWorks Gets $50 Million https://hrtechfeed.com/justworks-raises-50-million-series-e/ Visibility Partners with Emissary https://hrtechfeed.com/visibility-software-announces-partnership-with-emissary-for-text-recruiting/ Blockchain and HR https://hrtechfeed.com/several-hr-tech-vendors-form-blockchain-initiative/ Communo Raises $2.5 Million https://calgarysbusiness.ca/business/calgary-based-communo-raises-3-3-million-in-seed-funding/ Follow HR Tech Feed on social media: @hrtechfeed on Twitter Linkedin https://www.facebook.com/hrtechfeed/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Serge Boudreau is the Manager of Talent Acquisition at Calgary based BURNCO Rock Products. With his job board background he is revamping their recruitment process from a marketer's perspective. LI: post mentioned: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6620785258625409024 Serge Boudreau: This is Serge Boudreau, manager of talent acquisition at BURNCO Rock Products, and I'm next on the RecTech podcast. Speaker 2: Welcome to RecTech, the podcast where recruiting and technology intersect. Each month, you'll hear from vendors shaping the recruiting world along with recruiters who will tell you how they use technology to hire talent. Now, here's your host, the mad scientist of online recruiting, Chris Russell. Chris Russell: All right. You're listening to the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology-inspired conversations. We're all about the new tools and tactics to land more talent. Today's episode is a practitioner edition. RecTech Podcast sponsored in part at our friends at Emissary.ai, the text recruiting platform. You want to get superstars in demand and on the move, Emissary is the easiest way to connect with them faster and more effectively wherever they are. Each recruiter seat you get on Emissary gets their own phone number to use as their primary phone number for candidate conversations. All those conversations are stored in the text inbox on Emissary. You choose the area code, so each of your recruiters will get a 10-digit the candidate sees when they receive the message. They can have the option for call forwarding to their cell or office line. Go to Emisarry.ai, self-schedule a demo, let them know you heard it on the RecTech Podcast. Chris Russell: He's at the top. Serge Boudreau runs talent acquisition for BURNCO Rock Products out of Calgary, Alberta. He's also a listener of the show, so I'm extremely glad he's about to make is RecTech debut. Serge, welcome. Serge Boudreau: Thank you, Chris. I'm very excited to be here or talking to you. Definitely, I've been listening to your podcast almost since the inception, so for you to ask me to come onboard was very exciting on my end. Chris Russell: Awesome. I always love it when I get a listener on the show itself. So appreciate that volunteering there. I was looking at your LinkedIn profile before we get started today. You got an interesting background overall. I want to start there, I think. You've worked time at Kelly Services. You worked at Indeed Canada and also Workopolis. I'm assuming you were there at Workopolis when the takeover happened by Indeed. Would that be a correct assumption? Serge Boudreau: Actually, no. Chris Russell: Oh. Serge Boudreau: I was at Indeed when Indeed purchased Workopolis, which was very interesting. Chris Russell: Okay. So the reverse, okay. Serge Boudreau: Yeah, I actually had joined Indeed already. It was interesting. Like you said, my background is quite varied. I actually started my career in talent acquisition as a recruiter. Then got promoted in through a different recruitment manager roles. Then decide to really go on the vendor side and go at Workopolis. During that time, Workopolis was very dominant here in Canada as far as the job site of choice. I think it was really Workopolis and Monster had quite a bit of market share here as well. I had the pleasure of being in charge of sales and operation for Western Canada and Quebec for a while. I do speak French as well, but spent quite a bit of time there. Unfortunately, when Indeed came into the market or fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, it really took a lot of market share and really hurt Workopolis. Serge Boudreau: Eventually, pretty much led to Indeed acquiring in that point, but a couple factors that happened is here in Western Canada, especially in Calgary, it's very oil and gas focused, the industry. So in 2014 when oil and gas just crashed, also did the recruitment aspects of it. It really put Workopolis in strain in Western Canada, hence I moved to Kelly Services, which was actually my first foray in a staffing firm. I learned a lot, both on the permanent placement, but mostly, we did a lot of contract for contract workers for large oil and gas. A lot of the workforce became a contract workforce as they were hiring just based on the economy. Serge Boudreau: Then had the pleasure to do a very similar role at Indeed where I basically led the Western sales team here in Canada. I did Quebec for a while as well there, so it was kind of going back to my old days at Workopolis. Then one day, we acquired Workopolis, and it felt like the old Godfather line, "When you think you're out, they pull you back in." It's how I felt. I have so many great memories and everything at Workopolis, but, obviously, Indeed in the Canadian marketplace and also in the US has been very dominant. Chris Russell: Yeah. Rumor has it that ZipRecruiter was also trying to bid for Workopolis. Do

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Matthew Gilbert is the Creative Director at New York City based Bayard Advertising….where he directs their strategy, creative, content and web development teams spanning all areas of EVP and Employer Brand (EB) development and activation. Recently Matthew wrote an article on linkedin that caught my eye.../it was titled Do Employer Brands Need A Tagline, Or Just Really Good UX? I think it’s time to reinvent, dare I say do away with, the notion that an Employer Brand needs a tagline. I can almost hear the shouts of “Nooooooo” echo across the EB landscape. Allow me to try and explain. Article Link Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Rejobify.com MyWorkChoice Raises $3 Million for Flexible Work Platform https://www.americaninno.com/charlotte/news-charlotte/flexible-shift-scheduling-company-myworkchoice-raises-3m-round/ Phenom People Raises Massive $30 Million Dollar Round https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-people-raises-30-million-in-series-c-proving-the-hr-shift-towards-ai-powered-talent-experiences/ Hiretual Launches Healthcare Specific Sourcing Feature https://hrtechfeed.com/hiretual-launches-healthcare-sourcing-tool/ Bartender On Demand Platform Raises Seed Round https://hrtechfeed.com/bartender-on-demand-job-site-raises-seed-round/ ModerHEALTH Raises $30 million https://recruitingheadlines.com/mental-health-benefits-platform-for-employers-gets-31-million-in-funding/ Follow HR Tech Feed on social media: @hrtechfeed on Twitter Linkedin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HR Lancers a new Marketplace for Freelance Recruiters and Human Resources Consultants Thats right HR is going gig! Employers and freelancers can now create profiles, post gigs and be found in the first and only niche gig platform dedicated to HR. “There are thousands of freelance HR consultants and recruiters and now they have a place to call home, HR Lancers was born out of my own frustration with established gig platforms who charge exorbitant fees and lack relevant HR gigs.” Members can create a profile for free and be matched to available gigs from categories such as Benefits, Compensation, Payroll, Training, Sourcing, Recruiting and more. The new site which can be found online at hrlancers.com allows industry freelancers to post profiles, search for work, setup email job alerts at no cost to them. Members only pay if they choose to feature themselves in the freelancer directory. Popular freelancers such as Katrina Kibben, Keirsten Greggs and Jim Stroud have already created profiles on the platform. Recruiting expert Jim Stroud says HR Lancers is a much needed resource. “Specialists are affordable and amateurs are expensive, when you consider the time and money wasted because of inexperience. This is why HR Lancers is a premiere worth noting. With the gig economy booming and HR challenges abounding, it only makes sense to have a platform that provides the worker flexibility so many in the labor force are demanding. In light of that, a niche site for the HR industry is all the more logical.” HR Lancers allows employers to post projects and gigs that are contract only positions. They can also seamlessly browse the open freelancer directory and connect directly with freelancers through keyword and category search. Current pricing for employers is as follows: 10 Day Gigs are free for a limited time, $29 for a 30 Day Featured Gig or $19 per month for an unlimited subscription. Follow HR Lancers on social media via Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. https://www.facebook.com/HRlancerspro/ https://twitter.com/hrlancers https://www.linkedin.com/company/hr-lancers/ So spread the word far and wide that HR lancers is here and ready to power the HR gig economy. https://hrlancers.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special thanks to WorkHere.com and Emissary.ai for their sponsorship. TRENDS: sourcing chatbots, text recruiting, automated pre-screening, resume scoring, automated hiring, digital onboarding, nurturing candidates and flexible work arrangements. Cool tool alert - Typorama lets you create amazing visuals by "automagically" transforming your text and photos into beautiful typographic designs. No design skills needed! Just choose a background, type in your words and your creative typography is ready! Typorama saves you tons of work by automatically creating complex text layouts with different fonts and typefaces. By just a few taps, you instantly get your text beautifully laid out on a background of your choice. This would take hours if you were using Photoshop or a similar photo editor. (The text designs are not templates and they are generated randomly as you choose different styles). The app is free in the app stores. Apple | Google Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Rejobify.com SuccessFinder Gets Funding Canada-based SuccessFinder has raised USD $2.23 million to join a crowded field of North America-based assessment providers. Positioning for recruitment, talent management, and analytics and stressing the validity of their psychometric science, Source: BDC Capital Invests $1.5M in SuccessFinder https://hrtechfeed.com/canada-based-successfinder-raises-usd-2-23-million-for-its-psychometric-assessments/ Bullhorn Acquires Automated Solutions Provider Herefish https://hrtechfeed.com/bullhorn-acquires-automated-solutions-provider-herefish/ ERIN Employee Referral Software Releases Text Message Referrals https://hrtechfeed.com/erin-employee-referral-software-releases-text-message-referrals/ vFairs Launches Feature-Rich JOB BOARD https://hrtechfeed.com/vfairs-launches-feature-rich-job-board/ New announcement coming Tuesday Jan 14th. If you are an HR freelancer or a company that hires them RecTech Media is launching a new resource around that niche. Look for the special episode and and press release that day. Follow HR Tech Feed on social media: @hrtechfeed on Twitter Linkedin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices