Rectech: The Recruiting Technology Podcast

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 o

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 r

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..

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

A rep from the ATS comapny Lever describes the CRM portion of the tool.

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.

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?

Recruiter and author Steven Mostyn joins Chris Russell to talk about his new book and describes how he recruits.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.