Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

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

Recruiter and author Steven Mostyn joins Chris Russell to talk about his new book and describes how he recruits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura Frances Merin is a talent acquisition and people operations professional specializing in high-growth startups. She launched her recruitment career with Robert Half and recently served as the Head of Talent for Cue Connect, and these days serves as a People Operations and Recruitment consultant for startups in New York City and Boston. Laura is passionate about identifying, developing, and coaching sparks of talent, and loves nothing more than helping people map out their next career steps. Today she'll tell us how she recruits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Milton is the VP of Customer Development at San Diego based Portfolium...a site that allows students to showcase themselves to potential employers. He joins me for a twenty minute conversation to detail the platform and talk about how students view the job search process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I spoke with job board owner Jennifer Schultz who runs the local recruiting site, RecruitmentQueen.com - a local job board for Bucks County, PA. Jennifer runs several job fairs and exvents to support her job board. Listen in as she details parts of the business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben White has seven years’ experience in talent acquisition. He has worked as a headhunter and a corporate recruiter for two fortune 500 companies. Today he is part of the recruitment process insourcing team at Titus Talent, a talent strategies firm with several offices throughout the midwest, New York and the UK. http://www.titustalent.com/ Topics discussed in this episode: -What is recruitment process insourcing? -Typical day like? -Lets talk tech...you dont use an ATS? How do you keep track of candidates? -What other tools are part of your day to day recruiting? -Effective inmail writing...whats your response rate? -Describe a typical inmail...subject line, what do you say? -Phone sourcing? -Engaging candidates who may otherwise pass on initial dialogue -Your last 3 placements...where did you find them online? -Advice for new recruiters? Sponsored by Jobs2Careers.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Seidle is the Cofounder and COO of WorkHere a new mobile job search company based in Indiana. Mike is Past Director of Development at DirectEmployers and a former board member on the HR Open Standards Consortium. Today he talks about the new mobile job search app currently operating in the Indiana job market. Learn about how they built it, why and what's next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this podcast, Thad Price, VP of Product & Engineering at Jobs2Careers, stops by to talk about their new app called ipply which is designed for Craigslist users who want more of an ATS like functionality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Lucas is the co-founder and President of JobMonkey.com. The website was launched in 1999 and has become the premier website for people looking for "Cool Jobs" in the United States or Abroad. Lucas is also an active member of the Seattle startup community and has invested in and / or mentored over 30 Pacific Northwest startup companies. We'll talk about his entrepreneurial journey and get his take on running a job board among other topics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Bernstein directs eQuest’s Big Data for HR/Predictive Analytics Division, which enables organizations to make better-informed decisions about their recruiting and hiring strategy. His background includes pioneering HR technology roles at PeopleSoft, start-up company HR solutions, and building HR technology platforms for global, Fortune 1000 companies such as Solectron and Hitachi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to RecTech, the recruiting technology podcast. I’m your host Chris Russell, for those you who don’t know me I’m a consultant who helps job boards and hr tech startups with marketing and promotion. FirmPlay's software makes it easy for talent acquisition professionals to build an authentic employer brand that attracts top talent. Crowdsource the employee experience, by turning their stories into powerful branding content. Then promote your brand by embedding content on your careers page, sharing to social, and amplifying its reach with employee brand ambassadors. The result: easily tell your company’s unique story, engage employees in the process...and above all, attract and retain top talent. Learn more at: firmplay.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I got a demo of Clinch recently. Clinch is a new recruitment marketing tool for employers and today I'll be speaking with Shane Gray, their VP of Sales & Marketing based in Dublin where the firm is headquartered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices