Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

Creating Compelling Candidate Communications to Double Your Candidate Email Response Rates With Angie Verros, Vaia Talent Have you ever wondered why candidates ignore your emails? Why you send out over 100 emails a day to potential candidates only to get responses like, “Not interested” or “Take me off your list.” And, that’s not including the 95 (or so) percent of recipients who delete without reading at all. With higher demand and advances in technology, we’ve seemed to leave out the personal touch of recruiting. TOOLS MENTIONED - TruePeopleSearch.com We'll talk about that and more on the latest episode of the RecTech Podcast with host Chris Russell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wonolo – which stands for Work. Now. Locally….has raised a Series B funding round of $13 million dollars which brings it total funding to $25 million. The company’s technology connects employers with vetted workers “within moments”. The new funding comes from Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. AJ Brustein is one of the co founders and he joins me on the phone from San Francisco. We chat about the company's origin and the on demand labor market they are building in major cities across the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As an award-winning and innovative thought leader in the talent-acquisition field, Tangie Pettis has spent over 19 years as a strategic recruitment business partner within some of the most well-known companies and organizations across the nation including Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Home Depot (RPO), DaVita, Charlotte Russe, Aeropostale, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She has a dynamic approach to candidate sourcing, process design and implementation. She is also an active speaker and author in the recruiting community, often called upon for her expertise in candidate and hiring manager engagement. TOPICS -So what’s it like recruiting dentists? -How do you pitch a potential dentist to joining Aspen? -How does one source for them---tools---sites? sync.me -What’s your current ATS? -You spoke at Sourcecon this spring about to to win over hiring managers...lets dive into that for a bit -How to work with a difficult hiring manager -How to build solid partnerships with hiring managers and turn them into one of your biggest advocates -- go from order taker to trusted advisor -Any tips for improving the intake meeting? -What’s your most creative sourcing story that you can tell us? -Tip someone gave you recently about recruiting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to audio from a panel of HR influencers and analysts such as William Tincupp, Tim Sackett, George LaRocque and Madeline Laurano. Recorded at the OPEN Conference in NYC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hot Topic, has 425+ employees at their Corporate HQ in Los Angeles and with around 10,000 company-wide depending on the season. They recently initiated a new onboarding experience at their corp HQ with the intent to ramp-up speed and engagement, so that it could impact productivity and tenure. Johnny Sanchez is the Head of Recruiting at Hot Topic & BoxLunch, A retailer based in Los Angeles. QUESTIONS -Tell us first what the onboarding process was like before and why you decided to change it? -Walk us through what you did to begin the design the new process? Ultimately you built a roadmap guiding employees through their first 30 days...describe that… -Results: 50% decrease in new hire attrition (leaving within 1 year): Internal NPS from 38% to 68%: Increase in qualified referrals: -Lets talk tech for a minute….could you what technology you used to create this new onboarding experience? -What other tools are part of your HR tech stack...ATS...sourcing tools… etc -Lessons learned?...Last words of advice to other employers about onboarding…? LINKS https://twitter.com/johnnyblu6 https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanchezjohnny/ https://www.workatht.com/ https://hros.co/case-study-upload/how-hot-topic-drives-engagement-and-productivity-with-enhanced-onboarding SPONSORS Hiretual.com and Roborecruiter.ai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This audio is from a recent panel at TA Tech Europe but I wanted to chat about recruitment marketing for a moment. At RecTech Media we enable companies to outsource much of these efforts from managing your job advertising to creating content for your career site and managing your social recruiting channels so you can get back to the business of ...recruiting. Right now I see too many employers trying to meld these responsibilities onto recruiting or TA managers who are still expected to source and recruit, but to me the recruitment marketing function is better suited to a dedicated marketer who have a better understanding for how to convert online clicks into applicants. I saw a recruiting manager job the other day where the person was supposed to do full cycle recruiting and run the rec marketing function which to me really mutes that aspect of the job. There’s no way they can dedicate enough time and attention to properly market the jobs and manage sites and social. So if your company needs help with your recruitment marketing consider giving us a call at 203-572-2053 or email [email protected]… So...Enjoy the audio where you’ll hear Chad Sowash, Shane Gray from Clinch, Tycho van Passen from Vonq and Jayne Ronanyne from KonnectAgain bounce around ideas in recruitment marketing... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shannon Pritchett is the editor of SourceCon. As a lifelong student in the recruitment industry, Shannon is passionate about improving it. She has a diverse background in training, sourcing, full desk recruiting, coaching, and journalism. Shannon got her start in the recruitment industry at Vanderbilt University and later worked as a Senior Recruiter for Internal Data Resources and Community Health Systems, Social Media Recruitment Ambassador for T-Mobile USA, Director of Recruiting for Moxy, Trainer with AIRS, and last as a Manager of Global Sourcing and Training for ManpowerGroup Solutions RPO. -What sourcing tools are recruiters talking about these days? -Glen Cathey talked about “The Human Element of Sourcing Candidates.” let’s unpack that….so easy to find a person these days...the trick is how to engage them. -Is boolean dead with advent of all these new tools? -Tell us a sourcing story about how you or someone you know got creative in finding someone that you eventually hired? -How should vendors approach recruiters about pitching their products? -What advice would you give a new grad today who wants to go into recruiting? -Sourcecon Budapest….what’s in store? -Is there a promo code for Sourcecon Budapest you want to give out? Sponsored by Hiretual.com and RecTechLive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 conversations with HR tech vendors recorded at TA Tech Europe held in Dublin Ireland March 13-14. Gal Among form Talenya Shane Gray from Clinch Talent Peter White from Jobboard.io/Ziprecruiter Learn more at RecTechMedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Today we’ll be talking about hot topics in text recruiting with the CEO of Canvas, based in Indianapolis. The company just launched in June 2017 and is gaining traction. Links: https://gocanvas.io/ and sponsor http://recruitingheadlines.com/ Topics include: -How did you get into the HR tech space, what’s your background? -Tell us briefly what your tool does and how it works? Im curious to hear -What a typical user experience is like... -Why is text interviewing better than a phone screen? -Worried that ATS vendors may start their own version of this? -What types of organizations are turning to text messaging to recruit talent? -What have you learned about the role of machine learning in recruiting today. -Did you go tot HR tech this year? What are you doing to market the tool -What trends will most impact recruiting in 2018? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Sherman is a Director of Talent Acquisition with Sodexo a food service and facilities management company. Topics discussed include: -Whats New in TA at Sodexo -Size of recruiting team, number of hires expected in 2018 -Sodexo has been a very proactive recruitment marketer, started blogging early, etc...Quesocial -Sodexo HR tech stack, can you tell us what you us...avature, icims, entelo, hiring solved, Text Recruit, Seekout -Favorite tool or technology you guys have brought on this year -Is there a tool you wish existed that doesnt -How should HR tech vendors pitch you? Learn more at RecTechMedia.com for show notes and links. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest today is Graham Pionkowski, who's spent the last decade in the world of corporate recruiting, and helped a number of organizations up level their talent acquisition strategy, operations, and technologies. Most recently, he has served as the head of global talent acquisition at Bizarre Voice, a high tech company based in Austin, Texas. Over the last few years, he's been leading all things recruiting, including the TA strategy and operationalizing the day to day execution to bring top talent into the organization. On today's show we will chat about a variety of recruiting technology challenges, mention some tools and get some great insight from a veteran talent acquisition professional. Learn more at RecTechMedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Russell reads a solid example of a job posting that sells the role, and company well. Listen as he reads it word for word and tells you why it works. Find the link tot he job description from Meetup at RecTechMedia.com on the blog page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As their head of research, DavidMallon sets strategy and drives innovation for Bersin's research team. He is the primary force behind their work in continuous learning, learning cultures, and learning management systems. He is also central to the Bersin thought leadership related to HR's operating models, governance, and the evolution of key roles such as the HR business partner. TOPICS DISCUSSED What were your takeaways from the HRtech conference this year…. What do you make of the recent news of Cornerstone on Demand receiving $300 million in new funding? Linkedin was also involved with... Your colleague Josh Bersin said something recently about applicant tracking systems that caught the eye of many recruiters i know….something like ‘the ATS is going away or dying’...wonder if you can comment on that...what does he mean and do you agree...? There has never been more HR technology than exists right now and the money is flowing into the space, are we in a bit of a bubble here? I still see a lot of employers using HR tech wrongly….they buy it thinking it’s going to be some sort of panacea but fail to implement and manage it properly...do you agree and what is your advice to those employers? Any predictions for the 2018? What are you expecting in the next year when it comes to HCM platforms... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Eubanks is the principal analyst for Lighthouse Research and Advisory, a human capital management firm that recently conducted a study on video in the candidate experience. Topics discussed: Go to HR tech this year? What did ya think What’s a typical day like for an HCM analyst? Really interested to talk about video today and when I first saw the news of the study that you did I know it would make for a great podcast, how did the study come about and who did you survey? Quote: the study sheds light on ways companies are wasting money on video production while failing to meet the preferences for candidates. I walked away from this study with an overwhelming sense of “people want to work for people, not companies,”... Walk us through the major findings? I just don’t see major employers every taking this route...there are too many rules and regulations that exist that will prevent them from being transparent with vide...to those employers you say what? What were the Key takeaways? Learn more at https://www.rectechmedia.com/ and for the study go to: http://lhra.io/blog/videos-job-candidates-actually-want-see-not-branding-video-new-research/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Johnny Campbell is the CEO & Co-Founder of SocialTalent a company that helps “Improve and Measure your Recruiter ROI”. He is here to discuss some of the findings of the 2017 Global Recruiting Survey and has some interesting things to highlight from the results. learn more at https://www.rectechmedia.com/ and https://www.socialtalent.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to Chris Russell talk about do's and dont's for your career site. Recorded at RecruitCon Boston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You already know job search engines such as Indeed, Jobs2Careers and Juju but you may not know about Montreal based Neuvoo, a global job search engine now operating in more than 60 countries...there is big change going on in the job search world so today we’ll get some perspective from an upstart player in the space, Neuvoo.com (recorded at the 2017 HR Tech conference in Las Vegas) Lucas Martinez is their cofounder. This is your first HR tech show...first impressions? Walk me through the history of your site...where did you start and where are you now? Traffic, countries, etc Why does the employer world need Neuvoo... what makes you guys different? How are you going to take on Google, they are surely on their way to becoming a top job search destination, how are you going to compete with that? What about Facebook? Will you integrate with their new api? 6. Jobs are becoming a commodity...jobs are everywhere what is your take on that perspective? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ninh Tran is the COO and cofounder of Hiretual, one of the most popular sourcing tools on the planet. We chatted about the company at the recent HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Meyer: This is Joe Meyer, Founder and CEO of ExecThread. And I'm next on the RecTech podcast. Welcome to RecTech. The podcast where recruiting and technology intersect. Each month you'll hear from vendors shaping the recruting world. Along with recruiters who will tell you how they use technology to hire talent. Now, here is your host. The mad scientist of online recruiting, Chris Russell. Chris Russell: That's right. It's time for RecTech, the only podcast [00:00:30] that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. If you listen you'll hear both recruiters and HR Tech vendors talking about having used Tech to find talent. Today's show is a vendor edition. RecTech podcast is sponsored by our friends at Jobs In The US. If your company needs to hire more local talent JobsInTheUS.Com let's you post for free on their national job search engine. They also operate 51 local state sites for every state in the country, including Washington DC. [00:01:00] They've been around since 1999, and the job boards they power will help you connect with more local talent. Again, morejobsintheus.com. All right, so my guest today says, quote, "Executive recruiting hasn't changed in decades and isn't designed to address the unique involving needs of senior level professionals and hiring managers. We saw an opportunity to destruct the global talent acquisition market, which is loaded with inefficiency. [inaudible 00:01:27] give to get model and provides professionals [00:01:30] with far greater access to hidden career opportunities and traditional recruiting methods." End quote. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I first learned of Ideal.com at last year’s HR tech conference and after recently hearing the news of the new 3 million round of funding invited their cofounder to the show to talk about their technology and how they help employers find talent...according to their homepage...Ideal automates tedious and time-consuming tasks including manual resume screening and candidate sourcing. TOPIS TODAY: Tell us what Ideal does? Congrats on the new round of funding can you tell us how that came about and what your plans are for the capital? Tell us the story of the domain name and how you came to acquire it? Your technology is A.I. based so describe that part of the technology? How does it integrate with your ATS? Whats the deliverable? What are some results your customers have seen by using Ideal? How are people using AI in recruiting now? Will artificial intelligence tools such as Ideal take jobs away from recruiters? What are your predictions for recruiting and AI's role in the future? Learn mor eat https://www.rectechmedia.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thats right its time for RECTECH….the only podcast that helps employers and recruiters connect with more candidates through technology inspired conversations. If you listen you’ll hear both recruiters and HR tech vendors talk about about how they use tech to find talent. If you listen, I promise you’ll get better at recruiting. Paul DeBettignies is the Principal of Minnesota Headhunter, LLC a Minneapolis IT search firm and a frequent local and national speaker and writer on recruiting, HR, career, networking and social media topics. And like me he’s an avid fisherman….we follow each other catches on Instagram. TOPICS DISCUSSED How’s business and tell me a bit about the minnesota tech scene? What recruiting or HRtech companies are located up there? I heard that some Minnestota employers making big push to recruit outside of minneapolis? Are companies there more willing to relocate? When did you get the idea to brand yourself as the Minnesota Headhunter? What tech tools do you use to recruit...let’s start with your ATS? See Linkedin today? New active user feature...thoughts? Tell me a story of your most creative sourcing story where you really dug deep to find someone? Ever sourced anyone by first finding them on twitter or facebook? What’s your approach to candidate outreach….? Do you get creative with your messaging? It amazes me how dumb employers are by not putting their career/jobs link at the top of their websites...you just wrote a post on that...comment? What else are companies still doing wrong when it comes to promoting themselves? What’s the one thing about the future of recruiting that you are worried about? http://www.mnheadhunter.com/ and https://www.rectechmedia.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lever is part of a new crop of applicant tracking systems that are really turning heads and making the hiring process better for companies.... They are also doing a great job at marketing themselves and I wanted to tap into that with their CMO, Leela Srinivassan. In this podcast we'll chat about: You have a quite a career path...I didn’t realize you used to work at LinkedIn...what was that like and what did you learn there about selling and marketing to HR people? How big a team is Lever right now…? How did you get the job? Why is Lever different? As you pitch Lever today what are the main challenges in selling to HR? Basic price point of the product? What type of companies do you target? Talk about your content marketing efforts and how that helps you create a funnel for sales? Just started a conference? I see a lot of vendors hosting their own now… Advice for HR tech startups...what should they be doing to gain traction/get their first clients? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harry Joiner is a third party recruiter who specializes in placing ecommerce executives. I invited him on the show because he does a great job of branding himself in the recruiting world via his website at ecommercejobs.com. EPISODE SPONSOR: https://www.jobsintheus.com TOPICS: Take me back to when you started in recruiting….when did you first get the idea to buy your domains? Describe ecommerce jobs and how you use it? What has it done for you in terms of generating placements...the impact? You are known for creating really deep, detailed job descriptions...explain why? These jobs are like job stories...how do you get all this info…? What ATS do you use? What tech tools are part of your everyday recruiting activities…? Advice for those recruiters who want to do a better job at branding themselves and/or their business? SITE: http://ecommercejobs.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Forrester is President and Founder of A.W. Forrester Co. ...A.W. Forrester Co. is a niche agency recruitment firm that focuses in the commercial health insurance Industry. He started his recruitment career in 1990 as an agency recruiter – he’s received rookie of the year honors, top recruiter and highest placement fee awards. Ken believes His key to success is being able to incorporate non-recruitment solutions with traditional recruitment tactics. He is inbound certified through Hub Spot and an avid user of Mautic, a marketing automation platform – where he has developed a strategy for sourcing and nurturing prospective candidates. He also serves in an Advisory role to TerraTal, a start-up data science driven recruitment platform that implements machine learning technology into the recruiting and hiring process. His objective is to consult with employers on best practice strategies for optimizing the hiring process. TOPICS - full show notes available at RecTechMedia.com How’s business in the commercial health insurance business...especially with all this crazy healthcare politics stuff going on? Good or bad for your business? How big is your team and where are you based? What ATS do you use? What tech tools are part of your everyday recruiting activities…? What created your interest in AI? What problems will AI solve in the hiring process? How big is the resume database of terratal How will AI work in recruiting talent? How will AI source candidates for jobs? What new ways will AI generate fees for agency recruiters? Have you used it to find and place a candidate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First year recruiter and former vet, Michael McDonnell talks about opening his own recruiting shop and what he's learned in his first year of recruiting as well as the tech tools that are part of his everyday job. For the transcript and show notes please go to https://www.rectechmedia.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Mulhall, a VP of Talent Acquisition for a Canadian software complay explains how and why they revamped their job descriptions to engage candidates. Full transcript can be found at RecTechMedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you work from home you need to listen to this special episode of RecTech. A recital of this article: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-work-from-home Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s guest is ...Dean Da Costa...Dean is a Strategic Sourcing and Research Technologist at a Fortune 100 company in the Seattle area. A decorated veteran and recognized sourcing expert with more than 20 years of experience, he currently writes The Search Authority, one of the most influential blogs in the business. A frequent speaker on the recruiting conference circuit, His insight and knowledge (particularly of technology) has made Dean one of the top sourcers and full cycle recruiters in the business today. TOPICS Let’s start with the recent Linked User Agreement changes which is causing a lot of uproar among your fellow recruiters...can you explain what it says and what that means for recruiters? REFERENCE: https://www.eremedia.com/sourcecon/stop-the-madness/ Does it affect every extension on the market that uses LI in some way? You say InMails are a waste of time...why? What’s your open rate? What tools are part of your everyday souring toolbox…..elucify.com What ATS do you currently use? Luxo, Taleo, Smashfly How much do you spend on these tools each month? What has been your biggest win so far this year from a sourcing standpoint? When it comes to vendors pitching you...what are they doing wrong? How should they approach people like you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Third party recruiter Esra Oziskender who runs HR Link Consulting in NYC talks about how she sources and places candidates on the Facebook social network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ray Tenenbaum is the founder of Great Hires, a recruiting technology startup offering a mobile-first Candidate Interviewing Experience platform for both candidates and hiring teams. Great Hires was named Top HR Product of 2016 by Human Resource Executive Magazine and ranked #2 in Business Tools in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Brilliant Companies of 2016. SHOW TOPICS One of the more practical new tools i have see in hr tech lately...what was the impetus for creating the app ...tell us more about its origins? How does it work for employers? Why is making the interview experience so important? Describe the user experience for a candidiate? What have you learned so far about how companies approach interviewing...any takeaways? Tell us about the company itself how many employees are you bootstrapped or funded... How much does it cost for employers to use it? We are living in a time where there has never been more HR technology…..What advice do you have for companies who are overwhelmed with all this new HR technology? That will do it for this edition of the RecTech podcast. Thanks again to our sponsor and remember to check out Beyond.com/rectech for that special offer of 10% to their text to hire service...Follow me on twitter @chrisrussell or visit www.rectechmedia.com, you can find the audio and links for this show on our blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices