Rectech: The Recruiting Technology Podcast

Walmart and Target announce free tuition for frontline workers. https://www.diversitygator.com/pages/33815-walmart-to-pay-100-of-college-tuition-and-books-for-associates https://recruitingheadlines.com/target-launches-tuition-assistance-program-for-frontline-workers/ The benefits wars are heating up.

Polywork, a new type of business social network has raised $13 million in new funding from Andreesen Hororwitz and other investors. Think of it as an alternative to LinkedIn. From the a16z blog… Polywork focuses on letting people tell their own stories and all they’re capable of, so we can meet new people, supercharge our teams, and unlock creativity. From capturing details like who you collaborated with on various projects to career highlights, to a system of community-created badges reflecting both personal and professional traits, Polywork is building a new professional network, from the ground up, that reflects how we work in 2021. As a bonus, Polywork profiles can also be hosted on any custom domain instead of Polywork as a simple way to represent your online identity.   https://hrtechfeed.com/linkedin-alternative-polywork-raises-13-million/   Graphite Solutions, Inc. today announced the completion of a new $15M equity raise to scale its sales, marketing, recruitment, customer success and product

Chloe Rada brings 20+ years of talent marketing experience and is known for driving big ideas and empowering others to make a positive change for the future of Talent Acquisition.  Awarded the 2020 Recruitment Marketer of the Year by Rally™ Recruitment Marketing for making an impact on Sodexo’s recruitment marketing efforts she is   currently the Director, of Global Recruitment Marketing and Branding for Syneos  Health... Supporting the Commercial Solutions division and responsible for driving talent attraction and candidate engagement strategies to compete in the Life Sciences industry. I wanted to start by asking about your previous work at sodexo......you spent many years there and that company to me was one fo the first employers to embrace employer branding...i remember back in like 2008 you guys were blogging about life at the company, they were one of my clients when i was running jobs in pods...what were some of the lessons learned from your time there? -Current recruitment tech stack at Syneos S

WorkJam, the Digital Workplace for organizations with frontline employees, announced $35 million in growth financing from Silver Lake Waterman. The investment is intended to support the company’s continued growth and strengthen WorkJam’s position across the over 2 billion frontline worker market — a market that has been underserved and underpenetrated with collaborative tools to orchestrate the workforce. WorkJam’s Frontline Digital Workplace enables operational efficiencies, fosters collaboration, and drives engagement and higher retention by equipping frontline workers and headquarters staff with a state-of-the-art solution to manage scheduling, training, task workflows, and real-time communications — all through a single platform.  https://hrtechfeed.com/workjam-announces-35-million-in-financing-for-frontline-worker-platform/ Instawork, the digital marketplace that connects  local businesses with skilled hourly professionals across the U.S., has acquired Drafted, a network recruiting platform that help

Recruiter.com has been making acquisitions and going public on the Nasdaq. We'll catch up with their CEO Evan Sohn.

Culture Amp was founded in 2009 to let companies conduct anonymous employee surveys, but since then, its focus has expanded to helping employers turn the data they collect into action. The company announced today it has raised $100 million in Series F funding, led by returning investors Sequoia Capital China and TDM Growth Partners.  The round bumps Culture Amp’s valuation to $1.5 billion, more than double what it was after the company’s Series E in 2019. That makes them our industries latest unicorn. There are now 27 different companies that have ever received a single funding round of $100 million or more. https://hrtechfeed.com/culture-amp-gets-100-million-in-new-funding/ Talview, a leading provider of an end-to-end, AI-powered hiring and proctoring solution, today announced it closed $15M in Series B funding led by Silicon Valley investor Eileses Capital….The new capital further validates that their video AI platform is perfectly positioned to help organizations analyze talent interactions for more ef

Today i’ll be chatting with Roberto Angulo, CEO of Recruitology a Cloud-based recruitment platform that leverages artificial intelligence to connect employers with the right talent, And he is also co-founder of AfterCollege.com an entry level job site thats been around for over 20 years. TOPCS Give us a brief description of your business as it is today… Lines of business...revenue streams? How do you think job marketplaces will evolve in the next 5 years? Whats your marketing advice for a new job board owner just starting out? You wrote a book too, Getting Your First Job for Dummies...what was that experience like?

SmartRecruiters, the recruiting software that I was once a client of announced it closed a $110 million Series E round led by Silver Lake Waterman with participation from existing investors... The new capital brings the company’s total amount raised to $205 million, with a valuation of $1.5 billion. This financing round comes on the heels of strong momentum for SmartRecruiters. In the last 12 months, the company has experienced 70 percent bookings growth behind its expanding product set—with new messaging and analytics capabilities built on its modern talent acquisition platform.  The new funds raised will be used to accelerate product development for SmartRecruiters’ leading talent acquisition suite in the areas of intelligence, automation and conversational interfaces. SmartRecruiters will also continue to expand go-to-market efforts across US, EMEA and APAC, and will provide on-the-ground support for its growing customer community and partner ecosystem. https://hrtechfeed.com/smartrecruiters-raises-110

A deep dive into what into TikTok new recruiting experiment.

 isolved has acquired predictive people analytics platform TrenData HR. The combination helps business leaders and HR professionals move from reactive to proactive human capital management (HCM) using sophisticated insights, simply delivered. The acquisition will help organizations of all sizes  – to maximize business and people outcomes from their HR data. TrenData HR harnesses external data sources and aggregates them with information from internal systems, applying sophisticated predictive artificial intelligence (AI) models to produce powerful visual insights wherever and whenever they’re needed.  https://hrtechfeed.com/isolved-acquires-predictive-people-analytics-provider-trendata-hr/ Remote, a leading HR tech platform and provider of global employer of record services and international contractor management, today announced it has raised a $150 million Series B round led by Accel. The shift to distributed employment created unprecedented demand for Remote’s services: since their $35 million Series

Shane Metcalf is the Chief Culture Officer at 15five. We talked about how the great resignation now underway in the labor market is affecting companies ability to attract and retain workers as well as what you can do about it for your organization.

LinkUp, the leading provider of global job market data, announced their recruitment advertising and job search business has been rebranded as Getwork. Getwork will continue to be powered by LinkUp’s labor market data business and its innovative, proprietary technology that indexes millions of verified jobs every day directly from employer career sites. As a separately branded business, Getwork will be entirely focused on connecting job seekers with the companies they want to work for. Getwork will provide jobseekers with the most streamlined search of the highest quality job listings, as well as offer solutions for employers in search of top-quality talent, like pay-per-click and targeted marketing campaigns, an extensive partner network, and valuable analytics to optimize recruitment strategies. LinkUp will continue to service data clients with the most accurate, real-time, and predictive job market data. LinkUp’s dataset includes 4 million daily active job listings from 60,000 companies and contains more

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ZoomInfo the go-to-market intelligence solution, today announced the general availability of the ZoomInfo Recruiter platform. ZoomInfo Recruiter is built specifically for recruiting teams to identify, target, and connect with top talent so they can fill open requisitions with the right individuals quickly and efficiently. Through the platform, staffing agencies, executive recruiters, corporate recruiters, and sourcers can uncover data such as work history, educational background, and department organizational charts to better understand candidates’ managerial, functional, and technical experience. Recruiters can apply preset filters in order to focus on specific initiatives, including diversity, equity, and inclusion. “ZoomInfo Recruiter gives recruiters an edge in identifying hard-to-find candidates,” said Henry Schuck, ZoomInfo Founder and CEO. “Recruiters can easily automate their identification of and outreach to candidates. In an increasingly competitive hiring environment, ZoomInfo Recruiter provides

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Standalone solutions....  Worqdrive: We are an internal mobility solution designed to make it easy for your employees to stay. | Link Gloat: Internal Talent Marketplace helps enterprises democratize career development, unlock skills, and future-proof their workforce. | Link Fuel50: Matches your people to new opportunities, vacancies, gigs, and learning based on their talents whilst giving your organization powerful insights. | Link Anthill: Designed to reach all types of workers, from corporate to retail and manufacturing, Anthill’s software engages with employees via mobile app.  | Link Feature inside HCM suite… Phenom https://www.phenom.com/internal-mobility Eightfold https://eightfold.ai/products/talent-management/ Workday | Recently Launched Workplace Talent Marketplace | Link SmartRecruiters https://www.smartrecruiters.com/recruiting-software/smartmobility/ PaddleHR https://www.paddlehr.com/internal-mobility Avature https://www.avature.net/internal-mobilit

Recruiting platform dotin Inc., which improves the recruitment and retention of new and existing talent, has released of their latest service module, PerFit-Diversity and Inclusion. The new module leverage AI to gather insights related to employee makeup, helping organizations realize the gender and ethnic diversity within their workforce.  https://hrtechfeed.com/recruiting-platform-dotin-inc-releases-new-diversity-and-inclusion-module/ Oyster®, the company that makes hiring talented people around the world compliant, human, and delightful, has raised a $50 million Series B funding round, led by Stripes with the continued participation of some existing investors. On the heels of the announcement of Oyster’s $20M Series A just this past February, this new Series B investment allows Oyster to expand its HR platform to more countries around the world and continue to empower globally distributed companies to succeed on the world stage. The team has grown 5X and the customer base has grown 8X so far in 2021

Diversity technology platforms are starting to spring up and get funding. The latest entrant into this market is Canvas formerly known as Jumpstart they recently raised a $20 million dollar funding round and we’ll get into that with our guest. TOPICS I want to get into the rebranding story but First of all what is canvas…? Describe what your platform does Tell us about the origins of business Rebranding, how do you arrive at the new name? How easy was it to get the domain? DRP….Explain the product/user experience Any success stories ? Plans for the new round of funding? Tips for diversity recruiting?

The U.S. Supreme Court has given LinkedIn another chance in its legal fight to stop HR technology firm HiQ Labs from scraping LinkedIn user data against the company’s demands.  The nation’s highest court this week issued a writ of certiorari, noting it may hear the case, but telling the appeals court to first redo its earlier decision in favor of HiQ. The court told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to retry the case in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling in a similar case. HiQ Labs, founded in 2012 in Silicon Valley, scrapes publicly available data, including LinkedIn member updates, and analyzes it to predict when workers are likely to quit their jobs. It then sells its conclusions to employers.  https://aimgroup.com/2021/06/15/top-court-gives-linkedin-another-chance-in-hiq-scraping-case/  Beamery is the latest company to enter the HR tech arms race, the company which calls itself a “talent operating system” that helps companies attract, engage and retain top talent, has announced US$13

While traditionally leading the recovery following recessions, experts predict five million Americans will need to find new employment coming out of the COVID recovery. But how can staffing companies put these folks back to work amid the shifts of business and services?  Well, According to Aaron Elder CEO of software company Crelate, a platform for staffing and recruiting firms, you do that with what he calls ‘transferable velocity”, meaning looking for skills that are applicable and movable from industry to industry in order to bridge the divide.