Rectech: The Recruiting Technology Podcast

Adzuna, the global job search platform, today announced the acquisition of the jobs businesses of Trovit and Mitula, two market-leading search engines operated by the Lifull Connect group. The acquisition marks Adzuna’s third acquisition in four years, further strengthening its position as one of the world’s leading global job search platforms. https://hrtechfeed.com/adzuna-acquires-2-job-search-engines/ SILICON VALLEY, Calif. — Today, Novaworks, the AI-native Human Capital Management (HCM) operating system for the enterprise built on the ServiceNow platform, announced its launch in conjunction with $8M in seed funding led by Stalwart Ventures, with strategic participation from ServiceNow Ventures and Bell Ventures. The Company also introduced the first agentic operating system for Total Workforce Management (TWM) https://hrtechfeed.com/workforce-management-platform-lands-8m/ Following an intensive build phase with early customers, Deel announced the general availability of its fully integrated ATS. Unlik

Recruiting platform Paraform has raised $40 million in Series B funding,... https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiting-platform-paraform-has-raised-40-million-in-series-b/ Findem, the AI platform for talent outcomes, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Glider AI, a skills validation platform. Together, the companies will deliver an AI-powered hiring solution that produces hire-ready candidates—candidates who are discovered, assessed and verified before they reach hiring managers. https://hrtechfeed.com/findem-to-acquire-glider-ai/ Workable announced the launch of Workable Agent, an AI recruiting agent built directly into its ATS. More than an add-on or isolated feature, Workable Agent brings agency-level recruiting capability directly inside the hiring platform. It acts as a full-cycle hiring teammate that helps teams define the job, source candidates, engage talent, and deliver qualified candidates ready for interview. https://hrtechfeed.com/workable-launches-agentic-ai-features

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Is your career site delivering the conversion you need? Dalia’s plug-and-play tech turns any employer career site into a high-performance candidate conversion engine — no replatforming required, live in days.Visit dalia.co to learn more. AND by jobcase, "Are you struggling to find the right talent in a crowded job market? Jobcase connects you to a massive community of over 120 million registered workers, including the hourly, skilled, and gig professionals that other job boards often miss. Visit jobcase.com/hire today to post your roles and start building the team you need with tools designed to make hiring fast and easy." Alright rec techies…..here’s what's happening this week. First up, SAN FRANCISCO — Juicebox, the outbound recruiting platform, announced $80 million in Series B funding at an $850 million valuation led by DST Global. The company has tripled ARR since its Series A in July 2025, and now serves 5,000 customers spanning fast-growing technology companies and Fortune 100 brands, with custom

First up, a massive move in the early-career space. upGrad, Asia’s integrated skilling and workforce development leader, has officially acquired Internshala, the world’s largest internship platform. https://hrtechfeed.com/upgrad-acquires-worlds-largest-internship-platform/ Moving from early career to global staffing—ManpowerGroup is making a major bet on AI interviewing. They’ve announced a global partnership with AI pioneer Hubert to scale structured, chat-based interviews. We’ve all heard the "AI is taking over" headlines, but Manpower is calling this a "Human-First" approach. The AI handles the initial 24/7 screening—meaning candidates can interview at 2:00 AM if they want—but the final hiring decision stays with the human recruiter. The Takeaway: In a world where 75% of employers struggle to find talent, speed is everything. Manpower claims this moves candidates through the pipeline five times faster. By using the "STAR" method for its AI questions, they’re aiming for fairness and consistency over gut

Mastering the Message: The Recruiter’s Playbook Communication is where the candidate experience lives or dies. Is your messaging helping you close hires, or is it creating bottlenecks? Join us as we break down the Best Practices for Messaging Your Candidates. We’ll tap into the knowledge of two experienced leaders including Kerry Noone, who runs Employer Brand at Ford Motor Company and Geoff Webb who runs Talent Discovery and Engagement at Canadian based Organon. Expect to walk away with: A timeline for perfect follow-ups. Communication etiquette for the modern age. Strategies to go beyond the ‘Thank You For Apply’ email Who should attend: Talent Acquisition Leaders, HR Directors, Recruiters... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Story 1: Humand’s $66 Million Bet on the Deskless Workforce https://hrtechfeed.com/humand-secures-66-million-series-a-to-revolutionize-the-deskless-workforce-with-ai/ Story 2: ZipRecruiter’s Rough 2025 Financials Story 3: WorkWhile Launches the 'AI Talent Coach' Story 4: Elly Debuts with $8M to End 'Tool Fatigue' Story 5: Workday’s $9.5 Billion Year of AI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Todays Guest is Doug Berg from https://match2.com/https://match2.com/. The recruiting industry is broken. Companies have built one-sided systems that leave candidates frustrated and in the dark. One candidate applied to 100 jobs and heard back from only 44. The other 56 companies ghosted them completely. Here's what's worse: 80% of candidates who are a great fit for jobs don't even apply. Why? Because they know they'll never hear back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First up, a major change at the top for Employ Inc.—the powerhouse behind JazzHR, Lever, and Jobvite. The company has officially appointed Jerry Jao as its new CEO. Jao is a serial entrepreneur who founded the AI-powered marketing platform Retention Science. What’s interesting here is that Jao isn’t just a tech exec; he was actually a Lever customer for six years. He’s stepping in with a "founder’s mindset" to lead Employ through the GenAI era. His message? Hiring must remain "people-first," but the technology needs to move faster. Watch for Employ to lean even harder into AI innovation to help recruiters make more confident decisions without losing that human connection. https://hrtechfeed.com/employ-inc-appoints-new-ceo/ Next, let’s talk about speed. hackajob just announced that its AI recruiting agent, Archer, has surpassed $1 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just 90 days. To put that in perspective, the "pre-AI" gold standard was hitting that million-dollar mark in a year—Archer did it in

The recent Eightfold AI class action lawsuit is making waves in the recruitment technology industry, but it's not really about AI—it's about data protection and personal data sovereignty. In today’s podcast, industry experts Alex Murphy (CEO of JobSync) and Leah Daniels (COO of JobSync) break down what this lawsuit means for vendors, employers, and job seekers alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Take2, an AI agents platform purpose-built for healthcare recruiting, today announced it has raised a $14 million Series A… The company’s first agent, the AI Interviewer, conducts phone interviews with candidates 24/7, evaluates them, records calls, and syncs results directly into applicant tracking systems — all with no human-in-the-loop. Trained on healthcare-specific hiring data, the platform helps organizations assess candidates more accurately while generating predictive insights that improve hiring quality and long-term retention.  “Healthcare systems are under enormous pressure, and hiring is one of their biggest hidden costs,” said Yaniv Shimoni and Kaushik Narasimhan, co-founders of Take2. “We’re building AI agents that actually do the work — not just assist — so recruiting teams can focus on strategic decisions instead of time-consuming manual processes.” https://hrtechfeed.com/take2-raises-14m-series-a-to-automate-healthcare-recruiting/ “Help me find an engineering job in Chicago…”  A simple pr

In a candid conversation with Chris Russell on the RecTech Podcast, Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait reveals the company's bold pivot to focus on job seekers alongside employers. After 14 years of helping companies hire better, Greenhouse is tackling what Chait calls the "AI Doom Loop"—a vicious cycle where job seekers use AI to mass-apply to hundreds of jobs while overwhelmed employers deploy AI filters to narrow down thousands of undifferentiated applications, tightening the window for candidates and perpetuating the problem. To break this cycle, Greenhouse is launching features like My Dream Job (allowing candidates one premium application per month that converts at five times the normal rate), My Greenhouse Portal (enabling real-time application status tracking), and Greenhouse Verified Badges (rewarding employers who communicate transparently). The company's newly launched Real Talent product adds three layers of trust: candidate intent matching, bad actor detection, and identity verification—all audited mont

ClearanceJobs bookings returned to year-over-year growth, rising 3% to $14.6 million. Executives attributed this momentum to a record federal defense budget and the early stages of hiring “tailwinds” within the defense sector. https://hrtechfeed.com/dhi-group-returns-to-growth-in-defense-sector-announces-new-10-million-share-buyback/ Viventium announced Wednesday the acquisition of Apploi, a leading healthcare recruitment and scheduling platform. The merger creates a first-of-its-kind, nationally scaled Human Capital Management (HCM) platform designed exclusively for the post-acute care market. https://hrtechfeed.com/healthcare-hiring-tool-acquired/ Boomband, an AI-native talent marketplace founded by Monster.com creator and entrepreneur Jeff Taylor, today announced Boomband’s upcoming launch and the closing of a $4.0 million seed round led by Boston Seed with participation from New England VC’s Slater Technology Fund, Rogue Venture Partners and Service Provider Capital. https://hrtechfeed.com/boomban

recent podcast episode, Michael Wolford, author of AI Recruiter 2.0, discussed how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the recruiting industry by automating administrative tasks and empowering recruiters to focus on what they do best: building relationships and adding real value. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is your career site delivering the conversion you need? Dalia’s plug-and-play tech turns any employer career site into a high-performance candidate conversion engine — no replatforming required, live in days.Visit dalia.co to learn more. AND by jobcase, "Are you struggling to find the right talent in a crowded job market? Jobcase connects you to a massive community of over 120 million registered workers, including the hourly, skilled, and gig professionals that other job boards often miss. Visit jobcase.com/hire today to post your roles and start building the team you need with tools designed to make hiring fast and easy." Alright rec techies…..here’s what's happening this week. Kind of a quiet week… First up…The WorkTech sector ended 2025 with strong momentum, demonstrating resilience across funding, M&A activity, and valuation metrics. This market update synthesizes key findings from the latest analysis and provides strategic context for businesses and investors navigating this dynamic  https://hrte

Use code IAM-ChrisRussell for your free pass to IAMPHENOM in Philly March 10-12. Click Here. TOP STORIES Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed artificial intelligence hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued in California for allegedly compiling ​reports used to screen job applicants without their knowledge. The lawsuit filed on Tuesday accusing Eightfold of ‌violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act  https://hrtechfeed.com/eightfold-is-being-sued-by-2-job-applicants/ Chandler, Ariz. — Vensure Employer Solutions (Vensure), a leading provider of HR/HCM technology, managed services and global business process outsourcing, serving more than 161,000 clients worldwide, recently acquired Distro, an AI-powered recruiting platform headquartered in Lehi, UT https://hrtechfeed.com/vensure-employer-solutions-acquires-ai-recruiting-platform/ NEW YORK — Payoneer (NASDAQ: PAYO), the global financial technology company powering business growth across borders, toda

To attract and convert top talent, your career site must be more than just a place to search jobs. It needs to be a rich, authentic destination that clearly answers the candidate’s core question: “What will my life be like if I work here?” On top of that, candidates are now using AI to ask those questions so its imperative for employers to provide answers for the search engines to crawl which now includes sites like ChatGPT and Perplexity. With that in mind we came up with five content pieces that are essential for building a compelling and effective employer brand story. READ: https://www.jobsync.com/post/5-essential-content-pieces-for-high-performing-career-sites/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Phenom, the leader in applied AI that helps organizations hire faster, develop better, and retain longer, today announced it acquired Included, an AI-native agentic people analytics platform that surfaces actionable insights for faster, smarter workforce decision-making. https://hrtechfeed.com/phenom-acquires-included-ai/ Employers.io has acquired Job-Applications.com with one clear goal: rebuild it for today’s job market while keeping what made it useful in the first place.   https://hrtechfeed.com/employers-io-acquires-job-applications-com-to-rebuild-and-modernize-a-trusted-job-search-platform/ A couple of new CEo announcements Oyster®, the global employment solution to employ, pay, and care for distributed teams, today announced the appointment of Hadi Moussa as Chief Executive Officer. Moussa succeeds founder and CEO Tony Jamous, who will move into the new role of Executive Chairman with a focus on long-term vision and strategy. This founder-led transition will accelerate Oyster’s growth and its miss

We are living through a unique convergence in the labor market. A wave of high-profile layoffs has created a massive pool of eager talent. Simultaneously, generative AI has democratized corporate-grade automation for the individual job seeker. Tools that auto-apply, perfectly tailor resumes to keywords in milliseconds, and blast applications across platforms are now commonplace. We have removed all friction from applying. The result isn't a talent pool; it's a talent deluge. Employers and ATS vendors are realizing that the old floodgates cannot hold. We are seeing the first signs of a defensive build-up. The Current Defense: Identity vs. Volume Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we dive deep into the future of blue-collar hiring with Daniel Walsh, CEO and founder of Veroskills, and podcast host Chris Russell. Discover how Veroskills is leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to close the $1 trillion labor gap in the skilled trades and blue-collar sectors. veroskills.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices