Rectech: The Recruiting Technology Podcast

Alison Kaizer leads Talent at Lunchbox, one of the fastest growing foodtech start-ups in the industry. Lunchbox provides next-gen digital ordering software that helps restaurants drive better guest engagement and stronger sales. https://lunchbox.io/careers

Sourcing platform Hiretual is now HireEZ and they just received a new influx of $26 million in new funding. The company which is based inMountain view California held a relaunch party this week which I attended.  The funding was led by Conductive Ventures, and the new rebrand reflects their new mission: to make outbound recruiting easy.  https://hrtechfeed.com/hiretual-is-now-hireez-raises-26-million/ SmartRecruiters, the Hiring Success company, today announced the acquisition of Attrax, an industry-leading provider of career site software that lets companies build engaging, personalized career sites. The acquisition will result in an integrated offering, SmartRecruiters Attrax, designed to help customers build data-powered, curated career sites that enhance the candidate experience and improve hiring outcomes. SmartRecruiters Attrax is available immediately for SmartRecruiters customers. https://hrtechfeed.com/smartrecruiters-acquires-career-site-company/ LumApps, a leading Employee Experience Plat

Laskie is a new matching platform that leverages human sourcers and tech to match talent in remote engineering, product, design, marketing, and sales roles.

Crosschq, the reference chack platform has announced the launch of Crosschq Recruit, a sourcing tool built specifically to help companies source qualified talent directly from the professional networks of job applicants. https://hrtechfeed.com/crosschq-launches-sourcing-portal/ Otta a platform for matching jobs at tech companies with candidates by aggregating a lot of information about the company (founder bios, employee reviews, salaries, industry) with the roles offered.  Angel investors backing Otta include industry vets such as Indeed’s Paul Forster, Alex Bouaziz of Deel, Ben Herman of Canvas.com, Abakar Saidov of Beamery. https://hrtechfeed.com/tech-jobs-startup-gets-20-million/ Radancy, the global talent technology leader, is pleased to announce its plans to acquire Firstbird, a global leader in SaaS based employee referral programs. Based in Vienna, Austria, Firstbird offers a comprehensive software solution to digitize and streamline the employee referral process. The acquisition of Firstbird

In her new role at Enboarder, Laura Lee Gentry is responsible for leading their talent and culture functions, focusing on building and investing in employee experience, including learning & development, hiring and retention strategies, that will further accelerate the company’s rapid growth. She brings more than 20 years of operational and organizational experience and a history of building successful talent and culture programs to Enboarder. She previously served as chief people officer at Applied Systems and senior vice president of employee experience for Ultimate Software. Laura, welcome to the podcast. Tell us first about Enboarder what does your software do? I see you guys use SmartRecruiters as your ATS, how do you like them…what other recruiting tech/HR software do you have in place? What do you make of the current hiring climate...Quit rates are up, companies cant hire fast enough...we seem to be in a fundamental shift for how and why people work... What initiatives are you going to focus on

HR technology veteran entrepreneurs Greg Moran and Ira Grossman announced the launch of Evergreen Mountain Founder’s Fund 1. The $20m fund will be focused on early stage investments made in companies addressing changes in the way we work globally https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-technology-veterans-launch-new-investment-fund-focused-on-future-of-work-technologies/ Lattice, the leading people management platform for businesses with people-first cultures, today announced a new valuation of $3 billion after closing a $175 million round of funding from Thrive Capital, Elad Gil, Tiger Global, and Dragoneer. https://hrtechfeed.com/lattice-raises-175m-now-valued-at-3-billion/ Handshake, the largest early career network, today announced a Series F round of $200 million at a valuation of $3.5 billion—more than double its valuation in 2021. The round, led by Coatue Management and Valiant Peregrine Fund with participation from Base10’s Advancement Initiative, among other investors, reflects unprecedented demand amidst a

Recorded from Jobsync's recent zoom roundtable, this audio features an industry wide discussion about candidate and worker engagement.

Diversity Job Marketplace Canvas.com which rebranded itself last year from Jumpstart, was recently ordered to stop using the Canvas.com domain by a judge. Canvas is currently leasing the domain. This is according to a story by BleepingComputer. In the article, “Learning management platform Instructure claims the domain name Canvas.com and its logo contain elements that conflict with Instructure’s Canvas product and line of business.“ Canvas says they are appealing the ruling. https://hrtechfeed.com/canvas-com-facing-legal-dispute-over-domain-name-trademark/ SeekOut, the AI-powered Talent 360 platform, has just raised a $115 million Series C investment round led by Tiger Global Management. The round values the company at more than $1.2 billion in just four years, reflecting a 2.6x increase in valuation since its Series B in March 2021. The news comes on the heels of the business increasing ARR by more than 3x in the past year. https://hrtechfeed.com/seekout-raises-115-million/ HealthGigJobs Services, I

Andela.com is a global marketplace of technical talent. CEO Jeremy Johnson stops by to tell us the origins of this recruitment platform that recently got $200 million in funding.

PayFit, a leading payroll and HR management solution for SMEs, today announced that it has raised €254M in a Series E funding round, a record-breaking amount for a French human resources (HR) startup. General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, led the round, with participation from existing investors Eurazeo, Bpifrance and Accel Ventures.  Since its founding in 2015, PayFit has gained over 6,000 clients, and has raised €179M to date https://hrtechfeed.com/french-startup-payfit-raises-e254m-for-its-payroll-hr-software/ Runway Growth Capital, a provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, today announced the close of a senior secured term loan commitment of $65 million to Snagajob.com, the marketplace for hourly jobs and shifts. The Snagajob deal marks another investment for the expanding Runway venture debt portfolio, which seeks to capitalize on a growing market opportunity in which larger, more established businesses are

Facebook is shuttering its public jobs marketplace. Alex Murphy, CEO of Jobsync stops by to talk about what happened.

TriNet, a leading provider of human resources solutions for small and medium-size businesses(SMBs), today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zenefits.  Details of the stock and cash transaction were not disclosed. Zenefits is a leading cloud HR platform which provides innovative and intuitive HR, benefits, payroll and employee engagement software purpose-built for small and medium-size businesses.  Through the acquisition of Zenefits, TriNet diversifies its product offering to include an Administrative Services Organization (ASO), enabling TriNet to dynamically service SMBs throughout their lifecycle.  Upon deal close, Zenefits will become a wholly owned subsidiary of TriNet and Francisco Partners will become a TriNet stockholder. TriNet is also expected to become a preferred supplier of PEO and HRIS services to Francisco Partners portfolio companies across the country after closing. The acquisition is expected to close in the coming months, subject to customary closing condi

The crew wraps up the year in recruiting and HR tech. TOPICS What we'll remember about this year? Have we hit peak HR tech funding? What will hiring be like in 2022?

Clovers a human resources technology firm leveraging interview intelligence to improve interviewing and hiring practices, today announced Zoom Video Communications, Inc. has invested in the firm via its $100 million Zoom Apps Fund.  https://hrtechfeed.com/clovers-secures-investment-from-zoom-for-its-interview-platform/ HR technology company HiBob rolls out its Payroll Hub, a centralized dashboard on the Bob platform that automatically updates companies’ payroll data in real-time. Effectively managing payroll is one of the biggest pain points for HR teams and has become increasingly complex as workforces have become geographically dispersed and increasingly dynamic with a mix of both full-time and contract workers. The tool addresses this challenge directly with a user-friendly design and capabilities that allow companies to serve all workers – whether they are full-time, freelance, or in another country.  https://hrtechfeed.com/hibob-launches-a-payroll-hub/ GoodJob Software LLC announced that it has bee

Jobandtalent – a workforce marketplace that matches workers with temporary roles – announced it secured $500 million in equity investment from Kinnevik and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, closing out its Series E round. https://hrtechfeed.com/jobandtalent-lands-500m-to-expand-in-u-s/ Metaview the interview intelligence tool based in Londo has raised 6 million in new funding. This investment will “help us accelerate in our mission to power People decisions with truth by enabling us to rapidly grow our phenomenal team. We're hiring builders on all fronts: engineering, design, sales, marketing, customer success, and operations.” https://hrtechfeed.com/weve-raised-a-6m-seed-to-power-people-decisions-with-truth/ Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK), the world’s work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talent, today announced the launch of its “The Perfect Fit” brand campaign. The campaign showcases how businesses can gain a competitive advantage and solve talent gaps exacerbated by the Great Resignation by t

VideoMyJob CEO David Macciocca said on Linkedin this week that the Australian based video startup has raised $2 million in new funding. “With the new round of funding, we’ll accelerate our innovations that continue to make VideoMyJob the best video solution for Talent Acquisition, Employer Brand and Recruitment Marketing teams worldwide.” https://hrtechfeed.com/videomyjob-raises-2-million/  Workday, Inc. a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire VNDLY, an industry leader in cloud-based external workforce and vendor management technology.  With VNDLY, Workday will provide organizations with a unified workforce optimization solution that will help organizations manage all types of workers—salaried, hourly, contingent, and outsourced—and support a holistic talent strategy, including insight into costs, workforce planning needs, and compliance. https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-to-acquire-vndly/ Jobvite has announced the speake

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Linkedin now lets users choose which type of job preferences they want to be found for. These include on-site, remote and hybrid. It’s a sign that job types have permanently changed. User can now edit these settings in their profile. https://hrtechfeed.com/linkedin-adds-remote-work-preferences/ After acquiring Harver back in May, digital hiring solutions provider Outmatch rebrands to Harver and continues to develop the world’s leading volume hiring solution for hourly and professional roles. The unified Harver platform will combine the capabilities of both Outmatch and Harver, creating one powerful solution purpose-built to solve the complex volume hiring challenges organizations are facing today. “Outmatch’s extensive science and product capabilities, combined with Harver’s dedicated volume hiring solutions, have already proven to be a truly winning combination” said Jim Trimarco, Chief Revenue Officer of Harver. “We’ll move forward under the Harver brand, and together we can now provide a full-service s

New research from InFlight Corp suggest employers still have too long of an apply process. Designing and executing a quantitative study of your company’s apply flow is a complicated undertaking. Many organizations have pieced together in-house and external systems to achieve their intended goals without considering the overall quality of the candidate experience. With so much competition for workers, organizations cannot afford to have systems that provide a candidate experience that undermines their talent attraction goals.” InFlight’s research report is complimentary. To download the report, please visit: https://www.inflightintegration.com/apply

Seasoned announced that it has raised $18.7 million in Series A financing to help expand its hiring platform and restaurant worker network to new markets. The financing comes on the back of a $12 million seed round raised in June 2021, bringing its total raised to more than $30 million this year. In July 2020, Seasoned relaunched with a next-generation, mobile, app-based recruitment and hiring tool for restaurants that complements its employee networking platform. On the back of releasing this next generation hiring product in Dallas, Seasoned has partnered with more than 300 national and local restaurant brands that own and operate more than 100,000 locations across the country, and has added Houston, Austin, Orlando, and Miami to its platform. The proceeds from the financing will be used to support Seasoned’s expansion into new markets and continued enhancements to its products. Learn more at seasoned.co https://hrtechfeed.com/restaurant-hiring-platform-raises-nearly-19-million-in-funding/ Bullhorn®,